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The Huron Expositor, 1975-03-06, Page 2The Ontario Federation of Agriculture is on the right track wheh they suggest to the Ontario cabinet that farmers need an income protection plan as a kind of insurance, to'be paid when commodity prices go below a decgrit level. When people are harried by high fobd costs and the profit between the farm gate and the consumer's kitchen is getting funnelled off somewhere, although no one seems able to pinpoint just where, it's probably the only' way to ensure that farmers' incomes don't fall too far behind. • Most people who know farmers or live near rural areas are willing to pay a fair price for commodities when they are assured that a good portion of that fair price gets back to the producer. Rarely these days, does that seem to be the case. - Something strange is going on when 10 pounds of PEI potatoes sell for less "in Toronto thant they do in To the editor: I am very interested in getting A Day .,..Care Centre for Seaforth. 1 am a single parent, with a four year old son, Achiel Jr. I work all day so Achiel Jr. has to be with a baby sitter, but it is hard to find a good one nowadays. About one year ago I moved back to Brantford and had a good job but the big thing was all the Day Care Centres there, With an only child, it is hard, that is where,,,,, the Day Care helped. He learned to play with different children. They have all kinds of things for the children to do. If not feeling well Achiel Jr. could go to the Day Care with his rriedicine.That means a lot to a•single parent not to have to take time off work when the clad has a cold or the flu. I decided, to move back to Seaforth, OT)tario, the only thing that stopped me at To the Editor: It has occurred to me that the general public in Seaforth and in .particular, the hockey fans of this town should be aware of the ice time problem at the Seaforth Arena, which has been created this year due to the inefficiency of those in charge of drawing up the arena schedule. Since I'm an avid hockey fan myself and enjoy watching all levels of Jockey in Seaforth, I am very much aware of the ice time problems this, season. It becomes very frustrating to anyone involved in any aspect of a hockey organization, when ice time becomes a problem. The present situation here in Seaforth is, in my opinion, terrible. During the summer Seaforth was fortunate enough to acquire a new Junior hockey club and a number of peciple have worked extremely hard to get the club on its feet. The initial season has been very successful and the boys worked hard to gain a berth in the playoffs.Throughout the regular season the Seaforth fans have given the Centenaires tremendous support at home as well' as on the road,. , However, due to the ineptness of certain people our Centenaires may be forced to play some of their future playoff games in the Clinton arena or wherev& ice is available. At the beginning of the regular season an agreement was made between the junior hockey club and the recreation committee to ',reserve Friday nights for home games with Tuesday ,being the alternate night. During the season large crowds have attended all games especially those on Friday nights. Now, at the height of the hockey season it has become difficult to get' the ice on Fridays even though it is supposed to be available for the Centenaire's games. Friday, Feb. 28th and Friday Mar. 7th have both been booked for other ice-requiring events, at a time when the Centenaires need ice and Tap support together. It seems logical to me that anyone planning an arena schedule should take • into consideration the fact that their own team just may be secessful enough to have games after the end of the regular season. When drawing up a playoff schedule it is _important that it c oincide with the nights available for both teams concerned. Since the game scheduled for Friday, February 28th tnuSt be cancelled, it creates havoc for all those involved. This game may be necessary and theretere the ice should be available. Now if tfieSe aforth vs Ta vi stock series should go to the seventh and deciding game, it must be rescheduled. (Miter's Note} The seventh game was played Saturday, March 1) The quarter;finals should be completed PEI. Some wit on. the CBC show Marketplace suggested that the higher price might 'be for transportation of the potatoes from the Island to-Toronto and back again! But it's not very funny really. If we are not willing to pay reasonable ..prices for what farmer's 'produce or if farmers aren't getting their fair share of profits from food, they will simply go out of business. The lack of decent prices draws farmers from the land. 