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SEAF H, ONTARIO, AUGUST 12, 1976
Tax reform
What's it all about ?
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men ---
Karl Schuessler
otne Freezers
My wife'S -always wondered if Coq, would
keep a 'deep freeze in his honSe -- you know
what I mean -- one of those icy bins that hold a
Whole garden full of vegetables and a half a
`side of beef or two.
For a long time now, she's nursed a
suspicion that there's something slightly
immoral ab out stock piling so much food in
the houSe. ,
She's bolstered her doubts by quoting a few
Bible verses to me. Didn'tJesus say, "Give us
this day our daily bread?" And what about
Matthew and that Sermon on the Mount?
Jesus said, "Take ' no thought for the
, morrow," And "Sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof." And the real clincher was "Lay
net up for yourselv es 'treasure -upon earth,
where moth and 'rust doth corrupt and where
thieves break in and steal."
I 'told her our freezering wasn't doing any
=thing and rusting,; and corrupting. And
certainly theethieveS weren't breaking
stealing.
But I did admit there 'was always thkt faint
possibility that the freezer could do some
thawing --„the whole chest of it without our
consent, Of course,
Ever since- we bought, that fretier, my .
wife ' s•been• asking, "But what 'happens, when
the hydro goes off?".
I tried to' redirect her thoughts. Get her
mind off what seemed to be top priority on her
worry list. I told her to look at the good side of
freezers. Here we have a whole treasure full of
summer goodies fOr, winter eating.
And think about all that top quality meat.
You'd „never find Rudolph Bauer's black
Angus' beef in a super market counter'. And
think of the cOnvenience. The money saved.
She halked there. And brought out
magazine clippings to show me all about
hanging weight and net weight, I •got a mini
, course in bones, waste and cartilage. ,
And what on earth was she going to do with
cuts like kidneys, knuckles and snouts, when
no one in the house claims, them as favorite
food?
But no matter, I insisted. Every house
needs "a freezer. And the only good kind of
•freezer is a full freezer. A chockful one.
"But what happens when the hydro goes
off?" my wife kept it up.
She found 'out last, week.
We stayed away from home for three days:
Now she knows.
She had quite a runny and mushy mess on
her hands.' She can wash off the leaking red
strawberry drips all down the freezer walls.
She can sop up purple elderberry juice on the
bottom.,
She can finally throw out some two year old
sauerkraut she's never:got around to fixing.
She can take eight limp beef roasts over to
Marie Meyer and. find out how to can in her
pressure cooker. 'She camboil up beef bones to
make enough soup to feed a gang of
threshers. •
She can get me to telephone' around to' the
neighbor's anctae"e_if anew wants to chance a
beef roast tonight. '
She can serve runny peaches• over
everything.t",
And most of all ,she can liope. Hope for the
best when the blown fuse on the. hydro pole
gets replaced. Hope thatall the rest of the half
thawed meat gets frozen up again real quick
and we'll never know the difference.
She can hope ,there's not going to be an
American L egipn convention seizu in
Brodhagen.
Our freezer's stopped thawing, but my
wife's still jawing, "I knew something would
happen if the hydro went off."
I see she's bought a book called "Drying
It". She's. reading it now. But I would hardly
be the person to remind her that mice do
break in and steal.
Sugar and Spice The. Fat Cats • by Bill Smiley .
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night.
About two hundred persons left SeafOttb to witness
the third ebampionship match of the aeries between the
Maple Leafs ef Guelph and the Tecumsehs of London,
in which the Maple ',oafs were defeat 5-0.
Aberhardt, who iiVeS on the boa dary betweene*,.
Ribbed and Tuckersmith, threshed, 8 acres of fall
- wheat. It averaged 35 bushels to the acre.
A team os Six Nations Indians opposed by the Clipper
Lacrosse Club will give an exhibition of that skill on
the grounds of the latter club in Seaforth-
The fall wheat in Seaforth district is now all housed
and considerable of it has been threshed.
: Wednesday last being Civic Holiday, excurtionists
ard tboto pleasure station nrs
platform
were waastiresarlcrowded withan y. Long before8
o'clock,
anxious multitude waitingfor the train. About 500 went ,
to Goderich to the Sunday School excursion.
At a recent meeting of, the Seaforth Board of School
Trustees, Miss. Maggie Logan was ewsed for the .5th
department; Miss Emma Wilmar for the sixth, and
—Miss-Ane,.Collip„for the Juni?5.,,
AUGUST 8. 1901
Miss E. Ross, formerly. of Brucefield, sails from New
York for Bombay. This means that on her arrival, she
becomes the wife of a missionary.
