HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-03-20, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1952
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Tinies Established 1873 Amalgamated *034 Advocate Established 1881
Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter* Ontario
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THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1952
Improvement
It s a pleasure to see people in Ste
phen getting together to renovate the
township hall at Crediton. For a long time
the interior of the building has not been
a credit to the township and it created a
very unhealthy atmosphere for municipal
and community meetings.
Noiv. through the co-operation of the
council, Crediton VT*I. and other organiza
tions, and with the help of volunteer labor,
the people are overhauling the clumsy one-
storey structure into a more useful two-
storey community centre.
When completed, it should be a hall
the ratepayers of the township and the
residents of the Crediton area will be
proud of and will benefit from.
We commend the promotors of this
improvement movement.* * *• *
Look Around
While we’re on this subject, we think
it’» about time all municipalities took a
critical look at some of their public build
ings.
Some of the schools and municipal
halls in this district look like they’ve bare
ly survived a 50-year drought.
We aren’t advocating any Buckingham
palaces or Windsor castles, but we do think
the residents of this prosperous district
could afford some paint and elbow grease
on the buildings they own collectively.
Maybe these buildings were good
enough for our pioneers but we’ll wager it
wouldn’t satisfy them if they were living'
now,
If it weren’t for the colorful paintings
and charts of children, some of our rural
schools would look like they’d been sub
jected to the hoof-and-mouth disease.
Lost Pride
To continue in this series, we wonder
sometimes if we’ve lost the pride in oui’
buildings that our pioneers had.
It’s not unusual to see modern farm
machinery and late model cars displayed
in front of dirty grey barns and dilapidated
buildings.
Naturally, a lot of buildings deterior
ated during the war when the pressure of
the war effort and the shortage of supplies
made it difficult to make repairs and im
provements. But the war’s been over for
five years and there are still a lot of build
ings that haven’t been touched since the
thirties.
We remember a nice old lady from the
state of Michigan who used to drive
through the district several times a year
“just to see your beautiful red barns”.
She cancelled her trips during the war
because of the gasoline shortage but she
looked forward to post-war visits. Of
course she was disappointed the first few
trips she made but she realized that every
body had been too busy to keep things
ship-shape. She became more disappointed
when she didn’t see the improvement she
expected as time went on. She doesn’t come
around any more.
Maybe in this machine age, we’ve
transplanted the pride in our buildings to
the pride in our cars and our luxuries. But
the shiny automobile isn’t nearly as notice
able on the landscape as the barn or the
house.
Surely it hasn’t come to the stage
where municipal and county councils will
have to offer subsidies for painting, and
decorating. That’s a poor substitute for
good old-fashioned pride.
(Okay, okay—so The Times-Advocate
office has been a sore spot on the main
street for years. We’re going to fix it up
this Spring.)
How about a good clean-up, paint-up
campaign in the district this year?* * * -x-
Bouquets
We’d like to send some verbal bou
quets (they’ll have to be potted flowers—•
the crocusses got caught in the week-end
snow storm) to;
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority for raising
$6'00 for the South Huron Hospital.
The old-time hookey stars who suf
fered aches and pains for the injured play
ers' fund.
Borden Sanders, an Exeter Old Boy,
who was recently awarded a fellowship in
the Royal College of Physicians of Canada,
; Huron County Tuberculosis Associa-
: tiom who will soon conduct a mass X-ray
; in the interest of the county’s health.
j Harry Strang, who deserves the re-
I cognition he received at the Huron Couhty
Seed Fair recently. He is a consistent pro-
j moier of better things in agriculture.
I Exeter Maroons, the basketball team
? that takes honors in Ontario playoffs but
1 has a heck of a time getting a place to
| play in at a price they can afford,
( Your Bed Cross canvasser who makes
| it possible for this institution to carry on
i its valuable work.
I And thorns (snow balls would be more
I seasonable) to:
i Exeter Kinsmen, who should have, had
; their housenumbering project completed
• long ago.
; Exeter Lions, who should act on Scout
, Commissioner* Harry Firth’s suggestion, call
* a meeting of old Scouts and get the troop
j reorganized.
Those people who think it’s smart to
knock the hospital.
i Disappointed
Those bean growers who expected to
■ have direct access to their new electric-eve
I plant at London were disappointed when
; some of their officials said it couldn’t oper-
j ate efficiently unl’ess the beans went
I through the regular dealer channels.
| The bean growers were quite emphatic
that they wanted to ship direct to the pro
cessing plant and they asked the Board to
make it available to them.
j However, W. P. Cornell, chairman of
the Ontario Board, told the growers it
would be impossible for all of them to use
the plant because it wasn’t large enough to
handle, the provincial output. His solution
was that the plant would have to receive
the beans from the dealers as they could
be handled.
