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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-09-13, Page 44 Th.% • 0114 .,:$.0prOMtf...r 1 19.47 Editorials A liquor vote. This. ,newspaper believes the right to exprw an opinion In .puhtic contrilautes to. the progress of the nation and thet it tryst -he eser. si$P.F.I. freely and without prejudice to preserve and, improve demo. craft; government. Seeks explanations ,Reminders about your ONTARIO HOSPITAL. INSURANCE KEEP 11114WVIRIEDI Setter*, premiums are reqpired for your insurance from now on. Obtain. application form .at a hank* a hos pital or the Commission. KEEP' INSPIIED1 Tire. ~amyl*' premium must be paid to cover 'husband and -wife. Tell your group OR, it you pay your prerniumS direct, notify the Commission. KEEP INSURED!' Follow carefully the instructions On the back of. the Certificate of Payment 'Form 104, which your' employer is required to give you. Always keep your Hospital :Insurance Certificate handy. ONTARIO HOSPITAL SERVICES COMMISSION 2195 YONGE STREET, TORONTO 7, ONTARIO Sugar and Spice This week my wife and I on the right foot. And we've had an anniversary, No, we never been in step since, didn't celebrate it. We just Yes, we were well organix- hma It. There are no celebra• ed, financially secure and ono- films when these milestones tionally mature. None of th is i loom up. nut of, the domestic rushing into a hasty, ll- Mg. We merely observe 111011 , considered, poorly = matched with a mixture of wonder, awe union that we see so often and incredulity, among the young people today. Sixteen years of wedded Everything was well planned bliss. Bahl Sixteen :Years Of and carefully prepared before sh.aring bed and board with a we leaped info the quicksand, strange woman I'd never even We were just starting fourth laid eyes on until I was 25• vear of coli,ei_te. said, As the kids sa y' "How "a7Y y ear married.- She said, "All can you get?" right," We dug up a minister Into each life some rain and a few mourners, and must fall, a, the old sting puts plighted the good old troth, it. But didn't forecast We thenlumped into a bor• scale storm. It was raining rowed ear ' and took off for a hard the day we were mar- honeymoon in a borrowed tied, and it's been thundering cottage. where we lived on And lightning ever since, love and borrowed money. And when we returned, there One thing About our mar 7 was none of this business of riage, though, We started off moving in wi th the folks, No, Times Established 103 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1914 Represented By CC NR 6`16 tititaii*ira*iiaitiektei.itecitt6eattiaartilevA sass Welre couple : .theatipliate. 'Who WI .114Vti4 mutt King twines itriiir it, , Worhi tOt$ (cm-mt. don't care if you ARE in the plastics business, I want a DIAMOND engagement ring," GB bridge project JOTTINGS BY JMS Your library By MRS, .IMS In your library are several books in, the Golden Guide Se- ries for amateurs dealing with birds, mammals, insects, stars and others. Judging from the appearance of the books they have been used extensively. Photogra phy Another one in the series has just been added entitled "Pho- tography'', the amateur's guide to better pictures. —Please turn to Page 5 The Reader Comments Reader agrees To the editor, I was most happy to read in our Paper your opinion that Canadian history and its heroes should be. brought to the fore in the minds of our children. I heartily agree. and applaud Your policy most sincerely. This is a most laudable posi- tion for your newspaper to take. Thank you, Lilian Symons, 63 Sterling St,, London, BELL LINES by W. W. Haysom your telephone manager TAKE THE RUN OUT OF RUNNING YOUR HOME Like most busy folks in Exeter and district you've probably found that running a home today keeps you on the run (pardon our pun), and nowhere is this more evident than the kitchen—the busiest room in the house, No one likes to leave a crucial cooking lob to answer the phone, unless, of course, the phone is right there in the kitchen, With A handy colourful extension you can make and take calls while you watch the youngsters underfoot and that "labour of lave" simmering on the back burner, The bedroom too is en ideal spot for a handy extension, It will save you a lot of running fo the phone downstairs and provide a feeling of security at night, specially if you are ever Alorie. Call us today at 235.15$0 and ask about extension telephones in colour, We'll be glad to talk It over with you, WATCH OUR CHiLtIRBN Pollee Chief. C. H. Mad 117.ie, Exeter, joins us n this timely message to motorists: The streets of our town are filletl again with youngstert on their way hack to school. Many of than are Very young and still not fulls, aware. of the dangers iii passing aulOrnObiles. May we remind evetyent to exercise extra' caution while driving near schools or wherever young school children may be, walking. Let nt .remember that children do 'not always think before theymove aod can generally be counted on to do the 'Uri- expeeted. Adds Chid Marieetezite the co-operation of