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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1990-07-25, Page 2Huron � xpositor SINCE HMG, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST Inco/ poreding Thi br tassels Post Published In Seoforth. Ontario Every Wednesday Mornln' ID • T RSR 1. GowNr1 M■wyor HUD'S! 0oarsilIT. amens News STAPP: Pearls NWT Senn Oxford AovitTliNt1O: terra-lirww bolo clAssiresoa. SUIMICIEWTIONS ACCOUNTING: Pet Antos Weems MrGrettt Ueda Pullman Member Canadian Community N.wspape. Assoc Ontario Community Newspaper Association Ontario Pros. Costwc.l CommonwsdMt Press Union International Press insritut. Subscription Rota. Canada '22 00 o year in advance Senior Citizens '19 00 o year en advance Outside Canada '65.00 a year . in advance Single Copies .60 con's each Second class ►nail registration Number 06% WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1!!O Editorial end auxins. Offices - 10 MSM Strst. Soeforth Tolephono i! 11) $27-0240 N: $27-0242 Moiling Address - P.O. Sax M. iooforth, Ontario. NOCK 11M0 Keep our farms safe "Agriculture has always been important to our nation's economy providing an abundance of staple goods for Canadians, and millions of people around the world," says Emile -J. Therien, president of the Canadian Safety Council. "This work requires farmers work from sun up to sun down, under harsh weather conditions, to provide us with the fruits of their labours. Unfortunately, too many farmers and farm workers are seriously injured or die each year as a result of accidents on the farm, with the most severe accidents involving heavy machinery." With farm safety in mind, the Canada Safety Council is marking July 25 to 31 as National Farm Safety Week. The objective of the campaign is to make farmers and farm workers aware of the potential dangers on the job when machinery is involved. The facts tell the truth. Medical reports indicate that machinery and farm implements are the number one killers in the farm workplace, with tractor -involved mishaps accounting for about 70 percent of fatalities and injuries. Despite the fact that more tractors are now equipped with rollover bars, many family farms continue to use smaller, older tractors that don't have new safety features. As a primary industry, farming ac- counts for the third largest number of fatalities and severe injuries suffered in high-risk workplaces which include forestry, mining and construction. Farmers know what it is to work long days, often with no break, especially at harvest time. However, for safety's sake, farmers are reminded to work wisely and efficiently. Stress, tiredness, poor machinery and carelessness lead to hundreds of farm accidents each year. Don Mazinkowskii the federal Minister of Agriculture, notes that "Canadian farmers take pride in putting out quality food products. Let us begin the 1990's by ensuring we also take pride in farm safety." LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Apartheid -style hypocrisy in Quebec OKA stand-off Dear Editor: The standoff at OKA, Quebec between Canadian Native Peoples and the Quebec Provincial Police serves us well as a "media billboard" that Canadians everywhere will do well to observe. When Native Peoples rise up to stand on their National Sovereignty and right to defend themselves from a clear armed invasion by a "foreign power", the Quebec Provincial Police, the old prejudices prevail. "The Indians are on the Warpath again!" Our First Nation of aboriginal peoples are by fact of law sovereign nations. However, the Feds and the Provinces are still looking for loopholes to the laws and appear to be stonewalling fano claim set- tlements. The French question of a "distinct society" pales by comparison to the distinctiveness of all of Canada's Original Peoples. No matter how many millions of dollars Prime Minister Mulroney pledges to African Blacks in their struggle to overcome Apartheid, and no matter how cleverly Premier Bourassa postures on Quebec's French Nationalist proclivities, Canada's Native Peoples are the truly most distinct society in this country. It is a disgrace to us all that we do not immediately put forth the political will to settle all land claims NOW! Canada, the "True North", shares in the same hypocrisy as South Africa. RURAL ROOTS by Jeanne Kirkby G. Leslie Balogh Wheat here and there When is a subsidy not a subsidy? In the USA the answer would be: when it's a deficiency payment. I've just had a chance to learn some facts about the American way of agriculture, and while there's no way that I'd give up being a Canadian, I've always believed that we should examine methods used in other areas and adopt any good ideas that can improve our system. Consider the wheat harvest which will soon be upon us. Our initial payment will be $115 per metric tonne, or $3.14 per bushel for white winter wheat. This is a significant drop from the 1989 price, and the outlook is grim so that might be all there is. In the USA, a wheat producer who registers in December with the Agricultural Soil Conservation Society, would probably be told to idle 10% of his wheat base land for supply management (that they deny using). A target price of $4.10/bushel and a basic loan rate of $2.06 (American dollars) would be set as it was in 1989. On the total wheat based acreage, planted and idle, his average yield would be totalled and multiplied by the difference between these two figures. Half this amount would be available to the producer in the early spring before he had input