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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1962-07-05, Page 2ei weekel Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MCLEAN BROS., Publishers 0 E D A Member ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association s Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association e O + Audit Bureau of Circulattion Subscription Rates: p ABCz Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year e o Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year tr-1, AI SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 5, 1962 Seaforth Parking Meters. Are Accepted Introduction of parking meters on Seaforth's Main Street has been ac- complished with little fuss. There has been some complaint, of course, but in the main there would appear to be many more motorists who are happy that they can park without trouble than there are those who resent paying a penny or two -into the meters; Much of the credit must go to Chief of Police Hutchinson and his men for the combination of firmness and diplom- acy which they used in the first criti- cal weeks. There were tickets issued, of course, but these were inevitable if the public was to be impressed with the fact that meters were in existence. The introduction period was more dif- ficult than might have been the case if the public had been informed concern- ing the installation and operation of the meters. As it was, some motorists learned the hard way. If there was a general complaint, it would have to do with the limit of one hour, which is now permitted, rather than with the principal of meters. There is an element among the motor- ing public—particularly rural visitors —that feels a one-hour limit is insuffici- ent to carry out ordinary shopping, and the one-hour limit requires one or two trips to feed the meters. On the other hand, other motorists argue that an extension of the time limit would bring back long-time parking and again re- ' sult in lack of parking spaces. Main Street Service Lanes Prove Value One result that has come about from the installation of parking meters on Main St. is the increase in traffic on ser- vice lanes paralleling Main Street. In- creasing numbers of trucks are now servicing Seaforth stores from rear en- trances, thus removing what for years has been a traffic bottleneck on the Main Street. The mere increase, however, in the. use of the lanes has created problems that require early attention of council. Several times each day the lanes are closed to traffic because" large vans park in .the line of traffic to unload and make deliveries. The narrow width of the lanes, too,' means that it is impos- sible to pass, except in a few places. A condition that for years has been noticeable only during the winter, when town crews battle with the difficulty of snow control in the narrow areas, has now become a difficulty every day in the year. Action might well be taken now to acquire additional property as it be- comes available so that the rights=of- way could be widened. This does not mean that immediate purchase would follow, but rather that notice of inten- tion be served, so that new buildings would not be erected to the existing property lines. At the same . time, now that the value of the' service lanes has been proven, it would seem reasonable that council act to acquire rights -of= way in those areas where lanes do not exist. Again all that is required at this stage is notice, so that the interests of the town are protected. There is lots precedent, of course, for a council to look ahead in connec- tion with land use. As long ago as 1876 the' council of the day agreed Main Street was too narrow, and when build- ings Siong the east side were destroy- ed by fire, acted to acquire additional property. The result is that Main Street today for a portion of its length is of a widththat can more effectively cope with traffic demands. Check Mail Boxes Farmers whose mail boxes .are in a , delapidated condition might be well ad- vised to remedy the situation. Other- wise, they may find mail delivery dis- continued. A group of southwestern Ontario postmasters meeting in Windsor, advo- cated a get -tough policy with rural residents whose mail boxes need repair- ing. They blamed district postal direc- tors for not cutting off mail service to persons who had been warned but had failed to make repairs. It was pointed out that at present, a mail box owner is sent a notice of the repairs required and given 30' days to make them. If the owner does not com- ply with°the order, he -receives a second warning. At the end of a further 15 days, the district director 'has the right to discontinue service if the repairs have still not been made. We do not know if regulations also require the owner's name to be printed clearly on rural mail boxes. But whe- ther it is compulsory or not, it is some- thing we would like to see done. This condition is mighty helpful to strangers seeking someone in a rural district. And a neat, clearly -lettered mail box usually indicates an interest and pride in a well -kept farm home.