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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 16, 1964
Opportunity For Larger Fair
A more realistic approach to the role
which an agricultural society occupies
in a community is to be taken by Fed=
eral Agricultural Minister Harry Hays.
He has told the Commons that the
suspension of the capital grants pro-
gram for local fairs is to permit a com-
plete reassessment of the part grants
play in aiding a; particular fair to serve
the district in' which it is located.
Mr. Hays suggests that under the
present arrangement some fairs which
provide a helpful program are handi-
capped through lack of funds for capi-
tal projects. In other cases, capital.
grants have not advanced the work
which the agricultural society should
be expected to carry put.
There is a place for the good agri-
cultural fair: While there is criticism
that many -exhibitors are professional
and, to a great extent no longer repre-
sentative of the average farmer, , the.
fact remains that thesesame exhibitors
produce quality stock. A healthy agri
cultural community depends on the . in-
creased production of.. quality cattle,
hogs, and sheep, and how better can
these standards be raised than by _com-
- petition against recognized quality?
The minister's .announcement pres-
ents a challenge, particularly to Class
'B'- Fairs, such as at Seaforth. As the
only Class 'B' Fair in Huron County,
and as a fair with an outstanding re-
cord of service extending over more
than 100 years, Seaforth is in a posi-
tion to develop and to provide an even
better program to an even larger dis-
trict than it now serves. That it can
be done is evidenced by the success that
the Huron Junior Fair here has met
with.
But if Seaforth is to assume a larg-
er role, plans must be laid down at an
early date. These will include provi-
sion of additional grounds, additional
display areas, and certainly a new
grandstand. True, such facilities can-
: not be provided in, any one year, but
what is needed now is some detailed
planning to. indicate what is required,,
and to determine the relation of one
display area and one building to an-
other. This, coupled with a timetable
indicating priorities, would be a basis
for discussion when the new grants
program is announced. It would be
evidence of Seaforth's ability and de-
sire to assume a larger responsibility
and a more important part as a leader
in a district agricultural program.
Local Services Available
(St. Marys Journal -Argus)
The "octopus" of big business, reach-
ing its sticky fingers ,into every corner
where it is conceivable a dime might
be lurking, has had a few "tentacles"
trimmed back in •,recent months. This
is especially true when one considers
the action taken by the Collegiate
Board on several occasions to protect
the interests of local' merchants. •
The most recent case involved a deal
from several major companies offering
to supply athletic equipment in large
Iots with the Student Council as the
sales representative. It was quite prob-
ably a fine chance for Student Council
to make money but, Board Members
No Easing
Friends and neighbors, the Taxes
are indeed very heavy, and if those laid
on us by the government were the only.
ones we had to pay, we might more
easily discharge them; but ' we have
many others, and much more grevious
to some of us—we aretaxed twice as
much by Idleness, three times as much
by our Pride, and four times as much
by our Folly ; 'and from these Taxes the
commissioners cannot ease or deliver
us.—Benjamin Franklin, 1758.
Living on
a small income
be so bad if you didn't have
hard to keep it a secret. -=-The
County News, Livingston, Mont.
would
to
not
s0
Park
work
pointed out "the school is not in the
retail business". 'A short time, ago, a
similar proposition from a* large con-
cern interested in sponsoring a "Book
Fair" was nipped in the -bud by the
Board and the matter turned over to
a local retailer.
The action of the Board in this mat-
ter is to be commended. During the
past few years, a trend away from the
smooth presentation of big business
representatives and their "money sav-
ing" schemes has been noted in all sec-
tions of town governing' authority. it
may be that municipalities are finally
coming to realize that charity begins
at home. .So long as prices and serv-
ices -are kept at a comparable level with
the outside interests, it is certainly wise
to put taxpayers money back in the
hands of the taxpayers as often as
possible.
