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THE HU.ROPI EXPOStT
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COLOUR PARTY -- Legion, AuxiliarY members from Zone Party, and the $ON$ Gide Trumpet Rand led the Parade to the
turnedout in full, force for a rally here Sunday. The colour cenotaph at VICterla Park, (Expositor Photo)
Expositor asks:
SY•DEBRIS RANNEY
With the election campaign now in full
swing, Expositor Asks called local
people at random to find out "What do
you think 41101;14 be the important issues
in thiselection campaign?"
Mrs. William Chipcbase of Brucefield
said, "I suppose t could be any number of
things inflatiop or the Way the dollar is
going''. •
She also mentioned unempioyMent.
"Right now we've got to think of the
unemployment and where the tlollar is
going," she said. •
Harry Arts of R.R: 4, Seaforth—doesn't
think unemployment is a really big issue at
this time. He .said they had a hard time
getting people to work (on his fermi and
that out of 10 people' who had worked there
they .had had about two good ones.
He indicated that in a program where
people were sent out to work on a farm to
learn their trade, they were more in-
terested in learning just what they needed
to knew to start their owe operationand
weren't really interested in working at ,
other chorea beaidea, -
To. Mr. Arts an issue should be '
ng to sa.
jxy...:'0outi.n. Whiter..
Election fever is net
exactly at a white hot pitch
around here. But. if you tee*:
closely as :you drive along
highways in 'Huron and
Perth, there's- some evidence
that yes; we'll be voting for a
federal government in .147
more days.j
I'M referring to the signs.
David Bradshaw has n all
over everyone else for sheer
size. if ;foe% note his
billboard like announcement
. along highway 8. Rola
McKinley probably leads the
pack in our area for quantity
as his face blossoms from
lawns in Seaforthe and
roadsides almost everywhere
else, Bill Jarvis has some
signs on #$ •too which per.
haps make u in quantity for
13radshaw'S in size.
Graerrie Craig's red and
white Li beret signs are the
most successful graphicellY-
think they're very well
.„
•
What should the
agricultural financing, "There are a lot of
imPreivements to be made auch as in farm
credit corporations to be fah to eon,
sumers," he said.
"I think there's a great improvement
necessary if you're going to get cheap food.
Fermers have got to be financed in the
areas where they're going to get the most
dollar returns.' '
. He said not to get hint wrong, that he
didn't think enemployment wasn't an issue
bet that he knew. people who had Worked at
many different jobs throughout the years
and never been unemployed.
Eric Chuter of Varna said 'simply,
"Lower the taxes''.
Mrs. Garry Overholt of 9-88 Nelson
Street in Hensall said she thought un.
employment should be an issue.
"It means a lot to a lot of people," she
said.
Mrs. Charles Reid of R.R.1, Varna said,
**1 sure think unemployment is important
A lot of young people can't get jobs. I think
unemployment is important and also I
don't think this idea of cutting one another
down is any eood either,"_,,,
Mrs. Joe Nigh of 55 Louisa Street,
SUBBill
gy UrSmyailend spice
When's the Year of the Man?
So this is the Year of the Child. Well, you
can have it. And them. Our society is
breaking up fast. First in the 60.4, the
teenagers took over. They got into drugs
.and politics and violence and, dropping out
and communesand, health food and free
love and ripping off the government and
driving their parents to drink and
depression, . '
Then we got into Wornen's Liberation
Movement Raucous and intelligent.
women trying to upset a. perfectly geed
system that has been working well, on the
whole, for abeut 20,000 years. We should
never have given them the vote hack in '21,
Or whesever.
They have wrecked family life,: popu'.
laden grciaathand the economy by their
ridiculous demands. They have psychol-
ogically castrated their husbands and
turned the occaSiorial kid they had into a
whining brat who thinks that love and
whatever else he wants are more important
than a good Whack on the bunf.
They have sent the unemployment tate
soaring by sailing into the job market in.
. their hundreds of thOusands. Just because ,
they have high, altills . or a university
degree, they think and say, quite openly
and without shame that they. should be
aintidered On the Same level as, of even
• higher than, a Grade 10 dropout 'Male who
_ can barely tie his shoelatet. Sheer
arrogance. •• .
They have wrecked the edileational
system by refusing , to remain baby
factoties. This has caused rapidly falling
enrollment in out schools and a lack Of jobs
for male teachers, whose wives are among
the worst examples cif tiny families and
hitting the job market
l.And now it's the ear of the kids. There
ate series on child battering in the papers,
articles about one -parent children., and
even child symposiums in which- the little
turkeys are asked to comment en how their
patents should behave, What's wrong with '
the wotld, what freedoms they should
have, and any other inane telethon a:
sMarmy, patronizing intetviewer Might
think up• .
