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The Huron Expositor, 1954-11-19, Page 2irP EXPOSITOR blished 1860 'Walled at Seaforth, Ontario, lam' Thursday morning by McLean iS. A. Y. McLean, Editor Subscription rates, $2.50 a year in ;dice; foreign $3.50 a year. Single espies, 5 cents each. ;amber of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. :4°1 Milk a I IUt Ii �i' i!'ihll�(ku�'�i it II h y..n II'l11 4IIS1 g i� j �� i u6ni n Vin, ,ilii lin ii� 4,, L1= 7,1) d Pl f) rC Qli `Ll�l rSta_ Advertising rates on application.. PHONE 4t Authorized as Secoad Class Mail rust Office Lepel ..-nt. Ottawa :EAFORTH, Friday, November 19 NEW ADDITION AT S.DJLS_ g O enin of the large addition to Opening the Seaforth District High School on Tuesday evening by the Minister of Education, marks another milestone in the educational progress of the dis- trict served by the school. Modern in every respect, the newly -construct- ed facilities fill a requirement that has existed for some time and' one which has become particularly acute as attendance at the school continues to increase. During the relatively few years in which the school district has been in existence, the buildings proper have taken on a changed significance. To an increasingly greater extent each year the school caters not only to those involved in the regular acad- emic curriculum, but to other groups of the district it serves. Adult night classes are regular features and the JuniorFarmersand Junior Institute ]hold their meetings there. That is as, it should be, and the new addition, containing as it does a large auditor- ium and gymnasium, will provide im- proved facilities for gatherings of this kind. But it is the staff and student body who will be most appreciative of the additional accommodation. Working under the handicap of crowded class- rooms, and lacking even basic ac- commodation for some departments, the principal and staff for some years have been seriously handicapped. The members of the board are to be commended for recognizing the con- ditions that existed and for taking the necessary steps to correct them. The interest shown and the favorable comments heard during and follow- ing the opening ceremonies Tuesday evening, indicated that the public .does appreciate the job that has been done. MATTERS OF CONCERN Suggesting that during days of buoyant economy, when prosperity was everywhere evident, was a good time to look to the future, James S. Duncan, well-known Canadian indus- trialist, told weekly newspapermen at their annual convention, the temp- tations of prosperity are greater than those of poverty. Mr. Duncan looked at the picture in Canada and told his hearers of the things that disturbed him. "There are things that give me concern about the road we are trav- elling," said Mr. Duncan. "Our thoughts turn too easily to social se- curity when they should be on pro- ductivity. They turn too easily . to _ leisure, to holidays, to short work- ing hours, to long weekends, when we should be thinking of more and not less work. We should be con- aeerned over our growing production osts, which spring from the factors have just Mentioned . "1 am concerned over the fact that iiwe are not getting excited over Ger- rnany's 52 -hour week at 50 cents to 05 cents an hourd the fact that she is invading and sometimes cap- turing the export markets of the s►orld. "We do not worry, because we are prosperous, because we are relying on our great natural resources to see us through. But any country's eatest asset is the character of its ple and, if we become soft and and indolent, we will lose out to diem "1 am concerned because we are oung ‘as a nation, not sufficient - ell established, to lie back on our dreinn of leisure and social The foundationof our m- alty was hard work and t wtrfll take jug that to. AGAINST THE LAW The party telephone line, ever since it came into general . use, has been the source of untold numbers of so-called humorous stories. And, most of the stories were based either on the length of conversations or, secondly, on listening in on the line. Both were regarded as matters of right by telephone users. We are reminded, however, by the St.. Catharines Standard that under certain circumstances that is not the case, and conversations cannot ex- tend indefinitely. To refuse to give up the line is punishable by law. The Ontario Telephone Act, as amended this year, provides: "Ev- ery person who, when using a tele- phone instrument or conversing over a telephone line, 'Whether the tele- phone instrument or line is owned by a telephone system under the jurisdiction of the legisla- ture - or not, refuses to give up or permit the use of the line when re- quested to do so by the operator or by any other person in the case of a fire, accident, sickness, or other simi- lar emergency, is guilty of an of- fence . . ." The act prescribes a fine of not more than $50, imprisonment for a term of not more than 30 days, or both, as penalties for the offence. What Other Papers Say: Three Speeds (St. Thomas Times -Journal) During an informal discussion of traffic hazards and the increasing number of automobile