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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARY 9, 1964.
Huron's Future is Bright
-Changes have been taking place in.
Huron during recent 'years that in
themselves, perhaps, have not been no-
ticed, but which in total will contribute
to a busier and a more., prosperous
county. They contribute to., a ,Huron
that is a more desirable place in which
to live and to do business. .
Contributing to these changes are a
number of projects which have been
completed recently. Of equal.. impor-
tance are other projects announced for
ear1y;;completion. In all, these can gen-
erate a degree of growth • and develop-
ment across the county which otherwise
would not have been possible.
There are new development roads, as
well as new bridges and paving on the
county road system. Provincial .high-
ways have been brought up to present-
day standards.
The new Ontario... Hospital in Gode-
rich Township brings to the county a
provincial .complex that, has the effect
of a new industry in the employment
it provides and the market it creates
for.. local goods and services. -•°The same
result flows from increased school facili-
ties created at Clinton to serve the
county.
Efforts towards taking advantage of
the natural vacation paradise that ex-
ists in the county are reflected -in a re-
cent announcement that the Province,
would establish a provincial park in
Huron. The Maitland Valley Conserva-
tion Authority too has plans' for pre-
serving for public use for all time na-
tural park lands and rives in the Ben-
miller- area.
This all points to a growing apprecia-
tion of the natural advantages that ex-
ist in Huron. If_ the trend continues—
and it .should be encouraged—there is
no reason: why ,Huron -•cannot attract
many tfibUsands of visitors from°'s, wide
area of Ontario. The beaches, the riv-
ers, the rolling country, the scenery
that attracts the motoring public, is at"
hand in abundance. All that Ss requir-
ed is a consistent program of develop-
ment and the necessary public relations
to inform the public:- •
The International Plowing Match at
Seaforth in 1966 can well be a mirror —
to reflect the advantages the county of-
fers to industry, to the tourist, to the
farmer, and the permanent resident.
Huron "stands on the threshold of
great development. To realize this po-
tential, however, requires -leadership,
the ability to lay plans and a faith in
the "future. It involves firm direction
at the county level and a high degree
of co-operation between the several lev-
els of government. It means an enlight-
ened approach at the municipal level-,
a willingness to plan for • the years to
come and the determination to carry
Out the plans, despite the attractions -of
day-to-day expediency.
Huron's future is bright—providing
we, as citizens of the county, are pre-
pared to co-operate.
Orange Jackets Save Lives
We are all 'familiarwith the brilliant
orange' jac]ret's = mmon1y used by con-
struction crews, . surveyors and other
men engaged in work along the district
roadways, the St. Marys Journal -Argus
tells us. ' These men are so; ,equipped
because their employers, either at pri-
vate or at the government level realize
the extreme danger present to pedes-
trians on a travelled thoroughfare in
this modern age of heavy, fast-moving
vehicular traffic.
Calling attention to a traffic hazard
that could be eased if the use of yellow
jackets was more widespread, the Jour=
nal -Argus says: "A considerable seg-
ment of our population travels the roads
constantly, twice a day, without the
benefit of sueh bright identification. We
refer, of course; -to the rural school stu-
dent. . Granted these children are well
drilled in walking on the proper side of
the roadway, but most of us have seen
instances where the young mind has
wandered and the body has ' followed,
• over en the wrong side of the highway,
with their backs to traffic:
"It would appear that a wise girecau-
', tion would be to supply similar bright
jackets to these children. Pedestrians
f.
RIGHT IN STEP
A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT
HAPPIER DAYS AHEAD- -...
O,TTAW4. - Having survived
an early barrage of .the slings
and arrows of political fortune,*
Finance Minister Walter Gor-'
ddri' may be in for.: much hap-
pier days in 1964. •
His June budget last year was
the most disastrous ever deliv-'
ered by a finance minister. Ev-
en its conception came "under
fire after the Bay • Street im-
ports were disclosed.
It had two objecflves, to en-
courage Canadian investment in
Canadian industry and to work
towards a balanced budget Of
the first, there is nothing more.
than a skeleton left. The sec -
..rt
navigation. in April and the end speaking relations in Canada to
of the crop year in July or in further their ,own ends. It would
the next fiscal year. . not be surprising if the present
Indeed, for the next two Ambassador, M. Raymond Bods-
years
oo's:years at least the Canadian quet, did „not have too long a
economy can - feed on wheat. sojourn in Canada.
After looking . after domestic
ond vanishe4. into thin air when
Mr. Gordon's :cabinet colleagues
refused to swallow an 11 per
cent sales tax on building ma-
terials and machinery used• in'
manufacturing.
