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SEAFQRTH, ONTARIO,. JULY 5, 1.979'
Needed:.a.,horr�e
It's a. shame that Seaforth does not have a permanent home fOr the
widely acclaimed display, which marked the local Legion Branch's 50th
anniverdary,. •
Not everyone in town,, or everyone who would have' been .interested,
was able to 'see the, display that Frank Phillips, his wife, and other
Legion arid.:community members Spent years pulling together. Aird
that's too bad. .
For the war years were a vital ` part ort. Seaforth's history and
Canada'°s history,
The young men and women who gave their services to the country
and the community during those turbulent years contributedthings
that all of us should be proud of. •
Mr. Phillips; and his helpers have been developing and enlarging the
collection for Live years, To do justice to both Its significance to the
people of Seaforth, and -to its excellence, it deserves better than to be
dismantled and stored unseen perhaps until the Legion's 75th or 100th
anniversary...
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The locorpostion of, the coplete Legion display with additional
itemsof importance to Seaforth's historywould be• an admirable
project' for Seaforth to 'take on. ,
Such a terrific display needs a home. Roes anyone have a location to
suggest?
ositor asks:
Do Youfeed rhe. parkinur
g eter?
leaves
the place'. with • lMonestill On the
meter.
The itnntedia.te . reply,' of Mrs, boug
• Upshall of R.R. 2, Kippers was "No," when
asked if she paid: She laughed and. Changed
her answer to '''yes and no, a little,of both,"
Mrs: tipshall'S•habiit of jut, jumping out of •
her car and taking:. off has cost her two,,
parking tickets..She pays the meter some
dais but not others and added .that she did
think it should be paid. -
Mr," Brian :Barre of Seal'arth said Yes.: that
hewould say he paid, fie doesn't look for a
meter with: time Or it.•as he feels he is Irick.
to get any soot, , � sPC
If we park at a meter Hire do tpayl says
s
Ivfrs. John Bursch of R.R. 1. Walton, shti
added that she doesn't appreciate getting a
ticket.''
"What choice .'have you?' asked Mr.
Thomas Dorsey of R.R. 2, Dublin. Be
mentioned; that there used to he room behind
'the stores .tok. but noir the e "a
par u r h nts
take those 'spaces, and "we ave 't pay i
p n h. a p ., o.
spend our money,"
BY JANE ALLAN
It is assumed that people who park in town
P
will "feed the meter" for the privilege of
parking on a downtown street. This week the
Expositor asked people if they did habitually
pay' the parkingmeter, or if they were
willing to take the risk and leave the meter
reading time expired.
Mrs. Peter McLaughlan of R.R,4, Walton
always. pays,. She says, "It's r cheaper that
way than paying a ticket,'`
-Most ' of the 'time" says Mrs. John
McCowan of R.R. 1., Brucefietd who will slip.
' into astore if she doesn't have thechange.
g
She doesn't mindjfaying as she -figures it's
only a nickel."
Deb Baker, a young driver from Egmond-
vide.. always pays. She doesn't try to find a
meter with time already on it because she is
more concerned with finding a spot where.
she doesn't have to parallel park,
Mrs, John Boven. of R.R, 2, Seaforth.
doesn't look for a 'metre with:. time on it
either: She just looks for any open: spot and
she always pays the meter'. Sometimes she
Cooney Weil'an.d's No. 7 sweater
in the Seaforth; arena trophy •,ease
the editor,. •
Frank
1 would like to take this opportunity to
think Frank Phillips for the excellent 50th.
Anniversary display that he was ensp� risible
tot setting up at the Legion, this past
weekend.
Malty hours of work Were put into the
tibitolay. I'M stare that Frank, and wintiever
helped hint, along with all Legion ntembets
ulst be verywork.
m proud of his wo
ihose who could tot, or didnot, take
e
advantage
of going to this remarkable
-display. missed an important part of life in
Scaforth. Thanks 1rarik. Fours truly,
Molly Kunder
1UN7NATURAL PHENOMENON --. Bob MacMillan of -,Seaforth stands
l platform orrn formed two trees growing together with a third
on an`u,nusua .pl tf m formed by 9 9 9 ..,
tree growingout of the .platform in a farm' woodlot near Varna,
tire.... 1, R ,..
(Expositor Photo)
Sugar and spice
By Bill Smiley
Marking;
Each' ni'ari and woman has. . a way of
marking off the sears. With some it7.s
birtildays, With, farmers it's getting the
crops in, With fishermen it's 'hauling out
the old tub for the winter, after the last
Catch, With garters it's.getting in one .final
round before the snow Flies. And'so on,
With te-hers; it's struggling through to
the endof Junewithout goin around the
bend, 1've ,just made• it for the nineteenth.
time, a:nd, at the time of writing still have
most oft..‘ marbles, though .1 can't say the:
same for sortie of my colleagues. They get
queerer and queerer every year.
