HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-09-17, Page 4Peg* 4 The Times‘Ar!tmete, September 17, 19
Editorials
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right to exprese en opinion in
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etrees et the nation end the!. it
must he exercised freely to pre.
serve end improve democratic
government,
if can be good
This district's traffic record over the usually
togie Labor Day weekend was excellent. Not one
reportable accident, occurred in the area over tie
491iday,
But we cannot be complacent because our
record for the year will probably be one of the blaek-
est ever. The =tether of fatalities during 1959 has
been alarMingly high and there is still more than a
Tarter of the year to go.
We have shown that during potentially danger-
ous periods of heavy traffic we can drive safely and
&alley. It appears, however, that we have yet to
learn that the terrible hazards of the highway remain
sAdth us even when the traffic is light.
The care we seem to exercise on holidays mug
he continued throughout the week. The gri !Taper
never sleeps.
The missile uge
Although this is the age of missiles and sound -
shattering speed, these developments seem remote
o us in this rural community. Yet, ,in our midst, is
An air force station which must cope with this age,
. even though it be at the elementary level.
So the people of our district have an execel-
lent opportunity to view the progress in the air at
Centralia's annual Air Force Day open house this
Saturday. It should be taken advantage of.
This is a special Air Force •Day, because it
conies during a year when the RCAF celebrates its
thirty-fifth anniversary and the golden anniversary
Of powered flight in Nnada. Special features at the
Open house will illustrate the "progress in flight"
made by Canada's aviators.
This Saturday's show will undoubtedly be one
'Sof the best ever staged at Centralia.
The community joins in extending best wishes
—to the station and its personnel on this unique oc-
tasion.
Lake level rises
How much lower is the water level going to
'get in Lake Huron? All summer long. this question
has arisen in the minds of those who have visited
Goderich harbor and also those summer cottagers
along the lakefront who have had to haul their
boats long distances to the water's edge. There are.
some who. have felt that the pilings of the old pier
extending out• from harbor beach have never pro-
truded so far out of the water nor has the sandy
beach ever been so expansive as it is this summer.
One answer is that the water level is going
to get even lower in the next few Months. Authority
for thiS •prediction is Mr. K. F. McKean, Of Parry
Sound, district marine agent, who collects data re
water levels for the Federal Government, In a letter
to The Signal -Star, Mr. McKean says that the water
level in Lake Huron will go to its unusual, low point
for the year in January or February,. •-
However, he further predicts that this low
iSoint in January or February of 1960 will not be
.quite as low as it was last year. "The indication is
'that the cycle of low water is past and that a gradual
increase in the level of the lake may be expected for
next few years," writes Mr. McKean.
Lake Huron reached a low point in February
of this year, but this low point is not as low as what
has been recorded in previous years, according to
Mr. McKean. Lake Huron has been almost two feet
lower in past history, with the low recorded in
February of 1926. During the month of July the
'average level recorded was slightly lower than that
or the month of June this year.
—Goderich Signal -Star
We ought to learn
There are five things in life which we ought
to learn. Here they are:
1. Learn how to laugh. A good laugh is bet-
ter than medicine. When you smile or laugh. your
brain for a Moment is freed from the load it ordin-
arily carries.
2. Learn to tell a helpful story. A well -told
story is as welcome as a sunbeam in a sick -room.
3. Ldrrt to keep yofir problems to yourself.
:'•The world is to busy to linger over your ills and
gotrows.
4. Learn to stop complaining. 11 you cannot
see any good in this world, keep the bad to your-
self.
3. Learn to greet your friends With a smile.
'They carry too many frowns in their own hearts to
be bothered with any of yours.
—Anonymous
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Sugar
AND
Spice
Dispensed By BILL SMILAY
How about a spot of beak re-
viewing this "eek, for a change?
Anyone who doesn't read books,
and there are plenty of them,
inight as well turn to the classi-
fied axle, because this won't in-
terest him. -
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Ieorilinate and uncontrollable
reading is ore of the several
major flaws in my character.
Print on paper is to me what
fermented or distilled liquid in
container is to an alcoholic.
Like the alliy, I prefer the
good stuff, if I can get it, but
If there's none araund, I'll take
whatever is available. Some-
times when I've reeled through
a reading binge, and there's no-
thing left in the house, and the
booksellers are closed. I wind
up gulping feverishly front such
fate as the Ladies' Home Jour-
nal, a Superman comic, or .one
of the kids' Think and Do books.
