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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1963-08-01, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year SINGLR COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, BROS., Publishers .."" 1.0:64 01 104 Week Ottawa. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 1, 1963 Carnival Deserves Support Of Area Public There probably is no one facility in Seaforth that. provides greater enjoy- ment to a greater number of people during the summer months than does the Lions Park and Pool. Not only does the Park serve Seaforth, ,but its plea- sures are enjoyed by old and young throughout a wide area. This year even greater numbers of children are enrolled for swimming in- struction. It is impossible to estimate the lives that may be saved in years to come because of this training which is being made available to district chil- dren. All this has become possible because members of the Seaforth Lions Club, for nearly forty years have never lost sight of their long-range plan to pro- vide the best in park facilities for Sea - forth. They have never hesitated to de- vote hour upon hour of their time with no remuneration, other than the satis- faction of knowing that something worthwhile was being created in the Seaforth community. Throughout the year the public has co-operated in mak- ing available necessary funds, and this teamwork has created a Park arrange- ment the • equal of any available in towns of similar size in Ontario. During recent years increasing costs of everything that goes into the main- tenance and operation of Seaforth Lions Park have made more difficult the task of the Lions Club. Each year -the -public has an oppor- tunity to co-operate with the Lions Club, and that is on the occasion pf the annual Summer Carnival. The pro- ceeds from the carnival determine the degree of maintenance that is possible for the Park. This year the Carnival takes place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings of'next week. Citizens should require no urging to indicate their ap- preciation of the park facilities by at- tending the Carnival. Not only is a full evening's entertainment guaran- teed, but those attending will have the satisfaction of having had a part in making possible a continuation of the Lions Park program. They will have had a part in making it possible for Seaforth district children to learn to swim. A special attraction this year are the Carnival admission tickets which are - now on sale and which include the op- portunity to win a top award of $1,000. Hydro Plays Important Seaforth was one of the first munici- palities to enter into the Ontario Hydro scheme more than fifty years ago. There will be particular interest then in recollections of the St. Marys Jour- nal -Argus concerning the problems of bringing Hydro to the rural consumer. "Just over fifty years ago in June, 1913, ' Ontario Hydro's first rural dis- tribution line was completed in the Kit- chener area," the Journal -Argus re- calls. "It ran between Baden and Petersburg, then north to "St. Agatha. Power wa first supplied to three farms near Pe eerrsbirg and an orphanage at St. Agatha. One of the original farm customers, Peter Seyler, who now lives in Petersburg, recalls the event vivid- ly. ° "Mr. Seyler, whose farm was' locat- ed west of Petersburg on Highway 7 ,.and 8, says about 100 persons turned out to see the lights turn on at his farm. Within a short time other Wilmot Town- ship farms received power as its popu- larity grew. "Sir Adam Beck, Hydro's'first chair- man, took a personal interest in the farm hydro development. In 1912, he launched a campaign to illustrate the varied uses of electricity on the farm through a series of on -the -spot demon- strations. Two mobile units,' which be- came known 'as the "Hydro Circus", were built to travel rural roads and vis- it farms where power could be tapped Role On Farm from low -voltage Hydro transmission lines. The units included a three -ton truck, carrying equipmentranging from a circular saw to a washing ma- chine with horse-drawn transformer and motor wagons. "The `circus', often bogged down on muddy country roads and had to, be pulled out by teams of horses. But the campaign to demonstrate electricity to the farmer continued with evangelical fervor. Demonstrations, given at farms and country fairs, showed that elec- tricity could be used effectively to light- en and speed up many laborious tasks on the farm and vastly improve living conditions." While interest in rural electrification was difficult to arouse in those early years, by the 20's Ontario farmers had seen the benefits