The Huron Expositor, 1979-05-03, Page 22CHILLI BUT HOPEFUL These .are some of
the veteran fishermen Who braved Saturday.
The Seaforth Spor'tsmens' Club re -introduced
the fishingderb to $eaforth once a traditional
y ,
ar
way of st tinc ;' n
pi gs r season in town.
,, Off the
(Expositor Photo)
Smn. t I s e
by Susan; White .
It's
tt'ha t"ti ;the most 'sought
after book at the Euro,
fsposhor this ;time of tear?
That's. easy • ..it's ,one or
other of the big .hound hooks
kept outlet the front counter
which•houses samples of
wedding invitations.
There's a whole sit port,.
varied, in the sport .of inki-
tat' ns brides and ,grooms.
,,:an send ..t n*w than there
« lien I went through the
whole a:rereistr. And these
seeks t seems iike every
third Lost*, mer Atli spendan
hour potting wet 'he invi
tattoo bi>oks, or IA- a pile of
them home is •A: our over in
more eomfortable •surrottt„t-'
,inks. Il of that the front
office isn't • Comfortable.
•Caroli)
The . interest in bridal
affairs that usually surfaces
•this time of year is due partly
I guess to the old adage
abouts print touting a young
8 $
man's fane.v . And even
though there's no wedding in
.my immediate fttgre (my
htisband and daughter just
heaved a huge sigh of relies)
I get :,more interested M
Huron Author dies at 63
(Continued from Page 1):
County". His other books. nelu•d ed "Of Mud
and Dreams" a story of the founding of the
Universi of Watier its IOth
ty. - o ... � >t
rsa
a nive r
n i and • a travel _,story . Ontario'
Scene”. In addition he was the author of
many articles on a :wide range of subjects
,which found ready: acceptance by readers of
;Canadian newspapers and magazines.
While '
Professor : Scott,
s training
had
e has`ze
m t the ten rd was d ret word it by the
spoken work perhaps that he'v as best
known. His ability to express himself and to
hold an audience and; his broad interests
resulted` in a continuing demand for his
services as a speaker.
It was this ability and a basic interest in
the communities in which he lived, that led.
him to polictics. He ran as Huron'•Liberal
candidate; for the Legislature in :1955 and ..
shortly . after ,was appointed .executive
director for the Liberal 'Partyof Ontario and
later he was named executive director of the.'
Liberal Party of Canada; a position _ he held. '
during the 1.958' leadership convention when
the late L.B. Pearson was chosen, Liberal
leader.
Born in Seaforth Mr. Scott was the eldest
son of the late Harry Scott and Agnes Smith.
His wife the former Elizabeth Gardiner
predeceased him in' L950 but he is survived
by a daughter Katie, Mrs': Wm. Tea of
Seaforth and grandchildren Scott and Sara
Teal!. He also is :survived,: by two brothers ..
Harry Scott of Seaforth. and. judge '.Donald
Scott of Foothill..
Funeral services were conducted. at the
Whittiey-Ribey Funeral Home Seaforth: on.
Monday by minister Rev.; T.A.A. Duke of
First Presbyterian Church.: Interment
followed inthe family plot in Harpurhey
•Cem'etarl
Honorary pallbearers were'Robe
rt
Pritchard, Sarnia, Hugh Douglas Orillia,
Snlith and A.Y. ,McLean, `Seaforth.
Pallbearers
were David
Greenspan, Peter
Sitters, Donald 'McDowell,
Bry'an. Stewart,
David Stewart .and .'Wm, finder,
JAMES R. SCOTT
Amer
by. 'Karl Schuessler
arisplantln trees
When yen.transplint trees, you need a
dull day.
That's exactly what I ordered up last
SaturdasP.r•.nd that's exactly what I got. But
1 got'even:, more..The_heavens weren't
content to ;retrain a cloud, of grey and to
spit down mist and ram—On top of all of
that, they;poured• on flakes of snow - big
wide. flakes that melte,das soon as: they hit .
• • the ground Every snowflake knowsit's not..
welcome in late April and it has to get lost
fast.
I got far more than I ordered. All 1 really
wanted was a dull day. •
I wasn't asking for this kind of weather
for myself; I wasn't being selfish. 1 was
praying for all the other people out there
who responded to. my ad to dig your own
trees in. Brodhagen
"There's nothing to do on such a dell
day,but transplant trees,'." one ,tan said.
