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The Huron Expositor, 1963-07-11, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor K E Canadian WeeklyNewspapers Association 440A Member „ Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association ABCe 4I Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year e0 Outside Canada (in advanee), $4.00 a Year u L P SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 11, 1963 Police Deserve It is to be hoped that now Seaforth has appointed a new Chief of Police, there will be an end to the personali- ties, the belittling and ridicule which have been disturbing factors in the op- eration of the police force for several years. Appointed to the position is Gor- don Hulley, who has served in Mitchell for nine years and who comes highly recommended. No chief of police can be expected to do his best unless he has support of those who employ him. The lot of a policeman at best is not a happy one, and they are the subject of enough un- fair criticism in the .ordinary perform- ance of their duties without at the same time being publicly criticized month af- ter month. Members of council, of course, are in a difficult position, for to them comes every rumour, every critcism, every in- cident concerning the operation of the police force. Quite properly, as repres- entatives of the citizens, they must sat- isfy themselves as to the truth or other- wise of the charges. In'the heat of dis- cussion at a council meeting, however, there is not opportunity to examine in- to, the criticism with a resulting ten- dency to regard rumours as facts. This in turn can lead to erroneous conclu- sions and unreasonable demands—all of which have the effect of tearing down• the respect and esteem in which a po- lice force has to be held if it is to do a proper job. This is not to say, of course, that regardless of how a policeman carries out his duties he should not be called to account—far from it. But in discussing police administration, a certain formal- ity is essential. Above all, the discus- sion must be objective and impartial. It is to obtain the necessary degree of impartiality that many municipalities have found it desirable to establish po- lice commissions. Chief Hutchinson will leave the posi- tion he has occupied for the past five Complete Support years with the best wishes of a great majority of the citizens of Seaforth. A conscientious officer, he has carried on his duties in circumstances which, at times, have been most discouraging. He will be remembered for the contri- bution he has made to the youth of the district. Through his efforts the Teen Twenty organization, which he estab- lished, has been a majoefactor in pro- viding an outlet for teen-age enthusi- asms under proper supervision. Seaforth is no better or worse than any other similar municipality as a stu- dy of reports in daily and weekly news- papers throughout the district will re- veal. Young lads, and some not so young, are driving too fast; there are squealing tires, and sometimes there are brawls in ralmost every community. The police can keep the problems in hand but they mljst have the complete support and encouragement of the coun- cil and every citizen interested in pro- per law enforcement. The reorganized Seaforth force under Chief Gordon Hul- ley must be assured of that support. New Reputation Canada once had the reputation of being a country in which businessmen and government officials were discreet to the point' of being dull. Now we are becoming known as a na- tion where bankers and brokers are quick to reach for the hot phrase. In 1961 it was the governor of the Bank of Canada and the minister of finance. This year it is the president of the Montreal Stock Exchange and the new minister of finance. - In both eases the charges hurled at the finance mini- ster heard around the financial world out of their political context, alarmed investors out of proportion to the actual state of the affairs of the nation, and obscured the real economic issues fac- ing the nation.