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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 19, 1965
Interests Of Area Weeklies Are Varied
There is -wide variety in the mat-
, , ters that are the concern of area
weeklies, as a sampling of opinion
from recent issues indicates.
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Happy,' Yet Sad
Changes in education lt4dards
have resulted in the closing' of' many
rural schools. The Goderich Signal
' Star sees this as an opportunity to re-
cord the history of the area the school's
served.
ate the results of others' enterprise and
selfflessness.
"The most. effective remedy is one
which is seldom used in this modern'
age—personal apprehension of the cul-
prits along with a forceful and repeat-
ed application of the toe of the boot
to the seat of th t 'Phi
"Nostalgia is sweeping through
many rural school areas in Huron
County these days as little, old, red
schoolhouses close to make way for
the coming of larger central schools.
Special farewell ceremonies are being
held at many of these, old schools. The
program includes the presentation of
the complete history of., the school
which is, in large part, quite a history
of the particular area. These individual
sclioor histories should be carefully
preserved since the time will come
when they will be regarded as cofisid-
erably more valuable to posterity than
they might be today." ,
• "Tte closing of the old schools calls
for a farewell reunion Of all former •
pupils, teachers, trustees, etc., and this
can be a most heart-warming occasion:
Indeed, we have noticed where former
pupils or teachers have travelled thou-
sands 'of miles to come back to the
farewell to the little, old schoolhouse
of yesteryears."
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It's A Disease
Wingham, like. Seaforth and most
other centres, has experienced spates.
of vandalism. The Wingham Advance -
Times suggests this cure:
"The problem which is faced by the
Turnberry Park 'committee is common
to most areas in both rural and- urban
centres. Vandalism is a deease for
,c which there seems to be no permanent
cure. For some completely unkown rea-
son .87zime human beings delight In de-
stroying the • facilities which others
have provided to Make life more enjoy-
, • :able.
"Supposedly these destruCtive per-
sons represent only a small segment
of humanity. They are usually, though
not necessarily, youngsters, whose men-
thl capacities are so limited that they
have never,learned-the meaning of the
• true enjoyment of any of the 'good
things in life. Totally unable to create
e pan s. s as about
the only kind of reasoning vandals
would be able to comprehend."
Holidaying 1965
The business of having„a holiday has
been frought with trouble this summer
as th\useatherman refuses to co-oper-
ate, •adeoTding to the Elmira Signet,
"Most people will rerhark this has
been a funny summer for the brand of
weather. r which has prevailed right
through from June to the ,present date.
The average traveller doesn't know
whether to take summer clothes ex-
clusively or all heavy clothing to ward
off the coolness of some of the days.
Last week in touring, travellers ran in-
to extremely cold weather the first part
of the week and by Friday suffered the
hottest day of the year.
• "There are those who wonder just
where the good old summer days •have
disappeard to in the present complex
of weather being dished out this year."
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Important Spot
Recent retirement of C. V. Pickard,
for many years „the Clerk' of Exeter,
prompts the Exeter Times Advocate
to remind us of the important place a
town clerk occupies in a comniunity.
"A civic clerk is one of the most im-
portant people in any conimunitY. just
ask the mayoror- any cauncillor. Ask
most ratepayers. The choice of a clerk
can be as important, or more, than the
public's choice of politicians."
"What can he do? He can create a
climate for progress, or if he is a poor
clerk, set up enough roadblocks to dis-
courage the most enthusiastic council.
He's a man of little ,power, but much
influence. He's the man both ratepay-
ers and council lean upon, depend upon,
and therefore, the man who keeps local
government working. It's the measure
of the clerk whether that government
is efficient or backward."
"Have a good clerk and you'll have
municipal' development. Have a good
clerk and you'll have a climate" for
growth, happier ratepayers, a better
works department, a more efficient
%%council, and maybe even more money
anything worthwhile themselves, they in the civic treasury. He's a man with
eternally seek to level out and obliter- little power, but much influerice."
