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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1955-07-14, Page 2THE TIMES -ADVOCATE,: EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY 'MORNING, JULY 14, 1955 Jctings. By ).M.St1 n, Auth.ority Cin F.okon icy Itch This Journal .shall always fight for pv4040ss1 reform and public welfare, never be afraid to attack wrong, never Il satisfied with, merely -print- Ina newe, THURSDAY, MORNING, JULY 14,1955, Deserve Medals Work With Police-., To Enfc. rce Laws. Tough Job Exeter Councillor R. D. Jerinyn has the formidable task .of reviving and reactivating the Huron County Industrial Promotion Board. lie was elected chairman at a re- organization meeting last week. His job will not be easy because the board is a volunteer organization which ope- rates on donations from Huron municipali- ties and is composed of appointed represent- atives. It has been able to accomplish several things in the past but it has suffered from disinterest. Nevertheless, the board's objective to attract industry to Huron is vital to the pro- gress of the county and residents will hope the organization can be successful. A Point Reeve William McKenzie hasa point about sewers which other members .of the council should not, ignore. While the situation may not be as press- ing as he believes, no one will dispute the fact that sewerage will have to be faced sooner or later, Instead of waiting until the town may be forced to spend a huge sum for a system,. it would be wise to do as the reeve suggests and start looking inter,the problem now. A campaign to seek provincial and fede- ral assistance towards sewer systems would appear to be a sound move, It should be evi- dent from the experience that other towns have had with sewerage that the cost of a system is almost enough to bankrupt a small' municipality. Surely it is not necessary to `place such a heavy burden on the Shoulders of the already over -taxed property owners. Council ignored the reeve's suggestion at' its meeting last week. It would not be wise to ignore the sewer problem much 'longer, Good Charge Readers of The Times -Advocate may have noticed the increasing number of con- victions for impaired driving which have been registered in the local magistrate's court in recent months. In our opinion, this charge has become one of the most effective deterrants to drink- ing and driving the police have had to work with yet. The charge carries a stiff enough pen- alty a $50 minimum for the first offence— and it does not require as complete evidence to show inebrity as .does drunk driving. Police can now punish the drinking `driver before he causes a serious accident or fatality. It provides an opportunity to check up on the driver who may .easily be responsible for a major mishap if •be is allowed to continue.. Let's Get Started The plan for development of River - ;view Park which council has received from a horticulture expert at O.A.C. is a good start to a good project. The essential thing now is to get the development started trnd to make • annual ision forthe work untilit ism r s e le d p avP p to The establishment of the scenic park along the highway can be one of the best projects this town has attempted., Certainly the surprising intetest Shown in the park area during recent years indicates a tremend- ous potential. Canadian Wit at. Wisdom A Mend who knows your secret holds a mortgage on your peace of mind. —Bob td -wards, 1920 We hear much these days of education for citizenship but the only real and effect- ive education for citizenship lies in its actual practice. • —]red Landon) 1931 Three people who were connected with magistrate's court last week deserve medals. They were ordinary citizens who helped. police apprehend and convict drivers who were a menace on the road. One of those medal-deservers watched. .a car strike a parked vehicle on Exeter's main street, then proceed down the highway without stopping. Our friend jumped in his own car, chased the offender and caught him a mile and one-quarter south. The driver had been drinking so our friend turned him over to the police. He was convicted for im- paired driving. The two other citizens who. merit com- mendation were a husband and' Wife who testified against' another driver who had leen drinking. They recognized, he was a menace on the road and called police. . Several weeks ago another district citizen assisted in punishing a wrcmg-doer when he chased the offender down the road and recorded his licence number for the police whose investigation led to a court • conviction.. • These incidents are unusual in this day when many take a belligerent and