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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1964-07-23, Page 2Published at �os RIP Since 1860, Serving the Community • First SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday mornieg by MeLEAN ANDREW Y. McLE&rr, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Qhtario Weekly Newspapers Association O Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $4,00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $5.50 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH' - Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Departruent, Ottawa- BROS-. Publishers i SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 23, 1964 • Community Hospital Under Way Any doubts that may have existed concerning a new hospital for the Sea - forth district were removed Friday when construction began on the Gode- rich Street 'East site. A short sod- tu'rning ceremony marked the official. beginning of the building program. The ceremony pointed up in a posi- tive way the success of a project that had its beginning nearly five years ago, and which in that' time has engaged the active participation of hundreds of district residents.- Many other hun- dreds have played a vital part by the gifts they have given to the campaign fund. There is justifiable pride, on the part of all who have worked to advance the project through the years, in the fact -that their plans are now in the process of being realized. As the largest construction project to be undertaken in the area served by the hospital, provision of the new facil- ities has been a challenge to the com- munity. The fact that construction is under- way points out what can be accomplish- ed by a community working. together. This particular program was made easier, of course, by the evidence of need that existed and by the devoted efforts of area citizens at each of the several stages from initial planning to the successful fund raising campaign. While start of construction indicates the new hospital soon will be a realm, the task facing the community is by no means completed. Work is underway because of interim financing made pos- sible by the Ontario Hospital Services Commission, and these advances must be paid. While the fund raising cam- paign has been most successful, it still falls short of meeting the objective of $195,000.00. There is no doubt about securing needed money. Many area people dur- ing the progress of the campaign indi- cated support if and when construc- tion began; others gave preliminary gifts with the suggestion that further gifts would be forthcoming if requir- ed. Too, while the campaign was care- fully planned and every effort made to reach everyone in the hospital area, officials realize that in some districts calls were not, completed and some who are interested and willing to help have not been contacted. The help of all is required to com- plete the job. The new Seaforth Com- munity Hospital will be an institution of which the entire district can be proud, and in the completion of which everyone will wish to have a part. Let's Settle The Question Now Prime Minister Pearson is right in deciding to continue the flag debate once the House of Commons has com- pleted certain items of legislation on which early conclusions are required. Any other decision now could only have the effect of rendering useless the hours that already have been spent on the debate and to . make futile the positive and courageous stand he took when he introduced the measure in the first place. Too long have we talked in circles about the flag that is best suited for Canada, arid too often have we defer- red action because the : time was not "just right". The time will never be "just right" as far as those who would back away from a decision' is concerned. The Government in 'introducing the measure judged the adaption of a Cana- dian, ,,flag at this time was desirable. There are those in the Commons --and they would appear to be -a minority— who say this isn't so, that any decision now can only be disruptive in terms of national unity. What is certain is that the lack of a decision concerning a Canadian flag for years has led to both bitter and wearisome arguments that point up the divisions that exist across Canada. In the present parliament, the lack of a decision has inspired' repetitive and contentious debate and has created dif- ficulties in getting on with other mat- ters. On these counts alone the ques- tion should be settled. Nothing can be gained by further delay. Let's finish the debate and let Parliament by its votes decide. This is the only way this issue, or any other issue, can be settled. Limit Terms (Acton Free _Press) We noted with interest a motion which was recently introduced to Co- bourg Town Council whereby the terms of persons appointed by council to serve on various boards would be lim- ited to six consecutive years. The' pro- vision would be designed to take effect from next January. Introducing the resolution, one ooun- cillor said he felt there are many peo- ple who have served on boards to the point where they have outlived their interest. Six years was specified be- cause some terms run for two years and others run for three. It was sug- , gested that two years are insufficient • for a member to become fully acquaint ed with