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:-SEAAFORTH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH, 1, 1.984
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Feb°29 was a day of surprises andprobably the biggest was the
announcement by Prime Minister Trudeau of his resignation es leaderof
the "Liberal party and as PrimeMinister of Canada:
According to news bulletins, it seems ;many Canadians cheered the
announcement. The love for Trudeaumenia In **turned to oneeof rage
and hate In the 1980s. And much of this, as Anthony Westell says in the
Toronto Star was due to unfair reporting,
"The reporting -of Trudeau's activities.has been highly critical for
several years; slime of the criticisms ' Is no?doubt desefved, but some,one
suspects is based =on 'Personal dislike of the Men toe on• the Journalists'
desire for a new face, a new story," "writes Mr. Westell.
Granted, our Prime Minister madessome mistakes, but If he didn't, he
wouldn't be human. Canada also faced a toughrecessionary period, but
so did the rest• of the world. The probiems of one country, cannot be
blamed on one man.
Looking at the positive side'of Mr. Trudeau, one seesxa prime minister
who doesn't mince words -he says it like it is; he doesn't beat around the
bush as one might think all politicians do. He wasn't two-faced.
He was flamboyant, but at the same time, could relate to the public.
After all, his marriage broke up like that of many others today.
He also gave us our constitution, a constitution we should have had
years ago. And he should be credited with at least'for his act as mediator
and peace maker, especially when the world is on the brink of nuclear
war.
But like all politicians, we at first think they're great, but soon realize
they're Just like us. They don't have all the, ansWers all the time.
• Will the next Liberal leader, or the next Prime Minister be more
outstanding than the ones We've had since John A. MacDonald? --R.W.
•
Ovriiig,. 'lira.' :3Rs,.
\For three years now, grade seven and eight students in the area have
been participating -in an equal opportunity program - both boys and girls
learn home economics as well as industrial arts Skills. •
By learning to cook and sew, the boys are preparing to be capable
adults who can make nutritious, economical meals and, Inexpensive
clothing. They are learning the satisfacction of making and then
displaying their handlWork by wearing a new shirt to school the next day.
Girls as well are learning the satisfaction of doing a good Job on a candy
dish, book -ends or spook rack.. By learning the basks of industrial
machinery, they are preparing themselves to move on to bigger and
better accomplishments like making furniture or tuning up a car. And,
more importantly, 'they are opening up many more opportunities for
themselves in the job' market as skilled laborers.
By overi:oming the barrier dividing so-called women's and men's work, '
these students are finding greater opportunities of ekpressing
themselves creatively, doing satisfying work and preparing themselves
for the job market. And, with jobs becoming increasingly more difficult to
find, the more diverse his or her education, the greater the chance he or
she has of succeeding at life. - S.H.
Old photographs needed
for Heritage District
TO THE EDITOR
To My Fellow Citizens of Seaforth:
In order to help make our proposed Main
Street "Heritage District" successful, the
Town Council and its Local Architectural
Conservation Advisory Committee need old
photographs of various buildings on Main
Street.
Thanks to the generosity of Mrs. Dorothy
Scott. we have a copy of "A Sobvenir Sf
Seaforth". a booklet of pictures of Seaforth
taken around 1900. but several buildings
are omitted.
If you have anything, we would be glad
either of a donation, to be placed in our
archives at the Town Hall, or if your picture
is an heirloom. of a loan so that a copy can be
made.
if you can help us, leave word at the
Clerk's Office or tell any member of Council
or Local Architectural Conservation Advi-
sory Committee.
Yours truly.
Alfred F. Ross
Mayor
Frank Jones shouid take
second look at Seaforth
Dear Editor,
Do you remember FranliJones from the
Toronto Star and his aiiivelette called
"Cloud Cuckoo Land"?' Well i think he
should come back to Seafottla......7tiere are
a few things that -got missed and could
become 'part II' of his earnest. yet
somewhat fanciful. article which decorated
the leading pages of that Daily Stet and
reached (across this land) from sea -to sea.
