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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, DECEMBER 6, 1962
The ; Year Ahead Important To the Town
The result of the mayoralty contest
in Seaforth on Monday will naturallyi
bring keen disappointment, to Mayor
Daly, who lost out to Councillor Earl
Dinsmore, in an election that saw
slightly over 60 per cent of the eligible
voters cast ballots.
His disappointment, however, will be
tempered somewhat by the knowledge
that the administrative and financial
affairs of the town are in a much im-
proved condition when compared to the
situation that existed when he took
office over two years ago.
Tax arrears at that time were out
of hand ; bank lOanshad reached new
heights, and administrative proee-'
(lures in many instances had broken
down. Encouraged by his quiet persist-
ence, council took necessary steps to
the end that today the town's admini-
stration is equal to the best.
Mayor -elect Dinsmore, while a ,rela-
tive newcomer to Seaforth municipal
politics, where he served one year on
council, has a solid background of'muni-
cipal experience, For nine years -he
was a member of Sault Ste. Marie coun-
cil, and brings to his new responsibili-
ties the benefit of that experience.
Seaforth is in the midst of a long
delayed program to improve municipal
Why Not a Community
Demand higher education, cou-
pled with increasing numbers of teen-
agers approaching university age, has
placed established universities in the
unenviable position of attempting to
expand facilities in order to cope with
the flow.
.In the process, the universities face
the danger of being swamped by stu-
dent members, according to noless an
authority than Dr. M. Ross, president of
York University: Such a rate of ex-
pansion could forcer them to cut back
on research, water down teaching stan-
dards and in effect turn them into edu-
cational factories, Dr. Ross said. Un-
like so many speakers who point up a
problem but offer no `solution, Dr.
Ross suggests the answer is a network
of community colleges throughout the
province. Each could provide two and
three-year courses and thus cut the
cost to the student who could live at
services and streets, and while the
groundwork has been completed and re-
lationships with other senior govern-
ments negotiated, there remain cer-
tain decisions regarding the program
to be citetermined. " •
The program now under way to pro-
vide added sewer service and to bring
two major traffic arteries—Goderich
and North Main Streets—to present-
day standards, can have a bearing on
the development of the town far years
to come. It is most important that any
decisions affecting the work are made
in the light of the benefit• to the town
as a whole, and with appreciation of
future requirements. Any other course
can not fail to be a costly expedient.
Members of council, too, will have a
particular responsibility to ensure that,
the town's business is conducted in a
fitting manner and with proper decor-
um. There is no place in the conduct of
municipal business for personalities.
Certainly, members of council are ho
strangers to municipal work, and un-
der the experienced hand of Mayor -
elect Dinsmore can be expected to con-
tribute to the continued improvement.
of Seaforth as a town. .Everyone, .we
know, wishes them well in the year to
come.
College At Seaforth?
home and commute. Too, a great deal
of the $500 million cost which a uni-
versity expansion program is estimat-
ed to cost would be saved.
There is no reason, for insta ce,'why
such a college at Seaforth buld not
serve many of the potential university
students from Huron and Perth. We
are centrally located ; we can provide
adequate surroundings, 'and we .have a
tradition of scholarships from the days
of the Seaforth Collegiate Institute. In
the two counties are some hundreds of
boys and girls anxious for higher edu-
cation, but who are denied the bene-
fits which university can bring by
by either too high costs or admission
hurdles.
Premier Robarts has promised a
good look at education as it is carried
on in Ontario. Such a look might well
be directed, as Dr. Ross suggests, to
providing additional community col-
leges.
KNOW YOUR
Was Canada well prepar-
ed for World War Two?
No. After the First Great
War ,Canada reduced her arm-
ed forces to insignificance, de-
spite the surprisingly large con-
tribution she had made in that
conflict. Canadian rearmament
made a tiny beginning" in 1936,
When the world situation began
deteriorating rapidly, owing to
Fascist aggressiveness. Never-
theless, when Canada declared
war in September 1939, she had
just over '4,000 full-time sol-
diers, 2,000 sailors 'and 2,400
airmen. The non - permanent
militia had about 5,000 men en-
rolled.
They were still armed, al-
most entirely, with the weapons
of 1918. Peacetime military pol-
icy changed considerably at the
end of World War Two. The
armed forces were greatly re-
ducedbut not, to insignificance:
The lowestannual expenditure
on the Canadian armed forces,
since World War Two, was that
for 1947 and 1948—$196,000,000.
