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The Huron Expositor, 1976-05-27, Page 2Lake Ontario at Dusk Since 1860, Serving the Community First ‘ilubli.Shed at SEAFORTH. ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN EROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. ANDREW Y. MeLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE. Editor DAVE ROBB, Advertising Manager Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Nespaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation. Subscription Rates: . 'Canada (in adVance) $10.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) •$20.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240.. • SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MAY 27, 1976 - What do we get for our oney? A 'They know that in- .our enlightened society, "failure" is a dirty Word, and that everyone from the Minister of Education, through the school board, doWn to their clasgoom teacher, will do back flips trying to avoid 'pinning such a label on them. Many students know perfect!), well that they can 'goof around most of the year, play truant, miss assignments, be' late with essays, and nothing very terrible will happen to them. In fact, if they go around looking serious and sincere for the last few weeks, and do a little work, there's every chance that they will scrape or scramble through, only to repeat the whole process • the next year. Born and raised in a society where it is no shame to accept 'charity, because it's now dignified as welfare, where unemploy- ment insuranee is .a cosy cushion against adversity, where their agedparents will be looked after by the state, where the work. ethic is scorned, where the semi-literate hockey player ,or pop star is not only idOlized but- rich, the kids are not going to get their shirts in a knot .over something as apparently irrelevant as doing well at school. And let's .not blame them too much. Let's take a look at the world we're 'passing on to them. It's a world strangli ng- drowning in its own poisons, created by the greed of past generations. The kids We the greed and the poisoning going right on. Small wonder they are a little cynical about some of the virtues such as unselfishness and the golden rule. • It's a world in which tilt rip-off is admired, on the whole. They, see' unions ripping off management, management ripping off the consumer, everybody trying to rip off the government. So why not rip off the school system? It's the biggest sucker of all. It's a world in which the media pander to the bizarre and violent. The hijacker, the terrorist are overnight sensations. Is it naive to suggest that these are responsible, to some extent, for _the bomb warnings, and the' incredible vandalism in our schools? It's a world of drugs. The old man has his drinks every night and gets smashed on the weekend, the cad lady has 18 different kinds of pills. Why not run away from.. reality by adulating them. It's a world in which the daily papers-are Y'/•T' • ••1".. -- MAY 28,_1926 -- - Nots - Seeding is now finished and although the season is late, the grain is growing, rapidly. Rev. Mr. Irwin of Seaforth, preached a very able sermon in the United Church here op Sunday evening. The C.W.L. met in the parish hall on Sunday, May 16th with the President, Mrs. •Moylan, in the chair. - Mr. and Mrs. W. Sproat, of Tuckersmith, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wright, of Egmondville, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. N elson Govenlock. Miss Margaret Flannery and Miss Mary Mc rat are attending business college in Stratford. The teacher and pupils of S.S.#1, gave an excellent Empire-Day programme last Friday. afternoon, quite a .. number attending. Lions Club - The Seaforth La,wn Bowling Club have very generously offered all -the Priviledges of their green to the Lions lub for a tournament to take place on. a Wednesday a ternoon in June. , Egmendville — n Mondy afternoon the Canadian Girls in Training went on a hike to McLean's bridge. Mrs. Margaret McGregor, forinerly of Seaforth suffered a paralytic stroke. Mrs. J. E.•Keating and two children, and Miss Irene ..., . Patterson lefton Tuesday morning to spend some weeks in Toronto. 'Mr. Con Eckert and son Mr. J. M. Eckert were in London this week on businesss. Mr. M. McKellar has purchased the residence of Mr, H. Edge on Goderich Street West, and Mr.