drivera at exercise extreme caution iti ''‘4'd 158111ettlarly school crossings. these areas," • ask for Please LAMBTON LOAN DEBENTURES APPROVED TRUSTEE INVESTMENT Lambton Loan & Investment Company Established 1844 CANADA'S OLDEST MORTGAGE COMPANY • Redeemable at par • Choice of 3, 4 or 5-year maturity • Half-yearly interest coupons 5 J. A, SMITH President Head Office: SARNIA G. C, NORSWORTHY General Manager Branch Offices: TORONTO and WALLACESUR% the country. Perhaps this incident took the keen edge off her thrill at entering our first home, At any rate. when the enmity old landlady finally let us in, the bride didn't stand there and squeal with delight, as I'd expected. She took ono swift glance . around, threw me the first of several thousand Thur. derous looks, and burst into tears, I didn't . understand her th en, and l'xe been trying since that September day 16 years ago with no more success. That Iva ,. a perfeetly good room with a pull -out bed. a two-ring gas burner. and a bathroom pet up on the next floor and drawn. the corridor a little way. ....Please turn to Page 5 By the slimmest of majorities. council has ,decided that Exeter citizens should have an op- portunity to vote on liquor licences. A request for a referendum has been forwarded to the Liquor Licence Board of Ontario, which likely m ill e.stab. lisp a date some time tins fall, At the council meeting. Mayor Simmons vast - ,two deciding votes to approve the referemitun. Council split 4-4 over the issue. with the mayor breaking the tie. His eonvietion was that the issue has been discussed and that "we may as well have it settled one way or another". While the tie-breaking procedure put the mayor in the forefront of the decision, the re- eponsibility obviously is not entirely his. The mayor, or the head of any municipality, is a voting • member of council and M ayor Simmons might have avoided the tie had he voted with the other mem- bers at the time he asked for an expression from those "for" and those "against". However. the procedure is not necessarily of importance and the decision would have been the same. Perhaps, as one councillor stated during the discussion, such a vote was inevitable. We were among those who felt that there should have been more evidence of support for outlets before council to warrant the calling of a referendum. However, the majority of the public representa- tives, whose job it is to interpret the wishes of the people, obviously felt that there is a significant support for outlets, at least enough to justify the holding of a vote, One cannot deny that people in a democ- racy are entitled to express their opinions and. therefore, it is difficult to protest the holding of a referendum. Nevertheless, we do feel that more than a letter from one individual is required to justify one. If the vote carries or is reasonably close, however, council's move will have been war- ranted. No one can object to it until the results are known. There are a number of considerations in connection with the vote which should be made, before citizens cast their ballots. C'ertain'ly, with all licences on the ballot, every voter should be aware of the distinctions between them. In addi- tion, we feel, the voters should know what control there is over the number of licences which may be granted. if any or all the licences are approved, The Times-Advocate will attempt to provide this and other information before the vote is held. For many of our readers, the question will be a moral one. Indications now are that there twill not be active, controversial campaigns by both sides, although this may change. It would appear that the trend in most areas is to have a quiet vote and "let the chips fall where, they may," as the mayor suggests, In line with this. The T-A will not take a stand as a newspaper, although. its publishers may express their personal opinions. as the newspaper will encourage others to do. Water-skiing fun Some of our more shaky for unsuccessful or afraid--to-try) water-skiing readers may appreci- ate the fun The Stouffyille Tribune has had with a certain George Sale who persisted in mastering the sport. In an August edition, The Tribune publish- ed a brief account which read: After only 85 attempts. Mr. George Sale, 17th Ave., Markham, was successfully launched on .his water skiing career. He ac- complished the feat while holidaying with his neighbors at their cottage on Go-Home Lake, Georgian. Bay. Later a reader, Lillian. Borland, forwarded a eommunication described as an eye-witness account from her cottage verandah. It's worth reprinting: George Sale went out to water skii tfie Cuttr Time5gOtiotate ffiutilistied Each 'Thursday .Moriiitio AtStratford* Authorized es Second Class Mail, Pest Office bep't Ottawa and for Payment of Postage' in Cash dirtulalion, March at, 1962 -- 3,$ SUEi$rtztPtitiN kATts: Canada 44,00 'Per Year; 'LISA SSA The Zurich Citizens News protests recent aaions in nay Township. We reprint: The actions of the 'Bay Township School Area board over the past few months is leaving .a question of doubt in