These were the first words he spoke when 1
met him at the door. You'd think 1 was
paying God a commission on every tree
dug for His perfect transplanting weather.
But tet me assure you. 1 made no bargains,
!don't have any special kind of in s the kind
you'd expect from close relatives, This
same ,tan's wife was waiting outside in the
car while he explained to me the kind of
trees he wanted. Or I should say what his
wife wanted i sense it's the women who
have the idea of adding ttees to their yard,
but u it's their men who have to work the
'shovel and tangle with the stubborn roots
that prefer tp stay in the ground,
But 1 recant that last statement'. Some
weinen do get out there with the dirt and
br"iing in their tree harvest, One was all wet
up to her knees, The price was right she
ttitd' rite, but now she'd have to spehd the
rest of the day thawing Out her hands,.
tlaning her fingernails, shaking mud off
her boots and hoping she wouldn't torrid
down with' pneumonia.
Another fellow, who whizzed .dtit eight
attics in
twenty minute's flat, t agreedh
he
Made record time in dragging out his
isptuees from the thud, but he moaned that:
he had only begun. Herd have to drive all
the way back home, work twice as long in
"digging holes in his own yard for the trees,
and serape the mud off every incl; of his
body, He said if he recovered fri nt this dig,
he'd Comeback tor more. f never saw, him
again.
We should have served; coffee and hot
chocolate to all the diggers. The Saturday.
before, we had served orange juice and ice
water to the sweating diggers. And here all.
along'I thought I was doing them a good
turn by ordering cooler weather. But, as t
said. before,.1 got more than 1 bargained
for.
StiII. There's no elicuse for not serving
spine coffee,1 did pass•out, though, a lot of .
free advice. For windbreaks you plant the
cedars four feet apart, The spruce; six feet.
Ws easier to dig the cedars than spruce.
Cedars can grow 25 to 50 feet high, spruce
even higher. And•no, 1 really don't know if
the cedars grow in a pyramid shape if not
bunched too close together. And no, I don't
know why those `Few, brown' needles are at
the bottom And no, we don't•. have pan y`
blue spruce. Oh, if' I had only planted blue
spruce five years ago, I Could retire early.
It hurts a little to see your five years of
'weeding, :hoeing, and tilling being carried
off in green trailers, red farm 'trucks and
brown four wheel drives, l: wince every
tittle 1 think about these six, inch nurslings
now grown tall "arid transported out to
foster home, But what can you do? When.
your kids ate growth -up; they nlaveout
right? Sante way with trees.
But still. [know those trees are riot really
grown up Trees continue to grow all of
their lives -'and that's more than you can
say about Some .people. And trees, despite
their- age, stand tall' and upright. And
"that`s' snore than you can say about people
too,
Trees don't retire either, Year in and
year but they're always working. giving off
'oxygen and using up the Carlton dioitidewe
breathe -out, Trees are life long workers.
They don't draw pension checks and even
intheir late year they still give shade and
fruit. They shield and protect, They hold
gr nd
down soli
give a up cloy
No wonder people See trees as nilraelle •
workers. NO wonder' people want to plant .
trees: Thes'e's ntitftuig else like then,', And .„
to Make spare in my life flit'' trees W fo
encourage their life and ionto - is the best
thing 1 tan de for sityse if and future
generations,
thingsromantic this, time of
year tOQ.
Weddings got ,espeviatly
aitttereating; this week as L
-worked at laying out the
special 'bride's: section that
acuses with this week's Co y
of the Expositor. While some
Of us put .together ads: and:
some of us pages we got to
talking. naturally, about our
own weddings : and about
marriage in gent.+rat.
Some of the advice :sbout
the Great institution that was
flying from married to Single
Stall:. members would per-
haps beat repeating here:
It was of the '"don't be in
any hurry: you're only young
onee," variety. And we
exchanged horror stories,
about brides and grooms who;
changed: their minds .at the
Hist minute. '
Or perhaps worse« who
didn't change their minds at
the last minute and for rr.
azY
reasons like guests were
already arriving for the wed-
cling scheduled the ,next day
Or the new apartment had.
already been stockers with
new wedding gifts., I mean,
you can give gifts backand
have a nice visit, with the
people who thought
the
V
were coming to a wedding,
but a marriage that's a•
mistake is a prettyPermans
ent thing. . ,
(Hahl you say, not any
more I think though that a
time
than, does a :cancelled- Wed-
ding.):
But this started scut to ;be a
Iight .and happy ;t ,cohort.
dedicated to the people who
4re pouring over rnvttation.
books. shopping for gowns.
