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SEAFORTII, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 12, 1968
Clinton Has Novel Suggestion
It was a novel suggestion that May-
or Donald Symons of Clinton advanced
this Week when he preposed that pro-
vincial ridings be represented by two
members in the legislation when one
is also a cabinet minister.
It all arose through problems which.
he Says Qlinton is experiencing in gain-
ing approval for some highway work
in the town..' Maybr Symons said the
minister was too busy to intervene pre-
sumably as a result of his departmental
responsibilities.
There is no doubt about Mr. Mac-
Naughton's responsibilities. As prov-
incial treasurer he heads probably the
most important, department .of govern-
ment and in the prodess brings great
credit to the riding he represents, He
has played a Major role in attractintin-`
dustry to Centralia, the benefits of
which are reflected in varying degrees
across the entire county In relation to:
the distances involved. •
But perhaps even so, Ur. MaeNi1401-
ton himself would agree thereInay be
some merit in Mnyor Symons aUggeS-
tion. There must be many areas across
the riding where he would like to take
action. -Examples ,are the replacexnent
of Silver Creek bridge, east of town
and approval of county council plans
for a development road program from
No. ,8 Highway along Seaforth's Main
Street and through Egmondville, deci-
sions concerning whieh have been pend-
ing for many Many months.
Mail Early or Pay. More
For years the post office department
has urged the mailing public to mail
early, conscious of the fast approaching
Christmas season.'
Despite the best. of intentions not
many of us follow the advise. In many
eases some of us are lucky if we get
our cards into the post office More than
a day or two before Christmas. We
even have heard of people who mail
their cards after Christmas.
• But now the post office has come up
with the most effective "mail early"
campaign -there possibly could be. The
postmaster -general has said that as of
November 1 the cog Of postage will
• go up. Christmas cards which in the
past have cost three cents in postage
within a few shoil weeks will require
five cents.
Now is the time to prepare our Yule-
tide greeting list, select and address
our cards and be ready to put them in
the post office before the deadline if
we are at all budget, conscious.
More, Use of School Builpings
• Summer has come to an end and the
children are back in school. Back in
schools that have, for the most part,
stood empty for the sunnier.
Taxes have skyrocketted over the
past few years, with most of the in-
crease due to spiralling costs in educa-
tion.
• New schools, additions, renovations,
all add extra Mills to the tax bill, 'mean-
ing extra dollars are drained from our
pockets each year. -
It is true that teachers' salaries have
increased tremendously recently, but
the cost of buildings has also increased.
Here in Elmira, for example, we have
a multi-million dollar high school build-
ing with the latest and most modern
of facilities, but it sits empty for three
Months in the summer. This is one
quarter of the year that this elaborate,
building, costing in the neighborhood
of $2 million is not used.
And Elmira is hot alone in having
this situation. Most centers, large and
small, have schools which shut their
doors in June, not to open them again
until September.
It is disheartening to think that we,
the taxpayers, have to fork Mit hard-
earned Money to erect buildings which
lie dormant for a quarter- of the year.
Surely there is some use to which these
schools could be put in the summer per-
iod. (The Elmira Signet).
Sugar and Spice
13y Bill Smiley
CZECHS ARE TOUGH
Even a banker couldn't find
a ibad • Czech these days, as
those brave and sturdy people,
international underdogs, are
the cynosure of the world's
admiration. It takes guts to
• shout insults at a man holding
, a gun en You-
' As in any other country, of
• course, there are bad Czechs as
well as geod, ones. But good
and bad, they have been giving
Big Brother a hard time of it.
Remembering Hungary, the
Czechs had enough sense not
to tackle the wolf With bare
hands. Peer the same reason,
they knew there would be no
help from elsewhere, if they
did. But they managed to make
• themselves as indigestible as
possible for that same wolf.
It's not the first time the
country has been thrown to the
wolf In, the late thirties, the
British and French threw them
'• to a German wolf, While the
• big Slavic brother to the east
flitted a blind eye.
