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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1964-12-03, Page 2Published, at Since 1860, Serving the Community First SEAFQRTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MeLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 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 EAC -H Authorized as Second Class Mall, Post Qffice Department, Ottawa. SVAFORTH, ONTARIO, DECEMBER 3, 1964 - Accommodation for Aged Is Problem Announcement at County Council last week that Huronviewis badly over- crowded did not come as any news to those who are concerned with care of the aged in this area, nor to the fam- ilies of those who are resident at Huron - view at the present time, the Wingham Advance -Times points out in a recent editorial. Though care at the institu- tion is maintained at a high level, ac- commodations are now taxed to the maximum, and there is a long waiting list of persons who seek admission. Certainly some planning must be un- dertaken at once to meet the growing problem, the editorial continues. Re- sponsibility to the aged members of our society is one of our very first ob- ligations. However, we believe that deep consideration and •study must be given to the means by which additional Facilities fo (The Exeter Times -Advocate) The budget of Huron County Coun- cil is fast approaching the $2,000,000 , bracket. And on top of that, council- lors at their sessions last week were considering the addition of 100 beds at Huronview and were also urged to'give consideration to the erection of a new jail in conjunction with a setup involv- ing three or four neighboring counties. It is obviously big business. County council also administers health and welfare, many miles of roads, EMO, library service, and many other pieces of business which directly involve every resident of Huron Coun- ty. It is obviously vital business. Because it is conducting business that is big and vital, every taxpayer has a right to know what goes on in county council. - .They have the fight to know how their money is being spent. They have the right to know of the opin- ions arid statements being made by the county councillors at their various ses- sions throughout the year. Realizing this, the six major weekly newspapers in Huron County' formed • a pool a few years ago and each re- • . ceives reports of the sessions from W. E. Elliott, a veteran and extremely re- ' liable newspaper reporter from Gode- rich. At pxsent this is the only way in which the majority of Huron residents are kept abreast of reports of the ses- sions. This is the only way in which the majority can find out how their money is being spent and how the vital business is being conducted. As a representative of the weekly newspapers in Huron, ,and therefore facilities are to be provided. The same session of County Council heard the announcement that federal funds will be available for a study in depth of problems of the aging in this county, where, it was stated, the popu- lation of persons over the age of 65 is much higher than the national average. The results of this study might well bore important bearing on the deci- ). sions which are to be made in regard to additions at Huronview. "We face critical problems in our care of the aged. The planing and building we do now will determine the future of not only those who are in care today, but all those aged people who will need care for many years to come. It is imperative thht expert • guidance be sought before any further moves are made," ,the paper concludes. r Reporters • the representatives of the majority of Huron residents, Mr. Elliott should be courteously received at all council ses- sions. At present he is not. ' Nor are repre- sentatives of the two daily newspapers which cover county ,council sessions. They are not given the consideration of a special press table reserved strict- ly for their use. While there .is a table t at which Mr. Elliott generally sits, he often finds it filled with visitors to the sessions, and there is nothing to show these visitors that Mr. Elliott has any • priority in' the' use of the table. In a note to the Huron editors this week, Mr. Elliott reports he attended the funeral of the ex -mayor of Gode- rich, John Huckins, with county coun- cil members, and on returning found the press accommodation in use by visi- tors. All other chairs were in use and Mr. Elliott was unable to get a report of the sessions for the people of Huron County. "This situation occurred at the Janu- ary meeting, and I am not going to fight over it again," Mr. Elliott stated in his note. "I represent six Huron County weeklies and if I am a nuisance to county council, the editors may as well know it. If on the other hand I have some right there, a chair at the press deskwould seem to be a mini- mum acknowledgment." As a representative of the majority of Huron residents, a reserved chair for Mr. Elliott at a special press desk is. indeed a minimum acknowledgment by county councillors that the people of this county have the right to kno* how this big and vital business .is be- ing conducted. A Macduff Ottawa Report But Who Will Pay the.