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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-10-25, Page 3,4.771,477,,M.W CONGRATULATIONS HUGH—Ontario Liberal Leader Dr, Stuart Smith spoke at a special anniversary dinner for MPP Hugh Edighoffer at the Mitchell and District ComMunity Centre on Wednesday evening, Smith received a gift of cheese at the dinner, arranged by the Perth Liberal Associatibn. AbOtit no people attended the dinner in honor of EdighCiffer's 12th year as MPP for Perth. He was first elected to the Ontario Legislature on, Oct. 17, 197 and has won re-election in the three provincial electiOnS held Since then. (photo by JIM HagartY) Smith wants price restraint, • , • BYJIMHAtMRTY straint in Canadian oil price Ontario Liberal Leader Dr. increases at a meeting in Stuart Smith called for re- Mitchell last Wednesday E 0 , m night. Speaking at an anniversarY 0Ednitgff atiri°oPyrr'Smith te Premier Bill Dbalvaissfdo dinner for Perth MPP Hugh his stance op the oil price issue and said its time for the federal government to stand up to Alberta. He predicted disaster for 'Ontario manufacturingair Alberta is allowed tobrina in " huge rises in the price for domestic oil. Smith's cornments re- ceived a warm reception from the 280 popIe who• gathered at the Mitchell' and District Conununity Centre to honour Edighoffer .on the 12th anniversary •of his election as MPP tor. Perth County. Smith said the manufacturing econeniy •of Ontario is in very serious trouble." Not enough jobs are being treated for the • number of young people entering the .work force each year. He added there is no excuse fair Canada's large intriorts of manufactured 8064; eapecially since this countrv has resources, an 'educated population and 70 aer cent Of its owri oil. "The manufacturing industries have been neglected for several decades." claimed Smith. "We've got to rehitild tn." He said a price increase wculo ata, hundreds of mil iot • • dollars out of Ontario and would result in a serious recession in this province. • "Why should we pay World pride for our own oil?" •asked. Smith. He criticized Alberta for attempting to benefit from its aale of oil. at the expenSe Of the rest of • Canada. • At the beginning of his -5-mith praised Edightifter for . his "sincerity, hard work, and honesty.' He said the fact that he always listens to the other person's side of story has made him the most respected personsilting at the .Liberal party's. ',caucus meetings. You disagree • h Hugh at your own• . peril. he atiid. • Edighotfer.a basic sense of ecency and fairness, said Smith, has won hint the respeet of every member of the Ontario Legislature. BY DEBKE RONEY Ghosts and ;goblins, and all kinds of Hallowe'en trick -et -treaters will soon be out and with that in mind this week Expositor Asks decided to. find out from .local area people what the, best Hallowe'en costume was they had ever had, or seen someone else with, or any other reinerta brances they might have of Hallowe'en, . Kate Teal' of Seaford' said that last year in the hotel there had been sciraeone scary, with ugly hands and an ugly face. I still don't know who it is and Pd love to know," she said... • • Peggy Campbell of •Seaforth and an • anonymous friends, said—a chicken. That someone dressed at a dance as a chicken and nobody knew who it was. • • Mrs. Charles Cooper of 110 Richmond St. S. in Hensall said the best costume she had ever seen was when "My son dressed up as a Chinese 'laundryman and won first 0 rize at Kirkton and Russeldale A woman from the Dublin area who wished to remain anonymous said she thought the best costumes she had ever seen were a group of people dressed up as 'Red Riding Hood and the wolf and other characters from that story at a dance. Mrs. Norma Steele of R,R, 4, Seaforth said, remember one of my neighbours • dressing like a ghost and scaring me, "I was just a child. He hid behind a wall or something like -that aed he frightened the daylights out of me". • Shelly Stanley of Brucefield said the best costumes are monster ones that • have covered skin on their stomach -those big gorillas, that's the spookiest, she said. Mrs. Blanche Ravan from Kirkland who was in Brucefield visiting had either a lot of •courage or a novel idea for a costume. It was in England in 1942, she was in the • army, and she dressed up as'Hitler. Rec centre.deficit (Continued