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The Huron Expositor, 1989-08-09, Page 2Huron or SINCE 1860, SERVING THE COMMUNITY FIRST Incorporating The Brussels Post Published In Seaforth, Ontario Every Wednesday Morning The Expositor is brought to you each week by the efforts of: Pat Armes, Neil Corbett, Terri -Lynn Dale, Dianne McGrath and Bob McMillan. ED'BYRSKI, General Manager HEATHER ROBINET, Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc, Ontario Community Newspaper Association Ontario Press Council Commonwealth Press Union International Press Institute Subscription Rates: Canada '20.00 a year, in advance Senior Citizens - '17.00 a year In advance Outside Canada 160.00 a year, in advance Single Copies - .50 cents each Second class mall registration Number 0696 HURON EXPOSITOR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1989 Editorial and Business Offices - 10 Main Street, Seaforth Telephone (519) 327.0240 Melling Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1WO Fooling themselves The Ontario Provincial Police are moving to crack down on users of radar detectors by coming up with detectors of their own. The OPP's new gadget, the Interceptor, allows the police to know when radar detectors are in use in a vehicle. Many people use "fuzz busters" to let them know when police are in the area tracking people on radar. The fuzz buster allows people to travel above the speed limit and to slow down only • when they might be caught in a radar trap. The scale of the fuzz buster problem is truly staggering. In 1987 and 1988, OPP officers seized more than 10,000 radar warning devices and there's no telling how many are in use that they haven't found. The OPP have had a number of tests of their new Interceptor and in a 61 -hour period near Subbury, nabbed 107 fuzz busters. In a 62 -hour period near Oak Ridges, they bagged 183 detectors. Obviously the radar detector business has become one of the growth in- dustries in the 1980s. Now that the police have come up with their own detec- tors, can it be many months before some electronic genius develops a detec- tor that detects the detectors which are detecting the detectorso? THis could go on for years What gets lost in this little game, however, is the reality of the whole thing: speed kills. Drivers have a lot more to worry about than being caught on police radar when they speed. Lately there has been a burst of publicity over deaths on the Woodstock to London portion of Highway 401, with the inadequacy of the median between the two lanes of traffic being blamed for the problem. Two criteria link them all together. They all died tragically; their lives ended on a highway where people are travelling too quickly. The thousands of people who are using fuzz busters seem to somehow think they are immune to the.dangers of high-speed driving. They are only.fooling themselves when they think they've fooled police. They are playing with their lives and the lives of other drivers and passengers that may be on the road when they lose control of their speeding cars. Adapted from the Blyth Citizen. Darkroom power failure threatens paper TUESDAY - 7:15 A.M. I'd just got myself settled into The Ex- positor office after relunetantly leaving the warmth and comfort of my bed, and was facing the task of getting a newspaper ready for publication. Still wiping the sleep from my eyes, I stumbled, film in hand, to the dark room, for what other purpose than to see the events of the week now behind me, as recorded on film. Led more by habit than anything else, I assembled my canisters in a row, filled each with the required amount of developer, got reels and scissors handy, readied the timer for activation, then dous- ed the lights in order to get down to the meat of the procedure - getting the film in- to the canisters without exposing them to the light. That accomplished, I flicked the on switch of the timer, turned on the lights, and proceeded with the weekly ritual with benefit of eyesight. But that benefit was lost to me rather abruptly. What seemed like only Seconds into the process the room suddenly went dark, and as it did, the timer cut out. Boy did that place me in a dilemna. It's not that I minded the darkness so SWEATSOCKS by Heather Robinet much. To coin a phrase, I could probably find my way around The Expositor darkroom blindfolded, since I only ever use it when it's void off light anyways. But today, that was different. Much more than the loss of light, I was concerned about the loss of my timer. The power outage couldn't have occurred at a more inopportune moment. It really put me on the spot. There I was, lny files already too im- mersed in the developing chemicals, to remove - yet not immersed enough to end the first stage of the procedure. That stage of the procedure required almost split se- cond timing - with the immersion lasting no more and certainly no less than eight minutes time. When the timer cut out, I had only a vague idea of how much time was left, and no light by which to check in with my watch, So, I began the tedium of counting. One, s IP i BEEAI CUT one thousand, two, two thousand, three, three thousand... the time seemed to drag byhad lost count, Iwas resumedandrperhaps t Iaid that without noticing, somewhere I shouldn't have. None the less, when I reached what I thought should be the eight minute mark, I drained the canisters of their chemicals, and added new ones. By this time power was restored, and I once again set the timer. When it e films, then proceeded to pull them frwashed om the canisters - eyes closed and fingers and toes crossed. As luck would have it, they appeared