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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-02-15, Page 4This riewpenor geneses the right to express :Aft .ePinion i.n inibliC contributes to the progress of the notion end that it must be exec. eleed freely end without proludice to preeervo ond improve dont°. ;ratio government, ear I ime y warning Municipal Affairs Minister .Fred Cass has gent strong reminders to all municipal councils to Ontario that they should be on guard against any conflict of interest and incurring capital .expendi- tures without meeting full requirements of the law. 111 personal letters to the heads of councils Siete() taking owl his municipal affairs post, Mr. Cass said he wished to "draw to your attention two municipal problems which seem to occur with increasing frequency in all too many of our muni- cipalities Firsth.', the failure of a member of council. to make full disciosure of any personal interest he array have All any matter under consideration by council ...an have most serious repercussions. I do not need lo enlarge. upon this. "The ,seeend problem is the tendency of .home municipal officials and officers to incur capital expenditures, even to erect buildings and works, without first having made certain that the full requirements of the law have been 'net, "This often results in inconvenience, em- barrassinent and, sometimes, a burdensome ex- pense to the municipality concerned, and it could also Iltisse iii, effects for negligent council members and municipal officials. "As head of your council, it is incumbent upon you to ensure that these mailers in particu- lar are always kept in mind," the Minister's letter stressed, ise councillors (Clinton .News Record) When it conies to saving money for their • voters back home, members of county council can show some particularly quick stepping. Faced with a need to supply additional space to house the in- creased number of offices for officials which seem to come properly within the realm of county goy- , eminent in one way or another, they turned down the idea of spending $256,000 for a building. Possibly some of the councillors were think,- • ing of the demand for hospital rooms which must • be met in some way, and very soon. From a humanitarian point of view, this demand holds pre- cedence over the need to supply offices for employees of the county. Though the need for increased space may be evident to the county council, they are search- ing for other ways to provide it. Somehow we feel -that they will be quite successful in this. r "Ssee • ss A tribute A sineere editorial, tribute has been paid. to the late Boy. George, M. Lamont and Mrs, Lamont, victims of a tragieaceident, by the editor of' The Mitchell Advocate, Mrs. W, M. Mounteer: "Not only will they be missed by Knox con- gregation, whom they so faitlrfuil my served for the past 13 years, but in tho tolvas .activities. Mr. Lamont, especially, found time during his busy life to enter wholeheartedly, as we stated last week, in anything pertaining to community good, Latterly, ho had shown. keen interest in the -prospect of hospital and in the apartment building that would serve our senior citizens, in addition le all other endeavors of a cominunity,wide nature, When he visited hospitals he stopped briefly with our people, regardless of their church, affiliation. Etc was never too busy, seemingly, to stop and give a lilt to many with a cheerful word as. he passed along their way; never too busy to pause as he dropped into this office with his church notice, through which we gained an insight into the fine attributes of this man, whose mission in life seemed only to do good. In fact, we felt that we had indeed lost a good friend when he departed this life, a feeling that was general to many. ."Life was, we are sure, as he would have wished, busy to the last; even on the day of his passing he was bent on the Master's work. And his good wife was equally conscientious in what He called her to do within the sphere of her activi- ties." Strange that no one has suggested cutting down on the number- of employees, Or on the num- ber of branches of public service being offered by the county, In the past there have been some rumblings about the need for a health unit; certainly there are sonic who have doubts about the need for an. emergency .measures organizer; there arc even those who. would question the need for the book- mobile service. But in this instance, there seems to be no move toward cutting down on staff. Wciuld this indicate that we are moving even further along the road to more civil service? in the battle to cut down the unemployment figures, have we all agreed that an additional clerk to look after paper work is justified? In any case, we compliment the county councillors upon their wisdom in refusing' to build more office space, We would hope that they will be able to solve the problem in other ways. ...4.4.