which Hydro could bring them. Following the Second War, demand increased stili more, until today there are few farms without electrical ser- vice. It would be interesting to imagine the situation that would exist on On- tario farms today had Hydro not been available and had not been made use of. There may be trouble keeping John- nie on the farm, but the difficulty is nothing compared to what would hap- pen if Johnnie was required to pump water and do all the other chores Hy- dro does so reasonably. TO THE EDITOR F OF A PRESIDENT REPLIES Wingham, Ont., July 15, 1963. Dear Editor: I would like the opportunity to reply to a letter written by Ronald MacGregor which ap- peared in the July 11 issue of your newspaper. - He chose to criticize the Federation of Agriculture gen- erally in his letter and it would also appear that he was en- deavouring to make a strong effort to have the 'work that the Federation of Agriculture is doing, appear to the readers of your paper, as not being in the best interests of the farmer. The Federation of Agricul- ture welcomes criticism and advice from anyone, but when unjust criticism and unfair statements are made about our organization, I feel it is my duty to reply to such a letter. We thank you, Mr. MacGre- gor, for your opinion and ad- vice regarding a grain testing I station in Huron County. Our resolution committee consisting of five well-known Huron Coun- ty farmers brought in a resolu- tion requesting a grain testing station. (I might say that the resolution has not yet been dealt: with by the Ontario Vet - oration of Agriculture and may bedefe ed.� 1 can e _ ori t assure 6 ) NM that the retention ;et '/tgrlcul- turr'Witt not work fora grails testing station for Huron un- less the people want it. You also make a comment about the Federation of Agri- culture supporting the -. hog marketing plan. The Federation of Agriculture are very happy that they' had a small part in forming the Huron County Hog Producers Association. Nearly all Huron County farmers are hog producers and the hog producers 'of Huron have en- dorsed the hog marketing plan three times during the past three years. Why would they not support it? Ontario Hog Producers re- ceive a higher price for their hogs than producers do in any other part of North America, and opponents to the plan also enjoy the higher price, Your statement that our or- ganization tries to "arouse sus- picion and distrust between farm producers and private en- terprise" is absurd and ridicu- lous. Ydu also seem concerned about the goal of the Federa- tion of Agriculture. The Feder- ation of Agriculture was form- ed feqr the purpose of improv- ing tlie•. farmer's position and increasing, his income and much has been done through our faint marketing legislation td 8 L`cbm -lieve fish titin and eV s , every fart is being made tocontinue td' intprovc"t(fe :�farrttery s itiCO O' through our several depart- ments at the Toronto office. Our organization represents the vast majority of farmers and we are recognized by both Dominion and Provincial Gov- ernments as the voice of the farm people, and we are fre- quently commended by the gov- ernment on our briefs that we present to them. Farmers need to be organiz- ed today more than ever ,before and I feel that unjust criticism of our organization — that has served the interests of the farmer so well for the past 26 years — is uncalled for and will accomplish nothing. It is much easier to criticize than ..to come forth with new ideas and answers to our farm problems. It appears to me, Mr. Mac- Gregor, that you are misin- formed on the work the Fed- eration of Agriculture is en- deavouring to do. I would like to extend an invitation to you to come to our next monthly meeting on September 17 and I can assure you that the members of the executive will be glad to bring you up to date on the work of the Federa- tion of Agriculture. Sincerely, , ELM>R IRELAND, Presidetttr il'ttrof P of A, 1tlt 51 .VVlnthttrt 7J. MO(4AP 30i No z1I fI1 • "He's been using my lemon for three days and won't give me my royality!" What a difference a genera- tibn or so has wrought in the once -joyous art of summer cot- taging! About 30 years ago, it was a gypsy sort of existence, based on the idea that people should enjoy life. Today it is a combination of status seek- ing, nerve wrecking and organ; ized horror. like most of the other facets of ,society in the Sixties. In those days, the cottage was a cottage, not a palatial "sum- mer home". Today,. the same structure would be called a shack, and they'd run you right out of the sub -division (which could be the best thing that ever happened to you). Can you