The Huron Expositor, 1978-01-19, Page 2Since 1860; Serving the Cbifirromfty First
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Police remind of
snowmobile rules
• Snowmobiles are an exciting and effective
mode of transportation when, there is
sufficient snow. Being a snowmobile patrol
officer for five years, I have. seen many
accidents -because of ignorance •and
foolishness, 'SNOWMOBILES ARE NOT
TOYS:
To refamiliarize you snowniobilers with the
laws most commonly used and abused here is
a concise guideline you may follow.•
Registration -
'A motorized snow vehicle cannot be
operated anywhere, not even on-your own
property unless it is registered and has the
registration nuMber placed properly on both
sides of the cowling. There is no fee for this
registration. All you hive to do is go to the
M.T.C. licencing office •and register. They
will issue you with a number and you either
paint h on or buy the numbers to stick on.
These numbers must be no less than 2" high,
no more than 3" high, V4" to 1/2 " wide ,and
the colour mug contrast with the background •
colour.
Permit
If you wish to operate your mototited snow
vehicle on any property other than your own;
you must obtain.a permit. The fee is $10.
and can be' obtained at the nears
issuing office of •-the M.T.C.
Licence plates are no longer issued. Now
you receive two validation permit& and two
background patches to be piked 'On the
cowling both sides. '
Insurance ' •
insurance is required when you, operate
your snow vehicle On, highway (any public •
road), or public trail (tr . I maintained'in whole
or in part by public funds). The driver of a .
motorized snow vehicle, even 'if not the owner,
is responsible to produce evidence that the
Motorized Snow Vehicle is' insured when
requested by a Police Officer or Conservation
Officer. •
Helmets
A helmet must be worn by every person
driving or riding on a motorized snow vehicle
or on a cutter, toboggan, sled or similar
conveyance towed by a' snow vehicle on a
serviced roadway or public trail. A serviced
roadway means travelled portion of a highway
and the' shoulder. The keltnet must be •
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To the editor:
Frorir Shoveller
IDEAS" • " .
"Shoveller"
u1 shovelled and piled it as high. as I could,
Hoping, like rnatittre, heating it would.
Then it goes'-off With a tremendous roar,
With spontaneous combustion', the snow is no
more.
With giant Tanis 25 feet across,
V2 mile .aliatt, 'we'll show them who's boss,
And faee all. Korth Without any fuss n',
Then blow 'it all bacic in the face of the
Russian.
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5. INDEPENDENCE
The. newspaper sh uld hold itself
free of any obligati° save that- )64
fidelity to the public g od. It should
pay,- the costs incurred in gathering
and publishing .news.° ConflictS of
interest, 'and _th'e . appearance of
conflicts of interest, must be avoided:
Outside interests that' could affect, or
appear to affect, the newspaper's
freedom to seport the news,
impertially should be avoided.
6 PRIVACY
Every person has a right to privacy.
There are inevitable conflicts between
the right to privacy and the public
good or the right to know about the
conduct of public affairs. Each case
should be judged' in the' light of
common sense ,and". humanity. _
7. ACCESS'
The newspaper isa forum for the
free __I nterchange.,bLi nforrnat ion• -and --
opinion. It should, proVide for the
exp ession in its calumns,af Clis,parate'
and nfileting- Views. It should giVe
expression to the interests of
minorities as well as majorities; and
of the • less, r.tylelements in
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Hoar frost
' Behind the .scenes
• By Keith Roulston •
Cantidiap tetitns' slow .to . change
'., Of all the activities of modern life in
Canada,' probahly none ,mirrors our nation's
personality as muchas ,sports.. All that ,is good
and bad about this country is reflected in a
page of , the 'sports section of, a 'daily
newspaper.
• --International hockerin the past five years.,
. has shown that Canadians can be both poor
losers and warm, open-hosts, although usually
the •fOrmer is the one that. gets the most
attention, Whilthe.press,in the Soviet Union. •
grips about h,ow "dirty" our PalyemAtte, I
have yet to a crowd at a hockey game there . „
give the kind of welconie to a Canadian team '
'that fanS•in Toronto. Montreal and Van'8ouver
have given'to Europeans in the-past few years.