A 11/1aoduff Ottawa Report .. .
Wilderness Leakes .
OTIAWA—Arthur Laing is a ers but with the indignant resi-
'square - jawed, stubborn man dents' of the nationA parks
who enjoys e scrap when he is strung along the Alberta side
certain in his own mind that of the Rocky Mountains.
the principle for which he These parks, chiefly Banff and
' sands is the right one. Jasper, originated more than 80
In two years as Canada's years ..ago when newly -built
Minister of Northern Affairs Canadian railways first made it
and National resources he has possible for somebody besides
• probably collected more enem- fur -traders. and mounted police-
ies than friends. There have men to visit the unspoiled wil-
been repeated public demands derness.
for his removal from Cabinet, The idea was to keep the
coming from as widely separate wilderness unspoiled and it
• spots as Quebec and Alberta. wasn't too hard in the leisure-
' Eve hifri own Colleagues ad- ly days of the railway era when
mit p v
Ir.atelyr that Art Laing ig the travellers arrived in a
a d cidt man to work with, trickle and • were prepared to
• mainly because he isn't given spend considerable sums for
to the kind of compromise by posh quarters in the railway
. which 'the Pearson Government, hotels.
has managed to survive two But th ,car br Id democ-
years in a minority. position. . racy to the parks an the trickle
• The most noteable example -.became a flood of visi s, many
has been Mr. Laing's refusal to of them with a back seat full
trans* Quebec Eskimos tO of children and a tent ,on top,
• the tender mercies of the Pro- looking for a' cheap- place to
• vincial Government without park and set up housekeePing
consulting the Eskimos them- for their two weeks with pay.
' . selves.' And there's no end in sight.
. Whatever the eventual out- So far this year, 105,000 more
come of this dispute, the fact people have visited Banff and
that La* ought Quebec's for -,26,000 more people have gone
midable ene Levesque to a into Jasper than in the satne
• t standstill i he earlier stages period last year.
• added some lustre to his name Alvin Hamilton and Walter
. in ports of the country 'Which Dinsdale, vyhen they sat in
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•Ili the Years Agone
From The Huron Expositor ,
' August 20, 1940
The following Seaforth Grade
VII pupils have obtained Upper
School standing in Engligh. as
follows: Edna Eckert, Francis
Golding, Gordon Keys, Lois Mc -
Gavin, Teresa McIver, Helen
Moffat, Mildred Murphy, Gor-
don Finnigan, Doreen Regier,
Donald Scott and Ivan Stephen-
son.
Seaforth, Highlanders Band,
under the leadership of E. H.
Close, will play at Clinton at
the Street Fair'on Thursday ev-
ening, and at the Tavistock
Band Tattoo on Friday evening.
Mrs. Harold O'Dell was hos-
tess at a kitchen shower in hon-
or of the bride -elect, Miss Leona
Box, at her home on Jarvis St.,
Wednesday evening. Some •fifty
friends atte'nded. Bingo was
" played, after which Miss Ono
Nichols read an address and a
number of useful articles pre -
now fills the, river Ifrom bank Sproat, son of Mr. and Mrs.
to bank. James Sproat, has enlisted at•Seaforth citizens took the ad-
Battleford, Sask., and Mr. Scott
vice tendered them by. registra- Hays, son of Mr. and Mrs. T.
E.
tion officials and registered ear -Hays, has also joined the
ly. In all, 1,448 people from 16 noble band- and is now in Mont-
years-, bf age registered in Sea- real in training.
forth.
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From The - Huron Expositor
August 20, 1915
• Mr, John Laing has disposed
of his fine 100 -acre farm, half
a mile east of Cromarty, to Jas.
and Russell Scott at the hand-
s'ome figure of $9,000. We un-
derstand that Mr. Laing has
purchased a residence in Sea -
forth and intends moving this
fall.
