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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1956-03-23, Page 21956 •CONTRACT BARLEY With the exports of grain to Europe increas- ing, so is the price of CONTRACT BARLEY. Contact us and have the new Barley Contract explained to you. TOP QUALITY Seed and Fertilizer Supplied COOK BROS. MILLING CO. LTD. Phone 24 - Hensall 09arrOlt, OBAFORTK 0,NT., MARCII 23, *a Established 1860. A. Y. McLean, Editor. r Published at Seaforth, Ontario, very -Thursday morning by McLean ros. Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. PHONE 41 Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, Friday, March 23, 1956 Public Spending There •are difficult problem S ' of control inherent in any taxation sys-, tem that requires one taxing author- ity to collect money for other authori- ties to spend. The unfortunate ten- dency is for the spending body to spend in a manner that suggests that funds are unlimited. This, of course, is not the ease. There is a limit to the amount which can be collected from the taxpayers. And so it is that the Dominion Gov- ernment has let it be known to the Provinces that further concessions with respect to their demands for ad- ditional funds cannot be met. All this adds up to the fact that there is a necessity of more careful spending of the taxpayers' money at every level of government. Discussing the matter, the Rural Scene has this to say: "There is a widespread belief in Canada that the Dominion Govern- ment has inexhaustible sources of . .revenue from which it could and should contribute to all other levels of government at their need. This is a mistake. The Dominion,Govern- ment has no money except what it collects from the people. "The purpose of the provinces at every Dominion -Provincial confer- ence is to devise means of making the Federal Government collect taxes for the provinces to spend. "Such a system of taxation could not fail to encourage reckless spend- ing on the part of the Provinces, for no provincial government will resist the temptation to spend lavishly if it knows .it can get the money from the Dominion treasury. "A sound system of taxation would require every government to collect the money it spends and to account to its own taxpayers for the spend- ing of it. Whenever a government is able to spend revenue that other gov- ernments collect, that government is strongly tempted to extravagance, and the taxpayers from whom such money is collected have no effective means of calling the spending gov- ment to account." Shopping Trend "Evening shopping is going to be- come the custom in more and more cities in the years ahead, though in a minority of municipalities there still exists antiquated store hour legisla- tion which opposes this trend, E. G. Burton, president of Simpsons Ltd., said recently as quoted in the Globe and Mail. Mr. Burton submitted a brief to the Royal Commission on Canada's economic prospects and said that "much of the antiquated legislation was passed to protect the worker, but today is completely out- of-date . . . in view of the adequate protection provided by existing labor codes. • "Dollars and Sense How can YOU benefit from having a Current Account? You'll find it much easier to keep an accurate record of your current expenses when you have a Current Account. When you pay all bills by cheque on your Curren@ Account, you receive back, at the end of each month, all your cancelled cheques as well as a bank statement showing every withdrawal and every deposit you have made. The cancelled cheques serve as receipts—and are accepted in court as evidence of payment of the amount shown. Furthermore, they are much easier to file away than receipts and take less roam to store. With them and your bankstatements, you'll find it far easier to get an exact picture of how you spend your money. So it's a good move to use a Current Account for paying all current bills—and keep your Savings Accouut for actual savings. THE CANADIAN BANK OF -COMMERCE NW -216 SEAFORTH BRANCH: G. C. Brightrall, Manage] 1110111111111111MIMMEIIIIIMMINNINIMMOMMte Citizenship Theme At Hensall W.I. "Citizenship and Education" was was the theme of the March meet- ing of Hensall Women's Institute, held ip the Legion Hall Wednes- day, March 14, convened by Mrs. George Hess. Hostesses were Mrs. H. Horton and Mrs. Fred Beer, Mrs. A. Shirray, president, chaired the meeting. Members answered the roll call with "A famous per- son I have always• admired." Rev. N. McLeod, of Kippen, gave the address. He stated that edu- cation comes through experience. Contrasts were noted in the