Internationalhockey has 'age shown that
Canadians can be as arrogant as anyone else. •
We were all so sure that we were-better \than
anyone else back in 1972 ihat-we set ourselves
up'for.a. big fall when the Russian's were better
• than we thought. On the 'other, hand:
international hotkey'las also shown the much
greater propensity of Cartadians..to
themselves.. Ever since that historic 1.972
series there have been these who. 'have
claimed that the Europeans played far better •
hockey:- that they were smarter an,d that they_
had better skills. The evidence has yet to
prove that because when afirst rate-Canadian
team and a first rate European team have met;
the Canadian team h early always won, • •
But international h cke ' has also shown
how ,slow..Canadians are to. change. 'gut •
hockey deVelopment had, stagnated to the
point where the rest of the world was able to
catch pp. Even today many of the leaders of
the.7 hockey community are using the same
tactics, as before, not learning frOm.oilT past
mistakes,
• But I think our national neuroses are best else on the local channel.. - personified-by4he-- coverage given-sports-iii-T-7---.---- •
Canada. Canadian 'sports. writers exhibit all There are those, who' argue that 'U.S.
the faults ofIcanadian journalism in general.
For instance, there's the "let's ignore qt and '
maybe it will go away" phenomenon. If an
event,: hapPens, in. Toronto,. Montreal or
Vancouver, it is important,, but' if it happens
•anywhere else, it can't be,worth much. There
fore the Vancouver Canucks, an abysmal
hockey team, are• instantly better than the
Quebec tlordiques or Winnipeg Jets who are
eXciiting hockey teams but have the
Unfortunate failing of playing in Quebec and
Winnipeg, 'not to mentionbeing in the World
Hockey Association' which is automatically
judged inferior even by those who have never
see an WHA game. - • •
Then there's the "Anything we can do they
- can do better" philosophy which Means that if
a Canadian' and an American play the same
sport the Amertcan is automatically better On
everything. but hockey). Therefore we have
the general agreement among sportswriters
in Canada that the Canadian players in the • Expositor asks • . •
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- Wh,at do you do" when you're, storm. stayed?
Canadian Football, League, can't carry the
shoes' f tlie:''Amei•ican players. Russ Jackson
may have beeii the greatest quarterback in the
CFL, but he must have' secretly beentorn an
American. Tony Gabriel may_ have led the
league in pass receptions year after year, but
it must be an optical ,illusion.
- When a-Canadian beats an American"in any ,
game, its automatically an upset. ••
,.:Thus we have when the Canadian and U.S.
college all star football teams met recently ik,
was called "moral victory" when •the
Canadians didn't get beaten-sourtdly. ,Yet if
the sigorts writers had actually watchedrsome
Canadian college football gaines with open
eyes; they'd, realize that if quarterbackslamie
Bone and Bob Cameron had played up to par;'
they have, beaten the Aniericans,_J,,in 3
sportswriters know that theAmerleanS must
have ,been.better'. than 14-point winners so
they point out that the wet playing conditions
must •have, helped the Canadians(was it only
wet for the Atnericans but hot the Canadians?)
and that the game was played under Canadian
rules(but wouldn't the Americans be more at
home playing 'in their own country?)
And finally in the "anything we can do they
can do better" category we have all the hoopla
over' the-rmsuper, Super Bowl this past
weekend. To listen to the sportScasts . it would.
seem that the future of every Canadian would
be shaped by whether Dallas or Denver won.
-gartte. Frankly,'.I'd like to see the
television ratings because I don't think the
average Canadian gives • a darn about "the
Super Bowl. I'd bet more people watch,. the
; 'Very. ordinary Saturday night hockey game
that the much promoted football game, and m
many who did watch did so only because Walt
Disney was cancelled and there was nothing
professional football is better 'than Canadian
football, "afterall aren't they 'the greatest
football . players the world? _But Jimmy '
Conners and Bjorne Borg may be great tennis
players too but if Alley, had to play on a ping •
pong table they wouldn't look so hor. The .
