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The Huron Expositor, 1960-09-01, Page 2Published at Since 1860 Serving 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, Audit Bureau of Circulations. Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $8.50 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 5 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa 41. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 1, 1960 Rural Intersections Can This year has seen an increasing number of accidents which have oc- curred at the intersection of rural concessions and sideroads. In a num- ber of cases the results have been fatal, and in every instance substan- tial property damage has resulted. It probably is inevitable that this situation should arise. Rural roads in the average township—particular- ly townships in this area—are well maintained, and as a result motor traffic is able to move along in com- plete safety at maximum legal speeds. As long as traffic was moving along parallel roads there would be no trouble. But at every mile and a quarter there is an intersection, acrpss which traffic, travelling on *eq- ually good roads, and at maximum speeds, must -pass. True, the Highway Traffic Act spells out the vehicle that has the Be Death Traps -right of way. However, this means little as. cars approach a common, and, as frequently is the case,a blind intersection, at 50 miles an hour. Be- cause of weeds or trees or dust, one vehicle can not realize the, other is at hand. Costs of maintaing rural roads are increasing each year, and each addi- tional demand quite .properly is ex- amined in the light of the effect it will have on the tax rate. At the same time perhaps, the time has come when municipal councils should give consideration to establishing a greater number of through roads in their municipalities which are pro- perly marked with signs. Equally important in reducing the number of accidents would be a program to eliminate all blind corners by clear- ing brush and trees from intersec- tions. The costs involved' might well be small, when compared to the ac- cidents which would be avoided. Death Awaits Unwary Driver On Labor Day Weekend Statistics, as a rule, are pretty dry and uninteresting. But as the long Labour Day weekend approaches, there is one statistic that each of us should. read.+and remember. This important statistic is that on the basis of 1959. Labour Day experi- ence, one person will be killed on a Canadian highway every hour and a half over the holiday weekend. - The' last long weekend this year will be the most dangerous, accord- ing to records of the All Canada In- surance ,Federation. The Federation, -which represents more than 200 Can- adian fire, automobile and casualty insurance companies, makes these safety suggestions which are particu- larly valuable to those contemplating long trips over the holiday weekend. 1. Take long trips in easy stages; don't try to travel too far in any one day. 2. Avoid fatigue by stopping often for coffee or by changing drivers. 3. Avoid the main traffic arteries wherever possible. 4. If you are tired, but can't stop overnight, pull to the side of the road and cat -nap until you are rest- ed. 5. When travelling with children, take plenty of books and quiet games so they will not create noisy distrac- tions for the driver. 6. Study in advance the different driving rules of strange cities where you• may be driving.. 7. If you have a blowout or other mechanical failure, continue slowly until you can pull completely off the highway. 8. Set out flares when making re- pairs on the highway at night; don't block other drivers' view of you car lights. 9. Keep your speed within safe limits, especially on wet highways. ` 10. When in doubt, yield the right of way to the other driver. "1 see the Smiths have a new baby ! " Mrs. housewife reads this paper regularly to keep'informed about the news of people and activities in our community. She also looks to our advertising columns for news that will htlp her with some of her own problems— tomorrow's dinner, shoes for little Johnny, a new paint job for the kitchen. Your advertising in this paper can be a news- paper within a newspaper. Advertise regularly. Keep our readers informed about your mer- chandise and services. Ask to see a copy of our ABC report* for complete and audited information about our circulation. Atm a 'This newspaper is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation an association of nearly 4,000 pub- lishers, advertisers,and advertising agencies. Our circulation is audited by etperienced ABC circulation auditors, Ottr ABC report shows how much circulation a we have, where it goes, hew obtained,. and other facts ,r .n that tell $u what 'you get for your advertising tnoney tit ai when' you :u*e this paper. 7443 *Ache "And how would you like the children served for breakfast this morning?" —SUGAR AND SPICE By W. (Bill) B. T. SMILEY People keep asking me how I got on this school teaching kick. Didn't you_.like the ..newspaper.. business?" they query. Sure, I like being a weekly editor. I am also very fond of pickled pigs' feet, but I don't want them for breafast, lunch, dinner and bed- time snack, every day except Sun- day. It wasn't a s• udden aberration, just one of those wild impulses a man has when he hits the 40 -year mark. It was •carefully reasoned out. This column, written four years ago, is proof of that. Here's' the way I told it -back in '56: The other day I was sitting in the heat, feeling sorry for myself, watching the tourists waltz past the office window. They looked lazy, carefree, healthy. I started worrying about how hard I work, how scanty are the holidays, how many thousands of words I had to produce in the next few days. 