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• ccoolNo PowS Thelafit-of,the 09 foot wooden poles Viet. for more
than, af), years ••hs,9e .SuPpOrtf4.,,lighting.'units at the .,Seaforth t Lions, park
baiiblarnond were removed Monday by a P.U.C. crew. FOr:sOrleilme,ther
I,Aons Park Committee has hien otticiying plans for now lighting at the,
• park Which would involve re,014Oernehl of the poleS.1‘4)80,for.tho•,aharldft.
was emphaslzed .ast. Week when one of the poles was hlown„dOWmin a
• 'Afinct storm, While plans for the neW' lights are net yet final the criinittee
.! decided .to remove the rerriaining;.0Oles as a safety precaution. •
(Photo by Hoer)
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We're the noisiest Huron town
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increased to $63. Being under 19 and having
possession of liquor leads, at present to a
fine of $28 and that too will be part of the
provincial increase and brought up to $53.
Increasing fines. will, help, said Chief
Cairns, but solutions are hard to come by.
An examination of nes lifelity1C91 may afford
some other an.swers.
'There is just nothing for young pecrple to
dein this town," he said. "Whitt we need is
some type of complex with an indoor pool or
whatever, to keep these kids off the
streets."
OFF THE STICKVPS
But keeping thenoff the streets or hiring
extra policemea to patrol the treat and mike
mote arrests, may only be * euperficial
solution with little lasting value. The root of
the problem may be itethe example a lot of
parents set for their children, says Chief
Cairns.
Like the teenagers and young adults who
•company a great deal of their spare time
driving around and drinking, Chief Cairns
says he knows of many parents who never
drive anywhere without a beer resting
between their legs.
"They may not flaunt it like the young
idds, but look at the example they set?'
Education, recreatioq and stiffer penalties
' is what Chief Calms hopes to sec in the
future i Educatioh for parents, recreation as
an alternative for teensgers and stiffer
penalties to act as- a deterrent.
Fall Fair expands
to three day event
This year for the first time, the Seaforth
Fall Fair will be a three day event Seaforth
Agricultural Society president Keu Moore
says a large variety ofevents is planned for
Saturday. September 20 including a baby
contest and a perfocniumee by the Hell
Drivers.
The midway and arena displeys, which
open Thursday ing.ht September 18 as
usual, will all stay In piece for Saturday's
fair. A tug of war Is another special event
scheduled for Saturday afterncon, along
with a greasy pole centest
The annual Lions pet show moves to
Saturday and the day will also see the fall
fair penny sale draw at 4:30 p.m. A fair
dance and pork chop barbecue is planted
for Saturday night.
The new three day fair gets underway
Thursday night with an official opening by
Murray Cardiff, M.P. for Fit114011 Middle-
sex. A Western horse show will be held
before the opening at the fairgroundsnausd
the queen of tbe fair will be crowned inside
the arena later that night. All the fait
&splays will be open Thursday night.
Friday the annual parade ldcks off at 11
a.m. and Friday afternoon will see the
livestock judging, the junior fair for 441
members and harness racing at the
fairgrounds perk.
More detelis on the new three day fair,
and a prize list for those interested in
exhibiting will be Madert with the
August 7 issue of The Haron Expositor.
Our team
needs a
name
What's wrorig? We're '
toekitig for a new team name
and symbol, so that we can
get rid of 'Reggie" Shovel-
ler. He seems to be a bit
perturbed because the re-
sponse to the Expositor's
Name The Team Contest has
been slow. The contest closes
Monday, July 28, and the
viiiiiner will' receive an official
team T-thirt. Once there's a
name, the team will be
prectieing up for the big
game against the floth's
Food MarietAll-stars August
17.
Rumour has it that the
Seafiirth Firemen are going
•to chtlienge the winners of
our time. We'll have more
on that and the upcoming
match as the big day draws
near. For now, bring your
entries in to*the Expositor
office, or mail them to: Name
the Tease Contest, to The
Hilton Expositor, Box 69,
Seaforth, Ott.
