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SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND
Member: C.W.N.A.., O.W.N.A., C.C.N.R. and ABC
PUBLISHERS: J. M. Southcott, R. M. Southcott
EDITOR: William Batten
The Times-Advocate is pleased to announce two changes in its staff lineup.
John Nagel follows the footsteps of two older brothers and joined the staff this week
to handle advertising. Morley Chalmers, ad manager since last October, takes over a
variety of responsibilities, among them, advertising direction, the Lucan Shamrock,
design on job printing and other publications.
John's older brother, Cornelius, served with The T-A for five years as linotype op-
erator and darkroom technician. He is now with the Blenheim News-Tribune. Simon
Nagel was with the paper four years working on job printing. He is attending Hope
College, Holland, Mich.
John, who has just completed grade 13 at South Huron District High School, has Worked
at The T-A on odd jobs on Saturdays for the past five years.
During the summer monthsJohn will gradually take over the reins of T-A advertising
with the expectation of handling all of it by next fall.
This falls in line with The T-A's continuing policy of a constantly expanding service to help Canada's best farm land prosper even more.
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Helping Canada's Best Farmland Prosper
Some Changes Made
ONE MAN'S OPINION
by John C. Boyne
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EXETER
Who will be responsible?
Don't let it be you,
or anyone you drive with
ROAD SAFETY IS EVERYONE'S RESPONSIBILITY
EDITORIALS
Familiarity breeds accidents
The area's accident record over the
past two or three weeks has been deplorable,
and while damage has been substantial, for-
tunately there have been few serious injuries.
However, let's not press our luck too
far!
doing things they'd never even consider at-
tempting while visiting another community
or a city.
Take any given day in Exeter—or any
neighboring community—and you'll find very
few drivers who signal turns into their lane-
ways or onto most streets; few have the
courtesy to indicate to other drivers they
plan to stop and pull into a parking spot;
numerous persons drive up to the post office
and other buildings and just stop in the cen-
tre of the road and jump out to run their
errands; delivery trucks double park on the
main street or pull just a few feet around a
side street and seriously hinder traffic move-
ment.
West — as a doctor who has
given her life to serve.
In every walk of life there are
still those who take seriously
Jesus' words that we are to be
the salt or the leaven which will
influence the whole lump of so-
ciety.
He was asked to define His
"Kingdom". He did so by say-
ing: "It is like a grain of mus-
tard seed" -- a small thing, but
it will grow.
"It is like leaven" — or
yeast, and as Paul said: A
little leaven leaventh the whole
lump".
And how right he was. How
small the seed of the Christian
faith was: a little baby born in a
harsh land where human flesh
was cheap: a teacher standing on
a hillside: a condemned man
killed on a Cross: an empty
grave: eleven astounded m e n
and a handful of women — how
could something so insignificant
as all this grow to influence the
whole world — but it did!
So it is that each person still,
for better or worse, exerts in-
fluence on other people. Our at-
titudes, our actions and ultima-
tely even our thoughts and ideas
rub off on other people. Inspir-
ing living is catching. So, too, is
shoddy, haphazard, devil-may-
care living. The effect of our at-
titudes then is multiplied whe-
ther we like it or not. So the
only question that remains is
not whether one person still
exerts any influence in our
time — the question is only
what type of influence will it
be?
Someone has said that we
come into other peoples' lives
either like the fog which is cold,
depressing and makes every-
body clammy and discouraged
or we come like the sun to
warm and to encourage.
Which will it be? The chances
are good that our influence will
be positive only as there has
been and is One who first in-
fluences us.
Exeter Community
CREDIT UNION
A review of the crashes indicates the
main causes are primarily a disregard for the
simple rules of the road. Drivers are exceed-
ing the normal speed limits, following others
too closely, failing to give ample signal of
their intentions in turning or stopping, etc.,
etc.
Ironically perhaps, many of the crashes
could be avoided with the most simple pre-
cautions, yet few drivers can deny any guilt
in performing many of these simple acts,
such as signalling stops and turns and follow-
ing others at a reasonable and safe distance.
