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The Huron Expositor, 1965-05-20, Page 2Since 1800, Serving the Community First i << 41ed et S 'OR"1'H, ONTf1RKt4 every Thursday 'sorning by McL1a,AN BROS., Publishers �2 10 ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor , ell'` Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association r Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 41 Audit Bureau of Circulation . Subscription Rates: . ~R Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $5.00 a- Year .' SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorised as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MAY 20, 1965 • It's Clean-up Tiitne , In Seaforth The . Paint -Up and, Clean -Up cam- paign undertaken bt' the, Chamber of Connneree each year draws attention to the responsibility each of us has in `making good the ravages of winter about our properties. We are remind- ed,,that each has a duty to our com- munity to ensure that untidy, unkempt, unsightly areas are not permitted to remain in the public view. It is remarkable how an otherwise favorable impression of a community can be spoiled by the. appearance of an unsightly yard, a delapidated building, or a clutter of abandoned machinery, or of wrecked ears. It is true there may be good reasons for such a condition to exist. But a visitor to town cannot be expected to know this., All the visitor can do is form his impression of the community as a whole. Unfortunately, the good things he has seen—the streets, the parks, the public buildings --will be weighed against the unsightly things he has seen. The net result may well be unfavorable. The work, the plan- ning and 'care of the many thus is. spoiled by the don't -care attitude of a few. The efforts of the -Chamber of Com- merce are endorsed by Seaforth, Coun- cil. Already council again has set in motion the machinery to rid Seaforth of additional blighted problem sites in a campaign similar to that which Reeve Dalton spearheaded so suhcessfully last year. All that is needed to make the campaign a success is the wholeheart- ed support of Seaforth citizens. Again, too, Council is providing assistance so that trash, which is Bath- , ered at residences across town, will be removed without charge. There can be no excuse now for untidy yards or e, lawns. Witnesses Merit Better Pay (St. Marys Journal -Argus) A quarter of a century ago, standard. wages in St. Marys were= gauged above or below a four=dollar-a-day basis. In- sofar as the Magistrate's Court is con- • cerned, that day is still with us, re- gardless of the fact that the standard day's w-age,has now risen closerto the fifteen, dollar per day mark. The writerrecently spent two days in Magistrate's Court, Stratford, and has so far received the remuneration of a magnificent four dollars. Presum- ably, we still have a day's. pay com- ing, although ° at these prices we do not intend to haunt the post office waiting for the cheque. The point of the matter does not lie in the fact that the writer is "miffed", we work on a salary basis arid. so are not too much affected. However, man should not live for himself alone, and we knew that oiie chap in particular, a witness on the same case, lost over ,forty dollars in wages by his two days' • appearance in court; This is neither fair nor reasonable. The main loser by the way of this century behind the times financing is not necessarily the witness, but rather the police. Almost any officer will ad- mit privately -that. it is next to impos- sible to get witnesses to •come forward to Testify. of .their own free will. Con- sidering the Ioss of wages involved for most persons, plus the admitted incon- venience, this is not to be wondered about. The entire situation boils down to one single question. Is justice worth more than four dollars per day?' If the powers -that -be believe it .is not, then the present trend to be deaf, durub and blind, on the part of .wit- ness, will „no doubt continue. In the Years A gone Frani The Huron Expositor May 24, 1940 D. H. Wilson, Seaforth, this week assumed the presidency of the Huron - Perth Baseball League. Dr. R. P. D. Hurford was last week elected honorary clerical secretary of the Synod in London.. Dr. Hurford is rec- tor of St. Thomas' Anglican Church, Seaforth. After conducting a'" grocery business' for 25 years in the same location in Seaforth., . Ross - J. Sproat is moving his stock LL to larger 'quarters, next to the Tasty Grill in the store recent- ly occupied by the Dominion Stores, Mr, Sproat has engag- ed Clare Reith, formerly of St. Thomas and Goderich. Friends of Lloyd I•ioggarth, who has joined