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The Huron Expositor, 1990-10-17, Page 2Huron � xpositor SINCE 1860. SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST inrorparstlwg Th. lirwasels Peet Published in $..forth. °merle Every Wednesday Morning ed. MO •Ttllct, eeeosol Maser" 11011114110514 BALL Adw.rtisMo Mawaper MATHIS aOMNii, later MOWS sT Aff : Sasser O:$.rd mass/mos. twsscrnPTION$ ACCOUNTING: Pet Anuses Disesese NIceretil Undo Pwlhusan Member Cone/Ion Corwwt.,n.ty Nowspuper A$u,. Ontar.o ComAwtoty Nsowspapsor Aseoc.ut.an °M rio Press Council Ceottwswwsellh Pr•ee Un.or. lnt,rllelliismel Press Institute, Suoecriptiem largo Canada '71.00 a your .n advance Sourer Cortisone '19 00 a your in odvanc• Outs.ds Cando '66 00 a yew on advance S.n91e Copes 60 cents south Second clans moll rsofutrot.on Numbs, Jo -rt WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1990 tidltoriel and wsltess Offices - 10 Mein street. Seefurth Telephone (519) 527-0340 Paz 527-20341 1Nallln0 Address - P.O. Ilex 49. S..$orth. Ontario. NOK 1 WO The railway deal Canadian National recently sold the Godcrich and Exeter Subdivisions, the freight rail line which runs through Mitchell, to RailTex of San Antonio, Texas. A well-respected company, RailTex will serve companies on the line well. Early contact with area companies shows RailTex's interest in its customers. But how will it serve its employees? According to the Stratford Beacon Herald, United Transit Union is not pleased with the situation. CN employees are making $13 to $15 an hour. American RailTex employees make $9 US an hour. Bruce Flor, president and part owner of the company said wages will go down. Twenty people work this line run by CN. RailTex proposes to run just eight on the line. The deal was good for CN, RailTex, and the companies but what about the people on the trains?(-M.G.) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Good english threatened Dear Editor Young parents are using their children for instruments of their own personal glory in too many cases. This is done at the expense of a through knowledge of speaking and writing good English. Pressures from government-spon- sored Francophone organizations in Canada are mostly responsible for this. They are continually promoting own language and culture so strongly that young parents do not seem to be able to evaluate the importance of their own Canadian language and culture. Quebecers would have us believe, as Canadians, we have none! Learn another language, whatever it might be, but not at the expense of the universal language that is English. You owe your child a good foundation in the English language. Placing them in Early French Im- mersion classes will not accomplish this. We will eventually turn this French promotion around. Then, where will your child be? This letter is written by a person who has studied and values learning languages, but also knows the com- mon sense of allowing young children the chance to have a good future int he English language primarily, regardless of any ethnic background. Do not succumb to the pressures of those who would promote their own language for their own selfish reasons! Authentic studies are available for those who are interested in their child's future. These studies have been done by government task forces and school boards, but have not been widely publicized. Please contact Box 89, Midhurst, Ontario, LOL 1X0 for free information. You will learn about some of the draw- backs and disadvantages of Early French Immersion. Yours Truly, Ruth Mallory and Group Box 89, Midhurst, Ont. LOL 1X0 Independence needed The Editor: If anyone anywhere in the world had predicted early in 1989 all the events that were to take place in eastern Europe before the end of 1989, the whole world would have dismissed that person as being nutty as a fruitcake. Yet the Berlin Wall collapsed as did communism in all the satellites of the U.S.S.R. in eastern Europe. So who knows, maybe real soon Canada will become, finally, an independent Turn to page 11 • RURAL ROOTS by Jeanne Kirkby _ Use anti -rabies clinics While visiting the farm of an older couple recently, I couldn't help noticing the parade of orange, tiger -striped and black and white cats trying to sneak between my feet into the warmth of the kitchen with the sack of dry cat kibble behind the door. Cold autumn weather can be harsh to these unpampered creatures. Some of these cats were pregnant; some were barely past the kitten stage themselves; but most of them were thin and timid - a marked contrast to the sleek fat Siamese now sprawled across my knee. You see, my cat is a pet, a useless loving decoration whereas these others are "barn cats" expected to catch most of their own food and justify their existence by keeping the vermin level down in the barn. How can you describe a barn cat? Well there's no Hill's Science Food Diet and little cat yummies here. These are working animals, mostly unprotected except for their ability to get into warm corners of the barn through the smallest possible cracks. Fighting for warmth and survival against the weather, they hold their own with farm dogs and stray dogs. They are also apt to be in contact with foxes, raccoons and other wild animals. Their main food is mice and rats but they are not above foraging for kitchen scraps or dead carrion found on the property. Sometimes a kind owner supplements their diet with rations of dry cat food when the pickings get thin but, generally speaking. there is no fancy food dish or special