It must be a bitterthing to
be Czech. //ere you are, a
• good, honest Bohentian. After
World War 1 you are ihrovm
lit With those lousy Slovaks;
• anal:Old inn are nown citizen
a breed AO/ Cottritty. 84 ittt
'titOkk like' a dog tor fifteet
yeati, andturnybur In
th trite Uf the fineat 00=00
ef, Aeinotitagy in the !Old.
Then YOU ere bettOedd .13Y
*foie BY the 'great 'de*OCritt
010S, Then ynit are btillied and
tortured and starved for seven
or eight years by the German
invaders. .„
The war ends .and the Oer-
mans leave. The Russians don't.
When they, finally get out, you
try to put the pieces back to-
gether. It looks as though it
might be possible. But you are
on the wrong side of a certain
curtain. .
So the Communists stage a
.coup and for the next decade
or so you are a communist. But
you have a love of freedom and
independence •and you chip
away at the. iron blanket until •
a crack of daylight appears.
And you are betrayed again. By
whom? By the greet commun-
ist powers.
It's enough to make a saint
cynichl. And don't • think the
Czechs, aren't. But don't give up
on that They are tough, pas-
• sionate and practical and some
day they're going fa come up
smelling of roses. .
Tough? There's a Czech den-
tist in Toronto who was tor-
tured by tlug 'Oestapof hung up
on meatifooks and has. the
scars to show it. He was going
home for a visit this summer. I
hope he didn't.
Passionate? Put four Czechs
together, start it -toliti6a1 dis- '
dilation, and in five mitmtes
you'd 'swear they were going to
kill ea* other. I had same
Czech Mends in prison camp
'end 'they fought* fttelotsly,
emelt againSt SIOva e.entratt-
nist' egailitt rePUblican. But
they tumed a solid front to the
rest of us, and to the Germans,
Practical? One of these
• friends was Andros. His second
name had•vowels. Some -
think -like Mrclrzy. When the
Germans marched into _Czecho-
slovakia, he stole a plane , and
-escaped. He fought With the
R.A.F., was shot down and cap-
tured. He expected to be shot.
any dig.
, Did he sit around and brood?
Not he. From empty powdered -
milk cans,, he manufactured a
agnificent still.
n, • when •the rest et the
sa around on New Year's
eve drinking their stinking
*Prune wine, he and his friends
sipped pure potato • whiskey.
I've always been glad I was one
of his friends. It was like vod-
ka.
He ' was an avowed Commun-
ist then, but a good ehap. He
wash't shot. Not then. Not by
the Germans. They didn't - get
around to it. I einder what
he's doing these days?
And 1 wonder about two oth-
er friends of those days, Ros-
tislav Kanovsky of Bucklovice
74, Morava, and .Toe Zvolensky
of Galante. 1 just looked up
their names in my tattred old
6
P.O.W. diary, Arid said a little
Dreyer for them„Freedom
fighters of a generation ago.
. Perhaps their sons are shak-
ing their fists at Russian tanks,
or
running an underground re
-
die, Let'S'say 4 little prayer for
them. id
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CANCELLED
In the Years Agone
Frbm The Huron Expositor
Sept. 17, 1943,,_
Miss Helen McKercher, daug
ter of gr., and Mrs. Finlay M
Kercher of McKillop, is now
Sub -Lieutenant ift the Women
Royal Canadian Naval Service
A nuniber of ladies of t
parish were present when t
children of the St. Jame
School gave Mr. and Iffrs. Jo
eph Matthews a Very delightf
surprise. They presented a pr
gram in honor of their fortie
wedding anniversary.
Dr: A. 'K Campbell is aga
, president of the Hensall-Zuric
• war -time citizens' committee.
Joseph McLaughlin, yotm
son of Mr. and Mrs. Micha
McLaughlin, was walking alon
• No. 8 Highway when he wa
run over by a passing v car. H
Was rushed to Scott Mentori
Hospital, Seaforth, where he re-
eeived medical attendance.
The Seaforth WI held 'their
monthly omeeting at the hom
of Mrs. PanlDoig when _Mrs
Frank Kling was the guest
speaker and her subject wa
"blood donors".
