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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1963-10-10, Page 2•a,t. • •,rttgz • „ • !.;14.th lliTor0 •. lobid •••144:?1”, raer eeeeepee" wee ...)e;ereeo etql evoteetneeet " eel • ••41 • v ) fl 1 tiff r far' ii,v1.‘ fh„ iiirift11:1t014,1 044.11111e ;si/P?1,11:1 b 41, : 1_,• • '"..>//` .e .„601 11.1 /, / ft,, r ' if) (e.$0L1) 0,1 4. ti • THE TELEGRAM. TORONTO YQU HEAT A illOMP YOU CAN'T AFFQRP •T(;) .SKIP .THIS AP'SMIRTIginelgtwr PROOF? Two records at the polls I EDITORIALS A warranted move vote in. favor of ,T,arnes.T Oar- row, Liberal, ancl.CM1- servative JOseph peoc tied with. e,4ee votes each, lri 1JOa, Li- -1>erM M. C. '.Cameron defeated P, Holmes by two votes (out of 4,868) in the same :In the IA elections held, in Hurpn riding, the closest was Thomae .1'retleae win Over Frank Ringland (now county judge) by 146 votes 141348, B. W. 'hickey, Exeter, came within 47.0. vetee Of Dr, Taylor in 1943. Huron South produced some nip-and-tuck battles, In 100, Ltherai. Robert Gibbons.' de- feated Conservative Isaac oar, ling by a, mere 10 votes,, Mr.. Carling') however was seated by petition the next year, Gibbons. again defeated Car- lieg in 1$71, this time by eel7 votes but be resigned bis seat and a new election occurred in 1873, Liberel Archibald Bishop defeated G. Case in that contest by 14 votes out of a total of 2,834. The two closest races in Hu, ron Centre were a 163 plurality recorded by John M. Govenlock, a Labor candidate, in. 1919, and the 166 majority given Liberal William Proudfoot over Con- seevative Andrew Porter in 1908. In Huron East, Liberal Tho- mas Gibson won We. elections by majorities of 56 and 41 in 1$79 and 1883 Tespeatiyely, Conservative T, Hays won by the narrow margin of 64 votes in Huron North in .1.$67, LONGEST TERM$ Thomas Pryde bas the dis- tinction of serving the lcmgeM period in the recent riding pf Huron, He was the 1.00a). memr ber for 10 years, one more. han was Jam e s )3allantyne. But there were earlier representa- tives with. much longer reigns. The record is heldby Thomas Oibson, the Liberal from Huron North, who sat for 27 years and won seven elections, Another Liberal, Archibald Bishop of Huron South, held the seat for 21 years which involved six elections. The Conservative who sat the longest was Henry Eilber, ere- chton. HeVas the repreeentative from 1898 to 1918, winning six elections. Hon, A. McLagen Ross of the riding of Huron West was a member for 15 years and served in the office of provincial trea- surer. He was the only one ever accorded an acclamation and this came alter his appointment to the treasury in 1883. Col. Hoes was a Liberal, first elec- ted in 1875. Just for the price of the oil, you get— MORE satisfaction—Over 20,000 families have already switched to Esso Home Heat Service. MORE service—Over 200,000 free furnace conditionings now completed. 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Understandably, none of the directors has been able to devote the time re- quired to do the job. We have often outlined here why in- dustrial and commercial expansion is of vital significance to this community. The most im- portant consideration is simply jobs, Each year we export our brightest and most enterprising youth to other areas, and with the continued development of mechanized farming and auto- mation, this trend will increase. The other sig- nificant aspect is the contribution to the eco- nomic well-being and development of a muni- cipality. What can be done to increase business activity here? The best prospects are among those firms already established here. En- ,couragement and assistance should be pro- vided for their expansion. If there are oppor- tunities available to enterprising local busi- GEORGE VRIESE — EXETER CLIFF RUSSELL — SHIPKA Roads to progress IMPERIAL OIL LIMITED nessmen, efforts should be made to see that they are acted upon. In the field of attracting industry here, our most logical selling point would appear to be the exceptional agricultural production of this area, A realistic assessment of that pro- duction should be circulated among all the food-processing industries in Canada and other countries. Finally, there is a need to maintain con- stant contact with the industrial promotion ac- tivities of the senior governments, banks and oher centres through which enquiries are made by firms wishing to expand. The recent stress upon industrial pro- motion placed by both provincial and federal governments is indicative of the opportunities foreseen. Their