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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1965-04-01, Page 2'N4 Publishei at e WI" ".• Since 186(i, *Tiring the Community First SEAFORTE, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Audit Bureau of Cireulation 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 Department, Ottawa BROS., Publishers i• "1. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, APRIL 1, 1965 Blacksmiths It must be fifteen, years at least since there was a full-fledged blacksmith shop in Seaforth. There 'are hundreds of kids today who never had the experience on the way home from school of watching the blacksmith fit shoe S' to a fractious horse, or sweat an iron tire on a buggy wheel. Not only have they never visit- ed a blacksmith shop . . . they don't even know what a blacksmith is.. Of curse in the intervening years there have been those experienced- in the trade who helped out as a more or less .friencifY gesture and fitted shoes t4 the few horses that remained in the area, but even these are now few and far between. • But we are wrong if we think that the art of blacksniithing has disappear- ed. New York, of all places, is adver- tising for blacksmiths. According -to the New York Herald - Tribune, New York City has announc- ed that it wants 15 new blacksmiths and will pay them $7,700 a year for Have a Place 250 days of work. The city employs six horse-shoers who work exclusively for the Police Department, keeping 261 horses shod. The New York paper recalls, the blacksmith as "a man who takes a -piece of iron or steel and by the use of fire and a hammer, his trained skill, and sometimes some mutterings that sound like the poetry of a lost language, can create or repair almost anything." Few children in the years gone by have not congregated from time to time at the'local blacksmith's shop to watch the brawny blacksmith at his glowing forge, then turn to his anvil and with ringing blows fashion all sorts of shapes out' of the cherry red metal. It, ,was 4 thrilling and satisfying experi- , 0ence for youngsters, the Tribune says. Despite the demand hi New York, we dbubt many Seaforth area children \\ill- again be able to enjoy The .experi- ,ence, unless as .one of the attractions which might be arranged when the In- ternational Plowing Mach comes here in 1966. Explanation for Beef Prices A nov#1 explanation of the price of beef in the United States has been ad- vanced by the• Wall Street Journal. That paper finds. that one important reason for the rise is the increasing use of plastics. - " • With prosperity among consumers, the demand for beef has risen, and nor-. mally this would have an upward effect on prices, as the raisers of beef find themselves in a sellers' market; but there is more to the price situation than the simple working of the law of supply and demand. The big packing' houses, which figure their profits on the basis of what they can get for the whole animal after it is,4 separated into meat products and by-products, find A 11/1apcluff Ottawa Repert High Cost of that the demand or beef hides has dropped' sharply in recent years'. They have to sell the hides at lower prices than they could get a few years ago, and to make up their profitable price on the whole steer, they have had to get' more for steaks and roasts. One has only to look around to see. that the explanation is plausible, Plas- tics have displaced leather in luggage," women's handbags, upholstery for fur- niture and cars and even in shoes. -The leather manufacturers used to boast that there was nothing like leather, but many of the consumers' Who used to buy leather goods are now 'satisfied with the imitations. It is' they who, indirectly, are responsible for having to pay more for beef. Bilingualism .'OTTAWA—The high cost of and were joined b the C ri o being bilingual is getting servatives. and even by the New through to the -Federal Gov- Democrats who are at least as ernment anxious as the Liberals In get The cost is partly in dollars the PensicinPlan . in -;operation. and cents. The Federal Trans- Against , 'this combination, lation Bureau, for 'example, will hemmed in .by his own -bilingual cost a million dollars more Policy, Primp Minister' Pearson this year than it did five years backed down, overruled the ago. Pension Plan faction of his' With oyer 400 employees, it Cabinet and shelved