Mr. Alex Muir has joined the
Colors and left for London on
TueSday. Before leaving he was
presented on behalf of the town
with a wrist watch; several of
his young men friends in town
sented the guest of honor. gave him a purse of gold, and
Cardno's clock, which'for his
nearly 70 years has kept time
for the people of Seaforth, last
week underwent a face-lifting
operation, which leaves it look-
ing like new. The four faces,
hands and numbers, have been
re -painted. The work was done
by Harold O'Dell.
Engine Works presented 'him
with a ring.
Mr. J. F. Daly this season
disposed of 6,515'gallons of gas-
oline from his garage to local
and transient autoists.
Miss Margaret Edge is sup -
Mr. Leslie Hogg, son ofplying as organist in St.))
_ Mr. Thomas' Church for Miss Cora
and Mrs. W. E. Hogg,. of Sea- Geib, who is on holidays.
forth, who has been teaching
manual training in the hie). Clarke represented Seaforth
Preston, has successfully pass-
Robert Smith and Charles
school and public ,school in
lodge at the Oddfellows' Grand
ed his Bachelor of Arts degree Lodge held in Stratford,
Mr. A. G. Smillie left Wed-
nesday on a trip to the western
Provinces. He intends going to
the coast And will be gene
about two months.
at MeMaster University, Hamil-
ton.
Miss Joan Devereaux has ac-
cepted a position on the staff
of the Canadian Bank of Com -
merce, Seaforth.
Mr. William A. Hoy has leas-
ed the house belonging to Joe
J. Sellars, Walton, and with his
bride is getting settled in the
village. •
Mr_Russell Bryans, Walton,
has joined the tradesmen in the
• flying, school and left Friday to.
commence • his training in To -
Tonto.
New wok planned for the
Seaforth Lions Park And pool
this year has now been com-
pleted. The • river has been
cleaned and widened* and two
retaining dams built. Water
we preserve the wilderness un-
spoiled and at the same time
meet the insatiable demand for
service from the visitor S who,
after all are the Canadians for
whom the park k` were set aside.
Laing leans to the wilderness
idea which demands tight con--
trols over developments within
the parks—tighter in fact than
in the past when the sheer
pressure of people was 'less.
This has brought him into con-
flict with business interests and
residents within the parks.
The latest series of mass
meetings in Jasper and Banff
were touched off by a new type
of lease now offered to people
who want to build on crown
land in the park townsites. In-
stead of the old type -42 years
renewable in perpetuity—the
new lease expires in 42 years
and any buildings on the land
revert to' the Crown.
The park people thought at
first this would mean confisca-
tion of their property without
compensation. But later Mr.
Laing told them the Federal
Government would pay for
buildings taken over from les-
sees; at the end of the lease
period. •
He still had to face' a storm•
of criticism at a. recent meet-
• Viet•eirriot Chained by the gen- Laing's seat during Conservativeihg in Ottawa although the
eral pOrformonee of the Pear- days, felt the pressure but in earlier demand for his
resigna-
Son GovettirildAL the past two years it has be- tion was all butIstithdrawn. But
recityt Come intense. And it all cen- Laing ,proved his fighting qua-
,‘• :1-Ot.VOidt thO" Q tees ftound tri6. qUestiori,;:. Cot ity by facing. go tiectiStis and
a 4, .0. „..., A.,. • • ,,...„,:if4;en4L.,,,„;;;,,.,
daring them.to iige the',kind of
language •they had used earlier
when they described his tactics
as "Hitlerian".
There were no. takers. In
Tact the meeting turned out to
be surprisingly mild after Laing
had jolted a few of the group's
leaders by jumping into their
set -piece speeches—Ciith tough
rebuttals.
But the battle is far from
over. Supporters of the "un-
spoiled wilderness" concept see
the "developers" as money -hun-
gry profiteers and speculators
eager to ruin the mountain hor-
izon with hot-dog stands and
rock-and-roll dance palaces. And
the developers see the wilder-
ness people as living in the
gracious, spacious days of
Queen Victoria, instead of the
1960's.