-rye even been reduced, at the
end of such a lost weekend, to
reading in French and English
the literature on the breakfast
cereal boxes.
I have no idea how many
books 1 read in a year. There's
no way of keeping, track of
them. I deliberately read four
or five' at a time, keeping them
in different -places in the house,
in order. to confuse mr wife, who
abhors my addiction.. r read,
crunched over the back of the
toilet, tt,hfle I'm rubbing the
lather into my lace for .a shaye,
Frequently. when 1 have fin-
ished writing this column, about
2 a.m., 111 sneale into the living'
room, pull a brand ,new paper-
back from under the piano, and
guzzle it before going to bed.
This. pro•duced sympathy the.
first couple of times 1 tottered
down, red.eyed and careworn,
to go to work in the morning.
But she caught me at it one 4
a. M .
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Anyway, I've swilled my way
through a few interesting books
lately and thought I'd mention
them. Don't expect scholarly
review, with plot outline, tree.
ing of symbolism, literary ante-
cedents and al] that jazz. I leave
it for the pipe -smoking profes-
sors, and the earnest English
students.
I've been nipping at cote of
the books between paragraphs
-of this effort. It's written by
Harry Golden, of whom I have
never heard, and is called Only
In America. Golden is a Jew
ieto lives in the deep South And
puts out a newspaper in which
there is nothing but editorials.
•His book is a collection , of
short pieces, pithy, shrewd,
• witty, learned and very human.
Highly recommended as a bed-
side companion, if you can't do
better than a book,
I've just finished Lolita. the
book which has had suck an in.
fla.mmatory effect on would-be
censors, scaredy-cat publishers
.orld , timid head librarians. No,
‚you can't borrow my copy. It
is a brilliant, bawdy book, haunt.
ing, and hilatiOus. Some of it is
as funny as anything I've read,
eolith as tragi. The morons
n'coe't understand if, and the
• teenagers won't have the. •pa-
tience to sort it out, so I don't
know %these morals it threatens.
Another is Dr„, .Zhivago, by Be.
ris Pasternak. It won a Nobel
prize, which Russia wouldn't
collect, and I don't blame them.
It's a devastating picture of
Russia from 1900 to about 1950.
A fine, poetic work, if ;tem can
stomach the interminable Rue-
sian surnames. nicknames, given
names and pet names.
And there is Watch That Ends
the Nig,ht, by Montreal novelist
Hugh MacLennan. This is a re.
volutionary approach to the mo.
darn novel in that it tells a
story, Its language is apparently
simple, hut what it says is sen.
sitive, wise and strong. One of
Canada's best, MacLennan has
a control and maturity few wri.
ters of fiction on this continent
can boast. This book alone is
ample proof that CanAda produ.
ces more than hockey players,
maple syrup and rye whiskey.
There you are: four book $ as
different as could be, And if
I've interrupted you. just when
the Mickey Spillane hero was
about to kick the lady in the
groin. 1 hope you'll pardon the
intrusion.
News Of Your
LIBRARY
• 11"y MRS. JMS
Two cook .booke on loan from
the Huron County Library should
prove very interesting.
The Carnotite Beek
of Low Calorie tacking
This book is packed with more
than 600 low -calorie recipes and
is the answer to every dieter's
question: "How can I prepare
meals that are attractive and
satisfying—but not fattening?"
indispensable to the reducer,
invaluable to the housewife con-
cerned with the health of her
family and vital for the diabetic
this complete book of low calorie
cooking shows you how to look
younger and slimmer, feel het -
ter than you have for years and
stay that way for the ret of
your life,
All.M.one Oven •Meals
This book telle all about the
easiest meals any woman can
prepare With timesaving, work -
saving and neoney-seving re-
cipes.
All depends on, the selection of
foods that require similar tem•
peratures. Menus are planned
for putting into hot or cold
ovens; for breakfasts, luncheons
and dinners; for cold weather
comfort or hot weather freedom;
for busy mothers or career.
homemakers and for any type
of range.
Both of these books will be in
your library for the next three
months.
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Another book in your library
is typically Canadian.
1 Would De II Again
Robert Campbell, the author
ef this book, reminisces of hie
early days in the Rockies and
on the Prairies. Every sentence
speaks of his love for Canada.
Ontario born (near Barrie) 813
veers ago. Mr. Campbell went
to Saskatchewan and taught for
Jottings By J.M.S.
Kids pestered o ; f.
cm s
togain entry Into fair
The summer is 61ippi3ng away he .gramlaand in those days
:and with the passing of summer' %veil On the oppesite Nide of the
comes the gxeter Fall Fair and track to where it IlOW stands.
along about fall fair time I cele From our records of fifty years
brate a birthday. ago I have .picked at random
As much as I hate to admit it, seine of the prize winners.. D.
this year will be my I3rd and AVilliame, Vdbam Deeker, John
my mind goes back to the days Decker won prises with their
when we used .to slip thrcugh a horses. William Oke had the best
hole in •the fence on fair dav heavy draft mare. Harry Sraith
with a bunch of •other youngsters won twelve prizes with his Short -
around the gate until the gate- :horn cattle. He was a .consistent
keeper got mad at •u$ .or had winner at numerous felt's. T.
pity or us and told. us to go &rock and 1. Armstrong had
prize-winreng .Ter”Y
7110,n were the days When we Charles Harvey and George
were lucky to have. the price of .Penhale carried off the prizes
admission, .or if we did, we hated for sheep; D. Douglas and Sons.
to part with it because it meant for hogs; T. Brock, F, C. Prouty
there would be nothing left to and W. Coates had Prize.winnin$
spend once we • got inside, poultry.
Later in life and .for more than For fruit and vegetables there
fifty years it was part of my job were many entries. Among the
to report the winners in all af prize .winners for apple, 'pears,.
the classes. This we did by se- plunis, etc, were T. Brock, S.
curing the judge's beak in which Jewell, T. Carling and Alex Me -
only numbers were placed, These Pherson. For .vegetables, among
numbers referred to the exhihi- the winners were T. Brock, Geo.
tors and from a master het we Anderson, Robt. Sanders.
learned the names of the win. Mrs.. F. J. Wickwire and Mrs.
ners. The same style- of book is J. White won prizes for their
used today s was used many paintings.
years ago. Among the merchants who die -
There. here been only three played their goods was G. Man-
aepretaries in the last fifty son, boots and shoes; W. J. Beer.
years. The first was A. G. Dyer; harness; S. Martin & Son, sew -
then R. G. Seldon, :who held the ing machines and organs:* Rowe
position for More then 30 years & Atkinson, furniture; W, W,
and the present secretary. Clark Taman a n d Southeott Bros,
shgents' furnishings.
Fisher,
erfair has been held on the Robert Xydel exhibited the best
same grounds as long a$ I can butter.
remember, The indoor exhibits Floral exhibits were made by
were held in what Was called Mrs. A. McPherson, W. J. Hern
the Crystal 'Palace. It was the and J G. .StanburY.
original Anglican church in Exe- Winners for all kinds of ladies'
ter, When it finally disappeared work were Miss N. Tom, Mrs.
after the present arena was built Wickwire, Mrs. A. Hastings, Miss
and used for fair days, it was M. 13: rethour, Miss N. TaartiOtt,
in a most dilapidated conditien, Miss Brooks,
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10 YEARS AGO
Mr, and Mrs. Harry Hoffman,
Dashwood, will celebrate their
fiftieth wedding anniversary on
Tuesday, September 27.
After two years of preliminary
work, the campaign tO, provide a
new hospital to be known as
South Huron Hospital was
launched with $200,000. as the
objective,
Mr. J. A. Stewart, will cele-
brate his ninetieth birthday on
Sunday,
Mr,' and , Mrs, Orville Smith,
Parr Line, Hay Township, cele-
brated their silver wedding An-
niversary.
Mr. John Mallett of London
was• in Exeter on Fair Day and
played the kettle -drum. With the
Exeter band In the parade. It is
50 years since Jack was a mem•
ber of the Exeter band but he
has missed very few Fair dayS.
Mr. Albert Mitchell returned
to Exeter After enjoying a trip
to Vancouver, traveling by bus
both ways.
15 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. John Hunter of
town will celebrate their sixty-
fifth wedding anniversary an
Sunday. September 19.
A ,public meetitig to consider
a sewerage system as a post-
war measure for Exeter was
held in the Town Hall Thursday.
A motion was passed that coune
cit. Make a survey and secure
the maps of water mains and
drains as theti are no maps
available at preterit.
Messrs, H.. C. Rivers and W.