edu- cational facilities of pioneer days and of today. The speaker said we need to be critical educational influences in our country. Irish songs were enjoyed by the members, with Miss Greta Lam- mie as accompanist. Two violin numbers by Mr. Jarvis Horton add- ed greatly to the program. Election of officers will take place at the. April meeting. Mrs. R. Y. McLaren will be convener. Huron Farm News The worst weather conditions of the winter prevailed during the past week. The heavy ram of over two inches on Tuesday was bene- ficial, but the severe ice storm of Wednesday knocked out hydro. and particularly telephone services in some sections of the county. This, coupled with a very bad snow- storm on Thursday, again blocked most ptral roads. Consequently farm 'meatus in the county were in many cases cancelled and oth- erwise poorly attended. SEEN IN THE Burning Wires Bring Out Firemen During strong winds and heavy sleeting early Thursday Morning Of last week, firemen were called Out when broken electric wining front of Archie Somers' residence 013 Morris Street, became entang- led with the limbs of a tree. The broken wires which had been diev. en down by heavy sleet and high winds, were still alive and set fire to the tree. The power was discon- nected and repairs made without any further damage.—Blyth Stan- dard. Bulb Gives 27 Years' Service Something" of a record for ser- vice in an electric light bulb was reported to The Standard a week ago by Miss Josephine Woodcock, King St. Miss Woodcock had to re- place the electric light bulb in the back kitchen of her residence. This is certainly not news for those of us who are replacing bulbs al- most daily. What is news is the fact that the bulb had been used in the same socket in the back kitchen ever since the lights were installed in Miss Woodcock's dwel- ling 27 years ago. Granted, the bulb did not get the use it might have elsewhere on the premises, but it certainly must have been made of sturdy material and with fine workmanship. — Blyth Stan- dard. Need Crystal Ball For Novel Raffle Anyone with a crystal ball or a bit of luck ought to be _able to pick up some easy 'moue, in the next two or three weeks by the simple process of estimating when the barrel now resting on the ice in Howson's Dam, goes over the dam in the wake of the spring break-up. All sorts of weather prophets around town are having a try at it. A brain -child of the Wingham Fire Department, the barrel was placed on the ice some three weeks ago by members of the brigade who are turning their ingenuity to means of raising money forthe Firemen's Fund. Some 500 tickets have already been sold on the raffle, the idea be- ing that the ticketholder whose guess comes closest to the actual minute, hour and day that the barrel goes over the dam, will win the first prize. There's a second prize for the runner-up.—Wingham .Advance -Times. Storm Damage $75,000 Damage to hydro and telephone equipment caused by last week's ice -storm may exceed $75,000, of- ficials estimated Wednesday as crews continue to repair the wreck- age. Almost all services have been restored but only temporarily. Of- ficials estimate it will take weeks before all lines are permanently fixed. W. W. Hayson, Bell Tele- phone manager for this area, esti- mated damage to his company's equipment in the area between Lucan and Clinton at over $50,000. K. J. Lampman, manager of Exe- ter H.E.P.C., said cost of the storm to hydro would amount to $10000, in this area. Harold W. Whyte,-Ltt- can hydro manager, stated his damages would run equally as high. Mr. Lampman said cost of transformers alone in this area would exceed $2,000. He stated 50 poles were broken in the Exeter area and hundreds of ties broken. The manager estimated there would be at least 100 breaks in primary conductors. The Exeter area manager said the "storm as the worst we have ever had here,"—Exeter Times -Advocate. Moves To New Quarters After more than 20 years on Josephine St., the offices and stu- dios .of radio station CKNX have been moved up to the former high school building. Office equipment in the Field Building was moved to its new ,location on Saturday, and office workers started this week on Monday morning at the new studio. Operating equipment was used on Monday at the down- town location, but with the sign -off on Monday night. control facilities were switched over to the high A-7 ,AA TY PAPERS school, and broadcasting from there Started on Tuesday morning. An auxiliary control room has been set up in the high school building and vrill serve station needs for the next few days until the main control machinery