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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 7, 1963
A Challenge . . .
Decision last week to hold the In-
ternational Plowing Match here in 1966
presents both a challenge and an op-
portunity to Seaforth.
This community must ensure that the
arrangements for the match are the
best it is possible to create, and this
can be done if steps are taken now to
plan for each detail.
The fact that Seaforth was chosen
as the site for the match reflects of
Bourse the location advantages in ex-
istence here. First, there was the large
acreage available on Scott Farms and
on other neighboring farms. There was
the availability within close distance of
adequate hydro, telephone and water
facilities, and perhaps even more im-
portant, was the location of the site in
relation to modern highways capable
of carrying heavy traffic Ioads without
congestion.
Too, there was in the area a group of
public spirited farmers who through
the years have taken keen interest in
plowing matches, and who were pre-
pared to make their lands available. It
was these factors which dictated the
choice of the site by' representatives of
the World Plowing Organization, Cana-
dian Plowing Council, Ontario Plow-
man's Association, Huron Plowman's
Association, Department of Agricul-
ture and Huron County Council, as
well as of provincial police and utili-
ties.
While it is true these advantages al-
ready in being will go far to ensure the
1966 match is an outstanding event, it
in no measure lessens the challenge to
the 'community to co-operate and plan
to the end that the 1966 event is the
best.
The match in the past has attracted
an average of 30,000 people a day, and
attendance is increasing each year. This
will be the biggest opportunity Seaforth
will have for many years to indicate
what the town can offer as: a commun-
ity in which to live, to work, to play.
If full advantage is to be taken of this
opportunity, we must plan now to carry
on to early completion the excellent pro-
gram for new streets and storm and
The Custom
We noticed the other day where an
aged woman was trapped in a burning
farm home and efforts to save her were
in vain when it was impossible to open
the front door. The door, apparently,
was locked.
In all probability many front doors
to farm houses are locked, though it is
amazing how many farmers leave their
homes wide open even when they are
absent from the home for an afternoon
or an evening. Actually we suppose
many farmers, have no key to their
back door.
And just as true, many farmers nev-
er use their front door. The latter is
quite understandable in that the farm
housewife doesn't want children and
others with muddy feet tracking
through the house from the front to
and An Opportunity
sanitary sewers, which has been under
way for several years. We must press
forward our plans for zoning ,and a
town plan. In short, we must take a
careful look at Seaforth as a munici-
pality and take whatever steps are nec-
essary to bring it into top form by
1966.
Seaforth, of course, 'is no stranger to
the International. In 1942 arrange-
ments to hold the match at the Whyte
farms were cancelled because of the
war. Through the years many prize
winners at the International event—
beginning with Gordon McGavin in
1926 — have come from this area.
S.D.H.S. won first in the Inter -School
Class in 1952 and has continued to
compete each year. In 1959 the SDHS
Band accompanied the plowmen and
was such an attraction that each year
since it has been invited to take part.
To a great degree the Band contributed
to the parade becoming a popular and
annual feature of the International.
The fact that the OPA accepted Hu-
ron's invitation to hold the 1966 match
somewhere in the county when it met
last February, was due in great degree
to the interest this area had exhibited
in the OPA and in the activity of Huron
County Council.
There naturally will be . disappoint-
ment in some areas that another site
was not chosen. It has been suggested,
too, by Grand Bend officials, who were
anxious for the match, that there
should be reimbursement for expenses
involved in efforts to bring the match
there. The record indicates much of the
expense was met by Huron County
grants and contributions of Seaforth
area organizations, municipalities and
individuals. If there is additional ex-
pense incurred by Grand Bend in sup-
port of Huron's bid, and for which
there has been no recompense, then cer-
tainly a legitimate claim exists. The
Huron comfitttee can easily resolve the
question by reviewing the facts.
The main problem now is to set the
stage and do the necessary planning.
that will ensure an International Plow-
ing Match in 1966 of which everybody
in Huron can be proud.
in Front Doors
the back.
Many front doors are never opened.
It is surprising in fact, how many farm
homes have no steps at front. When
the house was built a front door was
put in but the farmer has never got
around to building a platform and steps
in' front.—(Owen Sound Sun -Times).
Since I do not foresee that atomic
energy is to be a great boon for a long
time, I have to say that for the present
it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that
it should be. It may intimidate the hu-
man race into bringing order to its in-
ternational affairs, which without the
pressure of fear, it would not do.—Al-
bert Einstein.
