The Huron Expositor, 1978-05-25, Page 3To die editor:
police need public's help FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
SeafaHh
Spring
Thankoffering
Se'rvice
Sunday,
May 28
11:15 A.M.
GUEST MINISTER: Rev. Leslie Landell B.D.,
of Atwood
SPECIAL MUSIC, by Mrs. Don Overholt
and Mr. David Stewart
FAMILY BREAKFAST AT 9:00 A.M.,
when Miss Landell will speak
YOU ARE INVITED
it
THEHURON' XliOPITORi MAY 25, 1978
And so we're_saying
THANK YOU
and
GOOD 7 BYE.
For more than 75 years - "ever since
Crich opened his store and bakery here in 1902.
Crich's has been serving the people of Seaforth
area.
There have been good years and bad years
but one thing has remained constant
throughout the years and that islhe unfailing
support and co-op.eration that you, the people
who have been our customers and friends"have
entended to us and which we, have enjoyed and
appreciated so much.
But now 'our butiness association musf-end
and we have, sold our building and must vacate by
the end of this month and our doors will close
for the last time at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 27.
Thanks again for your many kindnesses.
John & Mona Crich
Tuckersmith rate increase
hidden, reader says
Expositor Asks comes easier
even with last week's typo
(by Debbie R a reney 1
' LtIst week I. was so glad \\ hen
niv editor finally managed to find
remit for my column on the
hustrations of doing Expositor
Ask-s.
Then when I was reading over
the column and came to the last
paiagraph I got' a little more
• frustrated. A \ cry important.
. •,
indeed crucial ''not" as left nil.
What the paragraph should
Inn L. said was, "It \nii mould like
to hell') the Save the Reporter
Fund pleased gi\ e me an answer
\ole o I call you for I ,j )0•,)j or
Asks. preferably .not no comment
and preferabk with vour wirric tit
1.10 ith
hi Spite Of this. mistake.
1•Apositor ksks seemed to come a
hit easier than usual this week.
Hopehilk that ineatis people have
dthen pity on me and \\ ill continue
togi\c a5 good it response' u, time s
11:111. this wick when the\ answer
the phone and I say: '''rhis is
Debbie Ranney calling for
1:spositor
Win K of C four car raffle
The annual, 'Charities Raffle
sponsored' by the Ontario State
Board, of the Knights of
Columbus \\ as held on Nlondas.
May 22nd, during the Onsing of
the "5th Ontario State
Convention which took place at
the Royal link Hotel in Toronto
during the eeekcend.
!Our cars were offered as
• prizes with the following being
&dared Winners: "NI prim, 1978
Buick LeSahre Crustetun to E. H.
jimcs. n.t I/.
Ont. (\'(i4 '46): 2nd. prize. Ig"8
ch.\ sler Newport to ('.F-.Horton.
Syli ester Pharmacy . i indsey •
Ontario (80 71930): ird
to-'s ,Cougar 2 1)1., Pillared
Fhirdtop to . R.‘Varton:41). 312
Sveoddale, Oakcills Ont„
iRs186861:LIth priie, 19 -8 \
decorti D 1. to .1, Mi.hauville
P.O.Box 121 Hein. ()merle
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l'ret c'eds from this Knight".% of
t'olunibus Chwaies draw by the •
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main • necipient 'Ric Arthritis
Society. All councils in Ontario
participate and the executive and
members of the Father Stephen
Ftkert CnIllicil of Seaforth and
District wish to thank all w ho
purehesed ticket s from t he
rociriluTs of the local council.
Dek the convention
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(`torn it \\ ere Grand Knight Philip
Duraiul and Deputy Grand
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Soptething to say
by Susan, White
A book binge As a result of the reection got last week on
my letter., 1, have accepted your advice of the
innocent, and, of my good friends ineewn. so
go to the ' Police, And so I did.
I told them what I have seen happening and
also witnesses who were with me, but do not
want their names in the newspaper, I am glad
I did talk to them, and feel much better now
since they told me, that it was pat gossip as
you call it, but the true facts.
They knew all along that this is going on in
our tqwn, but not only Seaforth but other
plebes in this area having the same problems.
These peddlers are coming from all over the
country and they know where to find buyers
for their , stuff they are selling.
If you see 'these things happen , and. the
pollee aretee there,. and you can say, now,
where are the ppolicemeri to catch these guys,
Yes it's easy to criticize them for not being
in the neighborhood, but they do not know
always where they are. Theepeddlers- keep a
close watch on where the police cruiser is
going. The police told me they 'have to be
caught right in the act, and (hat's where the
public comes in. They want your co-operation,
Dear &sant
'• I have just•finished-reading your article which
appeared in the Huron Expositor on April 13
• and must saythat it was very well written. It is
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to. catch these guys. If .you see something
.peculiar or suspicious happening ip your area,
byte get a hold of their li cense plate number
and call the police right away.
