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Could A test be 'applied before intoxiP4t0
persons get behind the Wheel?. Not by law, now,
but it might become law, in opinion .of Edson
Haines, a' member of the Torcnto law firm .of
'Haines, -Thomson, Rogers., Howie & Freeman, He is
quoted by the Ontario Safety League as follows;
"Our present laws are all weighted in favor
of the drinking driver. There is no limit ,on the.
amount of alcohol he is permitted to consume and
drive, True, he must not drive when intoxicated
or impaired, but if he is suspected of committing
either offence he is entitled to smile in a pD11.
stable's face and say, "No .officer, I won't take a
test.." As a lawyer, T can say that alcohol is a
contributing factor to far more accidents than the
police ever establish, Drinking drivers must be
taken off the highway, and this can only be done
by imposing a limit on the amount of alcohol a
man may have in his blood and still drive. It must
be a simple law to enforce and without moral
stigma upon .conviction, It should not be difficult
to establish a limit at which legislators could say
to the motorist, 'Beyond this you ought not to
drive.' "
a corsage of DeLaval stainless steel milking
machine units.
Following the reception which followed the
beautiful wedding, the bridal couple left in a
newly-painted Massey Harris tractor, diesel for an
extended trip with terms to suit the purchaser.
On their return, with one good baby buggy, the
newlyweds plan to take up permanent residence
in a nearly new chicken house, complete with
built-in roosts and nests.
Thus the couple was married and lived
happily even afterwards.
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Have you noticed how the
world is turning away from the
idea that a hero must he a
young man? For example,
when the Yanks wanted to
send somebody whistling
around the world in one of
those crazy capsules, they
didn't choose some young punk
of twenty-three,
Nossir! They picked Colonel
John Glenn, a mature, intelli-
gent, charming and handsome
fellow of about my age. It's
finally being realized that
most men of our age possess
these qualities, along with out-
standing ability to handle a
crisis under great stress.
As the years hurtle by, this
has become gradually more
have stayed with me last Tues-
day, and finished as fresh as
I did. It was the day my daugh-
ter became 11. She'd been pro-
mised a birthday party. After
the invitations were out, her
mother realized that she had
to take the other offspring to
the city for a music festival,
and wouldn't be here to run the
show.
*
Guess who? Right. I was it,
Planner of games, judge of
contests, master of ceremo-
nies, settler of fights, caterer,
and general party mother. And
do you think I didn't handle
all those roles with dignity,
grace, charm and warmth, not
to mention aplomb and in-
souciance? Deng right I did!
Take some young punk of 20
evident to me — how excitable
and nervous and erratic and
just plain silly are young fel-
lows; how calm, competent,
poised, steady, reliable and
sane are we more adult chaps.
Of course, I must admit it's
just a matter of experience,
The young fellow in his late
teens or early 20's is inclined
to panic when he confronts an
unfamiliar situation, But for
the middle-aged bird, there's
no such t hi n g. He's been
through it, or something migh-
ty like it,
The man who has been able
to reach 40 without resorting
to drugs, drink or divorce is
a pretty valuable piece of hu-
manity. He may not be able to
accomplish some physical
feats as quickly or easily as
the young buck. But he can
perform a lot more mental
and social feats, and in the
process he can last a whole lot
longer and finish a good deal
stronger.
I'd like to see, for example,
the young fellow who could
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Typographical errors are an editor's night-
mare, In spite of an energetic system of proof
reading, practised each and every week, these
seeming uncontrollable irregularities continue to
haunt the management of the newspaper industry,
The following is a slightly exaggerated
sample of what could occur if an auctioneer's sale
register became interposed with a vivid descrlp,-
tion of a local wedding ceremony. The result is
enough to make the editor seek immediate asylum
in the ranks of the foreign legion, It would read
AS follows:
John Jones and Miss Susan frown were
disposed of at a public auction at my farm, located
under a floor-length, embroidered gown of pea
straw and new mown hay, The matron of honor
was a registered. Holstein cow with calf by side.
The pretty ceremony was performed before a
picturesque setting of new and used implements,
too numerous to mention, Guests were in attend-
ance from a wide area including six fresh heifers,
10 sows, 25 young chickens and a few old hens.
The bride carried a bouquet of new potatoes mixed
with a spray of Clinton oats.
Misses Lucy Smith and Jenny Johnson were
the bridesmaids, dressed alike in hand-made rugs.
They carried two lanterns and a toilet set. The
bride wore a grease gun around her neck, a gift
from the groom,
The Rev. Thomas tied the nuptial knot with
200 feet of hay rope. The reception was held at
the bride's home where her mother received the
guests dressed in one large quilt with two goose
feather pillows. She wore matching accessories and
a corsage of buckwheat, cleaned and treated, The
bridegroom's mother wore one good oil drum with
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Sugar and Spice dispensed by Bill Smiley
of the law, to say nothing of
the smart dress uniforms; my
third choice was that of the
job I hold today, my reason
— well, while I had good rea-
sons let what has been said be
enough.
Then came the time to make
up my decision Our teacher in
a vocational guidance lesson
asked me what my career
choice was. Because I didn't
favor my third choice too much
I didn't even mention it. How-
ever on my first choice the an-
swer I got was something like
this. The newspaper field was
an extremely hard one to ad-
vance in, besides extremely
low pay for a long time etc.,
etc. Maybe so. In answer to
my second choice I was told
that it too was very poor pay,
a hard life to live with, so
much work in the cold Cana-
dian north etc. etc. etc,
While the teacher was no
doubt an intelligent man, how
in blazes he could get so many
demoralizing answers off the
— Please turn to pege 6
held. He'd probably have gi-
ven the prize to the kid who
could dance it best. A mature
man would never do that. He'd
give it to the shyest, or the
gawkiest, or his hank mana-
ger's daughter, or somebody
useful,
I'd like to see that young
fellow hustle up two dozen hot-
dogs with the works, pour 24
glasses of ginger ale, whip the
cream, serve the jello, light
the candles and lead the sing-
ing, and escape with nothing
more than a few burned fin-
gers, a couple of broken glas-
ses, some wax on the table-
cloth, and not enough nickles
in the cake. He just couldn't
do it, He'd be screaming for
the Red Cross or somebody be-
fore he'd dished out the first
round of red-hots,
Now, I'm not bragging or
looking for, praise. I'm merely
pointing out a fact that is well
known to all middle-aged men
— that all middle-aged men
are more diplomatic, tolerant,
judicious and helpful in emer-
gencies than are young men.
If this is the case, someone
will ask, why is it that young
wamen aren't battling to cap-
ture these paragons, instead of
going around marrying young
men al lthe time? And 'the ca-
sual observer will probably
reply that it's because young
men have hair on their heads
and muscles in their bellies
and music in their souls.
This, of course, is a super-
fluous view, As anyona who
has pondered the whole busi-
ness can easily see, the real
reason is because these fine,
middle-aged chaps, in the very
prime and flower of their
lives, are already in the toils
of women who know how for-
tunate they are, and who are
hanging on for dear life, Alter
all, you don't get chaps like us
out of grab bags.
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I 2.7 t. 1961 Mug' Femur,. Syndmatt 3nc., York, right:< re,vetee.
"You'd never believe he got two speeding
this month."
tickets
"O , you can aped your eyes—but keep your
Mouth '6W"
and let him try it. Let him
take over a dozen wild, squeal-
ing, sweet, silly, giggling little
girls. He'd run so'abing out of
the house, calling for his mo-
ther, after 10 minute's of it.
I'd like to see him acting as
judge for the twist contest we
Appreciates help
Dear Sir:
The executive of the Exeter
15fohawks wish to thank all the
supporters who helped early in
the fall with financial donations
to cover the cost of player in-
surance, entry fees, etc.
The generosity of 15 local
merchants and businessmen as-
sured new sweaters for the
team.
Special thanks are due Cord
"Curly" Ebel, equipment man-
ager, and his good wife, He-
len, who washed a lot of tow-
els and mended uniforms.
A financial statement of af-
fairs will appear in a later is-
sue of The Times-Advocate
which all supporters will be
able to review,
I also want to express my
sincere thanks to all those who
helped in any way during the
past season.
Your truly,
Neil D. Campbell, pres.
Aptitude tests
To the editor,
It isn't very often that
read your Sugar and Spice col-
umn but I do enjoy your edi-
torials. As a result I took your
advice in your Feb. 22 issue
and did read Smiley's column.
Let's look into the article a
little deeper. Maybe these
drowsing, doodling students
are in the same boat I was
quite some years ago,
When I was in either eighth
or ninth grade I had my mind
firmly made up as to what I
wanted to be. It was to be one
of three things and by simple
process of elimination the re-
maining one was to be my
life's career. These three were:
first, the newspaper field (I
had always been a good stu-
dent of English and grammar);
my second choice to be a
Mountie, and my reason was
for adventure and enforcement
An outline of the develop-
ment of public utility services
in Exeter was provided by PUC
Manager II. L, Davis at a
banquet given in honor of L.
P'enhale who recently com-
pleted 27 years' service, The
outline follows:
Mr, Penhale commenced his
first term on the Commission
in 1935, At this time he was
elected Chairman, a position
he was to hold fop many years,
The first major project in
the Hydro Department was
new street lights in the busi-
ness area, These, were instal-
led in 1935, and the overhead
wires were removed to the
rear of the stores.
AL this time the Commission
had $57,000 invested in capital
plant and had a revenue of
$24,000. The peak load for the
year 1935 was 313.3 K.W, with
a total consumption of 989,298
Kw.lirs. The system had 567
hydro consumers,
Following 1935, loads conti-
nued to increase due to old
homes installing electricity and
more appliances being used.
During this period the Hydro
Department was always able
to finance additional plant
from existing revenue.
In 1943 the old hydro build-
ing, now occupied by Clarence
Fairbairn, was sold and the
present office was purchased.
This building was occupied by
the Ontario Hydro and the Pub-
lic Utilities until 1958,
Began own system •
Prior to 1958 all work on the
hydro lines was done by Onta-
rio Hydro employees. In 1958,
however, the Commission took
over its own operations and
,purchased line equipment and
hired male employees of its
Own,
The town experienced a spurt
in building and, due to most
of the older streets being
built up, new subdivisions were
developed. These proved to be
an abnormally large finan-
cial burden on the Utility but,
due to good management in
past years, all extensions were
financed with existing revenue.
It is rather interesting to
note that in Mr. Penhale's 27
years on the Commission the
capital plant increased to
$372,000.00, an increase of
50 YEARS AGO
Monday was a busy day for
Stephen Township C o u n c i I,
quite a number of bridge and
cement men were on hand
tendering for the bridges about
to be constructed this year.
Mr. John Kay, Farquhar,
disposed of his farm, one of
the best in the neighborhood,
to Thomas Allen for a good
figure.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gun-
ning, Whalen, gave a party for
the friends and associates of
their son, Walter, it being the
occasion of his 21st birthday.
Miss Gladys Brandt, Hen-
sail, has been engaged as in-
structor in the Spotton Busi-
ness College at Walkerton.
Miss Jennie Hardy left Wed-
nesday for Regina where she
has accepted a position as ste-
nographer,
The young people of Exeter
North tendered Miss Bertha
Cobbledick a kitchen shower
On Friday evening.
25 YEARS AGO
Premier Hepburn in his bud•
get speech announced a sur-
plus of $7,347,720. The amuse-
ment tax, which has been a
source of annoyance, will be
done away with commencing
June 1,
11/117. Nick Schmidt of Newton.
