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The Huron Expositor, 1997-11-12, Page 44 -TN! HYMN ItXIOSNTOIt, Illevesmilmor 1 31, 19•7 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE - General Manager & Advertising Manager LARRY DALRYMPLE - Sales PAT ARMES - Office Monger DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions 8 Classifieds DAVE SCOTT • Eater GREGOR CAMPbEII - Reporter 661311220 distrufion A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES LOCAL - 32.50 o year, in odvance, plus 2.28 G.S.T. SENIORS. - 30.00 a year, in advance, plus 2.10 G.S.T. USA d For ign: 28.44 a year in odvonce, plus $78.00 possogs, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Published weekly by Signol-Scor Publishing at 100 Main St., Sectordr. Publication moil registration No. 0696 heli of Seaforth, Ontario. 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Wednesday, November 12, 1997 Editorial and Business Offices - 100 Main Stre t.,Seatath Telephone (519) 527-0240 Fax (S19) 527-2858 Moiling Address - P.O. lox 69, Sealerth, Ontario, NOK Iwo Member of the Conodion Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspaper Association and the Oniora Press Council Publication Mail Registration No. 07605 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 Two week strike It could have been worse It could have been worse. Two weeks for the biggest teacher's strike in the province's history doesn't seem too bad now considering there was talk of a long and bitter dispute. At times, the two sides seemed miles apart. There has been bad blood between this govern- ment and the teachers' unions for months. And, as the opinion pages reflect, in this paper and the dailies, there are still strong feelings on both sides. Hopefully it was a "learning experience" for politicians and educators. They now have a better sense of the limits the edu- cation system can fiscally operate within and still provide - a much over -quoted phrase from both sides - "quality educa- tion." Aside from funding, the major issue seemed to be that of control. Hopefully a balanced, accountable and democratic management system for education will emerge. To benefit the students, an atmosphere of learning will be a welcomed change from the full-time barrage of political pro- paganda. - DWS Letters to the Editor Impressed by hospitality of merchants Dear Editor: As a teacher in the Separate School system and a member of O.E.C.T.A., I was impressed with the hospitali- ty shown by our Seaforth merchants during our protest march last week, in the town of Seaforth. Thank you very much for the hot apple cider, hot chocolate, coffee and donuts you so generously offered to us while picketing. Many thanks to the CUPE workers, retired teachers, par- ents, grandchildren and stu- dents, who gave of their time to walk with us. Your support was greatly appreciated. Even though we are back in our classrooms, where we want to be, I feel as an educa- tor, we have gained a moral victory in alerting our com- munities to the flaws of Bill 160 and the possible demise of democracy in our educa- tional system. We are corn- mitted to our cause and will continue the fight for the edu- cational rights of our students and community. I was disappointed in the lack of concern by our MPP, Helen Johns, who remained aloof and always too busy with other things, amid the current "crises" in our local communities, to take time to address our constituency about our concerns. I feel in our time of need she did not support us. I will remember this if she asks for our. sup- port again. I was pleased with the sup- port from the clergy, Director of Education and local trustees who showed their support in this graye situa- tion. A two-week interruption in the school year is a small price to pay for the long term future education of our chil- dren. Sincerely, • Rita Core Sale of intoxicating liquor forbidden in Huron FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR NOVEMBER 19,1897 COLLEGIATE LITERARY ELECTIONS - On Wednesday afternoon the nomination of officers for the Collegiate Institute Literary Society was held and the election will be held next Wednesday afternoon. The following is a list of the can- didates on the different tick- ets, the reds and the blues: Blue ticket, -.President, J.R. Morrison; vice-president, Miss B. Young; recording secretary, D.D. Wilson; trea- surer, Miss M. Kemp; man- aging committee, F. Neal, Miss H. Robinson, Miss D. Daly, F. Beattie; editorial committee, Miss M. Beattie, Miss C. Case, R. Muldrew, A. Hammett. Red ticket, - President, A.S. Bond; vice- president, Miss L. Davis; recording secretary, Miss M. MacDonald; treasurer, J. McGavin; managing commit- tee, Wm. Aberhardt, Miss M. Elliott, W. Pickard, Miss B. Punchard; editorial commit- tee, Miss M. Daly, Miss A. Lynch, F. Lawrence, F. Jackson. A GOOD BULL CALF PURCHASED - Mr. J.S. Brown, of McKillop, has bought from Mr. John E. Birrell's father at Greenwood, in the township of Pickering, county of Ontario. He is of pure Crookshank blood, and traces back to imported stock on both sides, as his dam and sire are both imported. He is dark red in color, and weighed off the cars 875 pounds. Mr. Brown expects to very much improve his herd of thoroughbreds by this fine animal. Mr. Brown paid $100 for him. NOVEMBER 10,1922 The Bowlers' Smoker - Arrangements have been completed for the Bowlers' Smoker in the town hall on Wednesday evening next. The winner will receive a fine turkey, donated by Mr. J.J. Broderick; the second prize will be a fine goose give by Dr. H.H. Ross, and the prize for lone hands will -be a duck, donated by Dr. C. Mackay. The prizes will be given out during lunch, and the Bowls