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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-08-01, Page 4A .commendable policy Poverty exists in the mind A country is surely going to the dogs when the politicians pound the political pulpit in psuedo speeches de- claiming low-income Canadians as poor people. Poor people are those who have money in the bank but poverty in the head. Poor people are those who will never experience the happiness of fashioning something with their hands. Poor people are those who do not delight in the everlasting beauty of a fawn and doe drinking from a quiet pool at the edge of a forest. Poor people are those who have never learned 'the song of a bird, who do not know by sound what species it is when the bird is lost from sight behind large leaves on the limb of a basswood tree. People who are bound by selfish- ness can never be rich in sharing hu- man wealth with the neighbor next door. So very poor are those people who walk by on the other side of the street: they have no helping hand involved in the world. Poor are those people who resort to force whether on the picket line or on protest marches. Human brutality and human destruction of property are perhaps the worst forms of poverty that exist in the world. For to be ruled by the mob is to sell the soul, to per- sonally destroy one's God-given indi- viduality. Poor people are those who have not the carefree spirit, the untram- meled purpose, who do not travel the highway to the stars. Poverty exists in the mind. No one is poor who has eyes to see and ears to hear. — The Cobourg (Ont.) Sentinel- Star. They're like putty in her hands class newspapers Alt fticeevrevece Seaviodá 9evtdeout Heading for a 'work holiday THE CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY HELPS THOSE WHO ARE ILL WITH CANCER AND IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE *TRANSPORTATION TO TREATMENT CENTRES • DRESSINGS *PAIN RELIEVING DRUGS •HOME AND HOSPITAL VISITING •HOME NURSING SERVICE • HOUSEKEEPING SERVICE *LODGE ACCOMMODATION * DIVERSIONAL ACTIVITIES ROBERT LUXTON President Exeter 8, District Branch MRS. EWART PYM Chairman Service to Patients TENDERS Bulk Stipulated Sum Tenders will be received by the undersigned until 4:00 P.M. WED., AUG. 7, 1968 for the County of Huron Court House Heating Alterations. Plans and specifications are available from the undersigned and Snider, Huget & March, 37 Allen St. W., Waterloo. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. JOHN G. BERRY, CLERK-TREAS., COUNTY OF HURON, COURT HOUSE, GODERICH, ONTARIO:: PROCLAMATION By authority vested in me by the Municipal Council of the Town of Exeter, ,I hereby proclaim Monday, Aug. 5 a Civic Holiday for the town of Exeter and I tespectfolly request all citizens to observe it as such, JACk. DELBAIDGE, Mayor Closed for holidays A.1,1GUTI -12 TO 24 1.11.401V.E. ERSMAN'S BAKERY EXETER YOU CAN ENJOY DINING IN THE PLEASANT ATMOSPHERE OF THE DASHWOOD HOTEL Delicious home cooked food specializing in steaks, pork cutlets and southern fried chicken. Open daily. Dinner Is Served Weekdays 5 Until 7:30 P.M. Sundays 4 Until 7:30 P.M. WE ARE FULLY LICENCED UNDER THE LCBO. Entertainment Every Wednesday Friday & Saturday Night Phone 237-3671 • • • Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario, Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dep't, Ottawa, and for Pyment of Postage in Cash Paid in a Advance Circulation, September 30, 1967,E 4,338 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $5.00 Per Year; USA $1.00 4104,f5P .41011111111***03•110114"144r Any industrial expansion is wel- COMP news this, area, but when it in- TOM a firm which had a humble beginning right here in this district then it takes on a special meaning, This is certainly the case with Dash wood industries Ltd., and for those et us who have difficulty conjuring up ideas Of sizes, the huge 174,500 square foot addition planned by this progres- sive firm is most difficult to compre- hend. The sports minded may be able to imagine the size best when they put it into relation with a football field, It's going to be almost twice as long as a football field and will have a depth equal to the •length of a gridiron. No matter how you look at it, the addition is going to be the largest building job ever undertaken in this area, and as stated, it is being under- taken by a firm which grew up in this area and has now become one of the leading manufacturers of wood win- dows in Canada. The economy of this area is nat- urally going to benefit to a consider- able extent when production gets un- derway, and coupled with the industrial expansion at the Centralia Industrial Park as well. as the area'a new drain tile firm and, the addition at Canadian Canners, residents of this area must j.n, deed be overwhelmed to a certain ,ex, tent with the growth being experienced. One aspect of the addition at pash, wood TnduStries Ltd. is equally import- ant, and -that is the fact tho. :company executives have chosen area workmen to. undertake the huge expansion pro- gram. This provides immediate benefits to the Area and we can't laud the firm's management loudly enough for a de- cision that indicates their trust in the. people with. whom they have been ing and doing bilsilTipSs since the firm's humble beginning in Dashwood. Had they chosen to seek the serif- ices of a large outside firm to do the work, it would not have been question- ed, because such building projects in the past have been undertaken by larg, er concerns. However, the firm's policy in the past has been to pass along as much business as possible to area tradesmen and firms and 'it 'is a "shop at home". policy which this newspaper heartily commends from one of the area's lead- ing manufacturing concerns. 