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The Huron Expositor, 1961-08-24, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers t I'D A ANDREW Y. MCLktAN, EditQr -t Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association '. Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 1 n it d Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rates: M H U U 2 Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year 1. SINGLE COPIES — 5 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 24, 1961 Future Holds Surprises For Motorist Those who have experienced ad- vances in travel during the past fifty years may well be excused for believ- ing that there is not much more that could be improved as far as surface movement is concerned. How far wrong they may be, how- ever, is suggested by a recent story in the Imperial Oil Review Vast changes are coming in family motoring—but they'll come gradually, the says Review yinan article c e based on interviews with automotive and fuel experts. The piston engine will be with us for at least five and possibly 20 years. but it will be° much improved. It may be replaced by the fuel ceIl, which con- verts chemical energy into electrical energy, yr the rotating combustion en- gine. A current experimental rotat- ing combustion engine produces 100 H.P., is only 16 inches long and has one long central rotor which, from the end view, looks somewhat like a tri- angle with curved sides. It has no pis- tons ; only one redesigned type of spark plug; a liquid cooling system and a carburetor. Other possibilities are the gas -turbine engine, electric cars with solar charged batteries, thermipnics (producing electricity by the combus- tion of fuel), and the free piston en- gine (operating on the diesel principle with no spark plug and, at most, two pistons). Tires are getting better, the article continues. The industry is developing new types of cord and experimenting with such materials as dacron and glass. A year round tire that has anti- skid material embedded in its tread is in the research stage. Special metal brake linings which prevent "fade" during emergency stops may replace the present fibrous lining. Mufflers will be more durable and a new catalytic type will completely burn away or neutralize harmful exhaust gases. Bodies will have new rust preventa- tives, salt resistant undercoatings and more durable paints. There'll be more development work on plastic bodies. New greases will make possible penin= anent chassis and suspension lubrica- tion at the factory. According to the Review, highways may become automatic with cars re- sponding to electronic signals, possibly from buried cables. Before that we'll see asphalt binders that will contribute to crack -free roads, asphalt pavement that will bear, several times present loads and colored road surfaces to de- fine routes at cloverleafs, indicate speed zones or even reduce eye fatigue and influence driver's mood. KELVINATOR 'BEAT THE TAX JAMBOREE" Buy a KELVINATOR WRINGER "SQUARE -TUB" WASHER AND SAVE THE SALES TAX ! We have special trade-in prices in effect, so buy before August 31, and save two ways. SQUARE TUB 159.95 MODEL and Trade OTHER MODELS from $135.00 (trade) GINGERICH SALES & SERVICE LTD. Phone 585 • Seaforth BEAT THE SALES TAX and win a handsome 17 _ JEWEL SWISS WATCH (Man's or Lady's)) With Every $1.00 Purchase, You Receive a FREE CHANCE ! YOU WIN 3 WAYS By Shopping at ANSTETT'S 1 • You beat the Sales Tax 2. You have a chance to win a Beautiful Swiss Jewelled Watch ! 3. You get QUALITY and SERVICE ! • • • CONTEST STARTS AUGUST 24th ° °and ends 1.0 p.m., August 31, 1961 My, but the city has become a wild, wicket place since I liv- ed here as a student, twenty odd years ago. In those days, it was considered a Lost weekend if you had a few beers in the King Cole Room. Once in a while we had a Dionysian revel in the men's residence, when we were allowed to have girls in, on a Sunday afternoon, and give them cocoa and raisin bread, in the common room. But those days of innocence and virtue have vanished. Don't talk to me about the stews of Alexandria, the bordellos of the Left Bank in Paris, or the French Quarter of New Orleans. Your words would fall on the indifferent ears of a man who has just emerged from a week- end of unbelievable debauch- ery in The City. Canadians