imagine one of these young married couples, the kind who grin and wink fever- ishly on the beer commercials, going, with their children, to a place away off nowhere, with coal -oil lamps and ar'two-holer out back and no supermarket within 50 miles. Can you imagine Mummy, go- ing all summer without even one single car? Can you im- agine Dad with just one lousy little rowboat? Can you im- agine children who could pos- sibly exist without water skis and transistor radios? It's pret- ty appalling, isn't it? And, yet, summer cottaging was, within memory, a simple, almost pioneer existence, with its own very special pleasures, its deep delights, its subtle joys. It was a wonderful, gol- den two months each year in the lives of many youngsters, a time they still remember with savage§ regret • for what they have become. • For one thing,' Father did not have to thunder up a highway with thousands of other zaniacs, each and every one intent on getting there in the shortest possible time and taking nothin off a nobody in the process. Father was a summer bachelor, and he loved every minute of it. When school ended, he load- ed down the old car to the groaning point, piled the kids in the hack, took thewhole fam- ily to the cottage, dumped them, and went sensibly -back to town, where all the other sensible fathers spent the summer. He got a rest from his wife and children, and spent the evening's quietly and .happily at the bowling green, or pot- tering among the raspberry bushes, or running around with the local grass widow. And what was Mother doing? Don't worry. She was kept busy, and therefore happy, tak- ing slivers out of feet, keeping bowels open, taking ;the kids swimming twice a day, and fill- ing their greedy little guts with unpasteurized milk, ungraded eggs and uninspected meat. Nowadays my heart aches for cottage parents. The day they arrive, Dad charges around like a bull moose, hooking up the pressure system, blowing fuses in the hydro system, trying to get his dirty great boat in the Water, and running in all di- rections lugging vast cans of gas, brutally heavy outboards, and balk -breaking cases or beer. SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley tle of olives and some mixer for the gin. When he gets back, he learns that he is to take the kids for a swim, set up the barbecuefor the party they're giving that night, and go back to the village for some cigar- ettes for Mum. What are the kids doing, on that glorious first day at the cottage? They're sitting around whining because there's no TV and "Nothing to do". And what is •Mummy doing? She has switched on her electric stove, flopped some frozen dinners in the oven, and is sitting with a drink, looking at the lake with bored, disdain. No slivers to take out, no vegetables to pre- pare, no drinking water to fetch. She's unhappy. Sunday night, or Monday morning if he's a real nut, Dad hits the highway again and ar- rives back on the job creased, cross and sorry for himself. But the horrible part of it is, that he has' to be at the cottage every weekend, plus his threes weeks -with -pay in August. At least twice a week, back in town, he gets a phone call from Mum, and he'd better be home tp take it, not out"roar- ing around and having yourself a big time." Her call reveals that she is bored, that the kids are giving her a bad time, that the septic tank isn't working, and that some people are go- ing to "drop over" on Saturday night and be sure to bring lotsa likken Sure, they have many things the old-time cottagers didn't have — lights, water, indoor plumbing. But today's cottager, in his frantic search for ease and convenience, has created a Frankenstein monster. He's a slave to all that machinery, and a captive of all that social life, and he hakes his wife, who.'d be much happier' taking out slivers with a needle than wondering if it is too early to have her first gin and tonic. A SMILE OR TWO "I had to change my seat sev- eral times at the movie." "Gracious, did a man get fresh?" "Well, finally!" A woman walked into a mil- linery shop and pointed out a hat in the window; "That red one with the feath- ers and berries," she said.' "wAuld you please take it otit of the window for me?" "Certainly, madam," the clerk replied. "We'd be glad to." "Thank you very much," said the, woman moving toward the exit. "The horrible thing both- ers me every time I pass." 