But it is only with the silliest and most
sentintc tal that the end of the school: year
brings tears. a feeling of loss: a• pang of
sorrow. Most of us walk out at the end of
June and nea.cr really care whether we ever
re-enter the old sausage factory. •
At approximately the same time many
mothers 'are giving a great sigh of
resignation: looking fearfully at; the sum-
mer ahead: when:they'll have to Cape with
their kids iss•enty-four ''hours' i day, most
teachers are giving a mighty sigh of relief
because they don't have to cope with those
same`kicds at all for two entire months,
It's not that 'teachers dislike' kids.
Perhaps a few of them do. but they usually
Wind ep in the looney -bits. or slashing their
wrists in the bathtub.
On the contrary, most teachers have a
basic liking ' of young people and show
therm .often::mbre tolerance and Under.
sta•nding_ than the kids': own ;parents:' do.
They'll: bend over backwards: to listen to
probl'eins,, suggest solutions and try to
Matic ate the youngsters.
But there ,comes ' a point, a Sort of
'Sticking point: w hate :even the most
1ienettilent Of teachers runs across a kid
Who would drive his own mother screaming.
up the wall. And often docs.
One of my younger colleagues is still
tiursing a cracked rib incurred after,
breaking up, a tight in the cafeteria and
chasms one of the brays involved half a mile
to the local park, all in the line of duty. He
does not love and cherish that kid.
Almost every year, when a teacher is in
daily contact ' with approximately 180
teenagers, with their sexual repressions;
t'heit hang-ups, their broken homes, their
depressions, there are three or four kids he
or she can barely tolerate.
These' few bad apples are what 'make
teaching a `very arduous profession, . They
i with' their
are a daily source of rr itation
bad language, bad habits and had man -
tiers.
But every job hag its unpleasant aspects,:
and if you cant cop a with a few rotten ki,ds,
you should get, a job where you have" a
rotten boss 'or 'rotten customers, or rotten
pay.
We read recently of high schools in the
big cities, where teaching has become
h years
something like . running the ;gauntlet of
(hysical and verbal violence. ;This occurs
.rot only in "inner-city" schools, with their
masses of poor -kids ' from broken homes
and immigrantJ `kids disjointed by a
different culture and language, but also
fromsuburban middle class schools whose
students are over -privileged, also conic
from broken homes, have too much money,
and are extremely materialistic. They look
;on teachers as something like an orange, tel
be,sucked dry and thrown away,:: like .the
peel. .
Not for me. I couldn't hack that. I'd quit.
I'm 'no dedicated martyr.. i don't" want 'a
punch-up with three druggics forty, years
younger. I don't .want my tires slashed or
my female staff assaulted. 1 am basically a
peaceable coward.
Our school is. not like that, anti 1ues;s
g,
that's why•t've hung in. here so long. When.
1 started. I hadoffersto teach journalism at
ft community college, to do public relations
work. to;teach at a university. But.;1'began
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dtheteenagersand..
to gest Too fon of
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backed ay ay from these offers, I m .tip
sorry.
I'm no Mr, Chips. I'M not a great
teacher. But 'I do"enjoy teenagers, with
their curiosity, their sensitivity, their sense
of humour, their developing selves, .even.
their flashes of anger, and always their
honesty.
End of,term comes,' and even 1.he little
turkeys in. Grade who bedevilled you with.
,their giggling or their yapping or 'their
giddiness all year become lovable because
'your know they're gone for two months.
And•,you get a nice tie from one shy little
:girl, and a nice card thrust through your
letter -slot by another who has walked cioht
blocks to do it. and a muttered, "Havea,
;goodsu nmersir" from the worst spalpeen
.in the, class. and it all makes some kind of.
Sense..'
And at commencement night, you sud
denly discover that'thosc• 'lumpy •gi'ris in,
levis and work • boots, in jeans' and
sneakers, are really beautiful young
women with bosoms and golden arms and
flashing. eyes. That those taxy, surly,
unkempt louts you tried to pound some
lEnglish into for ten months are elegant,
witty young men, with a shirt and tic on.,
who have twice the ease and poise and
knowledge you had yourself at that age,
And then there's the ego thing. A nice
guy lurches up to you in. a bar and insists,
eight times, that "`Yours boss teacher l
ever had." I go down town in July to get a
paper or buy some milk, get home three
hours later,
Old lady sore as a boil. "Where in the
world have you been?" Respond, "Ah, all
the kids are home from university, and
they want to tell me all about themselves;
their problems, their love life,"
It's a tough life, But it has .its points,
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XIX IX4x 11879
w 'regret f), learn that Mr.. ' John
Lounsliury met with a verpainful accident.
lie was engaged at the say windl of his .sons:
and was taking :in logs from the yard to the
mill when the chain broke allowing it to run
aback with great .speed. Mr• ILounsbury was
;standingbehind,suppordng another log; and
was unable to get out of'the ways in time. The
logs knocked him over and he was. Severly
bruised.
