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The Huron Expositor, 1963-05-16, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morn by MOLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Edi or �� E D Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper • Ontario Weekly Newspapers As Association $ ciation Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year V L P • SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MAY 16, 1963 Everybody Benefits From Clean -Up Week Clean -Up Week has contributed much in years past to a tidier, cleaner, Seaforth. Emphasis on clean-up at this time of year has resulted in ac- cumulations of winter being removed, which otherwise may have lingered in gardens and around homes throughout the summer. This year Seaforth Council is pro- viding assistance so that trash, which is gathered at residences across town, will be removed without charge. There will be nd excuse now for untidy yards or lawns. Council has continued, too, to ex- press concern about dilapidated build- ings and weed -strewn lots which exist in town. In recent meetings, emphasis has been placed on responsible authori- ties taking necessary action to clean up the conditions. Attention has been drawn to the • problem in these columns on several occasions, and some time ago we told how it was being met in Goderich. We suggested Seaforth Council also might ' give consideration to similar action. What was said at that time perhaps bears repeating now : "It is remark- able how an otherwise favorable im- pression of a community can be spoil- ed by the appearance of an unsightly yard, a delapidated building, or a clut- ter of abandoned machinery, or of 'wrecked cars. "It is true there may be good reasons for such a condition to exist. But a visitor to town cannot be expected to know this. All the visitor can d6 is form his impression of the community as a whole. Unfortunately, the good . things he has seen—the streets, the -parks, the public buildings—will be weighed against the unsightly things he has seen. The net result may well be unfavorable. The work, the plan- ning and care of the many thus is spoil- ed by the don't -care attitude of a few. "Several communities are becoming concerned about those who don't care and are taking steps to clean up un- sightly messes within their borders. In Goderich, unsightly junk, abandoned auto bodies and tumbled down buildings are being given a second look by citizens anxious to have their community a place of beauty and tidiness. "The Goderich Signal; Star points out that . , . 'the Town Fathers are becom- ing concerned, and rightly so . ° ° about properties around the town which they believe are in such an unsightly condition that something should be done with them," and then says a by- law is being prepared which will com- pel property owners to keep their yards tidy-' "There comes a time when it be- comes necessary for a community to adopt laws to protect the interests of the 'many from • the irresponsibility of the few, and Goderich apparently con- siders such a time at hand. Perhaps Seaforth Council, too, should give con- sideration to such a by-law. "That there is ample authority for such a step is indicated by a comment in the Municipal World. Replying to a letter seeking regulations with° respect to untidy properties in a town, the Municipal World, a recognized author- ity, said : 'Town Council may pass a by-law requiring the owner to clean up his premises. If he does not comply with the by-law after sufficient notice, the Council may have the work done and collect the cost in the same mannei as municipal taxes. See Municipal Act, section 88 (1), paragraph 80 and sec- tion 496'." ° A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT OTTAWA — Canada's newest effort to make the transition from hewers of wood and draw- ers of water to a Nation .of manufacturers could initiate the most important era in her econ- omic history or it could fall flat on its face. The new Department of In- dustry, perhaps the top priority of all priorities in the Throne Speech at the opening of Par- liament will have great respon- sibility and little authority. It, will be the purchasing depart- ment for the Government with a yearly budget of about $1,- 500,000.000 to spend. First con- sideration will be help for sue- cific industries and areas with-, in Canada. 