'This exodus, combined with urbanization of good farm land means that according to OFA calculations, the province will have to import beef, milk, hogs and poultry by 1985. Some sort of price insurance for farmers, combined with an aggressive program to keep farm land under cultivation as the •OA suggests should go a long way towards making us agriculturally self sufficient. first was no Day Care Centre but I was told that there was one coming. When Achiel Jr. was in the Day Care Centre I did not worry over my son as to where he is, what he is doing. With a baby sitter that is not always the case. With a Day Care Centre some of my prebleins are solved. The reason I am all for the Day Care Centre, Achiel Jr. went to one in Brantford, Ontario called Jack & Jill for one year and it was the best thing that happened to both of us. I trulycati not express myself on how' badly we need' a Day Care Centre in Seaforth, so please everyone help us 'get one. Sincerely, Chri stifle Goossens (Mrs.)' by Sunday March 2, which leaves the Centenaires no home ice for that game. The players worked hard to finish in' a position so that they would have the extra home game in the quarter finals. They may have to play one. of the season's most exciting games on neutral ice., because the arena is -booked solid. The situation i's the same for the weekend of March 7, and if the Centenaires do end up in the semi-finals another weekend is lost. The economic factor is also an important thing to take into account, The Centenaires have been bringing the best crowds to the - Seaforth Arena since the Beavers had their heyday in the sixties. Why should agood gate return be sacrificed due to poor planning? One 'lost Friday night is a set back, but two , in a row is just plain ridiculous. Those in charge of allocating ice time seem to think that hockey players don't need practise time. It is only a successful team that brings in crowds and its only a team that practises, that will be successful. Getting practise time at the arena is like pulling teeth. During the week of February 24th to 28th it was impossible for the executive of the Centenaires to get practise time in Seaforth. Arrangements were made , to practise in Clinton if necessary, but games were scheduled so that the practises weren't essential. However, if the team makes the semi-finals and hope to make a decent bid for the finals they will need not only practise time but, fan support in their own home ice, without having to play out of town. It appears that anyone drawing up the arena schedule and not allowing for practise time and home games, has a very limited knowledge of the requirements of a hockey team, at any level. It's hockey that makes our arena tick, ,and keeps the arena lights burning. Seaforth has had a past record of being a good hockey town and most people from Seaforth have seen some great hockey played in our little arena. For years we have gone without a junior team and our boys have had to go out of town to, play after midget age. Now we have our boys playing for our town, and they are playing well. Let's keep them playing on our ice. I think we should give the people of this town the opportunity to see good hockey at home, and I think we should give our boys the chance to play for their home town to the best of their ability. I don't believe its too late to get things on the right track for the rest of this'season - but if it is, perhaps this letter will prompt some people to make changes for the future. Sincerely, Carolanne Doig. Amen (By Karl Schuessler) Hey, look, Ma , I'm playing the piano. I know it's hard to believe, Ma. Your middle aged son. Sitting one hour ,a day in front of those black and whites.Coaxing out, all those tunes- that eluded me when I was a boy. I tried then, didn't I, Ma? Was it two years? Or three? Then I became •a piano drop-out. I knew you were real disappointed. But then you started to feel better when I took up the violin. You wanted to make sure all of us kids had some music. You being a piano teacher and all. You didn't want to raise a family of music illiterates. You never seemed to regret the money. On lessons. On books. And on that used violin of mine. Why, that one. Christmas I got that' prize gift of them all,.. My $89.00 used violin. It was the most ,expensive gift under rtite, tree. And $80.09 vvas lots of money in those days. And in, a parsonage besides. My brothers and sisters didn't mind. They knew that you and Dad always gave One splurge gift each year to one of the kids.That year it was my turn. Their turn would come. But my violin playing never did go that Well--or that long--did it, Ma? When I entered a violin competition for young people a few years later, I didn't even make a showing.