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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1982-11-24, Page 2�;he �luron «xpositnr Since 1860, Serving the Community first Incorporating .4 Brussels Post founded 1872 12 Main St. 1 527-0240 Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO every Wednesday afternoon by Signal -Star Publishing Limited Jocelyn A. Shrler, Publisher Susan White, Editor H.W. (Herb) Turkhelm, Advertising Manager Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assocletlbn, 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 0895 SEAFORTM, ONTAitI l NOVEMBER 24, 1962 n 1 t®® There's been'a lot of hullabaloo recently about the sale and resale of 11,000 apartment upits in Toronto. Tenants faced huge rent increases. Cuts of such purchases can be passed on to them and costs here were enormous...beginning at $270 million and rlsittg to $500 million for the third sale in less than two weeks. Then Consumer and Commercial Relations minister Dr. Robert Elgie closed the barn door after the horse got out by announcing rent controls on buildings that have recently changed hands. it's better than nothing, but it's a stop -gap approach that ignores the fact that the minister was naive, if not misled, about information from the president of the company which first bought the apartments. What's been interesting, and dismaying, throughout the buying and selling, shifts in mortgages and principals, is that the province of Ontario seems to hate little idea of what's really going on. Who made a profit of $130 million and will it be taxed? Do Arab interests now own a huge bloc of Toronto real estate? Does the Foreign investment Review Agency have anything to say about that? We don't know, and neither apprently does Dr. Elgie. There's a local connection too in that Kildekin Investments, the second buyers, who may have sold the apartment to Arab interests, recently bought Suncoast Mall in Goderich and already own an apartment building there. The whole mess reminds us of a similar situation, the buying and selling of some of Ontario's best farmland to foreign investors. In these cases too the purchases are often registered -in -Ontario numbered companies and it's almost impossible to trace the real owners through the tangled, but all perfectly legal, web of paper. Both situations point up the fact that the province must have foreign ownership legislation with real teeth in it. It also must have the' authority to get behind the secrecy in numbered companies. Disclosure of numbered companies legislation was introduced by the NDP, back in 1976, but both the Tories and the Liberals voted against it. Both types of legislation are urgently needed, If the government and people of Ontario are to know what's really going on in this province. Without them our best land and our people's homes will continue to be sold under mysterious circumstances while the government mumbles "Um, well it's hard to know exactly what is happening..." S.W. Do it yourself Seaforth and community was founded and thrived thanks to the efforts of peo,le ho, when they wanted something badly enough, got out and organized it themselves. Before the days of TV and radio, in fact, locally organized entertainment was for most of the year, the only sort of entertainment there was. Just ask those who remember plays and amateur shows at Cardno's Hall or the phenomenally successful revue, Crossroads, written by the late James R. Scott and performed for the 1952 Old Boys Reunion. While the tradition of Seaforth as a strong amateur sports town has continued, amateur theatre here, with the exception of the schools, has ' languished. That's about to change however, thanks to a group of local people who have felt the lack. In true rural self-sufficient style, they are doing something about it. A production crew has been set up and auditions are being planned for Dec. 11. You can read all about it on this week's Entertainment page. We hope the auditions are popular (we know Seaforth and area has no lack of talented people) and the production of The Fantasticks Is a success. Best of luck to the organizers and may this be just a beginning of the revival of amateur theatre In the community. S.W. Armed prevention? The nuclear disarmament movement in the U.S. and Canada has been dealt a significant blow with the announcement by U.S. president Ronald Reagan that his administration is prepared to go ahead with plans to deploy 100 intercontinental MX nuclear missiles in a show of force against the Soviet Union. In a public address to the nation Mr. Reagan stated that, "It still takes weapons to prevent war." The Missiles, which would be placed in re -enforced silos in the Wyoming desert, would survive a surprise nuclear strike by the Soviets and would be launched after such an attack at stategic position in the Eastern Bloc. The move comes on the heels of the largest