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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,SEPTEMBER 2, 1965
seer Opportunity For Seaforth
The recent announcement that the
Ontario Water Resources Commission
would be enabled to construct and
finance sewer and water works in
municipalities shopld arouse keen in-
terest in Seaforth. •
While half the town is served with
sewers, completion of the remainder of
the- system must await provision of new
disposal facilities. Trge, council has -
discussed the problem on many occa-
sions and a basic plan, of the system
has been completed and is available. At
the same time, council has -hesitated to
move in' a more positite fashion despite
the fact it is realized completion is
inevitable, and each year's delay means
added cost through higher prices.
The hesitancy is 'understandable. An
expensive program has but recently
been completed and, too, thereis the
need to bear in, minril proper relation-
ship between funded' debt and assess-
ment. As well, there is the need of
considering other capital requirements,
such as schools, roads and storm sewers.
• Under the new proposal the Ontario
Water .Resources Commission may
finance, construct ' and operate both
sewage and water works throughout
the Province. The capital and operat-
ing costs of these services will be paid
by the Province through the Ontario
Water Resources Commission and will
be recovered by a"serbice charge to the
users, whether domestic, commercial or
industrial, together with amortization
costs over ,the life of the project. Thus
Federations Aid
'Federations of Agriculture in Huron
and Perth are co-operating with the
Department' of Agriculture in a cen-
tennial project in which every. rural.
person may become personally involv-
ed. :
Organized on a county basis, the pro-
ject is an old-fashioned housecleaning.
Its objective is to- encourage farmers
to clean up, dress'up, and paint up their
''property in preparation for Canada's
Centennial. To encourage broad par-
''ticipation, prizes in a wide variety of
by taking advantages of this new On-
tario, proposal a further sewer con-
struction program could be carried out
in Seaforth without any increase in the
municipal tax rate.
The policy will be particularly help-
ful in those municipalities, such as
'Seaforth, who already have substantial
-debt commitments and at the same
time find it desirable - to employ their
available credit for other facilities.
The Ontario proposal merits the early
and serious consideration of Seaforth
council. The sooner' action is taken,
the lower the rates will be: Delay can
only result in increased construction
costs, and thus increased rates to users.
We Read That .
♦ •
Her hair was like the sunset—.it
would soon be dark again.
Overheard: "He's the most miser-
able man I—know--he •has ulcers and
still he's' a failure!"
Egotist : A person' who knows a good
thing when he says it.
Sign on the Psychiatrist's desk : "If
you have troubles, tell me about them.
If you don't, tell me how you do it."
A reformer is -one who insists upon
his conscience being your guide.
Some folks think they're big shots
just because they explode.
Intellectual: A guy who waits for
the right spots to quote what bright
guys have. said. '
In Clean -Up Project
classes are provided.
People in Huron and Perth, particu-
larly in this district, have an extra
reason for taking part. Next year the
International Plowing Match is being
held in McKillop, and we will welcome
many 'thousands of visitors 'who have
never been in the area before. -•
We must leave no stone unturned to
ensure that the Huron and Perth they
will see is the best we can make them.
Early participation in the farmstead
and rural improvement centennial' pro- •
ject is one way of doing this.
A Macduff Ottawa Report
Canada Economy Booming
OTTAWA—Canada's economy
is getting a boost from the
bouncing babies of Peking and
the bungling collective farmers
man's' office, and the t,yo ladies
Once before, two years ago,
the cossacks came riding over
the hill to buy our wheat and
rescue the Canadian dollar from
imminent collapse„
• Now big wheat purchases by
the Soviets and a prospective
sale to Red China have injected
new life into an economy which
might otherwise have topped
the peak and started sliding
downhill much sooner than it
is now expected to do so.
