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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1963-11-14, Page 2Published at 4)•1Eis o r Since 1860, Sorving the Community First SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday Morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association O Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: = Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $5.50 a Year SINfLF COPIES — 10 CENTS EACE Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 14, 1963 Grandpa Would Never Hear Of It ! Each of us has difficulty in resisting the demands of habit—in discontinuing practises that we suspect contribute nothing to our welfare, but which are carried on in dumb obedience to cus- tom. In most cases, only ourselves suffer. It is when the same reaction is found in some industries in relation to the intro- duction of labor-saving procedures that the public as a whole suffers. The pub- lic is denied the benefits, the economies that new procedures could produce. The existence in certain quarters of such a reaction makes story which ap- peared in a recent copy of Industry par- ticularly timely. This is the story : One morning, many, many years ago, a young farm boy set out on his regu- lar trip to the grain mill. The horse he rode was a good sound one, and he himself was a good sound horseman. As the day grew warmer, the young man found his animal growing weary, so he decided to walk a little of the way. He had just dismounted when a man stepped out onto the road from a path leading into the woods. By his looks and dress, he was a complete stranger to the section. He seemed to be a friend- ly enough fellow, and the farm boy could see no harm in walking part way down the road with him. They had not walked far when the stranger asked : "Boy, why don't you ride the horse? He looks strong en- ough." "I would, sir, and I will later, but he's weary now—and he's got enough of a load with the grain and the bal- ance stone." The stranger claimed. no knowledge of balance stones, so the boy explained. "The horse carries his load easier, sir, if it is equally weighted on either side of him—so on one side we put a stone and on the other side we put enough grain to balance the stone. In this way the load is easier to carry." "That's very clever," said the strang- er, "but wouldn't it be easier to divide the wheat into two portions and carry it that way—each portion balancing the other?" "What would we do with the stone, sir?" "You could throw' it away." "Oh, no, sir, it's been in the family for years. Grandpa would never hear of it." SOON A NEW SUBSTATION will be in operation to provide increased capacity for Sea - forth Hydro consumers. Located off Welsh Street, in the northwestern section of town, the station will be bridged into the existing system, and in addition to providing increased ca- pacity, will result in more balanced operation, according to PUC officials. Looking over plans with the steel frame for the superstructure as a background, are PUC Manager R. J. Boussey (left) and Chairman D'Orlean Sills. (Expositor photo by Phillips). SEE OUR COMPLETE SELECTION OF Perso ia . as Cards .. AS WARM, AS SINCERE, AND AS FRIENDLY AS A HANDSHAKE THE HURON EXPOSITOR Phone 141 SEAPORTH SO THE NATIONAL UNE -71 fa alNluwm UGAR. and. SPICE ttiBy Bill Smiley There's a new television ser- ies on the air that is giving me an inferiority complex about the size of a giant squid. May- be you haven't seen it, but it's called Mr. Novak, and it holds me breathless, and makes me wretched for one hour every Sunday night. It's a sort of Dr. Kildare with classroom and chalk -dust and psychology instead of surgery and blood and psychology. Mr. Novak is a blond, hand- some, young, idealistic teacher of English in a high school. That's enough to flatten a bald- ing, homely, middle-aged, re- alistic teacher of English such as I before the opening com- mercial. But it isn't this sort of thing that is eating away my self- confidence. It's the excitement of Mr. Novak's life that makes me feel like something the care- taker forgot to sweep out on Friday afternoon. ' Every week, he gets involv- ed in the damdest situations, and emerges smelling of violets and looking like Joan of Arc. And every week I get involved in the damdest situations and emerge. Barely. Mr. Novak saunters through the halls of his school in his well -cut gray suit, buttering up the principal and looking dedi- cated. Mr. Smiley scuttles through the halls of his school, avoiding the principal, and looking harassed. Every week, Mr. Novak tan- gles fearlessly with some im- possible problem, and solves it. Every week, Mr. Smiley tangles fearfully with eight impossible problems, and by the time, he's finished, he has 16 impossible problems. In the last few weeks, Mr. Novak has outdine himself. He has squelched an outbreak of racial prejudice. He" has caught a colleague cheating and for- given him. He has encouraged a colleague with an alcoholic wife. He has pulled the prin- cipal out of hot water. In the last few weeks, Mr. Smiley has undone himself. 