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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1963-02-28, Page 2• Since 1860, S ving th"e Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, : 'ery Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers A ,' " rw Y. McLEAN, Editor Member C. 1, • an Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association p • Audit Itureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: = Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year o Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year SINGLE COPIEp — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 28, 1963 Every Small Town Can Be a Shopping Centre ible arrangement, every type of mer- 9handise. By providing adequate park- ing, by tailoring their hours of busi- ness to the wishes of the, public and by various other means, they have at ract- ed. shoppers to the doors of their ops. I The merchants on any sma town main street have it within their capac- ity to create the shopping centre im- pression. They have the shops; they have the variety ; they have the. mer- chandise. By working as a group and .encouraging and inviting the buying public ' to their doors, and by taking advantage of shopping centre mer- chandising techniques,- local merchants can create a main street shopping cen- tre that can compete with the best, re- gardless of where it is located. It's up to the merchants. Recent press announcements indicat- ed that a Toronto group was planning construction of a sh pping centre at Hanover. The ne construction is esti- mated to cost a millio ollars.• Shopping centres are .a relatively new development which have become a fea- ture of merchandising in the more heavily populated centres. Until now there has been little indication of in- terest on the part of promoters in the shopping centre potential of the small- • er centre, ,such as Hanover, or for that matter, Seaforth. Perhaps one of the reasons is that most small , towns are in themselves `heady -made shopping centres. Like their modern counterparts in the cities, they provide a variety of merchandise in a relatively concentrated area. All the main streets of most ck to make them at lea�e equal o and, in many cases„ better than the city shopping centre, is a little bit of mer- chandising know-how and a desire on the part of the merchants to work to- gether. , The shopping entre hasgained its popularity* because those behind them have impressed the buying public that there is available, in a readily access - Frivolous To put the emphasis on a candidate's association with baseball, hockey or any sport, is to skate on thin political ice. Such emphasis has an air of friv- .olrty and of disrespect to the nation, especially so at ' a grave moment in Canadian parliamentary history. — (Cape Breton Post).. -e.e4 N week,,1 IN. TH[ YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from ' The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor February 25, 138 `Edmund Daly and Ian Mac= Tavish, Seaforth radio enthusi- asts, this week will be putting the finishing touches on a new transmitter, which will soon put the former on the air over an - 'other radio station, VE 3ZA. Leaving the safety of their McKillop f arm Wednesday morning, two .innocent calves little thought that before night- fall they would be involved 4n a series of transactions that had police and a community auction sales manager guessing. Ac- cording to police, a farm hand purchased the calves Wednes- day morning on credit and bringing them to town offered them for sale at, thecommun- ity auction sale. The. first of the pair went for $4.75 to a Tuckersmith farmer; the sec- ond , was bought in at $3.00 by the farm hand, who then paid the sale clerk commission on both sales and proceeded to sell the pair..to a second farm- er .for $10.00, The first pur- chaser took his calf home and when the second man was ready to -leave, he foundonly one calf. Chief of Police Helmer Snell was called in to investi- gate. Alexander McDonald, .well- known resident of Ashfield, was unanimously chosen as reeve of that municipality for 1938, at a special nomination meet- ing held, in the council cham- ber on Monday. Bell, of Hensall7 The price is for .cedar, $11.00 per 1.000 feet, and for red beech, • $8.75, deliv- ered. Mr. Ed. Hinchley, Seaforth, has received the agency for Watson's implements and .now occupies the ware rooms , on Goderich Street, formerly occu- pied by Mr. James A. Wilson. Watching television is all right, I daresay; a first-rate movie makes a pleasant night out; and for real pleasure, it's hard to beat a good book. But for sheer emotional wallop of an evening, there's nothing • to• touch cleaning out a dresser drawer. About every three years we. have one of these orgies at our house. It us ly begins when my wife is ooking for some- thing impo ant. Like the ball of wool to finish my curling sweater, whith she began knit- ting three winters ago. Or the cherished clipping which states that she once 'came at the head of the class in Grade 6. She starts rooting' around in From The, Huron Expositor ` our documents, drawer—a big Febrary 28, 1913 dresser drawecrammed with The Robert- Bell Engine & old love letters, receipts for Thresher Company have had a ancient bills, lapsed insurance motor installed and will here -'policies, membership cards for the year single earrings after run the woodworking of the establishment of every shhapeaps ,and hue,news- branchnew paper clippings about the kids' with hydro electric current.