'It will gather unto itself a number of branches in the Department of Trade and Commerce which have grown up something like Topsy. Be- fore they are finally meshed in- • to the new ,Department their faces may be drastically' chang- ed. Success or failure will rest very largely on the type of ap- proach used. Over the years Canada's secondary industries have grown and been nurtured under three distinct influences. There was first the National Policy of 1878 with its emphas is on protective tariffs. Regard- less of the party in power there has been no fundamental change in the Sir John A. Macdonald approach. Then there has been the it - fluence paradoxically of United States tariffs. American policy traditionally , has been moder- ate tariffs or free entry -for raw materials and semi -processed goods but virtually a closed market to highly processed manufacturers. Canadians have never been able to count on U.S. markets for the production of secondary industry. Stemming from both these in- fluences has been the develop- ment of preferential trade. This was the real spur to the Ameri- can branch plant movement that brought heavy foreign invest- ment in Canadian manufactur- ing to take advantage of pre- ferential tariffs in Common- wealth markets. It reached its peak with the preferential tar- iff margins established under the Ottawa' agreement of 1932. A postwar backlog of almost everything for civilian use brought a period of false pros- perity to secondary industry, false in the sense that manu- facturers were making gener- ous profits under remaining Government controls with little risk involved and no need to make decisions. At the same One with the world hungry for the products of Canadian natur- al resources capital investment poured into primary industry and we became again hewers of wood and drawers of water. By 1957 when political upset followed a period of both Gov- ernment and industrial apathy efficiency of Canadian manufac- turing industries had lagged badly and initiative had been' lost just at a time when com- petition from imports was in- creasing. The previous Conservative Government • recognized t h e problem but it has taken most of its six years to bring secon- dary industry into a receptive mood. The Liberals now step on a stage already set and the less partisan are ready to ack- nowledge it. Canada's new Minister of In- dustry (now Minister of De- fence Production) is Charles M. Drury. One of the youngest brigadiers in 'World War II, Drury is a member of the brain trust in the Pearson Cabinet. He has a civil service back- ground, first with the econom- ics division of the Department of Exeternal Affairs and then as Deputy Minister of Defence. He is an organizer, one of first requisites of his new job, and is already working the clock around. He will take over from the Trade Department a number of branches dealing with domestic manufacturing and brought to- gether under an Assistant Depu- ty Minister, B. G. Barrow. Mr. Barrow could well be the choice for deputy Minister of Indus• try. In the take-over, however, there will be a weeding out. The new Department is not in the least interested in Retail Trade or Service Industries. It is concentrating on industries that have heavy manpower re- quirements. Expansion of pro• duction here pays its dividends directly in new jobs. Nor, will the new Department be much interested in the capital inten- sive resources industries, It will continue to be the responsibil- ity of the Trade Department to find export markets for these resources, The new Department faces two dangers and problems. It can step on the toes of the Provinces whose constitutional responsibility includes - promo- tion of domestic commerce. Most of them have such pro- grams. It can become a fifth wheel to the coach as the Department of Forestry shows some signs of becoming. To meet the first danger there will be a close liaison with Pro- vincial Departments of Indus- try. Some of the industrial pro - basic approach must be one of incentive and the most effective incentives will be provided through taxes and tariffs. The tariff incentive plan by which tariff concessions are traded for more purchasing by parent companies in Canada or greater export by Canadian sub- sidiaries was initiated last Fall. It will be carried on and ex- tended by the Liberals. The program would logically be in- itiated in the Department of Industry but worked out in motion work being tried by the Federal Government may be abandoned where it is dupli- cating with provincial efforts. The second problem can be met only by close liaison with