Soviet farm troubles were
sharply highlighted again by
the•$450 million wheat purchase
negotiated. Now the Chinese
are' knocking at the door again,
seeking a renevesl for a third.
term of the big wheat contract
first negotiated five years ago-
the deal which set the trend of
big sales to Communist coun-
tries. •
The Soviet Union should be
able to feed itself if it can ever
"get its agricultural red tape un
tangled and allow its fertile soil
and hard-working ,farmers to
produce' up to capacity. •
China is a different question,
a long-term importer of food as
long as the population expands
faster than the means to feed
it.
Figures recently released by
the Canadian, Trade Department
show the effect of this demand
on Canadian trade with Com-
munist countries. Ten years
ago, trade was a trickle. The
whole Communist bloc, includ-
ing China,. Russia and the sev-
en other' Communist Countries
of lradmit Lurope, took less
atifl .mllliott worth Cana-
lda g¢oda,
last yea, the • European
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Communist countries alone im-
ported nearly a billion dollars
worth of goods from Canada—
and more than 90 per cent was
wheat and flour. Russia took
the largest part, but all the
other "bloc" countries were big
buyers too, to the collective
tune of $150 million.
When Alvin Hamilton, the
flamboyant Tory agriculture
minister, took the first big
whirl at the Communist market
there were plenty of.. head -
shakers who predicted that it
wasa one-shot business.
-'here's still good reason,
Canadian officials believe, to
treat the Communist market
with caution and, make sure we
don't neglect our traditional
customers and such growing
markets as Japan. But still, the
sales . to Communist countries
have come in mighty handy.
Just before the sale to Rus-
sia, Canadian economists were
making fairly gloomy, noises
about the economy. They saw
rising imports and weaker de-
mand for Canadian' exports.
This, they thought, would in-
crease Canada's trn deficit
and bring about restrictions on
the level of business activity.
Now- these estimates have to
be revised in the light, of the
new wheat sales to Conunttnist
countries. Instead of tapering
off, the boom may continue well
into 1908, even though it has
already run longer than any
previous business .expansion
since the Second World War.
. Thesales to the Communists
—in which American farmers
can't share because of tl.S. ship:
ping regulations—tend to (insul-
ate the Canadian economy from
a downturn in the united States
'although Canada couldn't long
resist" the effects of a real re•
cession across the border. .
• The Canadian Government' is
still keeping a wary eye on
prices, particularly since some
recent price increases affect
-capital imports from the United
States. At a recent press con-
ference, Prime Minister. Pear-
son mentioned the dangers of
inflation and he had already
taken cautious steps to restrain
federal -building activity,
But the danger that the boom
will burn itself out in an in-
flationary splurge is not con-
sidered imminent.
The present four-year boom
has made havock of a good
many economic predictions that
the recession is just around the
corner. But like the man who
predicts rain [every morning,
the devotees of "the gloomy sci,
ence of economics" are bound
to be right sometime.
It's still possible, as some.
economists have forecast, that
Canadians will celebrate the
1967 Centennial by lining up
at the soup kitchens. This is
probably one reason why the
Russian wheat sale was follow-
ed byan upsurge in the elec-
tion barometer. Any Govern-
ment in its right mind wants
to get a fresh mandate .while
the boom Is on the bloom. '
But the Communist salescer-
tainly have the effect of starv-
ing off any evil day which may
be in- Canada's future. And
this puts the present-day disci-
ples of Marx ,in the curious
position of heling to maintain
in Canada the kind of prosper-
ity they have always held to be
impossible under our 'kind of
economic system.
Caller: "Who's the respon-
sible man here?"
