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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-08-09, Page 4P 00 4 The ` lrraeseAdvocate, 44u0120 9, 1941, isle lop4per believe* the .09.10, eepreee en, eehlien public contr. to .progress of the testleinetiti that It must be eeer. .cieed freely end ,without preitictiost4 preetirye and improve ,doting. critic governmetit. ow do you rate your town How do you rate Exeter as a town? Most of us who live bore are happy with think it's the best in a wide area. .Even the nos loyal, however. will admit it's difficult not to b• ytrejudieed. Recently ate canto upon a town rating quiz which ran in this newspaper se‘ oral years ago. aotie of our readers may remember it. We thou ght it 1=111 resurrecting. • ;Die quiz originally appeared in the Town. JO-Vilial, a magazine devoted tt. life in small urban centres, with the challenge, "Do you dare to rate your town", - -^ The journal suggests a score of 30 or more „answers indicates you can be proud of your RpiAllity. Obviously, this is not a serious criter- lotteince it's difficult to answer straight "yes" or ."ire' • to some of these questions. Nevertheless, give it a try, Ticic off a "yes" 0.1"."no' to each question and total your "yes" anNers. We score 27 ''yes", 14 "no". How about 1;'1.114.)st high school graduates stay in town. Yes 0 No 0 2:_*- Getting a loan on a sound business venture is easy. Yes C No 0 The local paper constantly pushes civic im- provements, Yes q No 0 4. There's a Chamber of Commerce with a live- wire manager, Yes 0 No 5. Police enforce the law's efficiently and impar- tially, Yes 0 No 0 e-fe There's a place to swim within easy reach. Yes 0 No .7. young couples have little trouble finding a • place to live. Yes 0' No 0' 8. The head of your govirnment is a -get-things, done" man, 9. rown entrances are free from junk, shacks and billboards. Yes 0 No 0 19. Teachers' salaries are better than average, Yes r0 No 0 Theree.at least one doctor per 80.0people. Yes 0 No 12. There's a library with a good collection of .;recent books. Yes 7 No E ra. Newcomers quickly feel they are part of the town Yes 0 No 14,--Schools haNe plenty of room for students. Yes 7 No 0 15. Fire insurance rates are low for your type of ,., town, Yes. 7 No 0 16. Service, veterans' and women's clubs team up on projects. • Yes 0 No 0 ti. There is an active, well organized Boy Scout ' troop.Yes Ei No 0 18, A modern hospital is within your trading area. Yes 0 No 0 19. All streets are paved and sidewalks are in good shape. Yes 0 No 20. Well-stocked stores keep shoppers in the town. Yes 0 No 0 21. There's a hotel or motel you'd enjoy if you were a visitor, Yes 0 No 0 22. It's easy to find parking space iii the business section.Yes 0 No 0 At least one restaurant serves outstanding meals, Yes 0 No 0 24, The sewer extension program keeps pace with new housing. Yes 0 No 0 It's easy to get volunteers for any worthwhile project. Yes 0 No 0 26. Public toilets are provided for visitors shop- ping in town, Yes 0 No 0 27. Prompt, reasonably priced ambulance service is available. Yes 0 No 0 28. Good zoning keeps factories away from resi- dential areas, Yes 0 No 0 9. There's an annual Clean-up, Paint-up, Fix-up week. Yes 0 No 0 30. Streets throughout the community are well lighted. Yes 0 No 0 31. More than half the church congregations are under age 40, Yes 0 No 0 32. Shade trees line nearly all the streets. Yes 0 No 0 33. There's an ample supply of good drinking water. Yes 0 No 0 34. There's a recreation centre where young people dance. Yes 0 No 0 35. The business section has a modern, prosper- ous look, Yes 0 No 0 35. There's as much interest in local as national elections, Yes 0 No 0 37. The tax rate is attractive to new industry. Yes 0 No 0 38. There's an active industrial promotion com- mittee in your town. Yes 0 No 0 39, There's