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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-09-05, Page 24 PO 2 The Timee-MY cote, September 3, 1957 1 1 Editorials This newspaper believes the right to express an opinion In public contributes to the proves: of the nation and the It must be eXerchied freely to prestrys end improve democratic government. Form Homebrew League? Loss 0! Senior Hockey Team .Presents Presents Problem For .Arena Outlook for winter sports in Ex- .0ter may appear discouraging for some v :falls because the Exeter Mohawk r - Booster Club has decided it cannot af- iford to sponsor a. senior or high calibre intermediate team, The situation, bow - t' ever, may not prove to be as bad as it looks at the moment. r It's unfortunate in a number of ‘rays that the booster club had to come * to this decision. Teams of the calibre ' which have represented the town dur- ing recent years help to publicize the community, show its spirit and pro - Si vide recreation for sports fans. • - But the wisdom of the step can- not be denied. Cost of paying players, " providing transportation and equip- ment makes the venture too expens- • ive. Perhaps more important is the at fact that support at the box office has W declined. An expenditure of $10,000 ,‘ or more—which is reportedly the cost . of *last year's Senior "II" club—is not et - • warranted for the entertainment of only several hundred fans. Ti The 'situation is not an unexpect- ed one. The same problem has faced st • nutherous communities 'in the area ta and they, too, have had to withdraw from competition, As the cost of pro- vlding import hockey rose each year, in it became evident that this type of at operation could not be continued in- •tiir definitely. It is to the booster club's te credit—and • the executive does de- dt th ' le: Spirit . tii: • On September 9, 10, and 11, the :17 Canadian Weekly Newspaper Associa- "6 tion Will held its 38th annual conven- tion in Banff, Alberta. ' et . M'• Representatives of member news - be me papers from coast to coast will discuss • the ',problems facing the industry. And ,nn . there are serious ones. Constantly ris- • ing cost of materials and equipment, lee : ch ' shortage of experienced workers and ate' higher wage levels are Placing a heavy el( denliand on the productive and man - Mt : agernent skills of publishers, ,flu. • . • The weekly newspapers difficul- ties, however, are nct dissimilar to ., these faced by the communities they I' ., serve. Like small town Merchants' and e ' manufacturers, local newspapers must ,e cope with the far-reaching competition • from larger centres. Their fight for : survival is quite like that of the com- munity itself. It has often been said that the • fortune of, a community can be vitally „. Affected by the service performed by its newspaper. If this is the case, then the ability of the publishers to meet their problems can have a significant effect en the futures of the communi- bee they serve, 4 Fortunately, every publisher of a . weekly newspaper has a valuable ally e-, in his struggle. His readers supply the • e battalions by which he stands or falls. . ' It is heartening to all weekly news - •e, papermen that this ally has always - provided streng and understanding •support, e •' • f ' , This kind of support -.-perhaps it could be called community spirit-Leeill •always keep small towns, and their newspapers, alive, Let's 'Work Towards • An expanded industrial protio- .. tit% program in Exeter and in Huron County, Completion of . the Riverview 04, `Park. develepment. •••• -4, • A parking lot close to Main Street. • A town plan for Exeter. • tlimination of the BidduIph dump 6n No. 4 Highway. serve commenciation-ethat Exeter. was able to continue in these ranks or the length of time that it did. A homebrew hockey team is the only one which can be organized for the town this coming year. To many hockey fansesthis will not be appealing because it won't measure up to the calibre of hockey which has .been played. Nevertheless. it does have com- pensations. The popularity of local players should help to offset whatever quality is lost. The idea that a home- brew team would provide recreation for athletes in our own community is appealing because that is the reason for which. the arena was erected. It has been suggested that a number of towns *in the immediate vicinity should get together _to form a homebrew league and this proposal has possibilities. The problem of travelling costs would be reduced and the fact that it would be confined to a small area suggests that all of the players would be more familiar to the fans. These advantages, however, do not necessarily make homehiew hoc- key successful. Indeed, those com- munities which have reverted to local talent have found the sledding tough, As we have suggested here before, part of the problem lies in the fact that high school sports are not inte- grated with community athletics and youngsters who have been dtveloping through minor hockey programs in their early years switch their interest to basketball when they reach high school. Talent available for homebrew hockey is thereby limited. There should be, however, enough' players who will play the game for the fun of it to ice a local club. Whether it will be organized or not— and properly organized at that—is to be. seen. One point is certain. The situa- tion is a serious one in view of the investment made in arena facilities and the cost of operating them. •The arena's financial problems h.av, been difficult enough even with the revenue provided. 