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SO%FORTH
ONTARIO, AUGUST 21, 1000•
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AUGUST ,
The alineheltaigh Scheel trustees have
, 'decided, to charge all;pupila attending the
the '
ncheel, intee 2,5 cents per month. This of
•ecoutie has been adopted for financier
;caseate ' ' Vicinity ot,111 n last Week, wMehMallite
, About 25 Yeat'S IMrs. Aitchison; of in tleath,,Pnorge Reese-lkasx'hlitig in the,
McKillePr 100 4 brass:1400k, One day 'freat of the binder Vildle his father was
last Week her grandson was driYag it, %Own he fen; c chins his 'feet in
plowing and `00u14111700P the the liliWes PSAFIY se rlag It. A doctor
plow in the .ground. Closer inspection :inspeetien • stitched uP4tirkin .but thee boy 'grew'
mveated the thimble on the nlevi'Point. steadilY worse.' angrene set in and
, , ,
q9TulTilonapson; Eletle bid'-ope oterie „ atrinulation•Orthe ihnliwas necessary, but
Most Veluanle. horses stolen on Tuesday the heY 'did not survive the shock . of the
night. Diligent search is being made both operation.
'
personally and by the aid of constables. but • •flatnee Bees, of Exeter are making
as
as Yet no ince of whq,pabcAits,A,ai.b44 eaaptden:loivveatl7rovementslto their
flour inili
"diseoeered
Threshing in Drysdale is now the Order
entered the school. yard last week and of the day in this vicinity and that Veteran
Some evil disposed petsQn or Persons
amueed himself (we 'do not for , a moment thresher 1-1.W, Talbot is agian on the
suppose it was any , the fair sex) 18 , warpath with hie neterunoth engine and
breaking windows of the school house. wind stacker.
together
_..—A--vetnesadeaccident happened -in -the, smittotwpehru1.-tlmemisfortune-te-tose-hia
AUGUni 181905 John Wise of the Huron Road, Tucker -
'-hatn,ant'i contents. t$Y, burnin
-11ftertMott. •
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and fartrters who are), _ ne,.0f:
New wheat Is being marketed atthe local
the
• wheat pool are receiving a fahla payment
• cialat''`eata per bush.
• '010 dry weather s ripened the beans
and growers have rie(t.te. harvest the
cracorpe:',sTtpeca_Vfatverater'sYiareekt4togrti?glsvhalSerPeontri
account Of the droughts and have to
for
Herman n council is c90
issuing a by -les a town cutf• This.,
would ensure tha chit n under a
• certnialAday8iswillthheeee to tliciai oepeantteineg\,ts by
9 p.m.
eaforges--"Tiny-liin"-IghOtilFurnature
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library, Both institutions serve this community extremely well'and are .
Seaforth needs a ,good nursery school, and it also needs a good Life suspended while. brit-
, assets to civilized small town life.
That's something we can all remember during tha current attempts
of the local branch of the Huron County Library to enlarge Its quarters
and install a children's department In the library basement, presently
occupied by the nursery school.
We can agree that a children's library Is needed in town and that the
availability of its basement will give library staff more leeway in
arranging special events and travelling shows for kids.
The expansion of "outreaer Into the community IS one of the terrific
. services of the Huron County Library. No longer are libraries looked on
as.du11p1aces places to pick up and drop off books, period.
But it's too bad that the library couldn't have talked to the nursery
school and the town, which owns thelibrary building, about expansion
plans earlier, before hard working volunteer parents puT up a new
• fence and installed carpeting, all at the school's expense just at the end
• of 'the last school year.
The news out of Seaforth council's last meeting is that while the
nursery school is looking herd to find an alternate site, council will ask
the library board to hold off on its planned expansion until a new home
for the pre-schoolers Is found.
That's excellent, because the matter of a kids' library and a nursery
school shouldn't be an either/or choice. Seaforth badly needs tIotlf
facilities, as anyone who's enjoyed the nursery school or the libt'ary
knows. • •
• The search for a new nursery school site lsn,'t easy. A permanent
home, one with lots Of outdoor play space, would be Ideal. In these
;days of declining enrollment, it may be that something can eventually
be worked out with one of the local schools.
But until a site is found, we hope Huron's library board will see fit to
go along with Seaforth council's request, and delay Its expahsion.
Spectators are no help
Fire fighting Is not a spectator sport.