Office boy: "If you man the
fellow Who always gets the
blame, it's 7ne! ,
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From The Huron Expositor gersoll and the residence he sel and leftit standing on a
September 6, 1940 vacated will be occupied by Mr. table, and the little one pulled
Dr. George F. Rogers, Chief Hazen, the new Collegiate In- the vessel over,. severely scald -
Inspector of Secondary Schools stitute teacher. ing her arm and breast.
in Ontario and former principal • The Bell Engine Co. added A football match was played
of Seaforth Collegiate Institute, 'two large drills andtwo lathes on Mr. Archibald's field between
received the appointment . of to their shell -making equipment the Moonlight Buffers, of the
Deputy Minister of Education, at the foundry. - brickyard corner, and the Mill
it was learned this week at Mayor Ament and J. Beattie, Road boys. The Buffers were
Queen's Park. He was principal R. Jones and Scott Hawthorne victorious. Mr. McIntosh, of Eg-
here from 1900 to 1914. were on a fishing expedition to mondville, was the referee. The
Miss Margaret MacLaren, Holstein.' return match will be played on
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Y. Mr. A. E. Forbes, of town, R. Coleman's. field on Wednes-
MacLaren, Hensall, has been has been appointed general day.
appointed Professor of Ilistory manager of the Dunnville En- Mr: David Sproat has sold his
at Waterloo College to succeed gine Co., and he will locate • in residence in Egmondville to Mr.
Professor Hannah Marie Haug, Dunnville. _ Hugh M. Chesney 'for the sum
who has resigned. Miss Mac- While picking plums, Mrs. A. of $1200.
Laren is a graduate, of the Univ Robertson, of Cromarty, over- At the Caledonian games in
versity .of Western Ontario.. balanced and fell from a lad- Minneapolis, Minn., last Week,
A miscellaneous shower was der, breaking her right wrist. Mr. W. D. Stewart, second son
held at the home of Mrs. John Mr. R. F. W. Hess is offering of Mr. Alex Stewart, of this
McGrath, Dublin, recently in his residence and shop for sale town, •won a $50 gold medal for
honor of Miss Anne McGrath,and intends building a busi- a 100 -yard foot race, and 'a $25•
bride elect of this month: The ness block in Zurich. ' silver medal for a hurdle race.
bride -to be was the recipient of The following teachers were Robert Bowen's barn, in Grey,
many useful and beautiful gifts. ticketed out this week by Mr. Township, on the 13th conces-
Miss M. E. Turnbull has• ob- William,. Somerville: Wallace sion, near the Elma boundary,.
tained the standing of musical Archibald, to Massey; Miss was totally destroyed by fire.
supervisor after a course of Woods, Longford; Vincent Mur- Mr. ' Bowen had been drawing
three• summers at Western Uni- phy, to Orillia; Ida Love, to Oak- in peas up to 9 p.m. and left
Sugar nd Spice
-- By Bill Smiley -- a
AGED HONEYMOONERS
Things are rather at sixes and
sevens around here today. It's
Second Honeymoon time, and
the Old Battleaxe and I are fly-
ing around in a tizzy of pre-
paration.
The fact that we'll have an
18 -year-old son along for part
of the honeymoon trip won't
slow us down. He can find a
girl of his own. The main thing
is to get out of town for a
while.
This business of running a
summer hotel with the lowest
rates on the continent can prove
trying. The clientele has been
of the highest class, but the
whole enterprise has its draw-
backs. Not only do the guests
expect you to stay up all night
with them, but their children,
who happen to be your nieces,
nephews and other small bud-
dies, expect you to be on deck
at 7 a.m. to tell them: where
the cereal is; hew you turn on
Europe, and a bag of fruit,
candy and cookies she could
scarcely lift, we're getting ready
for The Trip.
First leg of The Trip -will be
up the Great Lakes, and I quote
from the folder, " . . . long,
lazy, brilliant days . . . cool
nights 'with stars swinging low
sky-blue waters . . . etc."
Actually, we'll have only one
and a half of those long,- lazy
days, but two of those star -
swinging nights. It'll rain. I'll
give 'odds. Eight to one.
We're going on a passenger'
steamer known .as Hugh's 1oat.
It used to belong to a steamer
service line, but since son Hugh
obtained a job this summer as
Entertainment Steward, it has
become known far and wide as
Hugh's Boat. After all, he has
a pretty important ,position.
