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The Huron Expositor, 1978-11-16, Page 2ANDREW-Y. McLEAN. Publisher _ SUSAN WHITE, Editor ALICE GIBB, News,Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $12.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance/ $20.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 A ac urn 446i-tor In the y.ctrs(*oiete Rhiva is new Since 1860. Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH. ONTARIO. every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. nice SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1978 The .01e- ction .here Seaforth voters like those in many other area towns and cities went to the polls in a dissatisfied mood Monday and Tuesday morning woke up with a new mayor., While obviously there must have been concern on the part oLvoters few realized it was of such a depth as to account for the resounding, almost thee to one victory by former councillor John Sinnamon over Mayor Cardno. There are few people in Seaforth who have contributed as much to the town's welfare, both here and ,throughout the province,`as has Betty Cardno. in her 13 years on council she's been a responsible, reasoned and efficient voice for the best interests of all in the town. It's probably slight solace to Mrs. Cardno after Seaforth voters have shown their lack of appreciation for her long hard efforts but anyone who was against anything that's happened in Seaforth lately had only the mayor to vote against. Councillors, reeve and deputy reeve were all acclaimed and it's perhaps understandable that the mayor, as the only incumbent running, bore. the brunt of any dissatisfaction. Sale of land in Seaforthis industrial park too cheaply was cited as one reason for the mayor's defeat. Those pricing policies were made by a . previous council and by the town's industrial and finance committees and approved. by the whole council. The low cost housing development planned for Seaforth's south west corner is another thing Seaforth may have voted against. The town's planning board identified that need and council members put in a great deal of time working out development arrangements that would not be a cost to the town but would bring the low priced housing that surveys showed was needed. Proper storm sewers for .the south area of town seem to have been another bone of contention,. We don't think anyone can argue they weren't needed. But other areas of town paid their own special levies when drainage was done...the whole town will share this cost. It would be argued that that's not fair or sensible. But the whole council, not just the mayor, made that decision. An excellent leader and administrator, Betty Cardno worked well with council, reasoning and trying 'to work out compromises. She looked ahead for Seaforth, did some thinking about the town's future and tried to Make sure we benefited from provincial largesse when it was available and weren't too badly hurt when it was not. Seaforth's new , mayor can be justified proud: of the support he received and is.entitied to and undoubtably will be given every wish for success as he begins his term 'of office. John Sinnamon, although untried as a municipal leader, has council experience and has a 'good idea of what he wants to accomplish for Seaforth while he's also got a hard act to follow. But with support from a hard working, responsible council, like the one that helped Mrs. Cardno, he will have an opportunity to carry out his program for Seaforth's future for which the town has given such an unqualified endorsation. Open earlier It's debatable whether moving Ontario's municipal election day ahead a month gave voters in this area any better weather in which to get out and vote than they used to ,get in December. What's not debatable at all though is the fact that the 11 a.m. poll opening time discouraged a lot of people from voting period. These were people who had to be out of town for the day and didn't come back until after the polls closed at 8 p.m., people who could easily have stopped in to vote on the way to work at 8:15 or 8:45 if the polls had opened at 8 a.m. as they do for provincial and federal elections. We'll never know how many people were too tired after a hard day at work. to stop and vote on the way home. Or how many were too cozy at home to go out on a rainy night after supper. We're sure the province isn't deliberately opening the polls-late so as to cut down on voter turnout. We're sure they just forgot-to make poll opening hours more in line with the modern world, while they were tinkering with polling dates. Perhaps the Ontario government felt one big change every two years is all the voting public can handle. Before the 1980 municipal elections, we'll be looking for them to take the plunge and open the polls from 8a.m. to 8p.m. To the editor: Grey council clarifies In answer to Mr. Thomas remarks re- garding Township we 'feel the following should be brought to the attention of the Grey Township ratepayers. Regarding the tile drainage loans. trey Township is like many other municipalities in Ontario. At presort, there is ate: proximately $170,000.00 in tile drainage appliiations on hand for Grey Township. When the Townsflip has only been allocated $20,060.00 to whom de you allocate this tneney? Also, the by-law which had expired, has now, After much red tape been "re-instated". been told that it will be approximately one year to have this change made acid finalized. Trusting that this has answered some of the questions which have been brought to mind. Also, the zoning is being reviewed at this time. But like nearly