'JEST A SECOND' When everything is operating, „ whyk-we dress for he,;. las to , -das)t off to the vil- r, V r At ti h e� � lage'kb get: sgtme ;in�ispensables, , � � . , 04� uchl as 9. bo>t of tigstles, a bot4, do !f it tjR ,, Pent iii! „ r IN THE YEARS AGONE July 22, 1938 Members of the Seaforth Troop of Boy Scouts left Thurs- day 'for Point Farm, north .of Goderich, where they will spend a week in camp. Th - party, which numbers 20, is in charge of Scoutmaster P. B. Moffat. Walton and Seaforth played to a 'scoreless tie here Tuesday evening in the first of the two - game series to decide third place in the southern section of the Huron Football League. The game was a typical playoff game and each side put every effort into their struggle to gain the upper edge. Through- out the whole game it was about as even as the score would in- dicate. Climaxing 100 years residence of the family in Tuckersmith Township, Crichs from New York to New Liskeard return- ed home Wednesday and attend- ed a centennial picnic in Bay- field. July 29, 1938 Walter O'Brien, Staffa, nar- rowly escaped death Saturday morning when the gasoline en- gine in the chopping mill, own- ed by his father, Frank O'Brien, suddenly burst into flames. On- ly the fact that he was on the side of the engine nearest the door permitted him to escape with severe burns on his hands. McKillop Township voters' lists show the township to have 1,030 voters in part one, an in- crease r of 70 over 1937. Part two has decreased one, to 135; while part three has increased to 83. There"are328 jurors available in the township. The most popular groom -to - be, in 'the opinion of Town Clerk D. H. Wilson, who issues marriages licenses hereabouts, is the man who a few days ago purchased his license from Mr. Wilson and then a few minutes later returned and handed him 10 cigars. Mr. Wilson is at a loss to know what prompted the kind deed, for, as he says, the license was but the ordinary garden variety, and he didn't throw in any advice or warning to the prospective husband. July 25, 1913 v A good deal .of fall wheat in this district has been cut. It is a splendid crop both as to quality and yield. A good crop of oats is now also assured. In fact, all the crops are good with the exception of hay, and that will be a full half crop. Mr. Lucas Shade of town, who is 73 years of age, has never yet required to use spectacles and he still can read ordinary newspaper print without the aid of glasses. This is an achievement which few citizens can boast of. Principal Naylor and his as- sistants in Seaforth Public School are to be congratulated on the highly creditable show- ing their pupils made in ,the recent Entrance examination, the whole class of 22 who wrote having passed, and many of them with honors. Mr. 'John McKenzie is having the front of the Princess The- atre improved in appearance and made more easy of ingress and egress in case of a crowd- ed house. Mr. McKenzie has made a success of the moving picture business here. He al- ways puts on a good clean show and merits and receives the lib- eral. patronage of the public. August 1, 1913 One day recently a lady drop- ped a sum of money in the store of Mr. A. G. Ault. A few days later another lady custom- er from the country, having seen the advertisement of the lost money, returned it to Mr. Ault, and it was given to the pleased owner. The fall wheat harvest is gen- eral this week. The crop is a good one and the sample of the grain is the brightest and best in many years. Among the successful stu- dents of Seaforth Collegiate we notice that James Gillespie passed the examination .of Part I entrance to Faculty with hon- ors. At a meeting of the Colleg- iate Institute Board held Tues- day evening, Miss M. E. Car- man of Iroquois was engaged as, teacher of Modern Languages and History. Miss Carman's salary is $1,000. July 27, 1888 The outward earnings of the Seaforth office of the Canadian Express Company shows an' in- crease of $868.37 for the five months ending With June over the corresponding five months of last year. This shows what can be done by an efficient, ac- tive and obliging agent. Two women, driving from Strathroy to London on Satur- day, quarrelled, and one of them, a Mrs. Shrimpton, beat the other, a Mrs. Roy, ,about the head and] shoulders With the butt end of a whip in a cruel manner. Mr. Peters, J.P., imposed a fine of $2.00. 