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The Huron Expositor, 1967-03-09, Page 1108th Yea Whole N. 5166' • SEAFQRTH, ONTARIO, T '► AY, mARCII 9, 1967 10 WAGE$ AA Stzt8le. Copes • • Dublin Institute Recalls' The. Past ti Canada's Centennial played a prominent part when Dub- lin Women's Institute, met Tuesday at the home of Mrs. John Nagle in Dublin; Not only were members dressed in gowns of past years, but the program included a display of antique furniture. Seated, left are Mrs. Harold Pethick, Miss Mary .t O'Connor with her mother's wedding dress and her grand- mother's wedding bonnet of 1846, Mrs, John Nagle, • Mrs. Joe Dorsey; (standing) Mrs. Bill Smith, Mrs, R. S. Aikens, Mrs. Berb. Britton and Mrs. Charles Friend. (Expositor photo by Phillips.) OIIP1AI. Officials Liked M.atch Arrangernents In reporting to the recent ar<- nual meeting of the Ontario Plowmen's Association at Tor- onto, F. A. Lashley, the gener- -aLmanager reviewed the 1966 International at Seaforth. • This is how Mr. Lashley re- garded the arrangements made by the Huron Committee: In presenting its 55th annual report, the ' Ontario Plowmen's Association has every reason to feel proud of its achievements. While theactivities of the past year were marred with unfavor- able weather for the holding of plowing matches, particularly the International, interest in these fall events continues to grow, Competitive plowing aim- ed at perfection attracts nit only farm operators, but people in many other}fields -of endeav- or. Like. Fairs and Exhibitions, plowing matches also provide a means of demonstrating and displaying practically every type of equipment used on a farm. The success of these events, while often rained out, is the result of careful organizing and planning by officers and direc- tors, This is especially true in case of . Local . Committees und- ertaking ing to host the Internation al. • The James Scott Farm at Seaforth was a most suitable site for the Staging. of the 53rd International Plowing Match and Farm' Machinery Demonstration, A special effort had been made previously by •the farm owner to have ideal sod for the Tented City area. It had been seeded with a good grass mixture and' was regularly clipped to assure .good solid footing. Everything possible had been done to re- inforce the soil so that it would stand up under normal weather :conditions: •fo the tramping it would receive from 'the 300 ex- hibitors and the thousands of visitors: expected to attend. Mr. Scott and his son Bill, also their very co-operative neighbors, could not have done more' to make our people feel : at home: They were ideal hosts. The same can be truly said of the Huron County Council, the Mc- Killop Township Council, the Town Council of Seaforth and the Lodal Committee, headed jointly by Messrs. Gordon Mc - Gavin and Larry Snider and their richt hand man, Mr. Doug. Miles, Agricultural Rep- resentative. Unfortunately all the careful Beardless ' Face Offense- - In Hensall It is an offense for any Hen- ,sall male over 18 years- to be clean shaven between March 1 .arid July 1, "•1967, without pur- chasing- a shaving' permit for $1. The penalty for not having a permit will be 15 minutes spent in a stock to be built in front of the Town Hall, Hensall, in July. • - Hensall Council Monday night endorsed a' decision of the Cen- tennial committee and gave of- ficial blessing to --the Centennial beard growing project, P. L. McNaughton and Nor- man Jones were present at the meeting on behalf of the Agri- cultural Society requesting per- mission to build a cattle shed at the . Park. The request was granted. The Clerk •was instructed to write the Attorney General with regard to policing under the new system. A building permit for Charles Wilson, to build a new cltim- ney, was approved. The Clerk was instructed to make application to the. De- partment of Highways on road expenditures for 1967 for main- tenance, $2,000, construction, $6,000. The construction to be matte on York Crescent. E. R. Davis was appointed weed inspector for 1967. Council set Wednesday; Mar. 29th, . for a meeting with the surrounding municipa,sties re- garding fire agreements, planning for "the big event • by the Local Committee, which be- gan as far back as 1961, was seriously interrupted by most unfavorable weather conditions. Rain on the opening day result- ed in the management extend- ing the Match into Saturday, making it five days in place of the usual four. ' Because of frequent showers and extremely muddy conditions which prevailed, some of the events had to be cancelled. One