'He has barely lived through an outbreak of the 'flu. He has caught a colleague trying t� 3 make off with his rubbers. He has encouraged a colleague with an alcoholic mother. He has got the principal in hot water. You can see why this pro- gram makes me feel pretty in- significant. Mr. Novak leaps joyously from one crisis to an- other. Mr. Smiley totters des- perately from one anti -climax to the next. ` Take this week, for example. I'll bet you that right now, that Novak is rehearsing an episode in which he defies the school board on a matter of principle, solves a hairy per- sonal problem for one of his students, and pulls the princi- pal out of a nasty situation. Right now, I'm trying to write a column. My wife is downstairs, teaching a piano les- son. My son is across the hall, practising the piano. My daugh- ter is in the bathroom, roaring out the lines of her oral com- position, which is to be .deliver- ed tomorrow, and waiting to pounce on me and make me hear it. Five months ago the phone rang. It was a colleague, want- ing me to tape an interview for the Air Cadets. Tonight I have to go to night school, German, and haven't my homework done. After that I have to go out canvassing for the YMCA. Tomorrow I have to help my students get the weekly news- paper column ready, give my son a driving lesson and get rid of the squirrels in the attic. Thursday I have a church board meeting. Friday there's a de- partment meeting, followed by the Friday Afternoon Club meeting, followed by a blast from my wife for attending it. Friday night, if I can shake off the 'flu by then, I have to go deer hunting for the week- end. In the meantime, I have to arrange with MGM for a showing of the film Hamlet, and with O'Keefe Centre for a trip for 140 kids, four buses, to see My Fair Lady. Somewhere in there, I must mark 120 tests and eleventy-seven essays. Gee, I wish I could just go around Sunday nights, looking dedicated, like . Mr. Novak, in- stead of going around all the time looking desiccated, like Mr. Smiley. Survey Reveals Grade Troubles A recent survey by the Live- stock Grading Section, Canada Department of Agriculture, has spotlighted the reasons why many Canadian hogs failed to earn the $3 good quality pre- mium paid by the federal gov- ernment on all A grade car- casses. The main ones were carcasses that were too fat or were too light or too heavy for A grade requirements. Weight limits for the top grade range from a minimum 135 pounds to a maximum 170 pounds. Overfinish was the most im- WROTE "ANNE OF GREEN GABLES" Lucy Maud Montgomery Mac- Donald, who was born at Clif- ton, P.E.I., in 1874, at 34 wrote the tremendously popular "Anne of Green Gables." Mark Twain described it as the "sweetest creation of child life ever writ- ten." The authoress wrote six books, but none ever equalled the Green Gables saga for worldwide and enduring popu- larity. portant single factor for car- casses failing to earn the pre- mium, the survey shows. Of those graded B, but in the A grade weight range, 86.2 per cent were too fat, while 7.2 per cent failed to make the pre- mium grade because of poor type — heavy shoulders, light hams, short sides and other defects. Of the B grade hogs, 9.6 per cent were in the 125-134 pound weight range and too light for the top grade. Another 12.9 per cent weighed between 171 and 180 pounds and were too heavy. Farmers in Saskatchewan marketed the largest percentage —15.6 per cent—of lightweight hogs, while Ontario was lowest with 7.6 per cent. In the overweight group, Quebec farmers marketed the largest number -14.1 per cent --of B grade hogs. British Columbia had the best record in this category with 10 per. cent. Results of the survey, officers of the Livestock Division point out, emphasize that more farm- ers should market their hogs with less finish if they wish to cash in on the quality premium. I / j lui��g 5 �,r y izr II �.7h9ie. ,QSe/A&iZ.rF:ws c,: .lt f..' y.. xaw.ccsho rw)asf%a�fI.M. "y!'%liu �`ir �/ir r, �� t r�<�t�ennn��;�ss.