He's listed on the direptory . of
feature services with the Bar-
ber, Handy Shop and Motion
Pictures.
the lawn sprinkler; "Are we go-' I've promised to help him en-
ing swimming soon, Uncle
Bill?"; and wiry 'Daddy was so
grouchy when they tried to
wake him.
And there are other things.
,Next year I'm going to buy, bar.
becue charcoal by the carload.
I've cooked so many steaks and
hamburgers I can't look a steer
in -the face. The manager of
the local booze emporium told
me the other day he'd give hie
a summer job next year, be-
cause I'm in there every day
anyway. I've slept on a ches-
terfield in the living room, a
couch in my study, a mattress
on. the attic floor, and half -re-
clining lawn chair, but I haven't
been in my own bed in a month.
Oh, well, it's all part of the
game, and we enjoy having
them, However, 'I do think it's
tertain the passengers -by ren-
dering my famous version of a
drunk singing, I Belong, Tae
Glasgie". He was reluctant to
impose on my good nature, but
I brushed aside his repeated
protests.
His mother has promised not
to embarrass him by telling
him, in front of the passengers,
that he needs a shoeshine, that
he's not playing that piece in
the right key, that he left his
room in a mess last time he
was home, or that it's high
time he. was .in bed.
Second leg of The Trip will
be by car around the top of
the Lakes. We'ye left nothing
to chance. I've borrowed 'sleep-
ing bags from out; musicteach-
er, a tent from our minister,
and money from our bank man -
a bit too much when they start ager. We have a road map..It's
making reservations for next , an Idish one, 1954, •blit why
year, and assuring us they'll re- worry' about that!
commend the place to all their Well, bon voyage, . and if
friends, because of the low you'll excuse me now, I'll get
rates, excellent cuisine,' free out in the backyard and have
drinks, and nigy entertain- another practice go at putting
ment (no covercharge). up the preacher's tent.
At any , rate, with nobody, It's a pretty religious tent 'I,
booked for this week, our wed -'"expect.
ding anniversary coming- up, Every . time I get it up, it
and daughter safely off to camp , sinks to its knees in an attitude
with enough clothes to go to of prayer.
,THIS WEEK and . NEXT
versity, London. wood; Eva Love, Port Colborne; two loads on the barn floor,
Miss Jean Anderson, of Con -
to
Strong, Mount Forest; Ada wvhich were destroyed, together Safety .Before Style
Govenlock, to Union; Nellie with 'most of his crop, $300,00 ►7 1 ]i
to . Wallaceburg; John worth of pine lumber, and all
inTthe head office of Loblaws Grieve,
Ltd., Toronto. Hinchl y, to Embro; Florence his farming implements. •
Rev. Father Thomas McQuaid, Thom son, Grand Valley; Jessie • Mr. T. G. Shillinglaw, of S.S.
St. Columban, and nine other` Scott, thur; Bessie Grieve, No.. 7, Hibbert, intends' retiring
priests of Crinese Mission Col- Tara; Florence McKay,'"Weston; from 1 the teaching profession
lege, expect to leave shortly for J. T. Anderson, .Easson; Gladys shortly. He has proved himself
China. Thompson, Merriton Muir a painstaking and efficient
Mrs. F. Sills won the jingle Thqmpson, Shallow Lake; Rae teacher.
competition o ladies' day at Govenlock, Lindsay; Olive Ross As Mrs. McCann, of Tucker -
the Seaforth Seaforth ok and Country of McKillop to Thamesville, and 'smith, and .,..her lady were
Club. - Janette Pethick, to Port Col- starting for ome from Sea -
Mr. Stewart Cudmore has borne. forth, their horse was frighten -
leased Mrs. Isabel Nester's resi- Some of the farmers in, this ed in crossing the railway track
dence on Centre St. Mrs. Hes vicinity engaged in drawing inand ran away. The buggy collid-
ter has gone to Kansas City. , of their oats on Sunday last. ed with a post in front of Cole -
Mr. Donald MacTavish has This has been a very exception- man's office, and the wto ladies
been engaged as teacher at Kiri- al season and by reason of the were thrown out. They were
cardiae. • excessive rains it has been al- badly shaken up but were not
•A painful accident happened most impossible so far to get much hurt.