from page' 1) Councillor Falconer said: •"There is nothing wrong with the debentures, they were drawn up for Vanastra tit) pay. Let's look at the deficit only. I'm wiling to say that we'll take:care of the deficit,but not'•the . debentures.", Deputy Recife Robert Bell said . he didn't think it would be that easy to spread the deficit over the township and added the debenture should run its term. Referring to the Curling, Rink at Vanastra. Mr. Rathwell asked why a small group of Vanastra taxpayers should subsidize the reit ' of the coMmunity, Ile questioned renting the cutting rink for $1.00 to.a earling club Whose members are mainly local farmers and . added that it is. not good management to pay __the debenture on the curlingrink and then rent it for $1.00 per year. ' When Councillor William Brawn said the rink was to have been used for the people Of • Vanastra as a small Skating rink is well as.„ for a curling rink, Mr. Rathwell pointed out it had changed from that to a private turlieg club. Mr. eisler asked why the Curling club ,didn't buy the curling. rink, afhose, outside Vanastin are using the rink but Vanastra is paying fot it; .he said. • •Mr. Eisler 'questioned the reereation director. Diane Mania; about the repeated statement that operating costs would remain much the same, because only one additional person would have to be hired to handle an expected increase in handicapped swimmers. should the addition be constructed. .• He said' he had it On good authority that attendantaavould need more than life saving certificates and would have to be qualified to • To the editor: • (Continued , from Page,, 2) ' 'testified at length at both the •Royal Commission ad Electric Power Planning and as recently as this summer at the Select Committee on Hydro Affairs on the • Many aspects of operation of our nuclear • plants.. ExaMination of that testimony in the Hansard' and the Supporting volumes of correspondence on "file in the public library atQueen's Park will show that the situatioil you allude to was not real, that the benefits of nitelear power are large, that the risks are vanishingly small and that thereWere to hidden disasters as critics suggest Nucleit playact' is not perfectly safe no large settle power source can be. HoWeVer, • it should be clear in the energy shortage 'situation the World is obviously moving to•vards that we need to cOnsidet and , develop' all the optiOns open t� US. The • CANDU System can make Ontatio essent•- laity selfetufficient in elettricity supply for generations to come. It Will not answer the • energy question eoMpletely but neitherivill any answer be complete wfthout h. Yeas truly, • • Ra. Pop* • Assistant to the Dirtettir of Nuclear Generation, Ontatie HYdro look after the physieally handicapped and, the retarded. He warned that the township was liable for the Pool and could be sued should a mishap occur because of the tack of a_ Sufficient number of qualified personnel. • He suggested -Mrs. Durnin had better get a book on regulations. He said:it costs Money • to run the pool, properly and added "You don't have any idea what it will cost you to run it." • - • • • • Reeve Sillery asked Mr. Rathwell, "Where Or when did you arrive at this proposal to :spread the costs' across the, • township rather than on Vanastra? • I came up with this: at the noMinatiOn • -meeting. No one said'a word,1 thOught I was wrong." . • - • •_Replyingathat -he:wanted-What-Was- right - for the township and wanted to bring the community closer together Mr. pathwell astuted council that his group did not • Oppose the proposed addition but that the taxpayers of Vanastra are liable for all the coats and this was an opportunity for council to get it, changed. TWO PROPOSALS PROPOSALS • • MrAtathwell- presented two propaisals: that tho existing debenture of $119,090 be levied fot the taxpayers acroas the township to pay atod secondly ' • that the deficit of S125,584 be distributed across the entire township', Lloyd Eisler in 'addition, asked that the new addition come to a vete of_ i. • electots. Council went into cOmmittee et the Whole • to discuss the proposals and on moving back , intO regular, session the following motiona Vvete made' arid toted on. ''That the prior •years' • deficit of tae Vanastra 'recreation centre of $125,584 be investigated as to the possibility of it being levied en the whole of the