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The Huron Expositor, 1960-10-06, Page 2Since 1860 Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning 'by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor 1141 2 O A Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association, Audit Bureau of Circulations. n n \ Q Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada '(in advance) $3.50 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 5 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 6, 1960. Fire Prevention Is Everybody's Business By royal proclamation, made in the name of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Canada, October 9-15 is Fire Prevention Week. The pro- clamation appeals to all citizens to curb careless causes of fire which last year claimed another heavy toll of human life and property. The sum of provincial reports for 1959: 556 lives lost $120.5 millions of property con- . sumed 82,421 fires reported The proclamation sets out the mag- nitude of the human loss over the last ten years: 5,356 lives and an estimat- ed 16,000 seriously injured. The direct out-of-pocket waste of the decade to the living and working places of Canada was more than one _ billion dollars. While it's the "large loss fires" ($50,000 and more) which run up the yearly bill, Canada's 55,000 fire fight- ers believe, and with reason, that fire prevention education starts in the home. For it is in the home that more than three-quarters of all fires hap- pen. It is in the home that three- quarters of all fire deaths occur. In Seaforth, the campaign is spear- headed by the members of the Sea - forth Fire Brigade. With a first- hand knowledge of the horrors and waste which fire creates, Seaforth Firemen know no effort is too great to reduce such unnecessary loss. That is why they are contributing their time in an effort to prevail on every citizen to carry the lessons emphasiz- ed during Fire Prevention Week in- to practise every day in the year. Huron County's Finest Used Cur Market 1960 CHEVROLET BISCAYNE $2395 SEDAN—Fully equipped " 1959 PONTIAC LAURENTIAN SEDAN — Auto- matic; fully equipped ' 2-1950 CHEV. BEL AIRS Automatic, fully equipped 1959 FORD STATION WAGON, automatic, fully equipped • .. 1959 CHEV. BISCAYNE SEDAN—Automatic SEDAN—Fully equipped 1958.•FORD FAIRLANE, 8-cylm der, automatic, fully equip 1958 CHEV. STANDARD $1895 SEDAN 1956 FORD CUSTOMLINE $1395 SEDAN—Automatic 1956 FORD COACH 8 -cylinder A Written Guarantee for 60 days on all Late $2459 2395 2395 2195 PONTIAC STRAT-CHI 1959 EF $2150 ped $2050 $1195 1955 CHEVROLET DELUXE $1150 SEDAN 1955 QLDSMOBILE SEDAN— $1 1095 Automatic 1954 BUICK SPECIAL SEDAN $895 Radio; Automatic 1954 CHEV. SEDAN $795 Radio VARIOUS 1954 CHEV. COACHES and SEDANS from $650 to $895 A NUMBER OF OLDER MODELS TRUCKS 2-19withC etside Bodies $1495 1956 Ctla;V. 1 -TON $1095 PICKUP 1954 CHEVROLET 1 -TON $595 PICK-UP Model Cars—Many other Models to choose from BRUSSELS MOTORS BRUSSELS — ONTARIO PHONE'173 -- "The Home of Better Used Cars" OPEN EVERY EVENING a V24 1:44 Weeke Siii}!!i!i!ii=i!i?i;i;!;::.:`:•.;:>i'ia::i� �Sii!i!iS•S:SSii:€: N£g "Come on, let's go home — three, times around the block is enough!" ------SUGAR AND SPICE By W. (Bill) B. T. SMILEY Canadian males, in general, are agreed on one thing. They nod judiciously when they hear that delightful song from the musical My Fair Lady, which asks the question: "Why Can't •.a Woman be Like a Man?" They realize, reasonable chaps that they are, what a pleasant, .placid world it would be if women could, by some miraele, be transformed into sens- ible, kindly, decent, regular, jolly, good-natured, easy-going people like men. - Canadian females are just as mutual on a gripe to which my Wife gave vent the other evening, for perhaps the one hundred and eleventh time. "Why is it," she fumed, "that Canadian men never treat a woman as a human be- ing?" "Wuddaya mean?" I asked in my courtly, Canadian male fash- ion. She told me. It seems that Canadian men lack, among other things, gallantry, good manners, and a good, sound leer. FIRESIDE FELLOWSHIP George Hays was host to the Fireside Fellqwship Grodp of First Presbyterian Church on Tuesday,• when there was a good attendance which included two visitors. 