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MAY 22, 1969
An Opportunity
Main street in the average small town
in this part of Ontario has as much to
offer as the most modern shopping cen-
tre.
But usually one thing is missing. bier-
, chants along the main streets in Ontario
small towns won't work together.
• They are competing with each other
rather than as a group with the town
down the highway or the shopping cent-
re in the city a few miles away. They
disagree on the days and the hours they
will be open regardless of what best
suits the people in the community they
supposedly are serving. They hesitate to
participate in the.activities of their Mer-
chants Association and to contribute to
Man street shopping centre programs.
A recent study sponsored by the Nat-
ional Retailers Institute indicates Cana-
dian consumers prefer to shop at times
other than in the traditional 9 A.m. to
6 p.m. peribd.
The same study reveals in 1957 Cana-
dians spent 64.5 per cent of their per-
sonal incomes in retail outlets. By 1967
this figure had dropped to 52.63 percent
and the drop it was suggested, was a
reflection of the effect inconvenient
store hours .had on spending patterns.
But store, hours are but a part of the
problem to which the Main streets ac-
. ross Ontario must face up.
What about off street parking? The
for Main Street
average small town - and certainly this
applies in Seaforth - could with a little
forsight, provide parking facilities at
the rear of the main street area.
Already in Seaforth this has been
done in some instances. The constructr4"
ion program with which Seaforth short-
ly will be faced when portions of the.
street will be closed to traffic from time
to time throughout the summer is a per-
fect opportunity to bring into being
rear parking with alternative rear en-
trances to individual stores. Such an
approach would point up the fact that
Seaforth merchtnts, are interested in
serving the community and that they
are doing something about •it.
That co-operative approach is possible
is indicated by the Before Construction
Sale whic4h gets underway this week.
Here Seaforth Merchants are speaking
with one voice in indicating the special
advantages they are offering area shop-
.pers as a mark of their appreciation for
the approaching main street construct-
ion program.
This is good btit it is a small start in
what should be a 'continuing, program
that Would encompass a week to week
consideration of ways in which shopping.
needs of the community can best be met. '
Only in this way can the Seaforth main
street shopping centre compete' with
shopping centres in London or Strat-
ford or Mitchell or 'Clinton.
The ,lieaclers and His Newspaper
Trade association conventions are
good things, we've decided after return-
ing from the annual convention of the
Ontario Weekly Newspapers' Associat-
ion. If nothing else, the sessions make
one stop and think.
One question raised at the convention
asked what the reader actually gets out
of his local weekly.
What he gets is a detailed knowledge •
of the community in which, he lives, in
which his Children are reared, in which
his life is passed.
Daily papers, radio and television are
rightly called the "mass media". They
deal with the mass events, mass move-
ments. When someone's *name appears
in the Tess media, he is, almost always,
_someone whose actions have had an ef-
fect on a large number, of people, for
good or for bad. The mass media pride
themselves on being the voice of the
people.
But we are not people, we are perions,
and we need to know what is happen-
ing that affects us as persons and what
the persons we live among are doing
that will touch our daily lives. •
The weekly can help preserve the
importance of each man in his own
right. It is a cynical old saying that'
everyone is created equal, only some
are more equal than others. The' 'en-
gagement of your daughter is as impor-
tant to you as •the engagement of the
monarch's daughter, and though--the
daily paper may find no room for this
supreme' event in your life, the local
paper can and will tell of your daugh-
ter's happiness.
The local paper can also act'as
lever to raise the standards in local
government; to improve local facilities;
to acquaint the individual voter with
the actions of his local representatives
in higher levels of government, and in
turn acquaint these representatives
with subjects of principal concern to
the local communities they serve.
These things' the mass media can-
not do. Their news must interest every-
body, must affect The People. • They
deal with the great of the world. The
weeklies deal with, and are concerned
about, the persons of their immediate
bailiwick., There is very little common
meeting ground for the hometown
weekly and the mass media. (Dresden
(Ont.) The North Kent Leader).
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we purchased through the win-
ter. We also bring out a bag
full of ropes, another of pegs
and several lifts 'Of pipe.
