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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1966-10-06, Page 1147th Year Whole No. 5144 SEAF4,RTH, OPTARJO, TI Dot, 4 • r • 1 1 1 1 r Waiting For. The Winners. PRIZES VALUED AT more than $15,000 together with a wide assortment of cups, 'tro- phies and silverware await fortunate plowmen who take part in the International here next week. Some of the prizes are on display in the window -of the Toronto -Dominion Bank while two members of the bank staff, Mrs. Verne Scott and Mrs. Gary Betties hold.a sign remind- ing the public of the big event. (Expositor photo by Phillips). JAMES M. SCOTT, . chair- man of the Huron committee in .charge of the headquar ters area is .Mayor of the Tented City and is assisted by his son William Scott, as Deputy Mayor. The Tented City will' feature some 300 exhibitors, • including 38 cat- ering establishments. Munici- pal services have been instal- led equal to those of a good sized town. Area Farmers Aid Match While plowing match activi- ties are centred on Scott Poul- try Farms, the big match has been made possible by the co- operation of .adjoining proper- ty owners who are providing land for plowing, for parking and for other activities. The properties, included are those of Harold Coleman, Sam Scott, Hank Van Rooijen, Peter McCowan, ' Peter Simpson, Con Eckert,- Graham Kerr, Thomas Govenlock, Francis Coleman, and Gordon Elliott. Plaque Honors Late Alberta Premier A memorial plaque to com- memorate the 1e'te William Ab- rehart, first sold l credit' prem- ier of Alberta will be unveiled on the grounds of Seaforth District High, -School, _Wednes- day afternoon, by- his daugh- ter, Mrs. G. A. McNutt of Cal- gary. The plaque is being erect- ed by the Ontario Archaeologi- cal and Historic Sites Board of Ontario and the ceremony being sponsored by 'SDHs board. Mr. Aberhart who was born near Staffa was brought up in Tuckersmith near Seaforth and attended Seaforth Collegiate. F. C. J. Sills,' who is heading the committee completing ar- rangements said an invitation had gone to Premier Manning of Alberta, but that he was un- able to attends However, Robert Thompson, social credit head of Ottawa and Hon. Charles Mac- Naughton, Huron M.P.P. would be present, Lions Are Hosts To Elsie At Match e Elsie, the world's most fam- ous cow, is coming to Seaforth next week as a guest at the In- ternational Plowing. Match,. spor{ sored by the -Seaforth Lions Club-. The bovine celebrity will be in her new Victorian bou- doir at Tented City waiting to greet her m'any friends. ' Featured with Elsie will be her new set of Twins. The three internationally known stars will arrive in their pri- vate van with their attendants. When their travelling Victor- ian boudoir is properly at - ranged in another large -size trailser, they will move into re- ceive their many friends. Having travelled from coast- to-coast, Elsie is a well season- ed traveller. Over 5,000,000_ people have visited Elsie in her boudoir since her first visit to Canada. As always, Elsie is anxious to help 'out in the raising of funds for worthwhile projects. During her stay at the Tented City, Liong Club members will be on hand to look after the exhibit, and ' any donations which the visitors may care to leave, will be all used for Lions Club welfare and community work. Elsie pays -all her own expenses, so that every cent, which is Ieft as a donation, goes to the Lions Club project. Youth On Bike Is Iniured Pat Malone, 13, is in Sea - forth Community Hospital, with severe lacerations and bruises to his head and legs following a car bicycle crash on Main Street South, early Tuesday morning. The lad, son of Mr. and Mrs: Clarence Malone, had started north on Main Street on his bicycle to peddle papers when a car driven by Cecil Glanville, Staffa, going in the "seine "direc- tion was in collision with the bike. Seaforth Police Chief Gor- don Hulley, who investigated, said the accident oceured about 7:15. The boy was removed to hospital by Box Ambulance • ser, vice. TOBER. 6, 3..966-- 24 Pages Pit e ion) ages ; Single: Copies10:' eXltil 54,00 a'Year 10 Adv000 Plowmejt's Week Arrange Ceremony • Saturday IIl104ning It will be "Plowmen's Week" ink Seaforth when the Ieterna- tional is under way. Seaforth council Monday night instructed Mayor Flannery to proclaim the week. The proc- lamation indicates the honor which the International plow- ing match brings to Seaforth and the pleasure which Sea - forth citizens have in making plowing match visitors wel- Season's Crops )estroy d The season's crops and 85 pigs were lost in a fire that destroyed a large barn on the farm of James Sloan, Meleillop, Thursday evening. - The fire, believed to have been caused by lightning was first noticed by Mr. Sloan Who called Seaforth Fire Brigade. The flames spread so quickly however that it was impossible. to save anything. The loss was partly covered by insurance. Mr. Sloan said Wednesday he plans to rebuild, as quickly as possible. Council Agrees on Planning - Clerk Williams read a letter from the . -Department ,of . Mun- icipal Affairs at council Mon- day eyeing, concerning an official plan being adoptedfor the Town of. Seaforth. Previous- ly the Townships of Tucker - smith and McKillop had deelin- s ed to . join a 'proposed Planning Board. Mr. Williams outlined the requirements and responsi- bilities of a Planning Board. Mrs. Cardno said the town is up against it if we do not have a Planning Board. 