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The Huron Expositor, 1962-10-18, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH. ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MeLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association O Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year 0 L P ` SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 18, 1962 Hospital Campaign is Announcement this week of a cam- paign to raise $195,000 for the construc- tion of a new Hospital to serve the Seaforth community advances a step further a program that has occupied the Hospital Board for several years. Accommodation at Scott Memorial Hospital has been crowded for a long time, and each year the demand for beds increases. The problem the board faced in planning to meet this need was complicated by the costs involved in enlarging or otherwise modernizing and fireproofing the 80 -year-old hospi- tal building, and by the fact that the Ontario Hospital Services Commission would not agree to provide any grants towards altering the present building. It was at this point that the board, act- ing on the advice of the OHSC 'made the decision that the only practical solution to the hospital problem in the Seaforth community was a .new build- ing on a new site... Since that time, planning has gone ahead in progressive stages. The point Community Challenge now has been reached when it must be determined if funds can be made avail- able to carry out the project. The peo- ple of the Seaforth community are the only people who can provide the an- swer. Federal, Provincial and County gov- ernments make grants towards capita] construction, but these grants fall fare short of meeting costs. The balance then must be obtained through the gen- erosity of individuals, firms and organ- izations. The `charge per day' for hospital care covers only the hospital's operating costs, which include such items as ad- ministration, salaries, wages and main- tenance. These operating costs do• not include any amount for extending or equipping additional hospital facilities when required. Such expenditures are classed as capital costs and must, to a large extent, be met through donations. This is why it is so important that the hospital have the unqualified, and con- tinuing support of the community it serves. Made -To -Order Mates (Kincardine News) Marriage remains one of our current problem's; though some people slyly hint it is not a modern institution. Deep studies are bound to convince that the trouble lies not in marriage but in the,preliminaries. How can the right man and woman' come together when the average man can choose from only 50 to 100 female acquaintances and the average woman's choice is .limited to 10 or 20 men? If she refuses more than twenty, she is stuck. If there is just one, only one for ev- eryone, then the chance of finding the right person is about one in a billion. So ... how does an individual go about making his one chance in a billion ma - A Promise (From the Vancouver Sun) We ,don't.. often urge politicians to abandon their election promises. But today, with all ardor, we -appeal to Prime Minister . Diefenbaker : Please don't gb to the United Nations. Mr. Diefenbaker promised during. the recent election campaign to intro- duce a resolution at the U.K calling for referendums on self-determination in Soviet satellite countries. Now he says he • may attend the forthcoming U.N. General Assembly session to promote the promised Canadian resolution. Like Most Canadians, we share Mr. Diefenbaker's revulsion for Soviet im- perialism. But the embodiment of this sentiment in a U.N. , resolution would be a clumsy travesty of diplomacy, In the first place, the resolution hasn't a :hope of .being adopted. Afro - Asian members of the U.N., recalling Canada's abstention, on last J'une's. resolution urging a new constitution for Southern Rhodesia, couldn't 'be ex- pected to take Mr. Diefenbaker's sud- den passion for self-determination in Russian colonies very seriously, Western bloc members, who know 'that quiet diplomacy accomplishes more than exhortation, would snicker behind their hands at our prime minister's ca- pacity for melodrama and self-delusion. The Communist bloc would, either join in the general merriment, or become annoyed. In either case, they would surrender nothing. In terms of moral force or practical effect, the doomed resolution would be less than useless to the • subject peoples in the Russian