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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1963-11-28, Page 4SINGLES FROM $5.75 - DOUBLES FROM $9.'75 300 MODERN RENOVATED ROOMS - FREE PARKING Reservations 439-1611 - Nightly Entertainment 3Hrartercialir DUNDAS AT WELLINGTON 'ow+ 401 ACCESS ROUTE 401 IN LONDON, ONTARIO; CANADA BEAVERS TOYLAND John F. Kennedy AN EDITORIAL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO GAZETTE A shot rang out in the bright afternoon and a wo- man uttered two words which were to echo around the world. As her husband slumped forwardJaque- line Kennedy cried, "Oh, no," and so did every man who heard the news. Oh, no? It was ignominious. It couldn't happen this way. But it did and we wanted to turn back the clock arid send his car up another street, or have it stop just long enough to give the sniper time to become more nervous, less sure. But it happened and we heard about it, and we stood still, and we dumbly echoed Jaqueline Kennedy's tortured words. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born to fill the high office he carried with dignity and humanity. He assumed the mantle of greatness as if it were a comfortable, but a very well tailored, old suit. Three years ago we said he couldn't do it, He was too young, too inexperienced, But even then we wanted him to make the grade for possibly, we saw in him a man who would leave his mark upon the pages of history. But now this man, who had not yet reached the pinnacle of his career, is dead and walks among us no more. And his companion in death is the dark shadow of hate, bigotry and suspicion. For it is these forces of evil, which were allowed to foster in the American mind, that felled the president so tragically. We, as Canadians, have adeep and genuine inter- est in the man at the White House, and whether we want to admit it or not, the fates of the two nations, Canada and the United States, are closely inter- woven. And therefore, it is well for us to think of these things at this time of world-wide sadness and mourning. The North American people have become a proud and arrogant people. The interests of the North American lie primarily with a pre-occupation to accumulate as much wealth as possible. Let the affairs of state run for themselves. Possibly a most valuable life, a life we could ill afford to sacrifice, had to be taken to bring North Americans back to a sombre reality that we all must participate in what is truly important. President Kennedy was able to do this M a more direct manner. For his heritage was such that he had been taught to give himself to his country and its people in a very direct sense. His devotion to duty, his humbleness in moments of victory, his vigor with which he attacked problems, both great and small, have clearly demonstrated this. John Fitzgerald Kennedy said in his Inaugural address: Ask not what your country can do for you; but rather ask what you can do for your country. President Kennedy made the greatest sacrifice Of all. He forsook his own private life and took up the call to duty, For him it was the right thing, the only thing to do. And he gave the highest price to his country that he could, his life. May the death Of this truly great man not have been in Vain. Re- quieseat in pace. 41•••••••••poo. EDITORIALS LETTERS!. AT LAST! Accepts full responsibility Let cool. heads prevail To the Editor: You were misinformed and without checking you. reported to the public that as chairman of RAP I have called an emergency meeting to deal with .Ultinia- turns, Mr. Editor, it seems to me that we would be in constant meeting if this were the case. Everybody wants to be in the ultimatum business —the ma- jor governments of the world give out ultimatums—the pro- vincial and federal governments exchange them — even in our own council the mayor gives out ultimatums and then the coun- cillors hand the mayor a few. When I read your Nov, 21 issue I was tempted to get into the act myself, then it dawned on me if I did, someone might get the idea that I thought I was a big wheel, Please don't think I am against big wheels — we need them but we also need a lot of other wheels to keep the big ones turning, Mr., Editor, you don't have to apologize to me for your error in reporting because I know it was just a slip, and I make a goof once in a while too. We are all human, As chairman of RAP I accept full responsibility for the ac- tions of any members of the zone .Who are .anNtOnStetle.their part in keeping our community one of the better places iawhich to live, further innuendo from the. report, that I feel must he. answered publicly, is that Mr. Willert and Mr. qravett are not performing their duties sotto, faOtOrily and that they arenver- paid. I assure you that each of these men put in many hours wort; each week over and above the required number of hours, and they do this extra work without any consideration ex- cept their own loyalty and will- bigness