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The Huron Expositor, 1984-07-18, Page 19rving the communities and areas of ussels, Dyblin, Hensel' and Walton xpositor SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, WEDNEtDAY, JULY 25, 1984 -a 20 PAGES ' qrdiff is acclaime as the PC candidate Murray Cardiff, member of parliament of Huron -Bruce for the last four years was acclaimed as Progressive Conservative candidate for the riding. Over 250 people attended the nomination meeting in Brussels Monday night, most of them anticipating no surprises. And there weren't any as local delegates went through the motions of re -nominating the Grey Township farmer. "I'm pleased with all the support," said Mr. Cardiff. "The Sept. 4 election in this riding should be as good as ever." "A lot of water has gone under the bridge in the four and a half years since 1 was first nominated. 1 look forward to keeping this riding in the PC fold," he said. In his list of priorities for the PC election platform, Mr, Cardiff stressed fostering good east -west relations. But the main issue, he said, was jobs for 1,362,000 unemployed Canadians of which 500,000 are young people. "Our party has developed proposals to create employment. We agree there should be equal pay for work of equal value. That's what we're comthitted to. ' Citing statistics from the mid 1970s to '83, small business has generated about 50 per cent of new jobs, said Mr. Cardiff. "But small business is threatened with red tape and are being intimidated by high taxes. "We have to defang Revenue Canada and put them back m line. The Canadian government has become such a huge borrower that small business and Canadian people have to compete against government. FARMS ARE BACKBONE "1 also believe that preservation of the family farm is important because it's the backbone of the country. Government has a responsibility to provide long-term credit to agriculture. We have to provide equitable financing for agriculture to be viable. This will put farmers in a better position," Under a Progressive Conservative govern- ment, the red meat plan would be implemented quickly, he said. Another agricultural issue is the preservation' of farmland. and water. "We have to protect the Great Lakes. Many people in Huron and Bruce counties are dedicated to preservation -- we're committed as a party. Having participated in world trade missions during his term in office, Mr. Cardiff said Canadians can trade because the markets are there. In one of his trade missions, he said sales of over $200 million were made in three weeks. "For every $1 billion in exports, we create 17,000 new jobs -- we know the importance of trade. Trade means revenue for Canada and most of all, it means jobs." Locally, expansion of the Goderich harbor is important for his riding, said Mr. Cardiff. "The expansion is a project that should be funded. And it might happen this summer. It's a high priority on my list because it will create jobs and help the agricultural community." Health care and suitable housing for senior citizens, who make up 20 per cent of the population of his riding were concerns of Mr. Cardiff. And the issue of peace was another of his concerns. "We have to find a way to solve problems --to secure peaceful security throughout the world. We must keep everyone working together." ELECTRON MOST IMPORTANT Many dignitaries attended the nomination No twb elections t Arthur Bolton is quickly finding that "no two elections are the same,'rrc't(1s.Returning Officer for the Huron -Bruce riding in the upcoming federal election, he certainly gets enough inside experience of the election to make that claim. This will be the second election in which Mr. Bolton will act as Returning Officer. Working out of Seaforth, his job entails ensuring that the federal election runs as smoothly as possible in this riding. That involves preparing voters' lists, arranging polling subdivisions. issuing all election materials, sending notices to all voters, to mention a few of his tasks. Elections are always different from one another. he says, because of "changes in thc (elections) act. changes in the way of doing things. and something new always seems to go wrong." As Returning Officer. Mr. Bolton was required to go to school twice since the last election to become up to date on new policies. meeting, including MP Perrin Beatty, PC for Wellington-Dufferin-Simcoe. "This election is the most important one for Canada," he said. The Liberal leadership' convention was like the 'Let's make a deal' show. 1 get the impression that Mr. Turner is leading us back to the 1960s. The Liberals aren't the people who can give fresh direction. The plight of family farms continues to grow. And the government says it has the right to go back to office. But if that happens, we can expect the mistakes they made in the last 21 years to continue," said Mr. Beattie. - He said $1 of every $3 made by Canadians is required to pay the interest on the national debt. "it has doubled in four years." "Canada needs a new• team and new faces. it's time to swing the power from Ottawa to the ordinary people. A govern- ment in power too long feels it can govern because it has the divine right. It's time for a change." Mr. Beattie headed the PC task force which held hearings across Canada concern- ing problems Canadians faced with Revenue Canada. The task force has come up with 76 recommendations none of which have been accepted by the government said Mr. Beattie, "lb's time for a taxpayers bill of rights; to upgrade the revenue department and scrap the quota system. Our recommendations are workable. Canadians have a choice. They can have the old ways back again, or can elect a new administration that's more fair and accountable." The process seems to become more complicated every election, he says. 