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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1963-04-25, Page 2Oenultio Hush Puppies The most comfortable shoe you've ever enjoyed. Loafers 4 (oxfords $9.95 WVER.TH$ SHOES ammaysiam, Proclamation Town Of Exeter In accordance with a resolution adopted by the Exeter Town Council, I hereby proclaim that Daylight Saving Time WILL BECOME EFFECTIVE Midnight Saturday, April 27 AND WILL CONTINUE IN FORCE UNTIL Saturday Midnight, Oct. 26 and I call upon all citizens to observe this proclamation (Signed) W. E. SIMMONS, Mayor, Town of Exeter "4*-- "eaftWa -,eeeeeeeeeeeeeieeeeieeeeeeieieeeie ee.eeee eie e.e.ze eeeeeeefe-fee:-.-:eeeee-eeeeeeee.eeeeiee .„e43:•„..ex• ••••e•reze- • ..eye-eeeeeee,eeee/e, "I see that The Mutual Life is paying higher dividends again this year." 1e5gMAV',Y..: l'11,755,01=a41' SttrittnrrOX Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 71te OceferZitnesAboocai' EDITORIALS GUEST OPINION. Spotlight on mental health by MATTHEW B. EYmolsID, M, De HEALTH MINISTER FOR ONTARIO championship parade of us in the community have an important role to play, to IV- move the stigma, the element of hushed secrecy from those afflicted with some mental ill- ness, and to be aware of the need for projects that promote positive mental health. For some their involvement is very active. For example, those who work in the mental health field, dealing directly with patients as part of a me- dical team; or those who visit patients in mental hospitals as volunteers. For others, par- ticipation is more passive, by being informed laymen through reading and being generally alert to the problem. Commun- ity attitudes have a significant bearing in matters of mental health. During Mental Health Week your Ontario Department of Health urges you to learn more about these matters in order to have better understanding the other 51 weeks of the year. Wondered about the life they lead? the kind of treatment used to help them? the number of years they have been there and 110W scion they will recover? Have you ever considered a career in mental health, as a psychiatrist, an attendant, a nurse or social worker? Mental Health Week is a time when you can very easily find out about some of these things. Mental hospitals and mental health clinics all hold open house during the week and dur- ing guided tours you have an opportunity to chat informally with patients and hospital staff. The Ontario Hospital at God- erich will hold open house Sun- day, April 28, from 2 to 4 pm and Wednesday, May 1, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 8;30 pm.) There will be some who feel that not only Mental Health Week, but even mental health problems are of no significance to them. To the contrary, this is everybody' a business, and all There are patients inOntario mental hospitals, patients at- tending mental health clinics, patients in psychiatric wards of general hospitals, and patients visiting their own psychiatrist or physician, all with so m e emotional or mental problem. This is going on 55 weeks of the year. But for one of those weeks attention is focused on the pro- blems of mental health and of mental illness.This is Mental Health Week and it is now being observed for the seventh year all across Canada. The emphasis is not only on mental Illness, and people sick in mental hospitals, but also en the promotion and safeguard- ing of good mental health in the community. . Are you curious about what goes on in a mental hospital? Have you ever thought about the men and women who are patients there? Have you ever JOTTINGS BY JMS The home of The T-A wins of the midgets and pee WOOS, the teurne- ment wins of the pee woes and squirts .at Mount Forest, Lucan, Leamington and Wat, ford, and you get an idea of how big our Championship parade would be. Secondly, our celebration would be more enthusiastic than the one in TorontQ be- cause we're honoring true amateurs — kids playing for the fun of it — instead of highly paid hoCkey specialists like the Maple Leafs.. There's a big difference between the desire to win for the glory of it than for the cash bonuses involved. This applies perhaps more to the coaches and managers who've devoted many winter nights and days to the success of the - kids. To Don Gravett and Lloyd Cushman of the midgets, Jim Loader and Gord Baynham of the pee woes, Lorne Haugh and Lyall Rid- dell of the squirts, and the many other coaches, managers, car drivers and helpers, go the heartiest of congratulations for the best of volunteer efforts. To top it all off, this successful finish climaxed the first pay-as-you-go season of minor hockey here during which the kids (and their parents) met the operating costs of their extensive program through increased member- ship fees and admission payments for each game. Neither the community nor the service clubs subsidized