'Miss Alice Reid opened the meeting with a thanksgiving prayer, after which Miss Margaret Grieve read the Scripture lesson and the Lord's Prayer was repeated in unison. The next meeting will be in the church, when Rev. Godan Cham- bers, a returned missionary from the Congo, will speak of his ex- periences. Christmas cards •will be sold at the Ladies' Aid bazaar on November 5. Miss Bess Grieve was the speak- er for the evening. and gave an interesting paper on "The Making of Wills," after which a discus- sion on the same subject was held. • } "I'm first...: after all, this used to be OUR clothesline!" Clotheslines make dandy skipping ropes. And that's about all that can be said in favour of clotheslines in this modern world of electricity. What a "Cinderella" change has come over our woman's world with today's weather-proof automatic electric dryers. Never a care about the weather on washday ... no more heavy laundry basket to lift ... no more tedious, back -breaking f'hanging-out " Your surroundings change, too, when you own an automatic electric dryer .. . no more drooping, dripping basement wash- ings... more space in the yard for outdoor thing. Isn't it time you made some little "skipper" a present of your clothesline? LIVL`.BETTER ELECTRICALLY ' BE SURE TO VISIT THE HYDRO EXHIBIT AT THE 1960 INTERNATIONAL PLOUGHING MATCH en the farm of Thomas Heine & Sons, • Springfield, Elgin County, October 11th to 14th Is yours A woman, she says, goes to a party with her husband. She has a new dress, a new hair -do, and reeks of '"Treachery" or "Pure Vice" or something similar for which she has shot $5. Three min- utes after she arrives, she is sit- ting with a circle of other women, babbling of babies and bathrooms, dryers and drapes. All the men are out in the kitchen, drinking happily, or huddled at the other end of the living room, haggling over politics and football. THE BIBLE TODAY When the New Testament was published in Songhai and St. Mat- thew's Gospel was printed in Tam- achek for the people who lived along a large loop of the Niger River in the French Sudan there were a very few of the people who could read. Later, schools were established even in this remote corner of the Sudan so at least some portion of Scripture was ready for use in these schools. Scriptures in other tongues are available in this area. A Moslem was given a French Bible by a Missionary in Timbuctoo. Upon reading it he became so angered by its teaching that he burned the Bible. The memory of some of the words he had read never left him. He wanted to get another copy of the Bible but was afraid to ask the Missionary. When his hunger for the Word overcame his fear he went to the 1Vlissionary and was given another copy. When his work took him out in the desert his only 'light was a native lamp using for -fuel melted fat from hyenas which he had kill- ed. The feeble glow compelled him to hold the book so close to the light that its heat scorched the pages. On Iiia next visit to the Missionary he asked to become a Christian, By the feeble light of his hyena fat lamp he bad found the Eternal Light. Suggested Bible Readings Sunday—Psalms 93:1-5 Monday—Psalms 61:1-8 Tuesday—Psalms 71:1-24 Wednesday—Psalms 84:1-12 Thursday—Psalms 92:1-15 Friday—Ephesians 3:1-21 Saturday -Psalms 24:1.10 The only commtmication between the sexes during the evening, claims My Old' Woman, occurs when one of the men hollers across the abyss: "Hey, Mabel! -What year did we get married?" in an effort to prove.: his point about which year Ottawa won the Grey Cup. One other point of contact is made between the segregated groups, says My Girl, when the hostess serves the food. Weaving among the flailing arms ' of, the men to pass the pickles, she re- ceives less attention than• a waiter in a . beverage room, she avers, The way she sees it, the sexes should mingle freely. The women should stand about decoratively, looking slightly seductive. To them should come a steady procession of men, who indulge in fierce dis- cussion .of art, politics and reli- gion, in the process bestowing on these mysterious and desirable creatures an occasional deep, long- ing -look, or, a whimsical, frustrat- ed lift of eyebrow. Well sir, fellows, you'll be glad to know that I didn't just sit there and swallow all this stuff without coming back with some pretty gond ones of my own. First of all, I pointed out that this is a young country. It's only a couple of gen- erations since the men did all their drinking out in the harness shed, Already, they've got inside, ' into the kitchen, and they don't even spit on the stove. I also suggested that Canadian men are hag-ridden, All they hear from their wives .when they come home from work is about how there's something wrong with the washing machine, and that darn milkman only left two quarts, and the kids have been awful today, Joe, and you've got to dosome- thing about them, and the church is after me again for pies and I don't see how you expect me to keep this house up without a clean- ing woman and if you think you're going fishing on Saturday . . Not a sensible, kindly, human expression in the entire out -pour- ing. Not a trace of a