In' addition to a small par-
ticipation in the Korean war,
Canada also maintain soldiers
and airmen in Europe, serving
under NATO command and she,
plays a part commensurate with
her relative strength in the
North American Air Defence.
Organization. The contrast be-
- tween the comparative pre-
paredness of today and the int -
potence of 1939, up to Septem-
ber of that year, is substantial.
* * *
Did the Indians of the B.
C. interior live welt before
the Whites arrived?
They did. Staples oftheir
diet were saltnon, deer, moose,
berries and roots. They wore
akin, clothing and made excel
lent baiiiet:t and canoes. These
Iftdiani h*d winter honiieit that
Vette' largely undergroutidi tor
CANADA
warmth. Their. houses were
grouped in semi-permanent vil-
lages, often located at river
junctions. In summertime the
families took to living ih skin
tepees. They traded extensive -
1y ..with _neighboring._ tribes, The
family was the important social
unit and there was no govern-
ment beyond the band. These
Indians ,are generally known as
they Interior Salish. They are
grduped into four tribes — the
Okanagan, Shuswap, Thompson
and Lillooet. A fifth tribe, the
Lake Indians, are very similar,
This group of tribes probably
numbered about 6,000 before
the white man came. The "bene-
fits" of civilization have reduc-
ed this once -carefree people to
1500.
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"What's this about you wanting your own key to the washroom?'
A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT
THEY KNOW NOT WHAT
OTTAWA—Early in Novem-
ber, the Liberal opposition in
the House of Commons called
on the Government to establish
cial committee to examine
da's national defence. The
response from Prime Minister
John Diefenbaker was non -com-
mittal undertaking to consider
the proposal, which is still the
last word on the subject from
that corner..
In few areas of Government
policy is there such a crying
need for a searching examina-
tion by Parliament as in that of
defence. Although the nature
of the defence problem is un-
dergoing a revolutionary change
in this terrifying and bewilder-
ing new era of nuclear bombs
and ballistic missiles, not in the
five years it has been in office
has there been a comprehensive
statement on the defence poli-
cies being pursued by the Gov-
ernment. ,
A year and a half ago, De-
fence Minister Douglas Hark-
ness pathetically complained:
"Strangely enough, it is always
the Government that is berated
for not clarifying defence pol-
icy. I find this rather hard to
understand at times, for we
have stated our policy clearly
and we have shown how we are
implementing it."
As a matter of fact, virtually
all observes of the political and
military scene are unanimous
in their belief that of all the
policies of the Ministry, none is
so obscure as that on defence.
That there is any' sort of a
comprehensive policy of any
kind instead of just a patchwork
quilt of expedients is open to
serious question. In his insist-
ence to the contrary, Mr. Hark-
ness sounds like one of those
wonderfully perverse charac-
ters in Alice in Wonderland.
The ludicrous position of the
Government on tht. question of
acquiring nuclear 'weapons for
Canadian forces is probably
appent to most Canadians re-
gardless of whether or not they
are in favor. More important but
less apparent is the -issue in-
volved in the role that flie forc-
es themselves should- be called
on to play in this nuclear age.
It was in February, 1959, that
Prime Minister Diefenbaker an-
nounced the Government would
acquire weapons capable of car-
rying nuclear warheads, the,
latter remaining under the. cus-
tody and control of the United
States until they were released
to Canadian forces by the Presi-
dent. Since then Canada and
the Ugited States between them
have invested over $750,000,000
in various kinds of carriers de -
'signed particularly to carry nu-
clear warheads.
These weapons include Hon-
est John rockets fqr the army
brigade in Europe, i eight squa-
drons of CF -104 tactical bomber
planes being shipped to Europe
to re-equip the RCAF air divi-
sion, two batteries of Bomarc
anti-aircraft missiles in north-
ern Ontario and Quebec, five
squadrons of CF- 01 Voodoos
asquired from th U.S. on a
swap deal for No American
air defence.
All but the CF -104s are in
service, but no provision has
been made to have nuclear war-
heads made available for any
of these carriers in the event'
of an emergency, nor can they
be provided quickly in time of
need, as the Government has
contended.
