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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JUNE 4, 1964
Time To Plan
Seaforth Centennial
Canada will celebrate her Centennial
in 1967 and the National Centennial
Committee in considering suitable ways
of marking 'the event has placed em-
phasis on local participation in the pro-
vision of facilities of a permanent na-
ture. •
As an encouragement to municippali-
ties to begin now to_plan a permanent
centennial memorial, the Federal and
Provincial Governments each contri-
bute $1.00 for each resident of a given
town or township. In the case of Sea -
forth, the grant will amount to about
$4,500, and to receive this Seaforth
also must agree to contribute $1.00. per
person and make an application before
August 1st of this year.
It is at this point that a problem
May arise. With less than .two months
left before application must be filed,
little has been done 'towards determin-
ing on a project. In other municipali-
ties across Canada, various means have
been adopted to arrive at a decision.
In some cases, councils have establish-
ed contests or held public meetings to
discuss the merits of various projects.
In other cases, a committee of council
has; studied the matter and made a re-
commendation. Still other councils
have sought recommendations from the
local planning board:.
Discussed briefly at the February
meeting of council, the Seaforth cen-
tennial project• was referred to a com-
mittee named by the late Mayor -Dins-
more. In naming the committee, he
suggested a local project should be de-
cided on, and inquired whether it could
be fitted into the new hospital program.
Since that time there has been no fur-
ther discussion in council.
If Seaforth is to take its place with
other centres across Canada in observ-
ing the Centennial__occasian by the pro-
visionof a permanent facility, early
action must be taken. There may be
many suggestions as to what wouldbe
to the best advantage of Seaforth citi-
zens. Each must be considered on its
merits and weighed carefully. It is not
only a matter of deciding on the nature
of the project, but also involved is the
preparation of plans and estimates
which must accompany the applica-
tion. All this takes time, and time is
running out.
While a decision concerning a cen-
tennial project is of some urgency if
Seaforth is to benefit from available,
grants, there are in addition other mat-
ters to which. consideration should be.
given before many weeks have passed.
These include decisions concerning the
centennial celebration itself, whether
it will be local in its nature or carried
out by a group of neighboring munici-
palities, or perhaps at the county level.
Certainly the appointment of a com-
mittee of interested citizens to investi-
gate and prepare .proposals . would, be
a step in the right direction.
Look Well Before
"If you don't a want,- can't afford it,
or don't need it, don't buy it". By it-
self such . a suggestion seems quite un-
necessary and perhaps a little foolish,
but believe us, the warning is still ap-
parently necessary, according to the
Acton Free Press.
"Talking with a police official this
week andhe suggested it was amazing
what people really didn't want but end-
ed up buying or signing long-term fi-
nancing contracts.
"At the root of the problem seemed
to be the overwhelming feeling, on the
part of the -`suckers' that they were go:
ing to get something for nothing: Now
after some trying experiences, which
inevitably include running to the police
crying fraud, the individuals are much
wiser and much poorer.
"Pamphlets mailed out to homeown-
ers offering free this or free that, for
some seemingly innocent action, usual-
ly trigg the series for events that fol-
low. nce they have your name you
become a prospect. Once you become
a' prospect you can count on it some-
one, with well prepared pitch and hun-
gry eyes, -is only a short distance from
your pocketbook.
"By this time it is important that you
not be rushed into signing -anything.
And this is ,often where the difficulty
develops. Limited time offers and all
sorts of gimmicks are introduced to put
You . Sign
the pressure on for an immediate sig-
nature,- sometimes even on an uncom-
pleted contract.
"If you overcome the first hurdle of
panic you've got time to check out 'some
of the promises as well as the contract.'
Sure, a lawyer will charge you to read
it and give an opinion, but it may be a
worthwhile investment now, -rather
than later. If the cold, critical eye of
the lawyer reduces the thing to a poor
deal, you've saved a lot of cash. If on
'the other hand it still looks o.k., you -
can go,`ahead with confidence.
"This is the season for home im-
provements and . all kinds of gimmick
deals: If youwant to be safe rather
than sorry, look them over carefully
and remember once you've signed you're
committed to a legal battle if you want
to get out of it. The police can't help
if you can't do much for yourself."
Look that dear over first. The safest
course is to deal only with those firms
that you know or are located in your
owrd. area. In the case of the Seaforth
district, the best assurance is the ad'
which you read in these columns_._You
can have confidence in Expositor ad-
vertisers.
