The Huron Expositor, 1979-01-18, Page 3r, I .,„41 1,ye
A SECOND CHANCE Mrs, Vervp Srn:ith gaVe the Huron Expositor a
second chance to photograph she and her daughter, Kandie Lee, who is '
thisY <. ear's first baby born at $eaforth''Co,cimmunity Hospital.. The first
icture of Mrs; Stfiith and her. ,,new daughter; :was, very cloudy when
re roduced-in thepaper,so now readers have a second chancetosee one
•p I
of Seaforth's newest residents!i (Expositor Phdtc
�Gt
Karl Schuessler
pis bankzng, business
'One day my village banker decided he
wanted to make things for me. He
t easier FO
thought I didn't like the way 1 had to line up
in front•of hiss teller windows, He thought I
didn't want the chance to choose the teller t
wanted to do my banking with --the fastest..
the prettiest, the • friendliest --whatever.
He my
thought 1: didn't want to take
t;
chances 'at picking the fastest moving
line --all of four or five possibilities. He
thought l wanted to bank on the smoothiest
and; most,efticicnt way of ,doing things: He
thought: l wanted to do it just like downtown.
And so it came to pass that way up highin
banking circles, the management agreed. No
more of these many line-ups in front of teller,
windows. They decreed their customers
should line up in one tong line at a slight,:
s fromtellers. Then whenever difarce the s y r a
�.
'e available. o de --as
feller ,train allyou had to a„
start
e •in line—was to upand sea t
the .ext I n s
s
step
r.
`bankint, .. with her.
It made sense. That way you'd do your
• business in privatee with no one lookin over
your
shoulder ort h e' m cff
h a a�tlt
dollars iiri your -account.
It real) el business v is no se5' bus nays if you do pay
your light bill there, or cash a pension check
or take out some traveler's checks or,money
orders. This new system wase goingto make
Y
.our banking confidential and discreet--evcn:
Y g
if it did cut down on a11 the visiting. Bedausc
there's no better way to carry.;, on, a visit in
• town than in; those banking lines. For sure,
you know someone standing in front of you
or in back of you. And if you had no luck
there; then you could always find someone in
the lines to the side.ef you.
Of course any new plata means you have
to rearrange the
h furniture, In the big Y -cit it
Wasn't that bad. On Toronto's Bay St: 'where
the banks are a half block long, it's not hard
to form one long single line right straight .
down the middle of the building: But once
you get into the village: banks, you run into a
' tot less floor. Right straight'down the rttiddle
means one tang l`
te.out
t
hro
u h
the door
everM Mind. You`ve
and down the street, But n t.. .
heard of a maze, haven't ;you? One of those,
lines th.n twist and turn and. eriss and cross
to make use of every inch of space. NOW; of.
Codrse,.this requires velvet'ropes and metal
bouys to hold them :►Il' up. 1t requires signs
of entrance, signs of exit, arrows of left and•.
pointers to the right,
The bank men event out and bought .a
Whole news system of mazes mazes that •
really amazes; They almost require a
policeman to regulate the flow of traffic. And
they're certainly envy' of every cattle and hog
shipper. Oh, to get their, meat off to market
she tes
in those. kinds of:fancy loading, u,,.
Whenever'1 present My own beef at the
bank''s' door, nowt l 'walk into a maze: The
tis hole bank is ,one maze. It's somethin 'like.
the peo' le who have 'a small backyard and
P
n abigsize swirnmin • pool.
c c
still feel they need t g
They have a swimming pool in back alright.
and that's all.
net f plan for a
My'banker tried this y
;. b,u gamep
few months' last year. And"then-oneS
-'da ) he
took out the system. Word had it not too
many people' liked it, Now the maze isback
again, and
I'm trying t
n thread
'h1J Way
Y
through his: .rye of a needle, .
The Bible says it's harder for a rich roan to
get into he ven th cameln•a .
