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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1957-03-22, Page 2*:C ?p, Since 1860 Serving the Com*unldty Fit* bibbed at Seaforth, Ontario, every Thursday ' mon'ning 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 a* Second Class Mail, Post Office Department; Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCH 22, 1957 finance Minister Produces Realistic Budget (The Ottawa Citizen) Fresh from gathering a surplus far beyond his expectations and with no reason to doubt that money will continue to flow freely into the na- tional treasury during the coming year, Mr. Harris must have thought, when preparing his third budget as Minister of Finance, how pleasant it would be to hand the Canadian peo- ple a fat pre-election present in the shape of lower taxes and greatly in- creased social benefit payments. He has made a gesture in this direction, it is true, but not to the extent that could be convincingly described as an electrion bribe. For the 1957-58 fiscal year, the min- ister estimates he will forego $55 million through reductions in per- , sonal income, special excise and sales taxes. During the same period, in- creases in benefit payments of all g kinds will cost the treasury an addi- tional $93 million. Yet Mr. Harris is still budgeting for a surplus of $152 million which would be available for further reduction of the public debt. As matters stand, servicing that debt will account for 11 per cent of gov- ernmental spending in 1957-58, sec- ond only to defence which represents 35 per cent. A $6 monthly increase in old age pensions is far from spectacular and may indeed disappoint many elderly people who have found their present pension being steadily nibbled away by the rising cost of living. Their needs seem more acute than those of most recipients of family allowanc- es. As a whole, the budget seems hard- ly likely to be a widely popular one. Mr. Harris, however, has made his plans in the light of continuing in- flationary pressures, even though he says hopefully that these are per- haps beginning to moderate. His at- titude is summed up in this passage of the budget speech: Too hasty action would imperil the success we have. achieved so far, and an inflationary rise in prices could take away from our people far more Bros., Publishers Member of Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association in rising costs than they would bene- fit from, even large reductions in tax rates. Much as I would like to do so, I cannot recommend to this House any majpr reductions in the general level of taxation. What the minister has done is to try to offer a measure of relief to as many people as possible without ap- -preciably adding to inflationary pres- sure. He does not run much risk in this respect, for it is well understood that consumer spending is far from being the chief inflationary factor at present; that position is held by capi- tal investment. One feature of the new budget re- presents in part an effort to encour- age "immediate saving which will be productively employed." This is the provision for broadening the' range of retirement annuities to which in- come tax deductions apply. As far as it goes, the- budget at- tempts to help those ,who perhaps have benefitted least from the na- tional boom. This applies to com- munities as well as to individuals: The Maritimes are deemed to be out of line with the general march of prosperity. The immediate measure to assist that region is the undertak- ing to increase from 20 to 30 per cent the freight rate subvention on out- bound movements of goods (the in- bound rate remains unchanged), while an examination of the entire transportation problemof the At- lantic provinces is promised. The federal government also offers to help Nova Scotia and New Brunswick mesh their electric power systems, if those provinces are interested. These measures and proposals, unsensa- tional though they may appear to Maritimers, are evidence of recogni- tion on Ottawa's part of the need for a Canada that is economically sound in all its parts. Popular or not, Mr. Harris's bud- get displays honesty and courage on the part of its author. If the Cana- dian people become convinced of its essential soundness, it may not turn out to be such a political liability, either. WINTHROP HONORS