need no longer hang their heads in shame when the talk turns to depravity. We're loaded% * * * I know I shouldn't have done it. It's going to be hard to face my wife and children. But you know how it is when you're at the dangerous age. Suddenly something just seems to snap and you'rs off on a crazy wing - ding. I'd stayed in The City on the weekend to study for the exams coming up. My intentions were as pure as those of a divinity student. But, oh dear, it was a warm, soft summer evening and I was lonely all of a sud- den, and Psychology in Educa- tion seemed a book of monstrous Size and dreadful dreariness. So I had one of my famous lit- tle chats with myself: "You have to go out to eat anyway, A change is as good as a rest. You'll go queer cooped up in here. You can study later." As usual, I won the argument. * * * Next thing I knew, I was strolling happily up Philosopn- er's Walk. enjoying the sights and sounds: The lovers lying. on the grass, nose to nose; the old lady bawling hell out of a black squirrel because he wouldn't come out of the tree and get his peanuts; the bum stretched out, his overcoat on, but his feet bared to the eve- ning sun. I thought Pd eat at a new place, just opened. It boasted a 50 cefit buffet, all you can eat. Just right for my budget. It had a Gay Nineties decor. I ordered a beer and nursed it through the entertainment—a fellow playing a honky-tonk piano and a gal belting out some old-time songs. I loaded my plate at the buffet, chuck- ling at the way I was beating the management. For one beer and 50 cents, I was getting the whole show. An evening on the town for maybe 85 cent?;, * * * The waiter brought the hill.' Food -50c; beer -70c. What they lose on the bananas they make up on the pineapples. The waiter was a big, robust dead -ringer for John L. Sulli- van. I tipped him a quarter. Disgruntled but dignified, I walked out, ready to head back to the books and brood on the treachery of mankind. But, Monday's lunch money already shot, 1 was caught up in that wild, devil-may-care frame of mind familiar to the crap -shoot- er who has lost half his pay. check on the way home. Eithe; you try to get it back, or you go home, a failure. * « * Throwing family ties and moral principles out the win- dow, 1 walked right around the corner and went to a bad movie, SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley the one that had "shocked The City," according to the ads. I got the first shock when I pro- duced my 75 cents to get in. "It's a dollar and a half," sneer- ed the young lady. Well, you know how it is. You don't want to look like a hick. So, mut- tering, "There goes Tuesday's dinner" through clenched teeth, I paid. I suspected I was in a pretty avalanche -guard place the min- ute I went in, because people were smoking, right and left, in their seats. And I was sure of it, when some of the char- acters in the film swore, right out, clear as anything. Why, they said things I wouldn't ev- en say to ,my own wife. * * * But it wasn't until I left the movie that I was sucked into the real whirlpool of vice, sin, mope and gawkery that has turned The City into the Sodom, to say nothing of Gormorrah, of our time, The first thing I walked past, for example, was a place with people eating out- side, " There they were, sitting at tables right beside the side- walk, eating away just as though they were foreigners and had no morals at all, Just a few doors down, caught up by who knows what mad impulse, I turned into I'm sorry, I can't go on. When I remember that I was once president of the Young Men's Bible Class of our church, I feel a wave of something go- ing over me. Besides, I've run out of space. * * * I may be able to tell all, to relate the remainder of that dreadful night. But it will have to be in next week's issue. Watch for it—the simple, but affecting story of one small- town chap's descent into the pit that is The City after hours. ICBM VCD 19 (Prepared by the Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) Is Tellurium Found in Canada? Yes, its commercial source is the minute amounts present in impurities in various ores that are recovered as a by-product in the refining of copper. In Canada it is. recovered from the anode slimes obtained in the electrolytic refining of cop- per at Montreal East, Que„ and at Copper