•No honorable mention at all. The examiner wrote down some nasty remark about my doubtful future with the violin. He let you know in no uncertain terms that you didn't have a Paginini. on your hands. But that didn't seem to bother you. You never rubbed it in. That the competition was n't all that stiff. Just all the kids from the churches in the district. You stayed patient. Encouraging 'the to go on. So what if I didn't make the stage? Or an orchestra hall? At least I'd know something about music. Id'd have it for ,my own enjoyment. You kept goading me on, Prodding, I figured,you carried around inside you a built-in alarm system. No matter where you were in the house. No matter wht you were doing, you'd stop everything and yell out 'to me, "It's fobr-thirty. Time to practice," I could talk you out of some things. I could sneak out of some' jobs around the house. But I knew enough never to try to get out of ' Dear Editor: ' ' In response o the article regar ding the SDHS school dance on Feb. 21 I wish to make clear several points on behalf of the tudent Council as the story told seems to be one sided. The potentially dangerous situation as it has been referred to consisted merely of the prefects (student police) controlling a disturbance •which started in the school but was quickly removed to the sidewalk area outside, where the police came upon the incident after they had received a call from a school janitor *concerned over the outcome of thi scuffle. The presence of the police at a teenage function seemed to be one of the main factors in the gathering of a crpwd consisting of 75 to 100 people and the drawn out affair followed their arrival. The majority of persons involved in the fights were non students which restricted the authority of the prefects and chaperone present. During the 20 to 30 minutes that the Seaforth police were present three more scuffles broke out with the police officers involved. Along with these new outbursts one of the persons involved in. the-original trouble whom the police had been asked to remove from the premises started a fight with a prefect inside the school which resulted in the police entering a school' dance. With the police and the crowd now inside the school another half hour of futile arguing began ending in the six people. who were termed as the source of trouble leaving, only after they were told that there Needs Day Care Centre Criticizes arena schedule f'• t•ttitm,rtV.I.WrPtrwr',110, pradticing. There was no way. You complained I spent too much time tunin&up my violin. Why did I waste all that precious 'time• tightening up and loosening those strings? Did I have to be that exact?Did have to take .fifteen minutes to get the right pitch? But hey, M a, look at me now! I wish you could hear me. On the piano. . ree.only been at it for a month now. And in one , month I zipped right through John Thompson's Book Number One. I'm into Book Number TWo., Last night I hummed along while I played Bach's Minuet. Pretty good, eh, Ma? I've had 'a few problems of course. My teacher says I play everything forte. Loud. She told me not to attack the piano so. I need a little modulation-moderation?-in my playing. And then she laughed when I said I didn't like the arrangement of "0 God Our Help in Ages Past". She told me to look at the cover of the book. It said Child's Book of Hymns. She said I can't have •everything in a beginner's Then she told me that my Spanish Fiesta piece needed a little more work. She said it sounded as if the dancers wore wooden shoes. But I'm not discouraged, Ma. And neither's my teacher. She sighs and says she wishes all of her students worked as hard as I did. And were so eager. Full of enthusiasm. And now when .I go into the city on business for a few days and check into a hotel, I don't ask anymore if they have coloured T.V. Or if they have a wake-up service. Or a restaurant nearby. I ask if they have a piano. I ql one to practice. Every day. At home or ay. Of this I'm convinced. •Why waste piano lessons on the y oung, when there's all of us eager middle agerS around? was only 5 minutes remaining in the dance. When the police attempted to leave they found that the patrol car was missing (later reported as a person who is neither a student or was in attendance at the dance). This again provided more problems for the prefects as the crowd was determined to stay around until the episode was over and the police officers on duly had heard about the cruiser prank about which they received a lot of ribbing. Totalling all of these incidents we, the Student council find ourselves faced with the cancellation of a band contract for the month of March, the topic of not so good public opinion and involved in. a dispute with the police consisting of the possible laying of charges ranging from assault to public mischief. 