nuclear disarmament vote ever taken in Canada. Approximately 140 municipalities had the disarmament question on the ballot in the recent municipal elections with between 75 to 80 per cent of those who cast their vote in favour of bilateral disarmament. The vote may spark a world-wide referendum on nuclear disarmament. It is difficult for the common person to believe either side when they accuse each other of escalating the arms race. Without access to the intell igence-gathering equipment and manpower of the two super, powers, it is difficult to believe the figures released by either side. What is apparent is that each country has the nuclear ability to destroy the world and its inhabitants several times over. To increase these arsenals is absurd at the least. The nuclear disarmament movement has increased dramatically in North America, and Eastern and Western Europe. It is a cross-section of political, religious groups and individuals who are genuinely concerned about the well-being of the people who inhabit the world. Unfortunately the movement is not large enough yet to steer the politicians and policy makers in Russia and the US to alter their course and concentrate their time and money on economic concerns of their countries and the other nations of the world. Is it too late to hope sanity will prevail in the near future? K.S. Letters to the editor on page 3 this week OpOnficpn Football was popular at SCI in 1 82 NOVEMBER 17, 1882 Foot Ball -A very interesting foot ball match between the scholars off the Clinton and Seafforth High Schools was played on the grounds of the latter on Saturday last. it was mutually agreed that the match should be continued for one hour and a half, and that when half the time had expired the clubs should change ends. The full time was occupiedand neither side got a game, and so the match was declared a draw. The play was very clean, but the Clinton team seemed to be if anything the strongest, and they came very near putting the ball through the goal of their opponents several times, and no doubt would have done so but for the expert playing off the goal -keeper. The match throughoht was conducted with the best of feeling and in the most pleasant manner, and at its conclusion the Seaforth boys entertained their Clinton antagonists at a complimentary supper at the Queen's Hotel. NOVEM1t.ER 29,1907 The annual exhibition of the Huron Poultry Association was held in the town hall, Seaforth, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday last, and was beyond all question the best and largest show ever held under the auspices of the Association. The entry list was exception- ally large, the displays in many of the classes were equal to that off the big Guelph show and as some of the best breeders in the province had birds on exhibition, the competition for prizes was keen. A pleasant and profitable inovation this year was the addresses by Prof. Graham off the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. These addresses were given in the council chamber on Friday and the meetings were well attended. In the afternoon the professor spoke on "Egg production and the feeding of poultry" and in the evening on "Dressing and marketing of fowl." Tuesday last was a busy day around the warehouses of D.D. Wilson in Seafforth. It was delivery day for poultry which he had purchased and there was a crowd of farmers' teams waiting their turn to be unloaded from early in the forenoon until late in the afternoon. The bulk of the deliveries were live turkeys and of these there were about 1200 and about 400 dressed. The whole represents a cash value of over 52300. NOVEM ER 11, 1932 The horizon looks clear and cloudless in as far as hockey in Seafforth is concerned, if the organization's meeting held in Carnegie library. on Wednesday evening is a sample of the spirit and co-operation that will prevail duririg the winter. The meeting was representative of those who are interested in the game. Charles Stewart was chairman, and William Hart, secretary. The club proposed raising funds for necessary initial expenses thorough subscrip- tions. Thomas A. Cliff and C.M. Smith will look after this necessary item. The matter of name received much consideration, which finally resulted in a suggestion, which was adopted, that the club be known as the Beavers. In thin way a name that has been prominent iii -Western Ontario athletics in years gone by and to -pit still means much to the citizens of the town, will be perpetuated. It is expected that a team will be entered in the intermediate O.H.A., but this will not be known definitely for a few days. Announcement has been made that elec- tions for the Ontario Boys Parliament will this year be held on Saturday, November 26. Rev. J.H. Stanton, of Eketer, has been appointed returning officer for South Huron. Seaforth boys will have an opportunity to vote in the Tutsis Hall, north