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The Huron Expositor, 1964-08-20, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor viD Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association erAudit Bureau of Circulation ABC a Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year Subscription Rates: • LD'‘ Outside Canada (in advance) $5.50 a Year SINGLE COPIES CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, t Office Department, Ottawa. SEAFORTH, 'ONTARIO, AUGUST 20, 1964 Benefits Of 5 -Year Capital Budget Across Ontario there are 144 munici- palities reporting their five-year capi- tal budgets to the Ontario Municipal Board. In this number are 70 towns of various sizes. This means that 144 municipalities have spelled out their plans for the pro- vision of municipal services, for roads, for buildings and other development in future years. They haVe attached a priority for each project and they have done sufficient preliminary study to make possible a reasonable estimate of cost. These municipalities are proceeding in an orderly manner to plan for the future, and in the process are saving money. They are not stampeded into the provision of a particulai service as a matter of expediency ; they have, as- surance that each step that is taken ,is part of an over-all pattern, that it will not be outmoded or require 'to be chang- ed in a year or two. Perhaps even more important is that a carefully prepared schedule of capi- tal requireMents permits a municipal- ity to take advantage of federal and provincial assistance when it becomes available. A capital budget can be especially important in Seaforth. Here changes must be made to the sewer disposal system. Sewer lines shortly must be extended in that part of town not now served. Fortunately, plans already exist for the sewer re- quirements. What is needed now are estimated costs and a degree of pri- ority. Seaforth streets, other than connect- ing links, require permanent surfacing, designed to carry today's traffic. But before this is done there must be provision for storm drains. And this means decisions concerning outlets and drain capacity. There is little point in installing new storm drains and con- necting them to outlets already loaded beyond capacity. Properly constructed streets and drains can be provided little by little if schedules are worked out. As new in- stallations are. completed, the hundreds and hundreds of dollars that each year are saved in maintenance become avail- able to carry out further replacements. At least 144 Ontario municipalities , found such a program pays. Hensall, for instance, is building roads to mod- ern standards a little bit each year. List9wel has completed its basic sewer program and has agreed on a pla.n that will provide for a majority 'of the roads to be paved by 1967. All this means as a first' step the carrying out of a basic engineering stu- dy to encompass roads, drains and sewers. Next will come tentative esti- mates of costs, and finally the estab- lishing,of priorities in relation to work to be done in particular akeas. For ex- ample, there would be little point in thinking of rebuilding and repaving, a street until sewers and storm drains were installed. It will take a little time and study, but it is time and study that will pay off in better services for less money, and finally, in a Seaforth that -is a bet- ter place in which to live and work. Emphasis On The Back Doors Poi-nting out that the life -blood of any commercial enterprise is passing traffic, the St. Marys Journal -Argus suggests that in this day of heavy mo- tor traffic steps must be taken to en- courage people to park their cars and walk more. For the average merchant, the amount of business done in his estab- lishment roughly corresponds . to' the amount of traffic which passes hiS door each day. A glance at .any hour of the day down the main street of St. Marys will confirm the thinking that there are many more potential buyers driving past in cars than walking on the side- walk, the Journal -Argus says. "The trick therefore is obviously to get them mut of the cars and on foot. "The Town Fathers cannot be expect- ed to look after the merchants'. busi- ness for them ; initiative for such badly needed parking must come from the merchants themselves, conceivably through their own association. Down- town St. Marys could be converted in- to an "inside -out" shopping centre with an organi'zed effort «to make the back ° entrance as attractive .and 'convenient to the motoring public as the front door presently is for the fastdisappearing