Now, don't get me wrong( Frank Jones is -
a competent and well -versed professional
journalist. His articles patticulerly those of
an historic bent . are exeeflent. Ile ;
hes even
tried to help a small group in Seaforth• (the
Van Esmond Foundation) When be• wrote a
natignal article about the stubborn-ritinded
Colonel at a time when the local berftage
group needed money to eliminate its capital
debt. I'm not sure how ntnch credit
should
actually go to Frank Janes. but the debt is
gone!
Anyway. back to chapter" 2 rot 'Cloud}
Cuckoo Landl
i think Mr. Jones should havethe chants
to digest the following events from this little
backwoods town called Seaforth(
tl. The Van Esmond accomplishment
(which he Iasisfed) described above.
2, The Seaforth and District *immunity
Centres aG litiique accomplishment in
Ontario whish raised all that..money, and,
nota cent etttra an our tax bills..
3. The Joliet Jew story . about he* a tittle
town reached half way across theworldend
cut throuigh the frustrating bureaucracy of
two: national governments to re -01K g
mother and het son ,
4. The countless other examples of
humanitarian spirit that emerge inrthe daily
life
ofthit eorrimunity -theneighboittlittees.
the attest to competent and cluing medical
SUOMI, the myriad of family 'cii es
re:Salved with the help of folks a'iitaces like
Seaforth Ca turtunity Hospital, ere.
Sure. welievetroublewtthssome things -
tike
.
organizing farther'* markets. like `'
ec‘ordinating the bustle elf co dinertity
-events, like the little squibble you reed
about in the Huron Ettliositotfrom week -to,
week....
Butfolks, *eve got it made! We've SO a
mat treasure here. Let's not forget tt
Kind* gtls
A i ly-en-thie;-waalt
ROLE REVERSAL Boys and girls' in, grgee
seven. at Seaforth Public :Sohoo,I have Just
Ylnished
two .month ,perldd of sae ltahtng
home-ec'end shop classes. The boys
Including •Jim; Roth and''Trevor Fortune
learned to cook and sets, and' the girls teamed
' • to Make Sandy Mabee, demonstrated by
Cosmo MAO re end usethe ban,eaw like
Sheila Bacherrt. (Hundert;mark photo)
a
Ever since 1860, when the 'Rdrou-
Expositor first started publishing', it his
seen many changes. The newspaper, 16124
years of providing a service to the Seeferth
community, has changed its design andlthe
type of news •reported within its pages. ,
In the late 18000 the 'Expositor only, hadabout, two..of-its, eight, ppages. dedicatejl
local news. Weekly serials were* favorite of;;
the readers and the front pagesliMews
of a national and international nature,
During the early 1900s, the Esposito r had
a larger page size, the same size at is still
used today. But it wasn't until. the 30's.and
40's thathotogra first
appeared
newspaper And It wasn'tuntil l0ears later
that the number of pages printed each week
Increased from the usualht.
U. until the 1960's, the Expositot was a
"le . - . ress" newspiper. It was a newt
e . t sorted,
ed dlvldual lettere *bleb
t be orts , and a linotype sting
machine which cast news sones nn lead, to
britg"readers the news of,the week.
• The advent of "of set",ve .the,
newspaper more llexibin . An *rade touch'
could -lie used when designing the;newa of
the week. Offset was also easier for
employees, slnce the heavy lead type did not
Being funny is a dangerous business
NSE AND NONSENSE
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Computerized typesetting equipment, and
different darkroom'techrdques Were employ.
ed to . offer a faster service and quality+
newspaper to the readers, On modem
offset press, the ` itor is now .printed'
and folded Im less half an hour. In
b�ygare rats. the column widths have
sed Vern three inches wide to less than
twainches. And, thoriumber of'tolunms per
page has'also changed in past years.
Butreaderahip studies have found that the
ideal reading width is approximately 2'i2
inches, the column width now used in the
t atimmdr, a readership survey con-
ducted by the Expositor°, found that many
le offered su .ons on how to
-y
c,. prove their we newspaper.
People wanted local news, gooks stories
sports news and In-depth of
council. The Expositor offered of the
above, but we've tried to keep Improving,
ntgws of herr readers what
they most desire, .
