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orials This PeWeiseper Isellievee the right to express en -opinion In „p.Olte
contributes to the. .progross of the nation and that it must hit leers
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crest; ,e.everriment,
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Town council is taking another look at its
arena-recreation program, essentially to see what
economies call be effected in view of the upcoming
costs of sewerage.
We believe the operation can be more -efx
ficient, more effective and less costly, as we have
indicated here before. There is only one way to
do so and this is to create one body to administer
both the arena and the" recreation program.
The problem at the present time is lack of
co-ordination, lack of co-operation, lack of -.author-
ity, of promotion, lack of business principles
toward the operation of a municipal service. This
is not necessarily the fault of either or both a the
boards; the responsibility, in our opinion, lies with
council because of the awkward organization which
it insists .on maintaining,
It may be all very well to continue discus-
sins between the boards and informal talks, with
council representatives, A solution may develop.
But we think it will come much faster, much easier
and with less disruption, if eouncil itself takes the
initiative to- deal with the situation.
It may take several courses of action:. (1)
appoint a committee of two or three councillors
not involved with either board to study the situa-
tion and make recommendations to town council;
(2) appoint such a committee of citizens outside
council or -(3) take its own course of action without
having a committee investigate the situation.
In any case, there are a number of questions
which must be studied and they are: the estab-
lishment of an organization which will qualify .for
provincial recreational grants; the creation of a
line of authority to avoid conflict and confusion
among municipal employees; increasing the amount
of revenue from those who use the facilities.
These problems can be solved.
Seen any titmice?
Attention all birdwatchers. Look for a small,
gray bird with a conspicuous crest and chestnut-
brown flanks. Its call is a loud, whistling peto-
peto-peto or sometimes a de-de-de-de, louder and
hoarser than a Black-capped Chickadee,
According to the Federation of Ontario
Naturalists, this is the Tufted Titmouse, a southern
bird which is staging an unprecedented invasion
into southern Ontario. Since early October there
have been numerous reports about the bird from
Ontario centres.
MoSt of the titmice have been seen at or
near bird-feeders. They will eat suet, bread crumbs,
doughnuts and sunflower seeds, and will very
quickly become regular visitors if there is adequate
food.
The first titmice seen in Ontario were two
at. Point Pelee on May 2, 1914, Since then there
has been a scattering of records and they have
been found breeding twice, at Hamilton and Sarnia.
The Tufted Titmouse is usually a bird of the decid-
uous forests and often is found along river-bottom
foreSti. They . nest in natural cavities,;•abandoned
woodpecker' holes or man-made nesting boxes, •
The Federation of Ontario Naturalists is at-
tempting to compile all the records of this influx
of Tutted Titmice and anyone seeing them is asked
tOtViad4the FON, Edwards,-, :-Gardens, Don Mills,
Ontarfo,'Vith details as to when and where they
were seen.
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''',Aside from that. bow was siour week end, Foster ?"
15 YEARS AGO
Harry Crocker, a pupil of
Exeter Public School, won $10
in the poster contest of Wild-
life Conservation.
• Den Traquair, Helen Snell,
Norman Hannigan, CrWenneth
Jones and Peter Fraser, 15W0
students, were home for the
Weekend,
The worst storm of the sea ,
son blocked all the highways,
Messrs. Fred Dawson and Wile
-Tam Cann walked over two
two miles through the snow to
the Thames Read where they
were picked up by Rev. Male
tied brought to town .for Ole
Masonic meeting,
A new time clock has been
installed at the Exeter arena
for use in hockey.
Mr. Jack Deere, who is tak-
ing a course in photography in
Toronto, was in Exeter Satur-
day looking for a theation
Mr, Elmer Bell has porches•
ed from Andrew Easton the
line brick residence on .lanies
Streetesspoesessiori April 1,
10 YEARS AGO
E. tr. Green, manager _of the
local Canadian Conners branch
for the, past; IS years, left last
week for 'Norden, Man., where
he will lake charge of a new
factory.
A community ervice Wee
held in James Street Church
to pay What to the late Xing
George VI, who died Wednee-
dey morning.
Preston Dearing Was elected
president of the Canadian Sheep
breeders' Assoeietieti at their
annual meeting.
'Men council. is currently
weighin g the merits of Metered,
parking to elleviate the local
traffic, problem,
Mr. ' liege ,1-elietit left by
piano froeA on
e journey to Detitriark to visit
his brothel's,
Miss Nancy Tiernan, Dash•
wood, will COMpete in the att.
nual Xiwatils Mosie PestiVal,
Toronto, next week;
mail to Khiva.
In 1892 Jacob and Henry Kel-
lerman built another general
store. The store was later. oc-
cupied by A, G, Webb, Henry
Kellerman moved to Michigan
and died there, Jacob operated
a large farm north of Shipka,
in 1875 John Ryan built a
blacksmith shop at Shipka. To-
day it is being operated by
Charles Lochner.
In 1874 'Valentine and john
Ratz came up from Waterloo
County and bought the sawmill
east of Shipka, formerly owned
by William Fulton, Walter Mc-
Dougall was the mill foreman.
The Ratz brothers bought sev-
eral hundred acres, mostly
timber land.
Valentine Rats served on the
Township council and later
was 'elected a member of par-
liament and afterwards ap-
pointed a senator.
Some of the early settlers
were Geiser Finkbeiners,
Sweitzers, Keough, MePheee,
Sharps, Harltons, Pickerings,
Keys. In some cases the third
generation are settled on these
farms.
A Methodist church was
built in 1888, It is now an Uni-
ted Church. There is also a
public school at Shipka, school
section No. 7,
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,a middle-aged school teacher, simply can't understand John's sample,lust a tl • English mark, He works so
Monday, I worked all day, hard, every night. And he's carne borne and did my lesson such a good boy!" A little
plans, wrote my column and questioning reveals that John let. Piper the at out, about 2 hasnt missed a television pro-
°Tam in four months, except She didn't come back, though for'; the three nights a week he I, went four trines to the beck. plays hockey,
door, the last twice in my py lamas, and hollered Into the Friday morning,' lho cal
snowy wastes. Kim , who had 't urned up, looking ashamed,
brought her home as a st ray After school on Friday, we
took•two busloads of kids to , kitten a year ago, wept bitter-
ly all next day and blamed the the city to see a play, On the
whole thing on me, way home, the bus broke down
Tuesday, I came home from--Please turn to page 6
klds are polite and nice, and work, shovelled snow for an
everbody knows teaching school hour, did the shopping, ran
is a snap, and I've heard his Kim over for her music les-
wife is a lovely girl in every sons, shovelled more snow,
way." picked up lenn, looked for a
* * * dam' cat, prepared lessons
Well, let me tell you some- and went curling, My wife gave
thing. My. kids are more leolieterigan horrendous blast for
trouble now than they were a couple of hours at
when they sat in highchairs, the curling club.
hurling pablum all over the • * * - *
kitchen, and filling their die.- Wednesday was much the
pers every time you turned same, alternating snow shovel-
your back. Coping with 170 odd ling with looking for cat. We
lively teen-agers every day is discovered that the tom next a short cut to the cemetery, door had also vanished, Icon-And my wife has just finished soled Kim with the suggestion bawling the daylights out of me that they'd eloped. Bed at 1
for the same old reasons. e a.m.
on the serene, sedentary life of Night at th e sch eeL ,Dy!
Let me give you a rundown •Thursday 'night was Parents'
The following history of Ship-.
ka was writen by Edwatd.
Lamport, then deputy-reeve of
Stephen Township and ap-
peared in the Times-Advocate
on July 21, 1938. We. have Cg-
pied it: from the late Simon
Sweitzer's scrap book,
Shipka, located on the cors
,ner of the 16thconcession of
the Township' of Stephen, is on
the county road known as the
Crediton Road — six and
quarter miles from Crediton,
six and a quarter miles from
Dashwood, twelve miles from
Exeter, eleven miles . from
Parkhill, five and a half miles
from Grand Bend.
Stephen Township has a to-
tal area of 56,988 acres a popu-
lation of 2,578 people and con-
tains four police villages, Cen-
tralia, Crediton, Dashwood and
Grand Bend,
The township officials for
1938 were: Reeve Chester Ma-
whinney; deputy Reeve Ed-
ward Lamport; councillors Ed-
mund Shapton, Exeter; It.
Ratz, Dashwood: Tom Love,
F'arkhill; Road Superintend-
ent, George Silber, Crediton;
Clerk and Treasurer, K,
Either, Crediton.
In the 1880's Shipka was cal-
led Slabtown, owing to the
large piles of slabs piled
around the place, in 1876 Char-
les Eilber, ;who lived near Cre-
diton, built seesawmill at Ship-
ka and eperated..•ltefor a num-
ber -of ye ars, arkvilhter " Sold it
to .John Perseids eand Norman
Buchanan.
These men •ren.:ille mill for
a number --of. -'years until in
1888 they sold-il;..to Samuel
SWeitzer,„etheeslettilt a flax
mill, In .1919.4ilem-ailis burned
but they;'Weriz54,beill, ,again. and
later the' Hernial • s.old to the
Ontario . :P.lakieesCteie'rjeany, with
ft.qaciqu a itero. s t, Ire-
land, Latet • the -flan business
went bad and the:-mill was sold.
for farm buildings.
To return ..te' Santa& Swei.t-
zer. He wes •e' good man for
sthe village •of Shipka,- He served
in Stephen Twri. • council for ,a
good many years, ...also in the
County Council.' His sons, Wil-
liam and Matthew, .conducted.
an apple -butter factory and
chopping mill, and" later the
mills were burned. William
served 17 years on the Stephen
Township council and' in 1935
he was warden of the county of
Huron.
in 187e.' Frederick -Heitman
built a -general stori,S.atsShip-
ka and 'kept store. for a Mem-
ber of years, lie also drew the — Please turn to page 6
s :the 'Times I go by
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T-A FILES
By MRS. JMS
Dag Hammarskjold
This book, "Dag Hammarsk-
jold", which has been in pre-
paration over a year and a half ise.
and published since Ins death,
is neither a eulogy nor a life
story but a portrait of how
Dag Ea inmarskjold -1, r a n s-
formed the office of Secretary-
General, and with it the Uni-
ted. Nations -itself, into a major
influence in world affairs.
The book gives descriptions
of how lie handled such explo-
sive problems as the Ameri-
can airmen held by Communist
China, the Suez and the Congo.
His approach to the Cold -War
and his concept of the '"UN
presence" serving as a neutral
buffer between East and West
in the brushfire areas.
The final chapters describe
the Soviet attack on Ham-
tharskjold and its possible con-
sequences on the future of the •
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We -Canadians, according to a recent report,.
have So, little faith in. our own cote try that we
own. less than 25c2i, of it.
' We've allowed American and foreign in-
vestors to take the risks of. development,- to provide
fhelnitiative for enterprise, to exploit our natural
resources.
, Perhaps we don't have the courage, the
.imagination or the ambition to take the risks which
are required for success in any private enterprise
.system.
We're prepared to let someone else step in .4,- • :and -take the gamble . . . but we like to hang
.round to share the stakes if it pays off.
We have excellent examples of this attitude
'right here at home. Few communities have the
wealth available that we have. But most of the
;funds go into trust certificates and guaranteed in-
..vestments which unfortunately, are invested in
:ether communities,
.,;:. Just reflect for a moment on all the new
..'"commercial developments which have taken place
;in this community during recent years, How many
:Of them have been initiated by local people and
local capital? The majority were started by out-
siders who saw opportunities we didn't consider
,existed.
- • Here's one example which really hurts:
=Recently a relatively small amount of capital—less
::than $25,000—was required to ensure the estab-
lishment here of an industry which has a bright
;prospect for future development, The firm had an
excellent credit rating and the • investment was
secured. Nevertheless, despite considerable effort
in canvassing, the required funds could NOT be
raised.
That kind of spirit does not build communi-
ties. If someone else is getting the gravy from
Canada's development, It's not hard to determine
where the blame lies.
Sound policy
Reeve Glenn Fisher and his police commit-
tee are right in establishing a regulation which
would require members of the force to retire at
the age of 65.
True, the regulation should have been in-
troduced a number of years ago to avoid the
awkward and somewhat personal situation which
has arisen. However, since that was not done, the
present committee has no alternative but to incor-
porate the retirement clause in the bylaw at the
present time.
To suggest that it is aimed at a particular
person, as one councillor did at the last meeting,
is not entirely fair. It is good policy whether or
not it affects any individual and this is the major
consideration.
It is true that in many areas of work and
responsibility, men over 65 can do an excellent
job. This does not hold, however, for active police
work.
No municipality should expect a Man over
65 to face physical violence, the mental strain and
the battle of wits which is required of constables
on . duty today. True, the most extreme of these
duties do not occur often but it is at these very
times _that .the town requires protection.
-The -retirement at 65 regulation is sound,
as most other municipalities have discovered.
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I'l ever reach that high plat-
eau of peace and quiet and
gracious living that beckons
used - to console myself, as I
from afar. Or is it only a mir-
staggered around in a welter
age?
Soneetimes wonder whether
When the kids were little, I ter, as she flew into rages, I
perfect husband out of a pig's
comforted myself, "She'll sun-
foot."
tried to improve my charac-
nier down after a few years.
She'll stop shoving me, her
temper will improve and she'll
realize that you can't make a
of bottles and diapers, illnesses What I had in mind was a
and accidents, that everything gracious and digeified middle
would sort itself out when they age. The kids would be well.
got a little older. I could mannered, unobtrusive, bril-
picture a pleasant sort of life liant and obedient. The lob
when the youngsters ceased be- would be interesting but easy,
ing sb dependent, and would include long holi-
It was the same with my days and big money. The Old
job. As a weekly editor, I was Lady would be quiet, respect-
convinced that no other oc- ful, and appreciative of the
cupation was so devouring of privilege of sharing my life.
one's time and strength, so Well, the kids are bigger
intrusive: into one's private and older, I got one of those
life. I could think of 44 other soft jobs, and the passing years
jobs that would be easier, have passed. And the only ap-
preciable differente is that, more remunerative and more
productive of leisure for peace despite my failing faculties,
and contemplation. I'm running faster than ever,
and that calm, peaceful exist-
ence seems farther away than
And it was the same with ever.
the Slid Girl. As she harried Oh, I know what you're
ite'lrOrn pillar to peg, from thinking, You're thinking, "lie's
basereent to bathroom, as she just saying that, I'll bet his
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I XETEt
SO'YEARS AGO
Lawson Yearley. -le In Ste-
phen, on January 24, Miss Jen-
nie. daughter of Deputy-Reeve
Yearley, to George W. Law-
son of Artland, Sask,
The' curlers of 'Iliensall are
giving' es"bon.'epiel. at s eleesell
February 6' :and 7:. There' ate
,four 'first, prize and ,four sec-
ond .:ptizes amounting to - $60.
Prize winners at the Carni-
val Friday evening were: lady's
best costume, Lily Boston; old
maid costume, Hattie Hand-
ford e graceful lady skater,
Hazel Browning; gent's best
Minnie, Morris Senior,
Mr.• Elenry Willert has ..been
‘avpopood.nted . postin aster D ash-
Tee Ladies. Aid of the Chisel-
hunt Methodist church have
purchased a. fine dais pupit and
three chairs to match for the
church. .
Bert Clerk has been painting
and_ redecorating the interior
of the Crediton town hall,
25 YEARS AGO
Pr, Eugene _Tiernan. of Tat'iS.
Lock,. sped the weekend
14 parents, Mr. and 'Nies. Ezra
Tient all
Me. George W. t...aivsen, was
appointed In the • teeter
of :Education let • a teem
of three -years at 'the ,reeent
meeting of County Council,
Mr. Oliver Roweliffe has
PiikehASed'frOrn • his brother,
Archie Roweliffe, the
milk business and has taken
peeSeeethil,
Harold Higgins, HOWL has
been in. the Greenway Area
several days this week install-
Mg.:A.111110W of radios he has
sold there.
• The. Melt of the 1,OWit
tied for volleyball WednesdaY
evening `with Harry Lewis es
president., The Big !babe arrived ht the
Mine. MI', and Meas James
Matte ,Of. the B.131116 Water lliglr
way, TWentessetie children. and
all livhig is believed to he a
-tent&
Shipka 50 years ago
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