Cliff, Ont, Like selen- ium and ,s phure, tellurium is a member of the oxygen family of elements and lies close to the border line between metals and non-metals. It is used prin- cipally as an additive to lead and copper. In the former it improves ductility, and in the latter it increases hardness and improves machining qualities. It is also used to improve the durability of rubber and to im- part bluish and brownish tints in the ceramic and glass indus- tries. * * * What Does Mimico Mean? Mimico, the town on Lake Ontario, just west of Toronto and a peet of Metropolitan To- ronto, is said to have derived its name from the Missisauga Indian term for "place of the wild pigeon". This refers to the fact that in bygone days t h e now - extinct passenger pigeon flocked to the fields near Mimico Creek to feed. ej 744 *leek tip �Y::i+.+:o-::9;::::i;:%::-:5ii>.i::�f!'?a:fi::i:•':ryi::a. 04 0 �.. a. "They have some very untiattal ta'i+ias on this course." By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER THE BEST POLICY Perhaps every boy in our country has been told at some time that "Honesty is the best policy." And he has been giv- en many examples of how hon- esty has worked out for good to the one in whom it is found. But a young man should not be taught to be honest solely because it is the best policy. For if the time comes when it appears to him that he can succeed by a compromise with the truth, he may bear watch- ing. Men are to be honest because it is God's will that they be honest. Indeed they <are to be true and righteous in all things because God is good and it is His will that men be good. So here is the origin and the reason of all righteousness— the will of the good and al- mighty God. In the Ten Com- mandments, the words of Jesus, and the whisperings of the "still small voice" in your heart, the word of God may come to you, and, if you are wise, you may as the boy Samuel said, "Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth." Just a Thought: If we didn't know adversity from time to time, would we ever appreciate the good for- tune that is our lot most every day? For the most part, we are so busy enjoying our many blessings that we haven't the time to really show apprecia- tion for them in some "way. Who Was the First Health Minister in the Commonwealth? Dr. William Francis Roberts, who in 1918 was appointed New Brunswick's first minister of health, was also the first min- ister of health in the Common- wealth (or the British Empire, as it was then called). A monu- ment in the grounds of the Legislative Building at Freder- icton recalls this "first". He served as minister of health until 1925, and again from 1935 until his death in 1938. Under his direction the New Bruns- wick department of health did valuable. work in all branches of public health. Dr. Roberts served as president of the Cana- dian Public Health Association in 1921. He was born in Saint John and represented that city in the provincial legislature from 1917 to 1925 and from 1935 to 1938. A staid gentlemen, honorary judge at a horse show, was up- set by the dress of some of the girls. "Just look at that young person with the poodle cut, the cigarette and the blue jeans,'; he decried to a bystander. "Is it a boy or a girl?" "It's a girl. She my daugh- ter." "Oh, forgive me, sir," apolo- gized the old fellow. "I never dreamed you were her father," "I'm not," snapped the by- stander. "I'm her mother." A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT VANISHING WHEAT OTTAWA No one subje other than, national survival these days of heady internati al tensions, has command greater Government attenti than the problem of disposi of our huge surpluses of Prair grains. C. D. Howe, the "Minister everything" in the former L eral Government at Ottaw turned his enormous talents the problem and had to adm to failure. When the Conservatives ca to power in 1957, there was glut of 734,000,000 bushels wheat in the nation's granarie built up by a series of bump crops since the war years. Gordon Churchill went work on the problem for Prim Minister Diefenbaker, He tou ed the European grain marke beseeching orders, and sent h representatives to Japan an China in search of more. B the surplus stubbornly refuse to move. He set his target at 300,000 000 bushels a year for exp sales, and actually passed th mark