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The Huron Expositor, 1982-10-27, Page 2Ziir i Uron Qxpositor Since 1860, Serving the Community first Incorporating = i`r us.eis POM founded 1872 12 Main St. 527-0240 Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO every Wednesday afternoon by Signal -Star Publishing Limited Jocelyn A. Shrier, Publisher Susan White, Editor H.W. (Herb) Turkhelm, Advertising Manager Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspaper Association 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 mall registration number 0696 1 I`/ SEAFO(BT, OW -ARO°, OCTOBER 27, 19 Int r kf !IJ t n N/ �l V I7 1, (IJ ,/- It t , r!/i 2 'IJ s Canadians faced with mortgage renewals, major car or home repairs, or just in a financial bind, ,have been listening with anticipation every week as the prime lending rate has shown a steady decline. Farmers, store owners and manufacturers eh seemed pleased with the down trend which in turn will improve sales, and generally, the Canadian economy. Chartered banks, obviously have felt the financial squeeze, as new loans during the last year have been virtually non-existent. Only those who absolutely require a loan or mortgage have gone with hat in hand tol their local bank in hopes of receiving a loan with a mortgage rate one per cent above prime. Most have reluctantly settled for a higher rate. Canadian rates have foliowed the American rates which have shown an astonishing decline this last month. Many financial analysts have speculated the American drop is due to government Intervention for political reasons—a pendulum swinging to convince the public in upcoming elections. In Canada, the Bank of Canada intervened to prevent any major changes in the central bank, last week. The rate has declined to a two year low of 11.62 per cent. The Bank of Canada stepped into the market to stabilize the sale of treasury bills said Toronto Dominion Bank economist Jim Webber. "Now It looks like there is going to be virtually no change in the rate unless something dramatic happens." Another economist said the market also "wants to stand back and take a bit of a breather to let the rates stabilize." Speculation is that rates will increase in the new year, possibly to 12.56 per cent. Canadians have been holding their breath for two years. Now when "the breather" is a gasp away, the oxygen is about to be cut off. Canadians should be asking, "Where was the Bank Of Canada intervention when the rates were plus 18 per cent?" The Americans, like the English are whispering, only in Canada, pity! RW Enormity of report beyond comprehension Any doubts that the nations of the world were not on the brink of lunacy were dispelled this week in the release of the study on the world's military expenditures. The report Indicates that more than $1 million a minute is being spent worldwide on the military, with nuclear stockpiles exceeding 50,000 weapons. The enormity of -the figures are beyond the comprehension of most people but one comparison perhaps sheds some light on the future. In World War II, three million tonnes of munitions were expended with the resulting loss of 40 to 50 million people. The world's current nuclear weapon stockpile is listed at 16 billion tonnes of TNT. We'll sure go with a bang! Some other comparisons have been made by the study, indicating just how the military spending has diverted the world'§ resources from areas In which it would create some' benefits. •Spending per soldier averages $19,300 worldwide but only $380 is spent per school-age child for education. =For every 100,000 people, there are 556 soldiers and 85 physicians. An estimated 100 million people worldwide are engaged directly or indirectly in military activities. •In 32 countries, governments spend more for military purposes than for education and health care combined. *Nuclear missiles can go from Western Europe to Moscow in six minutes but the average rural housewife in Africa must walk several hours a day for the family's water supply. •NATO and Warsaw Pact forces have a total of 100,000 tanks, enough to form a column stretching the approximate 17,60 kilometres between Paris and Budapest. Rural kicgap ai$ ® 5m6D y This is a time of year when my heart goes out to city -dwellers. It's a time when rural or small town living is immensely superior to that in the concrete canyons, the abominable apartments, the sad suburbs of metropolia. In the city, day ends drearily in the fall. There's the long, wearying battle home through traffic. or the draughty: crushed. degrading scramble on public transportation. The city an arrives home fit for nothing but slumping for the evening before the television set. And what greets him? The old lady. wound up like a steel spring because she hasn't seen a soul she knows all day. there's nothing to look at but that stupid house next door. exactly like their own. and the kids have been giving