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The Huron Expositor, 1964-04-16, Page 2. , • ,.,i'•••"",.',! Published at t -t D •0 - - .44 Since 1860, Serving the Community First SEAFORTH, ONTARI6, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW - Y. MCLEAN, Editor 44.0% „SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH • . , Authorized as Second Class Mail; Post Office Department, Ottawa. Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year Outside Canada (h advance) $5.50 a Year 4.MARRIAGE., CLAW IC..;;..47 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, APRIL 16, 1964 ------- Boards Face • Decision of the Central Huron Sec- ondary School at Clinton to ask secon- • dary school boards at Seaforth, Gode- • rich and Exeter to express opinions as ;to the size of a proposed addition at Clinton places a heavy responsibility on each of these boards. • The board members have to satisfy • themselves beyond all doubt that an addition of a particular size is neces- sary to provide vocational training for the number of students seeking admit- tance. Equally important, they must satisfy themselves that every possible use is being made of existing accoxn- modatiori in their own schools. Would smaller additions to individual schools and a rearrangement .of schedules to provide a limited vocational program • be niore economical and be a solution? Could a portion of the academic pro- gram at Clintan be transferred to the ,local academic schools? The vocational program at Clinton • has been in existence less than a year • and the fact it is new adds a certain attraction. Whether the present ap- ' iieal will be sustained in future years remains to be seen. Already in Gode- rich the principal of that school finds a weakening in the appeal of the Clin- ton courses. "You can see a resistance building up to the Clinton situation," he is reported as telling his board. The Department of Education ap- •. pears to feel that most, if not all, prob- lems connected with education can be eliminated through concentration of students in ever increasing numbers. But this is not so, and there continue to be problerns, There is complaint about the time students are required to travel each day ; there is the difficulty with absenteeism which Goderich found to include 15 pupils absent ,Clin- ton for 15 days or more in the first. term, compared to- four days' truancy among four or five students at the home school. The Goderich Signal -Star re- ports the Goderich. principal in this way: "The longer they (the students commuting to Clinton) are out of touch with this school, the less we have con- trol over them." A vocational program for Huron stu- dents has been a requirement for a long time, and certainly necessary accom- modation must be provided to ensure 4 Major Decision that the program can be made avail able to every Huron student who ca benefit from it. At the same 'lime it must be recog nized that generally the cost of pro viding a pupil with a vocational educa tion is higher than if that same pupil was accommodated in a local school. Perhaps the time has come to screen more carefully the Clinton applicant, and at the same time make the local school programs more attractive through emphasis .on the best in staff at all levels, the best in buildings. This well might mean increases in slaries and in added construction costs at the local level. And if this is neces- sary there could be no objections if it ihas the result of providing an educa- tional program that better serves the area. It could in the long run be less costly than buying a share in an un- necessarily large .addition at Clinton. What is most important is that every avenue be explored now so that deci- sions can be taken in time to provide for coming classes. It is not enough to accept as a fact that the answer is an increasingly larger Clinton school. Partnership, Andre Laurendeau and Davidson Dunton have a lot in common. Both were born in 1912. Both are journalists of stature. Both are chairmen of the royal commission on bilingualism and biculturalism: But they have more in common than that. When they work there is a meshing a minds and personalities in- • to a truly remarkable partnership as co-chairmen. — ( WinnipegFree Press). In Short Peter Jackson, a Toronto clothier vvtho is an Ojibway Indian, commenting on Hon. Kelso Roberts' statement that he was shocked by the poverty of the Indians in a visit AO the James Bay area, said: "The government sends a cabinet minister each -year to get shock ed, but never does anything about the conditionszthat shock him." If the In- diansjiace.,w more spokesmen like Mr. Jackson, things -might not be so shocking very long. — (Port Arthur News -chronicle)• In the Years Agone From. The Huron 'Expositor April 21, 1939 The office formerly oceupie by Dr. H. it. Ross has been tak en over