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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-08-16, Page 2loge' 8 !a «Se, rviOg th omtnonity Ft[•st. Published at'SEAFQI TH, ONTARIO every Thursday,. morning by McLEAN:BROS. PUBLISHERS•LTD, ANDREW Y. !IOWAIV, Publisher SUSAN WHiTE. Editor ;ALICE GIBB,'News Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Associaton Ontario. Weekly Newspaper.Asseeiaton and Audit Bureau of Circulation. 'S'ubscription Rates: Canada OP advance) S13,OO a Year, Outside Canada (in advance) $25.00 a Year SINGLE CQE,II S • SQ g. NTS EAC%,i Second Class `Mail Registration NumberC. % Telephone 527-0240 tri n tZ SEAFONTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 16, 1979 T�iank you, fir:,.xen! With so much attention ;focused: on the Seaforth Fire Area Board negotiations recently, sometimes we forget the men who will be directly affected by the outcome of the FAB debate.. . These are the volunteer firemen from the area who deserve a special commendation for their efforts in fighting both town and rural 'fires. Since part of our job is to report news of fires, and part of this involves attending; many fires, we have a special admiration for the work performed by the firenien. The men who, are volunteers with the department are usually on the trucks and on their way to the fire within. two minutes of the time the alarm first sounds. That's quite a record. The men also are constantly updating their knowledge of firefighting techniques and equipment. We've heard numerous comments from grateful area residents whose homes Or , buildings would have been much more seriously damaged without the fast response time of the Seaforth fire department, Our thanks should go to the fire chief, 20 regular and four auxiliary firemen who provide the area with such excellent protection, regardless of the interruption of. their ordinary activities'. and often at the. risk of their own safety. Liquor offenders warned In recent years the public and .police :forces of municipalities throughout this, province have become increasingly frustrated with what they see happening; in our courts of law. What they see .happening is a steady parade of the same offenders. back time and time again for such things as Liquor offences, causing a disturbance and making unnecessary noise - usually through some juvenile action like squealing the tires of an automobile around a corner or through a main intersection. Some •munici alites" such as the Town of Seaforth have gone so. far as to publicly request higherfines or, where appropriate, longer jail sentences for repeaters. In fact Seaforth forwarded its recom- mendationsto other municipalities eswhich quickly endorsed them. One often wonders if anyone anywhereis paying anyattention to_ P Y 9 what the large majority of people who go about their daily business of livingis thinking. We now at. least one ,man is listeni •ng. A front page story Iasi week in the Clinton News -Record stated that in response:, to increasing liquor offences, Provincial : Court Judge William Cochrane will doubleminimum ef _ . fines for offenders. Effective Aug.1 the fine for havingan open bot#le of liquor.... or package of beer in a car,at least in. Judge Cochrane's court,will be 9 $100 plus fourdollars court costs. Previously the fine. was $50 and four dollars court costs.. Judge Cochrane will similarly upthe fine I y f or such nonsense as squealing tires from $50. to $100, Furthermore he has announced that if the stiffer fines do nothin "to reduce, the number of offences he may, y, insix months or a year, increase the minimum fine again. Liquor offences involvin minors have also been'a causeofooncern in Huron County and Judge Cochrane has stated he will now hear any charge involving .a person • under the legal drinking age in court as opposed to entering a guilty plea and paying the fine. By doing so, the judge figures that if nothing else, parents of minors will be informed of the actions of their children.: Needless, to say law enforcement officers of the five municipal police; forces and the three detachments of Ontario Provincial Police in''Huron.' County have all endorsed the judge's "stand.. No doubt the people of Huron—and neighboring :counties —•will be interested to see the results of Judge .Cochrane's recent decisions.: The Listowel .Banner Expositor askot. • What would your like, to see in the Expositor? • " P Keeping in mind that constructive criticism is po healthy, the Expositor sitor :asked' the following question this week: What kinds of news stories, articles or features would you like to see more of in The Huron Expositor?' . It was a pleasant surprise to receive: _ .. favourable comments when we telephoned random numbers. But there must be some ofou out there with a: petpeeve or " project Y • --and we're still open for suggestion. Here is the unabridged Version of Our relies: 8 �'P a . Darlene H en nderson of 1trR. 5, Seaforth said, "I. think it's okay the wayit is noW." "1 think you do a pretty good job," said Larry Gowan of 40 West $t.; "locally and, the regional itews as Well," "1 know of a few myself but i wouldn't want them there," said William Boyd. of 74 East William. James Robertson, of 103 West William" said, "You havey iour national and inter. _ . national news n the daily newspapers; your hometown 'paper is for the Ideal news...perhaps a summary of the live- stock and, Ruin markets." "I think it's good the way it is," Said Mrs. Ken 'Coombs of 48 Chalk. St, "I've