the bill has almost grown to the status until the translation was ready. of a major department- of Gov- It • took four days rather than mimed, But even this is not four weeks. enough if Ottawa is going. to There is a new precedent as make the two official languages a result. No longer can French equal in, fact as ,,well as in translations of official docu- name. ments await the convenience of How far short present trans- translaters, sometimes coming lation facilities fall was shown months after production of the recently when the House of English version. Commons had to 'suspend de- So the Governmept will have bate 'on the Canada Pension to schedule its business in the Plan for four days while -trans. Commons to take into account • • pa sion of the translaters' training school opened last year. The cost of translation isn't the only cost of bilingualism. There is the time lost by top- flight administrators who are sent to language school. There is some duplication , in depart ments which has, to appoint French and English "opposite nunibert". And there is the Royal Commission on Bilingual- ism and Biculturalism which cost $1.8 million last year and will cat another $2.5 million this year. Such costs may be modest if this is the price of maintaining Canada, as a united country. Mr. Pearson and his colleagues, at least, are convinced that the price must be paid. And they've , 'eters did a "crash" job on 1.5 the time taken for translation. been rudely. jolted out of any millionthat it can be done gra- million words of English -only When the Glassco commission notion on the easy payment reports from the Senate -corn. first reported in 1962 most of mons pensions committee, the commissioners felt it was 'plan. The crisis was provoked by no part of their job to study Real Caouette's little band of the broad problem of bilingual- Creditistes who had previously ism. But one member, Eugene won victories on such things Therrien, issued his own dis- as a bilingual menu for the senting report calling for more • Parliamentary cafeteria and the bilingualism in the Civil Ser- translatiqn 'of Beauchesne's Par- vice. liamentaiy Rules and Forms, "In Canada," he, wrote, "the basic handbook for every itpro- cost of bilingualism should not* pedural hassle, be cohsidered, and still less ad - The Creditistes showed little milted,' to be an obstacle, any interest in the earlier phases more than the cost of bilingual - of the pension plan. Their man ism • or trilingualism is so con - on the Senate-Ccimmons Cotn- sidered in Belgium, Switzer- mittee attended only six of the land or. South Africa." , 51 sittings of the Committee • Whether the Government • and said little when he was counts the cost of bilingualism there.' Although elaborate sim- as an obstacle or not, it must •oltaneous• translation lacilities count the cost, 'in time' as well --ad been laid on, the Co/1unit- as money. tee was Conducted almost en- Thia year, Government trans- tirely in English. laters will have to turn 11 mil- , But suddenly Creditiste inter- lion' words from one language est was awakened and they de- Into the other, When it comes • , mended the Committee'. reports to technical subjects like the in French before passing the Canada ' Pension Plan, a trans - bill. -_ , _later sometimes -works a whole' There was a tussle in Cab- day on one page, met and the Ministers who rat- To meet the rising demand , • ed the Pension Plan above bil- for translation, the Government ingualism were temporarily as- last year boosted the salaries cendant. They told the Com- of translaters who are now paid mona that the translation would up to $14,000 a year, although take ' four to six weeks and the average is about $8,000. Would kill the Pension Plan bill -But this still doesn't match at least for the time being. . he salaries offered by private ItAtAlle Creditistes, in full industry which is prepared to • cry, for ;the' rights ..Of„profit'', pay up to $2,000 more. •• this gum $o another booat may be in 4•.,11 • Onn: ee D EPT. OF Ft NANCE , W 00 S H I .