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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1955-04-28, Page 2R THETIMES-ADVOCATE, :.:'...TELE ONTARIO T:M• URSDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 196E Program In Huron Tilts Journal, shall always fight for progress, reform and pubile welfare, never be appfraid to. attack wrong, never• beisakl;fled with merely print' 1oq nese. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL .214 1955. E �1. ssaliwpsyst uuNU nogriga}71111uusalowIlUsngNq,sasptt tmum tasyg711aAR{nsNNlgm,yu}llul SIOSIMy4nwps,},q}mg,g4�n Boost Your. Tc:wn for Industry Everyone Helps Thoughts on .the importance of the atti- tude of all citizens of a town .concerning in- dustrial promotion were expressed recently by The Acton Free Press, They are worth reprint- ing here: "The. scramblefor towns to get new in- dustries is pretty general throughout Ontario, but the average citizen does not fully realize the problems that confront those who under- take such work for the town. "In Orangeville, the Greening Wire Co. is building a new :plant and •the player says the work on securing it started months :ago, "Few people realize how important their individual contribution can be and their atti- tude can affect the decision of an industry to locate in a town. "We have known towns that lost industry because the townsfolk whom strangers inter- viewed did not speak well of their town. No. industrialist wants to locate in a town where the present populace is not happy or congenial, "Getting industry or making any town a pleasant place to live in is not the work solely of .councils, committees or boards. It is a Job in which every citizen can help, even in your greet- ing on the street with those you meet,." Be a friendly booster, it's Happening Here Down Again We'd like to ask again what has be- fallen the Huron County Industrial Board. After a lapse last summer, the board re- newed its activities with vigor • at the turn of the year, It proposed some worthwhile projects which it intended to proceed with early this year. For some reason the board appears to have fallen. inactive again. It's a shame because Huron County badly needs some more industry within its boundaries. Miss The Cigar The world will miss Alulldog Churchill at the helm of the British ship. - Cigar -smoking Winnie has been the un- questioned leader of the free world for two decades. He has been the symbol of freedom during its most trying hours. Democracy needs a world leader to fill ChurchiIl,,'s shoes. Mr. Eden does' not appear to have the earthy qualities that marked his predecessor. Mr. Eisenhower may make the grade, but he has not yet emerged from the nationalistic shell of his country. Lambs Nicest (Windsor Daily Star) Fewer Ontario farmers keep sheep than in earlier days. They think they can make moiee money from hogs and cattle than from sheep, despite sheep having the dual purpose of mutton and wool. Yet on many farms lambs are being born these days,tiand beginning to gambol about. Of all the nice young things on the farms, Iambs are about the nicest. With their inno- cent. faces and frolicsome spirits, they are pleasant to look at and ftxn to play with. It is very rare for a mare to bear twins, and relatively rare for a cow to have twins. Among sheep, twins are frequent and not infrequently a ewe will give birth to triplets and, occasionally, even more. Triplets create. a problem because a ewe has facilities for feeding only two. Sometimes the spare one will be adopt- ed by another ewe, though this is not so easily done as it may seem. Consequently, where there are sheep often there are pet lambs. These will be raised on the bottle during their early days, until they learn to feed from a pail. Lambs at birth are awkward looking things, with their skinny necks and spindly, knobby legs. But they soon fill out into round, cuddlesome little animals playful in snood, A lamb makes a perfect pet for a. lad or a lass. Any man who doesn't want 'what he hasn't got has all he wants. —Bob Edwards, 1918 This Ontario Safety League thought is recommended readings Being normal people, most of us are moved with compassion when .we see pie, tures of the countless child victims of war or famine. Our hearts go out in pity for the poor children who grow up in countries less fortunate than this Canada of ours. •At such times we're likely to think of the advantages so many Ontario children enjoy . . . nutritious food, warm clothing, housing, education . . . freedom from want . . . freedom from fear. We lose • sight of the fact that these same youngsters are exposed every' day to an enemy as .vicious as any invading army . an enemy that annually takes the lives of thousands of this Province's children and injures many. more. This enemy?. Traffic Accidents! If we want an excuse, it just doesn't work! We can't lay the blame fo'r this child slaughter at the door of the criminal cle- ment, for the cars and trucks that snuff out the lives of our children are,• for the -most part, driven by ordinary, sincere, law-abiding citizens. What's the explanation? As the Ontario Saftey League says :"The only explanation is they don't realize that .careless driving breeds traffic accidents. As long -as drivers cherish this blind spot, we'll continue to have traffic accidents—many of them in- volving children." All of us who drive should wake• up and face the facts. It's criminally careless to drive an automobile (1) when you're ill, wor- ried or fatigued, (2) after you've been drink- ing, (3) at a speed that's not safe for con- ditions. None of us can say we've never been guilty of careless driving in the past. But we CAN resolve to mend our ways- in the future. Better:Music • The noted improvement in the •calibre of -music in this district is tribute to the . South Huron Music Festival. The adjudicator, Dr. G. Roy. Fenwick, supervisor of music in Ontario schools, com- mended the progress being made. He•,noted both the quality and the quantity of the con- testants have improved since he conducted the festival here several years ago. ' Mr. Fenwick also paid significant praise to the South Huron District High School for its high musical standard. He said there was only one other high school in Ontario where one could hear' boys and girls' sing better. These remarks by such a competent authority are compliments to members of the Huronia Male Chorus and all those who assist with the festival. In particular Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Sturgis deserve credit. Mrs. Stur- gis has been the principal organizer 'of the festival and Mr. Sturgis is in charge of the high school music, je (Exeter C%r e = bbotatt • Tines Bstabiished 1873 Arnalgnmated 1024 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests' of the Town of Exeter and District Authorized as Second :Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa a Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Division of the O'IVNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations 1959 A11-Clanada Insurance Federation National .l afety. Award ()Markt ario Safety League Award 1954 Winner of the 111 P'. Stephenson Memorial Trophy for Best Front 'Page Among Ontario Weekly ? e*spapers Paid -in• Advance Circulation as of April 1, 1954 — ,2,547 S117>#SCRIP ION ItATES Canada (in advance) $8.06 per year -L- USA, in advance) 414.00 per year Published by The Exeter Times -Advocate Limited Ex lovir.. (Excerpts from the •speech presented by J. IL Hamlin, Imperial Oil Limited, repre- sentative. to !Huron County Municipal Officers Associa- tion.) It is common knowledge to any group of people' in, this part•. For Oil of Ontario that Southwestern Ontario is the birthplace of the vast petroleum indusry which exists in, Canada today, The rain - lug branch of the industry be-: gen in 1857 when tarry bitunten: found ,close to the .suratce At 011 Springs was distilled, .and in MERRY MENAGERIE U Copirtht 1955' Walt Disney Production, World 1Ri,chtt etried /a ,/ i/ By volt DI% tly 1, �,�,/•� --I1U 1,3o )4k�r d/ )2-. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. wouldn't put a dog out on a night like this,' he says, Then — bingo! Out I go!" 50 YEARS AGO • The Commerical , Hotel will change hands on May 1. Mr. Wil- liam Barrows, of London, will be the new landlord, The Metropoli- tan Hotel will soon be taken oyer by Mr. C. Wendland, of Milver- ton. The $10 prize" offered by the London and Middlesex Historical Society for the best history of any Middlesex township was awarded to Mr. William W. Rev- ington, of Mooresville, Biddulph. A. Q. Bobier advertised stove, and nut coal in ton lots or over at $6.50 per ton. At the annual vestry •meeting of Trivitt Me m o r i a l Church, Thomas Hawkins was elected rec- tor's warden; J J. Knight, peo- ple's warden;' R. B. 8amuel, trea- surer; :C.