It would seem that, if the growers
really wanted to eliminate the dealers, they
would have to build and manage many
other plants like the one in London.
i That would be a costly scheme and
j one full of headaches.
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Special Mention
A special bouquet should go to the
Ail* Force Wives Auxiliary, who recently
completed the last payment of their $600
donation to the South Huron Hospital.
Although most of these ladies will
never benefit by or have the use of our
hospital, they have worked hard to make
a substantial contribution to a community
of which they can only be “temporary”
residents.
The members of the auxiliary deserve
sincere thanks from South Huron com
munity.* * * *
Stop My Paper
(By Charles S. Buck in the
London Free Press)
Mark Twain and Artemus Ward often
told how violently some readers of news
papers in the American West disagreed
with the opinions of their editors. Instead
of using pistols to protest in the Canadian
West of the 1850s—Western Ontario was
the West then—critics cancelled their sub
scriptions with a terse “Stop my paper”
notice. Naturally editors discouraged that
sort of rebuke and thus, with evident ap
proval, the editor, Thomas McQueen, of
The Huron Signal, Goderich, on July 29,
1852, quotes prominently?'in his coltfmn the
following letter in which he says “a witty
correspondent touches off the ‘Stop my
paper* gentry”. It reads in part:
“Some men are composed of mud, mo
lasses and meanness, equal parts of each,
and again some are composed of mud and
meanness Without one drop of sweetnin*—
bodies all mud and souls all meanness, and
the chap that stops his paper to try and
hurt the honest printer is not so mean as
he’s mouse-souled I You might as well fire
a pop-gun against thunder, blow a match
against a hurricane with a pair of leaky
bellows, or try to put out Vesuvius with a
snowball, as to silence a newspaperman by
mean tricks. The honest printer will tell
the truth and shame the devil, and that’s
the printer that bad men hate worse than
bed bugs hale Venice turpentine?*
MY LADYCAPRICE "Timmy" Regular /Fellow/
Thanks To Easter Seals
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“TIMES" Go By
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Frederick Atkinson, 12, of 595
Mary Street, Woodstock, was to
day named the province’s “Tim
my” or Easter Seal Child for
1952, by officials of the Ontario
Society for Crippled Children.
The clean-cut, handsome youth
as chosen as typical of Ontario’s
crippled children who are receiv
ing services from the Society,
financed through Easter Seal
funds.c His dramatic story of
fighting a winning hattie against
a crippling disease for more than
12 years illustrates what Easter
Seal services actually do to help
crippled children become healthy,
useful adults.
When he was born, Fred was
a weak, anemic baby with no
control over his lower limbs.
Some doctors despaired of his
life and others said he would
never be able to walk,
Diagnosis by specialists re
vealed that Fred had “spina
hjfida”, a condition in which ■ a
segment of the spine is missing
and all mus.cles from the waist
down are paralysed.
Fortunately for Fred and his
parents, the Rotary Club of
Woodstock and the Ontario So
ciety for Crippled Children dis
covered tlieir son, made hiin
their protege and saw that he
had the care of doctors, thera
pists and teachers. At the age
of seven months he was sent to
one of the Society's clinics in
London where a tumor, which
had formed on the spine, was
removed. At seven years of age
he was again sent to a clinic,
this time an orthopedic one in
Toronto, where he was outfitted
with special braces and crutches.
Fred’s treatment^” -are still
continuing after 12 years but
today, with the help of leg
braces and crutches, he “walks”
alone and is thinking of joining
his 5 year old sister, Judy, and
his father and mother in the
Woodstock Easter parade.
Fred goes to Grade V in
Northdale Public School and is
as happy as any other 12 year
old there. He plays shinny with
the other kids on Mary Street,
hikes downtown to the Saturday
matinees, goes for guitar lessons
and in the summer plays base
ball and golf. His hobbies are
building model boats in their
basement workshop^ with his
Dad, a feed mill employee, and
painting in water colors, Some
day. he hopes to study medicine.
“I’ve always t ried to make
Fred feel there’s nothing other
boys 12 years old do that he
can’t do,” said Mrs. Atkinson.
“So far I’ve seen nothing he
actually misses put on. Our
house has been so happy since
Fred really started to ‘walk’ ”,
The 19 52 Easter Seal cam
paign will extend from March
13 to Easter Sunday, during
which time the Ontario Society
for Crippled Children expects to reach ifs quota of $400,000.
There are 4,700 crippled child
ren under care in Ontario. Your
Easter Seal contribution will
make possible services which
help them walk, talk and live
like other children.