153r import hockey. With .this loss, the strain on the taxpayer, who must subsidize the arena's operation, will -be more acute. 'Municipal responsibility in this. situation falls on two bodies—the Rec- reation Council and the Community Centres Board, the former responsible for providing sports for the, Commun- ity and the latter for operation of the arena. It appears imperative that they should tackle the problem immediate. ly. New Feature New feature which starts in The Times -Advocate this week is "Looking In With Liz", a column about tele- vision personalities and programs which readers will find most enter- taining. • , The column is written by Mrs. T. A. Tottchette, Huron Park, RCAF Cen- tralia, who has had considerable ex- perience in writing and who.niaintains personal contact with the majority of the performers appearing on Canadian television, Television has rapidly become one of the most popular sources of enter- tainrnent in almost every community in Canada. Its scope, unlike that of live theatre or Many of the other arts, is' not limited to. larger centres; it reachee from the centre of urban population tie the concession road on the town- ship. • It is with this in mind that The Times -Advocate brings this feature to its readers, We feel It will be enjoyed by all of them. , t be Cxeter trimesgabilotate Thais IsteblIshed 1873, Anialganiated 1924 Advocate Established 1881 ' . . „ Published Each Thursday Morning at Stratford, Ontario 1 CLASS AnIndependent Newspaper Devoted to the Interest* of the Town 0 I., a of ewer EMI District &Inherited :IA Eecoid Class Moil# Plait Ctffito biportmenti Ottawa MIEMIIIIK: Canadian Wieldy Neeiseepere. Aillociatierit Criteria Weekly NeWspeper Asseelatient ABC end Clete "A" NeWipepers AWAKOir A V Nolan Trophy, gonorol extollonct for nowspapors publishodn Onterio towns botwilin 1,506 And 4,500 pepUlitibrit 1937,. 1556: J. George johnsten Trophy, lypearaphicel excellence (On. feria). 1057; E. T. Stephenson Trophy f6' bolt front pege (Ontario), V I 114% 191‘1955; AliCanida leisueesiet Federation national safety award, IfSt Palc141-Advance Circulation as of March 31, 1057 3,042 . atig5CRIOTION KAYO (in Advanta) Canada HAI P.r Yese0 •545 USA $L00 Published by The Exeter Times -Advocate Jottings By J M S, Good Old School Days As I drove out from Grand Bend Tuesday morning and no - heed the number of children waiting for the scheel bus to bring them to Exeter for the opening of the fall term my mind went back to the school days of over fifty years ago. I Wonder if any of our read.° ers will remember when Mr. E. Follick was the janitor and call. ed the pupils to the classrooms by the ringing of the school bell , and never tired of sharpening the slate pencils or lead pencils of the children. Mr. Follick was followed by Mr. Thomas Colling- wood who carried on the same duties until the building of the new high school. The grounds then were divided into three parts -one at the south of the school for the girls; one east of the school for the public school children and the big field for scholars in the Continuation classes, as they were known at that time, A high board fence gseirplasrateci the boys from the Until the installation of indoor' plumbing double buthouses were provided, for the girls on one side and for the boys on the other: On the boys' sfde an ad- ditional cement building was provided, the odor from which reached to high heaven. Even after the indoor plumbing was installed sanitary conditions were never too good. Fifty years ago Miss Vosper • was principal of the public school and "the staff consisted of Winnifred Howard, M. V. Mar- tin, H. E. Waldron, A. M. Johns- ton and S. L. Gregory, At the present time Mr. Arthur Idle is the principal and he h,as a staff of 13 teachers. The old public school which was demolished to make way for a high and a public school was first erected in 1874 with six classrooms at a cost of $7,000, and it was heated by oldbox stoves. In 1915 'additions were made to the old school to provide four more classrooms. in /1929 two additional noels were added at the north bf the building. In 1b38 a four -room building, which now forms part of the public school was built for high school work. In 1950 =the corner -stone of the new public school was laid by W, E. Middleton, then chairman of the public school board and in 1953 the latest ad- dition was .made to the school. The first governing body was the public' school board, then a contmuation school board and later a Board of Education which administered both the high and public school. With the erection of the high school in 1946 two governing bodies took over, the Etxmd.erterPublic School BOard and the