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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-03-29, Page 2Since 18600 Serving the Community! Elim ' 'Published at SBAFORTH, ONTARIO ,every Thersdayrnenting. by MetEAN OROS. PUBLIS,RIRS L'I'.DA ANDREW Y. MetEAN, Publisher. SUSAN WHITE, Editor ALICE GIBE, News Editor Melnber Canadian Community Newspaper Assoctaton; .Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associatun. and'Audit, Biltv41.10Circwgion SubscriptiortRetest Canada, ti? , advance] S13.00 a, Year Outside 'Canad tin advance/42,5;W aYear SINGLE COPIES 30 -CENTS -Foch Seatsd.Class Mail Registration .Numbier 06 Telephone $27,024 - SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCW 29,•-1979' A terrific' ch.' " Janet Amos, the actresswho' gave such a Moving performance as the young widow in the CBC series A Gift To Last, is a rare phenomenon in theatrical circles—a star who has earned her reputation entirely on our national stages. Unlike many of our performers who have drifted south to try for fame and fortune on the New York stages or in Hollywood television studios, Janet Ames •has consistently remained in Canada and worked at making theatre accessible to Canadians. The Blyth Festival has scored a coupin appointing Janet Amos to work as the, associate director on this summer's productions and then to take over as artistic director in September when the festival's founder Jai'nes Roy says good-bye to the theatre which he cajoled into existence. Janet Amos and the festival should prove instantly compatible. She, tike James and Anne Roy, is a firm believer in the policy of presenting: Canadian plays of specific interest to small towns and rural audiences. The actress -director' knows»these audiences well. Ms,Amos starred in.Oil and The Farmers' Rebellion with. Theatre a d;;,with the: Passe Muraille in the rural 'community it of Petrolia n 'was t same company when .they, created, The. Farm Show. near Clinton in:;`, 1972. Also, sortie of the favorite characters portrayed by Ms;7Am_os_ duringher career. have been people who populate communities not P p unlike Blyth. When the Roys announced that thissu,mmer would b a their final, e - - an :..theatre oars `feared the:.. unique seasonwith.the Blyth Festival,mY . g: 9 . g l ,' stands very character of_the festival would be lost. Right no ;,,' Myth uchas an exception to the rule on' the Canadiati,•theatre scene, Most m . P..h, ler. theatres` exist in mor` metropolitan areas or else'they smaller. major P specisiize in largely `triedand true" produCtions like theShaw Festival or our neighbouring Shakespearean Festival. The Blyth- - h Festival has chosen theMore dangerous path ofpresenting Canadian la y s oftenperformed for the: first time,in a rural community.: While p Y , other small summer theatres have rapidly fallen victim to dwindling , audiences or the.: lack of community support, the Blyth Festival has. not :onl to local population but also to an g PPtheP P .:,: Managed to a cal .y ever -widening audience willing to drive many miles to see a .. r `..ante. p erform :m• . . challen ed all the=acce ted, rules for success in bringing The Roys _ , g p their.dream for a summer theatre to Blyth. They've created a strong foundation. and, Janet Amos has already -'proved her commitment to good Canadian theatre and shown that she shares this dream.:_ The •Blyth board of directors have shown a very special wisdom in their choice•of an artistic director who will build on the belief that Canadians in smaller communities should be able to share in their country's cultural heritage. • O thee Conn Smythe remembers Cooney I received a requestfrom a very famous Ontario Citizen, Clare Westcott, to write':. you my recollectons of a famous player from the' area, Cooney Weiland, In searching my memory; .I first saw • Cooney Weiland, play for the Owen. Sound 'Greys. T was. exposed simultaneously to two new things at that time. Owen Sound was supposed to be, a dry city, and the • Owen Sound junior team was the best that 1 had seen up; to that time. Cooney Weiland , 'was a standout even :''as a junior with Some prominent big fellows alongside of him. like played ike 'But hKeelin who la yd for, MI e in ._ _.. . Toronto; Weiland was a remarkable. play- ai