taxpayers of the Township of Tuckerstnith". Councillor Brown .aikeci tor a recorded vote and altfive • touncit tnembets voted Yes. • The seeond motion voted on was.; "That the . request for an electors' vote On the proposed addition te Vanastra Recreation centre be tableduntil such time that written confirmation is received on proposed grants'', Carried. • The third motion was "That the proposal front the Vanastra BtisineSS Meti'a and the Vanast -Community Associationa to spread the debenture payinentS on. the Vanastra Reereation centre on the whole of the taxpayers of Tucketsnlith, be tabled *until the next regular council Meeting On November Mt. Eisler isata cOncerited that totineil had tabled the ntotiOns arid said it had been a wasted meeting. While he apprediated ermneifis tentern Mr. itathwell said he Wanted satistawthr gts Well and added "I'd rather see a vote on it. It's got to come to a dedsion. We teel we are being put Off again." ,Betause Mr, Rathwell had asked for a decision by council on the Motions Inlet to the ratepayer's meetingoermittil set the date for that meeting for .Nevertiber .12 at the Vanstra Recreation Centre it 8 pm, You're invited int tied to a • , _Halloween .1)atty at the Lib. rata oft Satuttlie, . October a - from 1:30 - 3O Yana Pt'lica a 11 1,C aa arced for the best costume. Fi‘ crone wcicorne, thing •to say Li 50 rt White The biggest curse ,of med. ern life.. far as t gaP Se0 is' that we don't have 'time Ina our goad intentions. My biggest problem Jai that :area is my frie.adS. But you have to make time for t1em 1 can hear you wise readers eut Otero aaying. And I know you're abaOlutely right. But still, .. I owe letters to, eVery ene of my long term town buddy pals right now and have for some time. Two weeks in seme cases, Iwo years in others. And, it has crossed my mind, how can we remain good friends if I don't take time to keep communications Open, O. let them itnetve what'a important in my life right now just as they let me know what's new (or old in the case of those I haven't written ter years) in their' We can't of course, -So worry about that, aboot Ina touch while 1 procraatinate about answering those let- ters. This column is part of my problem. It's personal a lot of •the time and I have specu- lated that it contains aome of what I'd write in those overdue letters to friends. That news sort of seems stale by the time I sit down, pen in hand, to tell them what's, going on.,. cat! for directory „ THE r Ui,QN. XPOS1TOR, OOTOBER 25 I gota lot to live up thin' the letters department: My friends and relatives don't just write (although they do, that with wit and verve), They sendletterselippinaa froltv newspapers that never see about things that might interest me, reCipea and photes andindividual sheets filled with six inch high crayoned letters that say "Hi 0,aby" for my daughter. Sounds nice, doesn't it? And needless to say I look forward to every missive, especially as they get scarcer the longer it takes me to answer, i once worked with a lady who sent niore than 300 Fewer phones , Peter Croeine, manager of Bell Canada's 'Stratford office said local residents can receive a Stratford telephone directory or Dublin residents can order a London -St. Thomas directory simply by phoning the Bell Canada office. In the past, local subscribers have complained about the fact Dublin exchanges are listed in the Stratford, rather than London directory, even though the village is o• nlysixmreiletneid miles away. Mr. canyone wanting the "white pages" listings of the adjoining area • only - hasto leave. their name with the Stratford Bell Canada office and a book will • be _mailed out to them. However; there is a charge for the "yellow pages" or business • listings of the directory for the Stratford area. • . The 1979-80 telephone' directory is being delivered in:the area beginning October 29 and ending about November 12. This year, • 221,000 copies of the London -St: Thomas and area directory, which includes the Hensall-Clinton-Seaforth listings, are being sent out, about 9,000 more than last year. The covers , of the books feature a panorama - of telephones in honor of Bell Canada's 100 11 anniversary On April, ,1980. The phones. in full cOlibUr ',against a • grey background. range front the early •wooden' box and handset, to the modern •'Centempra phone. • • .EXPANDED GOVERNMENT LISTING •One