-11. Sanders and N. D. Hurdon, auditors; A. Q. Bobier, B. Elliott, N. D. Hurdon, P. Row- Cliffe and' 0, H. Sanders, sides- men. W. R. Berry, who has just com pleted three years' apprenticeship. With John Shiite, Kirktgn, has accepted a position with A. Wal- ters, Exeter, 25 YEARS AGO Rev. Mr.. Smillie, a missionary on furlough from Central India, was guest Speaker at the W.M.S. Thank Offering service in Main Street United Church. Rev. Smil- lie was born near Hensall M e rn b e r s o f Exeter Lodge I.O.O.F: attended the evening service in Caven Presbyterian Church. , Exeter is . to be the headquar- ters of Bell Telephone service men, Mr. J. Maclntyre, London, - will move here and superintend installations and repairs for Ex- eter, Hensall, Crediton, Parkhill, Ailsa Craig and Lucan. Mr. Walker, owner of Oak- wood Golf Course at Grand Bend, is erecting six log huts on the bluff overlooking the course to rent to tourists, Exeter baseball fans are won- dering about the prospects for a team this year since a number of former players have moved. from town; 15 YEARS AGO Mr A. J. Payne had the mis- fortune to sustain a compound fracture of the right leg when the delivery horse . of Jones & May, kieked .him when the harness broke, allowing the wagon to strike the horse. A safe at'the Shamrdck Cream- ery, Centralia, and one at Silver-. wood's branch office, Zurich were stolen the Same night and both were found abandoned with the mdhey • they contained miss- ing. Pupils of Mr. W. R. Goulding, gave a recital in James Street Church auditorium under the sponsorship of the James As the "TIMES Go By s 1. Street War Service Unit. Andy Easton, a veteran of the First Great War, who recently enlisted in the transport division, was presented with a <Wrist watch at a social evening of the Exeter- Hensall Branch of the Canadian Legion. Past president Thomas Pryde paid tribute to Mr. Easton's work as secretary of the Legion, 10 YEARS AGO F/L S. Donald Sanders, a Lan- caster. Bomber pilot, "son of Mrs. 5essie Sanders, Exeter North, has. been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The reeves and coiyncils of Ex- eter, Usborne •and Stephen, along with Thomas Pryde, J. Hendry, R. N. Creech, W. E. Middleton and A. U, Elliot 'were named a preliminary committee for re- habilitation whose purpose it will be to assist the returned men in any way possible in their. return to civilian life. Mr. Preston Dearing represent- ed the Ontario - Sheep Breeders' Association at a banquet of the O A.C., Guelph, in Honor of seven Brftishers who are touring' Cana- da in the interest of agriculture. The Exeter Red Cross had a record breaking attendance at. the seventeenth blood, donor clin- ic when 201 .donations were given. Mr. G. A. Cann was selected as C.C.F. federal •candidate at a nomination meeting•,held in Hen-. sa11, } 1858 boring ' resulted in better o,uality petroleum being •discover -- ed. The bedrock was penetrated by the Shaw well at •Oil Springs in 1861 and the first flowing well was encountered. The producing phase of the industry was established and sub- sequent drilling .and production has continued throughout South- western Ontario at various inter- vals aright up to the present time. Some portions of the area have seen mere Intensive activity' than others, however, we must remember that the search .for oil and gas goes on continuously over the years in moat areas where sedimentary rocks exist. Ever since the discovery of oil at Oil Springs in 1858, and the drilling of the Drake well in 1859 in Pennsylvania, many strange and romantic ideas have been expressed. Some of these .still persist to this day and yet, in general, such ideas have no true foundation based on our modern knowledge. A common belief is that oil lies in the earth as a -river or lake extending under and flowing be- neath large areas. Nothing , is, farther from fact. The truth is that oil (petroleum) is found in rock. Another common misconcep- tien is that oil flows out. of the "pool":' The public thinks of an, oil well as a "gusher" spouting forth wealth and riches to the owner of a well. The facts are that oil cannot produce itself from the earth; that there is no- thing in oil itself which causes it to rise up and flow. out of wells; and that oil moves into a• well only if it is pushed or ex pelted from rock' by the gas and water associated with it, sup- plemented in many eases by the force of gravity. - Oil and gas, once found, should be' looked upon as a natural resource which is not of a re- curring nature since it° cannot be replaced once it is produced, it cannot be replanted like our forests or restocked like our rivers and streams. Once dis- covered, it can, however, by the use of 'modern scientific and technical knowledge, 'be con- served and protected ,against waste to the end that the highest possible economic recoveries can be Obtained, and to the end that Mu. resources of oil and gas will be utilized to their best advan- tage both today and in the, fu- ture. In Heron County the amount of .exploratory work which has taken place since 1860 has not been on the same scale as in oth- er' areas of Southwestern Ontario. The first well exploring for oil and as was drilled near Goderich in 1866, but the discovery of salt changed ,the. plans of the drilling parties and established a new in- dustry, Since that time, . approxi- mately 26 wells have been drilled in the County in search of oil and gas and of this number -our. comL many has drilled 17' and partici- pated in 1 other. Practically ..all this drilling has taken place 'in the past four years. From- the amount of activity presently taking place . in_ your County, it -can be assumed. that the ;parbies'carrying on suchwork feel 'that it ;is perspective .oil or gas country"., that it is underlain. by sedimentary rocks, and -that by intensive and continued eff-• forts new information;.and know- ledge will be 'obtained which will, we hope, eventually result in siccessful commercial discoveries being made. - • --Please Turn to Page 12 444 44 II ttt 1111110 The river'sPiedge.. I want to go on living and driving. So I promise to ' S HARE the. road, - ALLOW room for passing; FOLLOW safety rules; - y TE NTEtt: into no unofficial races; I 1 RUST nobody's skill to saVe my life; ,. YIELD rather than incur danger. (Oh yes, and I shall. always dimniy lights when desirable.) Phone: ° Off1c4 24 Res. 162-J •ilii iilttMill notam.iuiliiii Intl{Ila.lttl !!sushi ttul/iluIlllitOula-till l iul.i,lil I !Blit OW/ W. Her. mane Hodgson '"The Insurance Man" • e THERE'S MONEY • TE E.D • tt e h nottol v • Lucan Branch: WESLEY .PARKINSON, Manager WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK OF'LIPE SINCE "MY RANH" Mt IIWD. CLIANANS Running short of feed? Don't let stocks: . fall too low because you haven't the ready cash, Talk things over with your B oO M Manager. Remember — when you ask for a loan at the B of M you do not asks favour. If you can plan repayment from your farm income there's money .for you at "My Bank", And that goes for seed• and fertilizer•' too.. BANK O1 MONTREAL • 0Iwee4.7itra Exeter Branch! • " C. E. SHAW, Manager Centralia (Sub -Agency): Open Mon., Wed. & itri, Grand Bend (Sub -Agency); Open Tuesday.. tic Thursday Credljion Branch: RAYMOND KING, Manager . (Open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) Dashwood (Sub -Agency):. Open MOA. Wed. & Fri. Hensall Branch: •-. KENNETH CHRISTIAN, Manager SERVICES 1817 5 Big Shots Are *Only Little Shots Who Keep Shooting: Great mercantile houses did not grow by remaining idle. They ex- panded because they anticipated buyers' needs and continuously informed prospective purchasers of the merchandise they offered by newspaper advertising. These • firms are the greatest buyers of - newspaper space, today. They small merchant who de- sires. to build his business should keep shooting in the medium that has proven itself better than all others. combined . the " Newspaper. Advertising 'benefits You Advertising Benefits Everyone., The .Exeter. P770 Times -Advocate `Want some :help with your (homework, Dad?" It's a.good•,thing young Tedis only joking. If. his Dad took him up on that offer, Ted would soon find himself floundering in :a sea of facts about family income management, succession duties, taxes, wills, trusts, business insurance and 'other related subjects! - You See, Ted's.father is a }ypical life°underwriter'—a man who has not only been trained for his job, but keeps tip -to - date by constant study. Fot the -uses of life insurance are more -extensive today than they used to be. And the 'men who 'represent companies in this business how advise •you • Lwiih increased skill. Doing this calls for mote than Study. It takes real under- standing of people's heeds. And since each faniily's needs are different, the company, representative offers valuable -guidance in making plans to fit these needs, indvidrrally. . ,All hi all, the life insurance man you deal with today is a • very good man to know. And his progress is another reflection of the tnany ways in which the life insurance business, hat developed with the tames to mod your changing needs/ THE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN ,CANADA CoMprising.Mute. Iliad 50 Canadian, $!spill and United Stales companies Yt e 8 i 1 OH, SAMMY! WHAT YOU - !SAID!! AIITIDISESTABU SHMENTARIANISA? • i' 1 rc� 1). l t t tr a J' r> .4 4 • t,.