maker, and as a matter of fact was top all-round centre man despite his size, He P�`P played with. Minnea oils When I was , gP scoutin players for th.alongside of giants like Ching Johnson and other defence men of that size. Then he went to Boston. Bruins, one of the great teams of all time and Com Fared favoutabl >Iwitli such brilliant centre men like Bill Co}"vley, SCHOOL, BAYS — Picture of the pupils in S.S. No. 6 School. Hibbert Township, .With their teacher Miss Isabelle Simpson In 1.904', loaned by Belle Campbell of Seaforth, The, pupils back, row,, left to right: are Stanley __.. p —All A en Austin Rice May Hoggarth, Myrtle Wright,.Airniha Ward, (Miss; ., Simpson), Grace. McKellar, May, . Stacey, Bessie McLaren, Nettie RA, bertson Harold Allen, Russell Butler, Gershom Speare, Howard Wright, Garnet Andrews. (Second Row) Belle McKellar, Nellie Bruce, Aggie McKellar,Sarah McKellar, Irene Walker, Mary McKellar, Greta In the years age Andrews, Pearl; Stacey, Minnie McLaren, Annie McKellar, ',Hattie McLachlan, Jean McKellar, ' : Olive Speare,-Gretta, McLaren; "Stella Mci_. McLaren, Alma McLachlan, BplCampbell. (Front Row) Billie Wright, Graham McLaren, McLaren, Jack 1-rolgga.rth, Jim Park, Everett -Rivers, Wilfred McLaren, Dunk C McKellar, Herman :apeare, Jim Gillespie,Eiwyre McLaren, Milton r rd. • With it the new No. 6 school, or Cromarty School, built in 1906. Hi . ,• llsgreen ,.-t quilt had 8 25U , ieces in 1879 MARCH 28,1879lose a $ood cow. He had given the animal A, Dougall of Hay Township had the some hay that was left in the bottom of the misfortune to cut his foot while chopping car and it is thought that some poison must • `wood. P. Munn of the same township cut his have been contained in the feed. foot while e cu. i cedar posts. Dr. McDermit The a wagons are on their rounds again. . � nil cutting c p $$ $ of Hensallattended a e ded both the men. • ,and the hen s.. having' begun to lay and the .,: The sleighing in town is now completely:. robins have. made their appearance. g gone and wheeled Vehicles are: again in, Peter. Jordan of •Hibbert d elivered: a fine:. order. lot of cattlehi Dublin on Friday: There is to bean addition built at the. There is a fuel famine of Leadbury' in. some Seaforth Cheese factory : this season.- quarter out on way, Many peoplewho have Vitoria Squarc is no the property of the wood piles cannot locate them: town. One of the most successful' sales, ever held is icwasthat' conducted b • °the: Oak ` ' the Hensall. dt tri t Messrs. Halley Anderson.o� inY Hall Seaforth received: orders from neighbor, B. S. Phillip :s for August,Ehnes on the ing towns for clothing amounting to $2,00Q, • Zurich road. The whole sale realized.. 51,900. During the cold snap which the .town C. Trayour of Hillsgreen captureda mink • experienced was noticed the disappearance, and disposed of the skin to John McDonald of savages, --we mean dogs:. of Hensall, E. Dragerof' Hillsgreen has D. S. Faust of Zurich has the gallery in his Miss ;Emma -S BX g gr just finished' a quilt'with 13,250 pieces' in it,' store finished. David Hill ofHullet has sold hisfarm on New telephones.. have been placed in the -8th' concession three miles from Kinburn, James Watson's officea insurance office in to Wan Cole 53,030. the residence of lifts. J. Broadfoot. As soon, MARCH 25, 1904 r as the weather permits phones will be placed R. G v ck James Cleggof Kipper):.had' the misfortune to' int residences of J. R 0 .enlo , R ,._,. Milt Schmidt and Flash 'Holten, who would probably outweigh him by twentyto fifty pounds, but,were never able to outplay him at any stage of the game. He was always a gentleman and when he retired front pro hockey, he went and coached at Harvard University until 1971. 