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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MARCH 11, 1965
Is Compulsory Test
It is rather startling to realize that
during the years since cars were first
introduced, more than 60,000,000 peo-
ple have been killed or maimed in auto-
mobile accidents in the United States.
On the basis of present population, fig-
ures, that means about one-third of
today's total or three times the total.
population of Canada.
The fatalities and injuries continue
at the rate of more than 40,000 a year.
Some interesting figures have been
compiled by Crown Attorney P. K. Mc-
Williams, of Halton County, and ap-
pear in a letter in a recent issue of'
the Acton Free Press. According to
Mr. McWilliams, who has compiled'
statistics based on accidents in Halton
during the past four years, fatalities
have not exceeded 32 in any year. But
he points out, of the 22 persons killed
The Answer?
in 1964, 11, or fifty per cent, were driv-.
ers, and of these, 72.7 per .cent had
been drinking.
The 1964 percentage of drivers who
died after drinking was up consider-
ably from the 3.3 per cent of the pre-
vious year.
Mr. McWilliams uses the figures to
support his argument that blood alco-
hol tests should be made compulsory
for all drivers involved in fatal motor
accidents.
In endorsing this conclusion, the
Acton Free Press .points out that a
compulsory blood test for drivers in -
Volved in fatal accidents is simply in
keeping with the modern scientific
developments that make detection. more
accurate. It might serve t6o, as a
greater deterrent for the individual
who still considers his ability unhinder-
ed after drinking.
An Investment In
There is a lot of common sen ie in
what the Wingham Advance -Times has
to say about the necessity of nrunici-
rialities awakening to the requirement
for new modern facilities to serve its
citizens.
• Pointing out that much of what must
provided. today makes for better
citizens tomorrow, the Advance -Times
says:
"If schools were our only public
concern the matter would not be too
serious, but 'they are not. Of equal
importance are the hospital facilities.
Parks and other public improvements
must be paid for. as well.,
"Though these tremendous expendi-
tures may make us shudder, we all
know they must be' met. We have talk-
. ed for years about the sparse- pppula-
ton in otir-645-initry=about how badly
we were in need of more citizens, more
industries and more. business. Like it
or not, that's what we are in process
of ietting.. right now. The simple fact
is that a larger population brings not
A Macduff Ottawa Report
The Ghost of Two Dollar Wheat
Tomorrow
only benefits, but the .need for acceler-
ated expenditures as well.
"Much of what.we spend on public
facilities is for the use or training of
the younger. generation. We are at-
tempting to provide them with a form
of education which will enable them to
face problems about which we can
form only a vague outline. The new
roads and parks and hosiiitals will also
be theirs to use. For this reason there
is no need to begrudge any of the trea-
sure we are providing. It is chiefly for
the welfare of our own children -the
people who will hold our destiny in
their hands a few years hence."
"In business, as in politics, it is never
easy to io against the beliefs and atti-
tudes held by the majority.. The busi-
nessmanwhn moves counter to the tide
of prevailing opinions must expect to
be obstructed, derided and damned.
"ButL-it pays to pioneer." -J. Paul
Getty.
OTTAWA -No one has ever The inevitable result of the
tried to deny that the Liberal adoption of these ideas would
Party in its election campaign be to convert the Wheat Board
of. 1963 promised the 'Western froma producers' marketing
farmer a guarantee of $i00 a agency to ea Government ag-
bushel wheat in some form. ency".
From the hustings there were And later:
variations in interpretation but "We therefore do not intend
an official Liberal booklet stat- to adopt any policies that will
ed that if returned to power a interfere with the efficient op -
Liberal Government would es-, eration of this producers' mar-
tablish a minimum price of $2 keting agency or reduce the
on all domestic sales and that Board's 'incentive to go after
on all sales under the Interna- markets on behalf of the pro-
tional Wheat Agreement which ducers."
were below that level a defici- The strange thing about it is
ency payment would be made, that neither Mr. Sharp nor any
presumably to the Wheat Board, of his Cabinet colleagues will
to cover the di:erence. admit in the light of these
There is no doubt that in statements that they have aban-
this form, at least, that prom- cloned wheat price subsidies or
ise is as dead as Mr. Hazen rejected the demand for them
Argue's chance of becoming a which has followed the price
Minister in Mr. Pearson's Cab- drop. It is even suggested that
inet. And the two things are if it became necessary a $2
not unconnected. It was the minimum price might be es -
one time CCF'ers running as a tabliihed on a limited quantity
Liberal candidate in his old of wheat sold by the Board
constituency of Assiniboia, Sas- without destroying its incentive
katchewan, woo sold Mr. Pear- to go after markets.
