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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1965-05-27, Page 2j:' R a t a lL$6q, Servingthe Q'ozr munsty First Published "i►t r4rf.AFQ }1, Qj. T..AR p,, every Thar day morning by MeLEAN BROS., Publishers t t s. ANDREW 1�', 11'IcLEAN, Editor y�' , -+. Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association ! Audit Bupeau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $4.04 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $5.50 a Year V *�a STIGLE .COPIES — 10 CENTS' EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, • Post Office Department, Ottawa SJ AFORTH, ONTARIO, MAY 27, 1965 Early Action Can Save Money For a time Iast summer it appeared that some positive steps were to be tak- en by Seaforth t� create a planning board. Discussions were held with de- partmental officials and with neighbor- ing townships. While Tuckersmith and McKillop hesitated in entering an area proposal, Seaforth • indicated ° that a definite need existed for planning here and agreed to take neeessary preliminary steps. Ahaut • this time it was suggested planning on a county scale could be- come a reality, and while, in any case, a local board would be a requirement, the town held action in abeyance pend- ing a county decision. All this is many months ago.,While nothing has been done by ;the county, neither has the town picked up where it left off when the county possibility was first suggested. Meanwhile, each passing month means so much more difficulties to clear when ultimately, as it must, planning is introduced. All -this has been prompted by corn-. meant • hi - the Kincardine News, under the heading, "Town Planning is Valu- able." In the editorial the writer has this to say: "The people of Kincardine shrMid be gratified that the local' Planning R.oard, and other municipal groups, sushi as the Industrial• Committee, , are giving serioys'consideration, to a study of town planning as it affects this community. "There are many examples through- out the province of 'urban central& gi o - gttractive because their dev4elep. - • has been haphazard and uncontrolled over a period of years. "On the other hand, you can notice instantly the orderliness of a commun ity where long-term town planning has been put into effect. "It is understood that as a result of investigation, comparison and consul- tation, the Kincardine Planning Board is requesting the town council to en- gage the services of a firm of expert planners to arrange and submit a com- v.prehensive report after checking condi- tions here and visualizing the future requirements. "Most important of all, however, is the designating of residential and in- dustrial areas and in our opinion it is regarding these facets of regulating for future growth that should be given the most careful attention." What is true in Kincardine is equal- ly trueinSeaforth. Further delay in creating planning machinery results in problems for rate- payee`s in the years that lie ahead and the unnecessary waste of money which follows when the municipality lacks a clear chart of its future development. It's, The Biggest (New Glasgow Evening News) Publishers and • editors of weekly newspapers serving the smaller corn- munities, and contiguous rural' areas have been examining at various meet- ings their selling methods. A good businessmen, they are mot satisfied with the remits they are acalaing- At 4Be convention there wasa pro- fessor from Indiana who had had a great deal to do, with selling space for a large number of weejelies in a mid- western state. His sales argument Was that in their communities they had the biggest circulation. Reader's »igest, for instance, which boasts that it has the largest circulationin the world,. has rarely, if ever, a larger circulation than the local weekly or semi -Weekly news- -paper in its own community. In the Years Agone From The Huron Expositor May 31, 1940 Some forty neighbors . and friends gathered at the Home of Mr. and. Mrs. C. It Holland to spend a social evening be- fore they leave to reside with their daughter in Clinton. A feature was a presentation. by Mrs. J: F. Scott and Mrs. A. Crozier. 