The Huron Expositor, 1987-04-15, Page 2i
A2 —THE HURON EXPOSITOR APRIL 15, 1987
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Tears of joy
Canada's general insurance companies were crying the blues. in
the past to partially emphasize the need for the move to double and
even triple automobile and liability insurance premiums..
Now they're crying all the way to the bank as their profits hit a
record high of $1 billion in the past year, an increase of 159 per cent
over the 1985 figures.
Obviously, consumers have been inordinately gouged, leading to
another type of cry; to have government intervene by demanding a
rollback on premiums or even to get into the insurance business
themselves.
Insurance firms argue the current profit: figures represent only a
reasonable return on their investment, but that is suspect, given the
fact it comes .close to matching the returns extracted from credit
card users, which the -government has recently moved to have
reduced.
While there's little that insurance customers can do about past
premiums, they should expect that renewals will be offered at 1986
prices or even lower. T -A.. .
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Lions club short of objective
Dear Editor
Throughout the month of March members
of the Seaforth Lions Club have worked
steadily to encourage support for our 1986
Easter Seal Campaign.
Our Campaign target this year was $4200
and we are sorry to report that at this time
we are short of our objective by about $700.
By giving to -Easter Seals, children in need
continue to be provided with essential equip-
ment and rehabilitative services to help
them progress in life. -This is the goal our
club and the Societyhas always been firmly
committed to.
On behalf of the Seaforth Lions Clubour
sincere thanks to all the individuals and
businesses in Seaforth and surrounding area
who contributed to the Easter Seal Fund.
If you have not yet contributed to the
Easter Seal Fund you may still do so by for-
warding your donation to, Easter Seal Fund
c/o Seaforth Lions Club, Box 753, Seaforth,
Ont.
Sincerely yours
•
Lloyd Hoggarth
Easter Seal Campaign Chairman
• Seaforth Lions Club
Ambulance brigade is at crisis
To the editor:
The Seaforth St. John Ambulance Brigade
is at a crisis point. As an organization, the
brigade is financially secure but member-
ship poor. If more members cannot be found
in the near future, this organization will
have no alternative but to dissolve.
As a member, you would be required to at-
tend a
ttend.a minimum of nine meetings per year.
Secondly, there are various events where
the services of this unit are requested and as
a member you would be asked to attend a
few of the events to provide first aid if
required.
If interested, please contact Larry East,
secretary -treasurer, of Art McNaughton,
first aid instructor. .
Art McNaughton
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It's the tine of year that most females,
dread, It's spfiing. And not oply, does that
season bring with it the drudgery of spring
cleaning, but it means the national hockey.
league playoffsxare here as well.
Now nioreso than at any other• time during
the hockey season females around the conti-
nent are .finding out that anything and
everything takes a back seat to those men
on blades.
Hardly an evening goes by that there isn't
a game on television. And although loyalties • those various plays and infractions would
may lie with • the tea. m who winds up then be debated continuously with other
finishingtheir game at 10 p.m. there's hockey nuts.
always .the third period of some other con- Thankfully I'm a sports fan. If I weren't,
-test on another c anne . Oh, the wonders-of—well, I-thinkrl- d -he irrwtteap of-troubleTI`
cable television. . used to arranging get togethers around.
Even once said favorite team is. sporting events leaving .early, arriving
eliminated from the playoffs the need to late, or sneaking out for an hour or two to
watch hockey goes undaunted. There are no "catch the game". And if that's impossible,
team loyalties now. Instead the cheers are . I know enough to ensure there is a television
bestowed on handpicked players as the men' at the ;locale itself, complete with . other
in the community seek . the highest point "relunctant dates" clustered around it.
total in' their respective hockey pools. Heaven help me if some other female
Not only .is it now necessary to flip back reports her date refused to attend in order to
and forth between hockey games which hap-
pen to be on television on the same night, but
time has to be spent viewing and re -viewing
the highlights of each game, as they appear
on The Sports Network. It. only follows that
take in the game.
I know enough to' make arrangements to
watch a good ' movie elsewhere, -if its
scheduling happens to conflict with hockey,
' baseball, golf or even basketball. And there
is, of course, always the option of settling
down in front of the sporting event myself,
and letting the VCR record my movie for
another time.
m Since I enjoy -sports -that's oftetsthe solu-
tion. I do however feel sorry for the female,
who, unlike myself, dislikes sports. If that's
the case, this particular time of year must
be almost unbearable.
Of course :I suppose when they have to,
these. females adapt. I know my mom did
when dad insisted 28 years ago. this Satur-
day that there be a television in their honey-
moon suite.
SENSE AND NONSENSE
by Ron Wassink
Need that hour's sleep
I'm tired, have a headache and am in foul
humor. It's all because one hour was taken
away from me.