has been mov- ed to its new location. Offices and studios of the radio -station will be located on the second floor of the This will not provide as much room as was occupied in the Field Building, Station Manager John Cruickshank told The Ad- vance -Times, but because some of the personnel are working on both television and radio, less room will be needed for offices. There is a possibility that part of 'the third floor of the building may be used for radio purposes if necessary, Mr. Cruickshank said. — Wingham Advance -Times. Discuss Street Lighting Twenty-nine members of 'the Chamber of Commerce member ship met Monday evening the council chamber to discuss mat- ters. Street naming and house numbering were discussed and general opinion was that these were jobs that must be done. Some investigation of better street lighting is being done, and an ex- perimental "mercury vapour" in- stallation will be tried by the P. TLC. As for Christmas time light- ing, president Campbell said, "Our lighting and decorating is shabby in comparison with our neighbors. There is no reason why Clinton should be backward in this mat- ter." Some discussion of parking problems was held, and sugges- tions were that requests be made to merchants and their employees to use rear streets and back al- leys instead of the main streets. According to Clayton Dixon, the parking lot at the rear of the Town Hall was never full. He said that Chief H. R. Thompson had plans for building, stall rails, and thus get more cars• parked in the space. Some of those present were in favor of ,two-hour parking env forced on the main streets.—Clin- ton News -Record. Deliberate On Night To Be Open Whether to keep stores open on Friday or Saturday nights from April on was the main topic for discussion when a meeting of the Goderich Retail Merchants' Asso- ciation was held at the Town Hall Tuesday evening. There were 32 present, the largest attendance since the organization was form- ed about a year ago. It was a re- presentative turnout except for the operators of butcher shops, with none of them present. A merchant of one of the larger stores said he had found by actual figures that the Friday night opening had brought more business than Satur- day night ever did. He said Friday had become sort of alainily shop- ping night. He believed farmers did not care whether the stores were open on Friday night or Sat- urday nights as long as they knew which night all the stores would be open. -Another merchant agreed with this opinion regarding the farmers. When it was suggested there was concern about Saturday night closing as far as the farm trade is concerned, another merch- ant stated he thought the farmer would prefer having Saturday nights free for their, own enter- tainment. "There are half a dozen stores staying open now on Sat- urday nights simply because one merchant refuses to close on Sat- urday nights," said a merchant. It was stated that 22 merchants who attended a meeting at Clinton, voted to stay open Fridays and close Saturdays for three months more, then re -consider the ques- tion at the end of that time. When farmers get back on the land they will want to return, to Saturday night shopping, one merchant _said. "Has anybody lost any business by closing Saturday nights?" an- other merchant asked. There was no response. "The vote looks like a hodge-podge affair," said one merchant after a majority vote was announced on the Friday night opening.—Goderich Signal -Star. WORLD FAMOUS! NATIONALLY ADVERTISED! NEW 1956 EURIktt4 Aiteiflatk. `70°," NO DUST BAG PP -CUP / TO EMPTY! SWIVEL TOP Simply zip clips to open Cleans all over from one, top and remove sanitary position. Clean a whole throw -away paper -dust room without moving the bag. 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Joynt, Hen - sail, in the gents' furnishing de- partment, and will, no doubt, give good satisfaction. Mr. E. H. Close has purchased the building lot on North Main St. from Mrs. J. G. Mullen, and on Wednesday moved the Robert Scott cottage from Harpurhey on- to the property, and will remodel it into a modern residence. Brussels public school was fum- igated Saturday on account of a number of scarlet fever cases. None of the cases are serious, bu a few still are quarantined. David Jamieson, Brussels, ha exchanged his home in town fo the Black farm. His son, John and family are moving with him Miss Black, who has been living in the Terrace, is moving to the Jamieson place. Miss Fergus MacKay, Seaforth is spending the week with friends in• London. Mr. and Mrs. William Stogdill of Detroit, are visiting at the home