The Huron Expositor, 1978-04-06, Page 2To the editor:
Loiterers get warned
The/Seaforth /Police arc experiencing an
increase of complaints regarding young men
ai d women loitering around the Main Streets.
• late into the evenings and the small hours of
the morning..
Observ'ation on this type of complaint
reveals that the same few arc responsible for
these minor disturbances week in and week
out .Two young Men appeared -' iii ' the
Court. -Goderich on March 20.
charl.4ed 'With causing a disturbance on Main
Street by shouting. They were tined $200. and
$250. respectively:
Those responsible should heed thiswarning
and plan to spend their dollars elsewhere.
Charges will .continue to be laid and if that
Mails a By-Law will be requested to prevent
'any type of loitering late into the.nights. The
Post Office elosed its doors. Let's try and get
them .Open •again.
John Cairns
Chief of Police
Reader questions teachers
This IC (I Shoutd not he addressed to you „
Mr. Editor. It would lie. more 4ippr0priately
directed to Mc Secondary School leachers in;
lu'roo County.
.Would you Kaye this person working for
you?.
I an) preparc•d to go 10 work for you
tiro% idim.2 you meet the folitiwi"g conditions:
I. I eypeet (0 ht.' paid half again as much as
the common bloke.
2. Iii ',H u the sionowr off, ample skiing lime
in Lk, \\ inter and :I March• re, real W0111.(4 he
haye at least half a do/en days off
durim2. the 'tedious working grind to develop
my serf professionally.
4. Who better than myself eah decide how
much work 1 can 11:111..11e, so I Mils( litSiSI I he
• Me. 010., to set my work Iliad.
a. Should I be iilucky to enjoy good health
and'not in l,5 any working.days, I feel I should
be rewarded and get extra pay fir .not being
sick.
6..Ishall start ('(irk at 9 a:m.and shall feel
tree to lea ve after 3 p.m., hoWeYer, I will .tay
laser should I feel so inclined„
". Once I hays started f working or you and
the !Iced for Wy .,Ser \j,CeS deelfileg • that is
u g unfortunate. Yoot IOC. live Willi 11112.
I w ould not hire this fellow and I hoP,.., the
School Board Aloes. not ,
'teachers were alwats C011Sidered a strong
Yertebrae in the baekbone of thii, con tary. now
it %%Amid appeal' 1 ha I Wilt:brae has art lipids.
P.S. Sorry for the poor typing my• teacher,
,was a lc ay on a di:velopment day the day she
was 10 teach us not to Overstrike.
Witt .Martin
4 - W. \Wiliam Street
Post office helps in ancestor hunt I'
/4,ditor's Note: The following lett-er' tens. the
stoi.y of a successful "ancestor Mint -. It was
reeen.cd by Scaforth Post Attsier. O, G. Oke.
Y,110 advises that Ruth Cluff of the post Office__
staff put Mr. McLeod in touch with relatives.
Mr.. Post master . •
You don't know' how happy you have helped
mc to by ansn:Zring the letter you received
from me askittig about relatives.
They say /I3 is unlucky. I don't think so.
This morning my good wife brought a letter to
me from Mrs., Wilmer Cuthill who is a
daughter of my cousin. Mrs...lohn Storey,
, She wrote me including a picture of my
cousin 'Elizabeth Storey which brings me up to
date on 1912 when we left Trowbridge. You are
the first of many I have written to including a
stamped, self-addressed envelope. .1 had
nearly given up when I received the reply.
Thank yoit. I am the last of the McLeod Family
who left-Ont in 1912 and since - writing,-you,
have • received proof that i am the oldest
hockey player 'in Canada.
A man from Omemee played with the Old
'timers in the Tournament held end . Of
Eehruary in Regina and was written up as the
oldest player at 68. I took his name and
:iddre‘s and-wrote him and he sent me a lovely
four page letter also 'a paper printed by the
Old Timor Hreker 'players. shoiiing iinself
and tellittg that there are 0, r 211!1 Old Timer
Hooke-teams in North America and that the-
best is in Edmonton. Alberta. He 11:1S IN I'll tOrl
up as 08 years. He played in February hint
Won't be 68 till June 28. I played Right
defe n s e i n March. and ‘i a's 0s April 30, 1908.