—Financial Post. IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. kge.ed,” 01144 *446 From'The Huron Expositor July 8, 1938 Seaforth streets received their annual application' of oil this week. The work was delayed due to wet weather. - Northside United Church in- ducted its new pastor, Rev. H. V. Workman, formerly of Petro- lia. Rev. R. W. Craw of McKil- lop and Rev. W. A. Bremner were in charge of the services. Perfect weather favored the fourth annual invitation tourna- ment of the Seaforth Golf and Country Club here Wednesday, when golfers from clubs throughout the district gather- ed to take advantage of the splendid course. Andrew Mal - elm of Kincardine captured first prize with a 77—three un- der par. Workmen commenced tearing up Main Street sidewalks on the east side on Tuesday in readi- ness for the new walks which council authorized some time ago. From The Huron Expositor July 11, 1913 Herbert Dexter, who is ein- ploye l at John Barr's, Blyth, hada miraculous escape from death on Tuesday morning while at work in Taman's gravel pit, when a large quantity of earth caved in, completely covering him. Word reached town and many willing workers were on the scene, and after an hour and a half's work he was finally freed. Other than some bruis- es, he was uninjured. Miss Ada Govenlock, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Gov- enlock, has been appointed Eng- lish teacher in the Mitchell high school. Miss Govenlock has proved herself a most competent teacher and the Mitchell people have been fortunate in secur- ing her services. The furniture factory has been closed since the 1st of July, taking stock, but it is ex- pected xpected to start again on Mon- day. Messrs. Arthur Forbes, Ches- ter , Crich, Neil McLeod, R. Powell and M. McLeod took „in ' the I.1 `. cot`ivention Dalin: Bin; 'nn csday, At the plenic. Porbea ":proved MOW' to be, the champion biscuit'eater, win- ning'first prize, a club bag. He also won the fat man's race, the prize being a box of cigars. From The Huron Expositor July 13, 1888 Mr. Brierly, editor of the St. Thomas Home Journal, was in town on Monday. He spent Sun- day at Bayfield, where his fam- ily are now staying. He went home via Mitchell and Stratford making the round trip on his bicycle. He went from St. Thomas to Bayfield on Satur- day, a distance of over 60 miles, and said he was not as tired as if he had rode the same dis- tance in a buggy. Mr. and Mrs. Hohnestead in- tend leaving next week to spend a few weeks camping out near Lake Joseph- in Muskoka. Mr. Davidson is having the Commercial Hotel renovated from top to bottom, and the out side is being nicely Painted.' Mr. Edward Coleman has pur- chased a fine new English dog cart and Mr. John Ward is mak- ing for him a handsome set of gold -mounted tandem harness, and we may expect to see him out in a.few days with the most nobby and novel turnout in these parts. r iii:i.i:ir:•:':i•T:::: •.i••:: a1 iS "1 never saw anyone so determined to have a swimming pool in all my life." • Why do Canadians drink so much? Each year, the black line on the boozing chart inches higher, and we are told " the horrifying fact that every man, woman and child in this coun- try puts away 16 gallons of hooch and 84 gallons of beer, or some such. Now I know that while you may drink that much, Aunt Mabel, I don't and my kids don't, and I doubt whether grandmother does, so some- body is really knocking back the stuff. About 12 per cent of the Canadian labor force is employ- ed in agriculture, compared with nearly 25 per cent in France and 33 per cent in Italy. IIAL.Fc4A!nl'F 9'E(H * * * Who is the culprit? The vil- lain is not the Canadian tem- perament, but the Canadian weather. ' For eight months of the year we are adjured at every turn to have a nip to keep out the cold. During the other four months, we slosh it down by the bucket to beat the heat. Like right now. At this very moment, at 5 o'clock on a July day, the mercury past 90, it is horrifying to speculate on the number of Canadians who are lolling in their back yards, or at a cottage, or on a beach, or in an air-cooled bar, clutch- ing a cold beverage. And get- ting steadily hotter. * * * I. find it difficult to criticize them. I've just been through one of the worst weeks in my life, in"the middle of the worst heat wave '6f the summer, and I feel nothing but sympathy for, those who turn to drink in the hot weather. I have been build- ing a picnic. table. The Old Battleaxe has been niggling about one for a cou- ple of, years. All through Feb- ruary and March she kept see- ing them advertised at low, low prices. I wasn't interested. First, I wasn't in the mood for picnic tables while I was shov- elling snow in every daylight hour to spare. Secondly, the tables were all of the type that you have to put together your- self, and I had had enough of that caper. * * * SUGAR and SPICB By Bill .Smiley� didn't have any of the regular plans for picnic tables, but they had a plan for a kiddies' table, and the fellow said it was the same principle. * Using tried and true methods, I did not set to work. I called a couple of husky young con- freres and told them to drop around, for an ale. .I just hap- pened to have a couple of spare hammers when they arrived. I claimed I had asked them around for a nail. Three hours, a dozen ales and a hundreds. nails later, we had various piec- es of lumber nailed together, none of which seemed to have. any connection with the pieces left over. My helpers quite and went swimming. Undaunted, I played my next card. Called another friend, an expert in woodworking, and asked him to loan me some tools. 'Cunningly, when he ar- rived, I begged him to show me a bit of bis skill, mentioned how smar't his kids were and spoke of his wife's charm, With- in an hour, he had .the thing standing up. He told me how to finish it, and left. A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT GHOSTS OTTAWA—Are the ghosts of 1955 back in the House of Com- mons to haunt a Liberal Gov- ernment and its program of de- cisions? Ii top place on that program has been the Government's de- cision to create a Department of Industry under the now Min- ister of Defence Production, the Hon. C. M. Drury. Mr. Drury can be classed with the brain trust of the Pear- son Government. He was once one of the youngest Deputy Ministers in the Government service and in the Department of National De- fence. Long before that he had been the youngest brigadier in To the Editor In ally time I have put to- gether everything from baby's cots through prefab cupboards and unpainted bookcases to backyard swim pools. Inevitab- ly, the baby's cots have turned out looking like bookcases and the swimming pools like baby's cots. Screws never fit. Boards .are warped. The plans, which tell you with a sneer that any alf- wit can put'this thing together, are invariably put together by half-wits. Result: I go into a deep, flaming, unadulterated fury. My wife dances gingerly around, just out of reach. The kids quietly go into another part of the house and turn the radio on full volume. * * * * * * Grain Testing Facilities Ample Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: In recent issues of some local papers reporting on a Huron County Federation of Agriculture meeting,, it was stated that they were pressing for a grain -testing station in Huron County. Do these farm- ers,doubt the accurracy of the test's they are receiving? They said that some farmers from this area had taken sam- ples to three mills and received three different gradings as to the moisture 'content on the same seed. Mr. Editor, I doubt that the same seed was tested at all three mills -possibly three samples from the same lot. I started to put in a screw nail. The table began to sway like a shot stallion, and the whole ruddy structure collaps- ed on my left instep With a heart-rending rumble. Hopping swiftly, I got out the axe and was about to administer the coup de grace but my wife and kids grabbed me around the legs and hung on. Ignoring the debacles of the past, I decided to humor The Heckler, buy her a picnic table, and wrestle it together. But suddenly, we found, all those hot bargains had vanished. Pic- nic tables had soared in value. "The heck with this," my wife. said. "We'll do it the economi- cal way." We went to the mill where they cut out the planks and too- befores, I think they call them. i was a little reliever that she didn't want me to chop a tree and make my own planks. Lum- ber was only $19.95. Saved six or ten dollars already. They I got the expert back, bribed him with cold drinks, and he finished it. There are about 1,300 nails and bolts and screws in it, but it stands tall, a monu- ment to sheer ingenuity. • Got my daughter to paint it at 50 cents an hour. Lumber. hardware, beer for the bunglers, gin and tonic for the expert, stain and varnish and wages for the painter, and a doctor's bill for a bashed foot brought the total to about $43. For more than 15 years we have owned a moisture tester on our farm and find it very useful. We have found that there is a considerable varia- tion in moisture content in ev- en a small quantity 'of grain. I have made as many . as four tests on less than a half bushel of grain and found differences in each test. The best way, it would seem to me, is for a farmer to own his own tester and use it. One. can