ST. PATRICK. WITH IRISH PROGRAM, BOX SOCIAL The theme for St. Patrick's Day box social was "bejabbers" and "begorrah." which was held Thurs- day evening in the Sunday school room of Cavan Church, Winthrop. Mrs. Les. Dolmage was chairlady for the evening. The program was as follows: "Be Irish Just For Tonight"; chor- us, "Tipperary" with Mrs. Gilbert Smith at the piano; • recitation, Julia Blanchard; "Outline of the Life of St. Patrick" by Mrs. Les Dolmage; "When Irish Dyes Ara Smiling," by four colleens; duet, Elaine Beattie and Marlene Pep- per; 'reading, Jim Rapson; guitar selection and solo. "Galway Bay," Eileen Smith; duet, "Mother Me- Cree," Mrs Harvey Dolmage and Shirley Dolmage; reading, David Hoiden; solo, "Peggy O'Neil," Joan Boyd; solo. "Old Shelelagh," Mar- lene Pepper. During intermission candy was sold by the girls. The second half of the program consisted of: Trio in costume, Ed- ith, Marjorie and Gloria Boyd, ac- companied by Margaret Boyd; two OBITUARIES MRS. CATHERINE L. BALL Mrs. Catherine Lovie Ball, of Clinton, died Sunday morning in the Alexandra Marine and General Hospital. Goderich. She was the former Catherine Sprung, and was born near Auburn, living in Clin- ton lmost all her life. Since ,the defiTh Of her husband, William Ball HA 1947, she had lived with her Son, Hugh Ball, 'Clinton. She was a member of the Ontario Street United Church. Surviving are three sons, Stuart, of Cooksville; • Hugh, of Clinton, end' Melbourne, of Goderiebh; two 4atitghters, 'Mrs Stanley (Sadie) Jaeltson; of IdOpen, and Mrs. tSn( e d Anderon of De- r e OM *Ong, •• r of thea1T and erv*e 'was held wdh. Bet' b 1a1.10I- violin l- is. violin selections by John R. Leem- ing; solo. Linda Somerville; lucky chair prize, Dick Holden; March 17 birthday, John Boyd; most Irish name, Kathleen Beattie and Shar- on Somerville; quartette. four col- leens. Elains Beattie, Sharon Som- erville, Jane Somerville and Bar- bara Driscoll. A number of contests were held, followed by the drawing of num- bers for the boxes. The sum of $25 was realized at the door. KIPPED Sympathy from the village is ex- tended to Mr. Samuel Cudviore and his family in the passing of a dear wife and mother. the late Mrs. Cudmore. Mrs. A. McClymont on Saturday celebrated her 80th birthday at the home of her son and daughter- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Mc- Clinchey, of Varna. Rev. Down, of Exeter, was in charge of the service Sunday in St. Andrew's United Church. Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Mellis were Mr. and Mrs. Archie Henderson and Mrs. Mary Barnard, of London. Mr. Robert Thomson, while gath- ering the day's eggs, came across a large freak egg, and on break- ing it he found a medium size egg in a shell inside the outer egg. Anyone wishing to see the egg May do so at Mrs. Longs. Mr! and Mrs. Leonard Lovell and son spent the weekend visiting rel- atives and friends in Chatham. Mrs. Rachel Gibson, who has visited the past few months with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. MelliS; returned to her home in .Wroxeter on: Sunday, Guests on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lovell and family were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Prout, and Mr. and Mrs. Stetre Lovell, of Chat- ham, and Mr. and Mrs. B. Gillette of Dover Centre. Miss Jean Hyde, nurse -in -train- ing at Osha'a ,General Hospital, and her sister IVliss Louise Hyde, who is attendiztt the Baptist Bible Institute in tendon, visited a cou- ple of delays last week th, their a. it: n !iiia parents, Mr. and Mrs Different members; otibPer"s ,famtl de; , *NY' dY_fuL'-!�'�^ n1/ Hay Schools Present Concert HayTownship ship School Area spon- sored a concert Friday evening, when public speaking and musical selections were featured. The program included: Unison chorus, Blake School, U.S.S. 9, "Polly the Pony," "Hunter's Horn," "The Doctor," "When Things Grow Up," "Fairies," "The Little Cobbler," teacher, Mrs. 'Deichert; three-part chorus, S.S. 15, "Down in the Valley," Mrs. Becker, teach- er; singing game, junior room, Zur- ich School, Mrs. Haberer, teacher; two-part choruses, intermediate room, Zurich School, "Dinah," "Some Like Winter," "Noah's Ark," Miss O'Brien, teacher. $200 Accident Damage An • estimated $200 damage re- sulted from a Friday evening mo- tor accidenthen a car driven by Donald Young, 'of Wingham, drove into Gowing's Service Station and rammed Norman Gowing's park- ed car, which was in the yard. Town Constable Bailey called P.C. Lewis, of Wingbam. We under- stand charges are pending.