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The Huron Expositor, 1978-12-28, Page 2_ Since 1860, Servin the Community First Published at SEAFORM., ONTARIO every Thursday morning by I4CLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. ANDREW Y. /*LEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor ` ALICE GIB% News Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Associaton Ontario Weekly. Newspaper Associaton and Audit Bureau of Circulationt Subscripqpn Rates: Canada (in advance) $1Z.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $20.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 ephone 527-0240 THE' HURON EXPOSITOR,'DECEMBER 28, 1978 -77-- In the years agone JANUARY 1, 1904 The -McKillop Council-was.-re-elected by acclamation as 'follows: M. Murdie,. Reeve, . Councillors; J.S.. Brown', J' M. Govenlock, Chas. Little and John Murray. In Tucker- smith, Geo. Black was elected Reeve by acclamation and Councillors are John McNevin; R. -McKay, W. McNaughton, R. Kruse, F. O'Brien and- Alex Broadfoot. 4 J. Cummings of Hullet has sold an. 18 month old bull to Geo. Raithby for $90.00. Miss Doan of Zurich who has been in the, north west teaching has been engaged to teach Miss 'Murray's department in " the • Hensall school. The Weight of snow which collected on the 4 sheds of :Dames Road Presbyterian Church has caused them to collapse. James Hart of St. Columban met t with a painful accident when he lost some of the fingers on his right hand. He was'etting up on the feed board when his, foot slipped and he put his hand out to save himself and it was caught in the carrier chain, the result being that the third'finger was taken completely off. ' Wm. Rinn of Hullet sold a very fine 4 year old of his own raising to Robert McDole for $125.00. ' ' The storm of last" Sunday at Varoa..X4 prevented the minister from turning out. Wellington McLaughlin of Walton has gene to Toronto to learn the barbering. Alexander Smith_of the Hullet Town Line has sold the farm which he recently purchased from .Wm. Flairney to Nelson Nicholson of Manitoba. The Broadfoot and. Box Furniture factory is shut down to allow the employees holidays and to permit -the annual. stock taking. The people were favored .with lovely weather for Christmas: It was cold but clear and sleighing was good. JANUARY 3,1878 ' Peter McEwen of McKillop has purchased from-his neighbour, M. McCallum the east half of lot 23 concession. 13 McKillop consisting of 50 'acres for $2000. Mr. 'McEwen has now 200 acres in one block. New Years day was one of the most 'delightful in respect of weather. However a tremendous storm of wind and snow follOwed the next night. We are informed that Mr. Lee of Seaforth has bought the saw mill near Varna formerly owned by James Johnson. JANUARY 4,1929 As the influenza• has almost subsided the schools in Manly will re-open as usual. Messrs. James Kerr, Aarop Yantze, Oliver Elliot and Wm Stark:of Winthrop entgained the Merry Makers club to a dance in the Winthrop Orange Hall. Wm Ross Murdie youngest son of Andrew and Mary RoAs Murdie of McKillop• died on Christmas day. ' Cliff Broadfoot of Brucefield left Tuesday for Flint,' Mich. where he has a_ good position. Messers J. Doig and W. Taylor are cutting wood for Mr. Halliday. Oliver' Pete -the boy gelding owned by L.W. Guy of Seaforth and formerly by Wm. Kerslake 'won• the first classified pace at Dufferin Park at Toronto. The annual Christmas dance was 'held in the G-.W.V:A. Seaforth under the auspices of the Lions Club. Miss Sarah Gemmell of "Egmondville passed away on Thursday at her home. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kerslake were called to Toronto owning to the serious illness of their daughter Dorothy. The first real ' snow 'storm .came on" Wednesday. A great deal of snow has fallen and the temperature is below zero. Miss Nora McGrath of St. Columban won . re,opening the'.School. 'firmer warden J.W. 'Armstrong and :their the tea set at the progressive euchre and Mr. Mark Niles the serving tray, DECEMBER 31,1954 Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Jewitt of Hullet Sugar Et Spice by Bill Smiley 4,0 been quite a week Well, it's been quite a week,: I've beenon TV, twice; I've slipped On the ice, fallen grid sprained my wrist; and I've had an operation • on my nose: ' I was terrific on TV, or so they tell me. I missed it. The chap who did the interview Old me when it Would• appear, and prOmptlY forgot. I called him to*ask whether it would be shown again, and he told' me when. I rnadea special trip home at 1 p.m. to See It had been shown at twelve noon: My , wife 'was furious. I vvas just as glad.lf I'd seen it, I might have quit my job and run off to Hollywood, there to become just 'another =bidet's starlet, subject to the whims of casting directors and, other such vermin. As for spraining my wrist, I wonder if it weren't a psychological pley. I was halfway tirough marking the pre-Christmas exams, and my mind was beginning to crack, I'd