to do a job well. Re- garding their pay, neither man is paid as high a wage for his job as is usual in other com- munities, Now Mr. Editor I have one further point to make. Due to overwork and ill health we re- cently lost a hard working mem- ber of RAP which leaves an opening on the board for a new member. I am sure that every- one who has been critical of the operation of the arena and the conduct of RAP will be ap- plicants for this job. Appoint- ment is made by council, May the loudest critic win and we will welcome him to the board. Tom MacMillan Chairman RAP board and for the work done or not done, by the paid employees of the community centres board and the recreation committee, which as you know are two of the components of RAP, If any citizen feels that any of the board members or the employees are not performing their duties, according to their obligation to the community, I will welcome their criticism, preferably at our regular meet- ing which is held the second Monday of every month at the town hall, or if the protesting citizen cannot attend the board meeting a written complaint will get immediate and careful consideration, The above statement of re- sponsibility i$ prompted by the account in your Nov. 21 issue, in which a councillor made an attack on a respected member of the RAP committee for an alleged indiscrimination. The same report also carried several broad statements which were disparaging to the RAP committee and its work. I can only assume that these were made in the heat of argument and were really not worthy of reporting because, Mr. Editor, the RAP board consists of six responsible and thoughtful citi- OPA resents inferences ONE COMPLETE FLOOR OF QUALITY TOYS A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CUSTOMERS OF THE B OF M 4. At no time prior to or during the day of October 29, did members of the Huron Coun- ty Plowmen's Association Site Committee or members of the Huron County Council, or Mr. Gordon McGavin, Huron County Director of the 0.P.A., express a preference for one site over another, or exert any pressure to influence the choice of one site over another. 5. The committee in making its selection gave considera- tion to the location of each site in relation to access roads, Suitability of site for Tented City, availability of essential services and accommodations and availability of adjacent land for plowing match purposes. 6. It was the unanimous de- cision of the committee that the Seaforth site was the most suit- After a period, of peaceful coexistence under the amalgamated RAP .Committee, the recreation-arena issue again exploded into headlines last week with another squabble in council. Such belching among the town fathers over arena operations has been periodic for the past five or 10 years, It must be boring for the general public, It is for us. The problem essentially is not a compli- cated one and its solution does not appear to be very difficult. What confounds us is why it must take so many years to iron out. Basically, the problem is promotion of activities at the arena to provide revenue for that institution which has been in deficit opera- tion for a number of years: (It has been said in recent years that the community centres opera-. tion has been coming close to meeting expenses in recent years but this is not true — it has been able to provide little if anything for over- head or depreciation costs in addition to not meeting the ordinary expenditures of opera- tion,) The solution, it's clear, is to give some- one the authority to undertake that promotion and let him, within bounds, attempt to develop a program of activities at the arena which will increase revenue. If one person cannot do that job satisfactorily, then someone else should be found to do it. It is argued that because of the ,number of arenas in the district, it's impossible "to make the building pay its own way. This may or may not be true. We are among those who suggest that a reasonable effort toward increasing rev- enue has not been made in recent years and until that is done no one can either estimate the potential or declare it has been reached. What compounds the problem is the di- rect division which was established a number of years ago between recreation and the arena operation. While both, essentially, have the same objective—to provide pleasurable activity for the public—their operations are at odds be- cause the one attempts to do it at the lowest possible cost to the participants while the other requires revenue to maintain its operation. The two men under RAP, responsible for the separate divisions of these duties, ob- viously operate at cross purposes under the present organization. And, since they have equal standing in terms of authority under the board, it is impossible for them to resolve their differences. One of the purposes of amalgamation of committees was to overcome this conflict of interest between the two municipal bodies. That has