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The Huron Expositor, 1972-05-04, Page 2P. Since 1860, Serving the Community First Pialalagihed at SEAFORT14 ONTARTO, 0V017 gincsday mvainblg by MeLEAN BR05., Publisher$ IAA ANDREW Y, MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Newspapere Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES -- 20 CENTS EACH Second Class Wit Registration) Number 0696 TeliCpbbire 527-0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, May 4, 1972 Community role must continue WE NEED USED CARS Trade Today Pot A '72 Ford TOP ALLOWANCE Got A Lemon? Trade It In On One Of These Peaches 1969 MERCURY MARQUIS 2-door hardtop, ,V-8, automatic, power brakes, power steering. J30085 1969 FORD CUSTOM 4-door, V-8, automatic, radio. K43268 1970 T-BIRD LANDEAU 4-door sedan, loaded with extras, including factory air conditioning and power seats, K40020 1970 T-BIRD LANDEAU 2-door hardtop, equipped with all the T-Bird goodies, K39968 1971 FORD GALAXIE 500 4-door sedan, V-8, automatic, power brakes, power steering, radio, rear defogger, N48418 1970 CHEV BELAIR 6 cylinder; automatic, radio, K40635 1965 CHRYSLER 300 2-door hardtop, V-8, automatic, radio, power steering, power brakes, K70010 1969 DODGE., DART SWINGER 2-door hardtop, 340 V-8, automatic, 39,000 actual miles, K39836 TRUCKS 1965 FORD F-1000 TRACTOR, fifth wheel, saddle tanks, air-lift trailing axle, wet line. V59907 1967 FORD F250 PICKUP styleside, heavy duty suspension. V37913 1963 INTERNATIONAL STAKE, 20-loot cattle rack, tractor equipped, certified 344228 1969 FORD F-100 STYLESIDE long wide box, 6 cylinder, heavy duty suspension '2495 '1395 '1895 '1695 '3995 '3995 '2995 '2495 1095 1895 '3300 1295 1195 1795 1967 MERCURY MONTCLAiR 4-door, V-8, automatic power brakes, power steering. 771460 1969 PLYMOUTH FURY III 2-door hardtop; V-8, automatic, power brakes, power steering. 5882N Remember ... It's Sense To See Snider's Huron County's Largest Ford Dealer Larry Snider Motors LIMITED EXETER 235.1640 LONDON 227.4191 Open weekdays Until 9:00 Saturdays Until 6:00 . • and EQUIPMENT 1— 9 ft, Sprocket Packer / 11-10 tt.. 3-point Disc t 9-ft. International Cultivator Trail TYPe Lely Fertilizer Spreader Cockshutt 15-run Drill t00-bu. PTO-Spreader - 145-bu. New Idea PTO Spreader 200-bn. Star Lino Tank-Type Spreader 95-bu. New idea A Number Of Used Plows McGavin's do not employ salesmen. SAVE 10% on TRACTORS by dealing direct. 11 ft. Danish Cultivator in sfkcleat Iast year's Price. • USED TRACTORS •-.... 35 Massey with Loader 50 Massey with Loader 65 Massey Dieselmatic 345 Neutieid with Cab VV6 International WO Allis Used loaders for Ford and Massey Tractors. ro cGAVIN FARM EQUIPMENT "Serving the District Since 1936" 527-0245 - -- WALTON • Ph. 527-0240: Expositor Action Ads 4 fr 0 0 • 0 Yls To the Editor Teenagers are responsible Sir: In the past few weeks there has been a good deal of comment in the local paper concerning teenagers. I would like to tell you about one teenager I know. I attended Ralph Whitmore's funeral. He was killed in a car accident as he was returning home from Welland.. Ralph had been to Welland for an inter- view at Niagara Community College. He was interested in a Social' Worker's course. Althbugh he was only seventeen he was sure he could clothe work necessary for the course. knew Ralph. best in the camping situation. He had attended camp as aboy, then as a Junior 'counsellor, and last year as a senior counsellor. It is hard to describe Ralph, He was net apolished scholar. He was more like a rough Stolid solid end enduring. He had .a strength that prompted hiacampers,bacall him "friend", and his fellow counsellors to stop and listen to him when he had 'something to say. Re was enthusiastic, and willing to do more than his share of work at camp. Be had a real concern for epOple. Because of Ralph's death I have had several of his friends ask me if they could serve at camp full time this sum. Ralph wthrone of sixty teenagers who worked at camp last summer, and who were much like him. There are teenagers who are responsible and have a real concern for others. We will miss Ralph at camp but I know that there are other teenagers who. will carry on in his spirit. For this I thank God. George Simons Director of Camping Camp Meriesetung Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley an be no cri ti- e action of cil in agreeing ailable a grant ng 25 per cent t of new con- undertaken by itals providing as received al approval. pitals had one third, the two thirds being eral and pro- ants. The,H.uron as a reasonable ng as it did ci 1 1 o rs recog- degree of par- by the local ty was necessary t was to be . If a town is dancerned with and,is. pre- pared to 'support its • hospital it will have ,no problem raising Tess than • ten per cent of new con- struction -costs.. Hospital boards most certainly have problems, not the least of which is to convince the public that the Ontario insurance scheme by no means covers I didn't think I was a women's lib- erationist but judging from a speech I heard recently by the editor of Canada's largest magazine (and the nation's biggest moneymaker) •- Chatelaine - I have to admit that I am a kind of women's lib. supporter. Oh I'm not the radical type who would make men second class citizens and burn bras 'in defiance of male tyranny. Hardly. Like Doris Anderson of Chatelaine I'm not ready for that. I like the support of men (and .of my bra) too well.