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The Huron Expositor, 1980-11-27, Page 2lz Klatt! St. BLUE RIBBON AV ARC) 1980 41#170.1i xptisitor s/n6a 1060, Sort/Inv #10cerlitnutlitY WS( . $g7^(440 PUbilelled et SEAFQRTH, ONTARIQ everY Thursday morning by \ McLean Bro, Publishers Ltd. Andrew Y. McLean, Publisher ' Susan Wile°, Editar Alice Gibb, News Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription rates: Canada $16.a year (in advance) outside Canada $33. a year (in advance) Single Copies - 40 cente each Second class mail registration number 0696 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 27, 1980. • Smoking causes problems A prime topic of conversation during a visit to the United States this weekend (second only, perhaps to layoffs and the economy -in - trouble) was Smokeless Thursday, an effort last Week by the American Cancer Society to have every American, for a day at least, quit smoking. ' Mass public burnings of sm9kers' equipment were -field in several areas of the country and individuals were exhorted by the media to kick the habit, even for a day. Smokeless Thursday, while it hadn't made any instant coverts among4he US smokers we know, had at least gotten them all talking about quitting, thinking seriously about quitting etc. etc. We hope they don't go the route of the person at work who woke up coughing one morning determined to quit, then got so upset thinking about how hard it would be that she had to have a smoke to calm down. All this ties in very neatly with an anonymous letter to the editor this newspaper received last week. We can't print it because it has no signature but the writer raises some points that every non-smoker would applaud. He or she complains that our town's banks and public offices are too stuffy and smokey. Hair cutting establishments get criticized on the same account. "I am really glad that I only visit these places periodically because I'm sure that a stay of any length of time would be fatal," the writer says. 4 SomIthing to think about, and if you agree ,here's some advance warning for .srtnokers and non-smokers alike: The Canadian Cancer Society is planning a Weedless Wednesda'y in February. We're not asking any more You may have noticed the Expositor Asks no longer appears on our editorial page. We're sorry about that and apologize to the column's regular readers but the r.easons .for its disappearance are two -fold. One: it became increasingly difficult to cOerce reporter Debbie Ranney into spending an afternoon with a question and the telephone. The other reason is that every feature needs a rest sometimes and there was some feeling amongst the Expositor's editorial staff that rather than dig for a question and then pull for answers from local people, it would be better to retire Expositor Asks. (While many like to read the column; it's fairly difficult to get people to answer the week's quest ion . ) In its place we hope to run occasional on -the -street interviews, perhaps with photos, when there's an issue that Seaforth people are talking about. That certainly produced interesting results this summer when we asked a reporter to get visitors' reactions to our downtown. So, all you opinion Junkies take note. we hope to still find room to canvas your friends and neighbours on questions of note. But for now, at least. Expositor Asks is retiring Meanwhile. we welcome reader suggestions for topics for occasional enstreet intervoewe and we remind you all that there's plenty of space ce this page for that age old opinion pieee your teller to the editor. Let's hear from you Our letters' policy Do yeu have an opmionh Why oot write a tetter to the editcr and tet everyone known A00 fellers arp southshed prevocong they can be atithentteated Pseudonyms are allowedit the wrlter will are to anew his or her name to he releaserS upon request Att letterh however. are subleet oceeung tor tength To the editor: uckeismith should be proud of its clerks I wish to reply to Peter Mantas fetter to the editce regarding what Tuckersonith council paid the witnesses attending the 0..M.B. hearing. When Jim Mcintesh resigned as cleskereasurer cs'e had a mntual agreement with him, if we required his knowledge and assistance we wnsird pav for • The money we paid clerk Jack McLachlan eras very small compared to the overtime work he had done, preparing for the hearing. I feel a large percentage of people attending, the hearing would agree with me that the people ef..eTtrtirersnlith should be proud of past and present clerk-treasnrers. 