• • In the Years Agone From The Huron Expositor manufacture of army shells Johnston. Wide:brimmed sail - April 5, 1940 completed. ors are the leading feature. A post -nuptial reception which 100 friends and neig bors were present was held the home .of Mr. -and Mrs. S mon Leyburn in Tuckersmit in honor of their son and h bride, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Le burn, who have returned fro their wedding trip. Mr. R. Ty dall and A. Wallace presente them With a kitchen set. Th address was read by Norma • Jefferson. Mayor John J. Cluff, • Mr Cluff, Mr. W. H. Golding, M.P and Mrs. Golding were in Stra • ford attending the special cer monies in connection with th unveiling of a plaque in mem ory of Thomas Edison. The Salvation Army obsery ed completion of 56 years' ser vice in Seaforth district. The held services in the Salvatio Army Hall with Captain an Mrs. Dougall in charge. Majo J. Ward, of Flint, Mich., an Major J. owland, of Detroit who were 'in, command of th Seaforth corps 25 years ago were the guest speakers. A short program was given by Edna Gallop, Doris Fergiison and Shirley Wurm. An original poem, written by Miss H. 1,Sa bel Graham, was also given. A number of farmers from the district were guests of the Cockshutt Plow. Co. at Bradt ford. The party was arranged by Gordon McGavin. „ In the party were Graham Kerr, Thos Govenlock, John Pryce, Noble Holland., Norman Schade, Gor- don McGavin, Thomas • Kinney. Ross Gordon, Edwin Leonhard! and Charles Boyd. -Mrs. , John MacTavish was in Ingersoll attending the funeral of her brother, the late Adol- phus Staples. Miss Jean Fraiser had -the misfortune to fell on the street arid .fracture her arm. Messrs. E C. 'Chamberlain, James A. Stewart. Nelson Card - no and A. Y. McLean attended the charter night of St. Marys. Lions., Club. The roads in the vicinity, of Constance have been in a very bad condition and -there hasn't been any church services for two weeks, The snowplow op- ened up the cour.ty road, hop- ing that it would be the last time this year. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Grieve, of Egmondville, marked the 50th anniversary of - their wedding on April 2nd. Mrs. Grieve, was the former. Margaret Chesney and Mr. Grieve was the son of the late WilliamGrieve, of Mc- Killop. * * * at Chief Bell,, of the, ,Fire De- * * * partrnent, has received a new h- at h, is y - m Mr. Thomas Feeney has re- II- moved from Hibbert to the John d O'Sullivan farm ,on the second e concession of McKillop, Which, he recently purchased from Dan Shanahan, of Seaforth. S. Mr. J. F. Daly, the local ag- ent for Ford autos, reports the t” sale of a three passenger tour- ing car to C. A. Barber; a simi- e lar car to John McGavin, Mc- " Killep, and a two -passenger car to Mr. E. Cunningham, Seaforth: Mr. and Mrs: –James McGee 'and' family have removed to y town and now occupy the, com- fortable residence recently va- d Gated by Mr. iSparling. Miss Minnie Best, of Toron- to, formerly of Seaforth, and daughter of Mrs. Frank Best, e leaves in a couple of weeks for the Old Country, where she will do her part at nursing the 'wounded soldiers: Messrs. D. Reid, Thomas Dick and Alex Muir have returned from London, having completed their military course there. A dog supposed to have been afflicted with rabies was shot in .Harpuhey 'by Mr. R. Scott. The dog belonged to Seaforth and all dogs in the town, are ' now ordered to be tied up. Mr. Wesley Harvey, of Kip - pen, has been shipping from the station large amounts. of baled hay and straw. Mr. Har- vey is a busy man among the farmers and is doing a good business. The, millinery openings at Seaforth were very, successful, held in the stores of Stewart Bros,, John MacTavish and Miss hand searchlight and smoke helmet. The searchlight' is a very powerful one, having a penetrating capacity of 210 feet through the denSest- smoke. • From The Huron Expositor April 2, 1915 The Bell Engine Works have now all the preliminary ar- rangements for the installing of the new machinery for the From The Huron Expositor . April 4, 1890 Miss -McConnell and Mr. John McConell, Egmondville, left for - Dakota, and intend making their home there. Mr. Alex 'Cardnb intends re-. • moving the old Powell building on John St. to the Cull proper- ty. He will place a stone foun- dation under it, brick veneer it, and convert it into a hand. some residence for himself. The dwelling house and farm buildings of Mr. Henry Carpen- ter, of Dublin, were completely destroyed by, fire: Mr. J. M. llest, of Harlock, 'who has been engaged with the Gale Harrow Company, has ac- cepted a position with the Eagle Harrow Company. at a salary' of $700 per annum. The many friends of Father Shea, pastor of St, James' 