water bowl set out for them. In short, like farm dogs, they are exposed to diseases and contact with wild animals which may not be evident to the farm owner. Barn cats are always wary, if not downright wild, and they will produce dozens of kittens every year. Sometimes it almost seems as though humans blame female cats for doing what a cat does almost conscientiously, that is having kittens. You get the impression that the cat should know better And to make matters worse. the new mother cat generally hides these kittens high up Turd to pap 11 • Growth chronicled by baby' I've decided a's a mother's perogauve W write about hex child. And snow mint's the %sus my lift had takaa at bite. it's gang to be a rather difficult avic tot me to avoid - although I du protium nut to overload you with my baby talk. Howe v et 1111. Well. At the leader a of five months, my Rcheoca her alrcisdy smote nicknames than WE'LL ever be able to remember, or that SHE'LL ever have occasion to use. And every day as she grows more and more lite a "little" person as opposed to a "baby", she seems to acquue more, as references to her take the form of adjectives rather than the Christian names with which she was endowed. But then again, I suppose 1 shouldn't really be surprised. Nick- names are certainly the norm in Huron County, or at least in the Town of Seaforth. It seems I've yet to meet a person who has not been nicknames • SWEATSOCKS by Heather Robinet • afflicted with one. So, why should Rebecca be any different? One's fine, but 1 can't even keep up with the handles given my daughter in the short ume she's been a fixture in our lives. Reebok at birth, her nicknames have gone the full gamut - from, Boodle Toodk, Baby Baby, and Little Chops to Becky, Becca, Bec- ca Bo and Bex;a Doodle. From Genie and Res (pronounced rare) to Freddy and Fatty, from Bright Eyes and Cutis to Baldy and Eggy, these nicknames read more like a chronicle of "Who's Weird", than something someone should be ad- dressing a young babe. More recently too, as a result of an unfortunate reaction to an an - (biotic, still another nickname has boon added to the list. For the past day or two, and for maybe another day or two still, Rebecca will bear the tag, Polka, in deference to the multitude of rod Notches that dot her skin frau stem to stern. My poor child. Still, she doesn't seem to mond. In fact, she almost scams to thrive on IL Each use of a niclu,amc, whether it bears any semblance to her given name or not, makes her break out in a grin, and at tunes, even burst forth into gales of laughter. So, as long as she doesn't mind, and regardless of the fact I had full intentions of calling my daughter nothing besides her given name, 1 guess we'll continue as we've starved. 1 doubt I could get her dad to refer to her by her proper name anyway. He's the worst attender, coming up with an entirely new =idle five or six tunes daily, basad os Rebecca's appearance or bar Wyle quints (her abundance of ap- petite and her lack of hair). Besides, the majority of these nicknames arc only tcmpu ary (1 hope). And while they may result in a slight identity crisis from tune to tune, they will prove useful as 1 try to document Rebexxa's growth process. All 1 have to do is remem- ber the order with which the nick- =nes were applied, and 1 have a perfect compilation of those little details of child maturity that every parent should take note of. And, if not, then at least there'll be some documentation of just how insane her parents were during those formative years. Sometimes 1 wonder just who is the child in the family. 11 1 CALLED FoR MY Pipe, A141 1 CALLED FoR MY BAWL, Bu'f / COULD DO u)i r4.1 O u 1 1f4O 'E BLAMo FIPPLES ws;r t��4PourCgt ii \Roa��\c .5°C) /'"p�R.�s 6 77 Everything's upside down I was pleasantly surprised by a telephone call from a friend ;n JUST THINKING Australia Friday evening. We chatted about the weather, how each other was doing and the state of our countries. They're gearing up for summer now that their winter of temperatures dipping down to a miserable 8 degrees Celsius at night was nearing an end. He's looking forward to everything that summer in Australia brings, including Christmas. Last year he sent me photographs of his family enjoying a Christmas picnic on the beach. It cost a fortune to travel to Australia and there's no way I could get down to visit him without years of saving up my money first for a plane ticket. He's been to Canada once and had his plane ticket purchased by by Susan Oxford the company he works for as his trip to Canada was a working holiday. I actually met him in Swit- zerland, but he had to stop in North America and visiting me on the American continent was no problem for him. I think he liked our country, but I don't think he was crazy about Canada. It was a couple of Septembers ago and the air was already getting cold. "This is nothing," I told him. "It's 8 degrees now, and it's only star- ting to get cold. Can you imagine see ice everywhere on the ground?" "Oh sure," he said. "My family own under used to live in Sweden. I remember how awful every winter morning was while we warmed up the car and scrapped ice and snow off it. That's why we don't live there anymore. The winters, and the taxes, were all we needed to tell us to move." Well, it seems his family moved down under to avoid high taxes and enjoy some of the money they earned. "Things are getting bad down here now," he told me Friday. "We're in a recession and it's not getting better. We've been like this for a couple