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THURSDAY MORNING, MAY \7, 1956
To Boost Community
Chamber Of Commerce
Vital Need Here
t One of the essentials of a progress*
ive town is an organization of men
whose purpose is to stimulate trade, de
velopment and improvement—an organ
ization to assist municipal officers to
foster and guide expansion of a town.
In most places, that job is done by
a chamber of commerce or a board of
Marketing
Although discussion on a marketing
board for turnips was limited to a few
moments* at the meeting of growers in
Exeter recently, one of the officials took
time to express a rather significant view
of farm marketing boards in general.
* The speaker was Dr. Don Huntley,
of the field husbandry department of
O.A.C., Guelph, who is known to many
district farmers for the prominent part
he has played in panel discussions re
cently,
Dr. Huntley believes it is only a
question of time until all farm commodi
ties are handled through farmer-organ
ized marketing boards. “I’m firmly con
vinced we’re going to have marketing
. schemes for all our products,” he told
growers.
“As yet we’re just too confounded
independent in our thinking to go ahead
with such schemes. We’ve had difficulty
organizing them because they’re so des
perately complex. But most marketing
schemes are proving to be advantageous
to producers and over a period of years
we’ll accept it as the coming thing.”
How fast the development will be,
he added, will depend upon the number
and quality of leaders which emerge
fro mthe farm industry.
Another view of the marketing
problem was voiced by C. S. MacNaugh-
ton, managing-director of Jones, Mac-
Naughton Seeds Ltd., who represents the
processing side of the industry. He felt
producers had more gain from an active
selling program for their products rather
than * scheme for negotiating higher
prices. He argued that if a demand can
be created, the price to farmers will be
profitable.
It is interesting to' note that farmers
are sponsoring both types of programs
now and they will be able to assess the
value of each in a few years.
The hog scheme, already under way,
will demonstrate the effectiveness of
united farmer negotiations with proces
sors. It is evident from the recent mem
bership drive made throughout this dis
trict that farmers are willing to give this
program an opportunity to prove itself. While the scheme is being questioned in
the courts, it appears to us that it is
being, opposed from a technical point of
view only and that even if the present
regulations are thrown out, governments
will enact new legislation to make this
type of marketing legal.
The selling program is being under
taken by dairy farmers who have con
tributed for a number of years to an
advertising program to increase con
sumption of their products in view of the
surpluses which are forcing prices down.
If this program is successful and demand
is increased, prices for dairy products
should rise.
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.
• 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.
trade. We haven’t either in Exeter but
we could use one.
The first argument against the
establishment of such an organization
here is that Exeter is over-organized al
ready, The fact that we have over 100
groups of various kinds backs up such a
statement. Some people insist the town
is trying to do too many things now.
We're a bit inclined to agree in a
general way, but not insofar as a cham
ber of commerce is concerned. We be
lieve sucn an organization is of funda-.
mental importance to any community
and we think one should be organized
here even if other groups must be sacri
ficed. We hope, however, that this will
not be necessary.
We want to make it plain that we
are not belittling the work being done
by existing organizations—all have their
place and are fulfilling a need. But few
are concerned directly with promotion of
the community as a whole, which is our
greatest need at the moment.
Chambers of commerce in many
communities sponsor active industrial
promotion programs—and most of us
agree that is essential for this area.
Other projects of chambers, work
ing in co-operation with municipal
governments, include stimulating local
improvements, organizing community
promotion plans, regulating store hours
and helping with town planning and
other problems. These are the type of
undertakings Exeter can benefit from.
There are many able leaders in this
town who can take over the helm of
such an organization and make it a suc
cess. There are many progressive busi
nessmen who are capable of instituting
and carrying out projects like those
mentioned above.
This newspaper urges the men of
Exeter to organize a chamber of com
merce. The T-A pledges its fulLsupport
to the formation and activities of such
a group.
New T-A
Next week we hope to surprise our
readers with a new Times-Advocate
which will mark the beginning of sig
nificant improvements in our service to
this area.
We can’t divulge the details of this
important change here because we don’t
want to spoil your surprise but we can,
safely predict that our issue next week
will raise your eyebrows.
We can assure you that The New
T-A will bring you more news and more
entertainment than ever before. Some of
our anticipated improvements will not
be evident in the first edition but we be
lieve that within a year’s time, you’ll
notice a marked change in the news
paper that covers “Canada’s Best Farm
land.”
Because of the Victoria Day holiday
next Monday, your New T-A won’t reach
you until Friday but the change in publi
cation date will be for one week only.
After that you’ll receive your newspaper
on Thursdays as usual.
Next Friday then, watch for your
New T-A.
Canadian Wit
I owe a lot to my teachers and mean
to pay them back some day.
—Stephen Leacock, 1923
It’s the early bird that gets the
worm. —T. C. Haliburton
The path to success is paved with
good intentions that were carried out.
—Robert Edwards, 1919
The misfortune is, we are all apt to
think Scripture intended for oUr neigh
bour and not for ourselves.
—T. C. Haliburton
The village of Hensail is ear
trying out -a fairly extensive pro
gram for paving streets, a very
important step for a progressive
municipality.
Eaoh year in Exeter the same
question has come up for con
sideration -but no definite plans
have been adopted. The practice
of gravelling ithe streets each
season has 'been in progress foi*
almoat a century, although the
•method of doing so has consider
ably Changed,
I can recall ithe days 'when the
main 'street of Exeter was a grav
elled road, muddy in spring and
dusty In 'the summer. .Eac'h year
it received a fresh coat of gravel,
delivered in horse-drawn gravel
boxes that were unique an 'those
days.
The bolttom of ithe box was
composed of four-inch pieces -of
lumber running from end to end.
Removeable side boards and end
pieces made up ithe box. The
wagons were loaded tby hand la
bor alt 'the gravel pits iand the
gravel was' ipit run. In un
loading the gravel one of the side
Iboards was ipried loose by a
wooden handle carried for |the
purpose and ipiart of -the load
would tumble to the ground. -One
after the other of -the four-inch
-Pieces were pulled aside until
the whole iload was dumped.
Aifter the gravel had been dum
ped and spread, several work
men wilt'h stone hammers about
'30 inches long, spent days and
sometimes weeks breaking ithe
■larger stopes and were paid ithe
magnificent sum of one dollar a
day.
The road in summer was
sprinkled with water to keep
down the dust. Waiter was sup
plied from <a water tank behind
the town hall and a. horse-drawn
water wagon made several trips
a. day particularly in hot weather,
lit was sport for some of the
small lads to run-behind Ithe .cart
in theilr bare feet. I happened to
■mention this to one young main
and he recalled ithe time -as a
youngster he fell behind the cart
onto the muddy road and the
driver of the eant had to shut
ithe water off and render first
aid. After the first water works
system was installed 'the water
was- supplied through hydrants,
In later years calcium chloride
has been used -to settle Ithe dust,
a splendid thing for the ihome-
owners along the -street |but hand
on ithe ear owners as lit cats into
the fender’s of the car.
The method of delivery of the
gravel has considerably changed
and ma chine-graded gravel is
dumped into (trucks land spread
almosit tin tlhe twinkling of <an
eye. <
I recall one time wihen they
were ripping up 'the boards -tliait
formed ia board .walk on Main
Street Ito 'be repljaced by cement
sidew^ks Off trooping ,aUong be
hind 'the workmen together with
a number of other lads ito see
what we could find -and 1 was
most fortunate in finding a quar-
iter, >a -rare icoin -to us kids in
those -days.
SHDHS Graduate
MERRY MENAGERIE By Walt Disney
Wins Fellowship
A .22-yeqr-old SHDHS graduate
wiho will receive his B.A. (this
spring from 'th® University of
Western Ontario, has been
awarded a $2,000 fellowship to
study at Duke University.
John Haiberer, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Haberer, of Zurich, arid a former student leader at
SHDHS, will use the felloiwehip
for post graduate
economics.
At Western, the
dent was president
treasurer of the Arts and Science
■Council, and president of the
,Polycon Club. 'He set an inter
collegiate record for the 220-yard
dash in track competition last
fall.
iMost of us like to read about
Canadians who have made good
and so we recommend Ito you
"Beaverbrook"
The life of William Maxwell
Aitken, first Baron Beaverbrook,
is one of the most fabulous suc
cess stories.of opr time. For more
than forty years he has been q
formidable figure in British poli
tics; and now, at seventy six, (he
is almost .the last isuryivor of the-
igreat finglt generation of news
paper mi'lliomaires. Yet he was
iborn a son of 'the Manse in a
small Canadian (town,
■On his Itwenty-tfirst birthday
Miax Aitken decided to become a
millionaire. He quickly fulfilled
■this ambtion and soon made up
his mind ito sltor/m. the citadels of
political power dn London. In the
twenties and thirties Beaverbrook
became Baldwin’s most aggres
sive challenger for the leadership
of the iConserviative Party; in the
abdication- crisis he was one of
ithe ICing’s intimate 'advisers; in
the Battle of Britain he was a
snccessiful Minister of Aircraft
Production; and for many years
he has enjoyed a dose friendship
witfli Winston Churchill.
Today he. is bpst known Ito the
public as a press lord.
Ex-fColuimni’Slt land ex-MP Tom
Dribeng wrote the biography and *
the book is more orjless biased,
for Dribeig is wnitiriig of 'his ex
boss who fired him, but it is none
the less (interesting. Even more
interesting than the book are the
critics Qf the same.
The prize critique comes from
a voice of authority in 'the person
of Michael Wardell, owner-pub-
lishei* of ithe 'Fredericton Gleaned’.
Mr. Wardell himself was a
Beaverbrook employee for irnany
years, before and after the Dri
berg days. ’This” writes Mr.
Wardell "is a diagreeable book
by an ex-journalist determined'
to damage land disparage his
fonmei’ boss. I worked with both
of them and have an Almost up-
rivalled qualification for judging
both them land the book."
The elemeult in ithe complex
Beaverbrook ito which the author
refers moslt frequently is his
being Canadian. Even after
Beaverbrook’s forty-six years- in
British affairs, lhe cannot be
Anglicized. At Itdie coronation of
Queen Elizabeth 11 he wore his
academic dress ia® Chancellor of
• the University Of New Brunswick
ralther .'than the robe of an Eng
lish peer.
Read "Beaverbrook” at Your
Library.
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TIMES
tEfje €xeter Ones gfobocate
jlirr RrtaMtehcd 187S Amalgamated 1094 Advocate BrtabUahed 1M1
Published Each Thursday Morning af Exeter, Ontario
Atk ledepeedent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Town of Exeter aad District
Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa
Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association
Member Of the Ontario Division of the CWNA
Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations
19M All-Canada Insurance Federation National Safety Award
1953 Ontario Safety league Award
1054 Winner of the E. F. Stephenson Memorial Trophy for
Best Front Page Among Ontario Weekly Newspaper*
Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of September 30, 1955—2,734
Published by Tha Exeter Times-Advocate Limited
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50 YEARS AGO
'Rev. B. J. Perkins, rector of
Trivitt 'Memorial Church, has ire-
signed his present lincumibenicy
and will move to Ingersoll.
The ladies of Jiames iSt. 'Church
have carpeted the hall, parlor and
diming room with Brussels carpet,
all in one 'pattern.
Two quack medicine Vendors
were dn town Saturday night and
held forth opposite the telephone
office. They gave a free show and
sold 'ithe usual amount Ito the
"easy ones."
IRev. (H. H. Going pastor of
James iS|t. 'Methodist church, has
built a beautiful canoe .of larger
than usual dimensions, din his
spare time during the winter.
(Mr. Thos. iSimaae of Usborne
wishes to announce (that he is
stall taking contracts for well dig
ging and repairing pumps.
25 YEARS AGO
■Cann-Str/amg—At 'Caven Pres
byterian manse on Tuesday, .May
12. Mayibelle E. daughter of Mr.
and “Mrs. Henry Strung of Us-
bonne to
Mr. and
Usborne
James
decided to hold their services in
the morning at 10 o’clock instead
of the afternoon for the summer
months.
Or. W. Stuart Stanbury has
been appointed pathologist to the
Mountain Sanitarium at Hamil
ton.
Messrs Harold Bell and John
Ridley accompanied by Miss
Ruby Johns all of 'Elimville were
heard from C.J.G.C. (London on
Monday night,
Mr. (L. 'Grieves will have his
golf-course ready for May 24.
15 YEARS AGO
Jones & May have 'commenced
alterations to their rear entrance
and are equipping to qualify as
a (Registered Egg Grading Sta
tion for the purchasing of eggs.
D.U'riing ithe week the Soldiers'
Committee of the War Time
Board mailed parcels containitig
razor iWrades, shaving cream,
tooth paste and brush, chocolates,
maple sugar writing paper, en
velopes, wash cloth and ibiscults
to the twenty boys overseas,
Mr, ihnd Mrs, Arthur 'darn of
Dunnville recently moved to Eye-
Iter.
Troopers Calvin 'Cutting, Ern
est Wells, Laverne Wells, Doug
Gould, Tea. MacDonald, iand 'Ever
ett Pollen, of 'Camp Borden,
spent ithe •weekend at their
homes,
Mrs, Herman Powe will be the
speaker at Itlhe May meeting of
Centralia Home and School 'Club.
10 YEARS AGO
A memorial baptismal font in
honor of ithe late Mr. iand Mrs.
Wm. D. Weekes -whs presented
to 'Caven Presbyterian Church by
their son, Frank.
Mr? and Mrs. Harold Wihyite
were honored by Ithe -congrega
tion of Caven church prior to
their departure for Lucian.
The work of excavating for the
new Exeter Co-operative building
has ibeein loompleted.
The Exeter Bowling iciub will
open itlheir new ■clubhouse 'with .a
tournament afternoon and even
ing on May 24.
A ire-union banquet Ito the dis
charged.-men and woimen -of Exe
ter who -served in the forces
during the war will be held in
Exeter Arena on Thursday.
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(Oanman J. Cann, son of
Mrs. John 'Cann also of
by Rev. J. B. Rhodes.
St. Sunday S'dhool have
Food, clothing, shelter . ,. yes. But it takes more than
these to lift the burden from despairing souls.
This The Salvation Army knows. In its hostels, havens,
homes and hospitals; in instances of emergency relief;
the understanding heart and the human touch
are ceaselessly employed in mending shattered lives
and kindling hope in spirits darkened by sin or suffering.
That this work may never flag, YOUR support is needed
by fdithful workers of The Salvation Army
dedicated to these tasks Of mercy.