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The Huron Expositor, 1982-11-03, Page 31.1"Eht ton fxpositor Since 1860, Serving the Community first Incorporating Bru &iS Post founded 1872 12 Main St. - - 527-0240 Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO every Wednesday afternoon by Signal -Star Publishing Limited Jocelyn A. Shrier, Pubileher Susan White, Editor H.W. (Herb)Turkhelm, Advertising Manager Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoclatlon, Ontario Community Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation A Member of the Ontario Press Council /ABC\ Subscription rates: Canada $17 a year (In advance) outside Canada $50. a year (In advance) Single Copies - 50 cents each Second class mall registration number 0696 SIEAF.4RT!f#, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 3, 1952 k lll� he They'II be running things, folks, for the next three years. They are the men and women we elect on Monday, when we go to the polls In Seaforth, In McKillop, in Hibbert, in Brussels, in the elections that are on in nearly every municipality inside the Expositor's coverage area. The choices we make Monday are crucial to our community's future. We ask you to examine carefully how and why you choose Candidate X over Candidate Y before you get into the polling booth. We think there's a tendency in this area, changing perhaps, but changing slowly, to see elections as popularity contests. Once ratepayers' meetings were addressed by candidates who said little more than their names. You know who we are, the message seemed to be, oi:lr families have been here for generations, we stand on their reputations. That's not enough when we're chosing elected; officials with responsibilities for budgets in the millions. That "good old boy" approach also Ignores the huge contribution being, made to public life in our area by so-called newcomers. It's a mobile age and talented, hardworking people from other countries,, from cities and from other small communities have proved invaluable in making Seaforth and area a better place to' live. Not knowing who someone's grandfather was is not a valid reason for denying a capable candidate your vote. These days Informed voters need to know what the issues are and where each candidate for office stands. Candidates at this year's ratepayers' meetings have for the most part recognized that. But issue is an overworked word. To make It more concrete, an issue Is an economical, longterm road and sidewalk improvement plan. It means an efficiently operated arena; town buildings and equipment that are in good repair and neither too fancy or piecemeal to serve the ratepayers' needs. An issue means the employment of competent town workers, with enough resources to do the best job with the least amount of waste possible for the public. - As attractive as slashing budgets, backing up taxes and cutting employees sound to the beleaguered taxpayer, we cannot have a council that unilaterally says no to change and Improvement. Or a council that's afraid of the future and looks to the more sheltered past as an example of how to act...., or more likely how to avoid acting. Seaforth needs a council that anticipates the town's needs and budgets carefully for them. We need a council that spends moderately, but as -part of an overall, carefully planned program. And we stress the word council because it's useful to remember that the mayor doesn't run the town alone. Neither does the reeve. The mayor is spokesman for the town, but every council member has equal weight, and one vote, at a council meeting. Naturally some are listened to more than others. Some speak more too, and that's reflected in our news coverage of council every month. But every council member, especially if you elect the most able, has a contribution to make. And every single mark you make on those ballots is an important one. Over the long three year haul that the people we elect on Monday will serve, axe grinding over a single issue won't last. Persistence and the ability to take the long view are attributes our council members will need. Don't let gossip, rumour, personality or family tradition decide your vote on Nov. 8 for you. You need to know how your candidate thinks and acts. If you're still wondering at this point, give him or her a call and ask. S.W. rg'© cAN©al Disarmament, yes First of all. 1 want to commend you on the article thatou c ted last week from the Exeter Times Adv ate on the enormity of military expenditures today. The massive build-up of arms makes one fear that the world will stumble into World War R1 in one way or another. Secondly. i want to encourage your readers in Seaforth to vote "Yes" on the referendum on general disarmament on election day, Nov. 8. The ballot asks if we support general disarmaament and mandate our government to negotiate with our countries to implement