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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1963-07-04, Page 2>P'ub1ished Since 1860, Serving the Community First at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MeLEAN ANDREW Y. MeLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association • Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association O Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: = Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year u pOutside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES -- 10 CENTS EACH BROS., Publishers Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 4, 1963. Recognize Father of the Huron Tract Recognition will be given Col. An- thony Van Egmond at a ceremony in Egmondville on Sunday, when a plaque honoring him will be unveiled. The plaque has been erected by the His-. torical Sites Board of the Ontario De- partment of Travel and Publicity. It is an honor. long Qvordue one who through his organizing ability and re- sourcefulness opened up the Huron Tract and• became Huron's first farmer. Galt and" Dunlop foresaw the potential of the district and laid plans for its development ; it was Van Egmond, how- ever, who built the Huron Road through primeaval forests and opened the. Huron tract to settlement. - The years that have passed since those early days when Van Egmond was hailed as the architect of a new life in Huron and almost at the same time condemned as a traitor to his coun- try, have resulted in a new apprecia- tion of the man and of the contribution he made to the Huron as we know it today. Col Van Egmond has been the sub- ject of a number of historical studies, the most recent being • that by G. H. Needier, published in 1956. Each adds to the knowledge of the man who made possible the Huron tract and who while he lived became so misunderstood and suspect. Perhaps the most exhaustive of the studies was that of the late Professor ' W. B. Kerr, himself the son of a pio- neer Huron family. The Van Egmond story, as written by Professor Kerr, first appeared in these columns in 1931, and in concluding his story Professor Kerr wrote thus : "This is the tragedy of Anthony Van Egmond. But now the men and women of Huron may well continue to honor the memory of the man who gave his heart, soul and purse to the infant settlement of the county, and who deserves the title, Father of the Huron Tract'." The ceremony on Sunday will be a further recognition of the 'Father of the Huron Tract'. IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, SO and 7S years ago. From The Huron Expositor July 4, 1913 Mr. William Edmunds is hav- ing a neat verandah erected at the side 'of his residence on Goderich Street. Mr. H. Edge is fitting up the Presbyterian manse with a bathroom, complete with septic tank. The Ladies' Aid is spon- soring the work. ' The strawberry social held on the lawn of First Presbyterian Church, Seaforth, under the auspices of the Barbara Kirk- man Auxiliary, was a grand success. The second annual 'field day, organized by the trustees of Seaforth Public School and country schools, was an im- mense success. Stewart Bros., The E. McFaul Company and John. Beattie had beautiful floats, while those of Geo. A, Sills, George Marshall and the Turks were very funny. Mr. James Robb had a Maypole and the Queen was Miss Mona Sills. Former residents of t h e Townships of Grey and How- - ick, now situated in Edmonton to the number of 150, gathered in the east end park of that city on June 13 for a picnic. Howick wore a• red ribbon, and Grey, a blue. ac From The Huron Expositor July 1, 1938 Elected by acclamation at the nomination held in Walker's Hall, Brucefield, on Monday, Mr. Arthur' Nicholson, Mill Road, Tuckersmith, will com- plete the term of the late Dav- id Gemmell, on the municipal council. Dublin observed the 60th an- niversary of its change of name from Carronbrook. A monster lawn social was planned to cele- brate the event. Maj. Clarke, MLA and deputy speaker of the Legislative Assembly, atttended in the place of Premier Hep- burn. Oldtimers say 10,000 took part in the festivities when the name was changed. The Lions Club received the plans for the improvement and enlargement of the park. Plans called for an enlarged park with playing field, a central pavilion to house dressing rooms and a number of over- night cabins. The congregation of North- side United Church paid tri- bute to Rev: T. A. Carmichael and his family who were leav- ing for a new charge. From The Huron Expositor July 6, 1888 The school at Winthrop un- der Mr. John McFadzean, took first prize on Monday in Sea - forth for being best drilled, at the celebration. At the last meeting of the Township of Tuckersmith cdun- cil, Mr. John McKenna, civil en- gineer of Dublin, was appoint- ed engineer for the township. A nursery agent took an or- der from a farmer in the Town- ship of Colborne last week for trees and . shrubs,, amounting to nearly $1,000. Dominion Day in Seaforth was a very successful event.. The Beavers of Seaforth played the Hurons of Goderich, with a score of 4-0 for Seaforth. The afternoon was taken up with sports and children's events, and the 33rd Band played all day. Picnics Are Popular