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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 11, 1965
Voters See No Reason to Change
• Canadians in voting as they did on
Monday indicated a desire to continue
the program and policies of the Pear-
son government. At the same time they
were not convinced there was merit in
a majority.
In the light of the history of min-
ority parliaments, this is unfortunate.
The difficulty perhaps is that they did
not fully comprehend that under our
system the political infighting, the ob-
struction, the bitterness and lack of co-
operation which featured recent parlia-
ments, and which contribute so greatly
to the down -grading of parliament, are
not matters about which a minority
government can act.
These are matters in the hands of
the opposition. And when that opposi-
tion includes a variety of elements, each
advancing its own interest, all sense of
responsibility is lost. In the process,
Canada is the loser.
In Huron, the trend which first be-
came apparent in 1953, was continued
with the election of 37 -year-old Robert
McKinIey, Stanley Township farmer,
the Conservative candidate. Retaining
the rural support which in recent elec-
tions had gone to, veteran Elston Car-
diff, he was given an endorsation for
which he quite properly deserves con-
gratulations.
Mait Edgar, the Liberal candidate on
his first bid for office, gained substan-
tial support in the urban centres in the
riding, but this was not enough to off-
set the lack of change in the rural
areas. During the campaign he show-
ed a special aptitude and it is to be
hoped that Huron can look to the day
when the riding' again may have an
opportunity to make use of his services.
Still Time to Plan for Christmas
While no decisions have been taken,
we understand that the Christmastime
activities, which for a number of years
have earned for Seaforth the title, "The
Christmas Town," will not take place
this year—not at 1ea;It in the variety
and to the extent that the public has
come to expect.
Through the years successive Christ-
mas parades and related activities
" established a high degree of accept-
ance and resulted in much good will
for the town throughout a wide area
surrounding Seaforth. It is unfortun-
ate that this accomplishment, which
was achieved through long hours of
planning and work on the part of many
Seaforth residents, is to be abandon-
ed.
The Christmas activities program in
Seaforth as it has been carried out in
recent years is an outgrowth of efforts
of a number of local organizations
which had operated independently dur-
ing the Christmas season. Brought to-
gether by the Chamber of Commerce
and carrying on under the chairman-
ship of a co-ordinator named by the
C of C, the participating organizations
made possible projects which each year
gained in area acceptance. Highlight-
ing the program was the Christmas
parade, but of equal importance were
the Snow Queen contest and dance, the
community Christmas tree, the Christ-
mas decorating program and residen-
tial decorating contest, Santa's distri-
bution of treats to -area children, the
distribution of treats at Huronview.
The prograrh was financed by contri-
butions from Seaforth merchants and
industries.
Planning for such a program took
time, and as it developed and grew
larger, the problem of finding people
with interest in carrying on the pro-
gram became more difficult.. This, it
seems, is the difficulty now. It is not
a matter of money, but rather of peo-
ple.
In past years the C of C named a
co-ordinator in August when prelim-
inary decisions as to the broad scope of
the program were taken. By the end
of September, weekly meetings of the
responsible committee were under way
and continued until Christmas.
While it is true the season has .ad-
vanced to a point where no longer is
it possible to carry on the entire pro-
gram, surely enough interested people
can be found to at least ensure that
the street decorations, the Christmas
tree. Santa's visit and the distribution
at Huronview are continued.
If the Chamber of Commerce acts
now, a limited Christmas program
could be a certainty. This, in addition
to providing necessary continuity,
could well be the foundation on which
to build a better than ever program
next year.
A Macduff Ottawa Report
Mixing Pensions and Politics
OTTAWA—There is at least
one good thing about Federal
elections — they give Canada's
older folk more attention and
more benefits than they're apt
to get any other time.
The election just concluded
was certainly no exception.
Pension promises fell thick
and ripe from the lips of everyt
party leader, in spite of the
expectation that the new Can=
ada Pension Plan would take
this matter out of politics for
all time to come.
