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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1965-10-07, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the *Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $4.0.Q a Year Outside Canada (in, advance) $5.50 a Year 4/ LAOS SINGLES COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa • •• 9 z • s!.:4•". • r' , yi•• •••••• • is 1.",•••••.•,•••••••••,.... SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 7, 1965 Why Must Fire Colorful posters, displayed across Canada are asking, in big block letters —Why? As this is ,,Fire Prevention Week it is a good time for each of us to ask ourselves the same question— Why? Why did almost 600 Canadians die in fires in 1964? Why did last year's fires in Canada destroy property worth almost 150 mil- lion dollars? Why have almost 2,500 Canadian children died in fires in the last 10 years? Why did Canadians have well over 80,000 fires last year? Why did most of these fires occur in homes? Why indeed! Such a simple ques- tion deserves a simple answer and, just as the question is posed by a single three -letter word, the answer to the problem of fire in. Canada can be found in another common three -letter word— You ! Loss Continue? Why you? Because it is a simple fact that over 90% of all fires are caused by human carelessness! Either some- one does something that he or she shouldn't do, or neglects to do some- thing that he or she should do and, quicker than you san say "Fire Pre- vention", we have a new set of statis- tics. Why do we persist in leaving chil- dren unattended? Why do we insist on hoarding •com- bustile junk in quantities that stagger the imagination? Why do we persist in overloading and overfusing electrical circuits? Why do we resist buying fire alarm systems and extinguishers? Canada holds 'the world record for the highest per capita fire loss record, and has held it for many years now. But isn't it about time that Canadians do something about this national dis- grace and let someone else have 'the re- cord for a change? In the Years Agone From The Huron Expositor October 11, 1940 Willard Bennewies, age 10, 'had a miratulous escape from death when the top of a cut- ting box on a corn cutter flew and struck him on the head, fracturing his skull. He was rushed to Seaforth by John Dietz, attended by Dr. E. A. McMaster and taken to Scott Memorial Hospital. Members of. Seaforth High- landers Band re-elected D. Sills president at the band's annual meeting. • Other efficers were: honorary president, W. H. Gold- ing, M.P. and M. McPhee; vice- president, Clarence. Trott: sec- retary, Arthur Golding; property committee, F. Sills, -Jr., W. Scott, J. Moore; bandmaster. E. H. Close. Ferg Bullard, Winthrop, ar- rived back in Canada after nine -months of service.in the Signal Corps in England. He is back on sick leave and confined to Westminster Hospital, London'. Ruth Ann Schilbe, aged two, of near Zurich, died suddenly early Sunday morning in Clin- ton Hospital, where she was ad- mitted a week ago by Dr. J. A. Addison, of Zurich, suffering from burns about the body re- ceived when playing about and upsetting a. pail of laoiling wa- ter. Championships at the local Collegiate Institute were won by Stewart Wigg, J. Henderson, Kathleen Holmes, Maxine Lawr- ence and Beth Campbell at the annual sport meet Friday. Commissioners E. L. Box and A. Y. McLean an secretary - treasurer D. H. Wi of the Seaforth PL'C, we e n Water- loo attending the 0 io Muni- cipal Electric Associa ion. Mr. Box, who has been chairman for the district for the past four years, was re-elected. Judge J. A. Jackson, Leth- bridge, Alta., is visiting at his former home in Egmondville, and attended the funeral of his sister, Miss Margaret Jackson. Mr. Aldie Eckert, who has been training in the Air Force at Brandon, has been transfer- red to Vancouver, B.C. The 65th anniversary of Cav- an Church. Winthrop, was held Sunday with Rev. Arnold Math. ers, Sarnia. as gUest speaker. The choir rendered special mus- ic under the leadership of Miss Elva Pryce, and in the evening Miss Margaret Habkirk sang "The Holy City." A large number of neighbors and relatives met at the home of Mr. Joseph Speare, Cromar- ty, and presented his daughter, Ada, with a miscellaneous. shower. Ross Houghton, Wilfred Scott and Wm. Harburn, Cromarty, left early Wednesday morning for a month's training at Wood- stock. A, group of students from Dublin Continuation School mo - stored, to London on Saturday to take part in a contesting