We are stnothered by stuff frotn the
media about children: day-care centrea,
inner city schoOls (slums), speeial edit*,
catkin, gifted -children, obscene T-ahitts for
kids. We are harassed and harangued by
priests who have never had a child and
social WorltdtS tip to their cars in stale
ptychiatry, arid paitleians who kno* that
Idds can't vote, but grab the Oat -tails of
any issue that receives Media attention.
And what good is all this going to do the
kids? Not much. Theyll go right on doing
What they've always done: &earning,
' fightingplayinm being the happy, morose
belligerent, thy, cruel, gentle, brilliant,
slew and utterly delightful little animals
they've always, been.,
In Canada they'll be overfed, Over
-
spoiled and oVer here. In Africa they'll be
dattaittatved, Over-ropulided and over'
there. -And in both places they'll be
over loved with that weird, irrational hive
of children that prevails throughout the
world, civilized. or Uncivilized.
Oh, a fear. Ime& Might be passed, and
Many resolutions approved. But the
drunken mother or father who beats a child .
will go on doing so. The unta-perinissive •
parents will go orieturning out Monstrous
teenagers. The overprotective parents will
go on turning out still more Monstrous
teenagers
But the great mass of kids in this Year of
the Children will be much like every ether
generation: curious, resentful of things
that they don't understand, ready to 'fight
to death for ideals, gradually conforming
and compromising te the realities of life,
and going on to become monstrous parents
themselves.
Now 1 don't speak from the seat of the
Old Philosopher, or any such hypocratic
elevation. 1. recently had a visit from My
Grandboys. I speak firathend.
It was Easter weekded, arid we're still
scraping chocolate off the woodwork and
picking up squashed jelly-beaes and ripped —
rabbitss ears. _
But it . was a great weekend:. That
marvellous alcheMist, Time; his wrough a
great ehange iti them. They ere becoming
personal friends, instead �f sibling rivals,
The destructionavas down about 800 per
cent. True, Nickel/ kicked a ball into a
caelection of Doulton figurines,: but nothing
Was broken, I took the bali away, and he
didn't even have a tantrum.
But the TV is still wOrking.. A few
doorknobs are missing, but not all of them,
aa on previous visits. They can eat withoud
bibs, though Balind did get about 80 grants
of relish and ketchup down his front when
mangling a hot dog.
*However, he's only two and has a grin
That would disarm the devil, And he said
Something that se shook rne that I went
down in a faint, and My Old lady had to pick
Me up. I'd plunked a peanutbutter and
honey .tandavich in front of him, and he
said; "Thank you Grandat," as casually as
'though I were a waiter, I'd nevee heard
tither of them say "Please" or "Thank
you" before.
They didn't sprinkle even one can of
powder, mikedwith toothpaste, on the
hardwood floorS. They dein t break a
single window. They didn't anoint the TV
With cold crearre They took off their muddy
boots when they tante in, instead of
marching over the Indian rug. '
'And whet' t said, 'Trail wreck my
typewriter," or somethitig of the awlthey
didn't blurt, " ...you,"; they said, "OK,
• Grandat," or something of the sett,
Maybe this Year of the Children has
something gang for it, a whale lot more
than Sixties Sulks or Women's Lib Nerve
-
Wreaking.
But lotion is the Year of the Man/ I hope
rtri attend long enciiigh to enjoy it. '
election issues be?
Seaforth said, "Welli think unemployment
and better food costs (are the important
issues),''
Mrs, Ralph Stephenso t R.R.1, Varna
said, "I would think inflation would be one
thing."
She also thought fartners shod be
• Amen
by Kart S,chuessler
• considered a bit for the prices of some
things, She said that in some things
farmers were getting the same prices as
they were getting in the 1950"s.
"Actually beef is a lot better now. For
the last few years we've been keeping the
cows, they haven't been keeping us," she
said.
OeSigneet end Cateba, But
Oa'aetnee, suppers have
run into the
Blyttt area where therehave
been reports of Craig Opp
being cleattriyed.
We haven't heard •abeet
any of that nonsense gear
Seaforth but maybe it's oc-
curred, end eltPlains; why we
haven't seen Mane NOP
signs, for either Mori*
Couper in Huron, of .leho,
Davies in Perth -
But the battle nf eings
around here is nething,
nothing', eOMpared. to The
cpianfity and r4ariety of
election posters the better
half and I observed on the
long drive to Welland. ever,
the weekeod.
