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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST. 5, 1965
Save Taxes by Cleaning Up
of the arguements advanced
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One g
when efforts are made to encourage
the cleaning up of area -properties is
that "My taxes will go up'', -
To offset this possibility, the St.
Marys' Journal Argus suggests we
should adopt the system . employed in
many European Countries. Here we
are told the reverse is the case. There
is a tax penalty on run down and aban-
doned properties.
We suppose it would be beyond our -
wildest dreams to have a policy such as
we suggest here adopted, but we have
heard from a number of newcomers to
Canada about the policy that is used
back in their own country with regard
td property taxes, and -the improvements
made to property, the St. Marys' paper.
'says and goes on in these words
Here we often hear citizens complain
regarding 'the fact that if substantial im-
provements are made to their house or
other property it will only cause thern to
have to pay more taxes. Does it not make
.better sense then to let things stay as
they are as far as possible.
Our European friends laugh at this
systeln of taxation. In Germany they
say, for instance, there is no penalty
paid by those who improve their prop-
erty in this fashion. As a matter of fact,
they say, those who 'neglect their prop-
erty or allow it to run down are usually
penalized.
Have we perhaps gotten things twist-
ed around the wrong way a bit here in
Canada? We feel that many good ideas
have come out of Britain and Europe in.
the past and still do today, but we think
too that Canadians particularly are very
slow to adopt new ideas. The Journal
'Argus suggests the governments seem
to want to wait until every last Tom,
Dick and Harry is in favor of the move
before they will take any action on• it,
and asks "surely Democracy does not.
work as slowly as we make it work all
of the time"
Sugar and Spice
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"WELL, TEETH, IF YOU GOTTA GO,,YOU GOTTA GO."
In the , Years A gone
From The Huron Exposito
r pier at the time. •
August 9, 1940 Seaforth ' bowlers held their
Arrested here early Wednes- doubles tourney on Tuesday
day morning as a vagrant by evening when prizes were won
Chief Helmar Snell, Bert Gum- as follows; F. Johnson; Thomas
merson, who gave his address Beattie; B. F. Christie. The fol -
as Palmerston was remanded lowing were in Exeter and Han -
to jail and will appear in poi - over on Monday: at the former
ice -court at Goderich, on Tues- place, M. McKellar and Lorne
day.. He was found sleeping in Dale took third prize; also tak-
a truck on Main Street. He was ing part were Harry Stewart
'intoxicated. • and John Cluff. ' •
' Student swimmers who this Sideswiped by a passing mot -
week progressed to the stage orist, on ,the.. hill, in front of
where they were permitted, to the Holmes residence, Goderich
enter the deep pool wR
ere: on St. East, a car containing Mac
Dolmage, Mary ' Ryan, Marie Ristoul, Don Scott and Andy
• Hackwell, Mary M. Cleary, Mar- Bell, went into the ditch, a
garet Hall, Joe Burke and wheel was broken off, but oth-
Ronnie Sills. m
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erwise, the car was not daag-
'By Bill Sm11ey — Employees of the John ed.
Boshart and Sons factory pre -
WHEN THE WELL LOOKS hands
had to use the toilet and had a poured 843 teapots full. of water staff h vd
feverish thirst. • down the pipe. I held the flash w August 6, 1915
About 100 tickets were sold
DRY
Ever had your water cut off?
It•happened to us the other day.
And that rather vulgar expres-
sion, along with an'older one,
"You never miss the water till
the . well runs ' dry", 'assumed
new meaning.
My wife's dad, a 110 -pound
strip of whipcord with one arm,
suddenly got sick, one of the
few times in his life. We lit out
, for the homestead to lend a
hand, while he was in hospital.
Everything went fine until
about 11 p.m., when We decided
to have a cup of tea, before re-,
tiring. A trickle came out of the
tap, stopped.
My father-in-law is one of that
vanishing species of rural dwell-
er who, besides being able to
tell the weight of a cattle -beast
and know when it's going to
rain, is a carpenter-bricklayer-
plumber-millwrigtbt. He could
build a bridge across the St.
Lawrence with . some wire, a
plank or two, a'•shovel, an iron
bar, and-a'couple of tin cans.
• In 'c"bntrast, I am' one of that
rapidly -increasing breed. that.
couldn't build a bridge across a
trout stream with 200 tons of t
pteel, eight carloads of cedar t
planks, twelve bulldozers and
six civil engineers.