Anne says thanks
BIA student ends
shopper surveys
Some of the members of 57
families in Seaforth and sur-
rounding ales, had an inter-
esting experience OM sum-
mer when they were inter-
viewed by And Elliott, a
student who is working for
Seaforth's BIA (Business
irnenevement Area) study
group.
The Clbston area girl. a
student in merketing at Con-
estoga College, is full of
praise for the families she
interviewed. "Their kind.
nen and helpfulness made a
job that could bitve been
tediout and difficult * most
coloyable experience," she
says.
Ann conducted two sur-
veys with ea.ch family. The
first for basic information
like *ad.° family size and
education' *revels- Auld the
second looked at shopping
patterns...why people do oip
do not shop in Seaforth, what
they buy here and what they
like and dislike about Sea.
forth's downtown.
All the information gath-
ered' in the surveys is con-
fidential, Miss Elliott stres-
ses. but the treeds the
surveys show will help the
study group with its present-
ation to local merchants on•
the need for B1A, In
Seaforth. That presentation
takes place at the town hall
on MondayeAugust 25.
The 57 families Aim inter-
viewed live in Seaforth. Trio-
kersmith, MeKilIop. Hibbert
Morris, Grey, Hullett, Logan
Walton and Vanastra.
You're'
invited
Tbe Seaforth Librery is
&tdiog annual
Teddy " Picnic on Fri-.
dayribly 25th at 1:30 p.m.
Children of all age, are
invitr.,d to attend.
New building, addit(on
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the entire building when the move to the
new office is completed.
T.D. PLANS ADDMON
Stewart Coupiand's departure as itanager
of the Toronto Dominion bane is not the only
change which is taking piece at the bank.
"We're putting en extension of about 20
feet on the beck" renal Mr, Coepland,
"which will hold four offices." Renovations
to the ezisting building meted in 1960 will
include dropping the ceiling to eight ard a
half feet and the rearrangement of existing
facilities.
Tenders for the extension closed July 17
and should be awarded shortly. Mr. Coup
land expects the job to take three or four
months, and "hopefully be completed by the
end of the year," he said.
Requirement for additional accom-
modation has been apparent for some time
as existing facilities were pressed to their
Three men appear
in Gocierich court
The three- met charged
with assaalt and possessicn
of dangerous weapons
appeared in provitcial court
Goderich on Monday ahd
the case was remanded to
August 11 for plea.
The three, Paul P. Ranger,
21, Fmk W. Studney, 21,
and John H.P. Brown, 22, all
of Toronto, were arrested
after a dispute broke ott et a
birthday party on Coleman
St. in Seaforth.
Police report they ate
continuing their investi-
gation of a fire July 12 at
McNichol Trucking in See
-
firth which resulted in an
estirnated $165,000 deraage.
On July 21 a break and
triter was reported et Uni-
feler_Ltd., on Mate St. S.,
Seaforth. -Entry was not
gained but police found
marks on a door where
attempts to enter had been
made. ...
An accident bete/eel a
motor vehicle and a bicycle
left the driver of the bicycle,
Susan Dunlop, Seaforth, with
Minor injuries. Ms. Dunlop
lost eontrol of the bicycle and
ran into the path of
`Y.Zttlk
sonthbound vehicle drive t by
Richard T. Penhale of R.R. 3.
Bayfield.
EarIY Sunday morning pol-
ice responded to a complaint
about youths throwing fris-
bees and smashing beer
bottles at the main inter-
section of Seeforth. Three
peopte were charged in the
disturbance.
On Saturday police attend-
ed a minor disturbetce at the
Freeze King oh Ooderich St.
W. OPP Seaforth also
attended and have tekeri over
the investigation.
* On July 18 Mr. Dale of
Sperling St. repotted the
theft of a ten speed bicycle
from ontside the Queen's
Hotel. It was later found by
the owner on Goderich St. E.
A theft of tires from a
vehicle parked at a lot on
Godexich St. E is report-
ed July 17. The tires were
recovered and two juveniles
have been charged. ie.