—Blyth Standard. Hauer is Up Ten Cents Exeter barbers bumped the price of adult haircuts a dime this week. Effective Thursday, March 14, the adult price will be 85 cents; brush cuts, 90 cents; children 70 cents (Saturdays 85), and children's brush cut, 75 cents (Saturdays 85 cents). Authorization for the in- crease was given by iVfel. Crich, Clinton., district director of the On- tario Barbers Association. He said higher costs made the raise nec- essary.—Exeter Times -Advocate. Tack Removed From Nose Two. -year-old Betty Lockridge, in- fant daughter of Mr. and Mrs: John Lockridge, of Sarnia, complained every time her mother washed her nose. The child objected for two weeks before her mother realized that the trouble was serious and brought her to the Wingham Gen- eral Hospital for 'examination. At the hospital it was found that a thumb -tack was lodged in the child's nose. The tack was re- moved without further complica- tions.—Wingham Advance -Times. New Post Office? Government building inspectors were in Goderich Wednesday look- ing over the Goderich Post Office in an effort to ,determine whether the present building should be re- vamped, or a new one built. Both Tillsonbtirg and Ingersoll are to get door-to-door mail delivery some time this year. Both have postal revenues in the neighborhood of. the required $50,000 a year to get this service. It is understood that the Goderich Post Office revenue amounts to about $45,000 a year, which means it is approaching the door-to-door delivery status.—God- erich Signal -Star. Receives Offers For U.K. Family Mayor R. E. Pooley said this week he has received several of- fers from town citizens to provide temporary accommodation for the Exeter, England, father who wants to bring his two children. to Can- ada. The mayor said he has writ- ten 42 -year-old I. A. H. Godbeer, of Starcross, Exeter, for more in- formation for a guarantee of tem- porary housing. which he needs to get a passport to bring his family to Canada. "I think we'Il be able to find a home for him here," the mayor stated. Godbeer said he felt there was no future for his children in England and he want- ed to bring them "to a country where they would have a fair William Sytsma. of S.S. 12, Hay, a New Canadian. won the first prize in the public speaking con- test, speaking on his trip from Holland; second prize went to Patsy Brisson, S.S. 7, her subject bding,' "Nomination Meeting." Others participating in the contest were: Lois Fischer. ,S.S. 15; Bet- ty Bell, S.S. 10; Anne Hummel, S. S. 3; Gerald Shantz, S.S. 6; Jack Yungblut, S.S. 7; Russell Klopp, S.S. 7; Marcia Desjardine, S.S. 12. Judges were: John Goman, in- spector of Public Schools for South Huron; Mrs. Jermyn, teacher, Ex- eter school, and A. Idle, principal Exeter public school. The program continued and- in- cluded: Massed choir, conducted by Lawrence Wein, music super- visor, "A Message To the Fish," "Were I a Bird" and "It Is No Secret"; flute instrumental. S.S. 8, Mr. McQuillen, teacher; song by junior girls, S.S. 6. "The Little Yel- low Bird," teacher, Miss McLean; singing game, S.S. 3, Miss Klopp, teacher- two-part chorus, g'S. 4, "What Do We Plant?" Mrs. Oeseh, teacher; double trio. S.S. 12, "Spin, Maiden, Spin," Mr. O'Brien, teach- er; junior girls' chorus S.S. 2, Mrs. Ellis, -teacher; double duet S.S. 10, Mrs. E. Norminton, teach- er; four-part choruses, senior room, Zurich School, "Our Boys Will Shine Tonight,„"Good Night Ladies,” Mrs. T. Lavender, teach- er; massed choir, conducted by Douglas Gill, music supervisor, "Sting of the Gondolier" and "Shades of Evening;" tett& „nut'uin was ,chairman, and: the Walt was held in .tt teCont,, >i tirtifjr Centre; l ttrf'elt,; • chance in life," ---Exeter, Timkekr.444 vocate. O.B.A. Convention in Gluten Clinton will be the first centre of its size ever to be honored" by an annual convention of; the On- tario Baseball Association when that group meets here frm Thurs= day to Saturday, inclusive. Head- quarters for the convention will be Hotel Clinton. Sponsoring organ- ization is the Western Ontario Ath- letic Association and it bas been. the untiring efforts of past presi- dent Hugh R. Hawkins that brought the 40th annual O.B.A. , convention to this town. Baseball delegates from all over Ontario are expect- ed to attend for the three days. It is hoped by the executive of the OBA. and W.O.A A. that re- presentatives of every baseball tea in Ontario will be present to eress their opinions on the important decisions to be made at the convention.