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The Huron Expositor, 1964-04-02, Page 2• Since 1860, Serving the COnzvaunity First • Published at 4EAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor . _. / E 0 4.0 Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers ASsociation * y j Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Z Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year , ... Outside Canada (in advance) $5.50 a Year • 0 1.Os SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized 'as Second ,Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, APRIL 2, 1964 The RCAF Has La Birthday The Royal Canadian Air Force has a birthday this week. It was 40 years ago on 'Wednesday that the RCAF was formed. The Air Force occupies a particular place in the hearts of the people of this district.- Not only have hundreds of sons and daughters of Huron families served with the RCAF in theatres across the world, but the presence in the county of two major air force bas- es has emphasized in a particular way' ' the purpose and aspirations of the ser- vice and the contribution it has made to Canada. People here, more than most, in the. years since the first sta- tion was established within the county .nearly 25 years ago, have had the op- portunity of meeting and knowing air force personnel. Through these associ- ations has come a high degree of ad- miration and respect for the men and women in blue. It is a coincidence that as the"RCAF celebrates its 40th birthday, Defence Minister Paul Hellyer's White Paper spells out a new role for the service. Planned for a world in which condi- tions have so materially changed since even the years of World War ILwhen perhaps the RCAF experienced its greatest glory, the new defence con- cept ensures a continued contribution in keeping with the demands of the Canada of. today and of the world of today. Roads Reflect• Pioneer Faith When members of, Huron County Council became disturbed about the costof providing for the county road system, they would do well to look back :to a meeting of council held more than a hundred years ago, in December _ 1855. History shows that a million dol- lar commitment for roads is nothing new in Huron: • Settlers tooling into the Huron tract Were demanding improved roads, and county council 'which at that time in- cluded Bruce as Well as #uron, appoint- ed a committee to make recommenda- tions. The committee reported on Decem- ber 22, 1855, and proposed a program • -which involved £150,000 — certainly - more than $1,000,000 in terms of money today. The program would provide gravel roads extending over 220 miles in the county and including roads which are main traffic arteries in the county. It was the beginning of the • Huron Road sVstem. With the faith in the future thatwas • so characteristic of Huron pioneers, and that in such a degree has made pOssible the county as we know it, the council approved the report. The min- ty with its mere handful of people was committed to •a road programthat in , •0,terms of the resources of that day and •the population -was •as great, if not greater, than any that has since faced • the county. - This is the report presented by • Ninian Woods, Reeve of Stanley, -on • which the council of 1855 acted : . • Report of the ,c ommittee appointed to report on a Scheme • for Gravel Roads Members : jVIesars. Dickson, Gibbons, Woods, Hay, Hawkins, With- ers and Wood; Dr. Woods, in the chair : 4`Yofir Committee having taken into consideration the many subjects con- nected with an enlarged scheme for gravel roads through the Counties of Huron and Bruce, beg to report there- on as follows—but before entering in- to details would crave Our .indulgence and fairorable reception of our sugges- tions, crude though they be, on the ground that the magnitude of the un- dertakini, the varied features of the subject to be considered, and the brief • time alloted to us for investigating the matter in hand necessary induces a hurried and informal report:• • - "First: The -most -prominent a n d weighty matter which presents itself is the mode by which to obtain the Means of paying for the propOsed work. This; we suggest, may, be done by the issue of debentures payable at London tn England, or elsewhere, as at the time of issue may be desirable, which de- , benthres, we are led' to believe, under • favoring circumstances can be negoti- • ated at par. - • "Secondly: The routes proposed to be gravelled, viz: • From Goderich, via Clinton, to, the Gravel Road at Flanagan's Cor- ners, 40° miles; Frotn Clinton to junetion with Perth Gravel Road, 10 miles; •, Prorn Goderieh to Huron Road, via Bayteld' Brucefield and Eg- Mondville, 28 Miles; ' • /trom Ooderieh to Saugeen, Via Port 't , Albert, Kincardine and Lake Shore route, 65 miles; From 'Kincardine through Durham Road to• County Boundary, say 33 miles,;_ • • From Lawson's Corner northeaster- ly by 8th Concession of Col- borne, 26 miles; From Clinton northerly through , Hullett, 12 miles; From junction of Egmondville and • Huron Road through McKillop to Grey and from Roxburgh to Huron Road, 12 miles. -making in all 220 miles, running to and through the most prominent por- tions of the •counties, and selected care- fully with a view t& accommodate the • greatest number of ratepayers, and afford ready outlets from all the back townships which