The Huron Expositor, 1978-10-26, Page 2A council we'll live with
It was a surprise to this newspaper and we're not quite sure what .it
means. .
We're referring to the fact that there's to be no election for council in
town this year.
Town council elections in Seaforth have gone.frorri one extreme to
the other in-' recent years. We've had trouble getting • enough
candidates to fill council seats by acclamation some years. .
Then two years ago we had a jam packed ratepayers! meeting when
more candidates than ,you could shake a stick at were thoroughly
grilled by the eleCtorate.
This year, Seaforth has picked the seven men (once again we have
no women councillors) who will run the town fdr the next two years,
almost by default. Three incumbent councillors aren't standing again;
three new men filed nomination papers and will slip into the vacant
seats.
The experience, and common sense of veteran councillors. Wayne
Ellis-and Bill Bennett will be misses on the 1979 council. They've both
carried more than their share of the council workload for several terms.
The other retiring councillor, Ken Roth, served his tint term and
really didn't have a chance to gain wide municipal experience.
With 3,councillors starting their second terms and three new ones,
a lot of responsibility in the new council will fall on reeve John
Flannery and deputy Reeve Bill Dale, bOth of whom 'have spent many
years in local politics.
The race for mayor, which sees incumbent Betty Cardno facing a
former , 9ouncillor, John Sinnamon, is the main spark of interest in an
otherwise boring election. Mr. Sinnamon -deserves credit for making,
suite one race at least isn't cut and dried aaamation.
Things perk up a bit too with a race for PUC. Dr. Rodger Whitman is
retiring after several years, including some stormy ones arid
incumbent chairman Gord Pullman faces Peter Kling and Charles
Reeves, who both ran unsuccessfully two years ago and newcomer
Doug Fryett. , .
We think it's healthier to 'have elections than acclamations but it's
too late for moaning about that now. We've already got the council
we'll live with for the next two years. On election day the people will
pick the mayor and PUC.
What we don't see
A big red juicy apple, jumping off the newspaper page and looking
good enough to eat. A whole page of simple,- inventive recipes for
Thanksgiving special 'ties, featuring readily available, reasonably
priced fresh Ontario produce.
That's what some' of the di:11161t of Ontario have beeh lucky enough
to see iri 'a series of imaginatively produced and very practical ads
promoting Foodland Ontario, ads sponsored by the province's Ministry
of Agriculture and Food.
The ministry deserves a heck of a lot of credit, both pushing the sale
of our own farm produce and for the attractiveness of the ads making
the push.
'In fact, the Fobdland Ontario series is such a good one that we hate
to quibble about it at all.
But quibblewe must, on behalf of the large number of people in this
province who.are exclusive weekly newspaper readers. Those people,
and their numbers are Intl-easing, didn't get to see the Foodland
Ontario ads, because they weren't ,carried in Ontario's community
press. • We know the bigr -dallies have more readers than the Huron
ExpotItOr, the Listowel Banner or the Tilbury Times Combined.
And that the myth persists in some big city and agencies and board
rooms that ado in the dailies reach allneWspaper readers.
"That'sfust not true and as.the cOrnrnunity,pressgeta better at tellitig
advertisers its own story, those With a ,message to get to ail of Ontario
are turning,to the province's smaller papers,
Foodland Ontario, your ads are too' gbbd to confine them to).those
poor deprived people who don't read te.Weeklies.
Seaforth a train's eye view
ehind the scenes
No room for 1Vlasseys now
xpositor asks:
Is Canada ready fo
By Debbie Ranney
With Conservative and NDP parties
leaping ahead, in last week's federal
by-elections Expostior Asks thought it
would be interesting to find out if local
people thought it was time for a change in
the Canadian government.
John Becker of 89 High St., in Seaforth
said, "I think so. I think we're going to get
it."
The reason he thought so was because
of the results of the by-elections on
Ivbnday, October 1,6.
Mrs. •Mabel Scott of R.R.4, Seaforth
said, "I do. I think that he has done a lot of
harm (Trudeau). He has done some good,
but I really think he has put us down the
drain."
She thought there was a possiblity of
either the Conservatiyes or the NDP
winning the federal election this time.
Martha Claesens, of R.R.1, Dublin
said, "1.4vouTd say sq.' Her main reason
for thinking there should be a change was
to do something about the post office
situation.
"It's getting ridiculous," she said. She
added that the government should get rid
of the people working there how and give
people who don't have wory chance at the
job.
Mr.s Alfred Ross Jr. of R.R.2, Staffa
said, "My, own personal feeling is, yes.
They've been in power for quite a few
years. It's time for a change."
