The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-02-09, Page 2THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9t 1956
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This Journal, shall always fight
for progress reform and public
welfare, never bo afraid to at
tack wrong, never belong to
any political party, never be
satisfied with merely printing
news.
GyestEditorial
St's White Cane Week
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Dairy Support
Supports for Canada’s dairy indus
try play as important a role as props
uiider other levels of the national econo
my, officials of the Ontario Cream Pro
ducers’ Marketing Board said recently in
a statement concerning the butter sup
port price.
“Directly, or indirectly, almost every
type of industry in the country is pro
tected by some form of tariff or sub
sidy,” they said. “Therefore, it follows
that the farmer is also entitled to pro
tection against unfair competition and
drastic price fluctuations,”
The Ontario farm group mentioned
in particular the set prices that have aid
ed the mining industry, and the tariff
barriers that have to be hurdled by cheap
imports which might threaten the Can
adian manufacturing industry in any of
its many forms.
“Many items,” said officials, “could
be brought into Canada to undersell the
Canadian-made product, but the govern
ment has seen fit to protect our Canadian
industries against such competition.
“We feel that the dairy industry, a
major part of Canadian agriculture, has
earned at least the present form of pro
tection—the floor price for butter.”
Chiefly, though, the cream producers
said, the 58-cent butter support price is
wanted because of its stabilizing effect.
Any sharp reductions in butter
prices would discourage production, and
the next step would be a scarcity. This
could have two results—sharply increased
prices due to demand, or imports, and
a consequent weakening of the buying
power of agriculture.
Neither situation is desirable, either
from a consumer’s or producer’s point
of view. Aided by the support price,
butter manages to avoid fluctuations or
scarcities.
And, lest anyone think farmers are
waxing wealthy on present prices, the
board noted that farm income had drop
ped 28 per cent between 1951 and 1953,
and took a further drop of 12 per cent
in 1954. This year a further drop is ex
pected, while production costs continue
to climb.
No Chance?
Fire Chief Jack Scott of Clinton has
been waging an interesting fire preven
tion campaign affecting rural schools in
that area. He apparently is getting little
co-operation to solve a problem which,
on the surface at least, appears import
ant.
“Many of the country schools have
only one door with the stairs inside the
building,” Mr. Scott, was quoted recently
in The Clinton News-Record. “In case of
fire the pupils wouldn’t have a chance.”
A blaze would probably start in the
basement, the fire chief says, and would
cut off escape by the door. Many school
windows are covered with heavy steel
netting, which would prevent escape.
Anyway the drop from the windows is
usually quite high.
Mr. Scott said he hoped to seek the
help of the Department of ‘^Education to
get adequate safety measures since
schools boards in Clinton area “will not
do anything that might cost a few dol
lars.”
An escape slide would provide a
quick way of getting pupils out of schools
and would not cost more than $100, he
said.
Ratepayers in this area might check
to see that such hazardous conditions do
not exist here.
Let's Work Towards
• An expanded industrial promo
tion program in Exeter and in Huron
County.
• Completion of the Riverview Park
development.
• A business promotion organiza
tion among Exeter merchants.
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THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1996
10,000 See Antiques
Huron Museum Popular The Rugged
By S. B. TAYLOR
District Chairman, CNIB
As this is National White Cane
Week, on behalf of the Huron County
Advisory Board and myself I would like
to thank everyone in this community who
contributed to * our annual canvass and
the splendid way you do year aftei' year.
We have seven registered in this
community and they, too, are very grate
ful for the interest you take in their
behalf.
I would like to suggest another way
you can help them. When you are driving
a car, and see a person crossing the
street carrying a white cane, immediate
ly take all responsibility that nothing
happens to them by stopping until they
are across, or if you meet them on a
street corner attempting to cross a street,
take a minute to help them across. A
minute’s service means so much more to
them than it does to us.
Let us have White Cane Week the
whole year through.
Let's Progress
Hon W. M. Nickle, Ontario Minister
Planning and Development, warnedof
Huron County officials at a meeting in
Goderich recently that we’ll have to do
some active campaigning to get our share
of new industries in this area.