I can never remember whether clocks are
turned back or ahead each spring, but the
little ,ditty --spring ahead and fall. back-
lielps. • Its not that I don't Mind rrioving
clocks ahead, but the fact I lose an honr of
sleep that's the killer. •
The problem with proclamations telling
us to change our clocks is twang. Why do
clocks have to be moved ahead at 2 in the
morning? I don't know ff I can `handle stay-
Mg. up that late much longer Perhaps
government should look at en earlier -tin*,
like 6 pill. Sure they'll have some upset
television ,stations tiecause an early time
- , ..evening news, bit it sure
change w'7l affect .
will help the public get a good night rest,
The way1 see it, moving the lime ahead
means an hour bas been lost out of all our
lives. Two seeend5-3 punch of a Button or.
turn of the dial -is all it takes to lose one
hour.
I always comet* with the same answer,
no matter how I juggle the figures. Before
the time change two weeks ago, my normal
day was to rise and thine at 6* watch the late
iii •bed by` midnighti By staying
news and , ....._ _ _ :,
meant theti ie changed
awake rill 2 a.m., tt , • _.
to 3 a.m_ I was awake again at6 andthe neat
night m bed by nudriighL�
The roblein is I haven t cau t to the
p an ...
time change_ Now when tiny alar ggoes off
. at 6, it feels like 4 And when the news ends
at midnight, it seemsalke 11,
Hek,I don't mwifmcom_ing.or going. •
All 1 can think death day it the Otte Mini
loci is beginning to fed bite* ,
me i
A secondary With with i�g to
10
Daylight
Saving TitS adjusting all
clocks in 'our house. There‘a the VCRs the
one in die kitchen, wrist watches, bedrooms
docks, frini digital pen=cloeks and the trim in
the cars. Not only do I lose an hour, but I
lose and gain minutes because that's how
long it takes to run around and make the
changes.
Doing all this at 2 a.m. is dangerous to
one's health. -
However, my problem is nothing com-
pared to the hell my son, Ian, is going
through. The poor guy just turned a year
last month, but already he's -finding out
What this strange world of ours is all about.
Before the.new April 5 wakeup time, Ian
would awake at 7:34 each morning. His thud -
n5eal of the day was at 4:30 and it was back
to:bed by 7. '
The time change means he gets up at8:30,
has his third meal at 6 and goes to bed at
8:30. The problem is he doesn't fall asleep
till about 9. Now people are accusing me of
letting the kid stay up late. T try to tell them
it isn't my fault, but they won't bay the fact
the government is to blame.
Isn't it strange bow governments can
screw up Our lives. Not only de they tax us to
death, but they also take away our tune!
But I,wonder how poor Bossy is dealing
with a change in her milking schedule? Pro-
bably as well as 1 with losing an hour of
I can just imagine the Scene in the barn
the morning after switching to Daylight
Savieg Tune. Bossy, EliS3betb, Daisy,_ Bet-
ty, Royal Tina Missy Silver Eliot
With various
�; 43560.other cows tv'
Eliot -
Marie, and 35 ...
mantes would be awake, but lying down, con-
tent to chew their cods.
'Intagitie the Shock of seeing the walk
bite t " .. ineach band.Not
into the barn with millters ......, .., ready
only are the sad -eyed cows not gwte,ready
for the job' at hand, but they probably pro-
duce less, •
The night 'Mitring would be the same. aIf is
normal Milking time is 6,, Turthe new thine
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Not always hipto be square
While dr day, remy car aroundmehine gtte FROM THIS ANGLE
the other day, I realized something quite
ndd was going on. I was literally driving
my car `,;around” the street:•! had stumbl- byPatrick Raft's
xi, you' see, onto that most unique of
3oderich motoring phenomena - The
;quare.
Even the name is intimidating. It's not
"the Square" with a friendly, unthreaten-
ing lower case t, but "The Square," with a
foreboding capital T.
Not being a Huron county native, I never
had occasion to drive in Goderich, hence,
on The Square, before moving here about
three years ago. I quickly discovered my
midwestern Ontario driving experience -
which had included negotiating such for-
midable roadways as "The 401"(a stretch
of super -highway running throughToron-
to) and even "The Blind Line" (a two-mile
stretch of pot holes outside Harriston,
Ont.) - had left me ill-prepared for the
rigors of travel in and around (and around
and around) central Goderich.
The rules for driving on the Square (an •
eight -block octagonal construction, un-
marred by lines or lane markings of any
kind) seem to differ slightly from the
regulations for travel on other roads. Peo-
ple seem to pick a trajectory at random
and simply attempt to hold their course,
regardless of the relative postion of other
traffic. Signal lights, as well, become an
unreliable indication of a motorist's inten-
tions, the moment . he turns onto The
Square. -
To help alleviate the confusion, I have
devised an addition to the Ontario Driver
Examination, which I think motorists in
'this part of the country should be required
to pass, before being granted road
privileges.
1. When attempting a complete circum-
navigation of The Square, a driver should:
a) keep to the inside b) keep to the outside
c) keep to the middle d) beep your horn,
yell "Banzai!" and drive right through the
centre of Court House Park.
2. The penalty for directing a tourist to
"proceed to The Square and turn left" is:
a) the same as the penalty for public
mischief b) the same as the penalty for
vehicular manslaughter c) 2,000 hours of
rock picking at St. Christopher's Beach.