A shipment of good eattl
left Clinton Stock Yards, num
bering almost 300 head. One -
hundred and twenty of these
were purchased from John
Arinitrong of LOndesboro. Some
of these cattle- weighed over
1,500' lbs.
Miss Lois MacLaren, Hensall,
left this week for Kitchener
where she will enter the Kitch-
ener-Waterfoo Hospital to train
for a nitise. The Choir of Car-
mel Presbyterian Church pre-
sented her with a handkerchief
shower by Miss June Murdock.
Mr. Robt. Cameron read the ad-
dress.
The many friends of Murdock
Ross, Bayfield, were sorry to
hear that he had fallen off a
ladder, fracturing two ribs.
Joe Marsh, well known town
gardiner, has made a record in
tomato raising In his garden at
the home of Mrs. Macklam, he
has a single vine on which are
growin'g 300 tomatoes. .
Butchers throughout Huron -
held their annual banquet at the
-Commercial Hotel with 43 but-
xhers -present and six guests.
Rain on .Wednesday afternoon
and fog and more rain in the
evening all but spelled what
gave promise of being a tip top
tournament by the Seaforth
Lawn Bowling Club. •
•
cupied by aohn Button to Mrs.
George Henderson of Brussel,
h- Miss Dorsey received an d-
e- ficial wire from the war office,
a that her brother, Pte. Joseph
's Dorsey had been wounded in
. the knee.
he C. Kiehl of Walton is making
he improvement to his house by
s' raising the roof and he intends
s- to brick it iri.
ul The Allied advance in the
0- west still continues, although
th continuous heavy wind and
rain -storms during •the past
in week have made the progress
h very difficult.
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• From 'The Huron Expositor
Sept. 15,1893
s • A painful accident happened
to Thomas Harvey, Hay Town-
s' ship, while threshing at George
Penhale's in Stephen Township.
He was throwing sheaves from
a scaffold and by some _means,
e slipped and fell through, break-
.•_ ing his arm between the elbow
' and shoulder.
8, Master Thomas Baird of Stan-
ley, had the misfortune to
• break his collar bone, while
_ running in the play ground.
'John McMann of Seaforth,
has sold 150 tons of hay to John
Copp for the old country.
Miss Jennie Dickson, Seaforth
left for Toronto where she will
attend the Presbyterian College
there.
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From The Huron Expositor
Sept,. 13, 1910
Herbert Kercher of the Bron-
son Line, brottght into the Zur-
ich Herald office, stalk of
corn which measured 12 feet
one inch in height. This Is a re-
markable growth.
Mr. Moffatt of the grain store
house at Kippen, reports that
lluring his thirty years, he has
never reeeived so much grain
at this season, having taken in
over 2,000 bushels in one day,
Dr. Mary Johnston of Kippen
has taken a position in the Ham-
ilton Hospitat
James Dallas of Tuckersmith,
sold over 400 bushels of wheat
m Kippen, for which he got
$800.00.
Master Jack Jarrott, son 'cif
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jarrott of
EgmondVille, had the 'misfor-
tune to fall from a hay loft,
breaking his arm,
H. a Edge of town has been
awarded the contract for plac-
ing a, cement floor in the Eg-
mondville bridge.
ivierner, M.P. has pur-
chased the woollen mills prop-
erty from H, Edge and will
turn It into a flax mill. '
Silent policemen hatte been
erected on each corner on Main
St. ,
Phillip Hank has sold his
res ence on Main St. now oe-
Wm. Somerville has been ap-
pointed Treasurer of the Tuck-
ersmith Branch Agricultural
Society.
• Over 200 tickets were sold at
the Seaforth station, for Mitch-
ell. They went to hear the Lib-
eral leader, Sir Wilfred Laur-
ier,
H. Smith threshed for IL Car-
ter, 800 bushels of oats in some-
thing, over tyto hours. He did
not know that he was being
timed, or he could easily have
broken this record.
