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right to express en epinien in
,peblic ,eentributas to the pro-
grass of the notion end that .it
must be exercised freely to pre.
serve em improve democratic
gevarnmant,
• Lives at stake
"Driver Had Been Drinking," These four
words ;account for thousands of automobile accidents
every year. Although the public is unaware of it,
the "had -been -drinking" driver is involved in More
than half of e1i our traffic deaths today,
The greatest highway menace, says the Read-
er's Digest, is not the reeling, babbling drunk, but
the typical social drinker of acceptable status who
rarely, if ever, gets crocked. -
Individuals' not only differ in toleranceto
liquor but the same person varies from time to time.
The typical drinker will approach a .blood alcohol
level of .05 percent on two ounces of whiskey or
twa bottles of beer and will retain this concentra-
tion for at least an hour,
If he takes a minimum of four more ounces
of whiskey or bottles of beer over the duration of
the usual social gathering of two or three hours,
be will probably reach the .15 percent level of legal
intoxication. Even if. he now stops drinking, his
driving may be impaired for another six to ten hours,
because the average adult's blood alcohollevel de-
creases by only .015 percent per hour after the final
drink. •
Tests have proven that drivers with even the
low blood alcohollevel of .05 percent have difficulty
in deciding what to do in emergencies requiring
judgment, Though their manual reaction time may
be fairly good, they take much too long to decide
what to do and adopt a "so what" attitude.
. One simple key to accident prevention for the
social drinker is the one -ounce -per -hour formula. It
goes ,yvithout saying that any motorist should be a
teetotaler while on the road. If motorists ,onthis
continent would say, "No thanks, I'm driving," when
offered a drink, many lives would be saved. Such
Sensible control offers far greater hope than intens-
ified enforcement, or severe punishment after the
tragedy.
Woodlof selling
By J. K. REYNOLDS
District Forester, Aylmer
With cooler weather approaching more activ-
ity takes place in the Southern Ontario woodlots.
We noted recently in a leading daily paper. in South-
western Ontario four different advertisements • of
buyers wishing to acquire timber.
Already this fall the Department of Lands
And Forests, in Aylmer, have been asked to advise
where a major. dispute arose between the buyer and
woodlot owner regarding settlement of sale. In this
case,pas in most disputes, the advice was asked for
too late. The owner had little .knowledge of grading
or measuring logs andno written contract existed
between buyer and seller.
Where a woodlot..ownerregularly sells a few
logs to a local mill or buyer in the community, he
usually receives just compensation for his material.
When a woodlot owner who has nbt sold ,logs recent-
ly and has considerable material for sale, he would
be well to seek advice from a neighbour who knows
something about Marketing logs or from the Zone
Forester for the area.
In. Southwestern Ontario there are zone forest-
ers at Aylmer, St. Williams, Stratford, Hespeler and
.Owen Sound to provide this service.
Valuable service
An important service in the publishing bust•
reds is about to beginanother. season. This service
is one which the general public knows little about
but it is also one that operates solely in the interest
of that public This is the Audit Bureau of. Circula-
tions—represented by the "ABC" which appears on
the Times -Advocate masthead each week.
Readers may wonder just how the "ABC"
contributes to their interest. This becomes readily
understandable with the explanation that member. -
ship in the "ABC" is open only to those publications
whishcan qualify under the highest standards of
circulhtion value. Therefore the bureau becomes a
constant guardian of free enterprise. It is custodian
of the standards upon which print media advertising
values are reported and measured. It is the "bureau
of standards" for the .relations between buyers and
getters of advertising. space. •
Accurate circulation Inforntationwhich care-
fully reports circulation fluctuations and provides de-
tailed circulation trends, allows the publisher to
evaluate editorial policies. Thus, he has an effective
yardstick with which to measure editorial vitality,
the end product of which is a better publication.
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Dispensed by SILL SMILEY
It seems to me that about this
time .last year, I wrote a tender,
lyrical column, practically an
ode, about September. The gol-
den, lingering days; the cool,
haunting evenings; the farewell
fling at the trout,; the last, crisp
game of golf; old Mother Nature
lying, voluptuous, amid the fruits
of her ,labour. Yes, September
is the most delightful month of
the year, 1 burbled.
Well, I take it all back. You
can take September, and if the
ladies will leave the room for
a moment, I'll tell you exactly
what you can do with it.
This September has scarred
me for life, and has also clip-
ped a few years from my alot-
ted sphn of same. What happen-
ed? I got caught with my pipes
down. -
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On September 9th, it was 90
degrees in our upstairs, and we
all lay aroundon our beds,
naked as newts, gasping and
calling for water. On September
14th, it was 44 in our upstairs.
The kids lay moaning with. cold
under heaps of blankets. Down-
stairs Playboy howled with chill.
And in our bed, the Old 'Lady
and I, swaddled in flannelette
pyjamas, clutched each other, a
hot water bottle, and the hope
that a miracle would happen and
the heat wave would be back
in the morning. .
September is an irresponsible,
treacherous harlot of a month,
with a big, phoney, warm smile
that hides a heart of solid cold.
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Oh, it isn't as though I didn't
realize that fall and the cool
weather were on the way. Sun-
days, as 1 lay on the. lawn,
several times my mind had
drifted around to the backyard,
where my furnace pipes lay,
soaking up the sun. I'd even
contacted the repair man to
come and take on that dragon
in my cellar, that emits sparks
and. roars when approached. My
stoker, that is.
I had even, while fighting the
heat wave with a refreshing
drink, said to myself firmly:
"Must get at the cellar and get
last winter's 'ashes out so I can
get the coal in early this year.
Don't want the coal truck driv-
ing over the lawn when it's all
soft from those fall. rains. Bet-
ter *et that broken window in
the Jivingroom fixed, too. Things
are going to be different this
year."
So you see, it isn't as though
I wasn't fairly well prepared.
But I didn't expect my old.
sweetheart, September, to put
me over a barrel, pull the rug
fromtinder my .feet, lower the
boom on nie, and stab me in
the back, ,all in one fell swoop.
kitchen air like cigar smoke,
"are we going to stay in until
then?" We have two hotels in
town so I was in a quandry, Not
to mention a pickle.
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I did everything in my power
to cheer up that old gang of
mine. Songs, witty sayings, fun-
ny .faces, Philosophy, like "you
should he glad you don't have
to suffer like this all. the time,
like the folks in Russia." 1 rush-
ed out and borrowed two electric
heaters. 1 turned on all burners
and the oven in the electric
stove. I even turned on all the
lights in the house.
It was hopeless. They justsat
there, hands tucked in their arm-
pits, looking like three penguins
and a seal pup sitting on an ice
floe, 1 went to work with my
tail between niy legs and the
bats of. panic in my belfry. It
was worse at lunch hour. While
1 bustled around, getting hot
soup, the kids rubbed their
hands together and told about
how warm it had been in school,
and my wife dragged from me
the confession that we had a
fire on at the office.
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I won't go into all the sordid.
details: how I pleaded with
how
people .to put up my pies • p ,
I begged the harassed coal mer-
chant to get me a couple of bags
down to the house; how I rigged
up a makeshift to get the fur-
nace going. It's all too humili-
ating.
That's why, if you ever hear
me singing any paeans of praise
to September, ever again, I
want you. to push me, gently but
firmly, in .front of a . speeding
hot -rod.
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News Of Your
LIBRARY.
By MRS. JMS
A book which should be in-
valuable to all pet lovers is:
Pett
This is a complete handbook
on the care, understanding and
appreciation. of all kinds of ani-
mal. pets. The table of contents
and the index show where to
find information about a par.
ticular kind of pet you have or
would like to have.
A pupil of Grade 7 in the. Exe-
ter Public School inquired about
a book on !hamsters a4, your li-
brary the other day. The li-
brarian toldher they did not
have such a hook but since tihen,
this book was loaned, front the
Huron County Librray and con-
tains several pages on hamsters,
and the girl was quite pleased
to learn more about her pet.
This book will be in your li-
brary for three months.
