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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1982-09-22, Page 2• ilhi' 1111°011 hpositor Since 1860, Serving the Community first Incorporating-Brt➢aadls Post founded 1872 12 Main St. 527-0240 Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO every Wednesday afternoon by Signal -Star Publishing Limited Jocelyn A. Shhlattr, Publisher Susan Wh,i o, Editor H.W. (Herb) Turkhelm, Advertlaing Manager Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation A member of the Ontario Press Council SEAFO 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 4a TH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 22, 19,;,2 Is it 5 When is a saving not really a saving? Well, that could be the case with the proposal to move the monthly provincial court from Seaforth to Goderich. The move is proposed as a cost cutting measure, according to chief of police Hal Ciaus. At first glance, such centralizing of court could make sense. The facilities, the judiciary are in Goderich. A presiding officer wouldno longer have to drive here one day per month. Then there's the fact that many Seaforth offences are regularly tried in 'Goderich now anyway. But then we remember the questions that constantly were raised at Seaforth council a few years ago about the costs of sending our police officers to testify in court in Goderich. There was mileage, overtime,_and the need for an officer to fill in here in town while his colleague was tied up in an out-of-town court. The cost was high, and councillors of the time protested about it. Remembering that experience we conclude that although there could be some savings by moving Provincial Offenses Court to Goderich, there'll be costs too. Then too there are the added costs the defendants will face including transportation and time for witnesses and for their lawyers. Back in 1934 when the present Seaforth police court was established in much the way as it now, operates, there was an opinion that the courts should be brought as close as possible to the people - that they should functionwith the least inconveniences to those they served. As a result people in many small towns across Ontario for the first time came to face with the administration of Justice as police courts functioned on aro every other week basis. A case can be made that centralizing our local courts is desirable. Although it seems a shame to see the justice system moving one step further from the Seaforth and area people It serves. But we doubt very much when the final tally is in if the court's move to Goderich will save money. Good for Cranbrook Community-is-a'word -we-hear-a4ot--Perhaps- We an overused word. But an active group of women in Cranbrook east of Brussels gave the word its true meaning recently when they organized a community picnic. The Cranbrook WI, correspondent Annie Engel reports in the Brussels Post pages, planned the event which went all afternoon, and there was something for everyone. Games for the kids, visiting for the adults and a big pot luck supper in the yes, community hall, afterwards. An informal baseball game, we'd imagine played by all ages and sizes, topped the event off. Congratulations to the WI who got the variety of people who live In Cranbrook and area together. It's a gathering that was commonplace in our ancestors' days. Community picnics aren't run of the mill occurrences anymore and that's too bad. We hope other communities are inspired by Cranbrook's experience. Heart Foundation says thanks 1T© - @ @ k©ffi , For many years. 1 have been contacting you on behalf of the Ontario Heart Foundation and asking for your promotional support for the endeavours of our organization. This support -has always been freely given - and for that, we feed, are most grateful. In part, your help over the years has facilitated the growth of the organization and because of this growth a program of "decentralization" is currently underway. From now on, media contact will be in the hands of the local Heart Foundation staff and 'or volunteers. The attached list of our Regional Directors and Co-ordinators will • show you our Provincial break down. All further communication from the Ontario Heart Foundation will come to you from a Regional source. in closing. may 1 extend my personal thanks to you for your tremendous co-opera- tion over the years. It is my sincere hope that this same support will be given now to your new contacts. With best wishes. Yours very truly, Ontario Heart Foundation Esther M. Richards Director of Public Relations Bears ravage sheep in hay loader, manure spreader, binder and other equipment. Arnold J. Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Scott, Seafforth, was named general manager teaspoon of linseed and two quarts of water. Miss Greta Thompson has marked her of the feeds division of Ogilive Flour Mills Boil slowly until reduced to one quart, then 50th year as librarian of Seaforth Carnegie Co., Ltd., with headquarters in Montr al. add '/s pound off sugar and juice of one (library. She assumed duties on September Barbara Turnbull, 11, was pictured in the lemon. Drink half a glass when going to bed, 17, 1907, following the death off her brother (Expositor, handling a champion Shorthorn and a little more when the cough is who was the librarian. bull, entered by W. Turnbull and Son.. A troublesome. Damage estimated at $18,000 by Fire daughter off William Turnbull, she took part The corner stone off the soon to be erected Chief John F. Scott, when fire destroyed a in the Brussels Fall Fair. Cavan Church in Winthrop was laid, The large bank barn on the farm off Mansel Cook, Clayton Connell off Seaforth has grown a new church is being erected alongside the three miles west of Winthrop. Lost in huge crop of potatoes. One sample weighed present church building. The newly laid addition to crops were seven pigs, 250 hens, 21/2 pounds and measured 18 by 13 inches. corner stone is white marble and located on the northeast corner off the buildiing. Past reports were deposited in the stone 'including church papers, current coins in the realm, and other documents of interest to future generations. SEPTEMBER 9,1932 Attendance at the Seafforth schools has not changed from 1931. Seaforth Collegiate has 209 students, a decrease of 11; Seaforth public enrolled 190, a slight increase; and 54 enrolled at the Seafforth Separate School. The last band concert off the season played by the Seaforth Highlanders • was recently held. The band will also play at the opening night off the Big Community Sale. Workmen have started to tear out the front of the old Bright Stand in the Regent Theatre black. The stone will be modernized and front changed to harmonize with the new tlieatre. While threshing on the farm of Russell Carter, concession 8, Morris township, a team driven by Wilfred Stockwell of Blyth took flight when hitched to a load of grain, throwing the driver to the ground, on his head and shoulders. Injuries were not as serious as first thought. A ton of butter was stolen from the Seaforth Creamery when thieves backed a truck to the window, forcing a lock on a large refrigerator and removing the butter. OCTOBER 4,1957 SEPTEMBER 15,1;;,;.,2 A large black male bear, weighing 350 pounds, was shot by George Robertson of Carmunnock, 12 miles from Mitchell. Bears are numerous in this section and have killed several sheep in the neighbourhood. Last week, it was noted that one of Thomas Govenlock's barns was burnt. It was thought to have been caused by tramps but is now known to have been the work of an incendiary. Another fire occurred on the same farm, destroying a building storing two large stacks of grain and hay. A man was seen running towards the woods. A pump was removed from the well and a note found in the tube of the pump, stating: Not satisfied yet. Unless T. Govenlock makes a square settlement with his Northerners, 1 am determined to go on.• The second loss, as the first was not insured. There are a number of pigs peregrinating Seaforth streets. The pigs, annoying citi- zens, would be better in their owner's yards or in the Pound. Peter Hawthorne of the Hullett town line has half an acre off corn which measures 10 feet, seven inches in length. It is grown on pea land, well manured and was not sown until the last week in May. This is a terrible growth for three months. The Grand Trunk Railway has issued notices for an excursion from Seafforth to Niagara Falls and return. Tickets for the round trip cost two dollars. SEPTEMBER 20,1907 Apple barrels are being made in Brussels by Dan and William Keake of Wroxeter. The barrels are for Robert Thompson, who expects to use 2,500 this season. Things Worth Knowing - Never cook vegetables with the cover on, as it destroys the colour. - If oranges are left for five minutes in (boiling water, they will peel much easier. and the white inner skin will come away as well. -For a troublesome cough take one oz. of stick liquorice, quarter pound of raisins, a n' y@Too i stili �, c J©fl &mai and opko by D800 gnBl@y There must be something sweet about our big old house. We've all heard about somebody having a bee in his bonnet. But a hornet in the bathroom? I just killed a dirty big brute a few minutes ago• disposed of the corpse, sat down at my typewriter and heard an ominous sound, like a tiny chain saw, looked up for the source and saw three more of the beasts crawling on a window. With nothing else handy, I picked up a particularly waspish letter from one of my readers and beat them to death with no apologies to conservationists. You don't play around with hornets. • They'd obviously crawled in the open bathroom window after being "extermi- nated" by the chaps doing brick -work on the house. They'.d run across a nest in the bricks and thought they'd killed all the hornets with an aerosol "Bomb". They hadn't. During the summer, one of my grandboys was stung by wasps, cosily nesting in a wood -pile. We eliminated them with a vicious counter-artack. Last week, my wife, touring the outside of the house to check the bricks, came across a huge, old-fashioned bee -hive attached to a corner of a window. it was not uninhabited, as a little careful observance proved. 