4t is nice to remember someone with the all-round qualities such as Cooney Weiland had, and know that he came from your country where another man like Clare Westcott did, because from his playing the same: kind of game alongside of Bill 'Davis, he makes a lot of wonderful . l s for the pay people' of Ontario from that position. ion. Maybe 1 haven't done much visiting to Owen Sound, but onlyPassing through to go to the Blue Mountain Camp at Collingwood,, than which there is no better run or controlled eri1? pled children's. camp in the world. . Thank you for i• to me the Privilege of g vl g Writing to you: Yours since.r e1y, Conn Smythe John lt1� Olde w � Rc�sa � . :.... My: -father,, the,• late John Wet., of Hensall, was, a contributor to the Expoitor back in the 30's and early 40's. Somtiinees these contnbuuhions cansisted of letters to the Editor and at other times he wrote .articles dealing with events or pioneers of Tuckersmith, where he spent his boyhood. day. I. am fortunate in having retained his scrap book and.in:.fact, I was aware, at the time of the writing of the various iterns. myself left Hensall in .I9J6., In going over his writings once again, with particular reference to a series he wrote for your paQer in 1935, I findthat the Series consisted of 19 or 20 articles dealing with the pioneers; I have all the articles, which were appeared' in the March 8th issue, and #18 Which e apd possibly on July 12th. I have the 19th appeared (July 1 andmaytalthoughit 9tli� fast. 1 that� seems to the that Dad also wrote lit column. covering his father','WM. Elder, And it May have been #20:: . IS there 1 way in which I can acquire _..coPieof .the massinginstallments7 1am quite prepared to• pay for reproduction, My father kept very accurate •and complete account books from the begin. .ping: of 1891, when he started' farming On his own in Hay Township, south-west from Hensall, until his death in October 1955, His records contain much more than financial matters, and somewhat resemble a diary. `hi his later years, Dad enjoyed various hobby's and seldom found time heavy on his hands, He was quite skilled at making axe handles acid his records indicate that he sharpened many saws on a regular basis. I wonder, who performs these chores now? I hope you can assist in completing my record. `yours truly Lorne C. Eider P. Eng .. 58 Cecile Avenue Chathatri, Ontario Behind the scenes by Keith Rouls.ton: Roots proves : TV's. value - .:Nearly,, alt of us, myself included, have taken ,a shot at the kind of programming we - get on television, particularly the American ,brand of television that plays to the lowest common denominator. Just how .valuable' television can be is evident on Sunday nights these days with the continuing, program Roots. It proves that while television may for the most part be designed to sell new ears and sanitary napkins, it can also not only entertain, but teach us and set us to thinking. For the last few weeks I've found myself going to bed,.. and lying there for a few. minutes beforegoingto sleep, o ie p, thinking about just how privileged I have been in my lifetime. I grew up on an Ontario farm that was far from prosperous and where one could feel sorry for oneself when he looked at others around with more money.. To be truthful, probably the young Alex Haley growing up in Roots had more tnatetial possessions than we had at our ,place, But poor as we were, we were far more blessedhan the black famil. t k tly on Roots: We were privileged because we never went to bed at night in fear. Imagine what the blacks in the U.S, south went through in the first half of this century. One never knew if he stood up for his tights against a • white man if he nlight not end, up with a burning cross calling card from the Ku Klux Klan on the front lawn or worse still, with his house reduced to ashes. The alternative was to scrape and bend whenever some white needed to boost his own morale by degrading a black. It was so comforting to the poor whites to be able to have someone to look down on and they -wanted to keep tate blacks down there so typical black family: 1 hougn they came to' America as slaves they became from before the civil war, a more . privileged black family: One ancestor was an expert fineof fighting cocks and so rosea little r higher than ordinary field hands. His son was a blacksmith, educated and well, in 'the blackCom unit and, respectedi m rid Y about as highly respected as :a blackyinan could be in the whiite community: His daughter married a man who owned ;his own business and was much better .off than the majority of whites in the community. His daughter married a professor who went '.Cornell Uni ersit His to the prestigious v ty son was Alex Haley, the man who began the whole thing by going back through his