his duties. As' far ?s Acton is concerned, there have been occasions when it proved difficult' to find a suitable person to accept such an appointment. With rare, exceptions, members of such boards serve without remuneration. But it is true that the infusion of new blood occasionally on any board is a good thing. Often it results in the introduc- tion of new ideas and viewpoints, to the ultimate well-being of that par- ticular body. In,. the Years: Agone From The Huron Expositor sion of Grey, wenteto the pas= July 28, 1939 Mrs. R. A. Wilson, of New York, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Southgate this week on her return trip from Cali- fornia and the Canadian West, Harvesting operations are right on. Several fields of wheat have been stooked- threshed this week, and oats are being cut. When they were absent from home attending a reception in their honor, the home of Mr, and Mrs. Wilson McCartney, of Tuckersmith,, wits entered and two china tntiques were stolen. The Seaforth Junior Women's Institute held a pleasant and successful picnic at the Lions Park on Friday. Mr, and Mrs. -Owen Geiger, Mr. Robert Dalrymple, Kip - of Hensall, who were married pen, who recently raised his Jtily 26, 1879, were honored at barn,. entertained about 250 of a 'i`'eeeption at their home. his friends on Tuesday evening ql, , , of last week by giving an old- ,• The Huron Expositor time dance. July 24, 1914p The berry crop, which has 'beefs the best for years, is keep - On Monday morning Mr, W. Ing many hands busy. It is a A. Lamont, of the $th conces- little hard on the sugar barrel. ture field for his cows and found one of his best dead, and an- other stunned, both lying un- der a tree. They had been struck by lightning. The one that was killed was singed from head to heels and was worth about $75, The other one is pulling around again. Rev. Mr, Issam, Persia, spoke to an interested audience in the Presbyterian Church at Brucefield. He has been edu- cated at Knox College, Toronto, and is trying to get funds for mission works among the Ma- hommedans. Five rinks of Clinton bowl- ers came down on Monday and played a friendly 'game with the local club. From The Huron Expositor July 26, 1889 The ice cream social at the Salvation Army. Barracks Wed- nesday evening wag largely at- tended and a geod sum realiz ' ed for the benefit of the offi- cers. Mrs. D. McIntyre and Mr. 0. Neil and wife are camping on the lake shore, near Goderich. Mr. John McMillan, M.P., of Hullett, starts for the Old Country with a lot of cattle on Saturday. Mr. Colin McArthur has sold his herd of 25 cattle, for which he realized the sum of $1,500. A cannibal had found aft tiid magazine. \lfe was tearing out pictures of people—and eating them. "Tell me," said a fellow can- nibal, "is that dehydrated stuff any good?" She: "My dad takeshings apart to see Why they don't go." Ile: "So what?" She: "So you better go." o INCOMING TIDE A Macduff Ottawa Report Some Aid For Canadian OTTAWA :A $14 million giftthe $300 exemption claimed for to a. group of perhaps 400,000 children eligible for family al - Canadian taxpayers has gone lowanees. And the extra boun- almost unnoticed.tv comes to them with the 'corn - The • Federal Government has pliinents of Premier Lesage and bad so• many changes of heart his Quebec Government whose over budgets since it came to insistence on continuing the office that it must be becoming Provincial school allowance pay - rather 'embarrassing. This may ments made it necessary. account for the fact that the Payment of "family allow - Government has clot been boast- ances" for children of 16 and of its generosity and has taken 17 continuing at school was an - an ingenious course to alter nounced by Mr. Gordon in his original plans for paying the budget last March. As a result 810 a month allowance to par- the accompanying resolution encs of children in the' 16 to covering amendments to the In - 18 age group who continued come Tax Act contained a pro - schooling. But even when the vision that for this year par- change -was admitted by Fi- eats could claim only $470 in- nance Minister Gordon on July stead of $550 "if an allowance 7th it received far,less publicity was paid under the Family Al- tham it deserved. lowance Act for any month af- On that date it was announc- ter the child attained the age ed that parents receiving the of 16. The $470 exemption allowance would still be able to applied only to the year when claim the $550 deduction from there would not be a fully $120 taxable income for each of payment. Thereafter the allow - these dependents rather than able deduction dropped to $300. Report Activities In '77 Temperance occupied • t h e headlines in 1876, a copy of The Huron Expositor of May 12 for that year reveals. An editorial and four long letters to the editor debated the mat- ter. Copies of The Expositor of 1876, , 1877 and 1878 came to Iight •recently when changes were being made in a Dublin area residence. Other reports that week in- cluded the information that Louis Riel was in Longue Point lunatic asylum, and provided a description of a wedding in Parrsboro, N.S., id which the. groom was 60 and -the bride 13. At Kidd's Emporium of Fash- ion. in Seaforth, mar is adver tised ,at 8 cents pound. Girls of today who want to get the deepest, most golden - bronze