The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-07-24, Page 22!THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO^ THVRSPAY MORNING* JULY M W
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THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1952
Before It Snows
Artificial Ice Plans
Should Be Made Now
District Protection
Last week, Hensail council met with
representatives of municipalities in its area
to discuss fire jirotection agreements. Ex
eter, too. has agreements with its rural
neighbors and there are probably other ar
rangements in existence for the fighting of
blazes.
The time is ripe for a more inclusive
and more complete fire protection organiza
tion for the whole of South Huron.
All urban areas in this district are
now well-equipped to fight fires. The next
step should be a mutual organization
among these fire departments to ensure the
best, possible protection for buildings in
the rural areas.
Chief* of all the brigades could be
called together to discuss the most effi
cient means of fighting fires in every part
of the district. A permanent organization
might be set up which would meet each
year to discuss and to improve the arrange
ments. The municipalities concerned should
work out a satisfactory financial agree
ment so that all would share equitably in
the cost.
The initial step, of course, is for some
municipality to call the meeting and invite
the others to attend for a round table dis
cussion. Although the rural municipalities
are the most vitally concerned, it would be
a good-will gesture on the part of any of
the urban municipalities to initiate such a
step.
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A Good Job
Did you know that the local cemetery
is one of the few in Western Ontario
which is self-sustaining. It has never had
to ask the town for financial assistance.
Credit for this feat must be given to those
persons of the Board who have wisely
managed its affairs.
This winter Exeter will begin the first
and most important lap of a 15-year jour
ney to justify a $60,000 expenditure for
artificial ice. It may seem incongruous to
think about the winter during these hot
summer days, but plans should be made
now to see that this expensive proposition
gets off to a good start.
The artificial ice program will last ap
proximately six months of the year. During
that six months the cost of operation will
run into thousands of dollars. It is essential,
therefore, that a well-organized program is
developed to ensure that these operating
costs are met while, at the same time,
plenty of recreation is available to the
children as well as the adults4
The onus of this responsibility lies
with the Exeter Community Parks Board
—a new board formed last year under
which is combined the old arena board and
the old parks board. This body is respons
ible to the citizens for the operation and
maintenance of their new $60,000 baby.
The board should be preparing plans
now for this winter’s operation. It should
be seeking advice from other artificial ice
boards on how successful programs are ar
ranged. It should be investigating the needs
of management and caretaking. It should
be planning for a big opening ceremony
soon after the new . building is completed.
A tentative program should be drafted as
soon as possible so that hockey teams who
wish to play here can receive the fullest co
operation from the management as the
league’s get organized.
These are a few of the things which
must be done before winter comes and they
cannot be done in an evening. All citizens
will hope the board gets down to business
and tackles them now.
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Good Record
Town council, and all the departments
of the corporation, are to be congratulated
for their “black" financing during 1951.
The audited financial statement of every
body shows a surplus for the year.
50 YEARS AGO
The best game of the baseball
season was played on the recrea
tion grounds here Friday be
tween Ailsa Craig and the Vic
tors of our town, resulting in a
14-5 victory for the former.
Apples promise an abundant
crop and to be of the choicest
sample in this section this year.
Raspberries are selling for six
cents a pound.
The lawn social, held Tuesday
evening on the Presbyterian
Church and Manse grounds was
a decided success. A large crowd
assembled and an excellent pro
gram was rendered.
Flax pulling has begun in the
Crediton district and farmers
are busy harvesting their grain.
| Your Minister Speaks |
| We Stand On Guard |
| By REV. J. HENRY BETA |
| Evangelical. United Brethren |
g OlBirch, Dashwood =
Let’s Pre vent. Th is
Here’s Some Facts
About Auto Murder
Do You Know?
. . . automobile accidents on straight
stretches of highway outnumber accidents
on the curves by more than two to one?
The straight road invites speed, and speed
results in crack-ups.
. . . nearly one out of three of Can
ada’s motor vehicles are in an unroad
worthy condition (according to figures re
vealed in safety drive inspections).
