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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-08-29, Page 4Althou$11 Exeter is paying only 10 ;percent of -the .cost of the reconstruc, tion of Main St., we, agree with those members, of council who hold. the opin- ion that they should at least be made aware; of .cleastenS. made rePrdirig schedules, or .alterations„ This newspaper has pointed out be, fore, that because all municipalities eventually take .advantage • of all .gov, eminent assistance on such projects, each municipality in reality is: paying a major portion of the cost of its own project, Our reasoning is that all our tax dollars go -into the pot, and when we commence a project we are just get, tine back what we have put in. Most local merchants realize that the work has to be done some time and that it will create some problems for them, but we doubt that any are happy with the news last week that the contractor has until. November 21 to have the portion from Huron to OW, ley completed. When the tender Was let, indica- tions were that this portion would be- completed one month earlier than that. Taking poor weather into consideration, it is now becoming evident that the street rush still be in a mess during the rush Christmas business. We have no fault whatever to find with the contractor in this regard, The firm was given the job on the basis of having it completed in so many weeks and obviously as Wag as they meet this requirement they can plan their work any way they Wish.. However, we are of the opinion that council should have been made aware of the scheduling plans and con- sulted before any alterations were ap- proved. We assume that this responsibility should fall in part on consulting engi- neer B. M, Ross & Associates, This newspaper is of the opinion that a large part of the delay in get- ting the work started on Main St. was brought about by this firm in not get- ting plans completed sooner, Mr. Ross may have legitimate rea- sons for the delay, but we still fail to see why this contract wasn't ready to be let in early spring so the work could have been commenced as soon as good weather permitted, In view of this, we are of the opin- ion that the engineers should strive to ensure that the work proceeds as quick- ly as possible so there will be no inter- ruption of local business during the brisk sales months of November and December, We think it advisable for Mr, Ross to appear before council at the next meeting and detail plans explicitly or at least have information available. Sound legislation Every once in a while, a bit of legislation comes along that impresses us as a long-awaited change for the better. This newest legislation affecting the resale of used cars is just that kind. Presently it is possible for young drivers (and older ones too) to buy a car which is totally unfit for the road. Spot safety checks have served to re- move some of these dangerous vehicles from the road, but too often car and driver are left together to live out their shortened years in traffic. Tragedy has struck too many times because an unsafe motor vehicle was allowed to travel the highways. Saddest of all, the inevitable accident many times crippled or killed the innocent parties in another car. Beginning this fall, all motor ve- hicles for resale — whether sold pri- vately or through a dealer — will have to come up with a signed certificate of mechanical fitness before the licence bureau will change the ownership on the vehicle. If no certificate of mechanical fit- ness can be produced, the owner must surrender the plates until the car has undergone a test and the necessary re- pairs to make it fit for the road. Only upon presentation of proof of mechan- ical fitness will the vehicle be licenced again for the road. The buyer must therefore make certain the car comes with a certificate of mechanical fitness for it is possible he will own nothing more than an un- licenced heap of scrap or a large bill from the garage mechanic if he ne- glects this important bit of business. On the other hand, the owner of a car who is anxious to sell his vehicle must be prepared to offer a certificate of mechanical fitness to perspective customers. Of the 600,000 used cars sold an- nually in Ontario, many will be reject- ed by the new amendment to the High- way Traffic Act. Others will be made safer. It is good legislation that should save many lives in the future. But in September, I like it 6e/t4e4 eve (dew, ai Eure4 Part of the Just Society? Huron Centennial School ..BRUC'eflaP,.. ONT., bus .routes wil i start: Sept, 3, 1968 and will follow the .same rOPtes,410.4Ihe same time as. of the end of .June, 1968, Necessary changes will be made by Mr, Gingrich after the resumption of school. Huron. !aunty School Area No. J. E. Caldwell, Sec.-Trees. BELTONE Hearing Aid SERVICE CENTRE at MIDDLETON'S DRUGS EXETER Sept. 5 PHONE FOR FREE HOME APPOINTKENT SERVICE TO ALL MAKES OF HEARING AIDS E. R. Thede Hearing Aid ServicetLtd. 