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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1982-07-07, Page 2Zflu' /11' 011 (fxpositor Since 1860, Serving the Co tinily first J-- lncor orating :... Brussels Post founded 1872 jat) 12 Main Si. 527-0240 Published SEAFORTH, ONTARIO every Wednesday afternoon by Signal -Star Publishing Limited Jocelyn A „prier, ,Publisher Susan White, Editor H.W. (Herb) Turkhelm, Advertising Manager Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspaper ASSOC/010R and Audit Bureau of Circulation A member of the Ontario Press Council Subscription rates: Canada $17 a year (In advance) outside Canada $50. a year (in advance) Single Copies - 50 cents each Second class mail registration ,number 0696 SEAFORT11-8., ONTABlO, JULY 7, 190 re r's ur re MS Atter many Bong years of. outstanding community service as a . conscientious newspaperman and a public-spirited publisher, A.Y. McLean said last week fit is time for a rest. No doubt the readers and customers of The Huron E ositor, The • russets Postand The Blyth Standard will bee little reluctant to end the relationship with "A.Y.". Things won't seam quite the Same. But residents in this part of Huron Count Y will eagerly join the new publishers in wishing A.Y. McLean a long and happy retirement. Hardiy anyone deserves fit more. And what of pile ,future? The Signal -Star family of community newspapers is committed to la'reserving and enhancing•the soiid relationship that was so much a part of A.Y: McLean's philosophy. It is the intention of the publisher to maintain the unique identity of -The Huron Expositor and The Brussels Post, and to foster the same kind of exceilent service that has been enjoyed. by the newspapers' friends throughout more than a century. Be assured your ccmcerns are our concerns; your dreams are our dreams; Our Satisfaction is our goal. We have a•big job to do together. J.A.S. In the interests of all While opinion was by no means unanimous, Huron County Council passed a liquid manure storage bylaw last week. We come down.squarely with the 18 county councillors who voted yes and applaud the county's hard work, attention to detail and to subnilasions from Parm groups on what has been a very hot topic, especially in Grey Township. The manure bylaw is a moderate One and it incorporates the best research available from several ministries as well as the farm organizations. The key to the County's suggested new rules (each municipality has the option of adopting and adapting the bylaw as its own) is that it regulates, rather than prohibits, all types of manure storage. Earthen manure pits, of greet concern in Grey, will be permitted (a bylaw prohibiting them would be unlikely ,to stand up in court) but they must meet rigprous standards. ' Throughout the trey -Controveriy the environment and agriculture ministries have said properly managed earthen manure pits can be as safe as the most expensive concrete ones. The Huron bylaw recognizes that reality and it earned the vote of Grey's reeve, Leona Armstrong. Ho hum, you say. I live in town and what does manure storage have to do with me? Plenty, as the residents of Brussels who got worried about the contamination of their water sources will tell you. As more and more farmers recognize the -Value of this on-farm produced fertilizer, liquid manure will be akin to liquid gold. Farmers will hold on to it and use it to maximum advantage in crop production. It's in the interests of everyone in a rural area that manure be stored safely and used wisely, that it be treated as a resource rather than a nuisance. So, congratulations from all of us to county council, who on behalf of all of us, have after months of work developed a manure storage bylaw that could be a model for the province. SVV We are all "Grant" + ©Napa sq. Here is one last look at .the latest budget released by the federal government last Monday. At a glance the budget seems lined with gold. The minister of finance is providing grants for everyone. A $3,000 grant for- homeowner mortgage renewals to offset high interest rates with no interest deferral necessary; $3,000 grant for first time home buyers; grants for -farmers, fishermen and the list continues. Who is Grant? Where does Grant get ail his money? The answer is known by all. Grants are financed by the public, us, in the form of increased taxes. A single individual with a wage'of $15,000 and no dependents will have to pay $71 more or 0.6 per cent in income tax. Using the same example but a wage of $100,000, the additional tax will be $472 or 0.8 per cent. The child tax credit will increase from $293 to $343 and Family Allowances will increase six per cent from $323 per child to $342. In his budget