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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-07-04, Page 20If you can live so long . .... .24traliNIMINAMIZAw.'"ZSVMM Times , Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 Abuocafe Order Maw SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C,W.N.A., 0.W.N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC Publishers: J. M. Southcott, R. M. Soutitcdtt Editor -- Bill Batten —.Advertising Manager Phone 1:35-1331 Published Each Thursday Morning at Eketer, Ontario Authorized asSecond Class Mail, Post Office Depl, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Cash Paid in Advance Circulation, September 30, 1961, 4,338 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $5.00 Per Year; USA $7.00 class. community neWspapors How far do we let them go? : . . '41 Increase your life insurance by 30% at no extra cost Great-West Life's "Plus 30" dividend option allows you to increase your life insurance pro- tection by 30% a year without costing you another penny in premiums. No medical proof is required to maintain the extra protection. 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His idea of a practical joke may have been in having the siren wake up half the people in town, including ba- bies and small children who often have a difficult time of settling down after the noise. Who knows, perhaps in was some- one who thought it would be most humorous to have the editor of the local beWSPaPer stumble out of bed, put his clothes on askew and stagger down the steps. All those things may be very fun- ny and we hope he enjoyed the occa- sion, However, our idea of a practical joke would be to catch the guy and string him up by the toes with his head two feet away from the wailing siren and then forget about him for half an hour or so. The law also has a funny way of dealing with the situation. No doubt some magistrate would chuckle over levying a fine of $500 or sending the chap to jail for six months—or both. Now, wouldn't that be most hilar- ious? An admirable achieuement Those persons with doubts about the quality of teaching at. South Huron District High School must have been encouraged by the school's graduation results published last week. Although it is difficult for this newspaper to assess the overall success of the year's work at the school, it is evident that students with ability and desire to succeed were able to excel under the guidance of the staff at SHDHS. Parents and other taxpayers are often quick to criticise when teachers expect and receive pay increases and other considerations such as topnotch equipment and modern surroundings. In fact, whenever education costs come to the forefront of the conversa- tion, ratepayers generally lay all the blame at the feet of teachers who "aren't doing the kind of job they should for the money we're spending". We think June 1968 promotion rec- ords at SHDHS would compare most favorably with the promotion records from any other secondary school in the province. What's more, we think the staff at the school deserves our com- mendation for a job well done. Their task is .an awesome respon- sibility. To take a gangling energetic youth in Grade 9 and mould him and polish him in five years to become a poised adtdt ready to cope with the problems of a complex society, is a work requiring more skill and dedica- tion than most would believe possible. So, hats off to the principal, the teachers, the graduates and the other successful students at the school. May the 1968 69 school year be another profitable adventure for all. The fate of old cars Senator Clairborne Pell of Rhode Island has come up with an idea of double-barrelled merit. Pell—an amateur oceanographer— advocates the use of junked car bodies to create what he terms "instant fish metropolis" on the bottom of the sea to attract marine life seeking safety from predators. Before submerging them, Pell sug- gests the metal carcasses be dipped in rust resistant paint to preserve them from erosion. Thus protected, he says the remnants of old cars would pro- vide permanent habitat for creatures of the sea. There's reason to believe that fish would flock to such hideouts. Anyone familiar with, automobile junkyards on land knows they are havens for var- mints, rodents and snakes. One would be no less attractive to denizens of the deep. An ocean burying ground for old car hulks is an idea worth exploring. Certainly there is a need for some place to dispose of the countless junked vehicles which now deface America's landscape. — Nashville (Tenn.) Banner Let Us Do It .For You ....