We make ' a living by what we get,
but we make life by what. we give.—
Anonymous.
In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor
June 9, 1939
The clubhouse at the Sea -
forth Golf and Country Club is
now open for the season, with
Mrs. Patterson, of Woodstock,
in charge. As in past years,
lunches and meals will be avail-
able at the clubhouse.
Seaforth contributed its quota
of those who brought Strat-
ford's population of 75,000 on
Tuesday when Their Majesties
visited the city. Nearly 800
school children and 400 adults
entrained at Seaforth.
;; Billy Jack, 8 -year-old son of
Rev'. Hugh ffack and Mrs, Jack
of Seaforth, found every cloud.
has a silver lining on . Tuesday.
He was addressed by the Queen
as the King looked on and smil-
ed. -
The teacher that had the
-least worry at the Royal visit
was probably Miss Jessie Smith,
of SS No. 1, )Hallett, who wag
accompanied by only one pu-
pil. There are.17 Miss
Smith's schoiyl, but only one
Made the trip.
From The Huron Expositor
June 5, 1914
• Mr. William. Chesney, Tuck-
ersmith, showed us a stalk of
fall wheat, pulled from a patch
on his farm, on Saturday, which
measured 32 inches in length.
It was a fair average of the
whole crop in a patch of about
an acre and a half. It shows a
growth of about four inches
during the preceding week.
Wednesday was the King's
birthday. It was observed as• a
holiday in the schools and
banks. King George is 49
years of age.
The several committees in
charge of the great Firemen's
Tournament and Old Boys' and
Girls' Reunion, to take place in
Seaforth the first five days of
August, are busy and active,
and nothing is being left un-
done. Many .old Hurpnites
from' allparts of Canada and
the united States are expected
to meet here on that occasion,
Which will be memorable.
The cornerstone of the new
Conti cation school building in
D�tlxln will be formally laid on
Sunday, June 14, at 4 p.m,
A
From The Huron . Expositor
June 7, 1889
After raining more or less
for two ''weeks, the weather
seems to have settled down
with the change of the moon,
as we have now had one sun-
shiny day.
The roads are now very bad,
but they will soon dry up with
warm weather.
A correspondent wants to
know: "What , about the street
lamps? Have they been dis-
carded already, and why should
we be left in Egyptian dark-
ness before the electric light
has been begun to fizz?",
A new millinery opened out
this week at the Cheap Cash
Store of -Hoffman & Compapny,
in the Cardno Block, Seaforth.
Sharp & Livens' -have opened
a new grocery and provision
store on Main Street, Seaforth,
first store south of Kidd's Hard-
ware store. They have a com-
plete stock of groceries, crock-
ery, seeds and provisions.
Owing to cold wet weather
and severe frosts, the crops
Have not made much progress
during the past week. -
•
O Canada) Where pines and maples grow,
Great prairies spread, and lordly rivers flow,
How dear to us thy broad domain,
From East to Western sea,
Thou land of hope for all who tolil
Thou true North, strong and free)
v
A Macduff Ottawa Report
THE FLAG
OTTAWA—Parliament is fac-
ing a long and acrimonious de-
bate on the flag. It could drag
on for weeks. It appears it will
be bitter and emotional.
If Members of Parliament
dedicated to maintaining the
Red Ensign, carry out their
threats to mount a filibuster,
then the House of Commons
will see the discussion contin-
uing well into July. The Gov-
ernment 'call resort to closure
to end such a filibuster, but un-
doubtedly would refrain from
doing so after the experience
of the last Liberal Government
with closure on the pipeline fili-
buster.
The Government has . it. with-
in its power to extend the hours
of sitting, in the House by a
majority vote, It could, if nec-
essary, have the House sitting
all night and day to wear down
the opponents of a distinctive
flag. Indications are that in the
end the resolution for . a distinc-
tive flag will carry and the Lib-
eral minority Government will
not go down to defeat on this
issue.
Prime Minister Pearson would
like to see the distinctive flag
design approved by Parliament
in time to have -the new flag
flying from the Peace Tower on
Parliament gill by July 1, Dom-
inion Day. This may be pos-
sible, but is by no means assur-
ed.
The design proposed to Par-
liament by the Government
consists of a white flat with
three large maple leaves as the
central motif. It has azure blue
vertical bars at the fly and staff.
