HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1953-02-19, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 19, 1953
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, FEBRUARY 19,1953
1t*s zLate/ Now
Time To Organize
Industrial Promotion
Hot Air
H. J. P„ of The Forest Press Press, re
ports that in Yugoslavia, when a highway
traffic officer gives a speeding motorist a
ticket, he also lets the air out of the of
fender’s tires I “The speedster is then com
pelled to blow up the tires with a hand
pump.
“Somewhat severe punishment, espe
cially on a hot day, or if you are really in
a hurry. But it is reported to have brought
a sharp decrease in the number of motorists
exceeding the speed limit.
“We do not recommend such drastic
punishment in this country/’ says H.J.P.,
“but some severe action should be taken
to check speeding and dangerous car driv
ers.”
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Oh, You Beautiful Man I
(Dresden Times) j
Are you the best dressed man in Dres- -
den and district? Do you consider yourself
one of the best dressed men in Canada?
You may be able to answer “yes” on
the first question; but, according to author
ities the answer would be “no” on the sec
ond question. It may come as a real shock
to you, but Vincent Massey Governor Gen
eral of Canada, not you, is the best dressed
man in Canada this year. Election of Mas
sey as the best dressed man was made by
the Men’s Fashion Council of Canada. Mas
sey heads a list of the ten best dressed.
Ob well, as long as you have the satis
faction of being one of the best dressed
locally, you should be able to bear the
great disappointment of not being selected
the best dressed in Canada.
It is rather interesting to examine the
list of names selected as the best dressed
in Canada. Second to Vincent Massey there
is Lester B. Pearson, external affairs min
ister; the Hon. Paul Martin, minister of
health; the Hon. Harold Connolly, .minister
of health for Nova Scotia; Eric Duggan,
ex-Canadian football star and now presi
dent of the Edmonton stock exchange; and
Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster, Canadian
radio entertainers.
Admittedly, this annual selection of
the ten best dressed men in Canada does
a lot to encourage many men to perk up
their dress and general outward appear
ance. Nevertheless, we feel that there is a
bit of an injustice to the average man on
the street. It is quite noticeable from the
list that those who were selected were en
tirely outstanding and well known people.
Could it be that the little man on the
street is not quite as well dressed as these
top ten? Or to be a little more specific,
that they are not as tastefully and expertly
dressed ? Why not next year reserve at
least one of the spots among the ten best
dressed for some of the less well known
Canadians. Maybe somebody from Dresden!
The Times feels confident that if the
judges looked hard enough they would
find a fair number of very well dressed
men who are not ministers of health, or
owners of daily newspapers. Also, the
Times has another suggestion for next year
—why not include a male bathing beauty
contest with women judges?
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Step Forward
Just before Christmas last year, many
merchants in Exeter were promising them
selves that an organization would be formed
to standardize store hours and promote
town trade.
This vow came after heated arguments
and differences of opinions over what store
hours would be during the Christmas shop
ping season. There was considerable con
fusion among the merchants themselves and
the shopping public as to just when the
stores would be open.
A petition had been circulated during
the summer stating define hours of busi
ness. When the Christmas season did come
along, however, many merchants disagreed
The establishment of an industrial
commission or some body which will act
ively promote the locating of industry in
Exeter has been discussed several times in
council. On almost all occasions it has
been agreed that such an organization is
necessary and beneficial. Yet nothing has
been done.
For several years, members of the
council and others have attended indust
rial promotion conferences in various parts
of the province at the taxpayers’ expense.
All have declared these conferences were
practical and that many worthwhile sug
gestions were made. Yet nothing has been
done.
Council, it seems, has always been
busy when the discussion of industrial pro
motion has arisen. Invariably the question
of organizing such promotion has been set
aside as a matter which can be dealt with
“later”. It is now already several years
“later”.
The town has, we believe, a council
which is most capable of taking1 action on
this matter. We hope it will make industrial
promotion a definite project on its 1953
agenda.