You don't have to give your name. or the
make of the car, or Van.; just tell them the
cerise plate number and the area from where
you are calling.
If your club or organization has monthly
meetings, invite one of the police force, and
give him 5 or '10 minutes of your time. He is
willing to explain to you what you can do to
help -them. After all, they are human beings
too.
This .way with the help of our people in
co-eperatiopeeitle the police we might be able
to solve 'the problems and save our innocent
teenagers. ,
I also have been informed by some of our
businessmen, in town, thin in the past. people
have been fired, for not telling their boss,
where they were going at 3 p.m. every day.
May we all live in peace from now on.
Thank you.
John VanGeffcn
nice to knowthat there arc IrfeV'people
,
(At
there \\ ho think the same way that I do,
Sincerely votes.
Stompin' Tow Connors
It was a little like leaving an
alcoholic in an 1..CB0 warehouse
but I survived temptation over the
weekend Whcn I was put in-
charge of selling thousands of
• usedhooks at the Blyth Centre for
the Arts Craft show ,and sale.
The books freten kind•
people who deemed their
attics and' shelves. and from
discards of the Huron. County
librariee. storecrite'Ooderich. The.
• money goes td continuing the
tradition of tine performances- of
Canadian theatre in Blyth. this '
summer,
Good causes both and. when
you throw in a chance fora book
addict to browse all day long.
theywould have had to physeally
restrain me from volunteering to
do the job.
re'een cleaned out two cartons
of nn' own books to donate to the
causes It's not 0-1‘ 1411•
husband didn't' seem tu under-
stand that we' were ahead of . the
game when I brought six car tons
home .5tit u rd ay night after the
sate .
I had lovely time Saturday
selling the books, some of them
good. some of them better
forgotten, at five for $1 or 25c
each. •
The fatigue of a whole day of
sales and service was balanced by
sharing the thrill.. when someone
found a book they'd loved as a
child or when a collector found
something rare' and Canadian,
(Yes we tried to weed those out
and yes. they cost more, but net
that much more, than 25c).
The unsold hooks will be herd
over fornext year's sale. And I've ,
got a feeling, wha daya wanna
bet, that there'll be competition
for the book sales job then?
I'll tic in thP ,P flOhtin g fill' it.
And if I read My six' cartons of '
books by then and trade most of
them in...,
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Water. We don't miss it until
we don't have it.
Since Sunday out at Never
Done in MeKillbp„ we've.'been
botte dry. It's a funny time' Of the
year for a well to tem ants what
with Saturday's torrential rains
but ours did. and we're all a little
grubbier than usual,
Oh we've got lots to read but
we're grubby.
The lucky baby gets a bath at
her sitters. Dad and I have our
own way., of getting rid of the
crustiest of the garden dirt.
Water. I should explain, is
hauled in jugs and bottles froM a
.kind. neighbour's. Having a dry
well is nowhere near as bad as
•having the power go off in. the
winter because next step towards
a bath is to' boil up a couple. of.
kettlesfull.
They go into two. large pads of
old water.
The victim (or the , dirtiest)
strips and sits- in the tub and the
spouSe pours the warmish water,
slowly, over the victim's head.
One pail for lathering up an "one
pail for rinsing. s
It's not bad really. You get
clean a nd you use (vou need the
• ping in the tub to find this' out)
about three inches of water..
MY: we're normally a wasteful
lot!
We've had both a witeher and a
well driller out and hope to have
water by the en,
We're not sufferitdig otorofinwthe‘h"Lkt
we're not quite ready to add
running water to the list of
modern conveniences that we can
live without.
Stompin' Tom reads Expositor
Do you ever do one of those psychological
qUizzes in Magazines or the Sunday paper?
They're kind of fun, especially if you do them
with your old -man/old lady.
We do one every Sunday, although it's not a
. psych thing, but a straight quiz of general
knowledge. And every Sunday morning. f get
between 11 and 13 right out of 15, and the Old
Battleaxe gets between .six and nine right.
There goes the rest --of the: Sabbath. •
:I try to be decent and modesTabout
only because I know more about polities, read
more general news,and am about twice as
smart as-you, dear,"
She reSponds: "Yes, it's because you are
fieeinated by those stupid politicians, have
time to . read the news while I'm doing_ I
-housework:- and -are stupid etio-ugli-to read a
lot of stupid min. les and I i+ pit! TV
show
so ''(hit aivn AndIti goes. . •
But last Sunday morning, after I'd licked
her 12.6 on the information quiz, she dug up'
another one, in a golf magazine, with little
- squeaks of delight and potential triumph.
It was a personality probe, and the end
., result was that you were supposed to discever
what sort of person you were, and as a side
issue, what sort of golf player this would make,
you. You had to 'be absolutely honest in your
answers. And if you weren't, there 'was your
spouse, across the way,' glowering, and
saying: "You aren't a bit like that."