the RCAF, gath- ered at the, home of Mr. and Mrs. G. P. "Grim -0d and present- ed him with a suitable gift, Mr. J. C. Crich spoke briefly and the presentation- was made by Mr, -Grindrod. Work which commenced three. years ago has been completed, when Bell Telephone employ-- ees removed the last of the poles from Main St. During the intervening years, both hydro and phone services have been cha,:ged to the rear of. the _ buildings, and all wires have been placed underground. The street is now lighted with two rows of ornamental standards. _ Mrs. Heist, of Winthrop, has had a new garage ,erected, the work being done by Tim Eaton. Mrs. Fred Hoegy, of McKil- lop, is slowly recovering from a recent fall which she ' had, severely bruising her right T; . shoulder, putting it out of ; 'joint. M,r, Thomas Carter, of near Auburn, has purchased Mr. C. H. Itoliand's, residence in Har- p: purhey and will move• his fam- ily there. Mrs. H. C. Box had the mite fortune to fall from a step.- -Le -ladder -•iii her home and break her arty Mr. Gordon ' Little has pur- e° chased John 1VleNay's hoose •on Centre St.. and will move his Peas: " ster C.P. Sibs, Mr, A. zany Phillips. were turning honie. The horse they were driving became frighten ed at an auto near HenseIl and they were thrown into the ditch. , Hogg Bros., of McKillop, a pair of colts three and' years old, for which they offered $500. These fine were bred by James Aitch of Roxboro. '- From. The Huron Expos; quired some' stitches. - - Mr.' William Swan, of Bruce- , field, is receiving congratula: tions from his many friends, having graduated from Toron- to University, taking the de- ' gree of B.A. His sister, =Miss Alice Swan, attended. the cere- monies. The bowlers of Hensel.' are preparing to. erect -a `neat lit- tle building -at the.rear of their fine green and have. the mater- ial now on the ground. • From The Huron Expositor May 23, 1890 Rev. William 'Torrance, Wal- ton, has received a very hearty invitation to.the pastorate of. the Methodist Church, Goi:rie, for next year. Mr. Thomas McMichael, Hul Lett, has had .another streak of good luck. His prize mare, "Queen," has dropped a foal, sired by "Kenilworth," which is said by good judges to be the best he has raised yet. The town has been crowded with school teachers in •attend- ance at the East Huron conven- tion. Edward Shaffer, . of Hills - green, has bought out the hotel at Blake and intends moving into it in a short time. Mr J J have four were colts eson, Expositor ' - May 28, 1915 Mr. D. Fotheringham, Tuck- - ersmith,• near Brucefield, whose barn was destroyed by ,fire re- cently, intends erecting a large steel structure 48 x• 90. Mr. William Turnbull has disposed of his fine farm in Us - borne, near Farquhar, to Mr. Richard ,Scott, for, the sum of $7,200. It is one of the best farms in that banner township of the banner County of Huron. William Hackwell, of Lead - bury, has bought the residence of Robert Holland in. Walton, and will shortly `move there. Mr.' James Gillespie, Cromar- ty, who successfully passed his first year at the University of Toronto, is home for the sem- mer. F,fe spent two weeks with the University Training Corps at Niagara. The churchyard at Cromarty has undergone eonsiderableim- provement. A few men assem- bled and levelled all the spare ground. Mr. Henry Edge removed his big hardware stock to the.. Kidd block, recently vacated by Beat- tie Bros. This store was locat- ed in the same place some 40 years ago. The severe frost did consid- erable damage, The ice was a quarter of an inch thick in some places. The minstrel entertainment given in Canino's Hall by local talent was a success in every respect Reeve John Stewart acted as interlocutor, while the endmen were L:' T. DeLacey, George Cardno, J. F. Daly'•and Frank Sills, and were superb. During an interlude, Master Ed- ward Rankin, five years old, delighted the audience by play- ing 'several well-known airs on the plane, Ga K£.r174'ofland, of Beech. - wood, met with a painful acci- dent in Dublin, when he was hrowti from a lead of pests end telle, ee hg• okeen brink Tardily ttere•. _eriltis Ila. on d Sant, of S a t sph OS t_lilctk. i'c`y welt for lytise." rethe'�R: 110 ly" `Alen A Macduff Ottawa Report Spy Troubles In Canada OTTAWA — Canada's Officia Secrets Act passed- by Parli 'anent in 1939 under the sha of war . is a frightening document for any ° public sere ant who might have' access to confidential information. A chain of events ; of which he or she might be only casually aware could at best land him in court and at worst in the penitentiary for a period of ,.14 years. It is one of those exceptions