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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1965-03-25, Page 1• 4 • ••• • • Whole No. 5065 106th Year art.. ' R! SEAFORTH, OPTARIO, WITSDAY, MARCH 25 1965 — 12 PAGES ee•-• „ee -sleet:* eieeee ' egai “.Action, ver ',Poke Em Brother and Sister Share Speak!nq Honors Dawan and Douglas Reynolds, children of Mr. and Mrs. Frany Reynolds, Seaforth, each won the honors in ora- torical contests held last Thursday evening, March 18, in .St. James' School auditorium. It was the first time in the history of the sehool that a brother and sister had won. top honors. The senior division winner was Dawana Reynolds, a grade 8 student, with her speech, "How I Found My Favorite Saint," and was awarded the Rev. T. P. Hussey memorial trophy. Angela Devereaux was second, and Patrick Meidinger, third. To winner in the junior. division was Douglas Rey- nolds, a grade 4 pupil, with a humorous essay entitled, "No News, or What Killed My Dog?" Runners-up were Gary Ryan and Map/ Van Loon. There were seven core testants in each division. Board chairman John Lansink ' presided, and Leon Bannon (right)' presented the awards, while Rev. C. E. Sullivan looks on. (Expositor photo by Phillips). Changes Are Challenge To Town as Well as Farm Describing himself as a • young trian• of the country who • moved, to town and is now' con- cerned with the problems of the County, Robert •Carbett, • well-known CBC farm commen- --tater, told the annual Lions • Cleb• ."farmers' night" gather- ing here • Monday, that. in this modern; age, of computers, the, people of the, rural areas and of the towns were both faced withproblems. of adjustment, Competition. was especially keen among'both classes. ' ,Frank ' Kling was chairman for, the event; 'which wasar- ranged by' a connenittee.,incriicr- ing Irvin. Trewartha, W. N. Ball and L., F. Ford. Mr. Carbett, native. ef' Hibbert and well known in the distriot, was in- troduced by Rev. R. 0. Fry, and 'thanked .by Len ,Force The guests were welcomed by Lion President Lee Learn. Appreciation for the evening was expressed by Reeve Elgin Thompson, of Tuckersmith, and Reeve Ken Stewart, of McKil- lop. . - A feature of the evening was ae series of solos by' J. C. -Burrows, of Exeter. He Was ac- companied by Carol Brosen, Sea - forth:. In . his' remarks, Mr. Carbett said: „ • "First, may I .say that I con- sider it- a great privilege to speak to' a group of business- men, and I want to make it clear that when I use the 'term "businessmen",' I; am referring to not only the members of this 9 - • NINETY YEARS Lions Club, but also to their gnests, the farmers from the .surraunding area. Farmers are businesstnen, and if they are not capable- of operating in a business -like manner, they will. not last .for long. Farmers ac- tually have more invested, per operation, than is •the case in most other lines of besiness. According to the last available, statistics from the Ontario De- partment of Agriculture,. the average dairyman has close to •$50,000 ;tevested in his hese ness; the 'average cash crop farmer had about 07;000; the hog farmers averaged over. $38,000; the average poultry farmer over $40,090, and the 'beef cow -calf operator, about $35000. •eee'Hleet „ewe Looking at Othe7a e ate the incluetry. a 4azricidtee more motley inVeAeled Peleetrie- er than any othr "ebtisiriess. According to" statistics in 1962, and there have been. dramatic changes since then, the average investment per worker in agri- culture ranged from $22,000 to close to $40,000. According to the Gordon Commission in 1955 the average investment per worker in .primary industry was just over $12,000; in secondary' manufacturing, just under $7,-. 