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The Huron Expositor, 1969-05-22, Page 1ii A First For Ryerson Clare Westcott is the first to receive an honorary diploma from the Ryerson Institute oC,. Technology. The award was made at the Ryerson Convocation on Wednesday: Mr. Westcott, an alumni of Ryerson also 'served on its Board of Governors from 1965 to 1969. Here With Mr. West- cott at the presentation is, left, William Kelly, chairman of the Board of Governors of Ryerson. Mr. Westcott is a son of Mrs. J. A. Westcott and the late J. A. Westcott, is a 'graduate of SDHS. ' For a number of years he has been executive assistant to Hon. William G. Davis, Ontario Minister • of Education, Announce Appeal to Aid Lions Park Maintenance Ontario. The decision to make the plaque available arose as a re- sult of discussions which The Huron Expositor had with Hur- on 'MPP Charles MacNaughton as plans were .being advanced for the special 100th anniver- sary edition,. of the Expositor which was published last Octo- ber. Because of the time involved in preparing the inscription and in manufacturing the plaque, it was not possible—to have • it available during the anniver- sary year. The plaque will 'be unveiled by Miss Isabelle Campbell who is well known for the historical research she has carried out in the area and for her detailed history of the town. James ,R. Scott member of a pioneer area family and author of the history of Huron, will provide en his- torical resume, Also taking part will be Mayor F. C. J. Sills who will act as chairman, Hon. C. S. MacNaughton, R. S. McKinley, MIVEP 'and Leslie R. Gray repre- senting the Historic Sites Board of Ontario. The SDHS girls band will be in attendance at the ceremony which gets underway at 2:30 p.m: ' The inscription on the plaque reads: "Anticipating the con- struction of the Buffalo, Brant- ford and Goderich Railroad through this region, Christoph- er and George Sparling acquir- -ed, during 1850-3, most of the present site of Seaforth. Geor- ge laid out a subdivision. in 1856 and Christopher sold most of his land in Tuckersmith Town- ship to a syndicate headed by James Patton of Barrie. Patton is said to have procured a rail- way station and named it Sea- The Best Cadeti On Parade Members of No. 70 SIMS Cadet Coips were singled out for special recognition Friday during the annual Cadet Inspee- lion. Here Lt. N. E. Wilson of Western Headquarters, London, makes presentations to WO John McGrath, best NCO on Ca- det parade; Cadet Lt. Nice Peters, best shot; Cadet Major J'amea Rowan, best office on parade; Cadet Cpl. Doug Hoover, most improved Cadet; and Cadet Lt. Paul Moggach, officer or NCO showing best qualities of leadership (Staff photo). (See story and pictures on page 9). Whole No. 5280 110th Year First Section — Pages 1-8 • SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1969 — 14 PAGES single copies; 12. Cent! 0.00 A Year in Adentlee Dependant on carnivalmreven- ue to meet the spread between costs and fixed income the club for•two years has been plagued with cold wet weather at-carni- val time. At the same time in- creased wage requirements and ... trail .was the beginning of the Huron Road. Some work was evidently, done on this road' in the next year and half, for it seems to have been passable for ,Sleighs by the autumn of 1828 and shanties, intended to shelter travellers, had been built at ten-mile in- tervals along it, The Canada Com- pany offered bonuses to per- sons who would open inns along the road at certain shanties. Further improvement could take place until the road was re-sur- veyed in straight. stretches that could be the baselines of town- ships and these townships mark- ed out in lots, John 'McDonald began this survey from the Wil- mot Line on December 18, 1828, and seems to have passed the site of Seaforth en January 2, 1829. He spent Sunday, January 4th at "the 40th Mite Log Shan- ty" sitting out a storm that left the snow "leg deep". Two days later McDonald ended his survey at the "46th Mile" where he had expected to find the. townline of Goderieh Township, Oh Jan- uary 12, 1829, McDonald left the town of Goderich and "travelled to the 40th Mile Tav- ern" and the next day "travel- led from the 40th Mile Tavern to the 20th." The change of 'name. from "shanty" to "tavern" is signi- ficant, for it probably implies that both shanties had been occupied by settlers who had ag- reed to keep taverns. The settler at the 40th Mile shanty was Col. -Anthony Van Egmond and the Seebach family had comesto the 20th Mile shanty before the end of January, 1828, though McDonald does not mention their presence there when he