The Huron Expositor, 1978-10-05, Page 2•"1
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER .5, 1978
. _ Most of the time when, we pick up a
newspaper the headlines are Mostly about
vandalism and things we don't like to read
about. I have reason to believe there are
still seine honest young people in this
generation. Recently I visited my cousinin
Seaforth and badethe misfortune to lose an
overnight '•ease which I had unknowingly
left sitting on the trunk of my car: It
contained all of, my wife's medications
which she could not get along without plus
an electric razor and a fairly large sum of
money. I continued on my trip and did not
miss the case until that night when My wife
went,to take hex mediation. I called my
cousin that we had visited in Seaforth, who
checked at the Police Station to see if the
case had been turned in, Thanks to the
honesty of a young map, namely Paul
Haley, who had turned the case in, I was
able to return to Seaforth and pick up my
case with everything, even the money
being intact. If we could not have found the
case we would have 'had to return hoirie
without being able to continue on our trip. I
thought honesty like that was wprth
mentioning in, your local paper.
Milton Carter
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Huron
In the, years agone
First Robert Bell boiler
shipped in 1903
we claim he's too socialist and that's why the
country's -in trouble, If we're left wing, it's
Imqause 'he's such a conservative that the
counee,''s in trouble. He's to blame somehow
for the split between Quebec and the, rest of
the country, even through the split started
two centuries ago.
It's becorrie so easy to shrug off all
responsibility for ourselves and simply
blame the prime minister.He's to blame for
inflatiomand we're justpooi little guys trying
to hold on by asking for 10, 15 or 20. per cent
pay increases. The government's to blame
if it had for the Quebec problem bee
dealt with with them damned . fro in the
first place they wouldn't be so uppi now.
Everything's the fault of Trueau and n bing
ouri own fault.
Well it isn't so, of course. 1 suspect teat if
we elected Joe- Clark tomorrow very little
would have changed by this time next year.
People who voted for. the man tomorrow,
would turn on him the next day when-they . ..
saw no-miraculous change. I feel sorry for
the man for even wanting the job, knowing
what will happen to him if he gets it. No
politician these days, ,whether or not he's
doing a good job, is going to be loved.
Perhaps Clark could work some miracles
and things- would get better. Perhaps, he
could find the answers to the problemi the
country faces. Cynic that lam, I tend to think
instead that with time these troubles too will
pass. Instead of a falling dollar high
unemployment and the Quebec problem,
we'll have ionic) other problems. Problerris
seem to go in cycles and often '1 think, they
disappear as much from the passage of time
as from action by governments. There's a
prediction that by the 1980's we'll have a
labour shortage instead of a surplus. and I
believe it. The dollar is bound to rise again
just as it did after the low points it reached
during the reign of John Diefenbaker,,The
Quebec issue will likely never go away, but I
have a feeling that passions will subside and
'the issue will cool for a while
Still: whether Clark secceeded or not, it
would give people a good kick in thefump
ann make-them stop blaming everything on
one man. Perhaps not having Pierre Trudeau
to kick around arty/mare, would make people
see that they have to solve their own
problems not depend on government.
Perbap, it would make people see that_we're_-
all r._)poils'iVe to some extent 'for the ,
sagging collar because we spend too much
outside the country on holidays or through
imports because we refuse to pay a few
bucks extra for Canadian products.,Perhaps
it make us see that the only hope for
solving the problems between various
regions of-the country is more effort to team
and understand the problems of others.
Perhaps it would make us see, that inflation
is at much our problem as the governments.
There Joe Clark. for whatever inverted
logic, you've got me leaning your way. My
advice. however, is that you not open your
mouth before election day. You see a goodly
percentage of the time you talk you say
things so blatantly partisan, 'so Meth of a
cheapshot that you insult my intelligence as
a voter. I think ,the party that wiris the
election will be the one that produces die
least stupid proposals and the least stupid
insults to the voters. Joe, Pierre, toy vote is
there to be lost depending upon whieh o.
you runs the worst campaign.
A really good show
It was,' in Ed. Sullivan's words, a really good show.