11r. David Hay, the bearer of His Majesty's mails between Bayfield and Seaforth, has had his carriage newly painted, and it now looks so stylish that every person will be wanting to ride in it. Most of the fall wheat arld a greatmdeaI of the barley in this section has been cut, and the oats and peas are coming on rapidly, A good litany' waited tip On Sunday night ltst to' ebb t. eeitrde;of the noon. Those *Ito tvtt:0b d it say 4t 'tan. lt. bight worth seeing. August 3, 1888 The first new wheat of this season's growth was brought to the mill of Messrs. Ogilvie' in this town on Thursday, August 2. It was grown by Mr. Peter Cameron of Stanley. The sam- ple is first class. Mr. Cameron says his crop will give an aver- age yield of at least 20 bushels per acre. Mr. C. E. Mason of Brucefield has sold the best of the two- year-old stallions he recently imported from Scotland to an American for the sum of $2,500. This is one of the best sales Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. that has been made in this sec- tion eation for a long time. Mr. M. Robertson, Seafurth's popular undertaker, has recent- ly got home a handsome new hearse, which is a credit to himself and the town. Mr. John Mulholland, for sev- eral years a salesman in the grocery store of Messrs. Wilson & Young in this town, was pay- ing his'friends here a visit this week. Mr. Mulholland is now a minister of the Methodist Church. For the past two years he has had charge of a congre- gation in a Dakota town, where he will remain still another year. A MACDUFF OVAWA REPORT TWO SIDES OF THE COYNE OTTAWA—To many, if ever there was a modern-day Cana- dian prophet he is James Coyne, Governor of the Bank of Can- ada, until the unceremonious efforts. of the former Conserva- tive Government to dismiss him in 1961. Like many another would-be prophet, he is still without honor among his coun- trymen and many say for good reason. It was in late 1959 that Mr. Coyne began mounting public platforms across the country to warn that Canada was living well beyond its means, the proof of which he claimed was its large and chronic deficit balance of trade in goods and services with other nations—al- though it is often overlooked that it was Coyne's tight mon- ey policy around the same time which as a practical matter drove many Canadian Provinc- es and municipalities to the American capital market to borrow needed funds, and so helped delay for three crucial years the necessary downward valuation of the Canadian dol- lar. Many feel that had his .mon- ey policy been more appropri- ate to Canadian conditions at that time, our recent economic history would have been much different and happier. They say a lower Canadian dollar value would have meant a real im- provement in the Canadian bal- ance of payments by producing greater exports and fewer im- ports. This in turn would have meant higher Canadian produc- tion, lower unemployment and lower Federal deficits. The complaint of those who do not honor Coyne as a pro- phet is 'that they feel that the ,big balance of payments defi- cits which worried him were less the result of Canada' lut- ing beyond its means than the result of 'his wrong money pol- icy which kept Canada from making full use of its economic means, i.e., the travesty of huge imports and insufficient exports produced by a high premium on the Canadian dollar, while Canadian manpower and physi- cal resources were substantial- ly under -employed. The Conservative Govern- ment that then held power at .first rejected the warning out of hand while denying responsi- bility for Coyne's money poli- cies but within a year was im- pelled by the force of events to take the first tentative steps to dealwith a situation that was increasingly grave. In the year the.Central Bank- er first sounded the alarm, Can- ada's deficit balance of inter- national payments climbed to a record $1.5 billion. In the in- tervening years the deficit has slowly dropped, back, until in 1962 it had dropped to. $8.I8,- 000,000, and this year it should drop even further, perhaps to the level of $700,000,000. But even at these reduced levels the deficit still is rais- ing serious problems for Can- ada, as Mr. Coyne warned would be the consequences of a fail- ure to remedy the situation as a matter of urgency. The truth of Mr. Coyne's words were first brought home vigorously in mid -1962, when a cumulative decline in confi- dence in the management of Canada's affairs led to a flight of capital from Canada, in sharp contrast to the heavy inflow that has occurred in previous years to help meet the trade deficit. The inevitable outcome was a heavy drain of the Gov- ernment's reserves of gold' and United States dollars, which led in turn ,to the imposition of an austerity program. A healthy restoration of for- eign exchange reserves and a 'continued reduction in the bal- ance of payments deficit made it appear that Canada was out of the woods and well on the, way to a solution of this criti- cal problem. • It only took a message to Congress by Presi- dent 'John F. Kennedy on July 18 to demonstrate how vulner- able Canada continues to be to external forces, although it can also be noted that !Kennedy's