at least two Federal Depart- ments, Trade and Finance. The co-operation with the Depart- ment of Finance which has re- sponsibility for Canadian tariff schedules. Where plans to expand sec- ondary industry involve — as they largely will—new export markets, the responsibility will be that of the Trade Depart- ment. - * * * Capital Hill Capsule For the first time in Cana- dian history, Parliament opens on the date announced at the time of dissolution. Constitu- tionally, when Parliament is dissolved or prorogued, a date when it is to be called must be included in the proclamation, It is' a purely pro forma dat9 and in the case of dissolution is the earliest possible. On this occasion the new Liberal Gov- ernment, true to its promise, picked an identical day. 4/1118T A SECOND' "You all right, Fred?* LALF'IA$!1 Y@@111 • i THERE/ YOU 5EE ? THATS THE F/RST TIME IVE EVER A?/VEN ANO K0TH/N6 HAPPENED AT ALL! AboancY I visited a mental hospital recently: A couple of nights after that I watched television "comedian" Lenny Bruce. Both experiences produced the same reactions: fascination, repulsion, and sadness. They also made me ponder the causes of the grow-• ing neuroticism of today. Surely we can't blame it all on The Bomb. That's too easy. I think there are a couple of ingredients a little closer to home, • on which we can focus. If we eliminated them, we might even eliminate The Bomb. * * * ra The two elements in modern living which are increasing our population of nuts at a frighten- ing pace are speed and greed. Speed is the deity of the 20th century as sureiy as money was that of the 19th, reason that of the 18th. We worship it cyn- ically, but unashamedly,- Greed is the fat, slobbering little beast inside us that makes us repulsive if we feed it frus- trated if we don't, and happy only if we strangle it at birth. Everything is speeding up. When I'was a kid, people used to sit around on their porches on a May evening, shooting the breeze, then go off to bed soon after dark. Tliey slept all night. No pills. If you sit around on your front porch nowadays, all it means is that you're a bum, be- cause if you were any good you'd have enough money so that you could either be chas- ing around the lawn behind a power mower, or sitting inside watching television, like 'a de- cent citizen. Speed has ceased to be a means to an end, and has be- come an end in itself. though we refuse to admit it. We speed up production so^ that we can "turn out the article more cheaply." As soon as the new method is in operation the price goes up. "Higher overhead." We speed on the highways to save time, and spend six months in the hospital, when we fail to make that curve. We speed housework with new gadgets, so the good wife will have more leisure time—to sit around with a bottle, or go out and play bingo. High on the list of those lat- ter-day Satans who cater to, tempt, and urge on the poor ordinary slob in his worship of speed, and greed are the adver- tising men. If that seems a lit- tle harsh, don't take my word for it. Just pay a visit to the supermarket. Shopping used to be a lei- surely ,pleasant part of daily life for women. It was a hang- over froth' the open market of less frazzled times. At the gro- cery store, they met their neighbors, exchanged repartee with the grocer, pinched the meat, tasted the cheese, squeez- ed the bread, thumped the mel- ons, prodded the chicken and sniffed the fish. And, above all, they chewed the fat. Today, shopping is a fright- ening, soul-destroying ordeal. The only things the ladies can ,get their hands on are the vege= tables and there isn't much joy in pinching, thumping, or tak- ing a bite out of a turnip. Where their grandmothers dip- ped a hand into a box or barrel' to taste or feel, they worriedly read labels or anxiously peer into those vast, gleaming mortu- aries which have Yeplaced the old meat counter. * 4: From every shelf, in every color, they are shouted at to "hurry, be quick, hasten, grab me, buy more," and harassed SUGAR and SPICE By BiII Smiley by "family size, special deal, limited time only, 10c •off." No wonder they scuttle about fur- tively, snatching up packages like hot potatoes and throwing them wildly into their carts. Everything spells out speed and greed: minute rice, instant coffee, pre-cooked ham, oven- ready chicken, ready -mix cakes, quick-frozen fish. As a result, they buy twice as much as they need in half the time they should. Then, instead of a mutually - suspicious