'Cath- olic Church here, will regret to learn that he is leaving town s after a '10 -year residence. He is going to Cincinatti, Ohio. ' v - Mr. Peter McGregor, Bruce-. t field, has recently made several'r good horse sales. He sold to Mr. h S. Gregg,» London, his. imported C stallion, ,Cranbrook; also a pair 0 of matched road horses and a 'e chestnut single driver. Mr. John Snider, Brucefield, has moved his harness- business " to the shop lately occupied by Mr. Frank O'Neil. Messrs. William and James ° Berry, of Hensall, who have re- !) sided there for several years and have been engaged in the P horse business, left last, week. e Mr. William -Berry—has--remov-- ed to the McCartney farm on t the Mill Road, and Mr. James Berry purchased 50 acres from Mr. Wise on the Huron Road, W Tuckersmith, and has' removed P there. TO THE EDITOR: Hog Producers Query Greb Claims Dear Editor: I would like to reply to a letter written by Mr. Greb, Dashwood, which appeared in the March 18th issue ,of your paper. In this letter Mr. Greb states that he is not pleased with the present hog marketing plan. At the 'annual meeting of the Huron County Hog Produc- ers op February 2nd at Clinton, Mr. Greb was the only person attending the meeting who criticized and condemned the present Hog Marketing Plen. It would seem to me that in' Hun on County, 'where we have over 3,000 prbdueers of hogs, pro- ducing 180,000 hogs annually, worth $8,000,000, that many d have been- present to express their dissatisfaction of the plan if they had reason to be disatis- fied with it. Mr. Greb seems to feel con- fident according to his letter, that he would have been suc- cessful in obtaining a majority over all the 19 pro -marketing candidates. I would like to draw his attention to the fact that he was a candidate in 1961-62 and 63 for comthittee- man, and in all three contests he finished third from the last. Minority should accede to the wishes of the majority and co- operate. . .1 would also like, to- point out that Mr. Greb attended the an- nual meeting of the Hog Pro- , ducers in Toronto on March 12, i 1965, and was nominated as a Candidate for Director on the fi OHPMB. He declined to goal: ify as a candidate for a seat on, the board, and thus passed h Up an opportunity to move up in the organization. . His letter would seem 'to in- t dicate that' he was, poorly used C by the other committeemen. In a 1964, one of the 'pro -marketing f candidates resigned his seat to allow. Mr:‘ Greb a seat'by ac- T clamation as , a committeeman 15 for Huron County. Again this w year another committeeman re- signed bis seat to let, him take fi a seat for a three-year term_ b Surely, Mr. Greb has received b unusual consideration and I am ure that all producers will agree with me that it was a .1) cry gentlemanly gesture on f he • part of -our candidates to esign and let Mr. Greb have „ is seat, This saved Huron onnty producers the trouble f ' going out to vote and the xpense of an election. At our annual meeting in P orontcr on March 11t/i, 4the m on. William Stewart, Minister ii f, Agriculture, addressed the meeting and he congratulated ur orgenizationiand our method 4, f selling hogs which 'was work-. "` ng so well,, to get the highest „a rice possible for the pro.duc- rs. would like --to draw his at. re ention to the fact that the °n resent charge for selling hogs s 40 cents per -hog, and before e had -the present marketing Ian the charge was 59 cents " er' hog. • ot er to get a chance to buy their hogs without fear or favour that existed in the old days. In the writer's plaintive con- cern for the packers, he per- haps doesn't know that when the plant at Stratford went in- to receivership, every hog, pro- ducer got his money. Why? Because the Hog Board requires credit arrangements for all buy- ers, a bank guarantee in this case. No doubt Mr. Greb will wel- come the news that the Farm- ers Co-operative at Barrie has bought the Whyte1 t. Pro- ducers generally can appreci- ate this news for hog prices dropped in the Stratford mar- ket when Whyte's quit buying. Also there is a good possibil- ity that farmers who consign- ed cattle will be paid. The writer says he wants to know where the million dollars a year that the board levies in service charges is. going. He was at the' annual meeting on March 12th, when the financial statement and auditors' repot was presented, but none af fhe Huron