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The Huron Expositor, 1963-09-19, Page 2• Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SWARTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association i Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association j fl fl \ • Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: �e Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year �• Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00'a Year SINGLE COPIES -- 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. BROS., Publishers SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 19 1963 Travel in Seaforth Can Be Exciting Movement throughout Seaforth these days can be a surprising and exciting experience, particularly f o r those travelling along mid -town streets. Sidewalks have disappeared through- out much of North Main Street and Goderich Street, and the condition of the travelled portion of the roads, when such exists at all, changes from block to block, and frequently from hour to hour as work progresses. While the picture is confusing to the layman, contractors and those with whom they are co-operating, are carry- ing on with quiet efficiency, laying the groundwork for what shortly will be attractive streets, built to modern stan- dards. Sharing in advancing the work are crews from .Seaforth PUC, Bell Telephone and Union Gas. All the noise and dust and dirt and change from accustomed routines could have resulted in angry words of pro- test as the progress of the work neces- sitated encroachment on occasion on- to private property, or the temporary closing up of streets and entrance ways. Instead, the cheery politeness with which workers go about their job and an evident determination on the part of everybody involved in the project to cut inconvenience to a minimum, has to a great extent eliminated the fric- tion that might otherwise have arisen. While in the main everything is go- ing ahead with the least possible dis- ruption considering the nature of the work, there are a couple of matters Ontario Vote Voters in Ontario will have the op- portunity next week of deciding the kind of government they will have in the province for the next three or four years. In Huron the choice is between the same two estimable and capable can- didates who in 1959 offered themselves to the electorate. At that time Mr. :McNaughton was successful, and he has gone on recognition as a popul- lar minister of highways in the Robarts government. Mr. Harry Strang, the Liberal can- didate, is a highly qualified farmer and township clerk, who through his edu- cation and experience has gained a wide knowledge of agricultural and municipal. problems. Like Mr. Mac - Naughton in the Robarts government, he would be assured of recognition in a Liberal government. In the main the decision the voters will make will be based on an assess- ment of the job the government has about which something might be done. Road work has made necessary the temporary removal of street lights in several areas. The combination that results dark streets and broken side- walks—creates a hazard, particularly for elderly people, that could be eased by stringing temporary lighting. The care being taken to control dust on North Main and Goderich Streets results in relief from the clouds that blanketed everything while sewer work was under way earlier this year. But, unfortunately, the. good work being done during the week doesn't extend over Sunday when traffic is heaviest. Perhaps some way could be found to keep the sprinklers going over the weekend. Statistics Personal expenditures on tobacco and smokers' accessories are estimated at $719,000,000 in 1961 which is more than the total required for the pay and allowances of the armed forces and RCMP in 1963-64. Expenditures on alcoholic beverages totalled $921,000,- 000 which is more than the total of $874,478,726 required for all Dominion civil salaries and wages this year. No one has ever been made' to stop smoking or drinking by statistics like that, but many' are entitled to claim that our pleasures cost us dear and dearer.—(Ottawa Journal) . rs Face Decision done after twenty years in office. Equal- ly important will be the degree to which Premier Robarts has succeeded in con- vincing the voter that scandals, bur- eaucracy and government confusion generally are things of the past—whe- ther the government he, leads is in truth a new government, and how its plans and the ability to carry them out would compare with new vigorous pro- posals offered by Liberal Leader John Wintermeyer. It is on such assess- ments that the result will depend. Two - Way Street Dr. Margaret Mead says that chil- dren are the only people who can un- derstand the modern era, that the rest of us are all "immigrants from the past." The wise have known for cen- turies that education should be made a two-way -street, the young have much to teach the old.