activities will create interest and attract prospects; municipalities must carry the ball from there, Warden Walter J. Forbes sounded the keynote for this year's Thanksgiving during his opening remarks at Huron County Council last week. "It has been a good year," he said. "The hay crop is wonderful, corn never much bet- ter." He didn't elaborate on the many other crops in this area but his reference to a "good year" covers most of the agricultural produc- tion here for 1963. A sufficient reason for glad Thanksgiv- ing. 4'721V1..)i":,W...a.,.."V;kk••,:. • BY THE EDITOR Don Southcott That biculturalism problem Last week I recalled some of the big undertakings that have been and are being made on the Bluewater Highway at Hayfield, Goderich and at present under construction at Grand Bend to open up Western Ontario's va- cation land. The same thing can be said, only on a smaller scale, of the highway construction now under way between Exeter and London. For several years we have watched the highway being wi- dened as the department of high- ways have acquired a strip of land fronting each farm and also demolished a number of build- ings that stood in the way of progress. At Mooresville corner, a store that has catered to the wants of the community over a long period of time has been taken down and a corner that has been a traffic hazard is being eliminated. All of this coincides with Exeter's march of progress with the installation of a sewer system and the provisions for Ron. O. S. ManNaoghton's impressive win in the $epteme bar 25 election has established at least two• records in the hie- tory of the provincial polities in Huron riding. Ills majority of 4.,6711shviar the lergest ever given e Candi, date by Heron voters. It is more than twice the former high ma- jority of 2,281 polled by Liberal James Ballantyne in 1934. The minister of highways also becomes the first man in the riding to win more than twice as many votes as his principal opponent, The final figures, in- eluding service vote, are 8,930 for MacNaughton, 4,268 for $trang. The MacNaughton records. hold not only for the riding of Huron, which was established in 1933 and enlarged. in 1954, but also the ridings of HuronSouth, Huron centre, Huron East and Huron West which were in effeot at various times since 1867 and all of which contained some of the municipalities now included in Huron riding. The major victory chalked up by the local PC candidate marks the first time the riding has swung heavily toward one can- didate in these ridings. The records reveal a consistently narrow margin between Liberal and Conservative supporters through the years. Of the 66 elections held in the above-mentioned riding s since the legislature was esta- blished, the majority for the winners has been less than 1,000 in 53 of them and less than 500 in 28. The Liberals have won 38 of the 65 contests, Conservatives or Progressive Conservatives 23. Others have been won by the Progressives (two), UFO, La- bor and an independent, one each. In this immediate area, which has been in the ridings of Huron and Huron South since 1867, the Conservatives have won 16 and the Liberals 11, The previous record for mar- gin, set by Ballantyne in 1934, was actually a plurality of 2,281 votes by which the Usborne Liberal led George H. Elliott, the Conservative candidate. W. W, Cooper, an independent, drew 122 votes in that election. The next four largest vic- tories are held by Dr. R. Hobbs Taylor, Dashwood, who won by 1,929 votes in 1943; W. G. Medd, Exeter, a Progressive who had a margin of 1,644 in 1926; Mr. MacNaughton, whose majority was 1,624 in the last general election, and Thomas Pryde, who posted a 1,505 lead over James R. Scott in 1955. SOME CLOSE RESULTS The closest election--and it couldn't have been any closer-- occurred in the Huron West riding in 1898 when the return- ing officer cast the deciding filculturalism, says Prime Minister Pearson, is one of the most serious domestic problems facing Canada to- day. Twice over the weekend he urged moderates to speak out on the problem and appealed for a voice of reason among the French in "La Belle Pro- vince", The radicals have been working up a storm over what they feel is discrimi- nation by the rest of Canada against Quebec and the French-speaking popu- lation. Just what discrimination is involved and what remedial action is requested to placate this Quebec na- tionalism puzzles me. It also must puzzle the government, which felt it necessary to appoint a committee to investigate the rising wrath of Quebec. I'm