At least, that's what the Lib-
erals had expected.
Back in 1963 when Judy La -
Marsh introduced the first
feeble version of the Canada
Pension Plan, she remarked
that no longer would old age
pensions be a political foot.
ball.
In the same speech however,
she was so bitterly partisan,
that she practically assured
that pensions would continue to
be a political football.
The path towards the Can-
ada Pension Plan was rocky,
and beset with provincial pit-
falls. But eventually it was
traversed, and the contributory
plan to assure all older Gana-
dians a reasonable security will
go into effect in January.
That, thought the Liberals,
was that.
But they reckoned without
the other parties' interest in
pensions for the two and a half
million Canadians who are now
65 who get no special benefit
from the Canada Pension Plan.
These people instead, benefit
only from the fiat -rate old age
peti$iort of $75 a month, payable
next .year at age 69, and by
9't0- at, :Age, - .
It was this Rat rate pension,
rather than the Canada Pen-
sion Plan, which became the
election issue.
There was considerable irony
in the whole situation. History
seemed to be repeating itself.
There were the Liberals con-
fident that the Canada Pension
Plan was a wonderful achieve-
ment. as it was. Suddenly they
-Were surprised and hurt when
the Conservatives, the New
Democrats, and the Socreds
turned on the heat over the flat
rate plan.
Each of these parties offer-
ed to increase the flat rate pen-
sion from $75 to $100 a month.
They advertised it and pro-
moted it all over the country
with good effects.
It began to look like 1957,
when John Diefenbaker blasted
the St. Laurent Government- for
its measly increase of $6.00 in
the old age pension.
"The six -buck boys," he call-
ed them ,and went on to win
the election, helped, it must be
confessed. by a great many oth-
er factors of the time.
Jolted into action, Mr. Pear-
son quickly began an exposi-
tion of the Canada Assistance
Plan. Beforehand, he had
merely mentioned this program
which is being worked out with
the province to provide secur-
ity for old people, the sick,
and the disabled. He outlined
the manner in which older peo-
ple who needed it could get
pensions of up to $125 a month
under the Canada Assistance
Plan.
John Diefenbaker pet need on
this. Older p e o needed
it, he said, meant a means test,
and ,that was "the dreariest teat
•
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mins-
`•$UT 1 ROM SMOKE
In the Years Agorae
From The Huron Expositor
November 15, 1940
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hunt,
well-known McKillop residents,
observed the 50th anniversary
of their wedding. They have a
family of three sons and two
daughters: Clifford, London;
Frank and Homer, McKillop ;
Mrs. Gladson Campbell, Hamil-
ton, and Mrs. T. W. McMillan,
McKillop. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt
lived in Seaforth until 37 years
ago when they removed to their
present fine farm.
J. M. Eckert, McKillop treas-
urer, is in Scott Memorial"Hos-
pital with injuries which he
suffered when in collision with
a car at an intersection near
Formosa.
Patrick Ryan, 7th concession
of Hibbert, had a narrow es-
cape from serious injury when
he fell from the roof of a barn
,on the farm of Wilbert Mahaffy.
He was helping replace shingles
blown off in the storm.
Word was received by Sea -
forth friends this -week that Pil-
ot Officer Wallace Parke had
arrived in Canada over the week
end with an air -training unit
from England, and will be sta-
tioned at Moose Jaw, Sask. Mr.
Parke was a member of the
Royal Air Force in the Great
War and later resided in Sea -
forth for a number of. years.
Mr. Harry Eddicott„ who has
spent the summer on the freight
boat, S.S. Emperor, ' has return-
ed home.
Reeves J. H. Scott, Seaforth;
S. Whitmore. Tuckersmith, and
N. R. Dorrance, McKillop. are
in Goderich attending the fall
session of Huron county coun-
cil.
The high wind broke off one
of .Mr. James Johnston's large
evergreen trees and carried it
40 feet onto the lawn of Mr.