1 reel congratulations sheuld go to Dick Lehnen, who volunteered to give the facts NOVEMBER 26,1880 A padtlagwas la eieeltlatlen the other day and watt *nett by. every htWiehee, and ,Orofeeeiorial male in town, aSlcing.the post office authorities to adept settee Meares to have theenails from the east forwarded with more dispatch than they have been for' the pastieilf. It is astonishing that the people along this section of the Grand Trunk have borne so long and so patiently with the disgraceful manner in which they have been served. We regret to learn that Messrs. Wilson and Co. are likely to be forced to close their frifit'evaperating establishment an account ef their inahility to get fruit enough to keep it running. They have thus far, been payieg about 20 cents per bushel for the best kinds of fruit. This of course, is not a very hign., figure. For the benefit of those who don't know it, we may state that last Sunday was the coldest day we have had for two years. The skating and curling rinks have been flooded and if the weather continues cold the ice will soon be in splendid order and will furnish - amusement and recreation for both old and young. W.V. Maclise, for several years an assistant in the law office of Mr. Benson, has passed a very creditable examination before the Toronto Law Society and has been licenced to practise as an attorney. As Michael Heffernan of Tuckersmith was passing through town on Thursday, he kindly permitted a number of boys to have it ride on his sleigh. Presuming on hts kindness the young rascals, unknown to him, as they were 1 have Very tittle pariense with people who signed the petition to pay the debentures debt. then try eveeything under the sun to get mit oi it. oacited up by the minister.. P might surprise Mr Mantel and other readers that when 1 was young 1 studied the good hont and feel Mr Mantel in his prefessinn as minister. shmaid preach the evord of God to peeple anti try and get peeple of Vanastra and community to live Christian lives In (teeing 1 would like to thank all the employees of Tuckerstr,i-th. who have to take unnecessary abuse and criticism. foe their excellent wort . Last call councillor Frank Falconer The Legers 1 One of the bewildering tendencies of mankind is the ability to get our priorities thoroughly mixed up. What, for instance, could be of more importance than doing a good job of bringing along the generations that will replace us and keep the_svorld, and mankind going? Yet childraising is not looked on- with much acceptance by society today, at least by contemporary North American society. A woman who stays home to look after children, to give them a propernpbringing is often seen as of less importance than a woman who goes out to work serving Big Macs at MacDonalds. A man who says he can't work overtime because he has to get home to his family is looked on as a shirker. Just what a contribution the proper raising of _children can make to this world was brought home, to me at least. this weekend with the death of former Governor General Jules Leger. Leger came from a small family in Quebec in the early part of the century. It wasn't a rich family. one with all the resources to offer tutors and the best of private schools and servants to help out in the house. It was a middle class rural village family. There were two sons in the family. One grew up to be a dip/ornat. a man who served his country all his life in various places around the world before coming home to take the highest government position in the countrysthe office of Governor General. „ untied a bag of apples which he had in the , sleigh and stole about half ofAliem, •NOVEMBER 24,1905.. On Monday evening, Wirt. Mdidie was surprised by having a number of the employees of the Bell Engine Co. call on him at his residence and was stilt m,ore surprised when they presented him with a handsome mantle clock and ornament on behalf on the employees of the welts. Messrs. Kennedy Bros, of the Palace Meat Market, Seaforth have been, doing a rushing business in poilltry during the last few weeks. On Saturcla-y-Tait they shipped - over five tons of poultry. In the lot were about 500 turkeys and the balance was made up mostly of,chickens. Severaffarmers in this vicinity have grown sugar beets this past season and so far as we have been able to learn they have ptoven a fairly remunerative crop, that is where, they • have been harvested- in linteiameo Cowan, whose farm adjoins the town on the north side ,had nearly three acres under the crdp and they netted him $202 for the land and the labour. Mrs. D. McDonald cif McKillop, near Seaforth, was agreeably surprised this week by receiving a nice present in the shape of a quarter of venison from Mr. Colbert of Tweed, Ontario. Mrs. McDonald's grand- daughter is a teacher in the Tweed Public School and the donor adopted this method of showing his appreciation of her. , Henry CaSh, of, Roxboro, McKillop,, who .has beet" in Manitoba and the Northweat since last August. 