1 had experience as a kid with these things. We'd find them in the woods. get a long stick to knock them down, and usually get well stung in the process., So, it was down to the store to get a "bomb." The instructions said to use it at dawn or at dusk, when the bees are quiet, 1 decided to do the job at dusk. so had a little snooze after dinner. Woke up when my wife came in, beaming as though she'd just won a lottery. She'd climbed a ladder and bombed the bee -hive, silly nit, without even having me there to hold the ladder for her. Anyway, we got rid of that lot. A few years ago 1 was having a new roof put on the house. The roofers ripped open a hornet's nest and the neighbours were treated to the sight of three men doing what appeared to be a Spanish fandango 30 feet up in the air. It was funny, but not to the roofers, who were badly stung. To bee or not to bee. 1 hope that is no longer the question. i don't want to wind up with a bee in my bonnet about bees. wasps and hornets. But I wish they'd go and build somewhere else. - A lot of. other strange things went on this past summer. The back of my house looks naked, after being'covered for years by a beautiful vine. Had the whole thing torn off because it was creeping into my brickwork like an octopus. Somebody stuck two lines of stakes with red tops around two sides of my house. Somebody else put dabs of paint of various hues'all over my lawns Green, yellow and red. I suppose one's the Bell, another's the gas company, and the third is the public utilities, or maybe just someone who likes painting lawns. I've never seen any of the mysterious painters, and am beginning to grow uneasy. If they all start putting in cables and gas lines and water lines under my lawn. anything could happen, with today's workmen. Can't you imagine them getting all tangled up down there? Pick up the telephone and you get an electric shock. Turn on the tap and gas hisses out. Flip on your furnace and water comes gushing up through the ducts. We've had workmen hurtling in and out all summer carrying pipes and things. as we switch to gas. We've had men come and dig up the lawn in the wrong place, replace the sod sloppily, and leave another gash that will turn brown and die. We've been awakened every morning by great thuds and pounding as the brickwork progresses. But 1 feel sorry for the masonry men. They just get their scaffold up and the rain comes pelting down. They sit in their truck until it clears up. climb the scaffold, and get soaked in another shower. We had family from the middle of June to the middle of August. three days holidays, then more family. Two 90th.birthdays in the connection. My heart sank as that letter arrived near' - the end of August, that cheery little letter from the high school principal. telling us about Opening Day, 1 felt ars if 1'd had no holidays at all. To cap it all. I'm broke. New furnace and brickwork cleaned me out. Painting the house will have to wait until next summer. And i hope you had a grand holiday, too. especially if you took it in August. which was more like October. 'The Journal is back, a sign of ,fall It's been a busy summer. Time to catch up on some correspondence again. Mary Lou Findlay and Barbara Frum, The Journal, C.B.C. TV. Toronto. Dear Mary Lou and Barbara. Another sure sign of fall. We used to know winter was coming by rustle of the fallen leaves, the honk of the geese heading south. the scream of wives whose husbands are stuck in front of the television set watching football games and now the moans of the gloom and doom twins, reminding us, if we happened to be able to forget during our days basking on the beach. of the hard realities of our economy. I happened to be able to stay up late enough to see you ladies return on Labour Day telling us how bad it all was. Those poor students you interviewed who graduated last spring expecting that for the extreme suffering of four years of university they would be guaranteed security and wealth for life. but now who, because of the henous plotting of -our government have to take temporary jobs in working at carnivals instead. I hate to disillusion you ladies but back when 1 graduated. in the "good old days" of 1969 there were actually students who