reached it on Christmas Day. Van Egmond in a letter says that in 1829 he was living on the Huron Road eighteen miles from Goderich, with his nearest neighbor twenty Miles away to the south-east. Later in the (Continued on Page 8) r • Funds to provide for improve- manta and extensions to the Tuckersmith Municipal. Tele- phone System may be provided ' by -'a debenture issue Tucker- smith -council agreed at a- spe- cial meeting Tuesday night. The meeting which began at 8:30 continued until nearly 1:30 Wednesday morning. Council approved steps being taken leading to a debenture issue of $50,000 for the purpose. Included in the work contem- plated is underground wiring. W. H. Venn, District Munici- pal Engineer, Dii0 at Stratford, approved callipg tenders for the construction of Canadian Forces Base Road. Clerk James I. McIntos4 was instructed to write, the ,depart- . 14 'p While formal Department ok Highways approval has not been received for the Yundt and Mc- Cann 'Construction Ltd. tender covering the Main Street mondville reconstruction' pro- gram, this is expected, within a day or two or so Huron en- gineer James W. Britnell said Wednesday. Legion Aids S.A. Campaign Members of the Seaforth Branch 156 of the Royal Cana- dair Legion are busy this week carrying out a _canvass of the area on behalf of the Salvation Army. . e. While much of, the area was coveted Wednesday night some homes where residents . were absent w Missed. Those wish- fe inete c tribute who have not been go tasted may do so by' mail te ,Legion •President.Tein Dalrymple or by leaving gifts at a Seaforth bank. The 100t1ranniversary of the incorporation of Seaforth as a village will be marked in a for- mal way when a plaque is un- veiled in Victoria Park on Sun- day. Seaforth came 'into being on , January 1, 1868 and throughout last year the /community mark- ed the anniversary in a series of programs. The plaque is one of a series erected throughout",the' province by the Department of Public Records and Archives, acting on the advice of the Archaeological and Historical Sites Board, of meat to indicate that the town- ship cannot accept any cut in maintenance allotment in the supplementary by-law as this expenditure is to cover munici- pal drain accounts for which council already is committed. Approval was received for road expenditures by-law amoun- ting to, $92,500 including con struction $30,000, maintenance, $62,500. The Regional Traffic Engin- eer suggested new speed limits through Hensall on No. 4 High- way. The existing 30 mile limit • becomes 40 mites per• hour for 2,620 feet. Hensall council had approved the change since part of the road affected is in Hay and Tuckersmith, the townships' approval also is required. Tuck- The tender at $364,490.08„was the lowest of six submitted.. Mr. Britnell said that in dis- cussions with the contractors it would appear that work would not start until the middle of June. He .was hopeful, however, that this_.date could be advanc- ed. 'Before work commences the contractor is required to submit a schedule of the various phases of the work and the times in- volved. This will be discussed with officials here, Mr. Britnell said, to ensure that interruption to Main Street activity will be held to a minimum. - Selling Event Meanwhile Seaforth mer— chants have combined in a be- fore construction selling event which begins this week. Most stores on Main Street are featuring special buying op- portunities, details of which are indicated on pages 4, 5 and 6 of this• issue. A particular -feature -of the. BGS event is the opportunitysto win prizes which many of the stores are offering. Drawing for die prizes will _take place_ at thee Post Office at 6:19p.rne n Sat- urday, May 31. The BCS event concludes the end of the month, ersmith approved. The Department of Municipal Affairs advised council concern- ing Union Gas Company's" re- quest to lay a pipeline from Ex- eter to Hensall on the east side of No. 4 Highway with a pump- ing station on property secured from the Bell farm which will serve residents of Hensall with • natural gas. Kleinfeelt and Associates, planning consultants to Huron, suggest a meeting on 26. Usborne Township wrote re- garding a complaint from Wil- liam Rowcliffe, re the Geiger - Municipal Drain asking that Tuckersmith investigate and act on it. The drain serves as an outlet for 211 acres in Hibbert, 1,836 acres in Usborne and 1,674 acres in Tuckersrnith. The request i's being referred to en- gineer Henry Uderstadt, Or-_ angeville, for advice. Council discussed street, lighting in Egmondville in view •of the pending reconstruction of the county -highway. As soon