-J. G. Grieve of McKillop, has purchaged Mr, M cKellar's cottage on Jarvis Street. MAY 25,1951 • • A new telephone directory for Seaforth has been' mailed to subscribers and delivery is expected to be completed by May 26, C. B. Symonds, Bell Telephone manager, said this week. The board of management of St. Thomas Anglican Church, Seaforth has begun, the second phase in. the renovation of the church buildings. • Many parents and visitors took advantage of the "Open House" held by Seaforth Public School Friday • evening, to see ' examples of the children's achievements which were .on display, Efforts of members of the Seaforth Fire Brigade were sabotaged Thursday evening when fire broke out in a small barn located at the rear of the Lion's house which •is situated at the eastern limits of the town. A shower was held Friday night for Miss Grace Jackson, bride-elect of this week,• at the home of Mrs. Robert 'McClure. Friends, and neighbours of Mr. and Mrs. James Nash, Newlyweds, of : McKillop, gathered at, • the Seaforth Community Centre 'Monday night tO\honor them and present them with a purse of money. BrucefielE1 intersection was the scene of another,fatal accident•Monday evening when a car driven by Jack 'Cross, Welland, Was in collision with one driven by Elmer D, Bell, K:C., Exeter. Miss Mary Costello, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Costello, Dublin, whose marriage to Mr. Kenneth Wickens, London Will take place June 2, was honoured by her sisters, Misses Bridget ' and Dorothy Ann Costello , on Saturday. On Sunday at the morning service at Duff's United Chureh, Rev. R.G.HazIewood christened eight babies _ and received them into the membership of the church. • when confronted with seemingly numbarless -scriptures.vvhich seem to say that a person can know he is saved ,.or has been forgiven, or has. eternal life? You have, no doubt, been faced with John 5:24, Ephesians 2:8, 2 Timothy 1:9, • 1 John 5:13 etc., as well. There is no doubt in my mincithat Lneed to be saved--and since God wants to save me and wants to give me the joy of knowing he has 'saved me, why shOuld I resent others inquiring after my welfare? I•don't resent this, now. The fighting spirit is gone. I've yielded. Have I done wrong to humbly admit to God that I'm a lost sinner, and then to accept his- offered pardon? Your article, is sincerely appreciated in many respects, but above all for reminding me how I once reacted to the question ,"Are you Saved?" ,This helps me to be more understanding and courteous when I meet others and then with a sincere desire to help., I enquire about their fatih. Sincerely Yours, Graham N. Russell R.R.#2, Seaforth, Ontario get that sinking feeling Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley ' • School teaches Nobody is pleased with the news from last.Agek's council meeting that the average homeowner, with an assessment of $3,000 is going to pay about $450 in taxes this year, up about $117 from last. Are we. getting $117 more for our money this year? the average person will ask. Leaving the school board requirements, up a considerable $33,000 over last year in the case of the Huron Board, and what Llie county needs from Seaforth, u only about $3000 aside, it will cost $100,000 more to ru-n-Seaforth this- year-than it — -did in 1975. The town's, spending has close to doubled in one year. As far as we know council has laboured long and hard to keep the tax increase from being any higher. We can't give a lot of detail on this because the budget was hammered out at special council and committee meetings to which the press was not invited.The press only attended the final meeting when the budget, paring and slashing already done; was fOrmally pased. - We hope to dattend counCil's budget meetings ,at an, earlier stage next year and report the discussions on what can be cut and what' absolutely has to stay in the town's plans for the next year. We. think taxpayers need to • have that information, if only so they can check how their priori-ties tine up against those of the, councillors they elect. Detailed reports of council's budget meetings also reassure ratepayers that councillors are working hard and doing everything they possibly can to keep tax increases to a reasonable • level. We can ell gain. - But for this year we can only go over the printed budget and try to figure out where that $100,000 was spent. First of 'all, Seaforth got a • break in last year's budget because the town b'ot $45,600 in fOienue When they sold sewers to the' Ministry of the Amen by Karl Schuessler. Texas size eggs I told you I'd been wandering around in this' world without one egg in my basket.- Remember? It was all my neighbor Ed's fault. He gave up chicken ranching and moved into town. And that left me destitute --without a decent 'egg on my plate. I knew another neighbor sold eggs. Only he lived farther away •- a whole mile up in the village and here I am in the suburbs," of Brodhagen. But it was worth a try. To see if Harvey Ahrens could fill my egg basket. , I sent my girl,-up to his place to sec what Harvey could de about it. And he did plenty. He put in three dozen of the biggest whoppers I ever did see. Real Texas size eggs. If I knew Harvey didn't live in Ontario. I'd say he lived in Texas. Because this man befileves in size. His chickens produce spectaculars. Real live extravaganzas. I started to wonder if Harvey slipped in a few• goose eggs --just to Make his chickens look good. 