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The Huron Expositor, 1966-08-25, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community Firm Published at SEAFORTB, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN EROS., Publisher's Ltd. - ANDREW Y. MCLEA.N, Editor Al II, Ar Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association R l'1 • Audit Bureau of Circulation- SUbscription Rates: R fWa Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year le NO Outside Canada. (in advance) $5.50 a Year 41.0 SINGLE COPIES •— 10 CENTS EACH ITT Authorized as Second Class Mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTB, ONTARIO, AUGUST 25, 1966 How do we 'Celebrate the Centennial? Less than a year from now, as sum- mer passes, Canadians will be more than half way through their celebra- tion of their country's hundredth birth- daY. Highlighting the celebration, cer- tainly in the eyes of the thousands of tourists that are expected from across the border, will be the mighty Expo '67 at Montreal, which already is taking final shape as the greatest of world exhibitions. While Expo 67 and the major cere- monies being planned in the provincial capitals and in cities across Canada will gain the headlines and attract the vast crowds it will be the varied and original celebrations in hundreds and hundreds of small communities across Canada that will live through the years as 'memories of Canada's birthday. It will be into these celebrations that will go the planning and the work• that will make thetn-persOnar t� the cominuni- T... ties in which they are held. Most municipalities in Canada have agreed on a Centennial project — a pool, a library, renovation of a histori- cal asset and a host of • other communi- ty developments that will continue to provide for better communities and at the sante time serve as reminders of the birthday occasion: Seaforth after several starts has set- tled on a project that will serve to im- prove .a public building and render it not only more amenable to public use but also much safer. • The proposed new entrance to the arena and auditorium Of -the -memorial centre not only provides much needed fire proof access to a public building but will brighten and make more at- tractive a community facility which, at the moment, not even the least concern- ed among us can point with pride. While it is true our Centennial pro- ject is under way, we still have a lot of planning to do if Seaforth is to join with the rest of Canada in celebrating the centennial. So that each organiza- tion, each area of the community—and adjoining municipalities too --can have its part, careful and detailed and early planning is necessary so that each ele- ment can be coordinalted and last min- ute, confusion avoided. But above all is the need of making decisions as to the nature of the cele- brations. Are they to be extended over the twelve months? How does the cen- tennial caravan fit into the schedule? When willthe centennial projects be formaly dedicated? What will be the role of the schools, the churches? There have beenmurmerings _of -an .old- boys' reunion in '67. Perhaps this could serve as a focal point for the Seaforth area birthday party. It will be a year of celebration " all right. and While its main purpose is to recognize the accomplishments of the past, it can, if we go at it in the right' .way, bring us into a future limited on- ly by the extent that each of us as citi- zens, become involved. { INVENTORS., Everybody seems to have an ances- tor .who invented something vital, 'hut got cheated out of :the patents. - Wouldn'tyouu be hapQy just to know that some relative back along the -`line - invente d the paper clip? (The Calgary Herald)' nDa l -, 4-1 41941 Qr i N t'a•d' ��°w �fY_ "MAYBE WE'LL'HAVE A SWINGING, HAPPY, CAREFREE WINTER..." • In the Years , Agone From The Huron Expositor Aug. 28, 1891 210 boxes of July make, from Walton Cheese Factory, were shipped: McLaren was the buy- er and the price paid was nine and a half cents per pound. The new school in S.S. No. 9, Tuckersmith, is finished and ready for occupation. Much cre- dit goes to Mr. Welsh, _thecon- tractor, for both the workman- ship and material. Miss Lizzie Hillen of McKillop and Miss Ella Smith. of Sea - forth left for Toronto, where they have gone to attend the Ontario School of Pedagogy. Miss Bella Barr, leaves for Kingston at Queen's University. About 3;30• a.m. on Sunday, most of the citizens of this town were aroused by the un- earthly