'A letter had been received previously asking what region- al area we would like to join, giving four alternatives, Mr. i Williams reported this had been a' difficult letters'eto- answer. i Council agreed to ask the De- partment of Municipal Affairs to have Seaforth declared a Planning Area. The question of a school holi- day being declared for the Plowing Match was discussed. The clerk said the Inspector had agreed Public School children be given a half holiday during the Match. The High School cannot grant a _ full 'half ha - lay without permission of the Department of Education of Ontario. - Council agreed that the May- or proclaim Friday, as. Child- ren's Day at Seaforth for the Plowing Match. Mrs. Cardno reported Seaforth Booth at the Match • and Coun- cil Float were planned and work being carried out on them. come. A Copy of the proclamation will be given Ontaria Plowmen's Association President, Norman Barbet, during a short program at the town hall at 11 o'clock, Saturday morning. The public is invited to attend the ceremony. The Saturday morning event will also welcome the arrival in Seaforth of a Conestoga wa- gon after a three-day trek fol- lowing the pioneer route along the Huron road from Guelph to Seaforth. , The wagon and 'accompany- ing party will be welcomed on Goderich Street East by the Seaforth District High School girls' band and parade 'to the town hall for the •e11 o'clock ceremony. _The trek begins in Guelph on Thursday.Stops will be made in Kitchener, Waterloo, New Ham- burg, Stratford and Mitchell when a commeinorative wagon will be presented to the Mayor and 'Warden at each point The mayors of each community and the warden of the three coun- ties will greet the wagon and will send greetings via the "Pioneers" to. the International Plowing Match Committee in Seaforth. The wagon trek has been ar- ranged by the Midwestern On- tario Development Area coun- ell. Travelling aboard the -'wa- gon will be R. S. MacPherson, Industrial Commissioner, City of Guelph; W. G.'Urquhart, gen- eral, manager' of MODA, Strat- herd and Roy" McCutclieon, RR .IV kwood,, They will be dress- ed in "costumes . of the early pioneers. The wagon will be pulled by a team of black and gray Percheron horses owned by Mr. McCutcheon. The Con- estoga wagon has been obtain- ed from the Doon Village and will •carry an early pioneer plough and other implements. When the caravan ',reaches Seaforth Town Hall the pas- sengers will be greeted by plowing match officials and pre- ented to Mayor Flannery and (Continued on Page 4) Set Date For Inquest An inquest into the death of Verdan Rau who lost his life n an accident at Highland Shoes her, last summer, will be held n the Town Hall on October 18. Members of the coroners jury are George Mcllwain, Irvin Tre- wartha, H. Leslie, John Lan - sink and Frank Lamont. As It Was In 1946 Governor General in Huron for Match It is twenty years since the last International Plowing Match was held in Huron and stories in papers of the clay recall highlights of the event. Typical is a Toronto Star dis- patch datelined Goderich, Oct. 17, 1946. "Canada's governor - general headed the record list of 220 plowmen who displayed. their skill before more than 70,000. spectators at the International Plowing Match yeater-day. Not content with declaring the, met officially open, Viscount Alex- ander climbed aboard a tractor and plowed a furrow himself. As he carefully guided the three -bladed plow through a field of stubble, a spectator Bal- led: "You'll make a plowman yet, your excellency." "I'm one already," the gover- nor-general retored). The vice -regal performance was closely watched by Arthur Bolton, 15, of Dublin, whose tractor Lord Alexander was w- ing. When the field mashal had finished, he turned to the youth arid demanded an opinion on his effort. "It's all right, sir, very good," said Bolton. Opening the match, Lord Al- exander recalled that exactly four years ago he was in North Africa, with the desert war in a "very tricky" condition. "Those 'were the batt olds days," he said. "Now We ale able to return to the contests of peace- time in ydbr delightful coun- tryside, I ,wish you fair weath- er and good sport." A thin rain fell as he spoke, but the skies cleared as he toured the hun- dreds of, acres devoted to the plowing contests and inspected the farm machinery exhibits. Stubble plowing, with horses and tractors, dominated _ the second day of the plowing match. Only U.S. contestants to arrive was Graeme Stewart of Plainfield,- 111., though others are expected in the next two days to make the contest truly international. Stewart was a prize-winper in the meet at Peterbord in. 1541. Horse -shoeing and log -sawing competitions were added at- tractions with demonstrations of farm machinery, but it was the plowing which attracted frost of the huge crowd who oven flowed the Port Albert airfield and were sprinkled throughout the fields of neighboring farm- ers. All day long traffic moved at a crawl for many miles in all directions as the population of the entire countryside seemed on/ the move to Port Albert, Froth Goderich to the