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The Huron Expositor, 1964-04-09, Page 2Pifbiished •'t E D A / . Since 1860, Serving tjte Community First. at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday Morning- by McI.EAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association O • Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: t Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $5.50 a Year, U L A0% SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH .. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. DEPART NATION DEM Oi ..-.St AFORTH, ONTARIO; APRIL 9, 1964Zirsi ) Money Spent on Parks Is Well Spent The recent purchase of property in Colborne Township by the Maitland Conservation Authority assures the public of the continued•, use of an area that is as well adapted"to park purpos- es as. any in the county. The action might well point the way to similar action in other parts of Huron, so that not only this generation but future gen- erations as well, may have the benefit of park lands within ready distance of their homes. The Beacon -Herald discusses the benefits in a recent editorial in these words: The merit of the decision , by the Maitland Conservation Authority, to acquire ownership of the Falls Reserve property near Gbderich, is one which can be seen readily by people in the Stratford area. An older Conservation Authority, the Upper Thames, has shown the way in this kind of imaginative enterprise; by acquiring land at Harrington, at HarmonS, and north of Shakespeare, for ,development as conservation areas. The result, in each case, has been to preserve for the -future, and for the use of the public, a bit of the outdoors. As Southern Ontario becomes more and more crowded, land which is attractive for recreational use is rapidly disap- pearing into private. control. We are fortunate in the Stratford 'area that a Conservation Authority moved when it did to -bring the Harrington, Harmony and Shakespeare sites into the public domain, and keep them available for public use. The Maitland Conservhtion Authority has shown wisdom and fore- sight in taking the same action with respect to the••Falls Reserve site, which has greater natural assets than any of the three which have been developed for public .use in the Stratford neigh- borhood. The disappearance of natural picnic spots from the Ontario countryside' does not proceed so rapidly that it is noticeable in any one year, and. yet over a space of 20 years or so, the total disappearance can be considerable, and can narrow the opportunities for ord- inary people who like to get outdoors for an evening or a day. It is not givgn to everybody to have a cottage in Northern Ontario, and enough leisure time to drive hundreds of miles for every outing. The use which has been made of the three small recreation areas near Stratford is the best evidence that there was a need for them, and that there are many people who benefit when outdoor recreation is put within easy driving distance. The Conservation Authorities in On- tario are well suited to be the public 'agents for saving local beauty spots. They can spread the cost ($8,000 for -purchase of the Falls Reserve property, - for example) over a number of muni- cipalities, so that it is not expensive for any one. At the same time the Authorities are local in their interests, and keep control in the hands of local people. What a man looks for in a'woinan is something I daresay,like a good piano minus the loud pedal. What he looks for is tone, modulation, essential pre- cision,music that is well composed, soft and' lovely.—George Jean Nathan. Avoiding the Easy Approach • (Ottawa :Journal) When . Justice Minister Favreau spoke to the Empire Club in Toronto, recently, he told of the grievances that French - speaking Canadians have against the Canadian partnership, as it is today, and traced those grievances to their historical roots. Later, Mr. Favreau spoke to the Kiwanis-Maisonneuve Club in Mont- real. He . spoke on the same basic sub- ject; but the approach was different. For example: ' "One does not ask an adult to avoid a norrnal crisis of growth; one only advises him totake as a guide for his conscience or as a confidant, a respon- sible man, understanding, open-minded, wird would not lose sight of the inter-' ests of the youth concerned. The same applies to a nation . . . "Today, perhaps more than in the past, French Canadians as well as Eng- lish Canadians, 'have no right, nor can they afford the luxury of putting their political fate in the hands of irrespon- sible leaders, 'nice speakers' who are promising paradise on earth. You are mostly businessmen, and beforefollow- ing• the disciples of any politician and before promoting the idea of one new impoverished leader, ask yourself, if, in normal times, you would be prepared t� entrust to him the management of your business or of your wealth. If not, beware" That is sound advice on judging those who would be political leaders. Mr. Favreau himself has set a good ex- ample of responsibility in these two re- cent speeches in Toronto and Montreal. In each city his remarks were framed, not to fit and flatter Ithe viewpoint of his hearers, but to brdaden-it. A, lesser man would have courted easy applause by making the Toronto speech in Mont- real and .-the Montreal speech in Toronto. In the Years Agone From The Huron Expositor . April 14, 1939 The annual spring stock show of the South Huron Agricultural Society, held in Hensel Satur- day afternoon, was feattired by an exceptionally large cattle en- ' try. Horse classes, too, were well filled and competition was keen in every event. No generation of Ontario town life has been more nearly touched by the passing of one of its citizens tharl was Seaforth and district in" the passing of Mr. Charles Stewart, member of the firm of Stewart Bros., who died suddenly of a heart attack early. on the morning of Good Friday, in his 62nd year. Winter fought against being put on the shelf for the year this week, when on Tuesday and Wednesday blinding snow fell, completely blanketing the town and countryside. Commencing Monday evening, the storm Ieft highways and streets slippery, three accidents being attribut- ed to the blizzard. Members of the Canadian Le- gion observed the 22nd anni- versary .of the .Batt'le _of Vimy at a banquet in the Commer- , cial .ilo'6eI on Wednesday evening - From The Huron Expositor April 10, 1914 On Monday evening. last Rev. J. A. Avery, ' District Deputy Grand Master of Huron District No. 4, paid his official visit to Britannia Lodge, Seaforth. " Dr. H. H. Ros4, who is a na- tural horse fancier and who us- ually,owns the best in the horse line, has purchased the driv ing horse owned by Mr. Robert McLaren, of Tuckersmith, near Hensall, which took first prize at both Hensall and Seaforth shows. The price paid for him was -$235. Mr. Michael Rowland, of, Mc- Killop, has sold a farm he own- ed on the 6th _ concession of Logan, east of Beechwood, to Mr. Murray, who owns the farm on the opposite side of the road. The farm contains 100 acres, and was sold for $5,100. It is a good place, but. has no barn on it, the barn having been burned a few years ago. Wesley Speiran, of Oreyy.,,de- livered a sow to John Bateman a Ethel last week that tipped the scales at 690 pounds. She brought the owner over $50.00 in hard cash. From The Huron Expositor April 12, 1889 The following students from • A "AND WHOSE LITTLE BOY ARE YOU?" Macduff Ottawa Report THE WHITE PAPER OTTAWA—A bold, imagina- tive white paper on defence was introduced into the House of Commons just before Easter by Hon. Paul Hellyer, Minister of National Defence. . He. has brought logic and clarity of thought to a tough assignment that saw his predecessors shud- der and shy away from the task. Canadians -generally will want the young Defence Minister to succeed in the. difficult job he has taken on because it could mean both savings of 'millions of tax dollars and better value for the defence dollars that one spent. Under the plan as outlined in the White Paper this country will become the first major world nation to merge her three military, services into a unified defence force. The uni- fication. will start at the top , with the appointment of a sin- gle defence chief and, move down through the chain of com- mand. It is expected to be completed in three or four years. Mr. Hellyer. • estimates the move will save $1,000,000,000 during the next decade, He be- lieves that- it would result in savings at the end of three years of about $100.000,000 a year and bring about a cut m •the armed forces of about 10,- 000 personnel. A large num- ber of the -cuts in staff will be in the Ottawa area. Normal at- trition will account for many of them... But there will be al- so some 'compulsory" retire- ments. The savings expected •toe ac- crue from, the revolutionary. changes will in large part be plowed back into the purchase of new . equipment. It is esti- mated that sufficient ' savings should be made to permit a goal' of 25 per cent of the bud- get to be devoted to capital equipment. Canadian defence . industries are greatly interested. They see A fellow walked into a cafe an opportunity to turn out new' wearing a hat. When the man - ado's forces. They are eXpect- pieces 'of equipment for ,Can- ager asked him to remove it, he noticed that the fellow's hair ed to be called into .discus -was parted across hishead, sions shortly. • The Defence from side' to side instead of Minister has promised to brief from fronf�-'to 'back. • He