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The Huron Expositor, 1964-04-23, Page 2„,, ,,, , , • ''. U "..4 , ":"7 'iZ ,,,,,, if,',''''N'''. ''T f'•,,74f(?1,,,:•'‘Ii•"..,!.,1,,,,,•-•.•• -•,, , . , •••••••• ••••!•. rINVI•,.„.0...,:r.,• ,, • :..; •.:, / •'`r Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers "ewe ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor D At Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association, Audit pureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada, (iri advance) $4.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $5,50 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Departraent, Ottawa. SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, APRIL 23, 1964 Phone Directory Must Represent Area 'Growing concern with directory changes ,proposed by The Bell Tele- phone Company is reflected in a reso- lution adopted by the Seaforth Cham- ber of Commerce this .week. The reso- hition points out that the changes will deny Seaforth listings to McKillop and Hibbert subscribers of the McKillop, Logan & Hibbert system, and also deny Bell customers in Seaforth the listings of subscribers in the neighboring town- ships served by the Dublin exchange. The resolution asks that Seaforth listings be carried in the directory which will serve the subscribers of the .Dublin exchange, and also that the Mc- • Killop, Logan & Hibbert subscribers be listed in the Seaforth directory. Certainly the request is reasonable. The Bell people must realize that in being given the privilege of serving • particular areas there is inherent a re- . sponsibility •to avoid disruption to the recognized flow of social and business activities, and that is what will, hap - yen if the listings of subscribers throughout the area are not available to each other. The availability of list- ings is particularly important at this time when with the introduction of dial later this year all numbers will be changed. As the resolution points out, much of the area served by the McKillop, Logan & Hibbert Company is contain-. ed in the Seaforth fire area and in the Seaforth District High School Area, and is served by the Seaforth Hospital, by Seaforth doctors and professional people and business firms. The Bell Company by circular letters and other publicity has not been hesi- tant to point out the benefits it claims will result from changes in the area west of Seaforth. It is unfortunate that at the same time the company did not give the same emphasis to ,the re- duction in service which it was effect- ing east of Seaforth, so that the chang- es could be properly evaluated. As we have said before, and repeat now, "one can sympathize with the Bell people in their desire to create tidy ad- ministrative set-ups. But this desire for administrative efficiency must not take precedence over Bell's responsi- bility to provide Seaforth and the com- munity, of which it is the centre, with proper- service. Bell can do no less than to initiate action to provide the same connections and service with Sea - forth neighbors to the east, as it has done to the west.” Accomplishments In Many Fields The minority government of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson was one year old on Wednesday. • Despite Setbacks, despite disappoint- ments and changes, there is a general feeling that the Pearson government has moved ahead. There have been firm •,•accornplishments in many fields. • • Unemployment has been reduced to • a more reasonable level ; trade" is ex- panding; industrial -production is ris- ing; the Columbia River development is much closer than was the case even a year ago. Canada's defence • policy for the first time in many years has been spelled out; social security has been advanced after many weeks • of sincere discusiions and with• the firm support of the provinces. Canada haa,. taken a more responsible role in for- • eign affairs in the past twelve months than • She did in the preceding six years. Indeed there were. firm grounds for • satisfaction on the part of the Prime Minister in the report he was able to give the country Sunday evening. Ignor- ing 'the temptation to gqoss over mis- takes, Mr. Pearson provided a far more honest and realistic review than usual- ly is given on such occasions. Mr. Pearson, has said the government will–cantinue to govern as if it had a majority. It is not catering to •the partisan desires of the opposition groups as a means of staying in office. This is 'as the country would wish it. • It is true the results Mr. Pearson has put on the record are but a be- ginning, but there can be general agree- ment that they are a firm foundation for achievements in future years. I think I know what love is for. Love is given us so that we can see a soul; and that soul is the .highest conception of 'excellence and truth we can bring forth: this soul is our •reflected self. And from seeing what one soul is, we •can imagine what all souls may be— ' and thus we' reach God, who is Uni- versal Soul.—Elbert Hubbard. In the Years Agone From The Huron Expositor April. 