The Huron Expositor, 1979-02-08, Page 3cl
ed
The Huron County Beard of Education
was servednotice Tuesday that the battle of
the .beekS is far from over, The board
received a letter from the Heron Freedom of
Choice Society asking that Margaret
Laurence's novel The Diviners, removed
front the board's list of approved English
literature books, be reinstated, The letter
also asked that anytime a trustee is invetved
with a decision to approve a textbook that
the trustee be made to reed the book before
making that decision, .
The board shuffled the issue off refusing
to re -open the debate on approving or
disapproving of books for classroom Use
county schOolshe nevels became the
centre of a bitter and emotional contrie ersy
in 1978 and resulted in the hoard taking The
Diviners out of the classroom,
The Huron chapter of RenaisSance Inter-
national, headed by Blyth resident Lloyd
Barth, started the issue boiling last year
when it asked the board to ban three novels,
The Diviners, John Steinbeck"S Of Mice and
Men and J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
The request brought book supporters and
opponents to the field of battle and
culminated in ahighly emotional public
meeting in Clinton that attracted about 500
people. The board reacted to the issue by
taking The Diviners off the list of approved
, texts. That meant that the book could not be
used in classrooms but would be left in the
school libraries. The board did not consider
the move a ban on the novel.
Freedom ' of
Choice members fele differnt. The group'
formed a few moths ago with the idea of
fertning an organization similar to Renais- ,
sanee International, but with opposite aims.
Member S hoped to gain enough repre-
sentation to have the same impact on
trustees as Renaissance supporters, Some of
the members of the Freedom of Choice were
wilhng to leaveThe Diviners off the approved
lit of texts and concentrate efforts on future
' issues. But in its January meeting the gretth
decided to ask the board to re instate The
• Diviners. .
Beerd chairman John Ell,ott. was. not
interested in ieopeningthe honk issue and
Asked the board for a metion. to receive and
file the letter' from Freedom of Choice. Mr.
Elliott indicated later that his intention was
to have the request dealt with according to .
board policy, policy adopted after the last
book fiasect. '
The chairman said the board had adopted.
definite policy to handle such requests and
he felt that policy should be followed He said
English department headt, superintendents
Of education and some teachers4will be
meeting with the board's education commit.'
tee in June to approve textbOoks and the
board will look at a reccommendation from
the that committee at its August meeting.
Mr. Elliott said If freedom of choice
members wanted to Meet With the education
committee to make a presentation they could
request such a meeting.
Zurich trustee Herb, Turkheim felt that the
letter deserved more than that, H,"." asked.
Mr, .PlliOtt if the heard intended to
acknowledge the letter er "completely
ignere" it.
Mr, Elliott pointed out that the board
acknowledges -every letter it receives. He
Said he felt • the board policy adequately
covered the situationand that action to
aeknowledge the suggestions from Freedom
of Choice wee an "adeqeate rePlY".
'When the bet* banners came along we
' gave them two audio et,4 and now the other
side comes-eut and we pm saying no, thanks,.
we're not interested saie Mr, Turkheim.
Lucknow trustee Marton 'Zinn said all she
got from the ,Freedom of Ch °ice letter was
that the group was asking trustees to read
books before taking any action.
"There's a lot of storroy days ahead we
should be able to read a lot of books," she
quipped.,
Goderich, trustee Dorothy Wallace sug-
gested that the board's action was "giving
• an impression of being a fairly autocratie
beard". She pointed out that a group of
citizens is making a request and the board is
"just filing it".
Exeter trustee Clarence MeDe !laid asked
..that when a letter of reply is sent to Freedom
of Choice that it be explained that "the book
is not banned it is de -listed", Mr. McDonald
said the word banned is not the , proper,
expression and asked that the letter explain
Margaret Rivers, author of the letter, said
she was disappointed with the board'S
action. She said she did not think the board
would re instate the novel but she did think
the matter Would be sent to committee.
Mrs: Rivers said she did not know how
• Freedien of Choice would react to the
• board's move Adding that the group is
meeting liter this nientband further action
will be planned.
She said She understood the board's
action adding that in a way it was her. She
.coneeded that the issue can't be debited
over and oVer''. • ,
"I feel it's time the board put its foot down
and said this is the way we are going to deal
with this but it didn't do that the lasttime,"'"
. .
said Mrs. Rivers.
