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The Huron Expositor, 1972-04-06, Page 2From My Window — By Shirley • J. Keller -- Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley . Since 1860, Serving the Community First 4SEArORTIli, ONTARIO, every Thurscia7 morning by MoLEIAN BROS., Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y. MeLp.N, Editor Member Canadian Weeidy NewsPaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Cireulation Newspapers Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 20 CENTS EACH Sevond Class Mail Registration Number 0696 'Pelepihone 5270240 -Parb,Balled ethich members and officials of the Huron Board of Education have expressed about the effect which Davis government economies. will have on the quality of education in Huron. As was pointed out in a letter by Huron's Direc- Aor of Eduction, John C. Cochrane, boards such as Huron, which economize and plan ahead are.betng penalized in that the ceilings imposed effect- ively prevent the stand:- #rds in effect in. counties where concern with cost has not been ,a factor. . .What the new Davis policy Means of.course is a complete,denial of the policy enunciated On the ' introduction of the county board system five years , ago. The number one pri-. °,rity of that time to provide equality of edu- cational opportunity no A 5111L 9, 1897 The fine sunny weather was extremely favorable for the success of the millinery openings given by -the merchants. The stores of Messrs. Hoffman, McFaul' and , Pickard were all actually overflowing, with the newest -and most' fasionable and elegant millinery. Nearly two years ago, Mrs. McGee of Egmondville lost a valuable pair of gold spectacles and up to last week no trace of them could be found, but 'strange to say they had been in the hands of a neighbor, who had been trying to dis- cover the owner all the time. Why don't people advertise more. • At'a meeting of the House of Refuge Committee of the County Council held at Clinton, the contract for building a concrete hog and hen house was let to Messrs. Gutteridge and Mustard for $395.00. . Messrs. Sills and Murdie, Seaforth, have had their store nicely fitted up and expect to open for `business next week. The fairners in the Hensall neighbor- hood have made good headway with their plowing diving the past week, and the lands are working well for so early in the season. The Grand Trunk Railway Yards at Hensall, presented quite a lively appear'-'' ante, owing "to the loading and shipping of a large quantity of fine square timber. Thos. Murdock, proprietor of the. Herisall liVery stables, has again secured the contract for a term of years for the conveyance of her Majesty's mails between Hensall and Zurich. A colt belbilgIng '..to•--James -Miller- - - of Croinarty while running lOose in the yard accidentally ran against a barb- wire fence, cutting itself badly. Hugh Gillespie, carpenter at Crom- arty, .is. now engaged with ''Mr. Walker, Staffa, assisting in getting the factory in running order for the making of butter APRIL "7, 1922" Robert Rowcliffe, of Exeter, has been ' here for some days assisting Arthur Routledge in fitting his stock for the sale.. Mr. Rowcliffe has been an expert' in 'the purebred cattle line as a fitter and feeder. To see heavy loads of grain moving along on sleigh s on the 1st, of April at Kippen, did suggest the appearance of a warm early spring. The annual spring show was a great success at Hensall. It was largely atten- ded and featured splendid exhibits, par- ticularly in the horse line. The ice storm of last, week left Hensall in darkness for a few nights, but it was really wonderful now since the hydro Seivice was restored, the lights coming on Sunday evening in time for church services, D. H. Stewart, of town, has purchased the butcher shop of Neil Klein and has taken possession. The Rob Roy Flour Mills here have shut down for a month, but most of 'the' employees have been kept on. Mrs. Robert Fraiser of town has moved into her residence on North Main Street recently vacated by James Walmesly. Isaac Hudson, who recently sold his farm in McKillop, has leased the vacant store in the Williams block and intends opening up a produce business. APRIL 11, 1947. When she fell while getting a pail of water froin across the road when the well at her residence became' flooded, 'Mrs:, Henry Weiland of Egmondville suffered a badly dislocated shoulder and injured eye. The 88 foot BrOadfoot bridge on the 2nd concession of Tuckersmith, west oi Egmondville, collapsed when breaking Ice ',and flood • waters in the Hayfield river crashed against it. A new branch factory in 'Seaforth to manufacture gloves" will be Opened by the Stritford Knitting plant, it was announced in Stratford by plant manager, Fern C. 