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• EAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 29;1968
Advantage in Two
Many area councils — in feet almost
all towns in this district — have taken '
advantage of the provisions of the mun-
icipal act to provide for two year
terms for membera of council.
Seaforth, however, is not among
these. Perhaps in view of the increas-
ing complexity of municipal Niel:nee-8
and particularly since school trustees
• under the new county ° system are to be
elected for two year terms this would
be a good time for the Seaforth council
to consider the matter.
Seaforth has been fortunate of course
in that from year to year. there have
been a continuing number of exper-
ienced members of council who have
introduced incoming. members to the
seemingly strange procedures inherent
in municipal business and steered them
around the pitfalls buried in the mon-
lapel act.
While this makes possible good train-
ing for new councillors it can do noth-
ing to lessen the almost impossibility of
completing consistent programs in the
space of „twelve months. Nor does it
provide time for the new councillor to
become fully conversant with the
breadth of his responsibilities. As a re-
sult the municipality — which after all
is only the sum of the people living in
it — suffers. •
' It is this fack no doubt, that 'Promp-
ted the Ohtario Municipal Association
to request the Ontario Government to
provide that all municipal councils in
the province be elected On the same
Year Council Term
date and , for two-year terms. Discus-
sing the request the Windsor Star urges
that there should be compliance.
The two-year term is not an innova-
tion, the Star says. Several municipali-
ties now have it, including Windsor.
r There has been no complaint either
from citizens or elected representatives.
The system has Worked well.
The Secondary Schools and Boards
of Education Act recently was amend-
ed to. provide for two-year terms for
trustees to be elected throughout On-
tario the first Monday in December. It
would be ineengrueus to ,have these
boards elected on this basis and coun-
cils elected on a different one — and
perhaps on different days.
An argunient, for retention of the
one-year term is thatit makes it easier .
to get rid of a mediocrity from council.
That isn't convincing.
Members Of the Commons and Legis---"'
•
In the Years
- From The Huron Expositor
sot. -3rd, 1943 -
A very pleasant evening was
spent at the home of Nfr.• and
Mrs. Bert Spence where a gath-
ering of thirty girl friends of
Miss Helen Turnbull, honored
her on the occasion of her ap-
proaching marriage. A shower
of miscellaneous efts was ten-
dered Miss Ttueibuli. Mrs. .Ag-
ar of Stiffa read the address.
The choir of First Presbyter-
ian' Church met at the Lions
Chili Park . when -Robert Smith
presented Winnifred Russell
and Donald MacTavish with
- suitable •gifts forior to their
leaving town. •
During this war the Expositor
has travelled all over the world,,.
writing from North Afriea,
Flight Lieutenant Edmund Daly
said that he had received his
December 4th, 1942 issue Of
thejxpegtor and that it was
as go-dd' as ever.
Ration cards issued in the
Seaforth district comprising
Seaforth, McKillop and Tucker-,
,smith, took a decided jump in.
„lumber last week when the to-
tal amounted to 4,452, an in-
crease of 291 over the issue of
March last. Of these 519 'were
issued at Brucefield.
A cucumber in the south -win-
dow of the Expositor office has
caused considerable atttertion
and interest. It was grOwn, by
James Bryant in his garden at
Roxboro and measures 171/2
inches long, 12 inches in circpm- HOUNDING THE HIPPIES
• ference and weighs 414 pounds. One way of fudging the can -
The Brucefield Patriotic SO- bre of municipal leadership is
ciety held a successful -frolic' by watching reaction to the
when there was a large crowd presence -of hippies in a Corn -
present which was entertained munity.
by the Kiltie Band
of Centralia If the reaction is hysterical,
inconsistent and somehow out
. of focus with the, tretment of
other social problems, it can
Aug. 30; 1918 be assumed that niaturity and
John Jamieson, son of Wil- judgement is absent in the
council chambers.
'Ham Jaraieson, Constance, is
• reported wounded in the head The phenomenon of the hip-
pies is a distinct social de -vel -
and wrist in the war, and is
now in a hospital in England. opment of the 1960s. It is evi-
John •McMurtrie of Stanley dence of deep underlying prob-
lems in our , society. Yet the •
Twp, met with a severe acci- reaction •of too many political
dent. He was engaged in draw: leaders is entirely punitive.
ing grain and the load was a
high one and in taking off the ;Their idea seems to be either
first bundle, the trip rope slip - to punish the hippies for being
pot allowing him to fall upon that way, or to shove them on
to some town Where they won't
the barn floor, breaking his col-
lar hone and fracturing three be blighting our property val-
. ties or business tern -over.
