The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-01-05, Page 2•
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The Times-AcIvocate lantory 1 1961
orials:
rilsborne school
ThameaRoad school section has. taken an in-
telligent anti responsible step in voting forconsider-
ation of a -central school in Usborne township. Not
only does this action indicate genuine interest in
better education for the children but it shows the
majority of the ratepayers are Prepared to make
some .sacrifice for such •an investMent.
This expression of opinion in Thames Road
ShOtild. be significant to the rest of the township for
this reason: if a central school is established, rate-
,. payers of Thames Road willpay A. greater increase
in taxes than will the rest .of the te.wnship..
It's important to understand the background
of this situation. Thames Road has remained outside
the township school area for what woold appear to
be good reason. The section currently is operating -
its school on a rate of 7.8 nulls, •compared to the
.area rate of 10 mills.
In the two ballots taken at the Thames Road
ineetinct,. the.ratepayers reaffirmed their decision to
stay out of the area under its present operation; if
the area decided to establish a central _school, bow'
ever, Thames Rqad ratepayers would be prepared to
join in the project.
For the Thames Road people, inspector 0.
. John Gornan presented estimates to show that the
e townshiparea board, with Thames Road included,
• could build and operate a central school on a levy
of 11 mills.,
For Thames -Road, this would mean an increase
•- of 3.2 mills; for the area, an increase of only one
Working this out on a $5.000 assesSment, the
• -increase would be $16 a year in the. Thames Road
•aection, $5,00 a year for the rest of the tOwnship.
If the majority of Thames Road ratepayers. are
prepared to pay this additional amount to secure the
• benefits of centralized education, the other ratepayers
•• in Usborne surely should consider the smaller invest-
ment they would be required to make.
This central school question will raise con-
•• -troversy in. Usborne as it has wherever else it has
been proposed. But this should not deter those pro-
pressive ratepayers who see it as a wise investment,
• Progress is never made without a fight; Usborne will
never get a central school until its advocates are
prepared to stand up for What they think is wise.
What .should be understood is that central
rural education is not radically new. Actually, many
- areas in Ontario are much farther advanced' in this
field than is this district.
And it is significant—most significant—that in
A. survey of 14 townships with centralized education.
facilities, all reported the quality of education has
- improved, none would goback to the old one -room
system if this was possible, •
No doubt the major objection in Usborne will
' be: "But our school buildings are in good shape. Why
should we discard them?" The over -simplified reply
• might be: "Why did you get rid of your horses on
• the farm? They were cheaper to operate, too."
The obvious answer, of course, is that the re -
tern justifies t e investment. T..pgr,tinent fact in
• 0,,
This newspaper abelieVele the tights to express . opiniort in public
contributes to the erearess of the nation and th Must •be eeer.
cised freely and:avithout pretedicti to Preserve lodi IMprante ateMee
erotic governMent,
gar and Spice
Wel, here we io into another
twelve months of that fascinat-
ing, irritating, horrible, beauti-
ful, tragic and joyous process
• known as living. I've seen forty
of these boxes of tricks and
treats opened, and I hope I see
forty more, And the same to
you,
* 1 don't remember much about
•'my first New Year's, in 1921.
. it was spent in a small village
in Quebec. I was staying with
parents at the time, as 1
• Was six months old. The Great
War had been over for more
• than two years. The post-war
• • boom Was still on, and my Dad
had bought his first car, a Chev
with side -curtains. He treated
that car, and every one after
It, like a particularly intract-
able horse, which would respond
• e y if you yelled hard enough
swore at it with enough
• foal,
, Ten , iajater, we stepped
• Ibito 1931 with elfe sentiments of
; A man about to jump into a bar -
• r1 of broken glass in his bare
-' eet. The Great Depression had
begun. Business was terrible.
The mortgage prowled, like a
•great beast, always there, state-
• ering, when my Dad looked over
• his shoulder. My parents held
• long', late -at -night conversations.
• • And to a small boy, lying half -
wake, -Uneaey, they had sinia,
. ter undertones.