,and furniture, .renting tuxes.
and we ,hope. settingup:
budgets for their new lives
:together... this year's brides
0, and grooms.
Maybe because the heater
- half and I are attending the
wrdding of one of hi:s .oar
aw•orkers. this: 'tcekcnd 1;
,couldn't help worrying ;about
the poor souls who were
tttarried amidst drizzle and
snow last Saturday.
We were lucky. with the
weather anyway, at our wed-
ding. almost 11 scars ago
now. It rained in the :morning
and that could has been a
catastrophe because wed
planned an outdoor wedding.
We'd refused'
to even deal
with the possibility that bad
weather might force a
chanof venue ohat
in eargely Jul Not '.cryntsmartday
maybe, but we didn't have
contianon vh
do. with thengency 35plpdtls (nisv at sidtoe
of the family: very odd)
.guests t who were scheduled
to assemble for the historic.
occasion. (1'n talking about
City wedding day folks).
And it turned out we
• were right because the sun
weed;, followed b a broke through bs II, dried,_
g. y
The only real + mishap
occurred when the father of
the bride stumbled in a slight
depression in; the lawn on his
escort: trip dewn the aisle,
:arid made a rather loud'
exclamation that the .people
who want to ban hooks would'
not like to haVe heard.
Everything went swim,
tningly. fromthe recorded'
bridal music to the small
brother of the bride, playing
"Strangers in the Night"
tone of thrt e pieces: he had
mastered at the time en his;
bagpipes).
The sun shone, ,the food
wasg reat, and everybddy
hada terrific time for at least
1 did). Someone slipped the.
nervous ,groom a glassful
that didn't look or taste as
lethal. as it was and he still
claims not toy have many
memories of the latter. part of
the reception,
Bat � t l think he believes me
when 1 tell him: he didn't say
Or do anything outrageous
and that most • people, n
included, had' no idea that he
wasn't "`all there."
We Onlyhad Couple
a of,
days for a honeymoon and
ran into big problems that
night when we tried to cross
the border, .becausei :didn't
have papers vet to become a;
U S.resident. "Let me get
this straight,"`. the nice Cus-
toms man at Port Huron said,
"You"rc a U.S. resident and
your wife's a Canadian but.
up , the grass: and let, :u$ set "she'sjust coming over to
irce still hurts .
speedy divorce thechairs up ' on the lido visit you now, not settle .
everyone involved far more" lawnas, planned, . • permanently, I'wish, mywife
? p 1 y s
Expositor asks:.
Since a. lot of meet the candidates
meetings are being held right now,
Expositor Asks thought, a;good question. for.
this week might be, "Donau plan to attend:
any candidates meetings, and why or Why
aren't you going.?"
Most local people ,seemed pretty •:well
committed to who they were, going to vote
for so didn't: ti ink they would; attend toe.;
meetings.
Christie Knetseh isn't old enough to vote
yet but thought she probably, would attend
one because, '"it sounds, interesting,`'
Mrs.`. RiickkBurdge of Brucetield said they
weren't; really that interested -in politics
and that they would probably vote the
same, way they have for years.
Mrs- Ralph McNichol of R.R. 4. Walton
said she didn't think she had time to attend
and that she knew: who She was going to
cote for so ..she didn't imagine she'd be
wing.
Mrs. Joe Murphy of, H.R. --3, Seaforth
saidshe didn't think she'd be going as she
wasn't really that interested in politics and
she also ;knew who she was going to vote
for.
Ron Broadfoot of Drucefield •said ' he
w
asn't going because he's not old enough
to vote.. •
,
• Mrs, Sid Gemmell of.:Egmondville' said
d
she was getting too old to bother and that
ahe didn't have a way there but. she said
en if she h.id a ride she hadn't really
beer, thinking about' it (a meeting).
g).
Mrs. Harold Elliott of Varna saidshe
didn't plan to attend because, "'1 have my
mind pretty well made. up."