the minds of many of the ratepayers. No less than four items carried out by this board are puzzling many of the people who help to pay the -expenses, Going. back to last spring, we are reminded of the decision of the board to close out the manual training and home economic classes in the area, This move was made against the wishes of at least ninety-eight per cent of the ratepayers. Even a request from an organization such as the Cham- ber of Commerce failed to change their minds, and their decision carried through, We were opposed to the dropping of these classes, since we felt children learned a great deal from them. and. some effort should have been. made to continue the subjects. The next move which many ratepayers are questioning was the decision of the board to let the contract for filling the school grounds at Zurich to a contractor who was not the lowest bidder, We always understood that unless the low- est bidder was not qualified, the contract should go to him. Perhaps the board had a good reason for their actions, hut we feel the public should be advised if this was the case. Due to changes in the schools in the area, another teacher was needed to fill out the staff, We understand there were two or three ratepayers in the area, all well qualified and experienced, who applied for the position, The board, however, chose to ko out of the area and. hire a teacher who had no previous teaching experience, and they have no guarantee how long she will be in the district. We certainly have nothing against the teacher they hired: she may be better than any of the others, but we question their action in not hiring a ratepayer with all the necessary qualifica- tions, The final mistake the board made, as far as. we are concerned, was when they went out and purchased a new school bus. We were not opposed, to them obtaining their own vehicle, but we feel that such purchases should be made on a tender basis, There is an automotive dealer in the area. paying big taxes towards the school, who should have been given a chance to quote on the new bus, However, the purchase was made without shopping around at all. Does this seem fair as far as a local dealer is concerned? And promptly fell. upon his knee, "I'll try again," our friend George cried. This time he fell upon his side, Still, every time they pulled the rope George's heart was filled with hope. Four and eighty times he crashed . , Wildly in the water threshed, -For miles around the noise resounded Alt the fish were so confounded, Large and small they formed a mass -(Pike and pickerel. perch and bass), And held a true pisces convention, George the only subject mentioned . „ "We must stop this wild commotion" "Our placid lake's a stormy ocean" "His tidal waves," the seagulls say, "Cause havoc down in Georgian Bay" . "Order. order, here's a man Who's joined our meeting watt a plan," Gar Pike's proposal brought a swish Of firm assent from every fish. A human voice came like a roar, "George, why not try it one time more," Then big Gar Pike 'came swimming by And aimed his spear. "OUCH:" George jumped high. "lie's up, he's up" all cried in glee. "George Sale has learned to water skit" a I'd rented a smart little apart- ment where my bride and I were going to live just like real. married people. The neighborhood was a little on the shabby side —just a block from the red.light district• but it was only 510 a week. I made sure we arrived after dark and she didn't even no- tice the :poolroom next door. -Ar I wish I could say that carried her over the thresh- hold. I'd planned to, but I couldn't find the dam' key. And there followed our first light, one of those brief and bitter altercations that have been so frequent in the sub- sequent 16 years, as I have looked for various keys in front of various doors all over I' am writing my jottings this. Apartments were also fitted up week from Grand Bend, it over the old barn for the use seems only a short few weeks of the hired help at the hotel. ago that we were looking for- Joseph. Brenner was followed by ward to the summer season his son Ezra. among the oaks and pines and The transformation of the the sunsets over' Lake Huron Brenner -House after being taken and now we wonder where the. o v er by 'NH% Harold. Tlopp and summer has gone. renamed the Colonial Hotel With the opening of the school was the •first big step in mod- term the exodus began and with ernizing this corner. the exception of the weekends Two of the big undertakings a peaceful atmosphere prevails, by 'the Ontario Department of Throughout the-summer there Highways to make the Blue has been considerable activity Water highway a tourist attrac- in widening and improving the lion was the bridge over the Blue Water highway north from Bayfield river and the more Grand Bond to St. Joseph. it is recent development, the new' the initial work prior to having bridge over the Maitland river the highway paved. Only by fol- at Goderich, lowing the work, as I have done *'mess some pictures are pre- by travelling over it several served of the present properties, times each week, can one aP- the rising generation will have preciate the tremendous task it little conception of the tremen- has been to prepare this stretch dolls alterations now taking of road for paving. place, As this is only the beginning of greater things to be accom- plished, we can only speculate on what the. future holds for Grand Bend which has been the mecca for thousands of tourists both from Canada and across the American border. The plans for the main inter- section when completed will revolutionize the approach to the village. Manore's Garage, which was a landmark long before Grand Bend became a village, to- gether with a store and other buildings, has been taken over by the Ontario Department of Highways and will he demol- ished to make way for a new road to link up with. Highway 21. The main bridge over the Au. sable river will be replaced by a wider structure and the high- way south is in the process of being widened. Trees have been cut down along the highway for several miles In preparation for A main thoroughfare through the pinery. • At the "cur' about five miles south of Grand Bend work is progressing on a new br'idee and a new portion of highway will he ,built to eliminate two abrupt turns that have been a menace to the motoring public, Manore's garage dates back to the days when Joseph Bren- ner owned the Brenner Hotel, now the Colonial Hotel, the ga- rage, and a stable for the ac- commodation of horses, when that was the only means of travel, The garage,. in the early days was used as a dance hall and community centre. Booms for the overflow of guests at the hotel. were fitted up in the second storey of the building, HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T-A FILES Use this coupon to obtain further Information or Place an order Ill Lambton Loan Debentures LAMBTON LOAN & INVESTMENT COMPANY 191 North Front Street, Sarnia, Ontario Please send me further information about Lambton Loan Deben• tures or Enclosed is cheque for S covering purchase oft Sliic:a Debenture ., Year desired S Name..... 1,40 1.........•••••••••111.7 ••••••• ............................. Address ..... ...... ..... rommimme is i 4 dispensed by Bill Smiley As the "Times" go by 50 YEARS AGO September 8 was a red letter day in, the history of Si. Paul's Church, Kirkton, when, the edi- lice was consecrated by his lordship, the Bishop of Huron, Mr, Charles Harvey has rent- ed his farm on Con, 3 llsborne to limy Rohde of Stephen, 'Mr. 'Harvey will move unto the farm he recently purchased front the estate of the late Thomas Prior. Norman J. bore. . of Brantford twill succeed I. .1, Knight as station agent here. After 36 years of successful business in the tanning industry Mr. T. H. McCallum is giving up the business, 25 YEARS AGO On account of the epidemic of infantile paralysis through. nut the province the Ifaist and Lamport family reunions which Were to be held at Croditon en Labor Day have been cancel- led. The road running 'from Bus- seldale through Exeter to the Blue Water Ilighwio together with the road running through Hensall and :Zurich to the 'Bine Water Highway have been taken Over by the province. A bumper bean crop ,averag- ing 18 to 20 bushels to the acre nOrlh of the rectory. ,mer manager Don Charlton ha s. io is. ptoptiatiir Of the people's resign ed. Cash Shot store, KOele of Exeter. the Xetherlands int:Migrant briber, Strito World War rankles who saved two. ItC.AP flight litialletaI assistance to Other cadets from 06 burning wreck- efilittrita hasexceeded 64.7 age. of their plaice At 'Cefiltalia. triOrehiltiort,' Than half .ot this will reethe the .Geor ge Merle triirrOn( teas been in 'Outright With Me Approval of Her Ifiljes• •ty, 'Queen.grantS, 10 YEARS AGO By a vote. of 6.3 the South Ituron District high School Board rejected a proposal 16 in- crease the pricetif. students' meals to rut down the cafeteria. deficit. The deficit for 1.951 amounted to 52.127.79. Over 8,150, the result of cite work en Dominion Day, Kin- is being harvested in South "54 sived Iwo. to the fcins. Huron under ideal weather con. „len club t the first fill y ditiong. Kindle Moeting, Mr. William Panto . has pm-, W . owr idot Nis t e . chased from W. Batson the signers as presi d ent of the F:00. brick residence on Andre St, ter Distri e. ".operativf,. p.or. 15 YEARS AGO What at one time was con- sidered one of the finest homes in Exeter is now ,being on. larged and remodelled and when completed will he an up-tollate funeral home for Messrs, hop- per and 'Hockey, with living quarters above, An immediate start on a sur- vey of the mouth of, the Ausable River at Port Pranks was or- dered Saturday by members of the Ausable Conservation Au- thority in an effort to protect cottages and village property front further erosion. Kenneth Hockey and William Sanders of the Exeter Bowling Club won second prize at the Now Hamburg Merchants and Manufacturers totirnainerit last Wedn'esdAy. At the Exeter District 'High School field day the junior girls' championship was won by Mari. lyn Pfaff and the junior boys By Bon lteirnrieh. 1.