With.,_a .'resulting loss of^. $115
million • in revenue, Mr. Gor-
don's plan to undercut,, his pre-
decessor's $709 million deficit
went' out' the window. The cur-
rent deficit will be under $800
With the record shattin ex -
the sale to Russia, Canada is
assured of a gross national' pro-
duct in the neighborhood of $43
billion • or- about six per cent
above 1962. This means a very
sizeable increase in Mr. Gor-
don's revenues, already begin-
ning to be reflected in -income
tax collections.
But more important than the'
impact of wheat sales on 1963-
64 revenues will be the effect
in 1964 65. By far the largest
part of the 229, million bushels
will 'be delivered 'into Russian •
hands between the opening of
A SMILE OR TWO
needs and export sales now esti-
mated at 575 million bushels, TO THE EDITOR.
Canada will end this crop year •
with only -48.6 million bushels THE QUEBEC QUESTION
in the bin, the lowest carry -
over in .10 years. Between com- Editor, The Huron Expositor:
mitments to Iron Curtain tour}- . For the past few months we
tries and normal requirements have, through the media of tele -
of Canada's regular customers vision, radio and press, been
she is assured of wheat sales deluged with the Quebec prob-
of 345 million bushels in the lem: what they want, their
crop year 1964-65. But Euro- aims and ideals, and their, opin-
pean needs will not be ,normal ions on their status • in the.
by the next . erop year. Even Dominion of Canada.
with agreement among Com- The thing they seem to resent
mon Market countries on grain most is the ihfluence of . Eng
production which is still doubt- lish-speaking personnel and out--
ful, Western Europe will need side investment in their indus-
large quantities of Ca'nadian trial potential. On a recent TV
wheat.. An export of• more than, broadcast, we people, from
400 million bushels is a reason- On-
tario were classed as foreigners.
NomuMommooIon,l'ipr
SUGAR
and
SPICE
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'THE COCKTAIL PARTY
We went to a cocktail party
during- ;the holidays. In ,.fact,
we went 'to -four.' of them. In
fact, we evenhad one ourselves.
And, afterjudicious consid-
eration, I state categorically,
that there is no form of .en-
tertainment, self-abuse, penance
or punishment that comes .rea--
sonably close to the cocktail
party for sheer ridiculosity
able forecast which means that, N 11 inward' t t
Now we who
out-
even a second record crop will •,
riot clog the pipeline. much of our industry. but if we
side speculators who own so
million only by virtue of Mr. These are 'the prospects to- here •in Ontario had closed the
Kruschev, wards which Mr. Gordon can doors to those investors; who
g look as he sits down with his saw-, what the future held, it is
ex-
perts of wheat resifting from ti the d q p
are no longer safe on our roads, regard-
less of which side•they walk upon. The
jackets would carry n� `-assurance of
perfect safety, but they should at least _.
reduce' the odds against a child being
struck down.''
There is no . man living who is not
capable of • doing more than he thinks
he can do.—Henry, Ford.-
• This' time, like all other times, is a
very good one, if. we but know what to-
do with 3t.—Ralph'Wel�db-:-F-rnerson.
Aboilt the most flattering thing we
• can say about our enemies is that we
know where, they stand. Douglas
Meador.
Cigars are more jealous than women.
If ..they. feel you're losing interest in
them, they stop`--burningr — Arthur
Rubinstein.
Come now the wild dark days when.
the house seems like a lovely warm lit-
tle island with winter billowing out:
side.—Gladys • Taber.
IN wT.H-E
YEARS AGO'NE
Interesting items gleaned from
The Expositor of 25, 50
and 75 years ago.
From The Huron Expositor
January 13, 1939 _.
The inaugural meeting of Sea -
forth Council was -held Monday
morning and was opened with
prayer by Rev. Hugh Jack. Coni-
- mittees were named, then- coun-
cil adjourned to the evening.
The proportion of the cost of
governing the County of Huron
to be bourne by Seaforth has
been increased 79c .per • $1,000,
according, to a preliminary re-,
•port submitted by the • county
valuators, Messrs. Mogg And
Quinlan. They have been en-
gaged in a valuation of the
county since last winter.
With Seaforth three games
behind schedule • because of lack
of ice, and other teams in the
group just as far behind, In-
termediate 'B' OHA has experi-
enced difficulty in getting even
- the first, .half of the double
schedule completed.
Council of the Township of
McKillop met in Carnegie Lib-
\ •... rary „• Hall on Monday for its,
inaugural meeting, when Reeve -
Met E. T:;:Dorrance and Coun-
cillors . Peter Maloney, Elmer
".;.Haekwell„ C. Winne' and A.