The hunger of the beast would
net be denied, and in the end,
the mortgage swallowed: every-
• . thing for which my dad had,
worked so hard for more than
: • twenty years. What a prospect
that must have been! Fifty
years old, five children to Med
Pro ect for
Most' immediate and impel:tag' project for
this district in 1961 is the construction of the Park.
hill dam, •
We believe the Million dollar' dam will be
built, despite eorrent objections aye)the distribu-
tions of cost among the municipalities. t should be
possible to work out •a breakdown which will be ac.
ceptable to all,
The encouraging factor is that all municipal
officials, even those who disagree over the levy, en-
dorse the project. This support for conservation is
commendable. It indicates our municipal leaders
generally realize the responsibility of our generation
to protect the natural resources of our land for future
generations.
Tbe assurance of federal and provincial gov-
ernment aid toward the project provides an °ppm..
tunity which must not be missed. These senior goy-
ernments are prepared to pay three-quarters of the
cost of the dam. While the remainder is still a rela-
tively high amount for the district to raise, the
municipal governments would be foolish indeed to
jeopardize the project by failing to reach agreement
over their contributions toward the remaining 25
percent.
From a narrow view, the onus may appear to
he on the Ausable Authority to devise a breakdown
upon which agreement can be made, But, on the
broaeor outlook, the responsibility rests with the
municipalities themselves who form the authority, It
will be the leaders of these municipalities, not the
Authority, who will decide whether or not the dam
will be erected.
Certainly, each municipal official has the re-
sponsibility to see that costs are fairly distributed
and each is entitled to object if he sincerely feels
they are not. He is also entitled to know the basis on
which the costs are divided, in order to make his
judgment.
Those municipal officials, however, who would
handicap the project in order to make political capital
for themselves or oppose it for selfish ,or irrespons-
ihle reasons, would do the district a great injustice.
In this connection, the attitude of Reeve Earl
Dixon and his McGillivray council is noteworthy.
After studying the original proposal, McGillivray ac-
cepted its share without complaint, even though it
has one of the highest assessments. The McGillivray
officials obviously believe in the need for the dam
and are prepared to accept their responsibility toward
it.
Commendable, too, is the support given by
Many municipalities on the fringe areas. who will
receive little direct benefit. They have put general
welfare and progress ahead of selfAh gain.
These are the men who will build the dam.
Usborne is that the investment over the present cost
is not very great. What farmer can honestly say that
he objects to paying alittle more school tax to give
the children of the township a considerably better
• opportunity in education? .•...
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and clothe, and thousands of
younger men scrambling for
every job in sight.
dispensed by Bill Smiley
months later the word trickled
through that he was alive and a
prisoner.
* *
But the Great Depression had What did New Year's of 1951
bring? Nothing spectacular for
yours truly. The Cold War was
on, but the important things in
life were a wife, a small son,
and what turned out to be a
small daughter well on the way,
There was also a mortgage of
mountainous proportions to gnaw
at. We gnawed for the next dec-
ade, and chewed it down to a
hummock, losing a few teeth in
the process.
Suddenly, it's 1961. Both my
parents have died, slowly and
painfully, in the last ten years.
'But the process goes on, al.
ways changing, always exciting.
There's a new job, in new sur -
failed to reckon with my mother.
She was a bonny fighter. with
a' tough and cheerful spirit, In
the next decade she took on the
Great Depression and licked it
single handed. My dad' worked
at anything he could get. My
mother sold home baking, took
in boarders, and in the after-
noons, trudged the streets, sel-
ling a line of cosmetics to her
friends. Somehow, we staggered
through the depression, kept off
the relief rolls, and never mis-
sed a meal.
Remember New Year's of
1941? That wasn't exactly an
occasion - of great rejoicing,
either. The Germans had over-
run Europe. England and the
Commonwealth fought on, back
to the wall. My parents had
three sons, ripe and ready to
be pulled down by the dogs of
war. Three times, they were to
receive one of those dreaded te-
legrams.
The first read: "Critically in-
jured." But eldest brother
fought a hard fight, had a tre-
mendous constitution, and pulled
through with the loss of one eye.
The secofid read: "Missing in
action." But a cannon shell
missed youngest brother's head
by an inch, and after two days
drifting in a rubber dinghy off
the coast of France, he was
picked up by Air -Sea Rescue.
The third read: "Missing in ac-
tion!' But middle brother had
climbed safely out of a crash-
landing in 'Holland, and a few
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roundings. There is a boy
whose voice is changing to that,
of a man, and whose feet are
the same size as his father's.
There is a girl with auburn hair
and a cheeky face who topped
the honor roll in Grade 5, There
are new little cousins springing
up all over the country. There
is a brother just gone to 'Europe,
and another just coming back
from South America.