feminine wile, a dab of perfume, a black negli- gee, or a soft look. Not a sugges- tion that she's glad to have him home. Not a hint that he might have had a few things go 'wrong today at work. Not the slightest admission that she might be a bit of an old bat. Not even one lousy cold beer in the icebox, because, she split the last 'one with the other female martyr from next door, this afternoon. Thirdly, I observed that we Canadian males are not to be compared, even by the most wild- ly romantic woman, to the princ- es, the intellectuals, and the wait- ers of Europe. Fd like to see one. of them fix a kid's bike, put on the storm windows, or stand calm- ly up to his bosom in icy water, fishing rainbow trout, for eight hours, without getting a bite. We are, as I mentioned, iron men compared to those hand -kissers. Another thing. Time after time I have tried to engage a Canadian woman in a continental -type con- Versation. "You're looking par- ticularly delicious tonight, my dear," I purr. "Hoo," She giggles, "Diane is doing far too much homework for her age," Or: "Well, you're certainly been busy at the punch bowl," she titters. Or: "Oh, this is just an old thing I picked up in Eaton's," she blush- es. Trying to get a Canadian woman into a sexy, scintillating conversa- tion is about as easy as trying to convince a millionaire that he can't take it with him. But don't be discouraged, girls. • We're com- ing along fast. Every so often, you'll see a couple of us rise when you enter the room. But 'don't be annoyed if we manage to do it without looking at you,' and with- out Waging a single adjective in our description of the golf game we tatted in last Sunday. A McDUFF OTTAWA REPORT TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE? If there was• ever much doubt about it, the most recent taking of the nation's economic pulse made it certain Parliament will be call- ed back into session this- fall— probably around mid-November— to deal with the impending unem- ployment crisis. Most economists have been ex- pecting the boom to turn into a recession sometime this year, not- withstanding Finance Minister Don- ald Fleming's confident forecast of a six per cent increase in the country's total production. Few expected prosperity to wane so quickly. Mr. Fleming, however, blissfully described the situation as nothing more than "a rolling re- adjustment". But figures published late in September by the Dominion Bur- eau of Statistics, indicate the Economy had already run out of steam by the end of June. The gross national product—yardstick of Canada's total output of goods and services—showed its first drop in the actual volume of national production between April and June for the first quarter since early 1957, when the Economy was also dipping into a recession. After rising less than one per cent . in the first three months of 1960, gross national production ac- tually fell off by 1.5 per cent. The result was that in the first half of the year the Economy was gin- ning at a rate that was only two per cent above the average for 1959, in contrast to Mr. Fleming's prediction of six per cent, and the downward trend is expected to continue. Because of the increasingly rap- id growth in the number of peo- ple looking for jobs, the lag in the Economy can lead only to mounting unemployment. By August the total amounted to 322,- 000, a post-war high for the month, and it threatens to 'elimb to record heights this 'winter. Prime Minister Diefenbaker, fin- ally acknowledging publicly that the situation presented a serious problem which would not go away by itself, took to the national tele- vision network some weeks ago to announce that the Government al- ready had its legislative program for dealing with it ready to put before the next session of Parlia- ment. With the Economy now obvious- ly deteriorating, it is apparent the Government has no choice but to call a fall session to implement the plans which it says it has al- ready prepared. It is probable that because of the delay in putting into effect whatever it has in mind, the remedy will have little, time to give the Economy a lift when it is most needed—during • the winter months. " There is lots of room to suspect that the Government's concern is more political than economic, more in appearing to the Cana- dian voters to be doing something rather than actually doing it. This concern will have faced heighten- ing by the most recent Gallup Poll showing Liberals with 43% nation- wide support to the Conservatives 38%. (Gallup Poll figures show a change from one and a half years ago when the Conservatives led the Liberals "-by 25 percentage points to where they now trail the Liberals by 5 percentage points). As far