to little Jimmie Strong, when the crops saved. A large contingent of the 'Sal -
he fell against a cement step, At the. official board meeting vation Army have been holding
causing a slight concussion, but of the Methodist Church, Wal- camp meetings in Mr. James
he is now on the road to re- ton circuit, Rev. Mr. Craik's sal- B attie's grove.
rovers: ary has been placed at $800 for The teachers, scholads and
.The store adjoining Crich's the conference year. Albert friends. of First Presbyterian
bakery has been rented to H. Dundas• was chosen lay repre- Sabbath School assembled in the
R. Spence & Son, of Molesworth; sentative to the district meet- church Friday, evening for the
who are opening a produce busi-
The
Ing. ' purpose of tendering to D. D.
ness. The farm in Usborne, on the Wilson, the superintendent, a
The congregation of Duff's 4th concession, known as Vile public reception on his return
Church Walton, will ,observe James Moir farm, has been pur- from the Old Country, and also
the 75th ••anniversary of the , chased by Mr. Albert D. Ether. to make a presentation to him
founding of the congregation ington, a neighbor. It contains and Mr. R. Lumsden, the assist -
on Sept. 8th. A social evening 250 acres and its purchaser, Mr. ant superintendent, and Miss M.
will be held. The congregation Etherington, is one of the larg- E. McLean, the teacher of the
was founded 'in 1865 and the est land owners in the town- infant class.
first minister was Rev. John ship. It is stated that Mr. E. Liv -
Ferguson. The first church was * * ingston, of Blyth, while here on
erected in 1864 and was re- ' From The Huron Expositor his way home from Mitchell roc
placed by a larger building in es, received a 'telegram from a
gentleman in Chicago, offerfn
September. 5, 1890 g
1809. This building served un -
iii 1912, when the present build- There are, 33 lady -electors him $3,000 for • his trotting
ing was erected under the pas- in the Township of Grey — 18 horse, "Dr. Livingstone".
torate of Rev. R. A. Lundy. Smiths, 17 McDonalds, 15 Stew- Mr. Robert McMillan, Jr., of
Miss Doris Elizabeth Fergu- arts and 158 Macs are to be Hullett, has returned from a
son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, found on the voters' list this trip to the Old Country where
George D. Ferguson, competing year. Scotland is well repres- he succeeded in making a satis-
in music competitions at the ented in Grey Township. factory sale of a large number
Canadian National. Exhibition A little daughter of Mr. Fred of fat cattle.
last •week, was awarded third Horn, .Winthrop, was badly The store of Mr. D. Weismil-
prize in Class No. 8, vocal for scalded the other day. It appears ler, of Kippen, was entered by
girls under, 13. that MTs. Horn had poured burglars and goods to the value
The Patriotic Frolic held at some boiling water into a ves- of $50 was carried off.
Hensall was a splendid success. -
Despite the weather, thousands
were in . attendance. Dr. A. R.
Campbell, president, presided
for the special drawing of a
blanket, .won by Percy Hewitt;
a chicken was won by Mrs.
Frank Peart. Mr. Fred Harburn
of Cromarty won the Dominion
singles horseshoe tournament.
From The Huron Expositor
- September 3, 1915 f
Misses Annabel anti Violet
Petrie, Brucefield, left for the
too, where they will teach '
school. •
William Wright, Hugh McGre-
gor and Hugh McKenzie, Bruce -
field, have gone to the West on
the harvesters' excursion.