'In our point ,, of view , we face the consequences of an incident that we cannot come to view as being one of potentially dangerous conditions. I myself cannot see that dances have changed to any great degree from the time of most people reading -this article and believe that most people will agree that fights are an expected part of a dance (although this is the first one for us this - year). I wish to congratulate' the prefects. for their conduct and the restrictions they put on themselves in the' control of the unfortunate episode which arose. , Alan Carnochan President of the Students Council S .D. I-1, S. To the editor: Situation not dangerous Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor ti Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in •advance) $10.00,a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $12.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 Something is needed Silver dollars In the Years Agone MARCH Geo. Blackwell .has MsoAld hi house8175 and lot adjoining the Temperance Hall, Seaforth to Lawrence Murphy for $80.00, J. S. Roberts, having leased the store recently occupied by Wm. Allen, has had it fitted up in first class sty le and.now occupies it as a drug store. A meeting of the patrons of the west end cheese factory was held to make arrangements for the coming season. Tames , Broadfoot Sr. was called to the chair and Angus McDermid acted as secretary. It was agreed that I% cents be allowed A. G. McDoigall & Co. for manufacturing the cheese and, one cent a gallon for drawing the milk to the factory. The people of Londesboro have lately been exercised over what' wa's a first supposed to be a case 'of suspended animation. A man named Hoggart was found dead in his bed, and it was observed that the corpse presented a very healthy and life-like appearance. The funefal was postponed. A subsequent examination demonstrated that death had really' taken place and the funeral took place. Hyman Tyerman of McKillop recently sold a six months old b ull calf of the pure Ayershire breed to John Sumpton of Bentionck for $85.00. The regular meeting of the Town Council was held and the following were granted shop licences: James Wright, James Murphy, J,C.Laidlaw, Thos. Kidd, Wilson and Young and Betty. Tavern licenses were granted to James Weir, J. & S. ti Curry, Mr. E. Dowson and James Ross. "Old Probabilities" has been indulging in a first class "jamborie", during the past week, the record being a succession of snow storms. But a single, mail has been received by rail since Saturday last that having arrived on Tuesday. Thos. Ferguson, late of Seaforth, has become a partner in the planing mill, formerly owned by James Bennett. A young lad named Wm. Dunbar, Grey, was driving saw saw logs when the load upset and broke.his-logirone of the logs falling on it. MARCH 2nd, 1900 Varna will soon have a new citizen. Sam Reid has bought the home owned by B.A.Riggins. Archy McGregor of Kippen, who has, been at the blacksmithing at Brodhagen, has laid aside his hammer and is t aking a few days recreation at the parental home, The members of the local branch of the C.M.B.A. field a very pleasant evening. James L. Killoran opened with a short address. Songs, recitiations and instrumentals were given by Wises McQuade, Norma Sills, Bertha Daly, Minnie Dorsey anodraMnessrs. P. Burgard, P.Muleahy, W. Duncan and W. Moran. • Charles Wright of McKillop had an experience that he will net soon'forget. In his horse and cutter h had got as far as Grieve's bridge. Here he turned east on the concession and between residences of Mr. Musgrove and James Lockhart the road was drifted full. He unhitched the horse and it got into the water, How long he had been' in the water no one knows. Mr. Robert Habkirk's dog wakened him by ferocious barking and on investigating found Mr. Wright leaning against the snow bank, one foot and both hands were frozen. W. G. Broadfoot of Tuckersmith, has been -appointed Inspector for the McKillop Fire Insurance Co. as successor to T.E.Hays. He has been