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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-10-11, Page 4Pitqq 4 'Thq: Tin s.Aduoe.ateO. ct4ber I. Thie neeeepeper ',believe* the -right to filcprM en 1ptnien it n.ottlic to the ,PcP0r94 of the. nation, .end that it. levet kite cleeel freely.. and, without preiudica to preaterve, and improve demo.- ;retie governMent. Time for .change This newspaper heartily endorses council's appointment of a committee to study the opera- tions of the recreation committee and the cum, munity centres board with a view toward .reargan- - ization of the entire recreation program, In the latter phrase, we're not referring to recreation in the restricted sense of that which is under the jurisdiction of the recreation committee; we wouldd, include, too, the operation of the parks, the arena and possibly, if the present movement is Success- the proposed swimming mt. We submit now. as we hate before. that all of this comes under the general area of recrea- 7tion and the facilities for it, Frankly, we don't see how it can be denied that each serves the corn- . Me purpose. The unfortunate aspect is that' all these areas, despite their single purpose, come under •too many heads. There is no link which combines them into a correlated program. There is no authority which provides for the co-operation and co-ordination of the employees involved in this program. The present organization is costly, MOM- and unproductive of the results which could ,be obtained, We've suggested before that the recreation committee and community centre board might %veil be amalgamated. We think there still is considerable merit in investigating this possibility, It has been :,stiggested that the provincial grant structure would ..p.reveht. such a step; we seriously doubt that the province, providing the desired results are obtain- ed, would withdraw its support, Certainly discus- sions with provincial authorities would provide intelligent answers to the questions. Upon further consideration, however, we are not convinced., the amalgamation of the boards would provide the best solution. Serious considera- tion should be given to placing the entire program •in the hands of the PUC if the latter would be :Willing to take on this responsibility. Some immed- iate advantages are apparent, It would provide a line of authority, which is one of the most serious 'needs- of the present system; it woud reduce the entire program to a single budgeting and a single grant from town council; it would provide for efficient and correlated management of the part- time help required for the program; it would place . Ivaa r4.iev mcirftL "I don't like reading, I don't like writing, and I don't like arithn—ticall I like around here IS your big, blue eyes," Serious checkers WQULt YQU LIKE TO KNOW about INYE.STOFW PleAleta? 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I couldn't help congratulating myself, when I read about that ugly display of race hatred at the University of Mississippi, on being a citizen in the land of the maple leaf, the rye whiskey, the devaluated dol- lar, and the naked Doukhobor. If there's one thing we Can- adians are, it's completely tolerant of rates, religions and colors different from our own. It'A pretty heart-warming, I can tell you, to be a member of a nation that is utterly with- out prejudice. I don't know why the rest of the world can't be hke us. Look at those South Africans. Many of them just hate black people. Look at those Congo- lese. Many of them just hate white people. We don't hate anybody. e'e- • Oh. we have our little pec- cadilloes. After all, we're hu- man. I mean. you can carry this junk too far. We recognize the fact, for example, that the darn. Roman Catholics (or the heretical Protestants) are nut to get us under their thumb, that they've gone too far. at last, and that they've got to be stePPed somewhere. We realize that, while Nea'- roes are definitely human be- ings. there's no point in irrit- ating our American tourists by letting the black people star at our tourist resorts. After all, business is business. We know perfectly well that jews are just es good as any- body. Smart, too. But let's keep them in the clothing httsi- ness. They seem to like it. Let's not allow more than a few of them into medicine or dentistry. Let's not have am of them in our big, national banks or insurantd cotepanies. "They're tee dang smart for their own good. Speaking of foreigners — of course, vie don't call them foreigners, as some people do; they're ethnic groups, or New Canadians, or bloody Euro- peans — 1 don't