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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-10-21, Page 4EDITORIALS Vandalism Vandalism can take many forms, but no mat- ter when it occurs it always makes others turn away with distaste. It is unfortunate that the entire com- munity gets a black eye because one or two "lame brains" decide to wreck something as their idea of fun, One of the more glaring examples of this oc- curred last week at the Morrison Dam when parties unknown used a vehicle to ram the sign post caus- ing damage estimated at $150. This could in no way be classed as an accident. The sign stands well off the road at the top of a high knoll and it would take a deliberate act to steer a car to this point in order to cause the damage. It must have been a lot of fun to feel the shock as the car struck the post. It must have been exciting to see the boards go flying, ripped from their frame. It is to be hoped those responsible re- ceived $150 worth of enjoyment out of this, as this is the amount the taxpayers of this area will have to pay to erect a new one. There are no grants allowed to the conserva- tion authority for maintenance. This money conies out of our own tax dollars, and if it is necessary to spend this money for repairs, it means that other worthwhile projects must be left for another year. There were no witnesses to the act which caused this damage but it would seem likely that it was at night. That is the time cowards like best, and surely anyone who would take their vengeance on society by smashing public property must be a cow- ard. It is unlikely those responsible will be caught this time, but they may be in the future. Closer patrols will have to be carried out until those re- sponsible are caught. It is to be hoped that this act is not a sample of what is in store for the area on Hallowe'en, the traditional night for pranksters. Municipal elections Several area municipalities including Hay Township, Stephen Township and Hensall have set the date for their nomination meeting and muni- cipal elections. Although these will not generate the same amount of interest as the federal elections, they are equally important to the residents of these areas and just as much information is needed be fore voters can cast their ballots. Unfortunately in many cases municipal elec- tions turn out to be popularity polls rather than an election based on concrete issues. It would be a safe bet that fewer than 100 people will turn out to these meetings to meet the candidates unless some sensa- tional issue comes up prior to this. With the many changes which are being ad- vocated by the Department of Municipal Affairs it is imperative that small municipalities have the best men available to meet the challenge. The days when, a local municipality was completely autonomous are gone and now all municipalities must face up to the fact that they are directly connected to all others in the county. More and more they will be working together on projects for the good of the entire county in an effort to prevent costly duplication of services. This can only be successful with men who think progressively and can visualize larger projects rather than their own immediate problems within their boundaries. It is the duty of the voter to start learning now, the issues which will be facing councils during the next few years. They should be prepared to at- tend nomination meetings with intelligent questions to ask candidates, and from the answers, be ready to make a decision as to which ones they would like to have elected, and then get out and vote. In some municipalities the per cent of the local vote in municipal elections is pathetic. This would be a good year to change these statistics. It is only through the strength of the local munici- palities that the entire county can progress. With weakness in these councils then the result is ob- vious. With the editor in Kerr's Korner Dear Craig: It is weather like this that makes me envy you in the west where there are very few trees. They are nice to enjoy in all seasons except September and Oc- tober when the heavy work comes. I didn't notice one thing when we moved into our house but someone went to a great deal of effort in planning the various varieties of trees. They have been fiend- ishly scheduled so that the soft maple leaves fall fairly early and when these are cleaned up there are other varieties just waiting to fall. At the present time we have leaves from two trees on the lawn, still not raked despite occasional nagging with a couple of other varieties still to come. We have a birch tree on the front lawn which is stubbornly refusing to drop any leaves, in fact it hasn't even started to turn color while most of the others have done their duty and got rid of most of them. I have been making detailed studies into wind direction and the habits of my neigh- bors and I have it just about figured out how I can get by with just raking the lawn once. Of course the neighbors might not like my system but it should save a lot of hard work. If I get any complaints I can always justify myself on the basis that I am pre- venting air pollution by not burning my leaves like everyone else. There have been a few complaints this year from women who had their clean wash smoked up from this cause so if I don't have anyone else to sup- port me, I should have this group. June's folks were up for a visit last weekend for Thanksgiving and although