So. with 'brutal honesty, we did the quiz,
We'd have- been far better off in church, but
there you can answer the questions,• hide
behind the prayer book, and bellow .the hymns
testily, althOugh you be a' very Old' Nick
underneath, and nobody knows the dif-
ference,.
. This was teal and earnest, With no
___Sidesteppinge-nceshidinge-nee-evasieus. And it
came out pretty well as we had expected: we
are almost total oppoSites, I've known it •for
years. but my wife forlornly keeps hoping and
Saying that we have -a lot in common.
Who 'needs, it? The old adage says
"Opposites attract." Maybe that's why we
got stuck with each other; and have lived
happily ever since.
Oh, rt'e have our little differences, but
beyond things- like "Drop dead! " or "I'm
leaving first thing in the morping.",.nothing
much conies of them..
Well, this quiz really spelled it Out. There
were 20 questions. each with three categories,
and we filled them in religiously.
There were three column. Examples: 1.
Dependent'-es Dominant' -L Detached. 2:'•Let
things happen — Makes'•things happen —
Watches things happen,
In both of the above, I was 'number three,
she was' number two. And so it went, right
down the list. - •
Both of us had only• two or three marked in
the - first . colutim. In the second and 'third
columns Weeweresalmost diametrically op-
posed, although there were. a few overlaps.
'Here's hoW. we Stacked,•up, if you haven't'
'binned to the comics by now. .
• My. old lady is: dominant, assertive,
anxious, .k.ind, extrovert of • action, has
enduring • rapport' with people, quick-
tempered, irascible, talkatfve, active, .
energetic., enterprieing, precise, needs people_
when disturbed, puts stress on doing, makes , •
things happen. ' • .
Your humble. servant, on the other 'hand,
comes. out as:. detached,• relaxed, ..caltn,
considerate; introverted; has extensive rap-
poet, is gentle-tempered, reflective, reserved,
Bets inhibited, restrained,' needs solitude
when disturbe,c1.,, puts. stress on perceiving,
watches things happen.
We agreed we Were both: even-explOsive in•
temperament; had a' love. of privacy;• .were
self-assured (in most eases); were suspicious.
In fohr out .of 20; we have soniething in
common.
Well, which of those two would you want to
be stuck with for -30-odd years? My old lady
'conies across as a •-quick-tempered, • ag-
gressive, dominating bully. Which she ain't.
-And I comes across as 'a cold, bloodless•
piece of colt" s liver, hung over the line to dry.
Which' I ain't. •
Like all of those psychological quizzes, it's a
bunch of junk. The title•of my wife's category
is the Triangular?' Type, or. the musettlar
.Warrior. She is supposed to bully people' on •
the' tee, offer advice,' and play only to in.
Hell, whe can't even bully me, accepts advice,
and plays only to win. •
My category is called the Linear Type,-or •
the Loner. I'm supposed to be a solitary, not
wanting. confrontation. and even want to. go
out and play twilight go If by mySelf.
Ridiculous. 1 wouldn't walk across the street
to play nine holes of golf by mu sell One of us
might .win.
The only thing we found out from the quiz
was that we both should have been in the first
win mn. called the. Circular, the happy
extrovert who enjoys golf and' plays an
excellent game.
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Recent newspaper stories may have heat
misleading Tuckersmith Township Rate-.
, payers. One quotation from Tucker'smith
Reeve, Ervin Sillery was that "the tax rate is
pretty well held to par as last year -. This may
be true in total, but it is definitely not trAte_for
that 'portion of the tax rate which is the
responsibility of the Township. This tact was'
kept from the public until the tax bills were
received just recently. The tax bills show that
the General. Township Rate' has increased by.
approximately 30%, from ,24 mills in 1977 to
31 nulls in 1978. The total mill rate was held
by a corresponding seven milt reduction in .the
County. Rate, The public school owe. both e.
elementary and secondary have remained
virtually unchanged from 197,7.
The fact that the Council appears to , have,
attempted, to hide the rate increase from the
'reason far the 'increase which at .10""0. is one of
the Largest ineeeases• in the 'area. A much
better hey would have been to. have .
ptiblieized the increase at the time the budget
was set and to explain the need for, the
inu'ease,, which is probably quite justified.
At the 'same. Council meeting: When the
budget was • ;idol-nett, it was noted that ,
•TuckersmithCouncil gave a "first •time grant
'of $600.00 to the Vanast ra Recreation
Association". This grant is Small change' in
comparison,: to the • interest , on the nearly...