The long awaited International Plowing Match closed Saturday on,
the JIM Armstrong farm near Wingham. Its end means rest after
months of effort by hundreds of Huron people, a good many of them
from the Seaforth area,
The 1 78 IPM irr Huron broke all kinds, of records. It had the biggest
attendance of any International, -the largest tented city, the greatest
number of exhibitors. Plus, we wouldn't be surprised if the match last
week didn't set a record for being blessed with the most hours of
terrific fall weather.
The International Plowing Match has a special relationship with our
county that goes back perhaps fifty years when the late Gordon
McGavin of Walton was winning plowing competitions. He's one of the
men who helped develop the Ontario Plowmens' Association into the
dynamic group it is now. McGavin Square at the IPM commemorated
his contribution and his descendants were active in the local
organization.
Huron's only high school marching, the Seaforth Districf High
School Girls' Trumpet Band, is the official IPM band.
The Internationals held in Huron have not always gone as smoothly
as lasts week'S did.The 1942 1PM scheduled for here was cancelled by
World War 2. The firSt Match after the war fared better. It was held at
Port Albert in 194 6 and marked the first time the Governor. General
attended an International.
Huron's luck was off again in 1966 when Seaforth hosted, the IPM.
Local 'organizatioli-Was superb but rainy weather helped Set a record
for mud that. remained unbroken until last year's deluge at the IPM in
Frontenac County.
' During and since the recent Match we've heard nothing but pr ais.e
for the local • organization, the facilities, the food, exhibits, the ladies
'program, the gracious host and hostess. Those of us' who live in the
area weren't surprised that Huron could pull off an event of the
Match's magnitude without a hitch but city people perhaps went away
amazed at the precision and excellence of it all:
We've heard' suggestions for future tPM's ' that include a longer
show, a permanent site and other innovations. Any 6-Owing group like
the Plowmens' Association will of course keep, looking at changes
that will make the Match better. -
But for a few weeks at least everyone involved, from committee.
chairpeople to the volunteers who served hamburgers can relax and
bask in the knowledge that our Huron County put on the best
International Plowing Match yet.
Amen
by Karl Schuessler
The school show
' And -the laughs poured out when Johns
turned himself into a wigged red' headed
housewife The frustrated woman roared at
her son--home from school and watching TV
and eating Kraft dinners froot the. crisper of.
the frig. She hollered at the, neighborhood...-.
kid.sethe•noard -and the teachers. And in the
end, even Premier William Davis got it from
her• on the telephone. •
But through -all the laughs, came plenty of
data. Ontario, spends more money on
education than any other province. Canada
has more people in piison per capita than
• any other country, The ministry of education
is top heavy in administratiOn. The teachers'
union is mainly economics minded: The
teachers laugh ared"despise the system that
trains them; And these, to Johns. are the
greater scandels.
He picked away_ at some of • our
assumptions: That consoliation of the
one-room school. hduse, was a good thing.
That more money-throwing more money at a
problem-is a sure solution. That educatiOn
is salvation. What we all need is,. a ,higher
education and the age of enlightenment will
dawn. That worth and one's • value can be
measured by the amount of salary you take
home. That equal pay for equal work is
always justified-despite local conditions and
circumstances, That idealism and the giving
of oneself are dead.
Ted Johns told us no: These assumptions
areret-necceSsatily -Sti.•*The' Warthines 'of a
teacher such as Bill Mac Donald may be
flawed and wounded in such strikes, but his
high calling still reniailis. He can still admit
to himself his love and enthusiarn and vigor
'for teaching--despite the pay--high or low.
His idealism and high expectations mirrored.
the one-room school teacher's. - •
Wonder if Ted Johns was telling us some
other things. The kids- in school nowadays
aren't so bad as we'd like to make out. And I
have a strange feeling that he's telling us
vves il all survive despite the board, despite
the .teachers, 'despite the Unions , and , the
arbitrators. For 1 had the feeling that plain •
cornitien sense and :human -decency are
found On the Streetaatiel in the halls and
behied,baret. These are places 'tmien where
Our etirvival Mmes. That -a tiaWnto-terth
farina without Any college •degrees and a
town's 'functional. illitetate earty around
nitwit visdorit. And we have enough of
these kind' of right :talking 'AO straight
thinking type of people they'll balance -oat
education's oktesses .and transgressions.