new feature in this year's directory is a greatly expanded •Ontario Government section. Many more services are listed to make it easier for the public to get in touch • with the services they want. The "Information Accesss" program be- ing • introduced progressively in Ontario directories by the provincial government enceurages direct and toll-free contact between the public and the ministeries. -Every exchange in the directory has an expanded Ontario government section Mr.. Croome said a directory conservatiop study dope by Bell Canada .sQlnle years ago -- showed that a lot of telephone directories just werena used, Since that time Bell . Ca tuida.bas followed a policy of ohe directory per 'customer. Anyone who doesn't receive here their directory by the delivery date should can the local Bell Canada business office. Mr. Croome said the one delivery per eustomer allowed the company to make substantial Savings. • According to statistics available at the Bell Canada office, the number of telephone subscribers has decreased slightly in both • Dublin and Seaforth; • SUBSCRIBER DECREASE At the end of Dec., 1978, there were 67 business phones in the Dublin directory and 593 residential telephones. ' At the end of August, 1979, there were 68 business lines, and 591 residential lines. In Seaforth, there were 205 business p1911709.nes and 1,037 residential phones in Dec., There is an increase in business phones,to 213 here in town, but the residential phones • have decreased to 1,022 phones at the end of August, 1979. • Some businesses have more than one telephone line, Mr. Croome pointed Out. Admitting he could only speculate on the reasons for the decrease, Mr. Croorne Said the •company doesn't especially analyse statistics like this. The company does try to forecast increases or decreases due to community activities such as an industry opening or closing in an area•. He said' by .the end of the year, the • number of telephone subscribers may show an increase in both Dublin and Seaforth. Be said another factor influencing the deereate in residential phone installation may • have been Bell Canada's labour • slowdown this summer. LABOUR SLOWDOWN The slowdowns started in the latter part of May and there was a fullscale strike by installers from August until the second week in September. Mr. Croome said in the Perth and Huron area served by the Stratford area, there is still a backlog of over 500 phones to be installed. ' ile sad,"VVe are still trying desperately " to catch up (to orders)'," Mr. Croome said the two. busiest instal - 'an. i on periods at the end •of June and n • August both (ell within the time period of Bell Canada's labour slowdown. o irnju.r�d morning • Two people received minor injuries in a one cat accident in Seaforth' early Saturday morning. A car driven -by Warren 'Rogey, 21, of RR 1. Auburn; Was going west on James •Street at 137 a,m. •when it struck a parked •vehicle at. tlaend of the street, tit ip.truck a load of topsoil ano went over the top of that before coming to rest. Both the driver and a passenger.. Carol Henderson of 48 West Street Goderich were taken azt Seaforth Cornmunity Hospital with minor injuries. There wasa2,500 damage to the Roger vehicle and a. parked ear, owned by Donald Muir of 142 'James Street, received approximately 5250 'damages when „it • was • sideswiped. Charges are pending in the accident. A few minutes before this accident, police were called • to • investigate'another collision on Main Street. A car`, driven • b, Barbara Holland of R114 Clinton. was. backing out of a parking space on Main Street, when the vehicle streck a car going north on Main Street, driven by David •Crocker of Seaforth. There was approximately $450 damage to the Crocker vehicle and S350 to the Hollatid tar. OnSaturday night, at 6:30 p.m.• police investiaged .a minor accident on Crombie Street. A car driven by Donald P. Dale of Spading Street, Seaforth pulled out of the Canadian Tire parkinglot and collided with a. vehicle Sugarand spice By Bei! Smiley (Editot"s Note: the following is a tonfirmation of Bill Smiley' s Minim which Was inadvertently left otit of last week's •Expositor. We're sorry) Wishes to nieet gent up to 60." it yon're Sixty -One you're out, but you eould be twenty-one. "Ode wild and crazy guy wishes ha Med One wild and crazy gal who loves dantieg and cantping and would like to share a serious relationship," On g dance like In a WO "1 Ani a lovely, l�vtligHfenlalo, 33, divorced rind a writer, Who is MO telerant, pereeptive, idealittie, off -beat, rornantie, terebtal and a Caneer, looking for an honest, stable relationship. I am looking for g Malt, .