'But no. They were all chicken hen eggs with pure white shells. And' just to prove his ehiekeris could be different, he added in one big brown egg. I think he was trying to tell me something. I could have it either way -- white -or Was really impressed with that kind of. chielten flair,' And Harvey sent along the word with my , gifts, 'Tell your dad we have the best eggs' Harvey*S a smart man, 'He'd read my Amen. colttrint about Ed'S-eggs, He knew he was up tti some Stiff competition, He knew I'd written ecl't: eggs wett the greatest. And in a man of My Wad,1 den't Past eat superlatives Environment. As Mayor Betty Cardno explain it, we normally would have had a $45,000 budget jump last year. It's a little difficult to be specific, because council committee budgets are worked out rently thin they were in' 1975/ but it's easy- to see where the additional $55,000 went; Each committee's• expenditures will -be reduced by grants but straight pay outs from the arena budget alone, a lot of it allotted-to renovations, go up about $14,000. Another $11,000 has to come out of general revenue to buy a new--oandensor w-h-ich will stop excessive water use at the arena. And we can add to that the town's share of the cost of the $49,800 that draining the south west corner of town wilt cost. Because of sewer construction there will be very little. spent on roads this year and this will be an alternative to road work, not an additional expense. Town salaries as a whole have gone up • abOut eight per cent and administrative expenses in the clerk's , office have actually gone down, from $26,000 to $21`,500. . , The only other new expenses this year are $1300 for a police radar unit which, most people agree was, needed and $2500 for a land reserve fund which councillor's hope will eventually buy more industrial land for the town. No, no one can argue that the Seaforth budget is a friVolous one, or that town council is throwing our money around. It doesn't appear to have any extras an911 pie story seems to be that we, got„hWthis year with What we got a break from last year. Perhaps it would haVe„ been less painful to have had a steady mill rate in the 135 mill range both years instead of a jump from 114 last year to 15' mills this year, but there's no sense Crying over spilt Milk. From what we can see, our town council did the best they could in, a - \bad situation. • 1 stand ,on my word. Ed's are bests. , I saw through Harvey's plan right away. he wanted to-dazzle me. To stagger me with his goose sized eggs. And he did alright. I knew Ed's eggs could never match up to this kind of size: But I wouldn't let my head be turned by this first few dozen. I know how it goes. First big effort. Great big splash. With Harvey picking out for me the very biggest. Choosing all the exceptions. The exceptional eggs -- not his 'ordinary run-of-the-mill,. I know'how it goes. Sample products. Test prodUcts. The ,first runs are the stunning samples jusrto win me over. , But I kept my head. I can turn pretty hard boiled myself. None of this old softie stuff, Melting at the first sight of kihg sized eggs. 'I wasn't going to . be that easily impressed.. I wasn't going to admit a thing. Because the big question is: Can Harvey's chickens keep it up? Can they deliver Texas size eggs week after week after week? Now, mind you, Harvey, I admitted right off you raise the biggest eggs I've ever seen. But the best? --I let six or seven dozen cross my breakfast plate before I'd let on anything. And now three weeks later, rrn ready to concede. 'Yes, Harvey, your eggs are as tasty as they are big. No wonder you have something to crow about. You've got quite a float of hens in your ioost. • h. MAY 26, 1876 Tuckersmith: Mil. John Robinson has sold his farm on the 2nd. Con. of Tuckersmith to Mr. Dale, son of C,. Dale of the Huron Road for the sum of $6,200. This includes the crop in the ground. Mr. J ohn Hannah has purchased frOm the Messrs :Govinlock the rear 100 dues of the Chalk farm. This property is south of the • Railway Track and lies behind the' farms of ,Messrs. Dickson and Creswell and frontson the side road. Local Brief: Messrs. M. 4.counter, D.D. Rose, A. Slemmon and Robert Fulton of town returned on Friday evening from a most successful fishing excursion to Herring's Mills on, the Toronto, Grey and Bruce \,. R ilWay. Mr. Wm, Anderson for several, years clerk in A. ougall ,.Sr Co's store left , on Tuesday ,to visit , Scotland. During the, absence of Lieutenant-Colonel Ross in England, ,Lieutenant - Colonel Coleman has been