50, years. ago thie week in 1928, • most
Cranbrook residents were iiwakened every
weekday morning abOut 6:45 A.M. by an old
1923„,Ford truck nearly loaded With I (Leans of
fresh cow's milk, in 8 and 30 gallon cans, on
the way to the cheese factory. This was .
situ tit ed
and a half milet; east of Cranhrook on Lot 21,
Con. 9, Grey Township. just cast of the new
grader' shed. 21 patrons , shipping the fresh
Milk were servied by this truck, all the way
limn 'Cori. 16 to Con. 9 Grey, along the
Cranbrook_Sideroad and concessions.
The farmers were paid 45e per 100 lbs. at 3,5
test and cheddar cheese was brought back for
their home use for I4c a lb. and all the whey
they wanted fOr pig feed.
Wm. Thompson from Atwood was the
. "tester" and inspector for Perth and Huron
With what sometimes seems to be 'an
endless line of hockey playoffs taking over the
television set for weeks now Expositor Asks
this week decided to ask "Do you think the
_television hockey season lasts ton piing'?"'
Reg,Knight of Seaforth said, "I would think
so. I'm trot that interested in hockey really'. It
would be nice to see something different for a
change."
Walter McClure of R.R. 2. Seaforth said he.
didn't watch hockey that much but he didn't
think the season was tob.rong because he said
there was a lot of people who enjoyed it.
Melanie Lovell of R.R.2, Kippen who
doesn't like hockey in the first place said, "1
think when winter stops, hockey should."
'Mrs. Andy Lunn of Egmondville also
thOught the season was, too long.
"I'd rather watch the ball games right tiow.
Ithink it goes on too long. I think may be the
playoffs last-too long. It's just the same old
thing every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
night. - e"-
And it's not because she doesn't like sports.
She said she listens to sports on the radio
'• ¶80.000.00 of a deficit the Township. ea rth.:k
for the Vanastra Recreation 'e'litre. At prime
rate of 9 1 4 " 7. 7 -t his would make a cunt rib talon
of 1,7,400. by the Township to the Recreation .
Centre every year, which nearly ••equals...41 2.
mill rate on all property in Tuckersinith. '
—Howe \ er, by Tuckersmith Council was
approached by the Tuekerstuith Federation of
Agriculture, a group, representing the single
geettest source of tax revenue for . the
Township, with. a reqitest to have their grant
reinstated from '$600.00 'to. .$900..00, this
request was denied, Council did not even offer
to increase the grant by„ the 30''7 which they
increased their charges to .all Tuckcrsmith
ratepayers., The $600.00 .grant •••. to" the
Tuckc.,.rsmith Federation probably dates back
•. to :'time x‘ hen the 'Township Mill rate was in
die area of 12-15 mills. TherefOre. a
area ()I'. $1,200.00 to $1.500,00,- which would
ba rely' he keeping pace with the .1.ate of.
inflation. • .• • • • .
• It otay lie a possibility that Tuckersmith has
increased their general numiciPikratr ;by 7
mills' which would raise 'slightly mote than an'
additional $28.000.00, to start a program for
the repavinent of the Vanastra Recreation
centre-Deficit. If this is true. Council should
he willing to tell their electorate.
Yours truly;
hones i. McIntosh,
County's factories. Mr. Thompson said-this'
was the first -time, he had ever seen a route
brought in by truck. Most of the milk was
brought in by team and wagOn, some farmers,
brought in their own even in buggies,. By Aug.
1928 there \vere.3 trucks hauling routes in Mr.
t r wa s
bOtight from J.F.Daly. Seaforth for $1 28.00
with license,. Prices today have changed. Ask
any milk producer and compare cheese prices
it your store.
$1.50 Per trip was paid fiCr this route which
took froni 6 to 22. a.m. 0, days a week for 6
months,
These facts are true for it was I who bought
the truck and hauled the route, Gas was 24e
lx•r gal.. motor oil 2(k• a qt. '
(..co. W esenberg
Brussels
alien they're not on telex ision but she th•onght
they should have ball in the sOnnitertime and
hockt.sy in the winter.
Mrs. Terry MeCarthy. Dublin said-.
"yes I do. I-tised to kind of enjoy it w h edit was
Montreal and, Toronto but now you can't tell
one team from .the other."
Mrs. Mrs. Ranklin thine' of Rif.2, Staffa said.
' Yes. 1- -441-4k- it does_,." -• -------- --
She added that' she thought that maybe
there were too many teams involved.
Mrs. Robert Baker Jr. of 108 Richmond- St..•
N.. in • Hensall said she thought maybe, the
season did last' too long and that people got •
sick of it especially when it was spring.
Mrs. Leslie Glanville of R.R.4, Walton was
one of those who disagreed with the general
opinion.
She said she didn't think the hockey season
was too long and she said that for those 'who
watched hockey it was the only way they were
going to knowi what was' going on with their
favourite teams.
"As long as it isn't on every night." she
said.
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Expositor asks: ...
Do you think the hockey season lasts too long?
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