—The Dutton Advance. KNOW YOUR CANADA Who went from bridge building to virtual owner- ship of Newfoundland? Sir Robert Gillespie Reid. This Scottish contractor ant fi- nancier distinguished himself building bridges across the Niagara River, across the Rib Grande, the Colorado, Dela- ware, Sault Ste. Marie and St. Lawrence Rivers. He built dif- ficult sections of the CPR north of Lake Superior and by 1890 began to build Newfoundland's first cross-country line. An 1898 contract gave him ownership of most of the island's Crown lands and a virtual monopoly of its transportation and communi- cation.. systems. His Reid New- foundland Company controlled the island's railway, steamships and telegraphs until taken ov er by the Newfoundland govern- ment 'in 1923. * * ,' bridge. It typifies Canada's pro- gress since those days of little over a century ago, that the poverty-stricken logging village of those days is now a bustling town manufacturing machinery, jet engine parts, electrical ap- pliances, television and radio components, and grain pro- ducts. How did Renfrew, Ont., get its first bridge? Back in 1840 John Lorne Mc- Dougall established the first general store in the little log- ging settlement of Renfrew, 60 miles west of Ottawa. McDou- gall had retired from an adven- turous career as a fur trader. When Renfrew needed its first bridge and the townsmen hesi- tated to raise the tax rate, it was McDougall, as magistrate, who adopted a course little known in. Canada forced labor. • He apprehended a band of riv- eri len who had been raiding the homesteads—and sentenced them to 'Bard labor on the * * * Who made Canada's first matches? Ezra Butler 'Eddy. He pro- duced them in a workshop in Hull, Quebec, in. 1851. His first matches were sulphured and disagreeable to use. Later he made improvements, producing non-poisonous matches in 1898: Today the company named af- ter him has become the princi- pal producer of matches in Can- ada. * * "I can see you're anxious to go home, Mr. Gilbey—but the Doctor thinks you should stay unfit tomorrow." A MACDUFF- OTTAWA REPORT JOKERS IN THE DECK OTTAWA — Prime Minister John Diefenbaker has long ex- pressed open admiration for the political astuteness of the late Rt. Hon. William Lyon Macken zie King. Now the time has come for Mr. Diefenbaker to try and emu- late Mr. King's adroitness at. political manoeuvring to stay in office. Mr. Diefenbaker faces the most difficult period in his ca- reer as head of the Progressive Conservative, party. He must tread warily to try and stay in power at the helm of. a min- ority administration. Will he be successful? Presentsigns indi- cate the answer will be in the negative, but only time can tell. Certainly Mr.. Diefenbaker is well aware that if he heeded the demands of the Liberals and New Democratic Party and 'call- ed the first session of Parlia- ment in July or early August, he would almost certainly face defeat in the commons. His emergency measures to try and cope with the financial crisisand save Canada from bankruptcy have not; met with the approval of the Social Cred- it deputy leader, Real Caouette. Mr. Caouette condemned the Government's emergency pro- gram because a keystone was tight money. He declared that Mr. Diefenbaker ought to re- sign rather than make such pro- posals. • It would therefore appear that if there was a session of Parliament called in July or early August the Socred bloc of 30 members would support a Liberal want of confidence mo- tion. Such .a motion is almost certainly going to be introduc- ed, •.. The Liberals are not inclined this time to pull their punches. In 1958 after the then Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Louis St. Laurent had stepped down and. made way for a Diefenbaker Government, that was endorsed by the electorate, the Liberals introduced a "wishy washy" want of confidence motion. The Liberals were strongly criticiz- ed for not having the political, fortitude to come out strongly against the•'administration. They have not forgotten. They have learned their lesson. The Lib- erals, it is expected, will bring in a strongly worded motion that simply records that the op- position does not have confi- dence in the administration.. Nothing could be closer to the facts in the present situation. The Liberals and certainly the new Democratic Party do not have confidence in the Conserv- and two years later established another foundry and factory at Newcastle, Ontario. In t h e course pf time it became the Massey -Ferguson Company, one of the world's largest farm im- plement companies. What is Rideau Hall made of? The official residence of the Governors General since ;Con- federation, this big Scottish - style house in Ottawa is built chiefly of limestone. It stands in its own park of 65 acres near the junction of the Rideau and Ottawa Rivers. * * * IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor • July 2, 1937 At the meeting of' Tucker - smith council, held in the Town Hall, Seaforth, a petition was presented by Mr. Ross Scott, on behalf of the residents of Bruce - field, praying council to take the necessary action to secure Street lights for the village, which was granted. Thirty-seven students wrote their entrance examinations during the past week, accord- ing to Principal G. A. Ballan- tyne, of the. Seaforth Collegiate Institute. Mr. Zechariah Ryan, St. Col- umban, received word that he drew the lucky ticket at the garden party held in Nipissing on June 25, being the winner of a cedar chest and contents, valued at $75.00. The road from Winthrop to Seaforth will soon be all paved, which will be a great improve- ment. Mr. C. Eckert, Seaforth, en- joyed a feast of new potatoes on June 2$, which were grown in his garden. Phyllis Barry, 13 - year - old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Barry, town, on Tuesday re- ceived acknowledgment from Buckingham Palace of a .thank - you letter which she wrote to Their Majesties. Phyllis, wha was 13 years old on Coronation Day, wrote King George, telling him of her birthday. * * * ative Government. Since the emergency propos- als were put forward there are indications too that the Socreds do not have confidence in Mr. Diefenbaker's administration. If all three opposition groups combine in the House, Mr. Dief- enbaker is definitely headed for a defeat in Parliament. The Governor-General then would probably invite Liberal Leader L. B. Pearson to form a Govern- ment. Whether Mr. Pearson would accept that invitation remains to be seen. It is doubtful how- ever. Instead he would probab- ly decline and thereby precipi- tate another general election. Meantime, fighting for his po- litical life, Mr. Diefenbaker has made it plain •that he has no intention of summoning Parlia- ment until late in September He has suggested there should be a "cooling off period" befor,3 the session is called: Obviously he is stalling, hoping that con- ditions will improve so rapidly that the Socreds will support him. The Prime Minister's com- monwealth conference on the common market will meet in London Sept. 10. Mr. Diefen- baker plans to attend. Those conferences usually continue for 10 days. That means that by Sept. 20 the Prime Minister would be able to fly back to Ottawa. Who began Canada's farm implement industry? Daniel Massey, a prosperous farmer who lived near C9bourg, Ontario. He is said to have im- ported one of the first threshing machines into Upper Canada. He opened a foundry in 1841 a, WHAT'S ALL HIS? DEAR, 1 T YOU ARE ENTIRELY TOO EXTRAVAGANT. BUT, MOTHER, HOW CAN YOU SAY -r1-1AT? .X PATTERN MYSELF- AFTER YSELFAFTER YOU_.IM THRIFTY. Is FATHERr.9 Consequently the first session of the 25th Parliament might be convened September 20—a Thursday—or perhaps in the last week in September. The Prime Minister definitely would want to be on hand in the House at the head of his min- ority group. The Prime Minister, in .a ra- dio and television broadcast, appealed to Canadians to set aside partisan political divisions in this period of crisis. Liberal Leader Pearson has caustically commented that the Govern- ment "at long last" had recog- nized there was an emergency. The Liberal Leader was re- ferring to Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton's amazing state- ment on a national TV broad- cast three days before the em- ergency measures were unveil- ed. Mr. Hamilton had profess- ed to know of no emergency facing the nation. He contend- ed that the economy was. boom- ing and everything was in fine shape. Mr. Pearson has twice call- ed upon the Government to summon Parliament into .em- ergency session in July, He sounded the call before the Government announced its em- ergency program. He made the safe demand the day after Prime Minister Diefenbaker went on the air to urge' Cana- dians to support the emergency financial measures in a spirit of dedication to the greater future of Canada. In that same broad- cast address Mr. Diefenbaker said Parliament would not be called into session until Sep- tember. The Liberal• leader declared that when the Government takes extraordinary measures it becomes the Government's "du- ty" to call Parliament at the earliest possible date. But Mr. Diefenbaker is play- ing laying his political cards carefully. He plans no hurried session of Parliament. He will be delay- ing fatties in the conviction that the Socreds when September rolls around will be more than anxious to remain at their desks in the House of Com- mons for at least one session. The great majority of the So- cial Credit members have nev- er been inside the Parliament buildings. They may want to savour the' fruits of office as M.P.'s. Mr. Diefenbaker will play 'out his hand as- he thinks Mr. King would have played the same cards. But there are several jokers in the deck, and they,all carry Soared lbbels, which is a serious accident con- sidering his age. * * * From The Huron Expositor July 1, 1887 Mr. Arthur Forbes has just added a handsome anSl comfort- able new canopy top-`two-seate'd double carriage to his 'already extensive livery stock. It was built by Mr, 'Pilman. There are 29 writing here for second-class teachers' certifi• sates, and 64 for entrance to high school. The former occu- pied the skating' rink, and the latter the high . school. Mr. John Hannah, proprietor From The Huron Expositor July 5, 1912 Mr. Box is having a cellar dug and a cement foundation placed under one of his cottages which is situated next to St. Thomas' Church. Dr. Scott, Seaforth, has over 60 varieties of roses in bloom in his garden this year. Several are complaining of a short hay crop this season, but Mr. D. Grummett, in Harpur- hey, has a field of timothy which measures four feet in length and is thick in purpor- /ion. , The weather for the ..pastfew days has been very warm and rain is badly needed to stimu- late vegetation and lay the dust. Mr. Thornton, of , McKillop, who is 112 years of age, had the misfortune to fall and frac- ture his hip on Wednesday, By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER THE WAY OF LIFE .The Psalmist wrote that "a horse is a vain thing for safety" and it may be observed that in all the ages since quadrupeds have been the means of travel for men the safety factor has not been greatly improved. of Seaforth: andLondesboro creameries, has sold the butter made at these creameries dur- ing May and up to the 23rd of June. From the Londesboro creamery he sold 23,162 pounds and from the Seaforth cream- ery, 20,850 pounds. The price realized was 181 cents per pound, being one cent per pound- more than was realized last year at this time. -Messrs. Forbes and Donovan's trotting horse took second mon- ey at the Stratford races in his class, and could easily have tak- en first, but it is said he was kept back so as to prevent him making a record. It may seem a very poor atti- tuda, when the financial experts are crying blue ruin, the news- papers are demanding action, the Prime Minister is running to the hoekshop, and everybody is being warned to tighten his belt, but I'm just about to Com- mence two months holidays. There will be a short pause here while all my old colleagues in the weekly newspaper busi- ness vent their feelings. I can hear the cries, just as well as though they were in the room, of;, "Good old Bill, he deserves it!"; and, "Congratulations, old boy, I hope you enjoy every minute of it!"; and a few other things. Never mind, chaps, I know how you feel, and I ap- preciate it. * * * But I can't help it. Just be- cause I decided my true voca- tion lay in guiding young lives, in nuturing the tender plants of our youth, in bringing to bloom the personalities of our richest resource, there's no need to carry on so. And, of course, you realize that these holidays are noth- ing but a nuisance to the dedi- cated pedant.: We deeply de- voted teachers feel nothing but intense irritation at this unfor- tunate summer interruption in our calling, caused by the ab- sence of pupils. Most of us can scarcely wait for Labor Day to roll around. After all, you can get pretty sick of tramping around some old golf course, day after day. And you can get mighty bored just sitting there in the hot sun, drinking beer' and pulling in the bass. SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley pure escapism, trying, as it were, to deal with the gigantic, menacing vacation with one