The trustees of S.S, No. 7 Tuckersmith have engaged .
Miss Maud Miltse of Clinton to take charge of the
school in place of Miss Fowler, who resigned to take a '
course at the normal.
Mr. Fitzgerald of Chiselhurst intends building a
handsome brick residence on the site of his former
dwelling.
'Wm. Hodgins assumed the management of- the
Commercial Hotel in Hensall and has everything in
good shape.
Thos. J. Berry, horse buyer of Hen all, left on'
Tuesday for the old country. He has eres ed the briny
deep, over 20 times.
Robert Hawthorne of Egmondville cradle on
one half acre of oats and Mrs. Hugh Simpson bound the
same.
J. P. Brine of Harpurhey had a narrow escape
serious accident. He was driving home an when ,
opposite L.L. McFaul's residence, hit another buggy.
Mr. Brine was thrown from the buggy and' rendered
unconscious. -
A horse attached to a light wagon, belonging to
Gabriel Reeves took a run on its own. It started at
' Barton's shop and ran to the Royal Hotel stables'where
it stopped.
A couple of gypsy horse traders struck town with a
variety of hories•. We have not beard of any "deals."
Reg Wilson, son of Alex Wilson, town, has taken a
position in the Bank Of Commerce.
While climbing down out of a tree, a young son of
WM. Hartry, fell, alighting on his hands with the result
that both wrists were broken.
Montgomery, Patrick of .Tuckersmith has rented his
farm to Samuel Laidlaw.
Wm. Elcoat of Ttickersmith. has had a pew windmill
put up. .
One of the most successful garden parties was held at
Varna--under the auspices of St.' John's .Church. The
Seaforth Brass Band was present 'and Fred Hess of
Zurich was present with his gramophone.
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AUGUST 6, 1926
- The frame work is in progress on E. L. Radford's new..
house. All those new, homes certainly add to • the
appearance of Walton.
At the official meeting of the United Church, Varna
circuit, the salary of the pastor Rev. J. Durrant was
raised $150. bringing it up to. $1800, ' •
Miss Edna Jewitt of, Port Huron has returned hone •
after, spending two weeks, the guest of Miss Florence
Fowler of Alma.
the..Years. AgOtte
' There's a story on page one of this
;:week's Ekpotitor that might not seem
t9afnerissttng to4.'our readers. It's
:the local hg,ging - province's property tax reform
commission.
But if, you didn't read it, may we
respectfully ,suggett it' •will
probably be Of great interest to you
next year, when you get your tax
notice.
Ontario Treasurer Darcy
McKeough's -budget this year
suggested a number of big changes in
the way we pay propertV taxes , in
Ontario. Now, not too many of us
would argue against changes of ,some
sort, preferably changes that would
reduce the tax we now pay. That's not
exactly what the province has'in mind
though, blit just what they do have in
mind is a little vague.
The 10 member"cornmiesion, whose
job is expected to cost $460,000, was..
here to find out what Huron and Perth
residents think about the tax changes.
The most controversial are , proposals
that the province pay 100 per cent of a
farmer's taxes on his land, while he
pa, y 50 per cent of those on his
house, the same as city and town •
people will, and a uniform 50 per cent
assessment for all businesses which
would mean a hike in taxes for many. -
The province plans to have all
assessments in Ontario based on the
same criteria.
Farm groups are Complaining that o
the province wit) have control of farm
land, once it's paying the taxes on it.
Some see this tax reform proposal as
an attempt: to bring in regional
government by the back door.
How much independence -will- a
township council have if it's
dependent on the provincial
governinent 'for most 'of its tax
revenue?, That's` what a lot of;,
municipal people are wondering and
they have a valid point. :
An objection abbut 90 degrees from
that one was raised at the Goderich
meeting by Maris reeve Bill Elston,
who wondered what would prevent
councils from' raising the mill rate sky
high, since the province, and not
To the editor
Ye: Last week's editorial, Protect Our
Good Name
As . a Canadian who has travelled, in
Barbados, Bermuda and Hawaii, I have
always been proud to wear my "Malik
Leaf" in prominence, so .that I willmbe
identified AS' a Canadian. I have been
treated with respect, by any of the natives
of these above countries and asked
interesting questions by natives.
budget --.watching. local residents
, would' be paying most of its .taxes.
