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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1956-11-30, Page 2Is ;vr �i Since 18.60 Serving the Community First Published at Seaforth, Ontario, every Thursday morning by McLean ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year. United States (in advance) $3.50 a Year. SINGLE COPIES — 5 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 30, 1956 Bros., Publishers Member of Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Is Credit Buying Getting Out of Hand? When the Prime Minister spoke in Toronto recently he referred to the extent to which consumer credit had risen --now at a record of $2,400,000,- 000. Installment buying, he indicated, was at a level where one out of every two persons' at work in Canada will have to do $1,000 worth of work in the future to pay for goods they are now enjoying. The average family owes $600, apart from the mortgage , on their house. Commenting on the situation, The Toronto Star has this to say: "In 1945, the total amount of consumer credit outstanding in Canada was $300,000,000. By the end of 1954 it had soared to $1,974,000,000—more than six times as much. In large part, this was a normal and healthy increase, reflecting the end of war- time buying restrictions, rising pro- duction of consumer goods, and the growth of population—as well as .a substantial measure of price infla- tion. But neither population growth nor price increases can account for more than a small part of the 25 per cent increase in consumer debt which has taken place in the past two years. "Credit buying has become an in- tegral part of our free economy. It plays an important part in keeping factories humming and people at work. It also enables Canadian fam- ilies to buy a wide range of useful goods when they most need them. Any move to slow down this flow of credit must be made only after care- ful consideration, Most automobile sales, for example, are on an instal- ment basis and if they were hamper- ed the industry would suffer layoffs. The same is true in other industries and in the retail trade." '... ..u,...y .. -,. \ ..'.... 1 ,.A (.4 ,.,v .+N 1 .rr 1 .�`0 • U,.,Y 1 .,r ,,N 1 .:;r t 4P,,>,' I GIFTS GALORE - at these - CHRISTMAS STORES Here at LARONE'S you will find an outstanding selection of different gifts — pleasing gifts BOOKS Hundreds of books from children's favorites to the latest• novel. Here is a gift that is always wel- come. T 0 Y S STATIONERY Choose a practical The kids will love gift of stationery a toy selected from from our big selec- tion. Wide price our big stock. range. GREETING CARDS See our complete selection of distinctive Cards! LARONE'S STATIONERY - GIFTS • As a convenience to our Customers, our stores will remain open Saturday evenings until 10 o'clock and on Wednesday after- noons until Christmas. I I l w.• w tel •1. ✓, j, .w.4 ,.' '5 .w• 1 „r r yr 1 .w "5 1 ,W 1 /Pt x+- r .w11 ,'5' r ^' u'- s x*• r ;rte r ;r 1 ,r• 1;e�- .e,- . ,r ;F• 1. , W. How to Save 770 Lives In one year, more than 3,000 lives are lost on Canadian highways and streets, according to statistics compiled by the Canadian Highway Safety Conference. This figures to eight deaths every day as a result of traffic accidents, or one every three hours. Statistics are cold and unfeeling things. Canadian Highway safety Conference offers the macabre but moving thought that if motorists and pedestrians made up their minds that one person would die only every four hours instead of every three hours, 770 lives would be saved. Motorists and pedestrians will get their chance to work on this between December 1st and 7th, when the Canadian Highway Safety Conference sponsors Safe -Driving Week across the nation, SAFE DRIVING WEEK DECEMBER 1 - 7 Space contributed in the service of this community tabu Labatt Limited. "rt • Ili SEEN • IN THE COUNTY PAPERS Unique Car Club In an effort to combat the idea of speed and daring held by many teen-age car drivers, Constable Ron Dubrick, of the Goderich detach- ment of the Ontario Provincial Po- lice, plans to form a unique club known, as a custom car club. The idea behind the club is to foster in the minds of teen-age car driv- ers the idea of safety, together with improvement factors and pride of ownership.—Goderich Signal -Star. 4-11 Corn King Bob Galloway, R.R. 1, Crediton, may have set a record when he won the Ontario 4-H grain corn championship at the Royal Winter Fair last week during his first year as a member of a farm club. The 16 -year-old S.D.H.S. student is a member of the Exeter Grain Corn Club which was just organ- ized this year. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Galloway --Ex- eter Times -Advocate. Open Friday Nights Exeter merchants. meeting Mon- day evening decided to keep their stores open Friday nights during December to give customers two nights of shopping during the Christmas season. Doors will re- main open until 9 o'clock Friday evenings and until 10, as usual, Saturday ,nights. The merchants' decision follows the trend toward Friday night opening which is be- coming more popular throughout Western Ontario. — Exeter Times - Advocate. Scouts Honored Pleased Scouts at the father and son banquet last week were Ron Van Rieson and Ron Magee, who received their silver arrowhead course certificates from Field Com- missioner Bob Taylor. Scoutmas- ter Percy Brown also received a certificate Marking extra training he completed with other Scooters at the Clinton Scbut camp this fall. A miniature Scout camp was the handiwork of Mrs. M. Bateman, made to grace the head table at the banquet.—Clinton News -Record. Moving Ahead Official figures on the results of the "Every ;Member Visitation" held by four churches in Goderich on November 4, have been releas- ed. Each of the churches have ex- pressed themselves as pleased with the response to the visits of the laymen. St. George's Anglican Church reports commitments of giving for next year of 55 per cent more than the present year, and Knox Presbyterian. 26 per cent more. Complete results are not From, The Huron Expositor December 4. 1931 Paul Boa. of Hensail. and Fred Harburn, of Cromarty, won the Dominion Doubles Championship Cup at the Royal Finter Fair, To- ronto, in the horseshoe pitching contest. They were also success- ful in winning the county and rural fair doubles championship. In ad- dition. Mr. Harburn was runner-up in the Dominion singles, losing out after a close match to John Sim- ons, an Indian from Muncey Re- serve. The hydro men have been busy in the Cromarty locality and those having installed the hydro are now able to push the button. A caterpillar crawling over the snow in the month of December is an unusual sight for this part of the country, but Mr. Murray Sav- auge, of town, came across one crawling over the Iawn at his father's home on Thursday. The barn on the farm of Robert Cooper, near Kippen. was destroy: ed by fire originating by the ex- plosion of a lantern. Miss Helen Anent, of London Normal School. spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ament. Mr. Robert McMillan, of town, and Mr. J. Forrest, of Tucker - smith, are in Toronto this week attending the -annual convention of the U.F.O. Warden Beattie, of Seaforth, and Reeves Thompson of Tuckersmith and Eckert of McKillop are at- tending the December session of County Council in Goderich. Mr. Sydney Dungey has recent- ly installed in his pressing and cleaning plant in the Commercial Hotel here, a n.ew pressing ma- chine. From The Huron Expositor November 30, 1906 The Seaforth Milling Company shipped three cars of flour to the Cobalt district this week. The new buildings at the Bell Engine Works are now nearly com- pleted. Although more room is still required for the increasing business, those now in course of completion will be a great advant- age. Railway workmen a few days ago unearthed a complete whiskey making outfit buried in the swamp in the southeast corner of Grey. The machinery had evidently been buried there for 25 years. It was found beside a large pine stump and was covered with• brush, and was in a fairly good state of pres- ervation. It had evidently been used to make good whiskey for the early settlers. Cutting feed and fences is the order of the day. Very soon the rail fences will have disappeared forever. They had their day. The new chopping mill in Wal- ton, operated by Hoegy Bros., com- menced operation this week. The Methodist people in Moen are talking,of having . cement Walks cora trotted aro the dearoh yf;ot the a o t stadlr at S , *4 7 •' yet in for the Baptist Church but indications point to pronounced in- creased giving there, too.—Gode- rich Signal -Star. To Have New Office When present plans mature, the Clinton. Community Credit Union will be housed in a modern bulid- ing, built on the lot at the corner of William and Ontario Streets, with plenty of parking space for its customers. The members of the Credit Union at their annual meeting last Thursday night, vot- ed strongly in favor of the build- ing being placed on this lot. The Credit Union also owns the vacant 'lot between Herb's Food Market and E. B. Menzies' law office on Albert St., and a decision had to be made between the two sites.— Clinton News -Record. Museum Will Have Addition A recommendation that a two- storey addition, 40' by 60', be con- structed at Huron County Pioneer Museum in Goderich, was approv- ed by Huron County Council Tues- day. 'Cost of the addition would be about $7,000, it was estimated by the historic committee in its report. The wing would be of frame construction, covered with steel. J. H. Neill, curator of the museum, estimated that cost of the addition could be recovered in about four years. Speaking briefly to County Council, Mr. Neill said, "This mus- eum is growing beyond anybody's dream, We are now at a cross- road where we must either have more room or start saying `no'."