So there I was. Grandad in
the hospital. And me out there e
on the ranch, with no water sup-
ply, and three women on my a
, each of whom suddenly to dq, was prime the pump, Be
sented four members' of the F
o h a •enIisted with
I tried to imbue them with the light. No results. Ferriale rela- pen and pen`ril sets The four
old pionfer spirit, when you had tives, looking a bite frantic, enlisted men were:, Jack Cam- at Walton, last week for the
to walk two miles to the spring peered down the cellar stairs eron, Hartman Hames , W. C,
P gSutherland and James Ba Sabbath School' excursion], to
14h. �`' Goderich. ,
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rom' The Huron Expositor
for water, through thickets of about every four minutes. In the
black bears, They were not im- old days, there'd have been a s• M. Broderick, coder}ch' The barn and out buildings
pressed, All. theywanted to do two holey within ran e. But St-, East, while going down
g stairs at her home, slipped and of Mr, Samuel Hunter of the
2nd Concession of U
was go to the bathroom. - these modern farm homes have
everything. Except an outdoor rractured a bone in her arm, vine
I went down cellar, and One of theoutstandingtotally destroyed b- fire,
a it -
1 o o k e d desperately around privy is fields Miss Janet Cluff gave
of Hullett was helping at a rais-
ing, he met with a bad accident.
A falling rafter struck him on
the forehead, knocking him over,
and he fell across another raf-
ter, breaking some ribs. '
The Messrs. Klein'of McKillop
passed through town on Tues.,
with a handsome new Stratford
Decker' threshing machine.
Mr. William Rinn of Hullett,
near Kinburn, has a patch of
corn, the stalks of which aver-
age 13; in 'length. He thinks
this is pretty good for a Tory
and wonders if any Grit can
beat it.
Mr. Thomas Dennison thresh-
ed last week, 400 bushels of fall
wheat from 11 acres. It weighted
64 pounds to the bushel.
For several evenings past, el-
ectric lights in Buffalo, Cleve-
land and Detroit have been plain
ly .visible here. It seems that ex-
periments
are being made by•el-
ectricians in these cities.
A lawn social, under the aus-
pices of the Good Template was
held on the beautiful _lawn of
Mr. Arthur Forbes, The weather
Although cool ',was . clear and
there was a large turn out. The
awn was brightly lit by Chinese
of
b th
Ei ht hours and many dollars to the district which buffered day1
There were switches and pumps 1 g damage in the storm w party and instead of the,
six-
and hot water tanks and cold- iter we had five men on as
guests bringing her a lanterns.
• teen acres IA •mixd
water tanks,andthe fob, torn up a great chunk a grain on present, each one brought a
pipes. running of the lawn with a digger; found, the `,farm of R. P. Watson g
in every conceivable combine- gg , cent for each year they were
London Road
tion. Dont sneer; Mac. Do you the well; pulled up 90 feet of They averaged old and the proceeds were given •
know the ins and outs of a res- nla,t4c pipe: lost all the females over 6 feet in height. e to the -'Red Cross. They valued
sure system? P • to various plumbed establish- Combines are at work on the $.1.9t
farm of Scott Davidson,
om-
Granny started to panic about menu in town; and found .the Concession of McKillop, where The euchre given at the C
the hot-water tank blowing up. I trouble. 150 acre, the well wasn't dry. Ites of wheat s bein mercial Hotel by Mr, •and Mrs.
unsrewed some fuses. The first was almost over -flowing from all e harvested. This field . is one., f ly attendedn The nan Wwinnas ers ,were.
plunged the house into darkness. th the largest seen in this d' t • •
The second put the refrigerator •
out of order ( which we discov- urs , up. There •was some-
ered next .morning.) I pulled a thing stuck under the foot -valve,
switch. The furnace went on. One of the legs had broken off
I peered at pumps, gazed at the poPPet, a 60 -cent item, and
gauges, then I pronounced had prevented the jet in the
"the well's gone dry." It was foot-valv%from jetting, and the
the only thing I 'could think of, pump was pumping air, Now is
and at n idnight,t,who was going that clear? If it isn't, hold your
to argue? Granny came up with peace. That's what the man
some folk-Iure about priming said
ose tea-pots of water, poured for man is rict Miss Hazel wReid and Mr. Mac
in. Nope. The pipes hadn't , y years McDermid•
A pleasant
he pump, but I assured 'her And is certainly helped me de -
hat modern electric pumps eide What Em, going to do in
didn't need priming. We went..to summer holidays from now on.
bed, disgruntled, and thirsty as I'm going to pick up a bunch of
explorers of the great Gobi des- firth -legged , poppets and go
t. around the country•helping peo-
Bright and early, the plumber ple Whose water has been cut
rrived.,He said tile first thing off. Just give me a call.
