The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-10-30, Page 24.
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Editorials
Thi e newspaper believee. the
richt to (*prose en ;Orden in
puntie contributes- to the noes
res * of the ninon_ .and that -it
must be exercisedfreely to pre-
serve and improve democratic
govern:bent.
Precious Points
A grim remnder that to drive is a privilege.
not a right, which may be taken from us if we abuse
it, is conveyed in the new denerit point system
to be established by the ,Ontafo Department of
11Yansport December I. Here's how it works:
. The driver will start off with 12 points, and
with the accumulation of six demerit points, the
driver will be sent a letter by the Department of
Registrar of Motor Vehicles warning him that fur
-
tiler _violations may result in the cancellation of his
licence. -At nine points, he will be called in for a
bearing and either placed on probation br suspended.
At 12 points suspension will be mandatory.
Points assessed against any conviction will be
deducted from the driver's total two years from the
date of conviction.
Deductions are as follows:
Criminal negligence involving the. use of a
motor vehicle 12
Motor manslaughter 12
Driving while intoxicated 12
Driving while impaired 12
Obtaining driver's licence by fraud 12
Driving w_hile under suspension . 12
Leaving the scene of an accident .
..•,.•. .... ....• 9
.Careless driving 5
Exceeding speed limit by. 30 mph or more ....... 5
Exceeding speed limit by more than 10 mph ..,. 3
Exceeding:speed limit by less than 10 mph ....... 2
Failing to yield right-ofway,. ,.. 3
Improper passing . . - 3
Failing to obey stop sign or signal2
.-
All other moving violations 2
Failing to report an accident . . .... ... 3
—Courtesy, IX° Bulletin
A Stupid Lot
Human beings are a stupid lot.
How else can you explain the continual rise
In cigarette purchases Cespite the constant and in-
creasing medical reports of direct association be-
tween smoking and lung cancer?
Obviously it appears that those imbeciles who
persist in puffing on the weeds are committing ,slow
suicide. It'sridiculous, fantastically short-sighted,
sheer stupidity, downright ignOrance, pure and
simple nonsense, gross folly, unbelievable idiocy to
continue smoking with the knowledge of the danger-
ous consequences of the habit.
One of these days, we feel certain, we're go-
ing to °quit,
We. Should Not Wait
' A number of farmers have approachedthis
newspaper urging county and frinnicipaP government
action to counteract the threat of rabies in Huron,
We support their plea's.
While there has been no case confirmed in
the .county yet, there has been sufificient evidence
in nearby areas to indicate Huron will be lucky to
avoid the disease.
Middlesex has taken some positiVe action in
seeking animal immunization clinics, warning child-
ren to avoid stray animals and in encouraging hunt-
ers to go after foxes. Other counties have raised fox
bounties to stimulate reduction of the fox popula-
tion.
All of these are good measures and should be
taken in Huron. With cold weather threatening a
more rapid spread of the disease, preventative action
should be encouraged.
Leadership, particularly at the county level, is
imperative immediately.
Liven 'Em Up
We like Hensall Chamber of Commerce's plans
to encourage lively contests and a big turnout of
voters in the forthcoming municipal election. We
hope it will have some measure of success this year
and eventually lead the village into healthy demo-
cratic elections for many years to ome.
Too many organizations in our communities
consider_ municipal politics as "out of bounds". They
discreetly ignore it because it might lead toil feel-
ings or arguments.
But;none except the narrow-minded can criti-
cize a well-intentioned effort to stimulate interest in
civic government. Is not this one of the most vital
types of service which any organization can perform
in the community?
We urge other organizations to pursue the
excellent Plan adopted by the Hensall Chamber.
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Jottings By J.M.S.
Most Of Stores Change
During Past 30 ears
It is hard' to inragine that in
the space of 30 years there has
been almost •a Complete change
M the business section sif Exe-
ter. This has been brought home
to me as I reviewed the ad-
vertisements that Appeared. in
The Times -Advocate during a
Buy -At -Home Campaign the, lat-
ter part of 1929.
rn'errhece, CaMr-
dianR. cBoanullepuiol! len Ti
al
ager, operated in the building
now occupied by, the Bank •of
1‘!?nitrcalA
The flank of aloptreal was in
the building now used by the
Public Utilities Commission.
Traquair and Lindenfield, who
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95S, ng fotttres Synde#te, Inc., WOrlri tights reserved
now own separate stores, were
"-A-11Y1X4Y got a, in partnership.
E. R. Hopper is now in part-
imeeeleamememeemememeememeameememeenemeseeleeeemeneimmileeeieleeme nership with K. Cl. Hockey.
Fred Rabethge conducted a
jewellery Storer
Joseph Senior was a well
known photographer in the build-
ing now the Rether Restaurant.
Cl. M. Armstrong was a mill-
iner.
H. T. Rowe handled Scranton
coal and B.A. gas and oil.
B. W. F. Beavers has been suc-
ceeded by his son Reg in the
hardware business.
S. B. Taylor, jeweller, is still
in business.
S. Fitton
was an
optometrist
in the same budding.
W. ,T, Beer, harness maker,
handled radios and electrical
supplies in the Russell Electric
store.
Cl. A. Hawkins has been sue-
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If people paid any heed to the
wet-lib:1gs, dire predictions, and
appalling statistics with which
they are assailed on every hand,
the entire race would be made
up of drivelling cowards, cring-
ing under their respective beds.
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Reach for a coffin nail with
your morning paper and coffee,
and a headline jumps at you:
SMOKING AND LUNG CANCER
LINKED, TESTS PROVE. Turn
on your car radio as you drive
to work, triumphantly, that week-
end fatalities hit 72, bettering
last year's record by 8.
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Just look as though you feel
like a beer, and somebody will
start reeling off figures on al-
coholism. Dream of going hunt-
ing, and you have to read col-
umns of "safety rules," obviously
drawn up for a group of maniacs
with murder on. their minds.
Start putting away something
for your old age, and. some
cheerful vulture will inform you temperance peeple, tax mikes
with ill -concealed satisfaction tors and doctors, but there's
.that the human race will be ob- something unbeatable in human
literated by the H -Bomb within nature. It's a sort of massive,
ten years. Put in an honest, bard charming stupidity and reckless -
days work, and some magazine ness that has made people ig-
article confronts you with the nore all warnings, and still keep
news that you're heading for a rolling through all sorts of snis-
coronary, adventures and disasters, ever
* since the day Eve was warned
Besides these fairly deadly not to fool around with that
forecasts, we are subjected to a apple,
continual barrage of minor
threats and insults, mostly of a
personal nature. The advertise-
ments leave nothing sacred. They
shout that we have body' odour,
loose, scaly dandruff, unpleasant
breath, slipping dentures; trea-
cherous kidneys, acid stomachs,
and are badly in need Of a new
truss for that old hernia. They
imply that if we don't rush right
over to our friendly neighbour- Last week we heard Strafford
hood drugstore and do something Johnston of the editorial staff
about it, life is scarcely worth of the Stratford Beacon -Herald
living, discuss the early settlement of
* Huron 'and Perth counties and
Fortunately, there is a wonder- he said that, 150 years ago
ful cluelessness, a deliberate oh- owing to the dense forest, the
tuseness, in human nature, that only way to reach ,Goderich
makes us go blithely on our way, from Toronto, was by sailing
reeking nought of the -Cassell- from Penetang through Geor-
dras in our midst, And a good gian Bay around the tip •of Bruce
thing, too, or life would be in-• peninsula and along the coast
deed not only frightening but of • Lake Huron.
frightful. ' We were reminded of this when
trigger-happy types who will pot
him if he doesn't get them first.
Perhaps we could give him a
D.N.M. (Distinguished Nervous
Medal).
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It is difficult to withhold ap-
plause at the spectacle of the
steely -nerved type who ignores
the imminence of sudden and uni-
versal disintegration by H -Bomb,
while he figures out angles .to
diddle the government out of
death duties on his estate.
And surely one cannot refrain
from cheering on the man with
the burn ticker, who, retired
after thirty years in a sedentary
job, immediately starts working
like a navvy, building, tearing
down, fetching and carrying,
shovelling snow and cutting
-grass and generally showing a
ceecled by Glenn usher, in the
hardware business.
Southeott Bros. operated the
store now owned. by Gould
jory.
The dry goods business of
Jones & May is now the F. A.
May &. Son and the grocery
business is now the A. & U.
Grocenl their boot and shoe
business is now Smyth's Shoe
Store.
There was Harvey's Grocery
Store and Harvey Bros, , flour
and feed mill.
N. W. Trewartha dealt in eggs
and poultry. He succeeded C.
F. HooPer.
There was the Grigg Stationery
store, the Ross -Taylor Lumber
Co., Cnnningham and Pryde,
cemetery memorials, J. W.
Powell'e Variety Stores Brown-
ing's Drug Store; Middleton's
Bakery; R. N. Rowe, furniture
dealer; W. W. Taman, merchant,
Sandy Elliot was the Ford car
dealer; Milo. Snell- Chevrolet
dealer; Ulric Snell, Pontiac and
Buick dealer; Chambers Bros.
did repair work.
Gladman & Stanbury and Car-
ling & Morley were barristers
and. solicitors; Dr. G. S. Atkin-
son and Dr. G. F. Roulston,
dentists.
Rev. J. Bernard Rhodes, was
'minister of Caven Presbyterian
church; Rev. C. J. Moorehouse,
pastor of Main Street Church;
Rev. Walter Jones, rector of
Trlvitt Memorial iChurch; Rev,
D. McTavish, pastor of 'James
Street Church,
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LIBRARY' I
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By MRS. J. M. S.
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There is something gallant and
dashing about the two -pack-a-
day man who reads the lung
cancer story, pales, then lights
a fag and blows out the smoke
with the devil-may-care smile,
the quizzically' lifted eyebrow, of
'the condemned spy facing the
firing squad.
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There is something heroic in
\Veils,. a native of itc le , an
the'man who hears the weekend
of "Owl Pen" fame is not only
fatality figura while, driving to
work, and merely site his jaw, a yatEhtsman of many years ex -
tramps on the gas pedal and Perience but he is also a poet
and a craftsman with. words, so
bulls through the traffic, with all
the skill, enthusiasm and disre- that hetreader can feel the at
.of the Georgian, He
• gard for danger of a Ben Hui'
tells of its discovery by Etienne
at the reins of a chariot, Brute its record through the
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French and British periods down
l'to the present when great cargo '
Exeter market were: wheat, 90c
per bus., potatoes, 65e per bag;
eggs, 21c per doza. butter, 21e
per lb.; hogs $5.65 per cwt.
T. E. Handford left for the
west last week with a carload of
horses.
G. F. Yungblut,• Hensall, has
disposed of his shoe business to
Robert Drysdale,
Mr, John Allison, Thames
Road, one of Huron's pioneers
died Tuesday at the age of 81.
year. He was born in Ayrshire,
Scotland, and came to this coun-
try at the age of two years,
first settling in Cobourg.
Exeter with 164, donors was one
of the largest held in Ontario.
Sgt, Gerald Lawson has ar-
rived safely in England.
Cpl. Jos. Creech, instructor
at R.C.A.F. Technical School,
St. Thomas, is spending a week's
leave at his home,
Allison Morgan, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. Morgan of Usborne, has
enlisted with the R.C.A.F. in
London.
The Stephen Council was en-
tertained by • the McGillivray
Council at West McGillivray Hall
last -Saturday evening to a goose
supper.
The first of the Sunday, eve-
ning union services by Main St.
and James St. churches will be
held Sunday in Main Street alter-
nating each Sunday eve to con-
serve coal,
25 YEARS AGO 10 YEARS AGO
Main Street anniversary ser- Mrs. Henry Dyck (nee Pauline
vices were held on • Sunday with Godbolt) leaves today for Wat-
Rev, Archer Wallace, Toronto, son Lake in the Yukon to join
associate editor of the Sunday her husband who .is radio ape -
School papers as special speaker. rator with the R.C.A.F,
Mr. and Mrs, Mark Wild of The South Huron Plowing
spend • the winter in Florida. Match revived this year for the
first time since 1941 was held on
Grand Bend left on Saturday to
having a 'new ,trailer. the farm of Arnold Becker five
They will, camp along the way
Last. Sunday was White Gift miles west of Exeter.
Suriday in Caven Presbyterian For the first time in the his -
Sunday school when parcels of t°1-yof this district a plowing
warm clothin,i wrapped in white match was held with not a singles
evidence.
were received to be sent to Dr. horsein
Margaret Strang Savage at A flying classroom, latest 'ac-
quisition of the It.C.A.F. at Cen-
tralia made a temonstratton
flight carrying three instructora
and eight students.
Peace River,
we picked up a book newly ar- Messrs,' J. . Cl. Stanbury and. a.
rived.at your library on Saturday W.• Morley attended the coMplis
entitled: • • mentary dinner tendered by the
Cruising The Georgian Bay Huron Bar Association to the
This book is a practical manual new Supreme Court Judge, Mr.
with which the sailor may take Justice Hope, at Hotel Bedford,
the islands and around the Goderich.
The strike of furniture workers
his boat, large or small, among
shores 'of this in agnificent'.rock at Stratford has been settled and
and island -studded bay. employees are again back at
The author,' Kenneth McNeill work in five factories. The Swift-
. Canadian company has resumed
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You can't help admiring the
cool unconcern of the heavy
drinker as be glances over
the ships, sleek sailboats and speedy
article en alcoholics, while get. outboards sail on its waters,
operations.
The annual grandmothers
meeting "of the Exeter Women's
Institute was held at the home
of Mrs, B. W. F. Beavers with
23 grandmothers present.
15 YEARS' AGO
Ling through. his fourth rye and * *
water. "Ttouble is a lotta these The Northern Light
people are weak, and they get Dr. A. .1. Cronin has written
too fonda the stuff and they can't 13 best selling novels and in
hannel it," he muses as be Mur of these he has built his
reaches for the quart and knocks stories* around one dedicated
the lamp off the end table in
the process.
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There AMU_ ba 'a medal for
the fellow who goes hunting.
knowing full well that tile stilly
woOds around him are lilted, with
man.
In The Citadel it was a doc-
tor dealing with science in the
Modern -world; in The Keys of
the Kingdom, a priest dealing
with -religion; hr A Thing of
teauty, an. artist and the artis-
The lqt blood clinic held in
tic world. In his latest novel,
The Northern Light, the hero
is a newspaperman and the
theme is freedom of the press.
The publisher -editor, Henry
Page oWns a small provincial
daily in England which suddenly
becomes essential to two power-
(ul publishera in LoOdon.Hr
refuses to sell.
His struggle to retain his
paper as a force for good in the
community and not allow it to
become a mere scandal sheet Is
the story of The Northern Light.
Bruce Shapton of Stephen and
James Harris of Kirkton were in
Guelph representing the Exeter
Grain Club in the Provincial in-
ter -club competition.
A reception and dance was held
in Mooresville hall on Friday
evening for Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Greenlee,
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Happenings In
Hurondale
By MRS. MERVIN DUNN
7„:
Why cook Sunday Pinner?
Simply PIO* A Call. To
ANDY'S LUNCH
AT "12 .PASHWOQD
Fog Peliciovely Prepared Mean
We have the former cook from Pat's, Shanty in the.
Pines on our staff and she will be serving FRIED
CHICKEN and FISH & CHIPS every Saturday utght
from 7 to 12 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 10 p.m.
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Mr. and Mrs. Val 'of
Hastings, Mich., and Miss Olive
lmrie, of Toronto, were amdirg
those from a distance attending
the funeral of the late Mrs. Evan
Dew.
Mrs, Malcolm is visiting for
a time with her daughter and
Son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Hyde and family.
Mrs. Earl Mitchell of Paris
visited with friends last Friday
and attended the funeral of the
late Mrs. Evan Dew,
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