as estimates on fluorescents are available it is expected council will meet with ratepay- ers in Egnaondville. On a report that children from Adastral Park, CFB, were responsible for breaking tile" at the site of culvert construction' on Canadian Forces Base Road, Clerk McIntosh was instructed to notify the mayor of Adastral Park and warning parents to keep children • away from the site. Applications ,for building per- mits for residences were grant- ed to Fred Tilley in Harpurhey and Albert Price to build in Egrnondville for an estimated total of $37,000. -Council was informed 2,374 cattle had been sprayed for warble fly at 12 cents each for $282.48. Other.expenses brought total warble fly spraying to .$528.00. Of this $430.00 was col- lected-with $48.00 still owing. A, G. Pepper. was present at the meeting, as one of the rate- payers affected by the Chart- ers' Drainage Works. Court- of Revision on this drain was set for June 17 after council accep- ted the report. Representieg Sea- forth Lions Park, A. Y. McLean net Frank 'Kling discussed with council matters affecting the park and involving tidying up arrangements covering the 'con etrection of -the 'township cen. termial gates at the • park and the construction two years ago of .a new dam. Announce Increase In Rates Recently announced increases in postal charges coupled with steadily increasing production costs have made necessary an adjustment in the subscription rate of The Huron Expositor. Effective June '1st next the subscription, rate in Canada will be increased from $5' to $6 and subscription to foreign addresses from $7 to $8. Single copieS will be 15 cents, Subscriptions will be accepted at the present rates until June 1 and may be extended for one year from the existing • expire- tion date. The decision to raise the sub- scription rate follows similar ace tion by both daily and weekly papers across.Canada. While ur some cases 'subscription rates have more than doubled, the increase in the Expositor rate has been held to a minimum having regard to the increase in costs, Faced with mounting operat- ing costs and reduced revenue during the past two years, Sea. forth Lions Club is making,,an appeal to the ,public for assis- • tame inL.. financing the Lions ,.Clut, Park: fqrth. Situated on the Huron Road and the railway, and a shipping point for wheat; Sea- forth had a post office by Dec- ember 1850, was incorporated• as a village in 1868 and as a town -in 1875." On the 14th of May, 1827, Dr. William Dunlop, Warden of For- ests for the Canada Company, and Mahlon Burwell, J. P., a senior deputy provincial survey- or, set out from Galt to take charge of the exploring exped- ition sent by the company to carry out surveys in their newly purchased "Huron Tract". This large area, bordered to the west- ward by Lake Huron, had been purchased by treaty in 1826 from the Chippewa nation and sold to the Canada Company. The company was to re-sell the land to settlers under certain conditions, among which was the opening of roads. Dunlop and Burowell were able to ride horseback 'from Galt to Benjamin Springer's, near the line between Blenheim and Wil- mot Townships, where they left their horses. At "Smith's Creek," now named for the first time the Nith River, they overtook John McDonald, DP.S., with their party of chainmen and Ind- ian axemen. Durng the ' next two months they surveyed a line from the westerly bouhdary of Wilmot Township to the shore of Lake Huron, built a good-sized log house on the site chosen for the future town of Goderich and carried out a number of sur- veys and this of exploration.. During this time they received part of their supplies on pack- horses, brought from Blenheim Township by Benjamin Springer, who seems to have blazed a bridle path -or "Horse Trace" as he went along. The "openng" cannot have amounted to much, for the party only took eight days to reach Springer's house in Blenheim from the site of Goderich. However, this rough other costs have upped operat-. ing costs and . the result has been successive deficits. In a letter which went out to area residents this week, presi- dent Irvin Trewartha recalled that during the 45 years the club had served the area on only a few occasions had it been nec- essary to make' a direct appeal for funds. Reviewing the problem of making revenue and costs meet he went on to say that "there comes a time when no further reduction in expenditures is pos- sible if even minimum services ' are to be continued." "This is what happened in our Lions Club Park program last year. The public continues to demand the facilities. For in- stance last year more than 400 area children