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The Huron Expositor, 1972-08-24, Page 211111I1 xpositar Since 1860, Serving the Community First ecI SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MeLEAN BROS., PublisherS ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Newspapers Subscription Rates: , Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES 20 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, August 24, 1972 Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley Bridge at. Wroxeter There is a movie called “Suddehly One Summer", something like that. This more or less the way I feel towards the end of this one. For one thing, the weather has been generally rotten. • My heart has ached fer the campers, the tenters, as temper-. ature drops, the winds .blow, and I turn up the thermostat on' the furnace. As I write, its more like late October than August. - But there is nothing much I can do about that, its happening to everybody. However, somebody is definitely. out to get me. I don't know Whether its the .Lard, fate,, or the devil. But, it's too Obvious to be merely coincidental. - It, or they, started with• my car. Almost six months ago, a gentleman backed into the 'front of it.. He's a mechanic and promised to have it fixed, rather than pay the almdst exhorbitant insurance rate. It is still not fixed. Not his fault, We made a date for .July 31st' and my wife busted he'r ankle and in the confusion, I forgot. But . it's still not fixed. • Next, I was at a public gathering, where there were a lot of'cars parked. Somebody, and he was not a gentleman, snuggled up too close to me. The only calling, card he left was a deep inden- tation in my left front door. Third. And. that was thy wife's fault, not ,mine. She.was yakking at full steam, somewhat like an orga n with all the stops out. It happened at .a highway motel where we'd had lunch. I backed up, knowing there were no cars there and hit a light standard that Shouldn't have been there. It was solid brick. It made a boomerang of my back bumper. There went another hundred Nicks. .Here's where I'll go along with Ralph Nader 'and company. The bum- pers they put on cars today are not bumpers, but junkers. .. A , generation ago, a bumper bumped and didn't give an inch. The thing that was, bumped gave. Today, they seem to be a com- bination of plastic and spaghetti. I'm convinced that if you ran into an adult male hummingbird at 50 miles per hour 'you'd lose your $100 deductible on your bumper. Well, to cut a short story long, the car is pretty much of a disaster area. Front grill bashed. in. Chrome strips buckled and ripped off. Back bumper a bummer. Motor still- great, but whole vehicle now in classified ad section as "Body- Man's special". As we all know, accidents come in three's. Well I had my three and thought whoever was out to get me should relail for a while. Not so. As I mentioned, my wife broke . her ankle and a week later I broke my toe. She groans and hobbles around in a walk- ing cast. I groan and hobble around. I never realized before just how important a big toe is in the process of ambulation. Something like a fish trying to swim with his tail cut off. Oh , it's a jolly, lively place around our house: We should be out at the beach, doing a fancy crawl stroke, calling cheer- fully to each other about how terrific the water is today. Instead, we're stuck in ttie house, doing a fancy crawl up and down stairs and calling balefully about such cheery things as getting the garbage out, doing the washing, preparing dinner. Do you know what happens to a couple of love birds in a cage who start getting o each other's nerves? One of them Ii cks the other to death. ,Then eats him, or her.. Well;. I'm pretty tender and my wife is very tough, so I'm keeping a close eye on her. I gave tier- a big hug the other day. It's her left ankle, my right toe, they collided, we both yelped and there were mutual recriminations. Next time, I'll hug her from behind, ,or sideways, o:. something. But this. is• all trivia. I await, cring- ing, the third accident in the second series. .And it will probably be on the phone any minute. I was ,idiotic enough to lend my car to daughter Kim and her husband. They took off in the poor old battered brute. a couple of hours ago, for the city, where. they 'have to 'apply for student loans, register for college, find a place to live, and all such." They both drive' like chimpanzees who've had three lessOns. They might just make ft. But if they de, my oak tree will snap in a storm and crash on my, neighbour's red. Or, I'll . get a hernia carrying out the empty beverage bottles. .0 r my wife will slip on her gimpy leg going downstairs and ' break her other one. . it's not that I'm superstitious. It's just that • I haVe this 'immutable hunch that Somebody, up thereeror down there, is trying to punish me for all my past sins, all at once. And now, if you'll excuse' me, I'm going to soak my toe in ice water and sit, shoulders hunched, .waiting for the next blow. To the Editor: Sir; I'm really glad that I've joined up this year with the Urban-Rural Exchange Program. They have put me on a dairy and beef farm and my hosts have just been fantastic. I have learned many new skills and I'm having a lot of fun also. My hosts are Mr. and Mrs. Harold Pryce. struction of 'the post.