„, Asked for a reason why she thought
there should be a change she said "It's
(Canada) in a Mess. They should let
someone else try,"
Although Frank Ryan of R.R.1, Dublin
said the questions would have to be broken
down more before he could answer, he did
give some comments on the sittitatioe.
"As far as the by-electio tis were'
coricerned,I think the vote was very good
to the point where they (the Liberals)
are going to wake up, going to realize
r a change in government?
something has to be done. The people are
dissatisfied at the present time."
He said as far as changing the
government goes, the philosophy , of all
three parties will be the samei do the most
you can for the'greatest number of people.
He said that as .far as the Liberal
government is concerned they got in good
legislation, and they'brought in the baby•
bonuses and a lot of social programs.
"I think we've just got to hope for 'the
best," Mr. Ryan said.
John Townson of R.R.4,, Walton said,
"Very much so. I think the main question
is that they're trying- to do away with the
monarchy". He th6ught Canadians were
mare concerned about that than they were
about unemployment and the economy.
"Personally I think we're selling our
wealth away he said: usingt_ as .-an
example, that we sell our products like'
uranium and iron °ire instead of
manufacturing goods here in Canada. He
also said that the government sells a
percentage of agricultural produce below
cost just to maintain international markets.
"We're not going forward in the right
direction. We're giving 'stuff away and
making the taxpayers pay for it," he said.
He also thought that Canada was
overgoverned and that there shoiilif be a
change into smaller government. •
"They're (government) widening the
gap all the time, There's not sufficient
co-operation between the government and
the public."
"We got the tail end of the dirty thirties.
I think we're in the same position right
now. I doesn't look as bad because there's
money circulating," he said.
He referred to the problem of the
Monarch once more and said, "The royalty
does keep the country together. There's
no doubt about it."
Mrs. Ross DoliSon of R.R.2, Hensall
said, "I think so, It's time for a, change."
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In t`ite years a on/
Clarence Trott receives B in 1953
meeting Monday night., •
If you think grass roots democr
better of if regional goy
Seaforth f a dista
meeting Monday n
After all, there area million and one more important things to do. You
could Stay home and watch'tv., or wash your 'hair. You really should do
some baking, go down to the hotel for a few drinks, attend that church
meeting, visit your friend or go to bed early. Or maybe you could just
hang around downtown and hope Hallowe'en hi-links get started early. -
If you're happy to hand over your tax dollars to the local council,
PUC and school board and really don't care what they do 'wit h the loot,
it'll be a waste of yourtime to attend Seaforth's ratepayers' meeting.
If you're one of the lonely, responsible few who fee,' otherwise, see
you at the ratepayers' meeting. Monday October 30, upstairs in the
town hall at .8 pm.
s a waste of time and we'd all be
t were imposed from' Toronto to 'run
don't bother to attend the ratepayers'
By Keith Roulston
It is ironic that C.B.C. television has
picked this particular time in history to
produce a television history of one of
Canada's most famous families, the
Masseys.
• Whether you grew up in the country or in
a big city like Toronto, it is almost
impossible not to have had the .Massey name
imprinted in your memory. In the country it
was famous for farm machinery. In Toronto
the Massey names were carved-in the corner
stones of buildings like Massey Hall, Hart
HouSe and Massey College. A Massey,
Vincent, became the first Canadian Govern-
or General, Another, Raymond, became o,ne
'of the foremost actors in Hollywood. They
were everywhere.
Yet they were not always rich and '
powerful, as the two-part television series
showed. They came to Canada nearly 200
years ago from the United States in much the
same state as other early settlers. They were
poor. They worked hard to scratch a living
from the eastern Ontario soil near Coburk.
There was little convenience in their lives,
with no churches, no schools. They
depended on the itinerant circuit riders of
the Methodist church to provide their
religion, their edtication and their news of
the 'outside world.
But in a little over half a tentary the
Masseys went' from being typical home-
steaders to being among the wealthiest
families in Canada. The change in'condition
was based on Daniel Massey's realization
that the tools people were using on the farms
just weren't cut out for the North American
conditions. These simple, labour-intesive
tools' might have worked for nearly 2000
years in the small plots of Europe but they
were too small for the vast areas of Canada.
He began making tools, first on his own farm
and later' in a shop in Newcastle. He made
sonic toolstnd imported others for sale. His
son Hart became involved in the businesi
too and applied the' Methodist teachings
about hard work and frugality even more
than his father. He wanted' to make
everything and stop importing machinery.
He drove himself and his family hard and
soon the Masseys were not only supplying
the Canadian market with machinery but
exporting it around the world.