Feature HART REUNION The Hart reunion was held at Seaforth'LionsPark last Sun- day with 32 attending. The 1964 committee elected was: president, Ted Siese; vice president, Bea Bodfish; secre- tary -treasurer, Hazel Sperling; sports, Verna and Jim Robert- son; lunch, Dorothy Siese and Isobel Hubbard. Results of the events are: Passing the peanut, Verne Rob- ertson's group; passing water to fill jug, Allan Sundercock's group; egg throwing contest, June Hubbard, Jerry Sunder - cock; kicking bean bag (girls), Bea Bodfish; kicking bean bag (men), Ted Bodfish; dropping penny in bottle, Evey Hart; guessing macaroni, Jim Rob- ertson (600, out of 601); inches of string in sign, Ernie Queen (147 out of 153); oldest person, Ed. McCallum; youngest person, Robbie Sundercock; balloon blowing contest (men), Lyle Hart; lucky spot prize, Billy Bodfish. WALLACE PICNIC The Wallace family picnic was held June 22 at Lions Park with 50 attending. Results of the races are: three years and under, Richard Wallace, Jackie Wallace, Bev- erley Walker; four and five, Linda Hodgert, Linda Blake; six IALFc IMi to eight, Glenda Blake, Randy Blake, Heather Wallace; nine to 12, Carol Ann Wallace, Katha- leen Miller, Bonnie Wallace; 13 and over, Ken Miller, Richard Yeandle, Joyce Roe; ladies' race, Joyce Wallace, Mary Lou Justason, Ethel Walker; three- legged race, Ken Miller and Richard Yeandle, Keith and John Miller, Mary Lou and Al Justason; wheelbarrow,. Carol Ann Walker and Keith Wallace; games, candy scramble and guessing candy, Joyce Roe. Mr. Gordon Peterson of Woodslee was the oldest man present. HAPPY COUPLES The Ontario 'Street Happy Doubles Club of Clinton held its picnic at Seaforth Lions Park with 60 in attendance. The committee included Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Merrill, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wheeler and Mr. and Mrs. George Colclough. A children's swimming period was held from 2 to 3 pan.; a candy scramble for all children under eight years, and the youngest child present was Bri- an Trewartha (2% years old). The results of the activities are: Running race, five years and under, Gary Watson, Susan Tyndall; six and seven years( girls), Karen Tyndall, Lorrie Symons; six and 7 years (boys), Paul Wheeler; eight, nine and 10 years (girls), Esther Merrill, Barbara Elliott; eight, nine and 10 years (boys), David Aiken, David. Watson; 11 years and ov- er, three-legged race, Cheryl Tyndall and Marie Trewartha, Douglas and Fred Trewartha; teenage boys and men, bean .and straw race, Don Symons; teen- age girls and ladies, bean race, Mrs. Jack Merrill; married cou- ples balloon relay, Ross Mer - rill's team (trying to run with blownup balloon placed be- tween the knees); ladies kick the slipper, Fay Merrill; trlen kick the slipper, Rods Trewar-' tha (p'rdsident); ball game, boys acid mens A Pikt1fe sti,pfirer Was served :ltitbtgasbbrd style, "As near as I can figure this little piece of sheepskin cost me about $80 a square inchl" Were you, gentle reader, a youngster 20 years ago? Or 30? Or even more? If you were, you must occasionally look with bewilderment, envy, and sometimes horror, as I do, at the difference between sum- mer holidays for kids, then and clow. Just how it has happened, I don't know. But in those two or three decades, kids have lost the ability to amuse them- selves. Even the little ones come in whining. "Mom, what'll I do? There's nothing to do, Mom. Can I have a dime, Mom?" * * * It's cheap at hall the price. Give them a dime. As for the big kids, their boredom is colossal, crushing. It makes you feel like ordering up the Moiseyev dancers, or at least putting in a desperate call for Paul Anka. Sometimes I think that per- haps those of us who grew up during the depression era had a far better childhood, all things considered,, than the gilded youth of the current de- cade. * * * How -simple it was for our mothers, comparatively ! I n summer, we were out at the crack of dawn, or soon after, and they saw us only twice again during the day, for a brief • and bestial gulping of food. In those days, only the rich played golf ,and tennis, only the rich had summer' cottages and boats. And rich kids were scarce. Water skis had not been invented. The ,transistor radio was, blessedly,' far in the future. There was no money for summer camps for the chil- dren, or motor trips to the east or west. There were no drive- in theatres. Ice cream cones were a nickel and seldom. On- ly fathers drove cars. * * * What in the world, then, did we do with ourselves? You re- member. At least, you old boys remember. I'm a little hazy about what the girls did. When they were 13 or under, they did everything we did. Well, practically. They were 'squaws when we played cow- boys and Indians. They were beautiful Spanish princesses when we played pirates. They were stool pigeons and gun molls and corpses when we played cops and robbers. They were extra outfielders and wa- terboys when we played ball. In short, they knew their place and enjoyed every iminute of * * * In the soft, throbbing dusk of a late summer evening, we l'JEST A SECOND' "Ceded, mill it? Well thitt mai1 t c bt unit i' SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley played Run