the program to any significant extent. A great parade, indeed! Since l Xeter doesn't have umpteen. Storey office buildings, we can't stage a ticker tape parade for our championship hockey teams like the one held in Toronto for the Maple Leafs last week. If we could, however, our parade would be bigger and more enthus- iastic. In the first place, we have more teams to honor. The Kinsmen midgets deserve a shower of congratulations for reaching the provincial finals and staging a stout battle for the title, They were a great come-from-behind team all year and couldn't be counted out, even in the last game, until the final whistle had blown. How the result might have changed if only one of those pucks which hit the goal posts, skit- tered across the goal mouth, or landed on top of the net, had been just a fraction more on the target! That was all the difference there was between the championship and finalist awards. The pee woes, after being bridesmaids for a number of years, copped the "C" title in the Goderich Young Canada Week tourna- ment Saturday with little difficulty. And the squirts staged an exciting comeback in Brampton to win their division in the Easter week tournament there. Young Jim Guenther of Dashwood scored three goals in the last seven minutes to give the locals a 3-2 victory in a story-book finish. Add on top of these the WOAA title A sharp increase is the paper was switched from the local office to The Stratford Beacon-Herald. With the change of printing the paper from letterpress to offset last fall an additional 30 feet was added to the buil- ding and new equipment instal- led making it possible to print the paper at home. Personally, while relinqui- shing practically all of the ma- nagement of the paper and the office I hope to be able to con- tinue my jottings which I trust many of our older subscribers will enjoy. and new offices were provided. For the first time I was provided with a private office for myself. The back of the office was enlarged to include the property at the rear of the Elliot building and new machinery was purcha- sed to keep abreast of the times. During the building process the north part of the building was used for carrying on operations and when the south half was ready the north half was torn down and remodelled. With the increase in circulation and to- gether with the increase in the number of pages the printing of I was looking through the Huron County Atlas published in 1878 and came upon the above picture. It took me a minute or two to recall the fact that for more than fifty years I had been going in and out of the door at the right of the picture. The picture shows that of a jewellery store owned by S.E. Jones. The picture of a clock appears at the top. Thebuilding was used both as a shop and a dwelling and the door at the left was the entrance to the home. Just when the building was purchased by John White and transferred to a printing office I have no knowledge. However I do know that The Exeter Times was first printed in a building on the east side of Main Street opposite the Mol- sons Bank which at the time formed part of what is now the Dinney funeral home. Since the time when The Times was first printed in the above office there have been a number of changes. One of the first big changes was when a new press was purchased and installed in the basement of the building and the front office remodelled. it was in 1924 that The Exeter Tires and the Exeter Advocate were amalgamated and the pa- per became known as The Exe- ter Times-Advocate. In 1945 The Times-Advocate purchased from the estate of the late Ernest Elliot the building adjoining the Times-Advocate. It was at that time Used as a millinery shop by Miss Vera Essery. It was not until 1953 that a decision was made to enlarge the office and include the two buildings. The front of both buildings was torn out and a new front as it appears at present was built show last year's grants at a total of $186,000, while the audited financial statement shows them at $196,700, a difference of over $10,000 or more than one mill. Further, the 1963 grants are estimated at a total of $190,000, only $4,000 more than the budget figure for 1962 and less than the amount shown in the audited statement for 1962. This is surprising in view of the in- creased per-pupil grant from the provincial government which reaches its peak of $30 this year, according to the formula set down several years ago. This should mean a consider- able increase in grant revenue, but it is not reflected in the budget. There is Also increased assistance to- ward pupils taking the vocational program but it may be that this will not be made available to the board until the following year. The high school budget was passed by the board with few questions and it may be that the members are well acquainted with the reasons behind the estimates and