'returned home on Friday He wits delighted With hfaviSit and like' alt others was charmed with the country and the/ splendid crops, but , he eaere that taking' things into consideration, he thinks he Can Nye more conribetably on the Srd (11'TMhceiCilExpl°Polls.OitolTrasERinfO28,193 rmt0his'Week by Neil Gillespie that in the fall of 1894, wheat was selling on the market at 48 cents per bushel, but that fa fhe roll73witig May it haci climbed to S1.25. There is hope for the farmers yet. The 11011. William Atkinson, British Columbia minister of agriculture, and Mrs. • Atkinson spent the weekend with Mr. Atkinson's father, Mr. Jos. Atkinson in EgmoncivillesMr. Atkinson came east to attend-the-Conference-offrOvilifellif Agricul- tural Ministers recently held in Ottawa. The snowfall of this week has been the heaviest of the season and motor traffic is having a hard time. The funeral of Lieut. -Col Alexander Wilson who died Sunday evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs. G.B. Heintzman in Toronto from pneumonia was held from First Presbyterian Church Seaforth cin Tuesday. The large Church was nearly filled with military men, ex -service men and citizens, who attended to pay a last tribute of respect, NenrY Philo' of HerisalL,,purchased the KipPen hall and be intends tearing it down and .erectimg it on the land °he -recently purehased from Pr. Moir', south of Hensall, NOVEMBER 25 1955 , $eaforth Chamber ofCommerce which last year in cenjunction vvithihe Huron ExpOsitor sponsored a ChriStthas contest to determine the best decorated home in Seaforth during the Christmas season, is again urging citizens to tidce part in a *filar contest.. Brucefield fire department answered a can to the farm of Russel Hayter, Goshen Line,. Wednesday night and extinguished a chinv, ney fire. Bill Fink, 18, son of Me. and Mrs. Ed Fink, Hensall, a student at the H.B. Beal Technibal School, London was awarded a certificate of merit in recognition of out- standing work submitted in the group C sheet metal and drafting projects division of the, 1955 Ontario Industrial Arts and Vacational Fair. Huron Presbytery scored 330 points to win ' the London _Ceeteferertee Fest:m.1_4)n_ Friday night in James St, United Church, Exeter. Those participating from Huron County were: Winthrop Young People's Union chorus; D oran Stinson, Seaforth, piano solo; Marion Hemingway, Brussels, trumpet solo; and Marilyn Bissett, Goderich, vocal solo. The 25th anniversary of the Sunoco distributorship in . Brucefield, which is operated by Ross Scott was marked by a social evening earlier this month •when Sunoco garagernen and their wives eathered in the Legion Hall dt Exeter. at least had their priorities straight •;. Behind\the scenes by Keith Rouiston and rehabilitation he elowly began to take over his old duties. His body would not do everything he asked of it but he kept pushing it to regain his former abilities. He didn't travel as much as he once did, but he showed instead a magnificent example to people that suffering physical disability was no reason to quit. There 15 00 telling how many people he may have helped through his example of courage. • His brother Paul Emile too set an example for his fellow countrymen. Cardinal Legere. could live in all the near -regal splendor his position as a prince of the church offered but he gave it all up to work in a leper colony in Africa. Here was a man who not only preached the gospel of Christ but followed it, a man who left the comfortable life to help the most downtrodden of people, people who were the pooreet of the peon Theother son, the elder, took a different route. As so many boys from Catholic families in those days; lie entered the church. But like his brother, Paul Emile Leger was bohnd for the top of his chosen profession in Canada. He became a Cardinal of the church, about as exalted a position as could be attained by someone born in Canada until the Roman Catholic Church drastically alters its thinking in the choosing of popes. SOMETHING WAS RIGHT That two sons of an ordinary middle class family should attain such high positions would be a sign in itself that there must have been something very right in the Leger family. Even more important though. 1 think. is the kind of men these two sons were. Jules Leger may not go down in the history books as the greatest Governor-Gen- eral Canada has ever had but he will have a spetial place. His ability to be a great Gosernor General was pretty well destroyed when he suffered a streke oniy a half-year into his term. He could Imve quit then and some would perhaps argue that he should have. But he battled back. After long months of struggle To the editor. SDHS band is a credit to Seaforth Are we proud of cuir S.D.H.S. Girl's Trumpet Band') Of course we are. I'm sure most of Seaforth had their eyes glued to their TV screens. yesterday while the Grey Cup Parade was in progress. We in Seaford' and Huren County certaiuly have something to be proud of. As a forielet teacher. 