�rni� � , "WELL, DON'T BLAME ME ...!" A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT UNWANTED BEQUEST OTTAWA — The Gill report, the first and only common sense and comprehensive effort to take a bankrupt unemploy- ment insurance fund off the back of the taxpayer, is an orphaned and unwanted child, It was conceived and born of a Diefenbaker regime which promptly left it on • the door- step of the new Liberal Gov. ernment. Now its new foster parents are finding it no less of an embarrassment and its fu- ture is uncertain. During the '60 May and June days of de- cision it was near the top of the program for the season and had been given prominent men- tion in the Speech from the Throne. While low summer unemploy- ment and a consequent excess of contributions over benefit payments gave the fund a sea- sonal respite, a committee of officials was put to work to draft the legislation. But in his recent outline to the House of Commons of pre - Christmas business, Prime Min- ister Pearson listed it, in com- pany with the Canada pension plan and the Canada Develop- ment Corporation as matters that could better be handled at the next session. This means a TO THE EDITOR: Seaforth, R.R. 5, November 6, 1963. The Editor: Dear Sir: I would like to thank the business community for their response to the invi- tations sent out to attend Open House and see the CHCS School in Clinton on Nov. 8, 1963. It is the desire of the Indus- trial Committee that more job opportunities become available in the future through expansion of present industries and acquir- ing new industries. As a mem- ber of the above committee, I hope that Seaforth and district will share in any such benefits. Yours sincerely, MRS. THOS. B. GOVENLOCK ASMILEORTWO If you want your children to get a good education today, you have to pull a few wires: On the TV, the radio and the hi-fi. The Golden Rule is old but it's as good as ever. It hasn't been used often enough to re- sult in any appreciable wear. "Lady," said the traffic officer a little wearily, "you just can't turn completely around in a street like this." "I can't?" she exclaimed in- cerdulously. "Didn't you just see me do it?" IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor November 18, 1938 A party of Seaforth hunters, which included Dr. K. A. Mc- Master, M. A. Reid and C. M. Smith, and J. Keely of Atwood, returned Friday night from the Burk's Fall district, each with a fine deer. Mr. Reid shot the largest, a 10 -point buck. Members of the Seaforth Highlanders Band elected D'Or- leon Sills president at the band's annual meeting Monday evening. "Rover," the Collie which some weeks ago saved his mas- ter, Joseph Maloney, from fatal injuries when a bull attacked him, is this week one of 12 Hero Dogs attending the Royal Winter Fair at Toronto. Rover has been awarded a medal, col- lar and a diploma, attesting to his bravery. The first snow of the winter came on Monday evening or earllt Tuesday morning, and it looked as though the beautiful spell of nice weather, which ev- eryone enjoyed so much, had Mite to a sudden stop. The Egmondville Auxiliary of the Women's Missionary Society celebrated its golden jubilee on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 10, in Egmondville United Church. From The Huron Expositor November 14, 1963 It is estimated that at least 200 lives have been lost and over 20 boats destroyed on Lake Huron during the terrible storm of Sunday and Monday. The James Carruthers, the larg- est freight boat on the lakes, has been wrecked and the en- tire crew of 23 drowned. Johnston & Barber of Wood- stock have purchased the elec- tric light building at the station and will have it fitted up for a creamery. Miss Gretta Thompson is at- tending the Western Ontario Librarians' Association in Strat- ford. tratiford. The town snowplow was out for the first time this season on Tuesday, Nov. 11. Mr. S. T. Holmes has pur- chased a handsome new hearse for his undertaking busineBs. Stewart Bros. have issued, their annual "Style btews". It will provide intereS.ting atld profitable reading for all. From The Huron Expositor November 16, 1888 On Monday last Mr. William Somerville, of the local tele- graph office, sent a cable mes- sage for Mr. A. Cardno to Lon- don, England. It was sent from here at 9 a.m. and a reply was received at 10 minutes to one. Mrs. John Smith and sons have leased the premises in town recently occupied by Mr. M. Pullman, and intend carry- ing on the carriage and wagon making business in all branch- es. On Saturday last a very pain- ful accident befell one of Mr. Houston's horses in Tucker - smith. He was engaged in tak- ing up potatoes when his team took fright and ran away, They ran into a barbed wire fence, when one of them, whose neck came in contact with the wires, received a terrible gash in the throat. Mr. Morris has now one of his new greenhouses erected and stocked And 15 making pxepar'at• tions for the seebfid, period of nearly three years from the time that a Govern- ment decided that something should be done until something is done, if, indeed, anything