family history right to the capture of his ancestor in Africa. While the Roots families are highly untypical of the experiences of blacks in the past century in the U.S., I think the show may be more valuable for it: For the blacks who have watched the series With the same fervour they once gave to reading their Bible, it showed that some people were able to rise above the pressures to keep blacks down. For the whites 1 think the show is easier to relate to than if: it had taken the lowliest black and concentrated on his life. These are people who lived like our own relatives lived. They weren't out picking cotton but doing white and blue collar jobs. Yet despite their education, they still had to suffer because of their skin colour. And their friends, whether black; poor of white men who tried to help blacks, suffered with them. The series has been imimensely' pc pular there would always •bo someone below.Nit h blacks becadus,:•e it ivas „t hhem them.Even if they couldn't read and write tinderstandi npride themiselves, whita men felt they wereIt has been'good for Whites because g e- ewi- t.:, somehow superior to even college educated shows Just what horrid things ,people are blacks, capable of doing to others: It lets us see what it's like to be stepped on. Hopefully, PP P Y, .. it brings will helpkill the understanding kill. some of the' racism and misunderstanding, 1agt es eve i that still,p agu its" en . n Canada tdday: History is Important because if we look at it, we can learn from it and prevent. ourselves front making thesame mistakes again. Television and movie's and plays and books are important tools iii; Making that history pomc to life, to makings it more than dry facts by introducing us towhat it Was like to lie in those times, The tragedy of a series like Ittfots is that It.' shows us what Vetiver f po or good i tclevis an can be and it Makes the visual eat' 'Of game shows and silly -situation, Roots shows •the value of television, of of history and of dr the study tory drama, ph we've heard about the human indecencies that were perpetrated on blacks in the U.S. We even saw the riots and the beatings that took place in the late 1950's and early 1960's as blacks tried to claim the equal rights they had been prontiscd in the country's constitution, Butall those stories, even the news film can't tell us what it was really tike to be black and live in that era. It can't take us inside a black bo Y to experience the indignities. the simply fen ,the degradationof havinga 'skithata w asn t white, � `he Haley family certainly. isn't your. .comedies look evert more disgraceful, Cowan, Geo. T. Turnbull :and the law office of J; M. Best. Rev. A. K. `Birk has accepted' an invitation to become pastor of the church at Seaforth. Major Anderson shot; a very fine fox. He says: if he could get a fox every day it would be more congenialemployment than working for the town Wal er Pickard and P. Lennon of Messrs.t in a concert of the evening of town took part g St, Patricks Day. Geo. Baldwin is removing his mn+.'sical instrument' emporium across the street to the Jordan store n xi to the Ex naitor'office'. A Ed.' Latimer has started. business •on his own account in t he cash stotes. • S ewart J.' E. Grieve, an Messrs: Harry, t ,r Y John McIntosh are having telephones place in their residences.. • Duncan 1 ubor of Constance`• has been appointed poundkceper. MARCH, 29, 1929 ,. J. A. Eckert of Manley bad a . very successful wood bee last Monday. The canning factory of Dublin is now an assured prospect for the village.: ' The. farmers . are - now on the land ploughing both.s tubble and sod. Joseph Dolmage .of Winthrop has trade a.. valuable addition to its herd of stock -by purchasing a fine purebred Jersey bull from J. P. McLaren of Egmondville. Messrs. Tim Eaton, Geo. Eaton, Ferg Bullock and Nelson Govenlock: spent Mon- day in Stratford. • John Marshall's fine barn on the 9th of Morris narrowly -escaped being destroYed by e " ted back of the graineryand fire.Thefr, stat it was thought to be spontaneous combus- tion.'