traffic passing on foot:" It is true in St. Marys ; it is equally true in Seaforth. In far too many cas- es, advantage is not being taken of • rear area parking. In the Years Agone From, The Huron Expositor August 18 and 25, 1939 Elliott's Lunch was entered some time Thursday morning and a quantity of cigarettes and chocolate bars stolen. Mr. Jack Thompson, Blyth, took over the Barry shoe repair shop on Wednesday. Threshing operations will soon be completed if tile fine weather continues. Some farms were attacked with grasshop- pers. • A swimming meet at the Lions Park on Wednesday had over 100 entries in the 36 ev- ents. The proceeds from the Sea - forth Lions Carnival amounted to $914.49. Five persons narrowly escap- ed being burnt to death early Saturday morning as fire ser- iously damaged the 75 -year-old Clarke grocery store and, apart- ments on Main Street. Local Boy Scouts Keith Sharp and Alistair Wigg completed an 1800 -mile trip through Northern Ontario and hitch- hiked all the way. CKNX Radio Station has do- nated a system of scholarships which will enable a young man from Bruce and. Huron Coun- ties to attend the Ontario Agri- cultural College in Guelph. A Mtge crowd enjoyed the Band–Legion garden party at Victoria Park on Thursday eve- ning. J. G. Anderson & Son Elax Mill have this year placed in their Seaforth Mill, three 'new machines. They are the first of their kind to be used. in Canada, and were imported di- rectly from BelgittIn. • From The Huron Expositor August 14 and 21, 1914 The Huron contingent for the front is being mobilized at Goderich, where it will train for a short time before pro- ceeding to Valcartier, P.G. The many friends of Council- lor Con Eckert, of McKillop, will be pleased to learn that he is nearly recovered from his recent severe accident. Miss Gladys Thompson has been engaged. on the staff of Merriton public school. Mrs. James Lawrence, of. Mc- Killop, has shown us three eggs for which size and weight break the egg record. These eggs Weighed 11% -ounces and one measured 5% inches one way and 6% inches' the other way. 'Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Crich left on a trip to Winnipeg on Sat- urday. Mr. Crich , will attend the bakers' convention being, held this week in Winnipeg. Mr. H. R. Scott, secretary of the Seaforth Fire Brigade, was elected second vice-president of the Provincial Firemen's Asso- ciation at their annual meeting in Seaforth. Grain which was uncut pre- vious to last week was badly beaten down with the limner- ous thunderstorns. ' The ladies of Seaforth made a whirlwind canvass of the town last week for subscrip- tions to the hospital ship, to be presented tO the British Ad- miralty' by the women of Can- ada. Mrs. A. Young and Alias Rheta Young are spending a few days at Menestung, near Goderich. The Misses M. and Helen Me - Gregor and Ethel Jarrett, all of Kippen, are attendIng awn - mer school at Orillia all week, Judging from present appear- ances, the war is net likely to be of long duration. All parties seem to be manoeuvring for a big struggle an both sea and land. * * From The Hureh, Expositor August 16 and 23, 1889 A Union Sunday School ex- cursion from Seaforth to Gode- rich will take place on Wed- nesday. Rural schools reopen on Monday of next week. Mr. John Hannah, of the Seaforth Creamery, shipped 18,- 000 pounds of butter to Edin- burgh on Friday last. Mr. George Irvin, who had his leg broken last fall, is slow- ly recovering his usual activ- ity. As he is a favorite of the ladies, they will be 'glad to see him out. The Blyth flax mill will start operations on Monday. The flax crop in this vicinity is an extra good one this year. The new wing of the Public School will be completed and ready for occupancy when the school opens next week after the summer holidays. Mr. James Grieve, of Harpor- hey, has a Durham cow from whose milk for two days were made six pounds of butter. Miss Nott, daughter of Mr. George Mott, of Tuckersmith, has completed a quilt which contains 6,216 pieces. Mr. C. Clarkson, head master of Seaforth Collegiate Institute, has returned from a bicycle trip to St. Marys, Paris, Wood- stock and other points. Kippen teachers all reopened school on Monday last. 