(and Hat of adjectives like aataatatataika...... going east on Crombie Street, driven by Thomas "Gus" Johnson of 210 Main Street South. Thete as approximately 5100 damage to each vehicle. On Saturday night, police' invetigated a number Of incidents of mischicf around . town .Eight traffic ns were damaged bya vehicle, including five no parking • signs on East William Street and a stop sign on James Street. There is a suspect ifi the incident and the matter is still under investigation. Laat Thursday, police • investigated a daylight theft Which occurred in' the parking lot of Genesco Shoe Factory. A CB unit, eight track stereo tape player and eight tapes were stolen from 4 the tar of an employee, Cards, birthday, anniveraerYt OPOStatltiatitalta. etc, yeata $he had a 'calendar with every friend and farnily con- nection's special datea .on it and no occasion of note passed by without a card from Irma. At the time I was a kid and thought she was maybe just; a bit daft but I'm older andyviser new and know that lady's hobby was a womieta NI thing, A couple of yeats, ago I even, decided that if I couldn't get time to write letters I could at least send,. cards and purchased a box. of - all occasion ones to have On hand. I've sent a few since rt how easily we forget how Muchjust a card rneana when there's a new baby, a birth- day or when yeu're confined to a hospital bed. When we're to busy to remember important things like those irt each other's lives it's time' to take Stock and see what all our busy, ness is for. There are peeple who write letters, long and often, and 1 admire them. A phone call, besides being expensive just doesn't have the same staying power. I've, got let- ters from 10 years ago that I've saved because they're so good at bringing back a • particular time, place • and mood in a friend's past and ,my own. • And jf yoit've got a literary. bent at all you'll agree that some of the most fascinating books in the world arecol. lections of letters and.nottlist those of famous people. I'm thinking of love letters, /et - ' ter* to and trent soldiers •during w,..and ay' letters that give ag vivid piatate of what ordinari life was.ike at write lung in the past. There now. I've jlIst giVer! MYself a lot of incentive to go home tonight and write*. write, write to those people of whom 1, thina great deal but aomehow never get nround to answering. There's ory friend sweat- ing it out in second year law .4hon1, a friend in Jamaica who's just started a job with the Woolens' Bureau there; and another friend who , recently moved to Victoria to take her nursing degree. The there's the family We shared a house with when we were first matt -led who just moved from Minnesota to. - New York. I don't feel too neglectful of them though Since we got a letter this summer after three years announcing their fourth child it's not too serious that they don't know about our two year old. Obviously_ a qa,se of• ' the same letter -phobia I have. • Of course there'salso Andy's cousin in Ohio who's always so hospitable to us; • good friends in the north who were Students when we were, an ex -teacher of mine in Toronto who spent Christ- . mas with us one yeat and a. high school friend whe's working on a fine arta degree • in Michigan.I ought tayarite them all;, Or do you think a clip of this column would suffice? Rab• ies • may soon •be a thing of the past in Perth County. At the crci er session of Perth County 'Council, Ministry of • Natural Resources Enforcement Officer, Clay Evans revealed the. results of an ongoing •program which has been tested in the area since 1972. Evans told council that the Ministry of Natural Re- sources in co-operation with the World Health Organization has been conducting a test program in Huron and Perth Counties to reduce the incidence of rabies 1 in • fox, skunk and • racoOns. • Huron and Perth Counties were selected for the tests because they are prime fox country, Evans said. Fox, he told council, is the primary carrier of the disease • Parked on the lotf in the afternoon. The equipment stolen was worth approximately $.1.7a and Seaforth