strains of the steam fire whistle. The old town hall and market buildings were in flames and nothing could be saved. Val- ,uable .machinery and stock be- longing to the. Broadfoot and Box Furniture Co. was also lost. The Seaforth fall show, un- der the•auspices of the Tucker - smith Branch Agricultural So- ciety' will be held on October 1st and 2nd. On the afternoon of -the first day, a tug of war • will be held. It will be captain- ed by Robert Charters and John G. Grieve. Mr. Wm. Dill has moved his egg emporium to the old ex- press office, premises opposite Cardno's block. Miss Jessie Bethune, who has been teaching in the Seafprth public School has obtained a situation as teacher in the Ayr Public School. Mr. Anthony Boyd of McKil- lop has purchased the farm of. his neighbor, Mr. John J. Parish. It contains 50 acres and was sold for $3,000. Mr. S. Dickson, Post Master, Seaforth, received a letter here bearing the •Following inscrip- tion: "Mr. Jos. Wilson, farmer, Huron Track, ,McKillop's Post Office, Upper Canada, North America". The writer must have forgotten that it is 25 years since Upper Canada was done away with, and it is over 5Q years since McKII•lop's Post Office was abolished. It was lo- cated on the Huron Road, at Fowter's Hill, and the late Ad- olph Meyer was Post Master. CANADA'S CENTURY A news background special on the Centennial of Confederation They Found Riches In The Rocks (Twelfth Of A Series) • By WALT McDAYTER Jacques Cartier could accu- rately ccurately be called Canada's first prospector. • When : he and his French ex- plorers xplorers sailed into the St. Law- rence in 1534, their eyes glowed at the sight of Indians bedecked in copper—jewelry; • Eagerly, they sought the source of this valuable metal, but search though they did, they never 'found the fabled Indian mines. However, in 1541 Cartier . did find a vein of glittering gold metal, and,a source of sparkling diamond -like gems. Excitedly, he loaded barrels and barrels of these nuggets and jewels onto his ship, and sailed them across the Atlantic to France. To Car- t i e r 's embarrassment, in France he was told that bis bar - lir the itudettee 'toot mines 0I' yak 'Breton,. 11,00tial trains Litt Otero eq'nipped With two -wile molls pbbnea to asiate •eobaisat. .ethtttltithicattous: witic the tier+ refs contained neither gold nor diamonds, but worthless bau- bles. The gold was in Canada, all fight, but the explorers just hadn't looked in the right places: In 185.8, some prospec- t/Yrs probing the mountains of British Columbia were more lucky. On the sandbars of the Fraser river, there for 'the tak- ing was . . gold! The cry echoed across the continent, and one of the biggest gold rushes in history was the result. In 18e6 George Carmack's discovery of giant nuggets on the Klondike sparked a similar rush, in the Yukon. Almost as precious as gold is "black gold" — oil. In the same year that gold was found on the Fraser, the first oil well in North America was drilled, at Lambton County, in Ontario. It was at Tarner Valley, Alberta that petroleum gushered in 1914, but the discovery that made Al- berta the oil capital of Canada occurred at Leduc in 1947, bringing unparalleled prosperity to the province. The Canadian Shield, a Pre- cambrian rock formation cover- ing almost 2.million square miles and stretching from La- brador to the prairies, is rich in almost every metal known to man. But the first major devel- opment in this area came about by accident. In 1883 laborers digging for the CPR at present Sudbury, in northern Ontario, chanced upon nickel and copper ore. The rush was on! Prospectors flooded into the north. A Large silver lode was discovered at Cobalt, followed by many other mineral finds, at Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, and extending Into Quebec, to Rouyn. M e u became millionaires overnight, such ns shopkeepers Noah and If'enry Timmins. They, ga*e up their little store at r at- ta'lwa, Ont., and befgre they were through these brothers Would control. the La Res° and the Bollinger mime, the second lak gest gold. !iliac hi the wotltt f+te ittlie n 1tie found h s urenitna, Il dettei*, Jacques Cartier , , . he found only fool's gold. oped Canada's first uranium mine at Great Bear Lake, 1930, and built the largest radium re- finery in the world at Port Hope, Ont. • Ever since Confederation', Canada has depended greatly on its exports of minerals. She holds a virtual monopoly on nickel in the world market, and is the leading supplier