'PULL' HIS TEETH THEN I'LL HELP TO GET HIM OUL" A Macduff Ottawa Report Streamlining 'OTTAWA —' Prime Minister Pearsan has threatened that his Liberal minority government may be forced to bring into the- Commons a Government motion to reform the rules of Parliament so that its business cam be expedited. He warned that such a move would have to be made if the Commons all - party committee set up last February to look at 'the rules and regulations to try and streamline procedures failed to reach an agreement. Mr. Pearson made the veiled threat in the Commons and lat- er repeated it:4'in ' a national television broadcast. This ac- tion, if taken by the Govern- ment, would involve the admin- istration introducing a Govern- ment. motion into the Commons to alter the parliamentary rules. It would provoke a lengthy and bitter debate and it would have to be passed by a majority. The last time this was done was during the famous .naval aid bill debate in 1913. The then 'Borden Government ad- journed the debate, brought in a motion 'to amend the rules of the House and introduced the closure rule. The ensuing de- bate took two weeks in -which strong words were hurled back and forth across the 'Chamber. Mr, Pearson's threat has stir- red up a controversy already. • It was back in February that the House set up an all -party committee to examine Parlia- ment's rules and recommend changes designed to make Par- liament a more effective piece of legislative machinery. That committee is under the chair- . manship of Mr. Speaker Alan Macnaughton. There is a sub -committee of the main committee, on proce- It is under the .chairman- ship of Stanley Knowles, the New Democratic 'Party member from Winnipeg South Centre, That hard working sub -com- mittee has come up with a plan for liniiting Commons debate. The plan is understood to, have "received the stamp of approval from all party leaders. It was' recommended to the main com- mittee, but there it has bogged down. Little progress has been made in adopting it in the main committee, with ' the main op- position coming from the Pro- gressive Conservatives, -- The 'recommendation of the sub -committee would establish a five -member business commit- tee of the Commons under the Deputy Speaker. That commit- tee, would be responsible for setting time limits on the de- bate of each stage of govern- ment -proposed legislation. The House would be required to ap- prove or reject the business - committee's report without de- bate. Time limit recommendations of the business committee would have to be unanimously appfoved by all five members of the committee, representing 1, all five parties in the House. The Deputy Speaker -would not have a vote in his position as chairman. The committee, either on its own initiative or on written re- quest from the Ministry, would consider the maximum period to be allotted to any stage or stages of debate. It would not deal with matters already on the order paper and it would not intervene with respect to any stage of debate after that stage had 'started. The plan recommended to the ' main all -party committee under Mr. Speaker was a wa- tered down version of the or- iginal Knowles recommenda- tion. In its original form a majority decision of the–busi- ness committee, rather than a Unanimous decisien, would have been sufficient for making a re- commendation to the House. That change was made at the request of Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker. With that change, all 'five leaders of the parties in the House gave their approval to the plan. Mr. Knowles has been care- ful to emphasize that what is Parliament proposed, is not closure. It is a system for the House as a whole through party representa- tives to plan the time that should be allocated to debates of Government bills. The plan put forward by the sub -committee ,was unanimous- ly approved by it. Members of that sub -committee consist of Mr. Knowles, Labour Minister Allan MacEachen,4 Deputy SpeakerLucien LamoureuX, Gordon Aiken .P.C. – Parry Sound - Muskoka),. Gerald Bald- win (P.C.–Peace River), and Gilles Gregoire - (Creditiste-La- Pointe). This proposal of time alloca- tion a step forward. It will have the effect—if finally adopt- ed—of preventing' inconsequen- tial debates from dragging on and on, much longer than any party wants them to continue. But even this concession is viewed with, suspicion. The two Conservative members of the sub -committee have put their stamp of approval on the plan. But former speaker Marcel Lambert, one of the Conserva- tive experts on the rules, is being cautious before stamp- ing it "OK". This hesitancy has frustrated. Mr. Knowles. He thought when he got -all party leaders agree- ing to the plan that the way was cleared for its adoption. But such has not been the case. Consequently it was with a great deal of sympathy that Mr. Knowles heard Prime Min- ister Pearson speak with some exasperation about the