son on the idea of $2 wheat ' Such a suggestion is convinc-
as a -means of winning back Mg only in the light of a pos-
the Diefenbaker-loyal Province. sible 1965 election and the Lib -
He also, apparently, became eral necessity of capturing more
the Minister of Agriculture than the three seats they now
designate not only in his own hold on the Prairies if the
eyes but in the eyes of the Government is to be returned
Prime Minister to be. with a clear majority.. Perhaps
Mr. Argue's sound defeat at there is some , faint hope that
the hands of a Progressive Con- instead of being haunted by
servative relieved -Mr. Pearson the ghost of $2 wheat they can
of any dbligation he may have turn' it into a friendly appari-
felt to take Mr. Argue into his tion that can be calledup on
Cabinet. It also sounded the occasions without being resur-
death knell of his wheat pol- rected in the flesh.
icy. Mr. Mitchell Sharp, who Meanwhile, Mr. Sharp has re -
became Minister of Trade and placed it with a far sounder
Commerce and took the Wheat wheat ,Marketing policy includ-
Board under his wing, had ing a three-year target for sales
strongly opposed it and won which, even if prices should
support within the Cabinet. In drop -to the International Wheat
a recent speech in Winnipeg, Agreement floor of $1.71 which
Whkii" had the advance apprisvno one expects, would' give tire
al 'of the Prime Minister, he Western fariner a higher cash
laid the 1963 promise to rest income than in any-- previous
7offeetivelp and clearly as three-year period if the crop
anyone could have done. year 1983-64 is excluded. o
has been proposed," he This . bonanza year a butte
said?, litat the tjrice to the pro- 13er crop plus Russian sales saw
', ,sholdbe fixed above 563,815020 bushels delivered to
Itietd that the Wheat the Board and handled at the
rit. idoitti"it lowest cost on record', /,1' cents
',lieett,%'dfiogett'-nthtit buthel. ith the average
ut 01 'ffiliOdikedt,T16";:tO440 Or';1/416.
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aging has disclosed the infor-
mation that 77 per cent of Can-
adian over the age of 70 own
their own homes. This sounds
like an affluent society and an
argument •against any increase
in old age pensions'until other
statistics are added. Bi the
figures also show a large per-
centage.of homes badly in need
of repair and a relatively small
number with running water.
These statistics coincide with
the start of an investigation un-
dertaken by ARDA by the Can-
adian Welfare Council into ru-
ral ,poverty.
* * '1The Department of Trade and.
Commerce is at work develop-
ing a national energy policy
for Canada aimed at the most
effective use of energy sourc-
es including waterpower, gas, 1
oil, coal and the newoomer to t
the field, uranium. A 'reviving
world den= for this nuclear
fuel, sparked by the currentn
negotiation of a long terr,g
con-
tract between the French and ;
Denison Mines Ltd., has made 0
exploration for new reserves
an urgent need. The energy
pblicy is part of ,a joint study s
being undertaken with the 0
Northern slightly above $2 the
return to the farmer is $1.97.
Final payment, cheques for a
total amount I of $271,964,204
are being distributed, living up
to Mr. Sharp's prediction that b
it would be the largest payment s
on record.
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Capital Hill Capsules
A Senate Committee on the 0
United States which was sug- d
gested nearly two years ago bY A
Trade Minister Mitchell Sharp.
Finance Minister Walter Gor- e
den has put passage of his de- 1
cennial bill to revise the Bank I
Act jeobattly by 'announcing a
a provision that no provincial
government shall .hold shares b
inns chartered bank. This sue- m
cessfully thwarts Premier Ben- i
netts second planned venture a
into the banking field but it has
brought a threat from his So- d
dal Credit allies the House y
of Contio‘ita to filibuster the A
bank •biti, when it comes up
next sessi#1,
ISN'T THIS COUNTRY BIG, ENOUGH FOR ALL OF US?
In the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor
March 15, 1940
Dr. G. K. Chapman and M
A. D. Chapman, of Fort Eri
and M. Langford ,Chapman, o
qpderich, were here attendin
the funeral of the late Mrs. Wm
Trewarth a. .
We are pleased to learn tha
Mr. C. Eckert is recoverin
from the injury to his kne
which he recently suffered i
a fall.
Mr. J. E. Willis has lease
Mr. James Henderson's res
dence on North Main St, an
will occupy it early in April.