- Much of our knowledge of this fort in-the 19th century is derived from Fort Edmonton Journals of Daily Occurrences which are now in the Hudson's Bay Company Archives. Unfortunately, all of the Journals between the years 1834 and 1.854 are missing, but it is possible that they still exist some- where, perhaps in a private collection. If any readers have information con- cerning the whereabouts of these missing journals, we would sincerely appreciate hearing from them at: David Hatt I Sir: May we make an appeal to your readers for some missing documents? The Historical 'Branch of the City of Edmonton Parks and Recreation Depart- ment has been researching. information about the Hudson's Bay Company Fort -. Edmonton as it was during the 1840's, in preparation for an authentic recon- .The Historical Exhibits Building, 10105 -112 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5G OH1. D. Babcock, Research Consultant, Historical' Development and Archives Branch. • From My Window By Shirley J. Keller -- •I• Expansion forwhat A writer on cial page of a paper has been about those wh must cut back expansion in o serve our reso clean up th'e e He says it is ant to rescue from poverty t leave a given quiet contempl few.' But many us are now being in the process industrial soc Heads of corpo committed to t ethic - the ne poor never'.ent ture. Would a large corpor- ation go broke if it took the planet and all. Ats people into consideration when it planned new pro- ducts or phased 'out old? When its Board of Direc- tors met to draw up the next year's program if Judy LaMarsh is back in the news. According to a story I read in a daily newspaper recently, Judy has .a radio show of her own out in British Columbia somewhere and is being her own bubbling, bungling self. Without a doubt, she is one of the most colorful women in Canada to-day. • ,As everyone knows, Judy LaMarsh -is a spinster. I have no knowledge whether it is of her own chObsing - or not. It doesn't matter. But like another spinster (that's a-horrible sound- ing word, isn't it) lady I know, Judy- obviously feels she can carry out her own garbage and therefore has no need for a husband. • Well, spinster Judy' has made the statement recentlY that she -has been urged to do" something creative with her leisure time. And Judy, 'always a woman after- my own heart snapped back with this priceless gem, "People want lei- sure to do nothing.". I'm with LaMarsh all the way on that score. I absolutely abhore those people who insist that I must be buSy during my leisure hours. I hate the folks who tell me I'm merely vegetat- ing be sitting 'down to watch TV in an evening and not fulfilling the national linage that Canadians are prodUctive peo- ple ' even during their leisure moments. What's wrong with doing absolutely nothing for an hour or so per day? Why must everybody'have a hobby? My dear husband' is one of those all- the-time-busy people. Needless to say, there is .a certain amount of friction in the Keller household because I'm a nat- urally sit-around-and-de-nothing type. Our leisure time, therefore, is a night- mare. My husband just simply cannot sit still for an hour or so to watch televi- sion" . . . unless it is a sports program, preferably hockey. He must be catch- ing up. on his reading, or polishing his shoes or clipping his fingernails whilst keeping, one eye posted to the televi- sion' set. And he wonders why he's an insomniac. When I decide to take an hour or so out from my regular schedule, do it With a flourish. I make myself a cup of coffee, I sit down right in the environment and conser- vation of natural resources held,priority, and profits became secondary, would it lose? We don't know. because so far as we know i-t's newer beeh tried. We do know howeven, that some companies thrive despite not changing their model every year and planning absolescence. Planned absolescence whether of cars or cloth- ing is an obscenity. to- day when we have been re- peatedly warned by scien- tists that, we are rapidly exhausting our sources af energy. If we continue to ex- pand industrially without consideration for the facts of environment,.there will no longer be a concern" about poverty - we'll all be in the same boat and equally ,destitute . having turned our, planet into a desert. -(contributed in the Exeter Times AdvoCate) middle of a messy houSe if necessary, I put my - feet up and I do my thing. I browse through the mail order catalo- gues for a while, Or I watch TV. or I listen to records. Or I just sit there and' stare into space, thinking. Mostly d• it is the latter. Judy LaMarsh says that some people have urged her to take sculpture. And LaMarsh so like yours truly - claims that if she began sculpting, she would only be adding to the world's pollution. Heaven knows, we don't need anything else to dispose of! Some people sew for relaxation. For me, sewing is the hardest work I can think of. All that precision drains me of every ounce of energy I possess. After two hours of sewing, .1 need another two hours to pull myself together, I feel terrible and to add insult to injury, my Sewing project usually looks like a rummage sale reject: And Judy - jovial Judy - .told the world that if she really had a mind to be creative during' her leisure hours,she would feel that haying baby would be about the most creativ tlyjng she could do. I'll bet that caused a aftir at the annual conference of tie Canadian Parks and Recreation Association. But I Understand Judy's plight. Some people just aren't creative by' nature, and I'm one of them. About the only thing some people can really create which is distinctively different from anything else on this globe is a-.