50 YEARS AGO
Mr. W. S. Talbot has pur
chased the stock of Mr. William
Levitt of “Levitt’s Fair” and
has taken possession, Mr. Levitt
having recently purchased the
Grand Bend Park will in future
direct his attention to its man
agement.
Mr. Abe Bagsliaw, who has
•conducted a bakery and confec
tionery here for a number of
years, will move with his family
to Homefield, Manitoba. Mr. J.
T. O’Brien has purchased Mr.
Bagshaw’s bakery.
Hensail Observer—Mr. Rivers,
who recently retired from the
firm of Shepherd & Rivers, has
bought Mr, Kernick’s farm,
Thames Road, near Exeter.
■Miss Violet Treble will open
a dress-making business in the
shop recently vacated by Mr, W.
Johns.
Mr. Frederick Hess, of Zurich,
has notified the secretary of the
South Huron Liberal Association
that he will not he party candi
date at the coming election.. The
withdrawal of Mr. Hess after
entering the field is something
of a surprise to the party.
25 YEARS AGO
The hydro shop has a clock
that is run by electricity and
does not need winding..
Mr. Cecil Rowe, of Hay town
ship, had the good fortune to
shoot a silver fox.
Miss Greba Hedden, who for
the past three years has been
clerking in the post office has
resigned her position which has
been filled by Miss Flory West.
Justice W. M. Martin, of the
Supreme Court of Saskatchewan,
an Exeter old boy, has been ap
pointed special commissioner to
probe the claims1 of the British
Columbia government, that lands
granted to the Federal Govern
ment at the time of Confedera
tion should be returned to that
province.
R. N. Creech, M. R. Complin,
H. C. Rivers and L, J. 'Penhale
were appointed at a baseball
meeting to find out what players
would be available for the com
ing year.
15 YEARS AGO
The 30-mile stretch of road
from Strathroy to Grand Bend
will be taken over as part of the
provincial highway system.
Mr. William Hatter has in
stalled a new automatic bottling
machine and capper to be used
in connection with his dairy
business.
Top scholars^ in the Hensail
school report were: Harold
Ko eh le r, Marion Drummond,
Gordon Campbell, Marion Mac-
Laren, Shirley Hedden, Mervyn
Stephen, Ronald Moir, Joyce
Broderick and Norina Greene.
Best scholars in the different
classes at S.S. No. 3 Stephen
were Clifford Jory, Shirley Pres-
cator, Winston Shapton, Bobby
Parsons, Harold Glanville, Phyl
lis Preszcator, Helen Shapton.
The 1937 Chevrolet was ad
vertised for $745.-
IO YEARS AGO
For the third year in a row,
Lucan Irish won the Cyclone
championship. On the team were:
Goal, Jackson; defence, Wright-
en and Murrel; centre, Moore;
wings, Stive and Hodgins; subs.,
Barnes, Siddall, Howe, Paul,
Smith and Watson. On the air
port team which was defeated
were: Goal, Smith, defence,
Creech and Allison; centre, Lut-
man,: wings, Sangster and Law-
son; subs., Wood Kumm, Fah-
ner, 'Morrison and Pickering.
Mr. E. A. Howald has taken
a position in the grocery depart
ment of Southcott Bros., in
'place of Mr. Gordon Appleton
who resigned.
Miss Florence Kirk, daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Kirk, formerly of Kirkton, has
returned home from China.
Mr. and Mrs. W, A. Reaman,
of Colombia, South America, are
visiting with the latter’s .parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Medd.
... Neighboring News ...
Fire Threatens Block
In Downtown Area
Fire threatened the Jervis
Block, Albert St., Clinton, on
Thursday afternoon last, but
prompt action of 'Clinton volun
teer Fire Department served to
extinguish the blaze, with dam
age estimated by Fire Chief
Grant Rath at $150.
The fire broke out in the
chimney in the rear of the build
ing and burned through a first-
floor partition, destroying an
electric switch box. As a result,
tenants were minus heat or light
for some time. Smoke filled both
the lower and upper apartments.
(Clinton News-Record)
Protest Disallowed *•
A protest lodged by the St.
Marys Alerts hockey team re
garding the way a penalty was
given in the final game with
Hensall here on Friday last, was
disallowed by the W.O.A.A. exe
cutive at a meeting held in
Wingham on Sunday. Local hoc
key officials who were present
to back up the protest included
H. Marcaccio, Don Fletcher and
Jim Noble.(St. Marys Journal-Argus)
Cromarty Man Best
Judge Of Hogs
Frank Bruce of Cromarty was
the best hog judge among the
85 attending the hog judging
competition at the Whyte Pack
ing Co., Stratford, on Tuesday.
