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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1966-08-18, Page 4eeee.ee:•:•:exe•exeee••••••••-•••••••-••eeeee:e:emee Actually, it would appear that the bank was not being exorbitant in their increase, as the price had remained unchanged since 1957; and certainly, the argument by council that the bank now handles most of their financial matters and should be treated with some favouritism does not hold. You just can't pay staff and expenses with friendship. It takes money. However, while we may not agree with council's decision on this matter, it is a welcome sign indeed that they are apparently keeping such a close tab on their expenses., It's to be hoped they remain pen- ny wise without living up to the last half of that adage. One of the paradoxical attributes of many elected and appointed officials is the fact they often live up to the old adage of being "penny wise and pound foolish". While Exeter's council can not be justifiably charged with being "pound foolish", their decision to balk at a five-cent increase in a bank charge is certainly a ease of being penny wise. At a time when costs of most commodities and services are spiral- ling at a fearsome speed, the increase of a nickel appears minor indeed, but council noted that the nickel actually represented an increase of 50 ,7a and it was on this basis that they balked. Would end some problems Full moon over Vancouver bility to arrange his hours to provide effective policing at all times. It would appear that Hensall, simi- lar to other communities in this dist- rict, would be best served by an over- all county policing organization, such as is being recommended by the On- tario police commission. This body has pointed out that policing in most small communities is totally inadequate due to the fact most policemen are not properly trained, don't have adequate facilities and often get embroiled in controversies with local politicians. In addition, many of them have a difficult time retaining good men because the pay scale is not attractive. There isn't a community in Huron that hasn't been faced with problems due to one of the foregoing reasons, and it is perhaps time county officials seriously considered the inauguration of a county-wide police staff to come under the sole jurisdiction of a police commission. At a time when organized crime is making inroads in Ontario, we should at least attempt to keep pace with them by organizing the police to com- bat it. By Val Baltkalns Ve4zegivtift9 eaptada, On the basis of population figures, the opinion expressed at Hensall coun- cil meeting last week that the com- munity should have a full-time police- man„ is warranted. In comparison, Exeter has a police- man for approximately every 1,000 residents—not counting auxiliary of- fieers--and Grand Bend now has a man for every 800 of population figur- ing it on the peak holiday weekend total of 20,000 people. The 929 inhabitants of the bean capital would appear to fall within this range. However, if councillors are of the opinion that a full-time officer will pre- sent a cure-all for all the law infrac- tions in their community, they are badly mistaken. It just doesn't work that way. It's doubtful if Exeter and Grand Bend with their full-time police have fewer problems than Hensall. To most violators of traffic and liquor rules, the presence 'of police in a community just doesn't alter their action, unless they know they are under actual sur- veillance. In addition, one man can't be on duty at all times, and it is an impossi- .*.eeeeeeeeeeeeezliteleee 4,':, s• Healthy pay cut for some This column is devoted to ex- cerpts from an excellent article in the August 1 issue of the United Church Observer—Journey Through A Hurting World by N. Bruce McLeod, "This is a hurting world. I had known this before. But as I journeyed recently through Asia — Japan, Taiwan, Quemoy, Hong Kong and finally that bewildered land of Viet Nam, I heard it cry," "When I got home and looked at my sleeping children, each safe in her own bed, I thought of children I had just seen". "There were 10,800 six to 12 year olds who attended one school in Taipei. There were 75 ragged beauties who materialized in a back street Kaohsiung slum. All these were better off by far than the little gum pushers in Hong Kong where 47% of the population are children.' "I was in one room with 22 babies whose introduction to life has been that nobody wants them". "Asia where over half of the world's population lives on about a quarter of the world's food is full of children. The ones who survive will be making tomor- row's headlines and sitting across tomorrow's conference tab 1 e s with whatever subconscious urges the years will have built in". "There were children sitting or sleeping on sidewalks in Sai- gon, or In doorways, five year olds at midnight begging as a way of life, children going to sleep hungry every day. What the world is really like could not be learn- ed looking at my sleeping child- ren". "How can I help them be aware, compassionate, useful? For this is a hurting world and fullness of life is no longer a possibility for anyone who pretends that it is not." "In Saigon alone there are 60,000 refugees (about a million in the rest of South Viet Nam). There is no part of the swollen city's streets or docks that can- not be used for a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen or all at once. "There is a limit to the hurt that men can bear. There is not much more time for children to sleep safely in their own beds ignorant of that fact and of the necessity for their compassion- ate response". "In the midst of this hurting world with its ancient resent- ments there are those whose job is to hit nobody on the head but just to care. Voluntary relief agencies such as CARE and the Red Cross are doing good work everywhere but there is no doubt in my mind that the best way to give money for the hurting world just now is through the Church. In every country the Church is there caring through long time workers, who speak the language of the people and see that the money goes where it should go". "The old Somerset Maugham type missionary can still be met occasionally with his thinly veil- ed contempt for the people among whom he works. But the mis- sionaries I met were not like that. They were there only as invited by the• native church". "There was U Thaung Tin in Viet Nam distributing food and life for the World Council of Churches. There were social workers, administrative advis- ers, teachers of English, theo- logical professors, doctors and Muriel Tonge, whose home is full of homeless boys, whose orphan- age project is on its own now and who is busy working in the clinics in the slums of Hong Kong". "This is what the Church is doing in the world. This kind of caring is what the man is against who says he won't support mis- sions. This kind of caring may be the really important thing go- ing on in the east today". "This is a hurting world. It is for us in a land where child- ren sleep safely at night to care, especially for us who belong to the Church of that Man who said, "It is not enough for you to say Lord, Lord". "I don't want that", he so much as said, "I won't listen", "You've got to care. you've got to give your heart, your voice s, your resources, your lives for the hungry, for the cold, the neglected and all who are hurt. It's why you are here. You are not in favour of mis- sion? Mission is the name of the game! This is the caring place; and no man belongs here unless he cares too". "My children looked peaceful in their beds, too peaceful maybe for the way things really are. How can they, growing up, be taught to really care, to have compas- sion? As that question is ans- wered the shape of tomorrow will be influenced today". Big time in the big town This summer appears to be the time of the dissatisfied worker and in all corners of this country, labour and management are embroiled in some bitter disputes. Violence has punctuated some of these strikes, and perhaps many people have been more interested in reading the facts in this regard than the de- mands which unions are making. Many workers are asking for pay hikes that represent up to 30 percent increases, which was the increase which settled the strike against the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority. That pay hike was approved by the federal government and many unions are now demanding similar boosts to keep in line with what they call "the Pearson formula". We could all applaud the deter- mined drive by unions for higher wages if it meant higher living stand- ards for all. But that is not the case. The wage hikes appear to be far be- yond the economy's increased rate of productivity. The inevitable result is higher prices and higher living costs, another discount on the dollar. For many workers in rural On- tario and others on fixed incomes, it will be the equivalent of a healthy pay cut. Happens every Saturday night People today stand in no awe of the law. They seem. on the contrary to have imbibed somehow a contempt for it, which seems to us a sign of ig- norance of -.:that makes collective liv- ing endurable, Disorder is self-destruc- tive, though the disorderly may not realize it in time. The oddest note in the report of youthful hoodlumism last weekend iCivic Holiday a in the village of Grand Bend, Ontario. v.,-as the comment of a local poliee officer, who indicated "it happens every Saturday night". The trenb:e is a regular thing, it seems. explained by the fact that dance halls and drinking places close at about the same time on Saturday night. tri_t g the street with people not yet !tat go home. They even have a large mir- ror mounted on wheels that they push under the bus to make cer- tain no East Berliners are trying to ride out. Despite all the precautions the Russians have already taken, they are building the wall higher to thwart further escape attempts. The present wall is about six feet high and on top of this there are several rolls of barbed wire. Some 12,000 guards are sta- tioned along the 10-mile block- ade. The new wall will be higher, but won't have any barbed wire, The Taylors found the Eastern section still had many ruins from the last war and there was very little merchandise being shown in the state-owned shops. "It gave us a grey sensation," they reported, which was in sharp contrast to the gay, bright sec- tion in West Berlin. One of the oddities in Berlin is the fact the Russians erected a war memorial which turned out to be outside their area when the wall was built. However, they received per- mission from West Berlin to post a guard at the memorial each day. But, it was soon found that this was a bad situation, as the lone guard invariably defected once he got to the western area. Now, they have two guards, not guarding the memorial, but rather guarding each other. The situation becomes even more unusual in that there are American soldiers guarding the two Russian guards and the West German police are in turn guard- ing everyone. * * * * Getting back to the local scene, residents in the Kippen area of Tuckersmith are continuing tneir we've found this to be an ex- ceptionally good summer for catching up on the geography we