000, and in service industries, abeut $2,500. There have been increases since that time, but my point is that the per Work,: er investment, th'e per business investment in agriculture, is substantially .greater than in other. lines. To those of you living here in Seaforth, where 00 HISTORY • much of yoer business :is 'de- pendent upon the •stirrounding farming community, this fac- tor may already be clear and' evident. However, there are sections of this country where the fact: is little known. Close Relationship There' was a time when near- ly. all of our citizens in the town or city had some close relationship with the farm. Either they' originated on the farm, or some close relative lived there. They made fre- quent trips back te the farm, to visit, to enjoy the fresh air, and to stock tip on vegetables. This is no longer the case ih 'hundreds of thousands of fam- tilour :ae;', Yroei eare ria4n t)ili r)fl411;Ulta'ti.111, who n1V-e-1 lAtit uItur 4e. sa4'erleaiev'efidove` vieete as they hurtle along the high- way at 65 miles an hour. These people have no appreciation of farm problems; they know noth- ing about the industry, eXcept what they read in the papers, and ,sometimes these stories are tladly shaded. - This brings es ,up to that old chestnut, "The Farmer's Im- age". We hear a great deal` about this image business these days. In Madison Avenue style, everyone is worried about their image, how others iee them. As an industry, agriculture is demonstrating concern. Some of our people are not only con- cerned, they are so obsessed (Continued on Page 12) • Council Fills One Vacancy , Seaforth Council at a special meeting Monday night named Frank Kling to All the vacancy on council created by the resig- nation of Ernest Williams, since appointed town clerk. , At the same time, council appointed Deputy 'Reeve Carl Dalton to Reeve. The vacancy here arose with the death last week of Reeve Cardno. As de- puty reeve:: 'council named Councillor Wilmer Cuthill. De- puty Reeve Cuthill was elected to •council last December. Mr, Kling, who fills one of the council vacancies, is a for- mer chairman of the PUC, Ile said•eaac4.$ ce9A. ,elte.:4;aleew „ reyz. 4143WAllak4METhzilidtPAG4 would be Lon $500.00 As Thieves Break In . Thieves smashed a window Savauge's Watch Repair, Stratford, Tuesday morning and stole a' quantity of watches. • Included in the loss, estimat- ed at $500 by Ted Savauge, was a valuable clock, later found by police in an area trash con - tamer. • Seaforth is faced with legal action as a result of a request being made of the Ontario Police Association -fallowing the termination of the services of Constable Elgin .McNall. The services of Constable McNall were ..terminated at a special meeting of council ten days ago. At. that thne it was indicated the action had been taken .in an effort to hold the line on police force. costs.. At the same time the' town faces arbitration proceedings in connection with the salaries of the constables on. the force. C. V. Laughton, of Exeter, the' lawyer representing Con- stable McNeil and two other town. constables, told The Ex- positor Wednesday that he had told town council at a' spe- cial meeting lejonday night that the Police Association would be requested to, act, and that he would also seek arbitration to settle a wage dispute between the officers and Muncil: Mr. Laughton said he and the constables walked out of the council meeting after council asked Constable McNall to leave council chambers and advised him he was no lenger a mem- ber of the Seafoith. force. Mr. Laughton said he had repres- ented ail three members of the force in the salary discussions. The special meeting was clos- ed to the press 'and public, . Council last week was threat- ened with 'a lawsuit if it did. not rescind its dismissal of Constable 'McNeil. A letter from London • lawyer W. R. Poole to town _clerk Lyle Ham- mond • charged that Constable McNeil was fired, without • no- tice, without a hearing, and without reason: The letter claimed the Ais- ixos,s0,7, leeeeeedeethe Police separately. Probationary eon - stables get $2,600, per year and permanent constables, $3,500. The contract would not cover Chief Constable Gordon Hulley who would continue to deal separately with eouncil. "Upon being called in," said the lawyer, "Constable