'What a pity," I thought, "that an intellect like mine should be chained to a 50 -year-old Reming- ton -Rand when all these other clods are having two weeks with pay." Just then one o• f our local high- school teachers sauntered past in Bermuda shorts, licking an ice- cream cone and looking as happy- as appyas a beach -comber. Inspiration struck me so violently that my old swivel chair almost went over backwards. Everybody k• nows there is a great shortage of teachers. Why couldn't I take one of those sum- mer courses and obtain a teach- er's certificate? Then I'd get a job teaching at the local high. school—provided I changed eight or ten of my personal habits. Then I'd hire some smart kid just out of journalism school, as editor. I'd make enough money teaching to pay his salary and have some over for smokes. And —get this—I'd ,have two months holidays out of the deal. I went -over the scheme a couple.of times, -checking the logic of it. ,I couldn't find a flaw. It was fool -proof, the great escape. .I went happily home to lunch, practically drooling as. the simple beauty of the plan sank in. Eight - thirty to four, five days a week. Holidays at Christmas. Holidays at Easter. Two glorious months in the summer. Wow!Teaching and I were made for .etch, other. "How would you like to go to Europe next summer?" I proposi- tioned the Old Girl when I walked in. "Fine," says she, getting out the can of soup. "How would YOU like to go out and bring in that linet'ul of clothes?" Boy, that makes me mad. 'Always those smart -ales answers when I have the world by the tail: To take her down a peg, I out- lined my scheme about teaching. She just looked at me, dead -pan. "That would be lovely, dear," she observed. "You'd be able to get a lot more done around the house, if you had Saturdays free." I felt a slight chill, as though a corpse had just lifted the lid of a casket and winked at me. "Well," I temporized, "actually I thought I'd drop down to the of- fice on Saturdays, and kind of poke around and checkon things' and write some editorials, and sort of tidy up loose ends,' and you know . . ." She nodded thought- fully. "It will certainly be good for you to give up smoking and swear- ing and making remarks like 'look at the lungs on that' and drinking beer," she pointed out in' a kindly way. "Now hold it a rhinute " I returned hotly. • "School teat .ers aren't like that any more. TThhat was in the good old days, when we had the species under our thumbs and a teacher couldn't even have a snort of dandelion wine without turning out all the lights in the house and locking the door." "It's an excellent idea," she went on. "Of course, you'd have to study hard all summer: to get your certificate. No fishing or golf. No pleasant cool drink when you come home from work. No, swims_ with. the- kids.---No...home- cooked meals. But we'd all have to make sacrifices." • "Uh, yeah," I said, with a little less exuberance. "I'm sure you'd be able to cope with those delin- quents in school," she pursued,in- exorably. "You can't do a thing with your own children, but I know you'd have no discipline problems with teen-agers. I think there's a lot of exaggeration in those stor- ies about switchblade knives and all that stuff anyway." "Uh., yeah," I said. "You know what?" I said. "It's a little late to get on that summer course this year. But next year, for sure, I'll take it, and we'll be sitting on top of the world.' . "Uh, yeah," she said. * -* And that was the start of the whole ting, four years ago. And if that's the top of the world we're sitting on, it. must be made of snow, because it's melting rapid- ly from under me. Or, as the lit- tle polar bear said to his Mom: "My tail is told" No we) u (Prepared by the Research .Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) What is a Bowfin? The bowfin (Amia calve) is a fish of the Great Lakes region that is of considerable scientific interest because it is a modern survivor of a group of armoured fishes that were numerous in the remote past. In the evolutionary sequence, they came between the earliest types to appear in the primeval seas — the sharks and their relatives - and the modern bony fishes. The bowfin builds a distinctive nest, a depression in the mud, that is closely guarded by the male. It is not a commer- cially valuable fish and is looked upon as a serious enemy of valu- able species. Where Was Canada's First Water -Powered Mill? The earliest ,record of harness- ing power for industrial use in Canada was the building of a wa- ter -powered mill at Port Royal (Nova Scotia) in 1607 to grind the grain grown by Acadian settlers. Prior to that hand mills had been' used, either crude. homemade hom- iny blocks (pulping mills) or fac- tory -made products. In N e w France, under the seigniorial sys- tem, each seignior was obliged to supply a grist mill for