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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-01-25, Page 4—Oil Corner?' Heetitte, -PitittaWn1 $11...e.el, Metal We,rk 413.ANOgEW -zIsTss 7fl New chine. .tiumber Will 5.4 e 13 .-.1410 sill:IMS:111171:4M1141:71:1111:tittlt11711M3iIIMI7MSM IIIIMIMIIAM4111.111P111:IiIMM I IIIMMISIM1011111M,Ii I ALF AND. g. Ce.g.A9 .01Wkl m glinumtimonmamap21111194:4 7241 11 Y11:31SISIMMI tpligUllIMMIUWOMIKFFIN, NI P. 4- Tiw Tiwo-Ativewat6, Janwoy 75, 19 Editorial A wise move This newspaper believes the right to:express en opinion In publie contributes to the poosie , of the itaiton end that it must be exists creed freely and without ,preiStslice to preserve arid improve 4emo. critic government. Minds do change ' • report of the inaugural meeting in Ray township indicates Reeve Valentine Becker and the. Members of his council are giving some study to the subdivision del elopment taking place along the lakeshore area et the township. This is a w ise move, we believe, • A serious investigation of the future ne veloPmonl along the lakeehore is warranted be, cause of the .great potential of this recreation land. As more and more property along the lake is pur- chased, the value of these areas will increase. They should become a. great asst,t to the township. Just hOw well they will be developed may depend upon the attitude of the councils of these years. It's most unfortunate, of course, that all the timber has been taken off the lakeshore limit. Some program might \\ ell iw undertaken now to encour- age reforestation of these areas. Certainly those lands \vhieh have not been denuded, if there are any telt, should be protected, The subdivision should ho watched carefully to ensure that the most advantage is taken of the property. It would be a tragedy if less than three or four blocks of cottages are planned along the lakeehore, if inteouale provisions are not made for access to the lake for property behind the immed- iate lakefront. if too many subdivisions are being promoted at a single time to prevent any from being properly serviced and developed. Too often, rural townships are inclined to look upon recreation development as a nuisance to be avoided. rather than an opportunity to improve the economy of the municipality. They tend to be suspicious of land developers, unkind and unco- operative to their customers who choose to invest in the property. This is a foolhardy attitude, Every effort should be made by Hay town- ship to encourage proper development, to under- stand the problems, to provide services which are justified and reasonable, and to make fair de- mends of the subdividers. If the right foundation is established, the development should build a valuable asset for the township, What was said From the address by the Hon. Louis P. Cecile, QC, minister of public welfare, at the of- ficial opening of the new wing of "Huronview", the county of Huron home for the aged, Sept. 8, 19611 "I know we are afflicted by a sort of na- tional bashfulness and think that, if this is what we have in Canada, it is probably a copy of some- thing somewhere else, across the border or over the sea, and that the original is probably higher, wider and handsomer. But make no mistake about it, the Ontario Homes for the Aged, including the one you have before you, are originals and among the very best. In our Homes for the Aged pro- gramme we have advanced far beyond searching for examples to follow, and far beyond the pro- duction of pale copies; rather we provide the models. "That is why you have every reason for pride in Huronview as a community accomplish- ment and a community success. I know that the Wherever central schools have been pro- posed in rural Ontario, there has always been the same reaction,---the immediate .objections to ,mug- fined higher taxes, the fear and criticism of yOung- sters riding buses, the contentions that what was good enough for .granddad is good enough for the kids of today. This type of opposition can be expected to- ward any new municipal proposal which incorpor-• ates a major change, It takes some getting used to, some talking about, some good and hot discus- sions. It's unfortunate, however, that ratepayers don't have an opportunity to talk to Citizens in other townships Where central schools have proven their worth,. This would help to Overcome the many Speculative objections of those who just Can't en- vision the benefit of such an operation. For example, the following comments, while all one-sided, are noteworthy, They are taken from reports submitted by 18 central school areas who were requested to make comment abOut public reaction to the new system of primary education. They make interesting reading; "General