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The Huron Expositor, 1976-07-01, Page 2IVOR Since 1860„ Serving the Community First s1, d at SEAFIATII. ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor DAVE 'ROBB. Advertising Manager , Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Nespaper Association and Audit Bureau of Cirettlation 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 A SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 1, 1076 Why the secrets? CASTRAMONT 100 YEARS LATER —Castramont, home of James Dickson, Huron member of 'Parliament from 1861 - 1867 and' County Registrar until his death in 1895, is shown in an early photo, perhaps from the 1870's and below, as it looks now. The Tuckersmith farm, now the home of Mr. and Mrs, John McCowan, was bought in 1833 for 22 shillings, 3 pence an acre. Mrs. McOowan points out that, the huge trees that now surround the'house were obviously fairly recently planted when The early photo was taken. Oastramont is one of the houses on the heritage tour sponsored by the Huron Branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario on the weekend• of. July 17 and 18. JUNE 30,1076 Fishing continues very poor in the Bayfield fishing district and many of the boats, have left for the north to try their luck. The amount of cheese manufactured in the Brucefield factoiy for the month of May was 13,600 pounds which brought 9% cents, Christopher Dale of Tuckersmith has sold the Pipet' farm to John W. Pharis for $2100. J. P. Brine; the veteran horticulturist of Harpurhey, presented us with a basket of green peas which were well filled. A union picnic of the children. attending the IVIetttodist and Presbyterian Sabbath Schools was held in Paynes' Grove in Egmondville. The Grand Trunk Railway gives notice that return tickets, good for. four days will be issued each Saturday from Seaforth to Goderich 65 cents; to Stratford, 75 cents; and to_ London $1.50. JUNE 28, 1901 Messrs. A. and J. Broadfoot, lames Allan, Wm. Black, and Roger Pepper of Tuckersmith are having new cement silos erected on their farms. Master Frank Silk,. son of Geo. A, Sills has arrived home from Sandwich to spend his vacation.' Messrs. Wm. and Robert Clarke, Walton , held a logging bee last week. Mr. Chubb of Staffa, had a,,bee for the purpose of raising his house. He intends to put a cella,r under it. Any person visiting the gardens of F, Holmested in Harpurhey is delighted if he has an eye for beauty. Some time ago James McGinnis put in a claim to the Seaforth Council for damages which he contends has•. been done, to his property by the erection of granolitic sidewalk, R. S. Hays is acting for Mr. McGinnis and J. M. Best for the town. The picnic held in P. Carlin's grove, in Irishtown, under the auspices of the member of the Columban Church and in connection with the birthday of their pastor, Rev. Dr. Flannery, was a splendid success. Dr, David Landsborough, of Tuckersmith, has gone to Daggett, Mich. where he will practice for a year or, so. • John Cochrane of Hillsgreen has the stone works cornple ed for his new house, JULY 2,1926 , H. R. McKay and daugahter Ella, Bayfield, attended the Ringling Circus at London. Miss Marian Scarlett, Who was the teacher at S.S.No. 6 McKillop during the past six years, was pleasantly surprised by the pupils. They presented her with a pen and pencil set. Joseph Crich of Tuckersmith is moving to the farm recently vacated by his son Nelson, and his son Herman and bride will occupy the homestead farm. The trustees of S.S.No. 6 Hay have engaged Miss Grace Pepper for the coming year, At the Kippen garden party, Samuel Rennie contributed a very fine solo, "Asleep in the deep," and ' was accompanied by Mrs. Eleanor Fisher. The Provincial Highway that is being built through the pine swamp in McKillop, is melting rapid progress. Miss Mildred Britton left for Toronto, where she intends to take a position as stenographer. F. G. Neelin of town has received notice that it is the intention of the Customs'Department to place him on the superannuation list. He has occupied the position for 35 years. MAY 25,1951 Many parents and visitors tack advantage of the ':Open House" held by Seaforth Public School to make an inspection of the building. Principal D. N. 'Eastman welcomed the guests. A shower was held for Miss Grace Jackson at the home of Mrs. Robert McClure ofMcK illoy. Mrs. ThoS, Carter read the address and a basket of gifts was given net, 1 H. Wilson of town was elected president of the Huron-County Municipal organization. Friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. James Nash, McKillop, gathered in the Community Centre to present them with a, purse of money. Jas. Lane read the address and 'Albert Harrison made the presentation. The citizens of-the new village of Grand Bend, have • decided to join Lambton Count); rather than Huron , County. Miss Doris Pullman, June Snell, Yvonne Bolton, Margaret St evens, Mona -Caldwell, Lorne Leetning, Mary Boswell and Stan Dorrance, were in Guelph at the Ontario Agricultural College where they attended ' lectures. Flight Cadet Bill Munn left for Summerside P.E.I. on posting to the R.C.A.F. Station there, ender the University. Training Plan. 0 0 • 0 What's a little town? — wig Os' A'little town is where everybody knows what everybody else is doing .. But they read the newspaper to see who got caught at it. In a little, town everybody knows every neighbor's car by sight and mostly by sound — and also knows whne it comes and where it goes. In a little town there's no use anybody )yin' about his age or his ailme,nts or exaggerating about his ancestors or his offspring. ' A little town is where, if you get the wrong number, you can talk for fifteen minutes anyway — if you want to. A little town is where there's hardly