everything aspect of municipal government, once again is bound by "red-take". To have one setencee changed in the Secondary Plan, we have Grey Township Council NOVEMBER 22, 1878 KhiVa is the name of a new post office in Stephen Township. Valentine Matz is the post-master. A new paper called the Huron Record is to be started in Blyth. Rev. Mr. Wade has sold 40 acres of his farm on the Hulled side of the Base Line to Messrs. George, Joseph, and Joe Pickett meting $3,400 for it. We notice that cows and pigs are still at large on the public streets in town. G.W. Fields of Windsor has been engaged as assistant teacher for the Seaforth High Scheel at a salary of $800.00 per annum. Most of the farmers in the Lumley vicinity are through ploughing and are now preparing for winter. S. Moffatt of Varna has sold his property in the village to Mr. Stong who is about to build a brick hotel. NOVEMBER 20, 1903 Miss Hattie gowning of Brussels, has been engaged as teacher of the school known as Barrie's, 6th line of Morris for 1904. Alexander Darling, hay presser and dealer, of McKillop, has received a contract to' supply hay to the new stock yards in Toronto. John Smith of Walt on, met with an Remembrance Day has, come and gone and with it the peculiar memories of the mixed up emotion of two world wars. One of the thoughts that came to mind during the ceremonies as I watched the on television on Saturday was the tremendous sense of unity that came upon Canadians in those days compared to the factionalism we have today when our nation faces a threat to its survival. Oh I know that memories are short and there -probably was a lot of backbiting and questioning back during the war years too. I know that there was a conscription crisis and that English Cana- dians felt that French Canadians weren't doing their part to win the war. But I also know that all across the country, including Quebec, hundreds of thousands of people were lining up at barricks to volunteer to serve their country. Today the threat is no less real, even if it is less violent, yet Canadians are too wrapped up with their own petty griev- ances to come to the aid of their, country. Why? Well, perhaps it's a human failing that is is easier to unite pople in hate than it is in love. In' time of war we can forget our own petty differences with our neighbours and our own personal troubles and unite in hate againstehe enemy. Hitler provided a great catalyst for. unity. No matter' what our problems were we could take them out in our hate for this man with If this column appears in your favorite community newspaper two days or two weeks or two months after Remembrance Day, don't blame me. Blame the post'office. As-I write, the most arrogant,, obnoxious union in Canada is at it again. In fairness, the posties have their grievances. But they are ,so intransigent that To the editor: First I would like to comment on the excellent coverage your reporter came up with on this, principally because I knew about all the little information she would get front her informant. Secondly it should be interesting to most readers to see a practical joimplayed to-day. No person or property was damaged and it certainly brings back to me many memories. Yes! back to 1923 when my father and myself threshed for those boys fathers, Wilfred. Joe and Pete and their jokes have rushed off on them. (I will come back to -That latent - _ _ _ ' I am somewhat at a loss to-' put my thoughts into words without taking up itob much space he your valuable paper. But as "Fibber McGee" used to ,say. "the way I heeled it" Ray Maloney who now has his office for K. and M. Construction Co. in one room at the home, and Steve (who incidently is the father of Dave and bon, now playing hockey for New York Rangers) plus two other brothers and two sisters were all born there. Ray happened to have a 1936 Ford which The Pleasant 11.11 Club of West Branch (Your sister city) would like to thank the town of Seaforth for their friendliness and hospitality shown to us while there August 15th. Our club has never been so welcomed or treated any better. while on erne of our unfortunate accident and while engaged in working a sickle grinder, his sleeve of his coat became entangled inoneefehe handles drawing his finger into the gearing. The hotel keepers. .of Walton, were up before the magistrate for violation of the liquor law, but each was found not guilty. Peter BarreWsi Leadburv. has purchased the fifty acre farm of JohnWright on the gravel road leading into Walton, John Jackson, Leadbury has moved his family onto the Crozier farm, We understand that the Methodist and Prebysterian people are talking of holding union services in Bethel Church, east of Leadbury. William Dixon of Brucefield pur- chased from Mrs. Wm Murray of eaforth, the site on which the bur , h el stood, the price being $400.00. John. Coalt of Harlock has some mangolds which tipped the scales at . 