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The Huron Expositor, 1987-04-08, Page 2A2 –,. THE HURON EAPOSITOR, APRiL 8; 1987 Huron *• xposo �tr INCE 1860., SERVING_. . � THE COMMUNITY FIRST • Iricorpo•rating 'B'russels Post IQ Main Street 527-0240' • Published in ' SEAFORTH; ONTARIO Every Wednesday morning ED BYRSKI.,•General Manager HEATHER McILWRAITH.,Editor The Expositor is brought tp you ;each week by the efforts of: Pat Arnies, Bessie Broome, Marlene Charters, Joan Guichelaar,. Dianne McGrath, Lois McLIwain, Bob McMillan and Cathy Metady +CNA BLUE RIBBON AWARD 1985 pD. nN .0.1°2:111114. 11. elA Member. Canadian Community, Newspaper' Assoc: Ontario Com.munity Newspaper Association Ontario Press'Councii Commonwealth. Press Union International Press Institute Subscription• rates: - Canada $20.00 a' year, in. advance Outside Canada $60'.Q0 a year,. in advance. Single Copies - 50 "cents each . . .: Second class mall registration Number 0696 OPINION , for ®.ur •pri�.rItie FROM .THIS ANGT.E • Lcokjfl started with the whales. Next came the baby Seals, the whooping cranes, thefederal Progressive Conser- 'vative party supporters •– the number of creatures on, the endangered species list continues to grow every day. The latestgroup ' to make the list, however, is one unlikely to inspire . ".Greenpeace to tape up its cause. AfterAll, how many would flock. to join a campaign to 'Saye the Baseball Free Agent''? "They hunted us down like dogs,'" said • one widely -ignored free agent'. 'It's get- ting so a guy can't make more than $1.2 —mi-pion-a-yeai7playing-basebatl-anymope. Now 1 ask you, hbw can I support my fami- ly on that?" It is a sad "state of affairs indeed, when a man who has just turned down an; offer in the ball park of $1 million, can no longer expect to sift through a stackful of even higher offers for his services as a player of games.' Where are our ,priorities? • ".Collusion," among.. owners of profes- sional baseball teams must be at the heart of this strange turn' of events, the players • have declared. Surely .' no , right-thinking owner Would, on his own, have hit upon the. idea; of denying these; free agent sport- smen, most of whom are In their declining years, the opportunity to earn more money than the P,r rat 1, nt of the' United States.. Some g��dSigns While Huron County council's 1987 budget is slightly above the four to five per cent guidelines to which elected officials should be striving, it appears that some honest effort was made .in keeping it as close as possible to those - guidelines. .• • Original estimates called for an increase of over:II percent and it obviously took some concerted choppingto get it down to a more realistic level and tax- payers shouldbe thankful for that. Perhaps the most'commenda.ble part of the reduction process was the move to cut the budget by almost $5,0001n the area of council members' stipends. ' That could be• Made possible by a clearer distinction between committee.pay • for a half day or whole day. , Some candid comments by 'Stanley Reeve Clarence Rau would indicate that some committees have been abusing the system in the. past by starting meetings late in the morning, adjourning for lunch, then going back for another hour or•so and 'terming that,a•full day's effort. 'A full day's pay is now defined as three hours or more of meeting time and • certainly that appears to be. a rather questionable definition, although the travel tine for same county officials may also be considered in that situation. •However, county. councillors would probably .not condone their employees considering three hours of work a full day's allotment; and subsequently their own example in that regard should be treated more conscientiously. Travel time for those employees is not a consideration and therefore should not be seen as part of the day's work for elected.officiais either. Another interesting part of the debate was over holding night meetings and Zuridh'Reeve Rbtiert4Fisfrer;'s" ."M'al't rojtfd'bneoked,a°sariotlsty as`k cot prompt rfiore'people to consider runningtor•municipal counciltpositions thatin-• elude county work. There's no doubt that the day meetings that are currently a part,of those responsibilities dissuade many people from serving and any effort to remove that problem could be beneficial in attracting capable people to the benefit of local councils and the county. Exeter T -A. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Bus driver says thanks to crew Hopefully spring is now with us to stay after the last big blow. Although our winter -Was not all that bad it is nice it is over. I,be- ing one of the School Bus Drivers that drive. in McKillop, would like to express my thanks for a job well done. I always felt sure when I left in the morning the road I had to travel on would be okay. Even some of the time we had to contend with ice, that did not pose a problem either. They looked after the ice as well. Maybe some of the residents of the Township had complaints, but f for one think they deserve a pat on the back for a job well done. Keep up the good work. One of the McKillop School ltus.Drivers, SENSE AND NONSENSE by Hon Wassink • Actions are q uestionnable• When the news broke, nay suspicions were finally answered. Many people, inyself included, have silently questioned the credibility of televi- sion evangelists..News of the Jim Bakker and Jessica Hahn affair, resulted in many sceptics saying to the ever preachy TV evangelism followers, "I told you so." Now iter hearingthat -leading evangela,_ evangelist Bakker was foling around Wit his secretary, in fact coniniitting adultery while he was preaching that the wages of sin is to burn in hell, people are losing faith in rel'igi'on. Though TV evangelistri is bound to suffer the consequences•, I hope religionf ax A %tihole, isn't tarred with the same brush. I catch thyself biting my toiigiie es t get the urge to criticize a fain of religious, teaching 1 Cannot agree with. 1 Was taught that m rs but we Cannot point accusing f ge , we should only question a person s actions.: 1 now question the actions of two evangelists in partieular,..lint Bakker end. OralRoberts. The Bakker affair, however unfortunate, has become like a soap opera. Staff members are pointing fingers, particularly to their fernier leader. Other evangelists, as Jitfiiny Swa ""art. are ben' aM'cu's- such _.. Y take .gg e Pratte �.. ed' of trying to take over the the Lord ministry. Meanwhile the Swagged types deny,y den, deny. age? Is this h'ow Chrittia'ns behave, we ask? It's bad' enough thiata man that many pec- 'spiritualhet"" es` eetall.. pie looked to for , p, p y the elderly. and those with little rri'oney, could not resist temptation. What I co uldn't understand was that as soon as the news broke, there was a plea, kr more Mon'e'y. In hindsight, I could unders- tend it cause that's how TV evangelism works, but I couldn't believe it. Had Pbeen the person who had fallen from good grace,. my first•plea would have been prayer. Iealways comes down fo money. 'Support our ministry and the good work we do. Well send you literature, put you on our mailing list and pray for you. It seems the people that need prayer the most aren't getting much of it: But down deep, I hope they're shying a little prayer for themselves. Dare IfsayI trust they—,—are? I also question the actions of Oral Roberts: This man, who many people look up to for guidance and to shilWthein the way, is doing what a true believer doesn't believe -he has said God would take , .„ his life if his followers didn't crane up with $8' million in the name of medicine. • In the latest news article, Roberts said he came close to death'durtrtg his IO day prayer vigil to raise the mosey and he prayed ed So hard he almost lost his voice. In his first ter - mon, since ending the vigil, he discussed what bee said he endured after the ultiniatumri from G•od that he either raise the money or lose his life. "Two or three times, I felt death on Me; I felt the devil Was trying to destroy my life. I fought in that payer tower with powers and principalities and powers of darkness," he said. "It was like a howling hurricane Was sweeping in froth a spiritual standpoint, and my body was being buffeted>'' It's no wonder the church is gettin'g'a bad name This hypocrisy must afop. ' Christianssay the ultimate glory is death because in death they will be released from their human bonds to lnie iii heaven With Tint to page 4• by