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Apology
The Times-Advocate apologizes to Mr.
Archie H. Dawe, of Grand Bend, for the
erroneous report appearing in our paper
last week which stated his son, Kenneth,
who has been missing in Korea, was found.
The story caused unfortunate compli
cations and raised false hopes for Mr.
Dawe and his family. This newspaper re
grets these occurrences.
The information came to us from a
most reliable source and, although we were
not able to check with Mr. Dawe directly,
we did confirm it with another competent
person.
It appears, however, that a misunder
standing existed which led to the false re
port.
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Why?
It is nothing less than amazing to this
writer that European and other non-com-
munist countries should take such a beli-
gerent and uncooperative attitude to the
suggestion made by United States officials
of an economic blockade against Red China
and other measures which would exert
more pressure on the communists who are
waging the campaign in Korea.
How much longer must we go along
soft-pedalling a dangerous and widespread
movement which has committed itself to
the destruction of our way of life?
Why must effective action in oui1 part
be shackled by a queasy observance of “the
Marquis of Queensbury Rules” when the
enemy has long since shown it has utter
disregard for fair play.
Why should the non-communists try to
preserve the relatively small amount of
trade or economic profits they derive from
negotiating with communist countries when
the actual existence of free or non-com-
munist life is threatened?
Since the U.S. is supplying close to 90
percent of the finances and the manpower
for the actions the free world is engaging-
in, why should the free other countries so
bitterly resent its attempts to contain the
communist advance ?
Canadians
★ Canadiana: Perhaps it’s an
election year, opines the High
River Times, commenting on the
fact that Postmaster Hulmes has
at last prevailed op the Top
Brass of the postal service to
soften up the P.O. door, which
has rebuffed all but 200-lbrs, for
so long .... J. A. Reynolds
who operates a tourist court at
Kincardine,, Ont., has faith in
people; lie stocked a central,
unsupervised kitchen with $94
of groceries, asking guests sign
a chit so that they could be
charged; after two months he
inventoried, and books balanced
to a cent, and the re-stocking
was done several times .... At
Melville a hunter, according to
the Advance, shot a duck which
was carrying two bird bands,
not one . . . The first Folk
School in Northumberland
County was a success says the
Coburg, Ont., Sentinel-Star, de
veloped to: make people aware
of the important part they can
play in community life, give in
dividuals confidence in express
ing their thoughts and to create
a spirit of fellowship which may
■best nourish democratic action
, , , , Prosecutions having bog
ged down by those entrusted
with carrying out the Act rela
tive to “news stand trash,” the
Grenfell (Sask) Sun declares it
would not take the average
mother long to decide the ques
tion, as it is being bandied
around in Parliament .... At
Kamloops, B.C., Chinese-Canad
ian citizen Peter Wing was in
stalled as vice-president of the
Board of Trade in the presence
of his venerable father, Eng
Wing, by Sheriff J. T. Colley;
Peter was the first juror of
Chinese origin to sit at the Su
preme Court Assizes; a brother,
Rev. John Wing, B.A., is a
minister at Bonneyville, Alta. . .
At Oxbow, Sask., Bob Crook
shanks was fed up with night
raids on his corn patch, told the
editor of the Herald to broad
cast that lie had trained a skunk
to patrol his garden .... Ray
German, of Picton, Ont., found
a dandelion in bloom on the
railroad tracks on January 17
.... Palmerston, Ont., is be
lieved to be the only municipal
ity in Canada that owns and
operates its own moving picture
theatre,, donated by former
townsman, millionaire George
Norgan, of Vancouver as a mem
orial to his family.
★ Wearily the Morden (Man)
Times reiterates, “Why should
farmers and proprietors of busi
ness work longer hours to pay
more taxes so that the men and
women we employ in our govern
ment can work shorter hours for
more pay?”
★ The Barrie Examiner is
perturbed editorially about the
proper way to toast Her Majesty
The Queen, and quotes the Sim
coe Reformer as the proper tiling
to do is lift the glass from table,
hold at eye level a moment, then
take one sip and repeat two
words ‘The Queen’ .... The
Ingersoll Tribune agrees but
only partially that is THE cor
rect method, for their Kiwanis
Club secretary wrote to King
George Vi’s secretary who re
plied in part: “Your way of do
ing it sounds as good as any of
them. It certainly is both a loyal
and dignified metho'd of toasting
the Sovereign,” The Kiwanis, off
course, say “God Save The
Queen.” That settles this earth-
shaking problem.
More pertinent comment on
TV in Canada: The Woodstock
Sentinel-Review refers to the
government’s proposal that pri
vate enterprise in TV be limited
to small cities as something ‘out
of the never-never land of Ot
tawa’. The paper calls the an
nouncement, a “bit ■ of political
gobbledygook” and proclaims it
to be “added evidence of the
sterile state of government think
ing and the creative ineptitude
of the CBC.”
News From Our
NEIGHBORS
Need Public Relations Work
'and after a word of mouth campaign had
taken place the decision was changed.
After that, the merchants agreed the
only way to properly solve the question or
any matter which concerned the entire re
tail trade was to hold properly constituted
meetings and let the problems be threshed
out there.
Nothing has been done yet to organize
a merchants’ group. It is quite conceivable
that nothing will be done before next
Christmas.
The time to organize a town retail as
sociation is now. Let the leaders come
forth.
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Eyes OfMedicalWorld On Canada
flowing through the new pipe
line to the head of the Great
Lakes at the rate of 200,000 bar
rels a day. At Superior it is load
ed on tankers and brought to 'the
refineries at Sarnia.
Big things are ahead for the
development of the city of Sarnia,
according to Harold Rea, presi
dent of Canadian Oil Companies.
He predicts that Sarnia will be
the scene of the greatest future
refinery expansion in Canada and
possibly probably the greatest re
fining centre in Canada. This
area, he says, will be the oil
gateway to the industrial east.
In the wake of this oil boom
new towns are springing up and
huge industrial plants are being
built on what a few years ago
was known as cowboy country.
While Canada is young and her
population comparatively small a
few hundred men with present
day equipment can accomplish in
a short time huge undertakings
that only a decade ago required
an army of men and years to ac
complish.
With a new world entering the
atomic age Canada is bound to
play an important part as she
has the only known deposits of
pitchblende on the North Ameri
can continent. Scientists tell us
that in the not distant future
cities will be provided with light,
heat and power from atomic en
ergy. I remember being in New
York at the Twentieth Century
Exhibition and witnessed the first
demonstration of the breaking of
the atom in one of the electrical
displays. The demonstrator stat
ed that the breaking of the atom
had been accomplished but what
purpose would be made of it he
had no idea.
Canada’s giant atomic energy
research plant at Chalk River is
no longer being operated to pro
duce only war material but this
energy is now being released for
research work by doctors and
hospitals.
At the present time the eyes
of the medical world are focused
on Canada. It was at Victoria
Hospital in London that the first
Cobalt Bomb was introduced.
Others were installed at Saska
toon, Vancouver and New York.
The Cobalt Bomb, a new discov
ery in the treatment of cancer, is
attracting patients from all parts
of the continent. Orders for the
Bomb have come from many hos
pitals in this and other countries.
Unfortunately a breakdown at
Chalk River at the beginning of
this year has delayed production.
I have mentioned only a few of the really great undertakings
now in -progress in this Canada
of ours, ’
Not the least of them however
is the development of the iron
ore resources of Ungava and Lab
rador that is bound to play an
important part in this expanding
economy of ours. In this isolated
part of Canada mining and steel
interests of Canada and the Unit
ed States have formed a company
to bring out tliis ore at a time
when our neighbors to the south
hre beginning to worry about
their depleted resources. It is es
timated that it will Cost 200 mil
lion dollars before the first ship
ment of ore will reach the mar
ket.
In referring to the great
strides that are taking place in
industrial Canada the picture is
not complete without reference
to the oil fields of Alberta and
the gigantic task that was under
taken to lay a 20-inch pipeline
from Edmonton to the head of
Lake Superior, a distance of 1,-
160 miles crossing some 2,000
farms.
When it is realized that it is
just six years ago this month that
oil was struck in a big way in
Alberta it is rather staggering to
note what has been accomplished
in so short a time.
Oil was discovered in the Tur
ner Valley of Alberta in 1914 at
a depth of some 2,700 feet. It
was the first major oil and gas
field in the British Comonwealtli.
The discovery of oil in Turner
Valley started the big oil com
panies searching for oil in a big
way. One company is reported to
have sunk twenty wells at a cost
of about one million dollars each
and found nothing.
It was in February, 1947, that
the Imperial Oil Co. brought in
Leduc No. 1, a thousand barrel
gusher just 20 miles south of Ed
monton. I'lie wells at Leduc are
already producing more than 4 0,-
000 barrels of oil a day and gas
in great quantities. The search
for oil continues in a big way in
Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
The oil from Alberta is now
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50 YEARS AGO
A young Goderich township
man was found guilty of the
theft of a Goderich to London
railway ticket and 25 cents from
the pocket book of a young Lon
don woman whom he took for a
sleigh ride. He was sentenced to
six months at hard labor in
Central Prison.
H. E. Huston was appointed
secretary to Exeter Public Lib
rary Board.
Mrs. Brooks, post-mistress of
Hay post office, who took over
the position from her late hus
band, was presented with an ad
dress and purse of money when
she resigned. Mrs. William Nortli-
cott, Mrs. Thomas Yellow, Mrs.
James Moore and Mrs. William
Brickwood made the presenta
tion on behalf of the post offifee
patrons.
25 YEARS AGO
Walter H. Harness has dis
posed of his grocery business to
William Northcott who took
immediate possession.
Eugene D. Howey and W.
Grafton Cochrane represented
Exeter High School at an oratory
contest held in Ilderton United
Church. E. D. Howey, who spoke
on “Canada, the Tourists* Para
dis” won the decision for the
seniors, and an Ilderton speaker,
for the juniors. Members of the
staff of U. of W.O. acted as
judges.
Two jack-rabbit drives were
held lh one week. Sixty were
bagged In the first drive and 90
in the second, in Which several
parties joined forces.
15 YEARS AGO
Miss Ella Link has accepted a
position with A. Brown and com
pany, of Watford, 'where she
will be in charge of the ladies
wear and millinery department.
Mrs. Hannah Marie Sanders
celebrated her ninety-sixth birth
day at the home of her daughter
and son-in-law, Mr. a nd Mrs.
George Walker, Stephen Town
ship.
Employees of the turnip plant
on James Street are working day
and night bagging as many as
3 00 bushels of turnips a day.
Turnips, brought in by the farm
ers, are trimmed, washed, waxed
and packed in 50-lb. bags for
export to U.S. markets. One
truck load went to Florida.
IO YEARS AGO
Boy Scouts held an investi
ture in a sheltered spot on the
north bank of the river during
a raging snow storm in zero
weather. Dr. II. H. Cowen, J. H.
Jones and J. M. Southcott acom-
paiifed the Scouts and the Scout
master, Harold Whyte, was in
vested by J. H. Jones. Three
Cubs, Donald Southcott, Bill
Floyd and Ted Hannigan were
promoted to Scouts. Hot choco
late and Weiners cooked over a
camp fire, were served at the
conclusion of the ceremonies.
A London bus which left Exe
ter at 7 pan. Sunday was
stranded between Mooresville
and Clandeboye and passengers
spent most of the night in it.
A Lucan wrecking truck finally
freed the bus and it reached
London at 4 a.m. The coldest
temperature in four years was
reached during the night. It was
still 20° below zero at 8 a.m.
next morning.
Ralph Genttner and Laverne
Wells were admitted to hospital
in London after their car was in
collision with a train at the
crossing in Lucan. Genttner,
most seriously injured of the
two, was unconscious for four
hours after the accident.
Lions Club Pledges $500
European Flood Relief
The Seaforth Lions Club at its
last regular meeting on Monday
night, pledged $500 to the aid of
European and English flood vic
tims, A committee was. set up to
find ways and means of raising
this amount. However, the $500
is being forwarded at once from
the club’s depleted treasury.
The first fund raising event
will take the form of an adult
skating party on Wednedsay
night, February 18, at the Com
munity Centre. The Cojnmunity
Centre is donating the rink, so
that all receipts may go to the
Flood Victims Fund.
(Seaforth News)
“Sun Dogs”
Shortly after eight o’clock
Tuesday morning when the sky
was unusually clear for this
winter, the rising sun was flank
ed with a pair of what seamen
and old landlubbers called "sun
dogs”, a phenomena similar to
the rainbow. The modern ex
planation is that a low layer of
ice crystals suspended in the air
causes the sun’s rays to be re
flected as in a prysm, causing
the vari-hued spots on the hori
zon. (St. Marys Journal-Argus)
Develop Industry
Sale negotiations between the
owners of the Hesky Flax Pro
ducts factory here and a Toron
to toy manufacturing concern
are “nearly completed”, Mayor
E. A. McMaster informed Sea
forth Councillors Monday night
in an industrial committee re
port. While not wishing to make
a formal statement, a spokes
man for Hesky Flax, John G.
Ritchie, Mitchell, confirmed this
information to The Expositor
Wednesday.
Referring to tills significant
information, the,Mayor said: “I
think we can note real progress
over the last month in the work
to obtain new industries for
Seaforth.” He went on to tell of
some beneficial information he
had obtained at meetings with
Stratford and Chatham indus
trial committees,
“Industries go to those who
look for them,” the Mayor re
minded. In this connection, he
advised that about 100 copies of
a town booklet, outlining what
Seaforth lias to offer firms who
could be interested in establish
ing here, will be needed. This
booklet is now in a state of copy
preparation. Council voted $200
to cover printing costs.
(Huron Expositor)
Chief Of Police
Goes To Clinton
.Chief of Police Gilbert Robert
son, who came here from Port
Dover several months ago, ten
dered his resignation to the
Town Council the latter part of
the week and intends assuming
similar duties in Clinton next
Monday. (Mitchell Advocate)
Top Girl
Betty Storey, 15-year-old Sea
forth girl was tied for sixth
place in tiie All-Canadian Junior
Judging Competition, her score
of 146 points out of a possible
150 making her the top girl.
The All—Canadian Junior Judg
ing Competition is conducted by
the Holstein-Friesian Association
of Canada.
Standing well up amongst the
prize winners with a score of
136 was Betty Galbraith, Blyth,
also a member, of the Huron
Holstein 4-H Club while team
mates Douglas Riehl and Donna
Riehl,Walton, had scores of 134
and 132 respectively. Marilyn
Marshall, Kirkton, of the Kirk
ton 4-H Club was a prize win
ner with a score of 134 points.
(Clinton News-Record)
62- Year-Old Man Plays
In League Hockey Game
Aubrey Davidson, Thedford,
who is 62 years old, donned a
pair of skates in a hockey game
at Thedford when the Thedford
Reindeers downed the Klondyke
Rats 5-3 in a rural hockey league
game. For two full periods Mr.
Davidson took his full turn play
ing centre for his team.
(Parkhill Gazette)
JASPER By Simpkins
"This is the last limo down—it’s two months
past your bedtime already/*