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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, September 28; 1972
Getting in the paper
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publiq Relations Officer
Branch 156
(by John D. Baker) •
is silence golden?
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Just •thirty-three years ago •
on the 10th of September Can-
ada declared war on Germany.
No one knew on tha eptember
day in 1939 what the ne ix
years would mean to the world,
but we were soon to find out the
cost, in lives and. dollars, not
only to the Allied Nations bu
to become astronomical.
was also to the Axis Countries,
' After it was all over we com-
forted ourselves by saying it was
worth the sacrifice and cost to
finally know that the world was
rid ,of all the, evil created by
Hitler and his followers, and
that the men and women who paid
the •supreme -sacrifice ,did it In
the knwledge that this would be
so. ,
When we look around to-day
and hear of all the trouble and
Strife in so many parts of the
world, we feel that we have be-
trayed our war dead by allowing
ItIOhappen.---On-the -other-hand_
is • -there anything the ordinary
citizen cars do? Is it not up •
to our respective governments?
One fault most of us are
guilty _ of is complacency
We' sit back and say there is
nothing we can do, let someone
else do it. - •
As Canadians there is some-
thing we .all can do, and that is
let the government know our
opinions on 'any matter that
affects Our country directly one
indirectly; by so doing the
government will have a. clear
consensus of what the majority
want and will be able to act
, in that direction. The old say-
ing "Two heads are better than
one" would lead us to believe
that a few thousand, heads are
' better than a few hundred.
• Let your member of Pale.
liament know What you think and
he will take it from there. You
might think in the case of ex-
ternal matters your opinion would
not amount to a hill of beans,
but opinions' collectively carry°
much weight and your government
acting on your behalf has a loud
and influential voice in inter-
national affairs. •
We can not expect to cure all
the ills in a world wide eociety,
but thrOugh voicing, our concern
through the right channels we
are bound to have an influence.
for the good.
PAST EVENTS
Last Friday the Bingo attract-
ed seventy-two players, and
-prizes--to`- the value of $310.00
were won.
COMING EVENTS
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Friday Sept. 29th Legion
Bowling at 7:00 P.M. - _
Friday" Sept. 29th, Bingo at the
Legion Hall.
Thursday Oct. 5th, Executive
meeting at 8:00 P.M.
-Attend Clinton conference
Mrs. Joseph McConnell, Mrs.
W. C. Bennett, Miss Janet cluff,
Mrs. John Turnbull andMrs.Or-
vile Oke attended the fall con-
letence held by District No. 2,
Hospital Auxiliaries Associa-
tio44 Oetatio„at Oritar,14.:: Street
4tedAhureheinZlintonton Mon-I
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Mrs. Benhett was a member
of the panel on a symposium on
education held at the morning
session. She spoke on education •iof children and related the story
Of the Seaforth Auxiliary taking
the kindergarten children from
the Seaforth Public School, St.
'James Separate School and Dublin
and St. Columban Separate
Schools each fall to the Seaforth
Community Hospital, where they
are given a royal tour of the
-hospital by the staff.
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There_ were 109 delegates '
representing the 20 auxiliaries
in District 2 at the conference.
Mrs. Beecher Menzies of
Clinton was installed as the new •
chairman of the district. 'She
"'Verbs.
succeeds ,,Mrs. W. A. Hayes of
-attendance
Winners were;
John Henry Gailbrath 3-1
Brenda Hy ' Williamson 1-3
Susan R. Lee Bennet ,2-2
Lanny's Lad- McNeil 4-4
Glib Mcllwain 5.5
Times, 2.13 1/5 and '2.15 3/5.
CLASS #2 - INVATArwee
Sally -Gailbrath Gaiierath 1-1 4
Wayne Express ' Caldwell 3-2
Single Johnnie Muir 2-4
Hyland Mary Williamson 4-3
Direct Pull Pullman 57.5
Sr. citizen.
helpful
TIMES 2.11 1/5 and 2.12 1/5
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For each event horses stand-
ing, best in summary were given
Lead. Shanks donated by Seaforth
• Turf Club' and WhipS donated
by Don' Williamson and William
Bennett.