but friendly tallying of the bill with the grocer, they dive for a spot in the lineup, the grub is whisked into bags, the cash register chatters its staccato song, and they find themselves spewed into the street, a vast bag in,each arm, and only the vaguest idea of how much they spent. I'd like to spend more time on this theme, but you'll have to excuse me now. I've got to hurry and finish this column, so I can rush down to the kit- chen. My wife wants to know whether I want instant coffee or jiffy cocoa with the piece of pie (instant fill, ready -mix crust) for my midnight snack. Got to save time if I want to read my book digest before I go to bed. Think I'll -have a big slice of gorgonzola cheese with the pie. Instant dreams, you know. • QUICK CANADIAN QUIZ 1. What Canadian college has neither campus nor buildings? 2. Which Canadian province leads in sheep raising? 3. Which industry contributes the most to federal govern- ment corporation tax rev- enues? 4. In 1949 the total of personal savings by Canadians was $1,005 million. What was the 1961 total? 5. Per dollar of sales, is the av- erage profit of Canadian manufacturers 27.3 cents, 16.6 cents or 4.9 cents? ANSWERS: 5. In 1961, 4.9 cents. 3. Manufacturing; it paid $622 million in corporation tax- es in 1960, nearly 50 per cent of total corporation tax reven- ues. 1. Frontier College; stu- dents are workers in mining IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor May 13, 1938 • Men of 'S' Company, Middle- sex and Huron Regiment, will take rifle and Lewis gun prac- tice at St. Thomas ranges on June 25, according to orders just issued. Early completion of the new Main Street sidewalks from Goderich Street to the Domin- ion Bank corner, was mooted at council meeting on Monday night, as estimates presented were approved. A resolution from St. Cathar- ines asking council to approve the holding of Victoria Day on Monday rather than Tuesday, fared poorly when the council- lors feared it would lead ` to endless ' confusion, unless the change was made Dominion - wide. With a total attendance of more than 3,000, the annual South Huron Music Festival for the public school pupils, which concluded in Exeter on Satur- day evening, was one of the most successful yet held. Pupils of Seaforth, under Miss M. E. Turnbull, music instructor, made a splendid showing. Mr. Walter Murray is com- pleting extensive alterations Huron and improvements to his gar- age building on North Main Street, occupied by A. W. Dun- lop. From The Huron Expositor May 16, 1913 Mr. A. Darling, of near Dub- lin/ has cultivated 80 acres of land this spring with steam power, using a stiff tooth culti- vator and harrows combined. Mr. W. 0. Goodwin, manager of the Jackson Clothing Com- pany at Zurich, opened the new factory for public inspection on Wednesday. Brown & Clark, carriage mak- ers of Hensall, sold to a party near Staffa, a very handsome buggy supplied with electric light lamps, connected with a battery under the seat. Mr. Lorne Weir has now tak- en formal possession of the Royal Hotel, Seaforth. The Minister of Militia has promised to erect a new drill hall `in Brussels as soon as the council furnishes a free site. The sale of thoroughbred horses belonging. to the estate of the late Frank Kling, held at the Dick House last Friday, was largely attended and suc- cessful. The whole sale amount- ed to over $2,000. From The Huron Expositor May 18, 1888 There was quite a lively snow storm on Sunday last, and on Tuesday the ground was white with snow.. It is now almost certain that the new railway line about to be built from Guelph to Gode- rich will pass through close to Leadbtiry. There is some talk among the businessmen in Seaforth about getting up a petition to the council, asking them to pass a bylaw in acdordance with the - Fraser Act, requiring all stores and shops to be closed every evening at 7 o'clock, except Saturday. The most recent information available concerning the high schools and collegiate institutes with respect to the number of teachers employed, shows Sea - forth ranking fifth, including several of the larger cities. On Tuesday evening of last week, just as the Ontario Street Methodist Church in Clinton was being lighted up for an enter- tainment, one of the chandeliers containing four lamps, became unscrewed and fell to the floor, smashing all. Fortunately the1 lamps were not lit. Condudes Long Service If a warship can be called a warhorse, one of the Royal Canadian Navy's most