tan, should- note that in 1876 ladies purchased Madame Sayer's Oriental Cream, "guar- anteed to remove all traces of sun tan." The Expositor' of Sept. 21, 1877, tells of a six -months -old calf which seems healthy and playful, although its heart is suspended immediately behind its jaw and throat. A little girl of 11 years of age is reported to have walked--barefoot—from • Exeter to Goderich, in order to see her father, who was serv- ing one month -in jail for abus- ing his wife. She' remained in the jail for a few days until she was forcibly escorted home by her mother. A famine and a locust plague were' rampant in China. Hordes of tramps were said to be invading Pennsylvania, wrecking trains and farmers' properties. Taxpayers Then Quebec tossed its mon- key wrench into the machinery. At the April Federal-Provinci conference Mr. Lesage announ ed Quebec's intention of oo tinuing its own allowance an called for compensation in th form of a further abtement b the Federal Government in in dividual income tax. Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley Man's Worst Madness Great strides have been made hole -in -one. in the twentieth century to ward the conquering of disease One after another, typhoid smallpox, diphtheria, polio and whooping cough, have been knocked on the head. Aid the medical people are hot on the trail of .cancer. That's why it's so discourag- ing to realize that while today's medicine -men have had their noses glued to a test-tube, a little virus that at first seemed harmless, has sneaked around behind them, spread with the stealth of spilled maple syrup, and is now resulting in an epi- demic of appalling proportion& Just -the other day I was sit- • ting on a bench" at the seventh , tee. An elderly man carne up, playing,. with two others. He let them go on without him, and collapsed beside we, "Play- ed whuff six holes today," he wheezed triumphantly, "Had a whuff heart attack two weeks ago, whuff. Gotta take it easy. Played whuff three holes yes- terday. I'll make whuff nine tomorrow." Golf used to be a game for rich people apd a few profes- sionals. It was associated with country clubs, snobbery and so- cial climbing. `But something has happened in the last de- cade, and we rabble have storm- ed the barricades and infiltrat- ed nfiltrated the fairways. Go out to a course any day and you'll see a butcher and a baker, a print- er and preacher, a hairdresser -and hotelkeeper, , hurling them- selves with unanimous vigor and inaccuracy in the general direction of the bouncy little fiend of a ball. Worse still, there is no drug that will kill it, ,for it is not a physical ailment but a men- tal aberration. Already this highly contagious mania has bit so many people that it's not likely anything will stop its ravages of the race except the radio -active fallout that will stop everything one of theep days. Its symptoms are unmistake- able, its victims easily discern- ed. When under an attack, they will: suddenly leave work in the middle of the afternoon; miss the funerals of close rela- tives; skip meals, thoughthey love their victuals; desert their al loved ones at all sorts of odd „hours; inexplicably r e c o v e r c 'from pain or illness that, would a' have them moaning in bed, in the winter. Oh yes, this dis- t ease is most prevalent in sum- mer, as , polio was. It has now been calculate that the cost of the Quebec pay ments is equal toe about thre per cent of income tax collec tions and Quebec taxpayers wil pay this to the province instea of Federal Government. If pay ments prove to be less th this; the Province will pay th difference to Ottawa; if they more, Ottawa will reimburse the Province. Another problem arose dur ing subsequent April negoti,a tions. So long as the Province was bearing the cost of the al- lowances out of provincial in- come tax it was not logical, if indeed constitutional, that the Federal Government should lower the' deduction for, these dependents.. Instead it was ar- ranged that any Ioss 'in rev- enues resulting from the higher exemptions in Quebec would be taken into account in the final adjustment. This was fine so far as Mr. Gordon's budget was concern - d but an obvious 'discrimina- tion against residents" in other parts of Canada. First hint of change " came in May when Mr. Gordon withdrew the two ections of the income tax rese- ction dealing with the deduc- ions, announcing merely that hey would be taken care of in ater legislation. A 'dim light dawned when ealth and Welfare Minister udy La Marsh introduced the egislation on July 2. To quer- es about income tax deductions, autious civil servants replied ith another question. Did the ew bill provide for. payments under the Family Allowance et"? It did not. It was en- tled' "an act to provide for e payment of Youth AU.ow- pces". And the•Income.. Tax et says nothing about lower eductions for anyone receiv- g a youth allowance. d This mental illness to which -. I refer, of course, is ' that e ancient and honorable state of - mind—it's not a game and don't 1 ever think it is --called golf. d Don't snort, gentle reader. - Perhaps you have thus far es - an caped the anaconda coils of e this serpent -like ' sport, but are you're not safe unless you're over 90, bed -ridden, and the relatives are sittirig around _ wishing you'd hurry up and die s soy they