We start to assemble the new
tent. We don't know what' goes
where. Hubby's camping fever
has flown; his , recent anger re-
turns. We roll up the canvass„
pack up the pegs and the ropes
and the pipe and replace the.
tent in its winter hideout.
It is time for dinner. Natural:
ly there is absolutely nothing
cooked. I end up serving ham-
burgers, cooked apd served in-
side to the dismay of the kids,
"Some holiday," they chant.
• My sentiments exactly! But I
have a new storage wall in the
bedroom. One must be grateful,
for small mercies.
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Miss Merle Keating, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Keating,
has successfully passed her fin-
al examinations at the school of
Pharmacy of Toronto, and re-
ceived the degree of PhMB. Miss
Keating was one of eight girls
in a class of 60, She has accept-
ed a.position in the Drug Depart-
ment at Batons.
A large crowd attended an un-
veiling service in Burn's Church,
Hullett. Rey. A. E: Menzies, the
-minister was assisted by F. O.
Lodge of Park Albert Nabigat-
ion school. The Honour Roll was
unveiled by Leo Watt, a veteran
of World War 1 which contained
the following names: Robert M.
Smith, R. Leslie Beattie, Law-
rence R. Taylor, Keith L Hesse'.
wood, Alex A. Riley, Wm. L.
Taylor, Ed F. Bell, Wm. Leiper,
Robert .Leiper, Glen A. Carter,
Robert G. Pollard.
Emmett Malone of Me.Killop,
employee at the Hesky Flax Mill,
was admitted to Scott Memorial
Hospital suffering from a badly
torn thumb. His thumb became
entangled in a belt.
The euchre and dance held •
under the auspices of the Caiiad-
ian Legion was a most success-
full affair. The prize winners
at carcLs'Were ladies games, Mrs.
W. J. Free; lone hands, Dorthoy
Parke; Men games, Hiram Shan-
non; lone hands, Joe Dolmage;
doer prize, Mrs. Robert Strong;
During the evening Miss Lois
Whitney and Miss Doris Fergus-
on sang solos with Mrs. Gladson
Campbell••at the piano.
Seaforth high school won train
Clinton, in the first game of- the
baseball season in Clinton with
the Seaforth, line up as. follows:
H. Knight S. S, D. Stephenson,
R. J. Neil Beattie, A. Ryan, D.
Brightrall, 0. Smith, G. Hilde-
brand, G. Wilson, 1). Stewart, W.
Boswell, press agent. ,
We are pleased to see Pilot of-
ficer, Leslie. Beattie home from
Italy. He made his escape after
a forced landing on, a flight
over Germany.
Mr. and' Mrs. A. W. E. Hemp-
.1)111 of Hensel', have received
word that their son, Capt. How-
ard Hemphill, overseas, has been
promoted to Major.
Dr. John Grieve, received word
that his son, Wth. Pearson
Grieve had. dropped dead at 'his
hothe in Buffalo. lie attended
Seaforth schools and went over:
seas as a Lieutenant in the 161st
Battalion. •
Many friends in Seaforth will
regret to learn of the death' bf ,
Miss Jessie Bethune.
Among the graduates at St..
Mary's Hospital at Kitchener,
were Zetta Marie Dunlop, and
Margaret Frances lifclyer.
. Mr. C. M. Smith has purchas-
ed the residence, on Goderich
St. West. at present occupied by
C. W. Ironside.
May 23, 1019
Wm. Manley of Manley has
finished the contract of taking
the brick foz 'P. McLaughin's '
recently purcfiased house. He in
tends to re' brick the house with
Pregton red brick.
purchased the brick terrace on
the cornor of John and High
Sts. at present occupied by Mess-
rs. A. A. Naylor and Stewart Hc-
Intosh from the kisses Carlini)
of Calgary.
'Lieut. Wm. Oliver, Sgt. Hen-
' derson Troyer, Cpl. H. Beattie,
G4r. Joe McMillan, and Pte.
Chas Neely and M. R. 'Miss
arrived home from overseas this
week.
Dr. F. J. Bechely has returned
from St. Thomas where he was
attending the funeral of his
father, who was killed in a rail-
road accident.
Con Eckert met with a bad ac-
cident. While he was unhitching
a horse his foot became entang-
led -in the harness and he was
thrown to the ground.