2 She pointed • out that the Renaissance
• ,
group was given an opportunity to address
the board the last time it brough the matter
up. She said the board discussed the matter
with the Renaissance group adding that it
"irritated" her that")that opportunity was
denied Freedom of Choice. •
Lots -of information. on
CooneyWeiland coming in
The response to the. request for in- also sent a quantity of material about the
formation on Ralph "Cooney"' Weiland, the • man Who played for the Boston Bruins, the
Egtnondville native who is a member of the . Detroit Red Wings, and then coached the
Hockey Half of Fame, has been encouraging. •-"' - Bruins before moving to Harvard University,.
A number of local residents have told us where he coached student hockey' players for
' about their memories ofgrowing up with the 21 years.
future hockey player. and we've even been Anyone with additional information is
provided with photos of Mr. Weiland when invited to call Alice Gibb at the Expositor.
he Was a boy. ^ ' The first article on Mr. Weiland will
The Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto has appear in an opcoming edition of the paper.
Amen
.by Karr'S•Ch tjeS,sler •
A Boston saint
kdrove all the way to Boston to check out
the saints. Not that Boston has a monoply on
sainti. Let's face it. Very few placesteem in
perfect people, A good man is hard to find
nowadaysanabsolutely geed men or
woman'. that IS. • •
I must confess. I didn't lied any. Of
course, I really knew that from ,the
beginning. But 1 had to find out for sure on
-my upcoming radio program for CBC's
Morningside.. ' •
And it's just as 1 suspected. There are
sinners galore, but nary a saint in stere. But
wait a minute, Things aren't all that black
and white. •
You see, I grew up On a phrase ihat's
never stepped ringing -in my mind. My own
preacher father used it all the time. And he
must have thought it sounded better—more
true.and profound in Latin: Simla Justis et
peccator. Saint • and _siener—both at the
same, time.
I give credit where credit's due: Martin
Luther said it first, and my father'repeated it
ever after,
A person's not either a Saint or a sinner.
• Black or white. Getod or bad. He's both *at
the same time. •
- Probably we all like to think of ourselves
as a decent Color of grey. A middling,
Certainly not at novelist Graham Green
would have it -black or grey. Periple in his
.inventory never ceitte in White, I Suppose to
him the only good saint is a dead one.
I den't think Luther would Want to stir the
, pot that Vay. He!ri- keep The plitadoX. BlaCk
and white.both at the sante tithe.
That's what I was testing out in the
program. Trying to find out if that's really
to, NOW, don't get Me wrong, 1 Wasn't
looking at the before and after kind of
variety: Sinnei one day and saint the net&
This world teems with these kind of reborn'.
Wateli religion On television and that's
WharyOu MOO often get.
And I wasn't looking for all the whites,
either the born from scratch kind of saints,
Si. Teresa, the Little Flower, St. Elizabeth
of hungary, St. Nicholas and St. Patrick. ,
No, I was looking for the both And variety.
That's what the program was all about,
Along the way; I got some new twists on
saints. My picture of them as praying hands,
haloed heads and bo ed knee S• didn't hold
up, In factone of the Most popular of all
saints St Francis of Assisi came in for a ..
drubbing. ,
Leslie Fiedler, author and critic. said he.
didn't think much of a fellow who talked to
the birds and bees and the stars and the
universe.
And someone 'else reminded me that if St.
Francis was the patron saint of the animals
he was also patron of lice. Evidently he
didn't keep Soap, toothbrush and Crest in
his medicine cabinet.
A Ltitheran Clergyman in Boston admitted
it Was difficult to name a saint living in our
time. But if he had to hc'd probably choose
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German; theologian
implicated in a plot to murder Hitler, The
Nazis iteprisoned and later executed him.
His writingS, especially his prison letters.
have become standard and Classic reading
for our day,
This clergyman reminded 'mt,. though,
that Bonhoeffer Wasn't your typical picture
of a taint -someone who breathes warmth4
alarm and good feeling into his fellowt,He
Said Bonhcieffer was ,Prussrati and aristo:
cattle. Sometimes aloof, Cool, maybe even
arrogant. .
• The best story of a modern day taint Came
from 'USW Fiedler. He reminded me that
Jesus had said, "Call no One good but God,"
Hesitant to name a saint, he finally talked
about his grandfather, his Jewish graad,
father in NewJersey.
And WS hissleirkabout that hero saint,
tellyou next time.