in his first year. Bu sales slipped from 318,000030 bushels to 297,000,000 and the 278,000,000 in subsequent year And then Alvin Hamilton, th super -salesman from Saskatch wan, took 'over as Agricultu Minister and was given autho ity over the Canadian Whea Board, which had reported pre yiously to the Minister of Trad and Commerce. Success didn't come overnigh for Hamilton, and it took som spectacular salesmanship an the threat of a national drough to achieve it. But next ye for the first time in a decade the surplus will all but disap pear. Judging from the publicit that pours from the Minister'ffi office, it is difficult to judg whether an act of God or- an act of Alvin should get the bu of the credit. The drought will create hard ship this year, and perhap more in the years ahead, for Prairie farmers. They will have to depend more than ever on handouts from the Federal Treasury to pay the bills. But from the Government's stand- point, the grain shortage may be a blessing in disguise. Alvin Hamilton certainly doesn't look like an unhappy man as he discusses the farm outlook. He appears content -r more than content — with the up- surge in wheat sales, Which he estimates will hit a near -re- cord 354,000,000' bushels when the 1960-61 books are finally closed. And, he professes to see nothing but good things in the future. The drought, if it continues, will means headaches; but the Minister, who prefers to look at the bright side, sees it as an opportunity to push for his .ideas of creating more com- munity pasture lands; taking uneconomic wheat -growing ar- eas out of production; and, en- couraging farmers to take ad- vantage of crop insurance cov- erage now available. "Every farmer will be shout- ing his head off to get into this plan next year," he forecast ct, in tin- ed on ng ie of its a, to it me a of s, er to e r• is is d ut d ort e t 0 n 5, e e- re r- t e e d ar, y s e lk s IN THE YEARS AGONE From The Huron Expositor August 21, 1936 One cow suffered a broken leg and had to be destroyed lat- er when it was struck by a car driven by a Seaforth man, when he went. to pass another car, 4% miles west of Hensall. Henry Hoggarth and John Currie won first prize, and Louis Hoegy and Wm. Young second prize at the weekly tournament held at the horse- shoe pitching grounds on Wed- nesday night, Farmers in this district who have barley and wheat for sale have been reaping a harvest of dollars the past week, as barley soared above the dollar mark for the first time in many years. Wheat, too, is at the dollar mark. Mr. Charles B. Stewart, who leaves Friday for Montreal, where he has secured a posi tion, was honored following band practise on Tuesday night when members of the Seaforth Highlanders Band presented him with a ring. Misses Ida and Eva Love have returned from a trip to the Old Country and Switzerland, Mrs. Fred Tomlinson, who in the near fSture is leaving for the West where she intends to spend a considerable length of time visiting relatives and friends, was honored at a so- cial evening at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Clifford Watson, Kippen. § 1 § From The Huron Expositor August 25, 1911 The rate of taxation for Sea - forth this year will be 28 mills on the dollar. The Canada Furniture Manu- facturers are preparing to er- ect a large dry kiln on the andpro- thee corner ofl High s Markeed t Streets in Seaforth. J. S, Dickson, son of Mr. John T. Dickson, of Tucker - smith, won the Third Blake Scholarship in general prbflci- ency, value $104, at the Sea - forth Collegiate Institute, Mr, Fred Robinson 'has pur- chased the Campbell house on Market Street from the Canada Furniture Manufacturers, and had it moved to Egmondville. Mr. Charles Brodie, Sr., the other day gathered a couple of tomatoes, one weighing 1% pounds and the other 13'4 pounds. The Hydro - Electric gang, which is engaged in stringing the wires from Stratford up, arrived here on Tuesday and are nearing Seaforth. Mr. Arthur Broadfoot, who has been doing survey work in the Porcupine district for the pas* two months, hag returned home. The Brussels stage team ran away Wednesday morning when left standing in front of Stew- art Bros., while the express was being taken off. They ran as far as the corner of Kling's hotel, when they collided with a post and were stopped. § 1 § From The Huron