The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-06-08, Page 4Piga 4 The TtlrneAdvota!'ea June L, 17
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Rihhon growth
•This uewa aper beljey,e$e the Halo .ta ftxprea3 an orinlao In ;lwbfl
eentributes tp the ineegresa of that nation end thet it must int arena
cised freely and wrthevt Preiudiee to preserve. and Improve .demo •
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crane •t vernment,
• Each ;year. the ribbon of growth along No.
highway extends a little further beyond the
town's boundaries. To the south, it is getting to
be a serious situation since the growth has extend—
ed beyond the length of several blocks apparently
without any provision for streets running east of
.the highway.
This ribbon growth can be costly to the
.townships involved. as well as to the town of Ex-
eter which in many eases is .expected to provide
'services,
Exeter has little, if any, control over this
development. Only the townships have the author-
ity to take appropriate action.
While it seems like a minor problem at
the moment—and it is, we agree --the time to pre-
vent it from becoming a major one, is right .now.
.A• -council 10 years hence will have a tremendous
job trying to straighten it out; it's fairly simple
now.
It's to their credit that 'Usborne, Stephen
and Hay officials have been joining in discussions
on this problem and other planning problems which
are developing in a small way. We urge thein to
continue their considerations to the stage where
action can be taken,
Check the entrances
When you're travelling, as we were this
weekend, it's interesting to take an objective lock
at other Ontaric towns and to compare them to
your own, The general condition of the entrances
and main streets quite. clearly indicates not only
the individual citizen's but also the officialmuni-
cipal attitude toward the community's appearance.
It's surprising how much difference there is be-
tween towns when you look for it,
We're happy to report that, generally, Ex-
eter and area communities compare quite favor-
ably with the best in other parts of the province.
We needn't be complacent. however, because in a
few instances we're behind,
Unfortunately, there always seems to be
three or four eyesores which spoil one's impres-
sion as he enters a community. It may be a large
car wrecking lot beside the main highway, a poten-
tially pretty river beside which weeds and brambles
grow wildly, a deteriorating ball park with un-
painted bandstand and bleachers falling apart,
vacant and rundown buildings on the outskirts.
One reason for this, we presume, is because
municipal authorities tend to judge the appearance
of their towns from the general condition of the
built-up sections in the heart of the community.
This partial view overlooks the impression given
the traveller when he enters the community—a
lasting one which is hard .to dissipate. Efforts to
present an attractive and well -kept business section
are considerably lost when the initial impression
is a disappointing one.
Municipal authorities in all communities
should inspect their entrances objectively from
time to time and try to remove those eyesores
which detract from the overall appearance.
r and Spice
° What this country needs more
than anything, in these trying
times, is more conservatives.
Now, don't go all chalky and
trembly like that. I don't mean
Diefenbaker Conservatives, I
Mean good, old-fashioned con-
' servatives.
For the past couple of de-
cades, "conservative" has been
practically a dirty word. People
were as afraid of being con-
sidered conservative as they
are today of being considered
'conformist. Lying awake and
lonelyin the small hours last
night, I realized suddenly, with
a flash like a camera bulb,
that at heart I am a conserva-
tive. It was such a shock that
I sat bolt upright in bed.
This Woke my wife, who
lurched to her elbow, turned
on her bedside lamp and moan.
ed, "Whessat?" This, in turn,
disturbed my daughter, in the
next room. She yelped in her
sleep, rolled over abruptly,
And crushed the cat who sleeps
beside her. He squalled and
dug his claws into her. She
hollered, All this awoke Hugh,
who staggered out of bed and
Went to the bathroom.
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The sound of running water
was too much for the rest of
us, and there was a steady
procession to the place, which
wound up with me having to
go down and let the cat out.
Who's Macdonald?
Tuesday, June -6, was the seventieth anni-
versary of the death of the greatest Canadian,. As
seems to be the nature .of we people who live in
the. land he created, it was all but ignored.
Sir John A. Macdonald is truly the architect
and the builder of this nation. ---the veritable Cann
ail;lan "hero,'.. Yet how vm ignore bis m.eroryf
No small part of the blame for this rests
with the eloquent arch -royalists in this country ----
the people who, insist that Canada cannot have a
national flag, that we cannot enshrine And revere
our own heritage but must sublimate it to that Of
Great Britain's throne. We must have .a national
holiday to remember Queen'Victoria but we 'can-
not recognize Sir John A. in any fashion,
Canadians can be thankful that Sir John A.
Was :more nation -minded than his descendents, Re-
spectful and proud as he was of the British con-
nection, be stood firm on the "Manifest Destiny"
of Canada. But for him, Canada might well have
been divided into a number of separate nations
or become states of the republic to the south.