-dealrikek.4446100Atb u ar an Spice dispensed by Bill Smiley Peggy .4 The 1'irl+ss•Aslvecats, F.ebrnaly 1 r. 1 0 s The exceter Xime5.21bliocate fmni Gs Established 1813 Advocate Established 1881 . Amalgamated 1924 • t A Published Each Thursday Morning Af 5fralford, Out, Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dap% Ottawa and for Pave-Met of Postage hi Cash AWARDS — Prattle tfewe Fieattie Shield, hest fiord' page (Celt, oda), 1957; A, V. feelan ?Why, general excellence fer noses, papers publithed in Ontario towns between 1,500 end 4,306 pepuletesei, 1953, 1957, 1956; J. George Jelinstoil Trophy, typo- graphical excelleece (Ontael0), 1957; E. Y. Stephenson Ttophy, best front .§e (Ontario), 1956„ All•Wiade Insurance Pederatiote eatietial safety award, 1953, Paid-in.Advance Circulation, Sept. 30, 1 261 3,50 ,svAstRIPTI(11,1 canatte „PAO Per Yeeee UIIA ;ILO I. -ZS features .tynthe'atc, lie„ erhi Sent rertrvea. "It's moths." dieser,411 I•6 ,Lx.emtvo.1 Ker. rAIX44.. 9)orte he ,have to he a. atiVatisio cowboy Ali T5 DFIVC A•C„ 1' -3I c Ajng reliturt* Synd)catl, Warici rIgiU ra,,crved, fAt3.4:44. "One of our instructors will be right with you, Mrs, Vanderhoot." They enjoy the sun JOTTINGS BY JMS Donning .ond..Penn. CHARTERED Aqcipt.iNTANTS Municipal Auditcr; Office Huut's 9 00, to 5 p.,m. l2EVoN PHQ.N.E: 26.1 EXETER VolkswagenJoins Big Three OVER ONE MILLION VOLKSWAGENS PRODUCED IN 19 61! For the first time, a Eurceeeen automobile menu, facturer has joined the ranks of the "big three". Volkswagenwerk of West Germany announced pro- duction figures for 1961 which brought the relatively young firm into third place, behind General Motors and Ford. According to the factory, 1,006,782 Volkswagens came off the assembly line in 1961, an increase over the previous year of better than 115,000 vehicles. Highlight of the year was the production of the five millionth Volkswagen. This figure is most impressive considering that it took ten years to produce the first million Volkswagens. The fourth million came off the assembly line in November, 1960, and the five millionth was produced just one year later. The export market accounted for 50 per cent of Volkswagen sales with 580,210 vehicles exported to 132 countries in 1961. Apparently stiffening of competition did not bother Volkswagen, particularly in the United States, where one out of every two imported cars were Volks• wagens. Waiting lists still exist in many parts of the world, and in spite of the considerable expansion of pro- duction and facilities the factory has been unable to cope with the increasing demand. During 1961 the VW, 1500, new luxury sedan in the expanding Volkswagen line, began assembly and by the end of the year 200 VW 1500's were being made each day. This compares with daily production of 4,200 Volks- wagens, The new year has begun with an increasing demand for the ever-popular Volkswagen and as production of the larger VW 1500 reaches its scheduled amount, the sales outlook is very favourable, In Canada, Volkswagen remained the best-selling imported car. Canada is one of Volkswagen's best cus- tomers and it is only the importing of Volkswagens into this country that maintains a balance of trade with West Germany, In spite of this, Canada continues to sell more than it imports, During 1962, Volkswagen expects to continue its excellent sales record in Canada and Mr. Werner Jansen, Managing Director of Volkswagen Canada Ltd., says, "We believe the VW 1500 will be well accepted in Canada where many small car owners would like to move up to something larger and more luxurious," The new VW 1500 will be on sale to the Canadian public about the first of March. Hunter Duvar Phone 38 LTD. Exeter OUR NEW DIAL NUMBER — 23,5-1100 fittilitemmitittimmiitiollimistatiMnistitilimoimtmommlitommentr:::MtUlffinitti a i . , ~ r o ru . r. D-Day for telephone users in Exeter is Sunday, February 18, As you'll react elsewhere in this paper, around 2 a.m. an that date the old manual equipment will be disconnected and the new automatic switching equipment will go into operation, Time has run out for the technicians and craftsmen completing preparations for the dial "cutover", es we at the Bell call it. Some of our customers may have noticed activity at our new dial building on Carling Street during recent evenings. Installation and testing of the intricate and complex dial and Direct Distance Dialing equipment, designed especially for the needs of this community, had to be stepped up in order to meet the deadline. Now all the equipment has been tested and is ready to serve telephone users in 5xeter, The two years of planning and preparation that were necessary to bring modern dial service here Were exciting and satisfying to the hundreds of us at the Bell who were involved, We think that you will find 'hew and interesting ways to use your telephone with dial service—it's efficient and easy. Direct Distance Dialing will put you in touch With hundreds of cities and towns in North America with just a few extra turns of the dial, Of course it's important that you Biel both your local and long distance calls carefully. But if you do make an error in a DOD call, ask thg party who answers what city you have reached, thee simply inform one of our long distance operators, She thee make out a credit slip for your account, Although your calls will Ile longer be coneected by Operators, there will still be operators at your service, They'll .be available to handle calk for "Information" and calls from people who Might be having trouble using the dial. Bette-Mbar, you get detit2le value on station-to-station long distance calls of 19 minutes or more between any two points within Ontario. and .Quebec after 9 phri, any evening, .It's our new "hlight•Econotny" Ptah. ... the lowest-cost long_ distance plan Ott _offered to Deli th8t.OhtetS! T4 first five. minutes are charg- ed at low night rates; there's no extra, charge lop the second five Minutes, After that, beefy two additional tninotee are charged as one. Remeleber that rates for daytime etetioes4teetetiee long distance tans are down. Regular e lse „night rates beginning at '0 p.m. have else been reduced., fake advauttigd of these he W low EnjOy aStelepheec Alert by long distance „ it's The next best thing to heiug there. With the intreduction of DDD on February is, you will be able to dial your own station-to-station ly some of our brave new na- tions would lead the way in such progressive social meas- ures as: homes for unwed fa- thers; a free .fix a day for dope addicts; handy-dandy divorce by vending-machine, * * * There'd be a bit of confu- sion at first, of course, finan- cially. People would. have to do without their beer when the baby bonus cheques failed to appear, This, however, could be solved by having the new governments distribute free beer once a month. But the real beauty of the scheme is this. Do you realize that instead of being a big, fat, prosperous, peaceful country, we could suddenly become a whole mess of small, poor, struggling, aggressive coun- tries? All we'd have to do is abolish the income tax, then sit back and scream for help, and the 'Yanks would rush in enough foreign aid to keep us in luxury. f4; I have been sitting on aria of the green benches in St, Pet- ersburg, Florida, in front of the Orange .Blossom cafeteria just watching the people come and go and reflecting on what a wonderful place this is for so many people who are well on in years. it is wonderful because St. :Petersburg caters to the older class citizens and there seems to be something special every day for their entertainment, But the most important thing of all is the sunny weather. Two or three times a day ra- dio broadcasts from Canada announce the weather condi- The Reader Comments Lauds council To the editor, 'Re your report in the Febru- ary 8, 1961 issue, "Council re- fuses central. PS funds": First let me thank you for reporting the meeting of the school area board and Osborne council in such detail. What better way for the ratepayers of Osborne to get information on the move for a Central PS, It is noted that all members of the school board favored no vote on the debenture issue for $180,000. Why time board should wish to silence the people who will pay the shot is beyond the understanding of this writer. Also why is the inspector Mr. Goman so set against a vote? It is alarming, to say the least that a government official and our elected represeetatives should try to take away our de- mocratic right. If we have not democracy at municipal level, then what chance have we of having it at all? Congratulations to Reeve Frayne for voting to respect the right of the -people, A fur. thee bouquet to Councillor Del- mer Skinnee who is definitely in favour of central school but also realizes the right of the people to be heard. Councillor Etherington asks why the school board should have to sell the merit of a Cen- tral. School, May i answer with a further question — "Why shouldn't they?" As elected SO YEARS AGO Mr Thos. Kernick returned last week from his trip to Brit- ish Columbia edth Mr. T. Hand- ford's car of horses. The trip out took 24 days, Mr. John Colwill has sold his farm Con. 2 Stephen to Mr. Powe of near Liican for the sum of $7,900. lie gets pos- session April 1. Mr. Wes Horne, Elimville, while coming home from Exe• ter on Saturday was thrown cut of his cutter while going through a pitch-bole and had his face badly scratched, Mr, Thomas DAsh• Wood, has placed a new Bell piano in his home, The Main Street choir drove to Bethany on 'Sunday and took part in the evening service, Mr, C. H. Hooper has moved to the house he recently pity- chased on the corner of John and AnditeW streets, 25 YEARS AGO At a meeting of the Jellibr tetniers held at Zurich, Rev, W. A, Young gave a well- thought-out address on "What Is Wrong With raritiaey' The Exetee Coneeet Weld provided a musical eMicert in Leevitt'e Theatre Sunday Ore. nag after the church services, A Oita duet was played by Alvin Lindeefield and -Agee A eapatity ,house gave an enthusiastic reception to the :First open rneetio„,4,i of the Ste. le Literary Society., Male St. United Church. Their eWil seven -OW orchestra under Meshed XIutripp played While the audience Wee etseniblieg acid in the Priegitiel, A vocal duet was swig by lleleiS SIP4 Anti itorgari, 'uncial trio by Grant Taylor,Jarek I110166 And Mttreay Moore-, SiOattette by Pauline rollick, Elliott,aiel tr.thel kydd arid Eileen Webb,' The plaV "The' tithee'S Candlesticks" Wite eteged with kh: ihttOdUdtiOh Milted Meta and talth,1 patt: Ritton Whet, Tiirbarra Atkinson, DellOridge; Marion Glad. dons 111th snowstormsand be- low zero weather. Here in Lime south the tempe- rature has been 70 degrees or a little higher during the mid- dle ot the day dropping to the middle fifties at night. I have been. wondering just what it means to the majority of people down here, now past 70 anu even 80 years of age who are able to be .out 'and around and participating in some of the amusements. For instance the St, Peters- burg shuffleboard club has over 3,000 members and many of the enthusiasts are on the courts before nine o'clock in the morning, I would judge that the majority of players are over 70 yeers. A great many are widows or widow- ers, While a great many play shuffleboard an equal number enjoy various kinds of card games in several large roams. But referring to the people I sat and watched in J'ront of the Orange Blossom cafeteria, they were a most interesting lot mostly past the allotted span of life, Many of them were m arried couples depend- dant one upon the other, Many women were in groups of two or threes, the latter apparently enjoying life. The Orange .Blossom is only one of a number of cafeterias that cater to the tourist trade and at meal times there is usually a line of patrons await- ing their turn. The choice of food is excellent and prices are not high, The cafeterias are mostly pa- tronized by roomers . in the city and are distinct and apart from the many hotels that cater to their patrons. representatives of the people it is their duty to sell any idea or plan they consider to be for the public good. Councillor Westcott implies that the whole issue on deben- tures should be left to the school board. Realizing this is Mr, Westcott's first year on council, I am sure he will be much wiser by the time lie serves about five years, Finally, ratepayers of Os- borne, let us be thankful for men like George Frayne, Ward Vern and Delmer Skinner on' 01117 council, The next time you see them don't he afraid to tell them so. — Please turn to page 3 15 YEARS AGO Over 400 attended the annual at home dance of Exeter High School on Thursday night, The Jane s, MacNaughton Seed Co. has moved into their new building, and commenced operations this week. Me, H. H. Whyte, superin- tendent of rural hydro for the Lucan district, who was all active Scoutmaster of the 'Ex- eter Troop while here, is re, viving Scouting in. Lucan, Miss Lenore Norrnington of Ilensall, won the shield for girls in the Lions ora torical, Contest for this zone, She will now represent the zone at a district contest in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs, Peter Kraft, Dashwood, will celebrate the. 63th anniversary of their mar- raige. Mr. Kraft will be at in the spring, iris Shirley Stock, who has coMpleted het' course et the Grey Beauty School, has opefl ed up a shop oil Andrew St, 10 YEARS AGO 10 YEARS AGO C, T3, Symohd8, (abbe Company manager, said 138 phones had been added in Ex- eter Mt, making a betel of .1080, Miss leetle Scott, HeriSail night telephone operator foe 41 years, has retired, "Matelle! 'Taylor` Vat named queen of SHDHS et tiered dance and was &belied by 1051 leech, Dorothy Polo. Garnet jOhee has told his farm to Eileen Lynn Of St. Pauiii, Exeter Public Scheel .Board their 1.95 budget at $31.0130. t.sa,pao less than the reder0 figure Set last year when tho new :50661 Was first ui opera• troll. Rev, Jaints„ AnthellY died at his home tali ,Exeter On Saturn deI-le retired. Exeter 1h 10 a otvtlle H 'Portia Is re- .ellortelling the Peoples Cash 51tos 6tore, There's a movement, and a fairly strong one, afoot in Que- bec these days. Its adherents, I a b d "Separatists", are urging that La Belle Province secede from the rest of Cans a.,64 and establish a separate French nation on the shores of the St. Lawrence. I don't know the ins and outs of it, but, personally, I think it's a splendid idea. In fact, not only do I wish them well, but I hope the scheme be- comes a trend that will sweep North America, It's the only thing .that can break up the. vast,. neat blocks into which this -continent. is divided, and give us a :iodgeepodge of un• tidy, Interesting little states, countries and principalities, -such as the other continents boast., As, ear as I can see, breaks ing 'Canada down from 10 huge, indigestible chunks of 40 or 50 juicy, ligestibie mor- sels would sceee most of our problems in a twinkling. first of all, it might stop cnitured Europeans and dis- gruntled homehrews from ar- tieleS 'about the good, gray Canadians, those unimagiria- tree, conservative, colorless people who live somewhere north of Detroit, nursing their inferiority complex. I get so sick of this slop I could cry. They couldn't accuse' us of these negative virtues any more if we were suddenly transformed into a seething mase'of republics, peoples' det meefaeses. monarchies a e rl tvIptyriot. Tee see, if this was. dene, everythine would be dif- ferent The overpowering dull- ness of Canadian life would he ronlaced by the romantic, exo- tic existence of the other con- tinents We'd be able to enjoy such fascinating things as: revolu- tions and counter-revolutions; refugees fleeing across bord- ers ; students rioting in the streets; military juntas carry- ing out coups d'etat; sidewalk cafes riddled with spies; Uni- ted Nations aid; abusing the Americans; and all the other finer things in life, Another thin g. Canadians probably travel more .miles per year than anyone else, yet most of us have never been outside the country. What could be more boring than to climb on a train, ride it for a week, climb off, and still be in the same country? That's what hap- pens now. All this would be changed. With all our new countries and borders, a cross-country train trip would become a thrilling adventure. We'd need passports and visas. We'd have to pass border guards with t o m guns. Our traveling companions would be Mysterious Strang- ers — espionage agents, dip- lomats' mistresses, wilcideyed anarchists — instead of talk- ative elderly ladies going to visit their daughters, young mothers with damp, whi ny children, and exhausted mid- dieaged men heading /Or home after the hardware convention. Unemployment would be solved overnight. There'd be countless new government jobs open in customs, immigration, post office, treasury, propa- ganda and secret pollee depart- ments. Smuggling would pro- vide a refuge for the few ad- venturous souls who repudiated officialdom, There'd he no more juvenile delinquency, as half a hundred armies would provide an out- let for high-spirited youth. And a lot of dandy little wars would keep them on their toes. But there wouldn't be Much fighting. Supposing the new monarchy of Prince Edward Island declared war on the new union known as the Uni- ted Counties of the Ottawa Val- ley. They'd have to fight their way through the new nations of Passamoquoddy, Gasp e, Beaverbrook and Nova Lauren- tia, to get at each other. My plan would hush up those bores who continually agitate for a Canadian national an- them and a distinctive Cana• dian flag. They'd be too busy writing anthems and designing flags for such new. nations as The Yukon Republi c, The Peace River Principality,' West- ern Northern Ontario and Prince Rupert's Land. The smashing up of stodgy old Canada would also give us a chance to introdute some fine new social legislation that the present Federal Govern- ment refuses to consider, Sure- As the "Times" go by HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T-A FILES BELL LINES by W. W. Hays(); your telephone manager