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The Huron Expositor, 1978-03-02, Page 3At. • HURON EXP SITOR x MARQH 2,1978,1-1 •4 Lions start East& Sed drive only. to do .what it can at Easter seal time. Today he .. said responsibility includes guides to and direction - of rehabilitation. The tendency for clubs to sit back and say to the .professionals "you do it" must be resisted otherwise the work at some point couldbe taken over by governments at triple the cost and with an increaSe in red tape that- could not be estimated. • ' ' "There is a happy medium" he said "the profesgionals and the service clubs -can work together ' In this way the clubs, through the- society, . can ,continue to contribute in an effective way to assisting not only the child but also his ,parents 'and family, tp cope. with the pressure and needs . which arise with a handicapped OrVille4Oke, who last year was . elected area direetOr for. the . society, expressed appreciation to the speaker. Geo, . D. Hays won the weekly drdw. 'Men .intured . Two Men were...slightly. injured Saturday night abOut 6.30 when a van and a car collided on Goderich St. E., just. cast of the main intersection.' George ',AK, .. McClory, 20, of Brussels, was44ve.iiillgSEISLUI a 1977 Chev passenger . van which collided With a 1969 Pontiac driven by Fred. W. MacDonald,' , 23. • of), 8.12.4, Seaforth, travelling west.. Seaforth 'Chief of Police John Cairns,,said,Mr. MacDonald, and David Mehitosh, , a passenger in the -McClery van were taken to Seaforth Commtmity Hospital where they, were released after . haying stitches, Mr. MeClory will be charged .with making an improper left 'turn, - 'The Seaforth areit. Easter seal - campaign .was kicked, off Monday night when offiOals of the Ontario Society . Crippled -Children Were guests ofthe Seaforth Lions Club. The Club has participated • in. the (Tippled children,program fur ny4ct.rly SO yeapoancreach year spOnsors the Easter Seal • Campaign . on behalf ; of the Society. .' , • The.mceting was arranged by. the . Lions Health and -Welfare ComMitte of Torn Young, Darwin Bannerman and Orville Oke and • vas .chaired by Mr.' Young. 6ticstAiineluded Scaforth Mayor .Betty Cardin), Recalling the many years in which ---Scaforth ... Lions had sit Ppi'iffiFil crippled • Work ...John Butler. executiVc " director Of the Ontario Society..44.r." crippled children •told the club it was Orie • of' 2,1b.. service • clubs across Ontarid Who made .up the' Society. Mr. Butler referrer • to the changes that' had occur ed since the Society first began its work. While there• continues to be, a requirement • to ensure that the Crippled child receives the bets in Mr. Butler referred • to. the changes that had ectl".irred since • the society first began its work. While there continues. to be a requirement .to, ensure that the crippled child receives the best in. medical attention today, he said no longer is enough for club to regard its committments as being Correction In a, story op the possible closing of Walton Public School Iasi week the Expositor said rural• children attend WPS for their-first five grades. This, was inco.nrect. Walton Public School has' four grades, from Kidnergarten to Grade 3 inclusive. The Expositor 'regrets the ermir.,. by Karl Schuessler arch raises $1,754 The annual March . of Dimes campaign in Seaforth has raised " chairman 'Mrs. Shirley O'Shea . has 'announced. ,That rtweseots a significant increase. over 1977 when $1 .475. wits raked by volunteers in Seaforth. Mrs. O'Shea 'expressed thankS • to the large number of Volunteer -cayra\sers and members of the Ifiedia .iind the commtinity who supported the March of. Dimes .efforts. A coupleof dogs crossed my path this Week. And before 1 let them takea bite•out of me, 1 ' ,thought I'd get the bite on them first. ' -I must explain. These weren't' real dogs. . Well, they were real. but I mean just heard • about them. and that's set me off howling this week, .Someone told me he heard you could tell 'what a iman was like by the dog he had. ' Now, that wasn't news to me. I'd heard that one before from one of my best folk sources - around-from my wife's Aunt Hazel, For years she's been saying her father always insisted .... that to really know a man. you should pay as much attenti in to his dog as you do to him. iY guess -the feeling must be that birds of' a. feather-ahem-dogs-of a fey-pack together,; But is, it true? The persop wanted to knew is there any truth to this folk wisdom? ,hoW should I know? I haven't been that much of a dog keeper in my lifetime. Maybe `it is true. Maybe a mean dog is a sublimation for a mean streak in , a Man. Maybe like does attract like. Plain animal attraction