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Since 1860, Serving the Community First
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEA.N
ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, DECEMBER 19, 1963
A Provincial Park For Huron
The decision of the Government to
establish- a Provincial Park in Huron
follows discussions concerning the mat-
ter which have extended over a num-
ber of years.
Huron until now has been one of few
counties in Ontario with a long lake
shoreline, but without a • provincial
park. This fact has led this newspaper
and other Huron weeklies on several
occasions to urge that action be taken
to preserve a portion of Lake Huron
beach, within the county, for public
use. Huron County Council, too, has
indicated interest in such a project.
During the years he has -represented
Huron, Hon. Charles MacNaughton has
concerned himself with establishing a
provincial park within the riding. Quite
properly he is entitled to regard the
announcement this week as recogni-
tion of the representations he made.
The park preserves for the public,
for all time, an extensive area of Lake
Huron shoreline. It will provide recrea-
tional facilities, not only for Huron resi-
dents, but for much of Western On-
tario—recreational facilities that will
become increasingly valuable as the
population of the district continues, to
grow.
Teenagers Prefer Pop and Chips
Canada as a country stands second
to none in its capacity to produce all
the foodstuffs essential to good health
and development. Not only is there
the necessary variety available in Can-
ada, but food is abundant and relative-
ly cheap.
Despite this, the average teenager
prefers 'pop and chips', according to
Quote Of the Month
"Peace and freedom do not come
cheap, and we are destined . .. to
live out most if not all of our lives in
uncertainty and challenge and peril.
"However close we sometimes seem
to that 'dark and final abyss, let no man
of peace and freedom despair .. t . .
If we can all persevere, if we can in
every land . . . look beyond our
own shores and ambitions, then surely
the age will dawn in which the strong
are just and the weak secure and the
peace preserved."—John F. Kennedy-.
The. great secret is not having bad
manners or good manners or any other
particular sort of manners, but having
the same manner for all human souls
in short, behaving as if you were in
Heaven, where there are no third-class
carriages, and one soul is as good as
another.—George Barnard Shaw.
a recent survey. The combination has
become the standard luncheon menu
for many.
We are told by "Industry" that the
eating ahabits of no less than 65 per
cent of girls and 40 per cent of boys
surveyed rated poor or very poor in
the light of the daily diet recommend-
ed by federal authorities.
Milk and milk products were found
to be conspicuously lacking in teen age
diets, while nearly one-fifth of those
surveyed ate no vegetable whatever
during the week with the exception of
potatoes, mostly French fried. Only a
scant five per cent ate the recommend-
ed two servings daily of green or yel-
low vegetables.
Some 64 per cent of the 2,436 boys
and girls whose weekly diet was being
studied ate only one serving or less of
whole grain cereal in the entire week.
(Nutritional authorities recommend
one helping daily) .
A mere 13 per cent had two servings
daily of fresh or processed fruit. Twen-'
ty-two per cent had no citrus fruits or
juices at all during the week.
The 'pop and chip' diet is, of course,
a matter of choice, not necessity. There
seemed in almost every case to be no
shortage of money involved in the selec-
tion. It was just the thing to do.
It is ironic that a policy of "doing
what the rest are doing" is denying the
members of a generation the benefits
of a balanced diet, so essential to them
in their growing years.
A. MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT
THE LINE-UP
OTTAWA—Customers are lin-
ing up at the Wheat Board's
door in Winnipeg to buy Cana-
dian wheat.
The Wheat Board has made
so many sales and commitments
to deliver on long-term agree-
ments that when the Commun-
ist Chinese recently changed
their minds and decided to buy
1,500,000 tons after February 1
instead of the 500,000 tons they
were under contract to take. the
Board had to say regretfully
that they could not deliver. The
Board was booked to capacity
'for this period and could not
undertake to deliver the extra
1,000,000 tons.
Mainland China when it bar-
gained with Canada last sum-
mer for a wheat deal held the
cards. The Canadians held noth-
ing but wheat. It was pouring
out the elevator doors. The
largest crop ever was in the
making on the Prairies.