anything to do and never enough time to do it. In a big town, the hundred are uncomfrotahle. In a little town, the "one", is, A little town is where the businessmen strugglh-for survival against suburban shopping centers ... When they dig deep to support anybody's worthy cause ...though they know, "anybody" shops mostly at city stores, Small-town gossip tends fecut down anybody who's,up ...help up anybody who's down. The small-town policeman has a first name. ) The sinalkown schoolteacher has the last Word. The small-town ilreacher is a full-time farmer. The small-town firemen — take turns. • Why would anybody want to live in one of, these tiney "blink-and-you-miss-it towns?" I don't know. Maybe because in the class play there's a part for everybody.,.. In the town Jail there's rarely anybody. In. the town cemetery; you're still among friends. Amen by Karl Schuessier Trina the tractor 1711 In the ears. Agone If you, let people know whatyou're doing, they'll work harder, they'll feel, happier arid you'll have mutual confidence and respect. That's what many organizations, businesses and- even the occasional government body has found- happenS when they make reports and meetings open-and freely available to the public. That's why it's hard to understand the Ontario Bean Marketing Board's reluctance to give producer members full copies of a consultant's report on the board's operations. Producers have been- given a summary at Meetings in counties , around the province, but ,the full report, or even the name of the firm who produced the report, has not been available. We're sure that the bean board has nothing to hide. Perhaps most geoups, including our two 'levels .of governments who keep too many Have you ever noticed that the same people show up as organizers of this fund raising campaign and that> dance and as the backbone in several different organizations in every small town? Maybe you've noticed and you've grumbled about it. - "Always after the limelight", you might mutter after you read old Georde's name in four different stories in the paper one week. An editorial in the Blyth Standard suggests that we should honour, not criticize, our good citizens as Simon .Hallahan, a well known farmer in the Blyth area was honoured _there recently. The Standard says: • "It is people like Simon Hallahan that keep small communities alive. Look around and y ou'll see that time after time it is the same people who lead groups. This year it may be the (By David Kennedy) The Peace and Security legislation I have been talking about also has proposals for control of dangerous offenders. It • is impossible to cover the details of the proposals in this column so let's concentrate on the issues. We all can visualize the "crazy" person who squats down on some rooftop and begins to shoot innocent by-passers. He is obviously an offender and obviously dangerous. He is not so obviously insane as legally defined. In laymen's terms, if lie is capable of understanding the nature of his acts and the consequences of his behaviour . then he is legally sane. So the court becomes society's defense. Let's assume that the woman was a bad shot (dangerous offenders can be women as well as men,' especially in the year after the year of the woman) and didn't hit ,anyone. It would be almost impostible to prove that she actually intended to kill anyone, After all, she was only trying to "scare" people, wasn't she? So the charges upon which she could be convicted would be less serious charges and subject to relatively short time in prison. Now the evidence is quite clear that time spent in prison will not likely make her any less dangerous. It will probably aggravate her condition. She cduld be back on the street soon and perhaps repeating •her Offence,• Getting a gun would be no problem. But what can 'anyone do about it? The mental health systetn can't force her to enter treMmetit'because she doesn't filthe legal definition which would allow certification. Ftlethermore. many psychiatrists believe you eallitOt force treatment on someone who doeSet *am 'the pollee and court system can't arrest her ecaUSe the; hasn't done anything else that is The •probleitt is whit'inight she do in the fettiee, This *Adana We.Mtlat be able to predict things secret have nothing to hide. They fear misinterpretation. But that can be sorted out if and when someone reads things into their repol't and dOcuments. Nine times out of ten people don't misinterpret things. Leaders who think they know What's good for the rest • of us, often don't give the public credit for much. As well, they are being tactically stupid .:...keeping a report secret often blows it up into a much bigger issue than quietly making it public would ever do. Bean 'producers, who have a great deal at stake in just how their beans are marketed and , how the board wark'S, Should have all the information they need to advise and counsel their elected representatives. That includes the full report that the, board has approved. Lions club and next some other group, but the same names and faoet' keep popping up. Often these people are criticized" as_ if they are seeking to be POWer brokers, but in reality, we couldn't keep our small communities going without them. The horrid truth is that 90 percent of the citizens just don't care enough abput seeing things happen to take an active interest in their groups. Let Joe do it they say, and the Joe!s, like Simon Hallahan respond to the challenge. They've got other things they could do and perhaps would prefer to do, but they won't see the community let down because no one ‘cares enough to take a job, so they do it themselves. It was good to see a.man itse Simon Hallahan honoured. We need to honour more of these 'People who have given so much over the years. We Owe them a