You wouldn't know that though around here, where the. custom Is
especially on a warm summer night when not much is happening, to
follow (and in some cases proceed) the local fire department when it's
called out by an alarm.
At a recent rural fire an Expositor photographer noticed that cars
of spectators were seriously clogging the narrow road to the blaze.
That caused no serious problems. This time.
But it's not a good practise, particularily in the country wpm the
Seaforth firemen's tanker truck may have to suddenly make a trip to a
nearby water source. What happens if the tanker can't get away from
to fire site, and quickly back again, because onlookers' cars are lines
up on both sidertinhe road?
We sOf der to think.
We're' sure the local fire department Is equally concerned. By
staying at home, you can make Its job a heck of a tot easier.
So, next time the fire alarm goes in Seaforth, count your iuclw stars
that the fire isn't at your place; fight back that impulSe to go have a
loOk; and wait to read all about it in the tocal news media.
Thanks.
To the editor:
•Blyth benefits from story
The following is 'a copy of a letter to the
editor of the Toronto Star.
Regarding Gins Mallet's vitriolic attack
cra the fllyth Summer Festival in the
August 12th Toronto Star. It is hoped that
this piece &frenzy will be good publicity
for Blyth. tvfiss Mallet sterns to know
something about fret:tied hogwash reed can
even produce a sample of her own on
ocean -rot, net being such an occasloo.
Surelsepeople will go out of curiosity t�
see something so bad that it has roused a
noted Toronte critic to so forget herself as
te sound quite mn•easoeatee. One suspects
that Girt& has been waiting for this reorneet
for some tinne.
I imagine Janet Amos' point regarding
Shakespeare was that with Stratford so
dose and excelient, it would not be wise for
Blyth to compete, especially when we do
seem to have relatively few theatees even
now attempting Canadian plays except as a
dutv.
- • ;
isifsc Wallet's coraments on Canadian
CBC -AM's Senday Morning coner-
age. the history of the theatre, budgeting.
and the Blyth collective suggest intentional
misunderstanding • a shoddy practice at
anytime and byanyone.
1 worider why Miss Mallet assumes that
Blyth theatre is for a community of 900
(fnyth) rather than a somewhat larger
andkace. if this were truly so, a large
Toronto daily would not lady giee tech
coverage to it.
It is fertunate that newspapers lean to
averages and that Miss Mallet's ben bad,
otfrerwise The Toronto Star might oansider
looking for a new critic -No newspaper can
afford many such unreasonable frenzies.
Miss Mallet, you are so much be r
sser.em you keep your cool.
Sincerely,
Cal Caldwell,
Egrnondville (treat Blyth), Ontario
Reminder forgotten
Keith Remittals, in his stank eispearing
in today's Expositot, "We ignote this real
ire scare story", wider the subheading
"The others' plight", • indicate that
"we are the perpetrattir ' of the atomic
bombings of two ..Tipan se
Under the sub " e need te be
remitided" he says: aiff we keep
remembering the horror people experi-
encing a real atomic a ck will we keep
hanunering et our kadets to Melte sere it
• doestil heppetr *gains"
1 happen to beim, that just' such a
"reminder" was subreitted to yont paper
on Mom* molting, Augirt Ilth. Ili that
aubrnitted News Release- msentred the
statement: "This. loveless world is spend.
'Mg more than one stallion dollars a minute
4
arrnaments, thus esealatII
ng a day
situation for which it can o solutierre''
Does it not seem i tent to publish
Roolston article d ignore the News
?The C Neves -Record, while
terial sotnewhM, did see fit
to publish the "Reminder".
win the eontitued
ments "make sure
again?"
(Anotbor totter on pogo 3)
spending an erste-
it doesn't batmen
Shreerely yours,
C.F. Barney,
Box 193,
Clinton,
(Editor's note: This week the Expositor
begins a new column by Jeanne Kirkby of
Walton, balled Potpoerri.Mrs•Kirkby has a
wide ranging background as a farmer'e
wife, farm businesn secretary, teacher,
librarian, gardener; pet lover and self
confessed "avid bookworm."' Watch for
her column regular ly in the Expositor.)
Today the barley is on the go! Up bright.,
and early this morning, we all know we
have to work hard to take advantage of the
clear blue sky and the warm sunshine.
There is a special urgency in the air, due
its part to the radio reports which, although
non -committal, mention high humidity in
the afternoon, cloud, and the 'chance of
isolated thunderstorms. Since grain:lust
be thoroughly dry to be combined; timing
is very important. With a little luck. that
weatherman may revise his forecast as the
day progresses.
