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The Huron Expositor, 1997-08-20, Page 4( )pi l nod 4-1!1181111f1111ON IXPOSIT'OR, Awwt fat 11107 A 1997 Conodtort Lc, nwyy N.wspapsrAssoc. Awad Recipient Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 PAVE SCOTT • Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL Reporter BARB STOREY - d strilwtion TERRI-LYNN DALE • General Manager & Advertising Manager PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions & Classifieds A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper ,5U8SCRWPTlON RATE4: LOCiAL - 32.50 a year, in advance, plus 2.28 G.S.1 5eN1ORS - 30.00 o year, in advance, plus 2.10 G.S.T. USA 8 foreign: 28.41 o year on Defence, plus $78.00 postage, G.S.T. amp* SUsSCRIPTjON j Al Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 100 Main St., Seaforth. Publication moil registration No. 0696 held at Seaforth. Onsano. 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Changes of address, orders for subscriptions and undelrr- roble copies cry to be sent to The Huron Exposits Wednesday, August 20, 1997 Editorial and Business Offices - 100 Main Slreet.,Seafotdh Telephone 15191527-0240 Fax (5191527-2458 Mailing Address • P.O. lox 69, Seaforth, Ottlario, NOK IWO Member of the Canadton Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Caunol Views expressed on our opinion page(s) don't necessarily represent those of The Huron Expositor or Bowes Publishers. The Huron Expositor reserves the right to edit letters to the editor or to refuse publication. Editorial Small town living not necessarily safer Last Tuesday's drive-by shooting of a dog in Harpurhey once again shows that small-town living isn't necessarily a safer one - especially when morons (or more frightening - armcd morons) start taking target practice at people's front yards. Thank goodness there weren't any children outside at the time or that the bullet didn't fly through a window and injure someone. Why should we be worried about being outside of our own homes'.' - At any tirne of the day or night? We shouldn't have to. This is supposed to be a friendly town. - D.W.S. isLetters to the Editor Reader enjoys Westcott pieces Dear Editor: Before i start to read your paper I look to sec if there is an article by Clare Wcstcott. This is the most interesting and fascinating reading. With his long career in politics and government. there arc hope- fully many more he will share with us. It's just like listening to Paul Harvey on the radio - "and now you know the rest of the story". Betty Leonhardt Why close Savings Office if staff, customers happy? Dear Editor: In threatening to close the Province of Ontario Savings Office. the Ontario govern- ment is caving in to pressure from the big banks and trust companies: For 75 years the Province of Ontario Savings Office has supplied financing to thc province and financial ser- vices to the public. It has 23 branches and at 1996 year end had $2.2 billion on deposit. It does not, make loans to the public like a bank, but gives competitive interest rates and superior service to thc public especially in regard to service charges for smaller accounts. The province, instead of borrowing in the open market at six to eight per cent or more, gets the advantage of using the funds while provid- ing service to depositors. On top of this in 1996 the sav- ings office earned $11 mil- lion for the taxpayers of Ontario. The customers are .happy, the staff are happy and the taxpayers are happy, so who could possibly want to close or privatize the savings office? Thc big banks and trust companies pay million dollar salaries to their presidents and insignificant interest to depositors. They nickel and dime depositors to death with service charges and look bad in comparison to the Savings Office. In 1996 the CEO of National Bank got $1,241,320 (Bedard). The CEO of Canada Trust got $1,319,602 (Clark). The Deputy Minister of Finance got $139,493 (Gourley), about one tenth of the private sector salaries. If the government really cares for the interest of the citizens and taxpayers of Ontario as it claims, the Province of Ontario Savings Office will be retained and expanded. John C. Medcof Mt. Albert, Ont. Mitchell Homecoming in 1999 contact: The Registration Committee, P.O. Box 609, Mitchell, On. NOK 1NO or browse the internet site at: http://granitc.cyg.net/—mitche 11. Hope to see you then. Debra Satchell-McCarthy Secretary Mailing an 1 Registration Committee Dear Editor: Greetings to all present and former Mitchell residents. in the year 1999 the Town of Mitchell will be celebrat- ing its Homecoming Reunion (125th Anniversary). At the present titnc, many activities and events arc in the planning stages for the week of June 29 - July 