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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-05-24, Page 4SOO somewhat confusing: In SI:Me eases, imPrOVenlent$ re- st* in =fusion, and this is certainly the Situation regarding the widened portion Of HighwaY 4 at the south end Of Exeter. Since the work has been com- Pleted, Many people have been using this portion of the road in the same manner they would a four-lane high- way, although it appears they are in- correct in so doing. Magistrate Glen Hays, Q.C,, cleared up some of the confusion in a ruling last week when he noted that there was no evidence to indicate that this is a four-lane section, although at the same time he remarked there were certain conflicts in the evidence with which he was presented, Unfortunately, the intricacies of one specific court case based on cir- cumstances pertaining only to that case, do not spell out rules that would per- tain to all driving situations in this area. However, based on the Magistrate's ruling, it would appear wise 10 advise drivers that this section is only a two- lane highway with a parking lane on each side similar to the area that is es- tablished along Main St. in the busi- ness Area. At the Same time, they should re- main diligent to the fact there may be others using the highway i n an inc"-red manner and certainly the position of all cars should be checked care- fully before making any turns. It would appear that the confusion could be cleared to a great extent if the parking lanes were better marked, perhaps with diagonal lines, to indi- cate they are not to be used by moving vehicles. Driving is a demanding and often hazardous task at the best of times, and obviously any confusing situations which add to the demands and hazards should be corrected if possible. They should know best Adam dame Nan Staed44*. photo by Haugh tIass ddronunity ne*Spapers Banking facilities have been greatly enhanced in the area recently with the opening of the two new buildings hous- ing branches of the Bank of Montreal in Grand Bend and Lucan. Both of these striking buildings greatly enhance the appearance of their respective communities as well as providing improved services to their patrons. In addition to these tangible bene- fits, there is also the fact that the in- vestments in new buildings indicate optimism in the communities served by the bank. It is certainly a reassuring type of optimism because probably there is no business concern in a more advantageous position to judge the present and future potential of a com- munity than those who handle that community's financial transactions. So, while patrons may well be pleased with the modern and attrac- tive facilities provided, they also speak well for the future of this district. Merchants, take note The Attorney - General of Ontario has ruled that wage assignments, or garnishees, for debts, will soon end. Then a man who runs up a debt he refuses to pay will be free of any threat to cut off a portion of his wages to repay the debt. The chances of a creditor collect- ing a bill are getting slimmer every day. Much of the complaint about as- signing wages to pay debts comes from companies who don't want to be both- ered about the book work involved in taking the money out of a man's pay and turning it over to his creditor. But in the long run both the creditor and the debtor will suffer. Attorney-General W i s h a r t says: "Those extending credit will have to be more careful and more certain the person he's selling to is capable of making his payments." If the merchant isn't careful he'll lose his money, and if he's too careful he'll lose the sale, and this potential customer won't be able to acquire the goods he wants. Merchants are going to be ex- tremely careful about selling on credit and buyers who don't have cash will be unable to buy goods they would ordinarily pay for later. A merchant has to have some security and up until now he always knew that if all else failed he could garnishee a man's wages. Now this last resort is gone. St. Marys Journal-Argus Nothing trivial this week Nothing trivial this week. I'm going to ask, and answer, some questions about the more pro- found aspects of life. If you don't like the answers, supply your own. When is a politician, during an election ntapaign, going to promise the populace the moon, and then remind us out loud that it is we, not some other-worldly essence called The Government, who will have to pay for it, Answer: When we find out, Which may be any day now, that the moon really is made Of green cheese, after all. Why ate teenagers se Often So unbearable? Because, like babies, they have learned quickly that the best means of getting attention is to raise a stink, literally and figuratively, What happens to my socks? Every time nly wife washes, I lose one sock, Never a pair; always singleS. Just checked my drawer, arid I have