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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1966-07-28, Page 4By Val Baltkalns Beats hell out of being dead TThe exeferZimeo-Akniocafe 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. Southcoff Editor: Bill Batten Advertising Manager: Val Baltkalns Phone 235.1331 *1.0 "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. qemeat:#1,9 de9,414 Gentlemen to the rescue • • a:k4k Ig*saw 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. SMILE ei‘e 4eeit atetteict arc 4:44‘dtirey efact, Seged qleettut 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. * . * 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. &V.S.«.4SlefilfairatiN 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, Paid in Advance Circulation, March 31, 1966, 4,180 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $5.00 Per Year; USA $7.00 gia4.T.E.11,7•714?. 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. 111010111gaM111247.1211k,04 0,1.1A N Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ont. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Past Office Dep't, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Cash 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,