mishaps, with a rising toll in killed and injured, by members of the Elgin County Coun- ciI the other day, Reeve Elmer Wack- ley of Springfield summed up one of the major problems confronting those who advocate safe and sane driving and strive for accident pre- vention; in 25 words. He said: "There are too many 100 miles an hour motor cars in the hands of 50 miles an hour drivers on 40 miles an hour highways." And the trouble is that too many of the people behind the steering wheels of 100 -miles -an -hour motor cars fail to realize that they are 50 - miles -an -hour drivers on 40 -miles -an - hour highways until they are involv- ed in accidents. Sport As Career r (Victoria Times) Whatever a boy may receive from strenuous professional sport when he attains his growth, the rewards cannot extend over a long period. The playing life of a hockey star, like that of most other athletes, is short. Those who have the ability to cash in on it may very properly exploit that ability. But the youngster should never forget the long years that follow an athletic career. The time to prepare for them --to ensure a continuous earning ability as well as a satisfac- tory design for living—starts in ele- mentary and high school. That is a point which conscientious coaches stress to their proteges. The cheers of Saturday's stadium do not endure. Pr s' elippings from the sport page ellow and fade. - Yeste- rte iridesis hero is soon forgotten. GdS 6eo2 G€ oglY'33 SEEN IN THE COUNTY PAPERS Wins Award From Ottawa Colonel E. E. Tiernan, son of Mrs. Ezra Tiernan, of Dashwood, was honored at an investiture in Ot- tawa last week. His Excellency the Governor-General conferred on him the insignia of "Serving Broth - >r in the Order of St. John of Jer- usalem." Col. Tiernan has been stationed at Halifax for the past three years, being. in full charge if the Eastern Command.—,Exeter Times -Advocate. Moved Equipment Away The deep -well drilling firms of Stub & Stub have moved their equipment away from these parts to the Chatham area. where they will be doing similar work this winter. They are planning on re- turning in the. spring and drill some more wells in search of what is in the bowels of the earth in this locality. This year they found gas on two farms, and who knows by another year they may bit oil in substantial quantities. — Zurich Herald. In Kingston Hospital Many local friends will be sorry to learn that Mr. Fred Somers is a patient in Hotel Dieu Hospital at Kingston, where, according to 'a letter from Mrs. Somers to rela- tives, elatives, here, he was taken suffering from a heart condition. Mr. and Mrs. Somers were visiting at King- ston at the time and also had vis- ited in Blyth with family relatives just prior to going to Kingston. Friends here will hope that his condition continues to improve.— Blyth Standard. Home On a Visit On November 5. after being away from Canada for five and a half years, Mrs. Betty (Hest) Scott re- turned to Brussels to visit her mother, Mrs. M. Best, until March. Petty lives in the city of Notting- ham in England, and flew from Glasgow in Scotland to Milton air- port, bringing with her her 10 - months old son, Richard. Betty's husband -has an honors degree in Mechanical engineering. He works for the construction company of Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons, looking after the machinery on their contracts. 91st Birthdays Mrs. William Birnie, of Goderich, celebrated her 91st birthday on Sunday in Alexandra Marine and General Hospital. She marked the occasion quietly. Her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Bruce, and other friends, spent. the afternoon with her. Mrs, Birnie, although confined to the hospital after a heart attack, is up every day and does some crocheting as a pastime. She received a number of cards and other gifts. Slated, to celebrate- her 91st birthday on Sat- urday, is Mrs. Henry Spragge, who lives with her daughter, Mrs. Wal- ter Pettman, at. Nile. — Goderich Signal -Star. Is At Peterboro Hospital Flight Sergeant Ivan Willert, sta- tioned at Mount Atica, Quebec, for- merly of Zurich, was on his way on business by car to Barrie at night about three weeks ago, ,and acci- dentally fell asleep at the wheel, when his car left the road, hit a post, with the result that Ivan re- ceived a fractured neck. He was taken to the Civic Hospital at Pet- erboro where he is kept flat on his back. We wish him a speedy re- covery and hope he will be able to follow his duties in the near fu- ture. His mother, Mrs. George Hess, and brother, Leeland Wil- lert, of town, motored to Peterboro to visit him. He is progressing as well as can be expected.