by Dr. John A. Gorwill . who has just returned from Ed • inburgh, Scotland. Dr. Gorwil has done extensive post-gradu ate 'work in the United States England and Scotland. Re moval of all Hydro ani Bell Telephone poles on Gode- rich Street, from Victoria St. to Adam St., will commence shortly, folloWing a meeting here Wednesday between HEPC and Bell engineers and, officials of the PUC. All residences will shortly be served from the rear. ., Working' in conjunction with a central committee and the town council, the Seaforth Lions Club is making arrangements to see that children of the dis- • trict are taken to Stratford to see the. King and Queen on June 6th. •A new Massey -Harris dealer is pow located in Seaforth, just north of the Queen's Hotel. Morley Storey is the new deal- er. Dr. E. A. McMaster has re- turned from Detroit, 'where he • was taking post -graduate work in the hospitals. . The local fishermen launched their boats on Tuesday and are nearly ready to start the sum- tner's shing near Bayfield. . Pupils of the Seaforth public school will take part in a music festival, which is being held in Northside United Church on Friday evening. * From The Huron Expositor ,April 17, 1914 The weather during the pl week has been hard on the fall wheat •and clover. Mr. Loftus Stark, of Toronto ••• " an Old Seaforth boy, waste totOrt this week. Mr. Stark is up a to his eyes in the real estate s ;•Z ,bitsiness in.the Queen City, and 0 %oil ate to Wit has made e • good i la it.e The auto season has opene and during the past few day d •numbers of them have „been i - evidence, although the country roads. in many places are stil too rough and soft to permit o pleasure riding. The present salt industry a Goderich, more commonly known as the "salt block", own ed and operated by Mr. John Ransford, of ,Clinton, will have its capacity increased frorri its daily output of 120 barrels per day to abdut 800 barrels daily. To do this, about 10Q tons of the best up-to-date machinery has been ordered. This is cost- ing the owners of .the industry about $40,000, Although the weather has beeh very poor for he making of maple syrup up to the last few days, those engaged in the business in this section are now having their 'harvest and are keeping their evaporators go- ing night arid day, and also on Sunday. m The Winthrop Creaery, with all it contents, was completely destroyed on Tuesday morning last. Mr. Calder, the proprie- tor, who lives nearby, and his family, were awakened by a neighbor who first discovered the fire, but by that time the building was a mass of flames and nothing could be saved. Two milk wagons, which were standing nearby, were also burned. The origin of the fire is unknown. d of water. The fire brigade was s called out, but fortunately their n services were not required. At a meeting of the Public 1 School Board, held Monday eve - f ning, the contract for the' erec- tion of the new wing to the t public school building was aWarded to Mr. William Sleeth - for the sumof $1,579, to com- plete the whole building. The tenders were all very close, but Mr. Sleeth's was the lowest. Mr. John Anderson,. of Wing - ham, promises to •erect a roller flour mill of about 150 barrels per day, if the town will grant bim a bonus of $4,000. At a. meeting of Tuckersmith council held in Brucefield, on Wednesday last, the bylaw for the repeal of the Township' School Board was provisionally adopted by the council, and the vote of the ratepayers on it will be taken on Wednesday, the 22nd day of May next. This question has been a bone of contention in the township for some time, and it would be in the interests of education, in the township to have it definite- ly settled, either one way or the other. If this vote is in fav- or of continuing the township board system, those opposed to it should gracefully bow to the will of the majority and go In heartily for making the system work as well as possible, and if the ratepayers decide in the opposite direction, those in fav- or should accept the decision and make the best of their posi- tion. The Montreal market is glut- ted with maple syrup, and pric- es are imw down to 50 and 75 cents per gallon. Maple sugar is selling at 6 to 8 cents per pound, A. Cardno, in the Cardno Block, Seaforth, has just re- ceived direct from New York, a shipment of the latest styles , of gents' and boys' hats. Suits made to order are $14, and new tock ready-made cloth suits are roti $5 and up. From The Huron Expositor April 19, 1889 Farmers in this vicinity are now all busy seeding. TWA ground 'is in splendid condition and with favorable weather many will be through next week. A spark from the smokestack t Broadfoot's factory lit on oma dust on the roof of One 1 the buildings on Monday last, outing a little blase. It was s xtingnialied with a few palls .!! • • A Macduff Ottawa Report USEFUL PROGRESS • inces. Quebec will have its own Mr. Pearsons takes, it will be „OTTAWA — Federal-Provin: plan, which will be fully port- violent!