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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 30, 1961
Seaforth Prepares Welcome For Santa
cause busy housewives spend hours
making costumes ; because area farm-
ers loan wagons and tractors; because
district bands are happy to take part,
and because individuals and business
places are generous in their contribu-
tions.
The parade, of course, is but one
aspect of the Christmas program for
which the Christmas activities commit-
tee assumes responsibility. Other pro-
jects are the Main Street decorations,
the contest for the best decorated home
and, in conjunction with the Lions Club,
a visit and concert for the residents of
the Huron •county Home.
It is an extensive program and one
that has been possible only because of
the financial co-operation of Seaforth
business and professional people, and
by the unselfish contribution of hun-
dreds of hours of time and effort by
members of various committees.
All that is needed now to make the
Saturday parade an outstanding suc-
cess is reasonable weather. Those from
the district who attend can be assured
of a real welcome from the "Christmas
Town" and a parade long to be remem-
bered.
The climax of several months of
planning and work 'comes Saturday
when the third annual Seaforth Santa
Claus parade takes place. Seaforth,
the "Christmas Town," will play host
to thousands of area residents anxious
to join with townspeople in greeting
Santa.
The fact that this year's parade will
include more floats, more bands and
many more costumed marchers, is not
just a matter of chance. Few people
realize the amount of time and effort
that must be contributed to ensure that
the parade is a success.
Since mid -summer when the Christ-
mas activities organization was estab-
lished. by the Chamber of Commerce,
t'even committees have been meeting
regularly — since early October, at
weekly intervals — to plan and co-
ordinate the event. Individual commit-
tees have held dozens of additional
meetings, arranging bands, planning
floats and making costumes.
The story of the parade is a story of
co-operation. The people who sit on
the committees are able to complete
their plans only because the merchants
and organizations prepare floats; be -
Snow Ahead Desp
This has been an unusually pleasant
autumn: There has been a welcome ab-
sence of the cold raw winds usually
associated with November, and there
have been but a few flakes of snow as
if to remind us how lucky we have
been.
The fact that golfers were out in
force over the weekend and strollers in
shirt sleeves were a not uncommon
sight on Seaforth streets on Sunday
can't alter the hard truths made evi-
dent by the calendar. Snow, and lots
of it, cannot be far away.
So it is that Safe Driving Week,
which begins Friday, should mean more
to us than just an ordinary week. It
is an opportunity to take a little'extra
care, to adjust our driving habits to
winter conditions.
The Ontario Safety League tells us
how to "winterize" our driving:
ite Good Weather
1. Get the feel of the road. Test sur-
face conditions as you start out.
2. Follow at a safe distance. Leave
plenty of room to stop.
3. Avoid sudden manoeuvres—stops,
starts or turns.
4. Know how to prevent a skid and
also how to get out of a skid.
5. Have good tires, preferably snow
tires—and chains.
6. Remain alert at all times, espec-
ially during the early darkness hours
of winter.
Captive Audience
In order to reach the children, the
physical fitness committee is going to
have to put on a two-hour television
spectacular explaining how they are
soft from watching too much television.
—Calgary Herald.
What in the name of all
that's hysterical is going on in
Canada these days? You can't
pick up a paper or a magazine
without the word FALLOUT
hitting you like a big black
bludgeon.
After years of virtual indif-
ference to the threat of nuclear
war, suddenly the whole of
North America has gone hog -
wild for shelters, is avidly de-
vouring every bit of garbage
published about radioactivity,
and is hotly arguing such ques-
tions as whether there'll be 75
per cent or 85 per cent of our
population wiped out in a mis-
sile attack.'
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I had noticed the rapid build-
up of panic in our publications,
but hadn't paid too much at-
tention to it. One becomes a
bit cynical about the constant
state of apoplexy of our daily
press.
This week, however, my kids
at school were delivering their
annual oral compositions—those
who didn't have enough nerve
to skip school that day. Do you
know what their favorite topic
was? Fallout shelters!
SUGAR
and
SPICB
By Bill Smiley
man from fretting over cur-
tains.
The kids are getting organ-
ized too. They're quite practi-
cal about the whole thing. Told
they might bring their most
cherished possession, Kim vot-
ed for Piper, the cat, and Hugh
for Playboy, the pup. I agreed,
might have to eat them.
won't be room for much
You see, my wife needs her
sewing machine, her steam iron,
her hair dryer, and of course,
the vacuum cleaner, to keep
the place tidy. She insists we
put in the hi-fi, so we can rot
to Rachmaninoff. We're not go-
ing to eat like pigs, she claims,
so the dining room table must
go in. And she doesn't want
any dirty -booted rescue work-
ers tramping around on her
good rug, so that has to go in-
side. Along with all the good
china, silver and glassware.
as we
There
food.
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This was too much. When
cute little girls of 16, who
should be discussing such sub-
jects as dances and hair -dos,
stand up there in front of the
class and say, "Mr. Smiley, fel-
low students, the topic I have
chosen to speak on today is
What Will You Do When the
Bomb Falls?", it's time some-
body called a halt to the hys-
teria.