not one of those who say, "The French be damned". I think Quebec provides this country with uniqueness, vitality and color which we sorely need. If the majority of Canada is discrimi- nating against this closeted minority (and I think majorities have a great tendency to tr ani p le the rights of others), then we should attempt to rec- tify it. One of the strongest complaints has concerned the teaching of French in the English-speaking part of Canada. We have failed to take seriously the fact that there are two official languages in Canada and we make only a token at- tempt to teach our children French. The facetious answer to that one, of course, is that we have enough trouble teaching our children English but 1et'e let that pass. You'll recall that in the election campaign just over Mr, Wintermeyer • French Canadian accent, he emitted a riot of words from an almost toothless mouth. "What do they expect?", he asked us, for some reason. "It's only a year or two ago they started teaching business and engineering in the universities here. They've always given 'em lan- guages and religion and stuff for the priesthood. They've never had much technical training. How can a guy run a business with literature in his noggin." "What aboet the FLQ?" we asked him, "Just a bunch of crackpots. Nothin' serious. Nobody pays much attention to them down here". He then proceeded to assert that Premier Lesage of Quebec was nothing but a rabble rouser and that Rene Levesque, his outspoken national re- sources minister, was a madman of sorts. Would he go back to Duplessis. "Ah, he was the best man Quebec ever had. He did things for this province, you know. He built lots of roads and bridges—sure the bridges would fall down but so what, at least he built 'em. "See that paint on the highway? You can buy that stuff for $2.00 a gallon from any wholesale place but the go- vernment paid $7.65 a gallon. So what? Somebody made some money on it, but it wasn't Duplessis. He died a poor man", I was relieved when he finally re- vealed he was not a real French Canadian but a "pea souper" from North Bay. If he had been representative of Quebec, the biculturalism problem would have been difficult to solve, indeed, Presenting Sheila (nde Bi ling) and her (-laughter, Angela Mary Guerrieri, on their first modelling assignment together, "You mean,..?" is Passmore, Mrs. Donald Ker- nick, Mrs. Beverley Morgan, Mrs. William Rohde and Mrs. Edwin Miller. A new railway siding is being laid into the new plant of the Exeter Rutabaga Company. 10 YEARS AGO Miss 'June Bierling has ac- cepted a position with the Hydro Commission, Workmen are pouring the footings for the new four-room addition EXeter Public School this week. Mr. Hugh Berry who, for the past 16 years, has been the of- ficial secretary of the Kirkton Agricultural Society, has an- nounced his retirement after finishing up the business of this year's fair. Dashwood fans swarmed onto the baseball field at Milton Mon- day after the Tigers won the game to captere the Ontario Intermediate "D" cham- pionship, It was the second On- tario championship won by Dashwood teams this year. promised immediate action to introduce French to Ontario elementary schools. It seems to be agreed generally among educators that languages can be taught much better at an early age. But there are some problems at- tached to this, as Mr. Robarts pointed out in reply. Where do you find, for instance, an "immediate" supply of teachers capable of instruction in French for the elementary school level? one Exeter man has had experience in this field. Al Pickard, John St., was principal of a large elementary school in Regina prior to his retirement in 1960. Mr. Pickard introduced Frenchto a specially selected grade six class of better-than-average students in his school. He found the eXperiment worked well and that the students handled the additional subject without diffuculty. The problem arose when they reached, high school. This special class already had an excellent grounding in French and they were bored when they had to start all over again with the other high school students in Grade 9, Such might well be the case if French were introduced in one of two munici- palities in the South Huron district. Could the high school arrange to give these students advanced instruction when they reached grade e? The Quebec complaint about the Birth of French Canadians in keypositions of industry and commerce is "all their own fault", according to a colorful limousine driver in Montreal whotran- sported us from Dorval Airport to the city fOr a weekly newspapers convention this summer. If Montreal cab drivers have a reputation for being characters, this chap probably started it. 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The pillars were erected in 1935 at the time of the Exeter Old Boys and Girls reunion. Exeter's first council com- prised Isaace Carling, reeve; James Pickard, W. H. Verity, John Trick and Edward Drew. Michael Eacrett was the first village clerk and Robert San- ders, the first treasurer. The second settler in Exeter was William McConnell, a resi- dent of London Township. He was the contractor who chopped out the London road, stretching from London to Goderich. It is a long cry from the present highway to those early days when the path through the forest was a marked trail. When the road was completed Mr. Mc- Connell purchased 200 acres of land near the AuxSable River and in 1932 he built a sawmill and the following year a grist mill. In 1847 Isaac Carling arrived in what is now Exeter. He had confidence in the future and built a tannery on the site of the pre- sent Tuckey Beverages, lie also opened the first store in Exeter that was later owned and opera- ted by his sons Thomas and William Carling. The Carling home became the site of the present South Huron Hospital. W. H. Verity was the founder Of the Verity Plow Works in Exeter. The firm later moved to Brantford and continued with the same name until finally it was associated with the Mas- sey-Harris company of which Mr. Morley Verity, son of Wil- liam Verity, became vice- president. In 1852 James Pickard came to Exeter from England. He Opened a small store and later built the building now Owned by Sandy Elliot. He built a brick residence nearby and became one of the most enterprising merchants in Western Ontario. He acquired a number of farms in the community and ran a sawmill and grist Mill. After about 36 years of successful commercial activity he was for- ced into' bahkruptcy, I have recorded some of the early history of Exeter andnow I Wonder what the future will reveal as the new highways present greater opportunitiee for development. SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND Member: C.1N,N.A., 0.VV.N.A„ C.C.N.Ft. and ABC Plain End Pipe from 4" to p7" CANADA VITRIFIED PRODUCTS LIMITED SALES OFFICE & PLANT: 65 BURWELL ROAD, ST. THOMAS, ONTARIO 42.63 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ont, Authorised as second Class Mail, Post Office Dep'll, Ottawa, and foe Payment bf Postage Cash 'Paid-in-Advance drculation, Marth 1963---3,928 50 YEARS AGO Miss Mary Tom has opened a dressmaking school at her resi- dence, Main St. Francis Hill left Saturdayfor Chatham where he has entered the service of the Dominion Bank. Rev, Dr. Peter Strang paid a short visit to his brother, Henry Strang. Dr. Strang is superin- tendent of missions in Southern Saskatchewan. The 35th annual meeting of West Huron Teachers Associa- tion was held in the Public School Exeter on Thursday and Friday, The chair was taken by President Miss A. E. Consitt, Hensall, 2 5 YEARS AGO The first big undertaking in' connection with the taking over of the Thames Road as a provin- cial highway is now well under way with the construction of a new bridge about three miles east of Exeter. Mr. R. G. Seldon has taken over the position of issuer of motor licenses for Exeter and vicinity succeeding G. M. Grant who has taken over an insurance agency. The site for the school build- ing was staked out on Tuesday, The location is on the same street as the old School bet to the east. A hot goose supper was ser- ved in the arena by Trivitt Memorial Church to between five and sNhundredpeople. Be- tween 50 and 60 suppers were sent out. It YEARS AGO Canadian Canner's celebrated a quarter century of progress In Exeter with a unique exhibit at the Exeter Pair last week. It was in the form of a hotise built feelt cans of Alymer produtts and was, designed by Jack Green, local teenager'. The new pellet Mill for pro- &Ming pellet feeds now being erected at Cann's I' is near= ing cc:110046e. Slit brides Were teteived into Church Eriernborship at Tharne Road Sunday. They' Were Mrs. Lorne Passmorey Mrs. Airner BEAVER CONKLIN LUMBER Lumber Centre Phone 235.1582 Phone 235.1422 MMN ST,, EXWITH NO. 83 HWY tXtTP..lt SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada 4.110 Per Year: USA $SA "1 ngre,e With you, madam. AO employee who Whistles at you Should be fired,' "Yeti knew what happened the tut tithe you tried to Was rhea itoger." .4, ,,ir.r.;vir4ziszoczararmaizrava