3. When signaled to pull over by a police
cruiser while driving on The Square, you
should: a) pull over to the left b) pull over
to the right) c) crank up the stereo and
pretend you didn't notice the siren d) step
on the gas and force him to pursue you
.around The Square until one of you runs
out of fuel. -
4. When spotting a pedestrian attemp-
ting to cross the road to, or from, Court
House Park, you should: a) stop, and allow
him to cross b) slow down and give him a
50-50 opportunity to make it c) drive over
his foot and yell "Fat chance sucker!"
5. As a motorist occupying the outside
Seaforth man among scientists
APRIL 15,1887
Mr. John Shanklin, of Perth, is reported as
doing well after having all his toes except
one amputated. He suffered a severe case of
frostbite, while hauling the material for the
new salt block at Wingham. '
The Tuekersmith Society's show was held
despite poor weather. The attendance was
low but the quality of horses on show was
very high.
Mr. Thomas McBride of Tuckersmith has
sold his farm to Mr. Thomas Conley, of Hib-
bert for the sum of $7,000. The fax contains
100 acres, and is an excellent place, and has
on it good buildings.
The many friends of the Rev. Mr. Tor-
rance are very sorry because he is about to
sever his connection with his congregation,
as he fs exceedingly popular with all the
classes of the community
Last week, Mr. Robert Reid, of the llth
concession of HulIe
tt, was considerably M-
itred by a horse which lie was leading to
water rearing up and daring him on the
head with its foot, making a deep wound.
AMMO, 1912
The Brussels football team has organized
and will get down to practice; as Victoria
Park is now m good shape.
Messrs. William Willis and R.T. Miller
had successful wood bees on Thursday and
Friday.
The Maitland has subsided and the 1912
. flood is a thing of the past Many hien and
women are busy repairing the ,.... damage;
which is net as great as was first expected
The Cluff plaiting null has been removed
from North Main street to the new site on
(oderich street. The building was drawn in
three sections by a traction engine. Two of
the sections were
so large that the street
• was almost too narrow for them and it re-
giured some skdfull engineering to get thein
around the' corners; but the work was under
the direction of Mr. Roley Kennedy and any
wrinkles lie does not know about moving
IN THE YEARS AGONE
from the Archives
buildings are not worth knowing.
The fire alarm system has been playing
pranks with the fire brigade again. There
was an alarm in on Thursday evening of last
week and another on Monday. On both occa-
sions the brigade hulled Out promptly but
fortunately both proved to be false alarms.
Mr. J.M. Best has sold the Lawrence farm
which he recently purchased to Mr. John
Kerr, who owns the e adjoining farm. The
price
thceii
paid
wasacres9'00. Mr. Kerr now.owns
of as good land as there
is in McKillop.
APRIL 16, 1911
June Snell, four-year-old daughter of
Chief Constable H. Snell, had a narrow
escape from serious injury when she ran in-
to the side of a truck on Seaforth's Main
Street Tuesday afternoon. thinning directly
in the path of the truck she was only saved
by the wek q ' work of the driver.
A well known and highly respected citizen
of Walton; Robert W. Livingstone, passed
away at his home on Saturday evening
following an illness of about one month's
duration, The deceased, who was in his 79th
year, was born in Blanchard Town lip, the
son of the • late Mt and Mrs ,!aures Liv-
irigstei e: Mr. Livingstone *At a prominent
farmer in Grey. Township, and took a keen
interest intownship affairs. Ile was reeve of
Grey for many.years and served as warden
for one year.
With 31 entities already in the hands of the
committee; the Seaforth Athletic Associa,
tion Amateur Night+ scheduled for Friday
night hi Cardn'o's' Tia11, is titre to be a
success. '
Entries have been received from
Goderich to Stratford and from Harriston to
Exeter, and nearly every centre in the
district will be represented on the program
by one or more entries.
APRIL 19,1962
A reduction of four mills in the 1962
general residential rate for Seaforth was
seen as a possibility as council settled on
budget requirements at a special meeting
Monday evening. A decrease of two mills
was suggested for the commercial rate.
The days which Seaforth dogs may run at
large are,n'nmbered.
• Seaforth eenticil agreed Monday to enter
into an agreement with a ptofessional dog
catching organization to rid the town of
stray dogs, -
Wilson C. Oke, injured in a harness racing
, turned
home in the Seaforth
H pital, Windsor
home from the osp The Where he underwent brain surgery. The
operation successfully repaired damage
caused by a blow he received to the head in
the accident,
elopes- are missing and
members off the Crippled Children's Com,
t 0 env_
mittee have expressed concern this week
they may not turn up.The envelopes represent the number of
appeals that were tent out in the Easter Se
p, •gn , p, ds for crippled
cam at ', to rovide fun
children, but which have not been returned.
The result is that the fund is nearly $500
short of its objective
A graduate of SDHS is among the Defence'
r p ing.�n
Resear"ch Board sciehtists; cod eratin . t;
the TtS space program at Cape Canaveral',
Florida. Ile is' William Stephenson, ton of
Mrs Leon Stephenson Seaforth