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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1964-07-30, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First . Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MCLEAN BROS., Publishers ‘rt E D A ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Associatici Ontario 'Weekly Newspapers Association .r 1 lr1 A l d Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: ,Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year v,.,►�� Outside Canada (in advance) $5.50 a Year. DINGLE COPJRS -- 10 CELTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 30, 1964 Area Planning Can Pay Dividends Not only immediate benefits but re- sults that will have long-term effects should follow for the Tuckersmith, Mc- Killop and Seaforth area as a result of discussions the three municipalities have had toward the creation of an area planning board. The meeting followed discussions in May with representatives of the com- munity planning branch of the Depart- ment of Municipal Affairs. J. O. E. Pearson, who represented the depart- ment at the meeting, told officials of' ' the municipalities that movement of people today ignored municipal boun- daries, and that planning should be on an area basis to obtain best .results. While on the surface it may appear • that Seaforth would stand to gain the most from area planning, such is not the case. The problems of land use fac- ing Seaforth are no different than those existing in Tuckersmith and McKillop. In fact, in some respects the rural mun- icipalities have more to gain. In a township, assessment 'is based, to Ya great degree, on land values and thus built-up areas within -a township with a higher population density, frequently do not carry a fair share of taxes in relation to purely farm Iands. This is particularly true in terms of services required. More people mean the de- mand for, more services. The built-up area generally will Wave a greater pro- portion of children, resulting in the re- quirement for added school accommo- dation. Planning is designed to keep these variations in balance and provide for the use of land in a way that will best serve all the people of a municipality and area and at the same time make possible the economical provision of necessary services. The benefits that are common, to all municipalities are in ,the protection which planning can provide for exist- ing and future land owners. The own- er of a new home can have assurance that a junk yard will not appear next door, or across the street: Building by- laws can control the type of construc- tion, but cannot determine the use that is made of the building or the land it is on: It is ` here that area planning can be most effective. With new construction in progress in all three municipalities, there can be no assurance at present as to future uses of land and buildings -on both sides of the municipal boun- daries, unless .all are agreed _on com- mon planning and zoning. ".... There is a natural hesitation''` that planning can become too costly, but in practise and under existing legislation all expenditures are determined by the council concerned. There thus is no loss in automony because a municipality is' associated in ah area plan. Similar- ly, planning has nothing to do with the location of new industry. An area board would recommend in. its propos- als the areas in which industry may lo- ca+e, then it becomes up to the indus- try to decide on a particular location. PIanning is daily becoming more im- portant if a municipality is concerned with orderly growth. It makes pos- sible a more economical use of muni- cipal services, and through planning can be laid . the groundwork for the kind . of community in which we will, live tomorrow. - Carnival Deserves Area Support There probably is no one facility in Seaforth that provides greater enjoy- ment to a greater number of people during the summer months than does the Lions Park and Pool. Not only does the Park serve the people Iiving near it, but its pleasures are enjoyed by old and young throughout a wide area. This year a new picnic pavilion is providing an added service for the hundreds of groups who have come to look forward to annual reunion gather- ings at the park. The swimming instruction program. Continues to occupy a major place in park activities. It is impossible to esti- mate the lives that may be saved in years to come because of this training which is being made available, without charge, to district children. All this has become possible because members of the Seaforth . Lions Club for forty years have never lost sight of their long-range plan to provide the best in park facilities for the Seaforth district. They have never hesitated to - devote hour upon hour of their time with no remuneration, other than some- thing worthwhile was being created in the S community. Throughout the year the public has co-operated in making available necessary funds, and Meetings