base- ball game with the students of St. Angelo's School. In the first, innings, Miss Eleanor McGrath overbalanced and fell backward on a thorn stick Later in the game Miss Mary Stapleton col- lided with Miss Katherine Woods, the former suffering a broken nose. E. II. Close was named presi- dent of the Pettlinuron Sand ASsediation at the lint annual •tv meeting held at Stratford'! Members of the Salvation Army. and citizens gathered at the Army Citadel here Sunday evening to.,say farewell to Capt. and Mrs. J. Dougall, who left Wednesday for their new charge at Collingwood. Prior to their departure the Salvation Army and other friends gathered at the home of 'Mr, and Mrs. Flet- cher Ritchie and presented them with an electric percolator and their daughter, Noreen, with an electric bed lamp. Mrs. Norman Knight read the address and Mrs. Eleanor Ritchie made the presentation. * * * From The Huron Expositor October 8, 1915 Mr. and Mrs. James Snell. of Hullett, will leave Monday for the Pacific coast to, visit the big fair at San Francisdo and friends .at Los Angeles and other points. Mr. Hess, who for the past year has been doing repair work in Varna. is giving up business. He will be greatly missed by the people of that community. Mr. Lockart Johnson, Varna, who has been attending Sea - forth .Collegiate. was brought home sick last week. Mr. Alex Sinclair. Kippen, was in St. Marys this week de- livering his fine team of horses which will he shipped 10 Glas- gow. He refused $600 for this team some time ago. Mr. John Doig. the old veter- an at the Kippen saw mill, has been busy the past few days shipping lumber to Stratford. Mr, Appel, Zurich, has taken a position in J. F. Dalys store, Seaforth. Thomas Smith. the Old Coun- try buyer, shipped three cars of horses from here last week and one. from Dublin. -He leaves a pile of money in this vicinity. Miss Edith Scott, daughter of James R. Scott, who won the Edward Blake scholarship in mathematics at the recent ex- aminations, left last week to attend university. John Laing, who recently dis- posed of his- -farm near Crom- ' arty, has pin -chased the resi- dence of Mr. George Turnbull and has moved his family to town. Miss Jane McGavin and her cousin. Miss Della McGavin, were along the Leadbury line collecting jam for the soldiers or money for patrikic purpos- es and met with good success. Mr. J. J. McGavin drove them about in his auto. It was done under the auspices of the Wo- men's Institute. They collected 35 jars of jam and jelly and $4,00 in money. Mr. James Gillespie, Cromar- ty, returned to Toronto last week to resume his studies at the university. Three Seaforth boys, Elwyn Rivers, Emmett Kelly and Wm. Pinkney, who were home on their last leave before their regiment start for the front, were given a royal sendoff Mon- day afternoon. They were brief- ly addressed by Mayor Ament and Rev. T. H. Brown, and giv- en three royal cheers and a tiger -hy the large crowd pres- ent. The Band played several' selections. A large number of friends and acquaintances attended the' reeeption at the home of Mr. and Mrs. ,Thomas McKay, Man- ley, where the merrymakers i.-rs•c'Ver• IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HURT. A Macduff Ottawst Report , Decide on Winning Tactics OTTAWA It has almost seemed at times that Lester B. ` Pearson and John Diefenbaker were running in- completely dif- ferent elections. •There was Mr. Diefenbaker on the hustings,. flinging verbal thunderbolts at Liberal scan- dals, and promising new deals for universities, homeowners and users of consumer credit. ' There was Mr. Pearson, stay- ing virtually silentin Ottawa, saying nothing about the scan- dals, answering few of the taunts, and unveiling few of his party's, promiSes. On the one hand Mr. Diefen- baker was outlining a platform to catch the eye of the city dweller. And on the other, Mr. Pearson and his cabinet were weating over a program to *in he loyalties of the farmer.. The two major party leaders WE'RE ROMANS, ALL weren't really competing in dif- I've been reading a fascinate erent contests but were show- ing book about the ancient Ro- ng their different estimates of mans. Meditating on their econ- inning tactics for the respec- ive parties. osnical and social customs, couldn't avoid comparing them The problem for ihe Liberals with ours today. n this election is to hold what Like us, the Romans of the hey have in Quebec and in Golden Age were nuts about anada's cities—and to move nto Tory territory by winning highways. The Roman Empire