the use of his tenants. These mills were more often windmills than water -power- ed mills, partly because of limited water -power resources in certain areas but also because the tower - like structure of the windmill serv- ed a secondary purpose as a forti- fication against hostile attack. Windmills were, however unde- pendable and inefficient. Is Wild Rice Real Rice? No. Wild rice (Zizania aquatica) is not a strain of true rice, al- though it is a similar wild grass of equivalent food value and with a distinctive flavor. It is much prized by gourmets, particularly for use in dressing for roasted wild waterfowl. It usually grows in dense stands in the shallow wa- ters of lakes, marshes and slug- gish streams, where there is 'neu- tral or slightly alkaline water. Ex- tensive stands of wild rice are to be found in the Rice Lake and Rideau*River areas of eastern On- tario ie the Rainy RIver and Lake of the Woods region of north- western Ontario, and in the White - shell Forest area' of .Manitoba. Wild rice was gathered by the In- dians before the coming of the white man and formed a staple article of food, not only for tribes of the regions Where it grew but by trade over a wide area. It now is gathered principally for export to the New York market where it commands a pried 25 to 30 times that of ordinary rice, THE BIBLE TODAY Boris Zaiteff, one of the out- standing Russian writers of today, writes of tie new translation in modern Russian of the four Gos- pels, in these words, "On my desk lies a small blackbound book, with a gold cross on the cover, and above it, also in gold, "The Gos- pel." This is a new translation of the four Gospels from the Greek, published by The British and For- eign. Bible Society. The transla- tion is by -Bishop Cassian, assisted by a commission made up of Prof. Kartasheff, V. N. Rayevsky, Prof. A. P. Wassilieff, N. A. Koulomzine and others. For five years every Friday members of the Commission sat for four or five hours reading the text over and over again, compar- ing, discussing, sometimes so car- ried away that tempers were al-' most lost. . "Once we dis- puted half an hour over the com- mas in one verse of Matthew. It also happened that, having decid- ed upon one turn of phrase, two years later we changed it, only to return after two years to the earl- iest text . And now our five years labor has taken the form of 234 small pages—the Four Gos- pels." So came into being the first "private" (not specifically com- missioned and authorized by the Synod of the Orthodox Church) un- official translation in the Russian language. Suggested Bible Readings Sunday—Psalms 33:1-22 Monday—Psalms 39:1-13 Tuesday—Psalms 40:1-17 Wednesday --Psalms 49:1-20 Thursday -Psalms 56:1-13 Friday—Micah 4:1-13 Saturday—Mich 3:1-12 Teaches At Listowel Kenneth Weido, son of Mr. and Mrs., Earl Weido, who has joined the staff at the Listowel District High School as Industrial Arts teacher, is spending the month of August setting up the new shop in which he will teach in Septem- ber. Kenneth ' 'returned recently from Toronto, where he complet- ed a four-week electronic course at the De Vry Technical Institute. —Zurich Citizens News. A SMILE OR TWO "Waiter, what's wrong with these egg's?" "I couldn't say, sir; I only laid the table." Customer (twice nicked by the barber's razor): "Hey, barber, girnme a glass of water." Barber: "What's wrong,, sir, hair in your mouth?" Customer: "No, I want to see if my neck leaks." The doctor rushed into his study at his home, yelled to his daugh- ter, "Get my case and stomach pump. A fellow just called he couldn't live without me." "Sorry, pop," the girl said, "that call was for me." A *DUFF ' OTTAWA REPORT THE NEW PARTY HEADS OTTAWA — Determined to em- erge as orae of the two great po- litical parties in Canada the New Party will hold its founding con- vention in Canada's capital next summer from July 31 to August 4. And on August 5 it will be ip busi- ness actively seeking support from the electorate. The hoped for future of the New Party was spelled out here by Stanley Knowles, chairman of the National Committee for the New Party at a press conference. Also attending the conference were Claude Jodoin, President of the Canadian Labor Congress, and Donald C. MacDonald, Ontario C.C.F. leader. They made it clear that there is only one man for the leader- ship of the New Party, and that man is Premier Tommy Douglas, the CCF leader in Saskatchewan. Said Mr. Knowles, "There will be an overwhelming draft for Tom- my Douglas to take the job." As he put it, "My personal con- viction is that if the need for choosing a leader is delayed (un- til next July or August) the draft will be such that he will respond to it—I am hopeful that he will feel the challenge of this' thing." But newsmen at the press con- ference were well aware that Pre- mier Douglas has said he feels he has a mandate to carry outhaving been re-elected in Saskatchewan. They pointed out that Mr. Douglas might decline the proffered job of• new national leader. What then? "Anyone who suggests alterna- tives is weakening the draft for Tommy and I am not weakening that draft," stoutly declared Mr. Knowles. He made the same an- swer when asked if he would be a candidate for the"leadership. His colleagues, Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Jodoin, indicated