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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1983-09-14, Page 3OwnersFrom page one holdings have accepted the county offer but farmers with 100 acres or more are the standouts. "We would like to see a new road but we would like to see the fanners dealt with fairly," he said. The five -mile stretch of road between Egmondville and Brucefield was scheduled for reconstruction during the summer of 1983 but no work was done because the landown- ers had failed to agree on the land value and the county spent money on other road projects. ' COUNCIL BRIEFS A new road entrance to the hamlet of Vanastra off Highway 4 will be constructed this fall by Tuckersmith Township. The tender for the work to open up 7th Avenue was awarded Tuesday night to George Radford Construction Ltd. of Blyth. His tender, the lowest of four, will cost the township 510,272 plus the engineer's fees. The new entrance is to be completed by Oct. 5. Preparing for the winter snow, Tucker - smith council accepted the tender of McGregor Farms of Ktppen to plow the roads in the south end of the township at the rate of 532 per hour and 524 a day for standby. Allan Nicholson, road superintehdent, reported the Roman Road hridpe which is being replaced, has now been taken down and work on the new bridge is underway. It is to be completed'by Oct. 19. Mr. Nicholson said his plumber's snake was borrowed and he wants the man who borrowed it, to return it to his office. Four tile drainage loan applications total- ling 542,200 were approved. Passed for payment were the following accounts totalling 5240,416.85 including Day Care, Vanastra, 56,157.62; Recreation Cen- tre, Vanastra, $12,579.59• roads, $33,180,37 and general accounts, 5188,499.27. Council will ask its representatives on the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority, Mervyn Falconer, to attend the next council meeting to give an explanation of the Authority's request asking Tuckersmith and StanleyTownships and the Town of Clinton to assist in the maintenance of its park on the south limits of Clinton. Work is to be done on Centre Street in Egmondville between Victoria and Queen Streets. Tuckersmith will invite the members of Seaforth Council to a meeting to explain why Seaforth refused to give a grant to the Vanastra Recreation Centre this year as it did last year. The date of Sept, 15 was suggested. Council went into committee of the whole at midnight to discuss personnel. Herefords From page one Banners will be presented by the Western Ontario Hereford Zone. Due to the large increase in the size of the show, the Seaforth Agricultural Society engaged a second judge for the three other beef breeds to be shown at the fair. Judge for the hereford show is Don Currie of Nottowa. George Early of Kerwood is the judge for the shorthorn, angus and charolais breeds. • In preparing for the Fri. Sept. 23 show, the agricultural society had to install a new headrail and w.. in • f. cilities. An added feature is an e ry ro 11 Star Genetics, a farm which is .wned :. Bobby Hull. Peace From page one "The show is a highly enviable position for the Seaforth fair, " said Mr. Dolmage. STAN JACKSON "Stan had some of the best herefords in the area. He had one of the outstanding herds in Ontario," says Don Pullen. "He was a good cattle feeder and had some of the top gains in the Record of Production program in Ontario. "His cattle were modern. They were taller and longer. He was a good, neat, tidy farmer. He was a progressive farmer." "We have over 70 4-H beef calf club members in the county. We could see an increase in membership in subsequent years • due to the hereford show." support the establishment of a world peace fund into which Canadians could choose to pay taxes which would otherwise go to the military, Mr. Cardiff said he would like to see it happen but does not think it is feasible. TOO MANY? Asked if he feared too many would choose that option, he said Canada does have defence commitments to maintain. The meeting with Mr. Cardiff was requested as a result of a statement on concern for peace and the current arms race which has been sent to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau by a number of congregations. It calls on the government to "speak out... against nuclear madness", to press for world disarmament and to "speak out against the sin and injustice" of spending billions of dollars on arms while millions of people are dying of hunger and suffering from oppres- sion. It also contains a personal pledge to work for a halt to the arms race, to give to relief agencies to help relieve poverty