empire. And we even doubt that it would impress Canada's so-called ethnic voters, who deserted Mr. Diefenbaker in large (numbers on Pune 18. As an independent but pro-Western middle power, we can best contribute ato v4ld peace *,adopting a sane and icontiiliatory role,' When IVir, t ietehbaker adepts the rele o e, self-appointed scourge of coin- he owhe 11.titlettaints the tifective, terialize? In this age of automation ... with a machine, •of course, each person, male and female, is described on a card,, with little' punch boles (like your cradle -to - the -grave cheques). The cards are fed into a machine and matching holes indi- cate the perfect mates. Then, each is notified, Fraulein Snitzenburger in Vienna and Wun Bad Lung in Hong Kong. - The rest is up to the individual or in- dividuals. , Could there .be a bad marriage this way? Yes, a screw might come loose in the machine and we would be back where we are with divorce as the only solution. To Forget ness of this traditional diplomatic pos- ture. Such performances have little effect on the Communist bloc, for the very good reason that Canada is .not a great nuclear power. Mr. Khrushchov, after all, can rattle his rockets. Mr. Diefenbaker can only shake his wattles, in reply. So please, Mr. Prime Minister: For- get this one campaign promise. It won't lose you many votes that you haven't lost already, and there are still plenty of promises that need keeping here at home. Likes Spending Victor Roberts has been arrested be- cause he was found with 3,900 counter- feit 10 -shilling notes. He told Scotland Yank detectives: "It is an inoffensive passion. I just like to carry lots of money, even though it's false."—(Lon- don Daily Express). Without Chimneys Modern industry has transformed the world or, at least, all those parts which benefit from it. It has not been with- out its black side, however, literally and otherwise. It has produced the "black country" of industrial England, the smog -bound Ruhr area in Germany and has cast a dim halo of dust and gloom over many cities on this continent. There is one industry, however, which has no chimneys belching forth soot and grime. That is the tourist in- dustry. The only nasty exhalations are' those of the automobiles cluttering our highways or of the boats on our lakes and rivers. Fortunately the fresh breezes of the countryside soon blow these away. The phrase "chirnneyless industry" as `applied to tourism has come to us 'via Mexico, a country where this indus- try is an integral and most important Bart of the economy. Tourism certain- ly ranks „alnong the cleanest of all in- duiitrfes:-Wflideor;:I§tars i 'IN' THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor October 15, 1937 The district received the first touch of winter on Thursday evening of last week, when snow fell for nearly three hours, Harry H. Cook, B.A.; Sc., hon- or graduate of Toronto Univers- ity, • has accepted a position as teacher of applied science and engineering at the University. Mr. H. W. Hart has been awarded the contract for build- ing a new house in Dublin for Mrs. Flannigan. The two-storey brick dwelling • 1 n gtaa you spent an enjoy -acne evening, rit'uer— because you certainly didn't spend anything else." A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT SENATE MIGHT FORCE EARLY ELECTION • OTTAWA.—, The House- of Commons seems to be settling down to a`•pattern-•that could keep the 'Diefenbaker Govern- ment in office for a long time. Tempt thein as they will, the Liberals are still unable to luxe the Social Credit group as a whole into their camp. Rant at the Conservatives as they do, when it comes to a showdown they will do "anything rather than precipitate another -elec- tion at the moment. The second Liberal 'want of confidence motion, while it was slightly less challenging than the straight condemnation of. a tight money policy that had been considered, nevertheless nearly took words out of Socred Leader Robert Thom'pson's mouth. It condemned the Gov- ernmentfor imposing taxation without representation. T h e tariff surcharges announced on June 24 were imposed by or- ders -in -council under the auth- ority of two statutes. There is no doubt of either the Iegal or moral right of the Government to do it this way at the time. Not only was no Parliament sitting but the$e was still no Parliament to''sit. But with the opening of the 25th Parliament all this was changed and the Liberals claim that every day that the Difen- baker