Expositor August 27, 1886 Lieut. J. A. Wilson secured four prizes at the Western Rifle Association tournament, held recently in London. We understand that Mr. Jul- ius Duncan has disposed of his residence on Goderich Street to Mr. 0. C. Wilson for the sum T':!r confidently. The current crop is estimat- ed et barely more than half the normal average — around 230,- 000,090 bushels, against a 10 - Year coverage rlf 497,000,000 bushels, and an average over the last five years of 440,000,001 bushels. By this time next year, that pesky surplus will be down to a "minimum" of 250,000,000 to 275,000,000 bushels, an amount the Government needs in re- serve to serve its overseas cus- tomers. While condition's may not be the best on the farm, shipments to export markets to fulfill firm contracts will keep the railways, elevators • and grain ships loaded to capacity. A new record for shipments from West Coast ports is anticipated this year, and the Government is making efforts to extend the ,Shipping season at the northern port of Churchill. All of which is going to do Alvin Hamilton no harm in his own political career. If he can hire a hall and claim—ever so modestly, of course—that he accomplished what the mighty C. D. Howe could never do, he will indeed have carved himself a comfort- able place in Canadian agricul- tural history. Capital Hill Capsules Prime Minister Diefenbaker has told close associates not to worry about the possibility of a Federal election before the spring or summer of 1962. With speculation about a Fall elec- tion now disregarded, attention is being given to June 11, 1962, as a likely date. It falls one day -after the fifth anniversary of the election that brought Mr. Diefenbaker to power. * * * There is a threat of trouble ahead for Federal Conservatives in Manitoba, where the Govern- ment captured all 14 Constitu- encies in 1958. Premier Duff Roblin is believed ready to im- pose new, and heavier, income and corporation taxes in his Fall session of the Legislature. And if pressed, he will be pre- pared to explain them as a di- rect result of Ottawa's lack of generosity in tax-sharing—un- less Ottawa gets a lot" more gen- erous in the meantime. What Stimulated Road -Building in Nova Scotia? Although the first Canadian road was built by Champlain in what is now Nova Scotia in 1606, almost no further road - building was undertakw in that region for another 150 years. In 1750 there were practically n roads in the province that coup be used by wheeled vehicles, and it was not until 1815 that 'any stage coach service began. However, when Samuel Cunard established his transatlantic steamship service in 1840 with Halifax as the distribution point for mail, road -building received a tremendous stimulus. Soon fast coaches were able to meet the Cunard steamers and car- ry mail from Halifax to Truro and Amherst, and from there to destinations in New Bruns- wick and Lower and Upper Canada. Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. of $3,000, and that Mrs- Dun- can, with part of the family, will 'leave here Monday for Vir- gina. Mr. 0. C. Wilson has sold his house and lot on which he now resides, to Mr_ James Gil- lespie for $1,100. Mr. Jas. Murray accomplish- ed a good day's threshing on the premises of Mr. Jas. Mc- Intosh, Mill Road, last week. The amount of grain put through in nine hours was: wheat, 300 bushels; oats, 175 bushels; and barley, 730 bush- els. Mr. Wm. Hudson, of Tucker - smith, has rented the farm of Mr. Wm. Eberhart, on the 8th concession of Hibbert, for five years. The adjoining 50 acres belonging to his farm, Mr. Eb- erbart, has sold to his neigh- bor, Mr. Andrew Patrick, for $2,800. Mr. King, of Hensall, has op- ened out a barber shop in Pet- ty's Block, thus supplying a long -felt want in the village. William Kemp, a young man working in Messet's marble works, received a , painful in- jury while taking a large stone off a car at the station the oth- er day. The stone fell on him, skinning and bruising his legs veky badly. WINDY FAM1! Y AUNT MILL IE c' .THDAV COME5 Up NEXT WEEK ,AND I HAVEN'T A GIFT FOR HER! LLOYD 811111111161111111 SUNIOR MADE CAMPY DISH FROM A COCONUT SHELL REMOVE FIBERS FROM SHELL wiTH WOOD tiAs{> sMfdoTH wfr14 SAMOPAPER,SHELLAC aAW OFFtictro ffi ct0N-6Cu8Ofi110 Bre3E Cul i1:7 FIC • • • • • • • • • w • • • • • • • • A