• At any rate, our lives must be suspended
right now until the mop, gets harvested.
Unfortunately, this throws a wrench into
meal regularity, appointments, and -ail
sense of being able to plan accurately for
more than one hour ahead of any given
time.
Potpoutr
by Jeanne Kirkkly
Meals especially give me a problem. On
my last shopping day, I stocked up on fresh
sidgpork which was on sale, and as a
special treat, spare ribs. Fm really afraid to
leave that sort of thing in the refrigerator
too long, and itt were to cook the spare ribs
,tonight, as I had planned, the only ones
here to eat them besides myself would be
two Siamese eats and a Cairn Terrier.
Now they would he delighted, but I'm
afraid that I'm too Scotch to even consider
•giving them more than the bones, well
picked.
So I'll freeze my sidepork and my
spare ribseandeonights I'll get three orders
of burgers and chips toeake out to the men
at work. This is not as -.extravagant as it
sounds when one considers that T.V.
enackers have already eaten all of my
cooked sandwich meal. and this being
a holiday weekend, everything but the local
stores are closed.
One meets a variety of problems when
golf eentse On North Ma* tv10400eltS.
from Godexiely St,
AUGUST 16.1955 '
The quiet beluttY of Seaforth Limts Park„ '
bas attracted .thousands ,of tlistriet tea-.
Mints to the cool goon areas during recent,
weeks., On Wednesday the anntad swim-
• ming 'eseet Was heltL, when &trice.
SWinelliet* competed in areerien.a events. '
It islite last time the ,sntimmIng meet 44,,,Vlit,
,be held in the river pool, Since the new pool
will have been • brought , befe0,
swimining.miet time next year, .
A' ten acre grass fire on the faint, of
Manuel
maftael Beuennann, TOwnsitiPt
d*as extinguished by the „,,Seaferth Etre
department at the noon, hour, Wednesday,
When fire threatened to Spread to nearby
dover ' • •
To promote the Major product of the area
and at the same three to encourage the
public to eat beans Henson Dinsrnen have
completed plans for their giant Labour Day
bean festivek_fleesall
concentrated bean area in Canada.
in harvest
taking food out to a group of busy men in
the field. Quite bluntly, it all depends on
the mood that they're in.
I remember a shattering episode when I
prepared "from scratch" tome -fried chick-
en, fresh berries, and golden bran muffins,
wrappedin wieker with a tablcloth, for all
°fir to share, but the men were too busy to
even get off the machinery. The banquet
wilted and took on a distinctly dusty sheen,
just as I did.
Another, time, being full of ambitioa
and with a full afternoon of plans and
selfish erojects, 1 prepared fresh egg salad,
and salmon with crispy lettuce on brown
bread for thern,enough I thought to last for
lunch and high tea at five, ,and even eitra
"just in case. When I delivered that
particular lunch, 1 watched the whole thing
disappear before me eyes in only five
minutes flat. Needless to say, I cancelled
my afternoon gadding -about, and hustled
home to get out the cook book tor the
supper meal, with only one small side trip
to the grocery store.
-BE PREPARED FOR TATER
'It really doesn't matter what kind of e
meal you take outethough. They.just don't
feel as though they have had a. proper
supper away from their own heath and
home,- so, when they finally pack it in for
the riight - be 'prepared. For the fourth
meal of the day, you will star as the short
order took. -Omelets, toasted westerns,
bacon and tomato, and even the odd pizza
are almost a must to settle all hunger
pangs at the end of a long busy day. Again
the dishes must be washed, the kitchen
tidied...
But wait, do I sound as though I were
complaining? With so many weather
problems, tile high cost of putting in any
kind of a crop, all the unemployment in this
ceuednY today, and starpttion in so many
parts of the world, I wouldn't dream a com-
plaining. 1 feel so fortunate to have
watched a crop came this far, and now 1
just hope to see it completely off the field,
and -to the mill at a deeent price, so that 1
can relax and worry about something 'else
for a change.
Canadians need to support their heros
People need heros. They have been a
part of human history since the days of
early man. Every civilization has had Its
tierce and legends.
Everyone. perhaps but Canada.
Canadians seem to have something against
heros. Oh we have had them: people tile
Laura Scconi and Billy Bishop and Marilyn
Bell, but we seem to delight in pulling'
down our heros as soon as we build them
up.