We went through several
ridings and my impressions
•are a little blurred. 13ilt 1 de
know that roads in Oxford,
and stmth and east of that are
pla.st ered with more
campaign signs than the
Liberals •had in Maple Leaf
Gardens last night. (The last
hurrah???).
A .couple of impressione
stand out One is of a drive
along a wieding read through
e placid farming and part
Saburban area. It must have
• .,been near Hamilton, because
the signs • proclaimed
Hartalton-Wentworth riding,
They advertised
Candidate* of ell ilk% the
NOW's otenge and brown,
the 'literals' standerd red
and •white like Craig's,
simple and effective and the
Tories' red, white and blue
with perhaps too much on
them to be read and digested
at a &epee.
But one stretch had
nothing, but sings for PC
candidate Geoff Scott (the
same Geoff Scott who spoke
for McKinely in Huron a few
weeks ego.) I'll wager he has
at least one section of his
riding totally sewed up.
Every farm house lawn,
and I mean every one for a
couple of miles, sported, .a
Scott sign, The coverage was
so thorough that I spared a
thought for the poor soul
with Liberal or NDP leanings
who moved into the neigh•,-
bourhood unawares,
Talk about winning by
intimidation. You wouldn't,
or at least I wouldn't dare put
up a Liberal or an HDP sign
in that area, Just the thought
'brought vision$ of eager Tory
missionaries moving in for
conversion, or if that failed, a
polite suggestion that a
neighbour of ie another'
political persuasion might be
happier living- elsewhere.
We movee *ori to Welland
where the sign war is also hot,
altholigh posters there were
mitildy in stores. There
wgreo ae many NDP signs'
as 1 would alive eXpee_tiad in
that •induetrial
Although we did notieta,
barber Oolt sPnrOng
and PC eigns, Cheek byjowl,
itt its ftont window.
We did get a really good
look at Welland's NOP
candidate though, and no
we dithet go te, 4!) eleetion,
"
The candidate was the
-
minister who performed our
friends' marriage cerem•ony. -
And he did it very well teo,
He's been the bride's
minister since she wee a little
giri and he got a big hand at
the reception when he
mentioned his "hobby",
pelities.
• He and his wife spent the,
evenieg at the reception, a
teat from •"Campaigning
maybe but still a chance to
talk to prospective voters,
1 don't have too high hopes
for Rev. Wright's Success
though, Despite the fine job
he did at the wedding, the
father of the bride sports in
Conservative sign in the
frent window of his jewellery
'store.
You win some and you loSe
some. That's how we play
the game of politics.
• Last week, I found out how tomake.a
man suffer: Phone hint up on the last day of
the month April 30thedeadline date to
settle your income' tax accounts with the
Receiver General of. Canada. Tell this
unsuspecting accountant you " aeve. your
form all filled out, but you're not quite ..
satisfied with it.
You know the government may be,
content with your figures, but you're not.
YoU'd like the accountant to take a look at
your calculatiag. -
At the most, totild you have two hours of
his tune?
NoW, what could he say? Any accountant
worth his arithmetic, knows he's open to do
business, even if it is a last minute deal,
And any accountant worth his time clotk,
his' all of his other client's tax returns
Calculated and off in the mails at least a
week ago
Of course he never heard of me. I was a.
complete stranger to him. May be he was
just euticeis to see what kind of a beast
would bring' him piles of papett and
receipts a few hours before deadline.
.Hoekmautsstuhcahvearirar:.d he wanted: have a
10
And if I worried I was terapting 'a
deadline, he did me one better.He told me
he had other commitments . for the
dayevenout of town. But he'd be willing
to meet me at his houSe in the evening if I .
• • •
wanted to wait that long '
• Of course. Why not meet the deadline in.
White heat? I'd waited this long and,
besides, I had Rile him two hours at the
most •
HMV about 8:00?
Fine. That was giving • us two. hours
overtime and the post office was only a
block from his door. ,
They say you can tell a good executive by
how he reacts under pressure. Any old
- body can do a fairly decent job given the
a e a
man suffer
tight amount of time and under the proper
circumstances and with sonae know-how
under his cap. But its when a man's under
pressure—that's the test. That's when his
mettle is proved. '
Let me tell you. My stranger accountant
proved.
• He informed me right off he needed to
make some changes. Would I mind going
away for an hour or so to let him work
alone. He said he worked better without
people at his shoulder.