28, 1939 Mr. W. R. Shaw, Victoria St., has leased the vacant residence of Dr. J. A. Munn, on Centre St., and will move his family next week. Mrs. A. A. McLennan has leased the apartments over the •Jackson Studio, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Grindrod will occupy the apartments vacated by Mrs. • McLennan on Victoria St. After a very slow start, spring arrived with a bang on Sunday and by Monday after- noon the temperatiire by Main Street thermometers was 82. Tennis enthusiasts took advant- age of the warm weather and the new courts at the Seaforth Golf and Country Club have been croWded each evening this week. Mr. Wallace Ross has pur- chased Mr. Charles Holmes' cottage On North Main St. Hensall public and continua- tion schools were closed Mrs - day morning to guard against the spread of scarlet fever. Miss Kilpatrick, assistant teach- er in the public School, con- tracted the disease and the de- cision to close the schoolfol- lowed as a precautionary mea- sure. Pupils of the Seaforth- Public School will take part in a music festival which is being held in Northside United Church. Fri - evening, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. The annual 'meeting of the . St Columban football club was held in St. CeIumbaft Tuesday evening. There Wasa large • tatadut afid gfeat enthusiasm 4110insed'hr both young and &bag& 'Mr. William Stapleton was named •, president of the club. Members of the Seaforth Bad- minton Club on Wednesday eve- ning named W. E. Southgate, Jr., president for the coming year. The club's annual meet- ing followed the final tourna- ment of the season. * * From The Huron Expositor April 24, 1914 Postmaster Williams, of Sea - forth, has purchased a new Ford auto from Mr. J. P. Daly. The fine weather of the past week has set the thrifty house- wives housecleaning, and the good man has to take his meals from a barrel -head in the wood- shed. Mr. McLeod has opened a cleaning and pressing establish.- ment in the residence just west of Mr. H. R. Scott's shoe store, and will give special attention to ladies' work. As he is a practical and experienced man, we bespeak a growing business for him. There was a heavy frost on Wednesday night, which will be hard on the fall wheat and clover. Messrs. Charles Soole and Hugh Stephenson, formerly of this town, have started a tin and repair shop in Winnipeg, . Mr. W. W. Reid, who was engaged hi the mercantile busi- ness here for some time, left this week With his family for Kentucky, where he formerly resided, and where -lie intends to reside in the future. • Seaforth Collegiate Institute and the public schools reopen- ed MI Monday and both pupils and leathers are now busily grinding for the midsummer exams. * * From The Huron Expositor April 26, 1889 Broadfoot & Box have recent- ly added .to the splendid ma- chinery in their cabinet factory one of the largest and best sand papering machines in this country. At the last meeting of the Seaforth public school board, a resolution was passed asking the town council to provide the sum of $3,000 to have the Smead-Dowd system of heating and ventilation installed in the public school building. Mr. George Murray has re- moved to the residence on Goderich Street, recently vacat- ed by Mr. William Pinkney. Mr. F. Gutteridge, of this town, has been awarded the contract for the stone and brick work of Mr. Whyte's new pork packing building in Mit- chell. , The recent refreshing showers of rain have done im- mense good and came just in the right time. At the annual races on . Fair- view Park, Seaforth, on the Queen's Birthday, the sum ' of $560 will be offered in purses for three races. The Royal Hotel In Seaforth is for sale or rent on reason- able terms. This is a thre- storey brick building with. base-, ment and contains 22 large bed- rooms, besides halls, dining room, bar morn, kitchen, etc. There is stable accommodation for 80 horses, commodious sheds and a good stock yard attached, .1 • ••• 1•4 coVatff t:17 stkoik:NG • • LAMM% ''.;•R W. .. • ,44 144.A.trReiMOWA. - • r Iq •• . . • • ' A Marduff Ottawa 'Report • WORTH THE RISKS not form a part of the Federa OTTAWA — Federal-Provin- Program. cial relations, a subject of al- The second shock came fol "most interminable discussion lowing the conclusion of the Over the past several months, Federal -Provincial talks when refuses to gb away. And the Premier Lesage, who had again more often it pushes its way to been a study in affability in the forefront, the more . it be- , the conference' chamber, lashed gins. to take on nightmarish out at the Federal Government qualities. • with a viciousness that was To go back a bit, it will be quite unexpected. • recalled that last summer there He condemned Federal auth- were some preliminary skirm- orities for failing ta come up ishes between the two levels of with the additional share of Government when Ott a w a revenue which he was demand - sought to move ahead with its ing, making it quite Clear that pension plan and Municipal he intended to raise provincial Loan and Development Fund taxes and heak the blame on without consulting the •prow- in ces. Ottawa's shoulders. Not con- . • tent