been accomplished through the forms- able one for the 1966 Match. The Ontario Plowmen's As- sociation resents the inference that pressures, personalities or prior commitments influenc- ed the above decision. You are assured that this was not the case. The amount of money contri- buted by the Grand Bend Cham- ber of Commerce to the Huron County Campaign to bring the Match to Huron County in 1966, or agreements ,or understand- ing, if any, between the Huron County Council and the Grand Bend Chamber of Commerce or between the Huron County Plowmen's Association and the Grand Bend Chamber of Com- merce, are factors outside the jurisdiction of the Ontario Plowmen's Association. Alvin Mark, President. lion of RAP, Now What must be done is to re- move the conflict of interest between the two employees. (And let it be stressed 'here that this conflict is not created by themselves but by the duties to which they were previously assigned.) This can only be done, in our opinion, by placing one in Charge of the entire opera- tion and making him wholly responsible to the board for the objectives which it sets. The board may feel that it can act as the principal authority for both men but our suggestion is that it would be taking on a task too difficult for a volunteer organization meeting once a month. It should be pointed out here that RAP previously led undertaken an investigation in- to the duties of the two men in its employ in the hopes of establishing a practical policy set- ting out their responsibilities. Only some una- voidable delays apparently prevented that pol- icy from being established earlier. This was un- fortunate because the current squabble might not have arisen had it been possible to set down lines of authority before the arena op- eration began. In regard to the present controversy, we believe that while Mayor Simmons doubt- less has the authority of a member to make motions to RAP (and thereby, we suppose, to make his intentions known), he did not use dis- cretion in threatening the employees with dis- missal because of lack of promotion at the arena since the board itself has not laid down policy. As the situation stood then, it is clear that the recreation director has no authority to promote activities in the arena's interest and, until he is given such authority, he was wrong- fully criticized. Since no specific duties had been assigned to the arena manager (this ap- pears evident because of the fact the commit- tee is investigating the division of duties), he, too, would appear to be exonerated. Obviously, then, the fault lies with the board, since it is a new body and has suffered a key resignation recently, it cannot be severely criticized at this stage. Nevertheless the mayor's criticism would appear to lie right at his own doorstep as a member of the board. Fortunately, RAP has a cool-headed chairman in Tom MacMillan whose statements this week (including his letter to the editor which appears on this page) would indicate that he is handling an awkward situation well. Let us hope the board can provide a settlement which will avoid the need for these periodic outbursts in council. They solve little, To the Editor, Reference is made to your editorial of November 7, 1968, entitled "Nausea In Furrows" which dealt with the choice of a location in Huron County for the 1966 International Plowing Match., As president of the Ontario Plowmen's Association and a member of the Committee that visited Huron County on Oc- tober 29, 1 would respectfully point out the following: 1. The decision regarding the location of the site was made by a committee duly appointed by the C.P.A. Executive. The members of that committee were: Alvin Mark, Cameron, President of the 0,P.A.i Rus- sell Morrison, Beaverton, Vice President: Clark young, Union- ville, Treasurer; Alex. Mc- Kinney, Brampton, Vice Pre- sident of the World Ploughing Organization and Director of the O.P.A.: Ken Hamden, St. Thomas, Chairman of the Lands Committee and Director Of the 0.P Mr. Floyd Lashley, Secretary-Manager of the O.P. A.; and Mr. Ron Bagg, Assist- ant Secretary-Manager, C.P.A. 2. The above committee was accompanied by the Site Com- mittee of the Huron County Plowmen's Association: Mr. Doug. Miles, Clinton, Agricul- tural Representative for Huron County and representatives of the Ontario Provincial Police; Ontario Hydro and Bell Tele- phone Company. 3, The above committee was shown a total of five (suggest- ed) sites in Huron County. How your Savings Dollars went to work in 1963 Charles Smith, Manager Exeter Branch Bank of Montreal Help with crafts To the editor, I wander if any of your readers would like to help the patients at the Ontario Hospital near God erich? We have a lovely room for craftwork, and have many ideas we could work on if we had the materials. We could use any used cards (Christmas, birthday etc.), cos- tume jewelery, whole or bro- ken, old nylons, empty candy boxes, shirt cardboards (that come from the laundry), odds and ends of knitting yarn, rem- nants of any kind, or quilt patches. Any of these things would be a great help in giving a hobby to someon e. Many of these people have no friends Or rela- tives to send them gifts and any craftwork things would certain- ly be appreciated. Thank you for the use of your newspaper. 