Harrison took the oath of of-
AcThere was a sharp decline in
Wine in°Huron County► during
the eerr 1958, as shown by
cords in the magistrate's ;ufdce
at G eriel .
•
From The ,Huron Expositor
January 9, 1914
While returning from a neigh- The poles for the electric
bor's about midnight on Tues- lights in Clinton are being put
day evening ..of last week, a up. '
bright light was, seeri�i-� Roe's .Mr, John Sundercock, of Hul-
Church in Grey Town:(Iiip by -lett, intends ` blrildiiig' a new
L. Frain and family: "Prying off. barn 45' x 60 next spring, and
the lock and investigating, they Mr. J. Medd, of the same town-..
found the 'stove.. door open, a ship, is going to have his barn
lot of coals scattered about on split and .an addition put to
the floor, arid the church filled the end of it, with stone stab,
with smoke. It is supposed that ling under -the whole.
the wood had fallen back and Miss Fergus Campbell won
the 'door pushed open. _... the scholarship offered by the
_The .Seaforth Curling Club is Seaforth Collegiate Institute
• represented at the St. Thomas Board.
bonspiel this week. by a rink Seaforth council for the year
composed of George Bethune, will be composed es follows:
Arthur Forbes, :William Bethune Robert Wilson, mayor; D. D.
and W. McDougall, skip. Wilson, reeve; A. Strong, depu-
Miss Ruth Van Egmond has ty reeve;, councillors:.John Dor-
gone to Guelph to take a course sey, George Good, Charles Wil -
at Macdonald Hall in domestic son, James Beattie, .Seines Wat-
science.., • . son, James Gillespie, Dr. Mac -
Mr. James Dick is getting the kid and H. Punchard.
furniture into his hotel and Mr. J: Hood, Stanley, is draw -
hopes to open for business short- ing stones for the purpose of
ly. '- erecting a new bank barn in
About half. an hour after he the spring.
was sworn in as poll clerk at Messrs. Mcl'airn and Dickson
the sub=division in Forrester's shipped seven very fine horses
Hall, Londesboro, Willia;n Lee to 'Detroit from here . on Tues -
suffered a slight str'olte. Mr. day. They are for service in
Mains was sworn in to take, his the --fire, department of that city.
place
From The Huron Expositor
January. '11, 1889
"What fool things that man
has written in his day!"
"What is he—a journalist?"
"No --a stenographer in „the
Senate."
This chopping mill in Kip'peij
Isat
IS work again with Messrsa "That fellow owes me $500."
at It and Essery renting. the'" "And won't pay it?"
"Won't even worry about ft."
grillerbin', Mr. Schafer.
A .
too
•
He was removing the,,,hook
from the fish he had caught
when a passing woman stopped
and peered at the catch. :`That
poor fish!" she .exclaimed.
"Well—if he had kept . his.
mouth shut, he wouldn't have
got into trouble," was the re-
ply.
•
"Dear Mrs. Brown " wrote -the
teacher.. "Your son, George, is
a bright boy, but I am trying
to cure him of spending all his
time with the girls."
Mrs. Brown's reply was to the
point: "Wish you success and
let me know how you do it. I
am having the same trouble
with his father."
_'Con you make if whole
Wheal bread, lady? I'm on d
budget ma'kisrs tnwar a Pn uite essible--drat we -would
of this month to prepare his still be back in the horse -and -
financial statement for the buggy days. Due to the fact
Spring. And there is no long- that foreign investment controls
er much doubt but. that Mr. most of our major industries
Gordon will prepare and deliver it still has made Ontario. Can -
it It was only the loyalty of d ' most heavily industrializ
rime ing- ulated an wea t
ster,that prevented the, June vince. So, in reality., we could
effort being his first and last not afford to turn those finan-
Once upon a.time, I suppose,
a cocktail party was a genteel
affair, a gathering at . which
friends ,sipped a drink, dismiss-
ed the arts, and nibbed tan,
ape
ape or two, before going off to
dinner -somewhere. Urbane, so-
phisticated, the manners as pol-
ished as the glasses. •
Nowadays the cocktail party
is—a- social monster with 44
tales and one great big fat
head.
First, there's- the guest list to
prepare. This is. a' lot of'fun,
and takes only three weeks. It
is interspersed with remarks
like, "What the hell did they
ever do for us?"; and, "Well,
you may think she's terrific, but
I can't stand her."'