—(Ottawa Journal). IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor ' September 16, 1938 President J. E. Keating and members of the Canadian Le- gion were in Kincardine on Sun- day taking part in the annum zone parade and drumhead serv- ice. Seaforth Council authorized the purchase of a stoke,r for the Town Hall. Rev. Father Hussey, pastor of St. James' Church, has announc- ed that the formal reopening of the church, which has been decorated during the summer, will be held on Sunday, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m. Mr. W. A. Crich has complet- ed 40 years in the baking busi- ness. Mr. H. E. Smith is in Toronto this week attending a business conference of the Prudential In- surance- Company. A smart Willys truck , has been supplied to lineman Lloyd Elliott by the McKillop, Logan & Hibbert Telephone Company. Threatening rains failed to deter the enthusiasm of eighty bowlers here Wednesday on the occasion of the Seaforth Bowl- ing Club's annual Tip Top dou- bles tourney. The event was won by J. G. Gibbs and J. Howes, Mitchell, with second go- ing to C. P. Sills and Fred John- son, and Dr. F. J. Bechely and W. G. Willis, third. The,Women's Hospital Aid to Scott Memorial Hospital has completed its fifth' success year. Gifts to, the hos»itat Included a restraining sheet, x. bed light, in 0004 btfmfd dirt, three therinoa Ings, tinier for Xray, brass door numbers for hospi- tal rooms, a flash scialytic lamp and a portable plaster table. From The Huron Expositor September 19, 1913 Mrs. M. McKellar left at The Expositor office on Friday a real natural curiosity. It was a full-grown lilac flower taken that day from a lilac bush in the garden. A severe frost on Saturday and Sunday nights scorched the more tender plants and vege- tables rand in -some places in- jured the corn. Mr. A. T. Box has acquired the sole interest in the Broad - foot -Box furniture and under- taking business in town. Mr., John E. Daley, of near Seaf frth, has a grade cow which possesses an unique record and which is a money-maker for her owner. One year ago she gave birth to twin calves and this year she gave birth to triplets. Out of the five calves, four are living and are fine, strong an- imals. Mr. A. G. Ault has disposed of his grocery stock and busi- ness to Mr. George D. Haigh of Lucknow. Mr. Ault is one of the oldest businessmen in Sea - forth. Mr. Robert Watson is build- ing a handsome two-storey red brick house on the McCartney farm on the Mill Road. When completed, Mr. Watson will have one of the finest farms and buildings in Huron County. From The Huron Expositor September 21, 1888 The South Huron show, un- der the auspices of the South ,Huron Agricultural Society, was held in Seaforth Monday and Tuesday. The weather was de- lightful, and the exhibits in al- most every department were good. Dr. Coleman met with a ra- ther serious mishap on Mon- day. Wishing to stop at Staple- ton, he thought he, could jump from the train while in motion. In doing so he fell, cutting his head and receiving other bruis- es and wounds. He was not ser- iously hurt, and is able to be around again. Messrs. Robert Goveniock and A. Cardno are buying and ship- ping large quantities of apples. Mr. Hugh Ross, of the Sea - forth Collegiate Institute, has received his third-class certifi- cate and has joined the Model School in Goderich. At a meeting of the Tucker - smith School Board, held at Eg- mondville, teachers were hired for the township schools for the next year.' Top salary for the year was $475. Mr. W. J. Shannon of McKil- lop has purchased the cottage adjoining the Temperance Hall, in Seaforth, belonging to the Murphy .estate for $350. Mr. W. N. Watson' is prepar- ing to erect a brick building north of the Queen's Hotel, to be occupied as an office and sewing machine showroom. "But, madam—your very words were, 'I don't care how you do it, but I want that stain removed'!" There are certain months of the year in which I would glad- Yy shake the snow off my -boots and walk out of this country, never to return, without a back- ward glance. But September is not one of them. At this time of year, it would take a regiment of horses to drag me, kicking, screaming, and roaring "0 Canada" across the border. out of my home, my native - land. Twice, poet John Keats ex- pressed it, though he never saw this Canada of ours. He spoke of "the season. of mists and mellow fruitfulness." This is our September. He spoke of "a thing of beauty and a joy forever." And this is our Sep- tember. Winter is all very well in its place. And its place. asi far as I'm concerned, is in outer Siberia. Spring in Canada is a flash in the pan. a flood in the basement, a cold in the head, Summer is a desperate effort to accomplish, in too brief a time, all the things we've been waiting all winter and spring to do. In most countries of the northern hemisphere, spring is the time of joy, of waking to new life, of a fresh stirring of the blood. In Canada, spring is merely a muddy interlude. corn - completely whacked after five months of winter, we drag our- selves through it. only to fum- ble into the clammy, feverish embrace of summer, shameless, exhausting wench. ' In this country, autumn is the time when the pulse begins to quicken. the imagination to soar. The whole nations comes alive, recaptures some coher- ence after the chaos of sum- mer, and makes plans to be, happy and rich. But thanks to a benevolent deity, the transition between the madness of