Soit,te:
Whit
• Well I'M not sure if we
Seaforth are hypocritiCel
Or not (I suspect we are, but
-neither more nor less than
other Canadians bp- they
Atral Or Urban),
But one think I know for:
iure is that WC arerk't
r9mantie. -
Yes folks, les my sad duty
to wort to those oyett WhO
were st, qcking our 'lips- at
0 -
ay
•
the pr0spc3. thate have
not reCfraVed anigje
vaitatinc, ADM tair$ or
otherwise, for •ouspecial
valentine elasSified woon.
• 1 can't figure it out tvcrv
year rcadulg the Toronto -
Globe and Mall's “dentine -
greetings. pages and pnes
of thetj. brightens up
February for me immensoy.
The un -uptight and .
for
PITY WILMA OICE
•Members of Meicillep
council this year will receive
$20 for each municipal
meeting they attend, other
than the regular council
meeting. The decision was
made Tuesday to increase
the rate, for each meeting
from 515, to 520. At the
January meeting couecil
agreed to 515. However,
before •the by-law covering
the rate was 'passed at the
meeting Tuesday, Marie
Hicicnell, the new member •
on council, -said the rate was
low compared to that paid by
other municipalities. She
made a motion that it be
raised to $20.
The monthly rneeting of
the Hospital Auxiliary will be
held on Tuesday. February
13 at 8 p,m., in the, Board
Room, Seaforth Community
Hospital. Ever4one
Welcome.
You're invited to the
Seaforth Horticultural
Society Meeting on Feb, 14
at 8:00 p.m, at the Scalorth
Public School. Slides and
comments on the
eacedingly loving citizens of
Toronto greet each Other
with gorgeous. 4lasorted
valentines, Some are funny,
a few are kinky aed a few are
heirt breakers. Lots are just
from plain ordinary people
SaYTg, Thanks or Love
you' .to other plainerdinarY
people. The odd one is excel
_Realer And rattles; around in
•Ttf
HURON EXPSiTGR ft.BRU.A1.Y
your brain for days, 1 leaSer
that would Make a -good
, opener for at ,rnystery story.
Most of diem use fir0;
names or initial* only. You
'know "John $.: 1 love yoo
• .404tiy. vplease be Mine.
That's why I'M paying for
this Valentine. Yours in
passion,Nabet T."
Perhaps, that element of
Iliors up
special meetings
• This will be paid tu council
members 'when attending
special council meetings,
hospital board meetingsfire
board meetings. and ..other
meetings. .
• Council also approved a
motion ,giving.all member& of
council, the Clerk and the
road superintendent, an
allowance of $200 each plus
registration fee tor one
convention if they attend it
during, the year. -
Council approved- payment
of the membership fee of 550
to the Association for
Clerks and
RT-qrs*. -• -
Commissioners seminar at
Guelph from April 4 to 6 and
the clerk from April2 to 4.
• A grant of $15 Will be paid
to Huron Codnty Historical
Society and a grant of 550 to
Huron lPiowmansMsociation
• Approved for payment
were road •accounts
!1,41.-a2;7r4e.
.
ameueting to 517,166.41 and
•
general accou nts of
ported that tax
arrers are abut 0,000
Microwave
which is About the same as
last year at thiS time.
Mrs Hiekeell gave a.
detailed account of her
attendance at the seminar for
first-time members of
council, As well she gave
reports oe the tour She was
given'of Seaferth Community
Hospital, as a new board
member (she is McKillop's
representative certhe board)
and of the first meeting she
attended of the board:,
, pancillor ' Hg iekrntelrisked - •- ' -
E' gsper
to lnee. sent. te the Drainage , , ime
nt
invited
Intermational Peace Gardens
will be shown. Everyone
Welcome,
The regatar_ meeting rtf the
,Seaforth Women's Institute
will be held at the home of
Mrs, Lorne Dale On Tuesday,.
evening Feb. 13th. Lunch
committee Mrs. D. Hugill.
Miss 13elle Campbell, Mrs.,
M. McNair. Mrs. R. J. Doig.
Paul Carroll will -show
pictures of the Van Egmond
House,
• ouick, easy and conven- Microwave Oven", which
• lent -that's the reputation of
'microwave cooking. And
what better food to cook in
your microwave oven than
nature's own ecinvenience
food -eggs -I -
The Versqtile egg is an
important part of many de-
lightfol microwave dishes
Inducing soaps, sandwiches,
qUiche, crepes, casseroles,
sitaeune:s., desserts 'And baked
The Canadian Egg Mark-
eting Agency has a new
boOklet available called
'Eggsperimenting with your
Sugar and spice
By Bill Smiley
The anti metric brigade
After about 10 days of solid blizzards and
bad driving, tow temperatures and a• lower
temperAmeitt my soCial, intellectual -and
emotional life hovering around zero
(1'ahrenheit), I wondered what to write about
this Week. • -
Cattle home from work, picked tip the
Mail, and there was a fat package from
something called AMC, Ottawe. I turned it
over a couple of times, wondering whether
the initials meant Ancient Military
Curmudgeons, from some veterans' outfit,
.or All Men Cowards; from some rabid
women's lib crowd.