unco- operative attitude towards law enforcements. This anti -police crowd would say that people who do what we have described above are "squealers"—traitors in the fight of citizens against police. It must be obvious on serious reflection that this position is a ridiculous one, Let's look at it this way. We hire police to enforce the laws which we, or our elected . representatives, believe will make this coun- try better. If we are not prepared to co- operate to see that our regulations are ob- served, then we cannot expect the police to be too concerned about enforcement. A classic example of the current irres- ponsible attitude towards police and law enforcement is the person (and there are many of these) who complaihs about the police not doing their job but who, when asked to testify or make a complaint against offenders, will not do so. This type of per- son does not deserve good police protection. Take for instance the citizen who com- plained to local police one morning. about boys drinking and brawling' on her lawn. She was appalled to .think the police should let such things• go on. • Police asked her why she had not phoned them when the offence:was taking place instead of the following morning. She did not want to 'tell on'the boys, she said. Did she know =who the. offenders were? Yes, bat she would not disclose their ident- ity. How can The police be expected to cope with that type of situatipn? • Public co-operation with police is es- sential in a law-abiding society. It is partic- ularly necessary in the field' of -traffic safety if the mounting highway accident toll is go- ing to be Checked.. Second Side A person involved in a complaint, to council about ajuunicipal condition criticized us last week because our story about it was biased: ' "You slanted your report in favor of council's viewpoint," he charged. We'll have to plead guilty. Theg p who rou complained. l co p arced failed to take the trouble to present their case in person at the public meeting or to tell us about the situation. Consequently all we heard was council's side of the story and that's what we wrote about. That's why we're guilty of printing only one side of the question—we didn't know the other. ..The Times -Advocate is prepared al- ways to present two sides to any argument. if it gets the information. Witt our limited staff, however, it's not always ppssible to get out and interview a number of people to get their reasons for taking certain action. If such groups would co-operate with us and tell us their story, we'd be happy to present it through our colufnns, Zbe Cuter Xitnto=ltibocate *Med Established 1818 Assalganrieted 1924 • Adroelte' Hitablibbed ' Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario An Independent Nerregsper Devoted to the Intermte of the Torn of Exeter .andDistrict Atttliorized as Seton ii Claes Mail, Poet OftiOe Departauent, Otto** Member of the danadiaa Weekly Newspaper A.eeookttiost Mentb0t of this .Ontario bt istelt of the CtigNA 1lfernber of the An'dit B'urean of C*rcn1atio'In's' 1953 A/Waneda Itiwrance Federations National Safety Att*Id 1959 Os tRio Safety 'League Award 1064 Winner of the E. E'. Btepheiitson Memorial Trophy far Beat Front Page Among Ontario Weekly Newspapers Paid -in -Advance Cir'eulation as of April 1, 1954 2,547 St19801UPTION SATAN Canada (1* advritice) *8.00 per year -.:. U.S.A. (in advance) .94.00. per " Published by The 'Eater TimesoAdvocate Limited ye. Last week the Times -Advocate had, u timely 'article on poison ivy. If anyone is An authority• on Poison ivy I think 1 should. be one. Over fifty years ago as a lad in my teens I had about as bad a dose of poison ivy asany- one could possibly have and ever since then l: have been :allergic to it. Poison ivy, if you get a bad,, dose of it, can be about asdis- tressing as ,anything you can lin- agine, It becomes so itchy that, it is impossible for one tokeep their hands off of It. My first enntact with it was in the flax pulling days of more than fifty years ago. About 25 to 30 boys and girls would be pick- ed up in the morning and driven in a hay rack with boards along the sides for seats several miles so as to be in the field by seven o'clock.. We took along our din- ner pails and in audition to the dinner hour were allowed fifteen minutes morning and afternoon as a rest period. A person had to do a fair day's work to earn fifty or sixty cents. I was one of the smallest pullers and never earned over thirty-five cents a day, Terrible Time One day I wandered •off from the .others and got into a patch, of poison ivy which a knew noth- ing about. I had a terrible time for a couple of weeks, The dootor and my mother