Every highway leading fro
Seaforth was closed at som
time on Wednesday as a mid
March storm swept over the dis
trict, piling deep drifts on mai
and concession roads alike.
Mr. Sam T. Holmes, one o
the oldest established business
men of Seaforth, as well a
one of the most widely know
men of this district, passe
away in .his sleep.
Walter, little son , of Mr. an
Mrs. Fred Parsons, suffered' ser
ious scalds on Saturday whe
he Put his arms in a pail o
hot water. The burns, whil
painful, are responding to treat
tnent and he is now out o
danger. '
The following pupils of Mrs
M. R. Rennie. were successful
in "Passing the Toronto U6n
servatory of Music exams in
Seaforth recently; .Piano, Grade
1, Bill Munn, first class honors
piano, grade 2, Helen Smith
first class honors; piano, grade
3, Mary Geddes, 'first class hon
ors. Miss Doris Ferguson, a
pupil of Miss Irene Jocelyn
Stratford, received 86 in grade
3, junior singing, and 87 in
grade 5, Piano. She is a pupi
of Miss Doble in piano.
The eieputy-returning officers
who wiff act in Huron -Perth at
the forthcoming federal eIec
tion are as follows: McKillop
No. 1, Joseph Carpenter; 2A
John McNay; 2B,•Ross Murdie
3, John R. Leeming; 4, Wm, R
Stewart; Tuckersmith: 1, Wm
Devereaux; 2, Ernest Dinnen;
3, Wellington Crich; A, Alex
Wright; 5, Wm. Buchanan; 6
Hugh McMillan; Hensall:
George -Hess; 1B, Scott'Welsh..
Seaforth: 1, Walter Scott; 2,
W. J. McIntosh; 3, Stan G. Dor-
rance; 4, James Grieve; 5, 'Chas.
Barnett; 6, John R. Walker.
Members of the Seaforth
Fife Brigade honored Ross J.
Sproat, a retiring member, at
the Dick Hotel. Frank Sills,
who was, toastmaster, spoke
briefly, while Allen Reid pre-
sented Ross- with, a signet ring.
Chief A. W. Dick presided ov-
er the annual meeting which
followed. Four new members,
Donald Dale, James .
W. Willis and Frank Sills, Jr,,
were appointed. Officers named
were: Chief, A. W. Dick; secre-
ary, John Muir; foremen, M-
en Reid and D'Orlean Sills;
reasurer, F. S. Sills, .Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jahn Gordon,
of IVIcKillop,marked their 25th
wedding anniversary when a
athering of 35 frpeople enjoyed
ards during the evening. The
nly person present who was
at the wedding 25 years ago
was John Little. They were pre-
ented with a silver tea set
n a try and other silver pieces.
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.From The Huron Expositor
March 12, 1915
Mr. It. G. Winters, who was
urned out in Stark's Block, has
ecured the ,store in the Camp -
ell Block, formerly occupied
y the Marshall Bakery,
Mr. and Mrs. George Butson,
f Staffa, now occupy the resi-
ence recently vacated by Miss
gnes Herron.
Miss Ruby Sadler, of Staffa,
ntertained a number of her
ady friends to a thimble party
ast Tuesday, when an enjey-
ble time was spent.
The special tax to be levied
y the Ontario Government on
municipal assessments, accord -
ng to the Clerk af Clinton, will
mount to $664.00 to that town.
Mr. Wrp. Sinclair, of Klppen,
isposed of a fine team of
ottng heavy draft horse i tb an
merleao bufer.
Many fro 'the vicinity of
ippeti attended, M. Robert
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Brownlee's sale in Tuckersmith
on Friday. Cows sold for $98.
r. A number of farmers in the
e, Hensall area have tapped their
f trees and are looking forward
g to a good season Joy molasses
. and maple syrup.
Master Herman Speare, of
t Cromarty, who has been ill for
g several weeks with inflammatory
e, rheumatism and _pleurisy, is
n still confined to bed. We trust
that his recovery will be rapid.
d Robert Munn, of Leadbury,
intends soon to retire from the
blacksmithing and his place will
m be taken by Henry Thornton.
Mr. Munn intends engaging in
e the manefacture of cement tile
and brick.
a Mr.
• Cleave Cochrane, Hillsgreen,
-has purchased M. ,John Dins -
dale's farm.
