HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1966-07-28, Page 4By Val Baltkalns
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"For heaven's sake, what did
the card say?"
Meet the
challenges They must be used
Exeter council's decision to force
residents into hooking to the sewer
probably won't meet with favour among
some people, but it is, nevertheless, a
wise move.
It's impractical from an economic
standpoint to provide these costly serv-
ices and then not have them used and
a continuance of such a practice would
make it impossible to move towards
completion of the entire project.
On that basis alone, residents who
are provided the services must be ex-
pected to hook into it so that others
may also be provided with proper sew-
age disposal.
However, of even greater impor-
tance, is the fact that an end must be
brought to the continued contamina-
tion of our waterways and streams and
a proper sewage disposal system is the
only manner in which this can be ac-
complished.
As noted at Monday's council meet-
ing, most people not hooked up to the
sewer system are creating pollution,
health or sanitary problems. Any prac-
tical steps taken to end this practice
must be encouraged.
This summer's drought is a prime
example of the need for unpolluted
water supplies, for human and agricul-
tural uses. We just can't survive with-
out it, yet too many people feel the re-
sponsibility lies with someone else.
The Huron communities of Wing-
ham and Goderich have already been
badly affected by polluted water. Con-
taminated waters in the Wingham area
have brought an end to some former
recreational sites and Goderich has al-
most eliminated itself from the ranks
of summer resorts due to the waste
that has made many bathing areas
along Lake Huron unusable.
The problems in these two towns
have also been aggravated by other
communities who dump raw sewage in-
to the streams that flow into these
communities.
Lake Huron remains as one of the
few in the Great Lakes chain which
have not been spoiled for recreation
uses, and as this area is dependent to
a great extent on this fact, it would
be disastrous if that problem ever did
arise.
There is no doubt that more and
more communities in this country are
coming to the point where they must
install sewage systems, and it is only
right that once the systems have been
installed, citizens must use them.
Having provided the bylaw to en-
force this action, council must be pre-
pared to act quickly upon it, with all
citizens being treated in the same man-
ner.
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Worried about the age of chivalry
being dead?
Never fear! Evidence is that it is
still very much in vogue and is being
carried on gallantly by some of the
younger lads in the community.
This reassuring fact was brought
to our attention this week, when we
arose from our desk to investigate the
reason for a considerable amount of
horn blowing on Main Street.
The reason turned out to be that
a lady driver had stalled her car and
the toots on the horns from behind
were not in anger or frustration, but
merely warning the lady that cars were
passing her.
Three young lads in their early
teens were watching the action from
the sidewalk, when one of the trio
parked his bike and went over and
tapped on the lady's window to offer
his assistance.
She gratefully accepted and the
three of them put their combined
might behind the car and shoved it
out of the flow of traffic, being joined
later by others who were anxious to
help the lady out of her moment of
frustration.
On a warm afternoon we have
good reason to assume the deed was
much appreciated and the example set
by the lads is indeed encouraging and
one that many of us too often pass up
for no other reason than we often for-
get that helping others can be very
easy and certainly self-rewarding.
our modern world and it goes
unheeded or is criticized as mo-
dernism.
Many church people have ne-
glected to keep up with their
Bible study and relate it with
the needs of this generation and
the next. Many new archeological
and other scientific discoveries
are helping us to understand and
appreciate the Old Testament
and God's place in the Universe,
but many of us close our minds
and turn our backs on this new
knowledge either through bigotry
or ignorance.
How has atomic power or man's
achievements in space affected
your concept of God? Do you have
a greater knowledge of God and
a greater appreciation of the
world that He has created and of
His love for mankind.
The Christian Church has and
is facing many problems in
Christian education. What is the
purpose of Sunday? — a day of
rest a day of recreational ac-
tivity— a day of Church attend-
ance and Bible Study — a day of
evangelism.
If Sunday is not the time to
teach the Bible to the young and
old when is it to be done? on a
weekday, evening or after school.
Surely we are all agreed that it
must be done by every practic-
ing Christian or Christianfamily
or Christianity will not survive.
Is 20 minutes or a half hour
of Bible Study sufficient time to
school our youth and adults in
the Bible, in Christian morals
and Christ-like behaviour? Does
your mid-week activity or youth
program supplement your Sun-
day program or are they com-
pletely divorced? The list grows
longer as you reflect upon them
and our rapidly changing way of
life.
For ten.years I have been in-
volved in Christian Education at
the provincial and national level,
mostly at the denominational lev-
el. Outside of the monetaryprob-
lem there are two major dif-
ficulties at the present time.