IN.IRE YEARS AEON
lnte tsting items gleaned from
Th. Expositor of 25, SO
and 75 years ago.
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From The Huron Expositor
November 11, 1938
Mrs. Ballingall, demonstrator
for cottons, addressed a large
gathering of 300 ladies in First
Presbyterian Church school-
room on Thursday afternoon,
when cottons for everyurpose
from beach clothes and wed-
ding 'outfits to bedspreads and
curtains were displayed.
Three outstanding junior
farmers of Huron County, Nor-
man Pepper, Alden Crich and
Bert Garrett, all from Tucker -
smith, will enter the inter -coun-
ty livestock judging competi-
tions at the Royal Winter Fair
at Toronto.
Despite a big drop in the
thermometer this week bring-
ing welcome rains which helped
fill wells that were dry and
fields that were too hard to
plow, residents continue to find
evidence of summer in Sea -
forth and district gardens. Mrs.
Mae Dorrance picked a number
of violets in her garden Wed-
nesday, while a similar bouquet
wag picked in a Hullett bush
on Sunday.
From The Huron Expositor
November 7, 1913
Workmen are now busy build-
ing and repairing bridges on
the Grand Trunk Railway be-
tween Seaforth and Goderich.
In all, 13 new bridges of vary-
ing sizes are being built on this
stretch of road.
Mrs; M. Robertson has sold
her residence on North Main
Street to Mr. James Rivers of
Cromarty, who is coming to
town to reside. Among the
household effects Mrs. Robert-
son is offering' for sale is a
black walnut secretary which is
150 years old.
The Post Office inspector is
expected here on Tuesday next
when the post office will likely
be transferred from the old to
the new building and the staff
will be on the job under- the
new postmaster and in the new
building on Wednesday morn-
ing.
Mr. Charles Holbein this week
delivered to Armstrong & Cass
en eight -months -old pig, of his
own raising, that turned the
scales at 360 pounds.
From The Huron Expositor
November 9, 1888
Mr. Frank Henderson, who is
well known to many of our read-
ers and who is now 74,years of
age, on Monday last walked
from Hensel' to Seaforth, a dis-
tance of 12 miles, and carried
a heavy .pack on his back.
During the thunderstorm on
Monday evening, the residence
of Mr. John Kale, near the sta-
tion, was struck by lightning
and one of the chimneys knock-
ed off.
The buildings on the farms
of Mr. Weisenburg, 8th conces-
sion of McKillop, with their con-
tents, were destroyed by re
early on Monday morning last.
Mr. John McMann, the well-
known horse buyer, has pur-
chased the Murphy farm adpoin-
ing this town, paying for it
$5,900. The farm contains 100
acres of land, and has a good
sand pit and gravel pit.
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Hunter, Hunter, hold your fire!
Do not explode that cartridge.
That's your neighbor, Mr. Dwyer.
It's not a plump hen partridge.
All right. You don't like that
verse? How about this one?
Along the line of smoky hills
The crimson hunters stand,
A hundred thousand Bob's and
Bill's,
Their muskets in their hand.
They're in the swamps andval-
leys, too,
As thick as grease in skillet;
They have but one ambition, to
See something move and kill
it.
Yes, gentle, all -suffering read-
er, I'm afraid that one of the
silliest of Canada's silly seasons
is upon us. The above doggerel
represents two of the attitudes
about hunting seasons which
prevail. They might be labelled
the Apprehensiye and the Dis-
approving.
There are others. For ex-
ample:
Why can't we hunters shoot
from cars
And blest away on Sundays?
Each silly regulation mars
Our simple, joyous fun days.
This might be called the
viewpoint of that small group
of malformed individuals who
give the rest of us the creeps.
They enjoy killing for its own
sake. They will. shoot 20 ducks
when the bag limit is eight.
They will shoot an owl or a
turtle or a cat, if nothing else
is moving.
I find myself uneasy in their
company. They could be term-
ed The Killers. They are not
hunters.
Quite opposed to these queer
ones is another segment of our
population. I came across a
typical group of this species
last Saturday when I dropped
in at the pub for an ale. There
they were, he-men all, in their
red caps, red jackets and red
faces, on about their eighth
round of beers. After another
couple of rounds, they'd be
ready to fan out into the woods
and it would be every man for
himself.