Government fails to regu- larize the performance by leg- islation or promise of. legisla- tion puts it in an unconstitu- tional position. This may be little more than words. As the former Finance Minister, • Donald Fleming put it, the real constitutional issue', is whether the Government holds the confidence of the House of Commons and, on four 1 occasions so far it has shown technically that it did. On each occasion, of course, the• Social Credit group has lost a. little more face but it would rather lose face than take a chance of. losing seats that bring with them an income of more than $800 a Month. So long as The Socreds feel this way about it, Liberal Lead- er Pearson, whetherhe really wants an election or not, is quite safe in throwing his chal- lenges across the floor at the Prime Minister. It is the best of political strategy, Particular- ly in its effect on Quebec where the Liberals still must count on a good many additional seats if they are to upset the Govern- ment when the time comes. There must be a good many voters in Quebec, already who are puzzled 'about this strange marriage and wondering why on earth they sent these 26 Social Creditlers to Ottawa as a pro- test against the Diefenbaker Government. But it is 'by no means certain that the Liberal's would not wel- come an early election. There are growing signs that they might be ready to force it. The best sign so far has come from the Senate where Liberal Lead- er Ross Macdonald has warned that all Government bills must receive , more than ordinary scrutiny. That, of course, might mean just what it says, that the Liberal Senate majority feels it must do just what. Senators have been 'put there to do. It is being taken however, as a threat of obstruction. If it is that, it may have to be carried out only once. It is a-littltWore than a. year ago that a Senate Liberal ` majority refused to pass an amendment to. the Cus- toms Tariff Act. Instead, it stent it back to the Wise of Com- mons With a major change. In fact, the: change represented a reasonable compromise a n d there were members of the Gov- ernment ' who were• inclined to accept it. But for Mr. Diefen- baker there was no compro- mise. He interpreted the Sen- ate amendment as -obstruction and came within an ace of dis- solving Parliament and calling the election then and there. If the Liberals really want an election now this may be the way to get it. THE BANDY FAMILY ITpBEALOT-,. rLL121CrcNEUP EASIER TO DO MV FOR YOU IN A. IFI HAD A MEWORKLITTLE ' 51FfY, 6UZ�/ basic IN My ROOM Capital Hill Capsules Austerity has had some unex- pected results. The first month of tariff surcharges designed in part at least to stop Canadians purchasing abroad brought a peak volume of imports. DBS figures. for July showed an in- crease • .over the same month last year of 22.4 per cent and from the United States 25.5 per cent: * * * The budget deficit forecast by Finance Minister Fleming in April will not be narrowed by anything like the amount prom- ised by Prime Minister Diefen- baker on June 24. Mr. Diefen- baker estimated his new expen- diture cutback at $250 million and his additional revenues from the tariff surcharges at $100 million for the remainder of the year. Expenditure cuts are below the $200 million markand the new revenues wil be less than -expected. In fact at the moment the state- ment of revenues and expendi- tures is running just about on a level with Mr. Fleming's origin- al budget forecast last April. *- * * The Industrial Development Bank is td have a new president and he will not be a banker. Governor Louis Rasminsky of the Bank of Canada, who has also been President of IDB, is to be relieved of his dual func- tion and will become chairman of the board. The man being sought to replace him will'be a top ranking usiness man. •By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER NEW WORLD "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue" and discovered a new world beyond the western wave. Though tradition tells us that Leif Frickson visited Green- land and the northern shores of our continent about 1000 A.D., and though- the old stone tower at' Newport still stands as an enigma, Columbus still ranks as the. discoverer. An Englishman who visited the country not so long ago, according to the story, was not greatly impressed by t h e achievement of Columbus. Land- ing at New York, he soon took a train for New Orleans. Ac- customed to railway travel in 'his "tight little, isle," he was