E C. Chamberlain has leased
the residence on Louisa St own-
ed by F. G. Neelin, at present oc-
cupied by Robert Smith.
The building committee of
S. S. No. 10 Tuckersinith has
awarded the contracts for the
new school. Messrs. Ross and
Taylor of Exeter get the car-
penter work and R. Cudmore of
Hensall the mason work.
Earl Kinsmen of Chiselhurst
left here with a fine team of
horses for his brothers at Elbow,
Saskatchewan,
A quiet but PrettY wedding-
took place at the home of Ur,
and Mrs. Thomas Baird of Stan-
ley, when her sister Katherine S,
macDeinuid of Seaforth was un-
ited in marriage to James Aitch-
eson of Roxboro, McKillop.
Joseph Berry of EgmondviRe
sold his Standard Bred Trotting
Stallion, Red McKinney to Mr.
W. Collins of Kincardine.
May. 25 1594
For, a number of years the
County Council of Huron have
discussed the Poor House quest-
ion, generally resulthig in a
majOrity against it, but in last
January's meeting the majority
(a very small one) voted ler; it,
A committee was appointed to
select a locality and report at
the June meeting.
Messrs. •George Snell and Wat
Mair of Hullett have had their
barns raised- and split prep-
aratory to having them placed
upon stone foundations.
The thunder storm last week
rattled the nerves of some of
the people of Egmondville. Her-
man Bubolz's fine barn was
struck by lightning, Messrs, Cud.
more' and Stewart had two hor-
ses killed in the field.
"Faust" is to be played in
Cardno's Hall. It is the first time
it has been played in Seaforth.
Window
J. Kellar —
Sugar and Spice
A tong hat summer
This is going to be a leng,.
hot summer. And not only for
thoSe U.S. cities with their ker-
osene-soaked black ghettoes just
waiting for a match to be struck.
It's going to be a long, hot
summer for a lot of Canadians.
High among their ranks will be
parents, policemen and resort
operators.
Why? Because the supply of
summer jobs for students is far,
far below the demand, and there
are going to be thousands of
restless,, bored young people
looking for excitement.
It's a natural for an eruption of
rumbles; hassles and -vandalism
which could make the summer
a nightmare for the already
harried victims listed above.
For the last decade, there has
been a steadily-growng populat-
ion of young bums of both sexes.
Summer-time, w ar myeather
brims:
These ere the kids who don't
really Went a job. They live
from hand to mouth, aleepizg
en'the beaches, or In the old
cars that are a part of their
scene. They are not necessarily
evil or vicious. In fact, most' of
them aren't.
But they're aimless and irre-
sponsible and rude and selfish
and dirty, and lazy as cats. Oats
that aren't house-broken.
They're bored, and theey're
boring. They talk in endless• cir-
cles about nothing. They even
bore each other. But they're un-
ited in one thing — their con-
tempt for the adult world.
High.' on their list of inter-
ests, which are extremely lim-
ited„ are sex and drugs. On
weekends, they are nriltrated by
the "pushers", many of them
amateurs, who arrive from the
cities with their little packages
of pot and speed and LSD.
Lurking on the fringe of this
bundle of bums is another group
-- the tennie-boppers. These are
not — 'they are children —
who are lust beginning to make
the scene, who find t fascinating,
and who wimt to try itnything
that's going,
In the cities, same thing ex-
cept that it's shopping pleats
and the public sparks and the
— By Bill
streets, insteaai the beaches.
Well, add to this parasitic
swarm all the kids 'who wanted
and needed, jobs this summer,
angry, frustrated, and you can
see what's coming. I hope I'm
weig, but two and vo, still
make four.
Permissive' parents, an infla-
tionary society in which even
young people need money; give
masses of them nothing to do
but look for kicks all sum r,
and the old crystals ball looks
pretty - muddy.
When I , was a teenager (said
the boring middle-aged man),
summer jobs were even scarcer.
He who nabbed one Vas deeply
envied. My first job, at 17, was
working on 'the Great Takes
steamer, 12 hours a day, seven
days a week, $1 a day. And every
other kid in town thotight Pit*
a bonanza.