• child - a living, breathing individual. And such leisure time pursuits are frowned upon by the world's population control forces. Be- sides that, such activity can become cost- ly and bothersome: for babies grow to toddlers, and toddlers become children. tt and children become teenagers and teen- agers become university students and un- iversity students get married and have babies which they bring home to mother ... and then nobody has any leisure time. There may not be anyone left but Judy LaMarsh and me who like leisure time to do nothing 'at all. But I'm in good company if LaMagsh is on my side and I challenge anyone to discourage us from our 'choice., . AUGUST 27, 1897. • Win. Robinson of McKillop• has been - engaged to teach in the senior depart- ment 'of the Cra.nbrook school. There were sixty applicants for the position. Last fall, on the farm of Tyndall Bros. of Hullett, a ,field of tall wheat stubble was plowed under. In the spring it was noticed to be quite green and they allowed it to grow, gathering from. it a bushels, The wheat than yielded 13,n hundred The Broadfoot and Box Furniture Company have the contract for a large quantity of furniture for Liverpool and the factory is busy turning it hut. Out of the twenty-four from the Seaforth Collegiate 'Institute who wrote on the third form examinations, twenty were successful. The bakers in , town have raised-'the price of. bread to six .cents a small loaf, in consequence of the raise in flour. James Archibald and Geo. Turnbull each shipped a car load of horses to the Old Country this week and Robert Winter sent a ear load of cattle. Quite a large number left Hensall this week...to attend the Sabbath School and Endeavor Convention al Clinton. Garnet Smallacombe of Hensall has se r resumeder. his position on the Hensall Ob- server. The Leadbury line is well supplied with threshing machines, the following residents being owners of threshing machines: Robert Morrison, Wm. Drager and Geo. Kistner. The excellence of the bacon manu- factured by- T. R., F. Case Si Co. of town is becoming universally known. A large New York dealer has sent them an order offering a price which will paY the firm a larger margin, after paying the heavy' duty, than the same article does in the Canadian market. The private banking house ,of Logan & Co. in Seaforth suspended payment lagt week and an assignment has been nade by John Weir as trustee. • AUGUST 25, 1922 Verne Dale of Constance met, with a motor accident at Grand Bend. He was run into by another• car and had con- siderable damage done to his car, the occupants getting off without injury.' Lawrence Taylor and Waiter Scott of Constance went west on the harvesters excursion. Wm. Strofig of Kippen, who has .teen the capable teacher of S.S.NO. 2 Tucker- smith for the past five years has re- signed to accept the Principalship of the Model School at Clinton. John Taylor, Ikho is engaged on Dr. Moir's farm, met with a serious acci- dent. He was unloading hay' with a' hay fork when the trip rope broke, and he fell off the load on to the floor,. No bones' were broken. • • 'Messrs. Henderson Smith and Joseph Dorsey left on a trip down the St.' Law- rence. Miss M. Fowler A.O.C.A. has been engaged as teacher for school section No. 1 Hullett for the ensuing year. The roof of First Presbyterian Church is being re-shingled. this week. James Hart is erecting a cement, basement under the residence of Mrs. Thos. McFadden. Messrs. Reid and Arthur Edmonds, Robert Willis, Jack Crich, Alvin Sillery, Carmen Ferguson and Geo. Cook are camping at Bayfield. Messrs. Merrier and Fee are putting in the necessary machineri to start. an apple butter factory 'in the rear of their flaxmill in Egmondville. Miss McMath or Clinton has been engaged as teacher -of- S.S.No. 6 • -Tuckersmith (Broadfoot's). Threshing outfits of the Messrs. Dennis and Mitchell Broi. are busy ..... at work in McKillop. Death removed one of Huron's oldest and most respected pioneers when Mrs. Wm. Ross passed away 'at her home on the Mill Road in her 86th year. She was born in Sutherlandshire, Scot- land. AUGUST 29,1947. When the, car in which he was a passenger became out of control and turned over on the 4th concession of Tuckersmith, near the farm of W. R. Archibald, James Walmsley suffered injuries which neces- sitated his removal to Scott Meniorial Hospital. Misses Ina and Marian Gray enter.: tamed at their hOme in Egmondville• in honor of Miss Ruth Carnochan. Miss —Carnochan was presented with a kitchen shower. • Last Friday evening, a Seaforth rink of bowlers, composed of Alice Reid, Mary Hart and W. M. Hart took second prize at Mitchell. A 'family reunion dinner was, held at the home of Mr. and Mr. Michael F. Coyne, Hibbert Twp. It was the first. time in eight years that all members of the family had assembled. The North Bay Nugget tells of a hole in one, while J. R. Sproat, former resi- dent and brother of Ross J. Sproat, R. H. Sproat and Wm. Sproat of Seaforth, and Tuckersmith, was successful in scoring while °laving in that city. Foster Bennett, North Main St. brought in a potato stalk, near the top of which was growing a small green tomato. Messrs. Geo. Case and Donald Mc- Lean will leave shortly to sail the Great Lakes.' Glenn Gemmill, of Tuckersmith, left for Beaver Lake, Alberta, where he will teach school. Thomas Cluff of Toronto is acting as manager of the local branch of the Dom- inion Bank while E. C. Boswell is on vacation. A pleasant evening was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Coleman in Tuckersmith when Mrs. Coleman enter- tained the many friends of Miss Ruth Carnochan, bride-elect. Bingo was enjoyed. Five Suspected cases of polio- myelitis are being observed in the Blyth Auburn area, In the Years Agone the finan- " large news- complaining o say we on industrial rder to con- urces and nvironment. more import- a family_ han "to area fOr the ati on. of the eless. things manufaPtured of keeping iety in orbit, rations are 411' he profit eds of the e er th'pic- 'Sr is it 4, 44 110