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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1962-09-06, Page 2Sime 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 i Ontario. Weekly Newspapers Association - ' / n n \ 0 Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rates: 0\Ml11 U/ Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year 0 Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year V 1. P ` SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second, Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER. 6, 1962 Little Interest in Short Train Rides A move by Goderich Council to pre- vail on the CNR to provide increased passenger service on the Stratford- Goderich line has met with little en- thusiasm in a number of quarters. The lack of concern results from a conviction that the public generally no longer wants to ride on a passenger train if any alternative method is avail- able. Typical of this reaction is com- ment by the St. Marys Journal -Argus. After reviewing the reasons fsik the request by Goderich, the Journal -Argus has this to say : "We do not know very much about ' the passenger traffic on this rail line from Stratford to Gode- rich,., but one day last week we did see a passenger train on it near Stratford and a total . of three passengers' were Congratulations, Mr. Southcott Congratulations to J. M. Southcott, who this week marked the sixtieth anni- versary of his entry into the weekly newspaper business. The publisher of the Exeter Times - Advocate began his career with the Exe- ter Times on September 2, 1902, when he was 15. In the sixty years that have passed he has continued his association with the newspaper business in Exeter. The dean of Huron publishers, Mr. Seluthcott has been with the weekly press through a period of tremendous development, both in a mechanical sense and in the service its renders its co-m- munity. He has been consistent in appreciat- ing and in taking advantage of these developments. With his sons, Robert and Donald, who have been associated with him in recent years, he hts seen the Exeter Times -Advocate evolve edi- torially and mechanically to a degree that has earned for it a number' of national awards. In all the years, the newspaper busi- ness has never failed to interest him. He summed it up ;in an interview last week when he said : "It has never deas- ed to be an exciting life which keeps a man young at heart. and interested in the world about him:" We °rather imagine that it was that visible in the two coaches which were being pulled by a double diesel (cap- able of pulling probably ten coaches— and full too) . "In short, when are these centres in various corners of Western Ontario go- ing to stop "kidding themselves about rail passengers that do not really ex- ist? "The sooner they, and everyone else, stop asking for costly service that is entirely unnecessary, the sooner this burden on the taxpayer will be lessen- ed. "And we will not go into the cost figures of running a passenger train from Stratford to Goderich, or vice versa, and carrying three passengers— or less." interest which contributed in no small measure to his success. Here's hoping he will be able to keep it up in the years ahead. Some 'Farmers' There can be littleobjection to assist- ance for farmers to compensate them for those conditions of nature over, which . there can be no control, and which are peculiar to farming. True, there arise problems of administration, but on the whole the advantages out- weigh the disadvantages. One of the difficulties is that compen- sation is applied in areas far removed from what was originally contemplat- ed. Such is the situation in the United States, where federal farm programs have reached such a point of confusion that much of the money paid out is for the purpose of discouraging the grow- ing of farm products. As a result, money that was originally designed as aid to the family farm operation now finds its way to some strange "farin- ers.'n Some beneficiaries (according to Wall Street Journal) are Ford Motor ($5,394), Northern Trust ($31,253), Louisiana State Penitentiay ($45,414), and Waterloo Municipal Airport ($5,- 846). KNOW YOUR CANADA Which great bridge build- ' er became virtual 'dictator of Newfoundland? Sir Robert Gillespie Reid. Born in Scotland in 1842, he went to Australia ` in 1865, where he engaged in gold min- ing and the construction of pub- lic works., He came to Canada in 1871, Encyclopedia ' Cana- diana relates, and soon distin- guished himself as a bridge builder and railway contractor. Reid