By Keith Roulston
I don't know about you, but I'm not
looking forward to this Winter. No.it isn't the
cold air from the north.that I'm dreading, it's
the hot air from Ottawa with the politicians.
warming 'up for a certain election next
spring.
We've been hit with election speculation
for more than a year, of course, but this -time
. we know that an election 'is indeed just
around the corner. The law says that there
must be an election before June. So, with the
government backed, into a-corner, all the: big
guns are out, both on the opposition Side to
try to sink the ship and on the government
side todefend it.. As if the falling dollar
wasn't depressing enough. Come to think of
it the dollar's probably in for even worse
times becaese a record number of Canadians
will likely head south this winter just to get
away from the campaign rhetoric. It might
be worth it, even ifyou do have .to fork over
20 cents on the dollar exchange. •
The prime minister's supporters have,
been trying to get hint •to call an election, for
some time. They were all for it a year or so
ago after the election in Quebec made -him
scemlike the country's only saviour. He was
high in the polls then and probably could
• have won easily: -He chose not to call an
election then and i, for one, applauded
because it would have' been political
opportunism at the time. But this fall. I wish
he had called an election just to get it out of
the way. It's like an appointment at the
dentist: you know you've got to go anyway so
you Might as well go today as tomorrow so
you can get it over that much sooner.
I know that the advisers in the Prime
Minister's Office aren't so in favour of an
election these days, even though the polls
show the Liberals still comfortably out front.
It's the breakdown of those polls that seem
to bother the experts • and show that the
Liberals aren't nearly as strong as they look.
In addition millions of voters seem to be
undecided about who they think can lead us
out this swamp of depression right now (or -
perhaps who will dcrleaSt damage to the
country.) • -- "
I'd have to put 'myself in with that great
mass of undecided ••vdters. I honestly don't
know what move is right at present. It's a
scare- prosPect.. a gamble that our whole
country could go down the drain if we don't
..choosetle..s tight..leaders..the ..next„time_out.
Do we gamble onJoe Clark and hope that he
-really has some potential behind - all that
youth and posturing or do we stick with the
devil we know because we think he's the
, toughened politicians who can best deal with
the Slippery Rene Levesque.
I don't know what the answer is. but in a
way I'd be apt to gamble on Joe Clark. It
isn't that 1 think he's better than Pierre
Trudeau. in fact -4 have Lae mate distrust of
politicians Who. from the time they're Out of
diapers, want to be prime minister. It isn't
even that 'I 'think the Prime Minister has
done such a rotten job of running the
country. I. don't know., if given the
ciretthiStatices, anyone could have . done
better. NO, the -reason I'd tend to look for a
change is entirely different.
One of the problems of this- country. as I
see it', is that people have failed to accept
their share of responsibility for the mess
we're to and have looked, instead for a
stapegoat, The Convenient 'scope goat has
- been Pita re Trudeau. It we're conservative,
OCTOBER 11,1878
Mr. Mooney will open an evening school .
-at his own_houseore-Monday-evenings- and---
the terms are $1.90 a month. •
Wm. McFarlane of Stanley Twp. -has on
his farm an apple , tree which is now in
blossom for the second time this season. One
part .of the tree is loaded with fruit and the
other half with blossoms.
James Westcott of Usborne drew from his
place to the market in Exeter 180 bushels of
barley on.oneload. This load was drawn by a
span of three year old colts.
On, Saturday morning the boiler of Ralph
Brewn's •.sewmill near Dashwood exploded.
OCTOBER 9,1903 ,
Wm. Palmer of Varna had the misfortune
to have two of . his fingers broken while
threshing. •
E. Epps of Varna has disposed of his fancy
drivel' at a good figure.
John Knaar of Zurich has purchased the
barbefing busineSs -of W.H. Bender.
Henry Edge, builder and contractor of
Seaforth, is winding up a very large season's
business. •
Deep and sincere sorrow' was, felt on'
Sunday when' it became 'known that J.H.
Broadfoot, Mayor of Seaforth, had died in
ChiCago. He was 67 years of age.