'Miss Jean Scott read the address, Lady members of the Sea - forth Golf and Country Club organized for the season..Offi- cers are: Chairman, Mrs. J. A. Munn; vice-chairman, • Mrs. .1. A. Gorwi11;' captain, Mrs. F. G. Forrester; vice -captain, Mrs. H. G. Meir; secretary, Mrs. W. C. Barber; committee, Miss Wilma Seip; house committee rep., Mrs. F. Sills; representative to golf committee, Mrs. F. G. For- rester. A shipment of 6,000 trees was received at the Seaforth Golf and Country Club and are be- ing planted on waste land at, the rear of the property. A similar quantity was planted last„year and survived the win- ter remarkably well. Crick's Bakery installed ' a modern slicing machine to their already well equipped' ,plant. The machine, which is entirely automatic, carefully slices each loaf' in uniform slices. ' Mist -Elizabeth Carlin has re- signed her school at Beech- wood and has accepted a posi- tion in Chatham. ” Mr. Finlay McKercher, Mc- Killop, left for Winnipeg where he intends purchasing a car- load of cattle for his farm. When the car in which they were driving went out of eon• trol and turned over three times, Harry Riley, 57, believ- ed'' to be the driver, and John Scott, 04, both of Londesboro, had a miraculous escape from death. Seaforth Lions at their meet- ing recalled nearly forgotten events of the past 15 years that the club has been, in existence, When Lion "late. J. Duncan con- ditct?ett a• quiz program. The eliilb's! first president, the late R, xis Jones, the first secretary, W. G Spencer, charter night, the Oita df -"the dung at the easte*vouch roach to the towel:, the donation df the park cot- hy ttie . into i)r, 'C, Mat., hl beginning of the buil x•o of ant ;and ,events 'whir program. Lion J . F. Daly was chairman. Band concerts by the Seaforth Highlanders ' Band,; under the direction of E. 11. Close, com- menced in Victoria Park. A school concert given by the pupils of No. 6, Hibbert, ar- ranged by their teacher, Ross MacKay, and music teacher, Roy Goulding, was held in the Staffa Town Hall. • From The Huron Expositor May 28, 1915 The annual meeting of Wal- ton Women's Institute was held last Wednesday with the presi- dent, Mrs. J. J. McGavin, in the chair. Other, officers elected were: first vice-pres., Mrs. Geo. Harn; second vice-pres„ Mrs. Bruce; secretary -treasurer, Miss R. Simpson; assistant, Miss Ma- bel Barrows; district director, Mrs. Joseph Bennett; board of directors, Mrs. Young, Mrs. Scarlett, Mrs. • John Ryan and Mrs, James Harris; auditors; Mrs. Neal, Mrs. John McDon- ald; music committee, Alma Sholdice, Delia Harris, Lena Harris, Jennie McGavin and Lorna Harn. Mr. J. T. Keys, of Varna, had a fall in the stable and broke some ribs.'" Seaforth students in the Fac- ulty of Educatioh at Toronto granted first-class certificates are Jean A. Carswell, McKillop; Mary B. Habkirk, Pearl Ross and William Strong, Tucker - smith. Mr. Leonard Bolton, of Strat- ford, has purchased the barber shop, which Mr. W. Gottschalk has conducted in the Cardno block for some time. Dr. G. T, Atkinson, of Detroit, has been appointed Lieutenant in the Canadian Army Dental Corps. Mr. George Mulholland, son of Mr. William Mulholland, of James St., left for London, where he will take a coursb in" military training. As William Glenn And• wife, Lumley, were driving through Herman, their horse took fright when meeting an auto and ran away, smashing the rig and throwing the Aged couple -out, 14,s. Glenn had her breastbone broken andwas shaken up, while Mr. Glenn had his leg fractured.' and dislocated' the knee tap. A pleasant'evenn wi ia s MM At the i irke ofdtik I'f �I!d�lli !'1Illl11l(! ILII IIIIIICI1di,, i ! •_ _� �.,111.I1,1L`iii l�'I�1l�ddla Illll�'lIJ' A.Macduff Ottawa Report Complicated Events .In Canada OTTAWA —• Canada's • bicul- tural cold war often displays at least ' one .of the aspects of a real war -propaganda, thought control, rigid, automatic ac- tions and reactions. Quebec has only to make the slightest gesture, and some slow:witted 'centralist screams in pain at the