The answer to this can partially be
found in the statistics which show most peo-
ple become involved in accidents within a
short distance of their homes, indicating they
are extremely familiar with conditions in the
area.
It is this familiarity which often cre-
ates a sense of "protection" for drivers, and
as stated, figures show that their attitude
should be just the opposite, as their home
area is actually the one which poses the most
danger to them.
A study of the driving habits of most
people in any small community would find
some incredible situations. You'd find them
Devon Bldg. 235-0640 Harold Patterson, Manager
In view of the complex gi-
gantic problems which confront
society what on earth can one
person do? Is it possible for
one Person to influence their
community and make it abetter
place in which to live?
Is there anything one person
can do to strengthen a nation?
Surely one person can have
little effect on such a large area
as the renewal of church and
society?
This is a day of big things
and big problems and we tend
to Pqsume that the solutions will
be dramatic and spectacular --
but it is not necessarily so.
H. F. Matthews tells of being
shown around one of Britain's
18 sugar beet factories. This one
factory processes 105 tons of
beets an hour through super
cleaver knives. It mixes and
extracts, filters, crystallizes,
cooks, and prepares until it is
finally packaged in 28 pound,,,
bags.
Most of the process is un-
seen — huge machines and vats
which are managed by men who
watch a gallery of electronic
dials do most of the work. But
one part of the process partic-
ularly caught his attention.
When the juice is purified and
ready to be made into sugar it
is boiled in a monster pan.
A man watches his controls
carefully and then at exactly
the right moment he pops in a
tiny spoonful of powdered white
sugar. What for? Well, because
that small amount dropping sud-
denly into the ton or two of boil-
ing juice helps all the sugar to
form quickly into crystals. One
small spoonful does so much.
In much the same way, his-
tory's greatest movements can
often be traced back to one per-
son who has laid the groundwork
in thought and action. So today
it is no surprise to still find
people who exert tremendous
influence on the life around
them. Every so often for ex-
ample we find those who have
the knack of encouraging people
to be finer men and women.
A friend of a famous British
foreign minister once visited
him and when asked why he came
he said, "I have come for a talk
because I was feeling depressed
this morning and wanted to be
made to feel two inches taller."
In 1945 Naples, Italy was
haunted by gangs of beggar ur-
chins who roamed the city and
created havoc and fear. It was
Father Mario Borrelli who
showed the way through by iden-
tifying himself with these kids,
providing them with a home —
and for 20 years LaCasa has
been a story of the reclamation
of human life.
In an east Harlem Protestant
parish a small group of minis-
ters and their wives are doing
a fantastic piece of work seeking
to transform the society around
them. Also in New York City,
Rev. Da:71d Wilkerson, a Pente-
costal, is reaching many so-
called juvenile delinquents — a
work summarized in his book
"The Cross and the Switch-
blade."
A few weeks ago a little wo-
man of great courage and dedi-
cation received her honorary
doctorate from Western Uni-
versity. Dr. Margaret Strang
Savage has left her mark on the
And so it goes . . . . and so does our
accident record, although to be sure when
you count the number of "close calls" one
sees every day, the traffic toll is actually
rather "respectable".
In view of the mounting traffic toll
and the continuing increases in auto insur-
ance, it behooves each driver to consider the
fact that it is only his safe practices which
will appreciably reduce either figure.
And perhaps it's time that local police
start a concerted crackdown on the "minor"
regulations which many now flaunt. There's
nothing better than a traffic ticket to make
people aware that their driving habits aren't
What they should be, and they're much less
costly than an accident.
Congratulations
Another school year has concluded
and graduates have been commended for
their efforts and challenged to maintain their
desires and ambition to ensure success in the
next pursuit which they will choose to fol-
low.
No doubt all those who have succeed-
ed in the past year have been justly reward-
ed, not only by material gifts, but the self
satisfaction that comes from achieving any
goal which one strives to attain.
This newspaper adds its congratula-
tions to all those who have been successful,
particularly to those who by their hard work
attained standings which were above those to
which their abilities would normally permit
access. These are obviously the people to
whom the opportunities in life will fall, for
no one can afford to languish in the thought
that his abilities are such that success will
come without hard work, regardless of how
great his abilities may be.