constructed internation- and Canada, across the Niagara River and between Texas and Mexico, across the Rio Grande. He bridged the Colorado at Aus- tin, Texas, and the . Delaware River in Pennsylvania. He built the long,famous Lachine Bridge across he St. Lawrence at Montreal in 1886 and the "Soo" Bridge across the Sault. Ste. Marie River in 1887. Later he built stretches of the CPR across the difficult wilderness north of Lake Superior. In 1890 he moved to New - al bridges between the U.S.A. feundland to build the cross - LF �VAST TEE OOA/.4LDS GUT EVERYTHING, A •STRA/GHT :9'AYERAGE...HAND- SOME,.. A NEW CONVERTIBLE ..A STEADY G/.4'L.., C• *4w ♦ Vry,; country line from Placentia to Port' aux Basques. He obtained ownership, in 1898, of most of the Island's Crown lands and a virtual monopoly of its trans- portation and communication systems. His family retained immense holdings in Newfound- land until 1923. He was knight- ed' in 1907. * * * How did Calgary start stampeding? The, first organized Canadian stampede was a small affair held in southern Alberta in 1903. But that of 1912, the first one staged in Calgary, was much more ambitious. Accord- ing to Encyclopedia Canadiana, the 1912 Calgary Stampede was an independent venture, the brain -child of Guy Weadick, a young Wyoming cowboy. Al- berta's four most important cat- tlemen decided to back him. Weadick attracted expert rid- ers and ropers from as far away as Mexico and Texas. Most of the prizes went to professional riders from the U.S.A., but Tom Three Persons, a Canadian Blood Indian, won the saddle - bronco championship. The street parade, on opening day, featur- ed 2,000 Indians in ceremonial dress, riding Indian ponies, Mounted Police in scarlet uni- forms, with hundreds of cow- boys, cowgirls and chuckwag- ons. Today the Calgary Stampede has become almost world-fam- ous. It brings Calgary business to a virtual standstill for six days, as the city celebrates its annual fiesta with street shows, square dancing in the streets and a grand cow -boy ball finale. Attendance for the six days of the Stampede now exceeds 500 thousand. Thousands . of Cal- garians don cowboy costumes arid the white ten-gallon hat that has become the Symbol of the Stampede end of the QId West . . (4j j `/ire Wee½ "He just found out what his wife did with his insurance money." A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT LIGHT HEARTED SOUL SEARCH OTTAWA—The hundred or so Conservative : M.P.'s who should have been' doing some sad soul searching in their post- election caucus this week em- erged surprisingly light heart- ed. Some of them were even a little light headed, suggesting that if Mr. Diefenbaker could only be persuaded to dissolve Parliament as soon as it met and call a snap election they could come back with a good majority. But, on the fringes outside the caucus room were some of the casualties. Their story was quite different. They are interpreting the vote on June 18 that cut the Conserva- tive number from 203 to 116 as an anti -Government tide that might well have gone fur- ther. "The trouble is,"' said one, pointing at the closed and guarded doors of the caucus room, "that the people who could tell them why we took a licking are not in there." The Party's national direc- tor, Allister Grosart, had an ex- planation and one that at least makes some sense if it is view- ed in the light of the pollster estimates. Afterthe early pre- campaign figures which showed the ' Liberals well in advance, heargues, the Government stock was going up steadily as the campaign opened. Then came the forced devalution and fixing of the Canadian dollar at the beginning of May, a move that had been planned for after June 18. That ,was a temporary setback but as the campaign progressed there was a steady rise again in Conserv- ative popularity. From all this he reaches the conclusion that if the campaign had lasted an- other two weeks the Govern- ment would have been returned with a comfortable majority. It was just bad luck. The austerity measures an- nounced on. June 24 by a Prime Minister who had been saying everything was rosy did raise a good deal of vocal protest but, to offset that, Party headquar-. ters as well as ministers are re- ceiving mail from Conservatives who admitted freely that they voted against the Government to cut the majority but never meant to put it in a minority position. How much does all this mean? No unbiased Ottawa ob- server would stake his reputa- tion on predicting the result of a snap election at this stage. But it made an excellent tonic