77,4 photo by Batten `fie exeferZintes-ikkaweafe By the time our few faithful readers get around to reading this column, the writer will be enjoying his annual vacation with a week off from the daily chores which must be met to help turn out this newspaper. Holiday time in this day and age is quite different than that of a few years ago. Portable campers and the desire to see more of this great country have enabled area residents to pack up and head out for lengthy travels. They come back with tales of sights and experiences that en-. able them to take on a mere'„' wordly attitude and if you hap- pen to be among the few ,who haven't travelled at least 1,000 miles away from home in the past couple of years, you're al- most looked upon as some kind of strange creature. Well, we're afraid that is the fate which will befall us this year, due to the fact we are expecting the third offspring in the Batten family within a few short weeks . . . or days. We don't worry about the as- pect of having to pull off a deserted road somewhere to fix a flat tire, but we have no desire to perform the functions of a mid-wife under the same circumstances. In short, we're staying close to home. There may be some who would be of the opinion that to have this event timed so closely to our annual holidays constitutes a case of very poor planning. We'd be inclined to agree, but we're not so certain the better half didn't have the whole thing planned right from the begin- ning and we have assumed the role of nothing short of a mere pawn. Because we're staying close to home, it has already been pointed out the time could be well spent painting the verandah and the house, fixing the barn, repairing a few other odds and ends that we've been avoiding for several months, and even finish- ing off the folding doors on the upstairs closet we started three years ago. As the list continues to grow each day, our thoughts of "be- ing had" also grow more strong- ly and it is reaching the point Where there is little room for doubt that the whole scheme was a plan that started out some eight or nine months ago to capitalize on our annual holiday time. If we really surveyed events closely, we'd probably find that the planning coincided with that new bottle of perfume. But what's the use? We may as well admit to falling prey to a woman's cunning and leave it at that as we dig out the painting clothes and hunt for the directions for completing that folding doer. Somehow, we have the idea the better half will have all Zy I those little details all worked out and they will mysteriously appear when we jump out of bed this morning. There should be a moral to this tale and it is probably the fact that one should not take the same week each year for holi- days. Keep it a secret until about two weeks ahead of time and have costly reservations all made so your wife can't think up some excuses why you too should stay close to home. With the mail strike still on at time of, writing, the pile of debris on our desk is starting to thin a bit and we came a- 'cross one item we had clipped some weeks ago. It was a report from the Clinton News-Record that indicated everyone concerned was happy about the parking meters in- stalled in that community last year. In the first instance, the town council is taking in about $50 revenue each week from the meters, with the other half go- ing to the manufacturer. It is expected the meters will be en- tirely paid for within four or five years. However, of even more im- portance is the fact the meters are receiving a good reaction from merchants and shoppers alike. The meters have chased away 50 YEARS AGO Flax pulling has started in this section 'and the flax company drive the workers to the fields. The price for pulling is $15 per acre. Mr. J. A. Prout of Chicago, who has been visiting with the Prouts and Penwardens of Hs- borne Township, is very enthus- iastic over 'the crops in this vicinity and says the Huron dis- trict is the garden of Canada. The onion crop is turning out well and some mean person is taking advantage to make a little easy money by stealing the onions others have worked hard to pro- duce. Messrs. Thomas Harvey and George Windsor motored to Tor- onto Wednesday when the former attended a millers' convention. 25 YEAR'S AGO Over 1)100 industries in On- tario and Quebec will be Closed this winter because Of lack of fuel or restrictions on the use Of coal, Canadians may have to develop a greater interest in heavy underwear and Sterni win- dOwS. The AValon ReStaUrant, which has been Operated by mr. and Mrs. Verne Wright; will be Open- ed under new management, Mr. Dalton Finkbeiner having pur- ObAsed the eqUipMent and fix- tUreS from Mr. Wright. The post office Eirkton has been'moved to the premiSeS of Mr. Harry 13titgari, service station operater i who is the new Dogtilager :stieeeeditig the late E. /4, Shier who died January 0. Sgt.. Andy Easton of the iSt Field Park CO. Seetind Enginearg, after nearly three years 'overseas, arrived 'Mine those people who used to park on the Main Si, for the entire day and it appears the shoppers don't mind spending a penny or two when in fact they are assured of a handy parking spot with the all-day parkers now using the side streets. Parking meters have been sug- gested around Exeter for some time, but most merchants have quickly rebuked such an idea. However, it would appear-that they, should perhaps talk to their counterparts in Clinton: It may be that meters ai-e more' a boon than some would think. * * * * Now that reconstruction of Main St. has started, there is a suggestion that more people will get accustomed to the habit of finding parking sp-aces other than on Main St. It always remains a mystery why some people get perturbed when they can't park exactly where they want in Exeter, while the same people would walk blocks to get to a London store or go and see a show. FUNDAY helped prove that there is no great disadvantage in parking along one of the side streets, and it should be men- tioned that many merchants along Main St. have provided parking spaces at the rear of their busi- nesses to be used during the re- construction of Main St. Monday. After a short visit with his family he will be posted to Canada for instructional duties. 