Smithers, Stratford, and Mr. John
Blowers, Strathroy. Bonnie has
accepted a position at theStrath-
roy General Hospital.
. Last Wedneiday Mr. and
Mrs. Lavern Wolfe visited with
Mr. and Mrs. John Hinz at Kit-
chener. '
Mr. Edwin Rock is a patient
at the Seaforth Community
Hospital:
. mr. and Mrs. Ken Elligsen
and Terry were amonethe guests
Of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Josling
at the baptism of their son Dar-
rell Gary in the Grape Lutheran
Church, Mitchell on Sunday.
Other guests were Mrs. Lily
Josling, Mr. Pete Connelly, Mr.
ar * 'Ars. Dave Matheson and fam-
ily, Moleeworth, Mr. and Mrs.
•
Jack Phillips and girls, London,
Mr. and Mrs. Ken,Donnellrand
girls, Mrs. Irene Eisler, Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Dietz, Logan Twp.
and his sponsors, Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Harris, Stratford.
The Harvest Home Service
was held at St. Peter's-Lutheran
Church on Sunday. During the
service the Rev. A. Horst bap-
tized Rebecca Elizabeth Weitzel,
infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Weitzel, her sponsors be-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Henry Leon-
hardt, Thamesferd and Jac-
queline Elizabeth De Jong, in-
fant daughter Of Mr. and Mrs.
peter De Jong, her sponsors be-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Robert De
Joni,
Q In the Years
Agone
indow
Keller —
even tear a coftmUnity
apart. .But the worst thing
dbOut a rumor is that tts
victims never get to tell
their side. The rumor is
a trial without a defence.
Some people and some
groups don't think about
this when they shy away
from "publicity" as it is
so often called. Their
only consideration is that
if People hear of
plans there may be some
Controversy.
They forget that there-
& re-MOre ways-- of -hearing
about something than read-
"ding it ,in the' paper. And
mosikhey forget .too that many
of the other ways' will
make their plans sound
worse than they really,are
. The newspaper will at
least try to get the facts
'and figures - the correct
ones - to the people.And
.the newspa per. Will print
the' reasons for the plans
'and proposals. A rumor,
can't guarantee either -
and usually doesn't even
care to bother trying.
So when you expect
a problem or a littleton-
troversy, don't. be,,afraid
of "getting,it in the
('From the Canadian Weekly
Publisher).
Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
the arutliersary waltz is an ugly charade.
Thark goodness we forget ours until
it's too late to do anything but recall our
wedding day and laugh hilariously as we
reminisce. '
Nowadays it's not unusual to have two
or three hundred people at a wedding
reception, with a bar, dinner and
orchestra fo r dancing. The hr.'. 6
-has had eight showers before the wedding
ene the couple hap amassed about two
thousand dollars worth of gadgets and
cash.
We had about twenty at our wedding.
A scattering of my wife's aunts and
things. ,Nobody from my side, except
a few old buddies to whom I'd issued
the invitation,' "Hey, I'm getting married
Saturday' at Hart House chapel. Why don't
you drop around?"
No reception. No bar. No orchestra.
Music -supplied by an old friend who
played organ in a doWntown bar. Dinner
we had after the wedding at a crumby
hptel in a small town. Alone.
We _drove about two hundred piles in
a borrowed car. We had eighty dollars.
No presents. It was raining all the way.
We talked about highway conditions.
But I wouldn't trade it, • even theugh
my wife wore flanellette pyjamas on our
wedding night. At least we didn't have
to smile and smile and smile -at a host of
people we scarcely knew.
And here We were, some years later,
Sunday morning. My wife had remembered
our anniversary. She had bought each&
of us a present, and she handed me a
piece of paper on which she had summed
up'the war. Her words:
To Us
"May we continue until death the
battle which has raged for twenty-six
years.