satisfaction and pride." "All opposition has disappeared." "Favorable first year, good second, excellent third." "Great local pride." "Public reaction was very favorable once the ratepayers became acquainted with the new school setup and found how satisfactory the sys- tem of transportation was." "Watchful first year, definitely favorable second year, demand from ratepayers for replace- ment of remaining one-room schools third year," "Public reaction is good." "The most obstinate objectors axe now strong supporters." "Good from the first year on." "Fully and gratefully accented." "Accepted in the first year. Board was unanimous," "People are building near the school. First addition made in second year. Parents are realizing the better education." "Parents and ratepayers appear satisfied. Area Home and School . Association formed." "No. complaints since school opened." "All favorable." "Moving from skeptical to favolable." "Objections gone. Just try to get us back to the old system." , people of Huron County have a tradition, stretch- ing back at least three generations, of supporting and caring for their aged here in Clinton. In 1895 when there were only a dozen Municipal Homes in Ontario, and those mostly in the older parts, the citizens of this newly settled County lying between the Queen's Bush on the one side and Lake Huron on the other, gave the Province an example of vigour and initiative in establishing their own County Home. In those days all the ex- penses had to come out of local pockets, for there was no 50% provincial subsidy to spread the load. But Huron county then—as it always does— proved to be as generous as it is prosperous." eressamssesarsesseatteSeMeagiaMMerisseei=ierenaleatitelffaleiniMiesesestrieraWaReadMeraMentle= Sugar and Spice dispensed by Bill Smiley //////be Per kivIS:e It f aseittette ell yesir heal National Erepleyilieht Oftie Issued by authority Of Hata'tilithael Starr, ftlintSter of Labour, Canada pc1!le ibex.,01.171rig.th 4.figtvd., Suit your wife, will have some simple explatelloh." I -'9 reti-u•ey M•erli Anvil 15 Vie (enter ZEtme5abbotate Toles Established 1873 Advocate Established '1881 Amalgamated 1924 Published L.; h 'Thursday Morning At Stratford, Ont. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office beg% Ottawa AWARDS HoweBeattie Shield, best (rent page (Cari, 4ida), 1W; A. V. Nolan Trophy, general extellenee for news. papers published its Ontario towns between 1,S00 and 4,500 population, 1980, 1157, 1956a J. George sfelinsfort TtOphy, trio, graphidal excellence (Ontario), 1957; C. T. Stephenson Trophy, hest front page (Ontario), 1956, All.Canada Itisul'APOe Federation national safety award, 1153. Paid,411,-Advenet Cirtulation, Sept. 30, 1961 — 3,50 SLIt1SLAIFTION RAMS,. tailailit 14,90 Pet Year s tinA $5.00 heard you do is complain. Business is terrible. Your wife nags. Your hemorrhoids are acting up. You can't do a thing with your kid's. The govern- ment's taxing you to death. The salt is ruining the body of your car. You're working too hard, You haven't thrown a decent rock in the last two bonspiels. I'd think you'd be glad to be out of it all. * What's that? You don't want to die? Life is sweet and warm and beautiful and you love your wife and kids and business is picking up and your bottom's better .and the governmett could be worse and the old car has had it anyWay and you like work and you just curl for 'the fun of it? Well, why didn't you say so? And what About you, Ethel? You haven't stopped Moaning since you were married. You've nothing to wear. Nobody ap- preciates you. The furniture is shabby. Those kids are driving you crazy. Jack's never home at nights. You're a nervous wreck. The house isn't nearly as nice as Mabel and George's. You're losing your looks, And the church is always after you to bake pies. I'd thinly you'd be happy to abdicate. How's t ha t again? You weuldn't trade the whelu sordid -mess for a Mink coat, A model's- leeks and figurs, a mansion with servants, as long as you can stick around for a few years? Step whining, then, Enley, while you're still with us. Really, I don't see what we're all so alarMed About. For the Darwinians among us, nuclear war will be an inter- esting applidation of the theory of survival of the fittest. For the unregenerate sinner, there is still time to do something about it. And for the rest of us good Christians, it will merely mean that we all get to heaven that much sooner. Es- pecially us _Anglicans. Personally, if tits is ally consolation to you, I haven't the slightest intention of dig- girig a. hole in the ground and crouching there with my fam- ily, like four terrified moles. It the first place, it's not a dig- nified way to meet death, should it come. In the second place, I have better things to do. And in the third piece, I fully intend to live to the age of 90 and expire peaceftilly In my Own bid, my last conscious stet being an attempt to pinch the bettem of my Special nurse If this interfetet with the plant of either Khrushchev or Ken- nedy, they're just going to have to change their DIMS. We have been presented with a sseap book that was com- piled by the late S. J. --zer, hobbyist, The beak con- tame many Interesting artic- les, together with some local history, from which we hope to produce some of the art- icles that shonld be of interest to the readers of .this column. 