lot." future behaviour. We can't do it! Study after study has shown that psychiatrists, psycholo- gists, social workers or policemen arc unable to predict dangerous behaviour with any degree of accuracy. We would make fewer mistakes if we predict that nobody is. dangerous than we would if we tried to predict which people in any given group might be dangerous. And this is the dilemma. Something needs to be done, but what? The proposed legislation attempts to resolve the issue by requiring the courts to demonstrate that any proven dangerous offence is only another step in a history and life pattern of dangerous behaviour. If thii can be clearly demonstrated. along with several other criteria, then the person can be charged as a dangerous offender and sent to prison for an indefinite period of time, up to and • including life imprisonment. Unfortunately, such criteria cannot be written into legislation without making such definitions so broad as to allow for many individuals to be improperly labelled as "dangerous" or so narrow Se as to make it useless and unsuable. Experience with our current legislation - the dangerous sexual offender and the habitual offender legislation - has clearly dvnonstrated this inability. The problem bf the "potentially dangerous offender" is one of the more difficult problems to solve. Utfilike 'most , other problems, .few solutions are even being suggested. The John Howard Society. and myself have no suggestions either. Perhaps we can gain some consolation from the fact that dangerous, crimes make up a small proportion of all crimes (less than 15%): wed theimost recent statistics indica' the rate of increase of violent crimes n east fetir years has remained editstatn . sower than the rate of increase of all other types tlf crime. 'As I told you, machines aren't my favorite kind of people. My rototiller I've consigned to outer darkness -- in a shed while I wait two weeks to get a n ew part for him, My garden I've consigned to rampant weeds and clods of baked. earth. But ,all is not lost. For there's a n ew Machine itt my life. And this time it's not a him. It's a her. And that makes all the difference in the world. May I introduce you to the newest lady in my house? Her name is Trina. Trina goes so well with tractor -- and that's exactly what she is. Trina the tractor. Let me assure you Trina is a lady. Nice and sleek and slim. She's not one of those overweight monsters -- so often green and yellow and John Deere by name. Those late model ones puff out with fat tires -- one, two and three all in a -row. Why, you look at a tractor nowadays and all you see is tires. My Trina is not like that at all, My Trina has the good sense to keep her weight down. To keep her sense of proportion. Henry Ford knew what he was doing when he built his model T Fords -- any colour just so long as they were black.And he knew what he was. doing when his company put out the N Tractor ,any colour just so long as they were grey and trimmed in red, And just as his Model T poured off the assembly, line in the 20's and covered the earth, so his N Tractors rolled off the line in the 40's and 50's, They covered and clawed the soil for all the years after. Some of them are still around. And Trina is , one of them. She's still looking the same way she did when she came out in 1951. Oh, her motor's rebuilt. But so what? Why, even in my middle age, a lot of my parts needs rebuilding. So 1 don't fault her there, It's the upkeep that counts. That's what% really important. to I bother to keep myself in good repair? Maintain?Oil? Grease? Paint and keep up my general condition? 'Trina has. And that's why I, bought her. That's why I fell in love with her. All credit for that upkeep goes to her owner, of course. Allan Scheerer knows all about fork lifts and hydraulic lifts, but he knows plenty about face lifts too. He painted Tr hia grey again not too long ago. And he took the time to paint red all Iter tire rim bolts. ' Then he see her on the lawn for sale. It was love at first sight. Imagine. I didn't even have tractor on my mind at all that day. There I was. Minding my ,own business -- driving into Toronto on the king's highway and sataisfied that I had just p ut a-way some motley in my savings account. But then I saw Trina. On the ,lawn. All greyed and red boltcd.Allan Scheerer knew some romantic would drive by and fall for those flashy red bolts. He knew my favorite colour was red. He trapped me. He made the the owner of Trina within one hour. And not just Trina, but her family of one plow, one cultivator and one harrow. In that hour I became an instant farmer. When I drive Trina into the village now the people take me a little more seriously. Will Ahren s admits maybe I do have a little farming in me after all, At least it'd a st art. And Mery Leonhardt finds time --right away -- to stop the leak in her hydraulic lift valve. And I was able to coax a visor . hat out of Wilbur Hoegy. It's used. alright, but every farmer needs a cap that celebrates Hoegy's fertilizer products. And when everyone comes to my house, they're in for a tractor ride. A Toronto visitor hid his. yesterday. Our minister, A rt Horst, had his today. Oh, I wouldn't let them take the wheel. I'm still a tittle possessive about Trina yet. They had to ride on back. :Stand up on the back hitch that sways back and forth while I take them down the sideroad. Life n ever looks better than from atop of Trine. She's been good to me. She can make quite a roar and drown out the ,people who laugh and shake their heads. know what they're saying, "The only difference between a Matt and a boy is the price of his toys." But Trina and I don't care. We can't hear them. Thanks to all the Georges! The dangerous offender pww,ttw, A . AtitICAikivOt ta,‘ * Tt• - • rotratV 60,00107.4014.pg.,.