"Always attacking, never retreating,
shall we glorify in our victories, deny
our losses. . _
"Let us be constant in miking our
skirmishes as violent in intent as our
One Big War, for we might lose courage,
weaken in moments of apathy, flounder
in surrender. '
"May we never be tortured by thoughts
of love and peace, for these might lead
the way to a glimpse of hope and glory.
"Let us remain steadfast in the face
of our single purpose.
"We have fought a good fight .
Hey, she's talking about our life to-
gether. She's being ironic, and that's
my field what's going on here?
Then she handed me another piece
of paper. 'Her words:
"Along came Bill
An ordinary guy ,
You'd meet him on the street
And never notice him
"No that's not the part I mean.
"I love him
Because he's wonderful -
Because he's just my Bill.
Suze."
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"Getting it in the
paper" means a number Of
things. FOr an organizat-
ion planning a fund-raising
activity it can mean the
difference between success
and failure.For an adver-.
tiser it can mean the dif-
ference between profit qpd
loss. For an 'individual' .
who has been the victim of
suffering :ft can mean con-
solation from readers who
are informed of the suffer-
ing and take sympathy.
But other groups some-.-
times -think 'getting It-in
the paper" will mean dis-,
aster, embarrassment or
failure. Sometimes they
are correct. And some-
times - for. the general
welfare , it is better that
the enterprise should end
in failure and disaster.
But sometimes these
people who do not want to
"get it in the, paper' be-
cause they fear a setback .
or controversy are wrong.,
They forget that their
biggest enemy - and a news-
paper's only enemy - is
the rumar.
The rumor can be a ter-
rible.thing. It can make
civic minded intentions
look like, opportunism. It
,can cultivate-small con-
troversies into massive
ones. Eventually it can
OCTOBER 1, 1897.
There are now 76 inmates at the
House of Refuge.
The Veteran well digger, Thomas
Smale, of Elimville, sunk a well for
Alexander Dow, Exeter and at a" depth
of 36 1/2 feet struck a first class of •
spring water. The elettric light com-
pany had to go down over 300 feet in
the same locality before water could be
secured.
A few mornings ago GO: Barr of
Hullett, found valuable steer lying
dead in one of his- fields, On Tuesday
morning he found two more dead. The
services of a veterinary were called
and it was found that death was caused
by the animals partaking of frosted
clover. •
Miss Ettie Ballantyne and Miss Katie
McEwan of Hensall have started dress-
making in kannie's block.
Swamp fires to the west of Hensall are
raging and the farmers are in much
danger and have already had to plough
around their *fields.
The fire alarm called out the fire- "
men and a good many citizens. It was
found to be a fire in the bar-rooni of •
the Queen's Hotel, but it was discovered "
before it had made much headway.
The farm of the late John Campbell,
of the 5th concession of Tuckersmith, was
sold by auction. There were several
bidders but Peter McKay was the for-
tunate man. His bid was $5,450. J. P.
Brine -was the auctioneer.
Landsborough and Leatherdale of
' Seaforth are doing a rushing business
in furniture and hard times are not felt
around their establishment.
David Landsborough, •son of James
Landsborough,•Tuckersmith, left to attend
Trinity Medical College in Torohto.
34 tickets' were sold at Seaforth
' station for the 'excursion to Niagara Falls.
The August cheese was shipped from
Walton factory. The first 120 boxes
were sold for 9 1/2 cents and the re-
mainder, 148 boxes at 9 3/4 cents.
The work oil Dr. Armstrong's 'new
brick house is being rapidly pushed for-
ward. It will be a handsome residence
when finished at Walton.
Jdlin Mowbra y of Walton, who had
his barn burned recently had a bee
°hauling stone ler the . foundation of a
new one. ▪ John Hart of Brucefield took first
prize for his carriage horse at Goder-
ich exhibition.
