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The Huron Expositor, 1970-09-03, Page 2fxpossitort Since 1860, Serving the Community First *Wished at SEAM= ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MCLEAN BROS., Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y. MCLEAN., Editor Member Comedian Weekly Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Newspapers Subscription Rates: Canada (in advanCe) $6.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year • SINGLE COPIES — 15 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Regtitration Number 0090 Telephone 527-0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, September 3, 1970 sso' Rising Taxes Concern Farmers 'fOR YOUR PARTICIAIAR 5ITUAlI0N SIR, I'D9.16(rEST SOMETIIIN(r WYE UNE OF A GRMOUND BUS': In the • Years Agone SEPTEMBER 7, 1945. The choir of First Presbyterian Church met ,at the Lions Park and enjoyed a pot luck supper, when the Treasurer, Robert Smith spoke a few words of appreciation to Helen Smith, who has been a member Or some time and who leaves shortly to train for a nurse. Mrs. Rennie made the presentation and Miss Smith replied in a gracious manner. ' Cpl. 'Harold Chesney, Seaforth, was in a serious accident in which the motor- cycle on which he was riding was in collision with a car. Mrs. Angus McLean was hostess to a group of friends of Miss. Ona Lee Moore, at a miscellaneous showeis A pretty- wedding took place at Staffa Church when Ina Jean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgat Hutson was united in marriage to Flt. Lt. James Terrence Atkinson. She was attended by Lois Finnegan of Seaforth and Wm. Butson of Staffa. With ideal weather prevailing, the first annual Lions Frolic was held in Zurich with an attendance of 3000 per- sons. Spr. Robert M. Smith, son of Mrs. John Smith and the late John Smith, of Hullett, arrived home from overseas after five years with the Royal Canadian Engin- eers. He enlisted in 1941 and trained at Camp Borden. Alex Paterson, well known garage operator at Brucefleld, received painful iejnidea 74heii the'- carn,he' Was cranking" The sudden death of Wm. Kerr came as a distinct shock to hi% relatives and many friends. He enlisted in 1916 with the 161st IlifSen Battalibn, being connect- ed with the battalion band. Mrs. Wm. Kelley and son , James, and Mr. and Mrs., W. C. Bennett of Walton motored to Toronto to meet Wm. Kelley -who arrived an the S.S. ' . Louis Pasteur. He had been Overseas for four years. Messrs. D. H. Wilson, F. S. Sills and Edwin P. Chesney were in' Toronto last week on business in connection with municipal affairs. A group of girl friends of Miss Beatrice Lane of St. Columban.,gathered at her home to bid her farewell prior to her departure to enter the school of nursing at St. Joseph's London. An address was read by Angela O'Reilly and a purse of money presented by, Miss Patricia Kale. SEP TEtIBE 3 , 1620. , W. Manley, and his son and three . daughters from Cincinnati, Ohio,, were visitors in Manley. The girls,- who. never were in the country before, found it quite a novelty. Mr. Manley is one of Huron's old boys that has worked, to the top of the ladder. He Is president,of the City Foundry in Cincinnati. David Millson and Hugh Dunlop of Constance, took in the hariest excursion to the west and visited 'relatives and friends. - Villagers turned out en masse to attend a social in St. Columban. It was really the biggest crowd ever held in that old, old, place formerly known as lrishtown. Miss Roie Dorsey- of Seaforth has been engaged to teach the Manley School. Miss Janet Hays left for Toronto . where she has taken a postion with the McLean publishing Company. Miss Monica Eckert left for London where she' will train for a nurse. James Robb of town has sold his residence on John Street to Wm. Elcciat, of Tuckersmith. Mr. Robb has, since purchased a property across from the skating rink on whicnhe will build. The - Wolf Cubs of First Presbyterian Church enjoyed their first hike accept- ing the kind invitation of Mr. ,and Mrs. Robert Govenlock. They built fires on the bank of the river after which they were treated to ice cream and cake. Miss Ella Turnbull left this week for Burks Falls and Miss Mabel Turnbull, for Huntsville where they will teach. SEPTEMBER 6, 1895. The House of Refuge barn has 'just been Completed and''` contractor McBeth is deserving of great credit for the manner in which he has carried out the contract. - John Shanahan, of the 3rd concession- of Hullett, reports a yield of over , 50 bushels of wheat to the acre. Over 2000 bushels of grain _were threshed in one day on the farm of James Reynolds, Hullett, by a Monarch thresher, owned by him and the ma- chine was used twice. Thos. E Hays of McKillop, plucked from his pea field, ' five well loaded stalks, all of Which had grown from one pea. John GoVenlock, of Winthrop, had the misfortune to sprain his ankle,' a few days ago and now he has to carry a pair of crutches around in the buggy with him. ' , Joseph Beck, the market gardener in town, showed us a cabbage which breaks the' record. When stripped of all outside covering it weighed 15 pounds and measured 3 feet 5 ihches one way and 2 feet 10 inches the other. Messrs. Scott Bros., of town, did the largest business last week in the ex- perienCe of the firm. They soli or- gans and one piano. While, at ,Niagara Falls last week, H. Livens of this town, invested in three very handsome gold fish. Oscar Neil of , town has purchased Mr. Pearce's pony and cart. Robert Logan of town has moved into his new banking office in the Commercial Hotel building. Robert Holmes, of • Walton, has dis-, posed of