unprecedented action demon- strates . U.S. vulnerability to external 'forces as well. Mr. Kennedy asked Congress for authority to impose a tax ranging from 2.75 to 15 per cent on purchases of the securi- ties of 22 nations, Canada in - eluded, by United States inter- ests. The purpose of the move •teaS to resolve the United Sfa'tes' own serious defleit bal- ance ofens a p: yth s. Estimated as likely to Colne to aroitrt4 $3 billion on .. this " year s b stni t ii' anl Acreage tight, the dfc1taC�est to the decline that had been hop- ed for, it is the result of U.S. loans and grants abroad exceed- ing the Country's substantial current account surplus from trade in goods and services. The problem, in other words, is the very opposite of that fac- ing Canada, but a problem none the less because it results in a serious loss of gold and dol- lars. The President's move, almost totally unexpected in Ottawa, came as a ghastly shock to the Liberal Government, which was still reeling under ' the attack against ill • conceived budget measures inappropriately aim- ed at discouraging the inflow of foreign capital. The truth of the matter is that each year Canada requires to obtain a substantial volume of capital abroad, much of it from the United States, to cov- er its trade deficit. Finance Minister Walter Gordon put it this way in his budget speech: "We shall continue to need .sub- >stantial net inflows of foreign capital for quite a few years to come if we are to avoid fur. ther exchange rate difficulties and if a reasonable increase in our standard of living is to be achieved. This is a fact of life in Canada. It would be the height of folly to ignore it " The President proposed to exempt U.S, capital flowing in=' to Canada for direct investment,' that which has the greatest ef- fect in extending U.S. owner- ship and control of Canadian in- dustry. Last year Canada ob- tained $525,000,000, the bulk of it from the United States. Drastically affected by the tax would be the sale of new issues of securities south of the border, which according to Can- adian figures amounted to $674,- 000,000 in 1962. Also taxed would be U.S. purchases of out- standing Canadian securities, which amounted to $1.14 bil- lion in 1962. In all a total of $1.8 billion worth of securities were in jeopardy on the basis of last year's figures. The implications of a tax of up to 15 per cent on security sales in both these categories were far-reaching and impos- sible to measure accurately. A sharp increase in all interest rates would seem to be an im- mediate result, but . even this might not prove sufficient to attract the capital Canada needs to finance its trade deficit. A new foreign exchange crisis was in the realm of poss.ibil; ity. A high-level Canadian team headed by Bank of Canada Gov: ernor Louis Rasminsky was ur- gently dispatched to Washing- ton over the weekend, where it argued that the United States was cutting off its nose to spite its face. Canada was not drain- ing gold from U.S. reserves, it contended, but borrowing capi- tal only to pay for the goods which it was buying from the United States1 Furthermore, Canada had contributed a net of $5 billion to U.S. reserves over the last decade. The outcome was. an agree- ment by the Administration to provide an exemption from the tax for new issues of Canadian securities, which is of particu- lar importance because it is such a huge source of net capi- tal inflows. That leaves the tax remain- ing . on trade in outstanding Canadian securities. In 1962 this produced only a net capi- tal inflow of . $71,000,000 from the United States because Can- adian re -purchases of their own securities came within ' that amount of matching ''sales to thp United States. It is just possible that the tax which' President Kennedy still proposes to impose on ,this trade could result in a major reduc- tion in U.S. purchases of out- standing securities which was not matched by a reduction in Canadian purchases from' the United. -States. The' net - result would be a ,drain of capital south. . - ,;Canadidn , authorities h o 1 d some hope that this remaining levy can also be removed be- cause it does not contribute to the, ALS. balance of payments deficit. Even if they are suc- cessful, the threatened action by a country ie w in the world t wardththCanadabest folill- lowed by its qutc k -track- ing once again underacacni' s the modern economic inter -depend- ence of Canada and the United States. It also raises for the second mjust over a year the- :. ltiong-termein Canadian balance of payment prospects and the re - Wed' question, of Caitad '$ c nuon• t i ,t,ndepetitiettfie q#l'idrelg�, • fapita , ,