amazade at the time consumed by the train in reaching New Orleans. When at last the train reach- ed New' Orleans and he went into the street, he found that a parade was in progress. When told the people were celebrat- ing Columbus Day and was re- minded that Columbus had dis- covered America, he repeated, "discovered America," and add- ed, "'Ow' could he 'ave missed it?" Yes, Columbus had a vaster land before him than heknew of when he sailed to the west in 1492; he sailed for India, discovered a new world instead. Let us ever be thankful, unto God for the New World. Just a Thought: When we face the necessity of admitting fault or correcting some mistake, we should re- member that such things are somewhat like a disease—the longer we wait to take action, the more difficult the task be- comes. A SMILE OR TWO There was a bulge in the cheek of a youngster who show- ed up for a fishing rodeo •at Coonskin Park in Charleston, West Virginia. "What have you got in your mouth, son?" asked an atten- dant. "Worms," replied the boy. The doctor gazed pensively at the gawky. teen-ager who sat drooling over a picture of Kim Novak. "Your son," he consoled the anxious parents, "is enter- ing into a developmental phase in which he is simply ga-ga over the female sex. This phase will last about seventy years." ' BY LLOYD DUANDIGHAM DAi'S PLAN FORA 'CORNER TAt LE a, L2' u . Use. VDU/WOOD: JIGSAW '10P, ATTPCI40 'TOP r EfL W PAtWT' of Isaac Rathwell, 11/4 miles ,north of Varna, was burned last Wednesday, along with nearly all its contents. Mr. Charles Brodie has the contract of installing a new furnace in First Presbyterian Church. How many pigs are there in Canada? More than five Million are raised in Canada each year. On- tario and Alberta are the heav- iest producers, followed byQue- bec, Saskatchewan and Mani- toba. About 60 per cent of all Canadian farms raise pigs, av- eraging 14 head apiece, About 90 per cent of all 'pure-bred Can- adian swine registered in a re- cent year Were of the York- shire breed, the Encyclopedia Canadiana states. others of Bri- tish origin are the Berkshire, T a m w o r t -h and Hampshire breeds. In certain areas, Ameri- can breeds such as the Duroc Jersey, Poland China• and Ches- ter White are popular. 'Breeds from Saskatchewan, the Land - race, are gaining in favor among Canadian ' farmers. New breeds are being developed, crossing the dominant Yorkshire and other breeds for greater vigor and economy in commercial pro- duction. _ - * * * • From The Huron Expositor October 18, 1912 Mr. Leo Bristow had the anis- fort►lne to get the first finger of his right hand eut -off and the thumb badly cut and bruis- ed on Friday by coming in con= tact with a saw at which he was working in the furniture factory. Deliveries of coal have been so light this fall that there is now almost a coal famine in Seaforth. Mr. Hughes, a skilled optician, will be at Beatties 5c Store three days next week. Mr, H. Edge has commenced the brickwork on the new Car- negie Library building. Mr. Harry Tyndall, of Tucker: smith, recently picked from his field a turnip which weighed 23 pounds. It is of the Derby Swede variety. Mr. F. Savauge, of the firm of Savauge & $tollery, ; jewel- lers, has purchased the resi- dence of the late Mrs. John Kil- loran, on Goderich St., and will occupy it. A lot of beans and corn have been safely housed in this neighborhood during the past week. Mr. George Brownlee has raspberries in his garden at the present time that are ripe and of good flavor. • * k * From The Huron Expositor October 21, 1887 Mrs. George Sills returned home from Chicago on Friday evening. - Carpenters and workmen of all kinds are so °thronged with work just now that workmen are at a premium, and many of the contractors have their hands so full that they decline taking new contracts of any kind. Some of the fall wheat in the county looks splendid, but a good deal of it has a very sick- ly appearance. lihr. James Weir, of the Royal Hotel, emptied his hotel of spirituous liquors on Wednes- day and sent off the last drop to be had in the house. SUGAR and NCB Sooner or later, someone is going to realize that we Cana- dians possess the most deadly weapon in the world. When this happens, you can say goodbye to the cold war, and you' can be glad you're a citizen of the nation that is about to become dominant in our times. Our leaders haven't tumbled to the devastating potential of this weapon yet, but I have, and I'm willing, with all the fric- tion