speech, Mr. MacEachen said, "These actions (initiatives totalling $2.3 billion) will be taken within the very limited room for manoeuvre imposed by the deficit. Recession has resulted in a serious worsening of the government's financial position. Tax revenues have fallen, while expenditures have risen. This has imposed severe limits on • new vending. The government cannot responsibly add to the deficit. It has to reallocate resources. The action plan will therefore be carried out within'the framework of current monetary and fiscal policy." During the past three years, the goVernment has budgeted a deficit of approximately $12 billion each year. The expectecleficit for 1982-1983 is • estimated at $20 billion. Look's as if maneouverability was no problem. A deficit of this amount is unrealistic. Perhaps more would have been • accomplished if the government took a firm stand. This could take the form of severely curtailing expenditures and reducing the .number of grants. An indepth study should be made oflhe 500,000 people employed Th crown corporations and as federal civil servants. Checking with a local municipality it was noted that villages, towns and townships are "supposed to project a balanced budget". The reasoning's that residents of fhe unicipality will bear the deficit or surplus ler that year only and it will not benefit future residents. TherefOre it is uncommon for munic' alities to show a huge deficit or surplus. What if a mujijS1ipity presented a balanced budget and at the end of the ylear had a deficit of $50,000? The answer was the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing would investigate the matter immediately. "Any municipal office has little atonomy." Why then is the federal government allowed to show a deficit of $20 billion? Should the feds not set an example to small municipalities and project a balanced budget? Why does the Auditor General's office not investigate the unbalanced 15udget and ltuge deficit? Whether they likelt or not, if appears our chidlren will have to carry the brunt of the burden of decisions our leaders make. RJW \ SS 117 HOBBEFT — We don't know the yearbut geraniums'were in bloom when this schOOI photo, loaned b.y Grace Adkins of Exeter, was taken. Pupils are Back row from left - Viola Miller, Tessie Westlake; Ethel Howe, Allen Miller, Russell Brintnell, Arthur Treffrey. Second row - Miss Anderson, Wilbur Chappell, Anne Wren, Edna Brintnell, Mary Toddler sparks' biggest ."manhuni"'' MacKenzie and son of Georgetown. arriyed. Messrs. Kyle and Maimed of thc Egmond- Oa 'Iltc4i y@cialo ckg©n@ The shipment included the heating and JUNE 30,,,1882 vine mills have installed a set of rollers for ventilating system. Work on the theatre is grinding. replacing the grinding stones. expected to begin next week. Business is good and the new machinery will. JULY5,1907 siiPped while getting into his rig. The back , d.4 A new up-to-date scoreboard hbeen improve their facilities. While driving along the road with a livery ,wheel passed over his leg and part of ids Several stalks of wheat taken from a field horse, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willis met an body. No bones weee.broken but it is feared (elected at the Recreation Grounds by the Seaforth Softball Club. The board gives the ... JUNE 24,1932 runs by innings and the battevies of the . in th on the farm of A. Davidson have heights of automobile which failed to stoP and e internal injuries were caused, 7teams., JULY 12, 1957 • approximately seven feet. The grain growing process'frightening the horse. Mr. and Mrs. as thick as it will stand, if matures properly. Willis. were dumped in the ditch with the A wooden fence has been erected around, Co-owner of the Canadian Tire Associate will average 50 bushel per acre. • couple receiving torn clothing and numerous the monument at Victoria Park to discourage Store in Seaforth said the store is to be The demand for barbed wire is unabated. scratches. children from using the mound as a remodelled and enlarged. The present Scarcely a farm in this section of country can Rev. A.K. Birks, pastor for the past 'playground. The fence was erected at the exterior wiluft67-"transformed into a handsome now be seen that has not a piece of barbed three years of the Seaforth Methodist instigation of the local branch of the Canadian , modern one. Enlargement will necessitate wire fence on it. Farmer's say it makes a good Church, left this week with his family for . the Moving of barber John Pullman. and inexpensive fence. London to assume the duties of his new Deciding to go for a stroll, two year old Lou A wolverine was seen on the, farm of John charge. New pastor for the church will be La Qrant succeeded in touching off the Sproat Jr. of Tnekersmith. It is not often that Rev. Mr. Rodgers. \ • biggest 'fenanhunt" Seaforth has exper- animals of this character make theirappear!'