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s-Advocate1 April: 24, 1953
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This newspaper believes than
right to express an opinion in
public contributes to the pros
gress of the nation and that it
must be exercised freely to pre,
serve and improve democratic
government.
An Extra Effort
We hadn't planned to make an appeal here on
- behalf of the local branch's. campaign for the Can-
adian Cancer Society. We felt all but a few citizens
are acutely aware of this grave national health
problem.
Due to rain, however, the house-to-house can-
vass in Exeter had to be postponed and a later at-
. tempt at a canvass was not as successful as hacl
been anticipated because of unfortunate circum-
- stances.
- ; As a result the campaign is down over $500
from last year. We are convinced this is not because
citizens do not wish to donate but beFause they have
-'not.yet been contacted.
We, therefore, join the branch officials in
making an urgent appeal to all of those citizens in
town who have not contributed to make their dons-
• tions to either of the local banks or to The Times -
Advocate as soon as possible. The cause is certainly
worthy enough to make that extra effort.
Continued support of all municipalitie. in this
district is vital if the branch is to reach its increased
objective thls year,
Planning progress
As in Exeter, the- council of the town of St.
-Marys is investigating the establishment of a town
'plan and The St. Marys Journal -Argus in a recent
editorial expresses opinions similar to those printed
in this column .on several occasions:
"Council of the Town of St. Marys is at last
giving Town Planning a studied and serious con-
sideration; On Monday evening of this week a spokes-
man for the Department of Planning and Develop-
ment told a representative group of citizens at the
Rotary Club meeting of the importance of commun-
ity planning. Town Council members who assisted
with the organization of this meeting later met with
hint andt,discussed further the steps to take in order
to set up a Community Planning Boarci.
'Planning areas, including one or more muni-
cipalities, are defined by the Minister of Planning
and Development, usually upon application by the
municipal council or councils concerned. They range
in size from the huge Metropolitan Toronto Planning
Area, covering 750 square miles and embracing 26
municipalities with a total population of a million
and a half, to small, single independent planning
areas consisting of a single town, village or town-
ship.
"In the case of St. Marys and district the
Planning Board would probably be a joint group
from the Town of St. Marys and the Township of
Blanshard.
"Our municipal leaders are to be commended
for considering this forward step which will, if car-
ried out, contribute greatly to the progress and
future development of this area."
Avoiding Wolt
tCobourg Sentinel -Star)
The best way to curb employment is not
through left-handed giveaway but through creation
and promotion of necessary projects providing work
opportunities. The average working man still prefers
to earn his wages through sensible, legitimate em-
ployment channels—not through creation of luxury
projects that will burden all local taxpayers—includ-
ing himself.
If the town, of Cobourg, in co-operation with
the Chamber of Commerce, is interested in insuring
its population against unemployment, greater con-
centration should be placed on luring new industry
and the promotion of those industries and commercial
outlets already here. Promises for a still greater
tomorrow are simply not enough.
Unemployment is widespread in United States
and Canada. In places recession is already reality,
and unpleasant home truth. Recession is another
name for "vicious circle" and if Cobourg wishes to
avoid inclusion in that circle the time to make pro-
vision is now—before the wolf comes pounding at
our doors.
Confidence in our future and a willingness to
Work hard determines what we accomplish,
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Early to bed, early to rise — till you make
enough to do otherwise.
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Do you have tension? If you
don't, you're either dead or a
complete moron.
That is. if s•ou listen to all the
people playing the latest nation -
at game. They play it with all
the verve, and with the same
blithe ignorance of the rules.
with which they once played
Child Psychology.
If you have a sore back, it's
caused by nervous tension. If
your feet swell up, ditto. If
your eyes are bad, sante deal.
It's not really your vision, it's
just nervous tension. Sheer ten-
sion makes you smoke one
cigarette as fast as you can, so
you can light another.
If you belch after meals, it's
because you're tense. If you
drink too much, it's tension
that's driving you to it, If you
yell at your kids, it's because
you're too tense. And if they
yell back ,at you, it's because
they're so tense because you
yelled at*them,
If you suddenly start sneezing,
as I did recently, it's .not, hay
fever. It's an allergy set up by
tension. Only trouble is, the
Tension Experts can't tell you
what you're allergic to. 1 noticed
that every time I got to work,
and every time I got home, 1
sneezed like mad. This could
only .lean I was allergic to my
job and .hay family•
• * * *
As I am not quite at the point
yet where I will give up both
without a struggle, I refuse to
get on this tension kick with the
rest of the amateur nerve spec-
ialists. Personally, I think this
tension business is a little over-
done. Certainly, we live in a
rather troubled, excited and fast-
moving society,- but a little ten-
sion never hurt anybody.
Oh, I don't mean the ordinary,
fretting, twerpy, little tensions.
Like wondering what your wife
is going to say when you've
been out long past the allotted
hour, and have had more than
the allotted number. Or the
slight tightening of tendons in
Your neck as you drive in heavy
traffic with your kids fighting
and screaming in the backseat.
That's the kind of stuff that
could drive a fellow to sneezing
wildly, or belching between
courses.
What I mean is the grand,
rare, tension that is like a pur-
gative, a cathartic, that drives
out all thought and feeling and
sleeves you limp, sweating, trem-
bling, hut relaxed. That's the
sort of thing that's a better
loosener-upper than a half bottle
of whiskey followed by a brace
of sleeping pills.
* * *
We've all had experiences like
this, Even remembering some of
mine makes me nice and floppy
and relaxed. Like the night the
town cop turned the flashlight
on a bunch of us when we were
pruning a few cobs' of corn out
of a fellow's garden, so the rest
would have a better chance to
grow, Twelve seconds later 1
was three fences, four back
yards, and a block away, biding
tinder our front verandah. Ten-
sion loaned me wings, on that
occasion, Ey the next morning,
I was as relaxed as you please.
Speaking of wings recalls an-
other example of tension's bene-
fits. It was once clay in France,
in 1944, and I was trying to land
an aircraft from the right wing
of which, dangling gaily, hung
a caught -up, fused, 1000 - pound
bomb. Tense? I thought I'd die!
It was roughly similar to driv-
ing a car down the highway at
80 miles an hour, with no wheels
on the left-hand side—
mostly a
matter of will -power, But good
old tension pulled me through.
I masse it. And when I climbed
out of that Thing, I was so re-
laxed, it took two men to hold
me up.
And so it goes. Pay no atten-
tion to the Nervous Tension art-
ists, with their new toy, Put it
to work for you, Tension is like
rare wine, if used on the right
occasions, in the right quanti-
ties.'
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Take last Sunday afternoon,
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�'orn�rtur�ity`s �/�rst fir
C'1aimed 5ix 1
During recent weeks 1 have
reviewed some of the fires that
have taken place in Hensall and
Dashwood. Tliis week 1 have
taken from a copy of the Exeter
Times dated July 12, 1924 an
account of the most gruesome
fire ever to occur in this dis-
iric t.
Exeter has witnessed. a trag-
edy, the like of which has never
been known in this community.
Fire which destroyed the home
of Mr. Silas Stanlake, on the
Lake Road, claimed as its vic-
tims, six, in the person of Mrs.
Stanlake, aged 38; her four chil-
dren, Clarence, six; -Charlie,
four; Wiltred, two; and a baby
boy not quite three weeks old;
also Albert Stanlake, aged 45.
On Friday night shortly after
eleven o'clock, when the family
were sound in their first sleep,
1110 fire demon swept down upon
the comfortable home that nes-
tled among the trees a short
distance from the road. The
father was awakened by the
crackling of the fire and the
light thio shone upon his .bed-
room window. Hastening down
stairs he observed the flames
creeping beneath the door which
leads into the summer kitchen.
On opening the door he was con-
fronted with a seething mass of
flanges, which swept into the
living roans by a wind blowing
in that direction. Returning up-
stairs he awakened the various
members of the family and with
some of them he started down
stairs, the slam:s opening into
the kitchen. Escape through tile
kitchen door was cut off and
Mr. Stanlake, his adopted daugh-
ter Beatrice, and his son Barry,
aged 15, attempted to get out
of the front door. This refused
to yield as it had been closed
up during the winter, and Mr,
Stanlake turned to one of the
windows which he broke and
hurried the children through. It
was too late to return, Mrs. Stan -
lake had remained to gather up
the baby and possibly the young-
er children when her chance of
escape was eut off. Albert also
.lade a start for safety but re-
turned upstairs and lost his
chance of escape. The boy and
the girl who escaped were some-
what burned while the father
was slightly burned, fiut 1.1y
glass and was almost overcome
by suffocation.
The glare of the fire could be
seen for miles and many were
soon upon the scene but were
powerless to help. The house
was engulfed in flames and so
intense was the heat that they
could not get within many 'feet
of it. Within a couple of hours.
the frame house which had stood
for aver forty years and which
was one of the landmarks on
the Lake ]load, was a smo'rlder-
ing mass of ruins. The tall brick
chimney stood erect but before
the searchers commenced their
grim task of finding the bodies,
11 was toppled over.
The origin of the fire is a
mystery, A smudge hacl been )11
early.in the evening for the pur-
pose of driving away the mos-
quitoes.' This, however, was
away from where the fire orig-
inated, and had been put out by
water before the family retired.
Tll)e home was comfortably
furnished and equipped with
furnace and bath outfit and other
conveniences. A victrola which'
had often entertained the family
along with a piano were destroy-
ed along with the rest of the
furniture.
The rema)ns of four of the
bodies were taken out early Sat-
urday morning while the embers
were still !got and the fire still
smouldering. The mother had
her babe clasped in her arms
while near her were the other
three children and it Joked as
if she had gathered hem about
her. Men with palls threw water
upon the debris but the water
supply was limited. All day long
the searchers worked. The water-
ing cart was sent out from Exc.
ter in the afternoon. This made
the work of the searcher's less
difficult and towards evening
the remains of the other two
were found,
Coroner Dr, Hyndrnan was on
the scene early and took charge
of the survivors and directed
the activities. All day long autos
visited the scene. This was re-
peated on Sunday when visitors
came for miles and kept up until
the shades of evening hid the
surroundings.
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and Hugh perch fishing. Did I
get a headache when they spills
ed one bottle of pop and one
box of popcorn all over the back
seat? Well, a little one. Did I
get an acid stomach when Hugh
slammed the car door en the
tip of my spinning rod? Maybe
just a trifle,
* * *
But I didn't let it throw 1130,
f , put tension. to work. The
fourth time.' look our three lines
out of the water, inextricably
interwoven, I just• let the ,tension
roar through Me, took my
knife, calmly cut the three lines,
threw the worm can in the
river, the kids in the car, and
felt great, relaxed and happy
all the way home.
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News Of Your
LIBRARY
By MRS, J. M. 5.
McClelland and Stewart, pub-
lishers, have launched • a new
publishing project, (he reprint-
ing, as paperbacks, of a number
of successful Canadian books,
They have already published
four -- two of which have just
arrived for your •library. One of
these is:
Literary Lapses
This book was Stephen Lea -
cock's first book and he pub-
lished it 'himself in 1910, when
be was forty. It launched Lea-
cock on his' career as a popular,
best-selling humorist, The first
edition of Literary lapses is now
rare. It contains some of his hest
work.
Such Is My Beloved
The other book in the series
is "Such Is My Beloved” by
Morley Callaghan written in
1953,.On the surface the content
is a simple and moving story;
beneath the surface it is the
traditional symbolism of Catho-
lic art.
Others already published are
"Over Prairie Trails" by Frede-
rick Philip Grove and "As For
Me And My House" by Sinclair
Ross. Two more will be published
later this year: The Tin Flute by
Gabrielle Roy and Sam Slick by
Thomas Haliburton.
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T)rew Middleton, 70 outstand-
ing newspaperman and corres-
pondent for'the New York Tinges,
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. 50 YEARS, AGO
Lucan Council have tendered
to Holy Trinity congregation the
use of the Township Hall as a
place of meeting during the
erection of the new church. since
James Ross has purchased the
old church and intends tearing
it clown.
Nobody knows what is going
on under the merry widow hat,
It serves equally well as a
screen or umbrella.
Mr. L. C. Fleming will resign
as principal of the Exeter school
to accept the secretaryship of
the Huron County Y.M.C.A
Both. Exeter and Crediton are
planning celebrations for May
24.
Constable .Bissett and Mr.
James Weekes erected the fire
alarm bell at the north end of
town on Monday.
25 YEARS AGO
Rev. Jas. Anthony who for the
past five years has been pastor
of Thames Road United church
has received an invitation to
Motherwell. •
Mr. ltd. Welsh, secretary of
the Huron Game and Bird' As-
sociation has received •len hens
and len cocks of cross -bred
pheasants which have been re-
leased in Hay swamp.
Mr. Harry Hoffman, who last
year won the gold. :medal as
baritone soloist at the Stratford
Festival is competing again this
year and will sing on Thursday
evening.
Messrs. Earl E. Christie of
Exeter and Howard Johnston of
Crediton were received as stu-
dents under the care of Presby-
tery at the meeting in Elim -
on Tuesday,
This item appeared in the To-
ronto Star and appeared in a
number of papers: "Exeter, On-
tario, has accumulated a sur-
plus, reduced its debt and cut
its tax rate ten milis,1'
15 YEARS AGO
•
Neighbors paid a surprise visit
to Mrs. William Murdoch (nee
Pearl Wood) at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W, 1-I.
Wood, presenting her with a cof-
fee table and wall mirror.
Mr. Henry Squire celebrated
his 94th birthday at his home
in. Exeter Wednesday.
There were, 8,856 applications
for canning sugar filed with the
local ration board,
A landmark in Honsall for
over 50 years and one of the old-
est barns in the community was
purchased by Ed, Fink and. Jack
Simmons and was removed to
a lot across the road.
Mr, and Mrs. W. A. Patrick,
Toronto, Mr. Harry Snell, Lon-
don and Cpl. Eugene Beaver of
Petawawa were in Exeter at-
tending the Farquhar -Snell Wed-
ding on. Saturday,
A fire partly destroyed the
evergreen hedge between lige
properties of R. G. Seldon and
Mrs. Tlios. Harvey on. Friday.
10 YEARS AGO
Exeter is experiencing another
building boom, Excavations have
been made for the new turnip
waxing plant on Hwy. 83, new
residences of W. G. Cochrane,
!,'rank Whilsmith, W. H. Pollen,
John Triebner, Harvey Pfaff,
garage for R. E. l3alkwrll 1.nd
new bowling alley by Win. Sweit-
zer.
Reeve ;t 3. W. 'Tuckey Made the
presentation of crests and jack-
ets to the players of the Lucan
Irish Six hockey team.
The town siren, which here -to•
fore has been operated _from a
push button in front of the Town
Hall, was on Tuesday connected
with the Bell Telephone system.
A tiew shoe store operated by,
A, E. Buswell and son, Ted, is
being opened in the former Jones
and May seed store.
it was announced in provin-
cial parliament that, a general
election will be acid Monday,
June 7,
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