an active Home and School Associa- tion. Yes 0 No 0 40. Firemen must take regular training courses.. Yes 0 No El Well, how did you score your town? Did it pass the test? ora Yes 0 No Fi t?,z e .. '44,1•41., iii,aattloaaowakate ar and Spice dispensed by Bill Smiley -cie)7AIAL3lie 5-29 ,Yee rniudt :maitre Ix.. 19",-1 mkt% rezoned. "'pear, remember that time in 1056 when you Spilled paint all over the living-morn rug? . Jovial character frel4neieniel'elligteeleMeMesteetessei "resseetes eiesesesestetese t 1541, Via; reaturet S;ibdieAtE ., nth* ti, 3" 9 "The verdict seems unanimous'," Represented by CC NR Datil Thursday Mu-11131V At Stratford, Otte as Second Class Mail, Poo polo beo, and for payMent of Petteele its Cosh Aletherired 1,.Adv.t t" ilrenldli rl, Niere,h 31, 1762 1,571 Centettis 44,00 e'er Yeitep * 4 5 VIrt ttexlIt,voe*ta dy, put,,-4013.16 hE4 iritctLuis (fExttrt Zunt5abbatatt "Limes Established Ian Advocate Establish©c Amalgamated 1724 GRADUATES The following graduates of Goderich Business College have recently commenced work as secretaries, book- keepers, stenographers and typists; Patricia Paterson, Hay Stationery Co., London; 'Karen McCue, John .Boshart Sc Sons Ltd., Seaforth; Marlene Hayes, John Englis & Co., Termite; Donald Mallough. upper Lakes Shipping Ltd., Goderich; Gloria Stanley, Dominion Road Machinery Co, Lid, Goderich; Edith Doweon, Ex-Cello Corporation, London; Grace Clifton, Selby Shoe Co., London; Eleanor Alton, ClICH Television Station, Hamilton; ' Ruth Ann Batkin, Clinton Community Credit Union Ltd.; Myrtle Collins, Wolverine Tube Division, Calumet & Ueda of Canada, London; - Kay •Watleies, Canadian National Telegraphs, Goderich; John Consitt, Robert Bell Industries, Seafortfit Edith Landsborough, Huron County Home: Kathryn Naftel, Household Finance Corp. of Canada, Goderich; Richard Worsell, Empire Brass Co,, London; Shirley Wilkinson, Aldis Real Estate, London: John Schneiker, Signal Star Publishing Ltd., Goderich; Gloria 'Rumball. Provincial Pollee Office, Goderich; John Sturdy, Johnston & Mallough Machine Shop, Goderich; Annette Dickson, Dominion Road Machinery Co Ltd., Dianne GM°adeeArlectiht iir, F. L. Gibbs, Accountant, Stratford; Marlene Arlin, London Life Insurance Co., London; Students are now registering for the Fall Term com- mencing. Tuesday, September 4. usy People save and MONEY at - They bank b1 mail the B of hi 'Way, You can get full details aithoui eibliviion at )r our neatest .S of M branch. Why net call in or write today ? ll'enthins Mould he simpler The B of M's mail depreittorrn - made of "nee rat bon4equitcd” paper - eliminates the need toe repetilist ci t iting Or MesSt C411141M5, Non make out on/1 oni• deposit,slip. Presto, there's a so, On d tops uhith tomes back hem the BRA as s our re• teipt.„ and a 1hVI d cop.\ At hith s on keep tom sour records, e suppt‘ a pre-addressed ens elope with Our tom. 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Phone for complete Information and free estimates. • Year'round luxury • Save 20% op fuel • Complete comfort- room-to-room NIAOLMAKKRK ,055tMtb Lindenfields Limited Phone 235-2361 Exeter goodny to a house full of memories is taking have of a friend-'Limn has been with eon theough thick. and thin and whew "nu inn er see again. 'We dirt it tbr ether die.. when ve eald the hewn-, .wheli we ha d te,ea during the year:, when the 'lids %ere email le. we \sent through the bare but familiar rooine, a combines tuna of affection and eadriees flooded over ite 'ro me, at least, that old ho nee had aiweee been a reeepereneehte. and just now Ia eEPriPti its IV tn:311,g, to sae some-! ling At first. I coulebv quite get the ee.e.e.age -was a ni iitialy pleading that Ile return" Was it wnromering that wed ne glee...Jed it" 'Wee it beeeeeliing us me to leave it tenets amid etranseses" ine wee it lint ;2111; Oz. me irhat-fOr