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The Huron Expositor, 1963-08-29, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First 'obi shed at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association >t n n s Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: /a Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year is P. SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. s* SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 29, 1963 Area Weeklies Interests Are Varied Area Weeklies during the course of a year provide interesting comment on a host of subjects, as a sampling of a number of last week's papers indi- cates: Golden Opportunity . . . Substantial advantages to area mun- icipalities is seen by the Kincardine News as a result of the Municipal Loan Act introduced recently by the Pearson government at Ottawa : "Probably the mopt important piece of legislation which was enacted at the opening session of the parliament of Canada this year was the passing of an act which set „up a municipal loan fund by which municipalities across the Dominion will have access to a fund of $400 millions at low interest rate, to use on public works, this being an ef- fort to alleviate unemployment, espec- ially during the coming winter months. "Another important points about such loans is the intimation by the govern- ment that the municipalities will not be required to repay the, principal in full at a later date. • "In smaller centres, towns and vil- lages and rural districts the use of the federal fund is being discussed by peo- ple of different schools of thought. On one hand the opinion is that smaller municipalities, where progress is at a standstill at present, or making only a little advancement, that it would be dangerous to add to the debt of the communities by participating in the federal loan scheme. "On the other hand, those who favour dipping into the fund figure that any municipality that bypasses the oppor- tunity tosecure needed public works at such. a low cost and win such little trouble would be basing their actions upon false economy. Their opinion is that the larger centres would be pleased to get more than their share of the fund due to smaller places ignoring their chance to share in it. "We respectfully suggest that the powers -that -be in our own town and in the surrounding townships study the Municipal. Loan Fund Act very care- fully because it covers such projects as hospitals, schools, among its many ap- proved projects. It would be disastrous to pass up such a golden opportunity for two reasons, namely, to keep peo- ple off the relief rolls and to provide public facilities that are needed now or in the immediate future." Best Forgotten . . The St. Marys Journal -Argus is con- cerned by recently awakened interest in a Lucan incident of many years ago. Under the heading, "An Event Best Forgotten," the Journal -Argus com- ments: "The recent splurge of fresh sensa- tionalism concerning the Donnelly case in nearby Luean, is a most regrettable matter. Dragging out the bones of what was at the best an unfortunate affair, can accomplish no conceivable good ex- cept to those who may profit from the sale of literature connected with the incident. Insofar as Lucan residents are concerned, they are extremely tired of hearing about it. "St. Patrick's Church, in the grave- yard of which the Donnelly's lie buried, has been the chief recipient of the mor- bid upsurge of interest in the affair of over eighty years ago. The church and surrounding grounds, including the cemetery, are among the best kept por- tions of real estate in Western Ontario and the anxiety of those responsible for the welfare of St. Patrick's is under- 'standable. Marauders climb over fenc- es, scatter beef' bottles on the lawn, make visits VI the grave after midnight, presumably on a dare, and have on sev- eral eeeasions gone so far as to attempt holding a plonk on the' church lawns. The attire of many who visits the grave leaves much to be desired as they wan- der into the cemetery in garb more suitable for the beach than a cemetery. All in all, the over -emphasis placed on the entire incident leaves many with a sour taste in the mouth toward modern society as a whole. Surely we can find something better to do with our time and energy than relive the dark feuds of an era long passed." Needs Care The Wingham Advance -Times has good advice for the Ontario elector who next month will go to the polls : "Pay close attention during this cam- paign and give very careful thought to casting your ballot for the party which does NOT promise to look after your every want. Seek for some spirit of courage and independence where pub- lic expenditures are concerned. Not too many years ago we were a people who could look after our own doctor's bills and our own savings for old age. Let us not be too easily convinced that we have suddenly become completely help- less and hopeless." Goderich is Thankful .. . On the same subject, the Goderich Signal -Star refers to the extensive ex- penditure of tax funds by the provin- cial government in the Goderich area and suggests this should be reason for the riding of Huron to be satisfied : "The provincial riding of Huron has reason to be satisfied with what the present provincial government has done for it locally. This has included the building of the $3,500,000 Ontario Hos pital near Goderich, the $1,000,000 bridge over. the Maitland River, and now the $189,000 new O.P.P. building just south of Goderich. In addition, the .provincial government has promis- ed to pay half the costs of building the new beach area at the harbor. Only other promise to be fulfilled is the nam- ing of the site of a provincial park in Huron. This announcement may pur- posely have been Ieft to coincide with the forthcoming,provincial election. Al- though not definitely known, it is be- lieved that this new, needed provincial park in Huron is to be located com- paratively close to Goderich. So, all in all, the Goderich area has reason to be thankful for the present provincial government. "We can't see too big an interest be- ing taken by the public in the Septem- ber election. It is just one that has to be automatically staged and the overall results are not likely to see any major change from what now exists." Too Many Laws In Clinton, the News -Record sug- gests a need today is few laws, not more : "There ought to be a 'law against it," an irate citizen was heard to say the other day. "Again what, we know not. But whatever it was, the odds are better than even that there already is "a law" affecting the point 'at issue. "The trouble is, of course, that there are so many laws that none of us, law- yers included, can be expected to have knowledge of them all. Or, for that matter, of even a fraction of them. "In the United States, for instance, we are told that there are some two million laws in force. If a man could familiarize himself with as many as ten a day, it would still take him some- thing like 6,000 years to qualify as a law-abiding citizen. "We would be surprised if the Cana- dian total was not in proportion. "Ignorance of the law may not rate as a valid excuse, but it is certainly a wholly understandable condition. "Possibly what we really need is not more lkrWey but fewer lavne : "My wife is extremely afraid of animals" By the time this appears in print, I hope to be lolling ar- rogantly beside the saltwater swimming pool at the Manoir Richelieu, one of Canada's most lush hideaways for worn-out millionaires and tired -out week- ly newspaper editors. Both will be gathered there this week, the former trying to regain their lost health, the lat- ter trying to ruin theirs, at their annual convention. At the moment of writing, it's merely a hope. Between here and there lies a nightmare of car, rail and boat travel, with a wife and two children. I have no doubt •whatever that the journey will be an unforgettable horror composed of car trouble, missed trains, sea -sickness, forgotten bras- sieres, mislaid baggage checks, furious wife, and lost children. This is the way we always travel. As usual at our place, the kids and I have taken the pre- parations for attending this convention with admirable calm, while my wife has been sewing and ironing and swearing soft- ly since the first of July. I swear she'd need three years' advance notice should we ever decided to go to Europe for a month. What really baffles her is the unpredictability of the good old Canadian weather. Iate August can be reeking hot, cold and clammy, or brisk and breezy. Figure three changes of clothes a day for three possible clim- ates, for four people, for seven days, and you have the mea- sure of her misery. This week, while she stews at home, getting ready, I'm at a slightly different type of con- vention. It's a gathering of schoolteachers. Oh, there are similarities. You wear a name badge at each. You eat meals at each. There are receptions at each. Each has a key word: "dedicatibn" at this one and "grass-roots" at the newpaper one. There are interminable uplifting speeches at each. But what a difference in the details! At our first evening at the Manoir, I shall lead down to cocktails my beautiful wife, SUGAR and. SPIdB By Bill Smiley , enhanced by a smashing hair- do and new gown.. We shall sip languidly and exchange bons mots with old friends, while a white -gloved waiter passes the hors d'oevres. Then, wooed by dozens of handsome, young public rela- tions men who want us to sit at their table, we shall proceed in stately style to the Lobster Thermidor and the Baked Alas- ka. Things weren't quite like that at my first meal at the teach- ers' gathering. My dinner com- panion was pleasant, but not exactly exciting and by no stretch of the imagination beau- tiful. He didn't even get a new hair -do .for the convention. He was my roommate, director of the technical wing in a high school. ' : *. None of this decadent din- ing at seven. Dinner was at five -thirty. We washed our hands and went down to wien- ers and beans, followed by a palatable, but not quite exotic, dessert of canned cherries. At the Manoir, great public institutions like finance com- panies will vie with one an- other to provide pre -dinner re- ceptions and post -dinner con- vivialities for the editors. At this convention, the only reception was a coffee -and -cook- ie affair at 9:30 p.m., • and the guests paid for the grub. At the Manoir, each evening will produce its small parties, followed by dancing and enter- tainment in the handsome cas- ino. At this one, evening en- tertainment consists of a walk around the grounds, followed by a couple of •.hundred other lonely teachers who miss their families, and ends with a.coffee from the automat in the base- ment. Teachers and weekly editors are good and useful people, and have much in common, though they often hate each others' in- nards. Both try to inform, edu- cate