had over 60,000 miles of thru- eats in rural Ontario and the Prairies. ways. Italy alone had about 400 major paved roads. These en - The Liberals also face the . abled Cesar to travel 900 miles eed to keep the campaign cen- in eight days.' A messenger red on the need for majority sent to announce the death -of overnment and on their con- Nero made 300 miles in 36 ention that only the Liberal hours. Today, it takes almost arty can provide 'it. They are that long to get home from the etermined to keep attention on cottage, on a holiday weekend. he brighter side of their re- Like us. the Romans were in- ord—economic prosperity, the terested in things that worked. anada Pension Plan, armed unlike the Egyptians and the orces integration and 'the war Greeks, who built massive, or n poverty, beautiful, but useless structures John Diefenbaker is just as like the pyramids or the Parthe- etermined to keep the atten- non the Romans were great on of the public on the darker boys for water -works and sew - de of, the Government's re- ers and stadiums. ord—the Rivard affair, Hal Like us, they were in the anks, questionable immigra- toils of the bankers, with all on cases, and the threat of flation. their diabolical inventions:' sav- ings books, travellers' cheques, One problem for the Conserv- money orders, interest a n d atives is to convince the public mortgages. that they are capable of form- Lk o us, they had a hybrid ing a majority Government. government, half -socialist, half - This was' partly met by the capitalist. It froze the price of rallying of former rebels wheat and plunged into public around Mr. Di'efenbaker and by works to solve unemployment; the fact that Conservative Pre- but did nothing about slum miers like John Robarts. Duff landlords, exorbitant interest Roblin and Ts Robert Stanfield rates and shady used -horse deal - have thrown their political ma- ers. Sound familiar? chines into the fray. Like us, they divorced each The list of Conservative can- control, and abortion was com- didates includes no fewer than mon. Unless she were hard up, 18 former Cabinet Ministers, a a Roman woman who had had fact that may set at rest doubts a child got rid of it immediate - that Mr. Diefenbaker could put ly by turning it over to a wet- together,,a cabinet capable of nurse, then to a Greek slave governing Canada. governess, then to a Greek But the Conservative leader slave tutor. We don't have wet - remains weak in cabinet Lim- nurses but we have the bottle. ber from Quebec. And to win And we don't have staves, dang he must have. more of the seats it, but we have the baby-sitter in Canada's cities. s and the public schools system. The disillusionment of city Like us, they divorsed each folk with the Diefenbaker Gov- other indiscriminately. Cesar ernment was one of the most had four wives and was unfaith- striking things in the last Fed- ful -to all of them. eral election, Their entertainment w a s Although the typical Cana. much, like ours: horse races, dian is now a city dewiler, on- the theatre, variety shows, glad- ly 105 of the 265 seats in the iatorial contests. And just as House of Commons are domin- today, the chariot drivers, ac- ated by urban voters. Of these, tors and gladiators were idbl- in 1963, the Liberals won 72 ized and paid 8,000 times what and the Conservatives got only they were worth. 20. Of course, the Romans were It was the opposite story in cruel. After the city was al - rural ridings—and this is what most destroyed by fire, Emperor saved the Diefenbaker forces Nero blamed the Christians, and from utter rout. Of the 119 had the whole lot, or so he ats dominated by rural voters, thought, thrown to the lions, e Conservatives won 64 and all 1,000 orthem. We'd never e Liberals were only able to think of doing that today. It's n 37. too vicious, too flamboyant. To- gs elected 22 Grits and 10 Jews into, gas chambers, or in - The mixed urban -rural rid- day we quietly stuff six million cinerate 100,000 Japanese with To change this situation is a big blow torch. e aim of both Liberal and The ladies will be sslad to Conservative parties -but they'd -know that Roman women were like to change it in different just as silly as they are, about ways. their looks. It was three' hours The Liberals now acknowledge every morning over the hairdo their 1963 farm program was a assisted by half a dozen slaves. p and was rejected by the Underwear was of silk and the brassiere was just coming in they say—such planks as $2,00 The milk -bath was common, wheat and a school mfJk