The big swamp is nearly all on fire,
south o f the Zurich road. The fire
is doing a great deal or damage, as
there' is a lot o f good timber in the
swamp yet.
OCTOBER 3', 1947.
. Robert E. Bechtel, who was recently
appointed organist, choir director of First
Presbyterian- Church comes from Cooks-
...vile and succeeds, Mr. and Mrs. M. R.
Rennie, who recently resigned after being
in charge of the music for nearly 25 years.
Something 'new and different in puff
balls was discovered in the Doig bush,
Tuckeeemith when a' giant puff ball, mea-
surinr42 1/2 inches, by 58 1/2 inches
was,picked by Mrs. Paul Dpig.
Miss Joyce Wilbee, bride elect, was
pleasantly surprised when the staff of
Beattie Bros. met at the home of Miss
Anna Watson, Egmondville; to honor her,
Miss Vera Mole made the presentation
Of a bread tray and John Beattie read an
address.
Jack Chapple of Cromarty, suffered A
fractured I en it became caught in
the wheel rat ower. He was driving a
team of horses with the mower attadhed
and he kicked at a piece of mud between
the spokes. His leg caught in the spokes
and was broken.
A -pretty wedding took place at the
Rectory, Dublin, when Mary Ellen Staple-
ton, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Wm.
Stapleton was united in marriage to
Richard Box, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
L. Box, Seaforth.
SEPTEMBER 2t,1922
Ideal weather, a record entry list, good
races and tremendous crowd featured
the annual Fall Fair of the Seaforth
Agricultural Society. During Friday after-
noon the Seaforth Highlanders Band fur-
nished a very fine musical programme on
the grounds.
R. L. Clark met with a very serious
accident. He ,was driving south of the
railway track when his horse bolted,
throwing Mr. Clark heavily to the ground.
His back was badly strained and he was
otherwise bruised and 'has been confined
to bed.
The new school house erected this
summer by the trustees of the Edmond-
Vile school section was opbned. The
excatrating, Melt cement and plumbing
work was done by 11. Edge, Seaforth and
the carpenter work and painting by E. J.
pitmen. Miss A. Knechtel is the teacher.
When I tottered downstairs last Sun-
day morning, and my wife greeted me
cheerily, and told me to sit down, and
brought me in a big glass of orange
juice with a stiff belt of something in it,
I was as wary as a groundhog.
I sniffed the air, wiggled my ears
and peered about to see from what direc-
tion the danger was coming. It's not
that I'm suspicious by nature. Basically,
I am a naive and trusting person. But
this was too, much. Something was up.
While she sat down across from me,
smiling in an uncanny fashion, I took
a quick slug and let my mind flicker
over the possibilities. She was going
to divorce me. No, I just got a raise.
She was going to buy a third piano. No.
No place to put it, except in the wood-
bin down cellar. She was going to have
a baby. No, she's had a hysterectomy.
Kim is going to have a baby and I'm
going to be a grandfather and old. .That
seemed the most logical.
• "Do you know what day, this is?",
gently but firmly. My mind raced over
birthdays, graduations and such, slip-
ped a few cogs and finally ground 'to- a
" halt. I knew. It "was Our anniversary.
How could I have forgotten it, even
though I'd forgotten it every year for
twenty-five?
Easy. The bride isn't any better.
Every year, about two weeks after the
date, one or other of us says, "Hey,
we forgot our anniversary 'again.," And
look at each other and laugh.
Some people make a tremendous fuss
over wedding anniversaries. It's as
though they were trying to recapture
- something lost forever.
Husbands who either snarl at or ig-
nore ,their wives for 364 days of the
year arrive home with a n expensive
present, or at least a bundle of flowers,
on that sacred day. Reminded by their
secretaries.
