The Huron Expositor, 1978-02-23, Page 27.•
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SEAFORTH,' ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 23, 1978
See Canada first
A poli on Seaforth'S4 Main Street,
Conducted early in the Spring when
most winter holidayers are home,
would show•we wager that three out
of five adults have been to Florida or
to the Caribbean at some time lh,their
lives and that probably two out of five
have" been to Europe.
It's alsO likely that a smaller
number; maybe'only-one out. of -five
'Can say they've been to Canada's
East and West Coasts.
Why? The answer's easy.
cheaper, much cheaper, to• travel in
the U.S., the Caribbean, almost
anywhere in the world than it is to
travel, 'in Canada.
It takes a ' pretty committed
Canadian nationalist to give up a
week in the Bahamas, all inclusive, at •
$250, in favour of a round trip flight to,
Halifax that costs say $350,before, you
begin to talk about Mod and hotel,
prices on , arrival.
The climate we enjoy here" causes
'other travel problems, It's too cold'.
Few government ministers, not even
the Prime Minister, heeded tourism
minister Jack Horner's plea that they
. set a good example and vacation in:; •
,To the editor:
Wohon .,11.0111dTstay.,
As an individual person directly involved
with the Walton Public School, I would like to
state my reasons why this school' Should
continue to exist.
In Kingergarten theehildreri are all leaving
their. bomes for the first time and deed a Close,
secure atmosphere to adjust to this transition,
At Walton they have 4 yearS to make this
adjustment. Here the children eventually all
know each pther and this,is a part of learning.
Give 'children a comfortable, secure feeling
and they •will "achieve academically. •
This school is fortunate to have four of the
tbp full time teachers in Huron County (not
that other schools ' don't have, excellent
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Since 'teenagers from all the areas served by this
NeWspaper attend Central Huron'Secondary School, Clinton, it
. needs to be brought to the attention of all parents of these
teenagers t t several recent incidents among students at this
school would indicate that discipline is getting out of hand. Or, to
pia it more correctly, it is obvious that the disciplinarian§ are..not.
permitted to administer punishment equal to the crimes. At the
rate the pupils„are "misbehaving", the first thing we know there
will be one of ,the pupils killed or maimed for life and then
there'll be a real uproar, with the cry "Why wasn't something
done to stop it all?"
Think about what thete events do to the ego' of pupils invOlved,
and the morale of alt the students. Can you believe that a pupil
• could be hung, up' by his•feet in a washroom and left there? It
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happened CJ-I.S.S. last week: Can you believe that a girl could.
e hit so hard on the head that she suffered from concussion, was
hospitalized, required stitches to close the wound, and needed
glasses repaired. It happened-last week at C.I-f.S.S. in a corridor
at noon hour. What pupil Can afford a week away from classes,
but the Doctor says it is a must that she be quiet: Can „you
'believe that boys would deliberately smash seven lockersfA
it happoned at Clinton, last week. Surely if these students are-
that frustrated, they Could getrid of their frustrations elsewhere.
When 8-track tapes were stolen on a school bus, just a -general S
statement went out to ''return or replace them and no action trill
be taken."
• If such antics went on anywhere other than at a school, the
police would be involved and the culprits would receive -what
they deserved - fines, probation or other punishment. It is
understood that parents have been advised to press charges:,13tit
.., would you?. Or would you feat other repercussions from such
action?
Surely.,the 'Send of Education can authorize or legislate the
nedegiaty measures that mutt be taken tre,get -Iife at the School
back on an even keel. Telling the kids "You must not do this.
again" is a waste of time and. effort. Please - get, behind the
problem and tell the Bbard your feelings before it is forever, too
late,
Signed:
"Concerned"
Editor's Note.: This newspaper discussed the letter writer's
information With Huron Cenntri directot of education John
Cochrane. tOehrafte kaid the board office -investigated the
Wily to the girl• student gave a report to a boatd Mather so that
itWould be discussed with the &ES parents. The vandalism and
the incidetil in the boys' waShrcioni happened' When CHSS
teachers Were out on strike, he said. The director felt that these
were isolated incidents rather than part of a pattern of student •
violence at 'CIISS,
Marc 1,1970
A fight took place at a sale of Mr.• Dugan's, a mile
from, Walton, recently, A lot of young fellows from
Walton make a pointtO attend sales for-miles around to
get all the whiskey and tobacco they can foe nothing.
Most of these young ruffs do hothirigAut live upon their
parents,
, Thema§ Ward has disposed of his house and lot in
th-eesterti part of town to Mrs. Smitlgor the sum n ot -
$450. Mk. Ward has perchased a lot frOm Mr, Adams'
and intends erecting a house on it next :summer. •
J:P. Brine in company with another geptlemen, was
returning from Stanley...wheo. he was attending an
auction sale when. near ,the falfivay crossing in
Brucefield,they Met another horse and buggy driven by
a young lad, ',Which was going at a furious. rate. The •
horse bore slown upon them, jumping Utior diet?. •
buggy, and threwingthent out and smashing thebuggy
16--pleces, Mt'a Brine-waeconsiderably-bruised.