„.. " When you want to ,s0§PriPote.r..4.P9W. TIWPITIr'er .te.:re, - MW, fax avoid Pne.,,,-AligtV,S. PP need for you to write ,4 letter, 'Puy a postal order and pay PP#Pg91Pr9p- into, The. Times-Advocate and we'll be glad to do It for youl, we have a..1t# of all the popular magazines:..ancl'OP.Ir scription prices. If your family is anything like mine, you most sometimes put your head down on your arms and weep, quietly and bitterly. We go through periods of pas- sivity and morbidity to the point where mass suicide seems the only sane solution. And with the perversity of life, suddenly the clouds break, the sun comes mit, the rainbow appears, there's a pot of gold at its base and God is once again back in His heaven, instead Of hanging around the peol-hall. We've just been through one of these cycles, and I reckon that just about one more will finish. Me off. It began abolit ten weeks ago. For the fifth time in the last couple of years, Hugh, the wand- ering boy, took off to make anew start and his fortUne. This time it was 10 be in the mines of northern Quebec. A week later we received a card from the flesh-pots of Montreal, urging us to write and saying he had a job at Expo Jr. We all wrote. Silence. Nothing. For weeks and weeks. Momma worried. I didn't. At about the same time my wife got sick and couldn't write her university exams. Had a small operation, came home and lay around the house, driving me mad. Kim, of course, had to get into the act and came down with mono-nucleosis. She was for- bidden to study. Would she fail her year? Your humble servant, as usual, had nothing wrong with him ex- cept a rotten family. However, he just put his nose to the wheel and his shoulder to the grind- stone and kept on running in circles. He's used to it. Things got steadily blacker. Hugh maintained silence. His mother learned she had to have a big operation and spent a moith chewing her fingernails right up to the wrists as she waited for the hospital to call, the ghastly operation, and the news that she had cancer. Kim got surlier and surlier from being cooped up. Did my best. Wrote Hugh a strong letter. Talked to my wife for endless hours about hyster- ectomies, ovaries, uteruses, malignant fibroids and such del- icacies. Tried to humor Kim into eating and sleeping. Then everything started to pop at once. The hospital called and the old lady went off to her doom. For three days I sweated out the operation and at the same time. Kim's promotion from Grade 12, Which lay In the hands of the gods, her teachers. Finally, the dam broke. All in one day we hit the crisis. Hugh phoned from Quebec city, to learn that his Mum was likely breathing her last. Kim was granted her year at school. And that night, a shaky old lady of about 90 called froth the hospital to tell me that she was aliVe, though not exactly kicking. During the next week, the tide rose and the old faintly ship, which had been high and dry on the bleak beach amid the rotting Motorcycle club members have been receiving a great deal of publicity lately, especially in conjunction with the recent dis- grace, which went under the head- ing of a marriage, in London. One local resident advises he and his family were among the many who flocked to the shores of Grand Bend over the holiday weekend, and joining them on the beach were a number of these motorcycle enthusiasts in their regalia and dirt. seems the rough and tumble `club members "took over" a large area of the beach and many bathers in their vicinity had to retreat to other spots rather than become embroiled in any unpleasant altercations with the youths. These social misfits create many problems for citizens in many communities. No one in his right mind is going to start some- thing with the mob and the police tend to follow a hands off policy whenever possible, and this too is understandable in some in- stances. However, just how far can we let these chaps go in infringing upon the rights of others without stepping on their toes? To buck them can be disast- rous, but so can a policy of continually turning the other cheek, because they have proven they will go as far as people will allow them. In short, they present a type of dictatorship that frightens us, and history has proven all too well what great price can be ex- pended when undesirable elem- ents or individuals are allowed to go beyond the bounds of law and order. We were among those who held the opinion that the drink- ing and carrying on which ac- companied the London wedding was best overlooked by the po- lice rather than entering into any confrontation with the motor- cycle club members. However, the more we think about it, the more we are chang- ing that opinion on the basis that the only way to solve the prob- lem is to face it squarely and giving in to them in such in- weeds, began to float again. Hugh phoned his mother in hospital, and she was so glad to hear from him that she for- got to give him hell for not Writing. The missus came home from hospital with an all-clear, a beautiftil scar and feeling re- markably perky. Kim recovered her health with amazing speed. So, as it stands now, Hugh has a job as a waiter in Quebec City) is happy and has stopped sinking and biting his nails. My Wife is overwhelmed by the Bowers and cards from friends. Didn't think she had many. And she's feeling great, on the Whole. Kim is riding on a cloud becatite her brother has invited her to visit him in Quebec City; and she's going all the way by her. self, with no parents to ruin everything. All of thit is rather uninter- esting, but it Is written as in- spirational material for those thousands 'of gallant men across the country who are about ready to burst intcs tears. Don't let it 'get you down, Jadk. Ilehiticl every dark Cloud there is darker one. Just, keep that in Mind and you'll be ablated athoW you feel When the sun suddenly comes 'Out, If you can live so