. . . during the first half of this year
126 pedestrians suffered fatal injuries,
while 112 deaths resulted from motor ve
hicle collisions . . . there were 26 fatalities
in motor vehicle collisions with railroad
trains ... 1.2 bicyclists were killed by
automobiles and trucks . . . accidents
where vehicles went out of control or
struck fixed objects took 99 lives . . . fatal
ities to children under 15 years of age
reached an all-time high of 68 in the Jan
uary-June period?
, . . it’s the minor mistakes that cause
most of the major accidents?
, . . increased costs of automobile in
surance are the direct result of the in
creased number’ of automobile accidents?
... every accident cost you money—
and you're lucky if that’s all it costs you.
It's your accident whether you’re behind,
the wheel or in your easy chair, because
the accident problem is a public problem-—
not. an individual one.
... if you are convicted of drunk driv
ing, reckless or dangerous driving, failing
to remain at scene of accident, criminal ne
gligence, motor manslaughter, the Magis
trate may, in addition to fine and/or im
prisonment, prohibit you from driving in
Canada for any period up to three years.
. . . most accidents are caused either
because the driver did not see or anticipate
what was coming, or because he saw what
was coming but too late to do anything
about it ?
... it takes the average driver about
three-quarters of a second to get his foot
off the accelerator and on to the brake,
and that at 40 miles an hour the perform
ance of this action takes up 44 feet, or
more than a third of your total stopping
distance ?
... by improper parking, you can be
a poor driver, even when you aren’t in
your Car.
. , . people get into accidents, not be
cause they want to, but because they don’t
try hard enough to keep out of accidents ?
. . . driving is not a right but a privil
ege which can be revoked for any good
reason ?
. t . the force of impact with a fixed
object at 40 miles an hour is the same as
if the car had fallen from the top of a four-
storey building?
. . . it’s better to be a passed motorist
than a past motorist?
25 YEARS AGO
Exeter experienced a minia
ture flood Saturday morning
when the creek which runs
through the south part of town
overflowed and flooded the
property east of’ Main Street.
An electrical storm earlier in
tile same week caused more
damage. Lightning struck on
• the farm of Mr. Fred Dawson,
seventh concession, Usborne, and
his barn was gutted by fire and
completely destroyed. With the
barn went his hay crop.
At the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Rowe, second concession,
Hay, the same night, lightning
came in on the telephone wire.
Three large windows were shat
tered and the heat melted the
telephone wires,, spattering
liquid copper on the window
nearby.
Splendid progress is being
made by C, B. Snell in fitting
up the old Pickard home on
Main Street for a private hos
pital. Several of the doctors are
fixing rooms and a large bright
front room is being made into
an operating room.
15 YEARS AGO
Chief John Norry, who has
played host at the Town Hall to
many a knight of the road dur
ing the past few years, has
earned ’the admiration of at
least one of the lads.
Bill Dodds, who styles him
self as "the auctioneer k id”,
sent a picture post card to Mr.
Norry from Winnipeg. He said
he was still on his way West so
he didn’t expect to see the Chief
this winter but he stated that he
would never forget the hospit
able way he was treated in
Exeter.
Peas, peas and more peas are
being brought to the Exeter
branch of the Canadian Canners.
The crop this year is turning
cut to be one of the biggest
bandied by the factory.
Quite a number of logs and
stumps buried in the days of
the corduroy roads have been
dug up by men working on the
county ' road east of Crediton.
The Main Street has been
newly painted for angle parking;
IO YEARS AGO
During an electrical storm
early Monday morning, a bank
barn on the farm of Earnest J.
Pym, of Usborne, was complete
ly destroyed by fire when
struck by lightning.
The fire occurred about 3:30
in the morning and the building
was a mass of flames before any
one arrived.
Campbell Eyre, well-known
Hensail district farmer, has re
ceived a post card from a pri
soner of war in Germany, ac
knowledging the receipt of
socks.