- Piper? OTTAWA—Twenty-four MP's Federal Budget. The actuarial report does not predict what .will be done but it does say that the tax rate could rise to nearly nine per cent of earnings in 85 years. and a dozen Senators have be, gun to read the fine print of the mortgage Canadians are putting on their future incomes to pay for the Canada Pension Plan. The joint Senate -Commons Committee has begun hearings on the, pension bill in the sha- dow of a sombre acturial re- port which predicts that the "contributions" will have to be raised in about 20 years or the plan will -go billions of dol- lars in the red. These "contributions"—more honestly termed a "social se- curity tax" in the similar U.S. scheme—will start at 3.6 per cent of all earnings between $600 and $5,000 a year. The self-employed will pay the full rate but employees wift split with employers. In the early years of the Pen- sion Plan it srill be more than enough to pay the gradually rising cost of benefits. In fact, the plan could build up a fund of $10 billion which would be ,invested in provincial bonds. But while the income of the plan will start high and rise slowly,,,the cost of the pensions now being promised goes into a steeply rising curve which wettld leave present contribu- tion rates far behind if noth- ing is done. Within 40 years pf commencing, the plan could -be-cleep in a $13 Millen defibit tdient the reiM The Giivernment professes to be unworried by this prospect. Finance Minister Walter Gor- don assured the House of Com- mons that the country could afford the pension plan which would become a fruitful source of needed social capital, such as roads, schools, hospitals and urban developmentS. Whether this is just whist- ling in the dark is something the committee will be trying to learn. But opposition members were alarmed at the start by the indications that the Govern- ment hoped to hustle the plan through the committee and fin- al passage in the Commons by Christmas. This would enable the Gov- ernment to prorogue the ses- sion, and clear the decks for a new one in 1965, without wor- rying about the pension plan which will have to be started all over again if it isn't ap- proved before the session ends. But it would make it.difficult for the committee to hear all viewpoints—as the Government promised would be done—even. if the Committee followed a day and night sitting pian, In •addition t� the fears of excessive Inn*, there was ale so ,a 4fear that th cromnittee ,o' was nothing but a fancy rub- ber-stamp for a plan already settled in the smoke-filled back 'rooms of Federal - Provincial politics. The current version of the Pension Plan was conceived in secret negotiations last April between Federal and Quebec of- ficials; Then it was cle,ared with other provinces, a process which took six months before Parliament was allowed to see it. To 'make any substantial changes would mean that the whole thing would have to be started again—talks with Que- bec, then negotiations with the other provinces. The Govern- ment, in this situation; isn't likely to see much merit in any change of substance. The first sessions promised some stilling times in the Com- mittee which has two chairmen, Pa Cameron from the Com- mons, and Senator Muriel Fer- gusson from the Upper House. Mr. Cameron is a Manitoba - born Toronto lawyer who first sat in the Commons in 1949, was swept out by the Diefen- baker landslide in 1957 and 1958 but regained his seat in 1962, 41Ie's a shrewd and hum- orous man with a lot of House of Commons savvy, although he makes few speeches. Senator Fergusson has been in the Upper House since 1953. She is a lawyer and a former director of family allowances and OM age security, • „., Mr "WHEN I'M CALLING YOU...00 00 00...00 00 00..."131 In the Years Agone From The Huron Expositor December 8, 1939 Morley H. Lannin, Duhli took sixth prize in the baco hog class at the Toronto Stoc Yard Show, held Thursday an Friday of last week, When he was kicked by horse as he was working in hi stables on Friday, Harvey M Lwain, a McKillop Townshi farmer,. _suffered a- -fracture pelvis and other injuries. 4 Seaforth bowlers on Wednes day evening named Charles P Sills president for the comin year. Other, officers electe • were as follows: vice-pres., John Ho tham; secretary, Wm. M. Hart; treasurer, W. J. Duncan; tournament sec.; Merton A. Reid; assistant, D. H. Wilson local tourney manager, E. H Close; referee, R. J. Sproat auditors, R. J. Winter and H E. Smith. Following the meet ing, euchre was enjoyed, with prizes going to E. C. Boswel nd Charles A. Barber. Dr, J. A. Munn was in To ronto on Friday when he at tended the reunion of the men who enlisted with him in 1917 Also attending the reunion were Dr. W. A. Crich and F. Lorne -Hutchison, of Toronto. W. B. Reid, a member. of the same group, was unable to be pres- ent because of illness. . Mrs. W. H. Grassie, native of Seaforth and widely known here, passed