in the world these days, to let them in on it, to unleash it on the troublesome nations) and to put an end to the perpetual wrangling among the major powers, * * * How many "Halls of Fame honor the deeds' of Canadian athletes? Three—all are of recent ori- gin. The Canadian Amateur, Athletic Hall Of Fame was es- tablished in 1948 by the Ama- teur Union of Canada. The Can- adian holders of amateur world championship's, as well as win- ners of first -place medals at the Olympic games, are usually en- rolled. In 1955 Canada's Sports Hall of Fame was founded at the 'Canadian National 4xhibi- tion in Toronto. Award§ are made by a national selection conimittee of sports writers and broadcasters from all ten prov- inces, says Encyclopedia Can- adiana. Selection is based on winning world championships or, Olympic Medals, or other- wi§e bringing "fame to Canada through sport." Then, in 1957, the Canadian National Exhibi- tion established the National 'Hockey Hall of Fame, housing it in 4uai'ters' separate from the SapbttS Hall of Fame. The names honored Were those of hockey fila er's irethe infer iatio'na11•Iall of wine; Along filth others' who beanie •tl'aia'ous in the- 8arty Ad 'the 'Mme, "either' has e `or riiihjoebr'ghi ixera' of fid 61%kt. * * * . It is a weapon that makes nuclear warfare look like cave- man stuff. It shatters people physically. It wrecks them mor- ally, mentally and emotionally. My only doubt is this: have Canada's leaders the ruthless- ness necessary to turn it loose on humanity? I'm referring, of course, to The Flu, As I sit here tapping out this ringing call to arms with shaky fingers, my nose dripping a steady accompani- ment, my body wracked by hot and cold flushes, I can't help thinking it's a shame to let such a vicious weapon remain strict- ly for home consumption. * * * All our Prime Minister would have to dois.round.up a dozen Canadians who are ,suffering from The Flu. ° He could find them, at any time ofthe year, in any numbers, in any part of the country, Put them on a plane and send them on state 'visits to Moscow, Washington, London, Paris, Peking, Berlin, or any other trouble spot. Let them mingle freely at diploma- tic cocktail parties. I'll guarantee that within a few months, 90 per cent of the people in the world would have The Flu. Wars would cease. In- ternational strife would end. Ev- erybody would be too busy with The F1µ. • * *. Personally, I'd rather be hit by a hydrogen bomb than by The Flu. With the former, you can only be blown to bits or burned to 'Cinders. With the lat- ter, you die a thousand deaths, a couple of times a year, for life. Can't you see those Russian moujilts. reeling . around with fevers, runny noses and hack- ing coughs? They -wouldn't have enough energy to murmur "Nyet!" at the UN. We'd have them on their knees before you could say, "Dniepropetrovsk," '* * * When you have The Flu, you're just not interested in fighting anybody. In the first place, you're so weak you can't lick your lips. In the second, you don't want slaughter; you want sympathy. You may think all this is a bit fanciful, but I know. This week, I haven't even had the strength or -the spirit to fight with my'wife, Instead of walk-' ing around me, my kids just push me out of the way. I was so weak that, when I was chang- ing the goldfish, I nearly went flat on my back when he gave a flip in my hand. * * That's the physical ' aspect. But the psychological effect, is even more horrible. You go around in a cloud of depression. You develop a deep and bitter hatred of everybody: your fam- ily, which seems remarkably un- concerned by the •fact that you're dying; Flu -less friends whose idea of_ sympathy is to tell you about theterrible dose of The Flu they had last, spring; doctors, who tell you the thing to do is go ,to bed for a few days, when it's all y,ou can do to get to bed at nights. Beauty of my- plan for Can- ada's world domination is that there is no defence, no counter•• weapon for The Flu. With the same hideous malevolence, it seeks out high and low, rich and prior. No bomb shelter is deep enough to protect against it. . This little plan to produce world peace is offered to Mr. Diefenbaker and his boys, (if , they're still around when this is printed) for nothing. I don't, want public acclaim, or a large monetary reward, or even a knighthood. All I want is to get rid of my Flu. YOU'RE ALMOST TWENTY MINUTES LATE THIS MORNING, CANDY. OH, X DO, MISS FUSS._ T DIMPLY WASN'T MY FAULT AT ALL... •