• We co0100 seeing paVed roads on
every' concesslon,what with thit
windfall_ from die province, Reeve ,
Elston said, one of the few
humorous notes of a pretty heavy day.
There-werenttoo .manyi'objeeiforia,
or even briefs' presented to the vr.
commission here. There were darn
few when we consider the howls that
will go up if the tax reforms are
Implemented. •-•
People didn't attend the hearing
because no, one, seems too sure of
exactly what the tax proposals 'will
Mean, All we know it what was, in a
list of several short points in rthe
newspaper ad. Perhaps a' few of us
have gotten hold of a somewhat more
detailed excerpt from the original
budget. '
:EVen.- -the- 130.iftrn isp i on • members
were not -prepared7to-4ye„,sty.1..ihP,
goods on the government's
intentions. They were there to hear •
from the public and if the public really '
didn't' have enough, information to
make suggestions, there wasn't
much the commission could.do about' --
that. "This is it, but you can tell us
what you think anyway," ,the,
commission seems to be saying.
Based an our underttanding Of the
tax refOrrnt and the way they're being
presesnted we have a suggestion.
Pa'ther than presenting the public
with lb or ,15 'reform proposals and
asking people tojoutt against them,
why couldn't the province have wide
'open 'meetingt on the subject. They
could tell us what they, think is wrong
with, property taxation now and what
the inequalities are that should be
corrected.',
The public and the commission,
.working- together rather than in
adversary fashion, could thrash out
the whole problem and obine up with
new
'
pOSsibly more creative
solutions: , •
It might not work,' but it sure beats
the limited information-and the list of
tax reforms that we have now been
presented with point blank. We ,
Might even learn more about why we
.pay what we .pay.. gh\
•
On znytoutof Hawaii.I was, so impressed
how so many races Could live in such
harmony arid each proud of their ancestry.
I am still proud and,avill always,be and
hope my conduct will reflect the true
nature of our country to others,
, We live. in the best ,country, where we
still have freedom of the press, speech and
opportunities for all.
Sincerely,
"A Canadian"•
ti
Proud to be Canadian
Every so often I'm reminded of how very
lucky Canadians are. We' are not smarter.than
other people. Goodness knows, we are no
more industrious. We are just .luckier,
because we happen to be living in this country
at this time.
• When you consider that we are just a drop
in the bucket of the world's population, you
can see just how blind lucky' we are.
Millions of people on earth today are
literally starving to death. They will be dead,
stone dead, in days, months, a year.
Millions more are just above the starving
line,•They eke out a barren, blunted, hopeless
existence, just one step away from the animal.
These hordes are subject to all the other
things that go With a minimal existence,
besides* hunger: cold, disease, ignorance,
fear and perhaps worst of all, helpleasness.
And- we complain endIesily, we Canadians,
about such horrors as inflation, postal strikes,
taxes' and • all the other relatively piddling
burdens we bear.
We bowl with outrage when butter jumps 15
Cents a .pound. Some of us nearly havea stroke
when dr. price of • beer and liquor is raised.
The • very wealthy feel a deep, inner..pain
because they can retain only 55 per cent of
their incothe. .
Rut what 'does it all- amount to? The'
consumption of butter,will go down tor a few
weeks, then rise- to new highs. • 'The
consumption of alcoholic beverages will not
even tremor, but go steadily upward. And the
rich will become richer.
Oh, yes; we have•poor people, quite a fev,v of
them. But you would be hard put to it to find
anyone iii Canada literally starving to death.
Or freezing to death: Or dying because there
is ..rto medicine for disease.
'Truth is, the Vast Majority of Canadians.pat r
too ninth, suffer from over-heating rather •
.than cold and are Much more likely to die from
Rio ntueh ,tnedicine than,. they are IrOttr) 7
And even the poorest of our poor, with all
the buffers • that •welfare provides; are'
materially millionaires compared with the'
poor of many other countries.
You, Mister, wheeling your Buick down the
highway and beefing about the cost,Of gas, ,
MOO!
There on the "news," with nothing to hide
it, was the non-Canadian world, Children with
the bloated bellies and stick-thin limbs of the
starving, Other children, torn and bleeding
and screaming with pain.
'And everywhere, on that naked screen,
people, suffering, 'terrified, running like rats,
." from nowhere to nowhere.
loot much you and I can do, except feel
. horrified. It's all ten:,ftir away,
But at least we can Stop bitching in our oath
backyard; and face the facts that we're not
4 stilarter, or hardei,working, or better,lciokitig.