—Zurich Herald. Slippery Road Causes Mishap Slippery road conditions early Sunday were blamed for • an acci- dent near the railway crossing at the R.C.A.F. Station, Clinton, on Highway 4. According to Constable Morley Groves, Ontario Provincial Police, Goderich, a car driven by- Mac yMac Tally, R.C.A.F. Station, Clin- ton, was in collision with a car driven by Gerald Hoelscher, Sea - forth. Thelma Shields, member of the women's division at the Clin- ton Station, and James Tremblay, airman at the .Clinton Station, pas- sengers in the Tally vehicle, were taken to the station hospital along with Tally, where they were treat- ed for facial lacerations. Hoelscher was unhurt. The Tally car was damaged to the extent of about $250, while damage to the Hoelsch- er car was estimated at about $150. —Clinton News -Record. Has Fast Trip Home This era of speed in transporta; tion has made the distance be- tween Goderich and Winnipeg seem like a hop, skip and jump. Last Friday Mayor J. E. Huckins couldn't believe his ears when he got a telephone call saying that his son, Flying Officer Bert Huckins, had Landed at the Centralia air- port. So, off he went in his car and picked up his son and a com- panion, Flying Officer Mery John- son. The two pilots had flown from Grimley, just north of Win- nipeg, Man., to Centralia in one hour and 50 minutes. Both flying jets, they made the cross-country trip as part of their R.C.A.F. train- ing. They went back to Centralia on Sunday afternoon, took off and streaked off through the sky in their jets and were back in Gimlet'• within two hours.—Goderich Sig- nal -Star. Years Agone `) Interesting Items Picked From j The Huron Expositor of Twen- 1 ty-five and Fifty Years Ago Motorcyle Crash Kills Airman One airman from R.C.A.F. Sta- tion, Clinton, was killed and anoth- er was badly injured, later admit- ted to Alexandra Marine and Gen- eral Hospital, Goderich, on Tues- day, after their motorcycle collid- ed with a car about a mile and a half east of Goderich on Highway 8, Monday night. The Clinton Station identified the airman who was killed as AC2 'Melvin Charles Scurran, of 264 Hewitt St., Preston. Injured was AC2 Joseph Gerrard Fontaine, Ansonville, Ont., who was reported by Alexandra Marine Hos- pital Tuesday as improving. He suffered head injuries, a cut leg and had the second finger of his right hand shattered. Police said the motorcycle and a ear driven by Mrs. Ida MacDonald, Goderich, were both proceeding east. Mrs. MacDonald made a left turn and the motorcycle crashed into the left rear fender, they reported. Constable Robert Sims, of the God- erich .Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, investigated.— Clinton News -Record. Alfalfa and Clover Seed- Crops .Preliminary estimates of alfalfa and clover seed production in Can- ada for 1954 are 'well below Last year or the 10 -year average. Wet weather and very poor .harvesting conditions, with hea>4y losses of seed in some cases were the chief causes of the reduction. Alfalfa seed is expected to be the smallest crop on record -70 per cent below the 10 -year average and about one-third of the 1953 produc- tion. The forecast is 3,340,000 pounds of clean seed, compared with the average crop of 11,014,000 pounds. The United States Depart- ment of Agriculture has forecast the second ,largest on record, amounting to 160,829,000 pounds of clean seed. Alberta 'produced the largest share of the crop, 1% mil- lion pounds, with.,Ontario next with 980,00. Red clover seed estimated at 6,- 200,000 pc:nada of clean seed Is All Citizens Much Better Off IncomeUp Fourfold in 8OYrs. From The Huron Expositor November 22, 1929 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ferguson, 'Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Adams and family, Mr.' Vern Dale, Mr. Harvey Taylor, Miss Annie Taylor, Mr. Fred Arm- strong „end Miss Ella Armstrong, all of Constance, and also Mr. and Mrs. Dave Watson, McKillop, were at Mr. and Mrs. W. Moon's for a fowl supper last Friday night, which was enjoyed by all. Mr, and Mrs. George Dale have moved to Seaforth. Last Thursday the Ladies' Aid presented Mrs. Dale with a beautiful wicker rock- ing chair. Mr. and Mrs. Huggins, of Ilder- ton, and Miss Ruth Huggins, of Dayton, Ohio, spent Sunday with Mr'. and Mrs. L. J. Looby, Dublin. Mrs. Joseph McGrath. has return- ed to Dublin from Detroit, after visiting her daughter, Bernice, who is just recovered from an operation for appendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Benn and sons and Mrs. C. Evans, of Sea - forth, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Evans. Mrs. Weitzman, Niagara Falls, spent Thanksgiving .holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Donald McKellar, Cromarty. ,Mr. Dan Mc- Kellar and bride, of Detroit, also spent Thanksgiving holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald McKellar. Mr. James Hagan and son, Leo, of Seaforth, called at the home of his mother. Mrs. A. Hagan,- Hills - green, on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. James Erwin, of Marlette, Mich., were recent visi- tors of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Erwin, Bayfield. Mr, and Mrs. Neilans, Bayfield, left last week for Seaforth and leave shortly to spend the winter in Florida. Mr. Andrew Doig, of Wroxeter, has taken a position with his uncle, Mr. M. W. Doig, on the farm in Tuckersmith. Miss Anne Moore, of London and Mr. Davis 'Moore,- of Toronto; spent a few days with their parents, ,Mr, and Mrs. Isaac Moore, Tucker - smith. M. Andrew .Moir, Heneall, has returned from Victoria Hospital, London, where she had been for some