Mrs. Charles Andrews, of
• town', has removed to Miss Gra-
d ham's cottage in Egtnondville,
As Mr. Reuben Frost was
d driving- up Main Street,- his
horse_got startled at something
and in pulling him up, the
animal struck the runner of
e the cutter with his hind feet.
Mr. Frost, being ..an experienc-
f
ed horseman, hung on to the ,reigns and. he finally turned
him around and -brought him
home without any mishaps.
Miss Isabel Scott presided at
the organ in First Presbyterian
Church in the absence of Mr.
• Nixon, the regular organist.
Mr. Robert Scott, Jr., of Har-
' purhey, has purchasetl the 13-
. acre lot on the Roxboro road
from. Mr. Pickett' and will farm
it in connection with his other
' lots in Harpurhey.
Miss M. Ma'ckay has 'been ill
/ this week with an attack of la
grippe and her, department in
the public school has been tak-
en by Miss Gretta Ross. '
A most delightful .evening
was .spent in the lodge room of
' Fidelity Lodge, Independent Or-
: der of Oddfellows, when about
' 25 members of Brucefield lodge
' drove over to exchange frater-
nal greetings with the Seaforth
brethren.'
Last week Mr. E. H. Wise, of
' Goderich Twp., delivered to Mr.
William Collins, of Brucefield,
A fine two-year-old heifer, and'
to Mr. Samuel ,Walker, of &tr.'
icie. a six -months -old bull calf.
While Mr. Walter Moffatt,
of the 2nd of Stanley was chop-
ping in the woods, he accident-
ally cut his foot, the cut requir-
' ing to be stitched.
Mr. George Smithers, of town,
has sold his brick residence in
the north ward, to Mr. William
Mulhollapd, of Hay Twp., who
• has sold his farm there and is
coming to town to reside.
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From The Huron Expositor
March 14, 1890
Mr. Joseph Foster, near Hills -
1,4114014411,-.
'green, met with a painful acci-
dent while in barn. His horse,
a spirited colt, became loosened
from his tying, upturned the
cutter and became so entangled
that it was unable to move. He
set it free but received a kick
on the side of tire knee, which
will lay him off fqr •:_some
nionths.
From the reports of the
teachers presented at the. last
meeting of the trustee board,
we learn that the public school
is again filled up almogt to ov-
erflowing. The following is a
statement of the average at-
tendance in each of the several
departments, namely: Mr. Mc-
Faul's, 43; Miss A. Cowan, 55;
Miss K. Cowan, 50; Miss Elder.
42; Miss Killoran, 50; Miss A.
Watson, 44; Mrs. Campbell, 55;
Miss R,. Watson, 48; and Mrs.
Coulter, 56,
Mr. Robert McCartney, of the
Mill Road, Tuckersmith, in-
tends leaving on the 25th with
his family and effects for Moose
Jaw, Northwest Territery.
Mr. Robert Gray, milkman of
town, has put a handsome new
covered milk wagon on the
road.
Mr. John Hannah will run
four creameries during the
coming season: Seaforth, Lon-
desboro, Goderich and Kirkton.-
Miss Hoffman, who for the
past few- , years has. been head
milliner in the establishment
of Hoffman &' Co., left town for
Waterloo, where she has taken
a similar position in a large
establishment there. Her suc-
cessor here is, Miss Doble.
The mernbeh of the Seaforth
Curling Club completed Friday
night the competition for the
Seaforth tankard. The two last
to., play were Mr. John Weir
and Mr. John Lyon. In this final
match Mr. John Weir came out
victorious by five shots.
A large number of saw logs
have come to Mr. Sadler's saw-
mill, in .Staff a during the past
two weeks. They are hauling
them in their wagons instead
of sleighs.
One of the best auction' sales
that have taken place in Tuck-,
ersmith was that held on the
farm of Mr. Thomas Simpson,
llth con., last week. A team
of horses sold for $300,
John McKay -& Sons, well-
known breeders of Tuckersmith
have this season sold -four young
thorough -bred bulla arid two
heifers. The prices 'paid ranged
from $75 to $100.
One of the most successful
basket socials held pear Kip -
pen took place at the residence
of John Jarrott, on the Town
Line, for the purpose of rais-
ing money to defray the expens-
es of the organ, lately purchas-
ed from Mr. Oakes, of Clinton.
Those taking part on the pro-
gram Were Messrs. Harb, Jar-
rott and Stelk. Recitations were
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Sugar and Sp ce
•. . -By Bill Smiley , -
SOME SPRING FANCIES umphantly to his wife. He's so
We all know what a young sincere she's really impressed.
man's 'fancy is supposed to he's proud of him. A new leaf.
