HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1954-08-19, Page 2THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1954
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THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1954
Lefs Prevent Accidents
WANTED:
SPARKPLUG
TO SAVE
LIVES OF
CHILDREN
HUBERT
"According to my findings, you’re so normal it practically
amounts to a complex.”
Jottings By J.M.S.
A spark is all that’s needed to establish a
safety patrol for children crossing’ No. 4 Highway
to go to the public school.
A Times-Advocate investigation reveals that
officials and police are willing to co-operate in
establishing the patrol: it appears there needs to
be an organizer to start the project.
Wouldn’t it be a life-saver if that spark were
to appear in time so that the patrol could be
organized as soon as school starts on September 7 ?
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The T-A investigation brought these facts to
light.
Chief of Police Reg Taylor and Constable
John Cowen are willing to assist in the establish
ment of a patrol and Ontario Provincial Police
Constables Elmer Zimmerman and Cecil Gibbons
will assist the local force if requested..
The Public School Board is aware of the prob
lem and would like to see protection provided for
the children who have to cross the busy highway.
An attempt was made several years ago to
establish a patrol but this failed because of a lack
of co-operation. One public school official said
children would not cross at the intersection which
was patrolled. Another objection was that the On
tario Department of Highways would not recog
nize the authority of older boys to stop traffic or
assist children across the street.
Several of the reason for failure of the former
attempt have since been removed. The problem of
lack of co-operation from children could be over
come, we think, by a concerted effort on the part
of both parents and teachers. The objection con
cerning the Department of Highways would seem
to be nullified by the fact that the department
does not have control of the policing of highways
in incorporated towns: other municipalities are
able to conduct patrols on provincial roads.
The facts revealed by this T-A investigation
strongly point to the conviction that there is no
serious handicap to the organization and operation
of a safety highway-crossing patrol supervised and
controlled by the police and school authorities.
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As the
"TIMES"
Go By
25 YEARS AGO
Miss Velma J. Bilyea, Gran
ton, and Mr. Garnet McFalls, of
Usborne, were united in mar
riage by Rev. Duncan McTavish
on August 17.
Dr. M. G. and Mrs. Graham
and sons, former residents of Ex
eter, left this week for Formosa
where Dr. Graham will be in
charge of the Dr. Leslie McKay
Memorial Hospital of the Pres
byterian Church.
Dr. William Lawson and Dr.
George Hind were honored by
the baseball executive and friends
before their departures from
town. Dr. Lawson is opening a
dental practice in Toronto and
Dr. Hind a similar practice in
Walkerton.
Dr. Margaret Strang, the sec
ond woman to receive the degree
of doctor of medicine from the
University of Western Ontario
and a member of this year’s
graduating class, will spend the
summer as a representative of
the Frontier College, Toronto,
with headquarters at Edlund, a
•small * town west of Cochrane.
. caught fire, spreading to the
near-by barn.
Twenty-four rinks competed in
the Scotch Doubles tournament
held at the local greens.
Bean growers met in Hensall
to outline a scheme for the mar
keting of their crop. Each grower
in the county will be canvassed
for their support of the scheme
which has the approval of bean
dealers as well as growers. The
committee appointed for the
county includes William Alex
ander, John Armstrong and Rus
sell Broderick.
A concert in aid of the Red
Cross netted. $620 and .a benefit
golf contest for the same cause
raised $117 at Grand Bend.
The other day J listened to a
couple talking about the good old
days. The days when everybody
in the community seeined to know
everybody else and neighbourly
visits were the oilier of the day.
There were few of the modern
conveniences that are taken for
granted today and the question
arose as to whether the people
are any more happy or contented
than they were in the olden days.
The Straw Tick
Few there are that will remem
ber when a good straw tick was
considered pretty fair for sleeping
accommodation. Rope, stretched
across and lengthwise of a wood
end bed, served for springs. Once
or twice a year the canvas tick
was taken to the barn and 'filled
with fresh straw7 and it almost
took a ladder for the young ones
to climb up on top before being
bedded down for the night. It
served a fairly good substitute
for the present day mattress.