My wife and I drove around Mitchell and
hied to buy a cup of coffee. You see, I had
to bring my wife along to help carry in all Five injured in
gave her a pen to start copying ..the
• dutalicate taa forms. Better she write than
"It's ten minutes to 12," he groaned,
"We're not giiing to make it."
I could feel my Wife starting up again.
"Keep copying" I told her.
At 12:15 the return was done. At 1116 it
was posted without a soul waiting at the
•post ' office gate to make an official 12
midnight stamp.
Will the Receiver General ever know we
the paper load we handed over to the
aceTehaen-rtaelta.urants were Closed, So 1 wined
and dined her on potato chips and ginger
ale in the Dublin hotel Every half hour I
-got on the phone to see if my accountant
had any questions he needed answering.
At 10:30 he said we couldcome
neAvvn. d when his wife had to type' a page all
over again in her rush she had -put the
earbompaper in backwards he just nodded
No reprimands. No yelling, Just a polite
_
you'll have to do it again.
And when I started an idle chatter, he
just glanced at his 'wrist watch and I knew
that meant silence.
•
. He breathed ,heavy many tortes, I heard
him sigh often, but never a word. He
shuffled his slippered feet and lit a
cigarette or two. That's all. He did take, a
look now and then at his watch while he
punched the keys of his calculator machine
and tore off the white print-out slips.
don't know if we're going to make it
he said. It was twenty minutes to twelve.
"But who's going to know if we put in
the return 20 minutes before midnight or
after?" my wife started to object,
"Shhl Let the man work," I add her. 1
Perth gets tough!
It's 66% for exam` exemptions
. • . • • "
Things will be • a little motion to make compulsory 13 but thla motion .was
tougher tiod year for Perth final examitiations in Grade defeated.'
County high schoel studenta.
•
In a motion • carried
Tuesday night at the Perth
Qouitty Board of Edutation
meeting the examination
• exemption was raised from I
the present 60 per cent to 66
Per cent.
The rationale behind the
Move waa that it would raise
the standards of education in
the ceiunty; which right 'now
inany teachers and members
of the public feel are too low.
• The Move will mean a lot
more Students will be writing
final exams in 1980 but for
the tetichers it Will also mean
10t more paperveork.
The board Mae heard a
C of C discu.sse
bad cheque alert
When the Seaforth • up among" the ree'rehants
,
chamber of Commerce Met • with respect to baa cheques,
May 1st at the Town Hall, Jerry Hetherington report,
President Betty Cardno gave ed that the Retail Committee
an exteosive report on the is proceeditig with the plan of
Region 5 meeting she attend- extensive advertising on
ed in Atwood along with CKNX radio and T.V. to
representatives trom Lis promote Seaforth.
towel, Stratford and Atwood. "Piet Loomans agreed to
Many good ideas were take charge of a monthly
brotieht out that could be newsletter to members.
applied to the local Chamber Members are reminded that
of Commerceif they are tumble to attend
Of particular interest is an themselves, they can send a
alert systeio that could be Set representative in their place.
MrI(jIInr rgisi erits
(Continued Ironi Page 1)
She said tax arreata in the tewrithip -no*
outstanding, ambent tO 00,000,
Taxes are to be paid Julie 22 and
November 30.
In other business the Council tippet% :ecia
request froth Mrs. McCluireir that ane be
allenVed tri attend a meeting itt Shelbourne
May 17 ftir municipal clerks and treaturers
and to pay the registration fet Of $6.00.
geeve Allan Campbell was audit-01nd tO
attend a tour, sponsored by the Atiaable.Itay
field Coriservathait Authority ori coittetvation
11._ 4 tr 4
and erosion, prtibletna, ittgngitirtrf, Holland,
and Getnmatty either this 'fad or next spring if
dieteet is net filled. The reeVe has been the
township tepresentative en' the Atithority for
number �f years,
Passed for payment were road acetattots
totalling $10,691.16, Couiitil will pay its
3S.47 per ant sharettmeentitig to s7,253,05
to Seaforth Fite Atte Beard for 1919 and
will set tip it teserVe fufld Of 15,700 tor the
,Fite Atet ;Litiatd for it fond, for the 'Ware
ptitchatte of fire ettnitittent such as a lire
truck,
were late?
I haven't heard yet. But I do know this.
My stranger accountant is no longer going'
to he at stranger. He wanted to save inc from
myself for next year's: April date. Bob
Hiller made an appointment with me this
week; ,so he can help me set my books in
order. He has a whole year to work on me.