C this teamwork has created a Park ar- rangement the equal of any available in towns of similar size in Ontario. . During recent years increasing costs of everything that goes into the main- tenance and operation of Seaforth Lions Park have made more difficult the task of the Lions Club. 1✓ach year the public has an ,oppor- tunity to co-operate with the Lions Club, and that is on the occasion of the annual _Summer Carnival. The pro- ceeds from the carnival determine the degree of maintenance that is possible for the Park. This year the Carnival, takes place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings of next weeks. Citizens should require .no urging to indicate their ap- preciation of the park facilities by at- tending the Carnival. Not only is a full evening's entertainment guaran- teed, but those attending 'will have the satisfaction of having had a part in making possible a continuation of the Lions Park program. They will have had a. part in making it possible for Seaforth district children to learn to swim. A special attraction this year are the Carnival admission tickets which are now on sale and which include the op- portunity to win a top award of $1,000. an Be Troublesome (Cobourg Sentinel -Star) Sat in on a very boring meeting. Everybody had something to say. EV- eryone said nothing. We were tired, long -meeting tired. The chairman, poor fellow, did not know how to end it all. It had been a busy day at the office. People coming in I Telephone. Prob- Iems. Telephone. kAt the last minute an invitation at 5:30. p.m. to this meet- ing at 8:00. "Sorry," said the voice, "it was my fault. Should have Iet you know abotit it last- week, But come anyway." Here we were. We sagged in the chair. We sat heavy in it. We crossed "our -legs. We uncrossed them. We were br ised with weariness. y .: do people talk so much when • they have nothing to say? Such empti- ness makes a mess of community meet- ings. You don't wish to go to the next. You lose faith in the project. You be- come discouraged. You feel -like re- signing right dff this earth. But you are a bear for punishment. You've stuck with it for years. The most loquacious guy looks at , you, the reporter. "Here I am," he fairly shouts in mien. He drools with • PR. He drips with honeyed words. You are unimpressed. It's frdm the I teeth out. He'll say the same thing in 'the. next town. He'll spout anywhere c just to be quoted. .On the way home at last, you think fi that the most wonderful people are the 1 strong, silent type. A Macduff Ottawa Report Gloom, Then OTTAWA - A forecast that Canada is rushing into an eco- nomic recession that will reach its low point in the centennial year 1967, has aroused interest in Federal Government and in business circles. The predietion is not one to be discounted because it has just been made at a Manitoba labor-management seminar by a former outstanding Federal Government economist, Dr. 0. 'J. Firestone, who left Govern- ment service in 1960 to. take a post as Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa. Offsetting his gloomy predic- tion of a setback in 1966-67 Professor Firestone- forecasts Canada will head into a new boom period after celebrating its 100th birthday, which he contends will exceed anything experienced irf this country since the end' of the Second World War. Considerable importance is attached to his views because he was highly regarded by the late . Rt. Hon. C. D. Howe, who was Minister of Trade, and Com- merce when the St. Laurent Government was defeated. - Dr. Firestone was also associated with Mr. Howe when the Min- ister held the portfolio of Mun tions and Supply and later wa Minister of Reconstruction in the post-war period. Dr. Firestone was one of sev- eral economists advising Mr. Boom! • gan in February 1961 in its fourth year, ' and tha there appeared to be sufficient momentum in the Canadian economy to carry this strength over into 1965. However, he said that because we have not as yet learned how to control the business cycle in a basical- ly private enterprise econoy, some slowing down in economic growth may become apparent in 1965, or even late in 1964. This( would 'foreshadow the start of a recession' either in the lat- ter part of 1965 or in 1966 with the bottom of the recisson probably being reached in 1967. -•—The—economist—said that this meant that Canadians had an- other year or perhaps slightly longer to consider what should be done to cope with the com- ing recession. With this time in which to make plans they should be able to do a better job meeting the recession than had been done in the past. Dr. Firestone saw sunshine breaking through the dark clouds after the period of 1966 67. There would follow a per- od of prosperity this time more rapid in its boom characteris-. ics than anything Canadians had experienced in the decade is now 1957 to 1967. It would be prob. t, ably greater than anything Can- adian had seen. since the end of the Second World. War, In