for a party caucus. The Prime Minister who marked his first appearance in public- since his accident,, .still leaning heavily on his cane, described it as the most enthusiastic caucus in his experience. Enthusiasm notwithstanding, Mr.. Diefenbaker has no inten- tion of calling a snap election if the decision is left in his hands. He is contemplating a first session of the 25th Parlia- ment starting on September 27, adjourning over Christmas and perhaps well. into January and then carrying on to the late Spring. In spite of Real Caou- ette, the Quebec Social Credit leader and his hue and cry after {Todd, there is good rea- son to believe this is just what will happen. No responsible leader in the THE HANDY FAMILY DADS PLAN MR AN OUTDOOR GRIL. MATERIALS NEEDED: 17 CONCRETE EILOClsS 5 LENGTHS 34' PIPE 18LIC(ET MORTAR CEMENT FILL HOLES WITH CEMENT�1 House of Commons wants the Government defeated this Fall. Mr. Pearson, it is true, is on the horns of a dilemma. In the interests of Party prestige he will not dodge non -confidence motions and • give.- the appear - of keeping the Conserva- tives • in office. On the other hand, he knows better then the Prime Minister himself the pos- sible consequences of defeat. The dilemma has been lessen- ed ' considerably however, ,with the arrival in Ottawa last week of the New Democratic Party leader, T. C. Douglas, with his assurance of Government sup- port. Some of his followers are talking the same way, ready to vote even for a tough austerity prgram, regardless of labor's attitude. Behind this thinking is the unexpected lack of trade union votes for the NDP at the polls. Political considerations aside, a Government defeat and un- certainties of an election cam- paign in the late Fall could bring the May-Fune financial crisis all over again. In spite of the improvement in our ex- change -reserve fund in July, a good slice of it borrowed Am- erican dollars, it is not strong enough to ',stand another run on /the Canadian dollar. Sum- mer tourist money and a slight return of American capital for investment has held it steady, but tourists are dwindling away and capital inflow will be in- sufficient to offset year-end in- terest anddividend payments. In spite of official denials fur- ther borrowing in New York, this time probably- on the open market, seems inevitable. If added to these normal busi- ness transactions there should develop another flight of capi- tal due' to lack of confidence in Canadian investment and the Canadian dollar we would be in trouble. Mr. Diefenbaker knows this. Mr. Pearson knows it. In all:Probability Mr. Douglas and Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson realize it. Only Mr. Caouette either doesn't know or refuses to believe it and, fortunately, Mr. Caouette by himself can upset no apple cart.' * * * Capital Hill Capsules The Treasury Board has fin- ished its final slashing of the Government's expenditure bud- get and is ready to start pre- paring its revised estimates. The total cutback Is in the neighborhood of $180 million. If anything more is added it will be window dressing. While this is still short of . the quarter billion dollar cut pledged by the Prime Minister it is quite an achievement at this stage of the fiscal year when a good por- tion of the money has already been spent. * *„ In spite of its obvious popu- larity with Canadian business, appointment of Kenneth LeM, Carter, Toronto chartered ac- countant, to head a new Royal Commission on Taxation, is be- ing viewed with a jaundiced eye by the opposition. Liberals are making much of the fact that this is the 17th Royal Com- mission set up by the Difen- baker Government. Mr. Diefen- baker says he is still four short of Mr. St. Laurent's record but then his Government hasn't had quite as many years in office. BY LLOYD 131R51411111AM HAROI.V.YUU'RE GETTING 5O GOOD AT OUTDOOR COOKIKe, 1 THINK, I'LL LET )OU DO ALL THE COMA,* 114I9 SUMMER I WAS AFRAID YOUb SAV THAT,/ 445nd 4',PIDE'3 Or Bow .4 IN THE; YEARS AOO'NE • Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor Of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor September 3, 1937 James Ballantyne, sitting member for Huron in the Pro- vincial Legislature, was chosen to contest the riding in the forthcoming provincial election at an enthusiastic Liberal con- vention, held in the Town Hall, Hensall, on Wednesday. Work on Seaforth's new side- walks will commence Tuesday morning, town clerk D. H. Wil- son has been advised. At the request of the local Board of Health, the Seaforth Lions Club park committee has drained