♦ Mr. Nickle, addressing members of
Huron County Council who were guests
of the Goderich Lions Club, said:
“You won’t get industries by sitting
back and letting other people do the
work. Now is the time to go after them.
Take advantage of your potential indus
tries. Make it known to those in author
ity the potentialities you have here for
industry.”
The advice should be well taken by
county officials because Huron has lag
ged behind in industrial promotion—in
growth and progress, too. During the last
10 boom years, this county has not kept
pace with the rapid development in other
parts of the province.
We’ll admit there may be some logi
cal reasons—that the decline o’f farm in
come has been a setback and there is not
the opportunity to expand in a rural area
that there is in an industrial one. But
that’s no justification for a defeatist at
titude. We have plenty of potentialities
on the agriculture level which have never
been exploited yet.
We should not sit and wait for
prosperity—it may pass us by.
She, Shims, Shis?
This verse, which shows somewhat
humourously the problems confronting
the New Canadians who come to this
country, has been doing the rounds in-
the editorial pages of Huron County
newspapers. It’s worth your reading:
“We’ll begin with a box and the plural is-
boxes.
But the plural of ox should be oxen not
oxes.
One fowl is called goose, but two are
called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be
meese.
If the plural for man is always' called
men,
Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called
pen?
If I speak of a foot and you show me
your feet,
And I give you a boot would a pair be
called beet?
We speak of a brother and also of
brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say
methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, him
and his,
But imagine the feminine she ,shim and
shis?*
• A parking lot close to Main
Street.
• Removal Of unsightly dumps in
Exeter and Biddulph which are visible
from heavily-travelled highways.
• A town plan for Exeter.
Exeter Tinies
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Paid-in-Advahce Circulation as of September 30, 1955—2,734
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Published by Thft Exeter Times-Advocafe Limited
Mr. J. H. Neill, curator of the
Huron County Museum, reports
that the Museum has had another
successful year with about 10,000
persons passing through the turn
stiles. This figure includes the
usual number of school classes
and Women’s Institute branches.
Paid admission for the year^ was’
$2,200 and a grant
received from the
Ontario.
Highlights of the
ities at the Museum
dition of a 20 foot by 24 foot
wing, the decision of Huron
County Council to purchase the
two adjoining lots from the Pub
lic School Board for $1,000 and
the addition of 75 feet of new
£how cases, built by Mr. Neil,
About 400 new exhibits, 90 per
cent of which were contributions,
were added to the collection to
bring the total number of exhib
its to about 3,500 in 1955.
Most outstanding of these ad
ditions was the securing of steam
threshing engines to complete the
set of the first three types of
such engines to be used in this
district. The first engine is a
12 horsepower upright engine;
the second, a 14 horse power re
turn flue; the third, a 22 horse
power steam engine. The first
two engines were horse-drawn
and the third is a tractor-drawn
unit. AU engines are still in
working condition—the 22 horse
power engine having been used
in a district sawmill until only
recently,
Another addition made to the
machinery section this year is a
rock and stump mover. This piece
of equipment is driven by horses
•and is geared in such a way that
one team of horses could do the
work which would otherwise
quire the drawing power of 10
teams. The machine is about
.feet wide, 17 feet long and 10
feet high. It has a working cap
acity of from eight to 10 tons.
All Kinds of (Clocks
Another collection in which
Mr. Neill has a great deal of
pride was. brought up to date
this past year when the curator-.
of $56i0i was
Province q£
year’s activ-
were the ad-
re-
10
purchased a clock which requires
absolutely no winding. The clock
winds itself when a temperature
Change of more than two degrees
occurs.
Mr. Neill said he had the
clock, which cost him over $20'0,
with the collection in the mus
eum, but the temperature change
inside that building -was not
great enough to af-fect the wind
ing device and he hns since mov
ed the clock into his house. He
says it has been running perfect
ly ever since.
Previously, the latest model
clock was the 400-day clock. The
collection npw includes pearly
every known time piece from the
large ancient, Greek sun-dial
clock, located on tire grounds of
the Museum, to the “cat’s eyes”
Chinese method of telling time,
Mr. Neill explains that the meth
od of telling the time of day by
looking at the cat’s,eyes is still
used by some in China.
One section of the Museum,
which Mr. Neill feels is still sad
ly inadequate, is the marine sec
tion. At present, it is merely
comprised of a model ship or two
and a homemade shortwave radio
set. (Goderich Signail-Gtarj The Times-Advocate
President Reg McDonald, Com
rade Stew Dick, Comrade Ted
Pooley and myself went ito .God
erich on Friday night to see the
honor roll chapel they are .build
ing into the new county court
house. We met with the property
committee and were instructed
as to what the chapel would look
vlike when the architect is finish
ed with it.
tAt the Goderich Legion hall _
we were joined by Legion mem-'
bers from all over the county.
Comrade Pooley' took the chair
to explain what was expected of
the Legions in the county and
was elected to chair the commit
tee and Comrade Doug Thorn
dyke of Clinton is his secretary,
I was appointed by President
■Reg to work on' the committee
with one member from each of
the other branches in the county.
Our job is to compile a list of all
those who were born or were a
resident of this county and join
ed the service. This means those
living
action
since.
and dead, those killed in
and those who have died
MERRY MENAGERIE By Walt Disney
“See, dear, wouldn’t I look handsome on a lampshade?”
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We hope to get help from lists
we already have in the Legion,
plus those kept fey the townships
and the towns as well as anyone
else w'ho can help us. So if any
one knows of any service person
nel who are not on an honor roll
in any place in the county, please
contact us at once.
* * *
I understand (Comrade Cliff
. Brintnell is already busy buying
material and ordering it for the
new feuilding. That man sure
doesn’t let .much grass grow under
his feet. I don’t think it was any
more than passed that we would
build the addition knd he started
to work on it. If he can get half
the drive out of us that he has
himself the building will be up
■in no time. So let’s all get be
hind him and help him any way
we can.* * * *
Don’t forget „ the banquet on
Friday night, I understand there
will be lots of gopd food and
some entertainment after. So all
you men who have wives in the
auxiliary, get your wife to buy
your ticket and come on out.
These girls will do just about
anything to get out and away
from their own cooking if
they insist on buying your ticket
don’t be too proud to take it,
and enjoy it, I will if she does,
that is buy the ticket I mean,
and if she doesn’t I guess I will
just have to feuy my own.
* * $ *
Comrade First Vice Graham
Mason is out of the hospital and
out around a bit. He was laid up
with a sore back for a few days.
We hope he will soon fee well
enough to get out to the Legion
again. The fellows are beginning
to think it is strange and quiet
when he is not there. I have
heard 'several fellows remark
“Gosh it is quiet around here
' without Mason.”
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50 YEARS AGO
Postmaster iBirown, Crediton,
has received his new office cabi
net. It is one of the latest kind
manufactured, having the com
bination lock boxes. When the
cabinet is placed in position, we
can pride ourselves ion having
an up-to-date office.
The magazines of the Exeter
Library will fee offered for sale.
Apply to the Librarian.
A meeting for ithe organization
of the local Board of Health for
the village of Exeter was held
in the reading room of the town
hall on Monday. Wm, Sweet was
appointed chairman. It was car
ried that the minutes of the meet
ings held be copied and handed
to the local,press for publication
and that the Board hold regular
meetings on the first Monday of
each month.
Wanted—‘Girls to learn mil
linery, duties to 'begin about the
2nd week in March. J. A. Stew
art,
A voice and piano recital was
given in the Opera House on Fri
day night by Miss Amy Johns
and her pupils.
25 YEARS AGO
The Ross Taylor Go, has been
sold to David Gordon, hardware
merchant and alderman of Chat
ham, and E. C. and iClaude Morse
of Wallaceburg,
The congregation of Trivitt
Memorial church held a reception
in the Parish Hall for their now
fector, Rev. E. L. Vivian.
The congregation of Crediton
United Church burnt the last
note of the church debt at their
annual meeting Thursday even
ing, The church was built nine
yeans ago,
Rev. C, J. Moorehouse was in
vited to return as pastor of Main
St. church at their meeting on
Tuesday evening.
Miss Margaret Johns nurse-ln-
I
Better days are here
for Phil Fraser!
In all his years of railroading, Engineer Phillip Fraser has seen
some big changes.
"Rolling along in this smooth diesel locomotive,” says Mr. Fraser,
"is a real thrill — a far cry from driving the old steam jobs. Its **
extra power gives it quicker pick-up and more speed on the grades.
Besides, it can run from coast to coast without a change. That’s
what I call progress!”
Phil has seen progress in the life insurance business too. As a family
man, he knows that this business offers better service today than
ever before.
Take life underwriters, for instance. Modern,training makes these
men better qualified to guide people through the complex problems
of planning for future security.
Today, too, life insurance is more flexible, There’s a wider range of
plans — allowing people to meet their own. individual needs.4
Moreover, people with certain physical handicaps, can now enjoy
the protection of life insurance.
In these and other ways, the life insurance companies in Canada
have progressed with the times to meet the changing needs of
people in all walks, of life!
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Elect Officers
For Library
Mr. Cecil Wilson, who was ap-
pointed to complete the term of
Mr. Ernest Jones, chairman of
■the Library Board, and who
moved from Exeter in July, was
re-appoimted chairman at th-e-.re-
organizational meeting of 'the
Board on Wednesday evening.
Mrs. G. A. Hawkins was re
elected secretary-treasurer and
’the property committee includes
C. Wilson, Mayor Pooley, A. B.
Idle and H. Ince; book commit
tee, Mrs. R. N. Creech, Mrs. G.
A. Hawkins and Mrs. J. M. Sou-th-
■cott; magazine committee, Mrs..
J. M. Southcott, Mr. H. Ihce^
and A. B. Idle.
Mrs. Hilton Laing is librarian.
'During -the" year the feook-Shelf
facilities were expanded and the
■furnace room was re-lined with
asbestos wall board.
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EXETER PHONE 4training at Victoria Hospital,
London, spent the weekend wth
her mother, Mrs. W. Johns.
15 YEARS AGO
Miss -Margaret Melville
has been employed with Canada
Packers has feeen transferred to
the Clinton branch.
Trooper Douglas Gould , of
Camp Borden is visiting at his
home on two weeks’ leave.
Eighteen members of the Exe
ter Badminton CJub visited For
est Friday evening of last week.
Two auto loads from town
Were in Toronto Saturday taking
in- the Boston-Toronto hockey
match at the Maple Leaf gardens.
The Boy Scouts enjoyed a to
boggan party on Monday evening
and Were afterwards entertained
at the home of Scout Master, Mr.
C. Aylen.
10 YEARS AGO
'Mr. Maurice Quance last week
rounded out forty years as a
harness -maker in Exeter.
At the inaugural meeting f
the Public School Board J. M.
Southcott was appointed chair
man. Dr. H. H. Cowen vice-chair
man and Miss K. Mac Faul sec
retary-treasurer.
Six returned men and their re
latives were guests of the muni
cipality at a chicken supper Fri
day evening. They included Capt.
W» G. 'Cochrane, Capt. Alex
Sweeten, Lac Reynold Wuerth,
Pte. Bruce Cann, Gpl. Lloyd Hea-
man and Cfn. Stanley Frayne.
A reception for ,P.te. Rdg Ford
Who recently returned home After
serving overseas for two years
with the Black Watch Royal
Highland Regiment was held
Thursday evening,in Eden school.
Farm .forums in the Thames __ ___________,__________
Road area met at the Lumley in her own apartment, the teen
school house, and the homes of ‘
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johns. Mr,
and Mrs. Alvin G<le and Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. .Stone.
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Vice-President
E. Claytoh Colquhoun Rjt. 1
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Directors
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Won, A. Hamilton
Milton McCurdy R.R.
Alex J. Rhode R.R,
Agents
Thos. G» Ballantyne
Clayton Hartls R.R.
Stanley Hocking
, Solicitor
W. G* Cochrane
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Woodham
1 Mitchell
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Exeter
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