'F• t e instruction book gets bigger and bigger." The reason for this, says Mr. Bolton. is because the Chief Electoral Officer from Ottawa makes a concerted effort to include on voting lists absolutely everyone who is eligible to vote. REDISTRIBUTION BIG CHANCE One of the big changes this election is thc redistribution of polling subdivisions. or polls. There are now 166 polls. down from 186 in the last election. The polls have been arranged in co-operation with the provincial returning officer and municipal clerks so that the same polling boundaries can be used in all levels of elections. Now people will use the same polling station. whether they arc voting federally, provincially. or municipally. Enumeration is Mr. Bolton's pone con• cern. All the eligible voters in Huron•Bruce hare to be registered before they can he eligible to vote. To make up the lists of same eligible voters in the riding. Mr. Bolton is ettploying.the services of 184 enumerators Enumerators are nominated -by the win ning candidate in the preceding election, in this case Murray Cardiff, who has delegated the authority to his riding association. The nominees are submitted to Mr. Bolton, who makes the final approval. and who under takes the responsibility of training the enumerators. In urban polling subdivisions. the runner• up in the last election shares the power ui nominate half of the necessary enumerators. Urban polls require two enumerators per poll, while rural polls require only one each. Goderich is the only place in Huron•Brui c that is designated as an urban area. so there will be 36 enumerators working in that tm; n's 18 polling subdivisions. Mr. Bolton sa%s enumerators are paid through the electoral ELECTIONS/ ON PAGE 3 Parenting can have its problems She's only eight. but Julie Carter of RR 2, Seaforth is learning fast that being a parent does have its problems. Her ate -year-old has lost a shoe and Julie doesn't know what to do. Recently, Julie received her first real Cabbage Patch Kid. She promptly named him Brant Reuben. Everything was fine the first couple of days. Brant Reuben accompanied "mother" Julie wherever she went. When Julie went to bed. so did Brant Reuben; when she went outside to play. he went with her. But on the third day with his new adoptive parent. Brant Reuben lost a shoe when walking down Main Street, Seaforth on a shopping expedition. And like a6 are -year-olds. who are forever losing or misplacing things, Brant Reuben didn't know he was high stepping it down the street until Julie and her grandmother noticed his shoe was missing when they stgpted at the Sears store. Julie checked in the store. walked up and down the sidewalk and even checked in garbage containers. but no luck. The shoe couldn't be found. "She was a bit weepy," says Carol Carter. Julie's mother. "But we're keeping our fingers crossed, hoping the shoe will show up." As a last resort. Julie pa1 a classified advertisement in the newspaper. in the lost and found column. She only received one call. But the shoe wasn't the right style or size. h wasn't even a Cabbage Patch Kid shoe. A jogger style. the lost shoe is white with a blue stripe down the side. It has four eyeholes and white laces and is about two and a half inches long. She's still upset over the loss. but Julie was consoled when her mother sent a letter to Coleco m Montreal. Julie is hoping to purchase a brand new pair of shoes for Brant Reuben. A kid can't be seen downtown without a decent pair of shoes. Julie has found parenting can be tough. It can be a trying and emotional experience. But even with only one shoe, she still Mires her new Cabbage Patch Kid. THREW A SHOE—Julie Carter's Cabbage Patch doll lost a shoe white shopping with Julie and her grandmother in Seaforth recently. Brant Reuben is hoping somebody will find the shoe so her doll won't have to high step it down the street in the future The Lucky finder will be rewarded with a hug (Wassink photo) , 50c a copy CLOWNING AROUND—There were only three clowns at the Bicentennial parade In Dublin on Saturday, but the trio were dressed to perfection. Sharing the twin stroller are Matthew Feeney, lett and his cousin Craig Leslie. Mary AnnetFeeney gave the young clowns a free ride In the parade. (Wassink photo) Three killed in Three people were killed in four separate accidents in the Seaforth area last week. A Walton man died in a tractor rollover and a Seaforth man died in a traffic accident. William J. Alves, 21, of Kitchener died when the van he was driving rolled over several times on the outskirts of Dublin on Wednesday. July -18. Mr. Alves was driving east ou Highway 48 when he lost control, knocked over a 60 km sien post. a hydro pole and rolled over onto the highway. Constable A.M. Chappel of the Sebringville OPP reported the driver wasn't wearing a seatbelt and was thrown from the 1980 Ford van. The only eyewitness to the accident. Sheila Brooker of RR5. Seaforth, was driving west at the time of the mishap. "1 think he was trying to miss me. He drove off the highway. onto the shoulder. came back on the highway and swerved because he may have thought he would hit my car." The accident happened next to her daughter's house. "He went off the road before he drove across my daughter's lawn. Whcn he went past. 1 looked in thc rear view mirror and saw the van rolling. i was in the lancwav before he stopped rolling." says Mrs. Brooker. "There were Baas of ice accidents packed in the van. We think maybe the load shifted. Mr. Alves was taken to Seaforth Commun• ity Hospital and transferred to University Hospital, London where he died the next day. TRUCK ROLLS A passenger in a pickup truck, Kenneth Upshall, 23, of RR2 Staffa was injttred when a truck driven by Joel Hill, 18 of Exeter rolled on Sidcroad 10, Hibbert Township. southeast of Staffa. The accident occurred at 9:30 Sunday night. A second passenger, Bob Van Valkengoed. 