Break-ins hers
Early Saturday ',Morning
police discovered a break and
enter at McLaughlin Motors,
Someone broke into : the
building and got the keys to a
1979 Chevrolet which .was:
stolen from the lot. The car
was recovered in Listowel:
later - that morning. No at:
rests have been made to,date
but Listowel police do have
descriptions of;. the car's.
occupants. •
At 3;3$ a.m. on .Sunday,
the Goderich OPP asked the
Seaforth police to investigate
a silent alarm at. Vincent's
Farm Equipment: Marlen
Vincent and the police officer
caught one young roan on the
premises when • they ans-
wered the alarm.
Steven Riley of R. R. #4,'
Clinton • ;has been arrested
and charged with break and
enter and theft. Mr.. Riley
`will appear inproVdciaai
Court, Goderich on,, May 14.
Constable Pliil1ips the
Goderich O.P.P. officer who
made the arrest, said the
entry had been, made
through an office window on
the north side of the building
Two windows in the Mena
gel's office of the Seaforth
arena were broken over the
Weekend in a case . of wilful
damage. •
On Monday, Jeffrey Allen
Geddes, 18, of Egmondville
was found guilty of ' theft
under 5200 ip . provincial
Out, Goderich, Mr. Geddes
was fined 5200 and put on
probation for one year, The
theft occurred on December
30.-19/
Raymond Henderson ni
1•larpurhey''was'iined 5450 an;
provincial court, Goderich on•
Thursday after pleading glut-
ty to a charge of refusing to
provide a 'breathalyzer Sam-
ple to Seaforth police. The
charge "'resulted from an
incident on July 8, 195h,
Mr. Hendctsoin's license
Was also temporarily revoked!.
The defendant agreed 'to•
Make reStitution of 5156 to
the Seaforth police depart,
Ment to pay for damages til
the police earwhit:h occutted
•'when he was origtnally'arres,
't�dW
titforth 'police investigate
ted; a number of thefts in the
past week. On Thursday, the
police were alerted that the
heritage plaque on the round
house building on the Sea -
forth fairgrounds, had been
stolen. Police are still ,'inves-
tigating the Matter.
Police were also notified.
on Thursday that 572 in cash
had been stolen from the
kitchen till at- the 'Queen's
Hotel. The theft, . which is
still under investigation, oc-
curred between Wednesday
night and Thursday morning.
You'
invited.
The May meeting of the
Seaforth Womens institute to,
beheld in the Seaforth Public
School (library). op Tuesday'.
evening May 8th' at 8:15" p.m..
Chest speaker to be Miss',:
McClenaghan; Home'Econo=
mast, Roll (all to be answer-
ed with "What service has
4-H been to the community."
Lunch committee Mrs. R. M.
Scott, Mrs., A. Cameron,
Mrs. M. Hildebrecht. •
The Seaforth Arthritic
Soccity is holding 'a meeting.
on Monday at. 7:30 p.m, in.
the McKillop lnturatrcc
Office. All members of ,thc
executive are requested to
attend and others interested'.
are invited.
You're invited to 'the Sea -
forth Hospital Auxiliary
meeting May 8, 19.79, held in
the Hospital cafeteria 8 p.m,
Everyone invited.
The Seaforth Horticultural
Society invites youto their
May meeting, on Wed. May
9th, 8 pail; at the Seaforth
Public School, Ken, Smith,.
writer" of the Gardening.
column, ht the London Frei)
Press willbe the 'guest
.s'peaker. Everyone welcome.
Correction
An
Inca photO rre� p ofo• vas
used over a eutiine in 'Elaine
Townshend's feature photo
story on area post villages in
last Week's Expositor. The
photo w+as actually of James-
town, taken from across the
Maitland River not Rodger:
vide as the eliding says, The
Expositor: regrets tete error,
r
far
would do that," damper on the ,lay, But
Then he said, "Sorry. but that's another stoty,
we can't let her in and that The wedding, -thanks ;to
tended to put a bit of a families,, old friends the
Bh'dh
by Ke-Ith RQuiistton
If the experts are .right, someday you
won't be goingto the mailbox to: pick tip
the newspaperthat contains this column .!If'•
the experts are right, you'll simply, turn on
your t levi s'oninstca and Year newspaper
will appear on the screen, upon demand
along with all kinds of other information,
I've been hearing this kind of prediction
since back in the sixties where I went off to
learn all there was about the newspaper-,
business, While we were busy .studying;
how to put words on paper, the •experts
were telling us that all this would someday
be obsolete. The age of electronics was
here they said. Someday people would get
evl
rything they heededoff their television
set. Flick the switcls and there'd ,b. the
..... t d e
weather forecasat. Switch another and get
the sports or another andg et the business
news and so on.