unharmed by the rather `unpractical' joke pulled off by hydro power. And me, I just gave a big sigh of relief - relief at knowing there would be photographs accompanying this week's newspaper, and relief at knowing I could indeed count - to 480 in fact. ER I PPilgrims have answer to problem of national debt LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter of the Pilgrims of Saint Michael To The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada, About the debt problem. Mr. Prime Minister, The Canadian government is battling with a serious deficit problem. And every year, because of the problem, an ever greater part of our revenue dollars must go to interest payments on the national debt, which leaves less and less money available for the different government services and programs, and can even, in the long run, jeopardize their very existence. So now Finance Minister Michael Wilson says that the government has no other choice but to increase taxes and cut into expenditures, in order to bring down the deficit and stop .the growth of the debt, even if all of this is going to hurt the Canadians very badly, since they are already overtaxed. More than 52 per cent of the income of the Canadians has to be paid in taxes to the various levels of government, and new taxes, like the nine per cent "Goods and Services Tax", which is to come into effect in January, 1891, will reduce even more their pur- chasing power; stores and businesses will sell less goods, which will slow down the economy and bring about, in the long run, the loss of jobs and the closing down of many businesses. We agree with the government to say that the debt problem is an unsound situation, which must be settled as soon as possible; but we are totally opposed to the way used by the government to settle this problem, namely, tax increases and service cuts. We are of the opinion that there is another solution to this debt pro- blem, a solution that would be much fairer and more satisfactory to all Cana- dians. This is why we strongly invite the government and all the MPs to study what follows. The government is short -of money, and says that the only way to get some to run the country is to tax the citizens, or to borrow from the banks, which comes to the same, since these loans will eventual- ly have to be paid back with the taxes of the Canadians. Yet, the taxpayers do not have the power to create money. The money they have in their pockets comes either from wages, if they are 'employed in some company, or from a cheque of the government, which itself comes from the taxes levied on the wages of those Boy stabbed AUGUST 9, 1889 Tuesday last being Seaforth's Civic holi- day most of the business places in town were closed and many of the inhabitants,took.ad- vantage of the occasion to go elsewehere. Only a few were left as a home guard, and had ignominious the town en capitulati byn invaded woulldealmost certainly have been the result. WWhile.460,1eft by train, all who could procure vehicles went to Bayfield and other points of, interest. A baseball match was played ,on the Recreation grounds in this town on,Wednes- day last between the clubs of Brussels and Exeter. The mateh was for the champion- ship of Huron and a,money stake Of!"$160, It elicited a great deal ofinterest in,the,towps from which the respective clubs came. Mr. Thomas Dodds of McKillop, delivered the first new wheat at Ogilvies mill on Thursday of last week.: It was of fair sample and went a trifle over sixty pounds to the bushell. Since then there have been several small lots brought in. THE HARVEST - .Harvesting operations are now .well advanced. The ..weather ;has been 'most favorable andthe crpps are,being housed In •excellent condition. The fall 'wheat;,onaccpuntof'the rust, .iesmall;and'ef who are employed. And the companies that pay these wages do not have the power to create money either. Then, where does money come from? Who has the power, in our country, to create money? It is the chartered banks, when they make a loan. Whenever the banks snake a loan, they create new money that did not exist before, which increases the amount of money in circulation in the country: and similarly, whenever a loan is paid to the bank, the amount of money in circulation is reduced by this sum paid back to the bank. It is obvious that an organism is re- quired in our country to issue the necessary money to run the economy, and presently, it is the chartered banks that have this power, thanks to a law of the Canadian parliament. But the pro- blem is that all the money is created by the bank as a debt, as a loan that is mathematically impossible to pay back: All the money that exists in the country is a loan that must be returned to the bank, increased with the interest. The bank lends 10, but requires the repay- ment of 11. The eleventh dollar does not exist, since only the bank has the right to create money, and it has created 10, not 11 The bank creates the principal it lends, but not the interest that must be paid back. In other words, the bank demands the borrower to pay back money that does not exist. Since this is impossible, the debtor must borrow again, and debts pile up. It is essentially for this reason that all the countries in the world, including Canada, are battling.; with unpayable debts. Each time the production in the, coun- try increases and that an increase in the amount of money in circulation is needed, an unpayable debt must be contracted • with the banks. In other words, the richer a 'country, the deeper in debt. As a 'mat- ter of fact, It is the richest country in the world as regards goods, the United States, that is the top debtor country in the world (its public debt was over $2,746 billion in May, 1989). The richer, the deeper in debt: is this not contradictory, illogical and absurd? There is something that is basically defective in the way money is created, and this defect must be corrected immediately. Whether it is a dollar bill or a cheque, money is basically a figure written on a 'piece of paper. These pieces of paper are accepted as money because there are goods and services in the country. In a desert where there are no goods, money would be worthless. So it is not the banker who gives money its value, it is the production of the country. The banker produces ab- solutely nothing; he only creates the figures which allow the country to make use of its own producing capacity, its own wealth. Without the production of all citizens in the country, the figures of the banker are worthless. Since the money lent by the banks is based on the producing capacity of socie- ty, in reality this money also belongs to society, not the the banks. And the legitimate representative of society is the government. So the government can just as well create - the figures representing the production of society without going through the banks, and without getting in- to debt. In fact, it is even the first duty of any sovereign government to issue its own currency without interest nor debts. Why should the government pay interest to a private banking system for the use of its own money, • that it could issue itself, without interest nor debts? It is the federal government itself that has Turn to page 5A • in 1939 while piaying in corn fend inferior sample, but the yield will be fully equal to last year. Tu keCrichHerbert rsml'tll, has corn, some not which measures 9 feet 8iinchesin,ingth. It is of the M.S.S. variety,andhe gotthe seed from Mr. Robert Scott's seedstore in this town. AUGUST 14, 1914 Mr, T.W. Sloan of Hullett, near Blyth, had lthe frame work ofa large new barn raised ast week. The frame, went together iregood shape under the supervision of Mr. Lorne Scrimgeour, who ;has 'the ,work in charge. After the ,frame svas •uP, is ,tug -of :war was ,pulled off ,by ,teams captained by N.A. Taylor,aud Johur:Watson,:fifteen men a side, thefornner:winning. A very distressing and fatal accident oc- cured at No, 6 .warehouse here on Tuesday evening last, when Clara Jane, the ten -year- old daughter of;Mr.John Muir, CI:T.R. Sec- tion Foreman,wascsmothered to death,in.n bin of wheat. ;It,aP.ps1sthat; thelittle,grrl with some eo gpQM9As had .been ,praying about ,o ear of wheat beirg unloadecl, 110(1 ,had been ,ordered ia.vMY .by the titian in eharge,foi- fe r/thoy oighttanectiwith,some :accident ,sins d of going, away,; however, theyifalnptIeadiby} nY, r+ , li . A.n,.#.,.itPaeltilnto;the 1 IN HE FEARS A Ni from the 'Expositor Archives warehouse and were ;playicg,in one of the large wheat bins when askant was opened below to draw off some wheat. Now that; the exeitement',incidental to the great :gathering,beld in,Seaforth last we -s, known as the Seaforth Old. Dos',lteurulon.�and� :Provincial F,ireo en's•Tournament, hasattb- .sided, ,a more ,accurate view of the great •undertaking ,pan be :had .It ,was ,a ,great ''undertakingfor,n town, the size.of Seaforth and thatitlias proved successful financially and .every other ;way shows all the more clearly the care and skill that must, have been eere,ed by those leaving the ,enter- prise in, charge. A severe;. hail,ptor n;Passed over the;nor- thern part 'Mc t1loP, :S.unday torOnaappnri :last, ,doing „col wderable damage ,to .the crops. Orr 'Sunday; afterneonA very severe wind'stor,n, over the •c lln orna Passed o- t s'aabout Cr Mia. �Y, tkathbert, Mmes;;; ,awaive ,of,:M shown us three •eggs which for size and weight break the egg record. These eggs weighed 'eleven and three quarters ounces and one measured five and three quarter in- ches theone may and six and three quarter inches the other. AUGUST 11, 1939 Police ,are checking the ,story told by 9 -year-old Harold night of Seaforth, that ,he,was attackedby„a:transient:and-stabbeed itt the,ar :n while 10 play;dua corn field ,rat the rear,of leis borne Thursday. Young tKni t .was ;playing hide-and-seek lathe --field ” th.a ,numberpf,other boys, in- oluddng leis •coustn,:Bobby dtri int, 9ged41. 1112-Storyi18 ha .a Men 00t$01ssors in•his heed:and tvi nth. hi ce,covered,�, ,rL, �__se:1roan the corn ,and ,f tabbed,at him, _ailing ,wound on :Itis ardf ;whictln Ilneccss.tmted A144041 tiun The :,manithen ap- i,1 ' min the garb• 4 ever grown in this district was brought into Thlast weeek. It was officesitor thThurse arm evening f Mr. Foster Ingram, first concession of Hay N Tonwship, and the grains were not only ii uniformly large and plump, but were of ex- ,.ellent color. It was of the Dawson variety and tested 621/2 pounds to the bushel. AUGUST „13, 1964 Tenders will close Monday for construc- tion of a new office. and egg grading plant for United Dairy, and Pointy Co-operative. The new plant, with -equipment, will cost.$75,000, according to Clare;Reith, doeal manager. It will be located an,South Main Street, south otOke Street,--on,propertty purchased from Wrightand Leyb" Thirty-five -S ',Institute members and friends travelled Y bns'to Stratford Thurs- day evening to ,attend the Shakespeare Play, "King Lear", And ,the operetta, The Yeoman ofthe,Guard'', Provision for atary .,police to be aveltable in time of en lergency ;and as a relief pool of tratnedprsotjie lgrtie localoDreese;watermeadrvetMondayn neinors Flan- nery Arid Turnbuullll,-wale l,adopa bylaw ereatlgg,ati I ergency;rncaa,Itt'op,o1'gan za- 1