In February, 19 41, Mr. Eyre
knit a few pair of socks for the
Kippen East Women’s Institute.
In them he put a note with his
name and address, Saturday he
received a card from somewhere
in Germany.
There is a very familiar line
in ”O Canada” that says, O
CANADA, W E STAND ON
GUARD FOR THEE. It is a very
significant lino in time of war,
and we usually try to feel war
like when we sing It in peace
time. But there is a very real
need for all Canadian citizens to
awaken to the fact that the Can
ada we know and love is in
danger at any time— and from
eneitiies that are within and
entrenched and powerful.
Let us say at the beginning
that we have always rejoiced to
call oui’ country the Dominion
of Canada. There are those who
prefer to take objection to the
title ’Dominion’ and who are
ready to use their influence and
power to discredit it.
Now, our love of the title
Dominion of Canada, and our
determination not to have heard
the last of the matter, does not
stem from false sense of in
feriority to Britain, bilt rather
because we have always rejoiced
in the determination of the
Psalmist as being applicable to
our -situation, for he declares
“He shall have dominion from
sea to sea and from the river
unto the ends of the earth.”
Where can you find a better
prayer for a Canadian who
would be a good citizen than to
truly mean what he says when
he says that?
There are, of course grave
physical dangers that threaten
our beloved land. This is the
penalty she must pay for her
great wealth, her beauty, her
emptiness, her strategic import
ance. And so they stand on
guard in Korea, the forgotten
boys, and in Germany facing the
scorched earth Iron Curtain.
They stand on guard at Cen
tralia and Petawawa, at the
Deep River Atomic Energy lab
oratories, at the new radar
stations mushrooming up across
our northland; they stand on
guard who become spotters,
watching the skies. THE DAN
GER IS RIGHT AT HOME THIS
TIME.
But i t is right at home in
more ways than one. Let us
pause for a moment. Have we
named our worst enemies? Have
we called upon our best de
fences? Let me give you the
thought of one who had just
witnessed as great a demonstra
tion of power as could be made
by the greatest nation of his
day. Kipling prayed:
For heathen heart that puts her
trust
In reeking tube and iron
shard,
All valiant dust that builds on
dust,
And* guarding, calls not Thee
to guard,
For frantic boast and foolish
word,
Thy mercy on thy people,
Lord!
Let me also give you the ad
vice of the chiefest captain in
the army of a Galilean King
whose name was Jesus—the ad
vice of an old soldier who con-
quered Asia Minor and most of
Europe for his King, He says.
"Be strong in tlie Lord and in
the power of His right. Put on
the whole armour of God for we
wrestle not against flesh and
blood but against spiritual
wickedness in high places.
Which is of most importance
to us— army >navy or airforce?
To guard our beloved Canada
and all our country means to
us, upon which arm of the ser
vices shall we place our chief
reliance? According to our ad
viser, we ought to be strong in
the Lord and in the power of
His might.
We thank God for the heri
tage our fathers have left us.
We have been very proud in
.Canada that we have managed
to keep our house as clean as
we have in a world situation of
declining morals. But there are
many dangerous signs in the
social and moral and spiritual
areas of our ^national life.
And who are those of whom
Paul declares, "We wrestle
against spiritual wickedness in1
high places? Who are We? The
Church of Jesus Christ! The
Temperance Federation of Can
ada! The Lord's Day Alliance!
The Christian Social Council of
Canada! This is not the complete
list, of course, It does not deny
that there are other institutions
and foundations that stand on
guard for Canada. It simply
declares wliat ought to be more
fully appreciated, that the
Church and many crusades
mothered by it are always in
the front ranks;
It is true that the Church's
first concern is the salvation of
souls, but she is also vitally
concerned that men and women
find and cherish the more abun
dant life—and such a purpose
issues in the development of the
finest citizenship) and the finest
kind of country of which to be
citizens. Do not despise the
Church and all she stands for
and fights for. She stands on
guard for your country in a
very real and most vital sense.