This type, and it is legion,
seldom kills anything more
dangerous than a crock or an
old buddy. Just for the sake
of euphony, let's call them The
Swillers. Their credo might go
thus:
Hunting is the sport for us;
We're a manly, merry crew,
So why the ruckus and the fuss
When we bag a cow or two?
Beset on one side by The
Apprenhensive and The Disap-
proving, on the other by The
Killers and The Swillers, the
real hunter has my sympathy.
All he wants is to be allowed
to follow his favorite sport in
peace and with a modicum of
safety, and it's getting tougher
all the time. If he were not
the sign fle, inarticulate type, he
might say:
Give me a crisp November day
With it little skid of snow,
And a deer ruts, and a good gun,
And you Imo* where you can go.
I don't like slaughter. But I
don't think every man who
shoots ananimal is a depraved
monster, lusting for blood.
Many a Saturday afternoon I
myself have lined up my sights
and fired With cool precision at
a fence post or a No Trespass-
ing sign.
And I'll never forget the day
I bagged my biggest trophy—
the black bear. I was out hunt-
ing partridge. The birds had
me pretty rattled, jumping up
behind me with a great whir
and winging off, laughing over
their shoulders.
Suddenly, out of the corner
of my eye, I saw this huge,
black, menacing shape crouch-
ed' on a tree limb. Quick as a
flash, I whirled, threw up my
gun and fired. Down he tum-
bled at one shot. I felt both
silly and a little sick when my
400 -pound black bear turned out,
to be a 12 -ounce black squirrel.
But I ate him, in a stew.
How things have changed
since Samuel Johnson wrote, a
couple of hundred years; ago,
"Hunting was the labor of the
savages of North America, but
the amusement of the gentle-
men of England." Or have
they?
A SMILE OR TWO
A good banquet speaker al-
ways has something to say; a
poor one has to say something.
In the world's concern with
Left and Right, it seems to us
that most people have forgot-
ten that there is an Above and
Below.
The primary purpose of a
newspaper is to bring the news
and enable you to keep that
news with you as long as you
wish.
In terms of cost to you, the
newspaper costs almost nothing
a few cents. In terms of
what a newspapers means to
you . . . everything.
The gatekeeper of a nudist
colony heard a racket at the
door and went out to investi-
gate.
"I'd like to join the colony,"
replied the stranger, rattling
the chains anxiously.
"You can't come in here with
that blue sit," said the gate-
keeper.
"Shucks," said the outsider,
"this hain't no blue suit. Pm
just cold."
A girl called on a farmer in
response to an ad for 'a shep-
herd. "No, no lassie," said the
farmer. "I advertised for a
shepherd, not a shepherdess."
"I know that," replied the
girl, "but surely there's no rea-
son why the work should not
he undertaken by a woman?"
"Well, a woman tried it once.
and made a mess of the job,"
explained the fanner,
"Awl Who, was she?"
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"A STILL NOBILITY" — The great response of Canada which result-
ed in more than 100,000 servicemen dying in defence of freedom is represent-
ed in this group of figures surging through the granite arch of the National
War Memdrial at Ottawa. Upon their bronze faces the eager expression of
hope replaces the times of strife 'and death. When Canadians everywhere pay
silent homage on Monday, it will be in tribute to those soldiers, sailors, air-
men, and other workers who make up the long list of Canada's war dead.
A MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT
DELICATE AND
DISTASTEFUL
OTTAWA — Espionage is
something that all freedom lov-
ing countries must guard
against. But in seeking to pro-
tect itself from the operations
of enemy agents within its bor-
ders a democracy must proceed
carefully lest it infringe on the
freedom of its own people in
striving to ensure the freedom
of the state. It is a very diffi-
cult and delicate problem in a
democracy.
More than once in the House
of Commons Members of Par-
liament have raisedtheir voices
in protest over cases where
they were convinced that a Ca-
nadian had been dealthwith
unfairly and in contravention
of his civil rights,, But in that
same House of Commons the
members were shocked less
than two decades ago when one
of their own number—a Com-
munist M...P —was accused and
found guilty in the famous spy
trials.
Those spy investigations trig-
gered by a Russian cipher clerk
fleeing from the Russian em-
bassy in Ottawa, shook Canada
and the free world. This coun-
try along with many others be-
came acutely security conscious.
Subsequent developments in
other nations, such as the Unit-
ed
nited Kingdom, the United States
and France have demonstrated
again and again, how a democ-
racy must be constantly on
guard against Communist ag-
ents.