was Canadian industry on the role curious and asked the man if it can play in the newPro- it ever bothered him. gram: He in turn would like to ,hear from the defence in- "No, it doesn't bother me," dustries as to the types of pro- replied the man, "•but' once in, duction programs- .they think a while, somebody will, come can be undertaken in Canada., oyer and whisper in my nose." Modern weapon systems are so costly and complicated that only the' large powers appear • The manager of a .depart - able to undertake and develop ment store overheard a clerk the equipment. Canada had a say to a customer, "No, we sad experience with its CF -105, haven't hand any for a long the super -sonic interceptor that time." was better than anything else Rushing to the scene, the in existence at the time. It manager assured the customer, might today have played an im- "we'll send out and get some." portant role in this country's Then in an aside to the clerk defence setup had it been con- he directed: "Don't ever say tinued and sales made to other we are out of anything. Say allied nations. we'll get some." The lesson from the CF -105 " Dut," replied the clerk, "we was that there must be inters were talking about rain." allied co-operation and co-ord- inated defence production. Can- ada should be able to be as- signed a, role in the manufac- ture of some parts or sections of specialized equipment for its own defence forces .as well as for the forces of allied coun- tries. For years, ever since the Second World War, there has been a steadily mounting re- alization 'on the part of senior officers of the armed forces in Canada that integration was the only answer. The confusion and overlapping that has grown up bringing about a' waste of money and duplication of serv- ices has made it abundantly - clear that unification of theSPARKS by Willis Forbes Navy, Army and Air Forte was sensible and logical. But there - has also been a hard core of resistance to such a move. Two objections were always given •as reasons why integra- tion should not be undertaken. First, that' morale or "espirit de corps" would be weakened, and -second, that competition would be diminished. Neither of these objections this county have taken first- class honors in their second year's examinations at Trinity Medical College, Toronto: A. Knechtel and J. W. Shaw, Brus- sels; Charles Mackay and J. J. Danby, Seaforth. Mr. James 'I'. Ireland has de- cided to open a dental office in Harriston, and will become a resident of that town.. The peo- ple of Harriston will find Mr. Ireland a good dentist, a wor- thy citizen and a genial good fellow. Mr. David Hay; of the Sea - forth and Bayfield stage line, who has been reSiang in Varna all winter, lias gone back to Bayfield for the summer and will run his old route as for- merly, and will connect with all trains ,at Brucefield and Sea - forth. It is stated that Dr. Coleman. is making preparations for the erection of a new foundry building on a large scale on his property near the railway tracks in this town. We hope this is correct, as he has ample means to establish and carry on such a business, and nothing he can do will tend more to advance the prosperity of the town in which' he has so large an interest.. in the opinion of the Minister stand, against careful scrutiny: "Espirit de corps" by nature is associated with ship, or corps, or regiment or squadron as well as with the service.'There is no thought of eliminating worthwhile traditions and there is no reason why morale should not be high -a direct result of effectiveness. Similarly there will be no lack of competition. The sailors will press for more ships, soldiers for more tanks. and airmen for planes. Mr. Hellyer rather than back- ing 'away froth the difficult job has apparently tackled it with relish. This should not be ' a surprise for Mr. Hellyer has made it apparent from other decisions •he has taken that he is prepared .to take the bold approach. For example, he beached 14 ships of the Royal Canadian Navy, closed two of the five interceptor bases in Canada and one of the Ii.CAF's four bases in Europe. This Minister is one' who is not afraid to take action even in the area of sacred cows. • Legislation has been drafted amending the National Defence Act. It will be placed before Parliament after Easter, to abolish the chiefs of staff and other senior commands of the' three armed forces, putting the services, under the direction of a single chief of defence .staff. Civilian control will be also in - 'creased by extending the auth- ority of the Deputy Minister of National' Defence. Mr. Hellyer said he planned to recommend that the present chairman of the chiefs of staff, 55 -year-old Air Chief Marshal Frank Miller, be named the first chief of , the defence