weeks in the interests of her health, and is feeling considerably improved. about 60 Per cent of the 1953 crop., Smaller crops are expected for both the double curt typo chiefly pro- duced; in Eastern Oanada—and the Altaswede strain of the Bingle out typegrown principally in the Prairie provinces and the Peace River District of British Columbia. The United States crop of Red, Clover seed is forecast as the smallest in 12 years, amounting to 581458,000 pounds of clean seed, 30 per cent below 1953 and 39 per cent less than average - Als4ke seed production for 1954 is expected to be not more than one-third of the large crop of 1953. it has been placed at 3,620,000 pounds of clean seed, 75 per Cent or the 10 -year average. In recent years Alberta has prodaiced about 90 per cent of thb total crop. The forecast in the United Stats is for the smallest crop on record. At 8,$20,000 pounds, the estimate is 43 (Continued en vete )i) • From The Huron Expositor November 18, 1904 Mr. E. G. McLaren. son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. McLaren, of Mit- chell, was married. at Prince Al- bert, Saskatoon, on the 2nd inst.. to Miss Ruby S. Robertson, a pope- lar young lady of that'town. A number of hogs which Messrs. Douglas & Sons, Logan, had been showing'at the St. Louis Fair, were detained in quarantine at Port Hur- on where they were found to be infected with 'hog cholera, and 13 bad to be killed. They were valued at $2,000. While loading apples the other day, Mr. John Brown, of Centralia, met with an unfortunate accident. One of the barrels fell and strik- ing him on the leg, broke his knee cdp. A somewhat serious outbreak of scarlet fever has been reported to the Provincial Board of Health from Stephen Township. There are 20 cases of the disease, and the public schools have been closed. Robert Armitage, a young man who works at the Wingham Foun- dry, 'met with an accident Monday of last week. His right hand came into close contact with the squar- ing shears and three of the fingers of that hand were taken off. The sufferer- is only 15 years of age and feels his loss keenly. Last week Donald Robertson, 9th concession, Grey, sold a fine Young Durham (bull to Albert Jacobs, of Blyth, for a good flghre. The ani- mal is a slilendld one and took first prize at the ]Oast Huron Fall Fair in a class of seven, `Mr. Robert- son has a splendid. herd. .. We regret to learn that `Lottie, Mr. Thos. 'Cook's eldest little 'girl of HensaIl, is and has been quite seriously ill, and on Saturday an operation wae performed by Dr. Gunn, of Clinton, assisted by Dr. Maca:iarin4d, 'ef Haftsall. Mr. 'Chaimas O'Brien, Tucker. smith, who has been laid up -most of the summer, is now fully, ro- coveted. li (The Rural Scene, Aug. '54) A man earning $1,000 a year would not be greatly elated over the prospect of annual increases of 1.9 per cent of his, earnings. But when these increases are con- tinued over long periods, and corp - pounded annualize the results can be surprising. The, American National Bureau of Economic Research reports that the average family income in United States during the year 1953 was over $5,000—four times as much as it was 30 years earlier. This enormous rise in the peo- ple's earnings was not suddenly acquired; but was the result of gradual inreases over the year, the average being 1.9 per cent per an- num. The Bureau estimates that, if the same rate of increase is maintain- ed over the next 80 years the in- come of the average American family by that time, will be $25,- 000 a year., This increase of 1,9 per cent per annum was made possible by an increase of 1.7 per cent in the outs put of American industry, which, in turn, was the result of a vastly in- creased efficiency; and this increas- ed efficiency was Die to greater in- vestment of capital in research and in new plant and equipment. . Behind,; this again has been the accumulated savings of past gen- tion inherits and finds ready to serve it. - This inherited wealth has been a significant factor in increasing the national income. The greatest, gains in tangible- wealth, angiblewealth, that is in capital goods, was accumulated before the depres- sion of the 1930's. During the. depression, and again during World War II, the accumu- lated capital of the country actual- ly declined. while the population continued to grow.. 'Phe increase in industrial activ- ity since the war is an attempt to catch up in the production of capi- tal ap.,tal goods and make up for the de- clines of the two previous decades. The difference between the 1.9E per cent average annual increase that the workers gained, and the, 1.7 per cent average annual in- crease -in n -crease -in the wealth productions was due to the success of the work- ers in securing for themselves a larger share of the total precinct - tion. The conclusions we draw front the report are: (1) That all classes of American citizens are many times better off than they were 80 years ago. (2) 'That this :increased'prosper- ity is due principally to the popu- lar habit of investing their savings% in productive enterprises. (3) That there are no present in- dications of any