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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARY 12, 1967
Battle 'Against TB Still *Vital
The Huron County Tuberculosis As-
sociation is spending about $13,000 a
year in its fight against TB. This mon-
ey comes from the annual Christmas
Seal Appeal.
This is the minimum amount, neces-
sary to ensure a continuance of the pro-
gram of chest x-rays, of education and
other means adopted to seek out and
eradicat the disease. Yet despite the
need, the campaign so far this holiday
season has produced only $11,500.
Across the county in many homes are
'packets of ' Christmas seals carefully
put aside until there is a convenient
moment. in which to mail a cheque. The
intention is good but people have been
just too busy.
The importance of continued partici-
pation in the TB program is brought
home by a recent reference in the Bea-
con -Herald who has this to. say.
"It has nothing to do with ploughing,
but a rather startling statistic came
out of the International Plowing
Match held near Seaforth in October.
and
Huron Count
The Perthy Tuber-
culosis AasoCiati'ons had a mobile x-ray
unit there and offered a free chest x-
ray to anyone who asked for it. A total
of 772 people took advantage of the
free service..
This was the startling result:
When the medical specialists had
completed 'their examination of the x-
rays, they found that 45 of the 772 had
.chest conditions :that made further
medical examination advisable. The 45
persona were so informed. Of the 45
having abnormal chest conditions, two
were described as having "urgent need"
of medical" attention.
The fact that 45 had chest conditions
that warranted further medical exami-
nations does NOT .mean that they were
all suffering from tuberculosis. The re-
port does mean that those 45L chests
New Liberal Lead
did not look like normal healthy ones.
These 45 people might have tuberculo-
sis conditions or other lung diseases or
they might indeed have no present ill-
ness."
If we apply the same ratio, namely
45 out of 772, to the entire population
of Huron County, we get a total of per-
haps 3,000 people with chest abnormali-
ties.
Now is the time to dig out the TB
letters and mail your contribution to
The Huron TB Association, Post Of-
fice Box 100, Seaforth. Only in this
way can work of the association be
maintained.
Loss To Area
The sudden death Sunday of James
Edward Keating removed a Seaforth
businessman who since he established
himself in Seaforth more than forty
years ago has made a substantial con-
tribution to the town:• • •
Taking, over a long established drug
business, :he used it as a base'ram
which he participated in a wide variety
of community activities. He was a char-
ter member of the Lions Club, active
in fraternal organizations and for thir-
teen 'years, including two year ` in
which he was mayor, he served the
community on . the municipal council.
As a veteran of the First War, during
which he 'was severely wounded he was
active in advancing the interests of ser-
vicemen of two wars.
Interested in people, Keat, as he was
known to a wide circle of friends and.
acquaintances in the many fields in
which he was active,'was an enthusiast
in everything he undertook. His op-
tomistic outlook served as an encour-
agement to all with whom he was as-
sociated,
•
er Faces Challenge
Selection of Robert Nixon as. leader."
of" the Liberal Party in Ontario brings
to the provincial political scene a young
man of pronounced ability and with a
solid background in parliamentar"y re-
quirements.
During the years he has been in the
legislature, Mr. Nixon has been quietly
competent. His recognition of the nec-
• essity of • homework has made him
knowledgable'af the wide facet of prob-
lems facing Ontario today. His back-
ground — his father was the last Lib-
eral premier in Ontario and for 42 years,
represented Brant in the legislature
is such that he possesses a ready under-
standing of the steps necessaryto. poli-
ticaI success.
The • circumstances leading to the
leadership convention, made necessary
by the illness of Andrew Thompson, • are
regretted across the province. Under
most circumstances a new leader, 'giv-
en responsibility at such a time and fac-
ed, as appears to be the case, with an
early election,, could be expected to look
to the future with some doubts.
But that is not the situation as far
as Mr. Nixon is concerned. While it is
true his election was not contested, de1e.'
gates crowded the facilities of the Roy-
al York Convention Hotel, indicating a
wide interest in the leadership and
What the future may bring. The dedi-
cated enthusiasm of the gathering may
well suggest a success which cannot
but provide encouragement to Mr. Nix-
on.
As a basis for his appeal to the voters,
Mr. Nixon in his acceptance address set
out tasks which a Liberal government
Would ' undertake; these presumably
would forth,,the basis oi' his barty'a plat-
form in the ,forthcoming election.
A Liberal government, he•said, would
Ensure basic family health, educa-
tion and Welfare,
-
introduce reform to restore faith
in --Ontario. business and finance.
—Lead an effective program to over-
come pollution of •our air and water.
—Provide equality of education op-
portunity .for all.
—Ensure that all share economic de-
velopment.
—Preserve our agricultural resources
—Appoint an Ombudsman to safe-
guard , personal rights and liberties.