rape of Federal authority. On the other hand,. the gen- tlest suggestiqn from Ottawa about welfare or education in- cites agonized protest from some Quebecers whose thought processes are scarcely more complex than a vending 'ma- chine. The dispute between-" Ottawa. and `Quebec over treaty -making• powers offer as good an ex- ample as any of the freezing - of attitudes, at the expense of reason and truth. There was little real trgtl*. in the boastful claims of • Qua, bee Ministers, from ?4r. Usage down, that Quebec had signed an educational agreement with France without reference to' Ottawa. The truth is that the r#e, ment was signed at the siame time as Ottawa and Paris ex. changed •notes, giving •consent to the agreement. The reaction in English -Can - ads was standard. Quebec has. gone tog far. It was .usurping, federal authority. It had to be; stopped. This anguished and automa- . tic response may have been provoked by the boastful and automatic " actions of Quebec Ministers, who frequently re- semble newly -independent Afri- can potentates, flaunting each Wm. Clarks, Constance, when shred • of ' independence, even over 70 members and adher- though r it may be the gift of ents of . the Methodist Church the old colonial power. . gathered to witness the pre- But the reaction took little senting of a purse of money to account of the reality that their daughter, Evelyn, who the educational agreement was has been the faithful church ,or- signed• with Ottawa's consent, ganist_for over eight years. Mr. that it was similar to many.. William Britton read the ad- such agreements with foreign dress, while,.. Miss 'Irene Carter institutions entered into by ed - made the presentation. +-"ucational bodies in many other Mr. Alex 'D. McKellar, groin- arty, rom Provinces..._. _.__ arty, is altering his house an -- While the two • tentacles building an addition to it. ( shouted insults at each other, Considerable' improvements External lairs Minister Mar - are under way in Cromarty: Mr. tin felt it ecessary to inter-" Wm. Worden has raised a barn vene• and is putting in new stabling, He announced that "only the and Mr. Hugh McLaughlin is Government of Canada has the also putting in new stabling. pow r or authority 'to ehter .in• to treaties with other coup- - • . * * tries." From The Huron Expositor This resounding . statement May 30, 1890. pleased some people, but it had only a propaganda. value itself. • Mr. William" Herrington, of 'Quebec was not seeking the the 13th concession of Hullett, right to make treaties with oth- had a barn raising. He has split er countries. Its international his old barn in the centre and aspirations are in areas involv- has extended it, making it a. ing provincial jurisdiction. building 72x56 feet. When com- Mr. Martin had little to say pleted it will be one of the on the realities of the Quebec largest buildings ,of its kind in. the, township. Mr. John Dorsey, of town, did one of the biggest day's busi- ness he has done for some 4"x'e, selling no less than eight bug- gies, including four. to ,Mr. Geo. Whitely, for his livery busi- ness. Mr.- R. MacLaren, Sr., Tucker - smith, and Mr. John Scott, of Hensall; Ieft for a trip to the Old Country, with Scotland as their headquarters. Rev. Mr. Needham has ac- cepted the call extended to him by the congregation at Egmondville. The political heat has been well kept up daring the past week. A largely attended meet- ing was held in Cardno's Hall and others were held at Bruce - field, Broadoot s schoolhouse, and at the Red School in Tuck- ersmith, where' Mr. Hennes and Dr. Bethum4 spoke for the Con- servative's side, and Mr. Sigh, op and• Mr. M. Y. /McLean for the Reform side; . There' was a large crowd of people ,in town' on the -Queen's birthday, the surrounding coun- try and neighborhood , being Weil represented. ' About noon -the Salvation Army came otit in ° full force and seemed to take the ihtereat ;of the- crowd for. throe, In the afternoon, a i1(iit maany tau • teeaiY a1rV,lew 1 THE HOME TEAM L initiative. He had nothing to say on the important constitu- tional issue which has been raised