15 YEARS AGO Exeter Girl Guides made their contribution to South Huron Hos- pital in the form of flower boxes for the veranda. Leaders of the local company are Sandra Mc- Knight, Heather MacNaughton, June HarneSs and Rena Murray. Exeter had a pleasant reminder of saddle badk days when two young ladies, one from Galt and the other from Kitchener, passed through town Tuesday morning on their way to Grand Bend. M. W. Pfaff, Exeter postmaster for 31 years, retired Wednesday and turned over his duties to Harvey Pfaff, postal clerk for the past seven years. For the first time in 36 years South Huron will be represented by a Conservative in the HotiSe of Commons, OttaWa. Elston Car- diff of Brussels captured the new 'seat of Huron by a majority of over 1,500 votes. 10 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. Jahn Kowalchnk i the fanner Colleen Gill, have opened a restaurant three miles south of Grand Bend called the Parkway Restaurant. Hensall children are taken to Turfibull's Grove every Wed, nesday afternoon' as part of the summer playground prograni sponsored by the Henson Rec- reation Council. Two diStrict youths were fined -$50 and costs for throwing beer bottles Pram atat Saturday even- ing Joiy-12. Sale of the old Hensall Public Schaal to Fred Ilaist, London has lowered village taxes this year by almost 'two A story from Canadian Press gives some indication of the power a woman holds in her hands . . . and why some men are labelled mice and others are branded rats. Seems that some of the four- footed rodents used for labora- tory testing at Queen's University are showing strange traits. When they are handled by male tech- nicians they are extremely anti- social but when a certain female technician appears on the scene, the rats are like putty in her hands. Dr. Eldon Boyd, a professor of pharmacology at Queen's said that only 20 per cent of the rats who were given doses of a pois- onous drug by the lady doctor had died. The same dose given by anyone else would have caused about 80 per cent to die, Dr. Boyd estimated. Several conclusions are ob- vious. First of all, women have the controlling influences in most cases. Down through the cen- turies it has been increasingly apparent that women sway the destiny .of the world. Men are mere puppets who dance willingly on the end of a string because they have no desire to be other- wise. Now, at long last we have proof of a sort. Even dumb rodents who shouldn't know a busty red- head from a curvy blonde re- fuse to die though the odds say they must. Eighty per cent enjoy- ed a woman's "treatment" so much that they lived in spite of a dose of poison. How much more then, will human men deliber- ately dawdle under milady's thumb. While there is no distinction made in the report between rats and mice, it is common belief that mice are smaller and less bothersome than rats. Gener- ally, that's the main difference between men, too. Hence the reference to their remarkable resemblance to either of the rodent families. The man who jumps at the whim of a woman is labelled a mouse. To other men he's less than the virile forceful master he was intended to be, He's quiet and quick, rather ordinary in appearance and hateful to women. What's more, he is easily man- oeuvred into a trap and rarely escapes from it. The fellow who is the biggest and slickest with the longest list of distasteful acts to his credit is branded a rat. He makes a nuisance of himself by show- ing up in all the wrong places and proves a hog of himself with another man's goods. He ruins most everything he touches. He's crafty, too, but no good comes from his ability to out- wit others. It is interesting to note, how- ever, that there is no difference in how rats and mice react un- der the spell of a woman. The logical conclusion therefore, is that either rats or mice can be dominated by a female and that no woman can be blamed for the state of the rodent-mouse or rat. That comes naturally. And how was the poison fed to these rodents? I think it is significant that a stomach tube was put into their mouths and the liquid poured through the slender hose. The lady tech- nician did not beguile them with a disguised goodie. Nor did she use trickery some males would expect. Openly and with- out design she brought her gad- gets to the cage, inserted the tubes and dumped the poison. The rodents loved it. In fact the report stated "that anybody they (the rodents) like can give a larger dose of a drug to them before they succumb to it, than others can". Man or rodent? It is hard to tell. Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgabiated 1924 SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., 0.W.N,A., CLASS 'A' and ABC Publishers:' J. Mg Southcott, R. M. Southcott Editor — Bill Batten Advertising Manager Phone 235.1331 41) "Sorry I'M late, The poWer Went off and I had to brush my teeth by hand."