McNeil was requested to leave the council chamber." Mr. Laugh- ton said he then advised coun- cil he was there with the three officers to bargain in good faith. • ' Before walking out on coun- cil. Mr. Laughton said he warned that he and the three constables "had no other choice but to leave . . and proceed to arbitration and advise the Ontario Police Association to proceed under the relevant reg- ulations with respect to their Constable.,11/1c o _- stables A. J. Calder; and jeilh Ruston have been negotiating with council for a contract which would set a definite wage scale for officers in various elassificatiens. , Council now ne- gotiates salaries with each man The professor wag accosted on ,a dimly lit street by a hold- up man. The robber said, q.Stick 'em down." "You mean, stiek them up'," answered the victim.' "Oh, so that's it!" -replied the crook. "No wonder I haven't been making any money." Smile of the Week •Afea-AbsorbeS. No. 3-;.Tuckersmith. For the -second time in its • 92 -year history, SS No. 3, Tuck- ersmith, has lost its identity and has been absorbed into a township area. The public school board of the Township School Area of Tuckersmith, as it is described in the statutes, came into being on January 1st of this year and includes the en- tke township. The previous melee into an area arrangement was ih 1875. Fora.% years, until 1890, Tuck- erstnith was one of three .town- ships in Ontario to operate its schools through a township area board. Carefully realntain,ed records trace the trend in `education, costs, school standards .and pupil populatioij, as experienc- ed in rural Ontario for almost a' century. The section operated its first schoenn Brimfield, taking ov- er responsibility for the educa- tion of the pioneer youth of the district from' a private school which-. had functioned there for a number of Years. In 1873 the school location was moved eastward along the Mill, Road' to 'the location at tot 34, condession 2, LRS. The first log structure later was re- placed by a frame building, and in 1909 the present 'brick school was erected at a cost of $1,840. Three years, later, in• 1912, An- drew Scott, who 'had been the teacher at the, school nearly 40 years, resigned. The carefully maintained' min- ute books of the section show that Mr. Scott received $500.00 in 1890, when employed by the section, Ile was receiving the same amount in 1912 when he resigned.' Throughout the records of the school section appear the names • of' pioneer families, Which through the years had. developed the district. Ainong the names shown 'as those serv- ing as trustees were Daljas, Papple, Cameron, Elcoat, Broad - foot, Walker, Davidson, Haugh, McIntoshe, Scott, McCartney, McGee, k, Grey, Wilson, Swan and O'Brien: The section has experienced long associations with many of the families. William Scott was auditor in 1872, and his great - great -grandson, Ron Scott, was a recent pupil—the fourth gen- eration of the family to attend • the schopl. 480 Pupils While the section , formed part of the townshiparea in 1878, someone interested in keeping the record straight, es - ed the minute book to set out the situation that existed across the township. There were 10 schools operation that year, w average,total attendance of 480 pupis. The total cost of operating the 10 schools that year was $6,680.80. • The stead- ily increasing costs of provid- ing education are evident in the year-to-year statements of receipts a n d expenditures, which are contained in the re- cords of the school. In 1872, total receipts were $564.90, including a .balanee of $72.55 from the 'previous year. The Governmentgrant was $66 and the municipal school rate was $344.19. Expenditures in- cluded $480.00 to the teacher, James Ferguson; $10.20 for prize boolte; $22.80 for fire- wood; $7.00 for caretaking, and $1.60 for chalk and stationery. By 1890 recelpte had grown to $731.03, and the esalary of the teacher—then Andrew Scott had risen to $500. Receipts and . expenditures continued at the Same level for 14 -years, With eitpenditures, other than the teacher's sal- ary of $500, being' limited to a few dollars for chalk, wood and minor repairs. In the mean- time, however, by 1904, the sur- plus had increased to $374,38, and for the first time the work involved in keeping the gelled section books was recognized and the treasure—unnamed— was paid a salary of $5.00. That same year the section purchas- ed a new stove from Sills & Murdie, Seaferth, at a cost. of .