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A Macduff Ottawa 'Report
Rehearsal for Things to Come?
OTTAWa vote for the Liberal
tended the 'Federal -Provincial meant medicare in 1967.
Conference- in Ottawa 'went There is no doubt that there
away from the Capital convinc- are ,an increasing number o
ed that the- Liberal Government influential Liberals in and, out
is planning ' an autumn elec- side Ottawa .who are coming
tion. around toethe view that a Fal
The Premiers talked'about it election should be held. They
frequently. Sbme even named point out that the economy, is
dates - .Oct. 18 or 25. One or booming and that there •is no
two said they had been told it guarantee that it will be in
'was possible the Government such good shape a year or two
would hold off until Nov. 15. ' from now.
Premier Doblin of Manitoba The recapture of Lucien Riv-
said the conference indicated and has offset to some extent
that the stage had been set the adverse publicity the.Gov-
for an election. He said - the ernment received from the
"medicare" program as it had scathing criticism of the Dor-
been presented was in a sense ion Royal Commission report.
a "political" program.' It would sy the Fall, the Liberals hope
be a good plank for the Liber- that the public will have for-
als, he suggested.- gotten the Dorion report and
Revenue Minister Eric Kier -Rivard affair. They, would like
ans of Quebec described the to have the election before the
conference as .a "dress rehear- trial of Raymond Denis and
sal" for an autumn election. others take place this winter.
Other members of the Quebec . `Liberals argue effectively
contingent echoed his septi-. that to go to' the country this
ments. The same views were Fall would mean that their
voiced by • members of the chief opponents the Conserve -
Ontario delegation. tives would be badly divided
However,' the Ontario group behind the leadership ,of Mr.
were chuckling the second Diefenbaker.
night of the conference be- In addition this Fall the Can -
cause they.believed that Prem- adian taxpayer is 'benefiting
ler John Robert's ready accep- from the• reduction in the in-
tance of the medicare propos- come tax. Next year he will
als had spiked the guns of the be making contributions to the
Liberals. The , Ontario Conser- new Canada Pension Plan and
vatives were ' confident that the, redaction in the income -
they; had upset the Federal Lib- tax, will be offset by the de-
erals' election strategy. duction for the pension scheme.
But the Liberals laughed off , To those who worry that the
the Tory contention that the reaction in Western Canada to
Ontario Premier had wrecked the II and B8 commission and
Federal party to the seeming concessions
anted to Quebec, the Liber -
s wanting an early 'election
ay it would do no good to wait
ntil next year. By next year
e B and 11 commission Would
Making its report and the
action in the West might be
w& tee ko have the+eler<tiott
A— Premiers who at- that
s now, they say.
The man who has the . final
say is Prime Minister Pearson:
f And to all intents and purposes
- he has riot Yet made up his
mind. He is carefully assessing
1 the situation this summer and
studying reports from Liberal
listening posts across the coun-
try.
One thing is certain the
Prime Minister came out of
the Federal Provincial confer-.
• ence, with his political stock
higher than when he went into
the meeting. His medicare pro-
posals took the wind out of the
°sails of many of the Premiers.
They had arrived , in Ottawa
prepared to needle the Federal
Liberals for not acting with
greater speed on the Hall Roy-
al Commission report on medi-
cal services,
The Prime Minister's propos-
al to split the costs 50-50 with
the provinces that set up their
own medicare programs, pro-
vided those programs met
certain criteria laid, down by
Ottawa was a master stroke of�
strategy. It left it to' the pro
vinces to do the organizing of
their own programs. Thus it
did not interfere with their
autonomy, It , also incidently
left it to the provinces •to do
the negotiating or wrangling
With the docto's,`j something
Ottawa is happy to stay away
from after watching Saskat-
chewan's experience,
The Liberal party hi the Fed-
eral field 'can now . talk about
its proposals for medicare and
it won't -have to put up any
money until the plans go into
operation on July 1, 1067. That
was the target date suggested
by the Federal Government for
the -joint Federal-Provineitil
medicare programs becoming
operative.