's The following article was written by the late E. J. We- they, former principal of the Exeter High School. It was published about the year 1940. "How many of the present generation of Huron county re- sidents know the locathini of Tinker's Line, and how Many of those with that information know its history? "It was at the location of the Present popular resort that the river made a sharp turn and went south for sax miles, pro- viding bountiful fishing beds in the holes and in the rapids, before flowing into a dam, pro- viding power for a saw-mill and emptying into the waters of Lake Huron. These squatters, built kg shacks for themselves and their families. They made no ef- fort to cultivate any large tract of land, but in the fall of the year brought in their supplies of sheet metal and other raw materials and settled down to serious work. Pails for va- rious purposes, flat pans for setting milk, skimmers for the cream (those were the days before separators) and other utensils useful in the home or on the farm were turned cut neatly and promptly. Then with the first sleighing, the tinker with his team started out through the coun- try to Sell his wares. It was quite the custom for the tin- ker to pay for his night's lod- gings and the feed of his team, with pails and dishes. Parniliar Caravan In summer the once familiar caravan, covered top and all complete with the fruits of months of work made its lab- orious way along the cordu- roy road, known then as the Lake Road, which et Premiss town, (then the northern pert of Exeter) made tithes- roads available. It is reported that the journey might take them far afield, — even as far as 50 YEARS, AGO Elected President of the Exe- ter Agricultural Society for 1912 was E. Christie; directors were John Delbridge; George Penhale, W. Re Elliott, James Jeckell, Paul Coates, John Al- lison, W. H. Dearing, William Russell and J, W. Taylor. Owing to a shortage of fuel the grist mill and the Ross Tay- lor factory have been . com- pelled to close down for a tim e,. The electors; of Crediton, Centralia and Dashwood have almost unanimously decided to etter . into an agreement with the hydro-electric cemisiission for a supply of power. Mr. J. G. Stanbury and Dr. Kinsman are leavina. for Cuba oh a tour of insPection of at orange grove in which they and Other local hien are interested. Henry Sweitter, 1-lenry Kuhn and. Daniel Sweitzer, Crediton, attended the automobile show in London last Friday. YPARS AGO There is net a Slot or nut rnathine in the County of. Ru- ne today according to a sur- vey, About SO friends gathered at the home of Mr. and Mts. Charles Zwicker to honor their son, Gerald, and hit bride, They were presented with a. bridge lamp. Mr. George IV, Las/36n was re-appointed 10 the Exeter Board of Education for A term Of three years at the meeting of Huron County Council. Mr. E. Lindentield, Who re- cently purchased from Who Bros. thebuilding form, oily occupied by E, R. Hop- per, furniture dealer, moved hit hardware and tinenlithing business across the road into the, building last Week. , MeSert. .1. A. Trativair, B. Williams arid tail Whiting loft Monday by special train for a four-day tour to the ax- Petinierital fistin iii Puraha ISolls, St St. Leuit, Ml', James Gislave leaven day for Califorhia Where he Will Jain hit son, P. L. Grieve grid faintly Who are spending We Winter there, JOTTINGS SY ,ThAS Brantford, But tunes have changed. The company has told its land, farmers no longer go to Goderich to Pay their taxes and only near "Sodom" on the Lake Road, two miles and a half west of Exeter, can one catch a. glimpse of the cordu- roy where it wandered for a short distance from the straight path. Now motor cars speed along, college students take orders for aluminum ware and tale hum of power separator§ is heard in the land, A cut-off sends the Aux Sable to the lake at Grand Bend, and only a dry depression bears mute testi- mony to the days when peo- ple came for miles to reap the bountiful harvest of fith, The village of Grand Bend has assumed all the charade- ristics of a summer resort, and prosperous farms, now occupy both sides of Tinker's Lane. Tile Reader Comments school controi To the Editor, The reply to Interested 'tax- payer just continues the eva sion, of the admitted problem, with added items to just cloud the issue. it would appear Mr. _,-lex- and,er is the only ratepayer not accepting the board's arrange- ments! We had A satisfactory arrangement for Many years with Hay board paying for our childrens education at Hensall Public School until the board changed their policy, which left many without a choice. Would other areas find, after their school was closed, a school area board is net re- auired by law to provide trans- portation according to the De- partment of Edudation? At no time did we want a preferred tax rate as met- fiorted. We want the same cons sideration from education of- ficials as given other Ontario residents, — Please turn to peg6 5 icy YvARS ArA,1 Preston Dearing was elected president Of Exeter Agricultu- ral Society at the annual Meet- ing. Teen Town was inaugurated by the teen-agers of Exeter at a meeting held in the Exeter Arena Friday evening. Dr. and Me s. B. S.. Steiner and Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Co:e- on of Zurich attended the con- ference of the Ontario Veteri- nary Association in Ottawa this week. Mr. Ruins Kettle has dis- posed of his farm at Huron. dale to Mr. Bruce Tackey, Last Friday evening a com- munity Film Council consisting of members from the various organizations in town was set ub in conjunction with the new projector purehased by the retails Club. Tza J. Lamptnan was named President, At council meeting the Clerk was instructed to draft a by- law to govern garbage collec- tion in Exeter. `'s,eARLS AG :4J Mr. and MrS. George Lawson celebrated their 40th wedding eesayertary on: tuesdae night. Cams's Mill Ltd. has been is- sued a Certificate cf Atreing Accuracy by the Ralston Pur- ina CoMpany, The Bank of Montreal will open a new branch at RCAF Station Centralia next Monday. A. J. SWeitzer WA's, elected president of tile Exeter Agri- cultural u o diety succeeding Garnet Nicks who related after three years at president. A new bell has been Metal- led iii the Anglican Church bel- fry, Grand send, a gift front Col and Mrs. Leonard mem- ery of their laVo pulpit chairs were dedi- cated a.f. Elimville Church on Sunday the, gilt of nits.Edith Heed, 8t. 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There ennething gruesome in the interest everyone has these days in being annihilat- es :,ome, people are so absorb- ed in the whole business that j, :swear they'll be disappointed if no limbs fall. I've lied finished reading a elle of (trade 12 essays. More than a third of them dealt with some aspect of nuclear war- fare if three kids knew half as much about the subjects on their course as they do about radiation fallout, there'd he no stopping them. They are morbidly interested In the monsters to be created by mutations among the post• atomic generations. They talk casuall" about the dosages of strontium on and iodine to be released by the bombs, They are fascinated by fall- nut. shelters, and write long and frightening lists of the rsetupment they should contain. One lad, as nice a teenager as nu'ci come across. warned, in ell seriousness, that shelter supplies should include a gun. for the purpose of mowing down any outsider who tried to :soul the inmates. You can't blame the young• sters. Listen to the conversa- tion next time you're out play- ing bridge, or drinking beer or whatever you do at your parties. That plump, gentle wife and mother at the next table will be reeling off the number of millions who will be killed in the first attack. That portly, jovial church warden across from you will be saying that we ought to drop it be- fore they do. I'm not frightened by all this. I'm bored. I'm sick to death of uniformed prattle about world politics from people who think Marx is a TV comedian. I've had quite enough half- baked lectures on nuclear fall- out from people who couldn't even combine hydrogen and sul- phur and come up with a stink bomb. What I can't understand is why everybody's so concerned. Why do we sit around like so many ghouls at a garden party, licking our lips over the hor- rors to come? Are we scared or something? You'd think no. body had Over been killed be- fore, violently and painfully. You'd think no other civiliza- tion had ever perished before. Surely you're not worried about leaving this world sud- denly, Jack? Why, all I've ever a Eli[ Tate at Syndictia, Yne., 'Werli tie+ -reftrngt. "I'm trying to sleep downstairs. I hope illy tossing and turning doesn't bother. you," 1-13 Old Tinker's Lane As the "Tiniest' o by 1-HoHl IGHTS. PROM THr T-A tali ES AOWtS Et.-)t`• MOORS SYST A.S S