1 have always been very much interested in music in the schoels. so it does my heart good to see haw hard those girls werk, and how dedicated they are to their band. However. I am not so sure that some of the • large centres share ens pride, even they are fellow Ontarians. Ch. 10 did not e'en mention who they were just quote " ante her band" bet I am told that Kitchener's Ch 13 gave them great reedit for their efforts and Aeveregne ti accepted an the bendition that in the event et a typogrphlcal error the advertising space obarpted by the erroneous item, lagerther with miserable aiicwance for signature, rill/ not be charged Per but the balance elf ore severeserseot wo; be paid for at the applicable rale white every effort Wit bet -rade to oreure they are handled with care, the publishers cannel be responsible for tbs return of unsolicited ntesuserests or photos. isemodsek....•••••••••.•••/ entiraceated the places they has -e matched and will be. in the future. I have been to Ft. Myers both years the band has been there. and what an ovation they goi down theetel It was indeed heart-warming and emotional, as all those Americans rose to attentioo and cheered. This year. the band intends to go to South Carolina so certainly needs Mir financial support. as well as oar pride in their fine performances. We also must not forget "Charlie" their leader. who has done such a super job of training these girls. S.D.H.S. is lucky to have a leader with his talent. Elva D. Ellis Seaforth I'll serve to the best of my ability Since a mere "Thank You" seems so inadequate to express my gratitude to the electorate ef Herisali for electing me to 'council, may I avail myself of the use of your colurnn to express a few thoughts? It has been 12 years since 1 served as Reeve of the village and 1 have no &rubl that many things have changed since that time but our gavernment must funttien regard- . less of change. I have never lest interest in our town and have been involved te many endeavours since 1 fast served on council but I am very happy. honoured and humble for the opportunity to ?nee again serve ray people. Until 1 sent out letters to the electorate, 1 had no idea how many of our residents are unfamiliar to me; however I trust that these people will not hesitate to ask for my hnIp if be necessary1 shall serve each and esers or;e of you to the best of my ability and strength. 1 have often been referred to as a "Rebel," That Woman" and who knov.s what: be that as it may. there is one fact wish to make clear: I am honest and always shall be. If 1 do not agree with decisians made by others and believe I am right. then 1 eill not be swayed by the crowd hut if I am pfoven wrong in my judgment. 1 shall be the first to admit rny erre/ and change. As fot -issues. there are many; some trnpuStaut, others not so impel -tare._ It will take time to adiest to a r.ese governing Isiidy et municipal government and! trust we shall do so with as age delay as, possible. in closing may I assure you that I am on council as your servant and if you have any legitimate complaints, please feel free to advise me of such arid I shall pass on same so tong as your name is included with your cnrnplaint. Electorate for Hensall, 1 sincerely hope you will not be disappointed in my represen- tation and consider me your friend, after all you are going to be paying my wages. Thanking you Madam Editor for your indulgence, past and present. I am, Respectfully, Minnie Noakes Hensel' SUCCESS? Most parents hope perhaps their children will grow up to be lawyers, doctors or hockey stars but most of all rich. Our society spends most of its time admiring the materially successful people: the Conrad Blacks, the Reggie Jackson's, the wealthy media stars. We live in a supposedly Christian society and i&et our heros aren't the selfless people like Jules ana Paul Emile Leger, like Mother Theresa in India, like the hundreds otother people who put service to mankind ahead ,of profit. We have our priorities dreadfully mixed up when we spend our days in Canada squabbling over who's going to get the biggest share of the billions from oil revenue when people ie Cardinal Leger's leper colony are so grateful just for food and medical care. We have our priorities horribly scrambled when we think that screwing nuts on bolts in a car assembly plant to make top buck so we can buy our children the latest gadget advertised on television as their Christmas gift is more important than simply raising a, child with love and good judgement. If I could put my children out into the world as adults who could contribute ever' half as much to this world as Mr. and Mrs. Leger's two sons have done I think my life would have been worthwhile. Sugar and spice