The Feather Tick
The straw tick was followed by
the feather tick, a pretty fair
article to induce sound sleep.
Downy goose feathers were saved
when the geese were plucked in.
the fall and that meant that a
goodly number of fowl had
adorned the festive board before
sufficient feathers had been col
lected to make a feather tick.
The next operation was to have
the feathers cleaned and that was
one occupation that was more
prevalent in those days than it
is today. Almost every home
could 'boast of one or more fea
ther mattresses, and a spare bed
was not complete without one.
Today feather pillows still do ex
cellent service in practically every
home but the feather tick has al
most disappeared.
Tallow Candies
Then there was the tallow can
dle, an article that was made in
morning was to fill the lamps
With oil and
glasses. Lamp
sparkle and it
simple matter
off the inside of the glass.
Acetylene Damps
The coal oil lamp was followed
by an acetylene lamp. One of the
first stores in Exeter to be lit
with acetylene lights was J. A.
Stewart’s general store. Mr. Stew
art had an acetylene plant built
at the rear of what is now the
Gould & Jory store and the gas
was piped throughout the store
and carried a block to his home.
This made a tremendous improve
ment over the oil lamp lighting
clean the lamp
glasses had to
wasn’t always a
to get the smut
and was quite a sensation in
town when it was first turned on.
This kind of lighting was used
in the first automobiles manu
factured. However, it did not be
come general as the electric light
soon appeared.
When hydro was first intro
duced in Ontario, Sir Adam Beck,
the father of hydro, then in Lon
don, predicted that in a few
years every home in that city
would be lit by electricity, Peo-*
pie thought he was talking
through his hat, Today think
what electricity means in the
home and on the farm.
Only those who knew the days
before electricity can imagine
what life was like without it!
IllilipIff
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Smiles . . . .
the home. The tallow candle was
followed by the oil lamp. Before
the days of the combustible en
gine, coal oil was the principle
product that was taken from the
crude oil and the gasoline was
wasted. One of the jobs every
The Voice
Of Temperance
“The bottle club, now an ac
cepted institution in Huron and
Perth, makes a farce out of our
outdated C a nza d a Temperance
Act.” We quote from a recent
He forcot that a bit of wood preservative, applied at
little cost when the fence was put in, would have
saved him the cost of new posts now.
In the telephone business, as around your own home, we
find it’s better to do the job right in the first place and
then look after it. It’s the best way we know to avoid
heavy repair and replacement costs, to save expense and
give you most service for your money.
That’s why we treat telephone poles against rot; why we
keep our trucks clean and in good repair; why we put up
exchanges and offices to last.
It’s common sense if we arc to keep our costs down—and
the price of your telephone service low.
We remain surprised that parents of the west
side of town or that members of the Home and
School Association do not take some action to see
that protection for their children is provided for
highway crossing.
While we are certain that members of the
school board are genuinely interested in the wel
fare of all the children of the town, the fact that
all six members are from the east side might have
some bearing on the situation. It is only natural
that they would not feel the problem as acutely
as do parents on the west side.
We know that parents are worried about the
problem: there are a number who drive their child
ren to school so that they will not have to cross
the road on foot. Others personally supervise the
crossing of their children. Some have felt the prob
lem so acutely that they have moved to the op
posite side of town so their children won’t be faced
with the highway hazard.
There are other repercussions, too. Real es
tate men and prominent leaders are maintaining
that a house on the east side can be valued up to
$1,000 more than a similar house on the west side
just because of the schools! Ridiculous? No! It’s
been proven by buyers.
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In less than three weeks, sixty five-year-olds
will be going to school for the first time. Seventy
six-year-olds will be marching off to their class
rooms twice as often as they did one year ago. At
least half of these groups, as well as the seven-
and eight-year-old groups, need protection from
the motor vehicle as they cross the highway.
A safety campaign, the establishment of a
highway crossing patrol, the erection of warning
signs on the highway—these steps are necessary
1 if our obligation toward these future citizens is to
be relieved.
Both the school board, which is responsible
for the welfare of children as far as education is
concerned, and the town council, which is respons
ible for protection to all citizens, have responsibil
ities in this problem. Let us hope that a spark is
produced that will start this vital safety campaign.
15 YEARS AGO
Mrs. Garnet Atkinson has sold
her Andrew St. property to Mr.
Edward Davies of London.
Sixty-six carloads of wheat,
property of the Canadian Wheat
Board, were shipped to the Gode
rich Elevator and Transit Com
pany over the Huron and Bruce
line of the c.N.R. in the past two
weeks.
A meeting was held in Exeter
for the purpose of organizing a
foal club. William Coates, presi
dent of -the Agricultural Society,
was in charge. Alvin Rowe was
elected president.
Claude Turner’s Juvenile Lions
ball club of Goderich won the
Huron-Perth group championship
and was presented with the Ex
eter Times-Advocate trophy by
James Paterson of Hensall, presi
dent of the league.
A meeting was held in Hensall
United Church for the purpose
of organizing a W.C.T.U. group
of Hensall and Exeter women.
Mrs. George Hess was named
president.
1O YEARS AGO
•Grace Norene Beckler and FS
William Ballantyne were mar
ried in James St. United Church
by the Rev. William Mair on
August 19.
Exeter’s new fire-fighting
equipment was given its first test
when fire started in W. C. Alli
son’s barn behind the Simmons’s
blacksmith shop. A bucket of tar,
used in repairing the roof of the
opera house, overturned as the
equipment was being moved and
girl, what
most in
world?”
A party girl is - one who be
lieves that children should be
seen and not had.* * * *
Forget my birthclay,
It’s much kinder
Not to send me
A reminder.
Jjt #
“Next to a beautiful
do you consider the
teresting thing in the
“When I’m next to a beautiful
girl I don’t give a damn about
statistics.”
* * * -Ji
He: Dearest, our engagement
is off. A fortune teller told me
I was to marry a blonde in a
month.
She: Oh; that’s all right. I
can be a blonde in a month.
* * *
Anxious sheriff: Al, are the
rest of the deputies out of the
woods yet?
Al: Yes.
(Sheriff: All four of them?
Al: Yes.
Sheriff: And they’re all in the
office?
Al: Yep, all there.
Sheriff: Fine, then «it was the
escaped murderer I shot.* * * *
Sam Riddle's pet” topic of con
versation is the remarkable suc
cess of Man o’ War’s sons and
daughters. His dinner partner
one evening was a young woman
whose racing knowledge had
been limited to a day or two at
the course on some fashionable
occasion. She listened attentive
ly most of the evening to a re
counting of the glories and per
formances of Man o’ War’s off
springs. There was a lull and
some one across the table asked
her: “What do you think of dis
armament?”
“Why, I don’t know—is it by
Man o’ War, too?”
editorial in a Huron County
weekly. “In a recorded vote,
which was unanimous, a permit
to build a $10,000 social club
building on the west side of
Erie St., Clinton, -was turned
down by the Clinton Town Coun
cil on Monday night. The so-
called ‘club’ was described as a
club where citizens aged 21 or
over could join and play cards,
or if patrons desired, the club
could supply and control liquor
and beer for them.” A recent
news item. One Huron town
council very evidently does not
accept the bottle club as a de
sirable institution. ’ The council
rightly interpreted the feeling of
Clinton citizens. How many such
liquor clubs in Huron are listed
amongst the pleasant social clubs
in their community? Granted that
the law lacks teeth somewhat, it
is rather surprising how fre
quently these clubs run foul of
the„ law. Our Crown Attorney
can and does prosecute without
fear or favor where there is evi
dence that bottle clubs are sell
ing liquor. Liquor cannot legally
be sold in Huron County, even in
a bottle club, except in that sec
tion which is directly under Fed
eral jurisdiction, the R.C.A.F.
Camp, just outside of Clinton.
(adv’t)
If you ivotild like to get useful information on the preservative
treatment of wood ice suggest you write Forest Products Labora
tories of Canada, Department of Northern Affairs and National
Resources, Ottawa.
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