That's bad enough. But these
panic purveyors have even got
my wife interested. That's what
worries me. Things must be
serious. For years, I've been
trying to get her interested in
world affairs.
We're not going to try to get
the car inside, because it's in-
sured. But I'll be hanged if I
leave the lawnmower out. It's
a second-hand power mower I
bought this fall for $20, and
I never was able to get the
motor started, so I'm not going
to just let that go up in smoke,
without getting some use out
of it.
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Some of these attempts have
almost driven me straight up
the wall, across the ceiling, and
down the other side.
"Do you realize we're facing
total annihilation?" I would ask
her. "Yes," she would answer,
"but when are you going to
stop smoking so much?"
She never knew the president
of Ghana from the president of
the local Rotary Club. Her
idea of a big international
crisis was when Princess Mar-
garet married Tony, or when
Liz Taylor bagged a new hus-
band.
Seelhem Now...
OUR COMPLETE SELECTION OF
as Cards
. AS WARM, AS SINCERE, AND
AS FRIENDLY AS A HANDSHAKE
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Kim isn't any trouble. Ex-
cept that 'she says she won't go
into the thing unless we take
the television set. Hugh is
bound his bike is not going to
be left out in all that radio-
active dust, though it doesn't
seem to bother him that it's
been sitting out in the snow
for the past two weeks.
It's taken a lot of planning,
but I think I've found the solu-
tion. It will be a lot cheaper
to hire a fleet of bulldozers to
cover our house with earth,
than it will be to build a shel-
ter big enough to hold every-
thing my family insists is es-
sential to survival.
By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
THE BIBLE TODAY
Gulab, an orphan boy living
in Central India, was not a
very good student at school.
He was unable to cover the
work after grade two, so one
of the missionaries on the staff
gave him employment in the
garden where he loved to work.
He also carried the water for
the school.
As he worked, Gulab conceiv-
ed a great secret ambition. He
began to save every anna (cent)
he could from his weekly wage.
The missionary lady tried to
find out what the boy was go-
ing to buy with his savings,
but Gulab kept his project a
secret.
After a time he asked the
missionary how much he had
saved. He expressed great de-
light when he found that it
amounted to five rupees, or
about a dollar in Canadian
money.
When Gulab was asked what
he was going W buy, instead
of the expected reply that he
wanted a pair of trousers or
canvas shoes, he asked for a
Bible.
Soon Gulab received his own
copy of the Hindi Bible. Some
tithe later he was asked to read
from his Hindi Bible during a
special Sunday School service.
There was a new ring in his
usually dull voice as he head
the Scripture from the Book
bought with his savings.
(Prepared by the Research Staff
of Encyclopedia Canadiana)
* * *
Now, she's talking fallout
shelter. Not that she's changed
her mind about what's impor-
tant in the world. She still
thinks nuclear fission is some-
thing vaguely uncomfortable,
like trout fishin', only more so.
She is firmly convinced that
war is a lot of ridiculous non-
sense, indulged in by men ev-
ery so often to bolster their
egos.
No, she hasn't become inter-
nationally -minded. It's just that
she doesn't like to be out of
style, and these days fallout is
the fashion. She still thinks
radiation is something to do
with where you put water in a
car, but she's not going to miss
the show.
Big worry, at the moment, is
where we're going to put the
piano, in the shelter. She
doesn't want it to get damp.
Affects the tone. She's also a
little troubled about the exact
shade of the drapes. There
won't be any windows in the
thing, of course, but lack of
windows never stopped a wo-
IIAIF—PASY Y@EF!
Suggested Bible Readings
Sunday—Isaiah 48:12-22
Monday—Isaiah 49:7-18
Tuesday—Isaiah 50:4-9
Wednesday—Isaiah 51;1-8
Thursday—Isaiah 52:7-15
Friday—John 11:5-16
Saturday—John 14:3-6, 20:24-
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congenially. In such cases the
school board frequently erected
a teacherage near the school,
where the teacher maintained
his or her own household. In
other cases, teacherages were
expected to be attractive to
married teachers, likely to be
remaining for longer tenure
than would single persons.
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PLAST/C Gly' Har-
z ST/LL WON'T
TOUCH /T,//
THE HANDY FAMILY
JUNIOR AND SUZY
ARE ALWAYS
THROUGH 114E
HOUSE!
BY LLOYD BIRMINGHAI
DAD NGANDOECBBRIN
CU1TING OLSCRUB BRISt
HALF AND MOUNTING IT WITH '
ANOTHER ON A WOODEN BASE
What Indian Food Served
Arctic Explorers?
Pemmican. This was a form.
of concentrated food used by
the Indians of the plains, its
ingredients varying according
to supplies available. The com-
monest type was bison (buffalo)
meat cut into thin strips and
smoked or dried in the sun.