appointed secretary-treasurer.. Thos. Farquhar of Hillsgreen recently sold a fine draught horse to James Bell of Hensall for $200.00. J. H. Consitt of Hillsgreen is busily engaged drawing material for putting an addition to his barn and raising and• putting a basement underneath it. , John -C. Allen of Egmondville has purchased the pottery from JosephWeber, who goes into the hotel business at ' Dublin. There is some talk ,,of introducing electric lights into the Presbyterian Church here. A disastrous fire occurred on the farm. of Wm. Jeffrey, when his house wit, all the contents was completely destroyed. Ice cutting is the odder of the day at Bayfield.'9 MARCH 6,1925 The Hensall Seed-Fair of the South Huron Agricultural Society was held in the Town Hall, Hensel!, and in spite of the severe stoim and intense cold, there was the largest entry in the history of the show. The officiating judge was Prof. W., J.Squirrell, of the Guelph Agricultural College. „ Wesley Venner of Chiselhurst met with a painful accident by receiving a nasty gash in,his foot while splitting wood. The sudden death' of Thos Ryan of Dublin in his 75th year thaisepchasotnae pageplomomonvye.r the whole community. He was a director of the Hibbert &Usborne Fire Insurance Co. and of the local c During the storm on Monday at one o'clock in the afternoon the house on the farm of Sol. Zimmeramn of Zurich was discovered to be on fire. They were both away at the time. The house with all. its contents was a total loss. . Miss Dorothy Fritz of Zurich left recently for London where she will take a course .as a nurse.s. --Many of the residents of Zurich noticed the shaking of old mother earth last Saturday evening and some were very much startled. The weather moderated on 'Wednesday after 'one of the coldest ' weeks of the winter. The thermometer registered eleven below zeraand there was a high- and bitterly cold wind ,blowing. Duncan Campbell of town met with a nasty accident when he fell on the pavement and fractured his shoulder. Miss Sparks of Stratford and Miss B. Brown of Brantford, milliners at Stewart Bros. and Miss Shier of Canington, milliner at J. MacTavish's store have returned for the season. Montgomery Davis of town met with' a nasty fall on the slippery pavement and has since been confined to his home, G. W. Nott of Alma has returned from a trip to the west, he went as far as Edmonton and brought back 60 head of cattle which he intends to sell by auction in' the near future, Grenville Atkinson of Detroit arrived in Bayfield and intends going into the poultry business. Mrs. Sparrow of Varna had the misfortune to slip on the cement floor while assisting with the milking.Although no bones were broken the bruise is quite severe. MARCH 3, 1950 Miss Lois Hoggafth of town entertained at a supper party for ten girls in honour of Barbara Russell, bride-elect. During the evening Romole was played, prizes going to Mae' Clarke, and Joanne McMillan, The members of the Fireside Forum of Hullett farm group enjoyed a sleigh ride from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Taylor. There were 19 adults present. Bill Jewitt gave an interesting account of the Good Roads Commission which he recently attended. A contest was conducted by Eric Anderson. Jean 'Churchill Kraul, contralto singer of Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Churchill and granddaughter of Mrs. James Campbell of McKillop, has been engaged for next spring's Bach festival in Borea, Ohio. Her mother is the former Gertrude Campbell of McKillop. Mrs. Russell Dallas and Mrs. Casey Way left on a bus trip to St. Petersburg, Fla. where they will spend three weeks. Dr, and Mrs. P. L. Brady were in Chicago where Dr. Brady attended the Medical Society Convention, Earl Van Egmond of town has purchased the property of W.C.Govenlock in Egmondville. There was a good attendance at Cavan Church when Rev. D. Glenn Campbell of Seaforth took the service. Rev. Peters is much improved in.health, but is still under the doctor's care. A bountiful supper was provided for the pot luck supper, but owing to the stormy night there was not a large crowd at Wintrhop. Scott's pictures wee realistic and much enjoyed. The Margaret Larkin C.G.I.T. mother and daughter banquet was held in the Presbyterian Church where Marilyn KlAingprwe.aiesnttoeansptinariissthress. socialE velynMcPhee proposed a toast., evening and hard time party was held in St. James' School hall. Cards were played and piano selections by Mrs. Alice Stiles and a pleasing chorus by Mrs. &emir" and Misses Adrian and Betty Bannon. 4