and raise the standards of society. But when it comes to conventions, though I'll probab- ly be healthier after the teach- ers' affair, I'll have a lot more fun with the editors. x HALFEN VAST TEEN A /PENNY FOR Tf/e/12 THOUGHTS /5 ENT/RELY r TOO EXPENS/VE IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting. Items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 qnd 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor August 26, 1938 Seaforth Bowling Club •offi- cials found it necessary to turn away entries for their furniture tournament Monday evening. Previously planned as a full day's tournament, the event hand to be changed to a twi- light when rain forced a post- ponement. Joseph Burchill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Burchill, Brus- sels, suffered a cut wrist, the wound being inflicted by a hatchet in the hands of a com- panion. The injured lad, along with several others, wag play- ing along the banks of the riv- er when the accident occurred. When a car passed Provincial Traffic Officer J. W. Callander on No. 8 Highway near here Sunday and travelling at an excessive speed, the constable thought it wise to investigate. He found the car to be travel- ling more than 70 miles per hour, and at the wheel was a little lady who, after a verbal skirmish with the officer, ad- mitted to having no license. As Constable Callander was taking out his notebook preparatory to recording the facts, a voice pip- ed from the back seat: "But you can't do anything, Officer; she's only 16 and just learning to drive." Commented the officer, "I wonder how fast she will go after she has learned to drive!" From The Huron Expositor August 29, 1913 The bills are out announcing the sale of the entire household effects of the Dick Hotel. This will likely be one of the larg- est attended sales of the year, as Mrs. Kling is leaving the hotel and there is a large quan- tity of excellent furnishings to be disposed of. Mr. C. Holbein showed us a pink tomato this week that is one of the finest samples of that vegetable that we have ever seen. It was smooth, round and perfectly shaped and of immense size, measuring 15% inches in circumference, and weighed 1% pounds. We mentioned here last week that Mr. Charles Holbein had sold cauliflower grown in his own garden on the 20th of August. Mr. Alex Stewart in- forms us that he can double discount that, as he not only supplied his own table, but con- tributed to the menu of several of his neighbors on the first of August cauliflowers grown in garden and cultivated by him- self. But Mr. Holbein has one shot left in his locker yet. He supplied Indian corn, grown in his garden, to some of his eus- tomers on August 20, and they all pronounced it good. Mr. Thomas Ballantyne of Brookdale,, Man., and a former well-known resident of Usborne Township, was calling on friends in town on Tuesday. While here Mr. Ballantyne paid his 47th annual subscription to The Expositor for his family, and said he hoped to be spared to pay many more. As an index of the very rapid increase in automobile traffic, we may say that on Wednesday afternoon last eight automo- biles passed up Goderich Street within a period of less than 15 minutes. Ten years ago anauto on the street would have drawn out half the people to see it. There,, are now 21, autos owned - in town. From The Huron Expositor August 31, 1888 The Seaforth Foundry, owned and worked by Mr. T. Hendry, was completely destroyed bet fire, together with most of the contents, early on Thursday morning. The fire was discov- ered about three o'clock, but before the alarm could be given and the crowd and firemen col- lected, the building was so far gone that nothing could save it and rlittle could be got out. The greatest loss will be in the de- struction of the patterns, as it wile difficult to replace them. The total loss is estimated at $7,000, on which there is an insurance of $1,500. The season for big threshing has once more come around. Messrs. R. McLeod and b. John- ston of Walton recently put through their machine 500 bushels of grain in five hours on the farm of Mr. H. Hamilton, boundary of Grey and McKil- lop. The number of teaching days in the public schools in 1888 is: For the first half of the school year 126, and for the second half 95—total 22.1. Mr. Ernest Gies, who chal- lenged the farmers of Hay a few weeks ago with aample of oats 5 feet 5 inches in length, was beaten by Iylr. Godfrey Nicholson, who showed oats an inch and a half longer. A couple had been dating for years. One night, they went to a• Chinese restaurant for din- ner. The waitress handed them menus and they began studying them. The man asked, "liow would you like your rice ---• fried or boiled" She looked up at hint slid; said very diatinetly$ "Thirewat" - MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT THE OLD NUCLEAR WAR OTTAWA—The Liberal Gov- ernment of Mr. Pearson has been unlucky, as well as inept, in its first unhappy months in office. Its most recent piece of bad luck occurred in connection with the agreement with the United States to arm Canadian forces at home and abroad with nuclear warheads. This agreement was long ex- pected and when it was effected two weeks ago no one was sur- prised. The bad luck came from. an unexpected source. The United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain reached agreement on a treaty to ban all nuclear tests except those under ground. While this had really nothing