off the United Church, on Saturday next, between 2 and 5 p.m. Rev. W.P. Lane is acting as deputy 'returning officer for Seafforth. According to Mr. Stanton any boy between the ages of 12 and 21 is entitied to vote providing that he is a member of a Tuxis Group or organized Sunday School Class. The Beaver Hockey club are in touch with the O.H.A. and are making arrangements to enter an intermediate team in that associa- tion. During the past week sweaters have been purchased and twice a week candidates for the team can be seen ,doing road work under the direction of Mr. Ryman. It is expected that the team will be in the best of shape and ready to win when ice arrives. rECiEMBER 20,11957 Lack of co-operation on the part of the weatherman may force a change in thelans which had been made to receive Santa -Claus in Seafforth on Friday. It had been intended that Santa would arrive in town on a sleigh, but unless snow comes in the meantime, this may not be possible. Not only are special arrangements being made to receive Santa Claus with the courtesy and attention which 'he deserves, but an added feature off the welcome will be the presence off the Seaforth District High School boys' and girls' bugle band, who will take part in a parade to the large brightly decorated tree in front of the Town Hall. Santa's visit to Seafforth this year ;las been made possible as a result off thetoint efforts off the Seaforth Lions Citib, and Seaforth merchants and proffessional people. Seafforth Local 284 off the Fhrmers' Union met in the Town Hall Monday. The aresident announced that the floor price on' fowl had been extended until March 31, 19W DUBLIN CONTINUATION SCHOOL—The year was some time in the 1920s when the student body of the Dublin school., now the HPRCSS board head office, gathered for a photo. It's loaned to the Expositor by Anne Hamilton of Whitby and Marie Melady of Dublin. In the photo from left are: Bertha Murray:, Mamie McGrath, Aileen Jordan, Vera Feeney, Marie Benninger, Marie Britton, Mary O'Connor, Eileen Mulligan, Anna Delaney, Mary O'Rourke, Helena Flannery, Esther Ryan, Mary McGrath, Teresa Carpenter, Angela Shea, Mary Hastings, Hazel Hill, Catherine Gormley, Alice O'Rielly, Veronica McConnell, Mary Feeney, Flora Hill, Florence Coyne, Helen Dantzer, Evelyn Delaney, Eileen Eckert, Mary Eckert, Rose O'Connor, Nellie O'Rourke, Mary Hill, Marie Murray, Loretto Hastings, Mary Atkinson, Mary Krauskopf, Anna Molyneaux, Theresa Eckert, Madeline Crawford, Dorothy O'Rourke, Gertrude McGrath, Rose McConnell, Anna McGrath, Bridget O'Laughlin, Anne McQuaid, Grace Moylan, Elizabeth Murray, Anne McConnell, Hugh Benniger, Charlie Darrenstyn, Tom McQuaid, Joe Shea, Ralph Dill, Joe Dantzer, Bob Byrne, Joe Feeney, Vern Britton, Dan Williams, John McConnell, Wilfred Murray, Joe Carpenter, Joe Dill, Jim Shea, Joe Looby, Charlie Campbell, Peter Dill, Gerry Jordan, Andy Dantzer, Mike McPhail. My wife's not a lunatic, but I'm not saying my wife is a lunatic. I'm not sayin that. I'm just saying that, while not certifiable, she is peculiar. Of course, there's nothing unusual in that. Many another man could say the same. It's not that she babbles away to herself, or drools, or hears voices. And functionally, there's nothing wrong with her mind. She has a memory that would put an elephant to shame, especially when it comes to recalling some real or fancied sin of mine. it's more of a behavioral problem, and it's steadily getting worse. Throughout our blissful wedded years, she has, from time to time, sprung into somektew line of endeavor on a whim or impulse, and not once has she looked before she leaped. The results have varied from tremendous to traumatic. She took on a job as a kindergarten teacher, with no experience except handling our own two infants. She had about 30 kids, and spent most of her time taking off their winter clothes and putting them on again. or herding them to the bathroom. Not much joy in that, but she was given a magnificent salary of $15 a week by a grateful community. Then came a great surge into the world of music. She started taking piano lessons, along with her children, and within a few years had advanced to Grade 10, and Grade Five Piano Theory, both of which were successfully completed. Real sense of fulfil- ment there. The house resounded to the music of classical records and three bodies practising. Never having played the organ, naturally she accepted the job of organist of our church, taught herself, and became better than $ugiaal ©gild klk@ U y 13000 SIn"mn Elly average, along with learning to teach a choir. Again. there was a feeling of triumph, of a job well done. This led to teaching music, and she built up a class of about 25. She became an excellent teacher. loved it, and her pupils won many prizes in competition. Then she decided to go back to university, threw up her piano classes and hit the books. She was doing