H. Pollen were. winners of the.
Morgan trophy at the Scotch
Doubles tournament at Ailsa
Craig.
several years in Prairie school
before going .to Banff. There he
became a guide taking pack
trains of tourists into the Rock.
tes/ In .1912 he was elected to
the Alberta Legislature, served
overseas during the First World
War after which he ranched and
guided in the Peace River
country.
He tells how the site was
chosen for the CPB,'s big hotel
at 13anff; hew Lake Louise got
its name; how a little • girl was
rescued unhurt from the den of
a grizzly bear, and the storm of
1896 which dumped seven feet
of snow on Banff. It is a valu-
able record of early days when
this Rockies were just beginning
to attract attention as a tourist
centre for the world.
The gxeter Co-operative Co.
Limited, recently Incorporated,
have rented the ground floor of
McKnight's Hall, Mr. W. C. .F.
Oestricher is the president.
Glen McTavish, who is over.
seas with the RCAF, has been
promoted to Flying Officer.
Mr, and Mrs, Nelson Statton
of town have received word that
their son, Gib, with the Canad•
ran Navy, has been. transferred
from the minesweeper "Kings-
ville" to the cruiser "Uganda".
25 YEARS AGO •
Mr,. Gordon D. Cudmore has
beep. appointed examiner of ap-
plicants for chauffeur and open
ators! licenses, commenting im.
mediately.
A bicycle belonging to Sydney
Wet was stolen. from in front of
the. Times -Advocate °Mee Sat-
urday and was found in St.
Thomas on Friday.
Mr. Thomas Hatter of Exeter
north, Exeter's oldest resident,
passed his ninety-seventh mile.
stone on Wednesday,
Mr, Ray Creech left for Lon-
don on Mohday where he will
attend Normal School for the
coming year.
Members of James Street choir
held. a wether roast at the home
of Mr. And Mrs, W, Quinn. on
Friday evening.
Several lads have gained pro-
vinee.wide notoriety through a
branding episode at the river
near the old swimming hole. The
tads branded each other with a•
hot iron used for toasting marsh-
mallows.
30 YEARS AGO
The residence of Mr. Will
Johns, Elimville, isnearly tom.
pleted. The carpenter. Mr.
Sonterville, has finished all the
[Medi work.
Mr. Paul Madge and son of
the Thames Road left Friday
with a large shipment of Lin.
coin sheep far Reno, Nevada.
Mrs. Saxon Fitton gave an at*
home in honor of her guest Mrs,
D. .A. Anderson. of Winnipeg, on
Thursday afternoon.
Loftus Hern, Ed Westhoff, J.
M. and It 0, Sou repre.
senting the Exeter YMCA, went
to London and took part in the
athletic events of the exhibition.
The Exeter council will on
Friday evening oPen tenders for
the construction of the new dam,
Miss Maty Hepburn, formerly
with the T. Eaton. Co., Termite,
has been engaged with Janes gr.
Clark in the Millinery depAtt-
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What's in .the bag? A loaf of bread — broken up to last
longer. Father is the photographer — with mother and baby
brother well back behind hitn, For this is a highlight of a
"camping out" holiday, so carefully plannedn4t expendi-
tures didn't exceed the sum of money set agide for it.
The budget of the Minister of Northern Affairs a.nd Na
tional ResOurces at Ottawa, covers a number of departmental
branches. Among these are National Parks, 'Water Re*
sources, Forestry, and Northern Administration and Lands, '
His expenditures involve millions of dollars. .
Money for all deparinients of government coinea through
the Minister of Finance who. gets it largely in, 'taxes froin
Canadians such as you. When more money is spent than is
collected in taxes, government must borrow from you
or else create new 1noney. The creation of new money is
one factor that leads to inflation , which means your
dollar buys less and less.
The government has been spending more •than you have
been paying in taxes. To narrow the gap between income
and expenditures, new taxes have been imposed.
The next step should be to reduce expenditures, or at •
least liold the line. Undertaking new commitments — adding I
new welfare or other services — will only make it that Much
more difficult to. pay our way. Tell your M.P. at bttai"a that
Since you are trying to save, you expect goveninvnt to do ,
the seine,
You also help when you save More by meant of life in.
suranot, savings deposits, and the purchase of government
bonds, 'Your Savinga help to create a SOUND dollat; and
this, M turn, 1100 to create job security for you and More
jabs for other Canadians,
A SOUND DOLLAR 'MEANS
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