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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-03-14, Page 2'rho Thnota-AtIvotato, ,March 14, 1957 Editorials Tide neWeeeper believes the right to express in opinion In public contributes to the progress of the Wien and that it must be exercised freely to preserve and improve democratic government, Potpourri Of Opinion, Indus Seed Fair, Eggs Topics .For District .Editors Acting on the assumption that readers of this column get weary of reading our comments everyweek, We're presenting below a variety of opinions froxn editors of neighboring Weeklies, Editor Barry Wenger, of the Wingham AdVance-Timessuggests the -Huron County Seed Fair might attract more attention if it were moved each year to various centres throughout the county (an opinion we share); Miss Wilma Dinnin, of the Clinton News - Record, who is secretary of the Huron zone of Mid -Western Regional Develop., plea Association, shows there is hope for more industry in this area; George EMS, who edits the Goderich Signal - Star, is somewhat perturbed over the importation of eggs while Andrew Y. lIfeLean, of The Huron Expositor, sug- gests how farmers can produce more. You'll enjoy this pot pourri. One A Month (Clinton News -Record) There is little reason to believe that all municipalities in this area are not behind the work of the Mid - Western Ontario Development As- sociation, as the people of four coun- ties involved continue their efforts to promote the district fdr industry. If auy further encouragement were necessary, it is to be found in the report of the Georgian Bay De- velopment Association, which is one year older than Mid-WODA,. In that area, in the first 19 months the as- sociation was in operation, 19new in- duStries moved into the area. Just how many of these could be definitelyattributed to the work of the Association is, of course, unknown, but it is hard to believe that they all would have been located there with- out some, work and prodding by the men: of the Association. • So far Ciinton's share of the cost of Mid-II/ODA has been less than $200;7So far, no industries have re- .sulted. But, after all, • the •organiza- tion is not an adult's version of Santa Clam It won't drop industries into our laps, With continued support and con- siderable work at home to be ready fir any move of industry in this direc- tion, Mid-W.ODA can be expected to do a .good deal. UnderPressure (Huron Expositor) In, this community where the pro- duct of the heri plays such: a large part in the general economy, there will be interest in a development that Is said to have the result of pressur- Ing the hen into laying more eggs. It has to do with ,the extension of air conditioning to poultry farms. Tests conducted by a public utility and a , company making evaporative cooling equipment show that cooler hens lay more and better eggs. Dur- ing two months, 950 hens in cooled chicken houses laid 29,000 eggs while 950 in, uncooled houses laid 17,000. It Is claimed that cooling reduces laying of thin -shelled, cracked and watery. white eggs by as much as 20 per cent. Also shortens time needed for bring. Ing broilers to market condition. 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 aring Exeter merchants. • A parking lot close to Main Street, as A town plan for txeter. Travelling Fair? (Wingham (Advance -Times) Last Week the Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Association staged its tenth annual seed fair in Clinton. As usual it drew good crowds .and excellent entries for which we congratulate the hard-working mem- bers of the executive. With all due respect to the folks in Clinton we would like to suggest that this event might well be moved from place to place in the county to the benefit of all concerned. The in- terest of Huron County farmers could be extended if the location of the fair was changed from year to year, and without question the event would re- ceive more publicity from county newspapers and the siadio and TV station. We have not the slightest criti- cism to offer about the way the fair has been conducted in years past, nor are we suggesting that the town of Clinton is not a good location, situat- ed as it is close to the geographical centre of the county. However, we recall that only a few weeks ago the Wingham town council decided to take action on a request for a grant to the seed fair because it is never held here. Quite logically the local councillors were not too interested in an event with which they have no personal acquaintance. . There will be all kinds of argu- ments to indicate that the only sens- ible place to hold the fair is in Clinton and no doubt many of them will have a strong basis in truth. However, since the show is staged by a. county -wide organization we would like to see an invitation extended. to the Soil and Crop Improvement -people to hold their 1958 seed fair in Wingham. Egg-Zactly (Goderich Signal -Star) , Canadian housewives who are worried about food costs will have no reason to be grateful to Agriculture Minister Gardiner, who has announced that the Agricultural Prices Support Board is buying up large quantities of eggs to keep the prices up. This means that the Government is now bidding competitively with the house- wife to prevent.her from getting any bargains in eggs, Mr. Gardiner hasn't said what he proposes to do with the Government's egg horde. Maybe they'll go to housewives in Germany or some such place to. whom the Agricultural Prices Support Board will el1 its sur- plus stock of eggs at bargain prices. And now there • comes along a news item from Ottawa which says that more than 3,500,000 dozen eggs— or their equivalent in processed eggs —have been imported into Canada in 11 months. They come here from 'United States, Poland, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Alaska and the Netherlands. Just what have those foreign hens got that Ottawa thinks Canadian hens haven't? Or, what kind of a round-robin game is this anyway? Revise Acts (The Ottawa Citizen) In a short resolution on the sub- ject, passed by its annual meeting, the Canadian Federation of Agricul- ture contents itself with asking Pro- vincial Goverments to make their own Marketing Acts as workable as possible. and to co-operate with Ottawa in de- vising any complementary .legislation "for the 'orderly marketing of farm products." With 'various court decisions to guide them, lawmakers should not find too =eh trouble in meeting this re- quest. The farmers themselves will decide, by majority vote, what use to make of the legislation, and that seems democratic enough. tbt.extter: ttinitabbotatt %Mit Established 18/3 Antelermated 1924 Advbcate Established 1881 Published Each' Thursday Morning at Stratford, Ontario An Independent •Newspaper Devoted Jo the Interests of the Town of Exeter and District Authorized ag; Second Class Mail, Post Office beparttiientr Ottawa t MEMBER: Canadian Weekly Newspiper Asseciation; Ontario Weekly Nevisbeeter Assiltiatirol, ABC and Ow "A" Newspapers. AWARDS:. A. V. Nolan trophy, general excellent* .for newspapers published in Onteria feWns between L500 and 4,500 popuratien, 1931, 1956; J. Georg, Johnston Traieliy, typeoeraphicel excellence (On- tario),. 931; E. T. Stephenson TrOPhy for best front page (Ontario), 19Si, MS; All-Canade Insurance Federation natters -al Safety award, 1053. •Pold.iti•AtIvoncr Circulation os of September 30, 1956-4,886 SUOSCItiPtION RATES (In Advance) re Canada 53.00 Per Yeee; $4.00 Published by.The 'Exeter TittleSoAdvatata Limited Jottings By J.M.S.• Rains .Drive The Home 14.ast week I mentioned. that. accommodation was at a pre-. mum in St. Petereburg. t was hectic for anyone .arriving inthe late afternoon without a eser- vation. One gentleman told me of his son-in-law and daughter arriving late ane afternoon, although he was fairly well acquainted with the .city. he .could not find a Place to sleep. Be drove to. Clearwater thinking • he might find something :among the many hotels .and motels alohg the - route but the "no vacancy" sign. was ,•everywhere. It was only after contacting friends and with some difficulty that be secured a room in Cleatweter. During •that weekend about six hundred people slept in cars or on the beach and used the public beach facilities in the morning,. so I am told. However that condition did not prevail. for Jong. Over the ,past weekend trains were peeked with persons leaving for home, and the "vaeancy" sign is again in evidence. Perhaps one reason for the exodus is the rainy wea- ther we have experienced almost every night for more than a week, with one or two heavy showers in the „daytime, Plane - reservations are booked for two. weeks in advance. old.• timers tell me they haven't seen so much rain in years. • I was at the pier the other evening engaged in a game of checkers ,e,vben Ulric and Mrs. MERRY MENAGERIE Snell .came along and stood by expecting me to look up. Finally they had to attract my attention and was I glad to see them. They drove me to DIY rooming house.. Bruce BossenberrY looked me up' at the Bowling Club and the same day Sill Allison. and his wife arrived and I was pleased la receive the latest news from beam. It rained ,every day the Attie= were on the way coining down. Tomorrow they are taking me to Sarasota, crossing the lon- gest bridge in the world. Owing to the rain there has been no bowling far almost a. week and bridge, rummy ad Pinochle have been the order of the day at the club. There are some mighty fine bridge players among them. I thought I knew a a little about bridge until I met .some of them. The same can he said of checkers. However I have had a lot of fun trying to learn. There is a Mr. Banks here that has given exhibitions playing a dozen or more checker players at a time and even plays blind- fold by calling out the numbers of the moves, agagmaggaggagigiggiggaggifigig u g OO O O lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll THE .SCOUTING TRA • A.a.+rteix.r..at.'" • • _ . ' r AG" By SKIPPER With the weather clearing up the way it is, we'find ourselves getting rather iinpatient for camping season. We never had as much Qui - door activity as we should have had during the winter, but with changing the troop almost cons- pletely from older boys to a younger group of boys we had to spend a good deal of time on indoor instructions. The weather was also quite unsuitable for hiking. The er- ratic changes in weather made By Walt Disney 01.957 Walt Disney Pleductim VVotld Fights lamed bistribtated by KitIgTelitties *Neste .)At,•f• 10054) "Say, pal, did you kn* you've WARPED?!" • lllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllll IIIIMilial1111111111yilti111111111111Ini, Sugar AND Spice DISPENSED BY BILL SMILEY I'm not much of a one for special weeks. It's not that I don't approve wholeheartedly of National Cat Week or National Sauerkraut Week. Though. I'd just as soon tickle a snake's belly, I'll scratch a eat'S ear if I have to,. and' I'll chbke down a forkful of saberkraut, though I'd enjoy a mouthful of mouldy moss equally as well. * * • It's just that I don't become aware of them until they're all over. By the1/4time I realize it's National Fireworks Week, and have written a hot editorial about it, we're right into National Fire Prevention Week, and there I am, telling everybody to run arbund with a match in his hand, sending off rockets. * * All this preamble, as any idiot child could guess with one head tied behind his back, is merely a crafty way of leading up to any nomination for a special week. I'rn fed up with every- body being fed up with his job, and wishing he, or she, could do something else, that looks twice as rosy. * * For example a butcher wants to be a surgeon because he be- lieves lie Was cut out to cut up, there's more money in it, •and anyhow, it's easier. A dentist thinks he'd make a dandy poli- tician, but he hasn't got the pull, A. street cleaner wants to join • the air force, because he knows how to pilot. H you are now whimpering for mercy,. I'll tell you about National Switch Jobs Week. * * Here's how it works. Once a year, for a full week, eadh of us has a chance to tackle that job we know we should be doing if an evil /ate .hadn't tossed us in- to out preseftt rut. It might be a might confusieg, but look at the fun we'll have. Best time to have this special week would be right about now, when every- body it completely browned off with winter. * * Say you're a hydro lineernan, and you think teachers have it SO =eh better,. Nice warm classroom, when you're out in a piercing wind, Snug In bed at night, when you're called out to fumble with a broken line after the sleet storm. Hours nine tO four, and two Months' holidays. Well, all you do is take ever a classroom during National Switelt Jobe Week, There'll be no trouble getting a clastroom, because all the thaehers will have switched jobs with truck drivers, beaus the latter make more money, according to the (bathers, * * * And there'll be no shortage of truck driving jobs, because the truck devote will be work- ing i faetoriet, as they're tick Of being away frOm Mine so Mitch. And there'll be no lack Of factory: jobs, as all the ordinary bands will he moving u 1ilt6 the executive offices,where the work is so much easier and •the money so much better. Natural- ly, there'll be a lot of executive vacancies,, because all the bosses are sick of the tension and re- sponsibility and all they want to do is have a 'little farm of their own : where they can get back to the simple life, sleep nights without sedatives, and/ conquer their ulcers. * * Fauns? There'll be lets of them. The farmers will all be taking over stores, so they can sit around on their fat butts. all • day like the merchants, and watch the bank balance grow. The stores will be available, of course, because all the mei.- chants will be away sailing on the Great Lakes where the REAL easy money is, ,,* See bow simple it is? It Works for women, too. All the house- wives would become models,' all the models actresses, and • all the actresses would be able to revert to being the simple little housewives they are at beart, With eight -dollar aprons tied be- comingly over, their bullfighter's pants, * * * Personally, I'm going to put in for a preacher's job during the grand switch, Work one day and spend the rest of the week drinking tea and shooting the breeze with jolly old ladies who are only too glad to help you run, the church. You tan't beat Lhat for an easy living, ,* * Well, how does it' strike you? Myself, I think it's the greatest idea since psychiatry was in- vented, One week's dose of the other fellow's job, Once a year, would sweep away all the envy, malice and boredoni that af- flicts the human race, * • * * can just see them at the end of their week. The hydro lines- man would be scrambling franti- cally up the highest pole he could find. The teacher would be ready to adopt the tippy teen- ager he eouldn't abide. The truck driver would he hurtling demi the highway with a spng in his heart and his foot hard clOvvii en the gas pedal. The factory, hand would be crooning over his lathe. The ex. eCutive would be tossingdown: his tranquilizer pille hilartots1y The farmer would kiss the first cow he saw wheh he got home. The merchant would hum a Merry Wild as he gaily ptInched Out the accompaniment on the cash register. * ita Friend housewife would be so glad to get out of that girdle she had to don as a inedel, she'd Se in and redecorate the whole bouts, And yours truly would be just as overjoyed to get out of that dog -collar, and be able to swear, Itiek ovet file dames, and have a beer again. It difficult to plan ahead very far.4., However, we will be going on an overnight camp from Satur- day, March 23 to Sunday. Eight boys will be going and these boys will be the patrol leaders and seconds plus the first two Scouts to earn their second class badge. We will be camping at the Huron District Campsite near Clinton. The area is well sheltered and well drained, so we should be quite, comfortable. The boys are progressing well on their tests and it will not be very long before a good many are wearing their second class b a A d g . new Scout, Tom Ellerington, was invested at Monday night's meeting. . We still findourselves with- out a Patrol Leader for the Cougar Patrol. We had an elec- tion and it came out in a three way tie. So we are going to con- duct another election. Should it' end in a tie, too, the Scouters will have to appoint one. Exam preparations cut our way down on Monday night. Less than half of our boys were out but we are' sure that, the time of the absentees was well spent studying, A couple -of boys were away sick. 1 certainly hope they feel better now and will be out next week. By the time you read this ar- ticle seine definite plans will have been laid for the father and son banquet. We Scouters have suggested Wednesday night, April 10, ae a tentative date and have suggested Ted Kennedy or "Whipper" Watson as guest speaker, .I hope we will be able to inform you of more definite plans next week. We have had several people ask us abciut a paper drive. One will be coming tip shortly and will be announced beforehand. One point regarding these paper drives—with the handling of the paper the bundles tend to loos- en and „come apart if they are not tied securely enough. So in future any.paner that is not tied will not be collected. Loose paper. in a truck makes the whole load worth less and also Means that sthpeentbeusntioapdaiin•tg. of the day is I imagine there were a few boys who .had muddy shoes and socks when they got home Mon- day night. The soft clay around the Scout Hall certainly is a mess. We hope to do bit of landscaping on the grounds dur- ing the spring and summer to clean the place up a bit. Shovel, anyone? lllll erne., ll l nem.. lll llll News Of Your LIBRARY By MRS. J. M. S. Just now when the' Duke of Edinburgh is in the limelight because of his return from a long Commonwealth tour and be- cause the Queen decided he should be known as His Royal Highness, the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, we are re- minded of a little book in your library entitled H.H.H. The Story of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh It is the last work to come from the pen of the late James Hilton, author of Goodbye, Mr, Chips, Lost Horizon, Random, Harvest and others."It was pub- lished last year by Hilton's ex- ecutors following his death. When at one year of age, Phil- ip with his parents was carried into exile from strife -torn Greece aboard a British cruiser, it . would have been diffieult to find any royal child whose prospects in life seemed less promising. His title was Prince Philip, but there was no real Chance that be would ever be ailed to as - Sumo the Greek throne. 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