think there's another country in the world that gives them a warmer welcome. Around election time. I must admit that it's rather annoeing that some of these comparative newcomers to our country don't seem to get into the spirit of the thing. Some of them seem to think that a afikloski is just as good as a McCloskey. Not that he isn't of course. But—well, You know. A lot of these people don't seem to realize that our an,- cestors didn't come out here just to get out from under the thumb of sonic old czar or king, or just to find an easy place to make a living. They came out here because there was a potato famine in Ire- land. or they were on the dole in Eneland, or the norridee was mighty thin in Scotland. or come thing worthwhile, like that. But I think the one thine that highlights the tolerance and lack of racial prejudice o' Canadians. above all others, is the way we hex e treated our natter, Indians. This is whore, the true benevolence of the broad-minded, Ub^gal - thinkine Canadian stands out like a-1111 —trinrous nose. Did we crowd them into tine ?veer% es, ae the :americans did, after we'd nroved we could lick them' Well, yea, we did, actualle, But we paid them rash for the lands we took away Well, not exactly AWL maybe. but a good, lone-term nromissory note. And do von knew some of those Indiana still receive ac imieti as Si '7 7 a rear. IN INTER -PT AI-ONE? Arid it wasn't that we took away their mood land. We lust took a lot of old cattle pasture and crop land that they weren't using anyway, and we handed over to them some dendy rocky land, end soma good, fertile swamps, for their re. servationt. Do we deny the Indians their rights? net for a Minute. Every time we get Involved in a war, we let there join the Cxettr TitittgAbitoutte fiatlished Eath Thursday Morning At Stratford, Ont, AtAbritod at Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept, Ottawa and for Payment of Postage in Cash oli146,Advated CirttitgiOlie Mat' 1i 3i 1 2 5213 tatti.St twriada :$4.0 ti et,- 'Yew; IAA, OA Thtlee Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 Represented by Vathrxiii,tt n4,64 Aatielt y4 t 444414 lee • it %. • v• :Thf• tri army, just like white people. Why, in some of our more enlightened provinces, Indians can go in the pubs and get drunk, just like white people. And—a final mark of our in- terest in their welfare—we are now letting them go to school with our own children. This will probably finish them off quicker than whisky or small- pox. Yes sir, it makes you feel pretty downright warm all over, when you realize that we Canadians don't have a pre- judiced bone in our bodies, Except, maybe, our headbone. •"-" ee2.----- ,.. r..••••••* .., „,— --,--- ...—.—..a i•--.." ' ' ' . *. ,..• a,. —oa'16 e-4—•-• ----''''„_...6............; ,c., ,.., 10 C.Z.H.,...,.....)*-- ZICitig letwitt 44ia,este, trt., tO,q, Vold ristler teseet4 "Notel let's not Spoil-everything with an argunient. Roger," JOTTINGS BY NS brought along a checkerboard and usually we would get to- other for a few games. It was a good hobby and I have enjoy- ed many hours over a long period of time, Even whil e in th e south dur- ing the winters l have enjoyed making new friends over a friendly game of checkers, tileateteleeersarelesteeeteatazeatetienell Your library be' the WCTII In Main St. urday Where they have sem' drarth Evelyn Dosierdint ed work hi the sugar beet tallied' off the gold ina al in factory, elotutien and Shirley Harness AIM HUM, Wife of Rev, won the silver medal In the Ernest Hunt of Boston, Mass,, vocal contest. last week secu'r 'ed a divorce County Clerk N, W, Miller of front her husband, Itev. and Ooderich has been advised Mrs. Hunt wore residents of that the Huroe County Scholar- Exeter for stvetal years, the ships of $100 bath have been fernier being rector of 'rrivitt awarded to Peter Fre', Ex- ;Memorial Church, eter, and Mies Doris altEivaii, The Dashwood rural mail Bayfield. Mr, Harold Whyte, who did froth 'route commenced on No, 1 hebvto o tteo a Brewstermw 6n, ssiaeottie8re:e.hie‘a,lislteiiii6t otitivotioilrutkoxdatstohi:0)satotety: fence to the farmers. since moving to Lucan. Three candidates Were plat- , r6in ciina ilt)ernleicntaietitipsn fort held tli l'r6- MI:17r \VOIP1 atyhtrdreal totta'sgth' October -6, Th ey were Janies built by Exeter Li0t18 at Grand h or g.co osorv, Gossman, Dashwood, sold the Dr. Root.MeliaFriday evening, Ball antync, Liberal; Hobbs Taylor, TA Moir, winning ticket. alive, and Dr. Alexander May W. ta, Cochrane, Independent Temperance, e Councillors Andrew Seelgrove Sin" t he op e n hil 15 ""and Robert Dinney, and Gerald elcr has shipped to Manitoba 'Season, Robert Laing Of Es. Dearing and Derry 'Boyle gave ,u, the arena 'woodwork a painting .s carloads alesatilt lies Wednesday 'afternoon, The edit- fore the season is eii° i t is mittee plans to paint all the estimated he, will heve woodwork with voluntary labor peel from tlzeter station atone hefo-r n o opening following 31 carloads, the installation of artificial ice. A choral society was formed Sam putt h ey, found er be th e lrr Crediten with conductor, W Fletcher t Institute, gave the Geulding, Exeter. Twenty second his l et:tures on publi c Member§ have already joined, relations at the Exeter Legion A cement walk for the new Hall Tuesday night. street joining Main and CVilliaiti The moth anniversary of jrig't streets north of Dr. l3rowli PrOriertY \VAS laid last in lalieliwodd will• be held -on - ri ots evangelical.1 'Clitirdli 50 YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO The fowl supper given in the Discontinued during the war Ceediteri Evengelical church in the interests of economy shed Thursday night was a dual license plates will apakar success, Over $300 was collect, again on Ontario vehicles in ed, 1918. Henry Mott and son Will left Yet the ltte dal contest its sing. for Sabeweirig, Mich, on Sat- lag and elocution sponsored 25 YEARS AGO 10 YEARS AGO CAREFREE COMFORT thanks to SSO NEAT teso Oil Heat is safe and dependable. Aed 3, our Imperial Eetio Ilecet offers the best service in the land, Call him today: he'll introduce you to a Ito/der/0 :wild rtf 'tomtit, Whether you use a (Taco heater, floor furnace or automatic furnace, 140.'68 An ES'S() healing fuel that's exactly right for the job. use likso Oil Heat and sleep easy in the Whiter to come, ALWAYS LOOK 1'0 IMitiEttiAL FOR tHE', BEST' GEORGE VRIESE HONE 235.2300 .t. EX la S, • .c . . • — , vs safet y hoo, • y With more school buses on district roads this year, area drivers should be aware of new regulations under the Ontario highway traffic act which require vehicles to stop behind a school bus, and. to stow down when they are meeting .one, which is discharging or receiving school children. Bo Guenther, owner of E ceter Coach Lines Ltd., which operates the high school trans- portation system, reports a number of drivers either aren't aware of the regulations or aro de- liberately avoiding them. For both groups, it should be .pointed out that the provisions call for a loss of four points upon conviction of the offence:. To make sure the regulations are under- stood, The Times-Advocate herewith publishes the appropriate regulations; "12 (2) Where a school bus is stopped on a highway outside a city, town, village, police vil- lage or built-up area for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children, the driver of a vehicle, (a) when overtaking the school bus on the rear of winch the words 'do not pass when bus is stopped' are marked and two red signal-lights are illuminated by intermittent flashes, shall stop the vehicle before reaching the school bus and shall not proceed until the bus resumes motion or the signal-lights are no longer operating; thi when meeting on such a highway, other than a highway with separate roadways, the school bus on the front of which two amber signal-lights are illuminated by intermittent flashes, shall re- duce the speed of the vehicle at a distance of not less than 100 feet from a school bus to a reason- able and proper speed having due care for the safety of • pedestrians and shall so proceed past the school bus for a distance of not less than 100 feet." the program under an organization which has established good management procedures, includ- ing planning and administrative responsibility, The more we consider this change, the more we believe it is the better solution. However, the main issue is that the admini- stration of the broad recreation program in this community needs revision. Council should tackle it this fall, if it can, before the time comes to appoint committees and boards for the new year. 10 ,6 slum trat., 152. VOefd te:itn "J.litt uoetor told you to slow down—he didn't say come to a complete stop!" Now hetet a teal bity.iti jilet of Ian ---MtitY by 061-6 gtiocititiit4.t knoWs :hot ttaly kot attaiiht*tvoI'' The other day I dropped into the town hall where a number of retired gentlemen usually spend several hours each after- noon playing euchre, I was asked if I would like to play a game of checkers. We resur- rected a checker board, that is rarely used these days, and we played away for more than an hour, Opposite me was Ivan. Hirtzel, formerly of Crediton, We did not keep track of our games, but we figured that we had been running fairly evenly, It reminded me of over thirty Years ago when checkers was quite a popular game and tournaments were held between the players of Crediton, Lucan and Exeter, There were some good players in those days. I remember especially several tournaments that were held in the office of John Taylor, a tire repair man e whose building stood where Tuckey Beverages are now located. In Creation we played in the boot and shoe store of F. W. Morlock, For Exeter, Alvin Brintnell, was one of the best players and Clinton and James Sweet ran him a close second, Checkers, in Exeter, however, dated back to many more than thirty years. My first recollections were early in the century when some of the old-timers gathered quite frequently in the shoe repair shop of Alfred Walters. Among the players besides Mr. Wal- ters were Richard Terry, Ed- ward. Treble, George Eacrett and Tim Sweet, There was a great, deal more leisure at that time for this particular hobby than there is today. Among those from Exeter who participated in the tourna- ments of the early thirties were Archie Ryckman, J. S. Grant, Cliff Brintnell, John Taylor, John Triebner, Ed, Westcott, John Elliott, Harry Elivorthy; from Crediton, William Motz, Ivan Thetzel, F. W. Morlock, Clinton Morlock, Herb Fahrner, 0, Ewald, Roy Schenk, Harry Trick, Chris Rau and others, Of later years one of the best checker players in Exeter has been Rev, J. W. Down. Mr. Down was quite a checker player in the west before he re- tired to Exeter, He took part in various tournaments in the west, One of my most pleasant recollections with respect to this once popular game was my as- sociation with Mr. MacDonald, editor of the 'Cheeky Enter- prise and a member of the On .- tario We were on a trip to Europe with a news- paper party and every day on board boat we would get to- gether over a checkerboard, Quite often afterwards, While at- leme and rewards In college leading a convention, Sir, Mac- teaching. Donald would enquire if I had Please him to page 3 As the "Times" go by HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T•A FILES eeetle.eae.ezeZie ..-eeeeesee'eeeeeestereetaarececitareteeteeitelteeteetesete.:azeie.,:eeeefeeeraeefeisete,,.'eee -e-eeeeea.e. Sugar ano Spice dispensed by Bill Smiley Then it's good business to get a aoteBFINK loan Leaking roofs, peeling paint, sagging walls A leavi them unattended and they just get worse—and more and more expensive to repair, But sometimes the cash you need for repairs is a problem. And that's when a Scotiahank Farm Improvement Loan could be the answer, A Scotiahank Loan may be arranged quickly and easily for repairing buildings, buying new mac/hinery, upgrading livestock, and many other worthwhile projects. Don't wail to get your farm in the shape you want IL Visit your Bank. of Nova Scotia branch manager soon, Bind out how a Scotiabank Farm Improvement Loan can help you, A NETWORK or OFFICES ACROSS CANADA AND ABROAD THE BFINK OF NOVR SCOTifi Ceaa E3 R N K By MRS. WS Z1141 . lisliittstaiat44.tw;,.5:a.,..4 Lawyer Last week we mentioned a book on the possibilities of a young person taking up a career in TV and previously we mentioned books on nursing. This week we write of the. series of career. books written by an author who has prac- ticed with distinction the voca- tion he describes. Talbot Smith, who has prac- ticed law, taught law and in 1955 became justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan, has written about the oppor- tunities for careers in the legal profession. He deals with getting ready for law school, the choices in law practice, getting started in practice and women in law. The author comments "Your effort will be to counsel wise- ly those who seek your help treating each according to his needs and his rights and it will be a part of your life-long re- sponsibility to,„ see that the law treats all Wee,' Physician Physician, Healer and Scien , tilt was written by Dr, D. A. Atchley, who has made a dis- tinctive place for himself in medicine by combining all the major phases of a career in. medicine — practice, teaching and research, Dr. Atchley singles out and describes the important ele- ments of premedial. work, He presents the facts about the training, the nature and im- portance of specialties. • He in- deates the joys and sorrows of the doctor's life and some of the very difficult ethical prob- lems he faces. The book is infused by the author's love for his profession and his devotion to it. Professor Professor Fred B. Millett, a' gifted teacher—popelar and respected—discusses the prob.