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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1962-05-24, Page 2Since 1860, Ser. ding the Community First Published at SEAFORTR, ONTARIO, evOy Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers 0ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor (Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association or: 13 Audit Bureau of Circulations f Subscription Rates: o\ ., Canada (in advance) $2,50 a Year Outside Canada,(in advance) $4.00 a Year 01. A ' SINGLE CONES — 10 .CENTS EACH , Authorized as Second Class Mair, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MAY 24, 1962 Housing Survey is First Step For some time Seaforth has lacked adequate_ housing, and as a first step in correcting the situation a survey of re- quirements is -now under way. , Undertaken jointly by the town and federal- and provincial governments, the survey is designed to indicate the demand that exists for housing of this type. The contemplated rental housing pro- ject provides modern accommodation for families with a gross income of less than $4,300 per year, for couples with one or more children, and for single persons or couples sixty years of age 'or over. Rents are geared to gross in- come, regardless of the size ' of the home. Housing units may have up to five bedrooms. Rental housing projects are financed in the main by the federal and provin- cial governments. Certainly there are a number of families in Seaforth who would benefit from such housing. There are many persons working here but who are separated from their families, or have long drives each day, because adequate housing is not available to them in Seaforth. It is for such fam- ilies that the project is planned. But before any action can be taken, the need for , housing must be shown. That is why a 'survey is now under way. Interested families, therefore, are urged to obtain a questionnaire from the Town Clerk's office and com- plete, and return it as quickly as pos- sible. Only by co-operating in the sur- vey can it be determined whether a housing project should be developed in Seaforth. Questionnaires td.be consid- ered must be returned by June 1. Not Too Early To Think of Trees We are reminded by the Fort Wil- liam Times -Journal that this spring Chinese are engaged in a project that may stand in history as one of the most important undertakings of the Com- munist regime. Workers, peasants, sol- diers and students are panting millions of trees. Thus we see being taken the first step to undo some of the -damage that has caused floods, destroyed soil, ere- ated untold miseries brought on by famines. The project provides a timely re- minder for Seaforth. Preliminary dis- cussions are under way leading. to the widening and repaving of , Goderich Street. As the work gets under way, many of the stately maples that for sev- eral generations have been a distin- guished mark of Seaforth, inevitably will be removed, or will die. Now .is the time to plan a planting program that will result in young trees being planted to take the place of those that will be lost. In planting of course, con - 'sideration will have to be taken of the wider street allowance. Cry of Wolf Not Well Founded In fact, the wolf shows profound re- spect for man and avoids him studious- • ly.—Peterborough Examiner. ' Two weeks ago, the station agent of Tomto--30 miles north of North Bay —reported that he had shot two wolves, one of which tried to attack him and his five-year-old daughter after he had wounded it. Upon examining the car- casses of the dead animals, however, the department of lands and forests 'discovered that they were German shep- herd dogs; the agent's request for $50 bounty was consequently rejected. Thus dies another story of wolves attacking humans. For years, the Sault Ste. Marie Star offered $100 reward to anyone who could prove that a wolf had attacked a human in Algoma district; it was nev- er claimed despite the large number of wolves in that area. Any animal will attack humans if it is infected with rabies but not even cases such as these involving wolves have .been recorded. Spare the Rod Most of us recall the days when, if we got a strapping at school, we would likely get another one when we got home. But times change. Today, the teach- er who strikes a student is apt to feel the entire class rise up in puerile wrath. The parents, instead ,of administering another licking, are likely to complain to the school board that their sweet lit- tle son was strapped. The trend to avoid corporal punish- ment at all costs in all cases has, we believe, gone, too far.