—Transfer more welfare, education
and administration of justice costs to
the provincial level.
—Encourage young people to enter
public service.
Economize on government expense
starting with reform of the cabinet and
legislature.
Places Blame •
The Aylmer Express gives some well-
deserved publicity to the remarks of
John Lowes of Peterborough, . made re-
cently. Says the Express, quoting Mr.
Lowes':—
"Much of the blame for high auto-
mobile insurance rates in Ontario rests
with young nuts who shouldn't be driv-
ing and with the gutless politicians
who are afraid to put these drivers off
the road.
"Mr. Lowes should know for he is the
president of the Ontario Insurance
Agent's Federation and they keep the.
score.
"Drastic measures are the only way
to reduce highway casualties. This has
been proven by the air patrols launch-
ed a year ago and which have reduced
the' accident rate 'as mush, as 48 per-
cent. in . some sections of the province:
Where these patrols sre operated the
drivers realize they may be under
scrutiny and they obey .the laws."
In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor
Jan. 16, 1942
Friends • to the number of
nearly one hundred .gathered
- at the Seaforth Armouries to
honor Mr. and . Mrs. Joseph
Burns, who were recently.. mar-
ried. •
Helen Aberhart, daughter . of
Capt. William Aberhart and
Mrs. Aberhart of Mitchell, frac-
tured
rac-
tu ed 'her leg about two inches
a
ve the ankle While at the
rink. Helen wasoing into the
dressing room When the heel of
her skate caught and her feet
was twisted. '
Mrs. Charles Wright, who cele-
brated her 83rd birthday n
New Year's day, established, n
enviable r o during ec rd urx 1,
g I,
when, -she knit a :total_of.151.
articles for the Red Cross. Mrs.
Wright lives with her niece,
Mrs. M. White, 'East William St.
Members of the Seaforth Leg-
ion
egion at.. their annual meeting re -
'elected president John Earle to
another year in office. Other of-
ficers
fficers elected are: , past presi-
dent G. D. Ferguson; president, -
John Earle; hon. vice-president
Dr. J. A. Munn; first' vice-presi-
dent A. Muir;. second vice-presi-
dent R, Harrison; treasurer J.
A. Westcott; secretary B. 0.
Muir; sergt. at arms, William
Smith; pensipn officer C. P,
Sills; hon. chaplain Canon E.
Appleyard.
Mr. Lloyd Elliott of Hibbert
was appointed as caretaker for
the township hall for 1942.
One of Dublin's octogenarians
in the person of Mrs. Margaret
Murphy celebrated her 89th•
birthday at her .home on Rag-
lan St. She teas married to John
Murphy 67 years ago andthey
resided on the farm in Hibbert
until 1015 when they retired to
Dublin.
Mr. Cooper Forrest of Zurich
has purchased the 50 acre farm
on the 4th concession Hay, from
Harry Ricker estate and ,gets
possession March lst. •
Mr. and Mrs, Menno. Jackson,
Morris Township, celebrated
their 30th wedding anniversary
by entertaining 25 of their
neighbors to a turkey and cluck
supper. °
While the weather is, per-
haps the oldest topic of conver-
sation, it has never yet become
so old as to be out worn. We
do not need to be told about
the weather of last week. Usual-
ly our winter blizzards are sat-
isfied with three" days. Last
week . was different; commenc-
ing with the first Sunday in thet
new year it started to blow a
little and get cold. Each suc-
ceeding day it blew a little more
and got a little colder, until the
following Saturday morning it
was 10 degrees below zero, with
visibility, at times absolutely
nil, even.in town.
Hay Township unit of the
Federation of Agriculture held
a largely attended annual meet-
ing at Zurich when guest speak-
ers included Archie Morgan of
Usborne and A. Stewart of 11-
derton. The meeting elected. R.
M. Peck, Zurich as president
and W. R. Rougall, Hensel, viee-
president.
Among Seaforth soldiers ov-
erseas who recently spoke on
radio broadcasts from England
were Capt. F. C. Crich and S
Ronald McPherson. Both wer
heard very distinctly. Pte. J s.
Barry also is scheduled to sp ak.
Messrs. Curran and Bigggs,
Toronto contractors, who ince
early in December have een
engaged in placing a new or
on Silver Creek bridge, opp
site the Lions Park, have com-
pletedtheir job and renioved
their equipment.
* 1'
From The Huron Expositor
Jan, 19, 1917
W. 11, Willis of Wingham,
formerly of Seaforth, has been
engaged as organist of the
Presbyterian Churbh, Wingham,
and is now attending to his
duties.
Mr. Alex Sproat of Kippen Was
in Toronto where .he =chased
a #'esidenee and Mr. and Mrs,
Sproat .and family will leave
shortly for the city where they
will reside.
Mr. Mathew Clark of Tucker -
smith, delivered to our stock
yards, hogs that netted him
$615,
Mr. Arthur Nicholson of
Tuckersmith guessed the near-
est to the correct weight of the
candy cane, 'donated by the
Olympia Restaurant' to the Sea -
forth. Red Cross. The carie
weighed 8% pounds and the
Proceeds Were 45.40.
Mr. Joseph Dorsey left for
Orillia 'Where he has accepted a
Position With Mr. S. Mullett of
this town."
At' the— annual meetin gof
Duff's Church,, McKillop ot'fie-
ials named for the ensuing
year are treasurer, James: Kerr;--
auditors;
err;auditors; F. Fowler and W.
Scott; managers F. McKercher,
S. Smith and A. Henderson;
trustees R. Habkirk, R. Forrest
and M. Murdie; collectors A. 0.
Henderson, F. Fowler, R. Hogg
and R. Forrest.
Mr. Thomas MacKay had a
successful bee cutting wood,
Mr. henry Peacock of Tuck-
ersmith has sold his farm,
stock and implements to Mr.
Lorne Tyndall of Hullett.
Messrs. William Rogerson,
W. Layton, A. Pepper and F,
Pepper have been drawing cem-
ent•gravel in order to make
improvements to their farm
buildings next summer.
Mr. Beck, who bought the
timber on . the south Half of
lot 5, con. 8, Tuckerssmith, hag'
a number of teamsters busy
hauling to Hensall. Those who
are teaming are Messrs. John
and Robert Elgie, James Hay,
John and Alexander McMillan
and Charles and Oliver MacKay.
At a well attended meeting
held in Cardno's Hall,' a liter-
ary society was organized for
the winter months with the fol-
lowing officers: president A.
CXithill; vice-president, Robert
Scarlett; secretary Mabel 'Bul-
lard; treasurer, Lorna Harn.
Mr. John Flynn of Beechwood
has accepted a. position in G.
K. Holland's store.
Mr. John S;cott,,,.of Roxboro,
delivered in toWn three head of
cattle for which he received the
record price of $410. They were
purchased by the well known
shipper Mr. P. O'Suliivan.
* * *
From The Huron Expositor
Jan. 15, 1892
Mr. William McIntosh of Mc-
Killop delivered to J. H. Mc-
Dougall, a live two year old,
that weighed 235 pounds. It
shows that Mr. McIntosh is a
feeder. It was sold at four cents
per pound.
The Misses Case of Silver
Creek have the nobbiest rig in
town. It consists of a pair of
Shetland ponies attached to a
neat. cutter.
Mr. 1Vlithael,Murdie of McKil-
lop is . busily engaged drawing
bricks for the erection of .a new
brick residence on his farm, He
purchased them at the Crediton
brick yards and is having them
shipped to Seaforth'by train.,
Mr. George Patterson of Shel-
don, North Dakota and fornier-
ly of Hullett is visiting old
friends in Huron.
A new floor has been -laid in
the Commercial Vote]. Bili` oth-
er improvements are under *ay.
' Mr.. Wilfred' Woods and Mr.
Charles Wooda, 'a Weeds
a of
the 'Eitpositor office, Ties been
appointed manager of the Bril-
liant Sign Letter , Company of
Baltimore, at a salary of $t,200•
a year.
Again death has been in the
midst of Egmondville and has
carried off Mr. John Collins,
who died . of la grippe. He was
86_.years of age. He was' buried,
according to his last wish, un-
der the spreading branches of
the beautiful maple tree, be-
neath which he so often set in
the Egmondville cemetery.
The . educational department
have notified Mr. W. McQueen
of Brucefield that he was a
successful candidate at the re-
cent examination of the school
of pedagogy..
Messrs. Cook Bros. of the
Hensall Flouring Mills report
business rushing and say that
an advertisement in the Exposi-
tor for wheat or clover seed tells
Mr. James Jarrott of Hensall
is getting the material' on the
ground for the erection of his
new dwelling. '
As is customary, the young
people, of the Cromarty neigh
borhood.-had a grand time on
New Year's, night, all being in -4
vited tothe' home of Mr. James
Gillespie. No pains were spared
to make the time lively.
Mr. Simon McKenzie, of Tuck-
ersmith is busy drawing mater-
ial for his, new house which he
intends to build next summer.
Mr. William McCloy of the
14th concession of Tuckersmith
near Chisellturst, has taken out
an auctioneer's licence for the
county.
The sleighing is excellent,
just enough snow 'falling every
evening to keep it all that
would be desired.
Mr, C. W. Papst has purchas-
ed the store recently occupied .
by Mr. John Beattie, and which
was the scene of the late fire.
He pays $2,300 and have it
fitted up for his own use.