Sheep Run. It was quite an experience, I can tell you, to dash away through the warm night, hurl yourself in- to hiding behind a log, and find, already scrunched up there, some hard puffing girl for whom you entertained a secret and overpowering passion. Nothing happened, but be- tween the excitement • of the chase, and the proximity of this sweaty kid who was just aS apt to kiss you as not, it was fairly terrifying. . * * * Then, and during all our stripling years, we swam. Hour upon hour upon hour during the hot of the day, until our lips were blue and our hands began to wivel up. Then it was time to drag home for sup- per, and eat about eight pounds of new potatoes and fried bol- ogna and fresh home-made bread and applesauce and all the other good . things women have stopped making.- When we were kids, my mother used to prepare 'a pic- nic • almost every day, in sum- mer. When Dad got home from work, we would all pile in the car and head for a nearby lake, Stream; river—any kind of wa- • ter. There were lots of en- chanting places, none of them frowning, "NO TRESPASSING," within five or six miles. • * * * When we 'arrived, we'd pile out and run in all directions, to wade, swim, explore, cut our feet and fall out of trees. Dad would build a fire and put the old tea -pail on to boil. Then he would sit on a log and gaze with placid disdain at nature, while my mother prepared the food, went for a walk, waded in the water with her skirts pulled up, and explained to my Dad what a hard day she'd had. My father didn't have to play ball with us, or show us how to cast, or talk to us about our problems or have interesting chats with, us about the flora and the fauna and the rocks, and the history of the place we were at. He just sat there and relaxed. Hell, he was our father. He didn't want to be our buddy, and we didn't want him to be. * * * As we boys grew older, we played baseball. Practice morn- ing and afternoon and evening, and a game twice a week. There was the delight of driving to another town, and feeling gal- lant as Horatio at the bridge, as you braved the catcalls of the local fans. There was the epitome of disaster: fanning on a third strike, with three on base, home team one down, last of the ninth, with your girl watching. And, rarely, there was the fierce joy of hitting a sharp sin. gle, and stealing second, with your girI watching. There was the added poignancy of know- ing that she didn't know she was your girl, , * al * We didn't have the modern teen-agers' dream lying on a beach with a doll, a transistor radio, a hot-dog joint within a hundred yards, money in your pocket, and a convertible park- ed nearby. But, by golly, we weren't bored, The Connaught T tt n n e 1, through the Selkirk M6t!mtains in 11.04 IS flearlq' flue Miles letter dabble tracks; and iii' ohe ,of the woltifit ttal`6r art ltteexilt . eotil,•. A N ACD f OTTAWA. TRIAL BY FiRE OTTAWA -A few years ago a history of one Of the major Canadian railway unions was published under the title, "It Wile Never Easy". Up to a' few weeks ago Walter Lockhart Gordon, Minister of Finance, might have written an auto- biography entitled, "It Was Al- ways Easy". Mr. Gordon was a man born to success, He came from a well-to-do family, stepped into a prosperous family -connected chartered accountancy firm as a young man and went on to become the head of a number of other thriving companies. His pleasant, easy-going manner on- ly partly covered a self•confi- dence and inner toughness that rubbed more than a few people the wrong way. Over the years, he establish- ed a reputation as an eminent Canadian, an outstanding advis- or to both business and govern- ments. He became prominent in the public eye in the mid fifties, when he -served as chair- man of the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Pro- spects. Long a close friend of Les- ter Pearson, he quickly became one of his closest advisors af- ter the latter took over the leadership of the Liberal Party in 1958 and began the difficult job of rebuilding after the dis- astrous election in March of that year. Mr. Gordon played a prominent role in the forma- tion of Party economic policy, acted as a chairman of the national campaign committee in 1962 and 1963 and was a natur- al choice under all circumstanc- es for the portfolio of Minister of Finance. When the Liberal Govern- ment took office on April 22, Mr. Gordon shone as one of the brightest stars in an unusually bright galaxy. Before the end of the famous 60 days of deci- sion promised by Prime Min- ister Pearson, Mr. Gordon's shine was badly tarnished. He was in probablythe worst diffi- culty of his life, fighting to pre- vent a short-lived political 'ca- reer from suddenly being cut short. At the time of writing his political future was still cloudy, even though the out- look was brighter. Part of Mr. Gordon's troubles stemmed from his attempts to act too much like a business- man in dealing with political problems, while the other part stems from his failures.. to be businesslike enough. Possessing the disdain of some businessman for civil serv- ants, Mr. Gordon decided to bring his own band of experts from Toronto to help draft the budget which he planned to put before Parliament