and depriva- tion and to pray for peace. CIa s s e s From page one Monday nights offer 10 weeks of furniture refinishing with Harvey Beuerman or photo- graphy with Dick Burgess for $25 and mixed adult volleyball with Terri Dale for 20 weeks for $30. On Tuesday nights, crocheting with Bessie Broome, sewing with Susan Wheatley and ceramics with Ann Bosman will be offered for 10 weeks and are $25 each. Ladies CableFrom page one basketball with Faye Carnochan is also offered Tuesday for $30 for 20 weeks. Typing classes with Larry Plumsteel will be held for 10 weeks for $25 on Wednesday nights and Thursday nights feature men's basketball with Howard James for 20 weeks and $30 and knitting with Marjorie Claus for 10 weeks and $25. Mitchell-Seaforth Cable. ''If at all possible, the CRTC arc approving not rovin increases." The CRTC. however. agreed to let the cable company offer customers the oppor- tunity to receive First Choice pay TV. "We've had fairly good response for pay TV." said Mr. Ward. "Approximately 10 per cent of our subscribers have pay TV, Sailin gFrom page one which is a fairly good start. National companies have been telling us to expect 30 per cent over the next five years." The cable company received its last increase in May. 1982 when rates went from $10.50 to $11. In addition. subscribers must pay six per cent federal and seven per cent provincial sales taxes. footers, not tancy but fast and frisky? No, in 12 foot dingies, at after work evening classes sponsored by the Goderich Recreation Department. It was the basics, sailing around subject to the risky wind conditions, in Goderich harbour. It was fun. We learned lots and even put some of it into practise. Including the toughie, capsizing our craft, deliberately, and then getting it upright and Bailable again. That was a little awkward on a balmy day. Imagining the same exercise in April or Farm From page one October waters renewed my healthy respect for water safety precautions. For a variety of financial, personal and lazy reasons, we are in no way. never, ever, going to be in the market to buy a sailboat. But, like new converts to flying, windsurfing or whatever, we have the bug. How much stock do you think those sailboat -for -rent lads will put in our blue bordered diplomas from the Goderich Recreation Department? We've successfully completed Level 1, it says. Now it's on to bigger and better things. As Chas. Ahrens saw what happened he drew the throttle eccentric lever on dead center which brought the steam in from both ends of the cylinders. In one second everything was stopped and Mr. Wesenberg hung there with his feet off the ground and his right arm caught between the belt and pulley. His arm was crushed up to his elbow. collar bone broken, ribs broken and more bruises. They cut the leather belt and got him into the farm house. Dr. Mitchell from Dublin and Dr. Atkinson, Mitchell were contacted and a neighbor ran home and got his horse and buggy to come to Brodhagen, two and a half miles north. to "fetch" Mrs. Wescnberg to be at her husband's side while the doctors amputated Mr. Wesenberg's right arm at the elbow, right in the farm house on the dining room table, 1 was four -years -old and out in the yard with my mother, when Mr. Rock came driving in his horse covered with foam after the two and a half miler . , ., nuy i ase horses after a mile heat. He was so excited and trying to tell mother what had happened. So mother was crying and between sobs she got me to understand that she 'must go and 1 should stay at the neighbor's plat so "Aunt Emma" kept me until my two si ters came home from school. 1 was upset and courdn't understand the gravity of the situation, until about six weeks later when they brought my father home, all bandaged up and a registered nurse, Edith Nolan, and four men carried him into the house. The house reeked with the smell of cloraform for weeks I remember. And we had to be very quiet. The accident happened Sept. 7, 1908 and it was nearly Christmas before the bandages were all off. 1 remember those weeks as if it was last month. What a difference, a few minutes makes in a person's lifetime. George Wesenberg Brussels Got a beef? Write a letter to the editor today! TONGUE TWISTER—The first day of school was a real tongue twister for Elizabeth Blythe. She was one of 12 new students at St. James Separate School, Seaforth. Enrollment declined from last year's enrol ment of 21 kindergarten students. (Wassink photo) THE HURON EXPOSITOR, SEPTEMBER 14, 1983 — A3 Wanted: rabies clinic Perth County Council will be asking for a rabies clinic to be held in the county. Reeves, at county