The Huron Expositor, 1978-11-23, Page 2Hih e Huron x ositor
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NO /EMBER 23, 1978
Stephen will be missed
A PRETTY LUCKY GUY — This little fellow didn't -stc:t. to give his
name, but he was one of the skaters who gamely spent five hours on the
ice at Sunday's Skate-a-thori, held to raise money for the Minor Hockey
Association.,
Behind the scenes • 'by Keith Roulston
Say•-mnething nice
the ears agotte
Find petrified cat
The province's legislative chambers will be a duller plac2 in future.
The reason is the assembly said good-bye to one of its most able
politicians last week-a man who spent all of his adult life in politics,
espousing the cause of socialism in the country's wealthiest province,
attacking the bureacracy , of government institutions like the
Workmerts! Compensation Board and campaigning for stricter safety
measures in the province's industries.
Stephen Lewis, 41, has spent 15-years-as a p-oltttcal orgarker and—
politician for a party whith has had little chance of gaining the support
of the majority of Ontario's voters. Now Mr. Lewis, who has already
turned over the reins of the party leadership to Michael Cassidy, is
retiring from parliament to start pursuing another life-as a newspaper
columnist, a reviewer of childrens' books and who knOws what else.
VVhatever one's political affiliation, one can't help but recognize a
man who was willing to dedicate perhaps the most exciting years of his
life to the political game. It was a game Mr. Lewis played
well-withstanding the Waffle split from within his own party and the
anti-socialist mood from without. Mr. Lewis could be relied on to ask
penetrating questions in the legislative assembly, to pursue issues
with dogged determination and to provide ,quotable copy for any
members 9f the media who came his way.
But perhapS' Mr. Lewis' wisest decision took place when he turned
the leadership of the. New Democratic Party over to someone else and
got on with the business of pursuing a less public career. Too often
veterans of the political game fail to realize they are expendable, and.
that political parties, like other institutions, need new blood and new
idezas.
. As Mr. Lewis pointed out, it's harder getting out of politics than
getting in. When he first wanted to leave, it -wasn't good for the party
and then it 'wasn't good for the federal by-elections.
But last Friday, Mr..Lewis formally said good-bye to Queen's Park;
although one can't help suspecting it may be only a temporary
absence.
He ended his years in the legislative chambers with a .tribute to the
Other politician's Who are staying on the job.
"The politicians who ply their trade in these strange ways are,
almost uniformly, an honorable lot. It's so easy to debunk the process
and its protagonists; to mock and vilify thaplayers'and their games; to
see every elected member as a moving target in a shooting gallery.
It's also profoundly unfair. 'Politicians lead weary, unrelenting lives,
and they all approach their jobs differently'.. But mediocre or gifted,,
constituency' badgers or rhetorical enthusiasts, terrible Tories or
shining Socialists, they make the system work, and -by and large it
works
Macleans should open up
Macleans magazine, billed as Canada's weekly news magazine has
ablely demonstrated that governments aren't the only institutions in
Canada that close their doors on embarassing questions.
When Bruce Shaw, SDHS principal, raised the issue of the possible
'censorship of an article in Macleans dealing with book banning in
Huron County, magazine spokesmen didn't demonstrate any of the
forthrightness their own reporters demand when covering news
stories.
The Huron Expositor phoned the magazine twice asking for a
detailed expian6tion of why the article, titled Bad News for Good
Books, had appeared only in a Toronto supplement of the magazine,
when the article dealt with the issue of censorship across• Canada.
Although members of the secretarial staff took detailed notes on the
information the Expositor was requesting, no one returned the paper's
calls.
When the London Free Press was able to contact Kevin-Doyle, the
pap r's managing editor, he said additional Toronto advertising
coo d the cost of printing the article in the Toronto edition for the
ago ine. Mr. Doyle said he did not think it was worth reprinting the
arti' e in a future edition of the magazine so Huron County readers
cou d lee the original article.
Ironically, at the same, time Canada's national news magazine is
proving unco-Operative iri respinding to questions about their owner
organization, they are .asking subscribers to fill in computer
questionnaires saying why they subscribe 'to Macleans.
Huron County, saiscribets,would certainly-be-justified in including--a----
letter with the questionnaire asking why they were denied the
opportunity to read an article dealing specifically with a V-ery emotional
issue in the County.
If the news media demands accessibility from government sources,'
then they should be prepared to be accessible in return.
In the Walt Disney movie Bambi
there's a famous line given by one of the
furry little characters that goes: "If you
'can't say something' nice don't say
anything at all."
That line is hopelessly outdated today of
course'. The modern trend is more like: "If
you can't say something nasty then shut
up." It's particularly true in the media
coverage of nearly everything these days.
A great wave of negativism has taken over
nearly all our sources of information and
entertainment.