summer and the scrambling activity of fall is a painless—nay, a glorious—ex- perience. We are given a time for dreaming. We are given a chance to sharpen again our senses, deadened by sun and sand and water. We are given golden sunlight, filtered through the greenest masses of foliage SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley in the world. We are given water so blue it makes our eyes ache, and sky so high we can almost see heaven. We are given, just for a month, new eyes, eyes thatisud- denly see the splash of Color the zinnias make against the fence, the thrilling sweep of browns and greens across val- ley and ridge, the sad purple of distant hills. I can scarce forbear to weep with joy when I thing of the glorious gifts of taste with which September rejuvenates our palates, jaded by hamburgs and hot dogs, mustard and rel. ish. charred steak and skunky beer. * x Juice -spurting sweetness of red apples, golden corn. Tongue - tingling tartness of huge, cold tomatoes, tawny peaches. Earth- ness of scrubbed new potatoes, running with butter. Faint, crisp bitterness of cucumbers. Speaking of faint, I'm about to, I haven't had my dinner. September sounds: acorns rat- tling -off the 'roof; squirrels back in the attic, gibbering and mut- tering and scrabbling; the thuds and whacks' and hips and hups of football practice; and the vast, soft sighs of the earth, delivered of her finest, oozing milk and honey and satisfac- tion. September smells: hot d6gs frying at the fall fair; new ap- ples—there's no smell like this one; the first acrid smoke of the exhausts from school bus- es; woodsmoke in the fireplace; the soft, heavy sweet scent of summer replaced by a tang like printer's ink and fresh sweat and champagne, rolled into 'one. You take it, whatever it is: Paris in the spring, summer on the Riviera, Japan in cherry blossom time. I'll take Canada in September. The worst thing I can think of, including my wife running off with the milkman, my kids turning into no-good-niks, is to die early in September. This would kill me. Literally, as they say. "Do the birds come and pick up the breadcrumbs from your lawn?" "They used to before my wife began to make her own bread." —BUT X COULDN'T FIND ' I THB CAN -OPENER ANYWHERE. J N.Itear �nng! A/ilii11111/tlr.om spoon 111 A'MAC. AFF OTTAWA REPORT PRESSURES, POUTICS AND PENSIONS OTTAWA: The Liberal Gov- ernment has bowed to political pressures and annooneed it will ask Parliament to approve pay meat of a $10 increase in the old age pension in October, to be financed through a boost in taxes. The taxpayer will be forced to dig deeper into his pockets to fork over the $116,000,000 to meet the costs of raising the universal old age pension from its present level of $65 a.month up to $75 a month. This is a backdgwn by the Liberal min- ority government from its pre- vious position that it would not raise the pension to $75 with- out linking it to the Federal contributory Canada Pension plan and providing the increas- ed amount out of contributions paid into the plan by all Cana- dians. Meantime a Federal -Provin- cial conference on the propos- ed Canada 'Pension Plan con- cluded after two days of tech- nical discussions. A communi- que issued at the close said there was general agreement among the participants that a national contributory pension plan is desirable. Federal and Quebec representatives will now work out the inter -relationship of Federal and Quebec plans and Federal and Ontario re- presentatives will meet and re- commend how the Ontario leg- islation on pensions and the Canada Pension Plan can be co-ordinated. Prime Minister Pearson an- nounced the decision to change the Government's policy and pay the pension increase out of the treasury, when the confer- ence opened. He attributed the policy change to the fact that Quebec had made it clear it was not going to participate in the Federal plan. Without contributions to the Federal plan from the people of Quebec it would have meant that the $10 increase in the basic pension was being paid out of contributions from all the other people in Canada out- side of Quebec. In fairness the $10 increase in the universal pension could not be paid' to Quebec pensioners out of con- tributions made by non -Quebec residents and accordingly the additional $10 also be paid out of the present old age security fund. The fund is built up through contributions madeon the bas- is of three per cent of taxable personal income; three per cent of corporation taxes and three per cent of the sales tax. The Government made it clear that it was premature to forecast firmly what taxes would be rais- ed. However, it is understood that the sales tax would not be changed as the Government feels it is high enough now, and Finance Minister Walter Gordon is also on record that the Corporation income tax was at its peak and should not be raised. Thus the Government may decide to go for a one per cent personal income tax in- crease. Government authorities, in- cluding the Prime Minister, em- phasized that apart from the increase of $10 in the basic pension the Canada Pension Plan relates benefits to contri- butions. The other financial features of the plan will there- fore