3o go through
the eye of a'needlclet<i o
v e, But me tell y u.. it s
j. as hard fora oor man to et throu h to
P g g
his teller and the bank maze,
I e ,l
tremble. Progress has come to my village
bank': And before fear lon},> f r 1 won't be able
to say to my teller, '`Give me $50 cash'from
my account:"
I can sec itall nw.
C , to. She`llDint to all:'
P
those withdrawal
slips that have rested in
stets for"years underneath the longbanking
g g
table at tVe end of the building.She'll direct
S dt eek
me to th`m through
� tell a maze e 1 me to fill
it out all by myself and bring it back to ho.
via another tortuous route.
1 weep: I'nt'ro longer just i bank number
robot. Now I'm expected to act like one.
Vieth, )I the back of
bon ltiatsor's 'fain,;
t
rota the new houses.
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hotos by Elaine
Townshend
f
The postponed January
Meeting' Of the Seaforth
Women's Institute to be held
at ter, home of Mrs. terrine '
LaWson 1 uesd,ay evening
Januar" 23 at st15 .nt. 'holt
�' p.
'tell to be answered with the
llargf3 sin that waSIVI a Bar}
gain.
•Ctassi}ied Ads pay dividends
SOM
by Susi
ng to soy
tn' White,
My rational' headas well
as my mean, penny-pinching.
taxpayers heart knows that
it's. necessary for the schools
to :held classes for IOWA kids
Viten when tate school 'bases
don't :get. in:
Belt deep down inside E*n
a kid
too • and I understand:
completely• the, hoots Of
derision :ind the moans of
protest. with which the
younger set greets that
pRlicy
Setne of the happiest days
of my youthwere. spent
anticipating the faet that
school would be closed the
next day,••or maybe for weeks.
at a tinme, all because it wa$
storming in the‘ country and.
the buses cou.idn't get in.
Whether we're better
organized now., or a larger
percentage of our schools'`
students comefrom town, or
the weather's getting se
much Worse that •stprms• are
causing kids to miss a signif-
leant amount of school, 1
don't know. But anyway,
things have tightened up'and
gone are the snowed -in days
when. 'yiou wandered up• tot:
school to play basketball but
not until about the third day
ofaiincelled classes, When
th '•-(tovelty of sitting in
Wong's or Crieh's or (heaven
forbldi helping out at home,
began to wear off,.
I don't know what my
•counterpartsin the • town.
ships did...likely whooped it
:up , at the thought of not
having to climb on the bus in
the morning. but w v in town
made the niost Of the de1u oc -
unexpectedl bOlitiaPI,ter et
teas -t atttttip t on of sante.
Maybe the' 4erlther
worse than, it .used to be.
because .anticipatten of
School:: being nosed to as often
as, .far es we ;gat in the Old
days,
" i w doesit look',:�at your
place'?'" we'd call 'friends,
who cattle to schoolbag bits to
ask. thaw night before;•. Then
we'd' .talk to fellow students.
In town and, compare notes
on our random samplings of
runt friends, •
we put a heck .czf 'lin of
work into not going, to school.
then. Evcry.hoer Or all Yolt'4
have to take A short' at alk to
see it the weather sans get-
ting any better,) and, you'd
cheek the wind veloi,'ity with
your head out the front door
every fifteen minutes.
If we could beg. 'borrow or
steal a car„ we'd drive
around town to check out the
drifts on urban streets...lf it's
that had in Seaforth. it's so
much Worse in the certntry,
right? Those buses. 'll: nevem
4, get in teitiorrow, w. d assure'
each .Other.
One snowy Sunday night a
neighbeer who shall remain
nameless and 1. took the
prediction business . a little
farther than usual aitd drove
,otit into the country* to •see
how bad the + weather was and
to reassureourselves how,
stum ed hose buses were
p t ,
Seaforth police na,
ind
guuig ter tr6 'Mohan} .trtorit-
ing,
If 1 remetnbet correctly the
snow stopped In the, middle
of the night and tbcr buses.
made their 'appointed
rounds, Bet e e went into the
ditch on a back road near
town and had, to bother a.
ti ed -out tow tfuek operator
come and pull us out. 1
think we Managed' to keep
that caper quiet. even from
parents and for the rest of
,that winter we weren't quite
SO, keen to test Huron County
.weather first hand,
SO:: you can st'e that Ws
with great regret, from ,a1.
historical angle, that I leant
school in Huron county's,
towns and villagescontinues:
whether or not the buses get
Of course, elementary
school age children are affee-
ted by this now too. In my
day, nobody travellcd'by bus
until high school and storms
'meant tittle or nothing to the
students of SPS.