I have had trouble getting information on
the McLeod family and front Mrs: Cuthill's
• letter I will be getting all the information I
need from her.
I wrote the Post Master' at Ethel as her
mother was born Alter(' and 1 also w l'Ote the
Legion there as her .brot h.'t was a blacksmith,
got a bad dose of gas at Vimy, i always
understood he-was being invalided home and
died on the boat but Mr s . ()l ow' . sail S he was
killed in action in August 1918 yet I •
understand Vimy was April 9.
Maybe I may get the actual date from the
' Legion in Ethel as he WaS born a n d en lis te d
there. My brother Was killed June 4, 1916 at
7llebeke. Belgium.
I just had to write you,thanking von very
Mitch for What you have done for me.
I remain,
N1,1 cod.
It
Hay.e you ever noticed that we spend a lot of
• time talking about the big crises,-of life when
it's the little things that really affect 'us most?
Television and the newspapers talk
incessantly abou t out domestic economic
woes when what affects most of us more is the
little doMestic battles such as whether the
toothpaste tube should be squeezed from the
middle or the end tiny wife squeezes from the
middle while I work from the end). They talk
• about the tensions between the Arabs and
Israelis in the Middle Bast OfilleOvhat really
matters is the tensions between and
wife :When-he leaves his dirty socks sitting
around the' bedroom floor instead of putting
them away 'in the clothes hamper.
There are Many bad jokes made about the
troubles of a man and woman adjusting to
each other in'the first' days .of their marriage
but it's actually very,. true .as nearly anyone
who has beeh married will admit. Really -When
you think of it, .it's tribute to the flexibility of •
human beings that'. th,ere ',aren't more
marriages.that end in disaster because people
can't• learn to do things a different Way. 'if
people showed as much willingness to
accommodate others in their whole life as they
do in their marriage, die world would be a.
better place.'
We talk•about national unity but when. you
, think of it.' each family is'a"liftle country of its
ttwn. Each has its own rules, its own .cusioims
which are alittle different than an the others
When.two people who have been raised under
two sets of customs for the first 20 years. of.
their lives suddenly move in together, without
any period of getting adjusted, it can be like
two trains on the same track heading for a
collision unless both parties are willing to give
arid take on the things they are used to,
In our family there's been a good ifeal of
give and take. We settled the toothpaste issue
by simply ignoring each other's habits. She
still squeezes from the middle and I' squeeze
from the end and to complicate things, we've
got three kidS that squeeze anyplaCe in
b.etWweeel tilad problems at first about cooking. It
•
wasn't that my wife wasn'fi*od cook, but
just that she had been taught to cook things in
' her family a little differently than. I had been
used to.in my family; My mother, for instance.
believed in cooking roast beef until there
wasn't any sign of red left in it. My wife's '
mother cooked her 'meat' far less. The first
• time I visited my future inlaws and had a slice
of roast' beef with the blood still oozing out of
the middle I. thoUght they were going to have
to pick me up off the floor: '
My wife converted me onAnost things to do •
with food: hciwever. Today I can eat beef that
is, if not rare, at least medium and actually
can prefer it that way. She converted our •
family to using brown sugar insiead of White •
for things 'like cereal. She regularly uses
' whole wheat and- brown breads when" only:
white 'appeared on our table back 'borne.
So' we've manage&to Solve our problems in
nearly all areas-:' except one. After ten y,earS of
marriage we -still have not' been able to
compromise fully on what time to go to bed.
The problem is,that I'm a nightowl while.
she's an early-to-bed person. I function .best
in the -evenings and even into the -morning
hours while she is long gone by thetn.
She carne from a family ,that 'went to bed
early wile my family watched the late movie,
every •night oti television. When we first 'got'
married she started yawning about 9:30 every
night vk•ile I was just getting around to the
time:licit...Rereading or working, We-had-a-
hard time-getting adjUsted at all. Later years,
she didn't have much of a choice. My work
kept me out mitil'incdhight or so most nights
of the week so she got tised to going to bed
• ,without me. Now with three kids, roaring
around the house all day long, I find,I want to
.,continue to stay up late just to enjoy the hours
of peace and quiet that come after they've
finally gone to bed.