One of these is to produce
church school and mid-week ma-
terials that are:
1. Relevant to our Canadian
society and future generations;
2. Based on sound historical
and scientific investigation;
3. Founded on the Bible;
4. A widely accepted explana-
tion and interpretation of God's
word to His believers;
5. Of interest to the readers
or students;
6. Used and studied by all the
churches of the denomination or
the Canadian Council of Churches
that produces them.
The other difficulty is to find
enough capable and experienced
writers in Canada to produce
such material and curricula.
Some experiences indicate that
this is our greatest problem.
In many ways secular educa-
tion at the elementary, second-
ary and university level has the
— Please turn to page 5
Guest Article
by L. D. Fulmer
It was a pleasure to accept
Mr. Boyne's invitation to write
a column for him while he was
on holidays. I have appreciated
the time, thought and material
in his weekly comments since
we began getting a copy of The
Times-Advocate a year ago Feb-
ruary.
You will be expecting an article
on education from me and I
thought that I would like to share
some of my experiences in Chris-
tian Education with you. What
follows will be a conglomeration
of reflections, beliefs, problems
and projections of Christian Edu-
cation.
As a boy and teenager I at-
tended two Sunday Schools each
Sunday and as early as twelve
years of age I was the assistant
treasurer of a good sized school.
This was my first church re-
sponsibility and I appreciated it
in two ways.
It game me a stewardship op-
portunity that is so often lacking
in our youth work and churches.
Also it helped me to mature and
take church responsibility. In
my case it meant doing most of
the work of the secretary as well
and this gave me experience in
ordering Sunday School supplies
and papers. This was my first
experience with curriculum and
printed material for church
schools and more will be said
about this later.
Looking back over the years
it is difficult to evaluate this
experience over against the add-
ed training and knowledge I would
have gained at the hands of a
good church school teacher. In
Christian Education the prime
purpose is to give a young person
or adult a living faith that will
mature and grow to the place
where it is sufficient for all
his needs and experiences.
Just as in secular education
Christian Education is expand-
ing, is becoming more complex
and is having difficulty up-dating
to our way of life. This requires
specialists and people who can
put all their time and effort into
it. No one expects to take a lay-
man off the street and make him
a doctor or a teacher and neither
should Christians expect to teach
youth groups or others without
training.
One of the major problems
in our churches is to train lay
workers to teach the Bible or
lead youth programs. An even
bigger problem is to instil this
leadership training before the
Christian is called to give of his
time and talents. How do you get
young adults to take courses in
Bible study, teaching methods or
camp counselling?
Interwoven with the lack of lay
workers is the work that the
specialist is doing in Toronto,
Montreal or Winnipeg. Often he
is trying to give direction to the
changes in our society and the
relevance of the Christian life to
of living in the gymnasium at
Exeter Arena for one month are
about all the fond memories that
can be conjured up during 17
moves.
However, number 18 promises
to remain fixed in our cranium
for years to come and perhaps
has once and for all drained the
last drop of wanderlust from our
blood.
It started out simply enough.
We had a house and moving the
furniture back into its previous
spots promised no real chores.
The plans were very simple.
Move into mother's apartment
while she enjoyed a trip to the
East, and have our belongings
delivered to Exeter before she
returned.
But then, things took a turn
for the worse. The decision was
made to erect new kitchen cup-
boards in the house and to refinish
the kitchen floor.
As you may have guessed (if
you're experienced in these mat-
ters) things started to get more
complicated. An exc epti o nal-
ly speedy job got the cupboards
completed on the same day as our
move was scheduled. They still
required a paint job, but expec-
tations of a few extra hours on the
weekend made that task appear
nominal.
So, it was off to Toronto Wed-
nesday night to await the early
arrival of the movers on Thurs-
day at 8:00 a.m.
However, 10:00 a.m. arrived
and still no movers. A phone
call dispelled the fear that things
had gone awry as the dispatcher
apologized for the slight delay
and said it would be about an
This past week at the Batten
house was set aside for moving
our belongings back from Tor-
onto. That's a chore that has
been faced by most people at
least once, but it's becoming old
hat for yours truly.
Having been brought up by a
father that enjoyed staying in one
place only until he had it fixed
up, the joys of moving were
quickly instilled into our way of
life.
A quick count shows that the
recent transfer of our furnish-
ings from Toronto back to Ex-
eter makes a grand total of 18
moves in our comparatively short
life.
Most of those moves were
conducted without much trouble
and few instances stick out in our
memory. There was the time we
took the "royal bumps" down
the cellar steps with a weighty
carton of mother's preserves on
our lap, and of course that old
family keepsake a mammoth
wardrobe — also provided some
hectic moments.
It wasn't one of those compact
little items you see these days,
but rather it measured some-
where in the neighborhood of
eight feet high and six feet wide,
and of course it always had to go
upstairs.