beeauee I bad broug'et-eheme en it letting the tuss-zget ic arreare^ 'r i* * * At any raze. it uhispeeed wordlossne as "e Merle the last. Itelancholy tour In each room] the monitories came crowding bade, good ones and bad, ones. It is only now that I reellee the house was remain. berme, too it was saying things like this; Here's my big, Nigh! kitchen. Hew many thousands of hours did; you sit around the old, white kitchen .table with tenvivial ceeispeny? Hew they used to pile in on youl The trout 'fisher. inen and the dunk hunters, the friends and the relatives, the commercial travellers and the minister visitors, "°Ri emem bee how- Lou two users to dance in the kitchen. to Thee little, old, toy record Nave, while Elm crowed with delight in her high-chair? Re. rneinber the night Geordie towed a hlige fire-cracker under the nattering, females? Remember the inight the fishing gang drop- ped in and cleaned up your en, tire stock of home brew, 105 bottler, and ;Lou quit making it. forever? "Come on into my living- room, now. Yes., it still has the hay window. w here you used to erect those huge spruce at Christmas. I never did hear a man swear so My handsome, 51int ,pillared mantel ie still there. over the fireplace that doesn't have a chimney. There's where the piano sat Remember the eiusesongs. with people see deep around. * "Let a go on my big, cursing staircase Pretty graceful com- pared to that poke, little one e nu liae now, isn't it? There's sour old room Remember how the kids used to paddle in, bare- footed, on Sunday morning, and 'lap eon gently in the face till eou groggily sat up to button that shirt or tie up that pons• tail' Here's Hugh's old l'00111. It looks smell to hiot flew, .but it seemed huge then. RemeMber the night you two put down the linoleum here, and almost agreed to net a divorce before the job was finished? Remote. ber the lime Hugh tied the sheets together and shinnied out his window and thirty 'NO to the ground, when he was tee? Nun s room looks about the same There's the new plaster in the ceiling. Remember the night about 300 pounds of it eame down and sou thought the furnace had blown up^ Re- member how helpless you felt when .she lay there, miserable, horning with fever. measles from nose to tries" "Yes, the bathroom is pretty, isn't it? Should be; it cost .nu plenty., I still don't think the pink mother-of-pearl toilet seat was essential But you enjoyed that wide ledge on the bath- tub. I've seen you soaking there On july lg The Times-Advo- cate printed a picture of "Bank- er" Bill Gassman with the no- tation that he had won a prize for the shaggiest beard at a centennial celebration us Yale, Michigan, This same picture was printed in the Grand Bend Holiday along with the following story written by Bin Batten, 1 was so interested in the story that I thought it would be fine for my column. Bill raters to a number of Gossinau's jokes and 1 heard of another that he pulled while in Yale, Speaking to a lady that grew strawberries, he asked her what she put on them, Her an- swer was fertilizer. "We put on cream," said Bill. The lady laughed and took Bill over to npeulall h o s m the joke on one of her Batten's article in the Grand Bend holiday follows; On Wednesday afternoon, PC Harold Doupe came walking out from his coffee break at the. Dawn Tavern when he met Dashwood's bearded Bill Goes- man walking along the street, "Just on my way down the street to see the horse with the wooden leg," Bill reported- to the young Ulmer. "'hie what?" came the re- TO% "The horse with the wooden leg,"" staled again, " Where is it?" came the se- rious question from the OPP constable, "Down o n tit e merry-go- round," Bill quipped with his usual hearty laugh, 'Me incident was just one that has been repeated many times throughout the district and even -to the Canadian West and as far south as Florida - in fact, just where Bill Gossman hap- pens to be at any particular time. At present. Bill is on the "beard-growing circuit" a ii d just recently. walked off with top prize for the shaggiest beard in a centennial celebra- tion in Yale, Michigan. There is little doubt. that the judges made any mistake, be- cause Bill hasn't had a shave or a haircut since fall and hasn't even bothered to trim ht . wriskers in that time. However, when he does hit out for some contest, his safe curls his shoulder-length hair into a neat roll to put under his hat. It's just one of the hats that has provided Bill with one of his other riddles that has pro- voked people for being so fool- isis, "Know where 1 got this hat?" Bill will question, And, when the reply comes that the person dotee"e, Bill quickly replies., "right here on top of my head," Large .family Bill was born 7D ,years ago in Dashw'obd f although be en- steered that lie was born in bed) where his father was in 50 YEARS AGO Mr, who recently ar- rived here from England, has taken a position on the farm with C. W, Christie, Stephen. Mr, and Mrs, William Verily and family, and Mr, and Mrs. Percy Verity of Btainford spent Thursday in town coming in titer autos. finery Carling re- turned to Brantford with them. Last week Mr, Frank Sims, trediton, is as presented with a purse of Geer $.100 which had been rattled from his MOWS to assist hint in rebuilding the barn Width was recently de. stroyed by fire. lie has bought the hotel barn from Sam Brown and intends to teas' it down and rebuild it. There remains but at w hate in Ilibberl Township, that at Dublin, Lest week the commis- sioners Cut Off the license of the Only Othet gone, that of Stele, 25 YEARS AGO Harold M. Corbett, Licari, Ives elected 'MGM of Masonic Pisttiet South Huron at Masoeit, Grand Lodge in Ottawa last week. Messrs. P, Woo a, jams Boscey, Charles Salter and C. J. Stewart spent the weekend at Lions Head tilt a fishing trip. Mr. J. T. Paisley, ,manager' of the Exeter bradch ell the way Stores Ltd., left on, T1165- day for Caledonia where he has been appointed titatiager of a ow store in that plate. Tfid Exeter Hort:wilting So, ditty is holding its annual Plower Show 'on Saturday ui the Carnegie Library WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT! Your personal .circumstances, .needs and problems are .different than your :neigh- boy's, That's why it's important to hate an insurance 1.)rottritin that's tailored !,0 you. individually. if you're interested in, eNPerllY Planned prot tction for yourbomy4 ea?', family and business., Olt on us, Gildy t,00,!j SANK-8Y- MAIL tcLltedtteriittoilo (Aisttstulolub,..AA:eznyi:::: (Open l'uesuay, l'hursday and on Friday Citl-6.t4o.) ClIARL)16 SMI'T'H, Matittaet (.Qpeo MOnday, 1 /417telti&,day And flticlay) Grand tend Branch ,: DONAU) ROBERTSON, Sitti**t3 t4shi4tori (8e1J,Artttetii): Otien Moti,, Wed ..tr NI, ttait=lt ?;iclirttitit, 4 KtNNti1-1 CIIIUISTIAN, Manager i LACK STEACV Manaaii Zurich Branch! 101•IN IiiiNNI$Trrt ktortAler wokkittO still CaNketAtl 1,1 E'VrIti WMY Litt ansttt 180 with cigarettes, matches, books, sandwiches, beer a n d your glasses all at hand, * * ik Here's the little back bed- room that you spent so much time and money decorating, and never used, Down the back stairs now. Have you don't even. have a back stairs in your new house, do sou? here's the old utility room, where you spent so many hours in, your pyjamas, holding that stupid spaniel, pup on a newspaper, while he read the comics. Here's the dining-room. Huge, isn't it? They tell me you eat in one end of the living-room, in your new place, Now, let's take a look down cellar. You couldn't bear it? 1 don't blame you. You spent seven soul- destroying years battling that old furnace before you got sense enough to put the new one in, and I know there are still tufts of hair and skin from your head on some of the beams down there, "You have to go now? Aw, Well, I'm sorry, Even though you were the most clueless family that ever lived in me, I've missed you. I gave you a lot of troubto, but we had some good times, didn't we? You'll never forget those days, Re• member me, remember me..." That's what the old house said, as we locked the door and walked away for the last time. 15 YEARS AGO Nett llockey aild Gordon May were at Goderich Wedeesday Afterilooti defending the Hunt Trophy which they icon in a Scotch Doubles tournament last year. BuadOtertl, traders and heavy Machinery are being used in re- moving clay from several farms to Make the fill required in widening the road prior to pay- ing of Highway as between txe• ter and DA5hWOOd. The newly OgArtited chapter" of Beta Sigma Phi held a wiener roast at Port Blake Tuesday evening, Irene Beaupre is president, and Miss Margaret secretary. jack liestle, 'who has been ssith Zeller's at 1,Virinipte, has resigned his pesition to accept a position with Hobbs Glass of. London, 10 YtARS AGO 'Town employees Wore ittarit- od a Pet .1Ocent-perliteur itt-- creeet by town triUntil Monday. The raise brings average hourly tate to 00 cents. Best dressed dolls in a doll show at the Kinsmen playground Fridaywere shown by 'Sandra Hunter, Margaret Hoskey, Nancy Boyle and. Sheila Ford, "Rental] has putehased a neW fire truck at a Oa Cromarty tottieditoiS captured first prize in a square riarree tOnl.6$t in cOmpotitinti With 'eine office .groups front tWat Weadrits Ontatid AtOW Ttine Fiddlers' Contest held tan, at Mill batik. JOTTINGS BY JMS the dry goods and grocery busi. ness, One of 15 children, Bill re- ports lie got only as far as "the second book" in school. "We didn't Jose to go to school iii those days unless we wanted. to," he reported, "and I didn't W a nt, to," however, he did point out that boys in those days who- lived at home were expected to give their parents all their eernings until they were 21 years old, . "We got our clothes and lodee ing and a 'bit of spending money," lie stated, pointing out he was working for sums as low as 25 cents a day, He recalled "the good old days" when he was a youngster - Please turn to page 5 The Reader Comments Convict writer To the editor, If possible, I hope ' others with more eloquence nearer to ybu will help to convict, evriier of July 26 editorial, "Power Corrupts" of some Canadians' besetting sin, which is chur- lishness, in my respectful opi- nion. That editorial said: "One re- luctantly and agonizingly real- izes that the prime minister conducted a deliberate cam- paign of misrepresentation." Well, your realization, however reluctant and agonizing, could be somewhat unique except among those who day or week- in and week-out seem unhappy unless they are making the necessary party function of democracy stink in the nostrils of the Canadian- people.. You accuse Rt. Hon. Mr. Die, , . fenbaker of dishonesty on a na- tional scale. I think you should be accused of curlisliness in its worst aspect and that same July 26 edition of. The Times- Advocete .offers proof. That is, a man was found dead in a locked car. I know that the Hanover Post and The Chesley Enterprise dealt with it as a regrettable accident. Your pa- per revealed that there was a warrant out for the unfortunate man. Though Shakespeare's "Mer- chant of Venice" is not being shown this year at the nearby Stratford Festival, I would like to urge reading and re-reading of retitle's "Quality of Mer- cy" speech, You may not only come to admire that virtue. more, you could go on to reale ize that you, too, need mercy. When you do, you ,will know how to write an editorial on the truism that "While alt Power corr upts, absolute power torrupts absolutely." C, 1f. Freeinan, Winowdale, Out, .As the "Times" go by 1-11GFILIGHT: FROM me T-A MES