within the first sixty days. He either fail - senior officials of the Depart- ment for their advice or re- ed to consult the permanent jetted it while at the same time he relied on the advice of men supposedly experts in the investment field who led him into serious and inexcus- able error — men who by no stretch of the imagination could be said to have achieved a status in their private busi- ness comparable to that of Sen- ior Finance Department Officials in Government. Mr. Gordon found himself in deep trouble the day after he had brought down his strident- ly partisan budget. Across the country he was severely criti- cized for having removed the exemption ,from the 11 per cent sales tax on the ' machinery, equipment and building mater- ials, the charge being levelled that the move would restrict rather than expand economic growth. Grave concern was al- so being expressed over the measures aimed at discouraging the inflow of foreign capital in- to the ownership of Canadian resources, the most outstand- ing being a 30 per cent take- over tax on the sale of a ma- jor interest in a Canadian com- pany to foreigners, But at the outset Mr. Gor- don's trouble in the House of Commons turned around the disclosure that two out of four private experts retained by the Minister to participate in the preparation of the budget were still on salary with Toronto in- vestment houses. The .following week Mr. Gor- don was forced to face a new humiliation with his almost Un- precedented withdrawal of the take-over tax because it proved to be administratively unfeas- ible. Opposition members' glee at his discomfort quickly turn- ed to mock anger when they suddenly recalled the Minister had also broken with precedent by making the announcement while stock exchanges were still open, presenting an opportun- ity for m'arket professions to make a possible killing. The budget presented by Mr. Gordon appeared to have two main objectives: to move to- ward a balanced budget after six years of heavy and con- tinuous budget deficits and to move toward a reversal of the trend of growing foreign owner- ship of Canadian resources—al- though the biggest objective, on expanding economy and low- er unemployment, was also there but in a hard to recog- nize form. In accepting the goal of a balanced budget, Mr. Gordon was doing no more than fol- lowing ollowing faint"er Mute +fiifistdr John Diefe`dbitlter,'tirlto pretti- fied that liis'G•Wet'n itent'Wetfd tadnde Ohe witltfii' tvt�o� y"efli�a,. t hi"f 01e" iffile6'1 emption on machinery and building materials, heavily criti- cized by the Conservative Op- position, Mr. Gordon was doing no more than former Conserva- tive Finance Minister George Nowlan had himself planned to do had he been given an opportunity to bring down a budget. Continuing budget deficits, have been a source of concern among investors for a .number of years and appeared to be one element which contributed to the loss of confidence that led in turn to last year's run on the Canadian dollar. But Mr. Gordon's', decision to move to- ward a balanced budget by im- posing the sales tax on machin- ery and building materials ap- pears to' have done nothing to produce confidence among the business community, quite the cpntrary. While the move is bound to have, some restrictive effect on the economy, it was not made clear what the rela- tive force would be in relation to the expansionary factors there were in the budget in the way of investment incen- tives to industry. The objective of increased foreign ownership laid down by the Minister would be readily accepted by most Canadians. In fact, it was readily accepted by the former Government. Con- sidering that its efforts in this REPORT direction had led to the for- eign exchange crisis, it is dou- bly surprising that Mr. Gordon would not move in this field with supreme caution. How he put himself In tyle' position of levying a take-over tax that was apparently so demonstrably un- workable has yet to be explain- ed. Also, unexplained is why he did not provide stronger new incentives for Canadian capital to flow into the owner- ship of domestic assets to fill the gap that presumably would be left by the discouragement of foreign capital. As a result o his baptism under fire, Mr. Gordon's politi- cal astuteness may have devel- oped a finer temper. If not, he is likely to be mortally burned the next time he is exposed to flame. And this could be soon. It is clear the Liberal Govern- ment will waste no time in get- ting its budget house in order. The question is whether Mr. Gordon's political heart can be in it, something which only he can decide. Most people who know him here cannot avoid hoping that it will be. He re- mains a considerable man—and it has not been overlooked that many great political leaders have been badly burned. The test of the largest ,men is not whether they fall but whether they can pick themselves up again. We shall soon know. MY FATHER IS TEACH- ING MEA SHORT-CUT IN SOLVING MATH PROBLEMS.. - ON, YES_.ALL FATHERS TEACH THEIR CHILDREN PLENTY_ DID YOUR FATHER EVER DO THAT;. -t n CANDY? 04-4.4.44 BUT WITH THE HELP OP P. GOOD SCHOOL TEACHER YOU'LL GET OVER IT_- ;.gid- OEUA,,t.. 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