are at present iri a great measure isolated. • "Thirdly: We have not at this stage proceedings any reliable source from which to gain information as to the • cost of construction, but in the absence of this information we assume than £600 per Mile would be a safe estimate, this on 220 Miles of road would amount £132,000, but as there are always expenses which even the most experi- • encdd cannot foresee, we would sug- gest a by-law under which £150,000 could be raised if so much were need- ed. Your Committee does not propose that all the above 'Sum shall be raised • at once; on the contrary, we would suggest that it be procured from time , to time as it may be needed, care be- ing taken to throw into the market such an amount as would ensure a sale on favorable terms, say £10,000 at a time. "No doubt many will start and be staggered at the mere idea of such a vast outlay, and 'tis natural that tkey should at first blush and consider it ruinous, but we -are confident that when the matter is fairly weighed, measured and thoroughly sifted, a vast majority of those whose first impressions were adverse to the scheme, will become its wartn.advocates. We only ask the public to look into the Counties of Perth and Middlesex, and ask their neighbors how they like their gravel roads—as a spec- ulation how they find them pay. What they think of the Counties of . Huron and Bruce for allowing themselves to• continue enveloped in mud, literally locked up for three months in the year, unable to proceed with their legitimate aveentionS' and ' urgent businesses, by the deDlorable state of the so-called roads. What a cruel mockery to call such sloughs roads! The mere idea of them, and what we haVe suffered in them during past months, and years, makes our blood run cold. HOw long are we to suffer such a state of things? How long allow a cloak of apathy, a narrow-minded and selfish policy to chain us in the mud, hard indeed would it be to suffer such and not have power to improve our state. Still harderis it to have to endure such grievances and know and feel that nothing save a well directed thoroughly understood action is required to place us in fa state of comparative comfort, and in a position to hold up Our heads amongst .neigh - Sugar and Spice 45. • By. Bill Smiley - AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS lwasas wara lu warned cboy"rtin family nottowriteabout this; however, no fearless col- umnist has ever been deterred by. threats. I can always get a room at the YMCA for a few days, if worst comes to worst. My son Hugh is going to present a piano recital in a couple of weeks at the Con- servatory, in the city. The an- nouncement has created a flur- ry of excitement, alarm and despondency that will likely be unequalled, until the day my daughter declares that she is going to be Married. • * * Needless to say, the one who is. excited, alarmed and de- spondent is not I. Nor is it my , daughter. Nor is it the star of * the evening, himself. "HERE'S ANOTHER CARD IT'S FROM OUR.ADMINISTRATOV A Macduff THE PENSION PLAN OTTAWA—It would be the irony of ironies if a Liberal Government that has promoted, if it did ;' riot invent, the phrase "co-operative federal- ism" should founder on. the rocks • of Federal -Provincial re- lations. It may be only a remote poi- sibility, The Pearson Govern- ment at the moment hasno • appearance of foundering on anything. With only a minor- ity in the House of- Commons it looks as healthy as a bare- foot boy with a long life ex- pectancy. • • It has wound up the pre-Eas- . ter lap of the session,• with a tolerable budget under ita belt; approved by the -Htinse, and in much better shape politically than during those dark 60 days of- decision when everything seemed to go wrong. After a oneday debate it has •succeeded in getting ,its Can- ada Pension plan ,approved in principle by a- unanimous Howe of Commons and a 51 - page bill introduced which ev- entually will be passed by the the centre' of. a • battle -royal with 'at least two provinees, • Quebec and Ontario, a battle that might •conceivably end With a Supreme Court decision tossing the whole thing out the window and leaving the Liber- als in an° unenviable position. This again is not probable. The eventual result of this week's conference at Quebec City is more likely to be ac- ceptance of a "fait aceompli" by Ontario and the recognition of Quebec an the only "non- participating province" with its own • pension plan. • But the Federal Government, • after successive retreats on the pension plan to meet,i,the ob- jections of both the big prov- inces has finally dug in its heera: : The bill. provides that no province can opt out. as Que- bec has given notice of doing unless it has a pension plan Ottawa which in the opinion,. df the Federal Cabinet provides com- parable benefits. This is perhaps the reddest • rag ever waved in the bull ring of a .Federal -Provincial confer- ence. From what Ottawa knows so far of the Quebec pension plan it is planning to approve it as comparable. But Quebec will be' allowed, to remain aloof only by virtue of an Ottawa decision and not by its own -right. This ruffles all the sen- sitive feelings of Canada's most sensitive Province. For Ontario- the legislation is- 'almost a challenge 'to test the • constitutional validity of the Federal pensiorr,pLsn, scime- thing Premier .Robarts up to new has said he would not do. It is his only alternative to full 'acceptance of . the legislation. Bill C-75 robs him of any bar- gaining- weapon. Since the so- called Ontario plan merely pro- vides for portability of private pension schemes and compels employers to provide a private plan for employees it obvious- ly does not give comparable benefits to Ottawa's social in- surance plan. If the Ontario Government continues .. to sup- port private pension plans it does not qualify., This, of course, is the intention of Ot- tawa which must have Ontario in the Federal plan. Private pension plans, the largest number of which pro- vide for contributions by em- ployees of five per cent or more of earnings- and relate pensions at retirement to the number of contributions made, will•mean accrual of much larg- er pensions by young workers than the Federal scheme. Old- er workers, joining a' pension plan so close to retirement can- not hope for anything as gen- erous. To take the simplest possible example a worker aged 55 in January next year and retir- ing at 65 will make a total con- tribution over the 10 years of ' "1 hear she's got a wicked alap-shotl" boring counties, free from the foul im- putation of being styled Mud Ttritles. -1n conclusion, -we beg to remind your Board that he money spent in gravelling roads in all other places has been -declared a good in'vestment, -pay- ing over and above costs and expenses variously from 6 to 12 per cent and upwards, and it is only fair to assume in our our Counties where all and every- thing, save roads, flourish to an ex- tent far above the ordinary average df even thriving places, that our .roads In fact, he is quite cool about it. So cool, indeed, that he , isn't quite sure of the date, the piece, the time, or how much it will cost his old man. No, it's his mother who is panicking. First of, all, she de- mands to know, in the name of all that is ridiculous, how he hopes to have -• his pieces ready in such a short time. "It's Re'port of the question. You are a impossible!" she wails. "It's out $450 if he is earning $4,500 a year or more. His employer will make an equal "contribu tion on his behalf. His mini- mum contributory pension when he retires in 1975 will be' $75 a month. Under • a private scheme, assuming payment of five per cent of earnings he would contribute $2,250 for a pension of less than half that amount. • Since it is a ,social insurance plan aimed at giving 'a mini- mum pension to the 'smaller wage earner the legislation fix- es maximum pensionable earn ings which, under the revised plan, has been set for -the next five years at $4,500. After that it will, .be adjusted yearly through a Canada Pension Plan earnings index designed to de- termine average salaries and wages. A pensioner t average monthly pensionable earnings below this maximum will be adjusted in relation to the max- imum and averaged over a per- iod of contribution. From this average he can exclude one year in 10 to cover low earn- ing years but the man who does not contribute to the plan in any other years will get - a smaller pension - than One who makes the maximum possible •number of contributions, • Our man aged 55 on January next who retires 10 years later will have three choices: 1. He can wait for another five years before applying for his old age security .•Which will then be $75 a month, or a total of $150 a month. Meanwhile he will be drawing his contributory pen- sion of slightly more than $75 a month, provided he is not deattrinoinng more than $900 in ad - Above the $900 earning limit his contributory pension drops by stages until it is eliminated at earnings of $2,1-00: 'This re- tirment test was added to the plan when the maximum pen- sion became .payable at 65. Or- iginally the maximum contribu- tory pension, like th-e old age security flat rate pension did' not become payable until age 70. 2. He can accept a flat rate old age security payment of $51 at 65 which with his 'contribu- tory pension gives him -S126 a month. 3. He can continue working and contributing to the plan until he is 70. He will then get a total pension of $150 clear of any conditions. There is no longer any limit to his outside earnings. Letter To The Editor Davey House, R.R. 2, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., March 23, 1964, Sir: Find enclosed four dol- lars for renewal to The Huron Eirpositor. I do enjoy gettiiig it so much that I feel I would be lost ,without it. Never a week but I am kept abreast of the news and always find some- thing here or there about folk I knew years ago, or some rela- tive, so I feel I would not be doing justice to myself not to renew my Subscription. Like everyone else, I am 'growing up in years—I will be 90 years young on August 28, 1964. 