Police responded to re-
ports of a disturbanee at the
Supertest lot at the Main St.
intersection on July 17. Pol-
ice Weeded at 1000 pan.
and t' group was dispersed.
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by Susan WhRe /
While We're on the subject .
of Montreal (I was last week,
if you remember.' if you don't
remember, you're invited to
unwrap the Expositor from
around last week's garbage
and read all about it) let me
tell you about something that
happened this week. It's
re-inforced in "My mind the
image-of-Monteealiasune.of
the friendliest places I've •
been in a long, long time.
It was during the train
ride from Montreal to Tor-
onto that 1 realized I'd left
my blazer in the last restaur-
ant we'd visited. We'd had a
train to catch and zipped out
of the place to a cab and then
direct to the train station.
Ah well, that's that and it
was a nice blazer too, I told
myself.
But, just in Me, I wrote
the restaurant concerned,
enclosed a cheque and asked
the management to send.........
my blazer along if it surfaced
on the premises. (1 could
have left it in the cub, I
knew). ,
Today, a week after I wrote
that letter I got a large
package, registered mail, at
the P.O. Yup, it was my
blazer. Not'only that but the
nuuiagement enclosed a nice
letter and returned •my
cheque. (Their postage costs,
to say nothing of the hassle
and inconvenience, were
$6.20).
Now who says big cities
don't care about people,
Montreal isn't a good place
to visit if you're from Ontario
and English -French reladons
are a lost cause?
If you're considering a
visit io La. ,11plie Province,
with a stopover in Montreal,
the name of the restaurant is
L'Enfrepot. It's upstahs in
an old warehouse
cooestintgqisituietftwiu:blooloktsatof, aint t1e2r-
0
rue Si. Paul est, in old
Montreal. Great barbecued
chicken and ribs.
X-:asVireati'Otifge° shaTdra,eaandwe
gain'
0
knov,v h&j right. But still,
we keep tryhig.
Our trip to Montreal was a
bit of a nostalgic one for me,
because Hived in that city for
two years in the early sixties,
when I was a • student at
McGill University.
I tried hard to interest my
travelling companions in vis.
Ring Royal Victoria College,
the huge horror of a building
on Sherbrooke St. W., the
McGill women's residence
where I spent two of my
formative years.
"See the nice statue of
Victoria out front," I said,
"people used M hide behind
that when they kissed their
dates goodnight." My corn
panions craned their necks,
but in the other direction and
beaded into the Redpath
Museum on the other side of
the street to see a photo-
graph exhibit on the old dtys
in the Yukon.
When we came -out I tried
another tack. "I lived right
up there and my friend
Scrag,gle (don't ask!) had
that room on the third floor
with the window overlooking
Sherbrooke." "Oh yeah?"
my friends replied, and
headed down t side street to
an interesting looking res-
taurant. It turned eut to be
Cafe Andrei quite the Place
vvheri I was a student, where
I watched my first hockey
game on TV en freticals.
"Redly?" they said and
moved on because • Cafe
Andrewas closed.
And so it went all weekend
iong. Blank stares and in.
attention -greeted- -my-- an---
nouncements that I'd once ,
attended a mess in Latin at
the huge cathedral on Dom-
inion Square, that The Bay
used to1 be called Morgans
and was a good place to
shop, and that a construction
worker had once escorted a
friend and I to the very top of
Place Ville Marie (outside...
the last few feet by ladder)
'back when it was being built.
I was explaining some .of
this to the people at work
when we got back. We
couldn't get out of residence
unless we had a skirt on In.
thooe days, ,I told them. To
wear slacks you needed a
signed permit from one of
the wardens (yes, that's what
the ladies who supervised us
were called)lestifying to the
fact that you were going
horseback or bike riding, or
sometithrg equally daring.
Apd you had to be in by 10:30.
nes weeknights, 1 a.m. on
weekends and a signed affi.
davit from both parents was
necessary to get e weekend
away. .
The younger staffers here
listened in runitzement, their
mouths dropping. "Susan,"
one who's 18 and preparing
to go away to university
herself, said, "you're show-
ing your age."