A large number of interested
spectators visited D. la Camp-
bell's blacksmith shot Varna,
to inspect the working of a new
• ,patent tire upset.
• Wra. McAllister, Varna, has
sold four imported Shropshire
ewes and four ewe lambs to
Joseph Foster, for a' fancy fig -
The evidence of Bayfield's de-
velopment into the best summer
resort of , Western Ontario are
fast becoming Apparent The
land known as ESSOIL Point has
been divided into cottage lots
and several from Detroit and
-Toronto are nedotiatirii- With
the agent, G. Stanbury for
the purchase of sufficient for
summer cottages.
Judging from the number of
people who travel, one would
scircelY think that hard times
were prevalent From the 5th
.to the 10th, 50 tickets were sold
at Seaforth station; on the llth,
the number reached 106 and -on
She 13th, 74. Up td •this week
there were 92 tickets sold from
Seaforth to Chicago. •
Main Street has received a
heavy coat of screened gravel
from one end to the other.
From My Window
• By Shirley J. KelIar,
My father-in-law used to sa
that as soon as stubble appear
in the fields, winter can't b
far behind. A depressin
thought, isn't it? But so true
• If you have never followed a
s -batch of energetic youngsters
e through the crowds at a fall
g fair, you have never known how
. exhausted the human 'body can
get.
It is also a fact that as soon
?ummer vacation has ended,
fall fairs begar. As far as I'm
concerned, there are few things,
that interest me less than fall
fairs.
It wouldn't be quite so bad
if r could go by myself. But
fall fairs are traditionally fam,
• ily outings in my books and they
rank with picnics as hiteful
harrassment for Mothers,
Fairs are wet.
Usually it rains. Under or-
- ginarycireunistances, a mother
would be thought .untit if she
dragged her breed through a
soggy field it a steady drizzle.
On fair" day though, she is con-
sidered the hardest of tpsk mas-
ters if she d'Oesn't risk pneu-
monia .to escort the kids' to the
local fair.
• Faire are expensive.
The price of admission is just
the beginning. From the mo-)
ment mother and ehildren step
through the gate, motrilt hand-
bag hangs wide open from lack
of opportueity to Close.
There are umpteen' rides to
try; marvelleus trinket; to buy;
plenty of expensive extras to
see; occasional buddies to stake.
The air may IA-frie to breathe
at Most places, but at a fair.;
even that Oats Money,
Every vital sniff of oxygen is
saturated/'with the tantalizing
scent 6f hotdogs and chips, and
fairgoers •are hypnotized' in
masseS. Dravvti like hies to -
honey, they stand in impatient
layers areund * steamy, smelly
booths, clanteringfto spend their
dollars on food whiph is far
bfreoanist. .
wheletr
otne for than o •
Pairs are tiring:
Children come equipped with
a built-in radar system which
directs them via the quickest
route to The nearest attraction.
they also suffer from an ex-
tremely short attention spari
which probably eceouets for
. the way they deliriously dart
from show to show.
- In crazy zig-zag patterns, they
criss-cross the entire fairground
several hundred times in a day,
seeing everything and missing
nothing. Mother Moneybag is.
in tow, out of necessity.
• •
Fairs are f,rustrating.
„• Right in the middle of a 1Sony
ride at the .farthest corner of
the fairground, junior Whispers
in Mommy -'s ear.
"New?" she asks in panic.
Little legs cross and a tiny
'torso sways to accent the ur-
gency of the' situation.. He re-
fuses to relieie his ankiety be-
hind the horse barn. He intists
on. visiting the men's room', way
over there where that long line
has formed.
Like lkary Poppins, mother is
called upon to perform a mir-
acle. When she Can't the worst
happens — and more dampness
confounds the fair. -
There is one nice thing about
a fair, though. By the time the
family returns home in the eve-
ning the kids- are so weary they
go to bed without complaint,
and ,blessed peace fill the hottse,.
As morn puts her feet up to
digeit the happeninga of the
day, she knows she'll probably
do it again next year. Thank
heave, that is t whole' 965
dos away.
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