, -The last • store in Cardno's ' new block is now
Occupied. The store was specially fitted up for Messrs.
Hoffman and brbthtirs, Dry Goods and Milli ery.
William Moore ofHenson has rented his sto e to Jack
Pickard of Exeter, Who intends startin General
. • Store,
A' very successful Tea meeting" 'was held in the' .
Canada'Methodist Church in Brucefield en behalf of the
• Sabbath School. The provisions • were -rich and
,abundant: The choir discoursed most excellent music.
•It is seldom we deem it necessary to ,refer to the
performances'`if the Travelling Concert or Shovili_
Company. But the entertainments given. here Saturday p
and Monday evening by Shepherds Jubilees Singers,'
were certainly deserving of the highest
commendations. The company is composed of coloured
people, all Of whorn have been slaves. They have rich
powerful voices and although none of them know a note
of music, 'they keep the most excellent time.
.F.ebruary_. 20,122
William Smithers of Enderlin,' North Dakota, has ,
returned home. He has been laid.Ap •for a time with
▪ typhoid fever but has fully recovered- and now has
returned to his, duties, -
John Rutledge son. of Charles Routl'edge, but now
located, at Indian Head, Northwest Territories, had a
carload of horses shipped from here on TUesday.
W.N. Watson met with a somewhat painful accident
as he was leaving his office for hi"SlAtome when he
accidentally tripped on a leg of a chair falling heavily on
the floor, injuring his side.
On Wednesday, one of theeoldestand stormiest days
of the season,' the thermometer was hovering over ten
• degrees below zero and a regular blizzard, blowing.
Miss Ida Mc Spadden. left for Cleveland where she
remain fora-period Of time:This young lady will be
greatly mitSedby a large circle-of friends. especially by
• the'Presbyterian Church, choir:
George Love of the 10th concession 'of McKilltip
• disposed of 'one of the best teams, of matched colts
which has ever left the township. He received the sum
of $355 for them. `Thomas McLean of Tuckerrnsith *as
the purchaser.
..Thomas 'Ward of Varna has Old one of his farins to
William Dennison for the sum Of $3700.
' Henry Makins has disposed of his farni to Mr. „Elliot
of the. Goshen Line.-
Jerry Ohara of pear Beachwood has added another
fine bull to hiS herd of-shorthorns..
J.J. Ryan of McKilloe returned from a trip to Sau• lt
St. Marie. He s.ays,things; are' very dull.
David Sproat,Rostrriatter in 'Belgrave, 'was in town.
calling on old frier*. •
The, Yarna Methodist Church choir held a pleasant
At home" at the parsonageasa farewell Miss CaSsie
' Johnston, on the eve' of ner 'marriage.
• • Feb, 24;1928'7
- The annual Oyster supper under the auspices of the
Crotharty Scale Company. was held at the heme of Mr.,
-Oswald Walker, all the members being present.
'Oysters were served to about Sixty.
Walter Carlile, who, has been cutting wood in the
neighbOurhond of BrUcefield; has returned home again.
Quite a number of young men from Hillsgreen have •
been out on pleasure trips shooting rabbits.
The 'new assessOrR...Towsend of Chiselhurtt started
on his duiies last week,. •
Thirty-four scholars had • perfect attendance at
Sunday school in the First Presbyterian Chureli for the.
year 1927.. Perfect attendance for three yeart in
succession„Re§s..Refutie and Eisie.Droie.r.lOnc §thelar
had -perfect attendance for four years in succession,
Evelyn Grieve. One tcholar had a perfect attendance of
5 yeart id succession, Norma Habkirk, Two scholatt
had perfect :attendance for two years in succession,
Margaret Drover and Bernice Dorrance.
Death retrieved a well known resident of SZaforth
when Robert E. Coates passed away at ,his home on •
SParling Street in his 61st year. '
Many friends will joing the Expositor. in extending
congratulations and-best wishes to Thomas Stephens of
the Queens Hotel vvh04:celebrated his '87th birtslay:
' Feb. 27 1953
Mrs- James Hogg of town was pleasantly surprised
when the staff of the Seaforth Co operative and friends
assembled at the . home of Mrs; Lillico, North Main
Street to • honor . her before her departure to
Collingwopd. Music was furnished by Ena and Marion
Lillico, Anderson Scott, and a Scotch reading by Mrs.