T h e Canadian negotiators
were in the market to sell
wheat. But the Chinese were
har bargainers, They agreed
finally to a three-year deal and
would take 500,000 tons in the
first period of the contract up
to January 31, 1964. They indi-
cated that in the second con-
tract from February to June 30,
1964, they would take another
500,000 tons.
But when the 'hinese nego-
tiators arrived in Winnipeg this
winter to make arrangements
for the second contract, they
had changed their minds. They
wanted 1,500,000 tons. Howev-
er, the wheat situation had un-
dergone a radical change. Now
it is a sellers' market, not a
buyers' market.
In the interval the Chinese
first signed the three-year agree-
ment Canada's regular wheat
easterners together with a num-
ber ,of coulitries from behind.
the iron Curtain have been plat
ing. ;orders., Canada's capacity
to sills wheat Is strained to the
ttimbst.
The long-term agreement ne-
gotiated with China was follow-
ed by the largest single sale
of wheat in this country's his-
tory, to Russia. Under that
deal the USSR has agreed to
purchase 247,000,000 bushels of
wheat or flour.
Then followed other orders
in rapid succession. Bulgaria
has signed a three-year agree-
ment to buy 3,700,000 bushels
annually. This is th3 first time
Canada has sold wheat to Bul-
garia. Czechoslovakia has sign-
ed a five-year agreement for the
purchase of 44,000,000 bushels.
Once a sporadic buyer, she is
now a long term customer.
Poland which has been a reg-
ular customer since 1955 has
signed an agreement to take
44,000,000 bushels in the next
three years.
In addition the Wheat Board
has been selling wheat to Can-
ada's regular customers such as
Britain and Japan and others in
steady quantities. The sales to
our regular customers are ex-
pected to also reach a greater
total in this current crop year
than a year ago.
The Wheat Board before it
made its major sales to China
and Russia set aside quantities
to meet demands from our old
customers. It has followed a
policy of protecting Canada's
regular customers on both
quantities and prices. In this
policy it has the strong sup-
port of Trade and Commerce
Minister Mitchell Sharp, a pol-
icy that has been endorsed by
all political parties in the
House of Commons.
Before 1961 Eastern Europe
and Mainland China had been
absorbing only about 1.5 per
cent of all Canadian exports.
Because of the new trade and
wheat agreements and the huge
shipments of grain, Canada'$
exports to these countries are
expected to reach 10 per cent
of total Canadian exports in
1994.
This raises to a new dimen-
SiQf:t the Magnitude of busineas
betweenCanada and the Sine.
Soviet nations. It brings our
sales this year to these coun-
tries up close to the extent of
our sales to tie Commonwealth
including Britain. It means that
the USSR and Mainland China
will rank in 1964 within Can-
ada's first •six foreign markets,
There has thus been a funda-
mental shift in the pattern of
trade largely because of the
great need in China and the
USSR for Canadian wheat. Both
Russia and Mainland China
show signs of becoming perm-
anent importers of our wheat,
on an extensive scale. •
These demands for Canadian
wheat mean that the Wheat
Board is going to be able to
sell every bushel of wheat and
every pound of flour that can
be moved through Canadian
ports before the end of next
July. The more than can be
moved the more Canadians can
sell. .
The customers are hammering
on the door. All that' limits
Canada's sales is her ability to
move and ship the wheat.
Mr. Sharp has forecast that
Canada's wheat and flour exports
will total about 550,000,000 bush-
els. That is around 150,000,000
bushels higher than the pre-
vious all-time records and 170,
000,000 bushels higher than the
post-war record.
But the Board is keeping its
fingers crossed and hopes to be
able to exceed even that high
figure.
It hurts the Wheat Board to
have to turn away business.
When the Chinese say they
want $100,000,000 worth of
wheat rather than the $35,000,-
000 worth they were commit-
ted to take in the second con-
tract, the Wheat Board reluct-
antly has to say "no, thanks."