placed in command of the 33rd or 'Hurogr Hullett: Mr. A-. Tyerman of Hullett has an Ayrshire bull calf which when 9 months old weighed 622 pounds. • Hensall: On the morning of the twenty-fouith things looked lively in and about Hensall before the Excursion train arrived. The very large number of 127 excursion, tickets were sold at Hensall to go' and see The Tails. Birth: McGregor:In McKillop on May 20, the wife of Mr. Duncan McGregor, of a daughter. Married: Mulholland Peters. At the 'residence of, the ' bride's father on May 24 by Rev, C.E.Stafford, my.; William Mulholland of McKillop to Miss Florence Peters of Brussels. . .... Your newspaper articles. are always interesting and worthwhile. But your recent article Are You Saved? is outstanding; I intend to keep it for future. reference. Sitting here , this evening I have just read your amusing suggestions again and thought that I should express my 'appreciation to you. I supppse my appreciation of your witty way of dealing with the subject stems from my ' having had the same edgy feeling when confronted with the same question, haven't tried-you "conversation stoppers" yet. Maybe ' sometime for a joke on someone I know, I'll try them out. But "the bright remark and fighting invective" is just not my usual way--nor is it yoUrs--in a serious matter. • Thanks for the Bishop of Durhani's answer. I have tried similar ideas, but have not expressed myself as clearly. I've had trouble with answers like the Bishop's though. I have wondered about the woman who had the issue of blood for ' This is a time of year when a lot of school teachers get a sinking feeling. All year they have'been laboring. in the fairly, barren vineyards of their students, sustained by the knowledge that there is still time to produce a green shoot or two, and maybe even enough grapes to make Some kind of brew.. : Suddenly. there' are only 16 teaching days left, anal there is the dreadful realization that they have exhausted all their •skills, and that it had about as much effect on Susie and Joe as would a bucket of water poured over a seal. It just doesn't stick. Thus, when they should be looking forward with anticipation to end of term and summer vacation, many teachers find themselves instead in a veritable Slough of Despond. It isthe students' perennial belief in miracles that puts the teachers onto anti-depressant pills about now. Aside from school work, adolescents are not dumb. They are quite aware that education • these days is a sociological jungle from which they have a far, better chance of emerging unscathed than da those poor devils who try to teaelrItlincip. full of examples of corruption in high places. A senator here, a president there, has helped himself. So what's wrong with cheating, as long as you aren't cauAlif?' It's a world in which the best and bravest are •often bullied by the brutal and belligerent. So why not give the teachers a hard time? 't:They can't do nothin' to, ya, nayhow, 'cept senja home. So what Write a note and sign your old man's name." Not a very pretty picture? You're right, gentle reader. But this is not an indictment of students. It's a cry of shame for the society we're handing on to- them. Let's restore "failure" to our vocabulary. Let's restore "excellence", another word that's been dropped. Let's show the kids that apathy, is ugly, that reason i u erior to violence, that love and sex are not synonyinous, that compassion and col rage far outweigh cruelty and cowardice. I'm sorry for them, and what we have shown them. But I don't despair. Let's show them it's a beautiful world, and that they are beautiful and that they are needed to make it more beautiful. Then watch ' them go. -00 In ,the-Years Agorae To the editor An open letter to Karl Schjteisler thirty-eight years until she t ouched the hem of Jesus' garment and was cured. Had 1 • known her, and been chatting to her afterwards I might have asked her '(though of course this would not be an appropriate first question from a stranger) if she was really cured. I can't imagiee her answering' me (like the Bishop of Durham),'"' I trust so." She had Christ's word, "Thy faith Math made thee, whole." She was, sure that she was Cured. Christ was a walking "promissary note"; anyone seeinghis or her condition as hopeless could have touched Christ's garment for an' instant cure. Nor is it out of place, I'm sure, to compare our need of salvation to the need of the sick. Jesus used his power to heal as evidence that he had the power to forgive sins (Mark 2:9). In fact his miracles seem to have all been signs that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and the provider of eternal life to all who personally trust him (John 20:30-31). Finding answers to such thoughts is not my biggest problem. however. What shoUld I do •