with that, he threatened What was heralded as the to challenge the Federal Gov - real confrontation, a confronta- ernment. in the courts on tion primarily between the Fed- grounds of violating provincial eral Government and Quebec, jurisdiction over education if took place in Ottawa last No- it pressed ahead with plans to vember. It was the beginning provide family" allowances for of a series of conferences that, children 16 and 17 still in in the words of some influen- school and interest-free loans tial voices in French -Canada, for university students. represented Confederation's last. Returning home dispirited chance. ••- from Quebec City, Federal Out of that first conference authorities faced an attack of emerged a decision to give the another sort from Conservative provinees an additional share.' Leader John -Diefenbaker in the of revenue for the fiscal year House of Commons. The lat- beginning in April of some ter, pointing to the proposal to $87,000,000. Out of this amount, allow Quebec to opt out of Quebec wasto get nearly, half; shared -cost programs with fi- about $42,000,000. Whileit " fell nancial • compensation, accused far short of the $150,000,060 be- the Government of seeking to ing demanded by the Quebec dismember ' Confederation. Government, all seemed well Trouble piled on trouble when when Premier Jean Lesage a short time later Premier Ro- went away all smiles, pronounc- barts made it all but certain ing the conference an undeni- that Ontario was going to able success. The danger to thumb it, nose at the .Canada Confederation presented by the Pension Plan and ,go for one Nationalist forces in Quebec similar to Quebec's 'instead: seemed to have passed and on In many ways, that for Ot- all sides there wasa sigh of tawa was the unkindest cut of relief. ••.. all. From the beginning, -.Pre- When the second conference mier Roberts had bent every was convened in Quebec City effort to scale down' the Federal at the end of March, it was ex- scheme to more modest propor- pected the 'atmosphere would be Cons. Bending to this pres- relatively , calm. As a result, sure, the Pearson Government few were prepared for the agreed to make some substan- shocks to come. tial modifications. Having gone The first was provided dur- a considerable distance to meet ing the course of the confer- Mr. Robart's position, Ottawa ence by Premier. John Roberts now found the Ontario Premier bf.Ontario, when he provided a completely shifting his ground, strong indication that his Gov- favoring a pension plan that ernrnent would join Quebec in was more expensiVe in practic- spurning the proposal Federal ally every way than that ever- contributory_pension plan in contemplated by the Federal favor of establishing its own Government. public pension plan. Faced- with impending dfsas- For Ottawa's dreams of a na, ter on both the Quebec and On- tional pension scheme, it was a tario 'fronts, the Federal Min- • serious blow, since it raised the istry resolved within the past poSsibility that the two largest few weeks to undertake a dras- ,provinces, with well over half tic shift of its own position in the population of Canada, would an effort to escape from the bora 4 1 sinking sand all around the firmer grourd. Highly secret, highly sensi- tive negotiations were launthed between Ottawa and Quebec City in an effort to reach agree- 1 merit on, a package- deal that 1 could just conceivably provide the basis for a new measure of' understanding between the two levels of Government. For the e Federal Ministry the move was P fraught with danger. ••a If it failed to pull it off, re- lations between the Pearson and Lesage Governments could , go from bad to worse. And even if the Federal Ministry did suc- ceed in appeasing Quebec, it faced the risk of further ag- gravating the strong reaction to French Canada that was building, up in other parts of the country. The major cause of frictiOn between Ottawa and Quebec is over money. The Federal Gov- ernment had taken the stand that it would not provide the provinces with any greater share of revenue for the current fiscal year than it had promised last November. Ii. order to make it possible fdr Mr. Lesage to forestall a tax increase for which he would blame Ottawa, the Pearson Gov- ernment indicated . it was pre- pared to provide for an increase in provincial revenue for the next and succeeding fiscal years. " The second front on which it was prepared to move was on pensions. The pension plan un- veiled by the Quebec Govern- ment, which Mr, Robarts favor- ed so strongly, Was in many 're- spects considerably larger in scale than the proposed nation- al plan. • Sugar and Sp' By Bill Smiley RIGHT IN THE EYEI If ever phi decide to d some seseareh on the love forms of wit, I can tell ,yo how to go about it. Just ge yourself a black eye. I had a doozer recently. M wife gave it to me. All right. Not that way. She was sit- ting in the car, waiting for me to carry the groceries into the house, through the rain. Just as I bent and reached for the car door to open it and ask her if that was all, she opened it smartly from the inside to