the swimming pool at the park. Miss Mary Holmes was suc- cessful in winning the Univers- ity of 'Western Ontario scholar- ship, based on the results of the recent Upper School exam- inations. Mr. John M. Hinchleyl for- merly of Seaforth and well- known golfer, defended the championship of the Owen Sound Golf and Country Club last week. Mr. Frank Garrett, of Tuck- ersmith, has gone to Petrolia to begin his teaching duties. Mr. F. Townsend has been doing some carpenter work for Mrs. Sperling, who has pur- chased the Perdue house in .,Clinton. Mr. Giff Crich happened with a nasty accident on Saturday last. He fell several feet, hit- ting his ,bead on a sharp edge of a board, causing a gash which necessitated a number of stitches. * * * From The Huron Expositor September 6, 1912 • Several threshing outfits have been shipped from, The Bell En- gine & Thresher Works here to the western provinces this week, and there are more to follow. An old stable on the proper- ty of Mr. Constable, in the rear of the Byrne's livery stable, was burned Monday night. Miss Barbara Sproat, of Eg- mondville, has taken a position in a dry goods store in Gode- rich, and she left for that place on Monday. Owing, to the scarcity of coal, By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER SEPTEMBER There are months that seem to arouse in us a group of fan- cies as fond recollections and blessed memories of the past conte trooping down the av- enues of thought. To the writ- er, September is such a month, not only because he was born on its twentieth day, but also because it has brought to him some of his brightest days. The month is remindful of an old song the Writer learned in his youth from one who no longer walks at his side; In the sweet gloom of this Sep- tember day, I wander through the paths we two have trod, And still along the dear famil- iar way Grow the blue aster and the goldenrod. Don't ask why the heart may quicken its beat, for there are "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears" and too deep for telling except to the silence of one's own soul:'"` If perchance the very thought of goldenrod may cause the hay fever victim to sneeze, think of the blue aster which is the very flower' of September and grows still "along the dear familiar way." Let , us hope that this Sep- tember may not provide a date for the beginning of a third world war, as it had a date for the beginning,of the second. A SMILE OR TWO Hard work never killed any- body—but why take a chance being the first victim. "Since we now have $900 in the treasury, I think an audit is justified. I so move." "Mr. Chairman, I recall when our treasurer took office a year ago, the deficit was $700. Why not leave well enough alone?" Two celebrants registered at a hotel and asked for tWin beds` In the darkness and confusion they both got into the same bed. "Hey," yelled the first drunk, "They gypped ' me. There's another guy in my bed." "'There's somebody in my bed, too," sai dthe second drunk. "Let's throw them out." There was a terrific struggle and finally one drunk went sail- ing out of bed. "I threw mine out," the one in the bed yelled. "How about you?" "110 threw me otttl" "Well, that makes us even," whispered ,the first drunk. "KeCp 4uiet.and..get in bed with the dealers are delivering sev- eral carloads of coke for qiuse in both furnaces and ranges, and it is said to make a very satisfactory substitute. Mr. A. D. Sutherland has been appointed secretary of the Sons of Scotland as successor to Mr. Thomas Richardson. Mr. Dan Nash has -leased the. Seaforth cider mill and will run it this season. Farmers are busy drawing in grain this week. The grain is not in good condition, but the weather is threatening and farmers fear they -shall lose, especially grain which has been in the,stook for some time if more wet weather comes. New Jersey potatoes are sell- ing at $3.25 per barrel this week, while new Ontario pota- toes are 90c a bushel. The Grand Trunk Railway are having the yard at Hensall levelled and have nicely filled in where the old freight shed stood. Mr. H. R. Scott, Seaforth, has had his show windows neatly fitted up in the most modern style. * * From The Huron Expositor September 9, 1887 At a meeting of the Town Council, held Monday evening, the rate of taxation for the present year was fixed at 20 mills on the dollar, which is just one mill higher than last year. Mr. M. R. Counter has been appointed District Deputy Grand Regent for the• Royal Arcanum Order. His district comprises the counties of Hur- on and Perth. Mr. William Fowler has