of these was the daily parade. Muddy conditions in parking areas forced a chane in the arrangements. Substitte fields on drier land were brought in- to use including township roads and the streets of Seaforth for parking of. care. Most exhibitors and 'food caterers had to final- ly leave their cars outside of Tented City and walk in through the mud or be towed in and out. • It was most fortunate that the admissioncharge had been set at $1 per person with free parking. • Despite such unusual difficulties the attendance was estimated to be 70,000. It would certainly have been twice this figure had weather been nor- mal. Entries in Plowing Horse Tract. Tot. Tues., Oct. 11, .. -12 135 147 Wed., Oct. 12 •12 136 148 Thurs., Oct'. 13 -11 ' 139 150 Fri., Oct. 14 10 137 147 • • 45 547 592 (Continued on Page 4) Couple Wed 57 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. David Papple of North Main Street, will quietly observe their fifty-seventh wed- ding anniversary- on Thursday, Match 9.' Their family held a dinner in their honor at the Dominion Hotel in Zurich, on Sunday, with some from Brantford, Lon- don, Kitchener and Seaforth. They have a family of four sons, six daughters; thirty-one grandchildren and seven great- grandchildren. Celebrates 95th Birthday A. E. Spiller,• London and Hanover, of the Community Programs Branch, Department of Education, explained to rep- resentative of various organiza- tions of the town and area, the, benefits to the town and com-. nitunity and to people of all ages,- of _ having a Recreation Council formed and operating. Councillor George Hildebrand chairman of the town recrea- tional committee, chaired the meeting Monday evening. Attending were: Wilmer Cut- hill and Neil Bell of the Lawn Bowling. Club;. Cliff Broadfoot• and Keith Sharp, square danc- ing; Royce Macauley„ Curling Club; Earl , McSpadden and John Murphy, Agricultural So- ciety; Mrs. Gar Baker and Mrs. Leslie Habkirk, Figure Skating Club; Jack Eisler and Gus-Bous- sey, Legion; Len Ford, Arena citizens; and Mrs. Betty Cardno, Miss Mary Ann Weiler and Reeve Carl Dalton of the inter- im recreation committee. Miss Agnes Wallace, who celebrated her 95th ..birthday on Sunday is in good health and keeps in close touch with area events._ Miss Miss Wallace who re- sides at Kilbarchan Nursing Home, here, has recovered from an accident two years ago when she fractured her hip and now is able to get around without assistance. Huron Council Sets Meeting Huron County- Council will face a decision concerning an addition to Huron Pioneer Mu- seum when it convenes for its two-day March meeting, March 20, -and 21, Requests for added accommodation have . featured recent' reports of. the museum committee. • Council will discuss' budget items as they relate -to commit= tee'reports. The budget will be presented to the April session of •Councih - - Co-op Names Officers cation of all ages' to involve them in using leisure time in a butter way. If oranizations are not already independent, grants can be used to support theixr to become independent. As it now stands they are work- ing on a limited budget but then all 'financial support must go through councils' books to be eligible for grants. Through this method leaders - can be trained; for minor sports — hockey and ball, and for fig- ure skating and other forms of recreation. Courses are obtain- able all over . the province for leadership training and they come back to help you. A rec- reation committee or council would co-ordinate all organiza- tions in the area, both in pro - A recreation council must be established by bylaw to act, and be eligible for grants and its members must be appointed by council. Two .of its members must be members of council and its membership." may range from five to 12 Members., The meeting was unanimous in endorsing a proposal that a recreation council be formed. It was suggested next steps would be taken at next Mon- day's meeting of town council P; bylaw --would---receive two readings and then. be forward- ed to the Department of. Edu- cation through Mr. Spiller;. then returned to council for a third and final reading. "Recreation," said Mr. Spil=t ler, "is of main concern...and should • involve people of all ages. The primary concern is program • and facilities is an- other tool within your commun- ity to .be made use of to its fullest. There is an extensive program going on in. most com- munities;" he said. "Small town are getting into the picture, with perhaps a different type of pro- gram, but basically the, same groups with the basic principle the same.' • Members 'of the Seaforth Farmers' Co-operative, elected Joseph Lane and Oliver Pryce to the board of directors at the annual dinner meeting in Eg= mondvilleChurch hall, Thurs. Clay night.' They succeed Steve. Murray and John Oldfield. At a subsequent meeting of the board, Warden Haney was re-elected president., The vice- president is Lloyd Stewart and secretary Donald Dodds. Gor- don Elliott has bee named gen- eral manager seep tiding Fred Uearce, who continues with CO at Woodstock. ' - Snow Display Is Pupils at Egrnondvillp School took advantage of last week's 'snow storm to create their oto Centennial project. The school yard was transterizte4• into a clisfilay Of figures Which,' depleted tot only lila-Orient Canadian figures, but. also c lite tot :titre j'rbd -ti +tr, for * h Var20it9 itrbtrinr es are eritenniai `'' rojec' . " notedt wa's amazing how life -tike the figures *Ore" coin • - tnented Mrs Mattrieir 'txdor of Hensall, }furors Health Unit School Nurse, Who -sow the display at its peak before warm weati est set in att i Weekend, gramming and use of •facilities, In the near future there is a grant , forthcoming to school boards granting free use of school facilities, providing sup- ervision is -adequate. Someone ,has to take the responsibility and none, can do it better than such an organized committee and—he -warned—that -_it- isntt an easy job. A recreational dir- ector is not necessary hitt if there is one, he operates with- in the framework of the com- mittee. People need to be far sighted and ask, "Where are we go- ing? How can we make our com- munity attractive to hold our young people and keep our old- er citizens occupied and con- tented?" An organized recrea- tion committee also enttoarage#'; industry to settle; ilk,' tile`' ►ctaa, ;• as it offers advantages to; considering estakliislting , i dustry. Such an organic o1* a' potential for our-people'A ,axl ages to learn new (sklly.:,1 i a process of new learning,.` U „' Grants, he said, are based what is spent by a municipality '` for recreation, to a maxhnum of $6,000. The ,department' 400 not pay grants on loonies al- ready earmarked for - Ta,,inor sports or other activities must go through municipal books and auditors. Although not necessary, :a recreational director can serve a very definite purpose in aid- ing iding groups strengthen 'the (Continued' on Page 4) • The important thing is that recreation is informal ' educa- tion on a parallel to school edu- cation. The difference is mot- ivation. The parallel lines are •beginning to merge. We, have come a tremendous distance in 30 years and in the next 30• years, he said, progress will be four times as great. Within 10 years trains will be travelling 1,000 miles an hour, he fore- sees, and sees that ' satelIite, (perhaps two) cities may easily be _established in the Lake Er- ie and Huron areas. Relating this to the coming generation, he kaki 10 per cent- of the popu- lation will be needed to sup- ply all goods and services to 90 per cent. of the population. Recreation, not necessarily• all sports, is an enjoyable ex- perience. We have to think be- yond minor sports for children, he said. Our senior citizens are important- .., Taking minor hockey as an example, he asked, "What is the basic difference between hock- ey with a good coach and an educational program in school?" Each has a differntrespon- sibility but both are competi- tive learning. People learn to co-operate through recreation, the same as any program, Rec- reation is intellectual, social, physiological and physical -edu- cation but rural communities tend to sit back rather than act and take advantage of the op- portunity. Machines, he said, will soon be . able to produce food that cannot be recognized from the real thing - it has already been tried out. With very little cost, the ocean. floor can be develop- ed to Carry on mixed farming with the addition of oxygen on- ly. We will not then be con- cerned with the use of land. • A recreational council has a responsibility toward the edu- McKillop F of A Names Winners `Winners in the final McKil- lop F of A public speaking con- test were declared following a program at Winthrop Church. Named champions and to compete in the Legion contest at Seaforth are first Barbara Maloney, who received a travel- ling bag,and second Mary Claw- son-, who won a pen and pen - til' set. 