28 pounds. .The apple packers have picked a large number of barrels in the Harlock neighbor- hood. Apples are plentiful and of a good quality. NOVEMBER 16, 1928 Brock, Orville Twitchell Sam Messrs. EIo ugall,G jeao. es Kilpatrick of Hensall returned on Sunday. from a weeks hunting no qualms from our conscience. We -were right anejust in our hatred. Wasn't this man trying to take over the world? Wasn't he a craven madman? Didn't we have to do something to stop _him? Decisions are so easy in a time of war. Everything is black and white with no hampering shade of grey. Our government ear churches, our media, our schools, all the support systems of society are united in one common goal. ' But love, now that's a much harder emotion to organize. What will save Canada today is love and respect, not hate and that's a tough commodity to bring to bear. There was an article in the newspaper the other day about a woman running for Parliament in the Ottawa area Who is very pessimistic about the future of Canada. She was saying that English Canadians don't seem to want to give any effort to trying to hold the country together. They don't realize that ever) time something insulting to French Caned ians happens in the rest of Canada it b making it that much easier for the separatists to win over votes in Quebec. Perhaps there is little hope that Canada can survive. Separatists after all have a much more powerful weapon on their side than those in favour of unity. They have hate. They'd never admit it, of course, but they have lost any vestige they might have retained, of public support, after so many strikes in so few years. And their erstwhile leader, Monsieur Parrott, was full of crap when he declared there was union solidarity. Even as he said it, hundredsof small town post office staffs had either not goneout at all, or were back to work,• obeying the law. had recently had a new motor and wanted his cousin Leon to let him plough a strip with his 2 furrow mounted plow which Leon agreed.' Well most any plow man knows you can set up a nice furrow with a 10" plow compared with the 16 and 18" used today. So, Ray had a FIRST across the road Jim Maloney 2 nd Ken and Ron Ryan 3rd and fourth, Jim Murray 5th and Leon who ploughed a headland along beside, wide and rough, the sign read 6th and last with an old toilet bowl beside. The signs were neatly done and no one has anything but suspicions is to 'who did it, although there now is a sign at Ray's mailbox which reads "Judge" which he bluntly denies. After all it was a lot of fun and its still a mystery. No one was actually seen and as I said before there's a lesson to be learned here that you don't have to destroy property or vehicles or offend anybody to has t' fun. Next week i will try to record for your readers something about the 1923 happen- , ings. who lived where, at that time. Unfortunately, all but three have passed or;. Vincent J. Lane trips. It was a most memorable and enjoyable experience. Thank-you. The Pleasant Hill Club P.S. Thank you also for the nice write up in your paper. ti expeditions from the north, each one returning home with a fine deer, The farmers in this section of the county, namely Hensel' are getting large acreage of fall plowing done as the weather has been so open. Messrs. Wm. McGavin. Wm. Somer- ville and J.J. McGavin of , alton were in, London on business. A pretty wedding took place, when Miss Agnes Eckert was united in marriage to James McQuaid of McKillop. The cere- mony took place at St. Patrick's Church, Dublin and was performed by the brides uncle, Rev. Mr. Dantzer.. W.C. Bennett of Winthrop has sol his store to Melain Clark. Threahing will be complete ucker- smith this week. Mr. Angus Kennedy of Tuckersmith has rented the Payne farm on the Mill Road from R. Bbyce, known at the Aberhart farm. Messrs. Robert Willis. Karl Ament and A.Y. McLean of Toronto University spent Thanksgiving at their homes here. - NOVEMBER 20, 1953 Beautiful weather encouraged atten- dance at the bazaar, home baking sale and afternoon tea in Northside Church spons- ored by W.W. Group I. when guests were if they win the battle to have Quebec separate from Canada it will be because of hate. They are winning votes in Quebec because of the hatred being built up in the hearts of French Canadians because of a century and more of being either abused or ignored by English canal:44MS. Although, there were but a handful of English in the province compared to French, it was always the French who had to walk the extra mile. The English gave the orders and the French jumped. And even the orders were in English. There's no doubt a good deal of the hatred and resentment built up in the minds of Quebecers has justification. But hatred is not a positive emotion but, a negative one. It seems a poor foundation for a new nation. Of course the hatred that is helping to build that foundation comes not only within Quebec but from the rest of the country. Many Canadians have been openly hostile and derogatory toward French Canadians for years. Many other have become tired of the whole battle and seem to be wishing the Quebec would just get on with it and get out. Every tme one of these anti-Quebec statements is made more votes go Rene 'Levesque. Many have tried to argue the two sides of the separation issue in terms of rational However, that has little to do with Remembrance Day, 1978. Unless it happens to strike a responsive chord in all those veterans who went to war thinking they were fighting for freedom not anarchy. A couple of years ago, I thought I had foresworn •writing columns about Remem- brance Day. I thought I'd said everything I could about it: the memories, the lump in the throat as The Last Post was played in the chill November air; the swapping of enormous lies at the Legion Hall after the parade. But this year, I was a bit miffed when a zealous Zone Commander down in the Brockville area accused me in the press of "knocking" the Canadian Legion, just because I did not genuflect every time the name came up. I retorted, also in the press, that it was rather odd that a chap who was invited on an average of twice a year to address Legion branches, should be so accused. Well, it all caught up with me. This year, in a weak moment and harassed by, two old buddies who were well into the grape, I