staff. The success of the Minister of Defence in maintaining an effective civilian control raises —in the words of the Glassco Royal Commission ori Govern- ment Organization •— a "need for a strong staff group which is essentially civilian in char- acter, outside the framework of the armed forces."' The Gov- ernment has accepted and will implement the recomme'hdation of the commission "that the Deputy Minister be given great- er responsibility for keeping under review the for and administrative methods of the Canadian defence establish- meet, and assisting the Minister in the discharge of his responsi- bility for the control and man- agement of the armed forces." Smiles .. Mother: "That's your fourth piece of pie. Do you know there was once a little boy like you who ate four pieces of pie and- burst?" Boy: "That wasn't too `much pie: Ir just wasn't enough boy:" If we make the best of little opportunities we find ourselves more able to accept larger ones. 'We forgot out ladder." When you dis- cover that you've made a bad de- cision, admit it— don't waste time -trying to .1uStifY it, Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley HOLIDAY IN THE KITCHEN I'm going to punch right on the nose the next, person, be it man, woman, child or nice old lady whose bones are as brittle as soda -crackers, who asks me, "Did you have a nice Easter holiday?" Some school teachers have a nice Easter holiday, and good luck to them. But English teachers are- not among them. English teachers have -the same sort of holiday a bus driv- er would have if he were -giv- en a week off and told he was to drive a bus from Halifax to Vancouver in the next seven days. When the holidays began, I had examinationpapers to mark which represented a total of about 480 student writing hours. (They could have pro- duced the works of Shake- speare in the same time.) This, in turn, means that I have about 100 hours of marking time. No complaints. It's part of the job. But things were a lit- tle- more complicated this year. The women of the house came down with 'flu, just as the "holidays" began. The result was that, instead of sitting quietly in m'' study, and having countless cups of tea and coffee, innumerable beers and sandwiches• brought me, to keep me going, I found .myself trotting up and down stairs about six hours of each day, bearing up tempting little things on trays, bearing down dirty dishes. While my pillars of papers sat and gathered dust. Results of turning the old man loose with the grub for a few days was interesting. My wife has.. almost decided to be- come a permanent invalid. My kids realize that their father has another brilliant, unsuspect- ed dimension. The Old Lady was feeling, horrible with the flu but there didn't seem much wrong. with her appetite. She gained about eight pounds. Of course, she's not used ,to my lunches. In- stead of the soup -and -sandwich routine she's accustomed to, they consisted of something like this: glass of sherry; grill- ed sausage with butter -fried mushrooms and- cheese ` ome- lette; tossed salad; blueberry pie, and ice . cream; coffee; bran- dy; cherry -centred chocolates.. The kids were a bit shaken by some of my casseroles. Per- haps the most successful was the lasagna. Basis, .a can of Visit Your ..Library during CANADIAN Library Week April 4 L 11 • "Reading is a key to knowledge", and in the Seaforth -Carnegie _ Library the residents of Seaforth have an opportunity to make use of an outstandingselection of books. lasagna—egg noodles in toma- to and meat sauce. Simmer in oven for ten minutes. Add lay- er of mushrooms, layer of strong cheese, layer -of thin - sliced salami, layer of onion rings, layer of mild cheese. Bake in oven. Sprinkle with paprika, parsley, chives, cinna- mon, nutmeg, wild oats, or any- thing else that will sprinkle. Serve with hot, crusty rolls and stand back. The reason there are no great women chefs? They've no im- agination. My wife hacks up some lettuce, tomato and cel- ery, and calls `it a salad. If she's feeling particularly exotic she might throw in some slic- ed green pepper. My salads, 'besides.. these basics, contained great chunks of cheese, all col- ors; whole green onions, peel- ed grapes, shredded lemon, raw carrots, quartered dill pickle, jelly beans left behind by the Easter bunny. The whole dous- ed in a dressing made of four. raw eggs mixed with tartar sauce, ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard aid vinegar. I have only two things to say about the grand culinary ad- venture: (a), the food budget is shot for the next six weeks; (b) where can I buy a good, second-hand automatic dish- washer? - going, keep going on. FARM HAND TRACTOR TIRES Turn tractor power Auto work power! 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