Exeter District High School D Today there are eight high school busses which bring the pupils to Beeter from Grand Bend, Remit Zurich and the surroundiug townships. M carne through Grand Bend Tues- day morning a little after 'eight o'clock there were enough pupils to fill half a bus waiting in front of the Brenner Hotel. Other pupils were standing at farm gateways waiting to be picked up. There were no barefoot boys as there used to be in the olden daYs. ‘iii1,141514111111111111*1111011,51111 llllll 410011541,1 lllllllllllllllllllllll ll llll terteeteemmenueemeemenemweememmeet, Sugar AND Spice DISPENSED BY BILL. SMILEY Every year, around our place, there's a regular three-rifig cir- cus over our holidays, We only take a lousy week, . but it re- quires mor' argument, planning and general .chaos than most people would need if they were taking a six -months' cruise to the moon in a sky -liner. * * * * About June we receive a fold- er telling us at which particular- ly attractive place in the nun - in' a sank hotel has been fool- ish enough to accept the weekly editors' convention. This year W5 in Banff. We look at the pie. tures wistfully, but shake our heads wisely at each other, and agree we can't afford it this year, what with Hugh' S opera- tion and last winter's coal bill still riding around in my hip pocket like the Ghost of Christ- mas Past. * * Mound the middle of July, the Old, Girl, out of a clear blue sky, says: "Bill, I have scarcely a thing to wear to the conven- tion, if you have any ,idea of going." If 1 have any idea of going. I haven't given it :a thought, "Thought we decided not to go," I venture timidly. "()h, well," she says, "1 can sit around home and rot, just hs well As. you can." * * * * 'A few weeks later, long after the deadline for getting in.reser- vations, train passes and every -- thing, she asks: "Have you got MERRY MENAGERIE By Walt Distief r Syndi -..,.. V.414-1 rligkEtti • .ol br Nul,r, textures ate. —9-..-2 _ . .......—...eas-.. --, "You hcard 'Lau latest? Now they're bldmin- smog. , • on 1.781" Ar • - - - .. 111111111111111 lll 1 lll 111111111111111 lllll 11111111 lll 1 ll 11111 lllll 1111111111111111M lllllll 111111111 llllll 111111111111111111111 llllll t lll 1 l i11111 As the "TIMES" Go By 41555551mi lllll tt lllll llllll tit tttt ttt tttt 50 YEARS AGO Misses Carrie Dyer, Addie, Mor. lock, Merle Gould and Miss Rick - bell, milliners returned home from Toronto this week. The Indians are using the Hen - sell skating rink as a home this week and are busy spreading flax. Among those who left 'Tuesday to attend Model School at Gorle- rich from this vicinity were Mis- ses Martha and Winnie Carling; Mary Murray, Ida Arinstfong, Daisy Dining and Elia McPher- son of Exeter. ' While Messrs Wilbur Martin and John Gillespie Jr. were moving a new piano -frOin the depot to Messrs Martin & Soil's store on Saturday they let it drop froze the dray wagon to the pave- ment and it was badly wrecked. • Mr. Thos. Boyle last Thursday pUrchaSed the fancy goods busi- nets of Mr. Sohn Charlton. 25 ?EARS AGO Mit m Ruby Stont received a scholarship award of two years free tuition at the University of Western Ontarie. trnest Willard has been awarded the contraet ter carry- ing the mails over 11.1t. 1, Exc. ter, Miss but }larding of Midele- tott's Bakery IS Ort brilidays, JarneS St, their held their an. nual outingitt the form of a Plait in the orchard of her, W. Quinti of traborne. Mr. Will Mattson o forest for- merly of Exeter disposed Of hiS drug business and _he AtIct Mrs. Marital ere inekirig their home itt Toronto. A few from /Neter Were itt London Saturday and witnessed the checker tame played bet. Weil Ontario And Michigan players, 4; 15 YEARS AGO. T h e Perth -Huron ' Shorthorn show will be held at the Exeter Fair September 16 and 17. By special request of 'His Ma- jesty the King Sunday DOM: will be observed as a clay of prayer throughout, Canada to mark the beginningof the fourth year of the war, • Public Schobl will reopen Ttlea- day, September 8 with Ray Wag - horn as the new principal sue. eeeding B. Creech who has entered the R.C,A,F. Camp Ipperwash \ is almost readY for soldiers. Approxiinate- ly 2,000 soldiers will be sent there for advanced infantry training. Rev, At, Laing, Woodham, is onn of the delegates from the London Conference to attend the General Council of the 'United church at 13elleyille. Miss Margaret Guenther of Gary, Indiana, Is with her grand - Parents, Mr, and Mrs. Melt. Sanders and Will enroll at Exe- ter High School. 10 YEAR$ AGO Mr. and Mrs. „I, S. ruleher of Brandon, Man, arrived last week to lake up residence in Exeter. Exeter High SschOol re -Opened Tuesday with ate enrolment of 270 pupils. • Miss Helen Walper, new teacher for the Primary room of the Exeter Public School now meeting Itt the bite/nem of the Public Librery, has 36 new pu- pils enrolled. Fire destroyed the hitt Hotel at BAYfield alt Saturday ilight. Mr, Lou tailey of town is at present in Saskatchewan assitt- ing with the harvest, All places of entertaiiitnent at Grand Bend ,more nuttlerOuS than ever, report a Stledetsful Seasett, Alden theatre, erected this year hy the tiossenberrye with lit tho- demi front is credit to any n•iunicipality. the tickets yet?" I say; "I thought we weren't going, be- cause we couldn't afford it." Acidly, she observes: "We can afford for you to buy a pack of cigarettes every day, I notice, and come trailing .home with beer on Saturdays. We've been mar. ried for, more than ten years, and if you can't afford to take a little trip once in a blue moon 12 lllll * * •4, * So I secretly -go ahead and get everything arranged. Just when I'm about to pop the big sur- prise, and have paid the regis. tration fee, reserved sleeping .accommodations on the train, and have made a down payment on a big hotel, she reanarks: "I'm certainly glad we're not going to the convention this year. For one thing, we can't afford it. For another, what would we do with the kids? That's the weekoKiin starts to schoel, and I wouldn't miss that for any silly conventien," * * * Upshot of the whole nonsense, of course, is that after I've been accused of criminal negligence, told I never think of anybody but myself, bullied into footing the bill for new clothes, and ex- coriated in turn for my poverty and extravagance, we catch the last possible train, in a welter of recriminations, tears, lost gloves, and hastily kissed children. * ,We always arrive at the con- vention a day later than anyone else, and have to catch. up. Catching un with a party is a- bout as exhausting and fruitless as trying to catch one of those four -minute milers after you've given him a one -minute head start. * s * However, We thoroughly enjoy ourselves. Pushed deep, into the background are demanding chil- dren, the coal bill, the storm windows, the ashes in the cellar, the music lessons, -the editorial page, and all thoughts of "tak. ing it easy this year at the con- vention, and not spending- so .much money.". * * Instead, the innate millionaire in each of us rises to the lop with the buoyancy of. a balloon hi a barrel of beer. You should see the casual air with which I toss the boy a quarter for shin- ing my shoes, even though there's only a piece of cardboard be- tween niy loot acid the ground. * . You should see the Duchess sweeping into that pre -dinner cocktail party. Her hair, up in curlers fel" the last hour, would make a model weep with envy. Her dress, freshly pressed on the bottom of an upturned dress- er drawer, with the. steam iron she lugged across the continent, -.Please Turn to Page 3 lllllllll ll e l 1 lll 1111 llllll itittimmittiouttiCtry News Of Your 3 LIBRARY I By MRS. J. M. S. Bruce Hutchison writing the Financial Post, states that few Canadians read many books and many •read none, yet it is en- couraging to learn that Canadian readers are the most catholic in the English-speaking world. The British and Americans confine themselves mostly to their own native books. Canadians demand' books from everywhere. Mrs. Hilton Laing, the libra. rian at your library, sayS this is true of the Exeter library, paticularly since the coining of the,RCAF station in our midst. Books that had stayed on the shelves for some time, are again in circulation. Occasionally Mrs. Laing is asked for a book along some partieular floe ot study that she feels will not interest • the general reading public. She can usually borrow the book from the London Public Library to accotnodate the inOtlirer. Addison said "Reading is to the mind, what exorcise is to the body," Do your children find hi books exercise for their minds? Do you appreciate the service of the public librarse not WY 10t Yourself but for your children? Even before a child starts to school lie may begin his library adventure by a trip to the libra- ry with you. Gradually he gets to know "the library lady." She is another friendly person in his world - and the more people he knoWs and likes the easier it is for hint to learn to "stand on his own feet." A. child who tastes the furl Of reading at an early age need heifer kiloW the lonelinese, the tense of having nothing to do, the bOreclOin of idienesS which a per. set with no love for books Often EkterieficeS. Children's took Week is not too far distant And the book toininittee of the library art pur- chasing and Ordering tieW books and making MAO far lhat week. Atquaint our ehildren with the ServieeS Of Veld Library, NO Other leisure -tilt activity tart take the teeth of reading in •a child's editeanOti. .,...imeetetiesitelleeretetteteleleutelooletteteroutellseeklittlelexteettreineemoorveretreoloolionm,,,,,m NEW SUBSCRIPTION RATES Effective September 3, 1957 Canada $4,00 Per Year, U,S.A. $5,00 Per Year Single Copy 100 NeetOnoeireemoriteeileillellelleellielleimemeitioutomisinueimewsuitettemenetneonitaietitioureetterloos. Sports 4k. Cycle Your Largest Sporting Goods Dealer This Side Of London Bicycles 39.95 UP Revileight Robin •Hood,' Viscount and .CCM FISHING TACKLE & EQUIPMENT - Boots, Rods, Reels, hlinnow Traps, Large Selection of Nets.' HUNTING EQUIPMENT - Winchester, Remington, Savage, Stephens, Mossburg, H8:11, Marlin and Cooey Guns; Shells./ and Ammunition for Most Makes of Guns. 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