Will You Keep
Most people hesitate to scatter gum
and candy wrappers, cigarette butts
and the likearound their homes, but
when they get outdoors their good man-
ners may desert them. Reminds us of
the little poem:
"Paper, garbage, broken glass,
Scattered here upon the grass,
Makes a fellow scratch his dome
And wonder what folks do at home."
We live in a beautiful country; let's
a" keep it that way.— (Picton Gazette) .
In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor
July 21, 1939
Members of the Seaforth
Scout Troop were hosts to marry
visitors at their Bayfield camp
on Sunday. in addition to par-
ents and friends, members of
the Wolf Cub Pack visited the
company for the day.
Seaforth and district boxing
and wrestling fans will have a
treat Saturday night when they
see the card the management
of the Palace Rink has lined
up.
In an effort to clear up ini-
terferenee 'which has bothered
Seaforth radios, a government
radio inspector was at work in
town this week. The interfer-
ence, which is believed to re-
sult from a cracked insulator,
has resulted in a score of com-
plaints going to the radio office.
at Kitchener, the inspector said.
The hail and rain storm
which passed through here on
Thursday caused considerable
damage to the south and east
of tta, which will run into the
thoitsands of dollars, daniage to
those who were in its path.
'Many fariners are tutting the
top fox .:gt!'een' feed to save
*110 is, left.
Cutting fall wheat, and bar-
ley is the order of the day,
with good samples. But the
price is no good, which won't
help farmers,. except ,those who
have stock to feed.
From The Huron Expositor
July 17, 1914
Mr. George E. Henderson has
materially improved the appear-
ance and comfort of 'his resi-
dence on John Street, by the
erection ' of a capacious ver-
andah.
Kruse Bros.' tile and bricit
plant, Egmondville, is turning
out 100,000 tile and brick ev-
ery month.
The Seaforth - Detroit Old
Boys' special train leaves Brush
Street depot, Detroit, at 11:10
a.m. Saturday, and will arrive
in Seaforth at about 6 o'clock.
It is stated that tenders have
been let for, a handsome new
Salvation Army Citadel, to re-
place the present one, which
has been in use for 25 years.
Frbm 'the Huron Expositor
July 19, 1899
The Seaforth Lacrosse Club,
in their match with St. Marys
in that town on Friday, came
out victorous by 'a score of 4
to 1.
The Seaforth Fire Brigade
have organized a hook and lad-
der company, and we hope to
see the boys come out at -the
head, just Iike the hose and
reel company do. • They have a
run once a week, and it is said
that they make very good time.
Mr. ,James McCool, of Hui -
lett, has split his barn and en-
larged it, and put in a stone
basement for stables.
Raspberry picking is the or-
der of the day, loads going out
every day and coming home
with pails full, which would in-
dicate that the berries are plen-
tiful.
Sunday while Mr. J. Ruby, of
Zurich, was driving in a buggy
and some other friends were
driving in a carriage, they start-
ed racing horses. This Sabbath
desecration resulted in the car-
riage being upset into the ditch
at the side of the road and all
its occupants thrown out. For-
tunately, none of them was hurt
much.
Coad & Bennie, of HensaIl,
are paying 13 cents per dozen
for eggs in trade.
•
A Macduff
PEACEMAKING
Ottawa Report
There Is No
OTTAWA—The present ses-
sion of Parliament is now ex-
pected to continue sitting right
through to Christmas without a
break.
Some members are ruefully
convinced that the House will
continue in session—with only
a few days off at Christmas—
until the next general election.
The mood of Parliament is such
that attempts to arrange a
lengthy recess get nowhere.
The impasse that has devel-
oped largely from a growing
conviction on the part of the
Progressive Conservatives that
they can force Prime Minister
Pearson to give up all thought
of having the House approve
t he Government's proposed
Maple Leaf flag. The Conserva-
tives •want the Liberal minority
Government to refer the flag to
a joint Senate -Commons com-
mittee for consideration.