by the Quebec Education Minister, Paul Gerin-Lajoie. This constitutional issue has had little or no public discus- sion, mainly because both sides have been frozen into postures of unthinking hostility: On one side Quebec is claim- ing it can do something it is not even attempting to- do, while on the other, Ottawa de- nies Quebec can do , something it is not doing. It's all 'rather unreal. But behind the - public shout- ing lies the question of the right of Quebec or any prow ince to enter into international agreements with ether coma- tries in matters relatingto pro- vincial jurisdietinq. There has long been a time flirt -in ,Canada's treaty -making powers.Ottawa can make, a treaty; but it it twelves, prof vincial jurisdietion,. it cant inn plenient the treaty unless the 'provinces consent. Quebec argges that the • right to implement einmet he eapar- ated from tae night to negothite and conclude. „ Agreements involyiag pro- vincial jurisdiction, therefore, -should be the sole concern of ,the provincial 'authority. . The:. Federal Government, still. insists; however, that even in simple educational or cultural agreements, it has a role. But it does not wish to go through the embarrassing experience of exchanging notes and suffering Quebec propaganda every time such .an agreement is being ma e. . - hat is why it is attempting to complete a "general agree- ment"' with France, which will serve as a base on which any province could negotiate and sign cultural or educational agreements with France. • This :.would • satisfy • the re- quirements of Canadian and in- ternational law, and save. face all ' round. • But it is far from the end of the story. Quebec is serious about . its own international personality. It wants to deal- with other countries in matters involving its exclusive ' jurisdiction. It wants representation, . as the French fant in Canada, on in- ternational nternational bodies, It has scarcely been noticed that both Quebec and the'Fed- eral Governin'ent are working on this delicate question within. the framework of Confedera- tion' and international law. Thos who' consider them- selves- belligerents in the bicul- tural conflict may choose to consider these aspirations as a threat to the .Federal authority; or the denial of the ,aspirations as a callous crushing 'of the delicate flower that is Quebec. -What is happening in Can- ada, however, as illustrated by this treaty -making dispute, is a complicated thing, • It can't be explained, much less resolved, by cold war slogans. "Hello! Hello! Is this the fire department?" - "Yes, what is it?" " "Where's the nearest fire box. I want to turn in an alarm." • "Oh, yes," said the Indian, "I know' whatmy conscience is. It • is a little• three-coaneted thing do, my heart that stands still when b am good, but when I am bad, it turnsaround and • the cornershurt a "lot: It I keenon dsiing wrong,' by and by the corners wear off and it dgeso't hit Baty maw, -M.,q, :ES; Yoko. WONpEg. , • Is •everyt?(tipg, • ,cut Ansi 4ried, black acid -white, for you? • Or do you sometimes Wonder?, I do., Here are some of the things I 'wonder about, Maybe you can supply the answers, What is it. about spring that turns 'normally tolerant, sweet- faced, mild -eyed " • women into tail -twitching, yellow -eyed tigers who prowl the. premises- in a perpetual rage, 'snarling: `Lift that- barge, tote 'that bail, wash those windows, - paint t -h a t trim?" Second question: Why are normally devil-may-care, lion- hearted chaps, who would- mix it up with an adult male gorilla if they didn't like the look on the ape's face, .frightened white,. at this time 'of year, by these 110 -pound tigers? How de • you tell a nice mother, wearing rose-colored glasses,, that her son, Whom she insists is Being to be a brilliant surgeon, Will be lueky if he catches a job at the supermar- ket meat eountor? Why does the sun beat down unmercifully when .1 wear a raincoat while trout fishing? And why, when I don't take a raincoat, and the inevitable cloudburst comes, am I always a mile and a half down the stream from my car? . • What kine] of nuts is the world , producing these `days? First example: The other night . there Was a 'teenage rumble near here. Police and firemen broke itrup, One kid was hand- cuffed, and stuffed in the police car. The cops jumped out to aid fellow officers. The kid jumped out the other side, pre- sumably to aid himself. Four days later,' he turned himself in, still -handcuffed, What did he do • during those four days? I mean, did he ever try to . uh -. well, you get the idea? Second example: Maybe you read this in the Raper. Fellow named George Wilson was 'ar- rested, Why? Because he had j Ust thrown, Harald W ilson (no repletion) through a plate -glass w:iridew. Ag Harold lay there in his own blood, itn itroteeted vigoroual0 the arrost of tiesorge. 'yt. 'Sgu can't do thatl yle'•s• d S ice 51111110.)f • • 'My buddy." . ' Figure that one -out. What, short of going up and strangling ' the • lot, . can 1 do about the black squirrels 'who hold bowling matches, foot rac- es, country -style hoedowns, and hootenannies in my attic, in the dead of night, every night? Why are 1.4 -year-old daugh- ters so dreadful? They are sul- len, sulky, stubborn,. slouchy, grouchy, polity, resentful, They ' fight with theft mothers. They wreck the third pair of, nylons in three -days. They weepwild- ly at the slightest admonition. Why are 14 -year-old daugh- ters so wonderful? ,(This is the next ; day). They are sunshine, not shewers They are helpful, not hopeless. They are sweet and shy and funny and full of vitality and eager to learn ann idealistic, and you wonder what you did to deserve such a bun- dle of blessedness. Why do 17-year-old"sons think them parents should be put in wheelchairs and trundled off t_e an institution for the feeble- minded? And why do they get that long-suffering look when dad is telling them something extremely important, like how hard he used to mark in schgol? And why do they laugh toler- antly, when mother, whom the ' tower;over,.-is dispensing pearls of wisdom, like if you don't get enough sleepyou won't grow up to be big and strong and wise like your father? Why do wives think their can- cer, or their heart attack, or arthritis, or piles, or whatever they have every morning at breakfast, is to much more ser- ious than the genunine ailments of the poor wretch hiding be- hind is paper, acrossthe table? And why dq all wives, every' where, think they can't trust their husbands with liquor, oder er women, the' children's up- bringing, or the best china? This is the age of ritteetioni naires. I'm sure you have son* of your own. Seed them along, a>; We'it make` up the *.rat, sensible; qi tionliaire in to 211th can, even 11 robe y in the knows the answers. T THE EDITOR ' Early Days' in Eg1 ondvif.e Sirs Before: he, days when such signs as 'Keeps Out", "No Admittance" "Apply at Office" were the regular° thing, anin- quisitive, boywas tolerated and mostly welcome& wherever . he went. to watch', people attheir work and,. sometimes at their play, I am recalling some of the places at which I was a visi- tor around the turn of this cell; tury. In Egmondville, the Pottery Plant on the same ;street . as Ciil- bert's Brewery, where foot - power was used on the ma- chines that turned 'clay into flower pots and other utensils, was a most interesting sight. And then a boy ,couldgo into to see Culbert's Brewery, where they made such drinks as birch beer and ginger •beer. These drinks were put up in crockery bottles with a mechanical ap- paratus for opening and dos- ing, and were sold throughout the county. At Jackson's Tannery,'' which' was near the. Egmondville bridge, all boys were most .wel- come and the workmen seemed pleased to have us • stand around arid watch • the different opera- tions. I forget the names of the Jackson brother's, except - Brown Jackson; -who was in charge of the plant, but I do .remember how welcome they made us, and what 'fine gentlemen each seemed to be. On the same street as the Tannery was a Gun Shop own ed by August Van Egmond, who repaired the guns of the hunt- ers in the vicinity. I remem- ber when .he came to -our home and shot our ' dog which" had been 