failed to grasp during our school days. First of all, Mother Batten reported on her trip to the East coast and then we had an en- joyable evening with RCMP Cpl. Jim Crocker, who is presently stationed in Regina with the la- boratories of the Mounties. This past weekend we brought Grandfather Pearson up to Ex- eter for a visit and have been enjoying the details and photos of his recent trip to the Calgary Stampede and then on to British Columbia. To top, that all off, Don and Judie Taylor have been fascinat- ing us with accounts of their life in Nigeria and the many trips they've managed to such places as England, France and Switzer- land. A detailed report of their find- ings in Africa is contained else- where in this paper, but we know readers will be interested in their stay in Berlin on their way back to Canada two, weeks ago. They were among those for- tunate enough to get into (and out of) East Berlin; enjoying a two-hour bus trip around the Russian section. Their visit, incidentally, coin- cided with the fifth anniversary of the "wall" that separates the two sectors in the German city. "It's eerie looking and de- pressing," Don told us, and he remarked at the vast difference between the Russian section and that in West Berlin, Before getting past "Check- point Charlie", the Taylors were detained for about half an hour as the Russians entered the bus to check all the passports and luggage of the riders. The discontented group is not made up of residents of the village, it perhaps doesn't need to be pointed out, but of vacationers in the district. There are two objectionable fea- tures to the situation. One is the spirit of anarchy that seems barely below the surface in crowds everywhere to- day. Some trivial frustration is enough in most parts of the world, it seems, to turn a crowd, especially if it is young, into a mob. The other, almost more to be con- demned, is the attitude, evident in the quotation, that if riots occur frequent- ly enough, they lose their significance, and nothing need be done about them. There was no word of charging any- one with any offence in the Grand Bend affair. —The Montreal Star Times EtJablishecf 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 50 YEARS AGO' The McDonell-D ickson and Carling three-storey block last year underwent a thorough reno- vation of the interior. This year fine basements have been made underneath, the front painted and new chimney erected from the ground up. Bread is now seven cents a loaf in Exeter. Hydro linemen are here to start the line from Exeter to Hensall. James Lawson has taken down the verandah from the front of his store, the north half of the Carling Bros. old stand. Jones te May intend removing theirs also. 15 YEARS AGO The production of hay and grain crops in Ontario this year will be the best on record. Rev. Glen Beach, who has preached in the Church of God in Grand Bend for the past seven years, has tendered his resigna- tion and will take up duties in Blyth. An RCAF Dakota with a rescue crew of seven and Don Southcott reporter, left Centralia airport 7 am Tuesday evening for North Bay to join the search for a Timmins dentist and Toronto Maple Leaf hockey player over- due on an aerial fishing trip. fight against the odours eminat- ing from a piggery in that area. They've taken their battle to the township council, the On- tario Water Resources Commis- sion and Huron County Health Unit, but have failed to make much headway. Their plight appears to stem from the fact most of these bodies "pass the buck" along to the next and so none is really making a concentrated effort on their behalf. The OWRC reported that waste from the piggery was polluting a nearby stream, but of course, say they have no jurisdiction over the odour problem. Meanwhile, neighbors report they can't eat dinner if the wind is blowing in their direction, and some residents have even claim- ed the stench has made them ill. They admit, that as farmers, they have come to live with the normal barnyard odours, but this situation appears to be worse than what could be termed nor- mal. If things are as bad as they say, we suggest Tuckersmith council is being lax in not putting more pressure on the County officials to have the situation investigat- ed and corrected. While attendance at the Exeter Kin Camp at Goderich last week showed a decline in attendance, the kids still had themselves a gay time and there is nothing to indicate that thought should be given to foregoing this Outing in the future. The usual pranks featured the week-long stay and Rec Director Alvin Willert is still trying to find out who put the ice cubes in his bunk, From what we could learn, the meals were among the highlights this year, and there shouldn't have been any cases of lost weight reported. Next year, we would suggest that a day be set aside when parents can visit the camp, al- though this suggestion might not meet with the approval of too many of the youngsters. Our idea is that some mothers should see how neat and tidy the kids keep their sleeping quart- ers. Most that we toured were impeccable and certainly didn't suggest they housed an active group of boys or girls. We're sure it would be most interesting for mothers to find out how Alvin and his staff man- aged to talk the youngsters into looking after things so well. LETTERS ,rte EDITOR Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ont. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Cash Thanks To the editor, On behalf of the people of Shipka and surrounding commun- ity, I want to say a sincere thank you for putting our invitation to the Reunion in the paper and also the wonderful coverage you gave us In pictures etc. It was a pleasure to look at them, Paid in Advance Circulation, March 31, 1966, 4,180 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $5.00 Per Year; USA $7,00 25 YEARS AGO The Times-Advocate this week begins a new feature, It is a wo- men's Column under the heading Of "Notes from a Woman's Work- shop" and is written by a local woman, Among the recent enlistments in the RCAF at the London Re- cruiting Centre are Gordon Cud- more, Exeter; William Gerald Schroeder, Centralia, Gerald Passmore and Donald MacKin- non, Hensall. The brick residence of Con O'Brien, Centralia, has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hodgson whose farm is being taken over by the department as a part of the new airport. 10 YEARS AGO The local plant of Canadian Canners Ltd. is literally swamp- ed with a record bean crop in the district. Several truck loads have been shipped to other processing plants and some placed in cold storage. Katherine Ondrejicka, 18- year-old student of Centralia posted the highest average among VOHS upper school graduates. John Hall of Stephen topped the boys and placed second to Kath- erine. Elizabeth and Diana Knox, twin daughters of Rev. and Mrs. N. Le, Knox, Exeter, tied for champion- ship honors of the juvenile girls division at the Exeter playground swim Friday. Yorkville, at midnight, with about 4,000 young people strolling up and down the sacred couple of blocks, on their nightly pilgrim- age. Within five minutes, we'd been ;eel spotted by one of my students, who seemed delighted to catch Mr. Smiley in the act, so to speak. We took refuge in a cellar joint. Maybe I'm getting old and crusty. But the coffee houses have changed greatly, and for the worse, In the five years since I've been there. Then, they were run by en- thusiastic amateurs, you could spend a whole evening for a dol- lar and a quarter, and the music was provided by young folk sing- ers, some 'lousy, some good, but all serious and rather sweet. Now they've gone commercial. There's a stiffish cover charge, coffee is 50 cents a wallop and rotten, and the music, provided by groups whose sole purpose seems to be to drive you right out of your skull, is one great blast of electronic noise and shouting. Ironically, the places have be- come too expensive for most of the young people they were or- iginally intended for. Perhaps that's why they walk up and down outside in one vast, roll- ing crowd that is always poten- tially a mob. Oh, well, it was a good week- end. We had budgeted for one night only. But we didn't wake up until checking-out time, it was still steaming hot outside, and the girls came up with some of that Weird feminine logic which proved that we could af- ford it if we cut down on some- thing or other. So I was hooked for another 24 hours of pre- tending to be a millionaire. We loafed, swam, watched the real rich people spoiling their kids, had an Italian dinner, and took in Eric NiCol's comedy, catching three Seats in the sec- ond row by pure luck. Enjoyed it, but I'm afraid it will hit Broadway about the same year I Win the Nobel prize. And home Sunday, up the high- way north, rested and refreshed, and laughing all the way at those sun-burned, exhausted vacation- ers pouring south, on their way back from the sizzling north to the tropical City, Burning desire of most city people in the blasting heat of mid-summer is to flee from the concrete canyons and head north, where there is cool, blue water and golden sand and you sleep under blankets. Well, we live in the north, comparatively, and usually it's just as the city denizens picture it. But this summer, after sleep- ing under nothing but a film of sweat for three weeks, we decid- ed to seek refuge from the heat. How do you get it? Head far- ther north? Nope, you head south for the city and check into an air-conditioned hot el. With a swimming pool. It was done on impulse, with no room reservation. We were lucky. After four phone calls, we found ourselves ensconced in a fine big room, cool as a tomb, overlooking the swank swimming pool. And yet it was right in the heart of the city. Very pleasant. Free parking and free ice cubes appealed to my Scottish strain. We called a few people, and by 8 o'clock the joint was jump- ing, room service was on the gallop, and the room was filled with everything from teenagers to a grandmother who had just knocked off her '79th birthday and was prepared to celebrate the event till dawn. Fortunately, cooler heade pre- vailed, and by 11 p.m. all had gone their various ways. What to do? Too late for dinner or a show. Too early for bed. My wife, who turns Into a Go- Go Girl when she gets into a ho- tel room and hasn't any meals or dishes or laundry to worry about, suggested we hit the cof- fee-house circuit. My daughter, whose foremost desire is to do just that, but by herself, de- murred. "Who wants to go there with parents? And besides, I hear they don't allow old people into them." "Waddaya mean, old people?" Chorused her Old Lady and her Old Man. When the kid realized there wasn't a hope of getting into that teenage jungle on her own, she graciously permitted us to go along. And that's how we found our- selves in famous, or infamous, Mrs. Verne Sharpe Secretary t Right end of adage A hurting world. te:efeeeeee: eeeee e • • l.e;::efeene• r,Y .;yee:•:•:•eceeekee.:•:ee•:e•••emeee. e •• gifte exeferZines-,Akturicafe SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND Member.. C.W.le,A., 0.W.N.A., C.C.N.R. and ABC Pubhshe J. M. Southcott, R. M. Southcott Editor; Bill Batten Advertising Manager. Val Baltkalns Phone 235-1331