By Bill Smiley Keeping a house is work There's nothing worse than having your when 1 wished 1 were a bachelor, carefree. wife go off and leave you to cope all alone for sexy. dining out with beautiful women. a couple of weeks. Unless it's having her taking off, alone. for exotic holidays. errive home a day early and finding you up But boy -o -boy, when the laundr y hamper to your wasit in your own filth. thatscra were is overflowing, your last dean shirt is a white going to dean up tornotne.v. T-shirt with a bum/tole en the belly. the That has happened to me CUM. but this dishes are beginning to resemble the Great time I'm wring to make sure. I'm going to do Pyramid. and the only clean socks you have the clean-up a day earlier. First time it left are white wool golf type, you begin to happened, she was unbearable for about a appteciate the Old Baftle.axe. week, just because there were three or four If I have one more turkey pie, I'm not bottles of sour mak; a one -inch patina of going to grow wattles. Those 1 already have, grease on the stove, and a kitchen floor you the penalty of sagging jowls. But there is a could hardly walk acroos without getting .distinct possibility that I might begin to stuck somewhere. gobble. One more frozen lasagna and I'll be 111 give a hot tip to some of you singing arias. In Italian. middle-aged guys who think your did lady Actually. I can cope. I can keep myself has a seft touch. You known a lazy coffee arid dean, dressed, and fee, But Ir's the extras of teed the peper after you've gone to work, a housework that are destroying me. Like little dusting and a few dishes to do; a dealing with aluminuepe window salesmen, leisurely lunch watching a scum opera: a brickworkers, pairderY„plumbers. and little nap, and then nothing to do but get electricians. My wife does all that, tormally, your dinner ready. 1 haven't a clue where she keeps her bills. It's noi quite like that. Toteep a fair-sized her cheque-book. and all the sundries. I was house in anything like reaming order, a frightfully embarrassed this week when a woman must go like a jack -rabbit. Or a plumber came to finish a job, and I couldn't jilirabbit. if you think I'm being chauvinistic. pay his bill. 1 dug out all my eash and was 42 Migawd. r4 barely time to brush my cents short. He was a good type. and tred me teeth, shave and get to work in the morning, to forget it. My wife would have given fern a leaving thee breakfast dishes all tangled up cheque for the exa.ct amount. 1 got a receipt, with last night's dinner dishes. because 1 I think, which I'll probably lose. was too tired to do therm apd there was a Perhaps this all sounds materialistic. and good mnvie on the tube. not at all the sentimental nonsense a Get home after work and there's all this husband shoiald feel when his wife is,away. mess of dishes, but I don't have tirne to do spoiling his grandchildren. Well, it is. them. 1 have to go shopping kr nay dinner - a I've written her a hundred at two pizza or a turkey pie arid a banana and some love -letters. I've told her how beautiful she pears for breakfast. was; on many occasions. I have com- plimented her on her brians, her innate common sense, end anything else I could dredge up. I have admired her good taste in clothes and decimating. I have tried to buck her up when she is depressed. I have listened to her. Endleesly. In short, I have been an almost perfect husband. I just threw in that "almost". Get home from shappirig and I barely have the energy to stick my dinner in the oven, pour myself e relaxer, arid read the evening paper. After dinner, 1 pile some more dishes in the sink, give them a dirty look, and toddle off to mark papers or fall asleep in front of the tube, waking up at 2 ann., cold and stupid, to fail into my unmade bed and I nightmare away about my wife having left ime for good. Which she could. Anytime.. Totter up in the morning, do my ablutions, and go down to cheerless kitchen, with r,obody snapping out the milers of the day. I'm always late fat wotk when she's away, because when she's home I try to get away early solf won't have to get into a fight about who's going to call the plumber, why I am so incompetent around the house, and why I got a S28.00 fine for not wearing my seat -belt. . I don't deny that there have been times But the simple fact is, she's got to get home and get the joint running again. 1 can't even fled the television programmes 1 want, because she knows that channel 2 is really channel 10 and channel 3 is channel 14 and channel 6 is all.French. I just flip the dial around hopefully. But what really gets me is the fingernails on my right hand. I can cut my toenails. I can cut the fingernail -seen my left hand. But she has to cut the ones on my right hand. And they're about half an inch long. Get home, mama.