delegation observed him asking any questions' on the subject—intelligent or oth- erwise. The board sold 2,677,- 209 hogs in the fiscal year end- ing November 30th, for a value of $111,616,782. ' The income from service charges paid by producers Was $1,059,090.47. This figure is substantially un- der one per cent of the value if the goods sold. We wonder f Mr. Greb knows of any other ommodity that is sold as ef- ciently. -The question to myself was osed as, "What doe , the hog oard pay out in gifts to its riends?" The only expenditure hat' could Properly go under hat discription was the annual hristmas party for employees nd their families, with gifts or the children, which that ear was approximately $300. he Christmas bonus to em- loyees that year was two eeks' 'pay,• rather than one eek as customary, the 'total gure being' $14,083. Two weeks onus was approved • by the oard that year as the staff had orked shorthanded, and Some • -- romised raises had been de - erred because of depleted unds earlier. As with any busi- ess, board management must ompete in the market for • orkers of different skills with he wages 'and fringe' benefits mployees could reasonably ex- ect elsewhere. Though county directors' eetings are open to the pub - c, only association directofs an vote, as they are empower - d by ;the annual' meeting of e' association to conduct the tivities of the -county through- ut the year. The meeting Mr. Greb refer - d, to as. _attending -,was the ly joint meeting of the as- ciation and committeemen Id in 1964 and 1965 to to e time of the proposed elec- on for March 2, 1965. 'All her meetings were. associa- • on's meetings and did not per. in' to committeemen. Mr. reb was notified of the, above eeting and was present. As for the withdrawal of the arch 2nd election for com- itteemen at the association eeting of February 15th, Mr. ho Semple renewed his offer resign and save the produc- s the 'cost of an'election, es- cially when there was only e seat to be conteSt•for, which dn't mean anything one way another 'Compared to the vings to the producer. Mr. eb talks about. saving money r , the producer. Well, we ved the Department of Agri- lture about $300 by calling the election, expenses 'entail - in preparing ,ballots,'etc., d help in conducting'the elec- n, and another $200 to the unty Hog Producers' Associa- n in advertising, rent, poll-, Places, scrutineers, etc., as 11 as the cost to the produc- , their tim6 lost in going to polls to vote, some having drive considerable distances. e actual cost involved is ac- Ily inestimable, and as such feel the sacrificing of the ction was justified. A good many producers I- e talked to feel this was, proper procedure to fake are very thankful to Mr. rziPle and, the other nominees the stand they have taken, an election would not. have 'ed - any, useful purpose at • c • I am sure I.speak for the other association members of La• Sugar and Spice uron County that we will be G lad to advise and help Mr. m reb to .inderstand our present „„ method of selling hogs, and the — BY Bill Smiley — - • advantages the prOducers gain In a them from the sordid, the e harmful, the evil, as we see them. But the only teenager u who is sheltered in this age is, a kid who lives in a trapper's ( • shack in ,the wilderness with' ' two maiden, aunts, and is kept chained to his he'd until he's W 20. They're a lot less shelter - o ed than I was at that age, and s a lot better able to cope with w reality, as a result. Terribly staid, he says., Pop- c pycock, They're conformists, ve , I'll admit, as far as fads and f. faShions go. But I scarcely tu`• , think I'd call those writhing, ar screaming masses at' a Beetle wi DON'T KNOCK THE TEENS A columnist ' on a, big cit daily recently fired a salvo a high 'school students. 