4, 1999. For further inquiries please Bobby Hackett - an honest musician • As well as being one of the greatest cornet and trumpet players North America ever produced, Bobby Hackett was a nice man. He had been many things in his Iife...an ardent Catholic who in the '30s and '40s played in speakeasys owned by the mob. Hired by Glenn Miller to play the guitar...he picked up his horn when the band was recording A String of Pearls on a 78 for Victor and made music history with a 30 -second solo that has been heard by millions...and copied by every horn player. He was map other things over his short life - a good friend of Louis Armstrong. Studio conductor for the ABC network, he played with Miller, Gleason, Glen Gray and for two years had his own band. He played back up for Teresa Brewer, Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra...and he weighed about as much as his cornet case. And for a while he was a drunk - and for the last years of his life he was a diabetic. But most of all he was a gift- ed and inventive performer with one of the legendary sounds of modern music. Whether dreamy and soulful in the sensuous sound of If ! Love Again or strutting jaun- tily through old Dixieland favourite or jamming Oh Baby with Eddie Condon it was a fusing of beauty and the best. Jackie Gleason once said "Bobby's playing is like hearing the truth." His ply- ing was honest...anti he was honest. • That's why 1 have to believe a story he told me as we drove to the airport on a Sunday...three days before he died on June 7, 1976. The day he handed me his album "The Bobby Hackett Four" with his son Ernie on drums, that he produced with his own Hyannisport Record Company. On the jacket he wrote a note of thanks to me..,when I should have been thanking him for thc count- less hours of pleasure his music brought time over most of my life. It seems he and the aging Joe Venutti, one of the best jazz violinists in the world • each had a gig in Chicago at different clubs, both finishing on a Saturday night. Over lunch it was decided they would fly back to New York together on the Sunday morn- ing - Joe coming to Bobby's hotel fora coffee before they Leave for O'Hare Airport. Joe came early and in Bobby's words..."I was still shaving when Joe arrived and slid his big frame onto one of the chairs in the tiny kitch- enette and immediately began telling me a joke." In describing the scene Bobhy told me the bathroom mirror faced back into the kitchen area so with the door open he could see Joe while they talked. "Joe wondered why I was going to New York instead of Boston - my usual stopping over place before 1 go home to the Cape. 1 told him 1 was picking up my wife who was in New York playing in a bridge tournament - and from there we would fly to Boston where son Ernie would pick us up and drive home to Chatham." 1 never let on to Bobby that Edna once told me she didn't like the Cape. She was New Yorker who loved bridge and was considered one of the best female bridge players in eastern United States. She loved New York and Bobby loved Cape Cod. For him it was the perfect place to relax and rest after hectic weeks on the road playing dates all over North America. "Joe asked me how my record company was doing and wanted to know, 'in his words,' if I was making any dough." And Bobby added, "the big Italian was also drinking all my coffee." What Bobby told Joe w what I had heard some mon mostly bl often ack hi ..He If for ged that he did not have a head for busi- ness . And most of the indus- try knew that Bobby got very little out of the fortune Jackie Gleason made from his albums. And that it was Bobby's comet solos that gave glamour and warmth and a beautiful sound to an otherwise tun -of -the -mill band. As Bobhy answered Joe's question and told of the limit- ed market for jazz...and that rock stars make more in a week than he made in a year...he went on to tell Joe, as he had once told me, about his record company and his two Massachusetts business partners and recording a cou- ple of albums in the Royal Box Room at the Americana Hotel in New York. On hearing that Joe appar- ently said something like... "that should make you a bun- dle." As Bobhy is explaining to Joe...and still shaving, he found that he is only a minor- ity shareholder in his own company. His two Boston business partners somehow took over ownership of his CONTINUED on page 5 PHOTO BY DAVID SCOTT NEW SIDEWALKS - Workers have been busy the past few weeks removing old sidewalks and pouring new ones along the north and south sides of Goderich St. West. Residents in the neighbourhood have had to park there cars on the side streets until the work is complete. One section of sidewalk had to be redone because of vandalism. Seaforth bacon