nine single Socks, no two matching. They're zs% limes EstabliShed 1873 about as useful as antlers on a rabbit. Answer: There is a little man with a bizarre taste in socks built in to these new-tangled automatic washers or dryers. It never happened With the old up- right and the clothes-line, At least the dealer could tell you, before you bought the machine. Solution? Buy all my socks the same color. But this would spoil my image. vve always been noted for my dashing Sockst gray, light-gray, dark-gray, dark-blue or black. Where did this Vile canard begin that men are babies when they are sick? They're supposed to be whining, querulous, de- manding sympathy. This IS pop- pycdek, at least in our family. Hugh and 1 want only to be left alone when we're ill. It's the females who talk endlessly about how they feel, distuts every twinge, demand fresh tea every half-hour and complain about the slowness and sloppiness of the service. After three weeks of It, I know. Why do black people loot dui- log riots? For the same reason white people do: partly to get something for nothing; partly for the sheer hell of it. What has Pierre Elliott Tru- deau, who is older and has even less hair, got that I haven't? Not much, really. ExCept a mil- lion dollars, a brilliant mind, bags of charm, no family shack- les, and a couple of million females who would like to be his mother, wife or in a pinch, sister. Why are so many draft-dod- gers coming to Canada? First, because they don't want to defend the 11.8, and rot or be shot 10,000 Miles Away in a jiingle. Second, 11'8 too hot in Mexico and they don't know the language. Why is it warm and sunny all Week, Old and rainy oh week- endS? 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Newsmen tend to search into the statements a little more care- fully, often in an effort to make editorial comment and to correct or argue with statements made by various speakers. The job often becomes easy at political rallies, because they are frequently free-wheeling af- fairs where as much is to be gained by ripping the other fellow apart as in building up your own party. We have no doubt that some of the speakers make statements with tongue-in-cheek. There was the comment at the Liberal event that the party should be returned to ensure that the military base at Clinton would be maintained, and yet it was the same Liberal government which approved closing down the base at Centralia. One Liberal candidate outlined several programs requiring pro- vincial and federal financial as- sistance and then noted there was a need for reduced taxes. Progressive Conservative speakers criticised the federal government's plan for regional- ism involving provinces and a move towards more social wel- fare programs, although the pro- vincial PC government have cer- tainly not been devoid of similar activities. Eric Winkler was particularly critical of more socialprograms and at the same time was crit- ical of the small increases re- cently granted for persons on old age pensions: Marvin Howe suggested there were no problems with provinces sending delegates to world con- ferences and the next day Prein- ier John RObarts expressed a somewhat different view. Naturally enough, many of the Why all the tuts and admir- ation about the teenagers March- ing for money On May 4th? They had a ball: Try to sponsor one into marching around behind a lawnmower, with proceeds going to the underprivileged of the World, and See What responSe you ,get. When are the clot's in this country going to stop eating down avenues of beautiful trees in towns and cities in order to Widen roads and create speedways? /s/ever, unless we non-clots start a holy War about it. When are Of going to get rid Of that Vast, Strang- ling Afterbirth Of a bureaucracy? Answer: When there are only 300 people left in the country Who are not working for the goV., etnritent: Mew many people *Add stop smoking if weeds went up to $2 a pack, Or drinking if boOSe Went to $12 a Cradk? About at many aS a One-armed man with a wooden leg could count on his toes and fitt- er!. Why is teaching sOhool like Washing dishes? There's alwayS atiethet stack -coming along, 'un- leSS you want to stop eating. Any mote qtlettlens?Nel Well, gtiesS that clears up a lot of things that haute been bothering you, comments at the two meetings centred around the two new lead- ers. Each was heralded by the party supporters and denounced by the opposition. And so it goes! While it makes for an interesting campaign, it will be difficult for the non- aligned voters to make up their minds and obviously they will be presented with many conflict- ing statements during the coming weeks. They'll have to look at them closely. The Conservatives were par- ticularly critical of the social programs being implemented by the Liberals, although during his leadership, speech, Mr. Trudeau had the following to say: "In the field of