the weather was miserable and we didn't go anywhere we managed to have an enjoy- able weekend. We always seem to have a lot of laughs when the folks come up al- though sometimes it has to be on our- selves. June had quite a time getting all the ingredients for the main meal and did quite a bit of worrying about it as she has not had all that much experience in cook- ing things which don't come out of a can. I got quite a kick out of one incident when she was shopping. She found out from her mum that the folks liked butternut squash. She understood this was a yellow-orange colour and with this to look for, she went shopping. I guess with Fred Darling's official opening of IGA store here things were a little hectic and somehow a small pumpkin got mixed up with the large container of squash on display. As you might guess, June picked this up and came proudly home with it. I didn't see it and didn't give it another thought until Saturday morning when the four of us were talking and the subject came up. Just for a laugh I asked if she was sure she didn't buy 'a pumpkin. She got a little exasperated with me and marched into the kitchen to get the squash to prove she was right. When she walked back into the dining room hold- ing the pumpkin, everyone collapsed. She took it back to the store for a re- fund and I guess she didn't want to take a chance on making another mistake as she brought home a turnip as a vegetable. One thing leads to another and June got quite a little razzing over her cooking efforts. After the mistake with the squash I couldn't resist telling the folks about the funniest episodes which happened just a week or so ago in this regard. I was down in the basement working (yes working) one evening when she start- ed to cook supper. She called down that we were having sausages so I automatically asked her whether she had pierced these (there are a lot of little things she doesn't know about cooking). She generally cooks sausages in the electric frying pan which has the proper temperature marked on the handle but this time decided for some unknown reason to use the old black iron frying pan on the electric stove. She called down the usual, "should I put a little lard in the pan?" and after answering her I finished what I was doing and went up stairs. You should have seen it, it was price- less. Here she had the frt,nt element of the stove turned up to full heat with the frying pan almost red hot and was stand- ing in the middle of the kitchen tossing sausages into the pan with an underhand motion like a little girl learning how to throw a ball. I couldn't help it, but I started to laugh and between gasps asked her what in the name of gosh she thought she was doing. "Well that thing keeps squirting grease at me," she wailed, "and I don't want to get burned". I couldn't answer but just turned down the heat and went into the other room. From the kitchen she said, "do you mind if we have burned sausages? . . I guess it doesn't matter, they're burned anyhow". And they were. I finally got June out to work bringing home a dollar. She has been doing a little part time work for the T-A and is con- tinuing this in conjunction with a job of selling. She has been nagging me to give her a little plug in my column but I told her that would be free advertising. After all I can't advertise the fact that my wife is selling Avon products out in Hay Township. The publisher would make me pay for the ad. On second thought it might be a good idea to drop it in. It would be one way to find out if he ever reads it. In all, life in Exeter is getting a little fuller for me as I get to know a few more people. I have joined the local Lions Club as I believe every man should have at least one area in which he donates of himself for community service as well as enjoying the social aspects of such an association. They have planned their initiation evening for October 28 but I believe I should be exempt from this as they initiated me at the first meeting by having me speak to them. I haven't done any public speaking for about six months but it gradually comes back to you. In this job you come to expect a certain number of requests such as this. Some one once said, "if anyone is fool enough to ask you to do a job, you should be fool enough to try it." As ever Ken Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 `Or exelealines-Akworafe SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND Member: C.W.N.A., 0.W.N.A., C.C.N.R. and ABC PUBLISHERS: J. M. Southcott, R. M. Southcott EDITOR: Kenneth Kerr Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ont. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dep't, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Cash Paid-in-Advance Circulation, March 31, 1965, 4,174 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $4.00 Per Year; USA $5,00 .00,0140.11 1,4k. Folsot BEFORE YOU INVEST ... look into the advantages of Investors Mutual Fund and Investors Growth Fund. TED HOLMES 145 Deer Park Circle, London 471-6005 or Enquire at The Ti mes- Advocate SYNDICATE LIMITED Our Services . • • SAVINGS ACCOUNTS GUARANTEED INVESTMENTS RETIREMENT SAVINGS MORTGAGE LOANS MONEY ORDERS TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES CANADA SAVINGS BONDS SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES ESTATES TRUSTS AGENCIES CORPORATE TRUSTS "25 Branches in Ontario to Serve you" AND Exeter: C.V. Barrett, Manager Telephone: 235-0530 BELL LINES by W. W. Haysom your telephone manager OUT WITH THE OLD — IN WITH THE 'NEW! I'm referring of course to the brand new telephone directory we receive this time of year. The outside looks the fresh- est and newest, but remember it's there mainly to hold the insides in! — it's the new and changed listings that are most important. So, to save yourself time and avoid wrong numbers, be sure to look the number up and jot it down before you call. Handy little Blue Books — ideal for recording your personal list of telephone numbers — are still available free of charge (just call our Business Office and we'll send you one). 