took swimming lessons and the picnic facilities were used by more 'than 200 groups. In addition several 'thousand individuals or families visited the park on Sundays and holidays and through the week to have a picnic or just sit and enjoy the cool breezes." Expressing satisfaction that the people in the Seaforth com- munity want the Seaforth Lions Club to continue the work it has been carrying on for so many years, Mr. Trewartha said the use which the public are making of the Seaforth Lions Club Park proves this. In view of this 'he added the Lions Club feel justified in seek- ing support and in asking for a gift to assist in meeting the costs of maintaining the Lions Park. Firemen Fireworks On Friday Seaforth firemen are com- pleting plans for their fireworks display in the Lions Park, Fri- day evening. The program which • will include drawing for prizes gets underway at darkk. Smile of the Week Waiter: "May I help you with your soup sir?" Customer: "What do you mean? I don't need any help." Waiter: "Sorry sir. Consider- ing the sound, I thought you wished to be dragged ashore." Baptize, Children A number of parents present- ed their Children for the Sao; rament of Baptism, Sunday morning at Northside United Church. Included were Mr. and Mrs. George McIlwain, their son, Steven Georges, _Mr„ and Mrs. Robert Humphries, their son; Robert James; Mr. and Mrs. Larry Wesenberg, their daught- er, Brenda Marie; Mr. and Mrs. George Garrick, their son David George; Mr, and Mrs. Donald Carter, their daughter, Janice Faye; Mr. and Mrs. James Car- ter, their daughter Deborah Louise; Mr. and Mrs. William Kerslake, their son, Wilbur, .Ed- win Andrew; Mr. and Mrs. Ron- ald M. Savuage, their daughter, Lisa Lynn.' Local Man' Killed in Accident • Ronald (Ronnie) J. McKenzie, 33,„ of Exeter, formerly of Hen-. .salt, was killed' shortly after midnight Saturday. when he was hit by a truck as he crossed Highway 4, near Centralia. He was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Joseph's Hospital, London. Provincial Police at Lucan in- vestigating the 'accident, said he may have. been 'crossing the highway in order to. hitchhike home. Driver of the pickup truck involved was Brian Smil- lie, RR 2, Hensel'. A native of Hensel], Mr. Mc-' Kenzie was a son of the late Mr. and ,Mrs. Robert McKenzie of, Hensall and was. working and boarding in Exeter. . He is survived by three bro- thers, Glenn , and Jack, ,Hensall;, Ray of Whitehorse, Y.T. Public funeral services were held from Bonthron funeral home, Hensall, Tuesday, May 20th at 2 p.m., conducted by Rev. Robert - Bis- set of Avonton. Ipterment was in Bairdrs cemetery. - Pallbearers were Wes Sims, Frank Cooper, Herb Little, Otto Smolt, John Elliott and George Smith. , Fathers, Sons Hurt Two motorists and their sons were treated for minor injuries at South Huron Hospital. Exe- ter, Saturday afternoon, follow-. ing a two-car accident on,High- way 84 near Zurich. They are Harry Sing and son John, 12, London; MatIrew Ducharme and his son Michael, 5, RR 2, Zur- ich. MISS MYRA JEAN McNAIR graduated from St. Mary's School of Nursing, Kitchener on Thursday She is a graduate of SDHS and the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Stuart McNair of RR 2, Brussels. ,Esc ELIZABETH R. BOLTON daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Les, lie Bolton of Hespeler, former- ly of McKillop Township, has graduated as a Dental Nurse from the Elkhart Institute of Technology, Elkhart, Indiana, U.S.A. Tuckersmith Meets Arrange Financing For Telephone War Ceremony on' Sunday Plaque Commemorates the Founding of Seaforth 51' " BPS Now On See Mid June Start On Main Street 6Work Col. Archibald 'Ha's 75th birthdayll Mr. mid Mrs,- Cleave 'Coombs-- were in London last week as, guests of the London branch of the Engineering Institute of Canada., The special- meeting honored Col. S. W. Archibald on his 75th birthday and guests includ- ed a number who had, been as- sociated with Col. Archibald during the war or in his professional career. Mr.,-Coombs had gone overseas and served with Col. Archibald"during the war. Col. Archibald, a native of Tuckersmith, is "well known, in the Seaforth area where he practised for a time and contin- ued to act as an engineering consultant to a number of mun- icipalities. • Canthr Gifts Are Over $2,000 While a total of $2,050 has been received in the district cancer campaign gifts are' con• tinuirig to come in according to campaign chairman, R. J. Spittal. Of the total sbme$1,350 re- sulted' inthe canvass carried out by SDHS students. Mr Spit- tal said that receipts covering gifts forWarded by mail would go out shortly. cP