council's Sept. 8 session, told of reports of rabies in their various municipalities. Downie Township's Deputy Reeve Anna- bell Thomson, sitting in for Reeve Calvin Innes who suffered injuries in a recent accident, said there have been rabies -related problems in the Gore of Downie, located just south of Stratford. Other reeves added what they have heard in their own municipalities and expressed concern for rural school children waiting on the side of the road to catch a bus. A note from Perth's Medical Officer of Health Dr. Susan Tamblyn to Warden John Lindner indicated the nnmher of eases of v rabies has gone up considerably this year. While there were only 15 cases reported (n all of 1982, 38 have been reported to June of this year. Putting a bounty on foxes was suggested as one method of curtailing the incidents of rabies. The county used to offer a 55 a head bounty on foxes but this practise was stopped three or four years ago. "In my opinion, as far as solving the rabies problem, we'd have to put a bounty on skunks and coons," said Blanshard Reeve Ron Denham. Clerk -treasurer Jim Bell will look into the possibility of offering a bounty while the county request the Ontario Ministry of Health to conduct a rabies clinic in the county. Region F of A directors elected There are some new faces among the regional directors elected at the Sept. 8 regional meeting of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture. Directors and delegates for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture's annual meeting were chosen for the remaining regions. Hans Rasmussen was named director of Huron north east region with the delegates being Murray Crawford, Bob Harrison and Eric Prescott. Mr. Rasmussen replaces former director Gerry Fortune who resigned from the position after six years. Paul Klopp remains as the director of the Huron south region. The delegates from that region are Garry Baker, Greg Love and Hugh Rundle. The Huron east central region has a new director, Bert Saunders, replacing John Nesbitt, who has retired after three years. The delegates are John Nesbitt, Doug Garniss and Ralph DeWeerd with Carol Finch as an alternate. Jim McIntosh remains as a regional director for Huron West Central. The Binders revolutionize harvesting in On .�ca y@Garro ©con@ SEPTEMBER 14,1883 When passing the farm of Robert McMich- ael in Hullett we were invited to see his Massey Low Down self binder at work. It is not too much to say that self binders are rapidly revolutionizing harvest operations in this country. The picnic held in Case's grove under the auspices of the St. James Catholic Church, passed off very successfully. The weather was delightful and everything possible was done for the comfort and pleasure of those attending. Swings were erected. A splendid platform for dancing was also arranged. One of the features of the day was the contest for the gold headed cane, between Messrs. D.D. Wilson of Seaforth and George E. Jackson of Egmondville. Mr. Wilson was the winner. SEPTEMBER 18,1908 Mr. and Mrs. John Swan left on a trip to Wisconsin to visit Mrs. Swan's brother who resides there. As Wm. Robertson's seperator was enter- ing John Summer's barn in Logan last Thursday evening, the floor gave way and allowed the machine to drop into the root house. Luckily no one was hurt, although Mr. H.M. Elliott had a narrow escape from being crushed. With the help of neighbors, the machine was pried up and taken out and a new floor laid, after which the machine was safely taken in. Smoke from Michigan forest fires floated through the church windows at St. Columban last Sunday, causing some worshippers to sneeze. SEPTEMBER 15,1933 Seaforth brought home the Zone 1 softball championship from London. Seaforth will now meet Owen Sound for the championship of Ontario. James R. Scott has sold his fine farm adjoining Seaforth to his son J.M. Scott, and has purchased the residence of his sister in Harpurhey, where he will make his future home. Hi daughter Mrs. J.B. Russell who recently suffered such a severe bereavement in the sudden death of her husband intends making her home with Mr. Scott. Gordon Hill named to Canada's economic council Gordon Hill, the outspoken former president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, was appointed to the Economic Council of Canada by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau Thursday. Mr. Hill, 56, a Varna area farmer, was one of four new members appointed to the crown corporation for three-year terms. The others are Roger Beauchemin, 60, a private consulting engineer from Montreal and president of Arrowby Consultants Inc.: Raymond