The case in point seems to be the Terry
Fax story happening right now. Canada
needs a hero at present. We are going
through bad economic times. We are
seeing the worst of our political leaden as
they scrap over who will have the most
cower in our colliery. We need sornethieg
tift us above all this pettiness, to make
ue see the better side of mankind.
Terry Fax is mute for just such a role.
Here was a young man who had suffered a
personal disaster. Always, active in sports
and life in general he had been striker) with
bee e cancer and doctors had had to morose
ece d his legs to save nis life. He was
angry and he was determined to fight back,
es do whet he maid 10 defeat cancer. :He
was also geing to show that cancer couldn't
change his lifestyle curepletely.
A BIO RON
So he set out to carry out a task of
Behind the scenes
by Keith Roulston
trimly legendary proportions, He was
going to run from one side of Canada to the
other. It would be a fantastic trijou cy for
7,...
socone with two good legs t for
someone running with one artificial 11 beft
was an incredible undertaking.
In order to make the most of his venture
Terry Fax also got the Canadian Cancer
Society involved to usc his run as a way or
raising money for cancer research. Every.
thing about the undertaking has been
successful. Unprocidented amounts of
money have been raised for the battle
against cancer. Terry Fax has been
plodcfing his way across Canada and
becoming an example for es•eryone of the
pcnver of a determined hismen being.
Peepte normally interested only in how
smith take home pay they have on Friday
:sight have begun to see that there are
MOM important things in life:. In short
Terry Fax is the kind of hero Canadians
nced. .
WE DON'T WANT BERGS
But Canadians just aren't supposed to
hese heros. We want people who are just
as common AS the rest of us. So whenever
we find a hero we begin to look fin his feet
Brothers don't forget
Sugar and spice
By Bill Smi4ey
the couple can go on living in sin, but with
s paper to prove that they're not
And the third occesite an which the
relatives get their arms into it, right up to
die elbows, is when setteboly dies. This is -
when the real Christians emerge.
"Mem always said 1 could have that tea
service."
”Well, that's what you think. I was there
the day she died and she distinctly stated
(ann twisted behindher bad) that I could
have net only the tea service but all the
Uteri." And so ort.
I've seen this, but not experienced it.
After ray mother's death, ray etcler sister
was mutually appointed arbitrator. And
she arbitrated: "Two sheets Mr you, two
for you. Two blankets for yon, two fee yeti.
Two linen tablecleths for you, two for you.
Two beds for you, two fat you, a
ning-rooro table for you. Everyday china
for you. pfus the silver coffee pot. Good
china for you, plus the chamber -pot." And
so on.
It was line being at an auctene without
any btds, and we all went away rather
dazed, enriched beyond our dreams, and
with only a few grudges. We were alt so
young and urrsophistleated that we let an
surd have a beautiful chaise lounge, whieb
wooed up as a period piece in, of all places,
Australia. My aunt didn't warn it.
This hasn't much to do with going to See
my kid brether, but 1 still think that he
thinks he got screwed (he was in Paris at
the time) °edit family sp1it-n/1,0nd covets
the hand -carved stool my Dad *rade, which
I traded off for an Upright piano of dubious
vintage. Maybe not. _
Please turn 10 page 3
Have to go and see my kid brother this
week. I don't have to. Nobody in his right
mind has to have anything to do with his
relatives.
From birth to death they are a pain in the,
ann. When a baby is bran, ail the eyebrows
go up at the chtlee of name, unless it
.hsrspens to be ote of theles. ov that of a rich
=ctn.
Asked ray graedbeys the &let day what
their second name was. Balled, who
settetimes doesret know his arms from his
---aenboss, promptly retorted, "William." His
ed name was the same as mine, in case
I'd be pleased and leave hies something.
Asked ehe other gay. who keows
everything, facet) why Gran's crying to why
Grandad is
in a tearing rage. He Matterred,
"Chen." I'd forgotten. IEs parents named
him that, don't ask me why, bees:Ise they
were on an intereatienal kite, and Chen
means "first-born." Poor little devil. His
full name is Necov Chen. Imagine what the
IA will do with that when they take over
Cenedian intelligence. Notice 1 spelled the
lest word without a capital.
Next tete the relatives act like Little
'Jac.k Horner is when your kids get married.