Patrick Raf tis It's un-American! And it's not only. the free agents that are. having'trouble adjusting to this unheard-of 'wave of stinginess that has practically' forced most major leaguers intoselling pencils on the sidewalks. We also have to take into consideration the raw deals hand- ed people like Boston Red Sox star pitcher Roger Clemens: After all, the man has pitched one whole good season for the team. And what was he offered? A paltry base salary of around $300,000 and only enough incentive clauses to put him around the $900,000' mark. Im- agine the gall of the Sox, expecting the, man to actually earn • his million by reaching. incentive goals. Unheard of! Every union worker in 'North. America; who has ever walked a picket line .iii December to obtain a five per cent in-. creasewill, 'certainly sympathize with Clemens decision to Stage a ,walkout. Go. get 'em Roger! . Perhaps the hardestdot of all will be en - .dured.over the next few seasons by former Toronto Blue Jay, batting practice piteher Bill Caudill. After earning mega-bucks..as 'a bullpen bench dust.. cover the past two seasons, Caudill liesbeen released and is .. now faced with the terrible prospect of ear- ningonly $3 3 million to stay away from. Exhibition Stadium for the next couple of years. Imagine the plight of the Caudill family, . asthey wait breathlessly by the pool for, some Good Samaritan -ball club.to call and offer poor Bill a few innings of work. Who knows? Perhaps next year, sanity will return to major league baseball and, once again, individual players will be able' to secure salary figures that exceed the an- nual budgets of many developing nations. Until then, people' on the welfare rolls will just have to get used to getting up•a lit- tle earlier to get to the second hand shops and soup kitchens before the major leaguers clean out the shelves. 71'Ey' ALL MOAN ABOUT LO iNG AN NOdR S SLEEP ---1607TA GO 7t ' U/o4K THREE WEEK5 EARLY No longer a city slicker I grew up in one, but now, after a recent overnight visit to my parents' home, I doubt I could ever again take up residence in a ci- ty. I've become too accustomed to the near felony -free life of a small town. I was paranoid from the moment! arrived in Kitchener, but even more so when 1 arriv- ed at my destination. With my parents out of the country it meant 1 would.be alone amidst the potential chaos of the city, -During the daylight hours.I found the little retreat to the home of My childhood plea- sant, but once night settled in, so did my fears. Convinced I was a fool to have left Seaforth, for even one-night, I hustled to lock and belt the door's', then went down to the basement where 1 knew f could find in' numerable hiding spots, should the occasion warrant. That occasion, never arose and by bed- time I was feeling quite comfortable about emerging from the basement and climbing another set of stairs to the third floor • so comfortable in fact, that l deeided against ehecking behind doors, under tables and in closets. Maybe I should have. Somewhere around 1:30 a.m. I was awakened by a terrible clanging, which after the initial fright, I decided must have bean the sound of,- the screen door being blown around by the wind. SWEATSOCKS by Heather Mcliwraith I didn't however, have the nerve to check the situation, so with my pillow over my head t tried to block out the distressing sound and steep my way through whatever terrible ordeal might happen. I was caught up, I thought, in my own imaginings, ;' was just dozing off again when I heard someone enter the house. I wanted to call out names - of my sister or my brother, the only two i. could think of who might be in the house at that hoar, But, knowing both had other plans for the night, I kept silent. I wanted to get up and run; and I would have, had 1 been sleeping in a quiet bed, but this one was sure to squeak of my presence. So I laid still; with the bedding pulled like a shroud around my head. A Iight flicked on and 1 heard footsteps corning -up the stairs, /Stopped breathing, and the lightvent out, I didn't know where the visitor had gone, but 1 couldn't lie mo- tionless any longer.. It took me what seemed like hours to get. out of that bed, but with nary a squeak. I grabbed