50 YEARS AGO Sunday, November 30, will be the annual Tuberculosis Sunday when sermons will be delivered urging the necessity for co- operation in the nation-wide campaign against the "White Plague." Mr. Frank McKeever, Mt. Carmel, has purchased a ma- chine for making cement tile. He claims he can make 100 tile in a day, Gerald Hurdon left Tuesday for Buffalo where he will likely remain for a time. Henry Francis of Usborne, Charles Perkins of Exeter and John Sweitzer, Crediton, are members of the jury to try the Gordon murder case at God- erich. 25 YEARS AGO A. 0. Martin of Southampton, the newly appointed station agent at Exeter, who has taken over N. J, Dore's position, has purchased from W. L. Martin his fine brick residence on Albert St. Mr. Milne Pullen has pur- chased the building known as Kirkton Hall. This old frame building was erected over 50 years ago and has not beenused for some time. Messrs Ulric Snell and Har- vey Pollen were in Toronto the forepart of the week attending the auto show. At the Ken Sobles amateur contest at the Patricia Theatre, London, on Wednesday -Mar- guerite Hogarth was success- ful in winning second prize for her singing and dancing. She received a $15 camera. 15 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs, Howard Klumpp, Dashwood, have mov- ed into the new home which they built this summer. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mill- er have moved to Exeter from the Thames Road and have taken up residence on Huron Street West, Mr. A. J. Penhale, who re- cently sold his farm, has pur- chased the two residences of Mr. Ed Hunter -Duvar on John Street, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Francis and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Del- bridge leave this week to spend the winter in Florida. 10 YEARS AGO Rev. Norman Knox of New Liskeard has been appointed rector of Trivitt Memorial Church, Exeter. Ross Parsons, HMCS, Que- bec, left Wednesday for Hali- fax after a month's leave, spent with his family. He expects to leave for Korea soon. The official opening of the new public school at Grand Bend will take place on Fri- day, December 11. Board Chairman is John Manore, Hugh Berry, secretary-trea- surer of the Kirkton Fall fair for 16 years, was honored upon his retirement at the annual banquet of the Agricultural So- ciety Wednesday night, Grace Hussey Editor's note: Donations may be left at The Times-Advocate office. This is my personal report to the customers of my branch on the use the Bank of Montreal made of the money you entrusted to us in 1963. Nearly one-half of the total deposits of $3,961,675,039 at the Bank's year-end. on October 31st, 1963, were the personal savings of our customers. From this total deposit figure—highest in our 146 years of operation —loans totaling $2,419,627,136 were reported. Much of the money you deposited at the B of M went to assist people in financing the purchase of things that materially improved their way of life— cars, home improvements, household goods of all kinds. A substantial amount was also invested in loans to small and large businesses encouraging them to expand and employ more people. Your money helped create new industries and new jobs...assisted farmers in improving their farms...built new schools and brought higher education within the reach of students...constructed new roads and sup- ported all kinds of community projects. Virtually every community throughout Canada was aided directly or indirectly by the money you put into your Bank of Montreal account. Your savings dollars did a man-sized job for many people iii 1963. And, accumulating at interest, they are growing .steadily as a -sotlnd investment in a better future .for you, ii U177.1T1 Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 About two-thirds of Canada's imports are Of ftilly-maralfac- lured goods; in total volume and on a per capita basis Can- adians are the world's largest buyers Of such imports. hot' the Bank of Montreal and for myself, may I say "thank you" for your trust and for the assist you are giving us ill helping tO IThild it mere pros- peroUs Canada, G"Otg exefer Imes-Abu-0 We 'MY BANK' 10,1 MI lION MANUS I :rte SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND Member: COMMA., C,C.KR, and ABC BANK OF MONTII.EAL eemeteki 9eut gev.t4 1..z/D4ei. Published Each thtirsday Morning at Exeter, Ont. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dep't Ottawa, and for Pavment of Postage in Gatti Paid-in-Advance dircolation, March 31, 1963-4,928 'C',141,1 Co limp roiifo, Nook,, i.A.olfYitiOAM. 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