-osd rents in this divided country. - At the moment, do one knows - how close the walls, are to 1 tumbling down. The Ottawa - t Quebec, the French -English, the - two cultures conflict can not - go on much longer as it is. , The`Trisis in Quebec must soon - be reached. Either there will be a heavy public move towards separatism, or a heavy public reaction against it. Who knows what seemingly harmless action taken today 6a1 conferences are falling about us like autumn leaves nowadays, each one- presumab- ly helping to make or unmake Canadian Confederation. • Some Great Prime Minister up there in the sky is perhaps keeping score, and come Judg- ment Day we will know whe- ther the present efforts have tended to save Confederation, or damn it. Meanwhile, 'about all the true believer can do is work and pray, and perhaps learn to speak the other official lan- guage. There is an uncertain feel- i ing of helplessness among ord- o inary Canadians' about the a able with the National Plan. Ontario, understandably in terested in the ' lal.ge invest trent fund which a Provincia Plan would produce, has no yet decided whether it will es tabiish its own plant o'r par ticipate in the Federal Plan but seems to be tending to wards its •own . plan. At any rate, all Canadians will have available basic, port- able pension coverage, whether under a Federal or a ProVincial plan. • - Important progress was also made on a formula for allow - ng provinces to "contract out" f certain joint prograihs, such s hospital insurance.o, Any prov- y pp e y sone ele- course of Canadian onf ed era - tion, with the cleavage between French and English seemingly • growing wider and -deeper. This feeling is shared — and sometimes abetted—by the ten Provincial Premiers and the Prime Minister of Canada, the men most immediately respon- sible forcharting this Coun- try's conrse. After the Federal -Provincial _ conference at Quebec City this month, for example, there were indignant and theatrical pro- tests by some Provincial Pre- miers. • There were also inordinate and violent attacks on the con- ference results by Opposition Leaders in the House of Com- mons. The impression has been spread that Confederation has been shattered or at the- very least shaken. Opposition Leader Diefenbak- er, with his instinct for the . meretricious, claimed that the F deral Governmeht was fos- ering "the piecemeal dismem- berment of Confederation".. Quebec Premier Lesage's in- dignant objections to the re- sults of a conferencewhich he knew could have no other re- sults, were of the stuff of the theatre, and probably designed to allay _criticism at home. Then 9f course the hysteri- cal screams from extremists on both:sides of the cultural cur- tain—one .side protesting a sell- out to Quebec, the other' de- manding complete separation of Quebec. And yet, in spite of the po- litical din, some very useful progress was made at the Que- bec conference. The pension issue was con- siderably clarified. `The Federal Government will proceed with the Canada Pension Plan, to op- erate. in any• number of. prov- t ince wishing to do so will he able to take oyer the adrnini stration of these programs, and will be given additional tax room to pay -for-them. The fears of Mr. Diefenbaker and others that contracting out means "de -confederation" are difficult to understand. There has always been contracting out n relations, between the Fed- eral and Provincial Govern- ments, and there always wil be. There was also discussion o the Federal Government's plan to extend family allowances to o students of 18 and 17, and t provide interest free loans t university students. Mr. Lesage says these are un constitutional. Mr. Pearson says they are not. Mr. Lesage says he will test them in the courts. So be it. That's exactly what the courts are for, and it's too bad they haven't been used more often in these dangerous family quarrels. One must ask though why the Federal Government blat- antly proposed a measure such as the family allowance exten- sion without making the least provision for'alternative pro- posals in a province where simi- lar payments already exist. Que- bec has • been paying such al- lowances to students of 16 and 17 for nearly three years. In any case, i these topics-- along with discussion of a spe- dial, tax study in depth—were the major preoccupations of the conference. It was undeniably a useful conference. Why there- fore should Federal -Provincial relations be surrounded by clouds of doom? Those clouds •of doom • are probably as much a sign of the Canadian times as the mush. room cloud is of international imes. No matter' what course s THE HOME , TEAM • by Wirth "Basketball. 