begun wondering whether the students and had been reading'the same plaYs an& -stories. One student, dealing with a story set in' South Africa, had a moose involved. A moose. In South Africa. Another infottned me 'that Lady Macbeth, the great dark murderess of ShakeSpeare's play, was sweet anti kind at first, and we sort of liked hers' but she got mean later. Frankly, when I•slipped on the ice and fell, I wouldn't be surprised if I deliberately let my wrist fold under me hoping it would break. At any rate, I whiinpered around for several days, claiming I could mark no, more paperS With a broken •wrist, until ,an unsympathetic doctor informed me it was a mild sprain. I didn't Whimper on the operating table. I just groaned and grunted with agony. First, the doctor covered my eyes With various tavels and things, so I couldn't see the, needle and the scalpel approaching. I gritted my teeth so hard a filling fell out. Ever had a needle in the nose? Doii't, if you can help it. Tell them to'sknock you out with a total. I've had them in every portion of my anatomy, and the nose in Number Otte, except perhaps for the shot from the dentist in the front upper gum.. There is, though, something mildly intriguing when the doctor says, "You have very tough skin on your nose, for some reason." This, while he's sewing you up, and snip, 'snipping file loose ends of plastie thread. The whole thing didn't hurt 'any more than a smash in the face with a knuckle duster. , At any rate, Ill never again be able to say, scornfully; "It's no skin off MY nose." To still -another class I suggested that a hyeria had escaped 'from.'the nearest •zoo, pushed in our unlocked cellar window, crept up the stairs in the middle of the night, and bitten off .my nose at 'the roots. A very large bandage- on very large nose made any Of these stories acceptable, and the more far-fetched the story, the etter it vent over. I 'do believe I. received th ost canpassiOnate looks from •the kids to Whom I suggested,,that I'd had to have 'the nose amputated:because' I'd bent so close to a Nand of hamburger, Idoking for some meat in it, that a rat had leaped out of it, nailed me on the nose, and I'd had to have it cut off because of possible cyrrhosis of the liver from a •rat bite. I told them no nose is a g6od nose, and they agreed. Golly blue,, this isn't much of a Christmas colutnn, is it? Oh, well, Christmas,is a big pain in1the arm, anyway..Beginning as a pagan celebration, it has passed through a ••'spiritual celebration, bated on a doubtful birthday of Our Lord Jesus, right back to a " pagan rite based on advertising,'materialism and turkeys, of all 'things. , Anyway, • try to have . a happy , one,, • the best we all can do in these perilous everybody times. .,and we'll try to do the same:, It's However, I had lots of fun with thenose: I Vent straight from the operating tab •h back to school, and the students, understandably were fascinated. - "Hoo• hitCha,: sir?" Told them they should see the other guy. "Jer wife, get violent at THIS honr in the -morning?" No, 'I told them quietly, it.; happened, the night before. , "What• happened,. sir?" I had my nosebobbed, Debbie. My wife has• been Complaining for'year that she can't kiss me properly, because of that big nose, so I had a chunk removed. Told wither group thatiny nose bad been smashed into ground earthworm texture by the Gestapo in' World War II, 'and the steel braces inserted by an eminent British surgeon to give it a. semblance of shape had finally rusted, and been removed..: To another class I stated solemnly that my big, hooked nose had always bothered 'me, as bejng short or fat or riddled with, acne- bothers other people, that Ilrfinally decided to do something about it, and that if they could wait until next. Monday,, when the stitches came out, they'd find I had a charming, turned-up nose with, round Inostrils throng h. which they could deer and see my brain lurching around. Expositor. asks. • • 47,-; What is your. New Years resolution ? 17, A new year has,,begnn. bine. Mrs. Bob McKellar of Egmendville said those unresolved fretti ,IaSt yet '`.1liliifelrt really thought about it. I guess , and make some new ones. This week qUit smoking. That's about all I can think 'EXPositor`Asks decided to ask local people • of." "What is your New Year's Resolution Mrs: Raye B. Patterson of 86 King St. in going to be?" Hensall, said, "To help one another more 'Mrs. John Davidson of IfR2. Se iforth and do unto Others as you would have them said she hadnit4ought much' bou it,but do unto you." she thoughf tryifig to keep well would be a Mrs, Wni. McGregor of RR Z kippcn good thing. who is 80 years old said "Better health." -M Sedorth said "To quit smoking" would be , , to Keep last year's resolution to lose weight bOth her and her husband's resolutions. and lost about 20 poi ds site is She said they had tried it before but Uncertain as to what this year's resolutiOn maybeif-they saw it g they woulu is. quit. itmaybe another one is