of asbes- tos and piaCinvm. She's also one of the world's top producers of gold, zinc, copper, lead and alu- minum luminum. Today, across Canada, many a roan earns his' living in a imine shaft. In Newfoundland or Labrador he may dig for iron ore, in Nova Scotia or Alberta it could be coal, while in Quebec it might be asbestos he is seeking. Saskatchewanians have . great hopes that potash will bolster their province's economy, while in northern Ontario, uranium, lifeblood of the atomic age, may be the key to future prosperity. In Canada's second century,^ mining will -continue to play a Major, role in economic growth. The far, northlands are still to be fully opened -- the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Labrador — and it is there that Clinadians will go, i#eeldrig rich. es in the rocks, • tomato toiego re Niifrii;'3drvlce C WI,M a.. * * * From The Huron Expositor Sept. 1, 1916 Miss Annie Geddes of the 3rd line of Morris, has been engag- ed to teach the McVittie School on Concession ,'v, Hullett, at a salary of $600.00. Considerable excitment has been caused in Hullett township by the discovery of a couple of cases of. what is supposed to ,be infantile paralysis among the Indians who came up from the 1M2uncey Reserveto assist in the pulling of flax. The families which the desease made its appearance, occupy the house of James Reid of the llth con- ession. The children affected were under five years of age. Rounzaitia has entered the war on' the side of the allies. Italy, too has declared war on Germany. Roumania has a standing army of 600,000 who are already mobilized and • in, the field. Mr. Leo Murray, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Murray, Beech- wood, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis in the London Hospital, has suf- ficiently recovered to return home. The Evangelical Association of Manley and friends recently gathered at the home of 'Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hoegy, to bid Mr., and Mrs. Kieber farewell before leaving for the west. At a joint meeting of the congregation of Kippen and Hillsgreen, held in Kippelt, a unanimous call was extended to Rev. W. l;. ,M. Aitkens, plid. of Banks, Barrie Pesbytery. Five hundred of the 161it Huron, • returned 'to Camp Pa- den from their harvesting fur- lodgh. Miss a "Woods of tow hat , beets engaged to teach school at Welland, and Miss Alice Carbert, also of town' will teach at Alliston. The casualty list contained the name of Private James J. Hutchison as having died of wounds received at the front. He was a well. known 'and pop- ular resident of Seaforth and for some years acted as care- taker of the Seaforth Collegiate Institute. __ ..._ _-. - Pte, Joseph Klien of McKillop, who was id the trenches for over a year and who was re- cently invalided home received a warm welcome on his arrival at Seaforth. By train time, a huge procession was formed and headed by the citizens band, marched to the depot. Mayor Stewart and Reverends North - graves,' Brown and Corcoran, gave addresses of welcome to the wounded hero. * * * From The Huron Expositor Aug. 29, 1941 When a Tuckersmith young man lost his bill fold containing a sum of money and papers, a week ago, he advertised the' fact in the Huron Expositor. Ten days after the paper came out, he received the bill fold through the mail, but -the . seven dollars .which had been in it, was missing. Miss Teresa McIver, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter McIv- er and a student at the Seaforth Collegiate Institute, has been awarded a two year tuition scholarship valued at $250 at the University of Western On- tarie. • Thomas Pryde, proprietor. of the Cunningham and. Pryde Memorial Works of Seaforth and Exeter, has received his call to report to the RCAF at Trenton. Mr. Pryde, who was in Messrs. Scott Bros:, musical instrument dealers, sold to Mr. John Mills of HuIlett, near Har - Y�IXK.C!