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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1988-04-20, Page 23E1 Huron xpositor SINCE 1860, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST Incorporating The Brussels Post Published in Seaforth, Ontario Every Wednesday Morning Tho Expositor is brought to you each week by the efforts of: Pat Armes, Nell Corbett, Terri -Lynn Dole, Dianne McGrath and Bob McMillan. ED BYRSKI, General Manager HEATHER MelLWRAITH, Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc. Ontario Community Newspaper Association Ontario Press Council Commonwealth Press Union International Press Institute Subscription rates: Canada '20.00 a year in advance Senior Citizens - 47.00 o year in .advance " Outside Canada '60 nr1 n year in advance Single Copies • 30 cents each ' Second class mail registration Number 0696 Wednesday, April 20, 1988 Editorial and Business Offices - 10 Main Street, Seaforth Telephone (519)327.0290 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1WO Bike safely It's spring and one of these days the weather will get a lot warmer. When that happens young and old enthusiasts will be out on their bicycles. As always there are a number .of rules that should be followed when riding a bicycle and the Ontario Safety League offers a few tips to help make biking safe and more enjoyable. Ride a bicycle that fits you. The size of your bike affects your balance and ability to reach the steering and braking controls and pedals. You should be able to reach the ground comfortably with the ball of your foot while sitting upright on the seat. Parents should supervise the selection of a bicycle for a child and periodically inspect the bike to see that it is in good working order, until the child is responsible enough to maintain his or her own safety inspections. Check the tires for wear and tear. Also check the wheel spokes, chain, lights and horn. Make sure the bike is well oiled and tighten any loose nuts and bolts. Check braking ability on both wet and dry surfaces before taking the bike onto the street. Your bicycle also should be in good alignment. If it veers to one side when pushed forward, it is out of line and needs adjustment. No child should be permitted to ride on roadways until he or she has mastered all aspects of the bicycle and this mastery has been observed by a parent on the roadway the child will travel. Bicycle skills that must be taught to children include safe starting, the ability to ride in a straight line near the curb, rules about right-of-way, turning corners and rapid stopping. Remember that bicyclists are considered drivers under the law and that traffic rules, signs and signals apply to the cyclist just as they do to the motorist. You're travelling.on one of the smallest vehicles on the road and it's not always easy for motorists to see you. High -flying flags are a good idea at any time, and at night you should have lights, reflective tape and reflectors. Wear light-colored clothing. Motorists too should be extra careful, since they will no longer have monopoly on the roads, but will be sharing them with bicyclists. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Privatization opposition off course Dear Editor: Those opposing Air Canada's privatiza- tion are flying off course on one engine. Federal Liberals and the NDP, who favor continued state ownership of the airline, complain Canada will lose control over it through privatization. Nonense! Privetiza- tion Minister Don Mazankowski has clearly limited non -Canadian ownership of Air Canada shares to about 11 percent. Bob White of the CAW and Shirley Carr of the CLC oppose privatization because they see it as a threat to their wealth and power. They thrive on confrontation and don't want to see Air Canada employees and manage- ment working together as fellow shareholders with a common purpose. Neither do they want to see workers receiving healthy dividend cheques, from which no union dues are deducted. The only problem with the federal govern- ment's plan to privatize Air Canada is that it only goes half -way. The government plans to keep a controlling interest in the airline and who knows what will happen in the next election. Would your readers want to be minority partners in Air Canada with a Liberal/NDP government? We wouldn't. The federal government should commit to selling the remaining 55 percent of the airline's shares over the next two years. As well, it snoulo ensure that the majority of shares are owned by Canadians and offer favourable terms for share purchase to Air Canada's employees and management, and small investors in general. Yours sincerely David Somerville President North Dundas High to have reunion Dear Editor, North Dundas District High School is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Our major event will be a Homecoming celebration on July 1, 2 and 3. We ask for your help in bringing this to the attention of any former students who may now be residing in your area by placing this in your newspaper. We would like to extend an invitation to anyone that is interested. Admission to all events including dinners and dances is by preregistration only. These registrations must be returned to the com- mittee by May 2, 1988. For further information and registration forms, please write to N.D.D.H-S. Reunion Committee Box 640 Chesterville, ON KOC 1H0. Thank you kindly. A disaster looking to happen Have you ever had one of those days You know, the kind where nothing seems to go right and everything you touch goes astray. I've been repeating a day like that every day for about two weeks now, to the point where you could truly apply the phrase 'a disaster looking for a place to happen'. It seems I can't attempt