tor) start Mrs. Charles Douglas of :RR 2, Sta Christmas shopping early. Maybe that'll said, "To stay. on a diet. That's the mos r< Jamet Glew of 27 Jarvis St., Mrs. Tim Alce ofiR Dublin rnanved solve few problems " the said: iiiiportant one for me." Thanks Clarence THETEDDy BEARSFPICNIC? -7- It wasn't quite theieildy 1bears' kindergartQn class at Walton Public School sang their song In the school but there were certainly a number of the, furry animals around when, the: Christmas concert on Friday, (Expositor Photo). Sometimes the full implications of an ent don't become apparent until some time after it is over. Such is the casein thelire last week in which a S forth man lost his life and which, gutted an apartment in the Royal block on Main Street. The story in last week's-Expositor emphasized the tragic loss of life but it was some days later before it waa.realizecl what might have happened had :not one of those close to. the fire acted .as he, did_ It was Clarence Reeves, the occupant of the apartment adjoining the blaze, who discovered the fire.and who moved 'methodically to alert otherresidents in the building. Despite hallways filled with smoke, he didn't panic. He made certain an alarM was sounded and was careful to keep fire doors, closed to reduce drafts that could have fanned the flames. • Just what his actions meant in terms of Seaforth Main Street were summed up by Fire Chief. Harry Hak who commented that in another "five to seven minutes we could have .hali a d IS-aster on main S treet." Undoubtedly this is true. Had the fire advanced beyond the Howard apartment, it would have been most difficult to contain in the hundred year old Main Street landmark. Certainly -not only' those directly involved bUt the community as a whole owe a debt of gratitude'to Clarence Reeves who when the chips were down acted responsibly and Thought of others before himself. A use for hot air ,The provincial government, •:sometimes accused of producing too much hot air on its own, is now takingsteps to investigate a use for the waste heat produced in the province's nuclear power plants. The government is setting up two pilot projects to study how waste hot water, a byproduct of nuclear power plants, can be used to warm hothouses or upgrade'the heat to power related industries: The-first projectinvolves two greenhouse demonstratidn projects, .one at Douglas Point and the other at the Pickering nuclear poWer plant.. " One of the main objectives of the exercise is to show financially hard-pressed' hothouse growers, such. as those in. ESsex County, that greenhouses can be operated even• in colder areas like Bruce County • with the assistance of waste' hot water, If thelproVincial—government fbllows through with these experi- ments,ffhe results might not only help the greenhouse industry; but also replace some of the jobs that have been lost lately:' at the Kincardine power plant. ' 1 • 4 When North ,Amerioans are faced with rising oil prices, and other skyrocketing energy costs it's time government took the lead in_ promoting efficient: use ,of our, available energy resources. When byproducts from one 'operation can be' recycled for use in. a second industry, at financial savings, then we're on our way -to 'becoming a . conserver rather than strictly consumer society, The -greenhouse projects are only one, step in collecting all the available heat produced irt the nuclear poWet plant operation. But it's good to see that the government,'always urging its' citi2ens to be more and more energy conscious, .is willing to take some of the same medicine it's pre@criping for others. To the editor: Writer wants to hear from "Home" children I am a former managing editor of :The United Church Observer and columnist en The Globe and Mail of Toronto. I am doing research dealing with the arrival in Canada of thousands of orphan children from Britain in the early years of the 1900s. I would be pleased to hear, by letter, from people throughout Canada who came to this country through the various organizations such Barnardo Homes, Macpherson Homes, the Fairbridge Society:and so' on. • 1 would.. also appreciate ' letters; .from ''petsons who worked for any of these or anizations (or, others fike them) or in NV hAineS- any • of the children were 'brought up; l%.4,,v mailing address is 303 St. Lawrence St.. Whitby.' Ontario. LIN 412. All' letters will be gratefully received and acknowledged.