Mr. Laing's new type of leas-
es are part of this picture be-
cause they tend to keep con-
trol of the townsites more firm-
ly in the hands of the Federal
Government. He,,says they are
no sharp breaks with the past
because the Tory Government
had ceased giving perpetual
leases seven years irgo. And he
is ready to cite instances where
leases which brought'A pittance
into the public treasury have
fattened the speculators.
But Laing himself is determ-
ined to change one aspect of
the handling of park property
•which is a hangover from a
more leisurely age. This is the
fact that all changes in leases
must be approved by the Mini-
ster hitnielf, a fact which makes
him automatically the target
for pressure. He is reportedly
planning to set up a new crown
corporation so the government
can deal with its park tenants
at arms length, But Laing isn't
kidding himself that this will
end the controversy, or the bat-
tles which seem to boil U regu-
larly. -
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The following students from
Seaforth have been granted
complete matriCulation on the
res,u1j.s. of the scholarship exam-
inations: Sixth Edward Blake;
F$v L. Hutchison; Edward Blake
in Mathematics, Edith H. Scott;
and F. L. Hutchison obtained
honors in modern languages.
Mr. John McAllister, 'Hensall,
sold the neat homestead dwel-
ling on Richmond St. South,
recently rented by Mrs. Ross,
to George F. , Case, Hensall.
Mr. Prank Smith, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. R. Smith, Seaforth,
who has been in Port Colborne,
has joined the 91st Highland-
ers at Hamilton, and is now in
training.
Miss Annie Govenlock is sup-
plying as organist in the Metho;•
dist Church. for Miss Morson.
Mr. • George Leonhardt, of
Willey, has invented a,scheme
to nut a binder in soft ground,
by having a 2 -horsepower gaso-
line engine placed on the bind -I.
er to operate the machinery,
while the horses simply draw.
Mr. Fred Richardson, Kippen,
made a hasty run home this
week to say farewell before
leaving for England, where he
will go shortly as a soldier.
, We have learned that Jake
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From The Huron Expositor
August 22, 1890 ,•
At a picnic of Canadian Paci-
fic Railway employees, held at
Rennie,' a pleasure resort near
Rat Portage, Mr. Peter Dallas,
formerly of Tuckersrnith, dis-
tinguished himself as an • ath-
lete, winning first, prize in sev-
eral events,
Mr. George E. Henderson,
deputy reeve, Seaforth, acted as
judge at the Woodstock races.
Mr. Alex Cardno has remov-
ed to his new brick residence
on 4-ligh St. His former resi-
dence is now occupied by Mrs.
John Henderson.
Mrs. Sage and Miss Sage, of
Walton, the far-famed musical'
glass plaYers, are booked to
play at Boston, Mass., from the
15th to the 22nd of Septerfiber.
Mr. Alex McLeod, the popu-
lar teacher of S.S. No. 10, Tucki
ersmith, returned last week
from his holiday trip in .the
harvest field.
An animal rarely seen on the
highways passed along near the
'village of Chiselhu5st this week.
It was a huge bear; accompan-
ied by two French pedestrians.
A crov'd soon gathered and the
animal performed some comi-
cal actions.
Mr. Robert Beattie, our popu-
lar oPerator, is about to leave
Brucefield to accept the man-
agement of the store occupied
by Mr. McGinnis.
On Civic holiday the junior
lacrosse team of Seaforth visit-
ed Goderich and played a match
with the Hurons. Although the
referee and one umpire were
very partial towards Goderich
in their decisions, the Seaforth
boys succeeded in vanquishing
their opponents by a score of
3 goals to 2.
The Seaforth flax mill has
now started operations. It is
one of the best and most com-
plete establishments of its kind,
in the county, and will soon be
a boon to the town.
Mr. George Whitely, of town,
has sold his celebrated trotting
mare, "Florence G", to Mr. E.
C. Coleman, of town, for $2,400.
"Florence G" is one of the best
horses on the Canadian turf.