C. Eckert.
Harold Free paid a visit to
the Badminton Club rooms. He
is stationed at Jarvis and likes
the life of a 'cadet in the Air
Force.
A steady downpour of rain
while it reduced the attendance
and forced the abandonment of
much of the service, did not
lessen the solemnity Of Sea-
forth's annual Remembrance
Day. Geo. D. Ferguson. Legion
president. was in charge.
From The Huron Expositor
November 12, 1915
of all."
These pensions, he pqinted
out, would not be paid to ev-
eryone on application, but only
to those who needed them.
Those who didn't need extra
money would get only the flat
rate pension of $75 a month.
He, however, proposed to give
$100 a month to everyone, re-
gardless of need.
,The Liberals were caught on
the pension issue, just as they
were in 1957, and were never
able to regain ground on this
particular front.
It was an old, old pension
story. The first federal and uni-
versal old age pension was paid
in January, 1952. It was the
princely sum- of $40 a month,
payabale at age 70. There was
an election in 1953. The Lib-
erals won.
Just before the 1957 election,
the ageing St. Laurent Govern-
ment thought it advisable to
make an increase to $46. The
six -buck increase was used
with devastating effect by Mr.
Diefenbaker in the subsequent
campaign. •
When the Conservatives came
to power, they added a $9.00
increase, in November 1957, to
make the pension $55 a month.
Then just before the 1962 elec-
tion they increased it again to
$65 a month.
In October, 1963, the new
Liberal Government under pres-
sure from the majority opposi-
tion, increased the pension to
$75. Then the Liberals an-
nounced a plan to pay the
pension to everyone at age 65,
gradually reducing the age
from 70 over a five-year per-
iod.
NOW the pressure is on for
Many carloads of sugar beets
are now being shipped from
Kippen station. as the acreage
was large in that vicinity.
The price of beans has reach-
ed $3.00 per bushel or more, but
the farmers are still holding on
around Kippen. -
A pleasant affair took place
in Oddfellows' Hall, Seaforth,
when the members of the lodge
gathered to say goodbye to their
fellow member, Thomas M. Gov-
enlock, son of Warden and Mrs.
Govenlock, Winthrop. They pre-
sented .him, with a signet ring
and an address.
A little daughter of Mr. Chas.
Rolph had the misfortune to
have part of her little finger
taken off by a lawn mower.
Mr. Hosie Thompson, Mitchell,
who recently purchased the oat -
an increase to $100, payable
eventually to everyone at age
65. If this is done, by 1970,
the cost of the old age pen•
sion will be $3,000,000,000 a
year.
Only the Conservatives have
offered an idea about where
this huge sum of money should'
come from. Mr. Diefenbaker
says it should come from the
Canada Pension Fund. But he
ignores the fact that Quebec
has its own funds, and that the
other provinces, by law, will
control the Canada Pension
Fund.
His plan, in fact, could be
carried out only by amending
the Canada Pension Plan; which
would take two, years and re-
quire the consent of all nine
provinces.
But in the great pension auc-
tion, difficulties of achievement
never deterred any politician.
He just makes the promise.
The experts will have to carry
it out.
meal mill in town, is installing
hydro power and making other
extensive improvements in the
equipment.
Mr. W. R. Johnston, of the
Dominion House, Zurich, has
purchased a new Dodge Bros.
automobile.
Mr. J. J. Merner, M.P., has
returned from a trip to the
West over the CNR new trans-
continental route.
Deep and sincere sorrow was
felt by the citizens on learning
of the sad accident which hap-
pened at Clinton station and
which resulted in the instant
death of Mr. Arthur Forbes.
Although this was a rather
hard season for the bean crop
generally, Mr. James Workman,
of the Town Line, Stanley, has
no complaint to 'make regard-
ing his. He threshed 171 bushels
off 15 acres, kept 15 bushels
for seed and sold the balance
-for $3.15 per bushel which
netted him the neat sum of
$491.00.