'The in trepid- journalist gave them both 'barrels, with no holds bar red, as an Irishman might Pu it. He had been speaking t' groups of high school student from middle and upper-income homes. He took a very dim view of the kids, suggesting that they haven't learned manners have no sense of adventure, are terribly sheltered, terribly staid terribly sad, and empty. I'm sorry he received this impression of today's youth. It is 'not at all the one' 'I have received in five years as a high school teacher, and several years as a parent of teenagers. In the same column, 'he man- aged to convey the' idea that he was none of those things of which he accused the students, that he was, in fact, a hell of a fella who had lived life to the full. Let's face the charges, one by one. Bad manners. My per- sonal experience is that their manners, on the whole, ate bet- ter than those of their parents. rors: the &intro', the stiff up- ma They can be Cruel, when they ,per lip, the smothering of the ez:s are thoughtless, but -generally, flame, they are more sensitive to the And he claims they are emp- the s a resurt of having our pres- JoIn nt selling agency. to Sincerely, pe er ELMER IRELAND,. Secretary-Treasurer, on Huron County Hog di Or Producers' -Assoc. ingham, March 24. sa Gr fo Sir: A letter from Mel Greb Ra ho is 'a Marketing Board corm. "Li itteeman, representing Huron off ounty,'does not suggest he is ,ed ry well informed, or an ef-an ctive representative, and for- tio nately 'for our county there co e 18 other committeemen tio th more experience. , ing The writer does not appear we understand how hogs are ers Id, that the total supply is the 'sally available to all buyers, to e Ontario Hog Producers' of- Th e in Toronto has letters on tua e from, small packers, who in e days before producer con- ele 1 of"marketing, complained at they often could not 'get ha, rtain big .producers, ncerned and regret when a Hog producers are, naturally as, cker or any other business - nus habits to truckers and se- gi because the big packer d coralled the supply by his ser all.for the and show staid. They're almost as unstaid as their old ladies were, fo- swooning over Sinatra Oi SO their grannies, wilting over eq Bing Crosby. 'Th Terribly sad., he says. Balo- fie ney. Admitted, they can be fit deeply touched, because the th hearts are ' not yet hardened. tro They can be terribly sad, some- th times. But they can be wildly ho exultant,' too How long is it ha since you've been truly joyful, ho Jack? The kids are much e•e more human, emotionally, than adults, because they have not co learned those grown-up hr- pa feelings of others than are adults. No sense of adventure? He's all wet. • One of my students headed across the continent on a bicycle, Others plan to go to Africa or Asia for the Peace Corps, Another swiped his ,old man's car, picked up two side- kick, and.took off for Mexico.. My own son ran away last': sum- mer and hitch -hiked to Quebec, after I'd exPressly forbidden such a jaunt. From every direction come wails of alarm that; students will -try anything: hot cars drinks, drus„ sex. And this mah says they've no sense of adventure! What they have is Look, I keep telling you, the rain will too much Terriblofy, shelteredit he says. your new uniormii. Now let's play ball!" Nonsetim We trir to shelter c ' n goes bankrupt, but farm - are businessmen too, and y want every possible buy- RR ty. Empty of what/ Dishc- em-• esty, greed, self-delusion, cru- elty, selfishness, ruthlessness? are full of a lot of things that have pretty well gone out of style 'with adults: pity, love, joy, fun, _unselfishness, honesty idealism, loyalty. DonX worry, I'm not Oft on teenagers. I have two of my own, and sometimes they drive me right up the wall, across the ceiling, and down' the other side. I teach about 140 of them daily, and there are days when I ' eduld go into class with a tommy gun and Mow them all down. But they're people. Mid If I have to associate with peo- ple,/ think I'd as -,soon asseci ate with, them as with any other clan Of the, species. I'm afraid. he's right. But they Heart Fo Apprecia Sir: A.short, but nevertheless, sin- cere note to thank yoti yThatr- co-operation and assistance to the Ontario Heart Foundation during our 1965 Heart Fund camaign. The coverage we re- ceived from your paper sur- passed all ,expectations, and it Is due to this 'fact that our Heart Fund was ssucceiful. You enabled us' to inform the public that Pebruary was Heart Month in Canada and also what the Ontario Heart reatidation , • `.:‘s, v, , • ALFRED H. WARNER 1, Bayfield. undation teS Help Is doing in the field of rsearth. We have always enjOed the assoCiation with all press re- preientiiiie d1R1 it is a • plea- sure to look forward to this throughout the year. Once again, a sincere "heart" felt thanks for your aSsistance and- co-operation during Febru- ary. ONTARIO HEART FOUNDATION • Esther M. Richards, Director of Publictelations. Toronto, „March 25. • , 0 41 •t" •ti