away at her home • in Vancouver recently. The euchre and dance held in Winthrop Hall Friday night was well attended. The prize winners were: Ladies, games, Miss Alda Williamson; lone hands, Mrs. James Aitcheson; men, games, Thos. Carter; lone hands, Harold Bolton, The Agar - Collins orchestra furnished the music for dancing. The Ladies' Aid of First Pres- byterian Church held a success- ful supper Wednesday evening. During the evening a musical program was given by Mrs. J. E, Keating, Mrs. G. A. Ballan- tyne, Mrs. M. R. Rennie, Mr. G. F. Brown and Miss Doris Fer- guson. Mrs. E. A. McMaster received for the first time since her mar- riage at -Ther home On. High $t., on Friday. Mrs. J. . D. Colqu- houn received with her. Assist- ing were Mrs. Earle Bell, Mrs. J. A. Munn, Mrs. F. J. Bechely, Mrs. A.H. O'Neill, Mrs. C. P. Sills, Mrs, E. C. Boswell and Mrs. J. A. Stewart. Miss Jean McMaster attended the door. Mrs. H. J. Gibson and her mother, Mrs. S. Boyd, left this week for Stratford, where they will spend the winter months. As a result of early elections in Huron municipalities, the fol- loWing will sit on the 1940 Hur- on County Council: Ashfield, Alex F. McDonald, Gilbert Frayne (deputy); Clinton, Nel- son W. Trewartha; Goderieh, R. E: Turner, E. D. Brown (dep- uty); Hensall, R. E. Shaddick; n Hullett, Jas. Leiper; Turnberry, k Roland Grain; West WaWanosh, d Thos. Webster; Colborne, Geo. Feagan. a Seaforth firemen answered s two calls on Thursday, both c- chimney fires and both on Mar - p ket St. The residence of Mrs. d -Julia Flannigan was on fire, and at 5:30 an alarm was rung - in from the residence of Mrs . Elinor Ritchie. From The Huron Expositor December 4, 1914 Anniversary services in con- ; nection with Cavan Church, Winthrop, were held on Sun- day. Rev. Mr. Harper, of Willis , Church, Clinton, was the guest _ speaker. On Monday evening the tea meeting was held and ° 1 success scarcely expresses the exact conditions. The program • consisted of numbers by Miss - Davis, of Stratford; by the Lobb Quartette Club, Holmesville; Male Quartette of Seaforth, composed of John Beattie, Fred McGregor, George -Israel and • James Sleeth; also by W. T. Hays, Jolui Scott and D. L. Reid. On Monday evening a num- ber of the members and friends of Brucefield Methodist Church 'gathered at the home of M. R. P. Watson to spend a social eve- ning and to present a token of compensation and best wishes to Mr. Watson and his bride. A suitable and appropriate ad- dress was read by Rev. Mr. Greene, and Mr. George Brock, on behalf of the church and Sunday School, presented Mr. Watson with a beautiful leather seated morris chair. Mr. Wm. Chesney, 6th con., Tuckersmith, has some fancy stock that will take • a lot of beating. Three ewe lambs, sev- en months old, recently weigh- ed ,tipped the scales at 478 lbs. On Monday evening a large p crowd.assembled at the railway t station at Hensall to bid fare- well to one of the boys, in the . person of Wesley Caldwell, the j youngest son of Mr. William S Caldwell. They presented hint with•a handsome jewelled wrist i watch. -Taking advantage of his pres- d ence in town on leave of ab- f sence frem the military camp o at London and before his de- e parture on Monday, Mr. Percy Rolph was presented by the brethren of the Oddfellows' y Lodge here with a signet ring. The officers of the Orange li Lodge made him the recipient e of a handsome locket. Mr. David Walker, an old t Tuckersmith boy and son of t the late David Walker of the Mill Road, was in the 'vicinity 'C last week. It is 35 years since Mr. Walker was here and saw many changes. Mr.and Mrs. Al Gord have moved from Egmondvi Seaforth and now occupy t comfortable' hoine of Mrs. Ge Murdie, on Goderich St. Miss C. Everatt, of town h returned home from Trento where she. had a good positi during the millinery season. Mr, J. F. Daly, 'who has be a busy man all summer, winding up a successful autom bile season, having disposed 16 Ford cars. Since last August the clot ing factory in town has bee turning out at the rate of 150 • Sugar and -Spice By Bill Smiley KUDOS FOR THE CONFORMIST There's a great hoo-havv these days about conformity,' which has become a dirty word. Edu cationists and editors, social workers and sob sisters warn us that one of the great threats ta freedom in the modern world is conformity.' These Cassandras claim that we're turning into a nation, a world, of conformists. They threaten that the golden age of the real individual, the rebel, the non -conformist, is nearing an end, and that very soon we shall *all" be slaves, eating what everybody else is eating, wear- ing what everybody else is wearing, doing what everybody else is doing, and ihinking what everybody else is thinking. " * * I find myself remarkably calm in the face of these prophecies. In fact, I think they are pure poppycock. In the first place, I see noth- ing wrong with conformity. It merely means, "compliance with established forms." In short, the individual accepts the re- sponsibilities and the restraints which society imposes on