that they too support Mr. Douglas for the lead- ership of the_ New _Parti...., _. They claimed to have nd ambi- tion to head the New Party. But' should Premier Douglas decline, the rape will be on. Clearly Haz- en Argue, the new national leader of the CCF, and Stanley Knowles, former CCF power and ' now a vice-president of the Canadian La- bor Congress, will be in the fore- front of the fight for the top job. Already Mr. Argue has an edge by having captured the national leadership of the CCF group. Mr. Knowles, along with some others in the hierarchy of the CCF, had hoped that the CCF readership would be left vacant until the New Party's founding convention, be- cause they feared that whoever won the national leadership of the CCP would have enhanced his chances of winning the leadership of the New Party. Should the national leader of the CCF be rejected for the lead- ership of the New Party — Mr. Argue is a farmer—and a candi- date with strong labor support win that leadership, it would mean a breach from the beginning between the farmer and Lab6t" supporters of the New Party. It is to avoid just such a rift that the New Par- ty's prime movers are promoting Tommy Douglas. They are con- vinced he would be acceptable to farmer and labor members and would solidify the support of those groups behind the New Party. Mr. Knowles emphasized that Mr. Argue's mandate as CCF na- tional leader was for the duration of the CCF party's existence as a national political entity. It will be •for only 11 .months providing the, founding convention is called .ac- cording to plan. Bet t the national CCF party, might have even a shorter life should Prime Minister John Diefenbaker call a general election next summer. Confronted with such a develop- ment the National Committee for the New Party will launch a "crash program". However, should Mr. Diefenbaker call a snap - election this fall or winter, the CCF would contest the various con- stituencies with the support of or- ganized labor. Mr. Knowles and company are convinced that there will be no general election this year or next year, 'at least not un- til after July, 1961. Mr. Knowles said the New Party wanted the support of "liberally - minded" persons interested in so- cial .progress through the demo- cratic system. It would be a party of the "democratic left" consisting of people who believed in change through the democratic processes. "This is a group that will believe the economy should be planned to get the benefits directly to the peo- ple." It will be a "party of reform" as opposed to a "party of capital- ism," he suggested. "We contend planning of the economy should have as its main purpose getting decent prices for the farmers and decent wages for the workers. These things are not produced un- der capitalistic management," Mr. Knowles declared. The New Party aims to merge as one of the tWo great parties in Canada. Which of the present two national parties will it supplant? Mr. Knowles was not prepared to say. "They can . toss a coin and decide," he declared. "-There is no difference between them now." Capital Hill Capsules Holding of the New Party con- y..ention -in Ottawd• next summer will mean an influx of. about 4,000 visitors to .the capital city. It will also mean the spending of about $500,000 and the staging of another political '"spectacular". At' least, that's what happened when the Progressive Conservatives a n d Liberals held their national con- ventions in Ottawa's Coliseum. The Canadian Labor Congress did not mince words when the Conservative government at Ot- tawa released statistics showing that thenumber of persons with- out jobs and seeking work had in- creased by 11,000 to 311,000 be- tween June and July. It said the figures were "evidence of a shock- ing condition". It said the situa- tion demanded "immediate and urgent" government action. It said it would not be good enough for the government to wait until the summer recess is over and parlia- ment resumes, "the time for ac- tion is now!" Confronted with such demands from organized labor and an ob- viously serious employment situa- tion this winter there are strong possibilities that the Federal Gov- ernment might have a snap elec- tion. There is speculation that the Prime Minister might summon parliament for a fall session, in- troduce a sweeping new legisla- tive program, i eluding economic reforms and mea ures to combat , unemployment, ten go to the country on that program as its platform. IN THE• YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Huron Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor September 6, 1935 Ethel Jean Edna Hulley, baby daughter of 'Mfrand 1Wrs. Robert Hulley, died in Scott Memorial Hospital Sunday • evening after swallowing lye the night before. The Cresswell Cup for men was won by Frank Sills, Jr., as was the Southgate Cup for men and women in the golf competitions this week. Mr. Sydney Jacobs, one of the pioneer businessmen of ,the town, celebrated his 91st birthday en Wednesday. The Seaforth Highlanders Band will accompany the Seaforth Cana- dian Legion to Listowel for the annual zone parade Sunday. The final game of the flu- on - Perth Baseball League will be played on Friday when - Seaforth will meet Zurich for the Supertest trophy. Fred