could get out and hit a o Old ladies who should be home knitting garments for grandchildren sweat happily around the course, hacking divots as big as dishpans. At- tractive young women . who should -be sitting "around at a beach or bar, just looking beau- tiful, putting, languidly about in long, tanned legs and short, tight shorts, Thereby wrecking the concentration of old eodg ers, who are distracted into slicing $1.50 balks into the rough, after spending $300 in lessons to get rid of that slice. Oh, I know. The whole thing is ridiculous, "What could be sillier," I used to Say before the virus entered my. veins; than walking around hitting a little ball with a stick." I still think it's crazy, a mere obsession. And the •day I break 100, 1'm. going to threw away my clubs and start living again, which will probably be about the ame day I'm elected president f the Woi)nen's Institute. In February of 1877, the e Town of Mitchell boasted seven hotels. A meeting of washer- women was held in Toronto to a protest the opening of a Chin ese laundry., The women said 1 the Chinese were ruining their business, and discussed ways of t running them out of town. Al -.I so, amendments to the school law which would require two teachers in a school with over 50 students; higher qualifica- tions for teachers; and an ex- tended curriculum, including the teaching of Latin, was cre- ating as much comment as cen- tral sc'hools do today. An outbreak of yellow fever was reported in New . York by The Expositor of November 2, 1877, Ladies' hosiery was sell- ing at 121e, cents a pair, and dress goods were priced at 25 cents to 30 cents a yard. The inhabitants of Staffa are re- questing a policeman and a lo- cal jail, following a series of petty thefts. An "illicit still" in full work- ing order, was seized in Owen Sound the week of November 1, 1878, according to an Exposi- tor of that date. Several small kegs of whiskey were on the premises. The same week, a large cave was discovered on a farm in Simcoe County, which contained the remains of more than 2,000 people and a variety of Indian relics. The cave is thought to have been the scene of a struggle between the Hur- ons and Iroquois, which occur- red in 1649. Smiles ••• The whole family had gather- ed for rich uncle Ed's funeraL "The : whole thing is very sad," said one. "Still, it comes to all of us, doesn't it?" ' "Well, I hope it duoes," said another, "There was an ugly rumor it was all going to char-, ity." The office boy was rather nervous the first day of his new job. Summoning up courage, he approached his employer and said: 'Please, sir, 1 think you're wanted on the phone." The employer, busy with his problems, replied: "You think? What's the good of thinking?" • "Well, sir,"the office boy said, "the voice at the other end said, 'Hello, is that you, you idiot'?" SPARKS by Willis Forbes A girl with a shapely Figure soon discovers that her face is not her only fortune, H J 1 c w n A ti th a A d in Twenty dollars overdrawn? Just a minute, f 11 write out a check" �A �NIRIN!/1111-VPvow se et 64 Gates Features, Inc Ill's one of those rating polls. )they want to know which T.V. dinner we're eating!" • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • 4 • • • •• • • • • • tag (u 1,ht 4 One in a series = of messages- to advertisers • O How to win at shadow • As a youngster, perhaps you too enjoyed the game. of shadow tag. What fun it .was in the Iate • • afternoon, when shadows were long and'easy • to, catch. As we recall, there was a way of • winning at shadow tag. As long as the one who was "it" was kept between you and the sun, • he never got close enough to your shadow for a tag. If the real you got caught, so • did your shadow: • e • • 1 e • • • We got to•,thinking about this game the other • day, during a discussion of circulation and how many 'different ways there are to "determine" the size of a circulation audience for advertising. You can multiply units of circulation by units of • people and maybe you will get reader • audience. Studies and surveys can produce age, sex, income, and all sorts of other factors • which, when ,multiplied by units of circulation, • might give you other kinds of audience figures. No matter how it is figured, a circulation audience can never be more reliable than the • circulation figures from which the shadow is • projected. While the size and shape of the shadow changes in the light of varying points of • interest, the child at tag and the,circulation under study remains the same. • We believe it is our obligation, as a seller • of the commodity of advertising space, to • provide you with complete and accurate circulation figures. We believe in full disclosure of circulation • facts, based on uniform standards, permitting close examination from any point of interest. We believe, further, that such facts and figures should come not from us or our agents, • but from an independent, objective circulation measuring and reporting service. • • That's why the Audit Bureau of Circulationd • was organized 50 years ago, and why more than 4,000 advertisers, advertising agencies, and • ' publishers support this voluntary, self-regulatory • effort today. That's why we are ABC members. • Come to think of it, we never were much good at shadow tag. 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