However, the situation holds
out the hope that in the crop
year 1964-65 the Chinese may be
ready and anxious to take large
supplies of Canadian wheat.
And by that time the Wheat
Board may be in a position to
deliver. So the future looks
rosy for the Prairie wheat
farmer.
" SO EXPLAIN THE RED NOSES..."
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uuwul!wunulBy Bill Smiley
We neurotics of the frantic
twentieth century have a gen-
ius of sorts. We can take' al-
most anything that is simple,
clean and beautiful, and make
it complex, sullied and a garish
montrosity.
Almost anything, but not
quite. We haven't quite ruined
Christmas yet. But we have tak-
en a day that was, for our an-
cestors, a. simple observance of
the birth of Christ and turned
it into a gift -scrambling, card
exchanging, carol -jangling, tub -
thumping several weeks.
In the good old days; the
good old families rose early on
Christmas day and went to
church, where the parson gave
them a two-hour appetizer.
Then they went home and
took a nip of something to take
off the chill. While the servants
were sweating in the kitchen,
preparing the vast dinner to
come, the gentry took a bite of
lunch. Then the ladies set off
to distribute gifts to the poor,
while the gentlemen put their
coat-tails to the fire and went
after that chill again.
That's your ancestors I'm
talking about. Mine were among
the people the ladies were tak-
ing the food to.' I can just see
them, kicking the pigs under
the bed when her ladyship
came in, tugging their forelocks,
scraping their feet, and saying,
"F'ank yer, Milady, f'ank yer,
Mum," as she pulled from her
basket one of the geese that
had died of disease. and one of
last year's bottles of blackber-
ry brandy that had gone vine-
gary.
This Christmas, of course, my
ancestors' descendants will eat
turkey until they resemble pur-
ple pigs, while the descendants
of Milady, who have managed
to hang onto the manor house
only by taking tourists through
at a shilling a shot, will dine,
in the only room of the big
house they can afford to heat.
on a small bit of brisket, and
brussels sprouts.
However, that's not what I
started out to say. Well, de-
spite all the wailing and throw-
ing of hands in the air at the
paganism and commercialism of
Christmas today, I feel that we
have failed, somehow. We
haven't quite managed to ruin
Christmas.
I'll warrant ,,our children
know just as much, and maybe,
more, of the story of Christ -
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mas, and the coming of the
Christ -Child, as their counter-
parts of 100 years ago did. And
I'll bet we are not as smug
and selfish, despite our much -
touted materialism, as our Vic-
torian great-grandfathers were.
Witness service clubs' scur-
rying about town with Christ-
mas baskets for those less for-
tunate. Witness groups of
youngsters singing carols at
homes for old people. Witness
high school kids selling Christ-
mas cards for UNICEF, to feed
little, starving children abroad.
So gird up your loins, plunge
into your shopping and debt,
give for the joy of giving, be
happy in the family reunion,
go to church on Christmas day,
stay away from the hard stuff,
and don't be a hog with the tur-
key, 'and you won't go too far
wrong!
A SMILE OR TWO
Preacher: "Dat's as fine a
goose as I evah see, Brudah Wil-
liams. Whar did you get such
a fine goose?"
Mose: "Well, now parson,
when you' preach a speshul ser-
mon, I never axes yo' whar you'
got it. I hope you will show
me de same consideration."
"I declare," complained old
man Higgins, "bow I miss the
glorious days of the silent pic-
tures."
"What was so good about
them?" demanded Mrs. Higgins.
Mr. H. crept close to the door
and reached for his hat. On the
threshold he turned and slyly
observed, "I can remember how
wonderful it was to watch a
woman's mouth going for two
hours and not hear a single
word."
Some men get more fun out
of grinding their axe than in
burying the hatchet.
A lady passenger was taken
on a tour of inspection by the
ship's captain during an Atlan-
tic crossing. Finally she was
escorted into a large compart-
ment in which were stored sev-
eral boxes of skyrockets.