.11;-7 During football match in Dundas. Frank ienced. Found missing frbm the sandpile ance in this civilized country. Silfs. the star back of the Hurons had his leg where he had been playing by his mother at Messrs. Glasgow McPherson and Co., of broken between the knee and ankle. He was 4:45 p.m., he was found in front of the Clinton. received an order from Manitoba for et brought home on a stretcher on the noon train residence of George Hildebrand at 7:00 p.m. 12 of their celebrated threshersethis firm has last Wednesday. , Unconcerned. he was returned to his mother the honour of having sent the first thresher to Delivering milk for McIntosh Bros.. a who said. "He's going on a rope from now Manitoba. •young son of John Grimoldby of Scaforth, on." McDougall, Florence Venner, Maude Miller, •Vera Treffrey, Pearl Treffrey (behind) Mary Mc,iaig/ Arnold Westlake, Schl! inspector Smith. Front row - Lloyd Hogarth, Ed Chappeli, Nelson Howe, Wilson Brintnell, Lloyd Verner, Bill Van horne. Legion. Mayor L.F. Daly this week sold to the Edorado Gold Mines Ltd., a Fordson Full crawler tractor. The machine will lie used at the comPany's mines it Echo Bay. Great Bear Lake. only four miles from the Arctic Circle. To date this saw his garage has sold 12 new cars and 26 -used cars. in spite of .hard times. The first of tfte new equipment for the new theatre to be built in Seaforth by J.B. Large stamps add colo-ur for posties .. • With one thing and another I've gotten behind on my correspondence lately so here's a few letters to help me get caught up :led save me postage too. 5 5 5 qtv it Pierre Juneau. cost ,of living and the media reportthese their desperation. swallow your bait and, as President. C.B.C. settlements in blaring headlines that make you did when you forbade those American - Montreal. P.O. the rest of us think we're getting behind. subsidiary companies in Europe to trade with Dear Mr. Juneau. Perhaps we wouldn't worry about keeping up the dastartly Russians. you'll run the country I just wanted to drop a note urging situ not with the Jones so much if we didn't know how without having to have a single soldier risk to listen to all those carping criticisms ,about far ahead the Jones were, his life in our cold northern climate. So much The Journal taking a holiday for thc suninicr. May I suggest then. instead of wage and smarter than the British and Argentines. Instead, you could save even morc money if price freeze we have a news freeze for the Yours sincerely. Etc. Etc. you would also cancel The Nationdl nen s for a next 60 days. It might not be more successful • OM*** couple of months. Not only would this hclp than wage and price controls but it at least Mr. P.E. Trudeau. reduce the national debt but there would he would help our nerves., Ottawa. Ont. many advantages to a sabbatical for 111c Sincerely, etc.. etc.. Dear. Mr. Trudeau: • summer for the rest of us. _ Just an idea to save your friend Mr. Sometimes. it seems to me. we can kilo% Mr. Ronald Reagan. MacEachen from his political grave and kill too much for our own good. Washington. b.C:. U.S.A. your opposition out as well. Let's bring back For instance, the government wouldn't Dear Mr. Reagan. conscription. No. not for the army but for the have to work so hard battling inflation if sic Congratulations once again in defending Ministry of Finance. . didn't know it existed. Oh sure -we krum that American honour. We'll conscript all those people who think the groceries we bought last week arc costing Not only did you refuse to buckle under te they know how to get the country out of this us a few cents more to buy this week but bon pressure from other world leaders to lower mess and make them finance minister. I many of us sit down with our little calculators American interest rates reemitly but you have figure a week would likely be enough for most or home computers and figure out how muchconvinced many Canadians that if our of the newspaper editorial writers. You could We don't have to. of course, because the government would simply give up all those get rid of the ghost of John Turner forever media is so helpful in letting us know just bon nationalistic idiotic ideas about owning their that way. I know he survived finance once horrible things are. This. of course sends our own country and let American businessmen before but I figure two weeks should do him in labour unions (and members of Parliament) have their way again then we'd all live for sure now. 001 10 get wage settlements that exceed thn. happily ever after. Soon Canadians will. in No thanks now. I'll just take