of months now." "We're in a recession, too, they tell us," I told him.. "We're also being hit with a consumption tax on almost everything very soon. Have you been hit with the same type of tax in Australia, too?" "Yeah," he told me. "We were slammed with it four months ago." We talked some more and could see how badly each other's country was doing. We compared our for- tunes though, and encouraged each other to keep on working as long as we could and just do our best during these times. We agreed we should each get any debts paid off as fast as we could to protect our- selves. Talking about our countries and their problems, we didn't feel alone. Society resolves to close beverage rooms OCTOBER 17, 1890 Dr. H.H. Dean, of Harley, On- tario, has been on a tour inspection of the dairying districts of Western Ontario. In a letter to the Toronto Empire he makes reference to what he saw in the county of Huron: Seaforth was my next point and here I found Mr. John Hannah busily engaged in preparing to ship a carload of eggs and butter to British Columbia. This creamery has made about 40,000 lbs. of but- ter this season, which found a market in Edinburgh during the early part of the season, and now it is being shipped to the far west An excellent quality of butter is made at this creamery and reflects great credit on Mrs. McTavish, the maker, who proudly exhibits a medal awarded her at the Colonial. The buttermilk is disposed of to town customers and farmers, no hogs being fed here as is being done at Lon 1csboro. A box churn is used. The Fargo oil test churn and Frink's oil test charts are used in determining the value of the cream supplied. Between Seaforth and Clinton are some fine farms. The fences for the most part are straight Farmers were busy with the stubbles and har- rowing them to subdue weeds. In one field I noticed about 100 steer and a number on every farm. I was informed by a prominent farmer near Loridesbom, my next point. that it was a general practice in that section to send the cream to a creamery and feed the skim milk to IN THE YEARS ALONE from the Expositor Archives steers, which are fattened at from two to three years old. The shon horn and its grades appear to be the favourite, although a Holstein herd has been started in the vicinity. OCTOBER 9, 1914 The following letter was written by Mr. John VanEgmond to his mother Mrs. C.R. VanEgmond, of Egmondville, has been kindly handed to us for publication. As is already known by our readers, Mr. John VanEgmond is a member of the Canadian Volunteer force stationed at Bermuda. He writes a most interesting letter. It is dated Hamilton, Bermuda, September 19th, and is as follows: Dear Mother - Well, Mother dear, I am having all the excitement and experience one could wish and I certainly am enjoying it, something new to see and do every minute. After nine days on the Atlantic Ocean, I have at last arrived here on the hot, sunny island of Ber- muda. We had a fine trip and 1 enjoyed being on the ocean im- mense, and was not in the least sick, although we had a couple of mugh days, but then 1 am some sailor, alright, having served my apprenticeship last summer. We were accompanied all the way by the warship, Niobe, and she is really some cruiser, and no one on board was afraid of Germans as long as the old Niobe was near. We landed in Bermuda on September 15th and coming near the islands was a great sight with all the greenest of green foliage, in all kinds of shapes. Banana groves, oranges, coconuts and dozens of other fruits and palms. All the buildings on the whole island are of white coral rock that are white as snow and they certainly look grand. The barracks we are in are situated two miles from the city of Hamil- ton, on top of a hill that overlooks the sea all round. OCTOBER 10, 1941 A resolution pledging the mem- bers to use their influence to elect men of outstanding temperance principals, in order that the beverage rooms might be closed, was brought in at a largely attended sectional convention of the Women's Missionary Society held on Tuesday at the Constance United Church, with the vice-president, Mrs. E. Toll of Winthrop, presiding. The morning session opened at 9:14) o'clock with representatives prevent from Blake, Brucefield, Burns, Clinton, Constance, Egmondville, Goshen, McKillop, Duffs, Moncrieff, Londesboro, Seaforth, Varna, Walton and Winthrop. The worship service - Christian Brotherhood - was taken by Mrs. J. Hogg and Mrs. W. Church, of Winthrop, and Mrs. J. Rintoul, Seaforth, led in prayer. Mrs. Nottin- gham of Constance, welcomed the delegates and Mrs. J.G. Chowan, of Clinton, replied. OCTOBER 8, 1964 Police are investigating a break in at SDSS Wednesday night, when thieves smashed windows and doors and began a hole through a concrete wall in an effort to gain access to a vault in the business office. According to principal L.P. Plumsteel, entry into the building was gained through a window in the typing room. Doors into the home economics room and the shop were smashed open. The door leading into the kitchen of the cafeteria was broken, and to gain entrance to the office a large plate glass window was smashed. When efforts to force the vault by breaking the dial failed, the thieves began to force a hole through a concrete block wall from the prin- cipal's office. This was abandoned when an inside reinforced concrete wall slowed progress. Mr. Plumstccl said had entry been gained into the vault, little would have been gained. He said little money was held overnight in the school.