-' But I agree with Mrs. Anderson about many things and one'-of -these things is that we need' more women in Ottawa. One woman among 261 men in federal government is foolishness. More than that, it is unfair when one considers that half the voters in this naticak are women and that women make up one- third of, the working force'in the country. I guess last week was something of a record for me - when it comes to wom- en's lib, of course. I attended a political meeting in my riding where a woman was one of the contenders, in a contest to name a candidate for the federal , • election which it expected before year's and. And-she said much the same as Doris Anderson said - that women are needed in politics in this country and that too much true talent •is going to waste be- cause men are afraid to let women 'get a toe-hold on what has always been a male domain. There was a time when politics in- volved only building roads and cutting through- the- prairies with a railway and breaking into Canada's north with an airline. Hut today's politics involves things which are much more people-orientated all their financial re- quirements. Insurance revenue pays day to day Operating costs but does not provide working capi tal nor interest, nor •funds with which to re- place or up date needed equipment. Local boards must con- tinue to seek funds for these purposes and that ts why they ask assistance of local town and town- ship councils and assoc- iations. But if this. no longer was the case and if government at county - provincial and federal levels underwrote the entire cost it would not be long -before local con- trol became a 'thing of „NA than that - and why do men insist on making the laws to cover abortion, wid- ows/ pensions, child health services and - such like when, women know so rritich,' more about them? Well, the would-be lady bolitician I heard didn't get the support she needed to make her a candidate for the next election - and Doris Anderson, though she keeps pounding away at the core of male superiority, hasn't been an over-- Mott success. Why? 'I think it is because women haven't got the faith in -themselves that they are, going to need if they are ever going to elect a significant number of "women to the House of Commons. It is true. I kno%, men who are strong executives at the office who discuss many of their problems and their ideaa 'with their wives. Women have proved them- selves to be good listeners where hubby is concerned and (hough few men would admit that the little woman had some good advice to give, it Is quite often that her sympathetic ear and clear,logical thinking helps him sort out the' answer to,the crisis. - So it is, ladies, that women are already figuring in the world of politics - for I doubt that married male MPs are any • different from other husbands WM, pour out their innermost' selves to their wives - who in turn, pour out the' female balm of compassion, straight thinking and forth- right decision-making hints. Take courage women of Canada. Fear not that Canada seems to be ruled by men. Believe that behind every married- male politician is a good wife who renders good advice. Women are already in politics. Let's make it official. MAY 7„ 1897. Adam Varcoe, who recently lost his hand in a cutting box, has been presented with $15.00 by the Walton Debating Soc- iety. The Chiselhurst Methodist Church con- gregation have decided to improve their property so as to .make practically a new church. The mason work has been let to R. Cudmore, the carpenter work to Wm. Welsh, and the _printing to Wm. Stoneman, all of Hensall. The members of St. James choir were handsomely entertained by .Miss, Maggie McQuade, musical directress, at her home, North Main Street. The first part of the evening was taken up with pedro. A programme was given and the evening concluded by tripping the light fantastic. Robert Dobie of Egmondville, leaves shortly for Whitechurch where he will open out a hardware business. Geo. Beattie of town left to take a position on the C.P.R. steamer,Mani- toba. On Monday evening a number of hiS friends tendered him a complimentary supper at the Grip house.