Ceramics
I thought the O]d. Girl. was Another book from the County
Library is on the popular hobby
of ceramics whioh the author
aays is the "perfect hobby -craft
for everyone,"
The text, supplementedby the
author's many drawing's and
photographs, outlines each step
—from preparing the clay and
making hand -built pottery and
ceramic sculpture 4;o using the
potter's wheel, firing, decorating
and glazing and making ceramic
jewelry,
This is a book for beginners,
going to commit either suicide
or murder, that first morning
after the mercury had taken its
swan dive. I explained to her
that everything was practically
ready to. turn on the heat, that
all 1 .had to do was get the pipes
cleaned and put up, get the mae.
to fix the furnace, and get the
tellAr cleaned up and the coal
in, and we'd be in business.
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"Which hotel", she enquired,
her breath wreathing into the
Jottings By J.M.S,
Township expenses.
treble since 1938
I have been looking over the
treasurer's report for the Town-
ship of Stephen for the year
.1938 and comparing it with the
report of 1958 and nate a con-
siderable difference in the fi-
nances over the 20 -year period.
Chester 111aWhinney, present
deputy -reeve of Exeter, was the
reeve of Stephen in 1938. Other
officers were: Deputy -reeve Ed-
ward Lamport. Councillors Roy
Itatz, Edmund Shapton and
Thomas Love. H. K. Either was
the clerk and treasurer; .asses.
sot•, William :Kleinstiver; tax col-
lector, F. W. Morlock; 11.441 of-
ficer, Dr. C. C. Misener; road
sup`t., George E. Either; weed
inspector, Edward Willert; milk
inspector, Ernest G.ettinger; aud-
itors, Lloyd England, Daniel
Weber.
Police village trustees were:
Centralia, W. B. Willert, B. D.
Field; Crediton, Lawrence Wein,
Joseph Bullock, Emery Fahner;
Dashwood, Edward Nadiger, A.
Tiernan, Dr. Taylor; Grand
Bend, Owen Atkinson, Joseph
Brenner, Milton Webb.
Receipts and expenditures for
1938.were as follows;
Receipts: resident taxes, $44,-
506.44; arrears of taxes, 269.79;.
licenses, 2.00; loans, 8,300.00;
miscellaneous, 8,857.76; tile sold,
194.20; bank overdraft, 3,217.76;
Total $65,347.95,
Expenditures: salaries and al-
lowances, $1,083.35; stationery
and printing, 303.40; highway ex-
penditures, 7,646.63; relief, 360.-
47; charity, 116.20; hospitaliza-
tion, 224.30; county rates, 14,-
212.21; school purposes, 14,503.27;
interest, 158.05; Board of Health,
305,00; loans repaid, 12,207.09;
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50 YEARS AGO
The display of butter was ex-
cellent at the Fall Fair as was
the display of bread. In the lat-
ter the judges had to nibble
quite a few times before arriv-
ing at a decision.
There was considerable dif-
ficulty encountered in getting
things in shape owing to a new
r
order of making the entries by
number instead of naming the
articles.
Mr, Joseph Lawson has been
awarded the contract for the
building of the 'lam and is .now
getting the material on the
ground.
Mr, .John Wood left Tuesday
:for Listowel and other places to
act as judge of cattle and sheep
at the fairs.
Mr. Ezra Oestricher has re-
signed as stenographer with W.
H. Levett to accept a similar
position in Berlin,
The local option campaign has
started in Exeter in earnest.
The petition asking the council
to submit a.. bylaw has been
circulated and received enough
signatures prescribed by law.
25 YEARS AGO
A demonstration. ,of Ohrysler
and Plymouth cars was given.
by Stewar•4, Bros. at the Huron
Garage on Tuesday afternoon.
The cement foundation is in
for the new residence to be
erected by Mr. E. L. Gibson in
connection with his service sta-
tion in Exeter North.
At. Caven.:P'.resbyterian church
there will. be a chair shower on
Friday evening to provide kinder-
garten- chairs for the Primary
class.
and is intended as a guide for
those who would like to get start-
ed in ceramics.
Water, Water, Everywhere
Emily Kimbrough began writ-
ing books when she and Oornelia
Oits Skinner collaborated on
"Our. Hearts were Young and
Gay." Since then she has written
a :number of volumes about her
experiences and adventures.
In Water, Water, Everywhere
she tells of her travels to Athens,
around the Greek mainland to
the .Aegean Islands, to Yugo-
slavia, to Paris and London with
an unusual voyage on the
Thames.
This is one of the liveliest
and most varied of her books,
Browse in your library for
pleasure and for profit,
debentures paid, 7,020.45; miscel-
laneous, 7,207.53; Total $65.,347.-
95.
For ths. year 1950
Receipts: tax arrears (1954.)
210.25; , arrears (1955) 4,696.74;
arrears (1956) 4,011.08; arrears
(1957) 4,325.27; penalties and ]n•
terest in 1958 1,060.44; interest on
bond 37,50; bank loans 40,000;
Provincial subsidies 35,372.46;
drain accounts 14,560.22;. gravel
and grading 116.55;' licenses
210.00; fox bounty 83.00; federal
grant, airport, 12,328.00; Total
$115,011.51.
Expenditures: salaries 2.700.00;
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postage, printing ntrng ani stationery
860.44; debenture and interest
1,796.96; interest 592.72; direct
relief 254.00; hospitalization
1,123.45; charity 5.85; public
school. rates 37,438,42; separate
school rates 2,739.05; county rate.
63,172.79; South. Huron District
High School 24,627.40; Hay Town-
ship telephone rates 8,897.41;
fox bounty 82.00; insurance and
bond premium 136.12; police vii -
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!agesotal $210, 6,444.03;132.49. drains 59,261.85;
Assets in 1938 amounted to
$7,857.12; permanent assets were
$3town hall, 2,500; graders 675.00;
tile yard property 100.00; Total.
,275.00.
Assets in 1958 were; taxes re-
ceivable $186,756,93; culverts in
shed 2,000.00; road subsidy 9,500;
total $198,256,94; Permanent as-
sets, community centre $24,000.00;
grader shed 8,000.00; power
maintainers, sno,},plows 20,000.00;
tractor and power mower 500.00;
truck and snowplow 3,000; office
building 1,001.00; total 856,500.00.
Road expenditures in 1938 were
$6.397.19; in 1958 $46,132.99.
As the
„TIMES"
Go By
Miss Margaret Taman and
Miss Helen Penhale resumed
their studies at the University
of Western Ontario. Among the
new students are: Grafton Coch-
rane, Jeanette Taman and. Rowe
:Dinney of town and Alvin Bell of
Hensall.
The young ladies of Caven
Presbyterian church organized
into an Auxiliary of the WMS.
it was named "The Margaret
Strang Auxiliary" in honor of
the missionary from Caven in
the Peace River District.
15 YEARS AGO
The Crediton. Hotel which for
years was owned and operated
by the late August Hill and
more recently by Edward Fah-
ner has been sold and the work
of tearing it down wilt start this
week.
Miss Shirley Penhale, who has
been employed, with Mr. Joseph
Senior, photographer has taken
over his studio.
Mrs. Patton, the former Mary
Kirk, lost her wrist watch while
working at Canadian Canners
but it turned up later while the
corn husks were being unloaded
on the farm of Stanley Coward
in Usborne.
Mr, Rollie Williams has taken
over the Massey -Harris agency
in Exeter.
Highlighting the Exeter Fair
was the Perth -Huron Shorthorn
chow with 196 entries from the
best Shorthorn herds in these
two counties.
, 10 YEARS AGO
A car belonging to Harry Ford,
Usborne was stolen from the
Ward Fritz parking lot in Exeter
and was later found in Hay
Swamp five miles west of Exe-
ter stripped of practically all
accessories and burned.
The E.lim.ville Women's Insti-
tute chartered a bus on Tuesday
and toured places of interest in
London.
Lawrence Wein and Miss Mar-
garet Dougall of Exeter attended
a choral clinic for music edu-
cators at Knollwood Park School,
London on Saturday.
Plans are being made for the
organization of a Home and
School club in Exeter.
Mr. and Mrs, Leonard Harris
will celebrate their twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary on October
1.
1)r, H. 1•f, and Mrs. Cowen,
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Sturgis and
E. D, Howey were at. Listowel
Friday evening attending the
opening ceremonies of the new
Listowel High School,
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