A deputation of live business-
men from Dashwood, led by
Jacob Kellerman, Zurich, were
in town. They were contemplat-
ing having their towns hitched
to the Hydro -Electric by way
of Exeter, and were here to
find out what Seaforth thinks
of Hydro."
The Seaforth hockey club 'has
been reorganized and the of-
ficers were elected from the ac-
tive players of the club. Dal-
ton Reid was elected president,
and Otto Dick. secretary -treas-
urer.
From The Huron Expositor
November 14, 1890
Mr. John A. McEwan. Morris
Township, has 48 White Eleph-
ant potatoes. which weigh 60
pounds.
The output of the Kinburn,
Hullett, cheese factory during
the past year amounted to about
36 tons of cheese.
Mr. A. Cardno, Seaforth, this
fall shipped 1700 barrels of ap-
ples from Brussels station which
he had purchased and packed in
that vicinity. W. and J. McTag-
gart, Chiselhurst, have also pur-
chased about 1500 barrels in
the vicinity of Ethel, in Grey
Township.
Mr. Andrew Reid's sale in
Hullett, although the day was
rough, was fairly well attended.
Cows reached the sum of $40:
calves, $11 each; 2 -year-old
steers sold at $64 to $70 per
pair. The hammer was wielded
by T. Brown, Seaforth.
• A little son of Mr. W. Watson,
Londesboro, had the misfortune
to be severely bitten by a dog.
He had been sent by his moth-
er to a neighbors where they
were butchering, when the dog
attacked him, taking a large
piece from the calf of his leg.
Winthrop grist mill is under-
going an extensive overhdiiling
under the superintendence of
Mr. George Dow, foreman for R-
Virhitelaw, of Woodstock, who
has the contract.
Mr. Frank Mason, Zurich, who
has been employed in J. A.
Williams' grist mill for about a
en by the Ladies' Aid of the
Methodist Church was a com-
plete success. A program fol-
lowed and Rev. Casson, the pas-
tor, took the chair.
The members of the Church
of England congregation at Dub-
lin showed their appreciation
of the kindness of Rev. Mr.
Hodgins, who has been supply-
ing service at that place since
his appointment to Seaforth, by
assembling at the rectory, bring-
ing with them a"good supply of
potatoes, apples, vegetables,
dressed fowl, and so forth.
Smiles .. .
It's hard to explain to chil-
dren why a nation that spinds
billions for nuclear bombs is
trying to outlaw firecrackers.
Sugar and Spice
— By Bill Smiley --
How It All Began
Addressing a group of high
school teachers the other night,
I was recalling how I entered
the ... uh ... teaching game,
business, vocation, profession or
racket — what you call it de-
pends on who you are—purely
by accident.
I had brought my family to
this town one Sunday to have a
look at the sights, as we hadn't
been here before.
On the way out of town, we
drove around the side streets
to admire the fine homes.
"That's odd," I said to my
wife. "There's a big, new fac-
tory smack in the middle of
the residential section., They
don't usually allow that."
Then I saw the roadblock, out
in front of the sprawling, one -
storey factory. There was a
grim gent beside it, well-dress-
ed but with a sort of wild glint
in his eye. He flagged me down.
I stopped. He came over to
the car. "Can you see out of at
least one eye?" he queried. I
assured him that I had 40-40
vision, or something of the sort.
I thought it was some kind of
kooky, plain clothes - police
check, the kind you run into
when you've left your driving
license in your other pants.
"Ever been to a university?"
he shot at me. I said I'd been
to Oxford. I remember spend-
ing a whole weekend there dur-
ing the war, waiting for a Land
Army girl who never did show
up. ,
He brightened considerably.
"I -Have you any contagious dis-
eases?" was the next question.
"Like leprosy?" ,1 told him I
was as sound as any man in
my condition could be.
Beaming now, he went on
with the questionnaire. "And
you don't drink, smoke, play
the horses, or chase women.
Right?"