•• I first music festival wins, old Daniel Regele, of Leadbury, !shoelaces, combs with missing has been busily engaged haul- !teeth, and' photographs, hun- ing 12:inch tile. He js getting ' dreds of them. • f Pretty soon I hear yelps of dismay, snorts of outrage, and chortles of amusement. Grumb- lingly I join her to make sure she doesn't throw out anything valuable, like my German com- pass that doesn't ork. For a couple o , minutes we work systematically, sorting the junk into piles, to be thrown - out or saved. Then I catch her v lic- ense to chuck out a perfectly good picture of a WAAF cor- poral named Wendy, whom I knew well once upon' a time. She retaliates by pointing out the undistinguished jerk in the clas§ picture who was crazy about•her. From there on, it's every man for himself, and within a few minutes we have about 12 different piles of stuff around us. "You don't want this silly thing, do you?" she Sniffs hold- ing up a dance program vintage 1939, with the name of a girl called Sylvia written in every space. "Oh, don't I though!" I retort, salvaging it though I can't even *member what Syl- via looked like. 'then Weey�get y looking at pie. zat-trI ,a thousand of these or drain- age purposes. . Mr. George Roe, of Leadbury, had a bee hauling logs from down near McNaught station. Mr. H. 1$eynolds, of Hay, has sold his farm to Mr. John Trieb- ner, of Stephen, for the sum of $6,400. Mr. T. D. Pinkney, ' who has been proprietd'ivof the Royal Hotel forseveral years,' intends retiring at the close ofthe c- ense year. The first carnivlif of . the sea- son was held ,in the Seaforth rink on Friday evening last. There was an onus . ly large number out in costo esidesi a large attendance of skaters and spectators, and 'the Sea - forth Band added very mater- ially to the pleasdre .of all by their appropriate selections. SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley "T,hat cow that jumped over the moon : .. was it Russian or one of ours?" A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT THE BLACK BLACKBALL LONDON, ENGLAND — Al- ways splendid in,, defeat, the British reacted with a lot of stiff -upper -lip and never -say -die when President De Gaulle rude- ly rejected their bid for mem- bership in the European Com- mon Market. While there was much talk about alternatives, it is becoming increasingly appar- ent that the United Kingdom has no real alternative, in mind. President De Gaulle's blackball appears in fact to be an 'unmiti- gated disaster for Britain and in the long run it could also be a disaster for, Canada. Prime Minister Harold Mac- millan has proposed that Com- monwealth trade ministers meet in London ,before the meeting of representatives of member .countries of the •General Agree- ment' on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva early this summer, the latter being designed to lay the groundwork for.the world tariff' cutting proposed by President John F. Kennedy. Implicit in Prime Minister Macmillan's proposal is that some alternative•for Britain lies. in • finding solutions for expand- ing trade within the Common- wealth. itself, which is a mea- sure of just how far the British Government has gone to scrape - the bottom or the barrel. No country ifl the world is more aware than Britain that in fact there -is no possibility of de- veloping new trading arrange- ments within the Common- wealth that have any real mean ing. - The last time that, was tried was in 1958, when a Common- wealth trade and economic con- ference was held in Montreal at the urging of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. While Mr. Diefenbaker has been known to claim great things for that con- ference, the fact of the matter is -that nothing developed di- rectly out of that conference which accounted for one dol- lar's increase in Commonwealth trade. Most Commonwealth goods al- ready enter the United King- dom market duty free and in most cases there. is ,a substan- tial preference. Britain has lit- tle more left to offer its Com- monwealth partners. If there is to be any giving it must be on the side of the other nations. Most, however, have been mov- ing in the direction of raising tariff and other barriers against Britain, Canada being no ex ception. Then there