There are times when we can still agree on a
common' bedtime. She's moved back from
• starting to yawn at 9:30 to about 10:30. I've
moved up from 1 a.m. to midnight and usually
about 11. Who knows, in another 10 years we
may actually co-operate completely.
But then, so might the Arabs and Israelis.
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Expi*itor asks:
Do you find parking in Seaforth inadequate?
lb.% Debbie Ranneyi
Although Wine licopic (Ann-planted about the
Meters on the main street and 1111. lack of
1%11-king places in Seaforth after. 4, p.m ,most
Seaforth and :irea people seemed ut think
there is adequate parking space here.
Expositor Asks rifts week wanted to •Tt
"Do son find parking in Seaforth in ado quatp
,and if so. What do you think mold be done
.about it:'"'
Mrs. Don Brigntrall of CloderiA Street in
Seaforth said she didn't go downlm111 vcrY
often bill w hen she did. she parked behind the
'.A.
She said she found that the pat•king meter',
were a nuisance at times Nt 11(.'11 she had to keep
running stack (111(1 forth hut she had r,, beefs
because site cildn't use them often (Tough.
Robert K. Core of R. R. 4. Sea Forth. said
oat sonic Fritlat nights there. are occasions
when you can't park on the main street but he
thought the parking in Scaforth was fairly
adequate.
Mrs-. Janet McGregor Egmond isle said
she really did think the parking was
inadequate." because there are some days
v
expeciall after foqr &LIMA that c hard to
get a parking placc.- slit' said.
She thought there should lie a parking lot
close to omit but she said there were no lots
available and she didn't know what could be
done about that. .
Mrs. Roy A. Betterman of R. R. 41, Dublin,
said .she didn't do that much bp siness in
Seaforth but when she did she had no
problems - Parking so she,,,had no complaints.
• Peter Spinal of R • R, 44, Seaforth staid,'
"Yes it's inadequate Which is' tough on the
(low ntov, n merchants when you can-drive to a
(1(01ntim it 151a/"a in Stratford.'•
' Ile sa id the parking is not had depending on
the time of day but in order for the, merchants
to lie competitix e they probably neeck a
parking lot. Ile added that there was no
ohs ions lunation for one. • •
Mrs. John .Baker of Egmondville said she
didn't recut think parking was inadequate but.
she thought it Nt mild be a good idea to do away
with 'parking nfcters.
Mrs. K en It it Illie. B. 12. #3, Scaforth. said.
"Well: it's inadequate. I'm sure of that."
She said she can drive up town and hardly
get a parltin„, place but she said she had no
Idition for the problem. She didn't think
th c should he parking meters either.
think von spend enough money in the
liti
stores that von shouldn't have to pay money
fo't' parking.- Mrs. Ritehie said.
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Published at
Nobody starves durihg these tough
economic times, the 'way some
Canadians starved in . the Ditty
Thirties. But . as. columnist Keith
Roulston so ably pointed out on this
page last week, being unemployed is
still hell,
It's easy to lake - pot--shots at
'unemployment insurance, and most
of us do it. But we shouldn't lose sight
of the fact that cheaters and layabouts
are the minority and-that most of the
8.3 per cent of Canadians who are
'''''''''''''' want to work.
Just howl serious the unernploy7
ment mess is hit home last week when
the° Canadian • Unemploymerit and
Immigration porn rnission dropped the
job search requirement for many
people who• collect from UIC.
Those in occupations where there
just isn't any work. and employers
who've been badgered by them have
been given a break by the UIC ruling.
Columnist Roulston talked about'
auditions for .11 .acting, jobs 'at the
Blyth Summer Festival ,that could
have gOne on fora month' because so
many actors 'wanted 'a, chance...,
The dai•ly press last week,described
,how 6,500 , worRers attended, an-
.Employment, Bonanza in Sudbury.
.250 of them got jobs. AOther 400. to
500 -may get .work-in tutu months as,
4xpositor ,
'si n ee 180, Serving the Community First
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MCLEAN BROS
• ANDREW Y. McLEAN; Publisher
SUSAN WHITE. Editor
PAVE BOBB:" Advertising Manager .