satisfied with the results. We suggest, however, that since the board is now operating a half-million dollar business, it might give its budget more attention. And, too, as we recommended several weeks ago in these columns, we think the board should keep in mind future costs as it sets down its budget from year to year with a. view toward avoiding such sudden and sharp increases as was made this year. Future expenses can be projected with a reasonable degree of accuracy and these should be taken into account when the mill rate is established. The three-mill increase brought down by the board this year is unfair both to the municipal councils, whose job it is to raise the levy, and to the taxpayers, who must provide the increased revenue. It creates the impres- sion that the board, because it is not respons- ible for collection of local tax funds, nor its members, because of their appointed rather than elected positions, are not seriously con.- cerned as to how the high school operations affect the individual taxpayer or the municip- alities involved. The three-mill increase in SHDHS levy this year is open to question from several as- pects. The high school rate was established earlier this month at 12 mills, a jump of 331/2 % over the nine levied in 1962. Although the rate is not high in comparison to other districts, the sharp rise will hurt area ratepayers since it affects several local municipalities. Councils either will have to absorb one or two of the mills by cutting their general levies, or whack the three-mill rise right on top, as Exeter did. Then there may be muni- cipalities whose general levy has to be increas- ed slightly, in which case the SHDHS hike will impose that much more of a hardship. The board has explained to area muni- cipalities that one of the extra mills is required to meet a May debenture payment, an expend- iture which the board has provided for out of surplus funds for several years. The balance of the hike, according to the board's statement to municipalities, is due to increased costs involved in participation in the Central Huron vocational program at Clin- ton. The budget estimates reveal tuition fees for the vocational program will be up over $22,000 and that transportation will increase by $8,500. This total increase of $30,000 rep- resents the other two mills of the rate hike. This is a simple enough explanation of the increase. But there are other items in the estimates which require clarification. Estimated revenue from the federal government, for the accommodation of students from RCAF Station Centralia's married quar- ters, is down over $7,000. It was explained at the board meeting that new requisition forms for the grant do not provide for transporta- tion costs. Clarification is being sought on this discrepancy since, if not rectified, it means that local ratepayers will have to finance the transportation of the Huron Park children. The figure represents half a mill on the rate which does not appear justified. A further question arises in the esti- mates of the provincial grants. The estimates 'ee.eeeeeeitel. • winter with his son, F. L. Grieve, of Los Angeles, Cal. returned to Exeter last week. At a congregational meeting in Caven Presbyterian church Monday evening it was decided to extend a call to Rev. Donald Sinclair of Allendale to become minister to succeed the late Kenneth MacLean. Harold Murray, who, for se- veral years, has been in charge of the Canada Packers plant in Exeter, left this week for Ber- wick, N. S. where he will take over the management of a milk plant, ypH 2e23107,1=le:ee:.5.51tVeree...„eree,. IerlfaXtes BY THE EDITOR Don Southcott on Friday by the International Harvester Co. of which F. W. Huxtable is the agent. Mrs. John Becker, celebrated her 95th birthday, Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Peter Marlene, Dashwood. Dr. A. J. MacKinnon, 63, for 30 years a practising physician at Zurich, died at his home Friday following several mon- ths illness. Miss Beryl Drummond, Hen- sill has disposed of her beauty parlor, which she has conducted for a number of years, to Miss Mildred Hackney, Exeter. Legitimate grievance 50 YEARS AGO Clinton has had 12 letter boxes installed in various parts of the town. Exeter could stand a few, too. Mr. R. E. Pickard and fa- mily leave this -week for Fro- bisher, Sask. where they will remain, for the summer. Misses Gladys Ford and Ella Baker of Chatham B u siness C o 11 e g e were home for the weekend. The Dashwood stage to Park- hill will be cut off in about a week. This stage has been operated by Mr. Guenther for over 20 years, the rural mail routes are coming in and the rural stage will be only a me- mory. 10 YEARS AGO The Bank of Nova Scotia's new branch in Exeter will open April 7 under the management of H. W. Kelson of London. Stephen Township's new com- munity centre will officially open in a ceremony next Tues- day. The centre was constructed out of the old Creditontownhall and oVer $5,000 worth Of labor was contributed by district men. Kenneth Hern is taking over the management of Exeter Co- op.. 15 YEARS AGO The hobby fair being spon- sored by Grand Bend WI is being held in the United Church basement on Friday, Mr. Sta- ples inspector of public schools is the speaker. Mr. J. 11. GrieVe, who has spent the greater part of the 25 YEARS AGO A one-day tractor school with free moving pictures for far- mers and their families was held in the Exeter Town Hall economy. Benefits have to be weighed carefully against the investments re- quired in road, drain and sewer ser- vices. The community must be pre- pared to co-operate with those willing to invest in the municipality but publie funds shOuld not be used to subsidize private speculation. Growing pains can be severe. The now-removed hitching post on Main St., Which we pictured on page one last week, IS not the last in the town, as We repotted: Mrs. Mile Snell, 295 AndrewSt., tells us there remains a cement post with a ring on top in front of her resideete. It's been there abide she moved into the residence 40 years ago. I thought perhaps Gederieh police de- pertinent had /mind a new method of handling drinking drivers when I nee ticed this headline in The Signal-Star last week: tq'olice fettle bikelicences, seize liquor." it turned out to be tWO separate law enforcement activities, However, it 'might be an idea to pro- vide two-wheel ed transpertation to those drivers who feel they are en- titled to manipulate the foureWileeled Variety With booze under their belts. I'M The Mutual Life ASSUrtANCg. COMPANY OP CANADA SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND Member: C.W.N.A., 0.W.N.A., and ABC Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ont. G. R Godbolt, REPRESENTATIVE Cornet Sanders & Eclivards Sts., Exeter, Ontario Ph: 2854'70 Authorized as Second Class Mail,, Post Office Dept, °news, and for Payment of Postage in Cash Paid-in-Advance Circulation, Sept. 10, 1062 1,81Y SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $4.00 Per Yeari USA 0.00 Most people have a grievance about the income tax department this time Of year but few are justified. One local businessman, however, is doing a slow burn with good reason. In February, he visited the revenue deParttnent*s Office in Kitchener to Settle a dispute over his assessment. Art amount was Agreed upon that day and the businessman returned home, wrote his cheek and forwarded it within a:day Or two. He heard nothing more about it until last Week when a tenant came to his Office waving a enemata an Third PartieS,P form, which the latter had re- ceived by registered Mail, The form said in effect that he (the tenet* Mast Pay tti the theonie tax department the Money he (the tenant again) owed to the businessman. The businessman's erribaraSsrhent turned into.severe annoyance when he dug out the cancelled check which had been cashed February 15 by the tax clerk, lie wrote the dep't , giving the details of the check, asking for an apology to both the tenant and himself. moth tOeIegies have been received', We're happy to report. .A clerk offered the explanation that the check had been 'Credited: to the Wrong account.. The company with the outstanding dividend record If you're like most people, you buy life insurance for family protection, But your policies are sound investments as well, when they're the "cash value" kind. Mutual Life policyholders enjoy steady increases in the guaranteed values of their policies plus unsurpassed dividends, Check the advantages Of the Mutual way to guaranteed savings and protection, Call the man from Mutual Life, today, Even if you give an allowance for bookkeeping errors, which can happen in any Office as the businessman sug- gests, is it customary practice for the dept to issue third party demands be- fore attempting to secure payment from the debtor or warning him that such action is contemplated? It's a straight case of inexcusable high-handedness front any viewpoint. The million-dollar investment inre- siciential and commercial real estate, announced last week, sounds like a boom for Exeter. But council Is likely to proceed with caution in its negotia- tions With Forrester Estates Ltd., which proposed to launch its develop- ment with an apartment building. Firat, council will want to be Satis- fied that Forrester Estates Ltd. is a reliable developer, since the company is little known at the moment," Nobody likes to look a gift horse in the mouth, of course, but council Will expect, and the firm should be willing to provide, a deetunetitation of the latteeS resources before any commitments are made. . Secondly, developments Of this kind can bring prosperity of a kind to any mithicipality but they can also incur considerable drain on the menicipal