Since the...readctshlp Survey was conj.
ptete1983, minor es wer
Pians were in' the works tango looke at the
Expositor as a whole and see what changes
could be used to better serve the reitidetS, It
was hoped such new ideas could We been
implerneritcd in January, but snore time wet
needed and a new date Of'March 7 was set.
LOOK
Today, the H�or has a new
look. Manor changes been made
throughout, but the most outstanding is ori
the front page. A near, modern, clean-look-
tug
lean-look-h g typestyle wits used to enhance the
masthead and make the name of *It
newspaper more outstanding and easier -to
read. Its mote compact *edit designed to
improve the front page.
The readership survey showed that the
index end. Inside this Week section *stela .
the bottom of the front pageteteCnct.belaga,
read oeby> our Ireadera. It. was
derided to change the location of. the Index
for the benefit of our readers, to run down °
the right hand side of the Dent paygo.•
The elassi€led pages were also reverhped
to snake them easier to read. lnstead of the
usual nine colomtdt, column widths were
ands wider and Page size was reducedto aiti
columns. The effect is an dialer to- read
'cleaner -looking classified section.
Much time and energy was spent
compilingthe new took our readtr,wanted.
Though t fere are a few miner details left to
change, we hope everyone is pleased with
the new look oftheir newspaper, The Huron
Expositor.
Without the assistance efExpositor staff
and heated debates on what to change and
what not to change, our new look would net
have been possible. We hope our readers
appreciate the changes as we continue to
progress in the 1980's.
One of the hardest things in the world at
a time like this when the world needs a little
laughter, is to be funny.
Every week 1 sit down in front of my
bettered old portable typewriter end yearn
for a witty, entertaining column to come
whippi, 'otrt of my fingertips and onto the
page. Utifortutiately the brain behind the
fin chips isn't often in tate Mood to be witty
and something witlesslydull ' with all th
bdun of a lead °baloon dribbles oat
• instead..
Comedy, ynn. sex it darned'hard wont. It's
easy to get worked sip about some issue of
the day and in a rage of paassion, whip Out
7`00 words in a blur offlying typ triter keys
and pent up entotions. It's a lot harder to. sit
back and turn the whole issue around and
dome up with the humorous side of it all, to
show the absolute ridicutoutness of the
world.
it's a lot more dangerous too. i remember
one of ay frstpublished humor pie ces ID the
hometown'peper when I was griming tip
I HINTHE SCENE.MS'
by I eitli oulston
tbat near stopped my writing career before
itb�. That summer the vlllige had been
in by earwigs that seemed to be
evywhere. There were stories of . ..le
having to check their slippers in the m
before they put them on or risk having their
toesaniputated by the vicious little Insects. I
wrote a satiriest (1 thought anyway) column
saying.' thought the earwig Should be put on
the town ctest because it was truly
symbolic of the community. It brought an
Cate telephone call from a local lady who
dtdp't know, until I d her, that the whole '
cokrma bad beenin ...'. Nothing is more
mooing to err j the seri oeslyytb Inver some ie
hrU
There's
Some people grow benevolent and kindly
as they get older. I just get Mere Violent I
hopeltorn outtobe ad Angry Old Man, And
I know I will, if I awn justhen on long
enough to get old. It's a world to tufa
,anty ne, even a gentle, sweet chap IBA
, a bit savage;
't think that 1m just getting .
I've been crotchety for ., Year bear
people goingell outs-CiMada *yin ;
Isn'etliat crotclietyr' And
olbersreplying. Yes, crotchety is the;ward.
If there's a word for.%t, it'ae may
Mtna>i ' ;1kirwetht woddanoundrne,',
uptohalf a doreg and 1 l .n like*
mental ease at some of the thinga 1 toe,
there is a !halite the amount of ..._.,. 1
tail stead being trte
day kr the year 1984,A.D : mak�ie� .
jest -like the relate inc.•
Fcr'instarte. We .Hare SO
wheel dint *tve a national hog tom,
for Hitt it train. here to theft. rolltkleht go
white hying to: Why don'twe gtteit ft
"don't mean thefatmer. I Canals.