Wives who spend the whole day in
suspense, . thinking "The rotten louse,
He hasn't even called. He's for-
gotten", smile, falsetoothed,thrOugh their
tears, and crack open a bottle of vintage
1971 Canadian champagne.
Many of these couples, who haven't
• •exchanged a civil word for weeks, actual-
ly go out to dinner, and even thrash
around •the dance floor in their inimit-
able 1930's, 40's, or 50's style, a threat
of life and limb to all near them.
A few of them actually have the stamina
'to-preSs on from the ridiculous to' the
absurd, and make love.
Next day, the glow gone, slightly hung,
they become acutely. aware again of such
mundane things as heartburn, constipation,
pot bellies, wattles, bald heads and crows'
• feet. And real life begins again.
I ite- not knocking anniversary% cele-
brations as such., They're quite beauti-
ful if the love and tenderness are still
there. But if those elements are missing,
The world is filled With people with
causes. Everybody these days is "on"
about something or other.There are ant,
war movements, anti-smoking groups,
pro-abortionists, up-with-female boost-
ers. You name it. We've got it.
Well, folks, I'm too busy to be anti or
pro anything. By the time I finish my
regular work week, hear the problems
and dreams of my children
'
be a Wife to -
my husband, keep my household running
smoothly, hassle with the butcher over
the price of hamburg and have my weekly
coffee break with the girls and The Edge
of Night, I've no time for causes - good
or bad.
What really angers me though, is that
I'm considered less than aperson because
of it. That's right. People figure if you
are not for or against something these
days, you can't , be much of a citizen.
How can you really comprehend a simple
thing like television or modern Movies
without knowing where it's at as fax as
"causes" are concerned.
And tnat's another thing which upsets me. Thitre's no fun any more. Every-
thing's so darn serious that even enter-
tainment is filled with somebody's troubles
and heartaches. You are supposed to
"relate" to the other fellow's problems...
in the name of relaxation, of course.
Personally, I resent that. I resent
paying $1.5,0 or $2 to see a movie
which makes me crawl with remorse and
leaves me shaking witfi fear for myfuture
and the future of ,,nny "family. I resent ,
having to think so hard about the meaning
behind a television show that :I get a ten-sion pain irethe back of my neck.
Why can't people laugh any more?
Why can't there be slapstick comedy to
bring us back onto an even keel every
now and- then? Why must we constantly
beat our heads against a *all of man-
kind's distress.?
I know. You'll tell me that's"the way
it really is. That's the way Iife is out
there, yotl say.
So what? I read about it in the news-,
Correspondent
" Mrs, Ken Elligson
Mrs. Adeline Bennewies and
Cheryl visited Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Bossence, David, Stratford
on Saturday, to celebrate David's
second birthday. On Sunday they
visited Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ben-
newies in London.
Miss-Bonnie Hoegy graduated
recently at .the Regional School
of Medical Laboratory Tech-
nology in London. as a Regis-
tered- Laboratory • Technologist.
Guests at •her graduation wre
Mr. and Mrs. Les Weitersen,
Mrs. Ella !foggy, Seaforth, Mr.
and Mrs. Wilbur Hoegy, Merle
and Beverley, Mr. and Mrs. May-
nard Hoegy, M. and Mrs. Randy
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papers. I hear it from the people I meet.
I watch it on my television. I'm con-
fronted with it on the magazine racks.
There doesn't seem to be anyplace I can
get away from it.
There's an old saying. If you can't
beat theth, join them. So I've taken up a
cause, and here it is: Like it or lump
it,. I'm including it here for your perusal.
Maybe it will make you think a little.
A certain. man went travelling through
the country,, and he looked apd saw all
that God, had made, and it was polluted.
The a'ir was thick with smog and toxic
gases; the roadside was littered with
beer cans; the brooks and streams" -smelled with the stench,saf waste; ' the slums were crowded with over-population.
And the man said, "I will busy myself
with ecology."
So he built a ppllution free car; and
he hired men to pick up beer cans;' and
he passed ordinances restricting the dump
ins of waste; and he educated the popu-
lace t,o have only two children.