The hair is a little thinner.
the glasses a little thicker, and
the .clay after a New Year's
party something to be contem-
'plated with real horor, but
there's plenty of life in the old
boy yet, and I can hardly wait
to see what's going to happen
to the world. and to us, before
somebody hollers, "Happy New
'Year," and I realize that we're
About to totter into 1971,
At your library
We seem to have chosen
books of biography for our first
release in 1961.
Sing as we go
England's beloved variety star
Gracie -Fields tells, in this auto-
biography, of the grinding pov-
erty of her formative years, her
mother's determination that her
daughter should ("go up" in the
world and, at last, stardom
Along the way she met the great-
est names in show business hut
Grade always remained one of
the common people and put on
no airs,
• In her 'heyday police put out
the same traffic controls for
three people: the King and
Queen and Gracie Fields,
New she's rich woman of 60
a
living on the Italian island of
Capri.
Make it and strike it
In this provocative autobiogra-
phy the. talented Steve Allen
speaks of, by and for himself.
He reveals the real man behind
the piano -playing, song -writing
funnyman his audiences know
so well. His television variety
program won a 1959 awards as
comedy show of the year,
He writes frankly of his 'rise
to the top, of his early life, of
his failure at his first job, or
his ironic success as a disc joe-
kty and also relates anecdotes
of more recent and more pros-
perous days, He writes moving-
ly of -the contentment of his life
life with Jayne Meadows and
his four sons.
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"Tin glad you're borne. Orandroa,'s beert..eranlry.f.
The ringing of the bells
There was ,one thing we
missed on New Year's eve and
that was the pealing Of the bells
of the Trivia Memorial Church.
The ringing out Of the old year
and the bringing in of the new
for many years was a tradition
in Exeter.
True, we hear the chiming of
the bells each, Sunday morning
as they are played from a con -
ole by Harry Page, but the day
of the bell-ringers is a thing of
the past and 'the rhythm of the
bells that could be heard and
enjoyed for miles around lives
now only in the memory of those
whose privilege it was to listen
to theirsweet tones,
.The history of the bells dates
back to the year 1890, when they
were inaugurated on the first
Sunday in Advent. They were
the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Trivitt who donated the money
for the building of the church
and whose remains are interred
•
beneath it.
The chimes consist of ten
bells the largest of which is the
tenor bell, weighing 2,019
pounds on which is the following
inscription:
"When our rich tones you
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' Thoseear
noble names endear,
Who bought and placed us
here
Thomas and Elizabeth Tri -
The Ng
411: ; of the bells gra-
setit.
dually decreased to the smal-
lest which weighs 220 pounds.
The total weight of the hells ex-
clusive of the frames and at-
tachments is 7,419 pounds. The
caste:bf the•Aaells was 52,800.
The first bell-ringers in 1890
were Al Bowey, W. Follancl,
A. Q. Bobier, W. Slee and John
Moore. Changes from time to
time included Ttev. E. W. Hunt,
Louis Day, Charles Sanders, Jo-
seph Davis, Thomas Newton,
Dan Davis, Walter P'oole, Rob-
ert Dinney, Robert Richardson,
Alf Walters, Thomas Sanders,
L. E. Day Jr,, Harry Jennings,
Thomas Case. • •
It cost 250 to become a mem-
ber,a with 50 arateuttth extra to
provide a diviner Cie supper.
Each ringer was assessed 5e for
being 15 minutes late for prac-
tice and lee if be didn't appear,
sickness or fire/eXcepted. He
JUTTINGS BY JMS
was assessed 254 if inebriated
and unable to ring his bell.
Following the ringing of the
bells on New Year's eve there
was usually a celebration with
refreshments provided out of the
fines.
Of the bell ringers there are
only two surviving, Louis Day,
of town and Walter Poole, Lon-
don. Mr, Day informs me that
the bells have not been rung
since the old boys' reunion, .1935,
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The Reader
Comments
Thoughtfulness
To the editor;
Some time ago the caretaker
of the town hall, Samuel Grain-
ger, had to enter hospital. in
London, The Free Press paper
boys, who have use of the town
hall lobby to get papers ready
before starting on their routes,
missed "Sammy" as they affec-
tionately called him.
They asked if I would call a
meetine of the boys, as they
wanted' to send him something.
At the meeting, they collected a
nice sum and sent a lovely plant,
to Mr, Grainger,
Needless to say Sammy was
very pleased. 1 -Ie told me how
much he appreciated the
thoughtfulness in this action.
At this time, I wish to express
my own personal thanks to the
boys, not only for this action,
but alao fox ,the. fine ..jobi• they
do — getting our papers on our
door steps so early in the morn-
ing, regardless of the kind of
weather,
Thanks boys! Wishing you all
a Happy New Year.
Sincerely,
R. E, Pooley
ED. NOTE—To "A Secondary
High School Teacher".
We shall be happy to consider
your complaint, and to publish
your letter if you wish, if you
would kindly identify yourself.
The T -A does not print unsigned
letters.
Ls the "Times" go by
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T -A FILES
50 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hoclgert
celebrated their silver wedding
anniversary on December 29.
Neighbors, Mr. James Scott Sr.,
Mr. Thos Hawkins and Mr. Alex
Dow, and also Rev. Sharpe
Spoke briefly,
John W. Taylor was elected
reeve of Exeter at the elections
Jan. 2 with a majority of 36
votes over W. J. Heaman. Coun-
cillors elected are W. Rivers,
Wm, W. Walper, W. H. Levert
and, Louis Day.
Mr. N. Dyer Hurdon enter-
tained the bell ringers of Tri -
vitt, Memorial church to an oys-
ter supper just before ringing
the old year out and the New
Year in,
G. Ityckman of the Exeter
Apple Evaporator k in town
this week leasing orchards, He
prunes, sprays and cultivates,
He pays for the orchard, apples
Or ho apples.
Messrs: Frank Rooke, Chester
Harvey and Garvey Acheson
left TUesclay to ,attend business
college in London.
Mr, William Leavii is pre-
paring an open air rink on the
property he recently purchased
from Mr, .1. Gould,
25 YEARS AGO
• AinOng, the Christmas honors
announced by the Attorney Gen-
eral of Ontario on Saturday is
the appointment of Mr. J. G.
Slenbitry ot town to the rank of
King's Counsel.
A setae(' cantata entitled "The
Messiah's Coming" was ren-
dered by the members of jarnee
Street choir Wider the leader -
Ship of Mr; W. IL Goulding on
Sunday evening.
Mr, R N Ceeech, who for the
past 30 years has occupied the
neeition of Division Court Clerk,
is being retired, Mr. J. 11,
Grieve is the new appointee.
A trial was recently held between seven Johns brothers of
Usborne and thee Jelin Goodison
Thresher Company of Sarnia in
Whieh the abhil ought the re.
turd, of $656 wh',h they paid A s
duty MI Or. The judge
Ove 'his de in laver eft feet
;lett A re /
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15 YEARS AGO
A. 13. Seaman Harold Holtz-
man is this week in London re-
ceiving his discharge from the
na vy.
Miss Audrey Sims, a recite!,
graduate of St. Marys School of
Nursing, Kitchener, has been
esxuaccesssful in passing her RN
m
B. W. Tuckey was returned as
reeve of Exeter for the seventh
term.
This community has exper-
ienced a mild spell that beats
all records for this season of the
year, snow is gone, there is no
frost in the ground, Harold Tay-
lor of Usborne was ploughing
sod on Mondae,
'Mr. W. W, McBride, who has
purchased the coal business of•
W.
C. Allison, has moved to
Exeter,
Fred Huxtable, agent for the
International Harvester Co., is
this week moving into his new
building on Main Street.
10 YEARS AGO
William Lamport. of Hensall
RR 1 won the TV set at the
.INI,eegwi Year's
party at the new
Mr, and Mrs. George, Layton
and Me, W. G, Medcl are geitag
to London in alt apartment for
the winter menthe,
tilizena are circulating a pe-
tition to the effect, that kiver.
view Park should he maihtainecl
as a recreational area and.
ssieteuttlhicl lintoutenbented
eisspitaeite for
ts a s
Russell and George Tiemen,
DashWeed, have taken over the
botelter husines8 of their father,
Mr. Addison Tiernan.
The town of Exeter's first
baby Was born to Mr. and Wire.
Atidtete nieriing on Monday.
itaraidy 8. Ile 4 tamed Dennis
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M. henry
t1b�ine TOW118
died January 1
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