Boys who couldn't find a job
payed baseball and swam about
eight hotirs a day. Girls did
whatever girls do, giggled prob-
ably, and swath end picked ber-
ries.
foday's jobless youth barely
muster enough energy to have
a swim. In the day-time, that
Misses Margaret Ross and Cat-
herine McGrego'r of Biucefield
have returned from Toronto Uni-
versity
Mrs. Erastus Rennie and Miss
H. McQueen,. '.of Hensall have
returned from Detroit where
they attended the graduation of
Miss Irma Rennie, as a nurse at
Grace Hospiti.
Thomas Daly of town has
Smiley —
is. At night, they flower into
some sort of life and go to bed
at dawn. And' wake up. Bored,
There are a couple of villans
in the piece, of course• One is
industry; the other government.
Industry could absorb twice as
many students as it does, at
comparatively little cost. Indus-
try is the first to whine about
the "products" it gets, but does
little' to help produce a first
class product. One or two future
employees of high calibre .from
a summer group .would easly
repay the cost. And it would be
good public relations on which
industry spends thousands, most-
ly on whiskey,
Governments c o u 1 d, and
should, plan work projects to ab-
sorb most of the surplus stud-
eats. They'd get it all back in
taxes shortly. But if thy sit on
their behinds and allow a ge-
neration of bitter, lazy, alienat.
ell bums to sprout, it will cost
them plenty in the end.
(That's quite a sentence, but
no puns intended. Behinds,
burns, and end, indeed.)
Hepe your kid has a summer
job, Better still, hope you're
not a parent or a policeman.
From My
— By Shirley
Like Alice in , Wonderland's.
famous rabbit, I'm late. This
week I holidayed well, you
can't really say it was a holiday
becuse it was more like a change
without the rest. •
We had planned to go camp-
ing if the weather had co-operat-
ed. Some of our friends tried
it but gave up in disgust either
on Saturd.ay. morning or later
Saturday evening.
T-he Kellers had their licks
at camping lait -May 24 week-
end, That was. enough to last
us for several years,Th and we
vowed there and then that un-
less the weather was exception-
ally fine, we would stay at home
until June.
Hubby had planned a pro-
ject for a customer St the beach
but the rain washed all those id-
eas away.
That's likely why 'we went. in-
to the carpenter business Sat-
urday and 'I know that:s-the rea-
son I didn't get this column'
.completed in time for that day's
mail.
You see, I have a husband
who hates to wdrk alone. Even
if he is in the same house, even
the same room° he feels 'shut
away - lonsome, I guess - if he.
does not have the undivided at-
tention of someone while he is
at his labors,
I have tried to give him the
children as Assistants That does-
n't work, either, because the
kids soon get, bored watching
and waiting for something to do,
so they simply walk, away at
the Iirst idle moment and get
lost. ,-
And that's why the carpenter's
helper job falls to me arid that's
why I didn't get this literary pre-
pared earlier.
The actual piece of workman-'
ship is our bedroom. 'We're
building one of those storage
walls that look so functionally
beautiful in all the magazines.
We've been planning- it for ab-
out six months and the finished
product will not even resemble
our intentions.
My part in the whole affair
was to hand hammering hubby
hiS tools. ,rtan't say it is such
hard work as it is tedious and
frustrating when other work
waits while-v-1 shift helplessly
from foot to foot, listening for
the next command of my spouse.
"Get me those pieces of two
by four. Hand the the iquar.e.
Don't you knout which bit I need
for the drill? Open those catches
and pttlls. How wide do you
want this shelf?"
Monday was a 'repetition 'of
Saturday except it was all day.
By evening, as the job was tak-
ing shape, tempers were getting
mighty short and I was in no
mood to put my thoughts on
paper. I wouldn't have been
safe.
By that time, the weather
had cleared. At the behest of
the children, we went to the
back yard to 'assemble the tent
trailer hotne we almost live in
_Just as soon as the days are
warmer.
It only takes a few moments
to 'raise that tent. Said hubby,
"I'm even starting to get the
camping bug just handling this
tarp." He's smiling!
"Me too," I cry,' happy at
last to be out of that sawdust
cell and into the open spaces.
'With the help of the two older
kids, I drag out the new tent
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