social welfare programs it is my belief that we have enough of this free stuff . . We have to put a damper on this revolution of rising expectations . . • We must not be afraid of this bogeyman, the means test . . . We must be more selective, to help those who live on unecon- omic land or in city slums.:' Much was also made of the fact Mr. Trudeau had only been a Liberal party member for about two years, having previously backed the New Democratic Party, However, no mention was made of the fact that former Social Credit leader Robert Thompson has jumped the fence to run for the PCs in the upcoming elec- tion. Many political charges are nothing short of the pot call- ing the kettle black, and this is why it is so difficult to make a choice in an election. It is Unfortunate that the pol- 50 YEARS AGO A public notice appear8 in an- other column of the Exeter Times calling upon every British male subject who has or shall attain the age of 19 years to register on or before June 1. Miss Edna Follick WaS Chis- elhtitSt Sunday evening assisting With a Sacred Cantata held in the Methodist Church. Miss Ethel Day, Who has been taking the VAD ,nurSing course in town was called it, London where she Will take a few weeks special treatment preparatory to going overseas. MISS Day's bro- ther Louis is at present in Eng land being invalided there from France. Dr. Wirt Fletcher, Minister of Thames Road Presbyterian Church was elected Moderator Of the General AsSeitibly Of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. in St. .Andrew,s Church, London, last -Wednesday 'evening: 26 YEARS AGO An invitation was extended to eVety branch in litiron Deanery to attend the 50th anniVeitary Of the Women's AtikiliarY Of St, P aril'S Anglican ClitirCh i llenSalli on thiitSday, May 20. _ Effective 'Thursday, May 27, meat rationing will become a 104 Two coupons be-Conte good each thiltsday, Barry Wenger who, for the OeSt three years has been on the staff of The TittieSiAdVOCate is leaving this Week for Mildmay where he is taking over the u-ndrriay Gazette. Mr, and Mrs. :Tack tight:Id& have moved to Exeter from Vs- borne. Mr. nellitidge is etpres- ent employed With Ttieltey TrariS port., iticians don't spend more time outlining their own programs rather than getting involved in this confusing mud-slinging. Some of these policies will be unveiled in the next few weeks and readers should certainly keep an open mind until they have been told for what each party stands. The situation in Quebec ap- pears to be shaping up as one of the major issues in the camp- aign and it is one that is apt to become much clearer before election day. Last week's rallies were both well attended, and as expected, the Liberals drew a full house on the basis that there was a wide- open race fot the candidacy and certainly this tends to make for better attendance. Some people may try to make much of the fact the Liberal rally drew twice as many people as the PC event, but really there is no indication of party strength indicated in the two figures be- cause the Liberals really did have more going for them. However, we were surprised to find that the PCs managed to generate more enthusiasm in their meeting, although again it must be noted that they had "professional" politicians while the Liberals before the micro- phone were "amateurs". The speeches made by Bob McKinley and Mait Edgar at the respective meetings indicate there's not too much to choose between them as far as speak- ing ability is concerned. Because the nomination was — Please turn to page 5 15 YEARS AGO Three writers, two of them local residents, will provide The Times-,Advocate readers with first hand reports of the Coron- ation. They are Bill Brock, Hen- sel]. district youth, a Canadian Jr. Red Cross delegate, Mayor G. Cochrane and R. G. Simp- kin Special Ontario weeklyneWs- paper representative. A special souvenir edition of the Exeter Times-Advocate was printed commemorating the cor- onation of Her Majesty queen Elizabeth 11 on June 2. A tidal wave struck Lake Huron Shore and a heavy rain storm hit inland Saturday night as Western Ontario experienced its third weather eruption in 10 days. Exeter Public School Board voted $40 to transport Grades 6, 7 and 8 pupils to Goderich to see the Huron County musetim. 10 YEARS AGO William Male, minister ' 6/ Planning and deVelOpinetit i -Will difitially open the Mertiton Datil at a ceremony at the site Wed, nestlaY afternoOn..jtine 4. Sunday, jilte"ti the new 000 nurses' residence for South Burtiti RoSpital Will be Opened fOr PUblid InSpedititi in an IliternO6ii program. Bill and Don Brook, sons Of Russell Brock, nit 2 'KiNen, graduated With BSA degrees from OAC, Guelph, A marker Ooinifieffiritating the original site Of Grand Bend IlteW*6 stet's Dein was dedicated in a dereitiotiY•tattirday.- The old dam site ittittiecliately behind the RC .elitlith oti the Bine Wate r;11 way,