it. It also speaks out about balanced steps that would lead to the achievement of this goal. i believe.that "balanced steps" mean that any disarmament by the Western world would be matched by similar steps by the Soviet -block countires. Disarmament of this type probably would have to be supervised by the United Nations..lt would also need adequate inspections to ensure that cheating did not occur. Canada now has an •Ambassador for Disarmament at the United Nations but the issue still gets low priority. i beleive that we need to tell our government in Ottawa that the issue needs top priority. There have been times in the past when Canada has been an effective force for world peace. i believe that the urgency of the present time demands that Canada assume this role again. Thirdly, I urge your readers outside Seaforth to write to our local Member of Parliament, .Murray Cardiff, and/or the Minister of External Affairs, Allan MacEch- an, about the urgency of the issue. (Rev.)J.G. Vatislyke, Seaforth Favour Goderich Just because the young people in our schools don't show great interest in our past, and artifacts of such, does not mean that we are not taking it all in. Recently there has been much talk of moving the museum from the historic old town of Goderich. But 1 ask you to join my thoughts as a child in front of the old museum with my parents. Gazing up at the antique structure. Now let your eyes wander over the tree tops to the spires of many ancient churches, looking down on the old museum and me, The seagulls wing inland over the church spires looking down upon the whole scene of Goderich, with its jail and steep cliffs. The same seagull looking down upon the wheelhouse and many old anchors, has no doubt seen many memorable violent storms and troubled sailors depending on the old light house on the hill. I ask you once more what other town or village can produce memories and visions from the past to equal what the seagull and i are looking upon? At Seaforth District High School a group of, students have conducted a survey of our own age group. and find that 99 per cent of those polled desire to have the museum left where it is. if a small town like Seaforth and area can come up with the kind of money to build a new arena. why can't the entire county of Huron come up with a small equivalent amount to restore the old museum to a safe condition? It would not necessarily be improving Goderich as it already is a historic town, it would merely be preserving the museum along side the many ancient artifacts of Please turn to page 3 OpOnOon Bold be s a problem in 1882 • OCTOBER 27, 1882 Wood is being brought freely to the Mitchell market at $3 per cord. Bears are numerous in the southern part of the township of Grey and are said to be very bold. In some instances they come into farmers' backyards. R.J. Girdlestone, deputy collector of Inland Revenue in Seaforth is spending a couple of weeks on a shooting expedition. He reported in one day, while duck hunting at Long Lake, he bagged 106. Some excitement was created on main street when a horse attached to a baker's cart, ran away. The horse was stopped before any ' serious damage was further done other than a slight fall in bread. • A large amount of sugar cane has been raised in the vicinity this season and it has proven a very prolific crop. John Thompson's crusher is kept busy. A stranger entered the store off P. Megarey in Seaforth and made a trifling purchase for which he gave what was supposed to be a 55 bill, and received his change. It was discovered afterwards it was a $1 bill with the figure five pasted on the corners. He was captured in Clinton where he tried the same "game. He will likely be sent to the, penitentiary. NOVEMBER 11,1907 George McIntosh of McKillop with his son Hugh of London. rode to Galt in an automobile. Sixty years ago, Mr. McIntosh IrrtGi c © agon@ rode over the same route in a lumber wagon and the journey that occupied some days then. was made in almost as many hours on th's occasion. John Fortune of Tuckersmith, east of Egmondville sold hay produced from 12 acres of land for 5336. Hay is as good as gold this year. Mr. Hugh McCrostie of Hensall who is engaged in the Molsons Bank met with a painful accident. He was out shooting and by some means a cartridge exploded, the force of the powder burning his face and causing painful injury to his eye. Anniversary services at St. Andrew's church in Kippen were held with a mortgage burning ceremony, with debts having been completely wiped out. Four years ago, the new Sabbath school room was destroyed by the explosion of their acetylene , lighting machine. A considerable debt was at the time incurred to enable rebuilding. A young ' lad named Bert Young of Sunshine, Morris township, fell from an apple tree alighting on his mother's back. Mrs. Young was stooped over picking up apples. The youth had