One of the worst offenders in the media
these days is the new Maclean's weekly
magazine. All news, even the people and
the entertainment sections of the magaline
seem to have been written by soineons
with a bad toothache. It isn't enough to just
tell the news. You have to throvs in a few
snide, derogatory remarks alon0.he way.
The contrast to this came to. me recently
when I was reading a book called .•
Clearing in the West" the autobiography
of a famous Canadian named Nellie
McClung'. Mrs. McClung was born up in
Grey eounty back in the 1870's at a time
when life in Ontairo was just beginning to
have some sniall elements of comfort after ,
the hardship of the early pioneering years.
But her family lived on a, poor farm and the
lure of the NorthWest was too strong. Soon ,
they were on their way to Manitoba where
they went through the whole process of
again starting with nothing.
Life certainly wasn't easy for the young
Nellie while she was growing up. She
couldn't go to school for long periods of
time because she had to stay home to tend
the cattle to keep them out of the wheat
fields, because there were no fences.
When she could go to school she walked
miles there and miles home and carried a
heavey burden of chores when she did get
'home but she was happy to do it because of
her thirst for knowledge. She lived with a
strict. Scottish mother who regarded her as
too forward in the days when women and
girls were to tie seen and not heard, For a
woman who later became one of the early.
heros in the fight to win voting rights and
'other equalities for women, this must have
been a hard cross t'o bear.
Certainly she-did not lead an easy life,
but Mrs. McClung's book is nearly to't'ally
positive. Oh it's no polyanna story with
everything good and nothing bad. She tells
all her fears and all her troubles from those
early days. yet there is a postive attitude of
her mother and other submissive women of
the time that women shouldn't speak up or
try to have any say in communityor
national affairs, that there shouldn't be any
criticism of the government and such
things. Mrs, MeClung still understands
why these people were as they were and
doesn't ridicule them. •
Shc seems to have compassion for those
less strong than herself, less able to
overcome adversities. Set againSt ,the
terrible cynicism and critical writing of
today when we really have little to
complain 'about by comparison-. Mrs.
McClung makes bur modern, writiers and
commentators look iprettyluveniles
******
And how could one let the retirement
of another great Canadian Bobby Orr pass
without some comment.
I know there are many in this country
who think hockey is a game for goons and ,
semi-intelligent jocks but for anyone' who
likes excellence, for anyone who likes grace
and style, for anyone who likes greatness
, mixed with humility, the enforced early
retirement of Bobby Orr has got to be , a
tragedy.
It's ironic that at a time when hockey
seemed to degenerate into worthless
violence perhaps the' most graceful hockey
player of all time should be plying his
trade. I 'never cheered for a team that
Bobby Orr played for, -except for the
Canada Cup team .in 1976 yet I could never
cheer against him. Even if he swept down
ice from his own end, darted and faked his
way through' your own team and scored a
deceptively simple looking goal, you
couldn't help admiring the man.
That a man of such talent should 'be
struck• down so early in his -Careers is, a
tragedy notch like watching a great. lea der
or a great artist die young. He had given us
so mud in such a short time it's.-a shame
we can't enjoy such greatness longer.
Sure, he will still be around. He may even
become a great coach or manager, but
we've lost something just the same in not '
being able to watch a great artist at work.
' The wonderful thing about Bobby Orr
though was that he never seemed to let
success go to his head like many others. He
always gave everything he had. He seldom
complained. He was friendly without being
obnoxious like some stars. He was a class
guy.
Our one blessing is that we live in a time
when there is plenty of visual record of the
+r exploits of the man so that years from now
we can still enjoy the speed, grace and
-skills of perhaps the greatest player ever to
put on skates.
NOVEMBER 29,107y
We are informed by. a bustitess man in
town that at thelarge sale held in Toronto,
4.145 buffalo robes were offered for sale but
unv 1.500 were sold.
Professor Jones his position as
Presentor in First' Proseeterian Church on
Sunday for the first lime
The daily stage running morn Seaforth and
Bressels still does a large business.
Messrs. Hickson and Robertson shipped
to Winnipeg. Manitoba, a car load of btitter.
396 packages.
, Farmers are mostly all through with fall
plowing and are now busily engaged in
chopping wood, sawing logs, and preparing
for winter.
John Ross of Tuckersmith sold his farm ihs
the Township to Geo. Mulholland for
$5,900.00.
NOVEMBER 27, 1903
A very unfortunate accident occurred at
Kippen, resulting in the injury of several
persons and the almost total destruction of
the handsome new sabbath school" room
attached to St. Andrew's Church. Fortun-
ately tfic chuis It itself was not in the least
injured and no, (Awn a pane of glass broken.
The immediate c .sisc of the exp losion is not
known.
The temperature—in the parish half of St.