$1,5•.00, as Well as two brooms from Beattie Bros. for 25 cents each. Through .the years succeed- ing trustees and officials have recorded the history of the, section. The first trustees list- ed are those ,of 1873: James Dallas, Appleton Elcoat • and Duncan Cameron. John McIn- tosh and William Scott were auditors. Secretary -treasurers included D. McIntosh, William Cooper, Edward Papple, G. F. Turner, William Ross, Robert McCart- ney, William McKenzie, Alex A. Watt, George R. McCartney, Dave Papple, John Cameren, W. D. Wilson, D. Ross, William Broadfoot, C. Lane, Scott Dav- idson. The secretary when the section was absorbed was John Broadfoot, who had held the office for 10 years. • ., • • •A't . • • * • ee .,,,-, • • •• , .•,',. ',.4 ': ''::::'';.:. I: 49 4e:',:.1:'';' .. 4;4 ' .' , , :t 2 ,mi,,,,,,,,, a ;: ,4 , 1.1 •e 1:P 47: . °." '' JOHN BROM:WOW; who Was seeretaty-treasures' of S.S. t, Tuckersmith, until the sec- tion was absorbed into thetownship area ,at the beginning' of the year, stands in front of the 50 -year-old school. The teetiOrt was Iliat eitablished direetiO`'years ago. ' • attempted dismissal of McNeil; contrary to the Ontario Pollee Act." • Mr. Poole, of the London; law, firm of Poole,' Bell & Porter, said in his letter that the Pe - lice Act specifies that, once lettering completed a year's pro- bationary term, "no chief con- stable or constable, shall be sub- ject to any penalties except after a hearing provided by the Police Act." The letter- said "Section 17(b) of the Police Act doe e not authorize the dismis- sal of anyone." Constable McNall was hired March 9, 1964, and completed his probationary period March 8, 1965, Mr. Poole said. He said council's offer of a $4011 -a -year salary increase on the very next day.- indicated that council considered the policeman had S: 4 passed the probation‘ perioc saUsfa4711Ye.e..'''.,1 "We 41pu__‘_ptiot e-49p.et thSt%le a tgkAtt, duty each Morning and that is still entitled, . to regard self as a pollee constable fo the Town of Seaforth," ter concludes. .. Council, in taking entitle terminate Constable 1,11cNetra services, stressed the point that the bylaw appointing him had '7 been passed March 16, 1el,Q4 and thus' the action taken was. within the period pemtittecl under the Act Mayor John Flannery said Wednesday the next regular' :F meeting of council was set' Or '• April 12. He did not knees at this time whether an earlier special meeting would le cail- ed. , • r'ri SEAOR.TW&Z!NEWitejoERIOtIgtnestii wee., ookoseo . ee re .1 • 1. wo nVjr L., „.e. • with the Departm.ent o N-eethern AffeikeeelerAmienstrattereg, 1 'ditg=e0r/iFthlakgfar era/TiregArr*teggi:edee 431„,na emit' (Expositor photo by' PhilliPse. Honors NELSON C. ,CARDNO Clerk eeve Succ • Services of -C. Lyle Hammond, Seaforth clerk -treasurer for it -' past four years, were recogniz- ed Wednesday 'when , he and Mrs. Hammond were guests of, honor at a gathering of 'mem- bers of town council and their wives in the Commercial Hotel. Mr. Hammond retired Friday and on Saturday will leave Sea - forth on the first stage a a journey that will take him, and his family to the Arctic Cir- cle. Mr. liemmend, 43, has joined the department of northern af- fairs and will administer the Eskimo settlement of Cape Dor- set, on the southwest tip of Baffin Island, 160 miles south of the Arctic Circle. He and his wife, Ruth, ad their daughter, Donnae10, leave Seaforth and reach Frobisher Bay March 31 for it few days of, iastruction ,.before • going on to Cape Dorset. Mayor