the late 1960's and into the 1970's there would be many young people born after the war who would' 'be reaching ' marriageable ages. A marriage boom would be followed by a baby boom. Rapid natural 'pop- ulation growth is usually ac- companied by increases in im- migration as the need for more workers becomes pressing and favorable economic conditions prevail, he said. • Other factors will include new records -in -business -'eapi,-.c tal spending, an urban building s Howe in those days, and one of the very few in Ottawa who 'argued that the, peace would b followed by an economic boo in Canada. Most economists i Government and in business be lieved that the end of the Sec and World War would see a world-wide, depression, Mr. Howe Iistened to Dr. Fire- stone, liked what he heard and decided to gamble that he was right. ,Accordingly Mr, Howe laid the Government's plans for post-war reconstruction on the basis that there would be pro- sperity. Dr. Firestone was proved to have called the shot correctly, and his reputation was made as far as Mr. Howe was concerned. In addition, Dr. Firestone was one of the economists who con- tributed to the famed "secret study" that the Rt. Hon John Diefenbaker, when he was Prime Minister, tabled 'in the House of Commons. Mr. Diefen- baker made much oplitical capi- taI of this study claiming that it.forecast an economic setback in 1957 which the Liberal Gob- ernment had kept hidden. The Liberals denied they had delib- erately declined to disclose the contents of the report, contend- ing that it waS a departmental paper which was presented to the Cabinet on a "confidential" basis. They charged that Mr. "Diefenbaker had violated the ;;confidence by making it public in the Commons. Now Dr. Firestone, has made e m n another forecast. The general feeling among Federal Govern- ment economists is that the C present outlook is for a continu- ation of high level economic P Sugar and. Spice By Bili Smiley • THE COTTAGE FALLACY about ten bucks a week. That, Occasionally, I think how gentle reader, is eighty dollars pleasant it would be to have a for the whole summer. They summer cottage. Just- a cosy got their el in the bush. They little place, on a lake, where a bought vgetables and milk, fellow could get away from it chickens and eggs, from the all, do a little quiet fishing and local farmer at prices that make thinking. A spot to go on those one weep with rage today. Once well, long, lovely fall weekends, as a week, the family went into town and loaded up with grub, Fortunately, this manifests coal -oil for the lamps, and a tion of madness is brief. My round of ice-cream cones, for well-developed sense of reality about eight dollars. revives, and I breathe a "little %, silent thanks that I have not In these enlightened 1960's, been hooked. keeping the family at the. cot- ' * * * tage is like watching blo,,d pour A summer cottage thirty out of an open wound. There's years ago, was a joy to the wood to buy for the fireplace, heart, a balm–to the nerves, a and gasoline for the boats, and refuge from relatives, a source hydro bills and taxes and re - of spiritual rejuvenation, pairs to the plumbing system;. Today it is almost guaran- And there's the thrice -weekly teed as an ulcer -maker, a nerve- swoop on the supermarket and wrecker, a spirit -smasher. It is booze outlets, to the tune of an albatross around the neck of about thirty dollars a swoop. its owner, who winds up each But it's not only the financial season looking and feeling aspect that appalls me. It's the about as spry as the Ancient communications and transpor- Mariner, tation progress that makes a cottage owner- go around all * * * summer with a severe facial First, and , perhaps worst, twitch. there is the sheer, shocking ex- pense of the thing. A man In the good old days, a man could keep three mistresses drove his family a hundred swathed in mink for what a miles to the cottage and left cottage costs him. • them there until Labour Day. Thirty years ago, you bought He didn't see or hear one of a' lot from a farmer, whothem for eight weeks. Those thought you were out of your were, indeed, the golden days. mind, for $50. You had a local Nowadays, the poor guy has carpenter whack up a cottage had a couple of long-distance. for about $400. For another $35 calls telling him that the toilet you picked up a stove, some is leaking and the kids all have beds and a few other odds and pink eye and his wife has run sods _of furniture, at auction out of money because she -had • sales. And you were in busi- quite a repair bill on the Volks ness. after backing it into the boat. X trailer. • • • • Today you fork over about Then he's expected to• drive $1500 for a lot, erect a modest a hundred miles Friday night cottage for another $3,500. And in traffic that wouldmake a you're just beginning. It costs bishop blaspheme. He arrives a year's' salary to outfit the -just before dark, to find that place. Then there's a well to the pump has