her hell. He's stuck -with it. For the whole evening. That's why so many city chaps have workshops in the basement. it's much simpler to go down cellar and whack off a couple of fingers in the power saw than listen to Mabel. Life is quite different for the small town male. He is home from work in minutes. He surveys the ranch. says, "Must. get those storm windows on one of (hese days," and The Exeter Times Advocate 1i•fe great in goes in. to the good fall smells of cBld drinks and hot food. His wife saw him at breakfast, again at lunch. has had a good natter with theldame next door. and has been out for two hours. raking leaves with the kids. She doesn't need him. Instead of drifting off to the basement, the small town male announces that this is his bowling night. or he has to go to a meeting of the Conservation and Slaughter Club, and where's a clean shirt. And that's all there is to it. While her city counterpart squats in front of TV, gnawing her nails and wondering why she didn't marry good•old George. who has a big dairy farm now, the small town gal collects the kids and goes out to burn leaves. There is nothing more romantic than the back streets of a small town in the dark of a fall evening. Piles of leaves spurt orange Flame. White smoke eddies. . Neighbours call out, lean on rakes. Women, kerchiefed like gypsies, heap the dry leaves high on the fire. Kids avoid the subject of bedtime. dash about the 'fire like nimble gnomes. Or perhaps the whole family goes to a fowl supper. What, in city living, can compare with this finest of rural functions? A crisp fall evening.'a drive to the church hall through a Hallowe'en landscape. an appetite like an orris r OtCTOB1ER 20, 11:.,.2 A.K. Robertson of Morris township has a cabbage growing on his farm which measures 101/2 feet in circumference and about three feet in diameter. In relation to recent fires by arson in McKillop township, two letters were sent to George Nesbit and Charles Dulmage.. The letters, of a threatening nature, were pinned to the front gatepost of each farm. Whether or not they were written in jest by some rascal with the object of increasing the terror of the people, or by the real incendiaries, is hard to say. Head miller at Ogilvie's mills in Seaforth, Robert Black, has accepted a position with Nithvale mills as manager, in the village of Ayr. Mr. Black is one of the best millers in the country. W. Campbell of Harpurhey, had a narrow escape from being smothered in a well in McKillop Township. He was digging the well when the accumulation of foul gas nearly overcame him. Seaforth council is laying a tile dralcl on the south side of John Street. lff the experiment proves satisfactory, no doubt tiles will generally be used hereafter. A car load off hogs was shipped from Brussels to Woodstock. They were pur- chased from the Walton Cheese Factory at $6.75 per hundred live weight. Noble Whitely has rented his 1100 acre farm, lot 37, concession three to his neighbour, Michael Whitemore, for $250 per p6nom sident 11 year. n ro s giant ca e yo OCTOBER 25, 1 17 Mrs. George Hearn and her two daughters of McKillop, had an exciting time when the front axle of their buggy broke and one wheel dropped off near the Seaforth public school. The buggy dropped to the horses' heels and it began to kick and run away. The rig collided with a tree, throwing the riders out: They only suffered minor scratches. John Dodds, Seaforth, took third at the shooting tournament at the Zurich gun club. The first high average money was won by Mr. Kerr of Crediton and second, D. Hartleib of Exeter. J.F. Dally, Seaforth, recently made a large sale of White Wyandotte hens to P.J. Deacon, Dumbarton. The shipment consist- ed of 50 hens and amounted to over 51100. While working with a gang plow, James Evans of the seventh off Morris, struck a stone with the plow. The handle flew up, striking him in the side, breaking two ribs. Three young boys off Mitchell ran away from home, taking a freight to Seafforth. They then walked to Clinton, then to Londesboro. They boarded another train and reached Wingham, only to fall into the hands of the police. They were handed over to their parents and taken home. OCTOu:ER 114, 11932 With the announcement that A. Carter andidates o If one thing stood out at Seaforth's 1982 ratepayers' meeting Monday night, it was that the calibre of candidates Is very high. "They all should win," one spectator said after hearing 20 concise, informative and well -reasoned speakers, and he's right. They all can't win, however, and It's up to us to make careful, reasoned and informed choices. The next three years, as most hopefuls recognized, will be crucial ones in the history of Seaforth and area. A council that stands still can do a lot of harm to the facilities and programs previous councils have laboured so hard to build. On the other hand, a council that goes hog wild with new programs, could find itself