agreed to guest speak at the first Legion branch I ever joined, on Remembrance Day. - -My- wife wasn't that hilarious about the- idea. She recalled a few instances when I had been up to no particular good with that branch. Like the night I got home at 4 a.m. after a turkey raffle, tottered up the stairs, called, "Look what I brought you, sweetie." and flang a thirty-pound turkey, neck, legs, and all onto the bed beside her. Which, promptly collapsed, leaving her on the floor in the embrace of a very cold, very dead tuck. As A I 'recall. we dined not on hot turkey, but hot tongue and cold shoulder, next day. Or the time I brought home four Indian guys, good legionnaires all, insisted that they'd make me an honorary chief, and tried to explain to her why we had to put them up for the night. Or the time I went off to a one-day zone rally with a neighbour, a Great War vet, a charter member of the Legion and a respectable citizen. And we arrived home two days later looking like skeletons and acting like a couple of veterans from the welcomed by Mrs. W. 0, Campbell and Mrs, W, J. Stinson. The world's largeet city 'London England has as its Lions Club president a Seaforth native and, fornier • resident A.R. Turnbull, son of the late ,Mr. George Turnbull. The 88th Anniversary of First. Fre,sby. terian Church was marked Sunday when Rev. J. Lorne Mackay preached. Seaforth District High School Board last week approved plans• submitted by a London Architect for a $125,000 building program. One of the oldest residents in the district and a popular figure about Seaforth Jas. D. Gemmel' died, He was 93. L.D.B.A. member held a "Family Night Program" and a pot luck supper. Mrs. Adin Forbes, and Mrs. Everet Smith were in charge: Robert James Gibson of Toronto R.C.A.F. student pilot was killed when the Harvard trainer he was flying solo failed to come out of as spin and crashed into a field owned by James Mustard. Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Krauskopf of Dublin, whq were recently married were honored at the St. Patrick's Parish Hall in Dublin. Mrs., Krauskoph was the former Helen Connolly. and economic arguenients but these have little chance of standing up against emotion, especially for an emotional people like the Quebecois. Hatred is what promotes Separation. All that it can be fought with is love. But love is a hard cornodity to sell particularly to this "me generation" that has taken over Canada in the 1970's. Hatred is a selfish emotion while love is a giving, unselfish one. What people who promote a unified Canada are asking is that everyone try to understand ' the problems of the others around him and to respect his dreams and his needs. What that means is a gigantic 24-hour-a-day struggle to set aside our own petty grievances and to understand the other guy. Few people on wither side of the unity quesiton seem ready to make that sacrifice. In his famous speech in Washington Prime Minister Trudeau said that if Canada fell apart it would be a crime against • humanity because we had not made this noble experiement work. If we cannot extend love and understanding to people in our own' country, how can we ever expect of love and understnd people half-way around the world? If we can't build more love and 'understanding of others, how many more millions of dead will we remember on future Remembranceo Days. Boer War. But that's not, of course, the kind of thing I can use in my speech: No. I'll have to talk about comradeship, the flag, the Queen, the fallen, throwing the torch, the many scholarships the Legion provides, the lovely dinner prepared by the Ladies Auxiliary, and all that jazz. Lest we forget. What I'd really like to do is discuss topics closer to the hearts of the average legionnaire: what you could get for a pack of smokes in Antwerp in 1944; how come a colleague of mine, who fought with Rommel in North Africa, gets a bigger war pension from the German government that I do from the Canadian; how many girls there were to the square yard in Picadilly Circus on a summer evening; how anybody who believed in democracy and equality could volunteer to serve in such a fascist outfit as the military. But no. That would never do. Not with the Ladies Auxiliary hanging around, drinking in every word. And making sure their spouses drank in nothing except words. I'll probably have to drop in a few heroic and imaginary personal experiences, stress the importance to the boys in arms of Those At Mini -6ff Art 'anecdote et- two -about- Churchill, speak- in hushed and reverent tones of those who got the chop, and belabor the gov ernment for not giving veterans, a pension that would put them within a stone's throw of civil service pensioners. It's going to be tough. I am not a reverent person. I still think it will be a great day for Canada when there' are only five legionnaires left in this country, all of them in their nineties, and they get together and sell the 28 million dollars of assets of the Canadian Legion, and squander the whole works on a three-week trip to Gay Paree. It will mean we haven't been in a war for fifty odd years. And it will probably mean that, after three weeks, there are no more Canadian Ilionniires on the face of the earth. - -.— But do my best. +I can always give the Germans a verbal thumping, and bewail the fact that after being thoroughly licked, they could buy the whole of Canada tomorrow, if they wished. That should go over. Be-hind the scenes Beechwood's IPM West Branch says thanks by Keith RvIston Remembrance Day unites us all Sugar and Spice bif Bill Smile; Time to remember, but not the post office.