police are Still in*eetifttattlinig. Sapolite Chief reported loitering charges are being laid under the tOwn's new bylaw, These charged under the bylaw Were loitering lit .the Main Strec (tert, Chief Calrfls Saidpolice' *ere *Ise called to Railway Street to investigate the 'report of a skunk raiding Somedne's garbage.The chief said this is the tiiim,of year when corms end skunks Start 'coming into town and raiding garbage Cana. The cblef said Since skiinks do carry rabies, and will bite, 'homeowners wOuld be 'Advised not to interfere Whit the aalinals, hers). Sonitone with a calm extetitirbut brimming with hidden fires and Worlds tP explore. Under 50 and over five feet seven niches," That's what t_iets eie. After the great buildup, the blunt facts. If you Were fifty-ona ano iiytasix, ;law d miss Out on this fantastic woman, "lnHutting. Bionde young lady eeks wealthy Matt for daytime affair. That's the shortest and most honest of the bunch. She probably works nightS. I'M afraid the only one that tempted me • %vac "'Russian lady, Beautiful. (That's 'nice', nothing egainat bettutiftil %tallith ladies.) Seeks gentleman over AO. t0.X, t ridalltY),:tivet in. Sao Paulo, Brazft (Great clintate there.) For ttiatilage Mitoses," Always the stonedeid clincher at the end. ' I'd have to *A aly wife. and therefore the animal that the ministry focused their tests on• , • The tests • involved the dropping of more than 200,000 baits' over the two counties, These two-inch pTastic baits contained tetracyclin, •which when eaten, by the fox, skunkor taceon formed a yellow ring in the animal's bone. The . baits are harmless according to Evans and will have no itt effects on cattle if eaten. • Evans told council that trappers who have turned in fox, skunk and racoon bone have revealed that the test program wouldhaye been 76 per cent effective in innocu- lating the animals had a rabies vaccine been used. Work is now underway to . produce a vaccine which will be harmless to farm animals and will innoculate the fax and other animals'. • • Vaccines are now available... • which would be good for two . to three years and while the life span of the fax is seven years Evans claims that the One innoculation may well be' all the fox may ever need. Obituaries MRS. JACOB WURIVI • Mrs. Jacob (Bessie) Wurm 79, of 41 East William St.• : Seaforth, . died at Seaforth Cemmunity Hospital Friday. Born in England, she was the fortnertlizabeth (Bessie) Wray and came to Canada as a child. Her husband, to whom she was married in 1922 •at Egrnondville, died iii1938. For' 30 years, she was a cook at Seaforth Community Hospital: . Surviving are a daughter, • Mrs. Joseph (Margaret) Cenunerford, 315 Hibernia St Stratford; three grand- children and three great grandchildren. A daughter Shirley predeceased her. A sistet Lizzie, Mrs. Joseph Coielotigh of Paris also Sur- vives. •' • The remains rested at the Box funeral home, Seaforth where a funeral Serviee was held Monday at 2 p.m. with Rev. Jetties Vanslyke Ad. atittg Burial was hi Egmondv Ile eemetery4 Pallbearers *ere Norman Mitelein Gordon Hildebrand Albert Hildebrand, Joseph! CoMmerford, Etnest Marshall and Richard Whitely. Flower bearers were Wayne Marshall end Terry Marshall, tbionN *Avon Suitt, MItd • died Suddenly at his resi- dence. He was born in I.Ogan Township on August 27, 1907, a son of the late George Leonhardt and the foriner Christina Heckman. Mr. Leonhardt farmed in McKillop Township and did •Castom w�rkln the atea, He' had resided in Seaforth And Btodhagen before cling to He was a member of St. Peter's Lutheran aura, Brodhagen, . ' Surviving are three broth- • ers; Irvin of Brodhagen, Fred, of Mitchell and Carl of Sestet -1h and one sister Mrs, . Gordon (Irene) Eisler of Mitthell. Be was pre- • deceased by one brother and .otte sister. Friends were received at • the Lockhart Funeral HOMO in Mitchell where the funeral serviee was held on Monday with Rev. Arthur Horst °Melating. Pali beirett were George and Paul Eisler, Ronald Thoncipson, Jack Gino, Bruno Britecker and Ralph Fischer, InterMent was in St Petert Lutheran CeMetery, lrodbagen. Expressions -of sympathy were shown through BOW tributes and me s to the Ontario Heart Fotitidatien, • St. Peters Lutheran Outidi linproventent ron411 Grab, tuthen Church Balkilog Fund, Rita Latham Also Mlitiosta sod OM** s • Mitchell three years go, itt.11), -11