Abs.
Mr. Whitmore has sold his One of' the most laughable
farm on the Mill Road, near attitudes, and one which pre-
Brucefield to Alex Souter. vaiLs especially in Toronto, is
that toward something
- Miss C. B. McKinley has sold , which
Toronto's mayor Bill Dennison
her residence on Jarvis St.; tO describes as the "hardened
Mr. Thomas Daly.
The gold watch donated by hippie". You see, there are
really two kinds of hippies, ac-
cording to these people: Thrift
who are but for a -bit of inno-
cent weekend fun, and then the
fierce, gruesome, "hardened"
hippie who must _be hoUnded
and punished at, all emits. •
• There is plenty of evidence
around that most hippies ante
from home l where 'there are
sericitis emotional and psyeho-
legicel distarhancee. tn Most in-
stances, they are fleeing 'parent&
'whei are unable to offer theta
the Mature love and guidance
which adolescents heed.
Because- their gathering in
large numbers eptnetimes
ere-
ates health. problems (such ag
the hepatitis scare which upset
besinetsnien in Tormito'a York-
ville district because . . . well,
not because that was searing
the money -laden tourists off),
latures are elected` for five-year terms.
That hasn't prevented some mediocri-
^ ties getting elected to them — or being
re-elected.
member of council is often as
portant to to the people, or more so, than
a member of Parliament or the Legis-
lature the Star points out and adds "Yet
• none "would suggest MPs and MPPsi be
elected on a one-year basis. The -com-
plaint has been that we have had too
many elections in the past decade."
We hasten to iagree that all members ,
of municipal councils should be elected
on a two-year basis
• From My Window
• By Shirley J. Kellar
I get just a little miffed by
the folks Att trudge through
this world complaining that peo-
ple aren't friendly: I have a
theory about men and women
like this. To. put it bluntly, I
think they should have a good
swift kick where it will de the
Most good.
You knew the type of person
I' mean. She won't come out to
the ladies' meetings at the
church because, she says, no-
body speaks to her. He won't
stir off the sofa at night to take
part in comniunity affairs be-
cause -he's certain he will sit
on the sidelines alone. •
Together, man and wife grow
into an introverted oddity with
about as much chance for hap-
piness as a piece of cold toast.
'Maybe it is because I'm the
outgoing sdrt that I get so
peeved by this brand e,f society.
Or inakbe it is because I've
tried to'beffiend the seemingly
friendless that gives me this
urge to write something con-
structive about the subject.
I'm at a party. There sits
Hardett, the new girl from
down the street. I feel I should
make the first move because —
well, after all, the established
citizenry should always welcome
the new arrivals.
• It's customary to look for- '
ward to the end of holidays
with a mikture of wiiiiiihiess
and deapair:' They. were- too
short the weathe.e was rotten;
, and you hate going back to that
job that -you hate.
But quite a few people go
back to the routine of everyday,
organized lithg with something
like a sigh of relief.
Basically, men, like work,
They are not ctit out for more
• tftart a Couple of weeks of the
gay, abandoned life of camping,
swiniming, 'fishing. These are
treats to look forward to, and to
• look back on. But like many of
the other treats in life, they
lose their flavor If taken in
large, continuous doses. Even a
kid gets sick of ide cream if he
gets it at evert meat for a
• nienth.
Alte boa tete their din-
• barna eareases back f� the
lo% Shit fM1014
hack- in. the tett ble
I walk over to her with a
cheery smile and a _look that
says "I'm glad to see you". She
stares straight ahead, unseeing.
I say "Hello there". She
doesn't hear.'1 touch her shoul-
der and repeat myself, "Hello
there." She turns her head as
though it was revolving on rus-
tyNiVaringe and in a thin voice
she asks, "Are you speaking to
"Yes;" I say, perking up now
that I have her attention. "I'm
Shirley Keller. I live in that
hideous house on the corner
where the children and animals
take turns holding open the
Screen door."
"Hello," she grunts. A bas-
• ket of dried figs has more
sparkle.
I'm a bear for punishment.
"I notice you've planted some
garden. It look's to be doing.
very nicely. Are you able to
use your hybrid corn yet?" I
query, grasping at straws to get
the conversation rolling.
"Not yet," she !butters, tug-
ging at her hem ,and re -adjust.
ing her position in the chair. •
Another subject covered.
So, maybe she's the kind who
doesn't appreciate questions, I
muse. rn try a new approach.
"WS a lovely party, isn't it?
We don't have many real bashes
in this town. Too ,few people
living here, I guess. The girls
do get together for coffee some,
mornings. I'll call you soon to
come over and meet the others
in the neighborhood."