heard a lot of comments that it's a really good paper. I like the editor's column, the people's viewpoints. I like readin8 that to get theopinion of the general public." Mrs. Gordon McGonigle seemed to agree, "I think the Huron Expositor is a.' very good paper, I think• it's niceto see 8 PP e letters to the editor on different matters. It's nice to see what other people are P thinking. When you re in a small town;" she said, "You sort of take root, and it's interestingto hear what'soing on in the 8 area." RowedaWallace of R.R. 4, Seaforth said she"liked fe'atttre Stbrics about the interest- ing homes and historical sites. Other local news' Stories and disasters in the area are Important as well,: she said. "For a Meal paper, it has pretty good coverage.'' Mrs, Albert Harrison of William West said "it: has been very good lately. It has improved an awful' lot for sometime now...there's quite a lot of reading _.. .... i- " in t. i:>r ..nN+�'4vf-r...'T.Rrv: weu+ya •:G: , Charles P.:Sills,Walter G. Willis, and: John. Beattie accept trophies following a Seaforth Lawn Bowling Clubtournament in the 1930`s.. !nt AUGUST 15 1879 John Butt has rented the farm of James Sellars on the 3rd concession L.R.S. for 5 years at a yearly rental of S300. A barn belonging to Wm. Cudmore on the Whitefield farm on the London Road was destroYyed by fire: The barn contained the crop of the season, all of which was consumed. There were also four horses in the barn, one of which was burned: On Saturday, as. Robert Charters .Qf the Mill Road Tuckersmith' was removing M , g r Murra steam t men engine from his own a Ys, g place to that of a neighbours the horses got frightened, ran away, cap -sized theengine into the ditch and smashed it badly. Mr. Charters was walking alongside and driving the team, Arthur Wanless of Varna, threshed on the farm of Alex Mitchell 860 bushelsof fall wheat in ten hours. The machine used was a Paris steam engine. A couple of young. ladies from Lumley droveout to the berrypatch in. the Township P of Hay, and turned their horses out to pasture while they filled their. pails. Upon returning to the pasture, theyfound their steedgone, leav ing the harness and buggy • to get home :the best waythey Y could.. AUGUST 12, 1964; Some of the farmers are preparing to thresh their wheat. • . A rather rare event occurred in Dublin last Sunday when Mrs. M. Williams8 ave birth to triplets, two boys and a girl: All are living and doing well': One day recently some. P • erson was firing g Off a rifle in the neighbourhood of the residence of M. Y, McLean when one of the bullets went through the glass in the- front door. Nearly fall wheat in the vie all thevicinity has been harvestedand some of the farmers have started at their .oats. A da half holida :is always a Y Y Y livelyWednestime on the bowling green, and last week things wereparticularly. interesting when the rink of J.C. Greig defeated J. M. Best's rink in a most exciting game. Three car Ioads of crushed stone have been received by the town from St." Marys quarrie which will be used on the streets of. Seaforth.. This is an experiment and if it proves satisfactory may to a great extent. supercede gravel. capsizes The cement sidewaik on Goderich St east has been completed and the culvert at Miss Mary Hatpins has been fixed so as to avoid flooding in the spring. AUGUST 16; 1929 A gra show grand showerof rain fell on Winthrop and it was very badly needed: During the stormlast week,,a barn owned by by Philip Eisenback near, Zurich, Hay Twp. was struck by lightening and destroyed with the contents. . A band ofsies passed `through Zurich BYP ... ond Monday. They had a large number of horses with. them. Considerable grain; is being brought into Hensall and meets with good prices. A very serious accident 'occurred on the Bayfield road west of Varna when several. members of a Seaforth family were badly injured. ' A new Ford truck owned by J. Gerobsky of Stratford was carrying several' people sitting` on chairs ' in the back of it. They had picked , up Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shinen and two daughters from Seaforth, and all were intending to picnic at Bayfield. The truck went out of control and ran along the ditch for 100 yards andthen crashed into a hydro pole. All occupants were thrown out. Mr. Shinen had his back badly AUGUST 20,.1954 Nearlyall: his life a resident of Seaforth and. McKillop Township, Edwin Hunt re- cently.celebrated his 90th birthday. A picnic party held in Stratford :marked the event. Announcement was Made this week of the opening of Muir's Rest home in the former Broadfoot residence . on Jarvis St. The residence' which was owned by Mrs. A.W. Dick has been purchased by B.0; Muir. At a meetin of the Seaforth `Di B strict' High h School Ba nd plans were coin feted to rovide'a lunch roomrural. P for the ru. al studenfs. Pictures tumbled, china scattered, 'a piano was broken, a livingroomt wrecked andi outer walls crumbled when a car went off the'' road at Blake, and matched strength with the house of Amos Gingerich. An R.C.AF. instructor and a university flight cadet trainer escaped injury when their. Harvard' training plane crash landed; i }n a ftiler's field near Brucefeld. Tlie00' 1 acre farm of John Cronin. in Hibbert Twp. has been sold to Herman m n Klaver, through the office of W.O. Oke. Also sold is the Dan O'Connor farm in Hibbert which has beenurchased b • John y Men- heere. is Behind the scenes by Keith Roulston People Who believe that the'human tact is progressing toward a better life would. like to think that we are always going forward. The frustrating part of it all is that so often we seem to have to back up to get. ahead. We seem to spend a good deal of our p time forgetting the lessons of the past generations and being 8... 