several ribs damaged and Mrs. Young felt the result of the shock for some time. OCT BER 22, 1932 The large water tank to the rear of the Seaforth town hall is being painted by Sylvester Allen, the Public Utility Commis- sioner. Painted a quiet aluminum colour, the tank built in 11922, has not been painted for a number of years. Robert Archibald, Tuckersmith, son of Reeve William Archibald, won first place in the beef cattle judging competition at the Western Fair. Ferdinand Bugard, for many years a resident of Seaforth and Egmondyille, who was the subject of a recent article in the Toronto Star is well-known to local people. He operated a pottery works, situated on the Mill Road, around the turn from the bridge. For many years it was a centre of interest. The fine bank barn of Charles Tyner, Mullett township, was completely destroyed by fire. Lost was the season's crop of hay and grain. Mr, Tyner was putting down feed for the stock, from the hay mow, when the lantern he was carrying exploded. Save money, but at Stewart Bros., saafnrth. Quality muskrat coats, fully inter- lined and lined with celesilk, guaranteed for two season's wear -525. Coats made in heavy crepey materials lined with satinette'513.75. NOVEMBER 29, 1957 Damage was estimated at 58,000 when fire gutted Cronin's Garage, Dublin. Seaforth and Mitchell fire brigades fought the blaze for an hour before it was brought under .control. For a time, the fire threatened the nearby residence of William Smith. No decision has been made as to whether the garage would be rebuilt. ' Acclaimed as Seaforth mayor was Beverley F. Christie and acclaimed for his sixth term as Reeve was Norman Scoins. Mayor E.A. McMaster did not seek re-election. An election will be held for councillor. Mr. and Mrs. David Boyd, lifelong residents of McKillop township, celebrated theft 60th wedding anniversary. They were married at the bride's home on December 2, 1897. Student safety patrols have been establish- ed in Hensall to protect children walking .to and from the new public school. Under the direction of principal Robert Reaburn, 20 grade seven and eight students comprise the patrols. While custom corn picking at the farm of Leopold Watt. RRI, Blyth, Jack Ryan of Walton, lost a thumb when his glove became entangled in a gear on the corn picker, pulling his hand into the gear. He was taken to Scott Memorial Hospital where it was found necessary to amputate the thumb. FIFTY YEARS AGO—Toronto artist George Daly did this watercolour of the stables next to the•Queen's Hotel back in 1932 when he was home on vacation from art college. He copied it this year as a birthday present to his brother, Ed, of N. Main St. here in town. Mr. Daly comments "Gone are the trees, the poles, Cluff's Planing Mill and the old hotel with its billboard - advertising Fry's Cocoa.' Gone too are the farmers' cutters with their upright shafts, parked on Saturday afternoon. Cost....? Twenty-five cents including a forkful of hay and watering for the horses stabled inside. No meters in '32!" It's about time for humanity in public life The eulogies delivered at the death of former Ontario Premier John Robarts tell us almost as much about the times we live in as about the man they were praising. Mr. Robarts had. of course, contributed m h to his country. Through his leadership i the late 1960's, he had helped bring the country closer together by rallying the provinces to confront the problems leading to the separatist ddmands in Quebec. There's no doubt that Mr. Roberts deserved the praise he was given but at another time in history he might not have been given it. Even in the days when he was running the province himself, the reaction to a former leader committing suicide would probably have been much different than it was for the death of Mr. Robarts. At one time someone who cotairmitted suicide was not allowed to be buried in consecrated ground in a churchyard. Mr, Robarts, by contrast, was eulogized in one of the largest Anglican churches id Toronto by leaders of all faiths in the city. While those who took their lives by their own hands in times past were buried quietly with as little a fuss as possible, the huge church was full of people and lengthy excerpts were shown on the national television newscasts. While former friends were often quick to turn their backs on someone who couldn't face life any more. the church was filled with representa• fives of the Ontario government but most acAtind til® Oce@t1b03 br K®8411 ac tibg(Dn provinces. the opposition parties in Ottawa and it was the Prime Minister of Canada who escorted Mrs. Robarts from the church, Our society has become much more humane over the last few decades. We have become willing to accept things, human weaknesses. we would never accept before. Not only did Mr. Robarts take his own life but he also committed another act that would have been a