T h e Conservative ministry
has at various times and with
varying emphasis used a num-
ber of pretexts to justify its
absurd position. It has suggest-
ed it would impede progress to-
ward disarmament, or, altern-
ately, that Canada would not
secure the kind of joint control
it was demanding without a
change in U.S. law which was
impossible. What it alt seems
Middle Age: That time of life
when yott begin to wonder if
you Still want to do the. thinga
you've always wanted• to do.
to boil down to is•that,the Gov-
ernment has allowed itself to be
driven into a completely inde-
fensible position that exposes it
to ridicule both' at home and
abroad by a small but highly
vocal group of bomb -banners.
The strange thing is that it
started out with a perfectly de-
fensible position: it would bend
every effort to bring about
world disarmament, but until a
satisfactory agreement had been
reached it had a responsibility
to help maintain the most ef-
fective defence possible by mak-
ing its contribution to the nu-
clear deterrent.
Appalling as it may be, the
main security against the out-
break of a nuclear war today
appears to lie in. the existence
of the United States' powerful
nuclear force, A secondary line
of protection may ' depend on
the existence of some conven-
tional forces'capable of meeting
a limited attack on some front
without the use of nuclear wea
pons that would be almost cer-
tain to precipitate all-out war.
A number of Canadian military
authorities have suggested that
the role of Canada's forces
should be governed by those
precepts.
Canada today has or is build-
ing 20 anti-submarine destroy-
ers at enormous cost and is
planning construction of another
eight super -destroyers at a to-
tal cost of 240,000,000. For what
purpose? No one expects they
are going to be required for
the kind of convoy duties that
occupied the Canadian navy in
the last,war, The greatest threat
comes from nuclear submarines
armed with intermediate range
ballistic missiles carrying nu-
clear warheads capable of de-
stroying whole industrial areas.
Defence Minister Harkness
stoutly •defends the Canadian
navy as second to none in its
ability to track down enemy
submarines. No spokesman for
the Government has ever yet
dealt with the basic point, which
is that the limitations on the
ability' of any naval system to
detect submarines underwater
is So severe that the RCN could
not give any reasonable assur-
ance that it could prevent one
enemy craft from firing its dead•
ly cargo.
The army has a brigade group
in Germany which has some
justification when NATO was
first established, but it is now
little more than a token force
that is maintained at great ex-
pense. Tens of thousands of
army personnel are maintained
in Canada whose main function
is supposed to be that of a sur-
vival force in the event of nu-
clear attack, but very little has
been done by the Government
to provide for the survival of
the civil population in the ev-
ent of attack.
What role is intended to ,,be
fulfilled by the eight squadrons
of CF -104 -ground attack planes
designed to operate as , small,
tactical nuclear bombers has
never been explained, nor has
it been explained how this force
contributes to the maintenance
of the deterrent. At home the
size of the interceptor force
has been reduced from nine to
five squadrons and they are
armed with conventional wea-
pons only. Mr. Harkness sug-
gests that even if they shot
down an enemy bomber its nu-
clear load would still explode,
whereas if they used nuclear -
tipped missiles the bomb itself
would be destroyed relatively
harmlessly.
Despite the urgent need for a
thorough examination of all
aspects of Canada's defence set-
up, there does not seem to be
cause for much optimism that
the Government will create an
effective committee. Having
avoided any ' comprehensible
statement of defence policy for
five years, it is hardly likely
that the Government *ill change
its ways at this stage. In the
meantime, Canadian taxpayers
will go on shelling' out more
than $i.ti billion for they know
not whet.
IN THE YEARS A O N E interesting item gleaned from
The Exposit#tr of 25, 50
and 75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor .-
December 3, 1937
A meeting of the permanent
Seaforth 0141 Boys' committee
was • held this week when C.
Aberhart was appointed secre-
tary, and J. G. Mullen, treasur-
er. William Ament is presi-
dent.
Mr. Thomas Purcell has mov-
ed McKillop township crusher
to Thomas Spott's pit near Sea -
forth, and will operate there if
the weather continues favor
ably.
For the first time in 16 years
Hensall will have no municipal
election. All offices in the vil-
lage were filled by acclamation
on Monday evgening, members
of the 1937 council and school
board being re-elected.
At the annual graduation ex-
ercises of Ontario Hospital,
Lake Shore Road, Miss Florence
Blair, of Blyth, won first prize
and diploma for "Principles and
Practices of Nursing."