presented to the winning rink. The Golfers - The final round for the Cresswell Trophy was played on Saturday last when Mr. W.E. Southgate earned the right to hold the Cup until next year, by defeating Mr. F. G. McTaggart. The game was of more than ordinary interest inasmuch that it required two extra holes to reach a deci- sion. Both players showed fine form, turning in cards of 81 and 83, respectively, McTaggart being ahead until the last hole when the game was tied. - The Club has decided to lengthen the course in order to accommodate the ever- increasing number of mem- bers and work has now com- menced. While there should still be many good good days ahead of us before Christmas, a review of the Club's suc- cess in 1922 is very gratify- ing. Despite the fact that the fees are the lowest of any club on this continent, a slight surplus is on hand after the building of the clubhouse. NOVEMBER 21, 1947 In the 1947 amendment to the Liquor Control Act received by Crown Attorney Dudley E. Holmes, K.C., it is stated that none of the provi- sions in Huron can be made only under the Canada Temperance Act. Crown Attorney Holmes said the Canada Temperance Act forbids the sale of intoxi- cating liquor in the County of Huron but does not forbid its being brought in for one's personal and family use. It does forbid a person carrying liquor into the county for his own use. It me be brought in by some othcr person for him, but once the liquor is in the county it may be carried anywhere inside the county and consumed openly; and as long as a person does not cre- ate a disturbance, nothing can be done about it. There is nothing in the Canada Temperance Act to prevent persons 'carrying liquor to dances and drinking it open- ly, providing they do not cre- ate a disturbance. * * * Install Blinker Light at Main Corner - Motorists trav- eling through Seaforth this week crossed the intersection of Main and Goderich Streets under the watchful eye of a blinker light. Raised in coun- cil nearly three years ago, the question of a light at the crossing was considered at almost every meeting until some months ago council, after unsuccessfully attempt- ing to have the Department of Highways install the light, finally agreed to do it itself. Shortage of materials led to further delay, but finally this week, on the arrival of neces- sary parts, the installation was completed by the P.U.C. Carried on a cable suspend- ed from steel poles at the northeast and southwest cor- ners, the light operates 24 hours a day and is readily visible from the outskirts of th' town in each direction. The cost to the town, includ- ing installation, will be under $500. NOVEMBER 23, 1972 The world's hay champi- onship came to Huron for the 9th time when Russell Bolton, RR 1 Seaforth, was awarded top honors at the Royal Winter Fair. Mr. Bolton gained the award for his entry of second cut hay 85 per cent legume. Second place went to Reeve Elgin Thompson of Tuckcrsmith. Last year Russell Dallas of Brucefield won the title for th third time, claiming wins in 1963, 1969 and 1971. Before that, Robert Allan of Bruceficld won in 1958 and 1962; Robert Fotheringham, RR 4 Seaforth, won in 1965 and 1966; and Wilber Keyes, RR 4 Seaforth, won the title in 1964. Farmers from the Staffa area also have claimed sever- al top awards for grains at the Royal. Lorne Fell, RR 2 Staffa, received a second for his Garry oats in competition with farmers from Ontario and provinces cast of Ontario. He won a third for Herta barley in competition with farmers from the same arca, and a third in world competition and another sam- ple of two -row Herta barley. Mvi Felhis ,•,sample,""of Storemont oats placed fifth in world competition at the Royal. Neighbours of his, A.H. Daynard, Staffa, won first with two -rowed barley, pedi- greed seed, sample drawn by a government inspector and William Butson, RR2 Staffa, placed fifth in the same class. Spencer Jeffery, RR 2 Staffa, came second with his sample of pedigreed white beans. All pedigreed seed winners mentioned had their samples processed by Mr. Fell. Dispatching Blyth department All of 1972 council acclaimed but one would have been better option Dear Editor: On October 31, 1997 one of thc most excruciating things happened to my family and myself; since this has tran- spired a couple members of our fire team have been con- tacted. The members that were contacted have been wonderful and have made sure that this type of incident will never happen to anyone else's family. My grandfather ' who "was" 85 years old had a very nasty fall onto a cement floor. Whcn he was finally able to get my grandmother's attention, she -went out to find him lying on the garage floor. Now take time to picture this for yourself, the man that you have loved for over sixty years lying in pain on a cold, cement garage floor. Hc was very much in pain and unable to move, there was nothing she could do. Her first instinct (as everyone else's would be too) was to call the fire department, which is now dispatched through Seaforth. Blyth, in my opinion, has one of the best fire department's around. They are not only quick to react and well trained in these idnds of situ- ations, but they have hearts, they know everyone in town and they care what happens to them. The "person" who took the call decided (on her own I might add) NOT to dispatch the Blyth Fire Department. An 80 -year-old woman (our grandmother) hearing this didn't know what else to do but sit beside her cold, suffer- ing husband with a blanket, (she herself is still recovering from hip surgery) to wait a half hour to 45 minutes for an ambulance to come. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with our ambulance system; had the firemen been dispatched it would have only taken them three min- utes to respond. That is a very large margin. Afterwards a member of our family made contact with a member of the Blyth Fire Team, whom in turn made contact with our Fire Chief. They have assured us that in an emergency of this kind our fire team will now always be dispatched to help those in need of help. But in closing I would like to ask the "per- son" that took the call from my crying, begging grand- mother, "why do you think we have a Fire Department in town if we cannot access it for help"? Laurie Scott's Loving Granddaughter, Dawn Gross P.S. We laid Grandpa to rest on November 7. "Thanks" for all your HELP!!! Visit the Expositor online at: www.bowesnet.coni/expositor/ Or e-mail us at: huronexpeodyssey.on.ca FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR NOVEMBER 12,1897 SHOT BY HIS BROTHER - A terribly fatal and distress- ing tragedy was enacted in Bayfield on Monday night, when Harvey Elliott, of the Albion hotel, Bayfield, was shot dead on the street, in sight of his mother and sister, and several other persons, by his younger brother, Fred Elliott. The awful affair was the outcome of a quarrel, while both the participants were under the influence of liquor. The exact nature of the disagreement is difficult to determine, owing to the conflicting evidence given by the different witnesses at the coroner's inquest, but, as far as can be learned, was appar- ently of a trivial nature, and was due to over indulgence in liquor. A WARNING - We men- tioned last week that a num- ber of young men were likely to get into trouble through interfering with the street electric light lamps on Hallowe'en night. Chief of police Gillespie had some ten or twelve •summoned before Squire Beattie on Friday night. The offense is a very serious one, as any one found guilty of tampering with elec- tric or gas lighting apparatus on the public streets is sub- ject to imprisonment without the option of a fine. This being the cue, and it being perfectly clear that the accused were not actuated by any evil intent and that they were not aware of the serious In the Years Agone nature of the offense they were committing, and more- over, as all the boys arc high- ly respectable and well behaved, the proprietors of the electric works did not desire to push matter against them to thc extreme of the law, and persuaded the mag- istrate to permit the proceed- ings to drop providing the young men paid a small sum for the cost of the lamps bro- ken and the costs of the mag- istrate and constable. NOVEMBER 3,1922 Operation Restores Arm - The Meaford Express of October 19th, gives the par- ticulars of a wonderful opera- tion performed by Dr. F.L. Eberhart, of that town, by which one of his patients was restored the use of an arm that had been almost com- pletely severed in an accident in a saw mill. Dr. Eberhart is a graduate of Seaforth Collegiate and is a son of Mrs. Eberhart of this town and a brother of Mr. R. W. Eberhart, also of Seaforth. Business Changes - Mr. Thos. Daly last week dis- posed of his grocery business to Mr. 1. MacLeod, who for some three years has been manager of the UFO store here. Mr,MacLeod has already taken possession and is making some extensive impmvementa to the premis- es. 14 NOVEMBER 14,1947 The annual meeting of thc McKillop Federation of Agriculture was held in the Walton Community Hall Monday evening. There was a good attendance. Sam Scott, who was in the chair, welcomed the members. Mr. Scott stressed the fact that too few of thc members of the Federation were interested in its activities. Alvin Dodds, secretary of thc Federation, read thc financial report for the year. Con Eckert was elected presi- dent, and Gordon Papplc, vice-president. Mrs. Jas. M. Scott showed a moving pic- ture film taken at the Federation picnic in Exeter in June. Lunch was served and the remainder of the evening was spent in dancing to the McQuaid -Delaney orchestra. Endorsing a proposal initi- ated by the Legion and sup- ported by the School Boards, Athletic Associations, Lions Club and Red Cross, Seaforth council, meeting Friday evening, approved a grant of $300 for the construction of an outdoor hockey cushion and two outdoor rinks. Speaking on behalf of a four -man delegation that waited on the council, Dr. P.L. Brady explained that it was intended to erect a hock- ey cushion at the high school and rinks at both the Separate and Public Schools. He esti- mated the cost at $300, excluding certain labor which it is intended to provide on a voluntary basis. "I don't think you can invest money in anything better. It will make possible adequate skat- ing facilities for the young children," he said, pointing out that because of the heavy schedule at thc indoor rink proper instruction could not be given. NOVEMBER 16,1972 Mayor Frank Sills was returned by acclamation for a further two ycar term when nominations were completed Tuesday afternoon. Councillor George Hildebrand who had been nominated as mayor resigned. He also had been nominated for council and was elected by acclamation to this position. Reeve John Flannery was returned by acclamation as was Deputy Reeve Wilmer Cuthill, whcn Councillor Wm. Pinder, who had been nominatcd for the deputy reeve position resigned. While the top three posi- tions were filled by acclama- tion, a further nomination is necessary to fill the six man council. Elected by acclama- tion arc Councillor Mrs. Betty Cardno and George Hildebrand, and three new- comers to municipal activity, lames Crocker, Wayne Ellis and John Sinnamon. Others who had been nominated but who resigned wipe Councillors R.S. MacDonald and David Tremeer. .1. i