"My mother is coming for a
nronth," she offers through .
clenched teeth.
. I. may try again to break
through the harrier, or I may
not. Mostly I chalk it up to
shyness or smugness. But in
any case, my attempts at' being
friendly were wasted as surely
as 'though I had tried to warm
up to a window shade.
And I really don't concern
myself much about it. Not ev-
erybody likes everybody else;
very likely that gal liked her
ellent world or disliked being
bothered by my trivial prattle.
. What really' grabs me is the
next meeting of the Sock -it -to -
'em Society. Someone has 'got-
ten close enough. to Harriett to
learn that. people in the town
are cold and unfriendly, not at
all like those folks she knew
back home.
It's true, by gosh. You get
out of living just what you put
In. Act like an iceburg and
you'll get the cold shoulder
every time. *
Sugar and Spice
-- By Bil •• SmileY:
round of daily work, the casual
friendships with fellow -employ-
ees, and the good, long lazy
mooch around on weekends.
For the ladies, end of holi-
days is often sheer delight Es-
pecially those with schbol-age
children. ,No more cuts and
scrapes to look after. No more
summer 'flu to cope with. No
mere panic when Jimmie disap-
pears for a few minutes. No
more huddling in a tent while
the rein pours down.
What Joy to get everybody
out of the house in the morning!
What bliss to sit .down with a
toilet cup of coffee and taste
the pore pleasure of privabyl
Vtshat exquisite ecstasy to know
that nobody' is golog to burst
In with a, "Frey Mom, Billy lust
fell Off the botch on hit bead)'
'Like many another, t don't
ntiad' the end of holidays at a
Two months of ianddling and
around degenerates al-
most any min t, the teed of a '
beachcomber.
Looking back each year, the
sum total of my holidays fails
dismally to -'impress me. Long,
glorious days of fun In the sum
My foot! This suraraer was no
different. I went fishing once
In the bass -infested waters of
Georgian Bay, fished all day,
and caught a cold. I broke- 100
in golf. Once. I poured- several
hundred drinks for visitors. Not
a glorious -record of achieve-
ment.
It's the things I didn't do
that makes the impressive list
I didn't go on that canoe trip
up north. Vtlidn't jog for an
hour every day to get in shape.
I didn't go to the Stratford
Festiva'. I dfdn't take off on
Ag?_ne
Miss Lukes, in aid of the sailo
fund, was won by Garnet Hab-
kirk of McKillop.
The weather man spoiled
what promised to be one of the
best bowling tournaments in the
'history of the Seaforth Lawn
Bowling Club. There were 36
entries received for Scotch
doubles. •
The Allied advance on •the
western front has continued
without abatement ancl, shows
no signs of a halt.
• A serious. accident occurred
when Solomon Bell Manley was
drawing in grain. The horses
that were used for unloading
took fright and became unman-
• ageable and ran through the
barn jumping over the embank-
ment of about 12 feet. One of
the horses escaped being
in-
jured but the other one broke
its neck.
r stone stabling underneath and
James Smith of the same town-
ship has a handsome frame
house in the course of erection.
Robert Cherters of the Mill
Road, Tuckersmith, has recent-
ly sold five head of Leicester
sheep to Jame; Snell of Hui -
lett. •
James McMichael and John.
Weir, two of Seaforth's respect-
ed gentlemen of leisure, have
been devoting most of their
time to levelling and improving
the grounds for the new bowl-
ing green and making it ready
for seeding this fall.
There were over 100 carriages
in the funeral procession of the
late Miss Hogg.
Robert Carmichael is adding
• an additional storey to the rear
of building adjoining the
Royal Hotel.
D. D. Wilson has a pair of
grade steer calves, 6 months
old, which weigh over 1,3001bs.
He intends taking them to the
Toronto Exhibition.
Wm. ,Ryan and John Clarke
of Hullett, left Seaforth station
for Killarney, Man.,' and they
took with them a car load of
very superior heavy draught
horses.
• • •
From The Huron" Expositor
• Sept. 1, 1893
Miss Maggie Ashley of Lop:
deshoro, has gone to Chicago
Where she will attend Mr.
Moody's college in view of be-
coming an evatTlist.
John Malone of)Maillop has
completed a large barn with
This, Week 4nd Next
— by Ray Argyle —
it is now advocated in some
quarters that hippies be pun-
ished for being what they are.
Toronto obviously cares more
about the welfare of cars than
the welfare of people. Witness
the decision of the Board. of
Control to deny a responsible
local group use of an old fire -
hall as a shelter fpr hippies. In-
stead, it will be torn down and
used as a parking lot.