prb- and wealthy gals who were gram haven't been enacted. The travelling brought along their new • Liberal farm plan, they own herd of cows to be sure hope, will prove more vote- of a decent bath. worthy, Bathrooms as today were Ht. But the Tories, determined tered with razors, solssors, to be more than a rural party soap, perfume, oils, powders, tripped the light fantastic" to s the sweet strains of music fur- t nished by Jack Hawthorne, P. , Chesney and others until mid- night. Postmaster Williams was in i Bayfield acting as judge of grain ss, at the annual Fall Fair. t The annual meeting of the Seaforth branch of the Red i Cross Society was held in Car- t negie Hall at which there was a C large attendance. The old offi- cers were re-elected as follows: s honorary president, Mrs. Boyd; president, Mrs. A. E. Colson; first vice-president, Mrs. Ev. a erett: secretary, Mrs, L. T. De- t Lacey; treasurer, Mrs. °Scar Neil. Mr, G. A. Sills has purchas- p ed the handsome residence of d Mr. Arthur Forbes, opposite Victoria Park. The drawing for the gasoline C range and handsome electric f lamp, donated by, 'H. Edge, in 0 aid of the Red Cross funds, was made Wednesday, when William d Smithers became the lucky win- ti ner of the gas range, and Geo. si Brownlee was in possession of c the lamp. ti in —which promises little future viten cities gain at the expense of rural areas- in the pending redistribution—are trying hard to fashion anurbanappeal.. • The man behind the effort is Alvin Hamilton who invented the "Northern Vision" when he was Northern Affairs Minister and who got a stranglehold on the farm vote when he was Minister of Agriculture. ' The Conservatives held, both the North and the farms in the last election. And now Mr. Hamilton is moving in on the cities with a program which includes low-interest loans to donsumers--to get them out of the clutches of =loan sharks— and a federal income tax de- duction on account of the pay- ment of municipal taxes. ' These—and other ideas—have been used as campaign planks by Mr. Diefenbaker mid ,only the election day will tell the results. But anti,Diefenbaker feeling in the cities has subsided, all parties agree. It's no longer poison to be the Conservative candidate in Toronto or Mont- real. And in Torontb especial- ly, the Tories have high hopes of winning a handful of seats. Sugar and Spice — By Bill Smiley — * * From The Huron Expositor October 10, 1890 Mrs. Michael Burke's auction sale was the first of the season and proved a good success..TWo- year-cild steers sold as high as $80 per pair; calves, $20; sheep, $18. and so on. Thos, Brown, Seaforth, was the auctioneer. Mr. Joseph Hainbly, of Staffa, has purchased the Pellow farm for the sum of $3,500. Mrs. Finlay Ross. who has been in the Old Country for several months, bas retatrned home. Mr. John Copp has purchased the vacant lot on Goderich St., adjoining Wrtf. Copp's new resi- dence, from Wm. Robb, and in- tends erecting a large stable on it. Mr. Thomas Govenlock ship- ped over 100 steers, They were all fed on his own farms and there were a number of fine animals in the bunch. - Mr. Andrew Govenlock, Win- throp. has sold a span of driv- ing horses to Professor Stewart of Trinity College, Toronto, for $260. Mr. D. Speare, of near Crom- arty, treated the boys to a dance in McKellar's Hall. The music was .furnished by John Cameron. The cheese from the Win- throp cheese factory, at the Western Fair, Londo.n took first prize of $30 for the three --se best pale cheese. th Mr John Dunkin, of Stanley, th who has gained a wide and well- wi earned reputation as an im- porter and breeder of thorough- in bred Shropshire sheep, has re- To centty made a number of good sales. th A petition for the opening of Hayfield harbor has been large- ly signed by the 'citizens of that village and will be forwarded to the Government by the Coun- cil. Atex Gardiner, 14th conces- fa sion of McKillop, has two lambs which he thinks are hard to beat. One of them weighed 150 pounds and the other 170. They, are of the Leicester breed and were lambed in April last and have run with the flock all summer. ilo • rm electorate. This is why_ hairbrushes and all that muck. No wet nylons, -though, to hit you in the face. Hair -styles were fantastic. And they had some great par- ties in those days. They began at four in the afternoon and lasted far into the night. Not like our stodgy affairs, which commence with cocktails at five, and last far into the Morns ing, At their parties, or orgies, the air was perfumed, flowers