Net to Worry. Democracy is still rearing its
bruised and battered head here and there in
this our native landthe package was from
Anti-Metrie Canada, its single and avowed
purpose the stamping out of the metricatioh
of our fair white 'country., •
it contained: an honorary membership
card; a bumper sticker which shoots,
Pound. Our Metric"; a newsletter With a:
number of spelling , and granuear errors; a
, personal letter from the preeident; A petition
to send to My M.P.; a full page of anti -Metric
propaganda; and a quiz% or survey loaded
with, questions along the line of, When did
you stop beating your wife?"
Sample question. "Do you realize that
Under the metricsystem that (tie). the
farmers will lose (si.,:) money and the dairY
cartel win?" Answer yes/no.
• How can you answer a question like that?
With a yes Or ne? Personally, I think it's high
time the farmers were pried loose from
some of their money, and the whole thing is
putting the cartel before the cow.
Another sample: "Do you believe that
people come before computers?" VVell. yes
and no. We were here before the coniputers.
but when it comes to arguing with one over-tiboo-boo on your charges, it's obvieus that
they come before tis, And I have a secret
hunch that they'll be here long after the
human race has disaPpeared, chattering and
giggling away among themselves about how
they so finally, and s9 easily, got rid of us,
Just one More sample. "Do you wale the
CAnadiatt public to pay t2,00 a gallon for
gas?" Answer: depends on whether you
think a gallon of gas is more important tit •
pound of beef. If the Ay-ra6S can get 52 a
gallon for itand you 'deth't have'aitY,' that's
what yeu'll pay. If the beef farmer tan get SI
a pound for sirloin, and you don't heel:we le
have a steer tied tip in the garage; that's
what You'll pny. Elentental.
These questions Are beihg sent to M.V.'s.
tyligoci, I hereby resign my honorary
membership in the Anti.Metrie Canada
organization,
I am much more sympathetic with their
Aims than their Means'. (But I wencler wtie
they were wheti I was carrying on a lonelv.
singlehanded, but valiant fight against
metrication a year or to ago?)
1 detest metricatiOn and all it stands fort
conformity, unification, anonymity, and
confusion for everyone over thirty year's of
age. Ask any shopping housewife what she
thinks of it? She will "prebably, if she has
thought about it, reply that its a lovely -
opportunity for the food • barons to rip
everybody' off, except those equipped with a
pocket calculator and- endless time on their
hands. A gram here and a millilitre there
add up to mill -ions-. over a year.
And now -let's hear from • industry. .,
According to it, changing to the metric
system was. going to make Canada much
more competitive in the world market. VVe
are about as competitive as Greenland, and
our single biggest customer, the U.S., has
not gone metric though it is toying•with the
madness.
When I want to know how cold it is. I tune
in to an American TV weather report, get it
in Fahrenheit, subract anotherjen degrees
for the,difference inlatitude; and say to nty
wife, "Holy Motet, woinan, no wonder the
pipes froze. It was 12 below last night." And
she knows I don't mean Centigrade.
Math and science teachers to the contrary,
the World got along very Well when every
nation had its Own terins of currency,
measurements and weightsin the days
when the snit never set on the British .
Empire, the British pound had A solid ring to '
it, anywhere in the world. They didn't give a
diddle about changing it to annAs, or yen, or
Markt,
Sante tvith the Ameriean dollar, for a
century or $0. It wat worth- e dollar, not
whatever the SWiSS and Germans and
Japanese decided' it was worth. •
There was a quaintness and a difference
and gh individuality about currencies and
measures and weights, that is being lost in
these days of international conformity. If a
British horse ,stood '40 hands high and
weighed 14 or 44 stone, in a British novel:
that ea,. good enough for me. He was either
a big horse or a little horse, I didn't have to
get out my calcelater,
If Bastanio wanted to borrow three 3.066
ducats from Shylock, 1 knew that WAS no
S78.50, and was satisfied. '
1 knoe, I have nottoreeltanee of.reversing
the metric thing than I had or another of my
lost cl'itises: that pale pink marle leaf on a -
dirty grey background that Is Canada's
national, flag, '
Put I vvish the AMC luck. And I'M going to
riNe my, bUttiper sticker, if only to annoy my •
nel,ghbour, a niAth teacherwho has been
flaunting 'A "Think Metric" sticker for
s0Vera1 yearS.
