The Huron Expositor, 1976-05-20, Page 3CENSUS TAKERS GO TO SCHOOL 1— Charlie
Thomas of Grey Township helped conduct a session
Tuesday ,In Brussels for people who will ,be
distributing the Canada. census forms. The once
every five years census starts this week with local
people distributing -me questionnaires to all
residents and picking the completed questionnaires ".
up again. In the front row are Alice Reid, Ina Scoins,
both of Seaforth and Carol innes of Brussels.
(Staff Photo)
Census June 1
Commissioners -quiet on detail's
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A newspaper 'and its readers very difficult , question is what?
have an intimate relationship.with—lY6u might argue; with what I cut
and vice versa. If it was up to' you,
what would you leave out of the
Huron Expositor? Which one of
our: regualr features or areas o f
coverage do you feel that, the
people of Seaforth and area could
most emphatically do without?
Your answers. in phone calls,
letters or button holings on the
street could help us make this a
better paper.
Don't tell me you like it exactly
the way it is.
I've got a few pet candidates
for extinction myself. This week
you may notice that the TV
listings are no longer in the
Expositor. And unless we get
some squawks from people who
miss them, they'll stay out. The
listings take up a lot of setting
and layout time; they take up
more than half a page of valuable
news and advertising space and
we rarely hear from anyone who
uses them. Tell us if we're wrong
and we'll reconsider. •
Another space user that we've
taken a hard look at is wedding
stories which develop into long
accounts of what everybody wore.
From now on we're going to run
cutlines under the wedding
photos which tell who married
whom whose children they are,
who married them, who stood up.
-with -Merit, where-the- marriage
took place and where the couple
are going to live. The bare
bones...which is all most of us
any press releases," was the
reaction of% . Charles Thomas,
census commissioner for 4
Seaforth, north-west McKillop •
and Grey, before this reporter
had even the chance to think of a
question. "I can' let you lake
pictures of the census training
classes, but Yin not permitted to
giVe you any information," he
said.
IVIr. Thomas aid give
out the names of the enumerators
who will be working in his area.
For Seaforth they •are Joan
Flannigan, Alice Reid, and
Dorothy Williamson. FOr Grey
they are Susanne Cardiff,
Catherine Adams, Donna Knight,
and Margaret Work. Ruth Anne
Siemon, Sandra Coleman, Oliver
.Pryce•and Patrick Delaney are the
census enumerators for
McKillop.
The census commissioner for
Tuckersmith, Stanley, Hay and
Hensall Aldie , Mustard of
Brucefield was also co-operative
in supplying the names. The area
of Tuckersmith 'out of Hensall up
to Vanastra will be covered by
Shirley Hargraves, Irene Smith
and Mrs. Harold Payne. Stanley
will be covered, by Nora Keys,
BermiCe Reid, Janet Webster,
Jean Dunn, and Bonnie Roy.
Bayfield will be taken careof by
Margaret. York, and Hay by Lois
Hayter, and Abe Forest. The
north part of • Tuckersmith by
Maxine Miller, Jane Schroeder.
and Harvey Bierling. Hensall will
be done by Janeth Sangster, and
Dorothy Smith.
The census commissioner for
, Brussels and Morris' Township;
Bill ,O'Brien of Goderich was
somewhat less informative, He
wouldn't give the names of the
enumerators until he had checked
with his superiors.
"I want to check with Stratford
to see that they, have no
objections to me giving out the
names," .he said. ,"Frankly I
don't see anything wrong with •it,
but I just don't want to give any
information withouchecking it
out first. We hav had some
problem with this before."
'Mr. O'Brien was eventually
able to get clearance from his
man in Stratford. The village of
Brussels is being enumerated by
Mrs. Wilma Hemmingway and
Mrs. Joanne King.' The south
end of Morris Township is being
done by Mrs. 0. Richmond,
central Morris by Mrs, King, and
Mrs. Barbar Grube,. and' the north
by Ms. Louise Procter.
But, if "don't, talk" was the
rule, one census commissioner
broke it when he informed the
reporter that there was absolutely
no patronage involved, before the
reporter asked the question!
'There have been insinuations
that it was the people who voted
Liberal in the last 'election that got
the jobs, but that isn't true. I had
a free hand to pick out anyone I
wanted," he -said.. . - -
"I spent three weeks and drove
over 700 miles to find people
suitable for the job. I had to find
people who wouldn't gossip about
what they saw and had enough
intelligence to do the. iob."
The census, which does not ask
for as much detyl as .the one in
1971 did, will be conducted
slightly differently than the last
one. Census forms will . be
dropped off at' people's homes
this week and next for. them to fill
out on • their own instead • 'of
answering the questions with the
enumerator as was previously
done. - • •
Some .people will receive a
postage-paid envelope to send.
their 'form back in, while others
will be picked up' by ;the
enumerator after June 1 . All rural
residents will have their forms
picked up and checked by the. •
enumerator to 'ensure that all
applicable questions arc filled ke
out. The reason for this according '
to Statistics Canada is that there
isa problem of confidentiality in
the rut-al areas ?where telephone
partylines would have to he used
to check or clarify answers."
Every -third householder will
receive a ',longer 'census form
asking six more questions than
the . 13 In the shorter forms
covering information about
education, . employment, and
migration. Farmers get the added
bonus of a census of agriculture
form which contains77'questions.
many of which will fortunately not
apply to every individual • farm
Operation."