Once the flag is referred to
the Committee it will be as
good as shelved. But Prime
Minister . Pearson is equally
adamant that the Houseshould
consider the question and give
approval to a national flag of
maple leaf designs, before' pack-
ing up for a summer recess.
The various political party
house leaders held private
meetings earlier this month to
try and resolve the difficulties
that appeared to stand in the
way of a summer recess. They
were given a memorandum by
the Government which agreed
to set aside the flag debate
temporarily in order to enable
Parliament to proceed r with
certain important pieces of
legislation that should be pass-
ed before the end of the sum-
mer months.
Mr. Pearson made it clear to
the other party house- leaders
that his Government was pre-
pared to set aside the flag de-
bate for two or three weeks
until a seven -item Legislative'
lineup was processed. The con-
cession was made on one . con-
dition: that debate would re-
sume on the flag and be com-
pleted ,before recess.
The items to be brought be-
fore the House included the
defence bill creating a single
chief of the armed forces; the
youth allowances bill whereby
family allowance payments
would go to parents of 6 and
17 year olds who attend school.
Mr. Pearson listed five other
items as urgent and he set
July 22 or 23 as the target
date for their completion, They
were: The fixing of a 12 -mile
territorial limit and fishing
zone; a. measure to provide
loans for needy university stu-
dents; fiscal arrangements with
the provinces; a supply bill to
cover government expenses
through August and September
and, two days of study of de-
partmental spending ' estimates
for 1964-65,
After that program was com-
pleted Mr. Pearson said the
House would resume debate on
the flag. It would sit until the
flag debate was concluded and
a new flag approved, then the
M.P.'s could retire to their con-
stituencies for a well-earned•
summer recess.
The Conservatives saw a
golden opportunity to block the
plan to get the flag approved.
They proceeded to put it into
... CYPRUS STYLE
-Time Off
operation. They extended de-
bates on each item so that
the House will be considering
interim supply about the end of
July.
The Opposition need only
keep talking and not pass in-
terim supply and the Govern-
ment will run out of money
with which to pay the bills. If
the national treasury is emptied
then Mr. Pearson has no altern-
ative but to dissolve Parlia-
ment.
It is doubtful that the Con-
servatives would want to force
Parliament over the brink in
this war of nerves. They would
wait until the end of July or
the first few days in August
and then pass supply to give
the Government the money to
meet its bills and pay civil ser-
vice salaries.
Having done this the House
would revert to the flad debate.
As the House begins approach
mid-August there is bound to
be -a restlefisness among the
backbenchers who like most
Canadians prefer to have sum-
mer vacations during -July and
August when theirchildren are
on holiday. The Conservative
tactics would be dictated by the
belief that Liberal backbench-
ers would put pressure on .the
Prime Minister to ease up arid
'send the flag to a committee
so that they can get their
much-needed summer time off.
Will it work? Only time will
tell. '
The Prime Minister hasmade
his concession. He has also put
over until the Fall such key
measures as the Canada Pen-
sion Plan. He 'had no choice
there, as Parliament could not
'proceed with the plan until the
constitutional' amendment had
been passed by Westminster.
That amendment is necessary
to enable Canada' to• introduce.
1"egislation providing benefits
for survivors.
Mr. Pearson wants to" proceed
with the Pension Plan in Sep-
temberr and hopes to have it
passed before Christmas. It
will be lent to a committee for
study. If it gets approval be-
for the year end it will be a
miracle.
One thing• appears to be cer-
tain and that is that the Prime
Minister • is not going to allow
himself to be provoked into
calling a general election that
no. Canadian wants at this time.
Few members of parliament
want such a vote, but there are
those who feel that a quick
election is the only solution for
the present Parliament.
' A general election now might
only result in another minority
Government. The better plan
appears to be to hold off until
1965 before going to the coun-
try. After another 12 months
the country may be ' prepared
to endure another test at the
polls and this time elect a ma-
jority government.