— Goderich Signal -Star. High School Makes Pians Several excellent suggestions from parents of the Wingham High School commencement exer- cises were talked over and some of them will be incorporated in the future, the High School Board de- cided at its meeting held in the Wingham District High School on Wednesday dight. Among them was a suggestion that a diploma should be submitted by a parent who felt that when the prize money was spent the pupil had nothing to show for his scholastic achieve- ment. The board decided to have a small diploma printed for this pur- pose Another suggestion from a parent which the board decided to adopt was that the board members and their wives should meet the teachers and their wives and hus- bands, at an anuual get-together. It was agreed that the suggestion was a good one and that such func- tions would help board members and teachers to know each other better.—Wingham Advance -Times. YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Huron Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. Stewart's grist mill at Brucefield, was blown off by the high wind last week. Mr. Frank O'Brien, of Chisel - burst, had six head of cattle bur- ied beneath a straw stack one night last week. the stack having fallen over on them.. They were all dead when found. It means quite a loss to Mr. O'Brien. A new store and a new stock by a new firm was opened up`in Wal- ton in the new block by Ferguson and Harris':.•.., :` $ From The Huron Expositor December 2, 18, 1881 Mr, C. L. Papst has moved his jewellery store into the store which was recently occupied by Mr. Papst as a book store. Mr, D. D. Wilson, Seaforth, has been offered $6,000 for some farm property which he has in Mani- toba, and which he purchased a few years ago for $500. The Rev. A. Y. Hartley, Hensall, had the misfortune lately to lose a valuable cow, and Mr. Rodgers, of Rodgerville, with his character- istic kindness,. went among the people and raised the sum of $60 to make up the loss. Mr. Christopher Dal@, Sr., of Hullett, has purchased the farm of Mr. Mills, lot 12, con. 6, for the sum of $4,500. This farm contains 100 acres. Mr. Dale and his four sons are now the owners of 1050 acres. A valuable colt belonging to Mr. Thomas Campbell, Morris, died suddenly on Wednesday night from gas on the stomach. Mr. James McEwing, 6th conces- sion, Tuckersmith, has sold his farm, farm stock and implements to Edward Aubrey for $8,000 cash down for the whole. 'Vast Saturday morning the safes in the offices of the Grand 'Trunk Railway and' Ogilvie & Cb., Sea - forth were blown open by burglars. They drilled a hole in the top of the safe and then with powder blew it open. The door of the safe was blown off its hinges. The safe in Ogilvie's office was• perforated in the same way but the charge did not have the same effect. They got around $8 at each place. The tools that were used were stolen from Mr. John Dorsey's wagon shop. Mr. Charles Davis, of Leadbury, well-known drover, had a some- what unpleasant and costly experi- encd when riding home from Chi- cago on the train. A stranger en- tered the car and sat down beside him; in a few minutes . another stranger entered and laccused the first stranger .of owing him some money. The first stranger asked Mr. Davis to change a bill and while Mr. Davis had his wallet out, the two snatch'e'd it and jumped off the train before the passengers realized what was going on. New cars on Canadian National Railway lines are the autoniobile transporteis, largest lit the freight ealuiprnent restar, l'i~1 ey ate 18 feet long,..102 bigott,„ tatty eight 81X tfft, t*t ,teve� l.. tlt WINTHROP A family night was sponsored by the W.A. of Cavan Church on Fri- day evening, when, inspite of in- clement weather, there was a large attendance. Mr. W. T. Dodds was chairman A and presided over. the f llowing Georgina , piano solo, Smith; duet,' Frances and Julia Y Blanchard, accompanied b Geor- gina Smith. Mrs. James McClure introduced Mrs. Nelson Reid Walton, who spoke on behalf of the W.A. of the Presbytery, and showed slides of Five Oaks at Galt, which gave a perfect picture of this wonderful place. Miss Marlene Pepper played a piano selection, after which Mrs, William Little introduced Dr. E. A. McMaster, of Seaforth, who told the story of Hawaii and showed slides of pictures he had taken when he and Mrs. McMaster vis- ited there. Mrs. .1. R. Holden, in a few words, thanked all those who had made the evening so success- ful. Lunch was served. Mrs. Gilbert Smith and Eileen have returned home from Toronto, where they spent a pleasant week- end with Miss Lorraine Smith. Mr. Donald Dodds, of the O.A.C., Guelph, spent the weekend at his home here. The W.A. and W.M.S. of Cavan Church will hold their Christmas meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 5th, when the various reports will be read, as this is also theannual meeting. Circle 2 will have charge of the program, and Circle 1 the lunch. Roll call will be "your favorite carol." The Sunday School Christmas concert will be held in Cavan Church Friday evening, Dec, 14. Ft Why Go Out On a Limb When Buying A USED CAR ? ? BUY FROM , THE . 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