costs. The rest of the payment would depend on market values, but be guaranteed not to fall below the target price. In other words, to the American farmer, the actual price of a bushel of wheat has nothing to do v► ith what he receives for it. Americans generally perceive agriculture as very important to their country, and the 1185 Farm Bill was designed to make USA more competitive in international world markets, as well as supporting farm incomesit has been successful. Since the bill was passed, their wheat exports have expanded from 915 million to 1.6 billion in 1988. When Turn is page 1$A • It's a matter of mind over matter I've Lived w Huron County for a whole year nc.,w and soca soma c w that at 1 don't like. Before coaxing to Seaforth 1 lived is a few bag ctuos, Toronto, Van- couver and Kitchener, which has become a city. 1 could find my way around them with no problem and always sod well to the ways of the partrAiW city. Now 1 have lost my nerve eo Toronto and ani loosing u in Kitchener. It's a scary feeling to be loosing my confidence in clue+ as I enjoy them so much. Driving u, cities is the main confidence I tun Last week 1 drove my daughter to camp in the Albion Hills northwest of Toronto. In past years I have taken the 401, zipped up the 427 to highway 50 to take my daughter to PM. Tis yea[ 1 felt myself iaai* the 401 because of the Moires of cars and trucks on u and decided so take highway 9 to high- way S0. It was a beautiful brave with no stress, very title vamc and no suicides on the highway. Whoa 1 pick her up mutt camp I'll take the same route. 1 have relatives in downtown Toronto and 1 have to take the 401 to see them. It's a horrible drive lately with all the congestion and fast moving cars. Evers my shoncuts in the cuy have been discovered and are getting busy. This past weekend 1 spent in Kitchener and found myself frightened when 1 had to walk across a four way intersection downtown. There were a total of PC;i0A1,n4ARLEN-- - JUST THINKING Susan Duda by tour lanes stopped for me and cars making nght hand turns. 1 constantly watched all directions ars I crossed the street. scared someone in a hurry was going to chase me off the road. 1 did have a bit of relief while driving in Kitchener this weekend. Late Friday night 1 made a left hand turn onto a main street and a police car pulled me over. 1 didn't see a new no left turn sign. The policeman told me there was no excuse, unless 1 wasn't from Kitchener. 1 pulled out my new license with my Seaforth address and handed it to tbo He looked at it, and said hC knew where was and let me go. Driving and waking in the city was neves a problem for me. Now it's a fear that 1 have to son out because, as 1 say, I love cities and all they have to offer. 1 can't imagine myself ever not going into orae because of a fear of all the traffic, so I have to take this fear on and work it out of my life. voolas.nMV FeyR.5u4pAy5 p NAYS 11440 GLS F" AN HOUR YOU'RE �LUF�Pi�/�J' uP ALL -9-le PROFITS f • Yahoos in the headlines What does it take to make the news these days? Well, if you want to be in the national headlines, it's pretty simple. If you do something nice, you'll get an honourable mention in the back page of the Kommunity Fluff section. Worse yet, they'll talk about you on Entertainment Tonight. If you're just a goof, they'll get you onto Late Night with Letterman and mortify you into a fine powder. But if you're really a jerk, you make the six o'clock news. When I lived in the Niagara Peninsula a few years ago, I used to wake up to this deeply bent Buffalo radio station that played Frank Zappa and Yoko Ono at seven in the morning. Now, I get London am radio - 000h, the cutting edge - and the news to slap me out of sleep. I'm not sure which is scarier. One morning last week, two of the first things I heard were that Pete Rose still wants to get into the Hall of Fame, and that a museum honouring Richard Nixon and his term in office was being built. Wha...? I guess even jerks can make good, if they network the right way. These two silly announcements are on the mild end of an imbalance that sees mass murderers selling publishing rights in exchange for body locations, and travelling the gospel circuit for the rest of their lives, telling rapt audiences how they have seen the error of their serial-killin', sinnin' ways. And it ranks - and rank it is - with the same logic that has a clown like John McEnroe make the cover of Sports Illustrated umpteen times for throwing his racquet and bawling into the grass at Wimbledon, while real athletes with real talent go unheralded. It pays to be a jerk. You don't get infamy any more. You just get famous. The more I think about it, the ROUGH NOTES by Paula Elliott more I think that my public school teachers had the right idea. If the class idiot wants attention, give it to him. Just embarrass the stuffing out of him in the process. Courts have long proposed 'judgement by a jury of one's peers', and they've got the right idea, but sometimes I wonder if too much thinking goes on. I mean, an eye for an eye? What's an eyeball's worth of humiliation? How about a rotten egg for a crime? I propose that a gauntlet of one's peers be set up in the seats leading out of the courtroom, armed with putrid veggies. Pelt the nimrod. Base? Darn right. But chances are pretty good that he won't go out and try to sell a book about his courtroom experiences. And then there are the clowns who are sitting in jail cells, writing books about their lives of crime, and raking in royalties