)' can't remember missin,_,
any school because of snow
when 1 went to public school,
and 1uess that's the way it
should be. But I'd Sure,
hesitate to send very little
kids off to school on some of
the stormy' days . we've had
lately. We lived very close to
the school whenl was small,
and besides, my mother was
tough.,
The kids; both high' sehool
k
and elementary. complain
that if classes review stuff
A trail' of broken Windows . through
Brussels and Walton ended in Scfa;orth
Saturday Morning yvhentoswn police arrested
a pair, men after a beer bottle was thrown'
through a truck window on Main. St:
Seaforth police chief John Cairns said his
police _. t,
force )s•as notified: by Winghani: OPP to
swatch for . a' • car after windows were
broken in the other villages;' Seaforth police
nabbed thc.men after' the truck window was
broken here about II a.nt:
• ' Charged withimpaired`drivinwas driver
gt.
Bradley M. Cook, 17, of Bclgr•tve and his.
passenger, -Murray D. Janes, 19. Of 12:1,2.5..
Brussels was charged with `+'ilfull d:tnt•tkc i'
They' had been on the go all night and left'
. a, trail of damage." chief Cairns said.
In ;mother unrelated incident a car stereo
was. reported Stolen from his car, plrkcd .at
the arena Saturday 'night, by Clem
Hoonaert
Only one iceide.nt.was.rc-por.,tedmlast week,Due'to icy cctnditioes at the corner of Chureh '
and Centre Si ., a e r'driven by.lutie I Ilipit
of Railw ty St. slid through the intersection
and collided with a car driven b James M.
Scott. Police say total laniages were about..'
$300,
A window in a- car arked...it..Seafortt _.
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sitis 'to rc-establish' the Villa e of
Ph
g.
Alnae have :been frust'rating.: Don 'says they
have received dozens'of'.eri9 uiries from
people wanting to build on the site, and he
P. p. g
contends: "If there are four houses there
now, there might as wcil be 15 more. when:.
.people ie want to live there."
. Although activity around the s tte of the
former village has -died•—down, . the
memories of local residents have been'
rekindled to reminiscc''ttbout the once
promising settlenciil, and the possibility
remains that someday the Village of Alrila:
May Come to. life main,
Community Hospital was reported shattered
by driver loyt:c Whethant -of ` Dublin, but
police couldn't Lind any evidence. of how it
Was broken. ,'It's a funny one", chief Cairns,
said andhe:spee l,ted there -could have
been it fault iia the glass and cold weather
caused it to shatter.
- Seaforth police received onlya' couple :of
snewmabile:complaints in the last week; and
say there have been few problems' with the
Machines '• so far thiswinter:
C" of C needs: help..
:'to continue .;
.band :concerts
Possibility+ tha the services of
.it several
organization rganiratic)n cttuld.:bc coordinated` to make
possible the continuation of the Sumner
Sunday Baud Concert series was suggested
at a'' meeting of the Chanber of CommercencrcC
'Tuesday Night;_.
Ta
h concerts a •t
a ul, r Sunda ^ feature � ft t re for
. P P
several years, have been arranged by Dr:
Chas. „Toll but he has indicated he no
longer c to head.. the _.project:. -_C. of_ C
Iz J
president Betty Cardna agreed to make
further queries and report to the-Febraary'
meeting. Members agreed even' effort
should be made to ensure the program seas
continued.
As a preliminary to the annual member-
ship drive fees s war e set at 520 business and
$10 a
ssociate. be) g Ross i � agreed o R recd to lead the
drive :mild work with treasurer 1•
tt trca4 rcr , tm Gould.