And at the end of his life while the
minister was reading at his bedside,
a question was asked: "What shall it
profit a man if he clean up the whole
world, but his' own soul remains polluted
with sin.
And ladies and gentlemen
'
that's my
cause. It isn't popular. It - isn't new.
It isn't original. It isn't even necessary
in today's modern society
But it is my, cause to urge people
to find out about cleaning up the inner
man as well as the ditches; to save
souls and not just money;, to pick up
spirits and not just litter; to spread joy
and not only peace literature.
Corny? Sure it's corny unless
you' get "off" on such things. In that
light, it isn't a bit cornier then sending'
English books to the African natives
or packing frilly dresses and Bermuda
shorts for the Eskimoes. '
We all have our causes and now I'm no .
different. Long live causes especially
mine.
Dr.-Frank Mills, Medical Of-
ficer of Health for Huron County,
says his department is not inter-
ested in the morals or the pri-
vate actions'of people.
"we/red:1,111y interested in the
control of venereal disease,"
said Dr. Mills.
He said according to the na-
tional averages, Huron should
have about 200 cases of VD.
1 "There are 26,000 cases in
Canada - the ones we know
about," Dr. Mills said, !'and we
have our share."
He said it had come to at-
• toceonutnitynuthat opreoptlreeagtof out ni.entroafththeer
than risk people knowing their
affliction. Medical practitioners,
he said., were duty, bound ,to re-
port cases of venereal disease
to the local health department.
"For one reason or another
then," concluded the doctor,
"only a small percentage of the
actual number of cases of ven-
ereal disease in Huron are re-
ported to our office."
The MOH also reported that
rabies is on the increase in Hur-
on. The disease is up by about
52 percent, he 'said. He urged
people to take advantage Of the
free rabies clinic throughout the
county.
"Rabies is acontrallable
problem," he said.
Dr. Mills spoke briefly about
the new clinics for senior citizens
across Huron and said there has
been " heavy attendance". He
described it as a 0*successful
which gives much ,p,rpoegrrsaotnnai"
satisfaction." -
At the present time, Dr. Mills
reported, about 40 patients are
under dare at any one time by
the Home Care Program.
',Those are 40 persons' not,
occupying space in local hos-
, ‘Pitaltrel'alsiadiditDwr.auMielloss.ttpg about
$/ per diem for home care as
opposed to about $50 per day
average in hottital.
Huron
(Continued from Page 1/
tween 1972 and, preessed 1973
apportionments, the %ajar chan-
ges being in connection with
Tuckersmith Township ' and
Stephen Township as it relates
to the Canadian Forces Bases.
"The Tuckersmith situation,
will ' gradually be adjusted and
worked into the regular assess-
ment figures, " said Allan Camp-
bell, chairman of the Executive
Committee of council. "The"
' Stephen Township picture, how -
ever, is different as the taxes are
paid based on rents collected
working through Ontario Devel-
opment Corporation."
During the day, 'Spence Cum-
- . mins, Development Officer for
Huron, was asked how things
looked at Vanastra, formerly .....
CFB Clinton. Mr. Cummings
said, there were now 160 families
located in the homes there, two
industries •are already at the
inquiries".
Reeve
and there are "a few other
Reeve Campbell asked Mr.
Cummings why the county officer,
hired by Huron should be so in-
terested in promoting a private
individual's business. He said
John Van Gastel had purchased
the base and he should be res-
ponsible for the promotion of his
-project from that point.
Mr..Cumtnings said he does
no more for Mr. Van Castel than
he would do for any other person
,from any municipality. He said
his malettmcern was to get,
industry into the county" and to
sareeeas.
th at it locates in proper
Reeve Campbell 'said that Mr.'s 4
Cummings bad been requested to
go to McKillop diWuse a town-
ship park,
OpnYy once.k,Mr.
that but he'd been
there Cumm ings
replied he was well .aquainted
with the McKillop situation and
had been, there sit or seven times
for talk with McKillop officials. iv
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