ask me why I hadn't brotigh out an umbrella. e know, but, after all. o So, when,the next joker made ✓ his move, I told him, dolefully, u that a maiden lady who didn't t like my column had thrown acid in my face, and that I'd y never have the sight of it again. He turned green. * * * When the door nailed ine • i the eye, I thought I was goner. My wife shrieked an ran straight into the house t see whether my "loss of lim or eye" accident policy wa paid up. Within few minutes, the eye was the size and color'o a h,arteader's beezer. But by the time we'd finished arguing about whose fault it had been it was obvious that I'd live. * * * My next customer was a wo- mien, who titterd, teach you. to write things about your wife in that column of yours." I gave her a gentle, sad look from my good eye, t and suggested that she not let the divorce alienate her from my wife. I left her with her mouth open. n I quickly disposed of an elder - a ly lady, strong in the teniper- d ance movement, by informing o her the injury had been receiv- b ed from my young daughter, s when he clubbed me on the eye with a half -empty whiskey bottle. It's good sport. Next f time the old trouble -and -strife hangs tine on you, Jack, you'll know what to do. 1 1 We didn't have a piece of steak, and if we'd had, I doubt that it would have been sacri- ficed. But the -Old Girl, bless her, dug out some hamburg that was going a bit blue, and made me lie down with a big hamburg poultice on the- injur- ed optic. Right off the ice, it felt pret- ty good at that, and I dropped off to sleep, moaning but brave. During the night, the bandage worked loose, and when I woke n the dark, I thought the eye had fallen out. But it- was on - • hamburg, all over • the- pil- OW. * * * Next morning, the orb look - d like a purple golf ball. We atched it up as best we could, nd I,set ,off to face the wits. Thes• t possibwere hilar- ous. They 'ranged from the imple dry brilliance of "Hoo itcha?" and "Forget to duck, h?" to the coy, insinuating, "I new she'd catch up with ya ome ,day." They ran the scin- tillating gamut from the inevit- able, "I suppose ya ran into a door" to the ineffably humor- ous sally, "Meet the former welterweight champ of the Smiley household." Despite the substanial gap be- tween the two, Ottawa offered, to sit down and, negotiate a com- promise" that would provide for at least a common pension sys- tem and just possibly pave the way for Quebec membership in a revised national contributory pension _plan. Should that lat- ter possibility develop, Ontario would be left with little re- course but to follow suit. the Federal Government, the risks were very great, but the prize may yet prove them to have been worth taking. THE HOME TEAM by Wirth BOWLING• RULES ▪ .••••• •• •• •• go. •.• ••••• • eel* torpot- "And atop referring ts this alloy I risi gcopvy.,kiscee , 4 , •L' A * * • • I came back with some real funnies myself. .."My wife," I replied. "Footwork- isn't what it used to be," I admitted. "Yot- ta see the other guy," I quip- ped. I can go along with a joke as well as the • next bird. But after a while, in fact if I remember rightly, it was just after the fourteenth "Hoo hit- cha", 1 began getting a little sore. I mean, fun's fun, you Letters To The Editor 253 Spadina Road, Toronto, Ont., April 2, 1964. • Dear Sir: I would like to ex- press our gratitude for your vital assistance in making our Mothers Marches so successful in the Seaforth area. • The coverage we received in The Expositor was most gener- ous and extremely helpful. On behalf of our boarfi, our patients and our local campaign volunteers, thank you again for your co-operation. • - Sincerely, • DON R. PRIOR, President. Toronto, April 14, 1964. Sir: Im delighted to send to you and your newspaper the sincere appreciation of the On- tario Society for Crippled Chil, dren for the generous support you have given to our Easter Seal Campaign. Our annual appeal to the pub- lic is simply a letter inviting their financial assistance. With your help in reminding and en. couraging a response, our °cam- paigns have been subeessful. I send this expression of -thanks on behalf of our cam. paign volunteers throughout Ontario and especially for crippled children. Sincerely yours, J. C. PRESTON, • Chairman, ' Provincial Easter_ Seal Com, „%hfr,-• eft • "°I've left part of me there, too. Fourhundred w rth.• POT ROASTS BLADE ROASTS RIB ROASTS CURED BACON PORK CHOPS Schneider's FRESH CHICKEN lb. lb. lb. lb. lb. lb. Schneider's Cooked — 1/2 lbs. PICNIC SHOULDERS, ea. • • 1.13 Vine Ripe TOMATOES HEAD LETTUCE -24's Vanity WASTE. BASKET'S 1.49 For bedroom and Bathroom Stokely's CREAM CORN -715 oz. • • 2/ 33c Ib. 29c • • • 19c 490 490 590 •650 350 BEEF PRICES ARE RISING I Steak will be much higher though the Summer months ! Are your freezers 'full? Maxwell House INSTANT COFFEE -10 oz.• •1.59 Campbell's — 10-a: VEGETABLE SOUP • • • • 4 /49c Blue Bonnet MARGARINE 2 lbs. 5,9c Aylmer Choice - WAXED BEANS, 20 oz.• • 2/ 39c Seaforth Foodland PHONE 285 — We Deliver — CASH ON DELIVERY FREE PARKING ON WEST SIDE OF LOCKER •"••••••••,••••2-"' • • • 4 • A • •