Weedmark, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Weedmark, suffered serious injury to his eye Satur- day, when it was pierced -with a piece of glass. Fred Harburn, Cromarty, will be pitching horseshoes for the world's championship at Moline, Ill., U.S.A. George W. Miller, Mitchell, died almost instantly on Monday when his light coupe crashed into the steel standard of Main Street bridge, on the main business street of Mitchell. Attendance at Seaforth schools is materially decreased this year, with 380 pupils registered, com- pared to 439 last year. A tournament will be held by the ladies of the Seaforth Golf Club on Saturday to compete for the Broadfoot Cup, From The Huron Expositor September 8, 1910 Mr. Peter McEwen brought in- to Gorrie the other day 53 hogs for which he received a cheque for nearly one thousand dollars. Surely hogs must pay! The very competent judges for the flower show under the auspic- es of the Seaforth Horticultural Society say the show was the'best yet. It was held in the vacant store in the Campbell block. Seaforth and' district entries in the Toronto Fair did very well for themselves, as many prizes were won by. them. With the visit of the British bowl- ers, a contest will be held between Janes McMichael, Scafdrth, and J. C. Coombs, of Blyth. They are 87 and 80 years of age, respective- ly. From The Huron Expositor September 4, 1885 Mr. Thomas Govenlock, of this town, who is now on his first visit to Manitoba, says the cropsare all good and the land cannot be surpassed by fertility. • On Wednesday morning the side- walks were all white with frost. Miss Kate IUlloran, of Seaforth, has gone to St. Marys to . take a situation as teacher in the Cath'i olic school in that town. The Seaforth Public School is very much overcrowded, and the trustees will shortly be compelled to employ an eighth teacher. , Egmondville bridge, although a comparatively new structure, is commencing to show evident signs of decay. The Seaforth Fire Brigade go to Brussels on Tuesday next to com- pete in the firemen's tournament there. The members of Court Sherwood Forest, of this town, go to Mitchell on Sunday, where in company with the Mitchell brethren, they will attend divine service. Some unfeeling person poured coal oil over a dog belonging to Mr. E. Walker, of this town, and then set fire to it. Dr. Smith has been away this week attending the meeting of the Canadian Medical Association held at Chatham. An excursion train, composed of some ten cars, passed through here from Port Dover to Goderich on Thursday. One day last week Mr. Murray threshed for Mr. Isaac Miller, of McKillop, 600 bushels of oats, this being the produce of eight acres, besides about three acres of fall wheat, all inside of five hours. Messrs. Robert Porter a nd Charles Summer two Seaforth young men, who have opened out in the jewellery business in Gode- rich, are doing well there. N-EWS OF EAST McKILLOP Mr. and Mrs. Wm. ,Koehler, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bennewies and Mr. and. Mrs. Ezra Seebach, of Seb- ringville, 'visited .Mrs. Henry Hoegy, near Walton. -- Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Rock,- Diane and Karen and Mrs. Henry Welter - sen visited Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Hoegy, patients in Kincardine Hos- pital, Mr. Aubrey McNichol and fam- ily, Blyth, visited Mr. and Mrs. Norman Eggert on Sunday. Recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Rock and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Eggert were" Mrs. John Foreman and Susanne and Billy, Sheffield, and Mrs. A. J. Heuther, Morriston. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Eggert visited Mr. and Mrs. Ernie White- house, Kippen, recently. 1 The WA •of the E.U.B. Church entertained their families in the form of' a barbecue Tuesday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. El- mer Koehler. Mr, George Byers has returned home from St. Joseph's Hospitai, London. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Doerr, Sharon and Ruth, Rostock, with Mr, and Mrs. Jerry Doerr, Mr. Freddie Herbert and Pal Rock spent the Weekend in the Gedrgidtl Bay disteat, lkrs. C1ir'is'tida Meter returned to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Doerr after spending a few weeks in Galt. Hold Shower For Bride -Elect On Friday evening a miscellan- eous shower was held in honor of Marilyn Smith, prior to her mar- riage on Sept. 3 to.Bob Doerr, The shower was held at the home of Mr. and' Mrs. Jerry Doerr. The rooms were beautifully decorated with pink and white streamers, with the bride being seated under a gaily decorated umbrella. Con- tests and games were conducted. Clues to where the gifts were hid- den were sang to the bride by the ladies. Lunch was served by, the hostets. On Friday night a stag party was held • at the home of Bruno Briaker for Bob Doerr, whose mar- riage is to take place nexi Satur- day to Marilyn Smith. Bob was presented With money. As the pedestrian stepped off the curb, a huge St. Bernard dog knocked him down. Before he had a chance to get up, a tiny foreign car ran over him. A passerby rushed to help him up end anxious- ly asked him if he had been hutt. "I didn't mind being grounded by the dog" the marl. answered "but that titan tied to hit tail natty killed 'fief" • 4 t