his farm to John Clark for $1750: • Wm. Hoggarth, of Egmondville, seems to be the champion 'sun flower grower of these parts. He has a stalk with 109 flowers On it; he also has a flower that measures 50 inches in circulder- ence and a stalk which measuies 12 feet in length. Are you taking full advantage of the tax savings that are available through the use of the Registered Savings Plan? TED HOLMES 145 Deer Park - C ircle, London 471.6005 SYNDICATE LIMITED The attendance at the meeting this ° week arranged by the Huron Federa- tion of Agriculture to consider the F of A proposal to withhold education taxes indicates the concern with which the agricultural community regards the problem of farm taxes. Certainly. taxe.A,,are a problem to ev- eryone whether they be school taxes, municipal taxes or income taxes. But what is the alternative? If we continue to demand that our children be. educated, our reads paved and our homes and places of business protected against fire and our com- munities policed, we might as well face the fact that we are going to pay taxes. The problem, of course, is ,the man- ner -in which they are assessed. In pressing rural taxpayers to with- hold that portion of their taxes that represent the costs of education, the federation simply is drawing attention to the failure of the provincial govern- ment to correct what for many years has been recognized as an inequitable' situation. Many citizens, however, will have reservations in endorsing a proposal that suggests withholding taxes which Good fences make good neighbors. That's what poet Robert Frost told us in The Mending Wall., From our ex- perience this summer, 'I 'agree with all my, heart, though perhaps not in the way that Frost intended it. We had two of the worst fences in town. One, at the back, was ours, lean- - ing at a 45-degree angle over our , neighbors' vegetable garden, and killing it ruthlessly, year after year. • They, understandably annoyed, sug- gested a new fence. I was loath, alter pricing fencing. But we agreed to split the cost of a mutual fence. And here's the kicker; He's a builder. I couldn't nail two boards together without mutilat- ing myself. So I jumped at it. It was arranged that I would help him.., You know: Hold the boards; fetch nails, provide encouragement. As it turned out, he built the whole thing, single- handed. I always- seemed to be busy whe he had time to work on it. Didn't fetch a single nail. I felt rather sheepish, but not unduly so. I've been getting away with this for years. Some time when he wants me to write a nasty letter to his creditors, I'll be glad to do it for him,, and we'll be even. Then there was a big conference about the color of the stain we'd put on it. Our wives did most of th e conferring. Jim said, and I agreed, "I don't give a .darna if you paint it purple." Painting began. My wife painted one • panel of our side. We were away 'for a few days. When we returned, the whole fence was finished. His wife said, "I hope you don't mind- that we went ahead and painted your side." I assured her we' were delighted. My wife hid,, in shame, for two days. . Now he's going to use his power saw to cut up all my old dry cedar fence, and we'll have enough kindling for the fireplace for two years, and the finest fence in town. How's that for neighbors? At least on one side of the fence. The second fence, along the side, is T,o The, Editor Early • Houses Sir; Your editorial in last week's Expositor suggesting the preservation and develop- need Of an area fiotigia that was repre- sentative of our history was an echo of my owe thoughts. I had the Same in mind for our Centennial and went so far as to - write the Huron Comity His. torleal Society and suggested the idea. If the datifie was pursued, I feel sure the pkojeot Would receive a grant from more than one source. l• Would suggest that 4t .lie riM in the same way as the Mdkelilie ing hOttei in Waterloo is .00004 tiO0t4 you have visited by law are- due and payable. Withholding of education taxes can have no effect on the school boards. nor for that matter on the provincial gov- ernment which is responsible for the inequitable situation. The school boards don't levy and collect taxes as Premier Roberts', in introducing the system, said would be the case. Instead the municipal councils have this responsibility with the -result that school costs form,pert of the municipal , fax bill. Any move to segregate and withhold the education part of the bill can only create an added problem for the already overburdened municipal council who by law is required to pro- vide Whatever funds the school board asks. In our democracy there is a built in and completely legal solution to the problem facing ,the farmers. ,Instead of withholding their taxes, those who are so properly concerned should consider withholding their support of, a govern- ment that in nearly thirty year's in of- fice has been unable to come up with any satisfactory answer to the prob- lem. That is the democratic course of ac- tion. an atrocity, erected about the time of the War of I812s It leans, lurches, and looks like a gap-toothed wino. Un- fortunately, it isn't ours, and the bird who owns it hap, no other interest in his preperty than collecting the rent from the series of unfortunates who more into, his house, a new family about every six months. I have toyed with the idea of arson, but there are those numerous small children to consider. Bete it's not only good fences that make good neighbors. There are other things. This week, our neighbors on the third side showed what they are made of. Their son, a 'hniversity student, works for the sum tier at a