anything - even the simplest task - without falling flat on my face. It's as though I've got a brain warp - have taken leave of my senses and vacated this world for the Twilight Zone. I'm sure we've all had days like this. Days when your mind is so full of other things you operate In a fog. Days when you could recite Tennyson's best works or rhyme off the seven wonders of the world without hesitation, but couldn't walk through a doorway without bouncing off the wall. Days when a one-hour drive seems five minutes long because you weren't totally in synch with what you were doing - and can't remember observing a single thing along the entire route. Days when you cross highway 8 without checking for traf- fic first. Well, it's been 14 days of that am me. SWEATSOCKS by Heather Mctlwraith Here, at work I'm stumbling over the keys of my mini disk terminal, and finding it virtually impossible to concentrate for the duration of a lengthy news story. Even with this column I'm finding it difficult to write so that everything fits together in- stead of being disjointed and awkward. But I suppose I'm making do. My real problem seems to be when I leave the mini disk terminal and try to complete those tasks that befall people in the real world. • It's 'out there' that I discover the im- possibility of being present in body but not in mind. I know the messages are leaving my brain centre but somehow they are get- ting lost en route to the part of the body I am instructing to complete the task. Call me klutz - but for the life of me I can't, of late, do anything right. These past two weeks I've been a continual sideshow of stupid actions. I've dropped whole milk cartons and eggs before I'm six inches away from the refrigerator, I've dropped dishes and phones, I've upset my laundry, tripped over rugs, over chairs, over - my feet. I've washed clothes without soap - then again with too much soap. I've closed doors on my leg, and doors on my head. I've even dropped shelves on my head. I've dialed the phone then forgotten who I've called and why. I've carried on con- versations and forgotten mid -sentence what it is I'm conversing about. I've double -booked my weekends. I've forgotten all that I've forgotten. I think I'm going senile. Whatever it is that's happening to me, I hope it soon rights itself. I'd just as soon come out of this fog, 'else people will be thinking there's no light on in the lighthouse. " l MOVE WE Fr re -/E NEXT wA77 oN NOLT> ! „/LL 5EcoNn Auto ' insurance should be owned public The only thing insurance means to me is that I can assure myself I'll be paying plen- ty for it. A recent report prepared for Pederson's government has shot down both publicly owned auto insurance, and the no-fault plan which many insurance companies favour. The report instead proposes that accident benefits be upgraded. If accident benefits are improved, the story goes, there will be subsequent reduc- tions in premiums as the insurance system becomes more efficent. Mr. Justice Coulter Osborne of the Ontario Supreme Court told the London Free Press that his package of proposed reforms which have been in- troduced to the legislature could result in a cost savings of $20 for each vehicle in the province. I'm not one to call Mr. Osborne's pro- posals crap, but speaking as someone who comes from a province with government run insurance, I can't see why he has eliminated public auto insurance. Now I'm definitely no insurance expert, but I do know that when I applied for auto in- surance in British Columbia, the govern- ment gave it to me at a cost of approximate- ly $300 for the basic third person liability. When I came to Ontario and started to look around to renew my insurance, the first price I was quoted at was approximatley $1,900. That's almost what I paid for my car! Looking around a little, I found an agent who was willing to give me a bit more credit for driving experience and this brought it down to an almost affordable $1,400, and taking my business to a rural company I managed to cut this down even more. but nowhere near $300. I have never had an accident and I have y MY TWO BITS by Neil Corbett only one speeding ticket, but insurance com- panies call me a "high risk" because I am under 25. I have four years driving ex- perience, yet people who just get their licence at the age of 16 get a cheaper rate than I do because of some sort of family deal. So when I see hill page ads in newspapers, ads sponsored by insurance agencies which claim that the government is going to charge us higher prices if they ever get con- trol of auto insurance, it makes my blood boil. It has been my experience that the in- surance agent who was best to me worked for the government. I think the government in Ontario is scared of the expense necessary w start a government run auto insurance program. But the truth is that the eventual monopoly control of the industry makes for cheaper rates in the long run. I have heard other people with similar ex- perience say the same thing. To them it seems so simple and obvious that the government runs insurance much cheaper than the private sector. Yet much of the On- tario public has been convinced the govern- ment is going to increase rates. Why the government doesn't just Dike control of this issue is beyond me. Maybe Pederson is scared of the insurance cor- porations, or that people will label him "dic- tator" so he's staying safely in the middle of the road. Or maybe he has a cousin who sells auto jnsurance. CRIME STOPPERS Phone 1-800-265-1777 On the morning of May 1, 1987, employees of Levis Contracting Company at RR 2 Clin- ton, discovered three transmissions had been taken out of trucks parked in the yard. The thieves removed two Fuller 13 speed transmissions