to do with the logical and over- due acquisition of nuclear bul- lets for the weapons the Cana- dian forces already had, it didn't look quite right. The test ban treaty, which has been signed by the world's major nuclear powers and by many other countries, including Can- ada, is in no real sense a dis- armament measure, But opposition members were quick to charge that the Gov- ernment's acceptance of nuclear weapons was incongruous and shameful when East-West co- operation was flowering into such pretty blossoms as a nu- clear test ban. This is a spurious and even dangerous argument. But it is the line taken by the New Democrats, the Voice of Wo- men, and incidentally, by the Soviet newspaper Pravada. Though the test ban really had nothing to do with Can- ada's defence needs, there was a general uneasiness, a kind of distaste that the two events had to coincide. It•was another piece of bad luck for a Gov- ernment which is so badly in need these days of a bit of good luck. When the session of Parlia- ment reconvenes at the end of September, opposition parties are bound to reopen the old nuclear battles as though they had never been fought before, as though no decision had been rendered. The opposition leader, Mr. Diefenbaker, declares the agree- ment with the United States will probably not preserve Can- adian sovereignty. This was the line he used in the campaign of 1962 and 1963' to justify his own delay in accepting nuclear weapons for the defence systems. In those campaigns moreover, his atti- tude towards nuclear weapons, which had always been vague and obscure, hardened into practical opposition. Those were the most irration- al days of recent Canadian poli- tics. The Government had tak- en steps to provide its forces with modern weapons, some of them useless without nuclear warheads. Yet the same Gov- ernment refused to say clearly whether it intended to equip those weapons with the war- heads which would make them fully effective. It was a period of vagueness, confusion and concealment. All parties contributed to it by fail- ing to smoke out the then Gov- ernment's real position. Since January of this year, however, when Mr. Pearson pro- claimed that Canada should ac- cept the nuclear warheads for the nuclear carriers it had ac- quired, this has been clear and firm Liberal policy. No other party, with the pos- sible exception of the New Democrats who have simply been opposed to all nuclear weapons any time, any place, had a defence policy at all. A lot of people were dis- pleased at the new Liberal pol- icy. But a lot were pleased. Here at least was a definite pol- icy, a clear statement of inten- tion. In its simplest form of appeal, it represented an at- tempt to ensure that if Canada must have an army at all, that army should be equipped with the best available weapons. The' Liberals carried this pol- icy into the April election cam= paign. When they won office, no one was in any doubt that Canada would soon acquire nu- clear warheads for its Bomarc antia-aircraft missiles and the Voodoo aircraft at home, and for the Honest John artillery rockets and Starfighter aircraft in Europe. It has taken four months of quiet negotiations to complete the agreement. In the meantime the Government survi%ed, early in the session, a non -confidence motion by the New Democrats condemning the Government for its intention to acquire nu- clear weapons. The Government had every right to expect that the nuclear argument was over. - But now the Conservatives and the New Democrats seem prepared to open it all up again, just as though there had been no election, no new Government and no executive decision. It might be well for these opposition gentlemen to recall that the Liberals were the only party which pledged in the election campaign to acquire nu- clear weapons. And the Lib- erals were not rejected by the electorate. The point at the moment is that Canada has spent a great deal of money over many years in an attempt to equip a mod- ern defensive armed force. Nu- clear warheads, in spite of pol- itical confusion, have always been a required part of that force. To argue now that the war- heads should be refused because the large powers have agreed 'not to test nuclear weapons, is to argue that the whole defen- sive complex of aircraft and missiles should be scrapped, and to argue that this should be done without providing alternative defence measures. No other country has as yet shown such childish optimism about the probable course of events in this long, long cold . war. A SMILE OR TWO "I'm studying to be a musical comedy actress." "How are you getting along?" Great! I can now sleep unti: noon without any difficulty." "Jones, what are all these quotation marks on your exam- ination paper?" "Courtesy to the boy on my right, sir." Waiter: "I would like the dish that gentleman over there is eating." "Very good, sir; I'll call him to the telephone while you snatch his plate." "So your uncle is dead. Did he leave much?" "Only his -old clock." "Well, there won't be much bother winding up his estate." 'JEST A SECOND' "Oh, we live a 'quiet, dream. like eldstenee -- after aul what else can you do on SO a week 2" 'JEST A SIMONY" "Where was he going to take YOU two for a honey- moon oneymoon 7" - ' = DO. -_AND. YOU L - KNOW THAT OVERWEI6HT IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU. IT CAN BE DANGEROUS, --WHY NOT SHED A FEW POUNDS ? 2'M SAYING ALLTHIS FOR MYSELI= AS WELL AS YOU,... r