The list includes the names
of all the people you "owe"
hospitality to. This means the
couple who took you for a ride
irr their crumby boat last sum-
mer and soaked you to the skin
in the process. And the ,neigh-
bors who 1 called you over for
charred spareribs one evening'
when their expectaid guests had
enough sense not to turn up.
cocktail party. But during the
process, I have come to realize
that there's nothing quite like
it in modern society. Nothing.._
Unless it might be throwing
lions to the Christians.
•a
Staffs W.I.
Sets Plans For
Winter Meetings
Mrs. Johnny Miller was "hos-
tess for the Christmas . meeting
of the Staffa Women's Institute
Friday afternoon. Mrs. Rus-
sell Worden _presided a n d
opened with Christmas carols,
followed by the Institute Ode
and Mary Stewart Collect. Roll
call. was answered by everyone
giving their•-•indentification for
secret pal. Mrs. Worden gave
the motto, "Friendship is a silk-
en tie which binds our hearts
-together."
Business was discussed andyit
was decided to begin all after-
noon meetings at .2 p.m., instead
of 2:30. Plans were made for a'
progressive euchre party in
Staffa Township Hall on Friday
evening, Jan. 10 with Circle One
in charge of arrangements. Mrs.
Roy McDonald read a leiter
from the Orphanage. Home in
Korea and everyone contributed
to the program•by listing. their
Christmas gifts.
•
The meeting closed with "God
Save the Queen," followed by
:. an exchange of gifts, and a love-
ly lunch was served by the com-
Also all the people who In- mittee in ; charge. .
vited you to One -of -their cock- Home from the Ontario Ag -
tail parties during the last three ricultural College for the holi-
,years, and the couple who sent days were: Romona Worden,
._y_au a Christmas card and whom with her father, Alvin Worden;
you had cut off your list, and Lric Norris with his parents,
the people down the block who Mr. and Mrs. Sam Norris; Terry
looked after.,-y'dtir`" dog "the" lay.•and Robin Daynard with their
you were at the wedding, and parents, Rev. and Mrs. Daynard.
the couple who don't know but
who look "interesting." versity of estern Ontario,
You n a eleventy-seven spent the holidays with his par -
names on your ist. So you ents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Agar.
start scratching.. ---This too is Craig Kerslake visited for a
fun. Joe and Mabel are, given few days with his cousin,•"Rieh.
_.the.. axe because Joe always gets and Binning, Mitchell.,
stoned. Miriam and Elmer go Vorlia Christie, Cromarty, vis.
down the drain because Miriam ited during the holidays with
always starts a fight lest be- Brenda Kerslake.
cause Elmer is a bit d a girl -
squeezer.
Ronald Agar, from the Uni..
ass - e:
a close friend, thePrime Mini- ed, pop ...."a• d wealth pro-
budget...tial people down. If we had
In admitting mistakes to the done so, we would be just an -
House of Commons Mr.4Gordon other province today.
himself indicated the uncertain- Quebec wants to break away
ty of his tenure. from the rest of Canada and
"I have made mistakes and I have her own form of govern -
may make more mistakes, if I merif;-culture, language and, in
stay," he said, and he stayed. fact, be a separate country with=
ter in a 2oufl ow e s o back
On the basis of anothertry N 1 t' g
tain increase in the gross "na- in .history... When. Wolfe defeat-
tional -product- for•1-964 he can ed--Mentcalm. on the _Plains of
probably forecast revenues at Abraham, this country became
least $300 million higher"than part of the British Empire, and
the current year. He might ev- as such there should be only
en feel that some modat down- ONE national language, and "
ward adjustments in taxes were that should'xbe English. Mind
in order. you, if the French had defeat
All of which merely proves ed the British, we here would
that one budget does not make' be speaking French today; if
(or break) a finance minister. the, Germans had conquered
But the next will be an impor- Canada, German would be the
tant one for both Mr. Gordon only language spoken on a na-
and,the Government—for it 'will tional basis. If you check this
be the • first indication of the out, this is . the only •Country
Government's second thoughts where there are two languages
on '•economic policy—something. spoken. English is spoken in
which •is still rather muddy to the U.S.' and Britain; German
date. is spoken in Germany; • French
is spoken in France, so why all
Capital Hill Capsules the 'fuss here? We have._on,,g
province out of ten which i4
For the first time in nearly trying to force our educational
two years the Government will system to have its language
be able to run its affairs for taught as part of ,the curricu-
three months without _coming lum. This is absolutely absurd
back to Parliament for money and ridiculous. We all realize
every few weeks. Mr., Pearson's the value of higher ._education,
Government has restored to the and due to the speed of travel
House of •Commons its impor- today it is to one's benefit to
tant function of examining the speak different languages, but
Government's spending pro- we, outside of having to speak
gram and passing an appropria- English, . should have a choice
tion bill to cover the fiscal year. of the other languages instead
Then there's the booze prob-
lem. This produces an agoniz-
ing session of elementary mathe-
matics, which results in a rea-
sonable figure, _which you .:then
double. •
And then there's the food
business. Food at a cocktail
party used to be a matter of
a few hors d'oeuvres, but now
-it's a horse 'of.,a different color.