Well ! guess I'm old fasioned but I
hope that day will never come. I mean,
theoretically, we could all have copies of
expensive art like the Mona Lisa too by
turning a switch and looking ':at it on
televiSion but 1 don't think it Would be
quite the he same.
Newspapers aren't quitean art form to the
scale of a Mosta Lisa but,hey aheck heck of
t..
a lot more than just the information that is
rinsed' on them,. A newspaper has a life o£
p
its own, Most newspaP • er take on their own
._ke
personality, a,combination of the manage-
ment
e-
Y mng
ment and the individual personalities of the.
who work and of the particular
articular
people
equipment used by each newspaper. Thus,
in a city :like Toronto which has three
newspapers there are three distinct alter -
:natives for the person son sv luting to pick up a
newspaper at the corner newstand: there's
the conservative (and Conservative)' Globe
and Mail, known' as "the great grey Globe ...
because of it's design and the heaviness of
its reading material; then the big and
brassy Star that shouts everything in red'
ink •except its financial statement; and
finally the Sun which specializes in second
hand gossip; and right hand politics and is
so obsessed with scandal that many claim• it
is one.
S ow l can't see Now these differing
g
ersoit ait'es: could beputforward p a r , and on a
television screen as it slowly'flips line after
line of a news story. Nor do I see how
the personality of the community - the
newspaper represents . can be ;ro erl
P PY
expressed on i,, television screen as is se
often ,file: ,case with our weekly news
papers.. -
mini$tet° and all c+pncerned,- - •
was lovely. May 'I wish the
same for those of youwho.,
are taking: the plunge l?i14wl�
Well, There are two cOMMon:..eaus04: of
domestic disputes,_one over who will, have;
what section of the newspaper and anothe
over which television channel will; be
watched by whom at what time, Can yon.
imagine the fun when: ,all this arguing is.
rolled into one big argument about wino's:
going to read what section of the ne•WWs,
paper instead of watching re -runs of Green
Acres?' Of course it's also a bit more
difficult to take
your paper to the
washroom for a, little relies; and relaxation
when , you've got to carry the whole.,
television along. And what about reading
outsideunder a tree?
1 realize, of course there are advantages
Ib the newspaper being delivered o,•n
television, First of all. it would save its
cutting down all those trees. It would also;
of course put a few hundred'. ,thousand.
people out of work cutting down those trees
and making newsprint front them but what.
the heck, that's progress.. If we continue to
progress at the present rate, we'll soon get
to that glorious state where everybody's
'out of a job except the people who look
after prgcessing and: sending out the
unemployment: cheques.;
There.'s no doubt that one advantage
t
would be the reduction :of our, output sof
garbage, (1 mean the newspapers after
they've been read, not what's printed' in a
them,.:like this column:, A. bigpart of intr.)
garbage . costs.. these "days go towards
collecting and burying old newspapers.
I'm sure my wife would long for the day
'when newspaper came on television. I'M a
newspaperp addict and it's alsopart of m
Y.
job to keep up with what's going onso we
end,up with•,three daily newspapers and
close o a d zen weekly newspapers around
unc
the house. It means'wehave our own major,
garbage -disposal problem as the pile of old
newspapers mounts- steadily toward the
ceiling and threatens to topple over
amoothering the dog, a cat or .a kid:
She'd als$ like it I'm sure on those
"frequent days when she's trying to carry, on
a conversation and I'm managing to ignore
her (all the while. managing well-timed
"un hubs") while .I read the newspaper.*
would be so much easier to. get: my
attention if she could just pull the plug;
But if the newspaper is replaced by the
:television just think how we'd suffer: What
would we ever use to line the bird cage?
And wou'ldn't itbe hard to paper train a
new batch of kittens if we had to use used
televisions?
Of course there's another problem as ,
•
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