That little manoeuvre consti-
tuted an engineering feat that has
yet to be duplicated, be c au s e
there was only one way it could
go and it always took a 10-minute
consultation to determine which
way that was. The consultation,
of course, didn't take place until
we had the monstrosity resting
on our shoulders at the top of
some landing.
Those two items, plus the joys
A page is missing
The recent removal of the original
gravestone of the Donnelly family from
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic church-
yard grounds near Lucan has torn an-
other page from local history.
Vandalism at the cemetery and
church grounds was the reason for the
removal of the stone that spent an un-
easy 86 years since the ghastly night in
1880 when five members of the Don-
nelly family were slain by vigilantes.
The stone, weighing some 1,600
pounds, was actually removed from
the burial plot two years ago due to
the persistent pursuit of souvenir seek-
ers who were chipping off pieces of
granite, and was stored in a shed on
the premises. The Diocese erected a
new marker in May of this year, with-
out the accusing words "murdered"
under the names of each of the five
deceased.
This move, although inevitable due
to the curiosity of probably a minority
of the thousands of folks that visited
the area, is nevertheless regrettable.
The accounts of the ancient "gory"
happening will remain in the memo-
ries of people up to the date of the
removal of the stone, but will be for-
gotten or not known by the upcoming
generations.
The occurrence has made the Lu-
can area famous — or perhaps infa-
mous — throughout the years and it
is regrettable that this removal of the
original stone had to be made by the
descendants of the ill-fated family.
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hour and a half before the men
arrived.
An hour and a half never made
much difference to anyone, but
to be on the safe side, we check-
ed back in another two hours to
see if perhaps they had lost oar
address.
They hadn't, but a further de-
lay had moved their arrival time
up to around 3:30. A phone call
at 5:30 indicated another two-
hour delay, although we almost
came to the conclusion that the
two-hour bit was really one of
those recorded telephone mes-
sages.
However, that theory was de-
nounced when the next call at
7:30 came up with the reassur-
ing advice the movers were on
their way. And, they did arrive
shortly thereafter, just some 12
hours after we had first ex-
pected them.
Now things were going smooth-
ly once again. But, just for five
minutes. A brief conversation
with the driver indicated our
promised one-day move would
conclude some time on Satur-
day — at the earliest.
Another hurried call got that
thinking straightened out and the
moving van pulled into Exeter at
2:00 p.m. Friday.
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The remainder of the story
is much shorter. We're still a
long way from settled!
The cupboards have only been
half painted and none of the kit-
chen things can be unpacked until
there is room for them. The
refrigerator can't be delivered
until we have the cupboards paint-
ed.
We sleep at 64 Sanders Street,
Some of our clothes are still at
mother's. We drive out to get
hamburgers for lunch and
cheeseburgers for supper. Our
milk is in the neighbor's re-
frigerator. Junior is getting tired
of all the different surroundings
and declines to go to sleep with-
out an hour's fuss, We can't
walk through the living room
because there are too many pack-
ing boxes. Our paper hanger was
delayed in her trip back from the
East. The floor didn't finish off
the way it should and it required
four coats of finish. It's too hot
for working.
Now you know what the editor
will be doing on his holidays
next week and why move number
18 may well be his last.
15 YEARS AGO
As a representative of Exeter
High School Captain R.E. Wade
of Crediton is at National Cadet
Camp, Banff in the heart of the
Canadian Rockies. It is a reward
for all around efficiency in his
army cadet training.
Merle Mode and Stan Frayne
will each sport a brand new
suit having carried off the first
prize and the Tip Top trophy at
the local greens Wednesday.
Exeter Game Conservation
Club have released 1,500 phea-
sants in Stephen Township since
the first of July and 100 more
will soon be released on the
farm of Dalton Finkbeiner.
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Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924
50 YEARS AGO
For the benefit of motorists
going to London it is reported
that the Goderich road between
Lucan and Clandeboye is closed
as a new concrete and steel
bridge is being erected to re-
place the old wooden structure
over the Aux Sauble river.
Mr. and Mrs. William May
returned Monday evening from
their wedding trip up the Mus-
koka Lakes.
Successful in Lower School
examinations for admission to
Normal Schools in Exeter were
Elva Brooks, Della Brooks, Gre-
ta Case, Elva Harvey, Gladys
Harvey, Amy Johns, Myra Mor-
gan, Edna Maxwell, Leila San-
ders, Margaret Sharp, Violet Ste-
wart, Lola Taylor and Lavina
Smith,
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swim, Home for leisurely drink
and barbecued steak. Quiet hour
in lawn chair with book. Bed.
Then, up and at it again, fresh
and fit.