3) Keep the safety lock on until just ready to shoot. 4) Never pull a gun through a fence nor carry it over with you. Keep the muzzle pointed away from your- self and others. 5) Never lay a loaded gun down in a boat. Never lift a gun from a boat by the barrel. 6) Don't set a loaded gun against a tree or a fence or leave it lying on the ground. Even a playful dog might cause it to be discharged. 7) After a fall, or a climb, or after walking over ploughed ground, examine your gun to make sure the barrels are clear. 8) Neyer shoot at objects indistinctly seen among trees or bushes; they might be human beings. 9) Before shooting a game, make sure that no house, barn or other building is in the line of fire. 10) Don't leave your gun or shells near a stove, a fire- place or other fire. One other point not covered but important is that it is NEVER open season on telephone poles, conductors or cable. Taking pot shots at vital telephone installa- tions not only shows a very great lock of maturity but endangers the life and property of people who depend on the telephone to bring them assistance in emer- gencies. 94, (f0 l icera Sdoat THURSDAY & FRIDAY ONE MAN'S OPINION by John C. Boyne January 4, 1965 Hon. Emmett M. Hall delivered a speech en- titled "A Health Charter for Canada" to the Community Wel- fare Planning Council in Winni- peg. The text of this speech was reprinted in "Social Thought", a bulletin produced by the Social Action Dept. of the Canadian Catholic Conference. This col- umn is devoted to excerpts from what I feel was a classic speech on a matter which is of concern to all Canadians. "With the universal hospital- ization program in effect . . . Canada was committed to some degree of governmental partici- pation in the financing of a 11 phases of health services. It is as I see it, a deepening of our concern for our fellows. We re- cognize that the well being and happiness of society is simply the sum total of the well being of its individual members. It is clear that the well being of a proportion of the population, at any given time, is seriously cur- tailed because of mental or phy- sical disease that could strike any one of us. . . An individual family should not have to bear alone the full costs of risks that could happen to any one of us. "The depression of the 1930's with its mass unemployment, re- quiring massive national, pro- vincial and municipal expendi- tures to help individuals regain their independence and self-suf- ficiency probably did more to translate into action what is ba- sically a Judeo Christian philo- sophical concept than any other event in our era. . . . There is a growing consciousness that since we do not know which of us may be afflicted all should make a contribution to a common fund to assist those who are. Humani- tarian considerations are at the source of Canada's concern with this situation". Mr. Hall says our past ap- proach to health services has been "haphazard" and "make- shift". He says Canada can well support a planned approach. He is supported by Dr. Clarence L. Barber a Manitoba economist who says Canada is well able to pay for the proposals of the Hall Commission. "It is a program that is well within the ability of the Canadian economy to finance. So if Canadians want such a pro- gram they should not be deterred from adopting it because of the costs involved". Nor should other factors slow down planning: "While there are shortages of physicians, dentists, nurses and other paramedical personnel the fact that there are these shortages must not be used as an excuse to delay initiating plans and programs". He goes on to deal with the objections of the Canadian Medical Association and private insurance companies: "Questions are being put — what effect will the programs you recommend have on the phy- sician or dentist do these pro- grams involve control of the physician or dentist by the state or by some bureaucratic body— will they interfere with the deli- cate doctor-patient relation- ship"? "Officials of the C.M.A. keep repeating, without foundation in my view, that doctors will be controlled; that the essential doc- tor patient relationship will be 50 YEARS AGO Mr. J. Dearness, MA of Lon- don Normal School, discussed the synthetic method in compo- sition at the West Huron Tea- chers' convention held in Exeter Public School Thursday and Fri- day. At the at home given by the Exeter High School Friday even- ing the program included reading by Vera Muxworthy, instrumental duet, Misses Jean and Marjorie Seldon; vocal duet by Misses Thelma and May Ford and an in- strumental by Margaret Mux- worthy, A regulation will shortly be issued providing that the National Anthem shall be sung daily in every school in Ontario as part of the morning exercises. The Exeter bakers, Mr. E. A, Follick and Mr. W. J. Statham have decided to raise the weight of bread to one pound four ounces for 5 cents. 25 YEARS AGO Mr. Stanley Gill, formerly of Grand Bend, and now of the RCAF who has been stationed at Van- couver for the past nine weeks, has been transferred to St, Th0111- as. A Cable dispatch from London, England, on Friday states: The King today received Hon James Gardiner, Canadian Minister of Agriculture, in audience at Buck- ingha.m Palace. HenSall won the OBA intermed- iate championship at Waterloo Saturday when they beat Toronto Columbus Grade 12-9 in the third game of the finals. lost; that our programs are in effect state medicine and that doctors will leave Canada."what are the realities, the facts? The state does not interfere in any way with his professional man- agement of the patients conditions or with the confidential nature of the physician-patient relation- ship. . Only the manner of payment is altered. No one can Seriously suggest that any one method of receiving payment is sacrosanct or that it has any c: therapeutic value". "The scare headlines generat- ed by officials of the Canadian Medical AssociatiOn that doctors will leave Canada by the hund- reds is just plain nonsense. There were in Saskatchewan on Sep- tember 1, 1964, 124 more doctors than on July 1, 1962, the date the Medicare program went into operation and the income of all doctors in the Province has risen according to the latest Dominion Bureau of Statistics figures". "The emphasis on the free- dom to practice should not ob- scure the fact that the physician is not only a professional person but also a citizen. He has moral and social obligations as well as self interest to do well in his profession". "The C.M.A. and the insurance industry now appear to be making common cause against the prin- ciple of a universal program. . . . I can understand the po- sition of the insurance people. They are in the business of sell- ing this coverage and they want to continue doing so". "But why not a multiplicity of carriers? If one carrier is desig- nated in each province the annual saving would be $180 million a year. In our opinion that was too much to pay for the luxury of having upwards of a hundred carriers in each province." "The administrative cost of operating the Saskatchewan pro- gram in 1963 was slightly less than 5% and the administrative costs of the hospitalization plan are approximately 5%. An aver- age retention figure for acquisi- tion costs, administration, taxes and profits by commercial car- riers is approximately 27% of the premium!" Mr. Hall also effectively un- dercuts the (means test method) as suggested by Alberta and On- tario: it may be worth observing here that it is those who would not have to submit to a means test who are its advocates. Spokesmen for consumer groups are oppos- ed. These include the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and the Canadian Labour Congress both of whom object to the stigma of a means test, to the lack of equality in its application as well as to its administrative costs". He goes on to conclude: "We calculate that in 1971 to finance the univer s al comprehensive Health Services program we have recommended it will cost about $198 per person per year. This is $20 per capita more than Canada' will be spending anyway to con- tinue the haphazard system we now have. . . . Fulfillment of this ideal may still be some years away but come it will for the people of Canada have I feel dedicated themselves to seeing that the phenomenal ac hiev e- ments of medical science in this century will be available to all." Mr. Barry Wenger of Mitchell has taken a position as linotype operator with the Times Advocate taking the place of William G. Davis who leaves next week for Goderich. 15 YEARS AGO Exeter will become an incorp- orated town on New Year's Day when citizens will vote for the first mayor in the municipality's history. Bob Pooley won the pony dona- ted by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ether- ington on which members of Beta Sigma Phi sold tickets realizing $220.75 for the hospital fund. Exeter Wolf Cubs netted over $75 from the sale of apples on Saturday. Grant Morgan has qualified for the Federation scholarship dona- ted to any Huron student entering OAC, Guelph. The scholarship is for a four year term. 10 YEARS AGO At the monster bingo sponsored by Exeter Lions and Exeter Le- gion Charles Acheson won the bingo special; Mrs. Garnet Hicks, the car and Mrs. W.F.B. Mac- Laren, the television set. All pro- ceeds go toward the Scout House being built on John Street. Sunday Mr. and Mrs. David Hazlewood of Kirkton celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. Mrs. Jack Blair of Centralia was chosen Harvest Queen of Ex- eter Kinsmen's Harvest Jambo- ree Friday night at Exeter Arena. Official opening of the new grain elevator by Cann's Mill Ltd. near the CNR station will be held next Wednesday. Hall on health 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110111911111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 KEEP SHOOTING A SAFE SPORT With the hunting season all around us once again, I'd like to pass on to South Huron and North' Middlesex hunters and hunters - to • be the following common sense points that appeared a while back in a telephone com- pany safety journal. 1) Never carry a loaded gun in an automobile, wagon, or other vehi- cle. Keep it in its case until you start hunting. 2) Before shooting, look in- to the breech and make sure that the barrel or barrels are clear. 4