wondered just how I was going to pull out of it, but I did and the little money I had earned didn't go tar to- wards the doctor's 'bill. Since then I have seen quite a few people who have been badly afflicted with it. I believe there hasn't been a. summer -since those eary days that 'I 'haven';t Spent some time at Grand Bend as Grandfather Southcott was one of 1 MERRY MENAGERIE the early residents of this pop- ular resort. He made boats in the winter time and rented theta to picnickers in the summer tithe and my brothers and I often help- ed 'hint with theist. Grand Bend has been known to be called tile' home of poison ivy and it 'yds that I ran across some very there bad cases, 1 remember One young lady who undertook to clean up some of the undergrowth '.surrounding their cottage. It was on a hot day .and she was dressed in beach attire and perspired freely.. Abeut three days afterwards she was a mass of blisters 'from head to foot. How she ever stood it I don't know. It was enough to seed one almost crazy, I have seen bad oases since but that .one was the worst. Need Persistence Of late years chemicals have been used to destroy the plant but it is not an easy job asthe roots run for yards, sometimes rods and persistence is needed. Before the chemicals were dis- covered poison Ivy was usually pulled up by hand with the body well protected with gloves and clothing. . If one discovers it early enough the rash is easy to cure. • It usual- ly appears two to three days after contact. At the present time I have no fear of .15 and go amongst it freely. The ,beat thing I have found to stop the rash is to dampen my finger with Lysol and touch it to the rash and it disappears almost immediately. I have used with good effect a heavy lather made from brown soap and applied it freely to the rash, leaving it to dry. Calamine At the latest count there were 299,000 mink, 16,000 chinchillas and 6,300 foxes on Canadian fur farms. By Walt Disney 0 copyright 1953 A / Walt Disney Productions / World Rights Rc ervcd 1 / / /I/ / t ' f/ // /" h/ / U >1 trisffvil 4 716 Distributed by King reatutes Syndicate. "He's worried about his shoes getting rusty.!" As the "TIMES" • t. Go By '50 YEARS AGO London Normal 'School students for the past year were all suc- cessful. Miss Elsie A. McCallum • • of Exeter was one of the.five 'who obtainedhonors in all. subjects. The graduating commercial class to whom diplomas will be granted: Jennie Hardy, Bertha Willert, Mauda T ylor, Almina Motter, George Wambold, Roy Parsons, . Garfield Hodgert. The graduating , commercial class took shorthand at the rate of 100 words per minute and the •Junior commercial class at the rate of '60 'words per ,minute. The junior eominei•cial class: Alice Howard, Edna Bissett, Bes- sie Welsh, Edith McKay, Ile'John- ston, Allan McCurdy, Chesley Evans. The bell ringers of ' Trivitt Memorial •Church with their fam- ilies enjoyed a pleasant day at Grand ,Bend on Thursday, 'Several of the family of Mr. John Walker Exeter North, are 111 with diphtheria, 1881 . 25 YEARS AGO The scholarships offered by the Exeter Board of Education to the pupils from any school under the jurisdiction of the Exeter High School • Entrance Board obtain- ing the greatest total of marks was won by Miss Jeanette Taman of Exeter school, Misses ,lteta .Rowe, Amy Shapt- on, iGertrude Oranois, M ta-'Sa1- ter, Doris Salter, Miidre Jory, Elizabeth 'Thompson, !Helen Pen - hale and Jean Sheers are holi- daying at '9R.obinhood" ,cottage, Grand Bend. The following is the result of the judging is connection with ' the school gardens which were Judged last week by Messrs. Wm. Ward and Geo. 'IVlawson: 'G, S. itoward"s room, 171more f#unkin. hazel Clark, Jack ,Pry'de; Miss Harvey's raoln, Gladys Ityckhian, Warren May and Ola geed. 115 YEARS AGO Two showings were necessary is accomodate the large attend. i6nnuoont,n.Inonine ance at Leavitt's Theatre Monday. evening for the nation-wide cam- paign by Canada's motion picture industry to stimulate the sale of war savings stamps arid certifi- cates.. The special effort puton by Mr. and Mrs: Cochrane in con- junction with the local "War Time Board resulted in the sale "of stamps 'and 'certificates to the sum of $1,093.15. Miss Grace Strange of the Bell Telephone ;Staff, of Toronto, spending her .vacation at Wasaga Beach. Quite anumber of lads from this district go to 1Seafarth three nights a week for training with "D" company of Middlesex -Hur- on regiment. The speedy cruiser "Delmar" a 222 foot 'craft owned by W. Klopp, Zurich, was stolen Satur- day from Grand Bend Harbor: It wase recovered at Pt. Huron. An investigation is being con- ducted. Register with thecommittee at once if you can take one or two children from across the seas, 10 YEARS AGO On 0! riday evening about . 60 friends and neighbors of the sec- ond and third concessions of T1s - borne gathered at S.S. No. 5 to honor Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Quinn before their journey to their fut tire home in New Brunswick. At Centralia on Tuesday even- ing asocial evening and pretentta-, tion. Was held in the schoolroom of the church for Rev. 11t..1. and Mrs, Merriam before leaving for their new home in %Putman. ' Twenty-eight cadets of the local high school corps returned home l riday after 11 days In the R.40,A,0. Camp at Cedar ISpringa, Ontario, Mr. ,Joseph B. Creech hag !been engaged as a 'member of the high school staff commencing with the fall term. Ile is at present an instructor at Aylrper. ,Mr. and ,Mrs, dlertrain of roan have received word front their Son Pat. that .he hat been repat. rioted after being a prisoner .of war for five years,, • lotion its an excellent cure. ,Gas- oline will go tate trick for some, If yea have it badly try one after the other for what will cure one does not seem to effect an- other, The main thing is to keep at it, synnN1144441b14g14nnn4n11111t4n4111114pImo% Legion Corner by M. E. Harness President Comrade Bert Farmer is home after his trip to the west .coast. We hope he had a good trip. I hear Bert was away for a month, so he should be able to tell you lots about the trip. *' * Corky Schroeder, the lead drummer of the band, is getting over his illness quite well and will be back to work next week, sow' hear. It's. .a.. good job he didn't go to at. Marys and get caught in the rain storm like the rest of the band or he surely would have been sick. It was. quite a rain storm they had for their tattoo: I saw some of" the boys when they got home and they looked like drowned rats. * * Comrade Andy Bierling and Myself attended a meeting with the Lions Club on Monday night to determine ways to raise money for the Scout House or whatever it may be called. Comrades and citizens: 1, among a great many other people, think this is really a worthwhile project, It means that, the youth of our community will have a building to ,hold their meetings in, and therefore I hope that each and every one of you will help the Lions to make this propect a success. By the youth of this commun- ity I mean the Bqy Scouts, Girl Guides, Brownies and Rangers and everyone knows If they are given proper supervision it will help them turn out to be good citizens. At the present time the Rang ers, Guides and Brownies are meeting in the Legion building and the Scouts and Cubs in the Town Hall. Viet means if there is anything else going on in either•of these buildings they have to hies' their meeting and that isn't ,fair to the. children, So let's all get behind the Lions and make this project a success. * *. - * * I got a bawling, out for my column -last week because I hap- pened to mention one of the cern- rules' names, so this week I wish to apologize to him. Now 1 have talked to him I know he isn't go- ing • to give fighting lessons and there are a few that he id not going to fight. He told nie not to dare mention his name again in the paper so I will just have to leave you 'comrades guessing for now. News Of Your LIBRARY Mrs. Hilton. Laing, Sfbr`arian, is holidaying in New York and in her .absence Mrs. G. A. Hawk- ins is acting librarian. "Ottawa", 'Before you 'travel to' Eastern• Ontario read "Ottawa" the por- trait of a . capital by Blodwen Davies. It is the most complete and t'h'e most readable book about Canada's capital that has yet been' written. Blodwen Davies is the . author ofseveral books on the St. Law- rence region as well as the first `full, length biography of :a Gan- adian artist, 'Toni Thomson. Her early years were- -spent in. Mon- treal and later in ,Ontario she delved into the historical records of the ,pioneers of Upper Canada. "Ottawa"- is a product of th il4 years of enthusiastic research, Miss Davies 'now dives in Cedar Grove, a rural .community ,twen- ty-five miles from Toronto. The first half et the book •tells the history of the city that grew out of a village in the wilderness. In the second •section there are interesting •ateounts of Ottawa today: the Archives, the Mint, the Bank of Canada, the Nation - a1 Museum and its founder, Sir William Logan; 'the Nationa•1• GaI- lery • which was the brain -child of Princess lionise; the Experi- mental Farni and the story of Marquis • wheat; the ',Dominion Observatory and William Fred-, erick King who wag principally responsible for itk' existence. 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