By summer's end, a healthy,
clear-eyed constitution, a book
ready for the publisher, and the
estate looking like something out
of a women's magazine.
That's the illusion. It's about
as much like the reality as the
Venus de Milo is like an orang-
outang.
There are several flies In the
soup. I won't even mention such
things as bone laziness, the heat,
and 140 chores a day my wife
dreams up,
One of the big ones is the late
movie. All winter, there's no
time to watch them, I know. It's
stupid. You might as well be on
junk or booze. But who can pass
up Cagney and Cooper and Bo-
gart in their prime?
Result: instead of a clear-eyed
attack on breakfast and typewri-
ter at nine, there's a bleary-
eyed retreat from both, at eleven.
Second big difficulty is people.
Here's a typical day. In fact, it
happened this week. Old friends,
with children, dropped in at 10
am, on their way through town.
Stayed for lunch, 'latch. At 1,15,
students arrive for last-minute
help with yearbook. Stayed till
3.00, At 4.00, had to Sally forth
to launching party for new lawn
umbrella, in friend's back yard.
Home at 6.30. At 8.00, twelve
miles to visit friends at beach
cottage. Yak, yak. Home at 1,30
am.
But I'm not reallycomplaining.
I did get up early this morning,
for the first time this summer.
The birds are singing in the trees,
and one flicker is bathing under
the sprinkler. The squirrels are
frolicking. The oaks and the elms
and the maples are looking down
at me benevolently, The sun Is
shining. The sky is blue. And my
feet are drying out.
It heats hell out Of being dead
and buried.
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Glorious summer morning,
early. Writing this at the picnic
table, on back lawn. Feet plant-
ed wetly in dewy, three-inch
grass.
Yes, the grass needs cutting.
The hedge needs trimming. The
flower-beds need weeding. The
garage is still half-painted from
last summer though the new
green is fading nicely into the
old blue. Twelve feet of my
neighbour's rotten old board
fence has fallen on my side,
crushing shrubs. The barbecue
is broken. The clothes line is
sagging. My wife is in a vile
temper for all the above rea-
sons. And my daughter is mop-
ping because she doesn't have a
waitress's job, like all her pals.
In addition, my piles are act-
ing up, my bursitis is trobbing,
my golf has gone sour, and I
haven't got my snow tires off
yet.
In short, it's a typical day of
my summer holidays. It's the
difference between the beautiful
illusion and the sordid reality.
For the few school teachers
who are not taking a summer
course, or marking papers, the
two long, golden months of sum-
mer stretch ahead like a glimpse
of paradise.
And for a few, they are pretty
close to it. These are the unmar-
ried ones who don't have a home
to maintain, and have saved all
year. They simply close the
apartment, pick up their tickets,
and head for Utopia.
And even the rest of us make
plans. Oh, how we make plans. I
did it again this year, and on
paper, it's beautiful.
Up earl y, stroll about the
ranch, pulling a weed here and
there, listening to the birdies,
watching the squirrels at play,
smelling the summer morn.
Breakfast. The workS. Fresh
strawberries, bacon and eggs,
pot of coffee.
Then to work. Nine till noon
at the typewriter. Lunch. Game
of golf. Take family to beach for
"Can you back up a little?
I'm fifteen cents short,"
10 YEARS AGO
The building and equipment
of the former Jenson Co., James
St., which ceased operation se-
veral years ago, has been pur-
chased by a firm with consider-
able experience and will start
operating soon.
Tales of pioneer life has been
depicted in a rug hooked as a
group project by Grand Bend
WI telling the Brewster Dam
story. It was entered in a Salada
tea competition and won first
prize in South Huron district.
Contract for paving of High-
way 83 from Exeter to Russel-
dale has been let to F.A. Stone-
house & Son, Ltd., Sarnia, and
it is hoped will he completed
before winter.
Change in the type of person-
nel now stationed at RCAF Cen-
tralia is responsible for the de-
cline in demand for housing in
the district. Single personnel are
replacing the married men as
flying training instructors.
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25 YEARS AGO
The Woodham LOL was award-
ed a prize for being the largest
represented lodge at the 12th of
July celebration at Seaforth Sa-
turday.
While there is no official con-
firmation rumors are rife to
the effect that work on the new
airport between Centralia and
Crediton are about to commence
in the near future.
Peas that averaged four tons
to the acre with returns averag-
ing around $170 per acre were
grown by Ernest Willard, one and
a quarter miles south of Exeter
and is a record paid for peas
by the Exeter Canning factory,
A light frost visited this sec-
tion early Sunday morning (July
24). Early rising motorists found
some frost on their windshields
and at least one man reports
some of his flowers nipped,