'found guilty of worrying sheep. Across the street from Jack- son's stare was Hills blacksmith Shop, a very busy, place at all times. Jimmie Wright, who was a blacksmith there and 'whose job it 'waste put steel over the wage wheels, we Would watch the red riot steel go over the wool, to be left there and shrink to • its correct size. • It was also; interesting 'to watch the mein put the steel'shoes on the horses, ail, there always seemed to ,be many horse: wait- ing,. to have this 'ab does • V'an E ]mind Woollen Mills at „ that time cmplo'y.ed a Nu - adorable number , of people, and eacl, oper+aation from dyeing the woo to where it was card- ed and t en spun on spools midthen tiow;n to 'the berets that were v00.11010," and on to the finishing room,was 'always in- teresting. The woollen mill, at that' time, was the first build- ing ire Egmondville on Sea= foath's Main Street. Across the street from ' the Woollen Mill, bttt. in the' Town of Seafprtli, was the Recreation Grounds -tea' very busy place in - these.. dai!ys:•' The games: 1 re- lnembetr.'�best•- were, those.''e. tWcen :S,e'afortl)s OaltiB,eri> and Stratford,- in oot of l; ami t Cine _ between ;Sc £Ortel, St>rat`- ,,iBr 4tforl,, Oran bvl forth et that time hada muni• cipaP league in lacrosse that had five teams. As I remember them, they were. the North:En& ers, the West Side, Little Scot: land and; gitondvllle. I'. have • forgotten the other one, but think they were called The Burrs. • Near the Recreation Grounds. but on the other side of the Main Street • was the saw mill. In those days the farmers' brought in the logs all through the winter and they were piled up over many acres of ground and were made into many very different products, but mostly lumber, while staves -?for bar- rels, as *ell .asheading for barrels, took "a considerable amount of logs. The logs were cut into the pieces which were of the correct length for staves and were mostly of soft wood. They were heated with steam -that was -very' wet; "and Bab, Montgomery was the man that cut' the staves as • I remember it. $illy Anent was a popular employer in those days, as he. 'paid the highest wages for his type of work and had the best working conditions. He also kept two of the finest teams of hors- es that were available, and they. were always groomed to look their best. On the railroad tracks, north of the sawmill, Colemans had a salt plant. They used to pump the brine out of the earth and store it in tanks: • It 'was then put over a,large surface of steel and heated, and the heat came from a mixture, of cordwood and soft coal, and the men us- ed to pull the salt from the pans with a long rake. It was then put throygh" a finishing process and mostly sold hi five and 10 -pound bags. Near the salt plant was Bell's Foundry that made engines for threshing machines, with the boiler shop being the noisiest of aI.l the places to visit. Mr. Emory was —nharge of the boiler shop and some 01 -tree others I re ember who worked' there were illy Golding, Fred' Lang and ]lir. Oliver', who had charge of the paint shop; alto Billy Finla&siln, the left wing, of Seafortl}'s football . teahn,: was a ni'oulder in the foundry at at time. Other interesting pieces were the Oatmeal Mill, where Mr. Wilson used to take us- boys to see bow the oats were heat-. ed, shelled and made into Oat. meal. Bob will always" remain to me as one of 'the kindest of men, especially to boys. I' also used to watch the coopers at their work of Mak- ing 'barrels•f fr the Ogilvie Flinn' Mill: ,`phis was always •a11 ing Westing operation. to me, - . At the !othier end of ttiwn, D.Wilson had an -'egg plant,' wkie a thqusa ads of dozens es, e g; were stored,,,idurimg" ,the'. stl er iii 1 r e` ';ata n and skipped, mostly to Britsla. Saaf.ortis at thjs tirpe.bad many 'more interesting' places to see, suclr as the; Flax Hifi, Broadfoot 8r- Sox Furniture Fac- tori, the; porkpairing; establish inent inr ilarpurhey, and' •1' e n joyedgoing to them and watch ing the different operations as - they were performed. Sincerely, - CORNELIUS W. SPAIN 280 - 46th Ave., ° St. Petersburg Beach, Fla.