sold in New York in 1897 FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR AUGUST 27,1897 BACON FOR NEW YORK - The excellence of the bacon manufactured by T.R.F. Case & Co., of this town, is becoming universal- ly known. On the recommen- dation of a party who had partaken of their bacon in Toronto, a Targe New York dealer has sent them an order, offering a price which will pay thc firm a larger margin, after paying the heavy duty, than the same article docs in the Canadian markets. This bacon will be put up in the most tempting fashion that it may tickle thc palates of the epicures of the American Metropolis. It is always profitable to turn out a good article and Messrs. Case & Co. arc reaping the benefits which their painstak- ing and strict personal super- vision of their business deserves. EGMONDVILLE NOTES - Mrs. Ledger, of Hartford. Connecticut, has been on a visit here to her parents, Mr. and MRs. W. Clarke, for sev- eral -weeks. - Mrs. W. Logan, who has occupied Mr. Landsborough's fine resi- dence 'for several months, left on Wednesday last for her Manitoba home at Carberry. She will be much missed by a large circle of relatives and friends in this neighbour- hood. - The many friends of Miss Mary Ferguson arc pleased to welcome her back, after an absence of seven In the Years Agone years. She spends Iifc busily at responsible office work in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she has a good situation. AUGUST 18, 1922 Dr. Craig Has Good Record - Out of four silver medals given by the Toronto Conservatory of Music (University of Toronto). for thc whole of Canada, two were won by pupils of Dr. A.T. Craig, former organist at the First Presbyterian Church, Seaforth. Ten of his pupils secured "first class .honours" and four "honours" in the piano, pipe organ, and theory departments.. This is a record not equalled by any individual teacher in Canada so far. Scrambled Wives - The Murless Players, under the auspices of the Bowlers' and Golfers' Clubs, will present the splendid comedy, "Scrambled Wives," on the evening of Tuesday. August 29th, in the Strand theatre. This will be the second pre- sentation of this comedy and it is only at the urgent request of thc clubs that the Murless Players have consented to repeat the performance. Thc seating capacity of the theatre did not accommodate the crowd on the first presenta- tion and people who saw it then wish to attend again, as the play is considered thc finest of the comedy sort ever put on the stage in Seaforth. AUGUST 22,1947 Three Seaforth ladies, Mrs. E.H. Close, skip, Mrs. W.M. Hart and Mrs. John Beattie, won the King trophy in a ladies' Irish trebles tourna- ment at Wingham on Wednesday. They also received embroidered pillow cases, donated by Mr. King, of Wingham. A rink, composed of Miss Alice Reid, Miss Frances Matthews and Mrs. Bruce MacLean, failed to get in thc money by a narrow margin, losing one of their games by a couple of points. * 4 * James Habkirk, former resi- dent of Seaforth, Stratford and Wingham, and now a res- ident of Vancouver, made a brief call at the plant of The Huron Expositor Tucsday afternoon. A veteran printer, Mr. Habkirk was employed by The Huron Expositor in the late eighties. Mr. Habkirk was born in Wingham in 1874, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John C. Habkirk. He was a nephew of the late James Cowan, of Seaforth. Leaving for Winnipeg in 1893, he joined thc Winnipeg Free Press staff, eventually becoming night foreman of thc composing room, a post he held for twenty years. Later he was composing room foreman of the Regina Leader and the Winnipeg Tribune. He left the Tribune in 1924 to take a similar posi- tion with the Vancouver Sun. In 1935 Mr. Habkirk asked to be relieved of supervisory responsibilities and reverted to thc position of linotype operator. AUGUST 31, 1973 The farm of William Stecklc, R.R. 3 Bayfield, in Stanley Township, was the site of the 45th annual Huron County Plowing Match and farm machinery demonstra- tion. The match held on Tuesday was under the aus- pices of thc Huron Plowman's Association. While attendance was good president Ken Stewart said undoubtedly the bright warm weather had kept many farm- ers home at work. "You can't afford not to take advantage of good weather like this at this time of the year," he said. *** John M. Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Scott of Seaforth left by air on Monday to spend three years teaching in India. Mr. Scott is going to Woodstock Residential School at Mussoric which is located about 180 miles north of Delhi in the Himalayan Mountains. A graduate of the University of Toronto and the Ontario College of Art, Mr. Scott has been studying the Hindu language for the past two years.