• Kenneth Bagnell Behind t Scenes - by Keith Reulston I resolve to use my time wisely -5 One of the nice things about, the way our, system of tithe and date keeping is set 'up is Mai we have plenty of opportunities to feel that we are, starting fresh: The coming of the new year is-one of our best chances 'to feel we are making a new start , able to bid goodbye to our old problems-tr faults and start from scratch. I suppose that's why the idea of New Year's resolutions, ea_ - bout in the first loose.210, -place."We have the mice try to improve on our faiths. Of course we s' ' 'find out that the new year isn't really .a. esh start. We still carry with us the weaknesses we had the .yeat before meaning thdt no matter how well. intentioned we are, we're likely to find that by the end of the first week in the lie* year we've already broken most of our new resolutions.' • ' ' I'm either realistic or chic en, I haven't ' quite figured out which• y but over the • years I've tended to make my resolutions alcing pretty general or non-binding lineS. Once ,or twice at this time of-the lyear made some,high,minded and sweeping reso- lutions to (lure some major, fault and found them pretty hard to keep. So I've begun tb react more like a politician, putting 'down general principles by shying away from any direct promises. my conscience can bug me about when I break. One of my aims this year is to make the most of every minute. I recently was helping out'a local writer who has been retired for \ several years. He was writing a piece on being a senior citizen and he 'was remarking on all the things he suddenly realized he had not been able to do in his lifetime.* Be would wacrirarlibrary and 'see all the books he had never read and know that he could never hope to read them all. He would look at a' map and see all the places he had never visitedand,realize he would never be able td visit them all. He would think of all the interesting things he would like to haVe done in his life and realize how little tithe he had left to do them. ' This man was enjoying retirement years the way few'pedple do. It's a time• of excitement and joy for .him because •now he can experiment on- so many things. I'm a long c% from retirement of course, but I've been struck by the same thought at times. Time is running out on all of us. If I slatted right nowt to do all the thing I would like CO do in this fife, I'd run out of time long before I ran out of interesting things to do, even if I liVed to a ripe old age. Many of us' worry about money but our most precious commodity is not money, but time. We can alvvays hope to earn more money. We can even hope to win the lottery and suddenly have more than we linoiv what to do witli..But we can never win a time lottery - and suddenly be given more time than we 'know 'what to do with, Yet we waste time at a sinful 'pace.,; We would never think of treating money the way we do time, throwing it away on all the.Most trivial things: I think for instance of the time we waste in. front of a television set front which we gpt absolutely •nothing except another lost evening. Oh I'm not anti-tele- vision on the vvhcsle, but there are a let 'of things on the tube these days'which serve as nothing more 'Chan tranquilizers to help us pats the time in ,a' state of-stupor. I've been guilty myself of Watching too Marty such shows lately. it's so easy to switch on the et, when you're tired at e end 'of a day hypnotizes you. ,-1,-,/{,th and once it's oh, it's so Jito switch off. It SO my Pledge this year is to watch the television guide closely and only turn the set 'on when there ls'a program I will both enjoy and get something from. The rest of the time like to spend delving into the shelves of mY• -library of . books that I've collected without reading over the years. There. are so 4 many great authors' whose, works I haven't even touched yet. That way I can get just as . tiuch enjoyment as. I would have gotten from -watching, some silly, often uncomic comedy and be gaining a knowledge 'of what great - 'thinkers have had, to say about the world-. • I want to spend more time with my family because I can't think of a better way to invest time: The time put into helping. Children* grow will pay-healthy-dividends for the world 'tomorrow. If we each can do p better job of raising our children to be, adults then the world will im'P?b%e significantly. That idea of investing my time most.WiSely is the one resolution l'have for thefiew year. If we all thoughref this yea as our last (and let's facelt, iteratld be) antl*Pall wanted to accomplish as ,mueb as we could befote we left. the earth, just Think how much better place the world could be when 1019 becomes 1980.. . , .- - I marked the 55th anniversary .of their wedding. On New-Years day Mrs. Margaret Wright will be 95 years of age, De pite her years she 'enjoys good health. ' At a larg,ely attended ting of the rate payers of school section'Oo. 13 at Roxboro 'ratepayers voted 24 to _11 in favour of VVinenr of first prize in' the' Christmas decorating contest 'conducted by the Sea- forth Chamber of Commerce w,as Mrs. F.J. Bechlay. Other winners were Frank Bryan, Nelson Cardno and lvIrs. Frank Kling. McKilloi, • ratepayers returned' Daniel *Ferman foi his eigth term as Reeve. • Members of 1:Iullett Council, officials and Wives were. vests at the' ' home of Reeve-elect Wm. Jewitt when Huron warden . and. retiring Mullet Reeve W.J. Dale was honored. . The residence of Richard Adams on James Street has been sold to. W.E. 'Southgate through the real estate office of W.C. Oke. 1