. •A very pleasant evening' was spent by the choir' mettlbers of Duffs United Church on Thursday evening: There were three presen- tations :made to Mrs. Lena McGavin, and Ferguson. Misses,Annie and Maud A Large flock of wild geese 'passed .over Beechwood on Monday and their loud honk honk could be heard as they passed over the. village. - Pontiac Michigan, is Garnet. Wanless of . M $ spending,a few days as the guest of Mr. and' Mrs, Geo. T. Thompson of'Kippen. P _ The.; large chopping mill in Egmondville owned and operated by Kruse Bros, was —" burned to the ground early Tuesday morning -together with machineryand: contents. g of S2,000; There was an insurance MARCH 19,1954 Mrs J. :B: Thompson well known resident p of town marked her 90th :birthday on. Sunday, when members of her family held a family dinner in her honour. Mrs, Thompson was the former Jemina Noble and was from. Glasgow Scotland. There was 22 tables of euchre in play at theost 9 p o ed artysponsored s 'by, the P P Seaforth W. Gat the Commun*ty Centre. Mrs: Alex Pepper was in charge and awarded the prizes as follows: Ladies First: Miss Helen Turner; lone hands:. Mrs.., Thos Carter; consolation: Mrs: Bert Garrett, gents first: Walter Pepper; lone hands: Geo Campbell; consolation Wilmer Broadfoot; lucky lunch ticket: Mrs: Raymond Townsend • Hensall s plans • for an artificial ice plant advanced `a step further when the Hensall council gave first and second reading to a bylaw to provide debentures in an amount of $30,000 • - Theworld day prayer was observed by the Ladies, „of Brucefield church with . the following leaders Miss Mary Swan, Mrs, W. Scott, Mrs. W. Moffatt and Miss E. Bowey, Robert Allen was the guest speaker; Mrs.. J. Cairns was soloist. The Boy Scouts of Seaforth held ' a successful father and son` banquet in St. ' Thomas Anglican Church with J.R. Spittal1 and assistants Keith Sharpand $ ewart Wigg in Charge. • ositor asks: � It 't lie H C !O/!•it : y - who do .:on think will win.. Since Prime Minister Trudeau has now: set the federal election date for May 22,: Expositor Asks though it would be interest- ing ing to ask local people, • "Regardless of. '' l vi ws who do you think is the your politica to i towin the May 'most likely nand date ay, 22 federal election?" • Clifford Broadfoot of 46 James St., in Seaforth Was hoping for a change but said "I think Maybe Trudeatt will likely get back H'e said he thought this because the prime minister was perhaps a. little • • stronger and more experienced than Joe Clark although he himself would like to, see Joe Clarkget in: • Mrs. •Al. Geddes of Egmondville -said-she thought the Conservatives' would, get in because, "Trudeau's got the country messed up already," w Ken Ritchie of RR 3, Seaforth said, "Well, I" do believe that. Mr. Trudeau will be re-elected with a reduced majority," He too believed this would be because Joe Clark sn't as experienced 'arid well known: Robert ' . be t Dalrymple. of hat no matter -who got in it would be a minority government "i think you're going to see Quebec is sti11oin to go Liberal and l think Western $ g $ Canada on a spite vote will go the other way." He said as. far as the NDP • was • concerned they were promising eirerybody everything and can't 8 things all the thin s ,they've promised. "If I Was really guessingguessing, I'd say the Liberals- would win with a tight squeeze;" he said. "It's going to be very interesting. It's-•: going to take a lot of listening," he said: Mrs. Bob 1,Norman of Varna said, "Probably Trudeau. 1 just would expect he would get in again. I don't think any party can run the country any better than the -..;other tine. so it "doeiret read make any difference." Mrs, Ken Parket of RR 1, Hensall said, "I hope the other party gets in.1 sure hope Joe Clark does..1 thinkwe've bad Trudeatt long: enough. I think we need a change." M, Bryan Somerville of R1R 4, said rsshe did'nt think. tt looked as promising for Trudeau as it has been but that if people were wantingto keep. Quebec in the country it would probably be best with a, French' prime:i' mister. Adventsing le accepted an Ire l fl1nri idiot in the event of a typog► arra aro ephkat adrertlaing apace thi t be of the adverts erii!nt totiiither be geld for etapppplicabte nue, for but tgneturik Will net be dittoed 'While every ettort will be finds to Ineure they are handfed w th care, tbe Ottbttstttr Comfit be reenotralblle ter IS* Muth or unsotklted manUierlptii Or photos.