'Photo were 16 contes- tants,. Meet 'The Minister of Agriculture - Exeter Legion Hall was crowded Friday, when the Huron Liberal Association welcomed. Hon. J. J. Greene, Canadian Minister of Agriculture. Here Mr. Greene chats with two Seaford' representatives, Garnet Stockwell (left) and'Gordon Wright. at a reception which preceded the dinner and meeting. (Exeter T -A photo), " Agriculture Policy Seeks Just Returns For Farmers A just return for the invest- ment farmers have in their op- erations is the objective of'pre- sent farm policies, Agricultural Minister J. J. Greene said Fri- day night, Speaking at the annual meet- ing of the ' Iiuron Liberal Asso- ciation in Exeter, he outlined steps which his department was taking and which he suggested would lead to a more realistic return particularly for the. dairy. farmer. Answering ' a question from the floor, he said the future of the industry will see a higher price structure and better gross income: He said the dairy farmer doesn't like to rely too much on income from the government. Speaking to an audience of nearly $00 which crowded the Exeter Legion Hall, he said one of the problems facing the industry is still the farmer with 10- to 20 •cows who is not run- ning an, efficient operation. He was optomistic concerning the future of the beef industry. He said that with •the growth in beef consumption both in Canada and throughout the world, it would be impossible to over -produce. Mr. Greene suggested it was up td the province to develop production of beef cattle' in Northern Ontario. The minister told the associa- tion a question facing the Lib- eral party of the future Was the advent of 'U.S. capital in the Canadian economy. Mr. Greene warned however, that if foreign investment was not available, Canadians would have to generate $17.000,000,- 000 in savings a year to make up the lack. • The meeting marked the in- auguration of the new Huron riding for federal purposes. The riding is increased by the addition of McGillivray,' Bid- dulph, Ailsa Craig and Lucan on the south and of Howiek, Turnberry and Wingham on the north. Changes in the association's constitution to reflect then en- larged riding were introduced by; 'A.' Y. (McLean and- - approved. President Wm. ' Elston, Wing - ham, presided for the meeting, Mr, Greene was introduced by Peter Raymond of Exeter, Head table guests were intra. duced by 1Mait Edgar, who con- tested the riding in the 1965 election. The association elected Gor- don McGavin, Walton, president to succeed Mr. Elston. Mr.,. Mc- Gavin contested the riding in 1963. • Other officers elected with the adoption of a nominating committee report presented by D. J. Murphy, Goderich, •were: Vice-presidents, Ross Tiick- ey, Exeter; James Taylor, Hen- sal1;,;MaxJ1arper, Goderich; Wm. Leiper, Jr., Hullett; John Broad - foot, Tuckersmith; Calvin Kreu- ter, Brussels; Colin Campbell, Wingham; Jack ,Fcosser, McGilli- vray; secretary HaroldR Shore, • Goderich; 'treasurer, Ivan- Kalb - Zurich; ;advisory'' coin, 'mittee, Howard Atkins, Gode- rich; Earl Campbell, Hensalt; ' George Ingles,.-•,Clifford; Noel Laporte, St. Joseph; D. J. Mur- phy, Goderich; Robert Simpson,, Port Albert;Ephriam Snell, Hut: lett; Harry 'Strang, Usborne; B, W. Tuckey, Exeter. Seaforth • Native Plays - 500th Game A well known Seaforth hock- j ey player was honored recent ly in Greensboro, N. Carolina, when he completed 500 games with the Greensboro Generals. Ron Muir, son of Mr. and Mrs: Gordon Muir, Seaforth, has been with the team since 1960. •A fellow player. Garry Sharp, also completed 500 games and' was honored in a joint cere- mony. • The Greensboro Daily News in a story following the event •;avq• "Fans Haid, tribute to Ron Muir and Garry Sharp of the .Ireensbnro Generals, Friday Flight. showering the two play- ers with gifts during the gang a^ainst Johnstown at the Coli - Both Muir and.Sharp played their 500th game in a Greens- boro uniform in December. Muir and •his family received a television set from the Club. and $harp and his family • a stereo set. The major gift from the fans were color oil portraits of each player. Their teammates presented them with gold watches. Other gifts included free 30 minute telephone calls to their families in Canada, plaques from the Greensboro Youth Ice Hockey program, golf shoes, clubs and balls, clothing, jewel- Iety, luggage, flowers and can- dy. Television station W?Mlt re- corded the proceedings and Will give each family a duplicate In an earlier story, the Daily News told of plans for the special night and recalled the years Ron Muir had spent with the club. "One week from today, Ron ' Muir will play his 500th.. game for the • Greensboro Gener=als.• And •Garry Sharp will play bis 5001h, January R. In recogni- (Continued on Page 5) n 7177, W: