HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-08-21, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1952
This journal shall always fight
for progress, reform and. public
welfare, never be afraid, to at
tack wrong, never belong to any
political party, never be satisfied
with, merely printing news.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST .31, 1952
Future Prospects
"Too many of our younger men and
women with farm experience are selling
agriculture short as a means of attaining a
successful and attractive living for them4
selves and the families they hope to estab
lish," says The Farmer's Magaznc.
“The shrewd farmers,” the editorial
continues, “has found it paid him to in
crease his holdings of liv< stock or acreage
planted to a given crop when many of his
neighbors were selling theirs or reducing
their acreage.
“Is the experienced junior farm of to
day showing similar intelligence if he fol
lows so many of his neighbors and turns
his buck on the farm to take a factory or
office job? These jobs look attractive but
only because they are at inflated rates of
pay, fixed by unions that have no means of
maintaining those rates if demand for their
product or services slackens off. Meantime
their savings have been invested in an urb
an home often at more than the price of a
farm—a home that cannot produce wealth
nr multiply itself as can good land and
live stock.
“The number of people on this con
tinent who require food, but cannot them
selves produce it in abundance for them
selves, with a surplus for sale, is steadily
increasing.
“Most of the evidence suggests that
the young man who knows the art of farm
ing and can acquire land on which to oper
ate might well take a long look at the 25
or 30 years of probably life ahead of him,
and what he hopes to accomplish, before
joining the Cityward band wagon.’’
Junior farmers of this agriculturally-
rich district should take an extra-long look.
* * * *
This year is the one hundred and
twentieth since the first settler, James Wil
lis, came to this district. Next year, 1953,
will be the eightieth anniversary of the in
corporation of Exeter.
Citizens of this community wish to
thank The Atkinson Charitable Foundation
for its generous contribution of $10,24-1 to
our hospital.
The contribution, announced this week,
will purchase important equipment needs
for the new building. Included are a sur
gical light, minor operation room table, ob
stetrical table, 10 bassinet units for the
nursery and instrument sterilizers for the
operating room.
It is heartening to realize that an in
dependent charitable organization of prov
incial stature should so materially recog
nize and aid our voluntary efforts to im
prove the welfare facilities of our commun
ity. It makes us feel better to know that
others wish to share in our accomplishment.
The grant serves to show us the great
assistance being given to worthwhile en
deavors throughout the province by The
Atkinson Charitable Foundation. Estab
lished by the late Joseph E. Atkinson,
former publisher of The Toronto Star, the
Foundation has helped many other com
munities attain beneficial ends. It is one of
the great philanthropic organizations of
our generation.
The community is also grateful to the
Junior Red Cross for its contribution of
equipment to the hospital. This welfare
agency generously contributed a resuscita
tor, infant incubator and invalid walker—a
contribution amounting to almost $750.
* * * *
Tuesday Night
The Huron Soil and Crop Improve
ment Association is one of the most im
portant organizations in our county. It is
one of the few active promotors of our
greatest industry—agriculture.
Next Tuesday evening, August 26, the
association will hold its annual twilight
meeting at the local high school.
Corn and soybean plots on the high
school grounds will be inspected and ex
amined.
The meeting should be attended by all
South Huron farmers and their wives.
Exeter Man, Geo. Beavers
Pioneers In Dental Plant
(Reprinted from Canadian
Machinery and Manufacturing
News)
Let’s Prevent Accidents
Need Greater Penalties
To Curtail Carelessness
The most frequent convictions made by
the courts for careless driving come under
section 29 (1) of the Highway Traffic Act,
which reads :
“Every person who drives a vehicle on
a highway without due care and attention
or without reasonable consideration fox-
other persons using the highway shall be
liable to a penalty of not less than $5 and
not more than $100, or to imprisonment for
a term of not more than one month, and in
addition his license or permit may be sus
pended for a period of not more than six
months*.’’
The $5 minimum penalty is far too
low in the face of today’s highway destruc
tion. It is not enough to impress upon the
driver who is convicted the seriousness of
his actions.
A large percentage of the convictions
made in magistrate courts bring fines of
$10 and costs. To the persons who can af
ford to own and drive a car, this is hardly
a sacrifice.
True, this fine is levied, in most cases,
where no serious injury has been commit
ted by the accident. On the other hand, the
extent of injury is not always contingent
upon the amount of negligence on the part
of the responsible driver. The slightest
carelessness on the road may bring death
or severe injury while gross neglect may
bring far lesser effect.
The motorist whose action endangers
lives on the highway should suffer a great-
ex* penalty. There is no doubt that greater*
care would result if fines were increased.
One magistrate said recently: “Some of
the penalties in the Game and Fisheries
Act are greater than penalties to motorists
who endanger human life!” Do we con
sider wild life more valuable than human
life. ?
It could, be, of course, that the great
number of traffic violations tend to mini
mize their seriousness. If this attitude pre
vails, we shall be a long time curtailing
careless driving through the courts.
Another attitude toward accident pen
alty which is deplored was discussed by a
provincial newspaper in connection with
motor manslaughter cases. “Our difficulty
is not with the. law but with juries. Jury
men so often refuse to convict in motor
manslaughter cases. Every juryman sees
himself in the accused’s position. He might
kill someone some, day, so takes a lenient
view.”
Human being must learn to use auto
mobiles and the roads with safety. Our
legislation must provide severe penalties
for those who don’t.
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SO YEARS AGO
Mr. J. D. Spackman left Tues
day for Germany where he will
further his studies in music. He
was accompanied as far as New
York by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed. Spackman.
Joseph Goutts, of Chiselhurst,
had quite an experience Friday
afternoon. He had purchased a
swarm of bees from Truman
Brintnell who was driving into
his place to set it up. When go
ing through the gate, the wind
blew the hive against the wheel,
and jarred the wheel allowing
the bees to escape.
They first made for Truman
and the horse, stinging them
severely. Truman jumped out
and held the animal as long as
he could, but the pain, set It
wild and it got away. As it was
passing, Truman threw the hive
out of the rig and ran for his
life.
Mr. Coutts, who was about
four rods away, was so badly
stung that he fell to the ground
from the effects of the poison.
Mr. Brintnell, with other mem
bers of his family, and with the
aid of pails of water, succeeded
in getting the bees -away from
the old gentleman who was car
ried to the house and placed in
bed.
15 YEARS AGO
A roaring cyclone passed over
the Clandeboye district Tuesday
at noon leaving destruction in
its path. An electrical storm
with wind and hail tore the
roofs from barns, uprooted
trees, disrupting the hydro lines
and telephone lines a few miles
south, of Exeter,
During the electrical storm, a
large bank barn on the farm of
Mr. Sidney Wilson, sixth con
cession, Usborne, was struck by
lightning and destroyed by fire
late in the afteroon. Thirty tons
of hay, six loads of wheat and
some oats as well as eight pigs
were destroyed in the fire.
•Mr. Borden Sanders, a fourth
form pupil at Exeter H.S., is to
be congratulated on the excellent
standing he attained in the
recent examinations. In all of
the nine subjects he tried, he
secured first class honors.
The paving of the Blue Water
Highway from St. Josephs to
Grand Bend has been completed
and workmen are now engaged
in widening some of the culverts
north of the Bend.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Delbridge
are leaving today for a trip to
the Pacific ■ coast and Southern
California. Mr. Delbridge will
attend a convention of the Con
federated field men at 'Banff the
latter part of August.
Misses Meta and Doris Salter
are holidaying in London.
Mr. I. R. Carling is having his
residence on Huron St. re
modelled and improved and
when completed, will be an im
posing residence
A stretch of road from Lucan
to Clinton will be taken over by
the Department of Highways.
The road from London to Elgin-
field is being paved this year
an,d it is quite possible that the
30-mile stretch'from Elginfield
to Clinton will be paved next
year connecting with the high
way at Clinton, which will give
a paved road from London to
Goderich.
IO YEARS AGO
Jean, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin King, of Stephen,
is confined to her home with her
right leg in a cast, the result of
the fracture of a bone above the
ankle.
The new Avalon Sandwich
Shoppe has opened up this week.
The building formerly (Joccupied
by the Ideal Meat Market, has
been remodelled and fitted up
for a restaurant. Mr. and Mrs.
V. Writhe, from London, are the
new proprietors.
A lien’s egg shaped in a near
perfect V “for Victory” was
brought into this office by Mrs.
Orville Dixon last Saturday.
The Post Office and rural
mail carriers are cooperating in
the drive for scrap rubber fom
August 24 to September 8. Car
riers will bring it to the post
office and everyone having a
rural mail box is asked to leave
every scrap of rubber they can
find at the mail box.
In Exeter, citizens may take
the rubber to the rear of the
Post Office.
At Morrisburg, Ont., on the
St. Lawrence River, about 48
miles south of Ottawa, is the
first and only plant in Canada
to make a dental bur. There,
too, is believed to be the first
to manufacture a toothbrush in
Canada. Both industries are
owned by George E. Beavers, 43-
year-old Exeter - born salesman-
turned-industrialist who last
January was ejected reeve of
Morrisburg on his initial bow
into politics,
(George Beavers is the son of
B. W. F. Beavers and brother of
Reginald L. Beavers, of Exeter.
He received his early education
in Exeter schools.)
The two plants are so relative
ly small that you could place
both of them in the corner of
any large factory, but with their
output of dental drills and
toothbrushes running into the
millions annually, the chances
are that you have had one or
both of these products inside
your mouth in the course of a
year.
What is more unusual is the
fact that these tiny dental drills
are produced automatically on
machines that were engineered
and made under the same roof
by specially emigrated German
technicians who also make the
tools that cut the burs.
The story of the Beavers Dent
al Products Limited is one of
modern industrial pioneering in
Canada, long dependent on for
eign countries for many of its
everyday needs. It was in 1940
that Mr. Beavers purchased from
George H. Chailies, M.P., the
C h a 11 i e s Tooth Brush plant
founded by his fathex* in 1917,
During the war, the Canadian
army wanted tooth brushes for
its soldiers but even more (hav
ing 'been cut off from other
sources by the hostilities) it
wanted dental drills.
Beavers, a graduate in Com
merce and Finance from the Uni
versity of Toronto was an ex
perienced sales promoter but
his knowledge of dental burs
was limited to that picked up
while reclining in a , dentist’s
chair. Undaunted by this lack of
know-how, he established facil
ities in Morrisburg to make
dental burs for the first time in
Canada.
Prior to the war, Germany
was undisputed leader in the
dental surgical instrument field
and shortly after the war’s end,
George Beavers was invited to
investigate the dental bur in
dustry on' behalf of the British
intelligence. Back again in Can
ada, Beavers had a better under
standing of the dental bur craft.
With Canada’s army scarcely de
mobilized, he asked the Govern
ment to let him bring to this
country five skilled German
dental bur technicians, under the
British Government Darwin Plan,
to set up automatic equipment
to make dental burs in competi
tion with the world’s finest.
There was undisguised con
sternation at first over the sug
gestion that immigrants be
brought to Canada from a re
truck, A fourth passenger in
the car, Mrs. Helen Buri'ield, of
Toronto, is in hospital with
severe head and internal in
juries. Mr. Rice of the truck,
was released on $5,000 bail
pending trial.
(Zurich Herald)
Fund Reaches $14,500
The fund fox* installation, of
an artificial ice plant in Clinton
Lions Arena has now reached
$14,544. This is an increase of
$555 during the past two weeks.
The Lions have high hopes
that it will not be too long be
fore the objective is reached
and construction can be started.
(Clinton News Record)
cently conquered Nazi Germany,
although dividends in industrial
development later proved rich,
One fine August day in 1947,
Beaver’s plan 'began to unfold
when three German master
craftsmen arrived in Morrisburg.
There were 6 3-year-old Rudolph
Funke, Ernest Jacob and Wil
helm J-Iandwerke who came from
Dusseldorf, famous steel city in
the heart of the Ruhr area.
Once a half-hearted Nazi, Swiss-
born Funke in 1938 was im
prisoned with Pastor Nieinoeller
and others for openly protesting
the Nazis’ Jewish persecutions
and other policies.
During the war, millionaire
Funke’s factory was destroyed
by Allied bombers and partially
rebuilt, only to be again lev
elled.
In Morrisburg, Mr. Funke and
his helpers began working over
their drawing boards, designing
parts, making blueprints and
patterns, machining the 2,000
parts that go into each machine
no bigger than a portable sew
ing machine.
In due course, 30 automatic
flute cutting machines were as
sembled and operating two shifts
daily. Today the plant turns out
two types of burs, hand piece
and right angle, in foui* shapes.
Each type is made in eight sizes
making a total of 64 different
kinds of burs produced at the
Beavers factory.
Beavers’ manually operated
machines turned out 1.25 million
burs in four years whereas the
Funke-designed automatic ma
chines now produce five million
burs in one year. These auto
matically made burs are far su
perior to manually made drills
because of the uniformity of
workmanship ensured by the
newer machines.
The first tooth brush made in
Canada was produced in the
Chailies plant in 1917 and was
all h a n d - m a d e . Holes were
drilled by hand, slots were cut
in the bank by hand, bristle
tufts ’ were sewn in by hand,
sanded and buffed. Twenty em
ployees turned out 5,000 tooth
brushes a week. Today 10 peo
ple using automatic machinery
produce 50,000 tooth brushes a
week.
If you haven’t noticed the
name “Chailies” on a tooth
brush, it is because most of the
firm’s output goes under the
name of large distributors.
The Beavers Dental Products
Ltd.—burs and brushes—means
considerable employment for
Morrisburg people. More than 50
men and women earn good wages
at the bur plant and 10 others
enjoy similar conditions at the
brush plant.
Canada, before the war, was
dependent on other countries for
dental burs. Now Canada—
thanks to the courage and dar
ing enterprise of Morrisburg's
George Beavers—is not only self-
sufficient but exports 80 per
cent of its dental bur production
to' the highly competitive mar
kets of th® United States and
South America. It is currently
engaged in the manufacture of
dental burs for the United States
armed forces, a large and most
exacting customer.
In front of the flower gardens
on the grounds of the city hall
in „a small western town a sign
reads:
“Love ’Em and Leave ’Em.”* * *
Little Boy: “Poppa, please
give me a dime. There’s an old
man outside crying and I’d like
to give it to him.”
Pop: “Sure son, here it is.
What’s he crying about?”
Little Boy: “Oh, he’s crying,
Popcorn, Peanuts, Popcorn, Pea
nuts.”
News From Our
NEIGHBORS
LAFF OF THE WEEK
Junior Builders
According to Arena booster
Tom Pinney, Don Fletcher and
his “junior arena builders” are
back on the job at the new St.
Marys Arena after a well-earned
summer vacation.
These junior builders who
originally dug a lot of founda
tion when the building was
started are by far the best volun
teer workers in town and under
the leadership of Collegiate
teacher Don Fletcher, they
certainly work like demons. At
present they are removing sur
plus earth by wheelbarrow from
the southwest corner of the ice
surface area in preparation for
the artificial ice pipe.
(St. Marys Journal-Argus)
Avert Danger.
Quick response by the Sea
forth Fire Brigade on Friday,
August 1, averted the spread of
flames from a burning shdd be
hind Main St. to a whole down
town business block.
A burning trash heap was ap
parently responsible for the
blaze, which caught on a small
outside structure behind a stor
age shed containing grocery
merchandise belonging to J. J.
Cleary. When firemen arrived
the small structure was ablaze
and smoke and smaller fire had
'reached the shed.
Damage to merchandise in the
shed, mostly by smoke and
water, was estimated at over
$4,000. The small structure was
left a useless, charred ruins.
Dahiage to the shed itself is
undetermined.
(Huron Expositor)
Mel Lavigne Canadian
Fiddlers Champion
Mel Lavigne, of Wingham,
who won the Canadian fiddling
championship at Shelburne on
Saturday night, is a half-brothei'
of Afchie Hubert, of Seaforth.
Besides the trophy and $200
cash, he lias the honor to rep
resent Canada at the U.S, fid
dling contest at Louisville,
Kentucky, in septemebr .
(Seaforth News)
To Stand Trial
John Rice, Seaforth, charged
with manslaughter after a triple
fatality in gurburban Toronto on
July 4, was committed for trial
in New Toronto. Mr. and Mrs,
M. Mclvor and Bertha Woods,
51, all of Toronto, were killed
when the auto in, which they
were riding collided with a
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