The picnic held in t'aytn's grove under the
;auspices of the Egmondville: Grange, was
;fairly well attended. The weather was warm
`and in the grove it Was very pleasant. Short
addresses were given By Rev. W. Graham;
G.E. Jackson: John McMillan; M.
McQuade;`Mr.. Wilson., M Y.. McLean, and
13r. Campbell.
The weather continues dry and sultry and?
a geed shower of rain would be welcome in
ISteshening the .spring crops and setting the
turnips into good growing.
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The' click of thJeLY mower is again heard in:
KCippen, as most of the farmers have tnade a
cornrnencement at their hay. The cron the
whole is. a food'; one,: op,
The 'Evangelical church on the 14th
concession has been undergoing improve
rnents 'The walls and ceilings have been
papered whieh gives the church' a very neat
and comfortable appearance;
William Armstrong, the popular fruit
agent of the Benmiller Nursery, is' on his
rounds again.
Work has; started on the new school at
Varna, Mr, I;atterson" of Hensall has the
contract. .
George Turnbull has returned home from
the old country; He has been, over with alot
of horses 'which he was successful in
landing.
At a meeting of the town council, J.G.
Crich was .appointed town constable, There
were nine -applicants for the .position.
During the severe thunder storm Iasi
Week, ; there were 25 telephones in town
burned out and Mr. Fear was busy putting
them : to rights.
Geo: Gray, John Kerr, Robert °arrow,
'and John Murray, have formed a syndicate
with the idea of purchasing a first class
threshing machine with straw cutting
attachments for their own use.
Wm: Devereaux of the Huron Road east,
had a very successful barn raising last week
Rueben ' Frost has been awarded the:
contract for building the Egmondville side;
Walks;
James Hlhen of McKillop had an:.
unpleasant mishap. He was returning from
the Winthrop creamery when a. dog sprang,
out from the side of the road causing the
horsee to bolt into the ditch. Mr. Hilien was
ped at
879
cut and bruised, but was ;able to come to
;Seaforth to befitted up by Dr Ross,
Peter 'Eckert of McKillop haspurchased
the farm of Timothy 'Kelly, 11.11.5 Logan,
paying, fOr it the shirt :t . $5,I.01O.O0.
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JULY S,'1929
Joseph Moylan is to be congratulated ons
his success at Michael's College in securing;
his degree of Bachelar of Armand wilt spend;
his vacation atthe home of his. parents Mr
And Mrs. Thos. Moylan,
J. Murray and W. Rapier have completed
one of the bridges on lots 10, and, 11, con.. 2.
McKillop. .
Hay making is the Order- of the day, and
promises to be a fair crop.
Miss, Audrey Murdock of Brucefield had,
the misfortune to fall out of a swing and.
break her ankle at Jewett'S. grove on
I omtnion day.
Miss, Gladys.. Way of Brucefield, having
resigned her duties as teacher in S.S. No, 4,
was presented by her pupils with a beautiful;
case of silver, and many other lovely gifts..
A serious accident occurred, at the home of
Mrs. Joseph Murray of Brucefield. She had
thought the fire had gone out and when she
poured some oil into the stove, there was .a
flash; of flames and thecan exploded, the
contents going' all over Mrs. Murray,
The home of James F, Purcell, Market St•
was badly damaged by fire when a coal oil:
stove in the kitchen exploded.
Miss Cora Strong, McKillop; and Miss
Elva Jefferson are in Toronto taking a course
in Vocal music,
JULY 9, 1954 .
• 'Chas. B. Stewart son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Stewart, Seaforth, with his ,wife and
family have sailed for England, Mr. Stewart
who has been the manager of the Simpson
store in Halifax has been placed itt charge of
the Simpson -Sears buying organization. an
England and the continent.
Seaforth firemen successfully fought a
long battle with flames that 'threatened to
destroy the farm house in Hibbert of Norman
O'Connor. Mr: O'Conner was in Seaforth
when the fire was first noticed
Mrs. C. Henderson,past noble grand of
Edelweiss Rebekah Lodgewas installed as
'district. Deputy President of Huron District
23. Mrs.. McGonigle :was appointed district'
secretary.
The pupils of S.S. No, 1 McKillop honored.
their teacher Miss Joan Flannigan, who has,
`resigned'to .accepta position in Waterloo.
Miss Catherine Ryan read an address, and.