"What are these for?" she
asked.
"They're to send up in case
the ship is ever in distress,"
explained the captain.
"Wel," remarked the woman,
"I don't think that is any time
for a celebration,"
IN THE YEARS
AGONE
Interesting items gleaned from
The Expositor of 25, 50
and 75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
December 23, 1938
Seaforth will have a cash sur-
plus of $2,409.39 at the end of
the year, Treasurer D. H. Wil-
son estimates. His statement
showing receipts and expendi-
tures as of December 15th was
presented to council at its sta-
tutory meeting on Thursday ev-
ening.
Representatives from Sea -
forth, Mitchell, Clinton, Tavi-
stock and Goderich met in Sea -
forth Friday evening and ar-
ranged a schedule and playoff
for Group 7, Intermediate "B"
OHA.
Pupils of the Collegiate are
arranging for their annual com-
mencement, which will be held
for the first tithe in the new.
Collegiate auditorium. Tenta-
tive dates are February 15th
and 16th.
Struck on the head by a fall-
ing branch of a tree, Paul Boa,
aged 50, of Hensall, was almost
instantly killed early Tuesday,
as he worked in a bush on the
farm of Alex McGregor, two
miles northeast of Hensall.
The annual Christmas tourna-
ment of the Seaforth Badmin-
ton Club is being held this year
on Wednesday evening, Dec. 28.
Badminton players who may be
visiting here at this time are
cordially invited to take part,
according to club secretary Sal-
ly I. Wood.
From The Huron Expositor
December 19, 1913
Mr. Benjamin S. Case, Dun-
gannon, has. passed the Civil
Service examination entitling
him to admission to the inside
service at Ottawa.
A sparrow shooting match
was held recently in Usborne
between the east and west sides,
the west winning by 1500 birds.
The sides consisted of 22 men
each and were captained by
Robert Duncan and Charlie Bor-
land.
Mr. Charles Finkbeiner has
been appointed caretaker at the
curling and skating rink here
for this season.
Mr. and Mrs. James McIn-
tosh. late of McKillop, are now
comfortably settled in their
handsome new home on John
Street.
Miss Ross, Miss Everett, Mr,
Stewart Scott and Mr. Carman
have been added to the staff of
Stewart Bros.' store for the
Christmas rush.
Kruse Bros., of Egmondville,
have started a very important
industry in that- village. They
purchased five acres of land,
one block from Main Street,
nearly opposite the church, and
last summer they moved their
brick and tile -making machin-
ery from their former yard in
Tuekersmith. This fall they al-
so erected a chopping and grind-
ing mill, which they have equip-
ped with the latest and most
improved machinery.
AFB *
From The Huron Expositor
December 21, 1888
While oiling a thresher on
Mr. R. Coates' farm in Usborne
Township on Friday last, Thos.
Johns' sleeve caught in the
gearing and his arm was drawn
in up to the shoulder. The limb
was smashed to a jelly and had
to be amputated.
Mr. D. D. Wilson has sold
one of the Mundell farms in
Tuckersmith to Mr. Gibson of
McKillop, for the sum of $5,490.
Mr. James Gillespie has mov-
ed his harness shop from the
old stand near the station, to
the store three doors south 'of
the Post Office.
On Friday evening an enter-
tainment was held in No. 1; Hul-
lett Schoolhouse, which was an
ungauified success. The pro-
gram was of a varied nature,
which included the Seaforth
Quartette Club. Mr. Thomas E.
Hays of McKillop was chairman.
Miss M. Govenlock is the popu-
lar teacher in this section.
A stray mule shod all around
and clipped, came to George W.
Sowler's yard the other day in
East Wawanosh. It had evident-
ly come a long distance.
Mr. George Fothergill .of Wa-
wanosh has procured a hydrau-
lic ram which forces the Water
from the foot of the hill to his
house, thus saving a lot of hard
labor,
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