is done in the end. It also means more borrow- ing from the Treasury to keep the fund solvent during the win- ter months. At the moment it has a balance of about $25 mil- lion compared with $110 mil- lion at this time last year. While these are treated as loans, they are loans that, quite reasonably, will not be repaid. Finally, it means another win- ter of paying seasonal benefits from December to May to thou- sands whose regular benefits have •keen exhausted. Today these seasonal benefits are paid even to fishermen, who, even after a profitable season, get their $36 cheques each week through the winter. As a result the fund which, in 1956 stood well above the $800 millionmark, had dropped to below $20 million last spring. Faced with heavy unemploy- ment and the choice of increas- ing Finance Minister Fleming's deficit by several hundred mil- lion or "reading" a fund built up of contributions of employ- ers and workers, the Difenbak- er Government picked the lat- ter. In July, 1961, however, a committee was appointed under a Toronto accountant, E. C. Gill to investigate the fund and re- commend how it could be re- stored. The committee was ready to report in May of 1962 but at that time Mr. Diefen- baker and his party couldn't have cared less about bankrupt funds. They had a tough•elec- tion campaign on their hands, as well as a dollar crisis. The committee was directed to stall along. When June ballots dropped Conservative followers in the House of Commons from 208 to 115, there was less reason to hurry. A good summer of em- ployment had given the fund a reprieve and, in spite of fre- quent needling from the Lib- eral opposition about delay, the report did not make its appear- ance until December. When it did, the reason for delay was obvious. It was a pan- doras box of political horrors. The committee had not stopped at recommending the end of seasonal benefits and the elim- ination of fishermen who were to be given a separate fund. It also cut the period for regular benefits in half and, suggested a plan for "extending benefits" to be paid by the taxpayer which would put thousands of present unemployment benefici- aries on special assistance with a "means test", a dirty word in the dictionary of any politi- cian. Recommended measures were included to eliminate abuses CANADIAN SCENE such as the drawing of benefits by married women during preg- nancy and by retired persons not looking for jobs. And, to make it all more po- litically acceptable the commit- tee warned that if any ,Govern- ment tried to sort out the -popu- lar recommendations from the unpopular and failed to imple- ment the whole report as a package the state of the (unem- ployment insurance fund- would only be worse. If there was one bright spot in the clouds of defeat that surrounded Mr. Diefenbaker and his colleagues on April 8th, it was the pleasure they must have experienced in handling this unwelcome bequest to the young Liberal Government. Capsule Comments Justice Minister Chevrier may find it difficult to satisfy the,. Conservative opposition that he had any legal authority for de- laying the arrest of Hal Banks for 10 days after a Montreal court had issued the warrant. But if the procedure proves a little irregular, Canadians gen- erally will forgive them. The first thing was to get back to work the men Banks had or- dered off the ships to march on Ottawa, thus tieing up the grain movement. Only Banks, at that moment could have done this. The second step was to give the new trustees an oppor- tunity to get their feet under their desks. The Government chose wisdom instead of haste. * * * Finance Minister Gordon has invited national organizations such as the C.M.A., C.L.C. and the Canadian Tax Foundation to submit briefs next month, or at the latest, January to help him in his budget making. The move is significant on three counts: n. It perhaps means some small degree of budget secrecy may be sacrificed in order to feel out reaction in advance. 2. It gives some indication of the timetable for the next bud- get. Meetings of the budget committee will start in January making budget day possible at the end of March or in April. 3. It would seem to indicate no change in the finance port- folio. Mr. Gordon is to be giv- en a chance to recoup his loss- es and those of the Govern- ment,as a result of the June fiasco * * * Western farmers will not be discouraged by Ottawa from sowing another 27 million acres of wheat next year. While in the long run Trade Minister Sharp feels there should be di- version to other crops, prospects of wheat sales between now and 1965 means marketing of all we can grow. LET'S FACE IT, GENTLEMEN, THERE is NO SUCH THIN& AS A PAINLESS, NEW FORM OF TAXATION By Mac