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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1987-09-02, Page 1INDEX Feature — A3, A4 Hensall — A5 Farm — A6 Births A8 Walton - A7 Weddings — A8 Serving the communities and areas of Seaforth, Brussels, Dublin, Hensall and Walton Obituaries — A9 Sports,,- Al 0, All Classifieds Al2, A13,, A14 Entertainment — A15 Nursing Homes — A16. • HURON EXPOSITOR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1987 • 50 cents a copy OFFERING CONGRATULATIONS - Mel Clark, middle,- Clerk of the Township of Stanley, and his wife Betty came to Brucefield on Sunday to offer congratulatory wishes to Ross Scott. Mr. Scott, a well-known resident and businessman of the area, was celebrating his 50th birthday. Mcllwraith photo. Friends, relatives help man celebrate his 90th birthday Family and friends gathered at the Brucefield United Church on Saturday afternoon to honor Ross Scott on the occa- sion of his 90th birthday. Mr. Scott, is a well known resident and business man of the area, having been a whole sale distributor of Sunoco products before his retirement. Mr. Scott's business career began in 1930 when he secured a contract from the Sun Oil Company Limited to distribute Sunoco gasoline, Sunoco , motor oil and Sunoco lubricants. The first railway tank car of gasoline came on October 31, 1930 on Mustard's siding where Ross had a 12,000 gallon horizontal steel storage tank. He had bought approximately 'h acre • for the storage from J.B. Mustard. The "Ross Scott" business office was at the rear. of the W. Scott and Co. General Store. The first delivery tank truck was a Reo, with a 500 gallon tank. Mr. Scott distributed to contracted dealers in all the towns and villages in Huron County. Sun On policy was to let distributorships by county. Later Perth County (except Strat- ford) was added plus border locations in Bruce and Lampton Counties. As business developed Ross Scott Limited was formed. In 1939 the first company own- ed service station was built in Exeter. The farm trade developed with farm agents being appointed to serve the farthing communities distant from the Brucefield oil stove depot. .Furnace _ol stove oil and diesel fuel products were added to the business. Bill Scott, Mr. Scott's younger brother, started with Ross driving trucks until ill health took hifn out of the business. Ken, Ross' son, became a member of the firm in 1945. In 1937 the W. Scott and Co. store was sold to Abe Brandon. Ross' business office was still housed in the rear of the store With the Post Office. In 1947 Ross Scott Ltd. bought the old Wacker House Hotel from Edgar Allen, who removed the barn. The hotel building was renovated and the gasoline business office moved there along with the Post Office. A new cement block building to service and house the company trucks was built on the former location of the old hotel barn. In the beginning the gasoline came in railway tank cars from Toronto. Later it was hauled by Truck from first Hamilton, then Sarnia and now London by trucks own- ed by Ross Scott Ltd. In 1909 Ross Scott Ltd. was sold to the Sun Oil Co, Ltd. The new owners changed the name to Ross Scott Fuels and Ken stayed in the employ of the new company: Ross and Ken developed the business into a thriving enterprise which was recognized by Sun Oil. In 1955, Ross' 25th year in business, the Sunoco dealers and agents held a banquet in Ross' honor. On October 1, 1986 Sun Oil Co. Ltd. sold the bulk of the fuel oil business to the Hensel] Co -o LOCAL VISIT - Provincial NDP Leader Bob Rad and Huron County tP' 'Candidate Patti Kropp stopped at Ginette's restaurant in Seaforth Friday, for a spot of lu'n'ch, Dave DeVriies, proprietor of the restaurant, was only too happy to pour them a cup -of coffee. Moliwraith phots. Capac.ity.crowd - hears candidates tradecame to be with the borders wide• can get. It's' wrong to assume that its a. open, there would be no guarantee that the .'wrong' deal, and that we Canadians will be auto plants, with :the majority owned by overpowered by U.S. negotiators." American based companies, would stay Christie pointed outin his closing remarks here. that the steel mills and plants in Hamilton "We, want to know what's on the table and Nanticoke are top-notch facilities and before we or I agree to, free trade. I believe that, they're better than the older, decrepit in Peterson's stand," he said. '• plants in the.Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania area A capacity crowd was on hand last Thurs- day night to hear the three Perth provincial candidates give their opinions on lgcal and province -wide issues prior to the September • 10thOntario election. The threecounty. can- didates:incumbent Liberal Hugh Edighof- 'fer, Progressive. Conservative Ron Christie and New Democrat Warren Ham, were on hand at the Mitchell Town Hall and all three stood against free trade with the United States. ' The meeting, chaired and organized by the Perth Federation of Agriculture with the assistance of the Mitchell. Jaycees, gave a chance for the candidates to address local agricultural issues prior to the election next week, and'an opportunity for those in the au- dience to ask pertinent questions, to specific or all of the candidates. The key issue this election and this night was the ongoing free trade talks, and the three expressed concern with NDP can- didate Warren Ham the most outspoken against it. Hugh Edighoffer backed his leader to the utmost, while Christie sald.a satisfactory agreement must try to be reached. "I am very partisan. I am nervous. The inmates are running the asylum," . Ham said. "I'm here to say that I oppose it (free trade) and I want all to recognize that we're in a global market. "I want you as the candidate to take the election and personalize it," Ham con- tinued. "Think of what the free trade agree- ment will mean to you and remember who's going to be fighting in your corner." Liberal Hugh Edighoffer backed his leader, Premier David Peterson, on the con- troversial and leading issue fn this election. Edighoffer explained that "free" trade to him was a trade agree t_with the U.S., with completely open.. orders, "just like another state. "We haven't 'even learned to trade within our own provinces," Edighoffer said. "Maybe it's (free trade) a good