First job he'll e tackle is the
lightly turn to in spring. But
front la;wn. Then the cellar.
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when you get right down to it,
young men are vastly uninter-
esting, except to themselves, Half an hour later, she dis-
recruiting officers, , and, of covers the new leaf is just the
course, young women. other side of the same one he
of Soyouwneg wmilelnigtnhoirse.spthreingf7ecsy. catches him cleaning up the'
turned over last year., She
pecially since it's lightly turn- front lawn by chipping grape -
ed to the same sort of thoughts fruit *ins into the coal -truck
in the other three seasons too. craters with a golf club. They
Let's examine the fancies of have words. She dons her boots
some of the More interesting and rakes the lawn, sending
age roups.
him to the cellar.
When he doesn't show up for
g
• Sole aim of very small. males, supper, she figures he's really
in the spring, seems to be mud. bucking down to it, and goes
They love mud. It has the same down cellar to call him. And
fascination for them that it has there he- is, crouched - on the
for small pigs. They like to remnants of the coal -pile, with
walk in it, kneel. in it, roll in his fishing rod, practising his
it, push small girls down M it, fly -casting into the large pool
and bring as much as possible between. the vegetable -bin and
of it home- with 'them. , the furnace. •
Slightly older ' boys have a .. • * * *
fano in 'the spring for any- What about the oldster, the
thing that is dangerous, fool- codger? What kind • ofy a fancy
ish or irritating. On the first does he have, -come, spring?
day the temperature is above After dicing with death through
40 they want to go hatless and a
long, cruel winter, when his
barefoot.. They build rafts that old side -kicks were appearing
sink. They- dig caves in the with Monotonous regularity on
sides of crumbly sandpits. They
the obituary page, I imagine
cross swollen streams on the he's pretty pleased with him -
slippery trunks Of fallen trees. self. In fact, I know he is. I
They walk on railway tracks. was talking to. one' the other
day. As he sunned himself in
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The mature, or married, man front of the post office, he told
is stunned by 'spring. A few me:
weeks ago, his home was quite "Didn't think' I'd make it,
attractive, with that nice white back there in January. Flat on
snow covering everything. Now my back and gettin' worse ev-
it's nothing but a big, fat eye- ery day. The old lady practical -
sore. Paint peeling, eaves- ly had the insurance collected
troughs dangling, cellar window and off to Florida for the rest
broken and • a potato sack stuff- of the winter. "But," with an
ed in it. Storm window for the evil chuckle, "she got fooled.
southeast side of the kitchen She caught the cold and I bur -
still leaning against the house, ie4 'er the end of February.
where he left it last fall. Front Have snort now whenever " I
lawn littered with - kiddy car, 'feel like it, Say, son, when do,
grapefruit rinds 'dropped while them tourists start to arrive?
hustling out wine bottles con- Fm goin' to spend the whele
tributed by passersby, the rake, summer watchin' them girls in
a pile of dead leaves; and the their shorts. I figure it won't
whole torn into trenches wor- -
do them any. harm and should
thy of Flanders' fields by the 'do me a lot of good."
visits of the coal truck. . . • ,
He does. the, only sensible •, •
thing, .in the curcumstances. He . ,
Siiiiles ....
sits down with pencil and .pa-
per and lays out a plan of clean-
ing
up, painting and general. , .
Harry, who made -it a practice
Improvements. He reads it tri- to visit 'the bars on . his way
home froth work, was late as us.,
ual for dinner. But this tine his
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given by Dollie and Robbie Par- wife decided to go 'and fetch
sons, and speeches y Henry hint
Smith and William Consitt. Finally finding him in ' a bar
Mr. James Berry, of Hensall, near his office, she climbed up-
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well-known horse dealer, -has on the stool.next to him and'
recently purchased a fine50-
told the 'bartender: "I'll have
acre farm near Clinton and in- the same as his."
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tends once 'more living the in- The bartender -returned with
&pen -del -It and happy life of -
farmer. , -a double shot of. gin. She -gulp- -
ed it and her face turned pia,:
At the council meeting in ple." -How can you," she gurgl-
Seaforth, the following com- ed incredulously, "drink that
mittee; composed of Reeve T. awful stuff?"
Duncan, John A. Wilson and- "Ssee, sweetheart", replied
James Watson, Wag.' appointed tier husband. "And all these
to devise a schemeto improve years you thought I was having .
fire protection.'
• a good time."
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