famous has been "put out to pasture." She is HMCS Huron, a 20 - year -old Tribal class destroyer whose combat record well and truly qualified her for the . de- scription, . "a fighting ship." The Huron, holder of Second World War and Korean battle honors, was paid off April 28. None noted the event with more interest than the person- nel who `served in 'her during and after/the war, including her wartime Captain, Lieutenant Commander H. S. Rayner, now Vice -Admiral H. S. Rayner, Chief of the Naval Staff. Two other well known naval officers who were associated with the Huroh-during her Sec- ond World War service are Rear -Admiral P. D. Budge, for- mer Chief of Naval Personnel, now retired from the service, who as a lieutenant was execu- tive officer of the ship, and Commodore H. V. W. Groos, Director Regular Officer Train- ing Plan, who commanded the Huron from September, 1944, to October, 1945, with the rank of lieutenant -commander. Before she paid off, the Hur- on was a unit of the Third Can- adian Escort Squadron, based at Halifax. She is now in dock- yard hands at Halifax, .. being prepared for operational re- serve status at Point Edward Naval Base, Sydney, N.S. In a few weeks she will be taken to Sydney where she will join a sister ship, the Iroquois, which was paid off in Halifax. in October, 1962. The paying off of the Huron is another 'step in the program of keeping the Navy up to date by replacing older warships as they reach the end of their use- ful lives. On May 25, HMCS Yukon, the third of the Mac- kenzie class destroyer escorts, will be commissioned into the fleet at Burrard Dry Dock Com- pany Limited, North Vancou- ver, B.C. The 'Huron, named after the Huron Indian tribe, was built in Britain and was commission- ed into the RCN on 'July 19, 1943. After completing her work- ing up program, the Huron was assigned to the Home Fleet, joining other RCN ships in sweeps along the Norwegian coast and escorting convoys to North Russia. camps, etc., and teachers are university students who do man- ual labor by day and teach at night. 4. In 1961, $1,292 'mil- lion. 2. Alberta, with Ontario second. BILLS! BILLS! MONEY WILL DRIVE ME CRAZY-.. THE LACK OF IT THAT IS., MONEY! MONEY! CREEPS! THAT.'S ALL I HEAR IN THIS HOUSE:, FATHER' CAN'T WE DISCUSS A PLEASANT SUBJECT FOR A CHANGE___ _-.LIKE BUYING SOMETHING FOR INSTANCE? She was part of the screen- ing force of a convoy which lured the German battle cruis- er Scharnhorst to her destruc- tion off Norway's North Cape. in December, 1943. In February, 1944, the Hur- on, together with HMC Ships Heide and Athabaskan, was transferred to the • Plymouth Command.. They were to form, with Royal Navy and Polish de- stroyers, the Tenth Destroyer Flotilla. The Huron made her first sortie from Plymouth near the end of February. This was part of Operational Tunnel—a con- tinuous series of preinvasion patrols directed against Ger- man convoys in the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay. At the same time, this flotilla was also engaged in Operation Hostile, in which they covered minelaying activities. Both operations were impor- tant phases of the preparations for D -Day. By the middle of April the three RCN Tribals had taken part in many of the op- erations, but none brought them in contact with the enemy. However, this situation.chang- ed during the evening of April 25 when the Huron, Haida and Athabaskan and the British de- stroyer Ashanti joined HMS Black Prince .(cruiser) to begin a patrol.; Aerial reconnaissance a n d naval intelligence sources had established the presence- of three Elbing class destroyers at St. Malo. It was hoped that the enemy would be met. A half-hour after the patrol started, radar on board the Black Prince picked up a con- tact at 21,000 yards. this echo was classified as the three Elbings approaching. Suddenly, the Germans revers- ed course and increased speed. The cruiser and the destroyers gave chase at 30 knots. When the range narrowed to 13,000 yards, the Black Prince fired star -shell which illuminat- ed the enemy. The destroyers sped' in to engage them. Two Elbings escaped under darkness and a smoke screen, while the third was sunk at close range among the rocks off the French coast. In early June,' three German Narvik class destroyers were reported moving northward up the Bay of Biscay, probably heading for the Channel to rendezvous with other German destroyers from Brest. Six British ships began a pa- trol to intercept the