88 Queen St. S. Kitchener NEW HOURS Commencing Tues,;Sept. 3rd Brewers Retail EXETER Will Clcyse From 1 p.m, .toi 2.30 p.m. EXCEPT Saturday Open to 9 p.m. Fridays CLOSED EVERY WEDNESDAY COMMENCING WED, SEPTAlth tel. to Brewers Retail Operated by Brewers Warehousing Co. Ltd. WHEN IT COMES TO MILK EXETER DAIRY STANDS ALONE . . . AT THE TOP VMMVAIIMaNNWPACMONSOMMIKW, Times Established 1873 AMMUSWistuaaMyttur,vWRAMVW Amalgamated 1924 Advocate ,Established 101 Published Each Thursday Morning Al. Exeter, Ontario Authorized as Second Blass Post Office Derfq, Ottawa, end for' PaVineirt of Postage in cash Paid in Advance` Circulation, epternber 30, 1067, 4,338 SUbSCRIPtiON RATES; Canada OM Per `Year;USA $7.00 •4 :21111 IMSEAVVIVMStMrdr Ert Ita***41'.; • "Best file clerk rye evee.bad.,i Let's get it stral9ht T.4 photo by Haygh It's customary to look forward to the end of holidays with a mixture of wistfulness and des- pair. They were too short; the weather was rotten; the kids all had the skitters; and you hate going back to that job that you hate. But quite a few people go back to the routine of everyday, or- ganized living with something like a sigh of relief. Basically, men like work. They are not cut out for more than a couple of weeks of the gay, aband- oned life of camping, swimming, fishing. These are treats to look forward to, and to look back on. But, like many of the other treats in life, they lose their flavor if taken in large, continuous doses. Even a kid gets Sick Of ice cream if he gets it at every meal for a month. So the boys tote their sun- burned carcases back to the job, and fall, reasonably happy, back into the comfortable round of daily Work, the casual friendships with fellow-erriployees, and the good, long, lacy Mooch around on Weekends. For the ladies, end of holi- days is often sheer delight. Es- pecially those with sdhoolage children. No more cuts and scrapes to look after. No more summer 'flu to cope with. No more panic at the beach when Jimmie disappears for a few minutes. No more huddling in a tent while the rain pours down, What joy to get everybody out of the house in the morning! What bliss to sit down with a quiet cup of coffee and taste the pure pleasure of privacy! What exquisite ecstasy to know that nobody is going to burst in with a, "Hey, Mom, Billy just fell off the porch on his head." Like many another, I don't mind the end of holidays at all. Two months of muddling and pid- dling around degenerates almost Any Man to the level of a beach- comber. Looking back each year, the sum total of my holidays falls dismally to impress me. Long, glorious days of fun in the sun. My foot! This summer was no different. I went fishing once in the bass - infested Waters of Georgian Bay, fished all day, and caught a cold. I broke 100 in golf, Once, I poured Several hundred drinks for visitors. Not a glorious record of achieve- ment. It's the things I didn't do that makes the impressive list. I didn't go on that canoe trip up , north. I didn't jog for an hour every day to get in shape. I didn't go to the Stratford Fes- tival. I didn't take off on that swing around to see all my old friends in the weekly newspapers. I didn't make that trip to Quebec City to see son Hugh. I didn't read War and Peace. The list is endless. That's why the opening of school in September finds me almost eager to abandon this life of sloth and meet the chal- lenge of all those young faces in the claesroom. And challenge is the word for some of them. "I defy you to teach me any- thing." But there are other things that make the opening of a school a pleasant Occasion. Fellow-teach- ers are all brown and keen and friendly. By November they'll be gray and harassed and surly, but that's all right. There are the new teachers, wide-eyed with alarm arid ton- Alston, who ask desperately, 4 +But where do I send these fonts? What do I do with the locker titWqilipth Being possessed of the bug which attracts one to auction sates, we generally find them interesting pines regardless of whether or not we intend to buy anything. They provide an opportunity for a close look at human nature and we find them most entertain- ing. However, we were far from entertained by the pictures which appeared in the London Free press on August 22 from an auction sale being conducted in West Nissouri Township for three Amish families who have decided to pull up stakes and head for Paraguay., South America. Here were people selling their worldly possessions, not for the usual reasons, but because they decided they had to find a new place in which to live because they could not lower their way of life to make contributions to' the Canada Pension Plan. Such are the convictions Of these gentle people who cling to old-fashioned manners, that they are pulling up stakes to start a new life where there are no pension plans. We are the first to agree to the benefits of the Canada Pension plan and certainly we are of the opinion that they should be made compulsory so those who can not afford or plan savings for their retirement can be looked after without being a drain on the rest of the Canadian people. Most communities are already faced with heavy welfare budgets and the sooner they can be reduced, the better off we all will be. However, we sympathize with the Amish people. We doubt that any have ever been on welfare, because they have a code where- by they look after each other, and it is apparent that they would not require the benefits of the pension scheme to look after them in their declining years. money? How do you teach a poem? Who do I see to resign?" There are the first staff meet- ings, those symposiums which sparkle with the wit and elo- quence of a grocery list. But first and foremost, there are the thirteen hundred stedents brown of face and limb, mini- skirted to the hilt, friendly, hap- py and excited as they greet old class-mates, make new .friends and head for another milestone on their trek through life. Don't ask me in February, but in September, I like it. "XoW We take up the bigger problem in cooping, that of getting the liusband to take out the garbage)f Surely the government could find a way in which these people could forego contributions and then not receive the benefits. In time of war, there are those who are 'permitted to stay home because of their religious con- victions, and obviously