in both of them. • But what I've never been'., able - to understand is why decent, sane and tolerant people keep snarly -and toothy dogs, • In _general, people are supposed to be hospitable, aren't they? So how do I feel when I walk up to a house .and there's a big bowscr barking his head off at Me? And I have that sneaky feeling he's eytkieg my lower'leg with extra delight and relish? It's enough to run me off., I know, liget the idea. 1 ought to get. And the bewaret4he-dog sign reinforces the idea, Some people have tried to console me and- say barking dogs never . bite. How can they ,bite when they're barking? And someone else says his dog is just being friendly-bark and all. But the darn dog is lifting himself all over me and sniffing me up and down--in the not most respectable of places, either. "He's never bit anyone yet", he says. But that's no comfort. I don't care to chance becotning his first flesh offering. Down boy. down. That's where I like my dogs. Down a . preferably out of `sight. Music Is Now RE-OPENED New Albums And Hi=Fi Equipment ARRIVING' DAM.*:. 16 Ontario Street, Stratford 271.2960 P says no schools (by Wilma Okel „- - 'there will be some movement-, of students for better class sizes but none of the 19 elementary separate-schools in Huron and Perth countiq will be closed" due , to declining enrolment, the H-P board decided*Monday night. Trustee Ronald Murray,. 'Dublin, chairman of the'declining enrolment ,committee,. reported on the three public rdeginss held by the committee, , ,? • With a 5.4 per cent decline in enrolment beginning in September 1977, the .committee was set up to study the problem,. using the report prepared by the administrative - staff providing statistics and, background information on the schools. also recommendations, . The three publie:meetings were lield in , Dublin, attended by 150 persons; in St. ' Colimban attended by atiotjt 60; and in Stratford by over' 200, which pleased committee members. Con 12 Hallett 2 1 3 miles from No 4 WORK* CLOTHES Special BEEJAYS She 6.10 [SEcontli $12.00 Men's Leather Top RUBBERS Felt Lined S,Toe - 'S, Sole • $19.00 _ 1 9.50 $7.50 Green Drill PANTS $4.00 . P.P.PANTS Shins North Star RUNNERS Size, 1= 6 $8.00. Other Runners $2.00 • $5.00 Men's WORK BOOTS Insulated or Plain .• St, Toe $25.00 - $40.00 RUBBER BOOTS 6.00 1.009.00 MEN'S JEANS S 8.00 ,S14.00 COVERALLS $12,00., WM Men's RUNNERS $10.50 • CASUAL LOAFERS $12.60 BOYS*1EAT11ER BOOTS New $14.00 PARKAS " JACKETS School House Store tittle Girls SLIPPERS Size 11 - 3. CHOICES. . 5.00 pr„, COME SEE • Opect'till 9 pan. Close .Tuesday fill 1 P.M. T.••••••To•ToTTIT•ToTT! rw ethia* to soy 'by Susan White ,N ICEAK ITTY When the Kindergarten class from'"- Seaforth Public School visited the Wayne Hugill farm, R.R.#2, Seafol•th last Thursday, a special fiello - to one of the family's cats was in order. Pictured are Don't get me wrong. I'm not all that vicious,. I don't know if I exactly ascribe to -a current feeling `around the countryside- "Shoot. Shovel and Shut-Up". That's one farmer's advice when itwines to .a dog killing. his chickeng and wpfryhtg his sheep. . 1 heard another dog story' last week--.one.,by James Tborber that American h ninon r ist from Ohio. There were-plenty of clogs in his life, but the best remembered was the worst behaved. Trixie wa's her name. A mean dog if I ever -heard of one, but his mother insisted on keeping her even though the brute bit house callers systematically. AMother Thurber had her own balm for the ...bitten and smitten. At Christmas time,Mania ThurbelA,F1, •,.. baked cakes and sent one to each person -ixie had bit during the year. That kept the woman busy in her kitchen for days. And the banner year was one Christmas when mama sent a cake to a U.S. senator, because Trikie had taken a nip out of him when he . called at their home that September. , , But get rid of Trixie? "Never!" mania said. And papa had corrections down at the city hall to keep the impounder at bay, - And when Tr ixie finally, died, mania prop', . 'insisted on a pror gravesiteatid a memorial marker. And she didn't rest easy until she aline up with exactly the right wo'rds--in Latin no less. In the same words that served ,Trixie 'in life as well as 'death: "Cave Canon". "Beware the Dog". . I heard a redefinition of grace last week. 1 don't"mean the kind.of „grace that means you walk • in elegant ease and style. I mean theological grace-undeserved forgiveness, unmerited acceptance. ' Grace. this pastor said, was when the minister's kid did something bad. nd the congregation didn't cluck and gossip about it. They didn't say a word. Now, if I were really big about it. I'd odend that grace to the pastor's dog. His--dog needs it. - But I have a mean streak in Me. And 1 don't have a dog to work my• aggressions through. 