be bought for less than a TV set. Then. you have a good idea of the moisture content of the grain, whether you sell it or store it yourself., There is no doubt in my mind that farmers are getting a square deal as to moisture test from any of the three mills in Hensall. For years I kept a close test on all our grain sold to any of these elevators, and to other private enterprise mills in the area, and found them honest in their testing. Some- times their tests would be slightly higher, or slightly low- er, than mine, but always rea- sonably close. It seems typical of the Fed- eration of Agriculture to try to arouse suspicion and distrust between farm producers and any private enterprise.' If some farmers are' dissatisfied with private mills, there is still their 'Co-ops' to patronize. Why put the whole population to the un- necessary expense of opening and operating a testing station to satisfy a minority group? The Federation of Agricul- ture claims to speak for the vast majority of farmers: I wonder if it had to operate on membership dues (as do most organizations) without grants, how great a membership they could claim! The Federation supports compulsory hog mar- keting. I understand, too, that it supports the recent vicious legislation on tobacco growing. What is to prevent similar leg- islation from being applied to any farm product when the time comes that certain people may think it desirable?' As far as I can see, nothing. I wonder what is the ultimate • goal of the Federation of Agriculture? Thanking you, Mr. Editor, for the privilege of using your paper and allowing me to take advantage of this remaining freedom to express .one's views. Sincerely, RONALD MacGREGOR RR 3, Kippen. the Canadian Army in World War Il, This is the target toward which the former Prime Minis- ter, John Diefenbaker, has pointed his long finger in re- cent days ,charging that he is being given the absolute powers of an economic czar or, in oth- er words, the C. D. Howe of 1963. Just eight years ago the same charge was levelled at Mr. Howe himself as he sat behind his newspaper, making sure that everyone knew he was not lis- tening and couldn't care less. It was levelled by Mr. Diefenbak- er's predecessor as chieftain of the Conservative Party, the Hon. George Drew, who was leading a determined filibuster to block extension of the Defence Pro- duction Act -of 1951. The Act was born in the Kor- ean crisis. It gave , Mr. Howe very sweeping powers to regu- late and control industrial pro- duction. Even the Tories ad- mitted that those powers had been necessary to get the job of defence production under way. They even admitted that they might be necessary for a year or so longer. What they would not stand for was their incorporation in a permanent statute. Through an exhausting July heat wave they talked to prevent passage of the bill and it was before the comforts of air conditioning had reached the House of Commons cham- ber. They even talked through a day at 96 degrees in the shade. when someone turned on the steam heat in the Parliament Buildings. There are Tories still who remember that day and will swear that it was done deliberately by an exasperated Government. Then Mr. Howe himself solv- ed the whole thing. In the mid- dle of it all he went off fish- ing. By the time he came back Prime Minister St. Laurent had gone more than half wasy to meet Conservatives' dem nds. Mr. Howe's wings had been clipped. The Defence Production Act today gives only the "customary administrative powers to the present Minister who incidental- ly is ill -fitted for the role of dictator. But Mr. Diefenbaker sees ..their reinstatement in the new Department. of Industry. If the bill now before the House becomes law; he declares, , i will mean the abdication of Par- liament. That again is an echo of 1955 and something about whic Canadians of the time become more and more disturbed unti they finally turfed out the St Laurent regime. After six years of Diefenbaku er rule they reversed .the' stand. Mr.. Pearson promised decision and action, 60 days o it, and the Canadian voter, tir ed of years of indecision, gave him a mandate. But, with all its virtues, Parliament is a pon- derous and slow 'process of get- ting things done. Mr. Howe was far too impa- tient to wait and a Country that had only just emerged from wartime control and regulation was ready enough for a while to go along with him. As a result Mr. Howe got a great many things done, most of them