didn't get jobs for months either. And Trudeau had only had a year to ruin the economy back then. B@Aorid m@ ncio by u.bgh h©Ila ©IM 1 must say though Barbara that it was nice to see that you could actually talk to people face to face and not just on those huge television screens. What's more when you finally stopped going over all those cliches about the dismal economy and let that panel of economists talk about it. it was even informative about how we got in this mess. and how the prospects are for getting out of it. But in case the economists should get our hopes up. you trotted out some smirking sportscaster to tell us alt about "the worst team in all of football", which of course happens to'be Canadian. I've got a suggestion for helping cut government deficits: have the government cut off the funds CBC spends on The Journal. We can all go to sleep at night thinking a little less of gloom and doom. **ma** The Editor, The Globe and Mail, Toronto. Dear Sir, Where can i turn now for leadership. Who can 1 trust? 1 mean you've convinced me through years of editorial wisdom that the Prime Mipister is only leading us to disaster and that Mr. Clark is only slightly better so I turned to the only national tradition I could trust any more, our "national newspaper" the Great Grey Globe, But sir. 1 am confused. One day recently 1 turned to the editorial and opposite editorial page for leadership as usual and came away more troubled than ever. Oh some things were the same. The Op Ed page featured a large article by the leader of business who told us things would be so much worse much more like the Great Depression if we didn't have so much social welfare legislation to keep money in the hands even of those out of work so they could go on spending and creating demand, then turned around and blamed the whole mess of the economy on too much government spending (along with greedy unions. the National Energy Policy and the Foreign investment Review Agency of course.) But across on the editorial page. your featured columnist from Ottawa was attack. ing the federal government for being so piddling with its foreign aid and being so chintzy as to blame the lack of more foreign aid on the problems on our economy at home and the need to cut back on government spending. But then, just one column away another of your long-time commnists was venting his spleen on the government for giving too much foreign aid. in fact. he was upset that the government was giving one single cent to the people over there. If he wanted to give people in the poor countries something that was his business, he said. but the government was stealing his money against his will and spending it where he didn't think it should be spent. But your editorial writer in the lead editorial seemed to take the side of your first columnist (it was a very careful editorial so it was hard to tell for sure) that the rich countries were a greedy lot. Now tell me Mr. Editor, if you can't even get the same opinions from four voices on two pages of your one issue of the newspaper. how do you expect the Prime Minister, his cabinet, the provincial premiers and their cabinets to come up with some joint course of action? i mean, we all know they aren't as intelligent as journalists so if the journalists can't agree, what hope is there for the country. Yours sincerely, etc. til y 'r ii] Ow@ g©off ow 'i® gJQQcoW by sob Uccpi a. It's a story.hoarywith age but it is probably true. It is the one about the farmer who won a lottery that paid him $21/2 million. He was asked what he was going to do now that he was a rich man. "Well, I guess I'll just keep on farming until 1 go broke." was his laconic and honest answer. Honest because recent statistics indicate that farmers could have sold out, invested their money in Canada Savings Bonds and ended up with far more money by sitting and listening td the crickets chirp. The figures come from a recent report from •the school of agricultural economics" at the University of Guelph. Hog farmesls, beef farmers, milk producers, cash crop farmers, broiler or roaster chicken producers were studied. Only the chicken farmers came out on top of the investment heap. The average dairy farmer hadassets ut $575,457. That is a lot of money in any man's language. He had debts of $107,243. Which gave him an equity of $406,214. He could have made $13,336 more money in Canada Savings Bonds because the Guelph survey indicated an average net income on the farm of 520,960 on more than $109,000 in sales. Figure it out: Invest the equity and the return at 19.5 per cent would be more than $34,000. And that money would come to the farmer if he did not lift a finger. Anyone who has ever been remotely connected with a dairy farm knows the amount of work necessary. Chores twice a day, no paid vacations, no