Mr. William Sinclair, of Kip -
pen, who has got nicely settled
in the village, purchased a nice
cow from a gentleman in Eg-
mondviile during the past week.
Quite a number of farmers
in Kippen are taking quanti-
ties of seed to Exeter to have
it cleaned by Jones & May, of
that place.
The many friends of Billy
Austin will be sorry to know
he is in Seaforth Hospital.
*
From The Huron Expositor
December 6, 1912
It is a pleasure to state 'that
Mr. Frank L. Eberhart, of Staffa,
a graduate of the Seaforth Col-
legiate Institute, headed the
honor list of his year.
The hog buyers of Hensall
have been receiving and ship-
ping away large numbers and
keep up an A-1 market.
The farm of George Robb, of
Morris, adjoining Brussels, has
been leased to Harvey Brya�5
The new steel bridge, know
as the Clegy bridge, is now com-
pleted on the fifth line of Mor-
ris Township.
Electric lights have been in-
stalled in the curling and skat-
ing rink, replacing the old gas
lights.
Mr. Elliott, of the Seaforth
laundry, is having the front of
By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
THE PLANET MARS
It may be significant of the
Russian character that they
have now left the mild moon
behind and are sending a
rocket toward Mars, who was
named for the classic god of
war. For doubtless they would
learn, while ostensibly seeking
peace, all that is possible about
making war. And they will
need , all the knowledge they
can acquire if they take on the
United States.
To turn to' less tragic things.
It is beyond us to imagine how
much good could be done if the
billions of wealth now spent in
space exploratipn could be us-
ed in feeding the hungry mil-
lions of earth. Also -in projects
that would make the earth a
better place to live, with ob-
structions spanned and caus-'
ing the desert to stir with new
life and blossom as the rose.
This is written without de-
sire to detract from the glory
of astronauts who have ridden
satellites around the world.
Their fame is secure in the an-
nals of the ages. But it would
seem that 'billions spent on
earth, instead of space, would
bring a greater blessing to man-
kind than a larger knowledge
of the sun and moon and stars.
It is recorded that when the
sons of men were building the
tower of Babe, from the top of
which they hoped they might
look into Heaven, their tongues
were confused and they left off
building. Perhaps the men of
the present are seeking to knom7
too much.
Just a Thought:
Those who are interested in
finding some reward in the
hereafter will always find time
to turn their footsteps in the
direction of good works and
charity.
A SMILE OR TWO
Luke: "You unattached?"
=Lulu: "Naw -just put to-
gether sloppy."
Three men were driving
through the country very late
on a pitch black night. Two were
in the front seat and the, other
in the back, half -asleep. Sudden-
ly, the driver asked the man in
the back to look out of the rear
window and see who the crazy
driver behind them was. For
the past five minutes he had
been trying to let him pass, and
to top it off, his car had only
one light on.
The man looked out the back
and then said very excitedly;
"No wonder he can't class you—
he's on traeksi'
the building fitted up and im-
proved.
Mr. John- McNaughton, of the
third concession of Tucker -
smith, one of the noted horse
breeders,- delivered- to- James
Norris, of Hibbert, a three-year-
old gelding, which tipped the
scales at 1,690 pounds.
* *
From The Huron Expositor
December 9, 1887
The heavy rain of Sunday
spoiled what little sleighing we
had on Saturday.
A number of young people of
both sexes paid a , visit to a
certain house here one night
last week with the expectation
of enjoying a social hop, as they
call it. But imagine their dis-
appointment when they were
told that the proprietor, who
was not a believer in social
hops, would not give the use
of his house for any such pur-
pose.
Mr. John T, Wren, who has
taught successfully for the past
three years in School Section
No. $, is engaged as principal
of Hensall school.
On Sunday night the barn of
Mr. James Gilmartin, of Logon,
was destroyed by fire. While
his son was attending to chores
in the stable, one of the horses
kicked the lantern, upsetting it
and setting fire to the straw.
Mr. Hartley, of Bluevale, lost
a valuable steer on Sunday
morning, the straw stack falling
over and burying it so deeply
it could not get out.
, Had an interesting day in the
city on Saturday. Met an old
friend I hadn't seen in years,
took a long look at a lady with
no clothes on, and was mistak-
en for a wealthy executive by
several waiters, a cab driver
and an art dealer.