While words of praise are due those
who have been successful, it is obviously
those who have not been successful who war-
rant more concern for they are in the minor-
ity, and it is always most difficult to be in
this group.
There are many reasons why students
do not succeed at school, and many of these
reasons are very legitimate. Therefore a type
of carte blanche condemnation should not be
HELEN JOYCE
"Last day of school ! Be sure
and bring home plenty of
aspirin tonight!"
. • • • and try again
levelled against those who failed to acquire
the standards needed for promotion.
There are students who through intel-
lectual or physical handicaps are just not able
to progress at the speed of others; some do
not realize soon enough that more work is
required of them than in previous years;
some do not receive the leadership from their
parents to assist them in their education;
and many become involved in so many other
interests that they neglect their studies.
Some of these reasons are naturally
more excusable than others, but all are ex-
cusable if they are corrected where possible.
After all, any man may make a mistake but
only a fool will continue in it.
Parents, friends and student should
realize that some degree of failure is inevit-
able for every person, and while most people
experience such failures, they are for some
strange reason often unable to make allow-
ances for failures by others.
Whether a student has a reasonable
excuse for failing or not, it is important that
he not be so discouraged by failure that he
will not risk making a second attempt.
There is nothing final in failure ex-
cept its being taken as final and except in
extreme cases it should be noted that words
and actions of punishment would be better
displaced by words of encouragement in an
effort to instill a determined "try again" at-
titude that is so much a part of success.
50 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. John Came of
the Thames Road celebrated
their 20th wedding anniversary
Saturday afternoon June 9.
Rev. and Mrs. Muxworthy and
Miss Margaret of Exeter at-
tended the closing exercises at
Alma College, St. Thomas, when
their daughter Miss Vera gra-
duated in vocal music and Mis-
tress of English Literature.
Rev. R. M. Hamilton of Tor-
onto, an old Cromarty boy, will
be speaker at the jubilee ser-
vices June 27.
A deputation of young men led
by T. 0. Southcott waited on
the Council and asked for the
use of a strip of land behind the
Library building for a tennis
court. The matter was referred
to the Library Board.
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25 YEARS AGO
Stan Smith, town,, has ac-
cepted a position with 131.11Ker-
rigan's Orchestra of Windsor
for the summer months.
A six-leaf clover was brought
into the office last week by Ivan
airtzei of Stephen.
Mr. Leonard McKnight, who
has held the position of Cap-
tain in the Huron-Middlesex
regiment, has been called to
join the regiment now being
formed at Strathroy.
Mr. H. C. Carey, who has
been associated with Mr. Gar-
net Flynn in the barber busi-
ness, has purchased a business
of his own at Glencoe and will
take possession July 11.
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16 YEARS AGO
gaits hill known as wile
Mountain" between Cromarty
and Staffa is being lowered 13
feet and the cut is being widen-
ed to reduce winter ice-haz-
ards.
Grade 8 pupils from the
schools of the district who will
be attending high school in the
fall, are being brought to Exeter
this week and shown over the
school so they will have some
idea of the set-up when the new
term begins in the fall.
More than 75 attended the
first ladies night for Exeter
Kinsmen at the Brenner's Ho-
tel.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Del-
bridge were honored Thursday
evening when friends gathered
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Philip Hern, Winchelsea, to
celebrate their 15th wedding
anniversary.
10 YEARS AGO
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority is
proceeding with its plans to
build a wading pool in Victoria
Park. Much of the labor is be-
ing volunteered.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jones
and family left on Tuesday for
their new home in Port Credit
where Mr. Jones has secured
a position on the High School
staff.
R. D. Jermyn, Exeter coun-
cillor, was elected president of
the Huron County industrial
Promotion Board at its second
reorganization meeting Wed-
nesday night.
The Ausable River Conser-
vation Authority established its
office in Exeter this week. 11. G. Hooke, secretary-Heldman
for the Authority, will he in
charge of the office. ."7- • . 41 _... . XMIUkA