'forced to o back and, learn them all over again.: The thought came to mind the other morning when I was sitting on the picnic •table doing one of those endless strings jobs of menial have be that h ve to this. time of the year. it had been a cool night and the air still had a chill rreminding me that autumn was coming fast. But I WAS sitting in the sun and the strength: of the sun Soon had me sweating, It 4eniinded me of those surprising, daysin late winter when we rediscover the heat of t he u n , even though everything around us is stillin the deep freeze. •. The heat of the sun is one of those'thin 5`s. we're slowly rediscovering now that the cost of "conventional" fuels is escalating our cost of living. (Strange isn't it that We now refer to oil and gas as ;conventional when only a few short years ago they were revolutionary new fuels.) At first it was just afew ecology freaks who promoted using the sun for heating. To those of us who had long been brainwashed by the mass media Learning history's Iessons and the Canadian propensity to hate winter into thinking that the sun .spent all winter in Florida or some other tourist resort just like most• other Canadians, the proposal seethed preposterous: I Must admit to being a doubting Thomas: The proponents ' f' . .. . P P o the 5e -called alternate energygysources had a little tt a too Much religious zeal about them, Then too we were all brou ht. u to. know 8 p now that you don't get something for nothin. Now of course the value of :making use of solar ' energyis, recognized ._ recognized by nearly everyone. Many people of course still don't believe the solar ., ` t power is the answer to all our problems Tike the real l solat power a vocates often seem to but the uses of the power from the sun are being'`re cognized. more and more. We have solar -heated' houses and solar .heaters swimming; for m ' g 8, . is and solare �°o heaters for hot water needs of large institutions and even solar -heated corn dryers, But the strange thing is that it"s not. , . 'Oh' some new m o f the applications of solar power are new; some of the technology for getting the mot outu is ew,. g g m tof the sun is new, but people have for centuries been making use of the sun to provide heat:, for various nes. . it's much the same with windwer. More and more' people are taking a hook at vyinds as, a possible source' of reasonably • d price power. Yet wind power is one of the oldest tools of mankind. People once used it for powering sailing ships. Every child who grew up on a farm in Ontario knew the use of wind power well through the .familiar windmill used to pump water. In European countries wind was used to 'grind grain and provideower for other industrial P � needs. We've never . quite gotten away from forgetting the power of water in Canada. In initial nitial settlement of eastern Canada. nothing played as largega: hand in deciding mg where towns, cities and villageswou l d Id be. built at the availability of Water power. One of therize possessions for early entre- preneurs Was the right to damni _._. upariver to provide power to run mills for making grist, flour,running sawing lumber,,. running carding and woolen mills. Later in the earl. days of electricity s y tricity towns used these dams. togenerate the first poWer avail able Today huge dams still'. provide the builk of the power needs of our province. wonder how longit will be , however, before people begin to remember he potential P P. B._..,. .. � t of alt the old mill ponds in the southern part of _ install ..the province and begin' to s in tali .... ,,.. ...small generators to make power from,the ever -flowing waters. . One of the ironies of the history of mankind is that we never learn lessons from the past. We always feel that out generation Is the one that will break new ground and escape the restcietlons of the past. When, it comesto technology we're often a little ;like the man who has been married happily to a beautiful woman for ten years.' Suddenly an equally beautiful, but younger woman moves in next door and excites his interest to the- point he forgets all the good times he's had and can n only see greener pastures. He soonfinds out that his romance n e with the new woman is only a hollow, fleeting thing and he realizes that he's been a fool and is happy get back to his real . ` pt?Y to ,true love. We threw away so many things in our rush to greet, the new technology of the 2Oth century. We were so sure we, knew better than our fathers, We could put a man on the moon. We could , make computers. We could have an endless string of luxuries.. We could also have air so Ilu ed ` ". Po dwe couldn't breathe itsf safely. We cou . Yd furl[, the very rain that is supposed to bring, life into a killing r _.. ng thing. We could trap P ourselves into a way of life so wasteful, so based On cheap energy resources that the most powerful nations on +earth could suddenly bewerless • because Po others realled that oil to us was like a fix to heroin addict. Like breaking many habits this one will likely be painful. I wonder how many other lessons we'll' have to learn from the past we've forgotten before we can really progress. ress.