More than once it has de-
veloped that the Communist
espionage system has depended
upon Government employees
providing it with vital informa-
tion. Consequently the anti -
espionage operations have em-
phasized the need for keeping
a close check on Government
workers engaged in sensitive
jobs.
But aware that there have
been mistakes made in screen-
ing members of the armed forc-
es and Federal employees the
Liberal Government has initiat-
ed changes, and so important
did Prime Minister Pearson re-
gard the changes that he an-
nounced them himself.
Security is both essential and
distasteful. He recognized, said
Mr. Pearson, that most Cana-
dians would prefer it if they
could ignore the necessity of
security and do away with the
procedures and precautions it
imposed upon the administra-
tion.
It was the responsibility of
the Government to ensure that
every reasonable precaution was
taken to raterlt the security of
the nation 'in all its aspects.
First there was the physical
safety of the secret, classified
information. This the Govern-
ment must provide by devising
effective regulations for its pro-
per handling and storage. How-
ever, physical security in itself
was of little use without the
added assurance that the peo-
ple handling the material in
question are people in whom
the Government could have full
confidence.
It is in the area of personnel
security that most of the Gov-
ernment's difficulties lay. if
Canada's security policies ignor-
ed, or did not take sufficiently
into account, the basic rights
of the individual, they could
operate not to defend but to
destroy the liberties which are
the Government's first concern.
The reconciliation of these com-
peting responsibilities and these
competing obligations was not
easy. The Prime Minister warn-
ed that there is no solution that
does not entail some risks both
to security and to individual
r'ightaF
tilt the Government has' WV
wrestled with the problem and
come up with a new procedure.
In future where members of the
armed forces or Federal em-
ployees are branded as security
risks they will be told of the
accusations against them. They
will be given a chance to tell
their side of the sto#-- to a
secret board of revievb.
This should do away with mis-
carriages of justice such as oc-
curred in the case of Gordon
Knott. He is a Lake Cowichan,
British Columbia, youth who
was dismissed from the Royal
Canadian Navy as' security risk.
His case was raised in the House
of Commons by. the New Demo-
cratic Party. When it was in-
vestigated, it was discovered
that false information received
by the Royal Canadian Mount-
ed Police had led to the dis-
missal of the youth.
Justice Minister Chevrier
made a public apology to. the
youth. The Knott security file
was ordered destroyed. The
Mounted Police had erred.
The New Democratic Party
group urged in the Commons
that persons should not be
branded as security risks sim-
ply because of the beliefs or
activities of relatives. But Prime
Minister Pearson and Justice
Minister Cheerier pointed out
that it is a fact of modern day
life that Communist agents are
known to bring pressure to bear
,on a person because they- have
uncovered damning information
about a close relatives. Those
with relatives living in coun-
tries behind the Iron Curtain
were open to terrible emotional
pressures. Threats could be
made against the safety or wel-
fare of the relatives if the per-
son under pressure to provide
security information did not co-
operate.
Espionage as it is practised is
a ruthless, .dirty game. Those
seeking to learn secret informa-
tion of the democracies will
stop 'at nothing to gain their
ends. Human . emotions cannot
be expected to be proof against
the possible anguish of loved
one. The brutal fact is that such
anguish may be imposed by
those who are pitiless in get-
ting or trying to get what they
wants These are harsh and un -
CANADIAN SCENE
pleasant facts, said Mr. Pear-
son. But he cautioned that they
did not go away just because
Canadians would like to pre-
tend that they did not exist.
He was confident that the
new procedures the Government
was adopting would assist' it in
making judgments concerning
loyalty and reliability in a man-
ner which would protect indi-
vidual rights as well as nation-
al interests. He added that it
would be "quite impossible" to
make the new regulations re-
troactive. Re -opening one case
would, "rush" re -opening; them
all.
Capsule Comment
Health and Welfare Minister
Judy LaMarsh has emphatical-
ly denied newspaper reports
that the Canada 'Pension Plan
has been shelved. She said it
is the Liberal Government's in-
tention to proceed with the pen-
sion plan at the present session
of Parliament, But if , that
proves to be impossible because ,,
of the -amount of work before
the present session expected to
end just before Christmas, then
the Government will bring for-
ward the Canada Pension mea-
sure early in the next session.
It is a "basic promise of the
Liberal administration, said
Miss LaMarsh.
'JEST A SECOND'
"You were right, Harry --.
it isn't rhubarb!"
By Mad
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