Parliament must be made to
work in the meantime. Those
who are playing politics at the
expense of the public business,
those who are causing the de-
lays and frustrations inside the
House will' be held accountable
when the time comes that the
electors cast .their ballots.
Meantime the reputation of
Parliament 'is suffering.
To The
Sugar a
By sill
There's nothing quite as re-
laxed and indolent as the life
of a school teacher in those two
long, golden months of summer.
Eight glorious weeks: a little
golf, a little swimming, a lit-
tle fishing; a lot of picnics and
cookouts, and long, cold drinks;
unlimited time to read and girls
in shorts to ogle.
It's ,a picture I paint for my-
self in clear outlines, in 'cool
pastel shades, every June. But
somehow the finished canvas
isn't quite what I had in mind.
The outline blurs, the 'colors
change into violent ,reds"; yel-
lows and purples, and we come
up with something resembling
a drunken rainbow that has
been struck by lightning,-.,
- This suiinmer has been no "ex-
ception. It started off in typi-
cal fashion with a racking dose
of food poisoning that left me
about as hearty as a lady of
80 who has just given birth to
quadruplets. I was so. weak
that the cat, who has been
watching her chance for years,
stuck out a foot as r'.was" tot-
tering toward my lawn chair,
and tripped me flat on my face.
Barely over this, I had to
drive the ifamily 700 miles in-
to the 1.1.S. on the July 4th
weekend; to dump young Hugh
at a summer music school. But
it wasn't the mileage that got
me down. It was the list of
instructions issued to the kid
by his mother. If they'd been
written out, they'd have emr-
ed a sheet of paper "for every
mile we travelled, and they
could have been retnhmbered
only by a herd of elephants.
I didn't blame her, though..
It Isn't that the kid is stupid.
It's just that he's a teen-ager
and lives in that peculiar world
inhabited by that peculiar spe-
cies. In the week before we
left, . he had lost: his . wallet,
his running shoes, and a dollar
bill (which turned up in the
washing machine). That• was an
average week.
ncnagtne going away and leav-
ing that gormless gawk of a
boy on his own, for three weeks,
with 10 different places' to be
at definite times every day;
with money to handle all' by
n. Spice
srIIey
himself; with nobody to find all
the things he'll lose; and with
his way to find all "the way
., .home by bus.
We weren't rnuch comforted
as we left him.. He climbed qut
of the car, saying, "Yes, O.K.
I won't forget. Uhthuh. Right.
Yup", as a lastiminute torrent
of verbal directions poured at
him. He ..took his bag, waved,.
and starteeup the steps of the
boarding-house next door to the
one we had just registered him
in, I doubt if we'll ever see. the
boy again. He'll start for home
and wind up in Tibet.
Seniors
(This open letter to an older
driver is by Fred H. Ellis, Gen-
eral Manager of the Ontario
Safety League).
Dear Senior: This is a dif-
ficult letter to write, but I want
to discuss something that is
causing uneasiness to your rel-
atives and friends,
You are getting older. You
know it, and joke about it
sometimes. On the whole it is
a pleasant time of life, free
from many of the stresses and
anxieties of earlier days. But
age brings problems of its own:
one of these problems is ..
what are you going to do about
driving? •
Let's consider frankly four
points. Firstly, your perception
is declining; you don't see and
hear so well now. Secondly,
your judgment is slower; you
can't recognize traffic situations,
analyzse them and make the
necessary decisions nearly as
fast. Number three, your physi-
cal condition is going down—
you haven't quite the same abil-
ity to react with speed and vig-
or in an emergency. Finally;
you are becoming more suscep-
tible to injury and death; what
might have been a minor shake-
up ten years ago, could have
serious consequences now. *•
Luckily, you and friends of
the same age are making some
adjustments to help meet these
realities—perhaps unconscious
ly. You try to avoid driving
when conditions are bad. You
are driving more slowly, which
is good—up to a point. But
your driving habits are also
changing in less desirable ways.