well. had an entirely new interest in life, but was forced to quit because of illness; mostly fatigue from working like a medieval scholar at it. Another shot at it produced the same results. An experience to remember, but not to relish. Another wild adventure was teaching Grade 13 in a private, school. Quite a jump, from kindergarten to Grade 13, with nothing in between. She loved it, performed well, and established a close relationship with her students. These.gre just a few of the high spots. For a while she was a gourmet cook, and we have the cook books and omelette pans to prove it. This was one of my favourite periods, as my waistline swelled steadily and contentedly. Then it was into the sewing. An 5800 machine, patterns, pins. material all over the place, while the cooking and the poetry discussions and the music took a back seat. Today she's an excellent, almost a brilliant seamstress, who makes most of her own clothes, and many articles for daughter and grandboys. She'll tackle making a set of drapes where other women contemplate sewing on some buttons. In between were excursions into painting and papering, installing electric fixtures, joining women's groups with great enthusi- asm, taking up golf with a singlemindedness that wouldn't admit she could not hit the ball like a pro, and various other jaunts off the track of housewife and mother. And i've suffered, man; I've suffered, because she doesn't believe in keeping all this knowledge to herself. 1 know about kindergarten kids and I've had music pupils draped all over the house, and 1 know what an arpeggio is, and i had to go to church every Sunday and pray that the organist wouldn;t hit any clunkers, and i have become a fair cook, and 1 know what a dart and a tuck are in sewing, and 1 know what Ben Hogan said about the backswing, and I know which women are gossips and which are leaders. i've supported, and i've suffered. But 1 don't know whether 1 can weather thc latest wild enthusiasm: skilled tradesman. My old lady has become infatuated with hardware, and thinks she can do anything a plumber, electrician, carpenter or painter can In her sewing period, 1 was regaled w th patterns from Vogue and Chatelaine. N she cans the flyers sent out by the and are chains, and flies into a rage wh s has paid $9 for a monkey wrench and sees and ad with the same wrench for $.5.98. Her idea of a happy Saturday morning for us is to visit four hardware stores. I hate hardware stores. Every tool, every item, merely increases my feelings of inadequacy as a handyman. Last Christmas, knowing my wife's delight in new gadgets, 1 bought her an electric body restorer. with all sorts of little brushes. and things to massage yourself, rasp off calluses and so on, in the bathtub. She's used it once. Know what she wants for Christmas this year? A power drill, preferably with a saw and sander along with it. It's bewildering, but never dull, living with such a woman. Take last Sunday. 1 am sitting in my chair, trying to read the weekend papers. She is up in the bedroom, hoisting beds and bureaus around so she can paint a bit more ceiling. Down she comes and launches into some Tom Lehr songs on the piano. Drops that and begins "ripping out" some sewing or knitting that wasn't right. Off to the kitchen to whack up a magnificent casserole. Down to the basement to measure broken storm windows. Out comes a glasscutter she'd bought, and she's going to put in glass and putty herself. And so on, i could list six other activities. Lively, but exhausting. Fair me. Are you sure we can afford progress? "Progress" is one of those words that has always seemed to be a double negative: you know like when someone says '1 don't want no cake". 1t seems to say one thing but really means another, We are so much richer than any nation of people in the history of the world and yet what has it got us? I mean that example of the person and the cake. Chances are if thc person did realize he was asking for a piece of cake with his double negative instead of turning it down, he wouldn't get real cake anyway. He'd get some modern substitute because despite our wealth, we can't afford the real thing any more. it certainly would be that way if he had a cup of coffee because chances are at least two to one instead of getting cream in that coffee he'd hydrogenated vegetable oil. Apparent- ly richest people of all time can't afford cream anymore. Progress means that we can't butter anybody up anymore because most people can only afford margarine. it means you can make a salad in the middle of January with lettuce that's been on the road so long from California you wouldn't notice if you forgot to take the celophane wrap off, but the eggs you get from two miles down the road are two weeks old before you get them because of our complicated food distribut- ion system. They probably travelled almost as far as the California lettuce to get to