It all came about because of
my new winter outfit. In the
clothes department, I had been
Canada's last holdout against
inflation. Ever since the end of
World War II, I had been wait-
ing for the price of men's cloth-
ing to drop back to a sensible
level, so that I could buy an
overcoat.
* * *
Not that I haven't had an
overcoat in all those years. I've
had several, each of them look-
ing like something the Salva-
tion Army had refused to ac-
cept.
When I came home from ov-
erseas in '45, I had no overcoat
and my old air force .trench-
coat was held together by will-
power and a few discreet safe-
ty pins. One, day it fell apart,
literally. A large lady who had
been sitting beside me on a
streetcar got up and walked
away with half my coat dang-
ling from her purse, which had
caught in one of the rents.
k * *
My landlady of the day came
to the rescue. A widow, she
presented me with her late hus-
band's.1928 model overcoat. A
six-footer, he had filled it out
nicely with his 220 pounds. A
five-eighter, weighing in at a
solid 137, I had room for a
small family, in there with me.
But it was a nice gesture, so
I wore it, looking as though ev-
ery day were Hallowe'en.
That one was swiped at a
New Year's Eve party. It's the
only time anything good has
happened to me at one of those
affairs. Luckily, a few days
later, I met an old flying pal
who had gone a bit alcoholic
and had two overcoats. I got.
his second-best for $8.50. It
lasted for a couple of years
until we got a pup.
* *
ter the beast had been
thoroughly trained, and had
ruined every old blanket in the
house during the process, I let
him
sleep on my overcoat, just
for
one night, until we round-
ed some more bedding for him.
Apparently nobody had told
him
that he was thoroughly
trained.
My,
last coat was given to
me by an uncle. It just looked
like
somebody's uncle's over-
coat,
and I just looked like
somebody's uncle in it.
* * *
The other day, sick of look-
ing seedy, I hauled down the
SUGAR •
and
SPICE s
By Bill Smiley
flag. of resistance and hied me
to a gents' emporium. It didn't
help much to discover that
those sombre rags known as
men's overcoats' are about three
times as much as they were in
1945,
However, I plunged the works,
Imported, latest style, British
tailoring. The price staggered
me, but the modesty of my
down payment rather staggered
the clerk. Then, on some mad
whim, I picked up a hat, an
item 'I've never owned, and
clapped it on.
* * *
I looked in the mirror. Don't
ever tell me again that clothes
don't make the man. The bag-
gy -kneed teacher had been re-
placed by a baggy -eyed execu-
tive. The down-atheels column-
ist had given way .to a well-
heeled stockbroker. The only
give-away was below the knees.:
There were the same old shape-
less shoes,with the broken lac-
es tied in granny knots. Other-
wise, a veritable whiskey ad
model.
And that's how I came to be
standing in this art gallery in
the city on Saturday, gazing at
this nude painting. Judiciously.
Rocking a bit on the heels. Purs-
ing the mouth thoughtfully,,
Squinting carefully with the
head cocked on one side. I fig-
ured that was what a man of
distinction would be doing while
he waited for his wife.
* * *
The salesman hovered dis-
creetly. Asked him how much
it was. He said seven -fifty. Told
him I'd take it. He wanted to
know if I'd like a cheque form.
Told him I'd pay cash.. Pulled
out a ten-spot. Simultaneously
discovered that he meant sev-
en hundred and fifty and that.
my wife was standing two feet
behind 'me.
I..wes still trying to convince
her:: that I was interested only
in the remarkable tone of the
painting, when we ran into 'old
John Meisel. Hadn't seen him
since the days when the mob
used to arrive at our place with
a ease of suds, a salami, a gui,
tar and a number of ridiculous
but refreshing ideas. He's a
university professor now.
, * * *
What did we talk about? Old
times? Our teaching jobs?
World affairs? The new book
he's written? Nope. He has
squirrels in his, attic too, and
we spent a happy and profitless
two -.hour lunch discussing
means of eliminating the little
brutes without being cruel.
_. An -interesting_. day_ And, -all _
because I bought some new win-
ter outerwear. It's the first time
my wife has let me go to the
city in the winter for four
years,
ZOOKIE TOOK ME TO
MY FIRST REAL COLLEGE
OTBALL GAME TODAY,
FATHER.
GOLLY, IS
I OOTBALL EXCITING!
__SO IMPRESSIVE.
# CAN YOU TELL ME
• WHAMPRES ED
YOU MOST ABOUT
THE GAME?
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