'Walker. Wilbur Jewitt of Constance has pur- chased the farm .of the late John Fer- gusbn. Local fishermen at Hayfield, are get- ting ready to launch their boats and are preparing, for the fishing season to open, which is much later than it was last year. Russel Bolton was in Toronto attend- ing the meeting of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, John U. -Greig, prom inent -figure_ the business, social and sports life of Seaforth for over half a Century, died. He was born in Pickering and came to Seaforth in 1892 'to enter the clothing business. Mrs. G. M. Chesney of Toronto, formerly of Seaforth, celebrated her 85th birthday at her home in that city when her daughter-in-law, • Mrs. Milton' Chesney, entertained a number of guests in her honor. Harold Kn ight of town has accepted a position -with the Dominion ChemistrY Laboratory at Kitchener.. Hon. Douglas Abbott, Minister of Finance, addressed the annual meeting of the Huron-Perth Liberal Association, held in Cardno's Hall. It was his first visit to Seaforth. Tenders were considered at the regular session of the Hibbert Council, when Lobby Construction of Dublin was awarded the contract to build bridges and culverts, for the sum of $4,182.00. A special meeting of the Seaforth Amateur Athletic , Association was held and formulated plans for the coming base-, ball season. W. Te. Teall Was in the chair. B. F. Christie was appointed manager ...with Bill Smith as assistant business manager and Gordon Muir as wadi. • • If .you haven't five-year-Old in your. house you"re missing out •on enough ex- citement to, fill the leisure hours of your life - and then some. Our five year-oldisn't a bad boy. That's not just mother's love' talking. h That's 'true. Our lad isn't bad - he's • just thoughtfully mischievious and that can be worse than being bad. Much worse. This past wee k at our house,has been a panic thanks to our five-year-old - soon to-be six. Last weekend as you will readily,recall was' Easter. To a five-year old, Easter means' More, Dish the day Christ rose from" the grave. It means Easter eggs - and fan: And because our son is a thoughtful youngster, he realizes that, the Easter Bunny needs some assistance to get his Easter delicacies ready for delivery. So naturally, being a helpful child, our son decided to do his share toward operation Easter egg. ' It was 6 a.m. Good Friday morning (a blessed day home from the office for mommy and daddy) that the littlest Keller chose as egg coloring time. Gently - but firmly - he woke his not-so-happy parents with the admonition to get out of bed and hard-boil the eggs he planned bicolor that day. Would you believe that with some very per-suasive tactics (nowI know what Christ meant in His parable about persistence paying off) I was cooking Easter eggs before 7 a.m.? And would you also believe that while I was cooking the eggs, I was serving breakfast -to my young son to • Not too long ago, I wrote a column. suggesting what would happen if house- wives went on strike. A long, intelli-, gent and often witty letter from Mason Bailey, President of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture tells me bluntly that there r is another species in our society which, if it went oh strike, would 'make a housewives' strike look like a box luncheon. Naturally, he 'is talking about farmers. Farmers are like the weather: everybody ----talks-about them-but-ndbody_does anything. 1 1'11 quote bits from his letter, and make some comments. He asks tersely, "What if all the farmers went on strike? ...Most of society and the majority. of columnists seem to have fOrgotten that farmers continue-to exist. And that is just what farmers are doing! EXisting! Net farm incope in Ontario has dropped over thirty per cent in the. last three years. In 1971, Canadian farmers re- ceived less • than ten per cent of the' money that Canadian consumers spent -on-food." Well, Mr. Bailey, I'll accept your figures, for a start. And they certainly don't make me want to plunge into farm- ing with a thirty-thousand' dollar mort- gage and the prospect of working ten or twelve hours .a day, six days a week. On the other hand, like all figures, they can be misleading. ..„ How many Canadia n farmers grow coffee, tea, fish, sugar, • pepper,. peanut butter, oranges, bananas and all the other items that beef,up our food bills? Another of your points strikes a sympathetic chord in me. "I was in a restaurant laet—imek. The menu said one egg, 514. Do you know what farmers got for eggs last week? 224 a dozen for Grade A large; 71 a dozed for cracks." permit him to get an early - and fuelled - beginning on theslay's activities? The coloring - mercifully - was not with dyes. How we managed to escape that punishment I hardly can' imagine, but our son had chosen ordinarY wax crayons as his weapons for this exercise. As soon as the eggs were cooled and dried, the -master set to work, tongue clenched between his teeth in obvious concentration on his work. • After an hour or so of suchconstructive meditation, our son had producled a basket- ful of decorated• ,Easter eggs ,- •not one like another!: ' , Then it was off to play the role of the Easter Bunny. The object was to hide the eggs. Some were carefully stashed' in the neighbor's back yard. Just as soon as the eggs were hidden, Our son retreatedto the safety of our kitchen to watch from our window for the hunt to begin. A.s our five- year-iad bounced up and down in delight at the mere thought of the fun it would be to observe the neighbor children searching for the Easter eggs he'd.hiddeic, he com- pletely forgot that .this was-not Easter morning but the morning of Good Friday - and that the neighbor children had no notion at all that they were expected to emerge from the house to hunt for Easter eggs hidden in their yard. After five or 'ten minutes of constant vigil, our son decided he'd have to start the action himself. On went the coat and the boots. Out went our son to wake the neighbor children and send them scurrying, This is utterly rididulous, and somebody, obviously the fernier, being shafted. The only solution I can• see -is to de- mand "cracks" in restaurant& Which is probably what we get in some places anyway. ' share completely your burning wrath at restaurant prices. And now let's sit back and hear', .a howl of protest frbin the restaurant owners, who are starving to death. The average one isn't and works long hours for a decent living. But those _room settiee prices in hotels drive me right out of my skull. $1.65 'for a sandwich. $1.50 for a•pot of' luke - warm coffee. You go back to the war, when sugar and butter were, rationed find otherwise honest people ,would cheat, lie' Or steal to get enough Or more than enough.