and one five speed transmis- sion for a dump truck, with cutting torches. Lifting equipment would have been used to place the transmissions on a truck because of their weight. The total value of the stolen property exceeds $5,000. If you have any information about this or any other serious crime call Crime Stoppers of Huron County toll free at 1-800-265-1777. You could earn a cash reward of up to $1000 if the information leads to an arrest. Callers will not be required to reveal their identity or testify in court. Huron County voters repeal Scott Act by 1000 vote sweep APRIL 20, 1888 The voting en the Scott Act passed over very quietly in town on Thursday. A good many rigs were flying about bringing in voters, and both parties seemed to do their best, but all were good natured. When the result of the voting in town was known, it caused surprise to a good many, and was made the source of much rejoicing by the victorious party. It was a clean sweep for the repeal of the Scott Act in Huron. We did hope to give the returns for the various municipalities in the County of Huron, but although we waited un- til a late hour before going to press, the ex- citement and confusion prevalent everywhere was such that it was impossible to get the figures. Sufficient is known, however, to justify us in saying that the repeal has been carried in this county by about 1,000. The band will hereafter play on the street every Saturday evening, and anyone wishing to donate a little to help to support the band, their donations will be thankfully received by the treasurer, Mr. James A. Anderson. A good many farmers in this vicinity have commenced plowing, but we have not heard of any seeding being done yet. intentlantanlinalallIMEMMEMalaellie- A NEW FIRM IN HENSALL - Mr. George McEwen, manager of the Hensall salt well and deputy -reeve of the township of Hay, has recently entered into a partnership with our respected townsman, Mr. Wm. Hood, who for the past year or so has been carry- ing on the Hensall oatmeal mill with Mr. Wm. Robertson, for the purpose of carrying on the manufacture and sale of oatmeal. The new firm will be known under the name of McEwen and Hood. We understand Mr. Robertson, Mr. Hood's former partner, has withdrawn from the business in order to carry on milling for himself in a neighboring village where he has a good opening. APRIL 18,1913 Dublin's Joseph Weber had his carriage horse take first prize at the Seaforth spring fair and second in Mitchell. Sperling and Wright of the Seaforth garage and machine works got in a coal oil engine this week which works like a charm, and which bids fair to supercede gasoline engines in rural districts if gasoline con- tinues to climb as it has been doing in recent months. Mr. Fell of the Seaforth photographic studio, had a carload of horses lined up on Main Street on Tuesday forenoon and took a photograph of the bunch. They were all par - IN THE YEARS AGONE from the Archives SIMMISIMEMEIIIMIEM chased in this vicinity for the Montreal Frenchman and for shipment to that city. They were all heavy draughts and as fine a loch as was ever brought together in any county. Huron, and especially this part of it, cannot be surpassed by any district in the world for the excellence of its heavy draught horses. Nearly all the kids in town are taking part in the entertainment, "Alice in Wonderland" being given in Cardno's Hall Thursday and Friday evenings. It is the best yet and should have an overflow house to- night. We are pleased to learn that Mr. Frank Kling, who has been seriously ill with typhoid fever, is showing some signs of improvement. APRIL 22,1938 Curtis Burchiel, a 29 -year-old hydro lineman, died early Good Friday morning in Stratford General Hospital, suffering from terrible electric shock burns and shock received on Thursday last about noon while working with a hydro gang on the second concession of McKillop north of St. Columban. The accident occurred when Burchiel was working on a Hydro pole removing a cross arm. Dead and live wires were both on the pole and it is believed one of the dead wires which he was touching swung over to a live wire, sending 26,000 volts of electricity through his body. He was rendered un- conscious but his safety belt saved him from falling. He was terribly burned about the body and died about five o'clock the follow- ing morning. Persons in Seaforth and district interested in tennis are invited to attend a meeing in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, where the possibility of forming a tennis club will be discussed. If sufficient interest is shown in a club, two modern and fully equipped courts may be constructed at the Seafortr Golf and Country Club. The courts wool 1 ue properly lighted for night play and wot 5e available for members at all times. APRIL 18, L963 Seaforth Towners were •- ' -ious Mon- day night in their f - t r ..ith Ux- bridge in the All Ontario in ..iediate 'B' OHA hockey fins ' h )cats came out on top 7-4 to take a ' the best of seven series. The Seafor Corr -,unity Hospital building fund i--rPased $3,000 this week when the Stud,. its' Council of SDhS pledged this amount in annual payments spread over several years. Anxious to have a part in the ne, ',ospital project, the SDHS students plan t. T ovide for their payments through arrons school activities. The service a in Huron riding announc- ed Saturday to returning officer R. T. Bolton reduced the election night majority of Elston Cardiff by 298. The vote was McGavin 403, Cardiff 107. The final totals showed a majority of 2,055 for Cardiff. The winner polled 12,224 votes, while 10,169 were cast for Mr. McGavin. - Of the 26,083 eligible civilian voters in the riding. 22.021. or 84.4 per cent cast ballots. 4