Blais, 48. a chartered accountant and director of the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec : Peter Podvinikoff, 47, a general accountant and chief executive officer of the British Columbia Central Credit Union in Vancouver. From 1970.76 Mr. Hill served as president of the OFA which was reorganized and revitalized under his leadership into a strong hroad-hased agricultural voice in Ontario. His tenure was interrupted when he ran unsuccessfully as the NDP Middlesex riding candidate in the 1977 provincial election. Mr. Hill has been involved in, farm organizations since the mid-1950s, including the Ontario Farmers' Union, the Ontario Farm Products' Marketing Board and the Ontario White Bean Growers' Marketing Board. He also served on the province's special committee on farm income from 1967.64 He runs a 607 -hectare (1,500 acre) hog, beef and cash crop operation in the Varna-Brucefield area with his son, Bev. Mr. Hill's daughter. Carol Hunt, lives north of Winthrop. The council was set up to study economic developments in the private sector and to recommend measures to create employment, increase productivity and reduce regional disparities. • SUNNY WEATHER prevailed, as It has this summer, for the last of the Seaforth recreation committee's Farmer's Markets Saturday In Victoria Park. Besides the usual number of "collectibles" and treasures, honey, paintings, crafts and vegetables were offered for sale A mini -bake sale table aghln proved popular, especially its pumpkin ple. (Waselnk photo) The Seaforth Collegiate Alumni Associa- tion will present "Climbing Roses" in Blyth on September 27. SEPTEMBER 19,1958 John Tremeer, Victoria Street while digging up his potato patch on Monday, found a potato that weighed two pounds, four ounces. The tuber measured 171/2 inches one way and 13' inches the other. It was a real family size spud. delegates are Uwe Wisch, Stan McLlwain and Ivan McClymont with alternates Larry Sturdy and Brenda McIntosh. The director for Huron north west is Barry Mason. replacing Merle Gunby, who served as director for six years. Delegates for Huron north west are Don Dow, Tony McQuail, Walter Elliott and Les Caldwell as alternate. Correction A story about pornography in The Huron Expositor, Aug. 31 wrongly identified the woman who complained about pornographic maga- zines being displayed on the bottom shelf at a local variety store. The Expositor apolo- gizes for any problems this error may have caused. 1883 Mr. and Mrs. Gordon McGavin leave Wednesday by air from Malton for Stupp- gord Germany. Mr. Mctiavin, former Cana- dian plow champion is manager of the Canadian team which is taking part in International plowing matches in Germany. Following the plowing matches Mr. and Mrs; McGavin expect to spend some time travelling in Germany and on the continent. "Pink Champagne" a yearling filly owned by Mrs. James Hopper of Seaforth won second prize in the yearling Canadian Half Bred at the Western Fair, London on Friday. REGISTRATION FOR THE FIRST SEAFORTH SCOUT PACK—Brent and Kenny Hildebrand signed up for Beavers and Cubs Monday night at the public school. Boys aged 5 to 14 can" join Beavers, Cubs or Scouts for $12 a year plus the cost of their uniforms. About 52 boys registered an Monday night. (Hundertmark photo) COMMMalITY C AILERDAR Wednesday,, Sept. 14 Wednesday, Sept. 21 Seaforth Horticultural Society Dessert meeting, Seaforth Public School, 7:30 p.m. Florence Brown will speak about lilies. Surrounding societies also invited. Door prizes. All welcome. Sunday, Sept. 18 Walton United Church 118th anniver- sary, 10:30 a.m. Former minister Der- wyn Docken, guest speaker. Luncheon served after the speaker. All are invited, especially former members. Varna Church Anniversary Supper, 4:30-7:30. Registration for night school classes starts at Seaforth Recreation Office 527.0882. 11 you're organizing a non-profit event of Interest to other Seaforth area residents, phone the recreation office at 527-0882 or the Expositor at 527-0240 or mall the information to Community Calendar, The Huron Expositor, Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario NOK IWO well in advance of the scheduled date. Space for the Community Calendar is donated by The Huron Expositor. r fi CON MM ITT CALENDAR COUPON 1 ti ti fi If you're organizing a non-profit event of interest to other Seaforth area residents, fill out the form below (please print clearly) and mail it (0 Community Calendar, The Huror Expositor, Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario NOK IWO well in advance of the scheduled date. 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