Director Ken Oldacrc said that Mr. Gould.
ys ho was absent from the meetingalready.
had prepared a list p1 potential members,
The meeting discussed', yvatis syh.rehy
confliction of dates for Seaforth events could
be'avoided
andthe tstabtrsh`ng of
a:c
tnlrat
tog. istr) where sponsoring organriatioi"
'could rePort, was suggested
. Ir is in-
dicated
such an arrangement had worked t(t
,ttivantagc in other centres.
Are you doing onythiog' special
i
for the
Bit DEBBIE RANNEY
The United Nations has proclaimed 1979
as the Intcroatienal Year of the Child. It
was with this '"though't in mind that
Expositor Asks asked local residents, "Are
you planning to do anything with childre't
this year shute this is the international Year
of the Child?"
Mrs. James Carter -of RR 2, Seaforth said
they hadn't planned anything special but
added that het family hadn't really thought
about it,
Mrs, Brian Oowan , of ttR 2. Seaforth
said, "Well, considering we juSt had our
firstchild at the end of November,, l
suppose so." '
She also said she taught; piano so she
worked..wrth children it bit and that tight
now they will be doing a lot with their nett
baby: '
As for having a s retial year for childre
she said she 'thought it sitonldl be like that
all the time, Asfar as lam conceritc`
' year"
utero: shouldn't need to be a special lar l
she said.
Mrs, Dave Thomas of Egmonavtlte said
she didn't knew 'about physic ally helping a
child because site was having eye trouble
but she said' if it was in a 'motley way She
year of the child ?
cold help.
Mrs, Robert Lavery of 0ii abeth
Street in Hetisall wasn't planning on doing
anything' special,
Mrs. Joe :Clifton of"Tilt 3, Kippen said.
they didn't have any children and they they
lictdn`t really gotten into Idiscussiitgl itr: '
tillers Coyne of RR 2, ijublrn said she
itadn't'theught about it. "It's nice tri help
the childten, all right," she said lidding.
that she was just about 80 years of age so
she didn't think she would be .tble to give •
them much help. She' did however think
proclaiming this as'the Year Of the Child.
was a good thing,
"1 Haven't read Vets nuieh about it, but
it's a fine thing to help children. There are
a lot of children neglected. It'se •g ed think,
to help the children," silo ,said
Mrs. Ruth Duffy of RR 2, :Staffs' said,
"NO I don't thtnk'sor Nothing any different
than I've been doing with my Ow it." '
Mrs, licit Coleman of George Street mit
Seaforth said, "l' don't know what dies
ahead. Wo'vc<got tato small NOS, We'll be
ttking #tetn to Plotida two. orthree
avCcks+';
Sho added that they will, probably Ilse t• e
taking thein 'amiThi .'
at' haring. if teachers forge
ahead into fnew material.
rural .kids and their parents
are irate at missing Jessons.
you tan't • win wills storm
time ,CJasscs,. as. .kids,
teachers. parents aid we
rou0X pmehing rational,
the asserts that we have to
have them though. If nothing,
else it's good training far the
work world where produetion;
doesn't stop just heeauSe it's
storiu ng out.
But there are so few things
to: took forward to When
you're akid and Christmas is.
. raver 'for another year,
Tough banattas,.town kids
;kptt have my sympathy.
larence Reeves' flight
Neat Wednesday night. January
St;aferth• citizens. will have a, chance to
honour Clarence Reeves, Allo woke
resdents of a Main St. apartment building,
r while ti fire raged in one apartment,
• Pecember 20,
Mr, Reeves, svha:WAS praised' by Seaforth
.firemen• as saving. 'lives, the building and;
perhaps the west side of Main ST., is a life "
lone; resident of Seaforth.
The town will host a .civic reception in; his.
honour Wednesday night at the Legion,,
beginning "at 8 p.m. Seaforth will present
Mr. Reeves with a portabel' colour TV,
council has decided, while the Chamber of
Commerce will present an award of merit.