The birth and early development of Canada
is the story of Macdonald. He was its first prime
minister in 1867 and but for five years he remain-
ed, prime minister until his death in 1891, Jt was
his, political rival, Sir Wilfred Laurier, who paid
one of the greatest tributes to him when he •died:
"It may be said without any exaggeration
whatsoever that the life of Sir John A. Macdonald,
frons the day he entered parliament, is the history
of .Canada. He was connected and associated with
all of the events, all of the facts and all of the de-
velopments which brought Canada from the posi-
tion that Canada then. occupied . , . the position
of two small provinces having :nothing in common
but the cor1C1111.o.n allegiance and united by a bond
of paper but nothing else , .. to the present state-
of
tateof development which Canada has reached."'
When. will Canada. reach. the state of de-
v'elopment in which she can proudly proclaim her
nationhood and recognize those who crafted. it?
Spending spree?
It's a better -than -even chance that there
will be a very large increase in consumer spending
within the next few years, writes J. K. Edmonds in
The Financial Post,
It won't be just the addition of more cus-
tomers with the same old shopping list. The shop-
ping list will be longer and more varied. Andit
won't be the result of higher price tags on the
goods consumers buy, It will mean actual goods
and services sold.
What's definitely in store is a consumer-
dominated market. An important part of the re-
tailer's job will be feeding back to the factory and
farm information about rapidly changing consumer
tastes and preferences. The other major part of
the job will be making it easy for the customer to
buy—opening hours, cutting bottlenecks, offering
goods innew locations and through new outlets,
reducing financing costs.
's en? ,:?'ir IM.:''110.1 'i ?r'lF.in trsx4t ,
He wouldn't come back in and
twenty minutes later, standing
there shivering and calling
him and worrying a little be-
cause we're not sure it's a bo!'
cat and he might get pregnan
if he was out all night, I cor
signed the whole conservative
issue to the appropriate place
But this morning on sober
second thoughts, I realised
that I had truly seen the light,
that I was a died -in -the -wool
conservative. I experienced. a
vast wave of relief, as though
1 had just emerged from the
confessional. or had just been
awakened from one of those
dragging, nagging, not -quite -
terrifying bad dreams.
* * *
You've no idea what a re-
lease it was, to shuck off that
false -face of liberalism I've
been wearing all these years,
uncomfortably, 1 felt better
and better as the shabby, bor-
rowed layers of tolerance, res•
son and desire for chenge
peeled off one by one, and
left me an honest, naked, in.
tolerant, illogical, prejudiced,
small•c cohservative,
"Oh boy'." T chortled. "No
more having to get sore at
anti-Semites. No more having
to he nice to Irishmen or
Armenians or Negroes, unless
1 like them. No more having
to be tolerant of half -}laked
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tending thatwomen are as
smart as men."
It's wonderfu- 'refreshing to
ee able to loo' life through
our own shar 11 ejudices aril
motions for s,, . hange, after
ears of gazine it murkil'
hr o 'u g h thr tetuunb printeeR
hick leases Ice 'ed by small -1
,lberalism.
No longer, for example, mu:
1 put up the slightest architer
ture. Now1 cansaywhat I
e e
think: that new churches loot
like either tents or silos; tha'
'lou can't tell a new sibs'
from a naw factory; that the
new split-level homes, with pic-
ture window above and garage
yawning below, resemble ane-
-- Please turn to page 5
y Ibe1, R1Mrlh*an* eia+trikkte• ixc, tt'adQ tib amaco&..,e-^,,,
ant do you good to forget busters for a couple
of hours!"
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Kier 'oda rteNta t'"v6aF
a'i'm the dope who 3MrOd116 d them ;tat years'
"Come quick, Harry! Take a look at this gorgeous.
stewardess!"
The news of 1906
Last week T related that I
hadreceived a number of Old
newspapers from S. Grant
Sanders, of Montclair, N.J, that
belonged to his late father, S,
M. Sanders,
Some of our readers will re-
member when London had two
daily newspapers, one of them
the London Advertiser, a Lib-
eral organ, while the London
Free 1"ress leaned to the Con-
servatives. Eventually the Ad-
vertiser was takenover by the
Free Press, now independent
of politics.
Among the papers I received
from Mr. Sanders was a copy
of the Advertiser dated Novem-
ber 30, 1906, containing 12
pages and sold for two cents,
The Free Press was a morning
paper and the Advertiser an
evening paper,
The principal contents of the
paper was the budget as pre-
sented to the House of Com-
mons by Hon. W. S. Fielding.
Minister of Finance, who had
held the position for 11 years,
the longest of any other mem-
ber.
The opening paragraph stated
that "Hon. W. S. Fielding
brought down his budget to-
day and was enabled to again
present to the Commons and
to the people of Canada the
story of another year of buoy-
ant revenues, of abounding
surplus, and of unexampled
prosperity,"
He predicted a surplus for
nine months of some $13,000,000
after meeting capital expend-
itures anda net reduction in
the national debt of $1,500,000.
During the ten years the Lib-
erals had been inpower there
had been a total net surplus
of $77,198,884.
• The Advertiser at that time
was in its 43rd year. It con-
tained only one picture, that of
Mr. Fielding.
One item from Claandeboye
states that Doctor Sutton had
been severely injured when his
horse ran away and he was
thrown from Ms buggy,
Another item states that the
congregation of St. Petriek';.
chtrreli, Sa ntsbury, had show
`hair appreciation of the taitl-•
'ul serviees of the rector, Rev.
ieorge W. Raeey, by present-
'nghim with an address ss and a
raltua'ble gift, expressing the
lope that he and Mss- Race!
wouldfor many years
in the par*.
I was interested in a stony
irottt. St. Pet int, , Russia..
A jevveller had receiveda visit
from an old and decrepit of-
JOTTINGS
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JOTTiNGS BY JM5
ficer in the uniform of a gen-
eral who had come to buy a
birthday present for his wife.
The jeweller displayed some
very valuable gifts and the
general chose a costly article
that would meet his purpose.
Trembling the old soldier
sought in his breast ;for his
pocket -hook. He had left it at
home andboth seller and pur-
dhaser were disappointed. The
soldier asked for writing ma-
terials to pen a note to his
wife, but his Ivritin g was in-
telligible.
"Will your excellency permit
me to write the instruction to
your dictation?" asked . the
jeweller. On the business paper
of the firm the jeweller wrote
the stumbling words of the
veteran: "Dear Anna: I have
need of money. Please take
five thousand rubles from my
safe and return by bearer,—
Lovingly yours, Ivan..
The note was dispatched bs
a hearer who returned with the
five thousand, rubles and thr
tiara was bought and paid for
When the jeweller returned
to his home he was asked by
his wife what he wanted the
5,000 rubles for. He was shown
the letter in the jeweller's own
handwriting on the firm sea-
tio
per For
the tli first time the
jeweller realized that the name
of "Anna" and "Ivan" were
those of his wife and himself.
The jeweller had paid for the
officer's gift.
Your library
By MRS. MS
The Huron County Library
books were changed on Friday
morning and in the new selec-
tion is a copy of "Portraits of
Greatness" which your library
felt they could not purchase- on
its budget for books.
Portraits of Greatness
Ninety-six of Yousuf Karsh's
-lost memorable photographic
eortraits of leading world fig -
res are unforgettably record-
ed itt the pages of this book
'Portraits of Greatness".
Karsh has portrayed more
'elebrated men and women
hap any other photographer of
our time. With remarkable
frequency it has been the
Kalish portrait that has be-
come the definite record of
the famous personality, the one
— Please turn to page 5
As the 'Times" go by
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T -A FILES
50 YEARS AGO
Taking the census began
Thursday, ,Tune 1.
On Wednesday, Mr. George
Crawley, Lucan, bought the
livery business of W. G. Bissett
of town.
Owing to the hot weather on
Sunday the evening service of
Trivitt Memorial Church was
held on the lawn,
Miss Eva Carling of St,
puke's Hospital, New York, is
'isiti.ng with her parents, Mr.
Ind Mrs, T. B. Carling,
Mr. Gordon Hooper, recently
of Chatham Business College,
has secured a position as book-
keeper in the mail order de-
partment of the T. Eaton Co„
Toronto.
Mr, J. Beverldy is moving
his furniture stock from the
Opera House block to the Old
Pickard Block on Main Street,
30 YEARS AGO
Decoration Day services will
he held at the Exeter cetnet.ery
on. Sunday afternoon; June 2].
Thames Road Chureh is Wen -
ling its golden jubilee; llev,
William Gardiner, Thedford,
will be in charge of the mor-
Bing service and Rev, William
'ionticth, the evening service
The census enumerators
:acted their duties on Monday,
tine 1.
At the air meet of the Lon.
'on Flying Club held Saturday
•nd Sunday, .W.' L. Kress Of
he Canadian Bank of Coni
ie.ree was a contestant in 'a
not landing competition and
tme second,
Dr, G. F. Ttoul.ston has add,
d an Xray machine to bit
'ntal equipnient.
Mr. Kenneth Stanbury has
'Assad his firtt year at law
thee!, Toronto.
sefeee the introduction rsf
.tarps in Canada in .13.51
pestag'e was is by the per
Boit. Who, Deceived Mali, nit by
the tender, end rates were
haled oil diatanco,
15 YEARS AGO
Invitations are out for the
Old Boys Reunion to be held at
SS 1 Usborne (Hurondale) on
Monday, July 1. The reunion
will .mark the fiftieth annivers-
ary of the erection of the pre-
sent school building.
Mr. John Schroeder, of Hu-
bert, Sask,, has arrived in Ex-
eter and has taken a position
vtdth Hunter-Duvar & So.hs, His
family will. follow later,
Mr. John Pollard, who re-
cently sold his store in: Ceht-
ralie, has purchased the resi—
dence of Mr. W. 5, Cole in
Exeter.
The residence of the late Wil-
liam, Fisher, corner of James
and Albert Sts., has been pun-
chased by Mr, C. N. Farrow,
of Beamsvilie.
Mr, Gordon Lampert, after
conducting the Lamport: Coffee
Shoppe for some :months, has
sLoldondoton, Mr, George loather', of
Dr. Janoes 'Papp, graduate of
Exeter High School, has been
appointed assistant research
rtirector of Polymer Corp'n,
Sarnia,
10 YEARS AGO
Out of schoot and free Of
final exams are 20 students
frOni SHDI S who are exeniial:-
cd under farm labour regula•
lions.
Some, 200 Western Ontario
Orangemen attended divine ser-
viee rn Grand Bend United
Clitireh Sunday morning,
Mr, and Mrs. C. E. Shaw
were in London Ssturday a11-
tenditig the graduation of their
daughter, ,loanne, who receiv-
ed hon i3aeheter. of Science de
gree )n Nursing.
At 6 p,m. Settirday, ,Thule_ 2.
the -doors Of the old Lucnn Pest
Office were e!osert forever.
Tenders have been tailed feu'
South Huron liospilea although
the site hag not been seletted
at ytet.
At the ettetien Age t C Th
offsets of the lee litlr,s JOlit
Parsons ru'ps acid Santee sold
torr $8, $4 Aad .$16,
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Welding
!!tr• Trailers Bulit Qf Ail Kinds
6t Kut -!wick Power Mowers
• Bolftrn Muatan4 Tillers
Girls, the best way t know i,o keep your
family en the road to success, is through a
good healthy savings account. When you've
got money in the bank you can pay cash for
the things you want, and take advantage of
opportunity. Know where my husband and
I saved the money to buy this new car?
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OVEMENTS
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• New—etcose the bale lengthou want-'
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metering assembly.
If New—IT-belt pick-up and auger drive pm*
vides increased life of pick-up teeth.
rF New—Ma3neuwerabaity of PTO model.
1 New—Greater balingcapacity of es3g
models provided by increased power.
• New—Strength and ruggedness throughout
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• These, and other improvements, acid se*
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RA CHWAGONS
'60 Ford VO 4 -door Country Sedan, automatic,
washers ... • $260
'60 Chev 9 -pass., 6-cyl. 4 -door Ranch Wagon $2500
'60 Chev 6.pass., 6 cyl. 4 -door Ranch Wagon $2450
'59 Plymouth 4 -door V8 Ranch Wagon $1895
•
SEDANS
'60 Falcon Sedan, radio, 2•tone, washers .. . $1700
'59 Vauxhall Velox, radio, low mileage . ........... ... $1400
'57 Plymouth .6-cyl., a steal ........... ... ..... ... .. ..... $1000
'56 Ford V8, radio $ 950
'55 Chrysler Windsor, loaded for bear, lovely $ 850
'54 Chev, new paint S 650
'53 Monarch, stick shift, radio g 550
'52 Ford, automatic, OK .., ....., ... $ 450
COACHES
'60 Ford 6•eyt,, radio, whitewalls, very low mil ng% $2250
'58
Choy 6•cyl.
'52 Plymouth, like new
'55 Anglia, the economy job
TRUCKS
$1400,
$ 450
$.350
'59 Ford F600 Dump, motor overhauled, above
$3500
'57 Ford Tandem 750 Tractor $3500 ,
'58 Ford F600 Dump, trailing axle $3200
'52 I -H 180 and Dump Trailer $1750
'56 Fort) F-700 Dump . $1200
'58 Ford Pickup, low .mileage 51300 -
'59 Thames Panel, ideal delivery $1150•
'52 Chev Combination Dump $ 750
Ford 2 -Toni Dump $ 450
'53 Dodge Pickup $ 450.,
average
'52
TRACTORS'
lohri Deere 420 Crawier and Loader 82000
57 Oliver 66 And 2 -row scuffles $1600
'56 Ford 6 -Foot Combine, motor driven, used very
little, never on beans $12511
'53 Minneapolis -Moline 11, live PTO, above avorage $$1920500'
'55 Minneapolis -Moline ' 7., motor overhauled, live
PTO $ 800
'59 Brady Hey Chopper—see this ono ---1/2 price $ 450
Oliver 60 or 'Cockshutt 70—Your choice , . $ 300
'59 Messtiy 2'furrrow, 3•point lilted blow ,. $ t$0
Drag Blows, 2- anti 3 -furrow ....... :..... ..... from 825 up
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We're Tired
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