"The next five minute portion pf this program is brought
ttt
yon -by:' 'the Zest beer company, Atlas Cigarettes, Better
Poods, General Cosmetics. 'international Insurance and
Crops -Country Mr Lines."
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and pice.
.-- By Bill Smiley —
THOSE WONDERFUL, YEARS was a day of desperation. No
. By the time this appears in news, no editorials written, no -
print, I expect that 1 shall have body wanted to buy an adver-
sevexed an association of 17 tisement that early in the week.
years with the weekly news- The linotype operator was get -
paper business. And it is not ting owly because you couldn't
without some sadness that I do keep him busy and he knew
so what was coming..
Sometimes it seems that our Tuesday, the pace accelerated
life is governed by accident, rapidly. The news began to
that we have very little control
over it. two sparkly editorials. You
Pour in. You madly dashed off
. Had ',the war lasted a few tried to make a sensible story
months longer, had I taken a of the donnybrookat last
different course at university, nigh council tneeting. You
or gone to a different college, I hit the street and sold ads,
would not have met my wife. whether it was raining or snow -
And had I not met that particu-
ing or blasting hot.
lar giri at the particular time, Wednesday was even moreso.
I would never have been in the Complaints, ,callers, classified
newspaper business, nor would ads piling in, and the inevitable
I be writing this camp, merchant waltzing in, after the
Accident again took a hand. deadline, with a big ad youWe were in the city. I had en- simply hadn't room to print.
rolled in a post -graduate course Proof-reading away behind.
in English. University teaching People in looking for free Ptah -
in
the objective. Hefty. ' People in just to dad
Came the tragic news that about town affairs, or their
my brother-in-law (on my
wife's' side) had been drowned
in a boating accident. He owned
a weekly newspaper.
We hastened to the scene, to
be of what comfort we could.
And I pitched in, as ignorant as
keep the paper going for a
week or two; until other ar-
rangements were made. Eleven
years later, I was still there.
From the -beginning, I was
fascinated. This was better than'
the world of Chaucer and Spen-
ser and the Romantic poets, the
whole fleece -lined world of the
scholar. This was. life. •,
There was an exciting tempo
to it that suited me. Monday
TO THE EDITOR
Thanks!
grandchildren.. And the lino@
type operator, dangerous to the
point of being lethal, within a
radius .of 12 feet of his Ma-
chine. Work often till midnight,
putting the sheet to bed.
Thursday was decision day.
Too many ads. Can we leave
this one out? Too much coun-
try correspondence. Which re-
porter will be least infuriated
if we leave her stuff till next
week? Short a column of front
page news. Where can we•.dig it
up? The photos haven't. arrived.
Rush to the bus station; see if
they're' in.
But by about 10.30 a.m., she
was on the press, and the com-
forting thump and rumble of
the old machine was reward
enough for all the scrambling.
There was solid satisfaction in
folding, stamping and maWng
the finished product. You felt
as good as though you'd Fust
Once again our Annual Appeal
wtettcompleted and we are happy to
dec'siled an alligator to a split
for funds in Huron, Middlesex At any rate, I was hooked.
and Perth Counties has been Formed a partnership with one
of the printers, and we bo t
announce that there has been an ,
increase in the monies raised, the thing. We didn t Fdi3$ O
On behalf of CNIB, we would cents apiece. But we W'2fit")lilt
like_to .express our appreciation
like a couple of, pirates, filtwev
to those who so- kindly gave of—er' `friend_ ,and .relative 'Ave
knew, scratched . up the dawn
their time and effort in assist-
ing us with the campaigns. To.
those who so generously ,con-
tributed to the CNIB appeal, our
heartfelt thanks. We can as-
sure them that their dollars will
be put to good use in providing
services to the blind of their
communities.
It• may be of interest to every-
one to know that in Seaforth and
district the proceeds of •the 1966
campaign were $667.00, which
is most gratifying.
We would like to extend our
sincerest thanks to the various'
news media of the district for
their generosity and excellence
of publicity which supported our
1966 Appeal for funds.
Sincerely,
Jack Clements;'
District Field Secretary
• E. C. Boswell,
Campaign Chairman.
payment, outbid every competi-
tor because we had nothing to
lose, and took on what *as
probably the biggest mortgage
onany weekly newspaper on
the continent.
They were great fun, those
first few, years. There wasn't
much caviar or champagne. Ev-
ery spare nickel went into the
debts. But we made it, and
made a host of. good friends
among weekly editors on the
way.
But I can tell you that run-
ning a weekly newspaper is one
of the goughest games in town. ,
Holidays are almost unknown.
Long hours are the rule. Some-
body is always sore at you. And
you'll never be rich.
I'll miss it.. Some of it. And
I'll always. have warm memo-
ries of it. But I hope to keep In
touch through this column,
Which will continue as usual.
"Can I have a taste of yours?"
"And we'll have enough left for 4 candy bark!"