'Ruff! Ruff!. Gm] Gm! watch out all you dogs and people. I'm wearing a sign too. "Cave Karlem". "Beware of Karl". Something rather pleasant happened in Canada recently. Not too. many pleasant things have Occtirred in this country of te, so perhaps we should observe and enjoy this one, " I'M referring to the general dece.ney shown " by the -press and politicians„ neither of them noted for this ..quality, in the Franeis Fox - • - • ' affair. In case you've already forgotten it: Mr. Fox, a brilliant young cabinet minister and Solicitor General • of Canada. confessed he had wminitted peccadillo and resigned from the cabinet. • . He had forged the name of her husband to a'paper permitting an abortion for'a married lady with whom:he-was, apparently.. on more than speaking terms. -he 'was caught when • another, lady .wrote the prime minister and squealed on him.: ' Mr. FOx. a Rhodes .scholat...provCd once again that' you cot have a lot of brains and still , • he a du intmy. '1 I e not only eorninittledforgery, he committed adult .cry. And he seems never. • to have heard of birth coma That's all Tight. There are a good many . dummies among our ihnstrious leaders, and/ always Irnc hecn. Most of the others just • has en't been caught. But what. was rather ,startling about the whole business was the• restraint practised by Fox's opponents in politics., by the press, and. by the pnblic in general. Nobody went foi: his jugular, or thtit ottthe goVernment. which is aston i Siting in these .times. • when sym-pathy,. compassion. and deceia.yscem to be,going by the board. • • Had-it haPpened in Britain. the tabloids would ha VC had a fieldday,,a nd the poor inan -wordd-h liari cTi:itictf outof is 'cabinet., out of parliament 'and probably right out of the country by the sheer weight of the scavenging • that would have . taken place.. But no. not here. Political foes expressed sympathy, 'editorials reminded us that we all, have a skeleton,or. two in the closet, and the head Of the United Church wrote Fox. a I Ater hoping that "there is enough graec • and understanding in this country that you. willnot, has e to rite under the cloud." Such forbearance. A. generation _!ago the man would has c been howled out of the office'. - Not so very long ago: as sonic elderly Tories remember. a num-4..berof cabinet ministers of that denomination were smeared rather thickly for exlianging bon mots with one Gerda Munsigner, a German lady with a shady past. What, in the world has come over us? Why sodden benevolence tow ard, . a fellow heman being? Is it some. sort of midwinter marines', that has crept sneakily into our dour Canadian puritanism? List night it was 10 p.m, before 1 realized that 'Tuck hadn't been. fed. He usually eats at with the rest of us. But, in our rush to get The baby bathed and settled down and father off to,a hockey game: Ttik got lost in the shuffle. • It was only that I heard him practically knocking at the back " door to come in and then watched him charge towards his blue bowl ,that I knew Wokl completely forgotten about him. Now I know • we're not• the typical family, but I've begged the better half to stop, telling Gaby that Tuk is her big brother. She's going to be the" only kid in 1 - Or is the whole thing a crafty Liberal plot to snatch hbaillineS and induce sympathy among the women on the country? First Margaret bogs off 'and leaves., that poor. cleat' man with three boys. to raise. Now .Ftaneis, with one swell loop, reveals that evert a -cabinet minister is capable of paSSion. If this is the case, what in the world is Joe Clark going•to (1O-to counteract' all this free pliblicity. ,before • the election' canipaign begins? His wile- is staying home and behaving herself, and' his own past is impeccably dull. • My suggestion. to Joe and the Mlles, f,or what it's Worth, is that• they start' rooking' around for sonic really' rotten ,people 'as potential cabinet ministers. Whattltey need in their anxious ranks are a sex devtate or two couple of guys who served time for armed robbery, and a few ladies who were formerly happy hookers. A jam of tarts, as it Were. Toss in a child hatterer and ','otticotie who snatched ,underwea r off clothes line's, and they'd run the Libel-ids righl ,off the fi..ont pages., Is it true that we all have a skeleton' in otir closet, something that• would be humiliating Were it gxposed to the avid, public. eye? , Maybe' there a,re a few • lofty. Souls With ,a clean slate, but I'd he surprised it' there were enough of them to form a hockey team. Conic on now, gentle reader. Cast yotir ntind • hack Over your life, and take 'a close look into those dark corners, you have managed to altnOst forget. Have you never picked your nose when nobody was looking? Have you never,' ever, smelled you r own armpits *pi siThilar company?. Haye you never!helped.d.estroy. a reputatjon -. • by repeating gossip? Have you neVer done a.- cruel thing or a mean thing in.your life? Have you never got drunk and made an ass of yOurself. Never said, • a bad word? Never hawked and spat a gob when nobody was around? Never emitted' air from . an orifice sneakily? , Well, good on you, as we say in Austrailia, '''' iTY-Ott haven't. You must be ander six months of age, and even infants can't quality oti 'all counts. I could, probably count on my toes the people in this country who have,, not lied,. 'cheated, stolen. committted adultery at least in the head. worshipped vile graven image known as a ear. or railed to honor their father and mother, at some time. Personally. I 11 ave so many skeletons in my Own closet thbre's no room for more, I had to start shoving, them under the bed. It Joe Clark takes my suggestion with the seriousness with which it is offered, I'd he -glad to help. I know some really rotten people. she didn't think she'd ever have A grandchild. But still, it's hard When a grandrdog has to move, Over,„ for a grandchild as he's finding otit. - My mother was lamenting the fact that. when we go away this -weekend to 'a convention in Toronto, Oaby,the baby gods with us. "If she was,Weaned she could stay here with us," she said a little wistfully, — "Never mind" we told her, "y/ou can look after the older .boy." She tried hard to look thrilled,. You" re in e "w one in Dublin-would go for this," Mr. Murray said. "The only place you could transfer students . from. one school to another without upsetting the (Continued. on Page 20) , Crowd at Walton (Continued from Page 9, (locally) to, hold th ings as they trustee McDonald said but he lose their jobs. "They'd go to Seaforthi if WPS -was closed, ®' chairman. Wilfred Shortreed, who are." " • Former trustee and boded chaired the meeting suggested added "we'd be remiss if we went the board. might have to revamp against Walton School. Seaforth all its boundaries,, perhaps D HS isn't down that badly." . drawing a 'circle • around each 'Seven. years ago when the 'school and letting students attend schools closed it was going to be where they are closest. cheaper, 4e all know how, it All the facts about enrolment in, went" said McKillop • councillor- all county schools should be Ralph McNichol, who also available for parents to look at, acknowledied that the board Trevor Smith of Walton members are, Under great suggested. "Then they can see pressure to make cuts. "I hope where the orntilems are." they can 'get 'enough pressure YOU.ARE' INVITED to- come and see ,us at the FARM . SHOW London Febructiy 28th to Marche 3rd. McGAVINS °FARM EQUIOMENT LIP WALTON --- Serving Agritulture Since 1936 . Mrs. Joyce Seafortkl and farm page, Hugill with "Oheryl. Anne Storey of ,Jennifer Hugill. Another peloto i on the t ' I (Photo by Oke) .TT•L••••.•••• Most parents know what a big adjustment a new baby is to' an older child in the family, Luckily I don't have that problem with 'my daughter. She's the one and only. Well; almost. The sibling rivalry, ‘'e have in our family is more unusual, subtle. It concerns the first born, "our older boy". as the better half calls him, our dog Tuk. We hasiTt.dc for three and a half yearS •before we had Gab the baby and although he-adjusyd very' gracefully to a certain, drop' in the attention that was focussed on him. he's suffered. oh how he's suffered. _Sugar. and Spice by Bill Smiley Something pleasant kindergarten whose big brother has*a curly tail. She already watches him 'with a, great deal o terest. He's not so thrilled er though and he partic rily °Weds when we try to give her a 'short ride on his . back. fie sits down. He'dees try to give the back of her' head a good cleansing lick when it's nearby.• "Never and,. It'll he good for the cradle cap.' jokes her dad, Tuk always got a great deal of love and attention from his will close 7* 40 - relatives and he still does: My mother-In-law ' her "grand-dog"• probably because 4 • The▪ 'administrative staff report , had suggested consolidating Dublin and St Coluniban schools or Seaforth and St, Columban by a redistribution of several classes. The • regular meeting of the Seaforth Horticultural Society will be held on Wednesday Miircit 8th -at '8 p.m. Cord Wright will show slides on his trip to Scotlatfd. „ Seaforth Co-op Nursery School will meet in the lower library on Monday March 6., 8 o'clock. All interested persons please attend.