Miss Lizzie Monteith, Kippen,
left Monday for Toronto, where
she goes to attendnormUrschool
there.
Mr. Wm. Jowett and Master
Jack of Bayfield, left Wednes-
day on a three-month vacation
in Manitoba.
The Seaforth Band and Fire-
men picnicked at Bayfield on
Friday and had 'an enjoyable
time. , The band delighted all
by their excellent music.
Mt HOME TEAM
arre,
- "FOUR unassisted triple, plays, a no -hit ,game,'12,horue
wuni,ond 60 toldis bases; That was qwte a-gatisere
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Sugar and Spice
By -13111 Smiley —
IN A TOURIST TOWN
Living in a tourist town must
-be quite different from living in
a town' of corresponding size
thatinhdausstnryo.link with the tour-
ist I grew up in a small town
that was just beginning to find
its potential as a tourist town.
Quite a few cars in town were
evident in July and „ August.
Everybody thought the tourist
business was a good thing and
Something should be done about
it. A fe4v people with large
houses and small incomes, in-
cluding my mother, put up
"Tourist Accommodation" signs
and were not only flabbergast-
ed but delighted to rent huge,
immaculate bedrooms for as
much as, $2...Q0 a .night.
But on the whole, the Tourist
business was just a little 'extra
gravy, and the town drowsed
through .the summer, the mer-
chants leaning in their ' cool
doorways, waiting for 6 o'clock
to come, so they could close
up and hustle of .to the ball
park after gulping their sup-
per.
What a difference from the
slam-baria-thank-you-ma'ra atmo-
sphere of the modern tourist
town!
Today the tourist business is
not only a little extra gravy, it
is the •cream in the coffee, the.
icing on the cake, the cheese
with the apple pie and any
other garnishing you care to
nauseate yourself by imagining.
It is the difference between
suryival of the fittest and get-
ting along nicely, thank you, in
the business world.
For the grocers, the hard-
wares, the drug stores, the tour-
ist seas n is a mixture of ex -
hi ra d exhaustion. The
harmonious tune of the cash
register is offset by the discor-
dant scream of aching feet.
Aside from its economic in-
jection, the tourist business has
a vary strong impact on the life
of a small town. When the first
•visitors begin to arrive, in May
and June, they are as welcome
as the .first flowers. They add
• color, excitement, a touch of
the outside world, with their.
different accents and different
clothes.
Th,ey are warmly welcemed,
and not just for their financial
contribution. Most of them are
very nice, friendly people, and
it's a pleasure to greet the re-
peaters each year, on.their first
trip to the cottage, We have a
little yarn about the winter
,we've spent, and like as not,
they'll urge: "Now you be
sure and -come up to the cot-
tage and see us this summer.
We'll have a cold one together."
They start to come in a trick-
le that quickly becomes a
stream, then an avalanche. The
pace quickens in the small town
as. everyone turns to in an ef-
fort to cope with them. By mid-
July, the whole town is throb-
bing with this - heady addition
to' its life,stream. You can't
find a place to park, shopping
takes three times as long, and
you can scarcely cross the street
because of the .constant stream
•of cars crawling through.
• About this time, the tourist
town has almost lost its iden-
tity and individuality. Merchants
and resort operators are 'like
fishermen who ,find themselves
in the middle of a yak, school
of fish, like farmers intent on
reaping the harvest before the
first touch of frost kills it.
As August nears its end, and
the golden days fall. rapidly
away, there .is a little sadness
in the air, as the tourist season
nears its end, and the new and
old friends among the campers
are seen heading 'out of town'
with their sunblackened chil-
dren and their piled high cars.
But when Labor Day arrives,
and the avalanche slows to a
trickle, the town becomes a
town again, not just a shop-
ping centre. The , citizens slow
down, stretch their backs, and
took around at each other.
Within a week, they have for-
gotten the scramble and the
rush and the foolish business
of making money, and, full of
renewed interest in„their town
and themselves, get down to
something serious, like plan-
ning a hunting trip, or having
a party.
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