—Chesley Enter- prise. KNOW YOUR CANADA D i d famous inventor • Thomas Edison have a fam- ily connection with Can- ada? A ..strong one. His great- grandfather, John Edison, was a fighting Loyalist during the American, Revolution. He emi- grated to Nova Scotia after- wards. Iris son, Samuel Edi- son, served as a Canadian mil- itia captain in the War of 1812. Samuel Edison had a son of the same name and Sam Junior .was the father of the world- famous Thomas Alva Edison. Sam Junior supported William Lyon Mackenzie in the Rebel- lion of 1837, fled like his father to the U.S.A.; and settled in Milan, Ohio. There his famous son was born in 1847. , When Tom Edison was 16, he worked in Stratford, -Ont., as a telegrapher. Years later, after he had invented the world's first motion picture machine, a peepboat called the Edison Kine- toscope, its first public showing was held in New York City un- der the auspices of an Ottawa firm. el 74. mike rw /26/5 "I know just the kind of man I'm going to marry ... He's going to be tall and handsome with a good job, and just love hop -scotch." IN .THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned frena The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor May 21, 1937 On Wednesday while repair- ing the roof ofy the skating rink, Mr. John Currie fell when a scaffold collapsed and fractur- ed his ankle. Past Noble Grand; Bra M. McKellar, Seaforth, was elected district warden at the annual meeting of District No. 8 of I00F, held in Exeter, Thurs, • day evening. Golf in Seaforth will officially get under way on Monday, Viv- toria Day, when the golf com- mittee has arranged a full day's program. Work of cleaning out the creek from the east dam to the highway bridge at Seaforth Lions Park and lining. the banks with stone, has been completed, and the new en- trance to the park will be fin- ished this week. Since April 1st, when restric- tions went into effect, 10 truck- ers have paid $180 in fines in Huron County for overloading, all informations being laid by County Traffic Officer Lever. April fines totalled $408, as compared with $152 for the same month one year ago. Thieves in Zurich raided the gasoline pump at ' Mr. Oscar Klopp's implement shop last Friday night and got away with about 40 gallons. * * * From The Huron Expositor May 24, 1912 The heavy and continuous rains during the early days of this week thoroughly saturated the earth and flooded the low- lying lands and considerably de - One of the more disgusting symptoms of approaching sen- ility, and one which should be resisted stoutly, is the tendency to don rose-colored glasses ev- ery time we look back at our childhood. The other day, for example, I was about to launch into a column about the good old Twehty-fourth of May. You know the sort of thing—nostal- gic and sloppy. All about what a grand celebration the Twen- ty-fourth used. to' be; what a pity they've changed the date to the nearest, or farthest, or something Monday and lost the significance of the original holi- day; how the kids nowadays don't have the fun we used• to have on the Twenty-fourth.••And all that sort of thing. too, in the federal cabinet head- antelope closely related to the ed by Mackenzie King, between 1940 and 1945. * *, * Is the mountain goat really a goat? ' It is not a true goat but an * * * Who infroduced Macken- zie King to public life? -Sir William Mulock, then fed- eral minister of labour from 1900 to 1905. He made icing his deputy - minister. Sir Wil- liam, who lived to be 100 years old, in full possession of his faculties, was outstandind for the progressive steps Canada took in postal matters during his tenure as postmaster -gener- al, Ire was responsible for the adoption of penny postage among the then globetirdiing countries of the British Empire. . son, Willett Pate Muloek, 62,* `ari:..n• tinatmn tfhr c�atieia>il. European chamois. This Rocky Mountain dweller has cupped hooves which act as suction cups. They are a great help to the animal in its perilous life amid crag and cliff. HALI !1I' TEE SuE!iit THAT CUTE NEW BOY Z WAS TELL/MG YOU ASOUT'' THAT JUST MOVED /NTD OUR NE/&HBORHQO1J * * * Fortunately, seeking a little extra, background, I asked my wife what she did, when she was a kid, on the glorious Twen- ty-fourth. "Nothing," she re- plied. Sadly but sensibly, I re- alized that what I'd been about to write was pure piffle. There wasn't any great celebration on the Twenty-fourth when I was a child. It was just .a welcome holiday when everybody in town