blow. No, I had to face up to it. -There was no easy way out. I knew I would have to suffer through everyone of those ,sixty -odd days( as they advanc- ed on- me in Indian file. It's taken me' about a week of hard work, but I think I've come up with a creative, ad- venturous approach to t h.e. whole troublesome problem. The first thing I realized was that I'd have to keep busy ev- ery moment. With this in mind, I drew up the following schedule: The hazards of travel and transportation have followed men from the days of remote antiquity. "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do busi- ness in great waters" at last built a vessel that would out- ride all the winds that blow came to doom iti contact with a mighty iceberg in the waters of mid-Atlantic. Improved high- ways have become ways for en- gines of death tp leave their ghastly wrecks, and the airplane has mocked time and space but has hurled death from the sky. But there is a highway, de- scribed in Holy Writ in figures drawn from the time, where no lion and other ravenous beast shall be found and springs of water shall be found in the des- ert, and along which the- re- deemed shall journey to ever- lasting life. This is the way that Chris- tian entered upon in Pilgrim's Progress and by his faith and the. grace of God came ..to the blessed place where he could see the gate of the Celestial city shining beyond the river of death: M * * Leap smartly out of bed no later than 10, every. Morning, unless I'm tired. Straight' out into the garden, in bare feet and shorts, to Lead the mail while I drink my orange juice. Half an hour of meditation, watch- ing the black squirrels eating wife's radishes. Walk (no driving) downtown, and peruse 'same. over coffee in restaurant with prettiest wait- ress in town. Walk home, un der the maples, wondering wha: the poor - people are doing to- day. Remove beaded bottle from refrigerator, detach cap, consume contents s 1 o w 1 y. Lunch, in garden. Short nap in lawn chair, while sun passes zenith. * * * Waken, shave, dress. Fulfill afternoon obligation—boat ride through the islands, game of golf, fishing jaunt, or swim and sunbathing. Home. Shower. Tall, tinkling drink. -Dinner, served outside, of barbecued steak, baked potato, fresh green beans or young carrots, salad. Coffee. Brandy. - Read novel, under the oaks,. lulled by sounds of summer evening — children's piping, birds' lullabies, distant band .concert. Sit out until long af- ter dark, smoking good, cigar and pondering ways of God and man. Go in, prepare small snack, retire to study, watch all late movies until all stations off air. Bed. * * * This, I know, is the only way I can fight off that wild desire to get back into that ,classroom and manage, somehow, to get through those two grueling months. I can only .save my vanity if I stick closely to my program. And I intend to. do just that. . Provided, of course, that I can disposeof the Jog and cat,. sell my two children into slavery, and send my wife to visit her uncle in. Ireland. * * * Perhaps my real trouble -is. that I'm not used to holidays. As any weekly editor can tell you, they're almost non -exist - tent in that game. ' In fact, I haven't had a decent holiday in the last 15 years. ,I'm like a man who has never been far- ther:than the next town, and who is suddenly offered a plane ticket to any place in the world he wants to • go. He's bewilder- ed. He's scared. He doesn't know what to do with it. Because I know. it's .going to be a traumatic experience, I've had to do a lot of careful plan- ning. Otherwise, I just know I'd crack up under the pres- sure of all that free time. At first, I planned big: write a novel; take a trip to the West Coast, or the East Coast; canoe through Algonquin Park. * * But it wasn't lohg until I re- alized that sort of thinking was Just a Thought The most dis'concerting thought about the possibility of death is that we cannot expect to receive the warning many of us would require if we could set our affairs—and our lives— in proper order. A SMILE OR .TWO The draftee was awakened roughly by his platoon serge- ant after the rookie's first night in the army barracks. • "It's four -thirty!"' roared the sergeant. "Four -thirty!" gasped the re- cruit. "Man, you'd better get to bed. We've got a big day to- morrow!" Today, besides enriching the lives of thousands, adult edu- cation is required to assist in necessary adjustment to the stresses of change. Asked a woman in an art shop, "You don't consider this horrible thing art, do you?" "Igo, madam," . replied the dealer, "you're looking in a mirror." IAIF$AST 1iEEII 1