Roy bodden. Mrs. Alec Wright read the address and
presented Mr§.'1:bagg with. a 'salad bowl and matching
pike.
Some' 65 shareholders, subscribers, and interested
citizens gathered in the Parish Hall in Dublin 'for the
annual meeting of the McKillop, Logan and Hibbert
Telephone Company ',under the - chairmanship of -
Mathew Murray, President. Regret was -expressed over
the serious illness of the chief operator, Miss Mary .
Beale, who is in Scott Memorial Hospital in Seaforth.
Miss Catherine Krauslteplrhas been engaged as the
new operator and is learning to operate' the
• switchboard. '"
Cash pledges of over $1500 to the Hatell Flood Relief ,
'Fund were telephoned to VVinghain and announced over
the air during the Flood Relief Program.
The first-harbinger of spring, was found on Monday
just a fter lunch time, John lAktkbrought-into the
Expositor Office a bouquet, of snowdrops picked by his
wife close to a Fence at their home on the ..Second
concession of luckersmith
Mr, and Mrs. Walter. Fairbairn celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary at the-home of their daughter and
son in law Mr. and Mrs. Ross Lol;e of Kippen. A turkey ,•
dinner was served in their honour to 17 guests,
including several who had attended their wedding 50
• years ago.
-f The brick dwelling of Mrs. C.C. McKanic, Goderinh'
Street/West, has been sold to Stephen itbiise, SEaforth.
The 'Wick dwelling of Mrs. Janet Ament, John Street,
has beea sold to W.L. .MeKelvey,
Ethel, Tennie, Lorne, Elrner and Porter. Dennis, Mr.
- and /vitt. W. Dennis and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mite
were in St. Catherines on Saturday attending the
*‘fuiteril of the late William C. Robinson, a fernier
resident of Walton,
Or. and Mrs. E.A. McMaster. left on a cruise from
New York to Halt, Jamaica, Panama, and Columbia,
South Atuerica.
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Frosty morning .
Bekind .the scenes
By 'Keith Ftoulston
.The big ppw .wp*
The big political pow wow took place in.
OttaWa last week and there was•a great fuss
because the Prime Minister and the Premiers
of the 10' provinces.didn't come up' with the.
solution to' all that: ails -the country.
To listen to Commentators on radio,
television and. in the „newspapers, one would
think that our leaders are- stupid, •callousand •
arrogant anct„don't care at all 'about the little
guy Who's suffering in the recession the'
country is going through. The leaders should
-move itionntaint to get these people back' to '
work,
• Now granted, for those unemployed the
situation is grave:and very sad: It's easy to say
80000:are unemployed and gloss over it. It's
harder to think of the 800,000 individuals
involved, of their. own personal tragedies, the '
grief they can: feel. . But Ifind Myself
wondering these days, if the politicians should '
move mountains• to get these people back to
work instantly, even if they could.
'The problem was 'brought into feces the
other. day by two .speakers I heard on the
radio. They were talking about' th'e need to
move from the present'consumer society to 'a
conserver society. There are those, of coiirse,
who feel such a move is-not necessary, that we of the current problems.. This seems likelyto
only -compound-problem; not trilve-them:
Another-view of hardeconomic times comes
out of the book, "Small Business, Building a
' Balanced Economy" by Prof. Rein Peterson of
• York 'University. Prof. Peterson talks of the
_essentialitrof small business in the economy.
Businesses will grow at a natural act,•he said,
,but new small businesses must be constantly
spawned to add new blood to the business
world: New businesses are usually begunbY
the entrepreneur, the energetic, imaginative
- people who, as the commercial says, have a
better ideland are willing to sacrifice to make
For most of h istory, one of them pointed out, • if grow.
only one person in each family worked outside r There 'are many things that can spur seek
the home to earn an income to buy. the goods people into action, Prof. Peterson says but one
the family needed. today, the • two-worker of these is hard times. A person is laid off or
home is in the majority, indeed is almost fired or his company goes 'bankrupt and the
essential for the family to live the standard of entrepreneur decides to take a fl ing and
living people think necessary, in other words, _ providing his or her own job by starting a new -
to bu)P all those fancy gadgets. While food, the"" ' business The highest point of activity in
forming 'hew small businesses comes at the
bottom of an economic cycle. It's possible
then, that a good deal of good could come out
of the present problems. Canada needs an
energetic new generation of small
businessmen to p ut life back into providing
the' services that people need. Among that
huge mass of unemployed there may today be
ideas brewing that will- lead tel• new .
businesses that will improve the whole
country.
Every cloud has a silver lining, the old,
saying goes and if we can manage to look at
the long term instead of the short term, hard
times such as our present situation can of ten
bring benefit's.' It's something remember
the next time some voice of doom booms out of
your radio giving the latest gloomy statistics.
To the editor:
Ontario hydro scare tactics
• questionnaires to their farm customers on the
percent.
time when the projected seven "percent
the position on elettrical expansion - that
raises the prospects of power rationing at a
demand for last year turned out 'to be only two
designed to Stare-the farniel' into support for
Ontario Hydro favours. The questionnaire
possible results of -a power blabkout on the
resulting from damage to farm, spoilage of
produce, lost crop or animals, dean' and
possible extra labour" and .suclifire obvio
farm. Stith questions as: What is- the "cost
Ontario Hydro has been mailing 25,004)
Itau*:t Planning and, as mentioned before,
Taper, to the Royal -Commission on Electric
found the forecasted demand to be faulty:
our turn question the ethics Of Ontario Hydro
infermation that is presented in reams, of
wishes to answer the questionnaire, but we in
in this matter
never questioned the projections for more
the Committee has also kept abreast -of the
generating stations, only their location. But
• The Huron Power Plant Ctitimiiitee has
It will se, be up, to each farmer if he
Adrian yes Chairman, Hurcm
POwef Plant Committee
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Canada (in advance) $0,.00 a fear,
Outside Canada lin advance) S20.OQ a Year
Canada this winter.
It's a sad state of affairs and 'the
high cost of travel in Canada
Contributes to a lack of national unity
that's just • important as 'the $2
billion travel 'deficit we had, in 1977i
Canadians spent- nearly .$2 billion
more on travel outside 'the country
than was Spent in Canada in many
cases because they couldn1 afford
prices here. •
'In an effort to dam the outflowing
tourist dollars our federal government
has announced 54 low cost togrs that
- combine special air, bus and CN -tares
, with accommodations priced 30 to 40
per cent below normal.
Novi they aren't going to keep
snowbalt people away 'from Florida in
',the wintertime, but the tours and the
government •attempt to make travel
here competitive and attractive„, are
steps in -the right direction. 'a,"
The government, in co-operation
with the provinces and the tourist
industry has made the first move.
NOW It's up to us to take advantage of
their arrangements and make a real
effort starting with our 1978 holiday'
plans, to see Canada first.
teachers) but I find this unique, since they
comprise the staff.
Parents who have children in this school
should give serious consideration to this crisis
'and hopefully when they make a decision that .
they will think of dick children. Parents with
pre-schoOl 'children-'aOlio will be attending this
school (hopefuliY) so have the right to voice
their• opinions. I don't mean by talking across
the fence to friends and neighbours, but by
taking time to approach or write the,Board of.
Education. No response means
Walton Public Schjot. • •
A concerned taxpayer •
Marlene. Roberton
To the editor:
CUSS violence concerns reader
qW5pApigis CO
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short$erm hardship. ThOt hardship has to -
come sometime. Government scrambling to
patch up the old, system, 'only a short-term
bandage and sometime; the pain of the
transition must take place. The speaker said
that he was worried about governments-taking
hasty, short-term• actions that would only
-complicate the problem.- '
In •-fact:. be went further.. He said that,
governments over -the world are guilty of
purposedly misleading people into' thinking
the present orgy of materialistic acqiiisitiop
can go on forever. U.S. President , Jimmy
Carter's proposal for an energy tax was the
only realistic proposal made by western
govdrnments, he claimed.
The speaker's Words cu.. tarove very
troubling ones. They will be scoffed at and
deliberately ignored by others who don't
to see the present consumer binge com
.end. But if he is tight, anti I kir one have t
suspicion that he is, then we're in for a f
rough, years . What AS frightening about it is.
that some experts try to say taht thy way out of
our present troubles is a ma ssive tax cut
which would put more money in the hands of
- consuiners so they can "spend their way" out
can'gthan forever wittrour present materialit-.
tic .splurge. Others, looking ahead to -
shortages in fossil fuels, in ,'metals and in
nearly all the products used today to make the
fancy gadgets we clutter our houses with; say
we can't 'continue in the path we've been on
since World•War• II. We got to move ahead to
what we've left behind, they say. We've got to
learn to live more in the way people did in the ,
first half of the 20th century.,.
The speakers I was listening to were saying
that it is impossible to keep up the present
pace of th'e consumer society too much longer.
basic essential for existence, is cheaper in
relation to income than ever before, we still
have people with both husband and wife
Working, who claim that they can't make ends
meet. What lies •ahead, the speaker
wondered: Will we have to go to polygamy to
put enough money in the family income to
meet the new standard of living?. • The
speaker said that sooner or later the Consumer
society has got to break down and he
wondered if that point had already occurred
.and that was what was causing the current
problems. Usually in times past we have had
either inflation or unemployment. For,the past
several years we've had both.
What he was trying to point out was that
when the switch front the consumer to the
conserver society takes place, there will be
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