There were not one but two great
Canadidn names in farm machinery m'anu-
faeturing in those days. The great rivalry
was built ups with the Harris family which
battled for its share of the Canadian market.
Eventually the two companies merged to
make up what was the most familiar name on
Canadian farms when I was growing' up:
Massey-Harris. .1 •
AS, I said,' the tinting of this special series
is •ironic coming as it does at a time when
Canada is in bleak economic situation. We
face two major problems: oneMployment
and the falling Canadian dollar on the
international money markets. We're stuck in
a vicious circler the more we impoA, the
lower the dollar goes; the lower the dollar
goes the more it costs to live.
Canadian history and the Massey history
have much in comnion. The Massey family
built huge wealth through providing for the
needs of the Canadian farmer. They became
a huge international success sending, their
combines in particular to all Corners of the
'earth. Today, 'however, if you drive a,
Massey-Ferguson tractor you're not drivirig
a Canadian product. even if the company is
one of the venerable parts of Canadian
business history. The tractor will be
imported as will much of the .other
equipment the company makes. Massey-
Fergusson is ,spread out around the world
and Canada is just a small part of the
business any more: It's virtually impossible
to find a tractor made in Canada today just
as it's, hard to find a truly Canadian car.
There's nothing even Massey about
Massey-Fergusson these days. The compnay
is owned by one of those huge conglom-
erates who control most large industries. It's
business without a soul. Business without a
nationality. All the counts is that the
investors get a regular,dividend cheque and
the top management boys get their usual
annual increases to their hefty salaries.
Somehow along the road we've' lost our
way in Canada. There is proportionally less
manufacturing in Canada today than there
was 75 years , ,ago. We've discouraged
ithaginative people who might, like the
Masseys, have filled a need in our society
through invention and industry. Instead we
import our products and export work. We
send our raw materials, the greatest
advantage we have over other countries, to
those countries and we let them make things
from our materials which we then buy back
at a higher cost. We've become ss nation of
suckers.
This isn't saying the Masseys were
perfect. Indeed the television series was
perhaps a little too kind. Working conditions
in factories like those of the Masseys weren't
pleasant in the early days. It seems immoral
that such huge welath could be collected to
quickly on the backs of- men who earned so
• little as the men who manned the foundaries
of the Massey factories.
Yet 'the slate for the family must also shoe
the philanthropy that provided many institu-
tions that have been a good part of life in
Toronto for most of this century. And it musts
also show the jobs created by the Massey
ideas and industry and the part the family
played in making Canada a prosperous
country. The real question is, is there room
for any new families like the Masseys today.
NOVEMBER 1,1878 3
' The provincial plowing match held on the
Ftthon Farm near Clinton was fairly
successful althoUgh the weather was very
rough and disageeeable.
D.D.Wilson leaves Seaforth on Tuesday
next for Scotland and take's with him to
Glasgow a quantity of apples and eggs.
We are called upon to chronicle the death
of John Rae of Walton who died of typhoid
fever at the home of his brother Wm. Rae of
Dakota,
Wan, Way of Mullett has sold his farm.of
78 acres to Robert Watson of Morris for
$3,400.
R'. Patterson, town agent for the Great
Western Railway has arranged. for a last
excursion of the scasort to Detroit from
Clinton and neighborhood station, on till
Great Western.
Last week ,a couple of lads were tried
before the Mayor and; A.G:McDougall J.P,
and were convicted of ,shop lifting.
OCTOBER 30, 1903 ;
. Henry Howes-, 3rd concession of
McKillop, opposite Geo. Grays had the
misfertune to hae his barn burned.
" Mrs. *Robert Turnbull met with a.
somewhat serious accident. She was
standing on a platform taking clothes off a
reel, when the wind blew the reel around,
striking hey the- head and throwing 'her
down.
Hugh Grieve, who has .been farming in
McKillop for sortie Time intends
, removing to Kincardine where he will
engage in the implement busines
We were treated to a regular bliz rd on
Monday. ,
John McTavish, of town, who has been in
'the employ of his, uncle Ed. McFatil for the
past 12 years has heen prevailed upon by hias
brother, to go. to Montreal and give his
attention to commercial journalism.
Dr. R.H.Ross is moving this week' from'
Mrs. John Weir's residence on John St. td
the Cardno house on John St.
Thos Daly has disposed of his grocery
business in Egmondville.
Master J..Scott Hays son of T.E,.1-lays,
won the scholarship at the recent' entrance.
examination.
The C.P.R. surveyors have commenced
the' survey of the southern route of the
Guelph-Goderich extension which is expected
to pass through Seaforth. ' •
John Steele, a boiler maker at the Seaforth
engine works,. met with a painful accident.