American: football rules and 'tiny field make it
a boring, boring, boring game•to Watch, even
if the players are good.
Once the Super Bowl might have excited-
people here because of the veryjaefthat more
than 70,000 people croysticein to watch it.
Today we have thatitin df crowds in Canada
So even that isn't exciting. . -
About the only thing super about the'super
Bowl. was those Dallas cheerleaders. Now
there is one place where' the Super Bowl .wat
more exciting than the' Grey Cup. If they,'d ,
spend' more time televising the cheerleaders,
and less of the football game, maybe I
wouldn't have fallen asleep three times during
the game.
With the recent heavy .snowfall causing
people to spend a lot of their time indoors.
Expositor Asks decided to take a reader's,
suggestion and find out what people do with
their time when they are stormstayed. .
William T, Dodds of R. R, #1, Seaforth said,
"Oh I read a little bit and get my meals.
That's what I do all the time anyway."
Elgin Rowcliffe of R. R. #1, Hensall said he
did what was necessary around 'the farm and
not a lot more. •
"I do a let of reading and throw out the
snow," he said.
Ross Elliott of R. R. Rippen said he did
pretty well anything.
"I play cards, and chess, the same as usual.
I play a little bit of cards and maybe work
around the house a bit," he said.
Roy Dliikwell of R. R. #2, Staffa said he
A stays arotind the louse, reads the paper
and does whatever turns up to do.
' "I shovel a bit of snow around the house,"
he added,
Mts. Gilbeit Murray of R. R. #1, Dublin
said she reads and ,watches some television.
. "Just what can you do, but wait till athe
storm blows over?" she asked.
Kenneth Glanville of R. R. #4, Walton
doesn't worry about time on his hands, when
it's storming.
"I'm pretty lucky. I have a workshop`about
50 feet from the house. I just work out there. I
do my own repairing," he said.
Mrs. Norman Eggert of Egniondville is one .
person who thinks ahead when she's stuck in a
storm.
"I start baking homemade bread. I do a lot
of baking , when its storming so we can eat,
anyvraY.' I do, that and watch a lot of
'she said,
Elliott Rackwell of R.R. #1, Walton, said he -
didn't do much different front what he
normally did:
He said he just" relaxed, did the chores and
watched television.
Susan CocoAs of R. R. #2, Seaforth said
her mother -Mrs. Wes Coombs bakes
breads and pies andgkeeps busy while Susan
said she, herself, just plays with her brothers
and sisters.
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many--months_-of consultation and
input from Canadian neWspepers.
Such statements are not:considered
to bethe end-all in the continuing
search for a gcidd code of ethics in the
newspaper profeskon.
But this one has been carefully
prepared to present abroad picture of
the objectives of ,Canadian
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We at the Huron. Expositor agree'
with and work to live up to the
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1 ETHICS
Newspapers have individual.codes
of ethics and this declaration of
principles is intended to ,complement
them in their healthy diversity.' :As_
individual believers in' free speech
they have a duq• to maintain
standards of conduct in conforinance
witty-their own goals.
,2.FREEDOM.OF THE PRESS
Freedom of the press it an exercise
of the` common right to freedam of
speech. It is the right to inform, to
ditcuss, to advocate,• to dissent, The
Press claims no freedom that is not -
the right of every' person. Truth
emerges from free disbussion and
free reporting and both are essential
to fatter and preserve a democratic
society.
3.RESPONSIBILIT*
The newspaper has responsibilities
to its readers, its shareholders, its
employees and its advertisers. But
the operation of a newspaper is,„
effect a public trust, no less binding
because it• is not formally conferred„
and its overriding responsibility is to
the society Wriiich protects and
provides• its-freedom.