Mr. W. R. Jowett, Bayfield,
threshed ' a 'field of fall wheat
which yielded 47 bushels per
acre.
Mr. T. S. Smith, a horse buy-
er who has been here for some
time, shipped 28 horses by ex-
press`." They were shipped to
Montreal and destined for the
Old Country. The express
charges on this one car were
$172.00 •
Mr. John Murray, . who -has
been salesman' in the MacTav-
ish'- store, has removed to. In -
'Guess Win sto(tped' tkra ;f sing , riu'rl
ruin scorhidl"i
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By RAY ARGYLE lecturers have always put the
If a national epidemic were • emphasis •on style instead of
to rage across Canada this year, safety is a bigger cause than
killing nearly 5,000 persons,we drunkenness or speeding.
would accept almost any mea -,A Canadian group headed- by
sure, and pay almost any ,cost, Heward Grafftey, a Quebec Lib -
to bring it under control.. If eral . MP, recently told Prime'
we had been involved in a 10- Minister Pearson that - "many
year war on some faraway bat lives now being lost could be
tlefield that had claimed the 'saved. if safety features already
lives of 35,000 Canadians and tested and known were- incor-
injured another one million, no porated into , the design of auto-
mobiles."
. The Canadian Government
has yet to act on this warning,
leaving the initiative to the
provinces on the grounds that
highways and related matters
are a provincial responsibility.
in the U.S., however, some 36
bills are now moving through
Congress that would- effect high-
way safety. Not all of these will
be passed, but a good number
will, and .as a result, we can
anticipate many more . safety
features on cars in the future.
The auto industry has always
fallen back on one main de-
fense for producing killer ,ve.
hides. The excuse—and it is
not without some justification
—is that the public buys 'on the
basis of chrome and style, not ,
safety. Bu9now even the auto
industry admits., that the so1u,
tion is to ram safety features
down the public's throat by
government legislation which
„would put all car makers one
an equal basis in the' distaste-
ful business of producing safe
cars.
It has already been announc-
ed in Canada that additional
safety features will be incor-
porated in all vehicles manufac-
tured n this country in 1966. -
The main addition is that all
cars will carry 'safety -belts in
front and rear seats.
But more remains to be done.
The two most pressingly needed
additions are collapsible steer-
ing wheels.and cushioned bump-
ers. All this will make carp cost
more, but this is the price • we
are going to have to pay if we
are even to begin ,grappling
realistically with the mounting
government would have surviv-
ed the wrath of public opinion.
Yet the automobile death toll
in Canada is now 'running at
exactly this rate. Unless the
tide is turned, traffic deaths will
soon exceed heart disease and
cancer as the • main tiller of
Canadians.
From this, it would seem ob-
vious that so-calledsafetycru-
sades aimed at the driver have
been a failure. Public apathy
remains as great as „ever.
But if the general public is
not yet alarmed about this car-
nage, there are groups in both
the United States and Canada
which are at last tackling the.
basic (rause of traffic deaths.
The major factor , in road
deaths, we now know, is in the
unsafe design of our automo-
biles. Bad driving is a related
cause, of course, but -the fact
that North American car manu-
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highway death toll.
Part of the problem remains
in the basic public attitude
toward car driving. Most peo-
ple regard operating a, car as a
right, It is not—it is , vi-
lege—and our courts need
get much tougher with errant
drivers.
As a start, we can give our
support to compulsory automo,
bile inspection, whitlh is rim
carried on in only a few parts
of Canada,' . Every unsafe car
should be ruled off the' road.
We also need to support,our
courts in lifting the licenses of
bad drivers. Most bad driving
results from personality, and
psychological problems of a
minority of motorists.
Let the courts order psycholo-
gical tests for repeated offen-
ders. And don't holler when ,our
taxes, go up • to pay the cost.
We can start by doubling the
".Cost of ear licenses and using
the nionex-to get killers off the
rad,
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