That way 1 won't bring him to the lest in
1980. Good business man that he is. Bob .
' Hiller knows you do everyttung to avoidtne,
test --not invite it.
Brucefield crash
Four people suffered minor injuries and a
fifth person is in satisfactory. condition in
, ,
Clinton Public Hospital following_a two car
collision in Bruce eld on Sunday afternoon.
Marjorie Hardy of Lendoedriver of a '75
Buick, was southbound on Highway 4, and
Peter Krell, of Burlington, driver of a '74
PI ymouth, was eastbound on Huron County
Road 3 when their 'ears collided at the
intersection in Brucefield• ,
Mrs. Hardy and two sons, Daniel, age 6;
and Michael, age 10, suffered minor
injuries. Mr, Krull's son David a passenger
in the Krell vehicle also suffered minor
injuries. Peter Krell is in satisfactory ,
condition in Clinton Public Hospital, "
There was a total of about 54,500 damage
to both cars with damage estimated at
52,000 to the Hardy vehicle aod $2,500 to the
ICrull vehicle. ,
Goderich OPP,inaestigated the accident.
(Continued &ern Page 1)
and tiekets to two of the functions the
students will attend.
Hereleison told the hoard that the 5100
paid by each student was halfthe cost of the
trip, He said by tae time students paid for
their food, paid for entrance to museums and
other attractions and paid for small
ineidentals it would Cost 'another $100.
The Seaforth trustee said he didn't think
it was fair for the board and teachers Ip be
su.
approving chni
' graose trips without s me
parental Meet. Ile aid that was a hefty bitl
for tione 'parents to pay.
He added that all the students get for their
niciney the first two days was a ride on a train
an a ticket to 'watch the Expos: play ".• He
said the next day will be spent on a bus
going to Quebec City• . ' •
Kenwell outfitted the itinerary of the
students, The first day will be a rail trip to
Montreal where they will attend. an Expos
baseball genie. The next day the studens will
be ,travelling by bus hi Quebec City in the
morning and touring the Parliament
Buildings and the National Assembly in the
afterntioa. The next day will include a tour of
the City- to sech ghee as the "Plains of
Abraham, the Citadel and an electtonic•
display shewitea the six seiges of the city.
The next, day the students will be taken on a
walking totir of the city and then will conic
home. .
Zurich trustee Herta Turkheim suggested
that the trip gave the students too much free
time. He ,atked\-ae board what had been
the final judgement for sixstudents sent
hotne frOm..a class field trip of Exeter high
school Students that went to Ottawa,
14e said he understood parents were a .
little upset in that town after half al dozen
Stedents "Got loose" on a field trip to the
nation's capita and went in a liquot Store to
• Stock ap. He said the teachers supervising
-1hat trip seat the studenta home early.
"All it boils down to is too much free tinie
• for 'the students", said Turkheimr
-"You know how you can find out About a
uestiorls
place on . a walking tour," added John,
Henderson. -
Goderich trustee Dorothy Wallace -
defended ,the field trip teliing the board the
only way one Can "get to know Quebec 'City
is on a walking taut".
Henderson said one of the concerns be
had about the Seaforth trip is the ratio of
teachers and students' . He said when the trip
was originally proposed and permits asked
for approval there were four teachers
accompanying the 41 studentsfle said that
number- has been reduced by one since.
parental approval was given
"You,want ta go on a walking totirsome
time with a tiench of students, and see how
far you get," said the Seaforth trustee.
"I suppose with three teachers and 42
students somebody's ,going to getloose,"
said board chairman John Elliott.
"About 39", quipped Henderson.
Elliott said he could see the time coming
when overnight trips dr excursions going
great distances were . going to have to be
terminated. He aiid there were several
reasons the boatd would have to 'start
turning down thd requests and one was
moneyHe added that small numbers of
supervisory staff treated problems like the
onea that occurred on the Exeter trip but he
said to turn down the Seaforth trip now
would be "unfair". He said the board should
begin taking a hard look at the trips.
He told the board' a 'adrninisttation parents
had obvious concerns about supervision of
the students and the siitierititendents may
have to "scrutinze the trips a little more".
I4e said the atheitilstratitin coact offer a little
More input into the trips rn trie planning
stages with suggestions on statt Supervision,
itineraties and other "Constreetive ideat,"
The ehairmati pointed out that it Was easy
to take the Ottawa situation lightly beeause
nothiag Seridus restated, He pointed out that
it was "tine think tie send Students home
front a trip but if one of then i had been hurt
.riti the aetiirn trip it Weuld have been another
tiiing altogether."
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