- And you say it would happen again if farmers went on' strike. I agree. Some would, but a minority, in my opinion. I think the farmers would get, a good deal. of sympathy and support, Nit as -the coal miners did in England, despite the hard- ships their strike imposed on millions. In such an event, you suggest that "Bootlegging "food at inflated prices would become as common as drug pedd- ling.' The boot-legging farmers would start to show a profit. _ Some might even be able to hire help at the mini- mum wage." Surely, right there is one spot where government could help - by subsidizing farm wages. The government subsidizes practically everything else that even approaches work, or Siniply.pays people not to work. Surely, the next logical step Would be to make farm work attractive, financially, rather than Paying farmernot to groin grain, or Spuds, or whatev4'. However, we mustn't mention government and ,logic in the same breath. to the yard to find their Easter eggs. Luckily for neighborhood relations, I managed to persuade our young son to _supress his desires and wait until a more respectable hour to rouse the children next door. 'The next day was April Fool's Day - but our five-year-old son was meek and mild. He'd played his practical joke earlier that week with his unsuspecting father as the victim and he• was fore- warned not to do anything foolish on April' 1. The trick? Well, .to put it as diplo- matically as I can, our son played Chemist with some of his father's ointnient. into the sit-me-down preparation went, a significantly (and sufficient) amount of neat-producing liniment to send his un- witting daddy into a mad dance routine such as you've hot- likely seen before. - Thus it was that while our five-year old angel slept unaware of the excitement he'd caused to the remainder of the household, his plans for April Fool's Day • enjoyment were swiftly ,and com- pletely cut from his schedule. In the morning when most everything had "cooled-off", my husband questioned his young son about the episode. The child confessed readily. Why had he done it? • ' "Because," came the reply, "you use both stuff and I,put them together". An efficiency expert he's not. He's not even bad. He's just busy with an ' ever-working, brain which keeps every- body on their toes when he's awake_ “You mention something that depresses me 7 that the average age of farmers in Ontario is abput 55, that not many young men can start farming under today's con- ditions, and that even if they(can, the liberated little woman , has other ideas. And you also point out rather pungently, that if the average age of housewiVea•4 "was 55 and no replacements forthcoming, ' you would have something to scream about." You're right. The scream that would echo across the land would • be 'apoealyptim'. Another point in your argument is that corporations may take over. food production. "V wealthy corporat- ions ever replace the family farm and hire organized labour, there probably will• be food strikes." That is an appal- ling thought. Would that mean that I couldn't buy one of those "chickens" that- taste no more'llke chicken than my old running- shoes, unless you plaster them with some synthetic flavoring? Would it mean that I couldn't buy any of that enriched bread that tastes like' wet kleenex? Life just wouldn't be worth living. However, I agree with your premise that the farmer has been left sucking the hind teat in these years of inflation. I think the chief trouble is the same as 'that of the housewives: farmers are too stubborn and individualistic to get really organized. They should, perhaps, set up their own co-ops, processing, handling rd sales organizations. That, of course, would leave us with mobs of unemployed middle-men. But my heart is with you, chaps, and will' be even the, next time I pick up a $1.49 a pound hunk of steak, look at it wistfully, replace it, and reach for the •hamburg. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, April 6, 1972 End of Equal• Opportunity There are substantial ' longer exists as far as grounds .for the concern ,Huron and similar counties are concerned. - The bas is problem i that the'D avis govern- ment finds itself in a financial straight jac ket as F4r.McKe ougH made ev i- dent -in hi s budget las t week. The rosy pre-ele c- tion promi ses are comi ng home to ro ost and the dollar sho rtages denie d last year now are admi tted and used a s reasons fo r subs tantia 1 tax increa ses or as Mr. MoKe'ough pre feri - to regard them - - in- creased se rvi change Unfortunately it is not the DaVis government that faces the costs of tti past financial manage- ment. These are costs - --Whiqh Mr . Davis and Mr. McKe'ough have transferred, to each of us in Huron through increased municipal taxes, higher transportation costs'and lowered educat- fonal opportunities•.