him. * * * he The vast majority of people have always been conformists. on If you happened to be a canni- Ile bal, and the piece de resistance he was roast missionary, you set o. down with the rest of the boys and enjoyed the preacher, You as didn't say, "Gee, 1 don't know n, fellas. Maybe we're making 'a on mistake. Maybe we shoulda boiled him." No, sir. You con- formed. You went along with en the crowd. is o, If you happened- to be a Ro- of man legionary, happily hacking up Gauls and ancient Britons, hn:, oyfouthdeidn't stop in the middle orgy and ask yourself, 0 "Is this the real me; or am I pairs of khaki pants a- wee for the soldiers, andytlry still hard at it. . We are sorry to learn that Miss Annie Sommerville, of the public school staff, has been forced by ill health to decist from work. Her place is being filled by Miss .Arthur. Mrs. Martha Rands, of Con- stance, -has rented her farm on the 4th concession of Hullett, to Mr. Levi Rands, Who will work it for the next three years. * * From The Huron Expositor December 6, 1889 Nearly all the brick required for the new Presbyterian Church in Hullett are On the ground, and building operations will begin earlynext k just doing this because every - e body else is?" If ydu did, you were a dead non-formist. g-• An accident happened to Mas- ter -Joseph Riley, of Londesboro, which proved very serious. While he was experimenting on blowing • up a bottle of gun- powder, it burst in .his hand, Cutting it in about 65 places. Peter McEwen, Peter Ross and David Farquharson, of Mc- Killop, and Alexander Ross, of Egmondville, who have been on a hunting expedition in the Parry Sound District, l'ettirned home Thursday. They brought with them 10 fine deer. Mr. Mc: Ewen says that wolves are very lentiful and destroy more deer han all the hunters •put to - Mr. D. D. Wilson and Mr ohn Lyon have purchased the aforth oatmeal mill from Mr Walter • Thomson and .will run t after the 26th of this month Miss Isabella Cowan; third aughter of Mr. Walter Cowan, ormerly of the 5th concession f McKillop, has recently been lected superintendent' of pub- ic schools for O'Brien County, llinois, at a salary of $1,100 a ear. The wires for the electric ghts are now being put in sev- ral of the stores and other usiness places. We understand hat over 40 lights have 'been aken by private individuals. Mr. Wm. Prendergast, now of atham, has been engaged as athematical master in Sea- orth Collegiate , Institute for ext year at a salary of $350. r. Prendergast is a graduate f Seaforth Collegiate. _Smillie Bros., sons of Mr. Jas. millie, of Tuckersmith, recent- ly purchased from Mr, Pat Cur- tin, of Centralia, a Very superior imported Clydesdale colt called Straightaway." This -Olt is only ' two years old and he is predicted to be a world beater. Mr. David McConnell, Young- est son of Mr. John McConnell; Hibbert, is at present attend- ing Business College in Strat- ford. Last Thursday there was con- derable excitement at the rill shed at Bayfield when it as auctioned off, to be used as skating rink. J. E. Swartz, eorge Erwin, James Walwin d Walter Baker secured it for 5.00. On Sunday, while John Speirs Brussels was at church, his red man, who had been hired ortly before, left for parts known with one of his em- oyer's suits of clothes. On Monday last there was a e at the harbor at Bayfield, edging a passage to the river. d it not been for the work an by the coundillors, with e assistance ,of citizens, the h boats could not have been ought in withent mg& dam- age, be' served by iiretectitig the' * * * Equallay, if you happen to be a modern 'man, and your kids and wife are putting you over the jumps, you conform. You don't take a two-by-four and pound your kids into submis- sion. You threateh to cut off their allowance. In the second place, the delib- erate, or conscious, non -confor- mist is a simple pain in the arm. He is the type who thinks he can't be a painter unless he has a beard, who thinks he cant be a poet unless he needs a haircut badly. * * Perhaps the greatest confor. mists in the world today are teenagers. In their desperate attempt to avoid conformity, they become the most rigid con- formists • in our society. They dress alike, do their hair alike, eat the same food, listen to the same music. All this, in an ef- fort to revolt against society, to be' non -conformists! Not that. there haven't been great non -conformists. Beethov- en, Tolstoy, Gauguin come to mind. But they were great, not because they were non -confor- mists, but in spite of it. They had talent, Mac. On the other hand, Bach was a, church or- ganist, music teacher and had children. Shakespeare worked atrocious hours, lived an ex- emplary life, and never missed getting his hair cut regularly. * * * Alexander the Great, Napo- leon, the Marquis de Sade, Hit - .ler, and Lee Oswald were non= conformists. You know what they contributed to the world. Does this mean every non- conformists is a nut? Not neces- sarily, thotIgh probably. -He is usually an unhappy chap who, for some deep -buried reason, must attract