to the rule ' of British justice. • that a man is innoceiit until he is'proven guilty and, sec- ond only to the War Measures Act, 'makes conviction on. the 'merest suspicion possible. The War Measures Act, as its name /implies, comes into force only where there is a state of war or. apprehended war. The. Of; ficial Secrets Act is with us ways and- has been used in peacetime on :more than one occasion. By frequent use -of the little word "deemed" its is har+y necessary for a prosecutor to do more than.show that ,a civil servant eguld have access to information -the disclosure of which would be prejudicial to the safety of the state and • has been in communication with, the agent of a foreign power. But that is. not, all. It 'does not have tq be secret communi- cation for sinister purposes. He shall be deemed to ;lave been • in communication for such pur- pose if he has visited the ad- dress •of a foreign agent. One such address is 285 Char- lotte Street in Ottawa which most senior "servants have vis- ited at one time. or another. The Russian embassy is noted for its lavish ' entertainment. The acceptance of one invita- tion could start the chain and en fact on one occasion at least gave uneasy night to quite a few. innocent Government of- , ficials. Late one Sunday night in February 1946. a brief an- nouncement from ' the Prime Minister's office posted in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, revealed that certain persona rad been apprehended and de- tained as a result of informa- tion pointing to the fact that agents --of a certain foreign power had been obtaining in- formation prejudicial to the se- curity of Canada. The certain persons turned out to be 14 civil servants whose homes had been visited simultaneously by the RCMP in the middle of Sat- urday, night and who had been whisked off to an RCMP bar- racks outside the city to be held incommunicado at the pleasure' of the Minister of Jus- tice for interrogation. The order -in -council authoriz- ing such a course had been passed in October 1945, after the Gouzenko documents ' re- vealed the extent of the ring. It was not made public' Until the following June and aroused even at that tittle a storm of I political protest. In the'Hous a- of Commons the' Hon. C. G a- Power, former Liberal Ministe and now a Senator; conclude - 'a fiery attack on the Govern ment with the words: "1i thi be the 'funeral of 'Liberalism, for one :do not wish to be pallbearer". But to the people of Canad generally, with the war stil fresh in memory, n o action ap peered too harsh. The fact,tha Canadian citizens had assisted the Russians in obtaining• mil' • tary secrets and were in their pay created shock aiid panic. The story .of Igor Gouzenko the cipher clerk. in the, Russian -embassy, whose action exposed the spy ring operating not on- ly in Canada' but• in the United States and the United Kingdom, has been written and re -writ - .ten. Hollywood filmed it with some variations from the truth. But for once, Hollywood fiction was far less dramatic .than the facts revealed officially in the report of the Royal Commis- sion, • the Hon. Robert Tascher- eau, now Chief Justice, and the Hon. R. L. Itellock. A few of the civil servants were able eventually to probe their innocence after secret court. hearings. Most of them were 'convicted: • Fred ' Rose, Communist member of Parlia- from. Montreal, served a peni tentiary term, and the whole Communist party in Can- ada was shown to be involved. ,The recent disclosure • that the Russians are at it again or to be more, accurate, are still at it, is not causing. the panic of 20 years ago. But it is ad- mitted that the • two men sent back to Russia on representa- tions made by ..the Canadian Government, had plans just as ambitious as the operations of Coloney Zabotin's spy ring in 1945. One of the men was the commercial attache at the em- bassy, Anatoli Bytchkov. He has -:.been particularly- active:. entertaining newspaper men and courting publicity purport- edly in the interests of closer Soviet -.Canadian trade' relations. Only two unidentified Cana- dians have been mentioned so far, one' of whom apparently went to the 'police immediate- ly.'