not be appreciably affect- ed by the absence of both con- tributions and benefits from Que- bec which has said it will oper- ate its own plan. Meantime the representatives of the provinces attending the conference — British Columbia - 'and Manitoba were the only two without ministerial delegates— were given detailed information on the operation of the propos- ed Federal scheme. It was clear that the pension plan will` be a particular boon to those men Past middle -age who are not to,) far away from retirement. How- ever, young men who will be making contributions for 40 or more years—at rising rates of contributions — will carry a heavy load. Under the Federal scheme virtually all workers, aged 18 or over, with. "employee" status, will be required to participate. For administrative reasons cer- tain "employee" groups such as agricultural laborers, individual domestic servants, and . some classes of casual workers will not be required to participate. For constitutional reasons, employees of Provincial Gov- ernments will not be required to participate unless it is agreed by the provinges. With the main exception of members of the armed forces and persons under 18 years of age, almost all work- ers in gainful employment who are not required to participate under the plan may participate on a voluntary basis. Early in the Federal -Provin- cial conference Premier John Robarts of Ontario gave assur- ances that his province would cooperate to the fullest extent to make the Ontario pension program conform to the Federal plan. It is expected therefore that within a few years the pen- sion picture in Canada will be appreciably altered. In Quebec a public and uni- versal plan will be in operation accompanied by arrangements to make the Quebec plan and the Federal scheme mutually transferable. In the rest of Canada a uni- versal contributory plan will be in effect. Practically all em- ployers and all employees will be contributing one per cent of each employee's earnings to the Federal plan. Private plans now in existence will be co- ordinated_ with the Federal scheme or absorbed. By 1974, after a contributor has been paying intp the Federal plan for 10 years, he may retire with a maximum pension of $100 a month, if he has reached the age of 70. This would be aug- mented by the fiat rate pension of $75 per month. That is the picture that will develop in Canada providing Ontario co-operates with Ot- tawa in putting into operation the Federal pension plan. The Federal Government Thought at the outset of the conference that it had assurances from Pre- mier Robarts that is overn- ment would co-operate. But as the conference - pro- gressed—Premier Robarts left it early to resume his provincial electioneering—it became less clear as to what extent Ontario would co-operate. Health Mini- ster LaMarsh told a press con- ference at the close of the meet- ings that she wasn't quite sure where Ontario stood on the Federal scheme. She explained that she placed one meaning to words but had learned during the conference that others place "different meanings". She add- ed somewhat acidly, "Right now I don't know why, exactly, Pre- mier Robarts came to this con. ference—although I do perhaps have a pretty good idea." It appeared that the Ontario election campaign was in full swing and that the pension plan was an important issue. This had had considerable impact on the discussions that took place ' between the Federal and Pro- vincial Government representa- tives behind closed doors. It was obvious at the close of the—two-day conference that the future .of the Federal Govern- ment's proposed contributory portable pension plan rests in the hands of one man, Ontario's Premier Robarts and the elec- tors of Ontario, who could elect his opponent, John Winter- meyer. Wintermeyer is pledg- ed to the Canada pension plan without the "ifs, ands and buts" of John Robarts- So far, it doesn't look as if Wintermeyer is going to win—but if he and his fellow Liberals can turn it into a hot issue which means something to the ordinary voter —they could have a winner in what has been a sleepy election to date. Indigant Woman: "Sir, you will kindly address me as 'Li- brarian', not 'bookie'." For INFORMATION and CARS on ELECTION DAY Wednesday, September 25 CALL 314 LIBERAL COMMITTEE ROOMS Vote and Work For STRANG -- LIBERAL SUBSCRIPTION RATE INCREASE EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 21, 1963 The Subscription Rates for The Huron Expositor will be raised to $4.00 per year CANADIAN $5.50 per year FOREIGN There will be no change in the price for Single Copies which will continue at 10 Cents each New Subscriptions and Renewals will be accepted at the present 12.50 rate up to 'September 21, 1963, for a maxi- mum of one year. For more than 10 years The Expositor has resisted any change that would result in a higher subscription price, but continuing increases in costs of production make an adjustment necessary. For this reason, then, the subscription rate will become $4.00 per year, effective September 21st next. The rate which was last adjusted in 1952 will then be in keeping with the rate which weeklies in other Huron towns have had in effect for some years.