airfield, a distance of 11 miles, was a two-hour drivel with 15 extra provincial police officers at- tempting to keep the line mov- ing. Eating places in the town were doing land-office business. Hotels were pecked, but most of the human flood consisted of one -day 'visitors and the major- ity staying overnight Were able to ,find accommodation in cab- ins and private Haines." All that is needed:to make the International at 'Seaforth the best ever is weather accord ing to plowing match officials. - Demand for exhibition space ire the Tented City is at a new high and there is increasing -in- terest in every class Gordon McGavin, eQ-chairman of the Huron sponsoring committee said. "Preparations are well ad- vanced in every area and while wet weather this week has created some problems there is no doubt we are going to have a, record match," he said. intermittent showers have de - leered construction .of some ex- hibits but work,.has been sched- uled) so that despite weather all preparations will be com- plete well ahead of opening date,. High winds on Tuesday toppl- ed two large tents that were being erected but the work-• men were quick to replace the damaged tents. . Ireland Represented An indication of the Interna- tional aspect of the match was in evidence Monday when Rich- ard Wright one of the competi- rived in town with his fatbet He is spending the weell prac tiling at the McGavin farm, - Electrical installations at the match 'site are well advanced: The • work is a co-operative :ef- fort of all the eiectrzcal cop- tractors in Huron operating through a special committee of the Huron electrical service - league, headed by Frank Kling. In all nearly 300 separate ser• vices will be required in the. 'Tented City, each involving a separate pole. A total of 70 (Continued on Page 4) Ready For Plowing Match Visitors A PROGRAM THAT had its beginning more than two years ago neared a successful --conclusion this week as members of the Seaforth Women's Institute prepared cook books for distribution at the Plowing Match. Advance sale of the books were such to make neces- sary a second printing, Here Mrs. Lorne Lawson, (left) Mrs. L. Strop"g, 'Mrs. J. McLean, Mrs. W. Coleman and Mrs: W. T. Strong take part in a bee placing the blue and gold covered books in envelopes. (Expositor photo by Phillips). Town Accepts PA System dor Use of Community Seaforth Council, Monday eve- ning accepted a public address system As a Centennial gift to the community from the form- er Seaforth Highland, Band. In making the presentation, D. Sills of the former Highland band said 1700 remained when the band disbanded which had been accumulated through gifts and concert proceeds.. Former members of the band had de- cided to present the amplifier with nine speakers, power unit, turntable, recording, machine, feeling such a system would be unique and that it would be of use to the townspeople and to organizations. It was suggested any organization using the pub- licaddress system might don- ate to an amount of $5 or $10 for maintenance or to buy rec- ords. Reeve Carl Dalton said the band .members should be com- plimented on the purchase and Mayor Flannery expressed thanks on behalf of the town. Mr. Sills was asked, about the instruments used by the Band and he said they belonged to the town and were stored up- stairs. Questioned about special lighting for the Plowing Match he, said colored Iights are now being put up. Councillor Betty Cardno won- dered about the Band Shell and what use might be made of it and Councillor G. Hildebrand suggested it could be put down in the Lions Park and used as a permanent grandstand. A letter from R. J. Boussey, secretary of the volunteer Fire Brigade asked • that the grant for twenty firemen - now $100 per man per year, be increased to $150. Councillor H. Donald,. son asked if 'any'one knew how many men were on the active roll of the brigade. He said he had not been-, able to see the roll and felt that as chairman of the committee he should know. Mr. Hildebrand. saidthat there were 20 firemen and the chief.. He said each fireman is given '$100 per year and if a meeting is missed or if a fire- man does not sign in for a fire then he is fined and this is put in .a "kitty". A!`the end of the (Continued on Page 4) Former Citizen Aids Hospital Project Anxious to have a part in the creation of the New Seaforth Community Hospital, a former resident, now a successful landscape contractor in Michigan, asked the board if he could contribute towards landscaping the hospital grounds. The board was quick to take up the offer and about a year ago, Louis S. Flannery, brother of Mayor Flannery of town, arrived here with his design specialist and worked out a planting plan. Last week the job was completed. Acting on the advise of Mr. Plannery the board had purchased front a . Petrolia Nursery, necessary trees, bushes and shrubs — 422 pieces in all -- and Mr. Flannery, accompanied by a crew of three arrived across the border to carry out the planting pro- gram a his contribution to the hospital. Here as the task was being finished Harry Potter, hospital maintenance supertiis-- or, hospital administrator, Miss V. Drope and Mr. Flannery check ane of the shrubs that had been planted along the driveway to the hospital. (Exp'ositor photo 1 y Phillips), •