rent- ed his 200 -acre farm on the Huron Road to Messrs. Price and Jarman, for a term of three years, at an annual rental of $500 per annum. Mr. Alexander Wilson, Sea - forth, has again won a position on the Wimbledon team, stand- ing eleventh on the list of twenty. This is the third time Mr. Wilson has won a position on the team. This is the finest time of the year for Canadians. Collective- ly and individually, we are as happy as hogs when we clam- ber out of the scramble of sum- mer and into the sweetness of September. Who wouldn't be a school teacher during the first week of September? Those long, bor- ing monotonous two months of holidays are finally ended, thank goodness. And there you are, as delighted as Daniel in the lion's den, just chuckling with good spirits as you face 30 to 49 kids who are just bustling With health and hellery, and who are all ready, willing and able to turn you into one big, quivering twitch in a .matter of weeks. * * •* Who wouldn't be a farmer when September rolls around? Cattle so fat they can scarcely walk. Golden grain up to your navel. Nothing to do but jog aroundto fall fairs. Not a worry in the world. Except that the bottom might fall out of the cattle market the day you ship. Or a hailstorm will arrive the day before the combine does. Wild wouldn't be a resort op- erator in September? Your pests of guests all vanished with Labor Day. Nothing to do but sit around and count the. profits and plan the trip to the coast. Or count the 10 long months before there'll be any more money coming in, and plan a trip to town to see the bank manager and make a pay- ment. * * * Who wouldn't be a weekly editor as September dawns anew? Just back from the an- nual convention, where you dined and wined and whined with the best of them. Feel- ing tike-" a skeleton and con- fronted with a mass of editor- ials and six obituaries to write, rather surprised that your own isn't one of them. Name one - lady who would not be .a mother in the first few days of good old Septem- ber. Gone are the dreary days of summer, when there • was nothing to do but be, around in your lawn chair, trying to get your bosom tanned. Arriv- ed„are the gladsome days when life begins at 7:30, and the hours, instead .of dragging, are SUGAR and SPICE .By Bill Smiley filled with happy little domes- tic tasks right through until you careen into bed at midnight. :k :k * Yes, indeed, it's a happy, hap- py time for one and all, and just to add a little extra fillip to your joy, there is the know- ledge that winter is coming and ,your relatives don't visit you Muchin winter. Then, there's the anticipation of a few'"wee'ks of nature's fin- est effort in the weather depart- ment, during the weeks ahead. A chance for a last fling at the trout, without having to clam- ber over an assortment of tour- ists to get near ,a stream. The joyous realizatiothat the wo- men have abandoned the golf links, and the fairways echo only to the tread of strong, sit- ent, male golfers, the veins throbbing in their foreheads as they fight back the naughty words. * * * There is the. ineffable joy of knowing that the children are back under the benevolent wings of the educational and social systems; that for the next 10 months they'll be com- pletely and happily occupied with. homework. Cubs, Brown- ies, Sunday School, parties, mus- ic lessons and what -have -you, and that you won't have to take them for a blasted swim or picnic or something every time you show yourself around the. rancho. . Oh, there's a certain sadness in the knowledge .that summer isover, but that lasts only a day or se. Any red-blooded Canadian knows deep in his boots that summer is not real, but merely a state of mind, that it has no more substance, ,no more staying power in .this -true north strong and free, than a pleasant dream. * * * Summer is strictly for wom. en, children and tourists. For . men,' it's just a matt of run- ning in circles for 69. days,. and getting not only hot, but no- where. Come September, the average'Canadian male -comes into his own. He breathes a sigh of relief, gets that well- worn shoulder 'to that familiar wheel, and begins to enjoy life, instead of merely plunging about like a dart in a wind- storm, as he does in July and August. 11,.IIn, Wulurn, S,nJIa1, YOU NAVE A RATE WITH NELSON!.. -YES, INE BEEN OuT WITH HIM, LOUISE, HE'S V woN� ReRFUL! • OH, HE DANCES DIVINELY AND HE'S 50 COMPLIMENTARY AND SWEET___ HE'LL TAKE YOU ANYWHERE YOU WANT TO GO .-HAVE A NICE TIME___OH, Z ALMOST FORGOT-.. __BRING YOUR OWN MONEY, • t y • s • y M r 4 • • M N, • i, ti: