HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-09-06, Page 2The Times-Advocate, September 6, 1956
Take a Critical Lo
Exeter1
This newspaper believes the right to express an opinion
in public contributes to the progress of the nation and
that it must be exercised freely to preserve and improve
democratic government.
"The Insurance Man"
Phones: Bus. 24, Res. 162-J<
If YOUR
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Do You Dare Rafe Your Town?Burned
would your present insurance
cover the loss at today’s cost
of construction?
How would you rate Exeter as a
town?
Ever thought about it?
If you were some sort of a govern
ment inspector and you had to give
the community a rating, what kind of
a mark would you give it ? Would it be
excellent, good, fair or poor?
Most of us, naturally, would put
down “E” without hesitation. We’d
say it was a great town, a good place
to live, a healthy community.
But let’s give it a second thought.
Maybe we’re prejudiced. Is our answer
impartial and honest?
The questionnaire reproduced be
low appeared recently in Town Jour
nal, a magazine devoted to life in
small urban centres, with the challenge
“Do you dare to rate your town?”
“No questionnaire is foolproof,”'
the Journal said in its introduction to
the quizz. “But if you can circle yes
on 30 or more of the' virtues below,
chances are you live in a town of
which you can be proud.”
Well, let’s take the dare. Pick up
a pencil and try the questionnaire
yourself. It’ll be interesting to find out
how you would rate your home town.
But remember, take off those
rose-coloured glasses. Be hones', with
yourself. Consider yourself a stranger
in the- town and rate it critically,
Here goes:
1. Most high school graduates
stay in town. ’ Yes No
2. Getting a loan on a sound
business venture is easy. Yes No
3. The local paper -constantly
pushes civic improvments. Yes No
4. There a Chamber of Commerce
with a live-wire manager. Yes Nd
5. Police enforce the laws effic-
■ gently §md impartially. Yes. No
6. There’s a place to swim within
easy reach. Yes No
7. Young couples have little
' trouble finding a place to live.
. » Yes - No.
8. The head of your government
. is a “get-things-done” man.
Yes
29. There’s an annual Clean-Up,
Paint-Up, Fix-Up week, Yes No
30. Streets throughout the com
munity are well lighted. Yes No
31. More than half the church
congregations are under 40.
Yes No
32. Shade trees line nearly all
the streets.. Yes No
33. There’s an, ample supply of
good drinking water. Yes No
34. There’s a recreation centre
where young people dance.
Yes ■ No
35. The business section has a
modern, prosperous look. Yes No
36. There’s as much interest in
local as national elections. Yes No
37. The tax rate is attractive to
new industry. Yes No
38. There’s an active industrial
promotion committee in your town..
Yes No
39. There’s an active Home and
School Association. Yes No
40. Firemen must take regular
training courses. Yes No
Well, how did you score your
town? Did it pass the test?
Would you like to know how your
neighbors rated Exeter?
In the belief that this question
naire might stimulate some construct
ive thinking about the town and its
future, The Times-Advocate would
like to report how local citizens .feel
about their town. Copies of this
questionnaire will be made available
to'officials of town organizations who,
if they’re interested, might' find it
worthwhile to distribute them at a
regular meeting. Just call The Times-
Advocate if you’d like a quantity.
We’ll report the results as they
come im Watch for them to compare
your answers.
LEAVE FOR EUROPE—Times-Adovcate Publisher J. M. Southcott and Mrs. Southcott
left Monday night 'on a 45-day tour or Europe with other members of the Canadian
Weekly Newspapers Associations. The editors and their wives boarded the Empress
of Britain at Montreal Tuesday and expect to arrive at Liverpool the following Mon
day. They will vi^it the U.K., France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Southcott will be writing accounts of their trip.' — T-A Photo
Jottings By J.M.S.
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Publisher On Overseas Tear
When these jottings of mine
come off the press, Mrs. South
cott and I will be well on our way
across the ocean on -our second
honeymoon. We are bound for
Great Britam and Europe on a
45-ddy overseas tour that has
been sponsored by. the Canadian
Weekly Newspaper Assocation.
Among the passengers are
many fellow publishers and their
. wives most -f whom have been,
personal friends over a period
of - years. Among those from
Western Ontario are Mr. Frank have now been under way for
McIntyre, of the Dundalk Her
ald; Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Shearer,
Blenheim News-Tribune. Mr. and
Mrs. C. Vl Charters, Brampton;
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Thompson,
Lucknow-Sentinel; Mr. and Mrs.
C. 0. Tafham, Woodstock; Mr.
and Mrs. H. Ramage, Petrolia
Advertiser-Topic.
We are sailing on the Empress
of Britain, the newest ship to be
added to the Canadian Pacific
Line.
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9. Town entrances are free from
Keeping Up
(Clinton News-Record)
Taking a yardstick to 'measure up .
average family picture in-Clinton
junk, -shacks and billboards.
Yes •No
10. Teachers’ salaries are -better
No
per
than average. Yes
11. There’s at least one doctor
800 people in your county.
- Yes
12. There’s a library with a gool
lection of recent books. Yes
13. Newcomers quickly feel they
are part of the town. - Yes No
. 14. Schools have plenty of room'
. for students. • Yes No
15. Fire insurance rates are low
for your type of town. Yes No
16. Service, veterans’ and wo
men’s clubs team up on projects.
Yes
17. There is an active,
organized Boy Scout troop.
18..A modern hospital is
your trading area. Yes
19. All streets are paved and
sidewalks are in good shape.
Yes- No
20. Well-stocked stores keep shop
pers in the town. Yes No
21. There’s a hotel or motel you’d
enjoy if you were a visitor.
Yes No
22. It’s easy to find parking
space in the business section.
Yes No
23. At least one restaurant serves
outstanding, meals. Yes No
24. The sewer extension program
keeps pace with new housing.-
Yes No
25. It’s easy to get volunteers for
any worthwhile project. Yes No
26. Public toilets aTe provided
for farm folk shopping in town.
Yes No
27. Prompt, reasonably priced
ambulance service is available.
Yes No
28. Good zoning keeps factories
away from residential areas.
Yes No
No
col-
■No
No
well-
within
No
the _ v _______ ___
with that “of the rest of Canada*” and
using the Financial Post as our author
ity, we doubt very much if many
-Clinton families will be keeping up
with the Joneses for the next little
while.
For, according to the Post, to
keep up with the Joneses next year,
you’ll need a family income of more
than $5,000.
“Average family income in Cana
da went up eight percent last year to
$4,460, will go up 6.4 percent this
year to $4,745 and to $5,077 in 1957,
assuming we manage a 1957 increase
of seven perceht. U.S. Department of
Commerce has just announced U.S.
family income rose a little more than
three percent in 1955 to $5,520.”
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■ -just about a year. Every detail
has been looked after by the
[ Inter-City Travel Agency of Mon
treal. Instructions and literature
, about the clothes we should
wear, the things we should take
and what to expect in the places
we are to visit and the currency
of each -country have been sup-
; plied.
! A printed itinery in booklet
form has been provided showing
1 where we will be each day and
the hotel at which we are to stay ■
at night. In fact two booklets
have been supplied, one to be left
at home so that our family may
know just where we are each
day.
We leave Montreal Tuesday af
ternoon and expect to arrive at
t Liverpool the following Monday.
We arc looking forward’ to that
trip down the St. Lawrence, past
the city of Quebec and through
the Straits of Belle Isle. I. hope
we Will have found’ our sea legs
before we reach the Atlantic
Ocean. We are well supplied with
tfea-sick pills but I hope we will
not have to use them. I recall
crossing the ocean in 1924 on a
similar trip. At that time I lost
only one meal but a chap in the
berth above mii\e never left his
bed during the entire crossing.
The day after arriving at
Liverpool we go by motor coach
to Glasgow a distance of ?15
miles. From Glasgow we travel
• through the Trossachs to Edin
burg, then back to Leeds and
London.
On September 19, which ha^-.
pens to be my birthday, we visit'
the battlefields and memorial
cemeteries in the Ypes-Vimy
Ridge areag, of Northern France
and Flanders, visiting the Can
adian War Cemeteries in that
region.
pur tour ‘takes to us Belgium,
Germany, Switzerland, Italy and
France before returning to Eng
land and then home on the Em
press of France.
I News Of Your I
I LIBRARY 1
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By MRS. J.M.S.
: Many* of our -readers belong to
a Book-of-the-Month Club. It is
1 informative to read of the scope
of this club with its learned
staff of judges who struggle
through a maze of reading mat
ter, even after- five full-time
readers and 35 part-time readers
have provided preliminary re
ports on the flood of literature
that deluges' them, some 1,500
to 2,200 monthly.
Fairness js % the watchword,
semblance of acceptance is as"-
s.ayed by several readers with,
independent judgment. All judges
read Grade A books; B books
are divided amongst them. Each
; report is carefully weighed, then
- discussions follow. Would it not
be a treat to sit in on them,
where brilliant minds parry
i back and forth? All this effort
■ to choose a book—the choice of
the month for their patrons.
; . Would that we, , the ordinary
■ individuals, were as discriminat
ing in our reading selection
whether from our newspapers or
from the books at the Library.
Consult the librarian — she* is
ready at all times to give ad-
, vice and recommend books.« * »
■ This week and next as pupils
! go back to school great, decisions
. will be made as to what subjects
, to take; what courses to follow,
’ In Your Library is a book en-
, titled
I Find My Vocation
■ This book was written by Dr.
Harry Ketson, Professor at
Teacher’s College, Columbia
. .University, to give guidane’e to
young people in choosing a
! Do you know that there are
. about 20,000 occupations to
choose from? These are constant
ly changing for an occupation
: that exists today may be divided
: into specialties tomorrow and
thus give rise to several new
occupations.
This book does not attempt to
give an outline of all these jobs
■ in which workers are engaged
but it does discuss some topics
that might lead a student to
make a tentative decision around
Hot idea for cobl proifts—T-A . which he can build his activities
Preparations for the trip
Walt Pisney
won over a hundred races — all by a nose I
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At The Altar
Blue Bell, the Bell Telephone
magazine, has made a collection of
.typographical. boners in reports of
weddings, and they’re worth repeat
ing here for chuckles.
The bride was given in marriage
by her father, wearing her mother’s
wedding gown.
The couple went to school to
gether and their marriage will end a
begun there,
gown was of vile green,
accessories were plain punk,
maid of horror wore yellow
As the ’
"TIMES'
Go
romance
Her
Her
The
tulle. “
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. . • .
• A town plan for Exeter.
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Published Each Thursday Morning at Stratford, Ontario
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AWARDS: 1956ML V« Nolan Trophy, general excellence for newspapers published
in Ontario towns between 1,500 and 4,500 population; E. T. Stephenson Trophy for
best front page artiong Ontario weekly newspapers (also won In 1954). 1953—AIL
Canada Insurance Federation national safety award; Ontario Safety League award.
Paid4n‘Advanctt Circulatioh at of, September 30, 1955—2,734
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50 YEARS AGO
People Will persist in saying ,
that you cannot grow tomatoes
in this section. Saturday morn
ing a basket full of v-ery large,
ripe tomatoes grown by Mr.
George Manson was brought into
this office.
Miss Victoria Miners and Mr.
Alvin Brintnell went to Goderich
to -attend Model School on Mon
day.
A discussion on tomatoes and
their uses was the feature of
‘ the Exeter Women’s Institute
meeting in Senior’s Hall on Fri
day.
Miss May Quance has accept
ed. a position with Messrs. Dick
son and Carling while Miss Alice
* Howard has engaged with Mr;
A, Q. Bobier.
Mr. J. G. .Stanbury .sent an
exhibit of gladioli- to the Sea
forth Horticultural Society’s
flower show on Friday and car
ried off first prize. '
Mr. Thomas Hartpoll occupied
the pulpit of James St. Church
on Sunday in' the absence of
Rev, A. H. Going who was
tending General Conference.
25 YEARS AGO
A soy bean experiment is
irig carried on this year at __
farm of C, W, Christie, Lot 14,
Con. 3, Stephen. This-experiment
is joeing carried on under the
direction of the Department of
Field Husbandry at O.A.C. in
cooperation with Huron County
Branch of the Ontario Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Principal E. J. Wethey is
again i/a change of the Exeter
High School and assisting him
are i Miss M. E. Ross, Miss D.
Braine, G. C. Koch, all previous
teachers, and Miss Bonis, of St
Marys, and Miss Evelyn How-
arj, new this term.
The exterior of Trivitt Memor
ial Church has been greatly im*
proved by painting. The work
was done by Mr. Robert Dinney
of London.
Miss Florence West has re
turned to her duties at the post
office after holidaying with
friends in Windsor.
Mr. J. J. O’Brien has a beau
tiful gladiolus spike, "Leon
.pougias’L that measures 60
at-
be-
the
DomAI Archer is redly in tee with the times'
High fidelity sound expert Donald Archer says:
‘'On older phonographs and records you could ^ar only
part of the sound range. Today’s ‘hi-fi’ systems reproduce
the lowest and highest notes of the musical scale with start
ling realism. This modern development has meant great
progress in the recording field.”
As a family man, Mr. Archer also benefits by continuous
” progress in another field . . . life insurance. Policies are
more flexible and more adaptable to the needs of individual
families.
’Today, you can obtain life insurance policies that provide
hoftonly basic protection but ready funds for emergencies,
also policies for education, for safeguarding your home,
for protecting yoiir business and for ensuring your retire
ment income.
In these and other ways, the life insurance companies in
Canada, have progressed with the times . .. meeting the
needs of people in all walks of life!
THE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA
\ The amount of life insurance owned by Canadians has doubled
in the last seven years.
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Business Directory r
15 YEARS AGO
The Exeter Lions Club at
their first fall meeting on Thurs
day evening paid tribute to F/0
Thomas Pryde who left on Fri
day for duty at Trenton Airport.
A presentation was made -at a
social evening of the Eastern
Star on Friday to Miss Reta
Rowe who has accepted a posi
tion a$ teacher at Blind River.
Dawson Goulding, Marie Flet
cher, Nola Perkins, Britain
Sanders and Anne Morgan each ______ -_____ ________,
won- a three dollar cash scholar- • for every book that . has any
ship • donated by Exeter Lions
for obtaining highest marks in
June examinations.
Reg Wuerth of St. Thomas
T ech n i c a 1 Training School,
RCAF, and Ray Wuerth of the
Galt Aircraft School spent the
weekend at their home.
Troopers Andrew Bierling, L.
L. Wells and Sid Stires of Camp
Borden are visiting at their
homes on two weeks’ leave.
Both Centralia
Bend airports are
constructidh.
10 YEARS
and Grand
now under
AGO
The enrolment at Exeter High
and Public School is 475.
Members of the staff of The
Times-Advocate on Monday col
lected two cartons containing
over 100 "walking sticks” and
forwarded these insects to To-
- ronto to be used in the Banting
Institute for cancer research.
The first carnival of the new
Grand Bend roller skating rink
was held on Saturady evening
with prizes donated by Grand
Bend and Exeter merchants.
The honey shortage this year
is the worst since 1913.
Two thousand people stood in
drenching rain at a tri-county
picnic at Goderich Park to hear
Premier George Drew.
Mr. R. B. Wililams purchased
one of the prize-winning floats
at the Labor Day parade to use
in connection with Exeter Fair,
Gordon May, who has been
connected with the Canadian
Army for four years, resumed
his position with the Bank of
Commerce in Brussels,
DR. J. W. CORBETT
L.D.S., D.D.S.
DENTAL SURGEON
814 Main Street South
Phone 273 Exeter
Closed Wednesday Afternoons
DR. D, J. McKELVIE, D.V.M.
VETERINARY SURGEON
a
Phone 99
Hensall - Ontario
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INSURANCE COMPANY
Hoad Office: Exeter, Ontario
President
Martin Feeney R.R. 2 Dublin
Vice»Presid.ent
E. Clayton Colguhoun R.R. 1
Science Hill
Directors ’
Harry Coates R.R. 1 Centralia
Wm.’ A. Hamilton Cromarty
Milton McCurdy R.R. 1 Kirkton
Alex J. Rhode R.R. 3 Mitchell
Agents
Thus. G. Ballantyne R.R. 1
Woodham
Clayton Harris R.R, ’1 Mitchell
Stanley Hocking
Solicitor
W.’G. Cochrane
Secretary-Treasurer
Arthur Fraser Exeter
Mitchell
Exeter
DR. H..H, COWEN
DENTAL SURGEON
L.D.S., D.D.S.
Main Street Exeter
Closed Wednesday Afternoon I
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EXETER, ONTARIO 1
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INCOME TAX REPORTS 1
BOOKKEEPING SERVICE ETC.
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^Doctor of Chiropractic 1
438 MAIN STREET, EXETER
X-Ray and Laboratory Facilities
Open Each Weekday Except
Wednesday i
Tues. & Thurs. Evenings 7-9
For Appointment - Phone 60S
N. L. MARTIN
OPTOMETRIST
Main Street, Exeter
> Open Every Weekday
Except Wednesday
For Appointment Phone 355
JOHN WARD
CHIROPRACTOR &
DRUGLESS THERAPIST
Rear of 429 Main St., Exeter ,
Phone 348 j
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