22, of RR 2, Seaforth and thc driver were not injured. Mr. Upshall was taken to University Hospital, London where his condition was listed as fair. The driver, Mr. Hill was charged with careless driving and failing to remain at the scene of an accident by Scbrinevilie OPP. SEAFORTH MAN Di1S Garnet J. McClinchey• 76. of Seaforth died when the car he was a passenger in collided with a truck at Huron County Roads six and 11, about three kilometres south of Exeter on Friday. Driver of the car was his wife. Agnes, -4. Holiday brings back war memories for tocol lady BY DARRELL KLOEZE A trip to Britain not only proved to be a visit io a homeland. but was a reacquaintance with the past for Peter and Margaret Bannon of Seaforth who recently returned from a British holida% Mrs. Bannon. who was horn in Scotland. iraselled with her husband to Glasgow on \las 30 to visit family and friends, Thc% ascd there for 11 days, and then went on to Bull, England. where two of Mrs. Bannon's brothers now live. While in Hull, a city in the central pan of f niiand. Mrs. Bannon also stsited with a ,‘man whom she had never met before. hitt whose common experiences during the second World War created an instant bond of friendship now almost 40 years later. The woman was Vera Wnrsnop. Shc and Mrs, Bannon both belonged to Batters 505 of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Senior of the Royal Artillery during the war The battery was made up of about 400 men and %%omen The two women do not remember ai h other from the war. but Mrs Bannon says they did find some friends in common luring their visit. Mrs. Bannon was delighted to me+ t s•'mrhody from her old battery. as this is th+ first time since the war that she has been in 'intact with anyone from that period of her rfr Shc was in the army for nearls four scars. ,tnd three of those tear were spent %lauoned %a ith Battery 505 near Southampton. on f ngiand's south shore. Mrs. Bannon worked with thc antiaircraft guns which defended against the frequent air raids during the war. Shc worked on the gun sights. finding the height and range of the enemy planes and sending thc ni ordinates along to the gunners Shc sass women acre also trained to work the guns in caw of an emergents, hut fortunatcl% she was never required to use that training. It mac be surprising to hear of women being so close to the fighting in the I440's "But women in the arms were doing all sons of things." she says A mixed battery of men and a omen "Vorked on the gun sights along anllslrs Bannon In fact, she says. the first ATS woman to be killed in action a as also working a ith .hc gun sights at the Southampton base UP NiGHT AND DAY It was nothing to he ,ontinualh bombed hour after hour." Mrs Bannon says "1 was often up all night and das From the time you %sere called. you had a few seconds to get from your hut to the command post. and sou had to run " The work. of course. wa% dangerous because thc antiaircraft gun' were a prime tared of cncm% planes. "The bombs were often dropping around us." Mrs Bannon n members When the homhing was hes%%. the people .,irking at the gun sights were told to take cos cr. a htc h consisted of crouching as close as possible to a concrete mall It was during MEMORIES/ ON PAGE 3 McQuaid sisters win first The McQuaid sisters of Seaforth. Anne Marie. Madonna, and Carol Anne. continue to win prizes at area fiddle and step dancing competitions. The trio recently won first prize in the Open Group division in step dancing in Fergus. It's the first time the sisters have won first in this division. At the same event. Carol Anne placed fourth in the 12 and under fiddle competi- tion and Anne Marie placed fourth in the Open I adies fiddle competition. Earlier this year. the McQuaids won first. tiwo seconds and a fourth in Stratford. in Dundalk they won second for group step dancing. Expositor readers were punted last week when they read an advertisement where the McQuaids wished to sell three violins. Many assumed the sisters were going to stop playing violins and as a result of this assumption. were upset that the McQuaid sisters might not perform at local events. Followers of the McQuaid sisters can rest easy. Mrs. McQuaid says the family owns six violins and wish to sell three of the smaller models. "The violins we're selling are extra ones. The girls aren't going to stop playing." she says. who was taken to University Hospital. London. Exeter OPP said her condition was listed as serious. Driver of the pickup truck, Harold Fosters 45. of RR1. Kirkton was listed in fair condition in St. Joseph's Hospital. London. FARM ACCIDENT A tractor roll over resulted in ;hc death of Eugene De Jong of RR 3. Walton on Wednesday, July 18. The Wingham OPP said Mr. De Jong. 31. was backing out of a private road on the property of Donald Fraser, lot 19, concession nine, Morris Township. When he turned to travel north on the concession road. the right rear wheel of the tractor dropped off the side of the road and the tractor rolled into a three foot ditch. Mr. De Jong died as a result of injuries after being pinned under the tractor. Constable Ken Balzer investigated the accident. INSIDE Lms Lark wins fourth golf tourney/ 410 Dublin shows community spirit/ A4, 13 Aussies visit farms/ 412 Farm safety/ A9 INDEX Births /A6 Brussels /A14 Classified /A16, 17 Dublin news /A4 Entertainment /A19 Family 1A7 Farm !Al2 Hensel) news /A18 Kids 1,45 Obituaries /A7, 12 People /A6 Sports /A10, 11 Walton /A15