Sugar and spice
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By BP Smiley
Continued from page 2
teenagers are going to read nezt fall.
Actually they're about as sensitive as an
old rubber boot. but their parents think
they are.
Here's the situation. You heve 20,000
books. One third of them are felling apart.
Another one-fifth is so scribbled with
obscenities by those sensitive youngsters
that you couldn't peddle them at a
burlesque show.
Your budget for new books is the tome
as it was eight years ago. Books have
doubted and trebled in cost. Weil, no
problem there. You simply sprinkle some
gasoline *round the book 'storage cadet
and drop a match, hoping you don't burn
the whole shoe factory. But there is s
problem. The books aren't insured.
Of course. you get great support flew
your English teachers. Their testes range
from Dickens, who turns the kids off like
tie in the summet, to the Texas Chain Saw
Murders, which would probably turn them
right on. After these suggesticins,' they -
the English teachers - go off to sail their
boats ot sfiedeAhe golf course,.
And lurking in the wings, of course, are
the self-appointed censors. most of whom
heve never read a book from covet to cover
ifl their lives. They know less about sex and
profanity that the veriest Grade Steers.
Hovering behind the censorz is the great
body of administrators, educators and
politicians. huddled In terror that their
sponsorship of a book might cost them a
job, a vote, or a censure from some other
nit who has ascended to the height of
his/her competence.
•
Ah, what the heck. .It happens every
year. I'm too red to go back to The Mill On
Tbe Floss, the mast besets book I've eves
read. A Tale of Two Cities is Bible to stir
up the .Pequistes in Quebec. Uncle Tom's
Cabin will infuriate the black militants.
Well hang in there with Huckleberry
Finn, a hornoseimal novel about * black
men and a white redneck; Who Has Seen
The Wind, a filthy novel about the sex life
of frige/Xls: Henry IV. Pert -One, about att
ots drank and young libertioe; Hamlet, a
play about an incestuous hippie; Lord Of
The Flies, a novel about kids murdering
tack other; True Grit, with 17 violent
deaths; The Great Gatsby. coneeming a
weird bootlegger; Dracula, which the kids
love and The Pearl, in which a guy kills
four people and his baby has its heed shot
off. Then there are: Of hence and Men, ill
which a chap shoots his buddy, a moron, itt
the beck of the head, and Julius Caesar, in
which the lead character is stabbed 16
times by his buddies.
What -Main St.
building is this
window from?
Last week Frank Kling Ltdis
building was
featured
BY SUSAN DUNLOP
LACAC student
Twq _readers are the win-
ners of last week's Look Up
to Your Heritage contest.
Linda Ellis of John St. and
Marie Little of Brattford St•
correctly identified the brick-
work detail rie belonging to
the Frank Kling Ltd. building
�1 Main St.
RWRIT/IC,
Answers to this week's
column are invited by Mon-
day, July 28.
The Freak Kling Ltd.
CH. Hull, who owned the
north part of the not beside
Cardno HaJl from, 1865, did
not build- on it until seven
years later. Hull was a job
printer, express agent and
Montreal telegraph agent: In
1881, A.G. Meleougall & CO.
remodelled the store. It is
now oceupied by Frank Kling
Ltd. as an electrical appli-
ance and plumbing shop, and
is run by Frank's son, Peter.
This building is most
noticeable for its red brick
polychreming designs inter-
spersed throughout the white
brick backgrohuid. In 1881,
large plate glass windiews
were installed. in the store
front, the first used in a
Seaforth store.
Four pillars evenly divide -
the tippet facade into three.
-areas, the Middle erea
drObal.
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topped by a slightly raised
classical -style noofline. Six
X-shaped designs divide the
middle area in half; either
side is flatted by V-shaped
red bricking. The windows
are crowned by etrips of red
tricks evenly spaced be-
tween the white brick back-
ground.
The red splashes of colour
against a severe and simple
background blend to create
one of the most pleasing
facades on Main St,
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