back as July the Cabinet took its first tottering step to meet the unemployment crisis it knew lay ahead when it expanded the winter works construction pro- gram and eased restrictions on FRUIT CAKE USES APPLE A new appetizing use for apples has been introduced in Canada. Diced apple—properly ' candied, colored and flavored—may be us- ed instead of cherries and citrus peels for fruit cakes, reports the Canada Department of Agriculture. The apples are prepared by a vacuum method bf treating fruit for pie fillings and solid -pack can- ned apples that was developed a few years ago at the Summerland, B.C., Research Station and is now used commercially. The vacuum treatment removes the gases from the diced apple tissues and makes them firm en- ough to withstand the syrup treat- ment for manufacture into can- died fruit. This process, points out research- er F. E. Atkinson, permits use of Canadian apples as an important bakery fruit. The same colors can be used with apples as with cherries or zucca melon. When citrus peels are being handled in the same fac- tory, a mild citrus flavor can be impaired by using some of the citrus syrups on the diced apple. A mild maraschino flavor has also been found attractive. There are two limitations in the manufacture of this product: (1) It has to be made from ap- ples that are firm and sound. (2) The fruit Should be candied when the apples are fresh, since storage of the prepared apple has not been found practical. federal housing loans. Measures now delayed until late•rthis year could have been implemented last summer if the Government was genuinely concerned with meeting the threat. During the election two years ago, the Conservative Govern- ment laid the blame for the re- cession then facing the country at the feet of the Liberals, accus- ing them of ignoring the warnings they received from their own of- ficials, Now the shoe is on the other foot and it is the Conserva- tives who face charges of doing too little,- too late. Therei are many things the Government can de to help pump new life into the Econ- omy. Unfortunately, most of them place new burdens on the treasury already weak from the load of three substantial deficits. An ex- treme measure to which the min- istry may be forced to resort in order to provide a stimulus is in- come tax cuts. Having' claimed to cut taxes heavily late in 1957 to minimize the recession, the Government will be hard put to explain why it has not followed the same course this year if history repeats itself. Andtalking about history repeat- ing itself, there is just a chance that tax cuts in 1960. could be fol- lowed by a snap election in 1961 if the signs indicate—as one sen- ior federal economist has suggest- ed—that things will go, from bad to worse. *v Capital Hill Capsule The solid reputation the former Liberal Government built hp for its part in placing- Canada at tint centre of the world stage, and more particularly the personal re- putatioh of its External Affairs Minister — Lester Pearson — has long been a sensitive point to the Conservative' administration. Prime Minister Diefenbaker, who regards himself as an equally competent leader of Canada in world affairs, has frequently re- vealed his own inferiority com- plex in many ways. It was obvious from the way be produced the late Sidney Smith as his External Af- fairs Minister that he thought he had a match for Mr. Pearson. He was sadly disappointed. In the per- son of External Affairs Minister Howard Green, he has come con- siderably closer,,, Late last month Mr. Diefenbak- er finally achieved his goal of per- sonal eminence as a statesman in the councils of the world with a speech to the United Nations in reply to Russian Premier Khrushchev which was applauded by many nations around the globe, but nowhere louder than in Canada. What Was Canada's First Town Plan? The earliest Canadian town plan is probably the idealized 'picture map of the Indian village -of Hoch- elaga, discovered by Cartier, that appeared in Ramusio's work en- titled Navigazionin in 1556. But Samuel de Camplain's plans—half map and half bird's-eye view of Port Royal, Quebec, and other set- tlements—are the first attempt at faithful reproduction. A well -mea- sured, very large-scale plan of Quebec, showing every building and garden, was made as early as 1670. ,It was the forerunner of many such town plans during the 18th e'entury. Small boy, 'disgustedly, after lis- tening to a radio show: "Aw, they always say they're going to sing a little number and they just sing some more words!" IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting• items gleaned from The Huron Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor October 4, 1935 Walter Spencer" was