- The other, a.. civil servant, accepted thousands of dollars from the Russians and worked with them in attempts to com- promise civil servants, some of them women. This, of course, is an old .trick. He has' had a severe heart attack and may not recover. If he does there will be a gen- eral demand again for his prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister's statement in' the House of Commons was probably as full as security would allow, but it is far from satisfying. . e speech to the Quebec Liberals . was as near to a challenge to r' Conservatives to defeat him in d the House as anytt,Bng he has . said or done yet. The Tories, s he said, breathed fire and I slaughter, but when it came to a a vote made sure they lost it. Just ;to prove his point, Con - a "serva'tives the very next day, 1 passed up the opportunity for . a non -confidence motion. t W ' * b L_ Finance Minister Walter Gore p don may have had his economic reasons for.•refusal to lift the interest ceiling for the banks, but the important consideration was political. At a Liberal cau- t cus • about two weeks before the budget, he was .told' in no t uncertain term that if he did.y so the Government would be s defeated in the House and in a the country. "a Ungar and spice B, y . MR Salley '-- MAY HE GET SEASICK J In .the evening, and have a day Among adults, though '' few . and a half off each week. would admit it,: ;there is a great That's all right. I don't bear deal of jealousy of ,today's teen - Among • grudge. Nobody should have agers. to work like a dog. But there's This is revealed by the adults' a slight difference rn the pay. oft expressed wish that bids in I pulled down $30 a month, their teens could act like them; even on the $1 day months. A by their reaction to any hint of dollar a day and keep, My son change in the rules for their will be knocking off lust over children; and especially 'by nine times as much. their endless prating about ould However, that's OK. Wages how soft a time the youngsters he woe rk gone up peaihuts hyIshmust have now, and flow hard it was admit, though, that,I was a lit to their day. tie disturbed by the difference To hem' most adults'tack, in our duties. you'd think. they'd never' had I scrubbed floors, cleaned out 'any fun at all when they were lavatories; polished brass and' kids, or ever done anything fool- sorted dirty Iinen. In spare mo- mentsI help sling out the poppycock about how far they gangplank, or made the officers" walked to school through the beds. My kid will organise 6hut• snow; how scanty were their tieboard games, play the piano wardrobes; how early they had for singsongs, and run a movie to be in at night; how hard projector. In spare moments, their parents worked them; he will chat to nice old ladies. how good their marks were in That's fine. -No hard feelings, school. We can't all be aristocrates in There's. a modicum 01 truth our first job. 3ut what about in all of. this,. of ,.Goulese, be- this?, `I wore a scruffy old cause life was a lot more sitz;- smock, covered with brass pol- ple and frugal a quarteieeen- .,isle He'll wear a snappy blue tury ago. But with the passing uniform, covered with brass of time the morsel of truth buttons. becomes a bit of malarkey. And what about this? My of - Personally, I think we had a,6cial tile was Night Porter. His lot less to cope with, socially, is Entertainment Stewart. I and psychologically, if not ate with the deckhands and fire - physically, than today's teen- men. He'll eat in the dining- agers. room. I slept with seven 'other But this attitude received a scullions in a stall large en - jolt. this week, when my son ough for one Shetland pony. announced that he had nailed He'll share a cabin with one down a summer job. It was other softy of the Sixties. difficult to keep my upper lip ` I was forbidden, on pain of - both • stiff and buttoned, when hulks, to have anything„ • to do 1 compared his first real job with the passengers, except mop with mine, up after them. The kid, in the There are parallels. Both of captain's own words, "will have us got the: job at age. 17, and. the girls following you all over oth jobs were on the upper the boat." Great Lakes boats. There the Oh, well. No use being bitter. arallel ends. The good old days of the De - For instance, I . hitch -hiked pression, when you .. knew you 480 miles, with $2.50 cash, to were a slave; but were happy meet my boat. He will be driv- to be a working slave, are gone on three miles, by his father, forever. - o catch his. However, I cant -help hoping And the hours aren't quite the kid will get good and sea - he same: I 'wdrJced' the grave- sick alt over that uniform, the art; shift, midnight to nooiz, first time he hits a roll in Lake even' days' a week. He'll wwr� Superior..At Least, we'd have couple of hours morning and tjhtt much in .common in .oar fternoon, about three hours .first summer jobs. • Capital Hill Capsules Prime Minister • Pearson's James arrott, Sr., Hills green, last week hauled to Kippen 1,800 bushels 'of oats and 800 bushels of wheat. He received 34c and $1.00 per