4.ACCURACYAND FAIRNESS
The ,newspaper- keePs faith -with-- -
ItS, readers by presenting the news
comprehensively, —accurately and
fairly,, and, by acknowledging
mistakes promptly.
Fairness requires a balanced
presentatiOn of the relevant. facts in a
news report, and of all substantial
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opinions in a matter of contr.oversy. It
preoludes4iStortionc• of meaning by
over-or underemphasis, by placing
facts or qUotations .aut bf context, 'ar
by headlines not warranted by the
text., When statements are made that
.injure 'the reputation of an individual
or group those affected should be
given the earliest opportunity to
reply.
Fairness requires that in the
reportihg of news, thel'ight of every
person” to a fair Arial should be
respected. -- ' • -
Fairness also requires that sources
of information should be' identified
except ,when there is a' elear: and
pressing' reason to protect their
anonymity. Except' in rare circum-
stances, reporters should not conceal
their own identity. Newspapere and
their staffs should not induce people
to commit illegal or improper acts.:
Sound practice makes a clear distinc-
tion for the reader between news
reports and expressionS of .opinion.
JANUARY 18;1878
A f0,0)Yell .499141 was held in the Presbyterian Church
in Seaford) )11 honour of the Rev, Mr. Goldsmith en the
eve of his departur‘to Hatnilton, his new field of
labour.
Mr. Cardio wishes us to slife for the benefit Of
' tobacco chewers whdattend entertainments in his Hall
that •he would be• obliged to them if they would either
on
from cheWing in the Hall and spitting large pools
on the floor or take their own. spitoons with them.
A rather exciting and novel trotting race topic place
between a driving mare owned by 14;""MCMulicin and
• ' horse owned-by F, Meyer. The race was for a bet of $25.
fora side and,waSfrom Bayfield to Seaforth, a distance
of 16 Miles. Tile hbrses,', keptn closely, „tOgether until
between Varna and Brucefield when Mr. Meyer's horse
cast a. shoe and he w,as withdrawn from the 'race in
Brucefield.
The sleighing ,the east few days, although not very
good, has• had a marveleus effect upon business. The
town has been crowded and the merchants,' produce
and businessmen, gerlerallihave been doing a
' rushing businesS. '
The annual meeting ,of the shareholders and patr'tins
of the Seaforth•Cheese Factory was held last week. The :
follewing directors were named: Messrs. Robert' "
Govenlock,' W,' J. Shannon, James Scott, Edward -
Hickson, and William McMurray. Robert Govenlock
was appointed president and J. Duncan secretary.
The fox fever is alarmingly prevalent in McKillop. Its
victims all belong to the male sex. It is very, contagious.
Messrs:. MeNaughton and Holmes of Hibbert
thieshed for James Hill otStaffa, 700 bushels of spring
wheat in 11 hours. The' work was done in a first class
'-'manner. '
JANUAila 16, 1903
Mr. W. M. Harborn, the enterprising proprietor of
the green house in 'Herisall has an' unusually fine
display of 'plants, flowers and carnations.
Mr: , John K W. Patterson of Rensall, had ,,the
• misfortune last week to, lose -.a nice young,driVer owing
to illecidentally getting in a hole in the deep snow and
- breaking its ;leg.
Consider-able wood is being brought in- to market and
'Meets with ready deniand hilt Teal still continues very
scarce in Henkall.
'Mr. David Rogers of Kirkton, son-in-law of William
Bickle of Egmonciville lost a sovitfive weeks ago and she
was found under a straw stacknnhis farm: The animal
was still alive, although in, a terrible emaciated
condition. •
Messrs. • MCEWen and Geiger, proprietors 'of • th
. Seaforth Flax. Mills have had .o new , electric fighting
' plant instalik in their mills for the purpose of lightip
the '.premises for the worknien.; Work was done by W.
'Cook of Hensall.