This is the design Prime Min-
ister Pearson favored.
The flag motion before the
House, also proposed to retain
the Union Jack to be flown in
Canada as a -symbol. of Cana-
dian membership in the. Com-
monwealth of Nations and of
Canada's allegiance ,• to the
Crown. The second motion, be-
fore the House, will • officially
authorize "0 Canada" as the
national anthem. It, also re-
quires that "God `Save the
Queen" .be recognized as the
Royal anthem in Canada.
Prime Minister Pearson, by
introducing a combined resolu-
tion, has aroused strong opposi-
tion from French Canadians `in
the opposition. They argue that
thej' cannot vote for the dis-
tinctive flag proposal without
voting to have the • Union Jack
continue to be flown also as a
symbol of Canadian member-
ship in the Commonwealth and
of Canadian's allegiance to the
Crown. This they don't like.
Opposition members from
Quebec in the Conservative
group are also prepared to take
a • strong stand against the
"package" resolution. There
may be attempts to amend it
to delete the reference to the
Union Jack. But Mr. Pearson
wants it made blear that in
accepting, the distinctive flag
for Canada we are not reject-
ing the Union Jack. There will
be a hard fight on this point.
The same applies to the reso-
lution recognizing "0 Canada"
as the official national anthem.
French Canadians on the op-
position side abject to the same
resolution recognizing "God
Save the Queen" as the Royal
Anthem in Canada. .
The Government's flag design
has been worked out by an in-
formal Government committee
studying the various designs
and determining, in the light
of the evolution of Canada's
armorial bearings, what would
be a correctt-flag for this coun-
try. Experts on heraldry work-
ing with the committee have
pointed out that. Canada's offi-
cial colors are red and white.
In 1868 the. new provinces of
Ontario and Quebec were as-
signed by royal warrant, arm-
orial bearings that showed gold
maple leaves on a green back-
ground in the case, of Ontario.
The Province of Quebec's arm-
orial bearings contained a
shield with green maple leaves
on a gold background.
Consequently 96 'years ago
the three maple •leaves conjoin-
ed on a single stem were given
official recogneition and legal
status as distinctly Canadian.
They were granted heraldic re-
cognition as symbolic, of Can-
ada. However, it was not until
November 1921, that Canada
as a nation was assigned by
royal proclamation armorial
bearings which included a white
shield with three red maple
leaves. This design was approv-
ed by heraldic experts because
it contained the official Cana-
dian colors red and white:
It is an interesting footnote
to history that when the arm-
orial bearings were formally
adopted by Canada, Prime Min-
ister Borden having no regard
for heraldry, expressed a dis-
like for the red maple leaves.
He suggested the leaves should
be green as depicting Canada as
a youthful country, rather than
red, which were a sign of "ma-
turity". At the insistence of
the then . Prime . Minister • the
armorial bearings appeared
with green, maple leaves instead
of the proper red leaves. But
by 1956 this. had been correct-
ed.
Her Majesty Queen- Elizabeth
incorporated the red leaves on
a white background as partof
her , personal flag. This sov-
ereign's flag has been formally
adopted and is flown when Her
Majesty visits Canada. This was
registered officially in 1962.
Consequently there is ample
historical evidence' ' that the
three red maple leaves on white
background should provide the
design for the official national
flag of Canada.
However; the informal com-
mittee produced three designs
for submission to the Liberal
Caucus and later to the cabinet.
The first design consisted of
a white field with the three red
maple leaves. The second de-
sign had blue bars at the fly
and mast, . symbolic of Canada's
motto, "A Mari Usque Ad Mare"
(From ,Sea to Sea). The third
design was identical to the new
postage stamp. It had three red
maple leaves on a pale blue
field.
The Liberal caucus and later
the cabinet, rejected the flag
with the pale blue field. Debate
concentrated on the white flag
with three red maple leaves
with and without the •blue ver-
tical bars. The Prime Minister
preferred the blue bars on the
flag as he argued it framed the
maple leaves and gave strength
.to the •:flag. '
Experts on heraldry contend-
ed that the flag to be absolute-
ly proper should have no bide
bars. But they conceded that
with the blue bars it carried
forward the Canadian assoeia-•
tion with the "red, white and
blue" , colors of her history.