Columban registered 80 degrees of heat
last Sunday.
. —At-the time -of writing tile-indications are
that winter has arrived in Leadbury,
Mr. H. Chesney of Egmondville has sold
to R. McKercher of McKillop his grey
driving mare.
The 'floor of the baggage room at the
station has been lowered to the level of the
platform so that trucks loaded with baggage
can now be unloaded in and out of the room.
James B. Sproat has gone to Stratford
where he' has received employment in a
furniture factory.
While workmen were making preparations
to excavate for a furnace under the Bank of
Commerce 1muse, occupied by Mr. Parker,
they struck a real curio in the form of a
petrified cat. It was found lying in a bed of
lime.
It is understood that Mr. Alexander
McLean. of Ottawa will be appointed
commercial ,agent for Canada in Japan. The
gentleman named is a brother of Mr. M. Y.'
McLean of the Expositor.
We are now favoured with good sleighing.
Chas. Milson of Brucefield has had a set of
new scalos erected on the street near the
hotel stables.
NOVEMBER 20, 1928
Assuredly the present mild fall weather is
fully appreciated by Western Ontario
Canadians and our tourists at Bavfield.
oy JJebnie Hanney
This week Expositor Asks thought it
would be interesting to find out how local
residents 'feel about the Seaforth Com-
munity Hospital and asked, "Have you
used Seaforth Community Hospital?" How
well d do you think it serves the com-
munity?"
Mrs. Fergus Reynolds of 15 Franklin St.
in Seaford) said she hadn't been a patient
but that her husband' had and he was
happy with the treatment he got there.
"He thought they were quite kind," she
said.
Mrs. George Earl of RR 4, SeafOrth said
that one of her children had been in the
hospital and Mrs. Earl thought it served
the community very well.
"It's a very nice clean little hospital,"
she said, adding that. the local hospital had
more modern conveniences than some
in the city.
Mrs. Maxwell Carter of Egmondville
said she had been in the hospital within the
past year and she thought it was beauti-
fully run.
"We're very lucky to haVe that hospital.
I was very happy with the place. You get
good care and everybody's cheerful and
willing to do things for you."
She said she had just come back from a
hospital in the city and on a smaller scale
"Seaforth hospital was very well run.
Andrew McFarlane of RR 4, Seaforth
Material is on the ground for making
improvements on the U.F.A. building now
occupied by Mr. Quance, general merchant
of Crornarty.
Hugh Rinn of Walton has returned from
the West and thinks there is no place like
Walton.
John Marshall of Walton has purchased ,a
radii' from C. Cummings.
J. Ms Arthur has sold his farm at Blyth and
is trying to locate in the village of Walton,
Last Thui sdav's storm ',aimed destruction
to windmills and barn doors and left some
patching to do on roofs.
Mr. Frank McConnell of Dublin has sold
his roadster to Frank Burns, who drives the
R.R.2. Mail route,
A disastrous fire occurred when the large
frame house on the farm of Roland Kennedy
was burned to the ground.
Over 200 friends and neighbours, of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Boyes of Tuckersmith
gathered at the Aberhart farm to spend a
social evening before their removal to
Northern Ontario.. The presentation was
made b) Messrs. T.G. Webster and John
Modeland. R. J. Beatty read the address.
The auction sale of stock held by W.W.
!less of Brucefield was the most successful
in the community of Brucefield.
Messrs. E. Sheffer and Joseph Hagan of
Hensall were engaged in putting in a fine
hardwood floor in the Kippen hotel.
The heavy snow fall of the first part of the
week has prove-d-a-quiet -reminder-of svhat
we may soon have for keeps.
The coal dealers have been rushed with
orders owing to the setting in of winter.
The Paramount Quartette. Messrs. J.
Stewart, J. Beattie, M.R. Rennie and D.L.
Reid filled concert engagements at Auburn
and Kincardine on Monday and Sunday
night.
NOVEMBER 27, 1953
Some 200 neighbours and friends
gathered at the Wintrop Hall to honour Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Boyd on their 25th wedding
anniversary. Dancing was enjoyed to
Seimon's orchestra. Dominic Murray read
an address and Ed Godkin and Stanley
Hillen and Hubert Johnson presented them
with a chrome table and chairs and a lamp.
A party of 11 men and two from the
district returned after a successful hunting
trip in Northern Ontario., bearing seven
deer to credit their niarkmanship. Eric
McMaster
Modeland, Carman Rowcliffe, Harold
J.M. Scott, M.A. Reid, Dr. E.A.
Wm. Leybourne, Geo. Kruse,
J.W.Vic s
Jackson and F. Kling were in the group. s-rs
Huron County will be represented at the
4-H Congress by Earl McSpadden in
Chicago where he was awarded the trip after
scoring the highest total in Junior Farmer
competition and livestock judging in Clinton
and Seaforth.
said he had been in Seaforth Community
Hospital just to have an X-ray.