The coal oil man who'visits town once each week to
Mr. 'Alin Rutledge of Tttckersniith wa s here jug now
from the Northwest buying several carloads of hOrses to
Mienday night. The night- was_a.Wild One and the roads
take back with him to that country. •
Canadian oil cannot be bought.
supply the dealers here only sells American. oil now as
The Presbyterian Church Choir went. to Brucefield
..gboaoddantidrnteh.e members showed pluck to go out in such
bad weather but . they got through all 'right and had a
The storm which raged with more or Jess-severity for
nearly a. week ,slacked somewhat on TueS'day: Elie
weather was intensely cold and 'a considerable depth of
snow fell. The trains were considerably behind time but
the stages got Ahrotigh every day in good shape. Mr..
Murdo Ross,of Ba341eld was in town with a nice supply
of 'which he disposed of,to the merchants here.
• The 'coal. dealers here have been making efforts to
• keep the people ,supplied with coal. The public school
Which has been heated by enthracite coal was fortunate •
to have about eight tons left over from last season but
that is- now about" exhausted and, the trustees are
cudgelling their. brains as to hew they will get a new
supply.
' The 'rain'On Wednesday has cloneg
will
oods herepvlicen
• settling and solidifying the snow which
e
roads if it does not bring too) much thaW.
JANUARY 20, 1928
-Quite a number from Kippen took in Mt. Koehler's
sale at Zitrich, and report very high prices, especially
for cows and calveS. • .
- Cars are again Wavellingonthe country roactSiiisiiite.
of their condition. ' •
After 'seven ',years of -illness and suffering, there
passed away at his home in Zurich, Samuel Edighoffer,
in his 89th year. ‘" •
Oscar-4(11)ff of Zurich has sold his 50 acre farm' in Hay.,
TownShip to Robert Adams who has bad it rented for
some time, • •
The sales being put on by the merchants in ,Zurich
aye attracting large crowd(to the village these days.
The-many friends of Joseph McCully of Bru&field
are sorry to learn that he had the misfortune to fall and:
break his leg.
The streets and sidewalks in Hensall •are in a very
• dangerous condition owing to their icy condition.
. The Hensall Manufacturing Company intends
-moving from the second floor of Petty's block- to the
' -first floor under their present stand.
G. R.: Mickle of HenSall is having the finishing'
touches put on his fine new building on Main Street.--
The annual, congregational meeting of First
'Presbyterian church was attended by many. Dr. R. R.
Ross .was appointed chairman. The report of the
• treasurer M. MCKeller showed the chutch to be in a
„. prospering condition. •
Honourable Lincoln Goldie, provincial Secretaryrovas
in town conferring with the Scott M6inorial Hospital
Board.
• • Messrs. W. A. Ross -and sons of Stanley Township
' have rented the George Mitchell farm on the eighth
concession and intend using it as a grass farm.
• JANUARY 16, 1953
Al Nicholson, Seaforth playing defence for the local
hdckey team, was accidentally hit by one of the Lucan
players. The result was a'slash across the-tiose, causing
-an .injury and requiring eight stitches.
Plan's and specifications indicating an expenditure of
$39,000, were submitted for a new Roxboro bridge-by S.
W. -Archibald to members of the McKillop Township
Council who met for their first session of 1953 on
Monday.
A farewell party was held' in•Winthrtm Hall for Mr.
,,,and Mrs. Robert Davidson and family. Euchre Was
played early in the evening, prize wintierS,Nviere: Ladies
High--Mrs. Glen Haase; Gents--Ausin Dolmage; Low
Ladies-MrS. George Pethick; Gents-Wilbur Godkin;
and the adthess was read by MissEthel McClure, Mrs.
Almira Chambers presented them with a• purse of
money.
Congratulations are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Wietersen, of McKillop, who marked' their golden
wedding with a family dinner.
Mr. and "'Mrs, Harvey H. Leslie, and Mr. and Mrs. "
John Hothem attended a Creamery ASsociation
convention in Hamilton this week.
`Miss Annie Pryce passed away at her home on High
;Street following-an illness of seven years. She was in
tier 67th year.
SEAFORTH,•ONTARIO,'4ANUARY 19 1478
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