- I started to point out that I
did all of these whenever pos-
sible, but not all the time, and
not all at once. But he wasn't
listening. He had the car door
open and me by the arm, and
was hustling me toward that
big, brick factory that looked
more like a prison every sec-
ond. I thought I was under
arrest.
When we got inside, he shov-
ed me into a chair, and I wait-
ed, fearfully, for the bright
light in the face, and the rub-
ber hose. But he fooled me. He
stuck a confession under my
nose and snarled, "Sign there."
I signed, wondering what had
become of Magna Carta, Habeas
Corpus and my family, out in
the car.
It was not until he offered to
show me,the gymnasium and'
the cafeteia that I roalized the
factory was a high school, and
that I hacl just experienced the
hard sell on teachers.
However, it wasn't much of a
"switch for me. I know that the
jump into teaching, from big
industrialist, shoe salesman or
short-order cook has been a
traumatic experience for some
people. You can see them any
day, tottering white-faced to --
ward the staff room, after a
double period with 102, the ter-
ror of the school.
But I had little difficulty in
making the adjustment. After
all, I had been a weekly news-
paper editor. In that job, you
spend most of your time telling
people things they don't listen
to, and urging them to do things
they don't want to do. I found
these invaluable training for my
teaching career.
And I must admit that things
have gone well. In three years,
I fought my way up to a depart-
ment -headship. Oh,- it took a lot
of midnight -oil -burning, coffee -
buying for the principal, and
the fact that they couldn't get
anybody else for the job. But
I made It.
And now I have my own lit-
tle empire: a dozen or so Eng-
lish teachers who are so in awe
of me that they never borrow
more than $10; an assistant de-
partment head who hangs on
my every word, and then con-
tradicts it; and the thrill of
attending department heads'
meetings, of being on the in-
side, where the big decisions
are made.
Like what ,are we gonna do
with kids who carve "Herb
'Loves' Elsie" on the desks!
The Vote Across Huron
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No. 3 . _. 44
No. 4 30 2
No. 5 49 6
No. 6 42
No. 7 51
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13 90
P10 79
5
76
62
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3 29
1 44
B.YTH
No. 1 82
No. 2 62
144
BRUSSELS
No. 1 91
No. 2 52
No. 3 55
198
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year, went to Keenbury, Illinois, . No,
to take charge of a mill there.
Mrs. Sage and her daughter,
Miss Annie, have returned from
a pleasant and successful musi-
cal tour through the United
States and are now at their
home in Walton.
A young son, named Jimmie
Willis, son of Mr. Robert Willis,
met with a painful accident. He
was playing with other boys at
the lair grounds when a panel
of the portable fence fell on his
leg, breaking the thigh bones,
A span of horses belonging
to James Darling, new Dublin,
got frightened at the playing
of a minstrel band and ran
away. They left the wagon in
fragments along Main St., and
finally collided with a telegraph
pole near Mr. Barton's black-
sjnith shop, when both of them
fell down and were captured.
Rev. Peter Musgrove, McKil-
lop, entertained at the manse
the members of the session of
Duff's Church and later in a
similar manner the members of
Winthrop.
The 'Thanksgiving sapper giv-
No.
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No.