thing, but there's no guarantees," he said. He men- tioned the auto pact, and said that if free Ron Christie; the Progressive Conser- to the south.' "We're• beating the United States at their have tocandidatefound for Perth, said that ways ree- owngame," he said. "They don't like it, and menhave to de hat we as Canadians reach a canral 't feel they on't stand for,it. We'll simply have to that we're "going to be taken to the negotiate our way out of a tariff war: cleaners" on an agreement. . . I. hope we can work out a few bilateral agieements, because that is what it started "We must be sure that were negotiating a out to be," he said. "Personally, I'm afraid good deal or we're not going to proceed," he that it has become so polarized (within the said. "The free trade issue is an emotional media) that. it'll become scuttled right off and irrational issue. We have to see what we the bat." OPP to enforce RIDE program The Labor Day holiday is the last long weekend of the summer. Don't make it the last weekend of your 'life! "The 0.P.P. will do its part to prevent needless loss of life with increased enforce- ment and the 'STRICT IS .FAIR' and R.I.D.E. programs, but we cannot do . it alone," ,said Q,P.P. Commissioner Archie Ferguson. "Our officers will attempt to save lives by stopping impairedand careless drivers or. Ontario highways, but the motoring public must do its part by driving intelligently." The 0.P.P. will closely --.monitor.. traffic: during the Labor Day weekend.' Approx- imately 2,000 officers will be patrolling On- tario highways on the weekend, making maximum use of 400 radar units and 500 roadside alcohol breath testers. Drive with care and make the holiday weekend a time to remember, not regret. Motorcycle fire too •much to handle The Seaforth and Area Firefighters were firefighters had the fire out in 20 minutes. called to fire Sunday night at the Tuckersmith farm of Jim Rose. Firefighters said a motorcycle which belonged to Mr: Rose's son caught: fire while it was being refueled. The Roses attempted There was another fire in Seaforth on that to put the fire out, but found the gas fire was same Sunday. It was a minor grass fire more than they could handle. They phoned which firefighters said was most likely for help at 9:45 p.m. and once on the scene caused by accident. Fire Chief George Garrick said the situa- tion was not serious or out of control but ad- ded it could have been. Japanese student likes country BY HEATHER MCILWRAITHI Mayuko Yoshioka, an 18 -year-old from Kobe, Japan - a city that houses over two million people - is finding the transition from big city life to country living relatively easy. She arrived from Japan two weeks ago and is already comfortable in her new surroundings. She will be spending the next year on the RR 5 Seaforth dairy farm of Jim and Janneke Murray and their daughters Morgan and Michelle. "We were concerned at first When we foundout she was from a big city. So often city kids don't like the country, but we were lucky Mayuko (pronounced' My -you) decid- ed to enjoy it. It could have gone either way," said Mrs. Murray, adding Mayuko had never been on a farm before and had never even had a pet. "Jim bought her coveralls the other day so now every day at 4 p.m. she heads out to the barn. Mayuko helps with the chores and likes it. She loves animals. A typical city girl Mayuko had never seen a cow, except on television, before arriving in Canada. Since then she has expanded her 'knowledge of the animal dramatically. Last week she was given the opportunity to milk one. I was laughing and laughing," she said. "It felt strange. I never felt that before..." Mayuko has now also seen a cow calve, ridden her first horse, and her first riding lawn mower. Mayuko is in Canada as part of an ex- change arranged by the American Field Surveys through Interculture Canada. Ap- proximately 104 young people froth 72 dif- ferent countries were placed in Canada. The purpose of the program is to promote peace and goodwill between Canada and other countries. For Mayuko the stay in Canada will alto* her to improve • her English.. Al01o14h technically she has already graduated from high school, she will be attending Seaforth High School during her year here, to allow the opportunity to become fully immersed in Canadian culture. When her year in Cnada is over, Mayuko will return to Japan to at- tend University. Someday, she said, she Wonld like to become an interpretor. Although Mayuko has already graduated from high school she„ will be attending Seaforth High School during her year in Canada, in order that she is fully 'immersed in' Canadian Culture. Mayuko is expectingseho'ol will be dif- ficult given the feet her english is limited. She has studies English since Grade 7, but is relying on her Japanese-english dictionary to help her communicate. Not only will school be difficult, it Will also be different. In Japan Mayuko attended an all girls school with approximately three times the number of sttldents Seaforth has: Mayuko travelled 30 minutes by train and l5 minutes by foot before getting to school and fi s ENJOYING THE PEACE AND OUlEi - Mayuko Yoshioka of Japan will be spending the next year on the RR 5 Seaforth dairy farm of Jim' and Janneke Murray and their Iiyo daughters Morgan and Miohhelfe. The farm- offers a different atmosphere from what Mayuko is used to, but she is enjoying it. Mayuko is shown here trying to measure up (in height) with her two Canadian sisters, Morgan and Michelle. Also in the picture is Cindy, one of the many animals on the farm that Mayuko has grown •attached to. Mcllwraith photo. was surprised to hear'a bus would pick her Although Mayuko has seen snow before, up at the end of her laneway and deposit her she has not Seen the four foot drifts she is almost right on the doorstep of the Seaforth constantly warned of..She admits the big,- ° High School: ,That news was good news gest snowman owan she was ever able to make given 'the rune rs she hes been hearing measured approximately eight to 10 inches about Canadian, especially Seaforth in height. winters: In preparation for the' cold she "I'm looking forward to having snow': I brought about 40 boxes of Hot Shots (the can't believe the stories about snow," she hand warmers) 4 lith her from Japan. 'turn to page 3A e