My sticker is bigger, 'white :priming on
red, with a big hammer pounding down en
the slogatt. 41)011140 OtJT METRIC,"
The organi•zation also has a' stubborn little
war.ery I rather like. "We won't MOO oar
feet an inch."
features a variety of .appet-
izing and attraetive egg
,
recipes that an be success-
fully prepared in your micro-
wave oven. Since all micro-
t.vavre ovens` vary, particulary
in the wattage they deliver,
the recipes Were tested in a
cross-section of ten manu-
facturers' ovens to establish
the range of caOking 'times
required to gook a recipe in
sour Own oven., This free
booklet may be obtained' b
writing to 'Eggsperirnentiog
CEMA, Suite 507, 116 Albert
Street, OttaWa, Ontario KIP .
SG.3.
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oanotonity i4 the TelfsQlli *Iv
we at the Expositor are not
meting with a great deal of
success in OW CstrnPaign $91
get Seaforth art4 FC4.p.09.Plel
to run valentine* in he
el44Sifie4S- - ••
A valentine hke the ahe-VP'
in this week's Espesiter
would send one third of
Expositor readers 'running
for their phone books and,
thence to their street maps,
to try and figure out who
• John and Mabel were.
Because if John and, Mabel
were'maieied or legitimately -
linked to each other in some
way, it's unlikely that they'd
be abandoned enough to
prerpote ' sante in° the
classified pages of thg
gabositor.
No, if we're romantic
around here, we're quiet
about it. There's nothing
wrong with that mind you,
but it's a little boring,
Especially when. 1 was
expecting creative, sensual
and humourous offerings for
the classified pages,
"They're supposed to be
secret", my husband said
when I disguised Seaferth's
valentine, reluctance with
him, that was his German
propriety speaking rather
than his Irish romanticism,
I imagine his "hnunroffl"
on the subject was echoed in
many Seaforth homes where
someone was so bold as to
broach the subject of ranning
a valentine in the paper.
"My husband has just gotten
Over me putting a Christmas
greeting in and one staff
,member here when I pleaded
with • het- to write up •a
valentine that we'd run for
free.
On behalf of my fellow:
romantics who Would have
liked to run a" valentine ad
this week but were a little toe
shy to do so, I've composed a
few valentines to the special
or otherwise memorable
people in my 'life. '
Neighbour Donald:
You're a busy man, but you
never say eo.
When we call you up with a
tale of woe:
"We're stuck again" you
often hear
But you bap out, every
morning year ;after year.
Oer,..drive'S always plowed
without any fuss
But I bet you sometimes
wonder
'Why'd they move actoriS the
Toad front oaf
Happy Valentine from
Your towing services
beet CusteMere
Sunday night yen' get
us unstuck
When thought we Were mit
tdiuck.
'Thafs one of the reasons we-
.• love you •
Just as rotes are red and
violets are blue. •
Signed. Your
• Immediate fa• mily
Neighbour Larry;
We -dragged you out Of your
house that was vvateri •
To fight the elements in that
awful stern
Mewing Us_ home WAS
terrific thing to do
And we've got a special •
valentine thank -you,
• , Signed, Your road
running eeighbours
To the MeKillop $newptow
Operators:
The we never say thankt,and
don't talk to you
We appreciate everything
you do.
We can set our clocks by yOur
morning run .
It makes all of our driving a
little more fun,
Signed, Your friends on
Con, 6 & 7 •
To Gaby's Babysitter:
"She's so good humoured",
• peopie say,
We can't understand how
she got that way".
"It's really'siinple"; her dad
and I state.
She's got a babysitter who's
really great.
Yoa already are our
Valentine signed
`-,Gaby's parents. -
And finally, to the people I
work with at the Expositor:,
•Though deadlines are tough
and we're all under pressure
You all add to working here
things I can't measure. •
The main.thing that keeps Us
from throwing a gaff
Is that all of us still re-.
member how to laugh.
And yeat won't likely get so
'much praise until next
Valentine's Day, . Your
friend, the editor.
There they are folks, with
apologies to poets every-
where. From now on you'll
have to wait, with me, for ,
next Wednesday's Globe and
Mail.
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