broken down,. dig; plumbing. and hydro'to in- the kids have wracked up the stall, and a boat to buy • that is boat, the baby has drowned but bigger than that of the guy has been revived by artificial next door. desperation, and the next-door In the old days, a mancould neighbors, who never know en- keep his family in dignified ough to go' home; have been omfert at—theeottage---for invited in forma drink: • _ boom, rapid expansion of trans- portation facilities and public utilities, a speed up in resourc- es development and increased diversification .of Canadian in- dustry. Firestone feels that from among these forces of ex- pansion the strongest support to economic growth in Canada is likely to come from natural resources . boom, largely re- sponding to rapidly increasing world demands for raw materials and urban development boom of a magnitude never before ex- perienced in this country. • • In the Years Agone From The Huron Expositor' ' August 4, 1939 A new console and adde stops and chimes will be adde t- have formed an anti -slang so - to the organ at Northsith Uni ed Church. say it is badly damaged by rust. The heads are not well filled, ' d and the sample won't be good. d Several young local ladies Miss Betty Brandon, Clinton and the Misses Labelle Hawkin and Carolyn Holmes, Seaforth were the prize winners . at th .Seaforth 'Lions 'Carnival beau contest of last week. ciety. When one uses slang, each of the others give her a s good pinch. If you meet any of them with an arm in a sling, e you may know what is wrong. ty The new horse sheds at Knox Church, 'Brussels, are complet- ry ed and ready for occupation. They will prove a great com- fort and convenience to per- - sons attending that church who have to , drive. While, cranking the deliver car .of his father on Saturday Kenneth Powell, son of Mr Baden Powell, had the misfor tune to break his arm at the wrist, Mr. Ernest Adams, Constance has treated himself to a new Allis-Chalmers tractor, Miss E. C. McLeod, 1leg.N., of New York, is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Southgate. Repairs to the portico and fire hall at the Town Hall en- trance are almost completed. The 8,000 people at the Lions Carnival last week consumed nearly 4,000 ' buttles of soft drinks and many then careless- ly threw them into the river and pool. Nearly 200 broken bottles were salvaged from the pool. • On Friday, while Mr, and Mrs. Ephraim Snell, of the 10th con- cession of Hullett, were absent, a tramp entered the house through the pantry ,window and "It costs a little more to park in this town but you also ,, took $17, a new pair of garters, a gold brooch and two leather get gum!" purses. He was seen' by one of the neighbors leaving the house, and making his way into the b ishe From The Huron Expotitor July 31, 104 The army worm has made its appearance in Usborne Town- ship in great numbers. The Seaforth Old Boys' Re- union will feature a parade, a hildren's rally, a baseball ournament, a monster garden arty and a Provincial Fire- men's demonstration. Kellogg's corn flakes are ad- ertised at 10 cents per pack- ge. Egmondville citizens are hav- ng their main street oiled, so s to keep down the dust. Professor Cline, of Wingham, ill sing the drat hymn ev- r sung in the Presbyterian hurch at the services on Sun - ay. Mr. G. C. Petty, Hetisall, on aturday last, purchased• from r. Robert Bell, of Seaforth, s brick block property that as damaged or destroyed by. e a, year ago. From The Huron Expositor August , 1989 Mrs. S. Dickson and son, ames, have left here for Mani - ba where they will spy out e land and visit relatives, Partners are a little despond- nt the hist fess?' days about the II wheat 'prospects, as they all activity. They do not anticipate any serious recession. I�oweveif they concede that there might a be' a small, but a short reces- sion in two years time. But as yet they claim there is no evi- dence that such a recession a looms on the horizon. Never- theless the Government is watching for any signs of a downturn and is ready to take counter measures. The gross national product in 1964 is likely to be between S six and seven per cent greater M than it was in 1963, reaching a• w peak of between $45,6 and $46 billion, compared with $43 bit- fir ion last year. Prices, he notes, are up Somewhat. In 1964' they may be on the average two per ent above 1963. Hence the GNP in 1964 in real terms is J ikely to be 'between four and- to ve per cent above the Ievel of th ast year. ent artpansionn phase e said which be. fall 0, „y44 • "No More pencils, ne more books ...' no more teacher's nasty looks!" i1 _"1��1':!1/.]Gti•):i: {'/41lF�nf�4��A�Yn':�> s$:`•r.,::;t$':tit,s{±i�;y Q GATES FEATURES, INC. • CHECK THE FEATURES CHECK THE PRICE! of the for antes •7f you didn't talk do much As coach wouldn't make you wear ill °lbw cats you gay t never' i W ',yoft to a IIYr 1'P tfreat underwood LETTE1 A 22 THE HURON . EXPOSITOR Phone 141 SedforFh • • • • • • k • • • • • 1 • 4