The better churchman you are
the better Canadian you can be.
The farmer who is concerned
about the control of blights and
rusts and about soil erosion,
soil driftong, or about drainage,
truly is standing guard, not only-
over his farm but over his little
bit of Canada. He is in the front
line.
We stand on guard in the
front line for Canada when we
throw in our lot with the
“Mighty Army of the Lord” and
when we back up the little
church where we are with our
prayers, our presence, our pos
sessions and our practical ser
vice.^ The Church needs men I
News From Our
NEIGHBORS
home again . Saturday after
figuring in a peculiar accident
at the Thames Boat Club
premises last Wednesday night.
It appears that he was sitting
on the bank with Ed Thiel, with
whom lie boards in London, and
another companion when an er
rant car bumper struck him in
the back, and as he rolled over,
the wheels went over his thighs.
He was taken to Victoria Hos
pital but X-rays revealed no
broken bones. His back was
bruised*’ (Mitchell Advocate)
Twilight Meeting
In Huron Delayed
At an executive meeting of
the Huron branch of the Ontario-
Crop Improvement Association
plans were made to postpone the
annual twilight meeting from
next week until the third week
in August.
This change was made neces
sary due to the early harvest
The meeting will be held at the
Exeter District High School
where the branch has corn and
soybean experimental plots.
The last week in August will
see members participating in a
one-day bus trip to Kent and
Middlesex counties.
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Canadian Team
Bob Lotich, 15-year-old St.
Marys golfer distinguished him
self and his community again on
Friday when in a field of 7 4
golfers he scored 167 for 36
holes to be selected as one or
the 1951 Canadian Junior Golf
Team. Bob did a beautiful 81
on the first 18 holes on Friday
at the Highland Club in London
and following up with an 86 oil
the second tiring 18.
The Canadian team Which is
made up of players from Toron
to, Burlington, London and Kit
chener, will play., the U.S. junior
champion team at MiSsiSsaugua
Golf Course in Toronto on July
29. (St. Marys Journal-ArguS)
Having A Splendid Trip
Word has been received by
friends of the three young men
who are On a trip to the west
ern. coast, namely Lloyd and
Lome Klopp and Gordon Smith.
Oil their way they took in the
famous Yellowstone National
Park, of which we were favoured
with a post card depicting the
"Old Faithful” geyser, which un
loads Its stream of water about
every 88 minutes up in the air
to an average height of about
150 feet. With perfect weather
they made their way up to
Jasper Park, Alta., and then
took the train on to Vancouver,
B.C. At Calgary, Alta., they took
in the large Stampede show at
which over 460,000 attended
from all parts of the world. The
boys are expected to return
hottie about the middle of this
week. (Zurich Herald)
Clinton Horse East
Johnnie G, three-year-old colt,
owned by the Brown and Jacob
stable, Clinton, is carving quite
a niche for himself in the racing
annals of. Canada. This horse
has been virtually walking away
from his competitors on Western
Ontario tracks and is now at
Thorncliffe where recently he
not only won the two races in
which he was entered but he
paced the fastest mile recorded
at Thorncliffe this year. His
tittle was 2:07. The second heat
in the class B was one mile and
one sixteenth which was covered
in 2:17. (Clinton News-Record)
Has Anybody Seen
A Stray Fountain?
"The Case of the Missing
Fountain” might well have titled
the report of Councillor E. H.
Close, park committee, chair
man, at Council’s regular month
ly session Monday night. Every
thing was "O.K.” in the parks
department, Councillor Close
said, except for a fountain which
used to rest in the twn's park.
It didn’t seem to be there any
more. Ideas were advanced as
to where it might have got to,
but nobody was quite sure.
(Huron Expositor)
Hit Near Bank
Erlends of Dwight Stacey, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Stacey,
town, were glad to see him
LAFF OF THE WEEK !
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"I hope they won't want one ot fodse child marriages * «
I simply haven't room to be a grandmother.’*