while waiting out their sentences. Or the ones who go to prison for x amount of years for attempted murder or armed robbery, and who get University degrees in jail. Rob a Mac's, get your Masters. And all my life, I've been operating under the belief that good things come to those who open doors for people and eat their wheaties for breakfast. I think the only celebrity who isn't suspect anymore is Kermit the Frog. And if he is, I don't want to hear about. Let me dream. McKillop schools go on the auction block JULY 25, 1890 The woollen mill of the Messrs. Van Egmond in this town, although working full time with over 50 hands, has orders three months ahead and besides this they have a good supply of orders in for next spring's delivery. This speaks well for the wares being made at this mill, especially in view of the fact that many mills in different pasts of the country are shut down and others working on half time. Mr. R. Peterson Jr. of the Hensall planing mill met with a painful accident a few days ago. While turning some balls for fence post use, one of them flew off the machine and struck him on the forehead with great force, rendering him unconscious for some time. The expenses of the recent elec- tion in the Huron South riding of county amounted to $767.25. If the people from Seaforth and neighbouring towns must picnic at Bayfield on the Sabbath, can they not go through the village of Brucefield a little more quietly. If they want to break the Lord's day, we do not, and protest against such conduct. The new establishment in Goderich for the manufacture of patent ventilated barrels, owned by Mr. Jos. Williams, is doing a rushing business. Mr. Williams employs nearly a dozen hands and they manufacture barrels at the rate of 700 a day. JULY 23, 1913 Mr. Robert Scott has just had completed on the Mulholland property in Harpurhey a neat and comfortable bank barn with cement stabling in which to house his crops. Mr. T. Stephens of the Queen's Hotel has just purchased a new overland car. The sale was made by Mr. John Dodds, the local agent. On Tuesday afternoon last week, although there were only a few drops of rain in Seaforth, whereas in the neighbourhood of Sproat's brickyard about three miles distant the rain came down in torrents and the whole country was swimming in moisture. On Saturday morning, while all the members of the family of Alex Buchanan who resides in Tuck- ersmith, about a mile east of Hen- sall, were engaged in milking and other duties at the barn, some of them noticed smoke and flames arising from the summer kitchen. A telephone message for help was sent to Hensall, and in a short time several auto loads were on the scene. Nothing could be clone. Insurance on the house was small - only 51,000 - which will go a short way towards replacing such a buil- ding. One of the many growing evils today is the city department store. In our town, where we have the best of stores, the most honorable merchants, and where goods are sold at a margin so small as to afford only a respectable living to our business men, thousands of dollars are annually sent to the department stores in our great cities. JULY 2.6,1940 IN THE YEARS ALONE from the Expositor Archives A new high in attendance at Seaforth Lions Club frolics and carnivals was reached Wednesday night when nearly 9,000 people crowded the Lions Park for the club's annual summer carnival. Almost 1,000 more attended the carnival this year than in 1939. 'D' Company Middlesex and Huron regiment, which trains here in Seaforth twice weekly, now has more than 100 men according to Major T. Morgan. Arrangement have been completed whereby the company will use the Lions Park for parade purposes and the first of these parades was held there on Tuesday evening. Dublin's oldest resident, Mrs. Catherine Carpenter, celebrated her 94th birthday at home on Sunday, surrounded by a group of relatives and friends. She is the last sur- viving member of her gamily Playing at the Regent 'Theatre, Seaforth this week: The Days of Jesse James, starring Roy Rogers. The electrical storm did some damage in the Blyth area last week. Mayor Youngblut and his hired man were stunned and one of his horses also stunned by a bolt of lightning while in the field, haying. JULY 29, 1965 Hibbert Township's 530,000 road maintenance building was officially opened on Saturday in Staffa. Attracted by the auctioneer's hammer, former pupils of three McKillop schools paid their last visit on Wednesday to the buildings in which they had gained their education. Passed over the no longer required in a modem education system in which the one - room school has no place, the buil- dings were declared surplus by the McKillop School Area Board. The Usbome No. I School, located on Hwy. 8 two miles east of Seaforth, was sold along with the woodshed and land to Larry Nolan for $500. SS No. 12 sold to Henry Boven of McKillop for 5350, and Sam Scott of R.R. 2, Seaforth pur- chased the land and building of SS 13, Roxboro, for 51,500. Work was resumed Monday in most departments at the new Seaforth Community Hospital as carpenters called off their three- week -old strike. In a rather listless soccer game Wednesday at St. Columben, Goderich was beaten 6-3. St. Columban led 5-0 at half time and seemed to coast the rest of the way with Gerald and Harry Ryan scoring most of the goals. Perfect weather conditions prevailed for the annual supper and carnival held at St. Columban this week when about 800 peaple were served at a Wednesday evening dressed ham supper. 4