'Fr Yours sincerely, • MRS. MARGARET NOTT will pay at least as much as t1),e lowest sum above named. At the same time we May with reason calculate on daily increasing profits, naturally consequent on the rapid and permanent increase of population, of wealth, and of traffic which nothing short of the adverse in- tervention of the toivine Power can divert." \All of which is ,respeetfufly submit- , ted. • Ninian Woods, Chairman, Committee Rooms, Dee. 22, 1855. • The next minute, she's dole- fully predicting that nobody will come to the recital, and that we'll be 'disgraced, sham- ed forever in the' eyes of .. . . uh . . I don't know whom, exactly. * a *, We fight back, y course. Hugh goes into a vague, in- volved explanation of how he can get his pieces in shape. It has to do with • turning over new leaves, letting no grass grow underfoot, nose to grind- stone; shoulder to wheel and s t 1,t1haehs ns tni oinerts. his mum. "The only thing that will save your bacon is divine intervention," or something of the' sort, she intimates. J step in to pour oil on the fiery waters,. or tears of rage, me 1l them. I assure her that the hall will be filled, the applause will left the roof, the critics will proclaim a new Pad- erewski, and we'll all be proud, rich and happy ever after, "There's be nobody there but the family," she says flatly, She hadn't even heard me. "Not a soul will come." * * * We proceed to prove her wrong. We count up the aunts and cousins ,who HAVE to come. We count up the friends and students who MIGHT come. Total is about 23. "You see?" triumphantly. "You people aren't realistic. We'll be a laughing -stock. It's going to bed a big flop. Every- body we invite will say they'd love to come, but they just can't make it that night." Butterly. * * * ' Then I .have a bright idea. I'll probably have to do it when Kim is married, so I might as well give Hugh a sendoff. I explain to the Old Battle Axe. It's the only way to assemble a crowd in these trimbled times. She agrees, feels better, even grins. At the bottom of the invita- tions we will have printed: "Re- freshments afterwards at the Blank Hotel, Room So -and -So." They may not know Tschai- kovsky from Khrushchev, Bee- thoven from beet soup, a Bach score from a sore back, but our friends will be there, even if they have to drive 300 miles. Won't you, chaps? • Inthe Years Agone . . From The Huron Expositor mer. In one drill about 22 rods April 7, 1939 long, the most of the heads4., Seaforth's,annual s p r i n g contained •three distinct 'grains show • on Tuesday, afternoon on each stein, whereas only two brought out a large entrance is the natural and usual num- • of excellent quality horses and ber. The variety is kriown, as, particularly in the heriiii class- Sheffield Standard. es competition was keen. En- Mi'. Robert Beatty, who re- tries were down somewhat from moved his 'family from Varna previous,• years, as was, the at- to Egmondville recently, left tendance, attributable to the this week for Vittoria, Ont., cold wintry wind which blew -Where he has taken. the, posi- all day. tion of principal of the public The annual banquet and school of that place. meeting of the Seafortlr Ama- * * * teur Athletic Association was From TheHuron5 ur,on188E9xpositor held in the Commercial Hotel on Wednesday evening, with Mr. Charles Williams has nearly 70 present. Members of sold his house and lot, which is association teams were guests situated, in the sbuth ward near at the banquet. President El- the residence of Mr. Alexander merTh The annual Bellwas prtoastmaster.eseasonpieet. Stewart, to Mrs. Little, from Sarnifor the sum of $1,000. ing of the executive or Sea- Mr. Williams, who has been a;em- forth bowlers was held in council chamber .on Wedntelt fol-plo ytehde wp iatsht Mt hrr. e eC .ell whWhitney the differ- on Monday for Toronto, with ent evening, when years, ent committees were appoint- a view to pushing his fortunes ,ed for the year, and the dates in the metropolis city. He is a - et for the big open tourna- steady, industrious young man, ments. The four dates are June and will do well wherever he 21st, Doubles; July 19th, Dou- goes. tires; August 9th, Doubles; and Our old friend, Mr. John on, Septdmber13th, the annual O'Sullivan, of McKillop, had Tip Top Doubles. finished plowing 10 acres, of sod Hensali's . population Thereas- this spring oh Thursday, March ed by 11 during the past year, 28. This is early work. the village council learned on The curlers had their last Monday, when assessor R. J. game, .we hope for this season, Paterson presented his report. on the rink on Tuesday. The Total. assessment is 040,357;• aii Season has been 'short, but the increase of $3,532 over the pre- • lovers of the "roarin' game' vious year. Total population is have made good use of •their , 696. . * • opportunities. Mr. J. R. Lyon * $A, having now won the Counter Frani 'The Huron Expositor duo three seasons in succession April 3, 1914 it has become his property. He ' Mr. Alex Lowery, who has has also , won for this season been foreman in The Expositor the Club Tankard. The St office for several years, has, in Marys ' Tankard which was com- Company with his brother, Mr. peted for by rinks rests with 'George Lowery, -leased the Nash Mr. John Weir's rink for this farm of 150 acres on the third season. concession of McKillop for Messrs. F. Crich and Thomas three years, and will locate on Brown, have opened an agricul- the land. If Mr. Lowery proves tural implement wardroom in as good a farmer -as he is a the premises adjoining Pill - printer, he will be sure to make man's Carriage factory. If com- • Pod. petition will make implements Mr. A. Modeland, -of Tucker- cheap, they ought. to be cheap smith, west of ,Egmonciville, has enough in Seaforth, as imple- shown us a sample of oats ment dealers are almost as grown on his farm last stun- numerous as grocers. 'Looks like they decided to Pail:their Argument outsider a' a 4.