- Miss Maggie Scott• of Leadbury has sent us a mammoth egg, laid by a duck- ling of her own raising. This egg meas- ures 7 inches one way and 8 1/2 inches,- the other. Geo. Murray of town is doing spendid work with his grader on Goderich and North. Main Streets. The work is being done under the supervision of street commissioner Turner and Major And- erson. MAY 5, 1922 With the beautiful weather of the last two weeks the farrnershave made splendid headway with their seeding and quite a number in the Hilfsgreen area have fin- ished. Dr. Garnet Atkinson of Hayfield has returned home from Detroit, He is open- ing an office at Zurich, where he will practice two days each week. • John Smillie of Walton 'has bought Geo. Clark's ,residence and intends mov- ing into it shortly. It is rumoured that Clarence Ben- nett, Walton, has bought A. A. Cuthill's store at Winthrop. Guy Ross 'of the London Road has , rented his farm for a term of , years, to Herbert Block of Egmondville. 'The, fire alarm brought the brigade out on the double when the blaze was found to be in the rear of W.M. Stewart's Flour and Seed store. Fortunately, Mrs. Morrow, who occupies the rooms above was wakened by the smoke and gave the alarm before the fire had made much headway. • The annual inspection of the Seaforth Collegiate., Institute cadets was held before Col. McCrimmon of London. The officers of the corps this year are: Captain, Wm. Next time somebody in the club or other organization you belong to asks if you'd handle the publicity for some event that's coming up', take my advice and respond with a ringing "NO." That's the way they always' put it: "Handle the publicity." Casual. Nothing to it. Youo just "handle" it. Well, I'm sitting here in my underwear trying to write a column, because I've just finished a two-week stint of" ahandl- ing" the publicity and I'm soaking wet from the waist up., Why? Because I'm just home after gallOping up and down the main street begging merchants to put posters in their windows. I should have known better. I got my baptism quite -a few years ago when I took on the publicity chores for an election Campaign. And I've been in- volved in three elections since, each time emerging in the same condition: wring- ing wet and • swearing "never again". But -the first one was the worst one. I was a lot younger or I'd probably not have come through it without cracking up, ny candidate was young, had neYer run_ before, and was up against a man who belonged•to-the large government majority. The latter 'should have been a shoo-in. But we licked him. We formed a • triumvirate: Ross whicher,, the candidate, Geordie •Hough, campaign "Manager, and myself, publicity, manager. Ross beat the back roads and wore out three pairs of shoes. Geordie beat every bush in the county raising money. And I beat my brains to the bone writing speeches and news releases and advertise- ments. Hardly anybody pays any attention to the platforms of the various parties, so you have to sell the man. And there are only so many ways of saying, "Our guy is better than their guy." You say your guy has more children than their guy and that the former is active in church work. The opposition counters by pointing out- their guy's ex- perience and claiming he is vitally in, terested in crippled children. And so on. You challenge your opponent, in an ad, to a public debate. He gets free public- ity by refusing on the grounds that there, is no evidence your guy has anything worth listening to in public. And so on. Then there are the advertisements. We had ten weeklies and a dailrpaper involved, plus two radio stations. And we never had enough money. So, every ad had to be small but packed with power. Try this sometime. Try getting across a vital message In a thirty-second com- mercial. Greig; Lieuts. Reid Edmonds, Ralph Wei- land; Sergeants, Hall Farnum, Wesley McCutcheon, Frank Cudmore, EarlSmithj Corporals, Donald Kerslake, Melvin Blan- chard, Clarence Munn, Herman Speare; John Archibald, Adam Dodds. J. M. Lillow of Stratford is making Plans for the inauguration of a motor bus service between-Stratkrd-and--CoAr _ ,erich. The local minstrel performance given ' at the Strand Theatre was one of the • best ever offered in Seaforth. The com- pany consitted of ,118 people under the direction of R. E. Willis. Two boy sop- ranos, Fred Willis and Geo. Daly were worthy of special mention. Geo. Seip has purchaded •the resi- dence of Mrs. Wm. Sleeth, on Market St. A ladies quartette, composed of Miss H. Murray, Miss Pearl Patterson, Mrs. M. McKellar and Mrs. J. G. Mullen sang in First Presbyteriap Church. Gordon Hays of town has joined the . staff of