Nobody who has. gone 'to the
trouble: of getting a babysitter
and-putting-on--his-best-suit at
five o'clock in the afternoon
has any intention of going home
until he has eaten about five
dollars worth of the only can
of smoked oysters- you've ever
bought in your life.
* * * of having one forced on us by
,The • great battlebetween, .city Quebec.
Quebec should be' told by Ot-
are
rid country will rbe eassembles in staged soon tawa that English is the basic
after Parliament - language here and that all oth-
February. The electoral boun-
daries bill setting up 10 ,pro- no further nonsense on this
vincial commissions to redraft question. Or 'maybe the ques-
Canada's constituencies on a tion is too late to bring up.
"rep by pop" basis has been Now, as we are all aware,
introduced. .It will be a long Canada is! celebrating its cen-
• time yet before it becomes law tenial •in 1987 in memory of
if, indeed,' it ever does in its being a confederation of pro -
present_ form. Rural ares have vinces since 1867. It's .a won -
been organized to resit this derful thing to think that in
move to rob them of their door- 100 years we have taken -our
• inaht and decisive voice in Par- place among the nations of the
olf
House of Commons, 125 t. .Of the 265 members worldtry and.that our mighty coun-
f the
represent rural constituencies stretches front the Atlan-
tic to the Pacific, something of
with a population of less than, Which every Canadian must be
one-third;,of the Canadian total: proud. •But here we have Que-
* * * • bee which wants no. part of be -
The French Embass in bad Ing Canada; she wants to be
y is separated, and the ironical part
odour these days with the Gov- of this whole situation is that
ernment For months it had to think that we" are holding a
been organizing' a campaign de- World's Fair 'iiia 1967 to •cele -
signed to force T.C.A. to buy brate this wonderful event of
Sud Aviation's Super CaraVelle Confederation which • Quebec
to replace Viscounts and Van• wants no pert of, but where
guards. Lobbying is scarcely are we holding this celebration?
considered to be the proper Why, right' in Montreal, n the
"Car broke down indeed!— funetiuti of a diplomatic th do mis- Provi.nme of Quebec. What a
don't 'tell t ie you and Mum hon adt any vtnenb ret a lei ins joke! What a jokel '
thin ave one even '
a're . thill 'up to THAI' sort , They have used, the' sensitive JACK HOLLAND
•ofthing!" area. of rivrteh .and. English Seaforth, Ont. - • -
But these are all on the sulk -
face, by-product kicks. The real
delight of the cocktail party, as
we all know, is the conversa-
tion. Where else do the girls
get a chance to bare their souls
almost as thoroughly as their
bosoms? Where else can you
hear a chap tell the same story
he. told at the last three cock-
tail parties, and tell it even
better?
• When I . started writing this
column, I was feeling a bit
jaded, a trifle critical of the
CANADIAN hCENt
Miss Violet Miller, Winnipeg,
visited for a few days with Mr.
and Mrs. Wilbur • Miller and
Kenneth.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Duncan,•
Exeter, visited on New • n'ear's
Day with- Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Miller, Ronnie. and Dianne.
New Year's. Day visitors with
'Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Miller
were: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dun-
can," Faye and Dennis, Kjrkton;
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Miller -and
Karen; Mr. and . Mrs. Russell
Miller, Lee; Teresa and Gordon.
Mr. and Mrs. John Temple-
man. and _family visited_ .New
Year's Day with Mr. and Mrs..
Alvin Cole and family, Crom-
arty.
Friday evening, visitors with
Mr. and • Mrs. Johnny Miller
were: Mr: -and Mrs. Mac Beav-
er, Crediton; Mr. and Mrs. S.
B. Taylor and Lorna; Mr. and
'Mrs. Donald Dearing, Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Willard, Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Willard arid' fam-
ily, Exeter; Mr. and Mrs. Percy
Harris and Pat, Chiselhurst;
Mr. and• Mrs. Austin Sthwalna
and Susan, Stratford.
During a family argument a
woman was overheard shouting
at her husband: "OK, OK, I'll
admit I like to spend money.
But name one other extrava-
gance!"
THEY ALWAYS BUILD BOATS
IN THE LIVING ROOM -T
MASES TW-IEM FORGET
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