an appoint- DeArind gig4qt@g) Kc41 Muilg,4(Nt ment to the Senate. Yours sincerely. Etc. Etc, Mr. Michael Warren, Canada Post Corporation Ottawa, Ont. Dear Mr. Warren: I hope this letter gets to you. It's about thc size of the postage stamps these days. I know you're trying to set a good example by giving us more for our money but I'm finding it hard to find room to put the address on the letters now that the stamps are getting so large and If I have to leave off the postal code the letter may never get delivered. I know you have a good reason for making the stamps so large. Perhaps you're trying to improve working conditions for the p051 185 by putting more colour in their lives (who needs paintings on the wall when you've got (hese) or perhaps you're just trying to reinforce the letters so the sorting machines won't shred so many or you're doing your bit to help the sagging paper industry but I'm having real problems. Either make the stamps smaller or send me instructions on how to write smaller by return mail. On second thought, better send that by courier service. Sincerely etc. etc. i -- Community papers support local activities • 5 0 ,__-------- kigc(o cod zpric@ farmers,' adventurers. lawmen. came some Right on the heels of thc first settlers: crazy man with a couple of galleys of type and by 0000 Srolicoy some newsprint. as the CPR wortned and struggled and gasped its way across the incredible continent. So that only eight years after Fort Macleod Please ttirn to page 3 This column is dedicated to The Macleod Gazette, and whether it will get there in time For the 100th anniversary of the paper depends on such slippery things as MacEach - in Trudeau. our dismal postal services. and . inevitably the Lord. Have you read The Macleod Gazette? Nor have I. But it will be the first newspaper in the Province of Alberta to reach this milestone. Maybe 11 will remind niy readers of lirm young this country really is. A second maybe is that it may remind readers of the vital role played in Caikadian culture by those intrepid people who started up a newspaper in any hamlet with more than 1T© 'h1Q) Garage, auction sale a success A beautiful,,warni day greeted us Saturday morning as we, the Little Stitchers Society. a fund raising group for the Seaforth and District Community Centres, set up for our garage and auction sale in Victoria Park. Truckloads of assorttd articles, lawn and garden tools, quilts. furniture. electrical appliances, clothes. books. etc.. -.you name it, we had it -Interested buyers were on hand to view our display well before opening hour. , Mid-afternoon all small articles left were boxeil and went to Tom Papple to be am -thine& A lo'rof clothes were sold by noon hour and the remainder will be donated to Goodwill and the Salvation Army. ' This community project totalled over • $900.00. At this time we. would like to thank everyone who donated to either the garage or auction sale, to all who helped us in any Way to make this day such a success. Once again thank you everyone. tittle Stitchers Society Grace Pepper Margaret Beuerman. ' Mary Chapple. Marie Muegge, Ruth Beuttenmiller, Betty Beuttenmiller two hundred people. 30 horses. and a few pigs. in the last century. as Canada grew from a few eastern strongholds into a vast country. stretching from sea to sea. . New ikatimavik project As your readers probably noted•last week, a new Katimavik project will be coming to Seaforth in mid-July. The 12 young people from across the country will he residing in the same residence as before so they have.ost of the furnishings required to get them started. Last year many community -minded citi- zens loaned or donated furniture to the 'cause. At this time the new group requires the following items: a washing machine, a dryer. a sewing Machine, an old refrigerator, a desk, kitchen utensils. old bicycles and some dressers. • If anyone has anything from this list Ito give, lend, rerft or sell!) please contact the group leader. Robert Langlois, at 527-0965. We are looking forward to renewing our acquaintances with a new group of 12 young Canadians who will be doing community work in the next nine months in Scaforth, If you wish any further information about K atima- vik. please call the undersigned. „ P. Carroll Summer concerts Due to many inquiries re: Summer oneerts in Victoria Park a word of xplanation might be in order. The Chambbr of Commerce sponsored this entertainment for the benefit of the citizens of Seaforth and area until 1981 when the C of C disbanded and the sponsorship was turned over to the Recreation Committee. On behalf of the C of C committee I wish to thank everyone for, the support we received and wish the recreation committee every success. _Chas. Toll