They also conceded that the
blot—borders were symbolic of
the seas at both the .shores of
the Dominion. Cabinet finally
approved the flag with the blue
bars and Government artists
were .called in to prepare a
pictorial representation. -
Now it goes before the House
of Commons. Opposition Lead-
er John Diefenbaker and, sev-
eral of his supporters in the
House had indicated that they
prefer to retain the Red En -
a
TEAM'
•
THE HOME
sign for the present. They argue
that this is not the time to
plunge the nation into a boil-
ing controversy over adoption
of a distinctive flag that . will
serve to widen divisions be-
tween .English speaking and
French speaking Canadians. But
even in his own caucus Mr. Dief-
enbaker has encountered a
sharp division. The Quebec
leader of the party, Leon Bal-
cer, has made it clear that he
and other Conservative M.P.'s
from Quebec constituencies can-
not follow Mr. Diefenbaker in
support of the Red Ensign
against a distinctive flag.
Members of the New Demo-
cratic Party will practically all
go along with the idea of . a
distinctive new flag. So will
members of the Social Credit
party and the Creditistes on
the- opposition • side of the
House. Only two or three Lib-
erals will vote against the dis-
tinctive flag proposal.
But the question is, when
will it come to a vote? Dedi-
cated supporters of the Red
Ensign • who now realize that, it
is to be replaced by the pro-
posed new flag, with the Un-
ion Jack also to be flown on
special occasions, are prepared
to dig in, wrap themselves in
the "red duster" and go down
with all verbal guns blazing. It
should be quite a battle.
No Ladies Allowed
Faces were red around Ot-
tawa's posh Rideau Club ' the
other day when two Liberal
lady members of Parliament
appeared in response to a for -
al invitation from External Af-
fairs Minister Martin to attend
an official luncheon for UN
Secretary General U. Thant.
Somebody in Mr. Martin's of.
fice had overlooked the rigid
rule in the exclusive Club that
women' are not allowed in the
second floor sanctum until after
4 p.m. There is a 'dining room
for men and women on the
main floor. The dining room
and lounge on the second floor
is reserved for men during the
luncheon .period. Club officials
asked them please to leave the
second floor, and -they did so
smiling over Mr.. Martin's rue-
ful comment. Said he, "Here I
am fighting for the status of
women at the UN and this hap-
pens."
o * .*
.No Oil For Wheat
Trade and Commerce Minis-
ter Sharp has denied that any
negotiations are being carried
on between Canada and the
USSR under which this country
would accept Russian oil for
Canadian wheat. Such a pro-
posal was put ' forward as a
tentative suggestion by Soviet
officials during informal discus-
sions with Canadian business-
men. As far as the Canadian
Government is concerned, it is
not official.
by Wirth
"1 just scouted the other team. Want to
rabbit5s • tont'"
�r.
n4+ht ..i11D Y.:i:,
borrow my
Sugar and Spice
- By Bill Smiley
A SHOVEL FOR SYMBOL.?
I don't know how you feel
about it, but that "distinctive"
Canadian flag with the three
spindly maple leaves on it
makes me want to throw up.
I'd -like to see somebody ask
you to go out and fight and die
for it.
No, I'm not a Red Ensign
boy. The Red Ensign was a
makeshift, at best. It is too
confused with colonialism and
the merchant marine and the
Union Jack ever to be accept-
ed. If we MUST have a Cana-
dian flag, which I deny violent-
ly.
By the way,• I think the Cana-
dian Legion has had some pret-
ty shoddy • treatment from the
daily press because of its es-
pousal of the Ensign, andits
less -than -enthusiastic reception
of the `Prime Minister, at the
Winnipeg convention. •
What's wrong with an organ-
ization standing up for some-
thing it believes in? Every-
body else does it, from hog pro-
ducers to folk singers. But the
Legion was suddenly made the
butt of a vicious and' slanted
attack in certain dailies:
The men who did the dirty
work in two wars were surren-
ly catalogued as a group of re-
actionaries, or as one daily put
it, a "bunch of old soldiers,"
trying to tell the rest of Can-
ada what flag it should have.
This canard was climaxed by
a brutal cartoon by Duncan
MacPherson in the Toronto
Star, portraying the Legion-
naire as a bleary-eyed, beery -
nosed old blimp, clinging to
the past. Even ,the Star was
embarrassed by the cartoonist's
lack of taste.
• But this isn't a defence of
the Legion. It can look after
itself. It has a minority of old
boozers. So does the .yacht club
and the curling club and the
service club and the press club.