When the conference wound
Might' have had for using the gr
for a national vote.. They point- a1
ed out that with the confer- sa . so sutceeefui, :the pies- u
tige of Prince Minister Pearson th
,loci been enhanced and the be
Liberal Govcriitnen OW now re
Ater' a campaign ;tatting at "
evening was silent he hand painted
at the home a Mrs. Carl Diett bowl donated by Mrs. McLennan
rick, Bridgeport, when the wife was won by Mrs. T. EBays. A
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parents, brothers and sisters gauhering, of the ladies who
of Pte. William Williams, RCR, •fould nt attend. S.
before, was
son of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Wil- aor sewing. Mrs. 'f Bartonhe was
liams, Seaforth; • presented him laawarded the prize,for gra was
With a gold initialed • wrist welly
err present. The solos wereewas
watch, as a farewell gift. on ewell carried and H giv-
his' departure for Camp, Borden, M srs.by W. Greig, Holman. ,nd
Mrs. J. B. Russell, Miss Har- Messrs, W. r and Scott Mrs. W.
riet Murray, James R. Scott, Readings were given by ld
James M. Scott and Miss Mar- B. Rey. and Corcoran.RHArchibald
•ion Scarlett, were in Brock- bed, Rey. P, spianistandMIso-
'ion
ville .attending the'funeral of F.el H.
Larkin
was wasacha Rev.
Mrs. R. J. Muldrew, the former The Larkin chairman.
Helen McNab, of Seaforth. band and firemen are in
h Thorold to take part in' great
Charles Jinks, mail carrier Firemen's tournement.
on RR 1, Ilensall, while driv- Messrs. G. C. Bell and W
ing on his mail route, was tak- Thompson are. in Detroit- They
en seriously ill with a stomach went over to bring' back one of
hemorrage. the 1916 models of the Maxwell
Claudette Blowes, little date cars for which Mr. Bell is•agent.
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Mr. C. Aberhart is giving the
Blowes of Hensall, who ' s hot
,� • proceeds of his ice creampar-
idaying at Grand Bend, fell for in aid of the Red Cross for
from the pier into the water one evening. He provided the
and was quickly_ rescued by ice cream which will be served
some bathers who'were on the by the ladies of the Red Cross.
Mr. Williefn Bristow of town
has the contract for the ' erec-
tion of Mr. Thomas Elder's new
residence on John Bt. •
The ladies of Winthrop and
vicinity are having a sale •o£ but-
ter, eggs and home-made cooking
the old Post Office. The pro-
ceeds to go to the Red Cross.
The ctop which premised so
favourably a few weeks ago are
likely to .prove somewhat disa-
ppointing. The late frosts affect-
ed the heads of the fall wheat.
The oats are' badly affected by
smut.
Mr. and Mrs. George Coates of
New York are visiting friends
in this vicinity, namely Mr. •and
Mrs. William Clark, near Con-
stance. They made the trip by
e auto. to Nw
would not ,get Money frothpthe • York, he vw Was on to henExpositor
Federal Treasury. , This would staff,
mean that / the Premiers stay- ' Mrs.. William Hudson 'Sr., of
•ing mit of,«the program would Egmondville, who Is over 80
be open to the charge by politi- years of age, underwent an op -
,cal opponents that they were eration for the removal of three
denying their people half the fingers on account of blood -
cost of their medicare bilis.' Tt poisoning.
up. and the Premiers headed
home the scoreboard appeared
to indicate that provinces ready'
to go along with medicare
were: Newfoundland, New
Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario
and Saskatchewan. The prov-
inces that are reluctantly indic.
ating an interest are British
Columbia, Manitoba, Prince
Edward Island and Nova Sco-
tia. The strongest opposition
came froml Premier E. C. Man-
ning of Alberta.
But the Federal Government
holds the whip hand. The Fed-,
eral Treasury is to kick in 50
per cent of the cost of the med-
icare program and any prov-
ince that refuses to p rt'
would be a pretty potent wea-
pon for a political opponent to '« « «
'use in bludgeoning any premier From The Huron Expositor
Who refused to join in the
scheme. August 15, 1090
Grand Bend bids fair to be -
Under such circumstances come one of the fashionable wat
what provincial premier would ering places on Lake.Huron. Al -
dare to stay out of the med.i-„ ready several of the visitors have
care. program asked one non- instead of Bitching their tents,
Liberal Premier i Who was by built for themselves more per -
no means an enthusiast for manent homes, consisting df
the plan- It apt' w a
"carrot and the club" tech- not ,very, attractive, but amply
nique. The carrot was the fed- sufficient to aecotnbdate a
era,, offer to pay half the cost. small family for a,few weeks.
The club was , Ottawa's insis-.Richiing as
tepee that if a province did
receive. his 1'a, rm.nnard lira.Sparthth i^nnhhaaainnsold
not participate
Ingle -
the mo
otherwise .� �..,.,a�y..
o be the cottages, smallto be sure and •
While Mr. • iervig Nnhagaard;
On Sunday last, about • 6:30
lightning struck a barn on the
farm of Mr. Patrick Ryan, on the
Logan and. McKillop . boundary.