is the faet that an extension of the Com- monwealth preferential system would be contrary to the ar- ticles of GATT and invite re- taliation from other members of GATT outside ,the Common - tures of the kids when they were little, and ' are torn be- tween tears and laughter. We linger over one of .them in swimming in their bare bot- toms, fat, dimpled and delight- ful, and our thoughts go with awe to the great, waIlbping, ex- pensive, lippy, ornery charac- ters they've become. And we find a snap of our selves on our honeymoon. We look at it, at each other, and shake our heads in disbelief and sorrow. `Never . mind, dear;;' she reassures, "you look much mote intellectual with higher forehead." And gallant- ly I reply, "And you, sweet- heart, certainly have a lot more character in your face now," - From The Huron Expositor February 24, 188$ Mr. Joseph- Carter. has been appointed assessor of the vil- lage of Blyth for this year "at a salary of $40. The contract`- r furnishing the Township o with lum- ber has 'reit rded to Robt• ±4406•00446 -4,9, - . Celebrations of thanksgiving were held recently on the pub- lication of the Lunda Ndembu Bible in the northwest corner of Northern Rhodesia. Here 1ngola and Katanga touch the Rhodesias. Thfee days of great rejoic- ing climaked thirty-five years of ong and patient toil neces- r to complete the translation and publication of this version \ef the Holy Bible. wealth. British entry into the Euro- pean trade bloc was fiercely op- posed by the Canadian Govern- ment because it would have meant the loss of the duty-free entry and preferential tariff position enjoyed by •a substan- tial volume, of Canadian' goods. Among a number of economists within and without the Govern- ment service, however, the be- lief came to be established that over the long haul Canada had more to gain,.•than to lose from such a move. Although it was belated, the Diefenbaker Government final- ly came around to providing a strong endorsement for the ma- jor reduction in world tariffs proposed by President Kenne- dy. Before his recent resigna- tion, Trade Minister. George Hees pointed `out repeatedly that a multilateral redubtion in world tariffs would provide Canadian secondary manufac- turers with an opportunity to break out of the narrow con- fines of the Canadian market and intq. the markets ,of the, worl"d. Somehow, this doesn't hit the right note, and there's a slight frost in the air as we go on sorting. But soon we're absorb- ed again. She is reading with intense admiration an old Eng- lish essay on which she receiv- ed a A•plus mark. I am contem- plating wistfully an 18 -year-old snap of myself, in which I had a vast, fighter -pilot's handlebar moustache, and an evil glint in my eye. The chief translator did not live to join in the services of thanksgiving but many others who shared in the translation work were present. Refugees from Katanga and Angola participated. Those from Katanga were anxious to pur- chase the new 'Bible and could pay only 75 francs Katangese. The Katangese franc has no va- lue in foreign exchange. The Rev. Maynard Booth, a Canadian, , who was present, says, "These folk were concern- ed as to how they were going to repay the Bible Society for the beautiful Bibles that were now available." It was explain- ed that people in other parts of the world would help pay for their copies." "This Word is so precious," explains Mr. Booth, "that ex- change barriers must not pre- vent its distribution." Suggested Daily Bible Readings Sunday—Romans 2:1-11 Monday—I Cor. '5:1-13 Tuesday—James 2:14-26 Wednesday—James 4:1-17 Thursday—I John 3:4-18 Friday—Isaiah' 9:2-7 Saturday—Isaiah 11:1-19. "Why don't you throw those mouldy old letters out?" I sug- gest, as she sits there5, a big bundle of them in her hand, gazing dreamily at the wall. "Wouldn't you just love me to!" she taunts. "Listen to this." And she reads me a pur- ple passage from one of the corniest, most nauseating love- letters I've ever heard, from some old flame. Turns out his name was Bill. Turns out I wrote it. 'I get a cold chill down my spine, a red face, and snarl something about "getting this .mess cleaned up. I've got work to do." We fill a large carton with discardable items. We look at all the little piles we've sorted so carefully. We look for string to tie them into separate ban- dies. No string. We look ,for paper bags, to bag them sep- arately. No bags, so we throw everything back into the draw- er. And invariably, there's more than we started with, and we can scarcely get it closed. The Kennedy program prom- ised to provide that opportun- ity. The legislation approved last year by Congress empowers the President to abolish tariffs of five per cent or less. and to reduce most other tariffs by at least 50 per cent 'over a five- year period. Of particularim- portance to Canada was a third section of the Act giving him power to negotiate the abolition of tariffs with the Common Mar- ket in which the trade between them amounted to 80 per cent or more of world trade, Had Britain entered the Corn- m5n-Market, some 27 different categories of goods would have beenaffected by the so-called 80 per cent formula, 11 of them of concern to Canada. With Bri- tain outside' the Common Mar- ket, however, the number of commodities included in this class is reduced to two, aircraft QUICK CANADIAN QUIZ 1. What motto appears on the Arms of Canada? 