The Suggestion in 'Regina by
- health minister John Munro
that penalties for offences in-
volving marijuana be reduced
has predictedly brought loud
protests from police. Munro
says flatly that marijuana is not
a Sarcotic.
But it is not only in Toronto
that civic leaders either can-
not, eit refuse to, recognize that
the kind of social illness which
Produces hippies cannot , be
stamped out by punitive attien.
This is really very little differ-
ent in principle from the medi-
eval practice of chaining the in-
sane and whipping them for
good measure.
Montreal's mayor Jean Dra-
peau, the man whose initiative
and imagination gave this coun-
:eyogtry
because they might of. Round- ther4 out of
o. .and ,tb city a major
'league baseball team, becomes
hysterlekt When yeti talk about
fend tourists, he, eppairentlY be-
' •
In. British Columbia, the city
coon& of New Westminister,
is an ietion .for 'which it clear-
ly has tio conetitutional right,
bans the sale of a hippie paper
on the streets. because "it is
not a family paper." The'paper
in question, the Oeorgie Straight
is only faintlypornographic
compared to the thousands of
hard • core °prole end sick
Pocket books which are mer-
chandised on every nevistand
In that City.
Thereis growing support for
the, idea that municipal politics
needs to be brought into some
kind of mainstream of political
life in elf§ douttry, so that
more mature people will be at-
tracted to this important level
of public affairs. The only, way
of doing 'this will be to estab-
lish party polities on theanuni-
tipal 1v1,to glite 5M� cow
-
molt Seta stabil* an4 eader-
sbi decision* ht
local affeirtt
Air School.
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From The Huron Expositor
school in September finds me
ahnost eager to abandon Mitt
life of sloth and meet' the chat-
enge of all those young faces in
he classroom—And challenge
s the word for some of them.
'I defy you to teach me any-
hing." • • '
But there are other thingS
hat make the opening of a
cheol a pleasant occasion:Tel.
oi-teaohers are all brown and
een and friendly. BY Novem-
er they'll be gray and harassed
nd surly, bet that's ell right.'
There are new teachers, wide-
yed with alarm and confusion,
ho ask desperately, "But
here do I send these forms?
t
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that swing around to see all p
my old frimide 111 the weekly
newspapers. t didn't make Mato I
trip to Quebec City to tee son
Hugh. 1" didn't read War and g
Peace. The list ia endless&
That's ' stitY the aliening Of a
What do 7 do with the locker. dente, brown of face and.linili,
tiney? HOW. do yoti teach a mini-tskitted to the^ hilt, friend,
oent? Who do I see to resign's' ly, happy and exeited as they
There are the first staff meet- greet old cla&Mates, make neW
nt's, dose spiigOartnn.9 ,which • itiends gad head for another
parkle with the wit and elo- milestone on their trek Wendt
netice Of a gmeerY list. life, •
flt firat and Prettiest, theire Wet 881t h1,
te the thirteen, hundred stu- but ftt Siiiternbei 1 like it.
4. •
TO THE onion
es ions •coneerAing. ,
Council Meefing Report
May I have this opportunity
to clear up a couple of points
contained Inyour reeent
• re-
port of , the last council meet-
ing?
First of all the impression
seems to be given by the mayor
-
that I first looked for public
sriPport by writing to your pap -
before writing to council.
This is not so.
Five Minutes after I heard
about the blocking of North St.
I went ont' on Main Street and
spoke to the Mayor." One,heur
tater I wrote a letter to coun-
cil and posted- it to them that
night It wasn't until 3 days
afterwards, when I had Made
further enquiries that 1 wrote
to you, Mr. Editor.
Also, tho Town Clerk is at
ttibuted as saying that there
isn't such a thing as North
Street. L am surprised that he.
would say such a thing because
North Street is definitely shown
on the map in the Registry
fice in Goderich in not only one
but two different places. If our
Reeve had known he could
easily have set him straight be-
cause the Reeve's son owns the
house adjacent to the street
where it is blocked off.
As , for the blocking off of
West William Stieet it ' seems
Sir
•
• on4t the. Town Council has -
passed on the wishes of the
Planning Board who in turn .
passed on the wishes of a Town
Planner. My only 'ecenraent on
this is that so often we rely on
the so-called expert who sits in
an offire many miles awayjug-
gling with, a map, of the town
much eke a lean doing a cross
word puzzle, Have you 4ver
done one of these puzzles When
you think everything fits per-
fectly but somehovy it isn't the
answer that was wanted? -
Town planning sbogid go
hand in hand with Sensible
traffic 6ontri, and 1 wonder if
our local lavv. officer; as well
as other law officeri .converia,nt
with the local picture, were
ever asked for their opinions.