Just (nay,
might just as easily be pulling a rickshaw in
Calcutta, wondering whether you could last
until you were 30, so you could see your, first
grandson.
And you, Ms., •whining about the mess the
hairdresser made, or complaining about the
cost of cleaning women, could, be 'selling
yourself in the back streets of Nairobi to keep
body and soul together, if you'll pardon the
expression, •
But you aren't, and I'm not, and we
shouldn't forget it, mates. We were lucky. We
live in Canada.
Once in a while this hits me like a punch
between the eyeg. One of these times was on a
recent holiday weekend.
We were spending a weekend with
Grandad, in the country. I spent one of -those
lazy, thoroughly enjoyable times when there is
nothing to do and nothing to worry about;
eating and drinking, playing cards, enjoying
the fireplace, reading; watching ,television,
The only tly in the ointment was the
constant decisions to be made. At hreakfaSt,
for example. Banana or fruit juice? Coffee or
-tea? Bacon and.eggs or ham and eggs? Toast
and jam or fresh bread and honey?
Evenings were even worse. An' hour after
dinner, I had to decide whether it was to be
coffee and cake with ice cream or tea with,
butter tarts. Then there was the bedtithe
snack and more decisions.
But it was witching television that blew up
.the puffed;up dream that life was, after all,
good and 'gracious, cosy and comfortable,
warm and wonderful,
Hugh McMartin of Kippen saffered a heavy loss
when he had the misfortune to lose, through a peculiar
disease, three valuable horses.
The carpenters have, started the frame work 'of Mr.
H. Gallman's new dwelling in. Zurich.
• Miss Minnie Wheatley of Winthrop entertained the
Belgrave •Young People who had taken part in the play
entitled "Deacon Stubbs."
St. Boniface Church, Detroit was the scene of the
wedding of Miss Irene Carbert, R.N. to Jerome F.
Theison, Detroit.
Dr. W. Aubrey Crich, who has been visiting his•
parents andWhoilas been,,at the Mayo Clinic for the
past 26 months, left to become associated with the
Lockwood Clinic in Toronto. •
Miss F. McMoren, formerly of Seaforth, has 'been
promoted to the position of Superintendent of the
Wayne Hospital in Wayne, Mich.
• The new. bridge west of Cromarty has been
co leted and is now open for traffic. The work was
• under the direction of Simon Sararas and John
McDonald did the' cement work.
Miss Thelma Dale of Constance left for Toronto to
take a position.
The Seaforth Golf and Country Club held a flag
competition when tplendid 'afternoon was enjoyed, by
50 or more mem ers. The winners of the men's
competition were W.' Aberhardt and T.E. Herron, and
of the ladies, Mrs. R.E. McKenzie and Mrs. T.S.
Smith.
AUGUST 17, 1951
When the projected new Seaforth Public School is
completed; it will contain a tangible tribute to the work
of Miss b:LivIcLenn who for more than forty years, ,
was kindergarten teacher.
Montgomery Davis of Staffa, well known farmer, was
able to return home from Scott Memorial Hospital
where he was taken following a two-car collision near
Staffa.
Paving of the Kippen Road is underway by the
County Highways Department. It is intended to pave
three miles south of Seaforth this year.
Blooms from Tyndall Gladioli Gardens, Brucefield
will be 'exhibited this week at a gladiolus show being
held in Boston, Mass.
Private D.A. Reid, son of Bob Reid, well known
former Seaforth • resident, assisted in piping the
nationally known pipeband of the Argyle and
Sutherland Highlanders of Canada in Edinburgh this
month,
Hensalwoman and a Stratford man split the $1000
jackpot prize sponsored by the community centre and
Legion. Mrs. Harry Horton,' liensall, E. Sippell,
StrAaptfpolriodstrieoeneifvoerdms for$500
old
ea
age
ch.
pensions have been
available at post offices since the first of the month. The
pension - payable to all citizens who will bele, years or.
over on January 1952, is made possible by the old age
security
keeire W.J. Dale of Constance Was in Sutton West
last week fudging horses,
Approximately 50 car loads of barley were shipped
froth Dublin station during"the past week.
The wedding took place in Perth, Scotland of Mary .
Powell of Perth to Kenneth Laidlaw Doig: Mr. iDoigis
the second Son of Mi. and Mrs. Paul Doig, of
TueltertinIth,
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