"I imagine it's very good. It's very nice
and very clean. I think it's pretty well run. I
like it a lot better than some of the larger
hospitals," he sdid. ..
Mrs. Wilson Allan of Seaforth said her
husband was in the hospital here three
years ago and she said she thought at the
time they were really good to him.
"I really appreciated what they did for
him there. Three years ago I will say the
nurses and the whole staff were really good
to him. Between the nurses and the doctors
they pulled him through," she said.
Louis Kramers of Dublin, whose wife
had been in Seaforth Community Hospital
said, "It's as good as you can expect. I
think it's one of the best (smaller) ones."
Mrs. Russel Smith of RR 1, Dublin said
she had been in the hospital here.
"I was in there and had surgery. I got
excellent care. I have no complaints at all.
Even with the old hospital I never had any
complaints."
She said the 'doctors, nurses`-'-and
everything were first class.
Mrs. Elmer Rivers of 167 Main St. N., in
Seaforth said she lead used the hospital and
as far as she knew it served the community
very well.'There was nothing she disliked
about it.
think it's doing a very good job," she
said.
Expositor asks:
How well does the hosjital serve the community?
Amen
by Kati Schuessler
Tickets. and -lotteries are, big business
Sirs & Friends:
Glad to see in Nov. 2nd issue of
W.G.Strong's History of Hog Butchering.
The modis operandi was right on with our
home butdhering except we did not hit the
pig between eyes with a sledge hammer.
Our pigs were always stuck standing up.
Also one year we killed one around 800
lbs. and anyone wanting ahy information or
facts about if they contact me I pill gladly
jeilivijaply theta. We rendered 200 lbs. of lard
from that one.
Also a picture in Nov. 9 issue of C4th salt
well. I hope you have and can print a story
about the same, re time and location.
I appreciate your editor or saineone
digging up these human interest *odes.
Keep them up.
Heiman Stieare,
3201 Lawrence Ave. E. -604
SearbOnte Ont.
M1114
I m surprised at myself.
Here I go on and on about the silliness of
lotteries, bingos, casinos and raffles. I've
always figured there are far, better ways to
throw away my money than to waste it on
ticket stubs and wrong numbers.
But you know what? I'm holding in my
pocket booksful of "A Long Weekend in
Las Vegas". That's a draw put on by our
local tennis club. If you're lucky. you may
be the winner staying at the famous Hilton
Hotel in Vegas with a free champaign
breakfast and with coupons and tokens
worth $150.
But if you're one of the hundreds who
aren't so lucky, you're stuck home in
February with the wister blahs and along
lost weekend. But look at it this way.
Console yourself. You've helped one
person to make a great escape. You've
, helped your tennis club. And even if you
did win the trip, chances are'you'd lost lots
of money at the gambling tables and the
one-arm bandit machines. You know, those
one-arm bandits aren't called that for
nothing,
Okay: So why am I writing all this. I'm
confessing. I'm confessing I'm selling
these draw tickets for my tennis club. It's
not easy to say "no" to a group. Every.
-member want to do his part. Work for the
club, Heaven knows they need the money.
The cause is good. The price is right. A
dollar a ticket. What's a dollar?' And if
yo i're•in a generous mood, take six tiekels.
r orily five dollars. A real bargain.
A birgain, sure. But then again, a
bargain? Not really.
I've always been impressed with the
United Church's stand on gambling. Their
General Council passed a policy statement
last year. Even though some people called
the report mild and gutless, the report did
lay out the pros and cons of gambling. It
asked the churches not to apply for grants
from lottery proceeds. It asked the govern-
ments to find more responsible ways of
taxing and to take another look at the
lottery advertising campaigns - promising
millions and not telling the odds. Talk
about misleading advertising!
The United Church has at least taken
this stand. I don't know if too many other
churches cati claim the like. And then last
month the United Church Observer maga-
s:lite went at it again. They ran an article on
the epidemic proportions of the lottery
business running rampant in Canada.•
Lottery is a big business. Every since
Montreal started its Olympic lottery to
wear down that deficit, all the other levels
of government have jumped in. •Federal.
Provincial. Regional. Everyone's leaping
into the gravy goat. And now they're
squabbling over whose rights and terri-
tories belong to whom. And how much
revenue each is going to skim off.
Raising direct axes was never like this.
People are standing in line to pay these
indirect taxes. They're forking over every
day an axerage of $2.7 million into
government-,sponsored lotteries. And the
government keeps about half Of it. Loto
Canada alone made 74 million dollars on
ticket sales of 225 million. A 33% return. '
(Continued on Page 3)
To the editor:
Strong's article right on