Is moving his ditching machine
to the. Grand Bend area this
week Where he has the con-
tract of under draining 700
acres of the 7,000 acre farm
recently purchased from the
Canada Co, by Dr, Hagernier,
Mr, Charles Belt has sold his
hotel, the New Commercial in
)Iensall to a Toronto man who
gets possession March 15,
The Department of Educa-
tion have 3,00 acorns cialleeted
front the. Windsor forest and
donated, by His Majesty the
King for distribution among
the public schools of Ontario,
Mr, Godfrey Wein, Credi,
ton, has sold his farm to his
son, Emerson, who gets ties,
session April 1,
Mr, and Mr. Wv C, Allison
expect to move to Exeter
shortly where Mr, Allison will
enter into partnership with
Mr, H. P. Rowe it) the gaso-
1ine and coal business,
JOTTINGS BY MS
$315,000.00, The peak load for
1961 was 2,423.9 K.W., an in-
crease of 2,116.6 KG,W. The
total consumption for 1961 was
10,352,406 kilowatthours. The
system used more kilowatt.
hours in the month of Decem-
ber that year than was used in
the year 1935. The system now
serves 1258 consumers.
In spite of increased costs
of wages and material, the cost
of the kilowatthour purchased
by our consumer today is chea-
per than in 1935, There are not
many businesses that can make
this claim.
Began water system
in the year 1935 Mr. P'enhale
commenced his first year as
Chairman of the Waterworks
Department of the Public Uti-
lities, Up until that year there
was only river water avail-
able. This supply was not fil-
tered or chlorinated and was
unfit for human consumption,
in the year 1934 money was
allocated to secure an ade-
quate supply of water for do-
mestic purposes. It was dur-
ing Mr. Penhale's first term
that an adequate supply of
water was found and the do-
mestic water system was put
into operation, This supply is
now known as the Springs Sup-
ply.
At this time there was a po-
pulation of 1601i in the village,
The system had 6 miles of
cast-iron main and 35 hydrants.
There was a total of 316 water
services with an estimated per
capita daily use of 40 imperial
gallons. The system had $43,-
266.00 invested in capital plant.
With the installation of do-
mestic water and metering,
the total gallonage for the
year 1937 was 28,701,000,
Due to an increase in de-
mand, the Utilities connected
its first well to the system in
1939. This was a drilled well
and was located at the corner
of Marlborough and Thomas
Streets and gave the system
an additional 60 gallons per
minute.
Add more wells
Again, due to increased
growth in the village, it be-
came necessary to secure ad-
ditional water and the Kestle
Well was connected to the sys-
-Please turn to page 5
15 YEARS AGO
One of the worst series of
accidents ever to happen in
this district ,occurred ' early
Monday morning when two
men were seriously injured
and seven cars and three
trucks were piled up in a
snowdrif t. Injured were
Messrs. Rollie Motz and Al-
len Fraser,
Rationing of maple syrup
has been lifted for this sea.
son, No coupons will be re-
quired as in past years,
Miss Lenore Norminton of
Hensall won the shield for girls
in the Lions oratorical contest
in this zone held in London
Public 'Library.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Cole re-
cently moved into the house
they purchased from the es-
tote of the late N. J. Dore.
Messrs Pryde and Son
are removing an old landmark
from Exeter's Main Street to
be replaced by a Modern
building for their cemetery
memorial work, The building
was originally built as a dwel-
ling and is one of the oldest
in town.
E, D. Howey has been ap-
pointed secretary of the High.
School Board,
10 YEARS AGO
harry Strang, Hensall RR 1,
first president of the Huron
Crop improvement Associa.
tier), leading exhibitor and ee,
ganiZer of the annual seed fair,
Was honored last week with a
gold lapel button,
A 40,000 auction sale of cat.
tie fed by district young far.
mers in a unique fait' cOn1PO*
tition scheme will feature, the
Hensall Stock ShoW, May 23,
'Harry Lippert, DaShvvOod,
was elected president of the'
Huron Auto Racing Club.
Hensall council discussed the purchase of a new fire erignie at its meeting Monday night,
Dr, If. Cowen showed
slides and gave a talk on .hit
recent ,trip to Alaska at ain
Street littech.
Men of the hydro staff chi,
vareed Mr, and Mrs, Len 1311-
rtes Monday tight,
Davies, Grant, Denning
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