CLINTON
1 131
2 and 2-A 170
3 .94
4 123
5 64
6 136
718
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HIBBERT
No. 1 185
No. 2 55
No. 3 88
No.4 . 67
395
HULLETT
No. 1 67 . 19
No. 2 60 9
No. 3 61 10
11 128 No. 4 77 10
12 107 No. 5 72 14
23 235 337 62
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15 59
11 49
6 75
13 57
45 240
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12
3
18
12
17
14
'13
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13
77
85
69
113
267
125
142
103
140
97
113
720
McKILLOP
No. 1 128 4
No.2 84 15
No. 3 70 14
No. 4 59 16
341 49
44
40
75
114
79
352
31
78
87
55
251
MORRIS
No. 1 47 7 49
No, 2 .. 40 5 51
No. 3 65 9 80
No. 4 35 6 74
No. 5 81 1 54
No. 6 57 2 63
COLBORNE 327 30 371
1 58 6 76 SEAFORTH
2 • 49 17 75 No, 1 . 116 4 93
3 , ,.. 48 9 91 No. 2 116 7 121
4 46 5 41 No. 3 106 14 91
— — -- No. 4 87 10 49
201 37 283 No. 5 65 6 59
EXETER No. 6 .r• 81 8 61
1 63 15 124 -- — —
2 56 11 117 571 49 474
3 95 20 192 STANLEY
4 (A -L) 70 4 80 No. 1 37 4 76
4 (M -Z) 80 10 87 No. 2 46 5 48
5..........98 24 160 No. 3 29 2 53
6 65 15 91. No. 4 26 8 145
7 .... . 54 9 58 No. 5 23 1 67
- — — 40 8 65
581 108 909 No.No. 76 26 1 30
GODERICH TWP. No. 8 79 17 146
1 89 10 123, — — —
2 32 8 50
50 10 60 STEPHEN
306 46 630
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4 ..... .. 34 7 48 No. 1 ... ... 55 9 99
5 47 2 60 No. 2 19 12 64
6 68 2 62 No. 3 49 3 89
-- No. 4 . 87 13 79
39 403 No, 5 51 5 28
No. 6 82 7 101
41 No. 7 48 6 35
No. 810 23 4 62
No. 9 32 2 61
No. _ 108 17 36
No. 10-A 94 15 - 28
648 93 682
370 52 378 No, 1 TUCKERSMITH90 l0
HAY No. 2 .. 129 8
36 4 43 No. 3 75 3
32 3 44 No. 4 69 3
and 76 15 111 No. 5 60 8
51 4 28' No. 6 54 15
89 10 94 No. 7 133 19
43 1 19 No. 8 . 56 8
74 3 26 — -
- 666 74
40 365 USBORNE
No. 1 .. 32 6 58
No. 2 . 59 3 38
No. 3 36 7 43
No, 4 42 0 ;'43
No, 5 26 8 88'
320
GREY
No. 1 .... 40 7
No. 2 40 11 54
No. 3 46 4 50
No. 4 65 7 35
No. 5 66 10 98
No. 6 62 4 46
No. 7 51 9 54
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401
HENSALL
No. 1 94
No. 2 91
185
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No. 6 1$ 5 55
No. 7 32 7 85
245 36 405
EAST WAWANOSH
No. 1 32 0 24
No, 2 58 7 82
No. 3 48 4 54
No. 4 56 4 32
No. 5 23 12 57
217 27 249
WEST WAWANOSH
No, 1 . , 40 9 84
No, 2 41 8 66
No. 3 . ... . 29 2 39
No. 448 '" 5 29
No. 5 42 3 47
No. 6 32 1 16
232 28 281
GODERICH TOWN
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No 12 -WA ._..
No 1
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56 12 90
41 18 97
47 29 82
119 14 134
66 13 100
44 3 56'
44 3 56
68 15 88
77 16 99
46 4 57
93 15 139
66 12 72
60 19 64
52 . 10 81
109 16 149
90 15 90
85 17 80
95 19 90
62 26 74
1276 273 1642
ZURICH
96
84
2 100
4 87
187
180 6
ADVANCE POLLS
Exeter
Seaforth.,
Clinton
Goderich
Blyth
422 31
30 - • 5 23
28 0 34
44 3 27
8 0 15
152 10 130
SUMMARY
268
144
198
718
201
581
320
370
Ashfield
Blyth
Brussels
Clinton
Colborne
Exeter
Goderich Twp,
Grey
Hay .
Hensall
80 Hibbert
77 Hullett
59 McKillop
77334891
1 Morris
54 Seaforth
38 Manley "
34 Stephen
79 Tuckersmith
— T Tsborne
492 E. Wawanosh
W. Wawanosh
Goderich Town
Zurich
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