The legion Ladies Auxiliary will serve
coffee and sandwiches and Legion members
are donating, their hall for the event. All
citizens of the area are invited to attend.
t
Nigiiitschool classes are alive .and well
at SDHS this winter, with about 100 students
enrolled; in courses "that include cross
country skiing, furniture refinishing and;
seyydng and tailoring.
"That's 100 more students than we had a
'fest/ years, ago". when the local highschool
was the only one in the county that didn't
off cr night ,school, principal Steve Hook:told
g
the Expositor.
Cross country. skiing and . disco dancing
classes have just started and sewing,
i..
furniture refinishing and; liquid embroidery
continue from the fall but there tivasn�t
enough interest -to start a macrame class,
Mr. 1 -took sass
'I understand it's dying out and you can
bui bangings.About. as eheapiy as -yon carn_
nuke thein"
Although sgniC senior students and their
perentS;have protested, Mr Hook -defended
the decision to confine the cross country •
Skiing class to adults only.
Whenever night school offers' sports
programs :exclusively for adults, the -same
the
sports are'also offered to SDHS students, •,
night school. principal: said. A cross country
skiing course Tor high school age kids is
t
school
taught every Sunday by Ann Hansen of •the ,
SDHS staff. • . .
1t's free and equipinent is provided, Mr.,
Hook said, in contrastto the adult class,
which emits $IQ and for'which students 'must '
have their own equipment.
Badminton and basketball, when they are
offered at night to ' adults only are also
duplicated for SDHS students, the principal
said,
Students cantake the : courses : like
furniture refinishing, which aren't offered at
the school,' he stressed, "Heave it up to
eery teacher to set conditions . for their
Classes,"
Disco dancing is limited to adult couples
because the course is teaching a skill,; and.
isn't meant to be a social evening, Mr. Hook
said.:' Eightwere out. -last Tuesday itr-the
middle of a blizzard and at least six more are
expected,"
Night•' school .teachers include Terry ':
-Johnston-cross country skiing; Terry and Jill ti
Johnston -disco dancing, Phyllis
Mitchell -liquid embroidery; Harvey
Beuerman furniture refinishing and Karen
Teskey=sewing and tailoring,
The SDHS night school hopes to offer golf
�' •
:
and tennis in. the SPring, Mr. Hook; said
sugar a�cd spice
By'Bili .Smiley
•
House cleaning tine
New Year is a time for house-cleaning: the
h mind. Not to mention
house, the desk.. the m
your personal relationships, your language,
and 1 yourl ears:
11cave the house to my wife. And if you.
t t
bink P hat's male chauvinism, 'whatever that
silly phrase means, you're chauvinism,
ht. A male is a
Y
male. A chauvinist is a; superpatriot. And we
all know what apig.,is one of the most
valuable animals man has evercreated in his
owninto c,
1v'.
. 1" I was : so
7'hcoretically, m a male. l
pronounced, ,I . imagine. at `birth, due• to
p g.
certain plumbing. 1, am .not a chauvinist. I do
not believe' in my country, right or wrong, '
although .;I love :t. I do not trust my
nvernment as far as I could throw a
g used
car into a swamp:.
And. I amnot aPig . although 1 wouldn't
mind being one. Do you realize that a: pig
g
produces in his or her's rt• !ife,' about eight
P �.
times what human docs?
chops a roa
To eat:hops pork nd , sty and bacon
and pig -hocks and hamandhead cheese and
pigs tails, Not to retention sowbelly, if you.
want me to get mule and chauvinistic,
To wear: pigskin for: 'making gloves...f=or
sport: makingfootballs the put the old
,pigskin square between the uprights):. •
For use( pig bristles for making shavin
brushes, although i fear they arc bacon' ng
plastic iii:this plastic age. And finally: sows'
ears for not making silk purses of. .