long. stances just prompts them to try something a little more dar- ing the next time. If these chaps were content to head for their secluded hide- outs and not bother any one, it would not be wrong to leave them alone even though they may be breaking some laws. But when they invade places open to the public and make a nuisance of themselves and bully others about, it would appear that some action by the police is warranted. Some one has to stand up to them and surely we've learned from past experiences that the best time to tackle such dictat- ors is when their strength has not grown to the point that a con- frontation would be risky for those charged with the respon- sibility of maintaining the laws of the land. How can we justify action which imposet charges and fines on some people and allows others to go free despite the fact most people sat and watched the pro- ceedings on their TV sets? Most resignations are accept- ed by municipal councils with the polite term of "with regret", but Exeter council accepted one last week "with the deepest re- gret" and in this case their terminology was quite approp- riate. The resignation was that of Al Pickard, a valuable member of 50 YEARS AGO The United States people have been restricted to one and a half ounces of sugar a day for each individual during the next six months. The amount is about 1 teaspoon to each meal. The ab- sence of merchant vessels to im- port hundreds of thousands of tons of sugar from the Philippines and other countries is given as the reason. Mr. T. A. Russell of Toronto is the president of the new $2,- 000,000 company organized to manufacture automatic revolvers for the US army. Mr. Russell is a former Exeter boy having been born on the Thames Road. Rev. A. E. and Mrs. Johns and Wilily left Monday for Alberta where they will spend about three months Visiting Mrs. Johns' par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Madge, before they return to China. Stuart Stanbury, son of Mr. G. Stanbilry, has taken the highest marks in West Huron in the recent High School Entrance exa.mt. 25 YEARS AGO Sgt.Pilot Gerald Lawson was,on Friday, awarded his pilot's lit. erase at a "Wings" presentation ceremony at Aylmer. He has been posted to Charlottetown, P.1,1 Mr, A, G. Webb has sold MS general store at Shipita to Love 6f Bluevale WhO gets pot- Session August Margaret 'Christie Cele- hrated her 93rd birthday. TtieS,, day and Mrte E. Jory her nine- tieth on Wednesday. The ladies of the Pentedettal Mission picked enough wild Strawberries to Make 24 pounds of jam fel' the iced Cross. T-A Photo by Haugh Exeter's Planning Board, who has served as chairman for a number of years and who played an important role in developing the community's official plan and zoning bylaws. Mr. Pickard's valuable ser- vice was given without remuner- ation, althOugh there is no ques- tion the debt which this town owes him — and the other resid- ents who worked on this com- mittee -- is impossible to calcu- late because it is just too great. The benefits of sound plan- ning have shown themselves in many ways during the past few years and they will continue to enable this community to grow on a basis that will not bring about the problems many com- munities without planning are now facing. We are most fortunate in this regard and Al Pickard is one of the leaders for whom we must thank for being in such an en- viable position. It certainly is with deep re- gret that we see him step down from this position and his will be very large shoes to fill in- deed. Mayor Delbridge could have been more flowery possibly, but no more accurate when he simply stated last week that Mr. Pickard "has been a good man on there". 15 YEARS AGO John G. Diefenba.ker QC, No. 2 man in the Progressive-Con- servative party, will tour Huron County next Wednesday to cam- paign in the interest of Elston Cardiff, PC candidate for Huron riding in the August 10 federal election. "Wet" forces at Grand Bend, victorious in laSt Week's liquor vote expect a government store for the sale of alcoholic bever, ages will be in operation in the summer resort by fall. Exeter Kinsmen's su m m e r playground opened Thursday with over 200 children registering and five supervisors—Doug Smith, senior supervisor, Julia Dunlop, assistant, Joan Thom- son, Trudy Pickard and Dick Taylor. A new $3,000 perniandiit stage has been constructed for kirk- ton's annual garden party this year on July' 15. 10 YEARS AGO Sunday afternoon the new Bald- win organ was dedicated at the Thames Road church service by Rev. H. C. Wilson. The. general store of Emerson Kyle, Kippen; haSbeen purchased by the Ontario Department of Highways and will be demoilthed to provide better vision at the intersection of the county road and Highway 4. Mr. Kyle has operated the store since 1951; Margaret Sanders is the first SHDPS student to receive the bursary given by the Women's Auxiliary to south Hutton Hos. pital to a girl commencing train- tig for, the nursing profession, She will enter the St, Joseph's School of Nursing. In Septeinber. LOW COST FUEL FOR FARMING... Depend on economical LP-Gas to power your tractors and other farm machinery, e ff i c 1 ently., We deliver anywhere. 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