Germans. Haida 'and Huron were ordered to join as replacements two days after the patrol began. Shortly after midnight on June 8 radar picked up an echo at 19,000 yards. The contact was evaluated as being four en- emy ships. Star shell were fir- ed and illuminated two of the enemy, which turned and began to make smoke. Ships from both sides opened fire. A British ship, HMS Tartar, was hit and set afire and was forced to withdraw. A Narvik destroyer was engaged by the Haida and Huron. The enemy opened the range and the two Canadian tribals pursued for almost an how before closing sufficiently to fire starsiiell and engage. Heide and Huron scored sev- eral hits and the enemy was set on fire and eventually ran aground off Ile de Bas. Later in the same month the Huron again encountered the enemy. On June 27 she sailed on patrol with HMS Eskimo. Radar contacted an enemy con- voy, escorted by two trawlers and a minesweeper. The con- voy attempted to escape behind smoke and cover of shore bat- teries. However, the Huron's guns set the minesweeper afire almost immediately. The Eskimo pursued one trawler and was herself pursued and attacked by the Second trewler. The Huron rejoined the battle and sank one trawl- er. The second made good her escape in the smoke and confp- sion. The Eskimo was damaged in the battle. The Huron carried out sev- eral offensive sweeps during July off the west coast of France, and on August 6 she was relieved by HMCS Iroquois and was ordered to Halifax for a refit. In November she sailed for Cardiff to, receive new ra- dar equipment and was next assigned to the Home Fleet. On April 16 she took part in es- corting a convoy to Murmansk and on the return trip narrow- ly escaped being torpedoed by a U-boat. She returned to Secapa Flow two days before V -E Day. The Huron returned to Hali- fax to -prepare to take part in the war in the Pacific, but the Japanese surrendered and she Was paid off into maintenance reserve. In February, 1946, she was placed in, the Reserve Fleet of the Atlantic Command, and later was taken in hand for extensive alteration and mod- ernization. On Feb. 28, 1950, the Huron returned to active duty in the' fleet. On Augugst 23, 1950, she formed part of the Canadian Special Service Squadron with HMCS Micinac (destroyer), with the senior officer on board HMCS Magnificent (aircraft car- rier). This was defined as a "diplomatic cruise" that would include training and goodwill visits to some of the countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Eight countries were visited. In January, 1951, the Huron sailed to join the RCN flotilla assigned to . the United. Nations fleet operating off the Korean coast. She operated with the UN naval forces five months, then returned to Canada. 4, In April, 1953, slid left Halifax to return to Korea. The Korean cease fire became effective on July 27, 1953, anti . the Huron continued patrols under UN command until she was relieved by HMCS Haida on Feb. 5, 1954. In August, 1954, the Huron again sailed from Halifax, this, time to begin her third tour of Korean duty. fn December, 1954, in company with HMCS Iroquois, she sailed from Sase- bo, Japan, to return home. The ships reached Canada in March, 1955, via Singapore, India, Paki- stan, the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, thus having sail- ed, in stages, around the world. The Huron assumed duties as senior ship of the First Cana- dian Destroyer Squadron Aug. 8, 1955, and in December of that year she became a unit of the First Canadian Escort Squa- dron. She was transferred to the Third Canadian Escort Squadron on March 19, 1962. M6 Huron holds the follow- ing battle honors: • Arctice 1943-45 English Channel 1944 Normandy 1944 Korea .951-53 HENSALL OSRSS Larry Jones, of Corn- wallis, N.S., who has been vaca- tioning at his home here, left Tuesday of this week 'for Glou- cester, near Ottawa, where he is taking a 21 weeks' course. The annual Victoria Day shoot will be held at Kippen Sunday, when the main event will be the London Winery tro- phy. The trophy was won last year by Hedley Prouse, Gode- rich. Unit One of the UCW met Monday evening with Mrs. E. Chipchase presiding. Mrs. Tan McAllister was in charge of the devotional. Mrs. Howard Scene conducted the Bible study, and guest speaker, Mrs. Maurice Tudor, a health nurse, spoke on "Health." Luncheon was served by Mrs. Alex Munn, Mrs. Gordon Munn and their assistants, Mrs. Harold Currie and Mrs. Orrin Williams. 1r b M SS • ti