went fishing. Nobody gave two pins for the . fact that it was Queen Victoria's birthday. What's more, kids, nowadays have just as much fun as we ever did, except that they're a little more sophisticated about it. Looking back, all I can re- member about the Twenty- fourth. is my old man holler- ing, in great excitement: "Get back there, you kids, dammit, get back," as he lighted all the best of the fireworks. Nowa- days, the kids holler: "Get back there, dad, we know what we're doing," as I dither around the circle of bodies bent over a rocket, terrified but impotent. In the third place, I think it's an excellent, idea to move the Twenty-fourth to the pre- ceding Monday. When a holi- day has no significance in the history or tradition of a nation,. at least let's have it fall on a Monday, and make a long week end of it. Long week ends, if they do nothing else, help re- duce the surplus population, as Scrooge put it. The whole conception of holi- days in this country is 'sorely in need of an, overhaul. I'Ma great believer in holidays, but ours are as haphazard and un- reliable as the Canadian, wea- ther. Under our present setup; they are not only poorly dis- tributed but sadly scanty. * * * ....• ................ dark and cold loom January and February, without a break in either of them. We should ram a couple of Monday holidays in there. In January, for in- stance, we could celebrate Boy Am I Sick of This Lousy Win- ter Day. February could be broken up nicely by moving Valentine's Day to the nearest Monday and calling it Love Day. At pres- ent, there isn't a single days set aside for love, which is surely more important that civics, or labor. We could love our neigh- bors, our wives, our children, our neighbors' wives, and any- body else who was in the mood. March and April are rather tricky, because nobody ever• seems to know when Easter is going to be. But if Easter came in April, we could have a Mon- day holiday in March, called March Hare Day. We could all go mad with delight at getting through the winter, fling off our outer habiliments, and dance in the streets. In our overshoes and long underwear. Sort of a carnival effect. If Easter came in March, we'd need a special Monday holiday about the middle of April, which is the cruelest month, according to T. S. Smith. We might designate it as April Fuel Day. It would be a suit- ably joyous occasion, and I have no compunction about bringing it up with an election in the offing, if the government mark- ed it by donating a load of fuel, free, to every loyal citizen. Just enough to carry him through to the First of July, when he can let his furnace out. Some of our months are fine. In July, for example, we have that great national holiday that stirs the blood of every Cana- dian—the First of July. August has that deeply significant day of rest known as Civic Holiday. In September, we all quit work- ing on Labor Day. And Octo- ber contains the day in which we all beef heartily about how far we have to drive to see our relatives and guzzle turkey— Thanksgiving. But how about that crumbly November? Thirty of the mosf dismal, depressing days of the year, and not a single holiday to lighten the gloom. Why can't we have a holiday on the see- ond Monday in November, and call it Last Call for' Storm Win- dows Day? In December, the picture . is a little brighter, with Christ- mas, Boxing Day, and only a week„ lacers' Now Yeatle bay: 'fie• aneecl Ijhent .all, . but _ lOtut, By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER THE BIBLE TODAY Tayed farming operations, but the weather was warm and vegetation stimulated. Mr. E. A. Box, who has been bookkeeper for Mr E. Edge for a long time, has pur- chased Mr; Edge's oal business and the coal warehouse and will hereafter dev$te all his time to that. ' Fall wheat is selling in Sea- forth this week at $1.00 to $1.05 per bushel. The fall wheat crop. is most unpromising and a few farm- ers have already plowed up their crop owing to its scanti- ness and lack of promise. * * * From The Huron Expositor May 27, 1887 Mr. John Hannah, of the Sea - forth Creamery, has received from the Ontario Creamery As- sociation the diploma and med- al awarded at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition for butter ex- One hundred years ago the Bible Society Auxiliary in South Africa distributed 961 Bibles and 887 New Testaments in English, 1861 Bibles and 1924 New Testaments in Dutch and 157 Bibles in foreign lan- guages; a total of 5,790 vol- umes. The Rev. J. T. M. de J. Vara Arkel, General Secretary of the South Africa Auxiliary, re- ports that 956,776 volumes of Scriptures were distributed in 1960, of which half a million were distributed through the "million Gospels for Africa" campaign. Among the events of the year was the appearance of the re- translated Zulu- Bible, the first copy of which, in a special bind- ing, was presented to the Para, mount .Chief of the Zulas and to the Minister of 'Bantu Ad- ministration and Development, The Paramount Chief in turn presented a copy to Dean 0. Sarndal, the 'chief translator,' as a mark of appreciation for his translation work. Children of white schools in the South West- ern region gave a' large sum of money in the campaign to a Bible "from a scholar to a schol- ar". Over $6,000.00 was realiz- ed. The Principal of a, high school for girls in Paorl, in sending about $125.00, asked whether the 250 Bantu Bibles this money would supply, could be sent to one particular Bantu school in order that ,the Euro- pean children could pray for those Bantu scholars. Not all the news from South Africa is concerned with strife and con- fusion. Suggested Bible Readings - That takes care of every month but June. Do you re- alize there isn't a single long week -end in June, our most de- lightful month? And one of our busiest months on the high- ways. Think of the triumph with which our daily papers could trumpet: FIRST JUNE LONG WEEK END KILLS 108. Yes, we must have a Mon- day holiday in''Jutib. What shall we call it? Let's see, June is the month of marriages. We could have a national holiday on the second Monday and call it Armistice Day. hibited there from Seaforth Creamery. ' Mr. Henry Smith has pur- chased the corner lot opposite the Good Templar's }Fall and is making preparations for the erection of a residence on it. Mr. James Pickard tics pur- chased the stock of Joseph Kidd & San, of this town,' and will carry oro that business hereaf- ter in addition to his other bus- iness in Campbell's block.. Mr. Frank Murray has opened a new stone quarry on the farm of Mr. John Thompson, on the second concession of McKillop and has found a splendid qual- ity of stone, which is in abun- dance and easy got at. Mr. Willaim Haines has re- moved to Wingham to take charge" of the, Grey, Young & Sparling Company's salt works there, after being employed with the company . here for many years. A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT QUEBEC VICTORY HINGE OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Pearson and his party are counting heavily on Quebec to help build a Liberal victory on June 18 by turning over a large block of 75 seats. The Conserva- tives already concede losses in this Province, which contains almost one-third of Canada's population, but are fighting hard to retain as many as pos- sible of the 50 seats they won there in 1958. Both Prime Minister Diefen- baker and Liberal Leader Pear- son have already spent a few days in the Province, making their first, shy approaches to the voters. But the overt re- sults of these skirmishes have been inconclusive. About all that can be said for certain at the moment is that the Province is alert, and waiting; waiting for a feeling in its bones that the Liberals can form the next Government. Sunday—Psalms 116:1-19 Monday—Isaiah 43:1-13 Tuesday—Isaiah 44:9-20 Wednesday—Isaiah 44:22-28 Thursday—Isaiah 45:1-13 Friday—Isaiah 45:18-25 Saturday—Luke 10:38-42; John 11:1-5; John 12:1-3. by Tom Dorr 77 'MINK I'M N LOVE WITH TWO BOYS. SOME PROBLEM' MOST . 6IFZL5 WOULD ESE; HAPPY WITH JUST ONE: WY. — BUT.. THE PROBLEM I5... ...NEITHER OF THEM) LYES ME. i Liberal trend `occurs elsewhere in Canada, the Conservatives in Quebec may also have history ?i.; on their side. Quebec has many political maxims, some of them almost obscene, but its voting history points up one of prime and last- ing importance — unless, of course, the chicken comes be- fore the egg. The maxim is that the people of Quebec have a fear engraved on their nation- al consciousness—a fear of be- ing in isolated opposition in the Parliament of Canada. It is this fear which is sup- posed to have prompted Que- bec to send a majority of its members to the winning side in Ottawa, in all except five of the 24 general ,elections since Confederation in 1867. In three of those five elec- tions, Quebec split its Govern- ment -opposition vote fairly ev. enly. Only in two, therefore, was Quebec seriously out of step with the rest of Canada. The first was in 1917 when the conscription crisis rocked the country and split the Lib- erals. The second was in 1957, when John Diefenbaker, to nearly everyone's surprise, won 112 seats . and took power. Que- bec gave Mr. Diefenbaker only nine of its 75 seats in that elec.. tion. In the next election the fol.. lowing year, Quebec corrected its position by electing 50 Con.. servatives to 25 Liberals. Nev er in all the ,years •since Con. federation had so many Tories. been elected in Quebec, and this is the only time in .the twentieth century the Tories got a majority of Quebec seats, The chicken -egg question,,,,�f' course, is that the Libera'Ts. have been the Federal Govern- ment most of this century. Is. it because Quebec- voted Liberal that the Liberals were the Gov- ernment—or because the. Lib- erals were the Government that Quebec voted Liberal? Probe)). ly both. There is good reason to ex- pect therefore, that in 1962 the .. Quebecs will protect his spe- cial national interests by voting for a strong Quebec voice in Government. If it looks like a Liberal win, the Liberals could swamp Quebec. If it, looks like a' Conservative win, the Tories may hang. on to many of their seats. All the talk about national, identity, co-operative Federal- ism, and two notions in a sin- gle state, hasn't yet convinced the Quebecker that the Federal politicians want anything from him except his vole. Inhere is one more fact. Dar- ing this century, Quebec as a whole has trusted the Federal Liberal Leaders, Laurie, King and St. Laurent, to guard their essential interests. They never. voted a majority against them, even in wartime when national- ism was at its peak. while Diefenbaker seems clearly to have failed (aS have all Tory leaders since Macdon- ald) to stake out a claim of this trust—having, among oth- er things, faileg to come up with a Quebec lieutenant of sta- ture—Pearson is still unprov. en. King, when in opposition like Pearson, could at least • point to having stuck with Lam.- ier over conscription, and he claimeda Laurier mantle. Pearson k is to stake out a claim to 'the mantle of Laur- • ier, King and .St.. Laurent as a Federal leader who will never betray fundamental Quebec in- terests—interests which are to- day themselves the subject of mighty change. If that feeling does not come, there is a chance the Conserva- tives may retain 30 or more seats in Quebec and win the general election handily. There is a ferment today in Quebec, and no one can say with certainty what is going to happen. - - A spirit of freedom and dis- sent swept the Province with the death of Maurice Duplessis and the upsetting of his en- trenched Union Nationale by Liberal Jean Lesage. The Liberals at the moment seem to hold most of the cards. They're away out in front in opinion polls (53% Liberal, 3201 Conservative)- and they'll be getting planty of help from the Provincial Liberal organiza- tions which will be busy in, most, but not all, of Quebec's ridings. Premier Lesage himself is staying out of the Federal cam- paign, at least for the 'moment, but some of his Ministers are openly backing the Federal Lib- erals. Lesage had a big job getting rid of the Ottawa tag in order to win the Provincial election. But this doesn't mean he doesn't want the Liberals to win. The Conservatives, on the other hand, will get little help from the Union Nationale ex- cept in a few selected ridings. The picture is clouded by the Social Credit campaign, vigor- ously promoted- by Deputy Leader Caouette. No one knows just how ,well Social Credit will do. Mr. Gaou- ette himself is considered a good bet for election in his riding. There is sure to be a large Social Credit vote in many ridings, and some observ- ers expect the Party to win as many as five to eight- seats. The New Democratic Party has made almost no headway in the Province and is not expect- ed to win a single seat. Its leaders, becoming desperate, are identifying themselves with the separatist movement. And while most Quebeckers want many of the things the separatists want, they do not want to get them in the same way. Quebeckers quite simply want to feel like Canadians, and be treated like Canadians, where - ever they go. And they want this while maintaining their language, their religion, and their cultural identity. They are not yet convinced that either of the two major leaders will be able to bring this about. And this could be a point favoring the Conserva- tives. And as long as no decided 16. BAND ■ FATIILY E WHEN WE GET BACK I'M 605 G TO FIX IT 50 ALL CUR WINDOW: LOCK, - ri1.1.6114111113111GNASI DAD MAGE AN AUTOMATIC WINDOW LOCK SY REPLACING THE SASH LOCKS WITH CUPBOARD DOOR CATCHES - • • • • Ea 0 s • 4 • r • 0 0 • i • •