2: Via the shortest route by boat and rail, what is the mileage from St. John's, New- foundland, to Victoria, B.C.? 3. In 1939, when Canada's popu- lation was 11.2 million, fed- eral spending totalled $553 million. In the 1961-62 fiscal year, when population was about 18.4 million, .what was the total, of ..federal spend- ing? 4. There were .389,744 motor vehicles produced in Canada in 1961. What was the 1962 total? 5. Of the 17,130 manufacturing' companies subject,to corpor- ation tax in 1960, what pro portion operated at a pro- fit? ANSWERS: 5. 11,772 operat- ed at a profit and 5,358 at a loss. 3. $7,188 million. 1. The motto, in Latin, - is "A mart usque ad mare," which means "From sea to sea." 4. 507,997. 2. About 4,300 miles. and margarine. The Kennedy trade program was important not only for it- self, but also for the momen- tum which it .could 'have pro- vided to work out solutions to other problems. A number of senior Canadian officials, for example, were turning over the possibility of going beyond the terms of the Kennedy tariff leg- islation to work out a measure of free trade in selected items between the two countries which would be in Canada's own interest, the vehicle for this agreement possibly being a long-term treaty. Then there has also been a lot of thought given in Canada and elsewhere to working out international G GEE. CANDY; LOOK AT THAT COUPLE SITTING IN FRONT OF U5: >✓ r SHE.»UN.•-•HAS HER HEAD ON 1415 SHOULDER—WHOA ROMANTIC, HUH? UH... -WELL.-. ER...WOULDN'T YOU CARE TO DO THE SAME THING? agreements to provide 'for more orderly marketing of important agricultural' commodities.'' Unfortunately, much of ' the steam may be taken out of this drive by the action of President De Gaulle. There are undoubtedly a number of Canadian manufac- turers who will breathe a sigh of relief at the prospect of es- caping a cut in their own pro- tective tariff walls, an inevit- able result if the Kennedy pro- gram went through. .Rut there are strong grounds for believing that the shock of increased com- petition is just what many Can- adian industries need, as is the case in Britain, if they are not to fall hopelessly behind the furious world race that is now in process. Most secondary Canadian manufactured industries are so hopelessly splintered that no company has ;a sufficient share of what is in any case a small market to be able to gain the advantages of large scale pro. duction. In normal circum- stances, it might be expected that competition would even- tually force companies to merge -into larger units of production. But there is nothing normal about the circumstances that prevail in the Canadian mar- ket. Because so many compan- ies are subsidiaries of foreign- owned parent films, the prob- lem of bringing about the ra- tionalization of most secondary indus,jries is seriously intensi- fied. The kind of tariff -cutting program put forward by Presi- dent Kennedy offered the hope that the right climate would be provided for working out solu- tions to these problems, per- haps with the help of persua- sion from the Federal Govern- ment. Prime Minister Diefenbaker, in, clinging to the Common- wealth preferential tariff sys- 'tern, deckled to hold on to the bird in hand rather than go after the bird in the bush. The trouble is that the birll in hand .may already be on its last legs. The Commonwealth prefer- ences were established in the thirties to help ward off the ravages of depression. Already they have been greatly dissi- pated by- successive rounds of world tariff reductions and the 'chances are that they will con- tinue to decline in importance in the future, come what may, If that turns out to be the case, Canada may turn out to be both without a bird in hand; and without even a bird in the bush. We're OVAn N.9 We are at our Modern New location on,, the Mill Road West of Egmondvi l le OUR NEW PHONE NUMBER IS 612 ' BOYES FARM SUPPLY Seaforth -- Ontario • i • One of 12 BEAVER RADIAL SAWS Enter the Johns -Manville' Homesteading Contest... Nothing to buy! The easiest contest ever.... and what a prize ! A "one -tool" workshop for `all your homesteading needs ! All you require is an entry form. See our Homesteading display today. • BAIL.MA(AULAY LTD. Phone 787 • Seaforth SPECIALS FOR Thursday, Friday and .Saturday CARNATION MILK 2 Large Tins 27¢ Heinz KETCHUP..:: 2 11 -oz. 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