'basketball! la that oil you ever ply?" Sugar and Spice myself, and cheered up consid erably. As some wit remarked: to our ancestors, it was the Holy Sabbath; to our great-grand- fathers, The Lord's Day; to our fathers, Sunday. We call it The Week End. By Bill Smik9r never, get a new hat. e Sunday is a great comfort t d those intent on getting to heav en. They don sober garb an pious mien on Sunday morn e ing. On Monday, they go bac to the normal pastimes of try t ing to scramble to political, so cial and financial eminence over the crushed and bleeding - bodies and souls .of their-fer low Christians, secure in the knowledge that if there is a rush for seats on the judgment day, they will have some pull with the management. LOVE THAT SUNDAY Last Sunday was one of thos days. Filthy outside, with mu and rain and wind. Dismal in side, with everybody bored an crabby. I mooched around the bous gloomily, wishing the golf course was dry, or the trou season open. Then I started thinking about what Sunday really meant, was ashamed of 0 d k The Sabbath is not of Chris- tian origin. It was originally a Jewish holy day, on the last day of the week. Like most of the laws of the ancient He- brews, observance of the Sab-, bath was a combination of reli- gion and common sense. Man needs a day of rest in every • seven'. He demands punctua- tion marks in the lifesentence he is serving. - * * However, there's a vast dif- ference between the Sabbath of the ancient Hebrew and the Sunday of modern man. The former lived a pastoral life. When the Sabbath came along, all the had to do was lie around and count his sheep. He didn't have to roll, groan- ing, out of bed after a late Saturday night, scramble aroun Saturday .night, scramble around trying to get, his family off to church, wash the car or catch fish or play golf, drive 80 miles to visit some relatives of his wife, and tear home to watch the hockey game. .* * * • If were riot for Sunday, he Saturday night bath would mime obsolete. If it were not or Sunday, many men would o through life without shin - ng their shoes. If it were not t or Sunday, many women would f might inflaence that move in t the wrong direction? Its easy to wish for the ap- pearance Of a great leaderf a g superman who would return us 1 all to what now appear to be f . Sunday means church. Church, too, is a good thing. First of all, it provides employ- ment for ministers, and employ- ment, or -lack of it, is pretty important these days. Second- ly, it provides probably the •only place in modern society where people who like to sing, but sound like hyenas, can vent their frustration without some- one telling them to shut up. After church, what? There's nothing particularly Christian about gorging oneself with food and sitting in a stupor looking at television. * * At. • What about a nice Christian game of golf, with no swear- ing when one slices? What about a little walk in the woods, worshipping the wonderful world of nature that was cre- ated for one? And if one hap- pened to look down and see a fishing rod in one's hand; one shouldn't worry too much about it. Remember the old adage: Evangelists may rave and shout, But only God can make a trout, Tommy: "What's the awk. ward age, pop?" ward age, pop?" Father: "Too old for income ax exemption - and too young or the old age pension." the good old days. But the solution. of Canada's problems now requires pa- tience, hard work, compromise. These are qualities which must be exercised by all our leaders now and in the days to come. TO THE EDITOR: 8 April, 1964. Sir: Group Captain ka- R„ Greenaway, CD, Commanding Officer RCAF Station Clinton, would like to thank you for the excellent coverage your paper gave the RCAF on the occasion of its 40th Birthday. It is fitting that you chose to emphasize t h e contribution this station has made and is making to the important train- ing role of the RCAF. . Yours truly, ° J. M. GIBSON, Flight Lieutenant, • for Commanding Officer, RCAF Station Clinton, Ont. • DEAR EMILY POST The foremost authority on • etiquette, Emily Post, influenc- ed millions of people to "mind their P's and Q's" through the media of her •numerous books, her radio programs and a daily column syndicated in more than 200 riewsPapers. Less ;known was her passion for architecture and interior dec- orating, which -she . dealt with in •"The•Personality of a House." Other works by Mrs; Post in- clude the picturesquely titled "How to Behave Though a Debuntante".and "Children' Are People." TAX RETURNS • Telephone 515 For Appointment Office Entrance an Main Street Next Door to Simpson -Sears H. G..MEIR Did the Aloi144 hold a coputeation In your winter clothes? See us! We'll re -weave then • perfectly, invisibly. FLANNERY CLEANERS Phone 87 — Seaforth Texas . CARROTS 3 lbs. 25° ORANGES. • 2 Doz. 790 Aylmer CATSUP -18 oz. 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