Mixed with melted fat, some-
times flavored with berries, it
was poured into skin contain-
ers where it solidified and kept
indefinitely. Pemmican is one
of the most concentrated foods
known from any part of the
world and has been used ex-
tensively by European explor-
ers, especially in the Arctic,
within the last century. Al-
though bison meat is consider-
ed to have the finest flavor,
pemmican can be made from
the flesh of any other mammal,
and varies in quality and taste,
depending upon the amount of
meat and fat used.
Was Indian Medicine All
Superstition?
No, Indian medicine was not
restricted to practises ground-
ed in superstition. Several w :11
known vegetable remedies, such
as sarsaparilla, jalap, cinchona
and guaiacum, were native :o
North. America and were used
by the aborigines. Tribes realiz-
ed the value of a brew of spruce
of hemlock tips which we now
know contain the essential vita-
min C, in the treatment of
scurvy. Jacques Cartier learr:-
ed this from the Indians to good
effect in the winter of 1535-36,
when his men were decimated
by scurvey. The Indians also
made good use of sweat baths
and massage.
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What is a Teacherage?
FASTEN 10 BACK R D CH c R
GROUND W(TN SCREWS OR NAILS. •
IS Ds PAST TECH
Following heavy immigration
to Western Canada at the be-
ginning of the century, many
farm districts were settled en-
tirely by persons whose ways
of life were unfamiliar to Can-
adians. It was sometimes diffi-
cult or impossible to find a
family in such a district with
whom the teacher could live
wie week
YOU SAY .T MUST /MPROVE MY SELF-
CONTROL ? WHY...1 CAN H/T
DOOLEY WITH A FORWARD
PASS AT F/FTY YARDS!
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IN THE YEARS AGONE
Interesting Items gleaned from
The Expositor of 25, SO and
75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
November 27, 1936
Winter has set in and by all
appearances the Indian prophet
may be right in predicting two
feet of snow for the first of
December, but we hope it will
not come. •
Stepping into an elevator
shaft when the elevator wasn't
there, Edwin Hawkins, driver
of a Clarke transport truck, of
Seaforth, fell 20 feet on Mon-
day and broke his ankles, while
loading freight in a Toronto
building.
Mrs. E. H. Hodgins, Seaforth,
fell 15 feet to the ground and
suffered serious injuries while
shaking a rug from a balcony
at her residence on North Main
Street on Monday.
Miss Helen Moffat, daughter
of Principal P. B. Moffat, of
the Seaforth public school and
Mrs. Moffat, has been award-
ed a prize for standing second
among students who wrote their
entrance examinations at Gode-
rich this year.
Misses Minnie Habkirk, Bes-
sie Cluff and Grace Free at-
tended the Pioneers' twenty-
fifth anniversary banquet of
the Bell Telephone Co., held in
the Masonic Temple in Strat-
ford on Thursday evening.
Mr. R. McKercher left for
Mount Hope this week, where
he will conduct a three months'
farm course.
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From The Huron Expositor
December 1, 1911
Mr. P. Melville, of Hensall,
returned home from Saskatche-
wan, where he has been for
some months and reports it
very cold in that part, the ther-
mometer registering nearly 30
degrees below zero.
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"This is my policeman, and is gall sthe ome gantic the
plotut nt officer desccreditand
me" a
Mr. Henry Shaffer, of Kippen,
the genial proprietor of the
hotel, now holds the record for
being the longest resident of
the village, being there over
40 years.
Ontario potatoes are quoted
in car lots on track at Toronto
at $1.30 per bag, and out of
store at $1.50 per bag. Hog
selects, fed and watered, sold
at $6.25, and $5.90 to drovers
f.o.b. cars at country points at
the Toronto market this week.
Strictly new laid eggs are
quoted at 36 to 38c per pound
in case lots; fresh, 26 to 27c.
Grand Trunk brakeman,
Louis Witty, met with a pain-
ful accident at the Seaforth
station while coupling cars.
The cars came together with
such force that the brakes
broke and a piece struck Mr.
Witty on the side of the head,
cutting off one ear and inflict-
ing other injuries.
The balmy weather of Mon-
day and Tuesday and the rain
of Wednesday have completely
wiped out all the snow, but an-
other supply is hoped for
Christmas.
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From The Huron Expositor
December 3, 1886
Mr. John Dorsey has recently
added a large addition to his
brick blacksmith shop.
Mr. George Murray has pur- •
chased a very handsome and
snug team of bay horses from
Mr. Peter McGregor, of Bruce -
field, for his dray, and for
which he paid $320.
The snowfall of Sunday and
Monday, which made such good
sleighing, was followed Wed-
nesday and Thursday by a gen-
uine northwest blizzard, and
now the country roads must be
pretty well blocked up.
Mr. W. Colwell, carriage -
maker of Hensall, has recently
moved into his new brick resi-
dence on King Street.
Mr. Arthur Forbes now owns
the handsome black driving
team exhibited at the fall Show
this season by Mr. Jonathan
Miller, of Colborne, for which
he paid over $300.
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