Miss Anne Maloney- presented her with a
.large: plate glass mirror.
Miss Marion Watson has returned home
` following a two month trip to England and
• Montreal.:
Behindthe scenes
by Keith Roulston
Turning our back
One of the saddest manifestations of
Canadiansrreoccu ations with their'own.
P. P
supposed economic woes has been our.
s rd;
-_...turning our back on the test of the vo i ,
places. where there really is misery and>
hardship.
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During the election ' cani pu gn weheard.
c
the demand .,(and'it's being, heard in the
Uapproaches)f at our as.a cicctionh
foreign, aid be .curtailed because of the"`
current economic problems. We just can't
afford to help others when we're in so .
Much trouble, the critics say. Host' patheti-
cally sad, • How selfishly' Sick.
Canada (and the United States) is' a
word that has brought a smile of hope to
the faces of troubled people for nearly two
centuries, When'religiotis persecution was
strong in..Europe, North Amcrida became
a place where .people could practice their
religion in peace. . When the . Scottish
crofters were driven off the 'land, they
found land of their own in Canada and: the
11S. When the potato famines brought
starvation to Ireland, there was a refuge
across the ocean in the new lands, it was a
hard life, but it offere'd an escaPe from the
problem of the old world.
Canada has become home to Irish, Scots,
tlkrarhan, French; German, Italian arid
e.arly in the world atone
side -or the other. Once in a `while
something tomes along. liike 'the current
Blyth Summer Festival play, This Foreign
Land that shows us how welcome a refuge
Canada has been for people from other •
lands. So often we take for granted what
we have and can't imagine what it is to be
without our standard of living, our 'open
spaces, our ability to eat well and own a bit
of land of our own,
Yet whenever things are going as well as
tvouronthe e d like We turn backsth rest of
Ce
the world. We begin to feel "sorry for
oursct'ves as if there was something really
to be sorry for, We pull back our help to the
underprivileged of other lands and tighten,
our borders so more poor people Caret •
come iti and supposedly take the jobs of
those who are here.
We haveone of those periodic incidents
of inhumanity going on today in Southeast
Asia, tlutidreds of thousands -of people
who either cant live under the new regime
in Vietnani and Cambodia or are being
callously drite'n out by the government ate
seeking new homes. They iltiake their way
to the nearest safe piece of land in leaky
boats • Softie -of Which Hever make it to land.
The roust pay to leave their old cou" tr
They py . �.Y
and If they do Make it to Freedom' in
Hong Kong or Malaysia or tndonosii- find
anything but alarm welcome waiting for
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them. These countries, already poor,.
already crowded, can't stand the added
Pressure of hundreds of thousands of more
people to feed. Some are shoved back into
the oceans to seek new places of refuge or
die
trying. Others if they do stay - on land,
stay in refugee camps :under horrible
conditions:
problem, one
a :tot
c ous hum n
it's a: tremendous p .
s.
that. seems to need drastic Solutions.
It is
thiskind of,
tragedy that in the past Canada
would have provided a solution, But the
tragedy has come at a timewhen
Canadians are so preoccupied by theirown
miniscule problems that they don't seen; to
be able•to react to the problem; We shake
our': heads, and say how sad', .but that's
about all. Our government has offered to
increase the number of people to be
accepted from 5,000 to 8,000 butthat's a
mere drop in the bucket in terms of the
entire problem.'
Sure, it . shouldn't be entirely Our
problem. Sure the Communist government
'caused the problent and so Russia ands.
other Communist leading countries should'.
help to solve every problem of this nature
that over comes along. But We are also
human .beings who must react to the
' suffereing of other human beings. We are
a wealthy country that has a duty to do
good with that wealth, We have spate: We
have opportunities far people to live 'a good
life. We Must act,
But it"all seem;; so far away, It all seems
so hopeless for the individual 'to do
anything, But individuals and gtoups have
g p'
been doing 'things, Through sponsorships
of refugees these people have been doing
their. ' small bit to help the 'problem.
Imagine, for Instance, if every town and
villagc in Canada sponsored just one family
what it would mean to the situation in
Southeast Asia, Surely, working together
We could easily comd tip with the money to
support one family in each town until it
could get on its feet.
And Canada needs new blood. As This
Foreign Land shows, as history shows, it is
the itnntigrants Who come with little but
dream Cita good, -rich life, who give a drive
to out country that keeps it moving. People
who have lived here all their lives take
things for granted. They want to play it
safe, to keep life comfortable. It is the
plo- le who have suffered who put the most
p
back into the country.
Canadians, by reacting to the current
tragedy in Southeast Asia tan Prove
that
they really are caring human beings. In
doing so they can help the boat people and
they can help out owikOthintry. What meat's
could we hope tort