things that needed doing, be- fore the processes of democracy finally caught up with him and the Government of which he was a member. HENSALL GROUPS HOLD PICNICS LEGION -AUXILIARY PICNIC Hensall Legion and Auxiliary annual picnic was held at Lions Park, Seaforth, on Sunday, with 30 attending. Sports were di- rected by Mrs. Howard Smale at the park, after which supper was served in the Hensall Le- gion Hall. Winners of sports were: Run- ning races, C sting Vanstone, Joan Allan, in a group six to eight years; boys, Lloyd Allan, Randy Campbe , Tom Roberts, ix in age group s' to eight years; girls, Margare Allan, Peggy KathyVanstone, KathyRoberts, in age group eight to 10 years; boys, Jim Roberts, Jo Vanstone, Ran- dy Campbell; gi Is, Sandra Max- well, Margaret Allan, Peggy Vanstone, in a e group 10 to 12; boys, John. Skea, Jim Rob- erts, Leonard male, in age Y group 10 to 12 ears; boys' shoe s c r a m b l e, ryon Campbell,g Lloyd Allan; gi ls' schoe scram- ble, Marion Rob rts, Peggy Van - stone; three -leg ed race, Marion Roberts and andra ' Maxwell, Joe Vanstone an d Jim Roberts; kick slipper,Marion Roberts, Dorothy Skea. SMILLIE REUNION hri age ll t e r g S B r e S M Lions Park, Seaforth, proved an ideal setting Sunday for the annual Btriillie reunion, , when the following officerii-'Weng i - t h 1 f - respectively. But whether Mr. Drury fits the role of a C. D. Howe or whether he is being given any- thing comparable in the way of powers, it is increasingly plain that he must play that role if the - new Department of Indus- try is to be more than a fifth wheel to the coach. He is being given power in the legislation to "assist" in- dustry with special measures but there are other duties and responsibilities that can't be written into a bill. There are times when Mr. Drury will not be assisting in- dustries as much as inducing them and sometimes pushing them. A case in point is the recent meeting with the Canadian auto- motive industry mentioned by Finance Minister Walter Gor- don in the course of his budget speech. Mr. Drury in, his fu- ture role of Minister of Indus- try was present. At that meet- ing the heads of the Canadian industry were told in no un- certain terms that they were responsible for a balance of payments deficit with the Unit- ed States each year of between $409 million and $500 million. How they were going to nar- row that deficit was their own business, but narrow it they must. With these words they were sent away to tackle the problem and return with proposals. When those proposals are made Mr. Drury and Mr. Gordon will decide what assistance, if any, will be given to this particular segment of Canadian manufac- turing. * * * Capital Hill Capsule Those who are condemning the Government for withdraw- ing sales tax exemptions from building materials and machin- ery and apparatus used in pro- duction might take a moment off to consider the alternatives that the Finance Minister re- jected. To obtain the same ad- ditional revenue ($360 million in a full year) he might have jumped the sales tax to 15 per cent or increased personal in- come tax and corporation tax by 15 per cent and 10 per cent elected for the second year: hon- orary president, Dr. Jennie Smillie Robertson, • Toronto ; president, Harold Elder, Hen- sall; vice-president, Mrs. Doro- thy Eatwell, Simcoe; secretary - treasurer, Miss Norma Geiger, Zurich; business committee, Dr. A. G. Smillie, Niagara Falls; Jack Elder, Oshawa. The young people spent the afternoon swimming and then enjoyed a series of games and contests, conducted by Dianne and Donna Peck. Clan - members were present from many locations in Canada, as -well as from the U.S.A. Among those coming from a distance were Dr. and Mrs. Jas. Tapp, North Carolina; Mr, and Mrs. Robert Brown, Chicago; Mrs. Beatrice Lorenzen, Detroit; Mr. and Mrs, Fred Howe from Arizona; Mr. and Mrs, Stewart Smillie of Florida and St. Cath- arines. Considerable time was spent by members examining the fam- ily tree which . had recently been completed by clan histor- ian Lorne Elder of Hamilton. The chart is 21 feet long and contains almost 1,000 names. Al- most complete records of the clan are available; dating from 1'780. Next year;the picnic will -be held at the sane looationn and time of year. OH = HAVE HAD A GREAT WEAKNESS FOR SHAKESPEARE EVER SINCE LAST SPRING__ IAIEFIA!!1 iLElI OAO SAYS THAT BEFORE WE DEC/DE WHERE 70 GO ON OUR VACATION WE HAVE 70 PE- C/OE ON WHERE WE WILL BORROW THE MONEY. •