Despite the fact that the couple has been
Eying together for nine months, your
blasted relatives went a church wedding,
with the bride in white, a big reception
where everybody pretends that the newly-
weds are virgin, there are some adolescent
' speeches right Mit of the age a Victoria,
and somebody cuts a cake that ;Woody
woald et with a 10 -foot pole. This costs
roug,hly five 10 10 thousand dollart,so that
of clay. And so it seems is the case with
Terri, For. The first tracks are appearing.
Last week The Globe and Mail which
bUls itself as Canada's national newspaper
started chipping away at the heroic stature
of Terry Fox. A reporter started talking
about the faults of the rnan: how he gets
grumpy when things aren't going well. His
leg starts to hurt and he takes out his bed
humour on those travelling with hirn. He
gets tired of` people giving him too much
adoration to the point 'that their celebra-
tions prevent him from gerdng on the road
early to run and get that much closer to his
destination.
The Globe also showed some of the
cracks between Terry and the Cancer
Society. One Canter Society obviously a
finle weary of all the credit Terry Fax was
getting foe raising money for the Otocer
fight reportedly told the newspaper that
after all it was the Center Society that was
organizing things to bring in the rrxmey.
All Terry Fax waidoing was the running.
Ah, the crusadieg reporters of the
Canadian media. They're going to dig out
the truth and fotee it down our throats
whether we went it or not. Let's getall the
dirt out of this situation fell's. It's going to
do everybody s'o much good.
GRUMBLE A 11/11„E
If Terry Fox was beating up on little
old ladies as he made hLe way across the ,
country I could sec the need to repast his
terrible weaknesses. Given the tremendous
• physical pain the num is putting himself
through, however. he should certainly be
allowed to grumble a little along the way.
moat of ua can't Izeigise the kind of torture
the train Is enduring. Our idea of strenumts
activity is walking up two flights of stairs.
In other countries people are allowed to
have hems. Not Only don't the press dig
tnto all their personal faults, they often
manage to tell little white lies about what
faults they do haiee. The Americans have
turned Abraham Lincoln or George .
Washington into untouchable hems even
though both men eettairaly had their faults.
They have crvertooked the weskomes of
John Kennedy to enalke him a rape:human
leader.
The Americans are grist at creating
legends and heros. tanadians are great at
destroying legends and heros. Perhaps if
we were a, little MOTO ready to accept our
kites we wouldn't be spending so much
time- on the never-ending search for a
Canadian indentity.
Expositor asks:
I
at do you think of Seaforih's
parking meters?
Diana Ward of RR 4, Walton said she
never parks -near one a the meters.
"I don't think it snakes any difference for
people who shop here all the'time," she
added.
"If there weren't any meters, there
werildn't be any tevenne," said Norman
Tuna of Eg.inotelville.
"1 don't think the parking would be
abused without the meters," he said.
/MegVaeqervatovra merchants may
improve then. usiness if they stay open on
Wednesdays.
Leta McCowan of 136 leabella 9in
Seafartb said she doesn't fillet people in
toteei like the meter parking.
"Maybe people frore the ciV who are
used to it wouldet mind," she said.
"They &tea people who are just
turinitig in sornewhere for five es and
have to dig for a niekel,"
"I feel they ecate* y • in amount
tfoiness,. sal Oen Flanniganof 15
Loura St., in
BY JIM
Seal:aril remains one of the few smaller
towns in Huron Cminty vrith meter parking
along Main Street.
With the =rent BR slurries completed,
many people ire thinking about alter-
natives'for downtown parking and looking
at other towns.
This week, consiating the recent ad-
dition of a metet enforcement officer to the
Seaford) Police Staff, apositor Asks,
"Whet do you think of Seaderth's parking
meters?"
"I don't 1:1100, inhere- is a need," said
Margaret Sallows 01 43 West Will' in
Setforth.
"I know of other towns that don't h
meters and have lots of parking spae
"But," sbe added, "I delft think
rfiscoorage.s shoppers downtown, it &semi
discourage me."
John Taylor of 38 Main Ste said he fe
fhe town would be a_lot better off with
the meters.
"I don't think they should be here
small town," he aM.
Anne WO of Egmondville think the
meters tu4be scaring customers „ay.
4T e heard *101 of people epee from
other navels about the Meet* an they
hop other places because of the ' she
said.
ve
"Godetia kid Exeter doet have theta
rued they have busy downtowns."
"1 think it is a nuisance if yott den't have
a ticket." she seid, adding that the tax
payers are now emeingfor the added cost of
a meter enforcenient officer.
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