a pension plan is of less concern than a nation's freedom and safety, Exeter area native Jim Ether- ington noted in his story that it "wasn't a particularly happy day" for the Amish families as they watched family treasures going to the highest bidder. For most of us, having such powerful convictions that would force us to sell everything and head for a remote corner of the world is almost beyond compre- hension. But we admire them for it and Canadians should hang their heads in shame at forcing such a situation upon their fellow cit- izens. Surely the government can make a compromise before more of these people have to watch their cherished possessions be- ing placed upon the auction block and consider heading off to South America to grow peanuts. Is that really part of the just society? * * Being the editor of a news- paper, one would naturally as- sume to have a considerable degree ,of authority as to what appears on the pages of any particular edition. Well, after last week's issue came off the press we realize that we have been living under this false impression all too long and an editor's control only goes as far as the staff in the back shop permits, 50 YEARS AGO Mr. George Thomas, who, for fifty years, was an esteemed resident of Exeter, died in Vic- toria Hospital, London, on Fri- day. He was a man widely be- loved and respected, Rev. James Foote BA was inducted as pastor of C aven Pres- byterian C h u r c h, Wednesday evening. On the platform was the Moderator of the General Assembly, Rey. Dr. Cohn Fletch- er of Thames Road. Rev. S. A. Corriere of Grand Bend spoke to the congregation. Mr. Thomas Boyle and family leave this week for London where Mr. Boyle has purchased a groc- ery business. Miss E. M. Bowey, who has been a clerk with 3. W. Powell, has resigned and accepted a po- sition with Jones & May Coin- mencing October 1. 25 VBARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Butt, Who, for 22 Years ' have suctesSftilly conducted the poSt Offide and general store at Kippen, this Week disposed of the butineSS to Mr, il. bonatt cf Walkerton, The Exeter Boy Scouts ed a Weekend jamboree at Grand Bend and attended the district rally at Grand Bend United Church 8unday evening, The boys Were in chargé of Scoutmaster Harold Whyte. The hot dog and hamburger have bedome casualties accord- ing to a dispatch froth Ottawa, Per the duration they will be td up between slices of 'plain In'ead4nstead of the -buns in Vogt-re now. Misses btirothy Green and Marion Offish left thiS Week for LOnddri where they will enter 84 itisePhis Hospital asriursein- training: We knew something was afoot when we watched our fellow work- ers huddling in small groups and disbanding quickly whenever we made an appearance. Being of a suspicious nature, ever since a thin-topped linotype operator inserted . the w oy d s "six-foot farmer" for "six-foot athlete" in an advertisement her- alding our membership on the Exeter Mohawks a few years ago, we watch things very closely. The announcement page was given careful scrutiny last week, but when it left for the darkroom it had passed inspection. How- ever, we informed the darkroom and plate making personnel that no tricks were to be pulled be- cause the editor didn't want to see them have to do their work over again if some alterations were made. The gullible editor thought this was enough, so you can imagine our dismay to find that someone had inserted the fact that Brett Charles had been born without a beard, However, we also find that a couple of fillers were composed for use in small holes in the paper and hence our devalued conception of an editor's auth- ority. We have only one small hope, The publisher was away for the week and perhaps we influence him more than some of the others around here. Time will tell if he considers seriously our documented evi- dence that each employee wasted three hours in perpetrating their scheme against the editor, but we trust that such will show when each receives his pay cheque. 15 YEARS AGO Jan Webster, local artisan, braved the heat up in the open spaces in the town hall lower this week to give the municipal building a new coat of paint. Grand Bend staged an enthusi- astiC homecoming welcome to Private Ken Da.we, 24-year-old soldier, who was recently re- leased from a Korean prison after being reported Missing and believed dead. This week the new safe for the Bank of Nova Scotia arrived in Exeter for installation. The safe weighed 6,100 pounds and the crate was labelled "Do not Drop." .0pehing of Schools in the South Huron District will be Tuesday September 8 with the exception of Grand Bend, The new two- room addition to the public school is not quite completed and opeb-, ing has been delayed to Septern. ber 14, 10 YEARS AGO Work began Tuesday on the development of a fairground and playgroend beside the doharnimity centre at Ziltith, Senator W. It Golding, Huron- Perth, received moving tributes frotn hiS colleagues in the Senate When he returned to the Chamber recently after a period of 111- health. ile Was described as "a great parliamenterianio and a "true, honest Otit of ontatio.n Exeter Fall Fair IS being held September 16, 17 and 18. The three- day programs Will begin With abig trade fair in the arena Tuesday evening. This is the third year for the Trade Pair. Misset Helen Taylor and Ruth Ann McBride of Exeter andMat. ion Gill of Grand Bend, former shidents, .are attending London Teachers' dtillege i this year. tatefer men-Afmoeafe SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A„, O.W.N.A., CLASS and ABC Publisherti M, Southcott, R. M, Southcott Editor =613111 Batten --- Advertising Manager' Phone 230331