Member Canadian Cointnimity Newspaper Asseciation,
Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association •
and Audit Bureau of Circulation
These are hard tims
1 /6 SEAFORTH,,ONTARIO, APRIL , 1978/
SubscAption Ratesi
Canada (inadvree)$112.00 a Year%
Outs/deCanada lin advance) $213:00 a e r
S NGLE COP4I 2S CENTS EACH
See nd Class Mail Registration Number 0696
Telephone S27-0240
last fall when agricultural experts
predicted that the disaster'ous harvest
would have bad economic effects
outside the farm community? This '
spring many farm equipment,
manufacturers laid 'off factory work ,
force.
Right now we'd. guess that the
unemployment rate in Huron is nor --
even half the national average. We're
ucky. We should realize that'and also--
try .and understand the plight of oth6r
'Canadians Who can't find work.
a resultof the borranZa ,' officials say
but that still helps about 10 per cent
of those who ere looking for work:
We're insulated from unemploy-
ment somewhat in Huron County.
There have been some. industrial
layoffs but many .of us here are self
employed farmers 'or work, for small
business.
we Of course we may have. sons,
daug hters and other relatives in big
industry and big cities who are part-of
the 8.3 per cent.
Like we all know at least one
person 'who's been looking for work
formonths and can't find it. Some of
thesaddest job seekers are the young
people, still looking months after
graduation for their first . jobs.
Arid the appalling 8.3 per cent may
come closer to home yet. Remerriber, Behind the scenes
By Keith Roulston
T1 e• crises are the bad ones
PUBLISHERS LTD.
Hovercraft demonstrating at Sunday's canoe races..
In the yeats.agone
APR114i2,1878
We understand that Robert OrimUlday of this town
has purchased the building, stock, and business of.John
Collin, wailan itaker of Walton. He has been with Mr.
Grassie for If years.
Miss Wilson late of Chicago haS.opened a dress and..
mantle making establishment in the rooms over
Hoffnian's Brothers Store in Cardno's Block, • '
Mr. Robert McCartney former cheese manufacturer
at the Westend Factory, has been engagedfor this
season •by Messrs. Hettle and Inglis of Teeswater.
The warm rainsdf this week have done good servie in
• aiding vegetation. The grass- is-not-quite green, 'The
farmers in this vicinity are busy Seeding,
J. H. Broadfoot has added to his already very
extensive establishment .an addition which .will be of •
great advantage to him.• He has erected a building in
which to season dry lumber by the use of exhaust steam
from the engine that is used to drive the machinery in
the- factory., .
. Thomas Collin of Hullett has sold his farm on the
140 .concession of Hullett containing, 80 acres to John
Searle's for $3,600.
Thomas Neilaos, post master at Harlock, has been .
again a),arded the contract - for conveying Her
Majesty's mail three -times a week between Seaforth,
and Harlock.
APRIL 3,, 1903
While feeding cattle on William Brown's farm in
Hullett, James Porter met with a bad accident. The
animals stampeded and crushed him between them
. with the result that one of his ribs was broken.
James Campbell, has disposed of his farm in
MeKillop to Patrick Rolland of the same township for
purpose of receiving nominations
the
A s mu er
e t nf g$2f0,0r0t0h.e
to fill in thewacancy of the McKillop Council caused by'
the resignation of W. G\ Smith was held in the Cheese
Factory in " Winthrop. Two. persons were . nominated,
John M. GovenlOck and William Devereaux. Mr.
Devereaux withdrew and Mr. Govenlock.was 'declared
A building boon is justbeginning at St. Columban
and before the swallows return it will be,,run,ning, at,
r' high pressure. About $1,800. has' been expended
during the past year in the work of remodelling and
beautifying our basilica. ,
G. K. Holland of Beechw.00d opeoing, 'final , .
departmental store:,
'Thomas' Crisp of, Londesboro is at 'present putting a
cement wall under his kitchen. ,
The chicken pox is thinning 'the schools at Bayfield.
Wilfred Morrow has leased Forbesdelivery stable and
is having it fitted up with the view of staring into the
delivery business. • •
Frank 'Habkirk who has been clerk' in Andrew, •
Young's groCery store has left for Deloraine;
where he has secured a good position..
James Hagan Jr: of the Zurich road was in townwith-, •
a fine pair ofhorses which he has sold Mr. Archibald and •
Cudmore. He. took,home, with him the substantial sum
of $325. ' ' •
James Cowan of McKillop recently sold to Thomas
Rafterdf Elora a colt and for which he 'received the sum
of $.100.
John A: Jackson of Egmondville, who has been
practisin ,law in Blyth for some time, has decided to go
‘.!,est.
Messrs. Greig and Stewart have,, got an automatic
cash .c,.arrier pitt_in_their store.
—A:Steam roller from the Bell Engine Works passed up,
Main Street on Tuesday afternoon. :It seems to do' its
work well and it is'just thething for county-Toads and
streets. • •
MeMbers of the. Blake Presbyterian congregation
.Presented their minister REv. Mr. Davidson with •rwo
large loads of oats and several bags of potatoes and
. •
APRIL 6, 1928 *.
'Edgar putt of Kippen the 'enterprising met:than has
bp.ught from the Shaeffer /state the.bar situated on he
Southwest corner and intends having it all remodelled'
and made into a good, shed for the accommodations of
, )od hoyses.
Syrup making is in full swing at. Kppen and it is
reported,thatM d uring the last feways ,thcre has been ,a
good run of say.
The.'roails :in the Kippen vicilitty-are: still in' bi'd
condition and in places are almos impassable for cars.
The firemen Jidda meeting in Hensall and appointed
CharliCM'oore as Fire Chief in place of E rnie Bates.
Orval Tivitchell and family are moving into Hensall
where Mr..,Twitchell is opening a garage.
Martin Percill of Manley, has engaged • Joseph
Matthews Jr. to work his farm/
'The safi• season is ,over as the warm weather
continues at Manley. " •
More than 60 of the friends,a nd neighbours gathered
at the Liothe of Mr. and Mrs:: Robert ,Turner to enjoy a
social evening ,before they move to Goderich. Mr. and
Mrs. Turndr arc from Stanley Township.
James. Love of Tuckersmith met with a serious
accident while rettirning home with' a load of grain, his
team became unmanageable and he was thrown to the
ground. the back wheel passing over him. He is
suffering severely from bruise's.
The glee club met at the home Mrs. A. Cuthill and
the most enjoyable evening Was spent in playing
euchre ;
Mrs. E. Murray.Goderich Street West, met with an
•unfortunate accident at her home. She was opening the,
• storm door when a strong gust of wind blew the do,or
wide open carrying, Mrs. Murray over the side of the
steps andin the fall she fractured two hones in her leg.
Robt. E. Reid has moved his plumbing and
tinsmithing from the Campbell block on Main Street
into the Queens Hotel. barns.
J. Dennison has disposed of his interest ..in. the
barberIng, business to his .partner St Pullman.
APRIL 10, 1953
A total of $9,279.71 has been yeceived by John G.
Berry, secretary-treasurer of ,the Huron County Over
Seas Flood Relief Rind.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Dow of Cromarty' celebrated
their 25th wedding anniversary. Mrs. Dow, the former
AnneChrst le. is The daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
David Christie.
A greasy fire. behind the 'residence of Mrs. J.
Flannagan. at the west end of Market Street was
quickly extinguished by the Seaforth. Fire Bri a
Following:negotiations with owners of the H sky Flax
limited building on Jarvis Street here, a new
industry-the Ontex Toy Division of Ontario, Textiles
i:imited will shortly commence operation in Scaforth.
Mrs. Margaret Maloney of town celebrated her 85th
birthday on April 2. She enjoyed a family reunion with
her six sons. Louis P., Detroit: Denis, Toronto; Peter and'
Wilfred, McKillop;.Harold and Frank of town who were
present for the occasion. •
Mrs. 'F. S43rugger entetiained at'a trousseau tea for
her daughter. Miss Patricia Brugger.' About 80 guests
were served by Misses K. KiddMarilyn Hillis,Mrs.
Barbara Crawford. Mrs. William Brugger, and Mrs. K.
I. McLean. Tea was poured by Mrs. W. T. Tcall, Mrs.
1. C. Crich and Mrs. R., J. Sprout.
Forty Easter boxes were delivered to sick and shut
ins of Hensall fromthe United Church. Mrs. W. R.
Dugan and Mrs. George Hess were in charge-id' the
projeet.
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