the Toronto-Dominion Bank here. The oatmeal mill in town has changed hands, the new owner being MesSrs. Thompson Bros of •Mitchell. Reid Bros of town are installing a radio-phone at their electrical store on Main St. Master Jimmie McClure of Hullett, was operated on for appendicitis by Drs. Mackay, Ross _and Burrows at the new hospital recently opened by A. A, Mc- Lennan. Geo. Tuffin of Staffa, has been awarded the contract for the cement work for the new hospital at Seaforth. A special service° was held in St. Thomas Church in connection with the dedication of a handsome oak altar in memory of the late Adeline Harris, wife of J. M. Best, presented to the church by members of his family. ▪ MAY 9 ,_ .1 9 4 7' Harry Colbert is acting as chief of police for the last week„ owing to the illness of chief John Currie. He_Was ordered to bed suffering froth a severe ' attack of flu. • Mrs. John A. Murphy, of St. Colum- ban was elected the new president of the St. Columban sila-division of the C. W.L. • About twenty-five Supertest dealers from the district attended a conference and buffet lunch at the Queen's Hotel.• The meeting was arranged by Geo. R. • Johnson, district representative of the Supertest Petroleum Corp. at Seaforth. Postponed from March, when bliz- zards made it impossible for instruc- tors to reach the city, the Training school for adeqUate wiring was held at the Windsor Hotel, Stratford, Attending from Seaforth were Andrew Calder, of the Frank Kling, Robert Dev- ereaux, and John Modeland. A new power mower has been pur- chased by the Seaforth Bowling Club. Oh well, it was sort of fun at the time, and I learned that a man can work 18 hours a day and emerge, if pot unscathed, at least alive:As I recall, the only material -- reward was a crock of Crown Royal. Not because the candidate was a cheap-skate, but because he was up to his ears in bills, after the election. As I said, I ,should have known better, at my, age, than to "handle the publicity" again. But when I was asked, I responded like an olcrWar horse who has been through the reek and blood 'of battle, but can't resist it. a It was such' a little thing, really. Just the publicity for an •Open House at our . school, to mark the completion of a new wing,, built to the tune of three million. Nothing to it. A no-profit event. Just let the papers know . . . etc. Next thing I know, I'm writing ads, churning out thousands of words °Loopy, trying to con radio and television stations into believing that the "news item" I am phoning 16- is not paid advertising, com- posing a letter for 1300 kids to take home to their parents, writing letters of invi- tation to various dignitaries, arranging printing of posters, and finally distribut- ing, these in person, 'However, I've managed to totter through' once again. The only thing that bothers me is that I enlisted one of my y6ung assistants in the English,department into writing radio commercials, and I'm afraid he's hooked. He's been batting out , thirty-second commrcials with not only elan but gusto. I wouldn't be surprised if he quit teaching English and Went into adver- - Using, a fate worse than death. There's one other unfortunate side effect.- M,y wife and daughter have a wed- , ding coming up. The former is flying in ever-decreasing circles of Panic and ac- cuses me of having deserted her during the crisis, '"'-'Because I've spent so much time - you guessed it - "handling the publicity." Fortunately, Kim is blithely uncon- cerned about the whole thing. She constant- ly remarks, "Stop worrying; Mo inThere's nothing to it",which has the effect of turning the, Old Hattleake a deep shade of violet, while her head whirls with thoughts of invitations and announcements to be printed, the house to get ready, the flowers to 'be organized, and the casual kid's wedding dress not even ' thought of, with ten days to go. Not to mention, "When is the, yard going to be cleaned up?" and "I'll never get that chair back from the upholsterer's in time", and simply, can't face it." Like Kim, I believe the wedding will take place and it viill scarcely rate in the history! books with, the crossing of the Rea-Sea. ,.•••••••••••1, In the Years Agone There c cism of th Huron coun to make av representi of the 'cos structi on Huron• hosp the work h department The hos asked for remaining met by fed vincial gr decision w compromise In acti Huron coun nized some ti ci pati on muni ci pal i if interes maintained the past. A hospital is a, per- sonal thing 'and should ' reflect the needs of the community it serves. To do this the commoity in turn must provide heces- sAry support and direct- ion and not allow some remote impersonal and costly bureaucracy to take. over. From My Window — By Shirley J.. Keller — 1'7