Sizing up the five hogs, he
picked the best, second best and
third best in exact agreement
with the government graders,
and only missed a perfect judg
ing score by interchanging the
position of the fourth and fifth.
The overweight hog that fooled
most of the farmers was the
worst hog in the lot, Mr. Bruce
•contended. And he was right.
He received a prize from Lt.
Col. J. S. Whyte for his skill.
(Mitchell Advocate)
“Tiny” Becomes Corporal
C, G. “Tiny” Wilkinson, of
the Ontario Provincial Police,
who has been stationed at For
est for a number of years, has
been promoted to the rank of
corporal and has been moved to
London detachments
Constable “Bud” Bruner, of
Watford, has been moved to For
ets. Constable Dawson, of the
London Detachment will take
over the duties at Parkhill.
(Parkhill Gazette)
Robbery Attempt
Fails At Creamery
A robbery attempt at the Sea
forth Creamery failed. Police be
lieve the thieves were probably
frightened away.
H. II,. Leslie, creamery pro
prietor, discovered the break-in
When he arrived at the building
about 5:30 a.m. Saturday, The
back door of the Maple Leaf
Dairy, which is in the same
building, had been pried open
and the thieves made their way
to the creamery office. The out
side door of the large safe had
been pried open with a crowbar,
but the inner safe wag Untouch
ed.
Provincial Constable, I. D.
Wade inveslgatod.
(Seaforth News)
Canadiana .
News And Views From
Canada’s Weekly Newspapers
. . . “Inflation raised its cruel
head" writes the Yorkton En
terprise, “when our kids had to
pay six cents for an ice eream
cone . . . the most useless coin
in the realm today is the nickel.”
. . . Ernest II, Busch, 21, was
accidentally killed in Liberia,
West Africa while operating a
diamond drilling machine; his
body was sent to Canada, funeral
services were held in Broadview,
Sask., and he was buried in
Whitewood, Sask. . . . Joe Riou
of Tisdale, Sask., likes his chess
game so well he is carrying on a
game simultaneously with play
ers by correspondence, one in
Alberta, four n Saskatchewan
and one in Quebec . . . Mrs. Basil
Elliott of Shawville, Que., has
solved the way to keep pet dogs
or cgts off good furniture; she
puts several mouse traps on
chairs, all set to go and this has
proved most effective ...
The Western Star of Corner
Brook, Nfld., didn’t like the
waitress service and minced no
words ip this comment: “We
have no objection to seeing a
streamlined, well groomed wait
ress or counter girl floating
around as if she had just stepped
out of an antiseptic bath but we
would much prefer their more
courteous polite counterpart. In
most cases it is almost necessary
to throw a half nelson on them
in order to get service.
Caustically the Liverpool N.S,
Advance suggests that eventual
ly the politicians will give us
the five-day week, and then ap
point a Royal Commission to
find out why the cost of living
is going up.
Camrose -(Alta.) Canadian:
The farm organizations which
have proposed the $100,000,000
gift of food to Britain have a
right to expect Canada as a
whole to shdre the cost of such
a gift, no(t the producers of the
particular articles of foodstuffs,
as it so happened during the war.
You can accuse us of being un
charitable is you like, but we in
sist that whey a food package
goes out from Canada as a gjft
that the people who receive it
shall know where it came from
and who sent it to them.”
The Huntingdon (Que.) Glean
er sees the textile market suf
fering and pointing towards a
depression in the industry, and
this is due, it claims, to changes
in Canadian customs law; urges
members of parliment to take
the matter up. “It is time some
enquiries were made so that our
workers will be protected and
maintained in their gainful em
ployment ... it is an important
industry ... to avoid these
shutdowns and layoffs when
ever possible.”
1 Only one safe course to avoid
these fire tragedies, says the
Brampton Conservator: never
leave the little ones alone in the
house, at any time, or any cir
cumstances, or1 even for the
briefest time.
Woodstock (N.B.) Sentinel:
The idea prevalent in the minds
of A large number of people that
when the old age pension comes
into force those over 70 will re
ceive a free gift from a benevo
lent government of $40 per
month ... is likely1 to get some
thing of a shock when parlia
ment meets . . . one of the first
items is to introduce a budget
to provide the $230,000,000 ne
cessary to meet the annual cost
of this free gift.
The Yarmouth (N.S.) Herald
referring to teachers’ organiza
tions says: It is felt that threats
of strikes, using union methods
to intimidate, is not proper for a
profession.”
^Traffic Officer': “Don’t you
know what I mean when I hold
up my hand?”
Nice Old Lady: “I ought to.
I taught school for 30 years.”
LAFF OF THE WEEK- |
"... And this one is called 'Exotic' and this ohe is 'Temptation'
and this ohe is a bottle of horse-radish I use in my lunch/'