The flames communicated with
a second barn, and in. no short
-time all was reduced to ashes.
The wheeled caravan of a
scissors grinder which occupied
a place in the Royal Hotel yard
for several weeks, was removed:
During• his stay here, the old
gentleman did a rushing busi- •
ness' in sharpening knives, scis-
sdrs,.lawn mowers and razors.
Mr. William. Henderson, of the
5th Concession of McKillop, was
much interested in the recent
discussion in the Expositor on
the turnip question. He does 'not
agree that beef cattle can not
e produced on turnips and •
w, He •says they can. He
thini1th that cheaper' feed can-
not be got.
TO THE EDITOR ,
Urges -Added Study
To School Problem
Bayfield, Ont
Dear Sir,
August 2, 196 '
The progress of thenegotia
tions and planning for a 16
room central school for Huro
County School . Area No. 1
(Tuckersmith and Stanle
Townships and the.Village o
Bayfield) could well be an ex
- ample of local government a
its . fumbling and undemocrati
worst.
On the basis of an inspector'
report written at the end o
last April, which recommended
a single central school' for the
new County Area, the Boards
of the Tuckersmith and Stan
ley , Township School areas ac
cepted the report without ques-
tion,. closed their minds and
proceeded to implement the
report's recommendation, willy-
nilly. The report estimated the
cost of the school. plant, com-
plete, at $433,000.00. Yet, very
recently, the architect submit-
ted figures to 'the joint Boards
of the two School Areas which
showed a cost of $600,000.00
for the building without includ-
ing costs of land, water, sew-
age' disposal, architect's fees,
debenture costs and equipment.
It would not be. unreasonable
to assume a total figure of
$800,000.00. This is almost
double the figure estimated by
the inspectors in their report.
Quite an extraordinary change
in three short months! What
would the final figure be?
It' is true that the 'architect's
plans include two • rooms for
kindergarten use. These were
not included in the earlier es-
timate. Bat, the proposal to em-
bark on a program for kinder-
garten without testing 'the
views of the parents and rate=
payers appears to be high-
handed to say the least. Aside
from the extra costs in con-
struction, teachers and - trans-
portation there are questions
which should be asked as to
the suitability of this activity
in a rural area as wide -spread
as our own. Children of kind-
ergarten age cannot be com-
pelled. to attend classes. Will
parents wish to expose their
children of pre-school age to
long bus, rides to a remote,
strange and large central
school? Does "togetherness in
bulk" compensate., for an
earlier break with the. security
f home? It should be pointed
ut that kindergarten is not as
4
., necessary for rural children as
5. for urban children. The child
on • the farm is part of a small,
self-contained community and
- he still enjoys the blessings of
- small climes and responsibili-
n `ties which develop -his mind
and character. In the world
Y arQ�and him he has an out-dpor
f setihel room provided by na-
- ture. Is it really better to load
t him on a bus and condemn him
c to cutting out paper dolls in
unison when he might be dev-
s eloping some. individuality at
f home?
The ratepayers of 'West
Stanley and Bayfield have now
almost 900 signatures on a pe-
- tition advocating a four -room
- school in Bayfield. This figure
represents over one-half of the
public school supporters in
Stanley Township School Area.
Yet the majority of the Board
choose to -ignore this demon-
stration of public opinion. Is
this democratic? Does it make
sense? Certainly not to the
overwhelming majority of
ratepayers • of Western Stanley
and Bayfield, at Ieast, who
have no' intention of being
coered into a distant 'central
school.
It would be well to ask when
the joint Boards of Tucker -
smith and Stanley Township
School Areas are going . to do
some study, thinking and plan-
ning on their own rather 'than
accepting views and decisions
ready-made for them? ,In view
of the strong opinions held by
very ,considerable numbers in
the -Eastern and Western parts
of the new County School Area
what moral right. have the
joint Boards to commit the
new County Area to expendh •
titres and programs before_ .the
Board for the new County Area
is -even 'elected Why' are. these
important matters not given
the study they deserve? Then, -
why could there not be a pro-
gram of public education to get
the facts over to the parents
and ratepayers so that.•these
voters can make intelligent
choices when they select their
County School Area Board
,bis fall? It does seem that a
properly elected: and constitu-
ted Board should make the de-
cisions which' the joint Boards
of Tuckersmith and . Stanley
Township- School Areas are
now drifting • into at headlong
speed. -
Your truly,
Frederick, A. Clift.
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