J. F. Flannery presid- ed for the council get-together, and Reeve N. C. Cardno pre- sented Mr. and Mrs. Hammond with an electric blanket on be- half of the town.' Previously, Mr. Hammond had been given a pen set by', employees of the PUC and Po- lice. The presentation was Made by Kendra Moore, of the PUC, and Chief Gordon Hulley. (Continued eon Page 6) , Mr -• -Mrs. Wilson ,Wed 45 Years Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilson, of Egmondville, celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary • on Wednesday and were- honored with a turkey 'dinner at the home of their daughter and Mr,„ and Mrs. Don Wood. They were married at Ravenna, Ont., March 17, 1920. Mrs. Wilson is the former Al- ma Gould, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jonathon Gould. and Mr. 'Wilson is the son of the late Mr, and M'rs. James Wilson. They have a family :of one son, Ewart, of Seeforkh, and three .. daughters: Edna, Mrs. John Madter, Stratford; Annie, Mrs. Don Wood, and Joyce, Mrs, Bruno Braecker, RR 2, Walton. There are seven grandchildren. Also present at the annivers- ary was Mr. Wilson's sister, Miss Ethel Wilson, 'Stratford. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were presented with a 'set ofdished and a traditional cake. To He• -rt Attack Memberof Seaforth Coun- cil, Huron County Council, town and county officials, formed a guard of honor Sunday as fu- neral - services were held for Seaforth Reeve Nelson C. Card- ncT. Reeve Cardno died, suddenly from a heart attack at noon Theirsday at his North Main. St. home. There had been no indi- cation that he had not beeti in good health, and' the evening before he had oificiated at a gathering honoring town clerk Lyle Hammond. • ,After finishing -dinner he had driven • his two children-- to school and was -preparing to leave for Listowel to attend a meeting of the Maitlind Valley Conservation Authority when he was stricken. A native of Seaforth, Reeve Cardno was 54, and was the eldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cardno. After com- pleting his education, for a number of years before the war he was in partnership with his father and brother in the Card - o grocery and bakery busi- ness, established by his grand- father here in the early 1870's. During the war he served in the Royal Canadian Navy, re- tiring as a Lieutenant in 1945. He continued his interest in the Navy and was a member of the Naval Officers Associa- tion in London, as well as of Breech 156, Royal Canadian gion, Se.aforth. He was also a member of Britannia Lodge AF & AM. Seaforth, and of First Presletterian ,Church here, Reeve 'Cardno was serving in se»enth year as a member of Seaforth council, and his see- ond term as one of Seaforth's representatives at, Huron coun• ty Sucorvuinveiring are his. wife, the former Elizabeth (Betty) Grace Read: .a son,' James Alexander. 11, at home, a daughter, Eliza- beth Jayne, '6, at home;„ a sis- ter, Mrs. S. J. (Margaret) Mac- Kenzie, of Georgetown; and a brother, John A. of Seaforth. Largely attended funeral ser- vices were conducted by his minister, Rev. D. 0. .Fry, from the BM( Funeral Home Sunday afternoon. Honrary pallbearers were Hu. ron County. Warden Glen Webb, Mayor John F. Flannery, Magi- strate .H. Glehn„Haes, Ross Sav- auge, Edmund Daly and A. t, MeLetin. • • Pallbearers were Reeve Carl Dalton. ,PUC Chairman D'Orlean Sills, Frank Kling, William 'Hod- gert, Leon Bannon and' Ken Williams. • Flowerbearers were A. W. ti.,•••••Torr,.• ''• REEVE N. C. CARDNO Sillery. R. S. MacDonald, Clar- ence Walden and Louis Bosh - art. ' Temporary entombment was ;n Elleabeth Ritz Memorial Mausoleum, Mitchell. Shriners, K of C Cooperate hi Sports Nitht The Bluewater Shtine Club and Knights of Columbus are co-operating Feeley to present a gala Sports 'eight in Gede-, rich. - Featured Will be a parade 4,e and a housewives' hockey onto.. Proceeds #6to hOsPitalket'sr, crippled children, after children of any 016' rate or iteed, tat sfeni-4,:t event raised $100.00, , • 1;