bankrupt. We need a reasonable middle ground. To help voters decide who will ez ©©©Lfl proposes opening a modern grocery store in the stand formerly used by the Toggery Shop.Seaforth citizens can take pride in the fact that they now have more grocery stores than any other town in the district. It makes the ninth grocery store on main street, John Broderick was successful in winning the fowl' Offered at the bowling alley in the opening games of the season. Arrangements have been completed to hold a professional wrestling match in Seaforth. The card includes such well known wrestlers as Gus Kalor, Larry La Belle, Murphy Feigon, Bob Williams, Young 'Conkel and Scotty McIntyre. Former principal 'off the Seaforth public school, E.R. Crawford, now at the Shake- speare public school, Stratford, was elected president of the Perth County Teachers' institute. H.G. Moir, who was in Toronto over the weekend, left his car parked on the street with the windows up and doors locked. He returned and found a window smashed and' his bags stolen. No trace has been found of the thief or the bags. Quote of the week in 1932: "As a nation, we are like a man who has a powerful motorcar but has only the vaguest notion of how to drive it and no notion at all of where he wants to go." -the Dean of Exeter, NOVEMBER 22, 1957 The first phase has been completed in a 510,000 town hall remodelling project. A major change was the treatment of front elevation of the building by removing a large frame stairway structure. The interior was changed with new offices built for the PUC and clerk. An addition was added providing modern accommodation for the Fire tiiti- gade. Firemen now,proceed to fires from the rear of the building onto side streets, eliminating a traffic hazard that existed for some years. The removal off the council chamber to the ground floor makes a most convenient arrangement. The hall was built in 1894 at a cost of 510,000. it replaces a frame building which was destroyed by fire, Sunday morning, August 23, 1891. L. Hammond, London bandmaster was appointed to lead the Seaforth Highlanders Band. He succeeds Ernest Wetton who resigned recently. Mr. Hammond was chosen from six applicants, F.C.J. Sills, band president, said. Dick Eisler, special events chairman of the Seaforth Legion said proceeds from -the annual poppy campaign' amounted to 5194.36. Two , active members of the Seaforth Garden Club, Emily Elliott and Cathy Eckert will be television guests on the CKNX-TV show M'Lady, with Margaret Brophy. The girls will give a demonstration on "How to cook vegetables." ere s best represent them, the Expositor is covering all the area ratepayers' meetings in some detail. This election we're breaking with recent practice and won't be asking candidates to complete questionalres. The number of people running in local municipalities and lack of space prevent this. We will however, provide free space for any area candidate wishes to send this newspaper 300 words about her or his experience and policies. We reserve the right to edit these, and they must be in our office by Friday at 5 p.m. Those we receive will appear in the Expositor's Nov. 3, pre-election issue. Mental paranoia common One of the most recognizable signs of dangerous mental illness that even a first-year psychology student can recognize is when someone starts talking about how "they" are out to get him. It's a symptom of the mental disorder paranoia and there seems to be a lot of it going around these days. Paranoia is a kind of extreme self-centred' ness in which an individual sees everyone around him as dangerous to himself. Everything that goes wrong in his life is done to him by "them". Taken to the extreme the disease can be dangerous because sometimes the individual thinks he has to protect himself from the "they" who pose the threat to him and takes violent action. Read the letters to the editor column, listen to the radio "call-in" shows and you'll get the impression that a huge section of our population is suffering from the symptoms of paranoia. There was the writer of the letter to the editor, for instance, who warned the British against letting even a few thousand immigrants from Third World countries into their country because those thousand would soon have the millions of Britons doing things their way. How the proud British, with a thousand years of history behind them are going to have their whole way of life changed by a few thousand immigrants is beyond reason but then is it so different than what is happening in Canada? We had at the time of the Boat People some citizens who claimed that opening the doors for the Boat People was the first step to being taken over by the Asian hordes. DANGER? Even more prevalent is the danger some of our paranoid citizens seem to feel eminates from a bilingual policy. The book "Bilingual Today, French Tomorrow" seemed to speak for many from the number of sales