mental institution. On a fine summer day, he brought home two- carloads of patients for a barbecue in their back yard. How would you like a dozen nuts dumped in your back yard for a three-hour picnic? I'd probably go hide in the bathroom. Yet his parents were out there, talking to them, and simply being sympathetic and decent. Can you imagine what it means to those poor devils s the patients, that is? Sonse of them had probably not been in a house in 30 years, but they were given the run of the house, as well as the back lawn. 1 One of them said not a word all after- noon, but when it was over, he shook hands with his hostess and murmured: "Good-bye. Thank you." It was a great achievement for him, according to those. who knew him. Another, a pschizophrenic, exam'ned , all the rddms in the house, 'verbally re- arranged all the furniture, dabbled him- self with any perfume or lotion available, and drew a portrait of the hostess, in- cluding a heart above her head, and a swastika in a baskets She wonders • if he saw her as a benevolent dictator. It takes all kinds of neighbors, but I think we're pretty lucky. Luckier than our neighbors are, perhaps. They have only us. Picture History that historic site where McKenzie King spent his boyhood. What impressed me with that museum was that so many articles of furnishings were familiar to me. I could say 'My grandparents had one of those.' Perhaps the Women's Institute might lend their Support. With all good wishes for success. (Signed) Mabel E. Turnbull SeaiorthrOntario August 29, l9/0. sEAF SEPTEMBER RTH , FA L .FA IR . and 18th - 17th %Thursday Evening • Official Opening by Murray Gaunt, MP'P, Huron-.Bruce Program Including , Local Talent Merchant Displays Indoor Displays ,4 -- .,/... i , All Day Friday f . , Parade -- Harness Racing Livestock Shows 4-H Competitions. ' Giant Midway Bands — Etc. ' Machinery and Commercial Displays ' . . Saturday Evening Cabaret Style ' , DANCE Music by the Bluetones Tickets available from Directors and •at Box Furniture Store ,,, $3.00 per couple Alltables reserved, . -fl-- James Keys, SeeretarrTreaurer Seaforth From My m4ovt By Shirley J. Keller Like Perry porno, I get letters. some of them are very flattering. Others • are not quite so pleasing., Apparently one of my regular.readers was ready to "bring up" when he learned that I condoned the idea of transplanting the fetus from the womb of the natural mother into the womb of a convenient human incubator (another woman) to permit the infant of one family to be delivered via another faintly. Well, my friend, I think it is About time that I let you in on the secret most columnists hate, to divulge. Believe it or n'ot, I don't always agree with all the subjects I put in' this column, Does that surprise you? I get an idea - maybe even a far-out idea - and mull it over in kind of an open way. Actually I share with you the thoughts which twirl around in my brain - and apne of them are to be taken too seriously. s This "Window" thing I write is mainly for fun. It is supposed to be lighthearted and easy-going - never too deep or too 6ultoral. In the matter of the fetus trans- , plant, I hesitate to believe that I gave the impression that I was whole-heart- edly in favor of the process. At. least I had no intentions to do so. I was merely indicating the possibilities in a kind Of tongue-in-cheek fashion. I' still believe that it could be ae- complished some day, And I'm further convinced that there are those who would welcome the opportunity to have their family the trouble-free painless way. Just like some people can afford to let someone else do all the drudgery for their offspring, so there are those who will cotton to, the possibility of child- birth by proxy. ' As for me, personally, now that we are' getting down to specifics, I prefer to' do things by the old-fashioned, tried and proven methods. I'm really not too nroeressive in this regard. In fact; I'm really not very progres- sive at all, I gueSs. Everywhere" In Canada, women are screaming for more lenient abortion laws. If I could really speak my own mind and impose my own will on the masses, I'd fight tooth and nail to have' abortion outlawed completely. But this is a democracy ani the will of the majority still rules. U the abortion laws are widened to permit doctors to perform abortions for 41-." most any reason at all, so be it. That doesn't make it necessary for me to go out and seek an abortion the next time I find myself pregnant - nor does it become impossible for• me to cling to my own beliefs. It just serves the majority, which is after all what demo- cracy is all about. The same thing is true of another very controversial -subject - homosexual- ity. My own conscience dictates that this is wrong, but I have no right- and no opportunity at all to shape the whole Population to the mould which suits me' best. I may prophesy doorA for the nation that perm'ts legal homosexuality, but' can I really expect all mankind to be in agreement with me? If homosexualityds to be legally recognized as permissable I don't have to change my viewpoint. I simply have to learn to tolerate the desires and actions of other people. So if this ' column irritates you at times, chalk it up to democracy. It is a free --country where free men may freely express all sorts of opinions. You are not bound to agree. Not in a free' society. You are not even bound to read or to hear. You are not even pledged to be tolerant - but it is usually the best course of action. Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley John Murphy, President Seaforth Prize lists 'available from $ecrotnry or at The Huron Expositor 1.