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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-04-13, Page 4. The Times -Advocate, April 13, 1961 itoriais Practical moves This newspaper beliey+es the right to express, an ,opinion to pubjk contributes to the progress of the nation and that it must be exer,. creed freely and witheet preiudtce to preserve Anel .improve; demo- sratic, government, Huron Farmers' Union must be commended forits efforts to provide more practical training facilities for the young people of the county. The unions brief to the Ontario minister of Agriculture shows that only .a .small percentage in Huron are taking full advantage of the curs- r'jeulunr offered at our high schools. Using county figures, it also substantiates national statistics whic11 reveal that the highest percentage of un- employed are those with the least education. The union's concern, then, is that oppor tun. ity can be provided youth who are not academical- ly inclined to get the type of training which will help them qualify for employment when they leave school. Wisely, the union advocates no particular solution to the problem. There are a number of possible answers—a county trade school, or tech- nical school, or extensions to manual training courses at the existing schools. The union feels, and rightly so. that a thorough study of the situation should be under- taken before any project is endorsed. It has asked the provincial authorities to take a survey. It is now arranging a meeting of high school boards with department officials to discuss the situation. These are wise steps and they should be encouraged. High school board members should co-operate to assist in determining a solution which will give the greatest benefit to the largest aunt- ber. Unfortunately, some communities have al- ready undertaken campaigns to promote the erec- tion of a county school in their areas. This only clouds the issue and tends to promote friction and competition for local benefit. Let's stick to the real issue to find the proper solution. No smile at all The morning smile in Saturday's edition of Toronto's morning newspaper. The Globe and Mail, is entirely out of place in that journal. It quotes an advertisement in a weekly paper: 'Owner of tractor wishes to correspond with widow with modern thresher; object matri- mony. Send picture of machine." In any other newspaper, the quotation might pass as humor of sorts. But not in The Globe, which editorially has been, stern in its demands for greater efficiency in agriculture production, The Globe's editor probably believes this is a fictitious ad, composed by some wag to make fun of the farmer. We're inclined to think it was a serious appeal from a farmer who subscribes to The Globe. Stirred by the editor's criticism of in- efficiency on the farm, he feels guilty because he does not have a modern combine which. would permit hint to increase his grain acreage. He can- not afford to buy such a machine at today's high cost. In desperation, he conceives a plan to secure one without investing a great deal of capital, He knows that the cost -price squeeze has caused so much worry and forced so much more work on the farmer that many now die before their time, leaving their widows with expensive ma- chinery purchased in an effort to keep up to The Globe's standard of production. He reasons that matrimony is an ideal, even if novel, solution to his, and The Globe's problem. Why does he request a picture of the ma- chine, rather than one of the woman as The Globe might expect? It's quite simple really, One glance at the picture will tell him the model, make and relative condition of the machine to determine if it is a type which would serve him efficiently. A Su.ar nd Spice "Golly, Dad, are you ever old!" This was my son's com- ment when he learned the other day that I'd been born in 1020, just a couple of years after World War L You'd have thought it was immediately following the Gay Nineties, to hear his tone. There is only one comfort, the the years rush by. One's age values change convenient- ly. When you are 10, anybody. over 21 is middle-aged. By the time you are 15, you realize that people aren't middle-aged until they're 30 or more. When you are 25, middle age begins at 40. And when you are 40, you are serene in the know- ledge that you won't really be in middle age until you are about 55. * * This disparity in point of view is brought Monte to me with some force when I'm talking to teen-agers at school. One day we all saw a film on the history of flight. It con- tained some shots of aerial combat in World War I. Later, I remarked jokingly that I'd enjoyed seeing some of the old aircraft I'd flown thy- self in those days. They didn't get the joke. They really thought I'd been a World War I pilot. This would make me at least 60. I asked them sharply how old they thought I was. One particularly sweet girl in Grade 10 said; "'You don't look it, sir." That's why a lot of us World War II veterans, who keep thinking the war was just a few years ago, should pule our heads out of the sand. We inay feel that we're still practically gay young blades, but we should realize that a w h o l e new generation has grown up, to whom our war is as remote as the Crimean War was to us, at the same age. Just the same, it's :fun to look hack, About the sante day Zbe Exeter Tinte5abbocate 'Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 Published Each Thursday Morning At Stratford, Ont. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dep't', Ottawa AWARD$ Frank Howe Beattie Shield, best front page (don. Ada), 1957, A, V. Nolan Trophy, general excellence for news paperspublished in Ontario towns between 1,500 and 4,500 population, 1958, 1957, 1956; J, George Johnston Trophy, typo - graphite( excellence (Ontario), 1957; E. T. Stephenson Trophy, best front page (Ontario), 1956, 1955; All -Canada Insurance Federation national safety Award, 1953, Pahl-hi'Acfvance Circulation, Sept, 30, 1961 — 3,391 SUBSCRIPTIONRATESI' 'Canada .$4.00 Per' Year:; USA $5.00 Play safe Where do your children play? When your child bids you a cheery and rushed 'Bye 11foin -1'111 going out to plan'', do you ever take a minute to lassoo him on the way by and ask 'Where'''. Where children play can be Uracil; more important than what they play and the one doc- trine all parents should follow is to unrelentingly forbid streets as play areas. George G. Ham, child sa fety director of the. Ontario Safety League, says a recent trip through a residential area showed a park belt or play area completely devoid of lice --wit hthe .exception of three intelligent dogs --whereas the streets were filled to eurbacity with an assortment of trikes, bikes, wagons, doll car•'iages, toys, .hop-scotchers, rope skippers and even one curbside cutie obliv- iously creating delicacies from the spoils collected around a road drain. Mr. Ham wonders if in this particular case it would not have been safer to divert the auto traffic to the sidewalk. The Ontario Safety League advises that Nvlterever• there is a playground, encourage your children over six to go and play there, Under six, unless in company of an older child or adult use back or front yards and sidewalk, If you or the neighbours are worried about the grass lovingly tended and waxed into perfec- tion ask yourself which would be easier to grow again, grass or your child? Curb the driver "If you drink, don't drive" has become "al- most a sick joke—something to kid about at parties," because laws in Canada aren't nearly so tough as they ought to be about drinking drivers." That's the contention of reporter Dennis Braithwaite, who says in the current Maclean's that it's time two steps were taken to get the "danger- ously irresponsible tippler" off the road: making breathalyzer tests compulsory, and imposing a legal limit on the amount of alcohol a person may have in his blood and still drive. Support for both measures is growing in Canada, says Braithwaite, and though the breath- alyzer is sometimes opposed on grounds that it calls on an accused man to help.incriminate him- self, "there are plenty of precedents for it in other lands, and its constitutionality has been established here in Canada" through laws • passed in Saskat- chewan. "Highway safety is one of our major' prob- lems," he points out. "Vast sums are spent on law enforcement, improvement of roads, and an un- ceasing program of public education. Yet for some reason we are doing nothing to curb the drinking driver, who may be the biggest menace of all." Huron, with its disastrous record of fatal accidents in which drinking was involved, should support such changes, photo of the widow, he knows, could tell him little. because, being wiser than his city cousins, he rea- lizes that beauty is only skin deep. If the machine is right, he can quickly determine if the woman will suit him; on the other hand, picturesof women would only frustrate his search and distract him from his objective. It's obvious this item has appeared under the wrong heading in The Globe. Rather than ap- pearing as "Your Morning Smile", it should have been inserted in the "Personal" section on the classified page. dispensed by Bill Smiley my son was relegating me to the horsel.ess carriage era, my daughter, while prowling around for something to read, came across my old prisoner -of -war log hook. She went through it in one sitting. From time to time she ]ooked at me curious- ly, cocked an eyebrow, and read on. * * I'd forgotten what was in that log book. But I found out, Young Kim went to her mother with it and said, "Look at this, Mom." She was pointing at two pages of photographs of striking young ladies. I had them in my wallet when shot down, and pasted them in the book under the youthful, silly, but harmless heading 'My Comforters. Despite the fact that some of those girls are now doubtless on the verge of grandmother - hood, the Old Lady got sore, She gave the snapshots one long, searing look, gave me another, sneered "Oh, weren't you the charmers" and flounc• ed off to finish her washing. Kir, looked pleased, I decided to take a look through the old book myself; and spent a thoroughly enjoy- able hour, like an old maid with her faded ribbons and her dance programs. It took me from the dreariest of early April, from the morass of middle-class domesticity, back to a time when I was young and tough, completely irres- ponsible, and slightly wicked. There were the names. many of them forgotten, of the mot- ley crew in my barracks, ] wonder what Jennie de Wet of South Africa thinks of Canada these days? Is Nils Jorgenson back onhis railway job in Oslo? How does Don McGib- bon of. Bulawayo feel about the riots in his Rhodesian homeland? What's become of Tony Frombolo of Alameda, Cal.? Did Clancy Cleary ever get his dairy farm going in Australia? On which side of the Iron Curtain did Rostislav; Kanovsky, the Czech, land? * There were the crazy car- toons by "Chuck", the mad Ukrainian, spoofing the Ger- mans, - mans, "There were the old ,—Please turn to page 15 "Your bundle from healrei came t three packages''• " 01'11 put her right next to the refrigerator so you can keep a close watch on her." Radial for Grand Bend The popularity of Grand Bend as a summer resort goes back to the early history of the Huron Tract. When the first means of transportation was by horse and buggy one of the highlights of the early settlers was to spend at least one day of the summer at the lake- side, enjoy an outing on the lake in a rowboat or a swim in the cool waters.. 'l'he popularity of Grand Bend grew with the increase of pop-• ulation and in 1911 two radial companies had their eyes on. this popular resort. The following account is tak- en front a copy of the Exeter Times in March of that year: Londoners and others in West- ern Ontario who have experi- enced the difficulty in getting into Grand Bend, the popular summer resort on the shores of Lake Huron are following with interest the radial troves now going on, having as their ob- jective point a terminal on, the .lake. There are two propositions having Grand Bend as a ter- minal. One of these is D. A, Stewart's line which takes Lon- don to Sarnia as its stain course, but gontemp]ates a' branch off to the lake as well. The other is designed to run out of Stratford and passing through Exeter to a point on the lake, presumably Grand Bend. The Stewart radial rias a brighter` outlook since Sarnia town council recently declared that the rates for power quoted by the hydro electric commis- sion were too high and asked Mr, Stewart what figure he could quote in connection • with his radial, This was exactly along ,the line that. then pro- moter had planned, namely .to buy all his power from, the hydro -electric .commission and to 'sell it all along the right -off - way and at Sarnia, the ter- minal,. er minal, . . The second radial proposition Which included Grand Bend is taking shape at Stratford. The Stratford Railway Co, is to give 'a city service on condition that it enter into a contract with • some existing company • owning or operating a railway within the- province, to build within two years a road to the lake via Exeter. The Stratford Railway Co's. bill -hos not yet passed the leg- islature, but it has entered into JOTTINGS BY JMS contract with the St, Marys and Western Ontario Co„ which built the line between • St. Marys and :Embro, now under 99year lease to the CPR,The North ,Midland Railroad Co. of London, has also been approaching Stratford for its line via St. Marys and would like Stratford to guarantee its bonds to the extent of $100,000. No steps to that end have yet been taken. Both projects reached only the planning stage. Your library By MRS. JMS The Night They Burned • The Mountain This is the latest of the late Doctor Tom Dooley's stories of healing the sick in remote and primitive lands beyond the reach of modern medicine. After establishing a hospital in Laos in the village of Nam Tha, Dr, Dooley turned it over to the natives whom he had trained to carry on. He then returned to America to help in launching MEDICO, a non- profit organization which raises money to send doctors and —Please turn to page 5 The Reader Comments Clarifies issue For the past several weeks the area newspapers have been printing hews re road closing issue • in' Hensall. However one statement is always in error; that'is "Council passed by-law to close portion of York St. on request' of 'Lorne Hay and Harold Bonthron," I should like this error cor- rected because at no time has either Mr. Hay or Mr. Bonth- ron asked for the road to be closed, And the responsibility of the decision rested on Coun- cillors Baker, Lavender and myself.' Mrs. Minnie Noakes Hensall As the "Times" go by HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T -A FILES •50 YEARS AGO At the meeting of the Exeter School , Board the principal. asked for a pail and drinking cups for each room. Mr, D. W. Foss, who has carried on–the bakery business in I•Iensall for a long term of years, has sold out but will retain his ice cream and con- fectionery business., Mr. M. M. Doyle of McGil- livray has purchased the fine residence of Mr. T, E. Hand- ford and will move to Exeter shly, Dorti•, McGillicuddy "has pur- chased the fine residence of Mr. S. Rowe on Min. Street. Rev. W. C. and Mrs. Beer of London are visiting in Elim- ville. 111r. Beer was pastor of the Elimville circuit from 1872 to 1876 and during his pastor- ate the present church was built. 1lessrs. Harry Carling and Clarence Pickard returned to Brantford to resume their studies, 30 YEARS AGO Dr, G. S, Atkinson was elected president of the Exeter Branch of. the Canadian Legion lThursday, April 2. M. H. Pfaff xis seet'etary-treasurer. An old time wood hoe was held at the hone of Sidney Davis when 12 men with six saws made quick work of a large pile of wood, Next Thursday Huron Pres- byterial willmeet in Hensall United Church with Mrs, R, S, Longley oL: West China as speaker, Mr, Berman Hodgson, who has been taking a coarse at OAC, has returned to his home near Centralia for the summer, 1{urortclate 'Worn en's Institttte presented a program at Muton County Homo with Mrs. R. Kestle as president. At a meeting of Huron Pres- bytery in Kipper, Student nisi, aster Keith. Love, llillsgreen, Was passed for ordination, Whatever you want CointSr, ,sell or rent, 'NA Classtfiec'IS :will do it for Cott et little cost. phene 770. 15 YEARS AGO - A turkey dinner at the Lam- port Coffee Shop the Exeter Volunteer Fire Brigade honor- ed seven of their oldest mem- bers who have resigned, They are: Richard Davis, 48 years; Herb Ford, 40 years; Chief jack Norry, 36 years; Sidney Sanders, 36 years; Maurice Quance, 25 years; Walter Cun- ningham, 23 years, .and Louis Day, •18 years, • Mr. Norman Stanlake asked Exeter Council at its meeting for direction for drainage of proposed pasteurization plant to be erected on Thomas St, Mr. Glen Robinson has pur- chased Mr. J., Pollard's store in Centralia, Mr, William Glen has the basement in ;for his new res- taurant .at Grand Bend, :ROM whoserved with the RCNVR for several years and who has since been em- ployed at the Algoma Steel Mills, has returned.: to his hone in Usborne, Mr. Harold Whyte, who has been employed with the On- tario Hydro in Exeter since 1928, has been appointed super, intendent of the Lucan office. 10 YEARS AGO Three hundred were turned. away from lluron's Original Old .Time Fiddlers' Contest in tIensall on P'rtday night, Harry Dougall, Exeter, was elected president of Huron County Junior Partners at the Clinton Agricultural .rooms. Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Wash. Urn, Kirkton will celebrate their diamond wedding anni. Versarry at their home April 1. Work oil the new $150;000 mill for W. G. Thompson has begun, Mr, and Mrs, Fred I.Iuxtable have, moved into their new borne purchased from Ernest Iverson, Mr, and W . Itossclt: Duncan, 'Thames Road, 1iaVti moved into the hoose vacated by. the lluxtables, On Friday night, Ttev 'G, Luxton, laishop of Huron,. eon- fireted tho first ebtss of can- didates in the now Anglican Church et ,St, John% by.the. lake., 'Grand f'oritd, patimmJ1 nwioA1LWUlAlum I161U111AJ1IL10.41U61I,4111111AA1411U11.AIIJIUALtUA}MMM IIAIgA.141tIllLplllI NEW LOCATION The office of Dr..3 W. Corbett, DDS, is now located in the Devon Building, corner of Main. and Huron Streets, Exeter, ,Ir, J. Wa Corbett,. D• A1I11IA11II.IOIg111RPIMMIR11RAIMAIM1RP,IRP„IIMIIURIIRIIU li.Mil IP114PIUrI1111„IIIrri'1,i,,r Ii pressioi 5 Your printing makes animpression on each person it reaches , . either favorable or un- favorable. The next order of printing you plan, think of it in terms of "impression" rati.er than of price , , , how it will look to the man in his office when he opens his mail .. how it will stack up alongside of all the other pieces of mail thatcommand his attention. For better "impression", consult The Times - Advocate about your next printing order. BELL LINES by W. W. Haysom your telephone manager DON'T RUN -- REACH if you're like most busy folks in Exeter you've probably found that just keeping pace with day-to-day activities can be pretty taxing. And, like' most of us, you're trying to find ways of cutting down on the.wear and tear. When the lady of the home, for example, is preparing meals in the kitchen, she really has her hands full. She's generally doing a number of things at once including keeping one eye on the back burner and the other on the children. it's a rather bad time to have to leave the scene of operation to answer a phone in another room. A handy kitchen extension not only saves steps but permits her to keep an eye on• things while she makes or takes calls. And what about the bedroom? many a long run to the phone downstairs can be pre. vented by a bedroom extension. But more important for the housewife is the feeling of security that a bedside telephone provides, especially if she is ever alone at night. And then, of course, there's the added advantage of having a good place to go if you want to make calls in private. Remember, whether you choose the space saving Princess, the compact wall phone, or the stream• lined table set, there's a colour in each style to Marmon- ize with your decor. Why not call us at 124 today? We'll be glad to talk over extension telephones with you. Last month was ushered in with some of the worst sleet storms in years that hit parts of our territory and disrupted service to smite 48,000 customers, Work crews were rushed into service immediately following the' storm, working from dawn to dusk for days in an effort to repair damages as quickly as possible: Crews were sent from Ontario to help speed work in badly -hit Mont- real. Some 80 Bell men frotn Hamilton were sent to the Windsor area to assist in restoration work there. As wellas the hard-pressedline crews, our operators played° their roles, Switchboards hummed as many customers deprived of radio and TV turned to the operators to be informed on everything including the time, weather and the news. Many customers called just to be reassured and to talk to someone in •"the outside. world," Although our operators are not normally able to give this ser- vice, during the storm there was no other way for many people to keep in touch. Our girls made edery effort to answer er a ll estions. The majority of phones were re- stored within majorityn a week, but in some places where damage was more widespread it took longer. We are proud of our people who worked so hard to minimize the effects of the storm And we think • they deserve hearty con., gratulations, Looking for a movie for your club, employee or business group? Last year Bell films reached an audience of some 750,000 people with a wide va., riety of interests. A new cats. logue is now available listing 48 free movies that can i,e ob. tained from our company, Among our latest' films is the very popular Hollywood production ' "A Manner of Speaking". It's a humorous film about a high-pressured president of an advertising agency and his staff who get themselves in hof wafer by disregarding ,a few basic rules of telephone Usage. Also available are full -colour films from our TV science series such as "The Thread of Life," "The Alphabet Conspiracy" and "Our Mr; Sun." School groups will be interested to know that we have seven movies which tan be used as aids to science education. For further information give us a can, or drop in and see us;