It scions that our Ceunell nev.
er passed a BY -Lew closing the,
street so therefore never. con-
,
travened the law but still
think that on a matter of this
importance more advertising of
the event should have been giv-
en in order that both 'sides of
-the story could have been heard
before carrying out the block-
ing of one end of West William
Street. •'
Thank you, Mr. Editor, for
giving me this opportunity of
expressing my feelings.
Frank Sills.
Council Provides
Background • Details
In a -letter published in your
edition of August ist, Mr. Frank
Sills discused the work of im-
provement now heing complet-
ed on- West William Street. On
August 12th another letter from-
.1ffx. Sills, dated July 26th, was
considered by Council at its reg-
ular meeting.,
'• Since these two letters, al-
though not identical, are simi-
lar in content it appears that
the answer of Council to the
letter directed to it might be
of interest to your readers. For
theinformation of the citizens
of the Town I would, therefore,
appreciate the opportunity to
place before them thefollowing
reply which Council instructed
me to make to Mr. Sills.
Ernest M. Williams,
• Clerk -Treasurer,
Town of Seaforth.
• Aug. 15, 1968
Mr. Frank Sills,
Seaforth, Ontario.
Sir:
Your letter dated July 26,
1968, was considered by Cowl.-
, cil at their last regular meeting.
Please be advised with res-
pect to your protest regarding
"North Street" that this isan-
unopened road allowance. As
such it may be fenced and used
by an abutting property owner
pending the decision of Council
to open and develop it as a
street. Under these circumstan-
ces the placing of a curb across
time end of the road can hardly
be constructed as a denial of
free access.
With respect to your protest
concerning the planned devel-
opment on West Wilhelm Street
Cotincil would like to point out
that:
(a) if two exits to the north
were necessary it would not be
logical to have them within 300
Ifeet of each other, To use
your own sintilie, ottr stupid lit-
tle friend the groundhog puts
his second exit as far away
from the first as he can.
()) any . traffic 4 travelling
north has always been forced
out on to Main Streetot-Duke
Street so that the northern ex-
it hes not been affected advers-
ly.
(c) three counts of traffic on
three different days, prior to
any action befit taken, showed
that 12, 13, and 17 cars, respec-
tiVely, left the Highland Shobs
and down West William; this
was out of a total averaging 48
_cars. Certainly the addition of
17 cars is not going to unduly
• congest a street such as Main
Street North. Furthermore 'a
check on the traffic leaving the
• High/and Shoes at noon on Au-
gust 13 -shelved all traffic emer-
ging . On to Main Street was
r cleared at 1205.
(d) there has been no propos-
al to close West 'William Street,
'on the contrary, the widening
and paving being done should
make it one of the best streets
in the .toWn. One small settion
south of Duke Street has not
been paved for vehicular traf-
fic but' vvill still be open to ped-
estrian traffic and full access is
being maintained to all proper-
ty fronting on West William St.,
and Duke Street. Under these
cirCumstances it is difficult to
see how the work being done
can be construed as closing
West William Street.
(e) in ¶iirrying out its res-
ponsibilities to the Town the
elected Council can not always
be bound by what is 'made to
seein "public opinio n". It
. would probably not be too dif-
ficult to obtain many signatures
on a -petition to have taxes ab-
olished but the ones signing it
would not have given much ser -
bus • thought to what they were
signing. Council over the past
several 'years has given 'rauth
serious thought to the problem
inherent in trying to promote
the future growth of the Town
and one ever -recurring theme
has been the necessity to pro-
vide for a planned development.
Council has accepted this res-
ponsibility and a well-known •
and reputable firm of planning
consultants has been engaged„
to prepare an Official Plan and
a comprehensive Zoning By-law
and the Seaftwili Planning
Board, composed of Community
Minded citizens, has been ap-
pointed as the body authorized
to recommend the neeeSgaty
and/or degrable actionto
Comicil. Connell would seem to
be reitilts in its duty if it re-
fused to accept the recommen-
dations which,. have been made
through the Seaforth 1ahriing
Board by the "Seitilled's ex-
perts, 'none of whom have any
direct peetnitary interest in anY
proposals made so far, when
the only Oppoaition expressed
by to -called "public opinion," is
based Oh such smell factors as
not wanting 17 More -tars to be
added to the traffM oe a street
designed at a major traffic ar-
ery.
our truly
E. M. willies:la
Clerk-thasurer
. "No Spot i just tho one that I shoo&
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