Thecensus which 'everyorrdeby
law is required to participate in is
supposed to give "the basis for
Many -itiportant decisions by
business, industry, governments.
community ' and labbur
organizations" according to
each other. A community
newspaper especially exists to
chronicle the happenings in
readers' lives and to bring to their
attention things they should know
about local government and all
the other boards and bodies and
meetings where decisions are
being made that will affect them.
It's difficult to know most of the
time how well we are doing. It's
m y job to sort the news every
week; to decide what goes in
where and if it's a tight week,
what's left till next week or
what's left out all together. The
big question that determines
what 'goes where in the paper,
how much emphasis we give it is
"how' important is this news to
our readers ?"
Last week we figured that a
suggestion that mayors be seated
on county council had important
implications for Seaforth people
and for all of the county really
because it could change the
present urbsan rural balance on
county council: That's why the
story was our "lead" one on page
one, Other stories that came out
of last week's town council
meeting were also prominent on
page one because few local
people actually attend these
meetings and they depend on the
Expositor to let -then know if
anything startling went on.
All of us here at the Expositor
try to make the paper lively and
interesting, with some things in it
that appeal to everyone, But there
is the question of, space, and,
believe it or not, there have been
many weeks lately when there
just hasn't been enough room in
the paper to include all the latest
news, the regular. columns and
centributers, the photos from
several different events and
special feature stories that our
reporter John Miner or I work on
in our spare time. •
Something has to give.. But the
Tuckersmith
(Continued from Page 1)
A ' Petition for a. drain was
received from John Branderhorst,
Meis Van Esbroeck and •
W.B.Rowcliffe. Engineer Henry
Uderstadt was named to bring in
a report ..
A' Dead End street sign will be
placed on Regina Street,
Vanastra, recently, closed at the
entrance to Highway 4 because of
a 'traffic hazard.
William G. Newman, Ontario
Minister of Agriculture and Food,
offered no relief to council in
answer 'to a request for more
money to loan to ratepayers On
tile drain loans. The amount
available this year has been cut
severely to all muncipalities and
the Ministry reported because of
the number of requests for
additional funds, it is expected
that very little, ifeany, will be
available later in the year .
Members of • council accepted
the Attsable Bayfield Conser-
vation Authority's invitation to
the official opening of the Port
Blake Conservation area on June
want to knew anyway. That way
we'll be -able to get wedding
accounts in the paper scan. after
we get then, rather than holding
them until we have room to
describe who wore what and
carried which .flowers.
Weddingphotos are welcome,
.along with• the basic cutline
information. The stories will be
easier to read and readership
should go up, Brides will no
longer have to fill out a long form
for the paper and I can forget how
to spell peau de sole. '
Another stock item that it
becomes diffictilt to make
newsworthy and interesting every
week over several weeks every
spring is the bowling picture,
There are a large number of
leagues playing each winter in
town. They all have award
banquets and three winning
teams at each get shot by our
photographer.
Arrangements to take the
photos run from a courteous
request three weeks in' advance
with a call later to remind us,to a
call to Dave or Joe asking them to
take photos at a banquet "after
supper.tonight".
We dont mind taking the
photos when we're asked ahead
of time,After all winners are news
but forgive us for saying that for a
.couple of months every year we
feed' like 'we're -drowning in -
bowling pictures,, what with three
from each league. "What if the
curlers did it too?" one staff
member 044, WO shuddered:.
It would be !lice too if we
get people actually laowling or
doing something mote than Just
standing there, holding a trophy;
we're working sin that angle,.
ideas?
Group shots ;like 130(114 tgatil
photos are good beeatt4e they
mean that a lot of different people
get their pieturea lin the palier-
But they're bad too because they
all look the same and the reader
tends to pass them over with
uhuh.,. another bowling picture,"
One Ontario newspaper printed
a photo of one of, their
photographers with the joke
trophy he won for taking the most
team photos in any given month,'
on their editorial. page.
Next year we're considering
putting out a special bowling
awards edition, say at the end of
May and holding all the photos of
league winners for publication
then. That's out publisher's idea'
and I think it's a good one. The
photos will have a lot more impact
and we'll be saved the problem of
having an indentical looking
sports page for eight weeks in a
row.
Creative answers to problems
are always there. You just have to
look at things differently than
usual to find them. Once again,
we're interested in you looking at
use What ean this paper do
without? A two week's
subscription to the first fifty '
people who say this column.
r
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(by John Miner)
it's time again for Canadians lo
count -themselves in and figure
out just what they've donein the
last five pals, but anyone who
wants to' know exactly how the
census will be taken had better
count themselves out.
June 1 is the day when you will
have to fill out census forms
telling Statistics Canada such
vital things as whether- you.pwn
your home or rent and if you enter
your living quarters "Bi,separate
entrance from out'sid'er Through
a common hall or passageway?"
or "Through someone else's
living quarters?" The forms
emphasize that the information is
strictly confidential and if the
Huron County Census
Commissioners are any sample of
those handling the forms, there
shouldn't be any problem
-they will hardly give you the time
of day if someone whispers the
word press. ,
Apparently there have been
reports in the daily press that the
jobs of 'enumerators have been
given out strictly on a patronage
basis to—the members of ,the
Liberal Party faithful. NoW
someone in the upper echelons of
the civil service has warned the
local commissioners not to talk ,
and they are tighter than clams
out of water about the cenu,s
operation.
"I'm not authorized, to make
Statistics Canada, • 9.
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