of Mrs. S. Neely in town. Miss Jean Fotheringham, Bruce - field, visited over ' the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mc- Gregor. Rumour has it that the people around Manley may get hydro power 'installed if enough ratepay- ers will subscribe. Mr. John Shephard has sold his farm near Hensall to Mr. William Slavin. Mr. and Mrs. H. Abbott and son, of Hensall, intend leaving there in the course of a week for their new home in London, where Mr. Ab- hott has secured a position in KingsmiLl's store. § § From The Huron Expositor March 23, 1906 • r On Tuesday of last week, Albert and Thomas 'Hislop, of Grey, left Brussels for Arcola, N.W.T., where they purpose making their home. They took a carload of horses and other belongings with them. The Misses Maggie and Mabel Hislop have removed: to Clinton, where they will reside. Mr. Alex' Gordon, of Egmond- ville, .has purchased Mr. Thomas Grieve's farin at a good figure. Mr. William Sloan, of British Columbia, a Seaforth Old. Boy, purchased sixteen blocks of Re- gina property, paying $100,000. Mr. John McMillan, who recently sold his farm in McKillop, has pur- chased the Hislop property at Roxboro, from Mr. Clennan, and the latter has purchased Mr. Thos. Hanley's residence in Seaforth. Mr. Bert Britt has purchased Mr. John Allan's property on West Wil- liam Sh Seaforth, Mr. Walter Cole, who has been connected with the McPherson, Hoovey Company, of Clinton, for many years, has taken a position in the Bell Engine & Thresher Works, Seaforth, and intends com- ing to town to reside. Miss Eva Sparling, who has been spending the winter with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Spading, leaves Friday for' Mani - t b Mr. and Mrs. R. B, 11cLean this week exchanged home with their son, James B., who comeTh to the homestead farm in Tuckersmith, while Mr. and Mrs. McLean go to the farm in Stanley, Mr. John McCallum, of Walton, with his usual enterprise, has pur- chased a team of standard bred mares from Mr. John McCall, of Indiana. § From The Huron Expositor March 25, 1881 While driving through Cromarty a short time ago, Mr. James Camp- bell was thrown from his cutter against a stick, breaking a num- ber of his ribs: About 4:00 o'clock on Tuesday evening, a large barn belonging to Mr. John Beattie's flax mill, and used for storing undressed flax, was discovered to be on fire. The building being 'frame and filled with inflammable material, the fire spread so rapidly that befote the alarm was sounded through the town, the entire edifice was in flames, so that nothing could be done to save either the building or its contents. The popular landlord at Lead. bury, left for St. Marys on Tues. bury, Mr. Gleeson, left for St. Marys on Tuesday. Much as we regret the departure of Mr. Glee- son, we belleve, his-plae will- be well filled by his successor( Mr, Smith, Mr. George Weston, butcher and baker in Hensall, is moving from his present place of business to Mr. Harwood's old stand. Local markets are: Red fall wheat, $1.03 to $1.05; white, $1.02 to $1.04; oats, 35c to 37c; barley, 60c to 70c. Mr. Turner, hotelkeeper in Brucefield, has had erected during the week a large frame shed for the use of the travelling commun- ity. Mr, David McLean, son of Mr. John McLean, of Tuckersmith, near Kippen, a short time ago sold a span of heavy draught horses to an American buyer for $480. Tuck. ersmith takes the lead yet. While threshing on the farm of Mr. John Hackney in the early part of the winter, a sow belong- ing to that gentleman was buried in the straw stack, and when, af- ter a lapse of nearly three months she was relieved from her unpleas- ant quarters, she immediately wended her way across to 'Mr. Hackney's neighbor (who, it ap- pears, had Caused her imprison ment), casting reproachful glances aid otheredge signifying her dis- Pleasure, The ANNUAL , MEETING of Scott Memorial Hospital will be held FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 23 at 8:30 p.m. NURSES' RESIDENCE The Public is invited to be present. WOMEN'S HOSPITAL AUXILIARY ANNUAL PENNY SALE. Saturday, March 31 to Saturday, April 7 Prizes on display at the G. A. WHITNEY FURNITURE STORE Tickets available from Members. EXPOSITOR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS — Phone 41 EASTER AT THE ZOO COLORING CONTEST THE LITTLE LAMB FELT SO HAPPY ABOUT EASTER THAT HE JUMPED HIGH AND LANDED IN A FLOWER BED Name Parent's Name Address Age The contest is absolutely free. There is no charge to enter. However, if an entry, which is accoropanied by a subscription to The Huron Expositor, is succesSfUlrdouble prise money will be paid.