were everywhere; there were two servants for each guest, and the host would offer pre- cious gifts to his guests. They hit the grape pretty hard, and got ill on stuff like' thrushes breasts, but slaves passed regu- larly distributing emetics so that everyone could throw up and then go right on eating. I sure would like to get in good old orgy. Why tines fellow have to be born .2,000 too late? on a years a THIS WEEK and NEXT Political Climate: Warmer As the election campaign gathered pace this week, candi- dates kept one eye cocked on -the weather and the other on the voters as the country head- ed into its first November na- tional vote in half a century. But with the lack of colorful and exciting campaign meet- ings, the election still had not developed into a struggle of is- sues. Opposition parties con- tinued to grope for subjects to hit out with at the government. Instead of a battle of issues, each _party has carefully con- fined itself to subjects which their strategists see as areas of strength instead of controversy. Prime Minister Pearson pre- ferred to convey the •impres- sion of a hues, statesman get- ting things done. The federal - provincial health ministers' con- ference in Ottawa, at which a national medicare program was set up for a mid -1967 launch- ing, added another item to the Liberal list -of nearly -finished business. With it, Mr. Pearson announced a $500 million fund for increased medical research and health facilities. There was no defense from Mr. Pearson for the govern- ment's handling of relations with Quebec, or the Dorion proble, or Ottawa's apparent all-out support of the U.S. in Vietnam, It is the Liberal in- tention simply not to talk about sensitive issues. Conservative chief. Diciieefsenbfoarkeri !,, s 'poi- '- people" were arousing a -sponse "just like 1957 all over again," also .was hitting hard at the subjects he thought he was strongest on. In Newfoundland, where he' was met by Union Jack waving "old Tories," he talked about his party's stand on the flag, and warned that re-election of .the Liberals could lead the country to republicanism. In the Maritimes, he tackled econ- omic subjects, promising to de- clare the entire region a "des- ignated" area for special econ- omic aid. Then, almost as an afterthought, he threw in a promise of six per cent govern- ment loans to consumers. 'Tommy Douglas, just as con- cerned with bread-and-butter topics as the Conservatives, moved in on, what he.said would be..his party's roughest, tough- est campaign. But he was shor- ed up by polls showing that 40 per cent of the voters are still undecided, giving rise to NDP hopes of pulling a historic up- set Nov. 8. To do this, the party would have to crack. into Quebec, where it has never elected a member, as well as -hold its urban strength in B.C. and On- tario and restore its tradi- tional following in Saskatche- van. \ Meanwhile, Douglas was hit- ting the government over the auto free trade deal with the U.S., which he said was cost- ing Canadian consumers the $50 million a year which the gov- AeLv This Newspaaer He/ps Advertisers.% ernmen't was giving up in tar- iffs. The deal will see Canadian automakors exporting cars to the U.S. where they will be sold at lower prices than an Canada. The saving to the automakers is supposed to be invested to expand the industry, but the clamor for loWer car price was beginning to be felt right across the country. &Scrod leader Robert Thomp- son accused the old-line parties of "even bigger dishonesty" than the corruption charges which have plagued -the Liber- als. He said they were putting political advantage above prin- ciple, trying to buy votes with reckless promises. The Campaign still has a month to go and anything can happen. But at this point, the Opposition parties ' haven't yet been able to produce the kind of slashing indictment -usually needed 'to turn goverments out of office. Smiles Cop: "Have you a driver's license?" Motorist: "Certainly; want to see it?" Cop: "No. As long as you have it, I don't have to see it. But sI you didn't have it, I'd have to take a look at it." - e young man had gone to cal on his girl. only to find that he family had been unex- pectedly called away for the weekend. The girl left this note on the front doo: "Hi, handsome. Have gone away for two days. Will be back Sunday afternoon. P.S, Don't tear up this note. You're not the only one." WICKS' WEEK —By BEN WICKS 111 hear that Canada is having an election," With a. 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