For „instance:
You don't yield the right of
way enough. Is this Imeause
you are not sufficiently fhmiliar
with the rules of the road? Or
could it be just plain stub-
berness?
You are making too many
improper turns. Turning -from
or into the wrong lane is your
most frequent mistake. Have
you forgotten the proper pro-
cedures?
You are disregarding many
SPARIcS by Willis Forbes
airy
Voile's are wonderful to gabs
with ...a baby Wald utea we/
11's easier to lie
about your'; golf
game than your
fish catch—you
don't have to
have pictures to
prove it.
signals; the reason is probably
poor vision, or. inattentiveness.
Driving isn't nearly as much
pleasure to you now; other
drivers spoil things because
they are all in such a hurry.
But you dread the time when
you give up the wheel because
of the effect' on your mobility,
and its embolism that you
have reached the end of the
road.
You are far from being the
greatest hazard on the' roads.
But I do urge you to be re-
alistic about your ability to
continue to handle cars. Have
periodic examinations • — you
must know your limitations,
Keep up to date on the rules of
the road. Take 'some "brush -up"
lessons from a driving instruc-
tor.
Please face with dignity the
reality that one day you'll have
to give up the keys. I hope you -
will not delay until you have
to make the decision from- an
accident ward, or facing the,
parents of a child you ran down
in the failing light.
. Yours sincerely,
FRED H. ELLIS.
General Manager.
.Ir
Got home from that jaunt
just long enough to do the
washing, repack the suitcases
and head for summer school.
Arrived a bit shaky after giv-
ing myself a small farewell
party and was immediately ask-
ed to read a poem_ to a group
of intense English teachers.
After summer, school, we
rush Kim to camp, thenhike
for 'the old home town to put
out the paper for two weeks
while the editor goes on his
honeymoon, Then scramble for
home, collect Kim from camp,
entertain friends•in relays for
a week before hurtling off to
a newspaper convention; which
is about as easy on a fellow,
physically, as breaking wild
mustangs with a slipped disc,
End of summer. End of "holi.j
days,"
Anyone know of a job where
they give you four months va-
cation? If I could find one, I
might manage to squeeze in a
couple of games of golf, or a
day's fishing. •
Thanks
20 Albert St., Toronto
July 10, 1964.
Sir: You are doubtless aware
of May has been designated
Salvation Army Red Shield
month and will be interested
in knowing the campaign has
done exceedinglly well and com-
pleted in many parts of. the
country. It is expected that lo- ,
cal, provincial and national quo-
tas will be reached when final
reports 'are received at Nation-
al Headquarters.
May we, on behalf 'of Com-
missioner W. Wycliffe Booth,
National Commander, express
our appreciation for the splen-
did support your newspaper
and personnel, have given to
the 1964 Red Shield Appeal.
Cordially yours,
T. L. CARSWELL,
Lt. -Colonel
National Campaign Director.
evrantos
"!f you didn't talk so much
the coach wouldn't make you
- wear it!"
NOTICE:
RE I GS
Township of Tuckersmith
Council has prohibited dogs running at
large for the period May 1 to October 31,
1964, in the hamlets of Egmondville and
Harpurhey, by virtue of the provisions of
By-law No. 13, 1952.
It has been brought to Council's 'atten-
tion by way of a ratepayers' petition that
dogs are still running at large.
If all dogs in Egmondville and Harpur-
'hey are not kept from running at large,
Council will be forced to consider ways and
means. for the removal of these dogs, prob-
ably by the employment of a dogcatcher.
TAKE NOTICE: 'That the above '.By-
l-aw provides for the seizing and impound-
ing, and for killing, wh t er before or after
impounding, dogs running at large, and for
selling dogs so impounded at such time and
in such manner kas is provided by by-law.
AIso any person who contravenes this By-
law is liable to a fine not exceeding $50.00,
exclusive of ,costs,
J. I. McIntosh
Clerk, Twp. Tiickersmith
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