your place. rt@hind o @ncA, by KeAdil RCYldnOin RICH? We're so rich today that the farmer, who once was able to allow cattle and pigs to grow up at their own natural rate, today forces so much high octane feed down his pigs' throats that they have ulcers by the time they reach puberty but that's all right because they're shipped to market shortly thereafter. The hams then instead of being smoked the old way, ate treated with chemicals to simulate the way we used to do things back in the days we were poor. Today only the very rich can afford smoked meats that are really smoked. Progress is having cars that were once made of metal made of plastic but costing like gold. Thirty years ago anybody who had a car that was less than 10 years old in our neighbourhood was regarded as rich. Today anybody who has a car that's more than 10 years old and in running order gets offers from classic car collectors. Back in 1900 when we were so much poorer than today, the builders who build the house 1 live in put in 10 foot ceilings. The walls were made of solid brick. The baseboards in the livingroom were 18 inches high. The woodwork was full of fancy, routed grooves and circles and made of solid oak. Today the ceilings of our expensive houses are two -feet lower, the baseboards are four inches high and the doorframes are three inches wide, the wood is Jap iese mahogany and the only grooves are Wpaces left by workmen who were hurrying so much to keep the cost down that they didn't fit the joints together properly. A HOUSE You are among the lucky few, however, if you live in a house at all. We're so affluent in Canada today that we're telling people they shouldn't expect that it's a right for all Canadians to own their own houses, People will have to get used to the idea, the planners and government people tell us. that they may have to spend their lives living in high rise apartments vihich are the human equivalent of those cages we keep laying hens in these days because we can't afford to give them enough room to move about and lay eggs in more natural surroundings the way they did 80 years ago when we were poor. Never fear though because if you should Bazaar time means tough choic It's that time of year - the time for bazaars. Seldom a week goes by without at least one or two bazaars in any community, One of the difficult things about bazaars is deciding which to attend. Another problem can arise from trying to make it to two events in one day. Some bazaars fill church auditoriums, others take place in community recreation halls. All bazaars have one thing in common. They are the culmination of weeks of hard dedicated work by dozens of volunteers Dido °w @adz by/ 000Bim T0wfn1SQWd doing their bit for their church group or service club or community organization. Another thing bazaars have in common is the ability to lure crowds. Some people attend because they want to support the organization that is hosting the bazaar. Some want to see how others do it before they hast their own event. Others simply like to browse around. and if they find a bargain or something that pleases their eye, it's a bonus. And some people just enjoy the fellowship of the annual bazaar. be lucky enough to buy a house of your own you'll be able to afford to buy a riding lawn mower to cut the 28 square feet of lawn that's all that's left over on our modern decreased lot sizes once they've put the house and two -care garage on it. You can then take one of your two cars and drive down to the health club to wear off the extra few pounds you've put on for lack of exercise. PLASTIC Progress means that you ra nit afford to buy anadian-made, leather boots any- more. You'll have to buy imitation -leather, plastic boots made in Taiwan or some African country where they can still afford to make shoes because the labour costs are so low. (Just think. if third world countries ever get rich we may have fo go barefoot.) Progress means instead of having clothes made from wool or cotton we get clothes from Hong Kong made from petroleum by-products. Progress means that we 'save millions of people from a life of boredom and sacrifice on the farm and give them exciting. fulfilling jobs feeding parts to computeriz- ed robots welding joints on car assembly line. Progress means we liberate women from the monotory and drugery of rearing the next generation and put them in front of typewriters and video display terminals. Aren't we fortunate progress has saved us all? es For some of us, a difficult decision confronts us as soon as we step inside the door. Where should we go first? The bake table with its mounds of homemade muffins. tarts. bread and rolls. pies and cupcakes? Or. should we stop to look over the jams. jellies and preserves along the way? Or. maybe we should check the plant corner where all the green thumbers have put their talents on display, 'Of course, there is the Please turn to page 3