my specs from the night table and shuffled over to the window. The floor only creaked once. I managed to bend back the venetian blinds enough to allow me a glimpse of the outside, and I saw .a car in the -driveway which looked vaguely familiar, so l got brave: This time I neglected to cringe When the floor creaked and I made my way frohi the window to the door. Prom there I eased into the hall, where things, I thought, appeared normal. Still nervous I opted to check the other roans. Cautiously I peeked around the doorway to the master bedroom. l sensed a presence and wanted to bolt. I didn't, but it wasn't un- til .1 heard a rather tired 'yes', to my ques- The city might have some be to is relax. tionnin Merit that 1 was ab benefits over a stiiall town, but at least in Seaforth, I can be assured, for the most part,of getting an' uninterrupted and good night's rest Brussels floOd worst in history APRIL$, 18$7 Mr. Win: Hugill, of Iiullett, who is a good rod workman intends opening a wagon shop in • Kinburn shortly, in connection with Mr. D Sutherland's blacksmith shop, Mr. Wm. Storey, a former McKillop boy, pp p. ffalo,. has been appointed postmaster at B Gass county, Dakota: If he is a chip tithe old block he will make a good and deserving official. '1V Ir. Wm. Stephens, of the 9th conces's`ion of Buffett, got his leg severely hurt a few days since by a horse, While Working lit the swamp. He has been laid op in the hdiis'e ever since, acid likely Will be for some time. The display of millinery goods offered by the merchants of Seafortit for the inspection of the public, which was c0rriirienced a.cou- ple of week ago by Mr. E. MCF`aul and followed up on Wednesday and Thursday of. this weeklby Messrs, noncan and liurrcan, fully ovals, if it does not surpass, that of former occasions of this kind. • Mr Win. Carmichael has passed a very successful final exatifination at the Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, and is now licensed to practice the healing art. On Tuesday last, while engaged in split- ting •Plit- ting wood, Mr.Thoin'as Nicksonof the 8th concession of McKillop, met. with a very severe accident. The axe glanced Off the N TSE YEARS AGONE froth the Archives ting it up thfinigli the centre He will be laid up for some weeks, a' APRIL 12,1912 On Saturday the Village of Brussels es- p'ertenced oiled the most severe floods in its history. About two o'clock in the afternoon Melte about the I'ryne dam Commenced 10 move titer and for three-quarters of an hour the river was the scene of a mass of moving. ice. Previou's to this two bridges in Morris, • known as the Martin and Clegg Bridges,' Were carried away,. The i'ryhe dam, which repaired last summer gave way in had been.. .. . the centre. The flood gates were c'a'rried away, and the !hone was partly damaged. The ground ,floor of the engine room' was Completely filled., The loss is estimated St between fide and seven hundred dollars. The electric light plant, west of the bridge, had ifs teal swept away and the side •tdfri'i' out of its ratite shed: The town lyes in darkness on Satttrdey, Stinddy and Monday nights. The auction sale on the farm of Mr. Charles• Routledge in Tuckersmitli on stick, striking him on'the large tee and Split-. We'dnesday of last week was a gratifying success. There Was a large crowd and near- ly every person teethed 10 want too illy seriiething. APRIL 1,1$3'1 The Seafortii Plea Mill ,nay. shortlyI e Mg full operation again, accordn- to a repo `. rt from Toronto The mill, which has been idle fir a number of years, .was bought by Eizebett Pargeon from the tont in 19a6-, The Horne Improvement Plan received a big: boost in Seaforth on Monday evening - When re rese, .n . p tatives of the building trades; together with the local advisory committee and rhernbet's of the town coGn'c thoroughly dismissed the plan' and the beit would be to the tower. Three people ! hada narrow escape' ,gonia fatal 1014 3y late Wednesday night when a •cart which police, say was driven by otivart' ....he Jeremett,.19; of DasriV>yood', eEasheYl into -. two . the ditch two riles north of Seeforth. With J'eremett Were Hilda Mair, 16, also of D'asbWood, and laaniel. Minn* '1611; of nacelle. Tulin to page 11'. i-.