bushel, respectively. Mr. John George Troyer, of HilIsgreen, has just pulled down his old house and . in- tends rebuilding immediately. Mr. James Swan, Brucefield, is having a commodious barn put up on. his premises oti Al- bert St. The masons have commenced "' the erection of a new addition to the residence of Mr. John - McMillan, M.P., on the old Mc- Michael homestead in Millet, which when completed will add materially to the Comfort and appearance of this already spa- cious residence. Mr. Robert Coates, of Kin - burn, had the . £rine raise`l of a fine new 'barn. It is hoped that he .will have it packed full of golden. grain this harvest. The Toronto Monitory Titus of last geek' says, "Thirty-nine commercial tra'velle'rs register.- ed at the ; Commercial Rotel, Seaforth," . says a fltif'on' 1 v - ositor, .adctin t ,i7?lzis , spooks ' 0. Ar(r'01 f Ale beer; following a creased i ¢! tvp ma 10 • ,rs,vc n ,�'�JA�v, r� r'!�.:. i* ,6•41,4 .,,'z .•• • • • • TO THE EDITOR Co gratut tions '- Beavers Balitmore, Merylan: May 6, 196_ ,sir: The Expositoir of April 2 'th`"brought the gdofl news o the winning of the lnterniedi ate 'B' OHA Champidnship the Beavers, . and I hasten t add my congratulations to than - of the loyal supporters of th team for its success. d, fo*ianately to lose out to e 5. better team from Wie4en the 'semi; -finals. The deet tribute to hockey' to Canada is that in spite of by the fact that many towns never o have won a championship, they keep on trying year after year,, e even. if they get` only the satis- faction of occasionally winning their district, and some only the fun of playing town league' games. Yet, whatever the cate- r gory, from the Midget up, . the game is ., always exciting, brought on by the very action in the game, regardless of the re class. While .. congratulating t h e chain.pions, I would be remiss , if I failed to do.as'much for The team must also be com mended for the honor i, brought the town. I remembe well the last success .25 year ,ago, because it was my good fortune to be at. the celebra tion, I think that was the firs time any OHA Championship had been • won by Seaforth, and their winning, then and now brings added glory both to the town and hockey itself, because both before and after winning a Championship the town. has always._ been represented in one division 'of -another, thus proving that hockey. is truly Canada's own national pastime, and all the American leagues, old and nee ;''can- take heart that they will always have players for their teams as long as there is a Canada. -While regretful that it wasn't,. in the cards that our family name did riot appear this time as it did 24 years ago, I never- theless got ..great satisfaction that the progeny of two of my contemporaries were on -'-the clubs, namely, the Dick'broth- ers, sons of Otto, and . nephews of Tom, with whom I played so 'many years ago, in fact I think it was just 50, years ago that'the managers of our team took the great gamble to play off with Sarnia, after we were tied on the round in goals, in Sarnia. Our managers suffered great criticism for this, but when the whole story was told,, it proved that they were wise in their judgment, and In add;-, tion, we .had the great satisfac- tion of beating them, only un - Thanks • .o Sir: it is my sincere plea- sure to express the apprecia- tion of the Ontario Society for Crippled Children ,to yopr newspaper for the generous support you have given to the Easter Seal Campaign. The success our annual fund raising prdgram for crip- pled children depends greatly one the publicity -support given by the press–•and your assist- ance has been an important factor in assuring us that erip- pled • children will continue to be given the needed care and treatment. These few words of thanks are sent on behalf of the sev- eral thousand campaign volun- teers—and.especially for the Crippled children of.{1{itario. Sincerely yours C,P. TON Chelatz an, f',aov%) cial, 40.04,(; co, al ,,. wt.' ��r{�.tti 'MwvY _ 4, �1wiCrd• M +i. the Wintheop Warriors. Theirs ht be termed a "near .M". ise, bit their picture suggests they enjoYgd the. try. In this &ewe are names which have to the those of successors to the won- derful people from their, area whom I . knew, and probably had a fan from in my hey -day. The champs also;, carried such names .on its group, such . as Doig, 'Dale, Baker and Dol - mage. Foirgive me if I have gone a little afield in reminiscing, but I find it hard to forget that Seaforth and hockey there are two of my loveliest memories. Again, my congratulations) G. JOE SILLS • om: "Care to hear their names?" THE HOME TEAM wck • 0 a - 4 • s 0 CLIFF