The first home made 'steam boiler ever
shipped from, Seaforth was sent from the
Robert Bell Engine Co. •
The sale of dairy stock on James Cowan's
farm was largely .attended, The, cows sold at
an average price of over $42.00
Messrs. Beattie Bros. grocers in town,
shipped 100 bushels of cranberries ,bought
from the farmers at Hillsgieen.
Messrs. Ransford took forMal possession
of the Coleman Salt Works and will : work
them at their full capacity.
The, services in connection with the
induction of Rev. David Carswell into the
pastorate of Duff and Cavah Churches will
be held Tuesday night.-
OCTOBER 11, 1928
Rev. I.B. Keine of Orangeville has
accepted a call from First Presbyterian
Chiirch, Seaforth. '
A new bus service has been inaugurated
between Goderich and Stratford- by the
Canadian Coach Co. of Toronto.
• Miss. Mildred Turnbull left last week to
If I spent one evening watchieg bedroom
scenes in the film In Praise of Older Women,
I should tell you about another film I saw two
days later.
I can't just report to ypu my dalliance with
what some people might call dirt. I came
clean when I watched Warren Beatty stalk
the clouds of heaven and get himself housed
in a suitable body on earth. The film's called
Heaven Can Wait -- a remake of a 40's film
called Here Comes Mr. Jordan that starred
Robert Montgomery and Claude Rains.
I tell the wbtld gladly. This is the kind of
film anyone would be proud to-be found at.
It's the kind you'd take your mother and kids
'to.
Everyone in it kept his clothes on. Julie
Christie Wore dresses buttoned up to her
ifeCk;-and they stayed that way.
Of course she and Beatty had eyes for one
another. And I do mean ey,es. Their whole
love affair was bound up in longing glances,
searching looks and penetrating eye contact.
Only once did they kiss. And that was
lightly. The movie, pictured all the old
romantic notions . about love. Where the
lover sighed% pined, waited 'and longed for,
where he almost Ipst his loye, where
mystery surrounded the romance, where
instant gratification was not the mood of the
day.
What a delightful film! And the audience
felt the same about it too. The crowds and
-- mostly young people -- waited a
half hour outside before they got- in.
The film was se Cleverly written, it
swooped you up into a story of credibility.
And it's only afterwards do you realize
ye*eve been {seated to a hodge-podge of
teligious ideas. Purgatory or in the film's
V ion-- a way station. A standby •place
Cie you waft to take the flight to your final
in'a ion.
'r' lee course, re,incarnation. The whole
attend Business College ,in Toronto.
Mrs. LW. Free captured the-valuable silver
cup-for-thebesetwoloaves7of hi ead 'shown at
the Brussels Fair.
Miss Hazel Haugh read a most interesting.
letter in Sunday school at Brucefield from
Grett `irstard,• formerly of Biucefield, and
now head-nurse in Ethelburt Hospital:
OCTOBER 9, 1953
Seaforth's new $278,000 Public school- was
officially opened Thursday night before some
500 persons. The principals in the opening
ceremonies were, Board Chairman F.E.
Willis. Miss S: McLean, C. F;.Cannon, guest
speaker, and J.H. Kinkead, public school
inspector.
John. McGavin, Walton, who in a few
years of competition, has won several honors
for plownaanship„ won again at the South
Huron Plowing Match on the farm of Elgin
Thompson, near Brucefield.'
Damage estimated by local Fire , Chief,
John Scott of about $200 was Caused to the
basement of the Bank of Commerce -in
Dublin, when overheated pipes were
reponsible- for a fire.
• 'Renovations to Northside United Church
have. resulted in the removal of two
chimneys and two spires high on the front.
Hensall's taxes totalling $7,000.. have
already been collected, J. A. Peterson told
Hensel{ Council at its regular meeting.
Injured in efforts to save his father's barn
from fire, Tonaes Koehler, 'son of Mr. and •
Mrs. 8ruce Koehler, was admitted to South
Huroe Hospital, Exeter, suffering burns. to
his hands and back.
Miss Helen Pryce and nephew Glen Pryce
left via Melton Airport for Vancouver to
attend the funeral of Geo. Pryce who passed
away suddenly.
Bob Bragy, 18 year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Gray of Stratford, won a J.T.
Bichell Foundation scholarship-for $1,200 in
his first year at the University of Toronto.