elected president of the Hensall Chamber of Commerce, succeeding J. W. Bonthron, at the annual meeting held Wednesday evening. Leola Nott, of Seaforth, with 20 points, won the Mitchell High School Cup for girls' senior cham- pionship, and the Canadian Can- neers' Shield was won by F. Sills, Seaforth, for boys' intermediate championship at the Huron Ama- teur Athletic Association, held in Hensall on Friday. The Public Utility Commission adopted the 'flate rate water heat- ing plan in Seaforth this week. Mr, Ralph Weiland, of this town, 'will leave shortly for New Bruns- wick, where he will train with the Boston team for the international hockey season. Mr. A. R. Turnbull sailed on the Duchess of York for London, England', where he will resume his duties; as secretary for Great Bri- tain of the Imperial Life Assur- ance Company of Canada. 1 Mrs. James Devereaux and Mrs. F. S. Sills are in Windsor this week attending the annual convention of the Catholic Womeni's League. Messrs. Walter Scott and W. H. Armstrong, of HulleAt left on Fri- day for Winnipeg and intend pur- chasing some western cattle for shipment to their farms here. Mr. Finlay+ McKercher returned on Thursday from a business trip to Winnipeg. Miss Annie Pryce held an alum- inum demonstration at her house on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Neil McLeod, of Flint, Mich., were dere this week attending the funeral of the late John Van Egmond. t 0 entire• horse among the number that arrived from the Old Coun- ty. It died on the train. Mr. J. W. Ortwein, Hensall, cap- tured 14 first prizes and three sec- nds out of an exhibit of 19 poul- ry exhibits at Seaforth Fall Fair. While Mr. and Mrs. William Mc- Donald, Kippen Road, were absent from their home on Saturday, a ramp came along and broke into the house, turning things upside down generally. He obtained only six cents. Mr. Abram Crich was working in a gravel pit when part of the bank caved in and crushed one of his legs against the, wheel of the wa- gon. Ile was Paid off work for a gouple of days, While practising high jumping at the Collegiate the other day, Mas- ter Joe Dick fell' and broke some of the ,cords in . his left arm. Mr. George A. Sills has on ex- hibition in bis window, parts of some elk horns which were plowed up in a field on the farm of Mr. John Dodds, McKillop. * * * From The Huron Expositor September 30, 1910 Mr. A. Whitesidea, Hensall, as provincial constable, took 'a man named Brown up to Goderich last week charged with shooting at Mr. H. Sheffer, of the Kippen Hotel. The shooting was the result of a quarrel. Mr. T. Murdock, Hensall has made a fine record at the fall fair races thus far, winning first money with his entire horse, Road Mas - tel', at Exeter, Zurich ..and Sea - forth, Mr. �. 3. Berry, Hensel, had the misfortune to lose a vauable * * * From The Huron Expositor October 2, 1885 Mr. Donald McIntyre is now oc- cupying his neat brick residence erected this summer. The officers of the Salvation Army and several of the privates attended the jubilee at Brussels on Monday evening. Messrs. Case, of this town, ship- ped four carloads of fine cattle to the Old Country markets on Monday. Scott Bros. and Thomas Goven- lock have purchased a large grain elevator at Griswold Station, Mani- itoba, and intend running it this sea son. The telephone poles in town have been neatly painted just recently. Mr. Arthur Forbes has put a fine new dray on the main road. Forty-nine tickets were sold at Seaforth station on Friday last for the cheap Western excursion to Detroit; Chicago, Milwaukee and other points. The town medicos are kept busy almost every night and day vac- cinating people for smallpox. Mr. Francis Case, of this dis- trict, found one of his valuable cows had been shot by }vhat he thought was the work of some mischievous and thoughtless boys while hunting. Mr. Robert Dickson, of Brussels, has set out 3,000 strawberry plants this season on his farm. Two deaths from typhoid fever have taken place in Clinton and two or three other parties are laid up with the same complaint. Mr. Richmond Cole, of Londes- boro, picked from one pear tree 15 bushels of pears. Mr. F. Pearen and Miss M. Gov- enlock will teach the Winthrop public school again this year with an advance in salary, showing that their service in the past has been appreciated. Mr. Robert Willis, of this town, has raised his dwelling house and is putting a stone foundation un- derneath, and Mr. D. D. Wilson has erected an elegant iron fence in front of the grounds surround- ing his private residence. -' re NANDY mkt ffi O R@ LIKE TO TAKE °Yz�BMMO1$ r IWHY MAYE ANIY PHOIVFLOOD t.AMPa rw►r'o EASY TO AMEN 1LMi0 t- rvECAN GOA%� BY LLOYD BIRMNIOSAM • :I