all -party committee making little pro- gress on time allocation. Said Mr. Pearson: "If we cannot work this out through an all -party commit- tee—and that would be the best way of doing, it—then I. think the Government will have to take its own responsibility and t bring before Parliament legis- lation or proposals which will streamline Parliament, which will bring about changes in Parliamentary procedure to make Parliament a more ef- fective apparatus for the na- tion's business. If necessary, we will do that" Mr. Knowles' comment after hearing the Prime Minister was: , "I share Mr. Pearson's an- noyance at the delay and the failure of the committee to be, able to get on with its job. But I'm afraid that his statement will only make our work, in the committee more difficult and I wish he had not said it." The Winnipeg member, re- 'garded'as the most outstanding authority in the Commons now on rules, is worried by Mr. Pearson's threat., He contends it would be most unfortunate if the Government brought in its own motion to alter the proce- dures of Parliament. He has pointed out that rules imposed by a majority do:not 'work if the opposition finds them unfair. The opposition can always' find a way to thwart such rules. The Conservative House Leader Gordon Churchill was more vehement in his com- ment. He, said the Prime Minister's statement was a "threat". He said Mr. Pearson was in effect saying to the all - party committee that it might as well disband. Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley THE LAST SURRENDER I was badgered into attend- ing a wedding this summer. They are events I normally avoid as carefully as I would a leper colony. But this was a special one. My old partner, after fighting the good fight for forty years, had finally been snared. I look: ed upon it more as a histork event than a mere exchange of nuptial vows. For year, my wife and ev- ery other married female he came M contact with had bul- lied him, pleaded with him, urged him, pushed eligible young women in front of him, in that great and noble fem- inine vocation known as Don't Let a Single One Get Away. During the process, I and the husbands of these other har- pies maintained a discreet sil- ence, our sympathy indicated' only by the rolling of eyeballs heavenwards. Secretly and un- animously, we cheered him on to greater heights of courage, stubborness or insanity, depend- ing on. your point of view. * * * Anyway, he finally took the plunge, or got out of his depth or something, after four decades. of incredible fortitude. But trust him. He didn't just get hitched and start raising a fam- ily and going through all the horrors 'that involves. Nope. He married a charm- ing widow, and when the last vow had been taken, he be- came an instant -husband, father and grandfather. The rest of 'us go through twenty, five years of . unmitigated hell to achieve that serene height. * * * Well, as I started out to say, weddings, 'to me' and to most men, are just a»'b'ig» pain in the arm. I'd rather go to a good funeral, , any day. , But women are different. They take to weddings like cats to kipper. There is something almost morbid ,about their fas- cination with that production which Most men consider a minor tragicomedy. You should have seen the nonsense we went through get- ting ready for this one. I figur- ed we'd get dressed up, shine our shoes, buy the happy cou- ple a crock of Scotch or a carv- ing knife, and. that's all there was to it. * * Well, that's all I did to pre- pare for it. But my old woman started operating at least a month before the ceremony. Though I kept reminding her • that she wasn't the bride, she was in and out of practically every dress shop in the prov- ince, before- she got the right dress and hat. 'Jen there was a big thing about' her gloves. They were just a shade off the off-some- thing-sade of the rest of the rig. Tears. Dye. Dye remover, More dye. Thant goodness I went in my bare hands. * * * And then there was the gift. I could have bought something useful and suitable, like an ironing, board, in about twenty minutes. But she dragged me, in and out of stores 'until I felt more like dropping than shopping. And the prices! Oy! However, we made it, and I finally realized why women like weddings so much. First of all, it gives them a chance for a good cry without some callous kid saying, "Hey, Dad, what's Mom bawling about NOW?" * : * • Second, it affords them the opportunity of wearing some crazy hat they haven't enough nerve to wear to church norm- ally. 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