Donald . Costello of Dublin had the
misfortune,to sustain a broken arm, when he
fell from a house on the farm of 'Michael
McLaughlin. He is confined to Scott
Memorial Hospital.
A father an Son partnership from
'Thornhill. , Hew and Ralph Hicks has
purchased the garage at Brodhagen owned
by John G. Hinz.
story would fail if you didn't get along with
souls separating from bodies and finding
residence in other bodies.
Then there's the idea of fate. What will be
will be, your-time-is-up sort of thing. And
you have to put up with errant angels, when
all along you thought angels were perfect,
But in Heaven Can Wait a new angel on the
job'was over anxious to do a good job and he
grabbed off Warren's soul before his body
capitulated.
You have, too, the old biblical belief that
the eyes are the lamp of the soul. And it's
through the eyes the soul finds expression. It
works, that's how Julie and Warren finally
get together-at the end.
I write all this to make a point. To make a
winning-picture; you 'don't have to filth it all '
in a bedroom. You don't have to follow the
formula of sex and violence. You dOn't have
to splash your movie with spilled blood on
the pavements, groans otagony and ecstacy,
heavy breathing and death jerks. You can
produce a film that's light, upbeat and
hopeful. Happy. The public will buy it.
, The public will buy lots of things. Would
• you believe? People are paying theatre ticket
pi-ices to hear a man walk on a stage that has
only a table and three chairs and then he
stands there for the next two hours and
recites the Gospel of Mark by heart. The man
isEnglish actor Alec McCowen and he gives
his audience a night of compelling theatre.
By the sheer beauty of the King James
Version and by his magnificent voice he
holds a rapt audience. And now after a stint
in tonan's West 'End, he's bringing his
otte-tnan sheW to the States.
Just think..Clergymen have been reading
the Gospel to their congregations for years.
And new a layman on stage is shdwing the
power of the Word to people sitting in
theatre seats. And they're paying to hear it,
thrirre teat never, thist
Nature statue
Behind the Scenes
More election speculation
-Seems as if I've put in plenty of time at the.
movies and theaters. I'm trying to. see" the
best of the plays everyone's talked about and
I've .messed. In Stratford, there's Private
lives at the Avon Theater and last week the
School„Scandel in Blyth.
Because of 'the plowing match near.
VVittgliern last wee*, we all got a second
chance to see Ted Johns turn himself into a
one-man play and make a star of himself. -.
He certainly shone. No wonder the raves
filter down through the countryside this
semi-tier.. For two and a half hours, Ted
Johns commanded -center stage. With the
magic only a theater can weave and with
only a few costume , changes and meager
props, he staged a one room school house, a
teacher's home, the local pub a quiet corner
behind a barn, and an upstairs hall where
the town cronies hang .out. He , even
managed to make us believe he, crawled
underneath a car and listened in to some
students talking about the.wages they'd get
if they took a job in Iran.
And if this wasn't enough. he wrote the
play.
Written and acted by himself--with not
another single body to talk to. There was a
stuffed dummy of a man propped up to a
card table. The town crony could play his
cheating kind of sentare. look down through
the window at the' strike action below and
Make all his comments to the .duMmy.
„.....Maybe-the--duirimy--ween21-1-istenincrbut.e
the audience certainly was. And they
responded with howls and snickers and
claps, . as• johns recreated the Huron
teachers' strike from all angles: The parents.
the students, the teachers, the board and the •
local fat-triers. •
Johns gave a magnificient tribute to lie
one room school teaches'--maiden;' dedicated
and totally consumed in her teaching ctf
grades .one through eight. She was one of
those school teachers who wore eyes behind
her head. As- she tenderly turned her
interest to the little ones in telling. them a
story, she - could • still in the ',setae breath
accuse the trespassers behind• her without
• -turning ft& head.
The best 'roars came when the farilw.,
talked to his teacher strikingeine The fetlt
coeldita,gettlie• word-much Tess the Idea- t
g'ra'tuity through his head. You Mead he sad
the teachets Want pay for the Sid time they
didn't use? Whit, he 'Sitefted,, thats, like
asking the inturance guy frit yettr, Money
back because your house didn't burn down.
Amen
by KarISchuessler
Another film