O.K. That deals with . cleaning up: the
house, in rather round -about way, The Old
Lady can do it,; l'tl helpclean •up the
Iter, mcnt if she'S:ever erafty,enough to get
me down there on a.Saturdae Morning,
•
.lust began cleaning up, my desk. That's
definitely north while, 1 have just ,reread.
sotite Christmas earls, merely skiniined on
arrival. 1 always enjoy a card from ,my kid
brother, banished to the Siberia of the iatees
Bays project; e Northern'Qtteber, He hates
everything: so much that he makes me feel
positively benevolent Y lent toward the. World.
Then. there's ' my TV repairman,, as he
always signs himself, wlto drops a line every
Christmas from Westport, Ont. l:suppase I'll
never know his real haute, but there's
always a eheerai, message, urging :rte to go
oo pricking balloons and stuffed'' shirts, even
though he often deesn't agree with me.
There's an annual card from Major
Me rving in Califnrnta, who is hooked on
the bagpipes, With a lively account of the
va?ieustevents tho'l» pets; ha'vc attended in
p y r
Here's l latter from tut e1d 'f'il'ter plot
g pilot
friend. who reminds- ftte'of the time. Ott the
way :HMO from a Country. ub, that 1 mussed
turn . li
:;t titr"n in the toad and went straight through
a thorn hedge, Next day my face lookedas.
though hit nhhaaidls.been raked by a termagant
with long
And 'a letter from Beth . Boyd, a former
student'now in. Lacombe; Alberta` 1q uote:
"Hopefully you'll recall me, as being tall,'
beautiful! and an extremely bright student.
However. the reality is - short; dete7acritr
the onlv.. nerson who-, ^ 'ststently sp lle�,
N
uht.,:._
- " roe
h
ou#a
Net sa
.B hyI
t
rethmember you exas#ctlyhro, You sat near the ark
where you could titter and giggle with a't ;
gBg �� i"
Elaiin.,And I surethe acne;gene. one. Aad
;l,
,that yo •shortbut.beautifuj�t3And I'm glad
l'
you at t,! •hap v. t'
'Thert;, there: s the usual smattering matter'►n of
letters. and cards from • deepl" ; ,,religi.ous
people who •take my
to�uej
n-chee
k:re-
arks Wide-eyed anfavrmearnestly,
scri to
:
re
quoting, p and 'verse, to .outline m:,
easy road to hell:
y
Hello ellol What this..
h Ani. ono
$ paned
letter. Let's see. Well, well, a Cheque 1 ue forust
over $ 1,000. Dated November, 1977:. I
thought that the old finances had gone `a bit
haywire in.the 'last year. I hope they'll cash
the blinking' thing.. There is Some silly rule
about not cashing cheques that' are more?:
than six months old; aappened to me a fety
e rs
a°'
'
Here's one from Germany; and a card
from Australia, and two from Texas and one
from Holland and a note froth Dawson
Creek; and another from Oregon. That's the
sur ttncr erosti d, from Our Trip;
Another note from Anne, a former
,,student: "Why did Joan Engel get an A -Plus
on an .essay, and I got an A when i wrote
them both?" Life, Anne. An old friend of
mine, George McCowan,wrote; an entire
French examfor a friend at University, was
caught in the act, kicked out, and is now a
'•iollywood director, with se veral ex -Wives
-attd a big income: NO connection, but where
there's larceny, there's loot,
Prom Miriani 1~iselter, Milton: "God bless
you for your int' igorating colunth in:, this
week's Champion.. It was more'than Sugar &
Spice, it was like a shot of adrenalin to my
"wounded ego"' that had been bruised badly
in the last two years, since I •turned 65.-"
Thanks, Miriam, I'm getting there
From a lady in Alliston.'0f 70: 'Damned it
1'11 subscribe to the Alliston Herald again, ..
since they dropped your column. Hope
you're writing a book, ' •
Well. it's been fun clean ,ing up the desk.,
All I have to do now is clean up my persottiil
relationships my language, and My ears;
Hnttntttm No problem about tears,
P That
ou
Let's 'car from
yon, readers. That tri ht
do it 611.1106'a fine year in 7'9 and dont be
scared of it ifamn' thin'. Woos.
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