—Clinton News - Record. Children Treated For Poison On Thursday Nancy Gardner, two and a half year old daughter of Mr. and • Mrs. Lorne Gardner, town, had to be rushed to hospital to have her stomach washed out after swallowing several pills in- tended for adults. The child was kept in hospital for ,several days for observation. Two days later, a three-year-old child, Caroline Huffman, was treated after swal- lowing rat poison. The little girl is still in hospital, where her con- dition is said now to be satisfac- tory. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Huffman, of R.R. 2, Teeswater. On Monday an- other case of pill -swallowing sent two-year-old Brian Gordon to the Wingham General Hospital, where the child's stomach was pumped. The little boy is said to be in a satisfactory condition, by hospital officials, — Wingham Advance - Times. Saturday Night Closing When he'farly 30 Goderich mer- chants met at the Town Hall Tues- day evening, all but two of thein were unanimous in their opinion to keep their stores open Fridays until ,9 p.m., andlose Saturdays at 6 p.m., from April 5 on. In addi- tion to„those present, numerous other merchants left word with the meeting that they, too, would fall in line With the plan. A re- view of what stores were doing in numerous other centres in the dis- trict revealed a swing to the Fri- day night open and Saturday night closing. "Things are changing, and changing fast," said one mer- chant commenting on changing shopping habits of customers. When the banks decided to close all day Saturday it was wondered how they could possibly operate that way, one merchant said, but things have . apparently worked out satisfactorily for them.—Goderich Signal -Star. From The Huron Expositor March 25, 1932 - Seaforth Collegiate Cadets this week finished shooting in the D.C. R.A. competitions with an average of 90.73. The rules call for a test each month, the team averages on the three to count. The competi- tion has been under the direction of Mr. I. H. Weedmark. Mr. C. Watson, Londesboro, had the misfortune tohave t some ribs fractured last week by a kick from a cattle beast. Miss Mary Stewart, of the Uni- v,ersity of Toronto, is spending the Easter holidays at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stew- art. Miss Margaret Armstrong, of the University of Western Ontario, London, is spending Easter with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Armstrong, of Seaforth. Many bowlers have been trying to _secure the requisite 600 points in order to be in a position to play off for prizes at the end of the month. The chicken on Monday night was won by Art Powell with 250. Seaforth Collegiate Institute and the Public School closed Thursday afternoon for the Easter holidays. They will reopen for the final term of the year on Monday, April 4. One of the six-ton trucks belong- ing to 'the Epps' Transport, Varna, went into an eight foot ditch at the first culvert north of Brucefield on Saturday morning. The truck was loaded and the accident occurred when the wheels skidded on the slippery snow. The driver, Mr. Ellwond Epps, received a nasty scalp wound that required several stitches to close. From The Huron Expositor March 22, 1907 Mr. Joseph McIntosh, of Hullett, sold a three-year-old horse to Mr. James Dale, of Hullett, for the sum of $250. Mrs. McConnell has sold. the resi- dence on Chalk St., Seaforth, which she purchased last week from Mr. Thomas W. Adams, to Rev. Father Corcoran. Mr. Simon McVittie, Londesboro, whose barn was destroyed by fire a short time ago, has bought the frame of a barn in East Wawanosh and is having it moved to his own place to be rebuilt in the spring. Mr. W. J. Moffat, principal of Seaforth Public School, was in Guelph on Saturday last, , going through the manual training S 00 in connection with the Macdonald Institute there. Mr. William Brown, Londesboro, intends to ebuild his barn this coming sat/tither and place a stone fottfidation