attention. Trouble is, the people who constantly warn us of the 'dan- _gers of eonformity have eon - fused the non -Conformist and the individual. The former is to be pitied. He is seeking firm ground in a quagmire. The lat- ter is to be envied. He has found a prune (himself), in the porridge of society, and he chews happily ever after. * * * Perhaps old Polonius put it best in Hanilet." His son •is go- ing away to college,' The dad gives him a lot of advice -about conforming.. Then, in an un-, expected and untypical flash, he adds, "This above all. To thine own self be true; thou can'st not then be false to any man." THIS WEEK AND NEXT Rural Votes Get A Trimming , By RAY ARGYLE farmer's welfare. During this The next federal election whenever it comes, will com plete Canada's transition from a rural to an urban nation. -a vote is held in 1965, it wil be the last in which the rura voters ballot outweigh that o his town and city cousin. Parliament's passage of a re distribution act setting up a electoral ,commission for eac province gives Canada its firs permanent system for assurin equal voting rights throughou the nation. The only catch'is that -it wil take the commission a couple of years to complete their work. - If an election is called, in 1965, . we'll be trekking to the polls in constituencies, carved out on . the basis of the 1951 census. A lot of Canadians have mov- . ed around in the past 14 years; and our population has grown to more than 19 million. As a result, the inequalities of our present eleetoral boun- daries have increased. The clas- sic example is the big suburban Toronto riding of York Scar- boro, with a population of 267,- 252. Its voters elect one mem- ber of parliament, as do 'the voters of Iles -de -la -Madelaine in Quebee, with a population of only 12,479. That means each ballot cast in this tiny Quebec riding is worth 25 ballots mark- ed by voters in Toronto's big bedroom suburb. The democratic principle of "one man, one vote," won't be completely realized even by stheaetsu.pcoming redistribution of There'll still be ample leeway to allow rural MP's to get around their sprawling, lightly - populated ridings, The electoral commissions will be told to aim at a population average of 70,- 000 for each riding. Some will have as few as- 50,000; others as many as 90,000. The exception be Prince Edward Island, which is guar- anteed four seats under the BNA Act. Its population is barely more than 100,000. The number of seats in the House of Commons will remain at 265, It's expected that Sas- - katchewan will lose- several seats, Alberta and British Col- umbia will each make gains, while in Ontario and Quebec the present number will be held. but smaller ridings will be merged while bigger ones will be split. Both Canada and Unit- ed States have a long history in, the favor of rural voters. In the es., the Supreme Court has ordered revision of electoral boundaries in every state. " This policy goes, many years to when it could reason- ably be argued that the inter- etts'Of the country could best same -period, before the advent of the great urban middle claSs, ' the city worker" was looked on as unstable and emotional, not to be trusted with •too much 1 responsibility. f Those who reside in rural Canada today realize that the _ pattern of life in this country has changed dramatically since h the last vir ar. . The big redistri- t bution program which will per- mit the urban voter to domin- t ate Parliament can't help but tweak the pride of rural Can- ada, but it is a pill that has to be swallowed. "1n M 0 'rn supposed to wear glasses when 1 drive but 1 had ' the windshield ground to my prescription!" "We were only pieohya" S 4' d w a G an $3 of hi sh un be dr Ha do th fis br Canada's small _ towns and farms have produced many great legislators. There is no reason why they should not con- tinue to do so, And here lies the best chance for leadership that will benefit the country as a whole as well as meeting the problems facing Canadian farmers in an increasingly in- dustrialized society. The ConServative party, with its present reliance on its .west- ern and rural bastion under John Diefenbaker, will be hard- est hit by redistribution. This is another reason for Prime Minister Pearson to avoid a 190 election if possible, since redistribution will not be completed until 1966. But 'final passage of the flag bill and the pension plan, coupled with an expected tax cut in the spring, might prove irresistible to Lib- eral '"election satrategist next year. • Smiles... Teacher: "James, give me a sentence using the word •'dia- dem'." • • James: "People who- start across the railroad tracks with- out looking 'diadem' sight quick-- er than those who 'Stop, Look and Listen'." Judge: "Speeding, eh? How many times have you been ,be- fore me?" Speeder: "Never, your 'Hon- or. I've tried to pass you on the road once or twice, but my car will only do 55;" sr),;IRNS by Mills Frt. 25 7 The driver who 0;r' the proper signal ahead of time Is apt to be time ahead. 1 a • s • • A • • • • • • •