.the gouts tate to people who are •
lip go taxes: So What? ' go tag
le
•
Of cotrrsc comedy isn't good for the ego of
the writer anyway. People don't take tomedy
seriously. Sita$ for instance, wrote
many comedies ut most people *ill talk
about his traies, Macbeth, Hamlet and
the otherWhet they tack about his great
Plays. One night, listening to the audience
leave after a performance of my first play. I
heard 11'14 -who had been sitting nearby tell
het•friend that the play lied been a lot ct tun
butitdidn't Say much. Having thought Thad
deverlyrwotked in a lot of thought provoking
Bento into the comedy, I was about
ready to tak a a,life et her comments (hers or
vibe. 'rata ante which).
SO the'temptation to start taking Oneself
seriouslyiinsteadown
forever is always thealTheg great co
ndo
actor tongs to play tragedy. The comic writer
wants to say sotnethtrtg "significant". Or,
comic writers can get tied up in endless
discussions of what makes things funny. rm
not titre if they ever come up with the
answer tq that but I know what isn't funny at
alb a roomfulf of people talking about what Is
And you can't escape it anyway if you've
ever been known as being fwtny. The ether
night I heard a aontrtentator blasting Woody
Allen because he'd begun to take himself too
seriously and stopped being fanny. Now
poor,woody has two choices: he can go back
to being funny and have people put him
down as a li tweight'or he can get serious
and have all old fans desert him.
It's a lot easier being serious Woody but
it's more fon to be hinny.
a ilinit to garbage
SUGAR A SPICE
iy Bin Smiley
Per Instance. Our edncatleeil
cetera to the monsoons mass,
Sithe ,.Ott .like .y;....
in_
mai Waldo ' ,
ate staa�red
todiiath, ti+atit, bored tedeatlyantltl kida
*hootsbelow avrtage are *Wept uthe
muga
meanalour
acl�obt'�';a:01616a klds'whoarethere'"' !► taeeatmeir tridistwsnttofacet a lean, cold world, r
onhh orbekrtai1, atid,`rvesy k1d wbo wraatt't
inter; ,,And Fd let him k ia, with
gd sous , wheat he becamne interested,
Poriw Da t7 ***yea lie dally.
Not dotrnadght Bea. They alant.
dlstacit, and cotat the ,4'news," ell.
the ;per Sed H'a' fr Asa
country, and I guest they're free to lie.
For Instance Television cocld be a
*reinitiates force for epreodimg and
•Ioveinthe,world. 'does IS peacejam
until*, ' ,
, tri+r>l�itn �'ncerailcce With a
few nowt`lileextept ods, it serves its pati
garbage in **kg
Its entertainment does not entertain, .Its
lows seeks ovt the rientitionitsre the the Wily.
hal ,mss are alined at a wand of
Mreadybelleve flit . .,.•
at brand et- lieet it , r,•
that
Cana& famous throughout the world? Or
that you din get clothes cleaner in cold water
than in bot? Or that "telt never snake it if
your armpits sweat?
And fare alt this obscenity the three big
ti Ss netweiiks lasts *avert two hd!i.
•
dollars in profits. The CBC, which :give us
the same refuse, generally, came up with its
usual defcit. This shows the superiority of
Canadian television. Somehow,
For instance. There are two laws. One for
the rich and one for the rest of us. And any
lawyer and any policeman knows it: If you're
a dumb kid from Newfie, Or an Indian Who
got dttink, you can rot in jail fors month or
twobefore your case is even beaa it you're
e middle-class doctor or businessman, and
you have> the money and the right
moons, you're home free and every_
thing le -bushed. up.
.
For instance. Poverty.. Twenty million
people living one of the biggest countries
an the world, with enormous natural
resoaraes. And millions living in sordid,
ar
poverty.
ste ce +The Church. Again With a
few notable exceptions. ns. it does not face life.
It_ a +sings its hands, or washes them,
Plate -fashion. You don't see many preach-
ers charging into a finance con any and
brandishing a whip these days, do you?
For in:Stance. This column is about
garbage. And i just remembered this is
garbage day and I forgot to put mine cut