Before I finish this digres-
sion, let me ask a question.
What's wrong -with booing the
Prime. Minister? It may be im-
polite, but it's a heck of a lot
better than assassinating • him,
and I know he'd rather be
booed than defeated in office.
'At the same time, let me
express my admiration for Mr.
Pearson's courage in attacking
this flag fiasco, and doing it in
front of a body apposed to his
views. None of his three pre-
decessors had the guts to do it.
But to get back to what I
originally started to say, let's
get everybody sore at me and
get it over with. ' The whole
business of flags is a medieval
hangover, with juvenile over-
tones.
Men used to rally around
flags, in the days of hand-to-
hand combat because they were
trying to find somebody else
who was on their side.
War evolved (or degenerat-
ed, if you like) until the
stretcher-bearer became a lot
more heroic than the standard-
bearer.
If you want a bit of gay bunt-
ing, by all means go to it.
Hang up a rosy apple for the
Okanagan Valley, or a lobster_
for southeast Nova Scotia, or a
rampant oil well for Calgary,
and enjoy it. But a Canadian
flag -is an anachronism, in . the
first, place. And in the second
place, the -maple leaf, ' to me
and many another Canadian, is
just a dang nuisance that clut-
ters up my lawn in October.
The only possible symbol
that would represent the whole
of Canada is a snow 'shovel.
To The Editor. •
Clinton, June 1, 1964.
Sir: These days most people
are truly concerned about ade-
quate medical coverage. In
view of the recent flood of ma-
• terial on community medical
care•, plans, members -of our Co-
operative have asked me to
write a letter pointing out that
there is already a community
plan in operation in Huron
County covering over 12,000
persons. Huron Co-op Medical
Services has the only Co-opera-
tive Community Health Plan
based in Huron County that is
open to all persons in the, area.
To start with, it is fitting to
point out that 33 county medi-
eal co-operatives in Ontario
were first formed in the early'
1940's to . provide the self-em-
ployed and others generally
considered `undesirable' or 'un-
insurable' by the large carriers
(because they were either hot
in large, industrial groups or
were over -age) with a place
where they could procure co-
operative medical coverage at
group rates. -
The health coverage we have
provided, serviced by Huron
Co-operative Medical Services,
has kept pace with the demands
of the community, rising suc-
cessively through the provision
of simple hospital accommoda-
tion to the point where today
we are able to provide cover-
age in the health care field of
the '• highest possible degree
through the mechanism of co,
operative prepaid `insurance'.
In addition we provide our
members with a guaranteed
major medical plan to cover
those many other health extras
such as prescription drugs,
ambulance costs, appliances,
home nursing, etc., items which
often cost more than a doctor's
direct attention.
It has always been a point
of pride with our organization
to pay physicians 100 per cent
of the general tariff listed'' in
the Ontario Medical Associa-
tion's Schedule of Fees.
.It is significant to note that
when the Ontario Government
entered the field of 'hospital in-
surance in 1959, it was to the
medical co-operatives in the
province that it turned, rather
than to any other carrier, to
act as official collectors and .
serve the needs of the self-
. employed in the counties, in en-
rolment procedures and collec-
tion of fees. Huron Co-op Medi-
cal Services . remains the only
medical coverage organization
operating in Huron County,
who is an official collector for
the payment of premiums for
the Ontario Hospital Insurance
plan as well as Blue Cross semi-
private hospital care. An add-
ed Co-op benefit is that all
members who paid their On-
tario Hospital Insurance prem-
iums through their Co-op are
now protected from the recent-
ly announced increase' in OHSC
rates until such time as their
next normal renewal date with
the Co-op. •
Through a contributory• sys-
tem; the medical co-operatives
in Ontario are .'paying the way
through medical school of de-
serving students, . a meansof
providing the services for which
other insurers do- not attempt
to pay.
Since our aim is the ultimate'w-
provision of total health care
through the mechanism of'pre-
payment, the fact that we can
be most sensitive to the voice
of our members, who represent
thousands of people in the
county, gives us a powerful.
medium for the development
of a sound program of consum-
ed - sponsored prepaid health
plans.
We take great pride in the
fact that the co-operative funds
and the personal interest of its .
directors and staff are all in-
vested in the development and -
growth of total health care for
residents of our county.
Co-operatively yours,
GORDON . KIRKLAND,
President,
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fil