cardinal si,Pfor a politician in the limelight only a short time ago. Mr. Robarts was divorced several years ago and re- married. Once no politician could have won a race if the word got out that he had been divorced. escapades. well that's another story). To see how things have changed, remem• ber the candidate for the vice-presidency in the United States only a Few years back who had to drop out because it was reported that he had had psychiatric help? Not only did it end his career. but the very fact that he had been on the Democratic Party ticket probably damaged the credibility of the party so badly that it contributed to an easy win by the Republicans, Remember when it was thought that the very fact that John Kenned was a Catholic would probably preve i r o,• getting into the White House, There are many'signs like that that there There have been many other signs from has indeed been progress in our world. those high up in public places that our society While, for instance. we still see signs has been humanized in recent years. Former regularly that there is too much racial U.S. First Lady fletty Ford helped remove prejudice. it seems an eternity ago that we some of the fear and stigma of radical surgery had the civil rights marches, the southern for cancer treatment when she announced U.S. governors who used troops to try to keep publicly she had had a mastectomy. blacks out of all•white schools. yet it is only -25 Margaret Trudeau won more respect than years since that turmoil was at its height. criticism when she announced that living in Only 40 years ago Canada locked up Japanese the limelight had driven her to the point she during World War I1. had to see psychiatric help (as to her later The problem for our society however, is how to bring the pendulum to halfway without having it swing out of whack to the other side of the spectrum. The sexual revolution. for instance. was needed and long overdue. We needed to loosen the tight restraint on conduct that grew up during the Victorian era and still strangled our society. But even those who argue the need for the revolution must wonder at what has happen• ed since. The newfound freedom has been abused to the point that despire improved contraception facilities .there are more teenaged pregnancies today than ever before and veneral disease has reached epidemic proport ions. Ho .oes a society accept suicide without enc.uragtng it. How does society accept rriage breakup without giving it a stamp of approval that seems now to have people running to the divorce courts the first time they have an argument? Our society too often seems to swing from one extreme to the other. There will be. sooner or later, a reaction to things like easy 'es. the breakdown of the family. etc. and then the problem will be trying to keep the pendulum from swinging the other way too far^Our goal then will have to be to save some the progress that has been rhade, the acceptance of our human facilities that allow us to understand how a good man like John Rnharts could do what he did without condoning it. How Remembrance Day has shrunk I feel quite hurt this year. Nobody has asked me to speak at their Remembrance Day dinner. I would have turned it down, of course, because I think you can flog the old poppy and talk about throwing the torch from our failing hands only so long. before it becomes irrelevent, However; I've not been ignored entirely. A teacher asked me to send a copy of a Remembrance Day column I wrote either last year, or the year before, to be read by a Grade 8 student, to the whole school. I presume. Some order. If I kept a decent file of columns, l could put my finger on it, run off a Sugw and 1pbsg@ l � DBOD $tone y copy and shoot it 'to him. But Nil), files are something like my mind: scattered all over the place; confused, mixed up. My wife, in a fit of pique over some little thing, once stuffed about 20d of my columns into a large plastic bag. It's a little difficult to reach into that bag{it's really a garbage bag, as she implied when she did it) and pull out the right column. And of course, i haven't been forgotten by the good old administration of our school, which has requested that i write a two -minute thing about Remembrance Day. My, how that day has shrunk. When 1 was a kid, the whole school marched to the arena, bedecked with flags, heard speeches about our "fallen" and "our glorious dead." 1 think we got the afternoon off, to enjoy more irgmediatc pleasures. But before we were dismissed. we heard some haunting hymns, such as "Abide with me," and Lord help us. "Onward Christian Soldiers", and saw some real tears fall from the eves of people who had lost a husband or father After World War I I. but not for several years. I joined the ( anadian Legion. Not because 1 wanted to, particularly, but because I was a weckls editor, and you had to Please turn to page 3