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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1963-12-19, Page 211111111 :'A illEll SMIEWEEERN1b191t19999999 1uJ41igalimme fE _ 19 :El 1 b1 '6ri ,i n MI ,M MIM - G. a n a, .10 1,,, pr��r�,� �- q�y1 ���{{{��}%%% p.�t^'cw.��'-. \,• t �y "..T •^+R'^` .:i �/{� a _ }' '^.l\l!\hv� `` / Y 11 JM b1 '4 i,"/ ' Pr - 01 MI 61 10/o,� s x R mdYA t o IV r, iG-aAt I .�` � L`gin _, • B//' �, Asa x F,y zgla G nalsmiimma=s MEIMOJ" MEMMg000mmmscsietetsisiatmuisml'_E7_7!,__,T;gra _ X54 Published at IVIED Since 1860, Serving the Community First SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEA.N ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 4 Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) A4.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $5.50 a Year SINGLE COPIES ,— 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. BROS., Publishers 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..." nni mnmIIMM Ql"iEimOimmimrmmmunnlo1 MIIIMI»nw miimiiimim UGAR and 'SPICE E 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 - CANADIAN SCENE IF SANTA CLAUS HEARD HIM HE WDULDN' T GET ANY P P.S5 NT5 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. 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