under, it. Mr. ,Lattdsborott h and IVC'':,' Isaac RRa son al"e' tb dd :';t1 a one,.:. YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Huron Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. Mi. Peter Spain, Seaforth, has sold his two houses, opposite Mr. Sclater's wood yard, to Mr. James Dick. who in turn has disposed of them again, one to Mr. Ralph El- liott and the other to Mr. Thomas Kyle. Mr. Wm. Bubolz has disposed of the Collie property in Egmondville to Mr. Thomas Lane for $925. Peter McDonald, Sr., of Cran- brook,has purchased of Mr. P. Raymann, place. of that Mr. Raymann intends going to Palmerston. The switchboard in the central telephone office in Zurich has been installed and is now working and several new private telephones - have been placed, and more are promised. Mr. Robert Armstrong, of Wal- laceburg, has sold one hundred ac- res of his farm, near Constance, to Mr. Willia&Dunlop, for the sum of $6,300. From The Huron Expositor March 24,• 1882 Mr. Thomas Johnston has sold his farm on the 14th concession of McKillop to his neighbor, Mr. R. Holland. Last week Mr. John Shipley, of Hullett, near Clinton, sold a team of horses to an American buyer for $400. Mr. Mooney, of Clinton, sold to the same buyer a draught mare for $250. A number of Mr. James Ches- ney's neighbors on the third con- cession, L.R.S., Tuckersmith, met at his farm a few days ago with their axes and saws and cut 61/2 cords of stove wood. Mr. Chesney has recently moved into that neigh- borhood. Mr. A. Armitage has sold the residence at the head of John St., of town. at present occupied by Mr. W. Hoffman, to Mr. Wm. M. Gray, for the sum of $550. A couple of years ago this property was pur- chased fol` $1,100. Mary Ann Little, daughter of Mr. John Little, of the 8th concession of McKillop, met with a very pain- ful accident at School Section No. 6. She was sitting on a seat at noon when a couple of boys, who were playing around, shoved each other and one of them fell against theirl, throwing her off- the seat and fracturing her leg. Mr. Isaac Bolton, of the eighth concession, McKillop, has purchas- ed the farm of Mr. Hugill Tyerman on the 10th concession. This ferns contains 100 acres and was pur- chased for 3 5 0 00. Mr. Alex Dow, of Hibbert, has sold an entiit'e colt, nine months old, for the -sum of $200. Mr.. J. Ii leFaul, of Ingersoll, and brother of Messrs. L. and E. 1VIeeFaul, of this town, has been appointed inspector of ' schools Of St, .Catbattitiaa, at a salads' of $1,000 per aWittiii. , "§,00$904 0040,0,• March ,T�.;,1947, Editor, The Huron' Expositor: , ' Dear Sir: An article appeared;. in Saturday's Globe and Mail about the Hog Producers Co-opera- tive who claim that they sell about 20 per cent of Ontario's hogs. This would mean that in the mechanics ,of selling bogs, they physically sold 30,079 hogs in Janu- ary, and for that service are en- titled to a selling commission :dn those hogs. The hog argument in Ontario is over the fact that they collected the same selling fee on the 115,246 hogs sold in January but they didn't do any part of the selling or the mechanics involved in con- ducting those sales. They collected this equalized fee over a total 'volume of a product, and it should only apply. against hogs consigned to them or on the product there of where a sale -was made on hogs by the agency. This means a charge on the 30,079 hogs, or on -the product thereof, but not against the product of the 115,236 hogs where they had no sale con- nection. ' They collect -from "one produc- ing group" to enrich the agency group and this is all because of an arrangement that the packers took to deliver all their settlements over to this Hog Co-op. No packer had any authority for such action at any tine. If' you want to sell hogs through the hog agency you can consign your hogs to them, but when you don't do this, then the packer has no business to turn that property settlement over to them. Why should any person be com- pulsorated by a law to consign his hogs to an assembly point to be. scratched and bruised up, when most, hogs are paid for on yields and 'grades in forms of a dressed product. Market hogs are not all sold on a live weight basis like other ani- mals, and therefore it is the farm- er who takes the shrinks as they may appear. 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