change in the trend that has made the people so erations, which each new genera- prosperous. Canada's . Changing Population For years to come, needs for social facilities of all kinds, and particularly for schools, will be influenced by the enormous in- crease in the number of children under ten.' Last year there were well over half againas many un- der -tens as in 1941, says a recent Monthly Review of The Bank of Nova Scotia, which deals with some of the striking changes that have taken place in' Canada's popu- lation in the past dozen years. The implications for school en- rolment of the sharp increase in the number of youngsters are stag- gering. Elementary school enrol- ment has risen markedly with the entry into the school system of the first contingents from the large numbers of post-war births., But toward the end of this decade, when the youngsters born in the years 1946 to 1953 will constitute the elementary school population, it promises to be around 40 per cent higher than it was last year. Today's large numbers of, chil- dren mean a large working -age population ten to twenty years from now. They mean a bigger working force to develop the coun- try, more families and a growing consuming public. The picture that emerges from, a study of the recent changes in Canada's population, says the Re- view, is of aoung and vigorous nation, growing rapidly through both natural increase and immigra- tion. Shortly before the end of last year the population passed the 15-million-a-yearmark — an in- rease of one-quarter since the end of the war and of one-third ,since 1939. Since the end of the war, more than a million immigrants have entered Canada, the heaviest flow in many years. 'Nor is this the whole story of the influence of im- migration, for babies born to the newcomers have gone to swell the total of births in Canada. At the same time, because so many of the immigrants are young people, there have probably been compara- tively fepy deaths among them, so that in all likelihood they have contributed more to the natural in- crease through births and subtract- er less from it through deaths than their mere numbers would suggek Another factor in the rap'Ia growth of recent years is that the flow of young (Canadians to the United States has apparently 'been-- much beenmuch less of a drain than it was during the 'twenties. NO Canadian statistics Of emigration are kept, but it seems fairly clear that the substantial net gain made by Can- ada In the movement of ,people in- to arid out of the country, reflects both a lessened mill from the tfnit• ed states on youngCanadians and a .reduced tendency for European linmigrants, to retrurn to 'their home- lands'., 'title net gain bee In tact pliiyed a latgelr part its Otinadale recent population :increase than at any time since early in the cen- tury. Another striking development mentioned in the Review is• that the number of families has been increasing at a considerably faster- rate asterrate than the population as a whole. This rapid increase has been a major factor in the high postwar demand for houses, to which the movement of population into urban and suburban areas and the increasing level of income have also contributed. More and more families are flocking into the towns and cities, the Review notes. The sizeable numbers of newcomers from abroad have contributed to this trend. At the census date, there were around 400,000 people living in'Canada who had come in during the preceding five years, 'and three-quarters of them were living in urban areas. The clustering of population around the larger cities is particu= larly noticeable. Canada's popula- tion is becoming not only more ur- barr but more suburban. Between 1941 and 1951 the combined sub• urban parts of the fourteen census. metropolitan areas grew by 68 per cent. Implicit in this mushroom growth the Review points out, are heavy demands on transportation systems and needs for extended gas, elec- tric, water and telephone services, for shopping centres, schools, churches, hospitals and other radii., Lies and services. The school prob- lem looms especially large for, as. common observation shows, it in the families 'with young children who have tended to congregate -in the suburbs. The baby carriage on the front porch is the hallmark of suburban civilization. The picture of • growth varies' widely among the provinces, reg fleeting movements of population - across provincial boundaries as well as variations in rates of na- tural increase. The increases itfr four provinces—Manitoba and the' three older Maritime :provinces -- were substantially less than their natural increase and those in tw i others --Quebec and Alberta --'a lit- tle leas, while ,Saskatchewan show-. ed an ab§olute loss. In only two, provinces --Ontario and British Cos- luwbia--eilid the total gain exceed/ the natural increase.. W. Passing a cemetery one day, atm Irishman paused at a startling. inscription on a tombstone. Hey read the 'words: 9 still live," After scratching his head in be• puzzlement for a moment, the Iriehmran ekcl.aimmed: "Belabbers, if I was dead I'd be honest enough. to own up to it."