•ti lock, one of their finest Bell organs. He has presented it to 'his daughter, Mrs. Oke of Kin - burn. the RAF in the last war. will have the rank of Flying Officer. • About 25 friends gathered at the home of Mrs. Charles Reeves in honor of Miss Esther Trout, R.N., of Stratford, whose mar- riage to Mr. John Thompson takes place im-the near' future. A, mock wedding was held and those taking part were: bride, Dorothy Parke; , groom, Miss Bertha Earle; bridesmaid, Miss Norma Pommer; best man, Mar- ian Wallace; bride's father, Miss Mae Cardwell; minister, Lola Hastie. She was presented. with an occasional chair and a silver butter dish. Mr. and Mrs. Ross MacKay were honored at a farewell gathering of parents, school children and friends at Crone - arty in. the MacDonaId Hall, prior to their going to Hill's - burg where Mr. MacKay has been engaged as' principal of the school. Private .Gordon Scott was honored at the home of Mr. John McDowell when 100 friends and neighbors gathered to bid him farewell. He expects to go overseas in the near future. Cards were enjoyed, after which Walter McMillan read an ap- propriate address' and John Bell presented him with a pen and pencil set and a signet ring. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Eckert and daughters, Misses Betty, Clare, Edna. and Theresa, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Eckert, and Miss Nelcey Desborough attended the reception of the former's daughter, Angelo, at the Sacred Heart 'Convent in London: A reception was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Carpenter in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Carpenter, Jr., who have recently returned from their honeymoon. Sugar and Spice — By Bill Smiley -- RIDING THE WAVES This summer, I've been out in a boat only twice, but each was memorable in its fashion. The first time, old friends called and told us to be at, their cottage ..sharp .,at noon next day They were .entertaining friends from the States and wanted us to join them for a,,,special scenic ride by chartered" boat. It sounded interesting. And it was, We drove 50 miles to their cottage. Light refreshments and we all piled into two cars and drove 15 miles to Tobermory. The boat's skipper was an old friend, Archie Simpson, and we exchanged, "Long -time -no -Bee's:" Everything went swimmingly. It•was a beautiful afternoon, our host had provided all the trim- mings, the company was pleas- ant and the scenery superb as we Bruised along the rugged north shore of the Bruce Penin- sula. Then the breeze freshened. We began to wallow a bit. Noth- ing serious, but two of the party began turning a pale green. Should We go on or turn back? It was decided to press on, pull into Wingfield Basin, and wait for the breeze to drop. It didn't. It became a wind. The skipper said it would be a rough trip back. The ladies looked longingly at the shore. After two hours, our host, stout chap, borrowed a dinghy and rowed 500 yards to the light- house, made arrangements, and rowed back, without even Suf- fering a coronary. Wewent ashore. Two cars were available. We would delve to Tobermory, pick up our own dare, and drive back to the eot- tage. But who was going to drive the two cars back to the lighthouse? That was only ,the beginning of, the eomplications, too irk• volved to relate here, Roth ears br'oke.4dawn. The rear end:Went On one just a:l we reaclied.,Toh• ermory, and the other crept into the village sans brakes. The ladies, grimy .but glad took one of our own cars and went back to the cottage. My host, another chap and myself spent two hours and drove abotit 80 miles, organizing the return of the borrowed cars. But it a1I ended pleasantly, with hamburgers at the cottage about 10 p.m. Midnight found ine arguing racial problems with a big, . dumb Norwegian lawyer from Chicago. He's. so dumb he has only three million dollars to his name.- And we still had to drive 50 miles home. A meptiorable boat ride. Ten miles by boat ,and 250 by car. But good clean fun all the way. The other boat ride was a typ- ical Smiley event. Kim and I went out in her uncle's boat, af- ter a three-minute period of in- struction. She insisted on driv- ing, though she'd never steered( anything more powerful than a canoe. We staggered about the lake, she grinning wildly, I rigid with fear in the bow. Four miles from the home dock, we hit bot- tom. "Drop the anchor! Man overboard! Hard astern!" I yelled these and a few other salty, sea -going terms. Too late. We had sheared a pin, whatever that means. I spoke silently to myself for about five minutes, head bowed as if in prayer. Then I reached ,for the paddle= No paddle. We made it ashore in 40 minutes, using our hands as: paddles. She stuck with the ship. 1 waded rocky shoreline \and clainbered, "bare-footed, through poison ivy, seeking help. Three hours after we had'set out on a 16.minute whirl about the lake, we got back to port. Mama was waiting, you're p1thtning a beet trip; peiltaps .'oto shouldn't you s truly along.. 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