it had and the amount of discussion fall alligator. and that first wild whiff of turkey and dressing that makes your knees buckle and the juices flow free in your cheeks. But it's on weekends that my pity for the city -dweller runneth over. Not for him the shooting•match on a clear fall Saturday, with its good-humored competition. its easy friendliness. Not for him the quiet stroll down a sunny wood road„ shotgun over arm, partridge and woodcock rising like clouds of mosquitoes. It's not that he doesn't live right. or doesn't deserve these pleasures. it's just that it's physically impossible to get to them easily. If he wants to crouch in a ubckblind at dawn. he has to drive half the night to get there. Maybe on a Sunday or holiday. in the fall. the city family decides to head out and see some of that beautiful autumn foliage. They Ste it, after driving two hours, And with 50.000 other cars. they crawl home in later afternoon, bumper to bumper, the old man cursing, the kids getting hungrier, the mother growing older. Small town people can drive for 15 minutes and hit scenery, at least around here. that leaves them breathless. Or they'll wheel out a few miles to see their relatives on the farm, eat a magnificent dinner, and sit around watching TV in a state of delicious torpor. Yup. It`s tough to live in the city, in the fall, [3c@rhtowd no M@GM by (@6i D m QOM025ft nl it has caused. The people who accept the One doesn't have to look at differences at theory seem to feel that bilingualism is not a policy of fairness, not a case of simply being polite enough to let people speak to their own government to which they pay taxes•in their own first language, but a plot by the government and intellectuals to turn the whole country French. This gigantic leap in logic says that if you give the Frenchies the chance to speak their own language instead of stomping it right out, they will soon force all of us to speak their language. SO SAD This illogical conclusion would be funny if it wasn't so sai', and if the same kind of illogic wasn't being perpetrated on the other side of the Quebec border where extremists seem to see even an English sign on a storefront or a street sign as a threat to a culture that has lasted for nearly 400 years. The whole Quebec liberation movement is based on a paranoia that "they" in English Canada can't be trusted and theref re Quebec should be out on its n. Unfortunately the idiots of the "Bilin ual Today, French Tomorrow" school of thought only promote the Quebec paranoia and vlce-vers.a, language, culture or race to discover the paranoia, however. i liked the story on the news recently of the girl down in the States somewhere who went up to a policeman and wanted him to give her a kiss. He refused so she gave him a pinch on the bottom. He then charged her with assaulting a police officer and she was found guilty. , 1 couldn't help thinking what would have happened if it had been the other way around. 1f, for instance, it had been the policeman who pinched the girl's bottom, there would have probably been a cry from feminists from coast to coast about sexual discrimination by the police. There would have been a hue and cry 'from others who always see things in such light that this was police brutality. As it is we only have people who will say that the cop has no sense of humour. MiNE FIELD Male-female relationships have become another mine -field of paranoia. A man never knows if he holds a door open in a city store for a woman if she might be one of those who feels that his holding a door open is an insult to her independence. If he compliments her disorder on her new dress he may be a sexist, little better than people who attack women on dark streets. Anti-Communist paranoia has been a part of North, American life for more than half a century now, particularly south of the. border. While the sickness reached its highest fever during the 1950s of Joe McCarthy, the fever has been creeping up again under Ronald Reagan. Reagan spent the first two years of his presidency sending stern warnings to the Soviet Union that they'd better shape up or else. Or else he'd fight them to the last European, the people • of Europe seemed to,feel when the feeling was running high over the cruise missile plan. Reagan didn't make himself any more friends in Europe when he tried to tell the European governments that he knew better for them than they knew for themselves so therefore he was going to save them from a fate worse than death by preventing them from building a pipeline for the Soviets. Now, of course, in his own convoluted logic that's as good as our anti -French thinkers up here, it is perfect sense to sell American wheat to the Soviets. Paranoia in individuals is a dangerous mental illness. In nations it is equally • danget'ous. if we don't do something to cure the disease quickly. we could be in trouble. Beware of 8pook8 (Waaaink photo)