Some man came into the holler works_ and
told him that Mrs. Bell had sent 'him to get
a man to go into the 'country and fix his
boiler..Mr. Steele was asssigned the job, In
the meantime the fellow had consumed too
much firewater and he couldn't control the
horse and they were thrown into the ditch.
with theresult thatMr. Steele had both arms
broken. in• two 'places,. •-•
Winter made its appearance on Monday .
when mother earthreceived a coating of the
beautiful snow,
OCTOBER 26,1928
Death of Thos Sproat one of the oldest,,
most highly esteemed and most familiar
figures in the district Of Tuckersmith, 'when
he passed 'away suddenly at the home of his
nephew W.M. Sproat. He was 'in his 74th
year. ,
E. Foster of the Parr Line has disposed of
his farm to his neighbour, Chas Stephenson.
Owing to the continual wet weather the
farmers are finding it slow work getting the
fall plowin$ done, but 0 hoping to See a
,fine winter.
BuntersLocal were itieries4iifilLbanin 18
wild gqese during one week 'recently,
The syclicate which is putting down a test
well for oil' at the farm of ,Bev Charretto,
soffth 'of St. Joseph; have installed the
drilling outfit and are ready to continence
work on the well.
Mrs. R.S. Reid of Stratford has'leased her
cottage" on' James Street to Herbert,
McGregor of • Wolverton Mills.
R. Dodds and C. Eckert have completed
erection of a poultry house for J. M. Eckert
which is second to none in the county.
Alex Gray of Egmondville suffered a
serious accident when he fell from an „apple
tree and fractured his wrist.
Jack Daly of the Bank ,of Commerce
Seaforth, has been transferred to the Dublin.
Branch.
The induction of Rev. B. Kaine irite the
ministry of Firs Presbyterian Church,
Seaforth was carried out when a large
Congregation was present.
Quite a number from Constance attended
the fowl
Winthrop.
supperat Northside and at Cavan
Church,
OCTOBER 30, 1953
Miss Dorothy Parker was named the new
President of the Ladies Bowling club at the
pot -luck- supper Which-preceded the annual
meeting, of the„,club.
Indian summer, this October was one of
the—warrnest anti longest — on—record:-
Evidence of the unusual warmth of the
mythical Indian harvest season was brought
'into the Expositor office by Mrs. Gordon
Ferris. 1t was a cluster of raspberries
bearing several ripe and tasty raspberries.
They were picked by Wm. Dalyrymple who
lives next
Damages of $1 40 were caused to two, cars
on Sunday, when. yehicles driven by Hugh
Thompson, town and Patrick McGrath,
Dublin were involved in an accident on
Goderich St. East.
At a meeting' in Seaforth Community
Center a representative ,group• of parents
decided to organize, the Seaforth Figure
Skating club. John James' was elected
president, A.Y. McLean and. James Doig,
councillors at large and John C. Crich vice
president. Mrs. Geo Love and. Mrs. W.M.
Stapleton are councillors and Mrs. Ross
Hamilton is secretary-treasurer.
Despite a 10 cent rise in the price of
haircuts in many. Huron Centers, Seaforth
barbers will retain the present price of 65
cents. .
At a regular meeting of the Seaforth Lions
Club in St. Thomas Hall, M. E. Clarke
reported' the paper drive in aid' of the
Canadian National Institute for the Blind,
netted $125:00
Earl Oesch of Brucefield has sold his farm
to Kenneth, Parker•who gets possession next
spring.*
Clarence Trott, Principal of ' A.V.M.
Hugh-Cainpbell Public School R.C.A.F.,
Clinton, a native of Seaforth was among the
graduates who received Bachelor of Arts
Degrees at the 161st convocation of the
University of Western Ontarioin London.
Mrs. Robert Dalyrymple held the winning
tickA in a draw at the Seaforth Fair and has
been awarded a large photograph of Queen
Elizabeth.
The womens association of the Chiselhurst
United Church held a successful home
baking sale in the schoolroom of. Hensall
United Church' and over $80. was realized-.
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO; OCTOBER 26., 1978
Is Seaforth perfect?
If you think Seaforth is an absolutely perfect little town, with no
problems now, and ..none expected ,in future, dorilt attend, the
ratepayer's meeting on Monday night. . .
- "if-yotis Ve rad-riottiltig-buroraiseloccouncil's--actlon -over -the -past —
two years and are prepared to rubber stamp everything it has done in
your _name,_ with. your money,. don't attend_Seaforlh'_s_latepayer's
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Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley • ,
is stuck somewhere in the mail
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