unemployment insurance, no company pension plan, no dental plan, Beef feedlot operators were even worse off in the ,survey. They had assets averaging $899,000 debts of more than 5253,000 and an equity of $635,000. Heck, they could have e had an income of $40,000 at less than 10 per cent interest. e Hog farmers with farrow -to -finish opera- tions had a net income of less than 57,000 with an equity of 5292,600. They could have tripled their income by investing their equity instead of staying on the farm. The cash crop farmers, when all the figures were tallied, could have made more than $22.,000 by staying off the farm and investing their equity, a heck of a lot more than the average income of only $2,086. In the survey, only the chicken farmers could have done better by investing at 10 per cent. Their gross income was $310,113, their net income was $28,159, their assets 5480,432, their debts 5213,807 and their equity 5266,625. They did better by about $16,000. Why in the ever-lovin' world do so many sons and daughters of farmers want to stay on the farm? We are fortunate in this country that farming has remained attractive to so many people. If all the farmers decided to sell out and live off their equity, this nation would starye" to'death. Either that or pay such high prices for imported food that we would be spending half our income to eat instead of the 15 or 16 per cent now being spent on food. 1 am of the opinion that a great many farmers need some indication of appreciation from the rest of the population of this country. They have been downgraded. called cry- babies, cow -kicked, and stepped -on for too long. Their contribution to Canada is inesti- mable. Their production is phenomenal, especially in light of the disastrously low gross = national = product figures released for August. Next time you hear somebody call someone a dumb farmer, tell him to stuff a sock of fresh manure in his mouth. REMEMBER WHEN?—It was about 1952 at Seaforth's Fall Fair when these students viewed the exhibits. From left are Leona Johnston, Margaret McArthur and Doris Stevens. (Photo courtesy of Russell Bolton) It's a small town when .. Oddo °ft Endo by L ll©n® 4ownz.b@nd You know you're in a small town when....•the airport runway is terraced. -the polka is more popular than disco on Saturday night. -Third Street is on the edge of town. -every sport is played on a dirt Floor. -the editor and publisher of the newspaper carries a camera at all times. .you don't use your signal lights 'cause everyone knows where you're going. .you are born on June 13 and received all the gifts from the local merchants because you are the first baby of the year. -you speak to each dog you pass by name and its tail wags at you. .you dial the wrong number. but talk for 15 minutes anyway. .you are run off main street by a combine. You know you're in a small town when... 'you can't walk for exercise because every car that passes offers you a ride. -you get married and the local newspaper devotes a quarter page to the story. -you drive into the ditch five miles out of town and the word gets back before you do. You know you're in a small town when... -the biggest business in town is a car dealership. -you write a cheque in the wrong bank and it covers it for you. -the pickups on Main Street outnumber the cars three to one. you miss a Sunday at church and receive a get well card, someone asks how you feel and then listens to what you say. Thank God for small towns..,and those people who live in them. The author of the above notations is unknown, hut he or she obviously had a good handle on life in a small town. I'd like to add a few of my own observations. You know you're in a small town when you're looking for it and the first sign you see says: "Come Back Soon". You know you're in a small town when you park your car across the street from the Post Office. and by the time you get inside, your mail is waiting for you on the counter. You know you're in a small town when everyone you meet is related to someone else you know•third cousin on their mother's side once removed, and so on. You know you're in a small town when the store clerks call you by your first name and the grocery store manager knows your favourite fonds, You know you're in a small town when you finally break down and tell a secret that everyone else knew two weeks ago. You know you're in a small town when there doesn't seem to be anything to do except the ball tournament on the weekend, the dance on Saturday night, the church supper on Wednesday evehing, the rummage sale on Thursday afternoon, the garage sale on Saturday, the meal talent show on Tuesday night. and the . meetings on Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday nights. You know you're in a small town when the smiles outnumber the frowns on Main Street.