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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-08-28, Page 4Great weekend ahead It's shaping up to be a great weekend in Exeter. Activities commence on Friday with the annual Fun Day, and any new residents not familiar with the event, can take it from us that the day lives up to its name, This year's program will be conducted with a western flair and the Board of Trade hope area youngsters will show up in droves to participate in the many contests as outlined elsewhere in this issue. Shoppers quickly learned at the initial Fun Day that local merchants provided many exceptionally good bargains, and a glance at this week's advertisements suggests the 1969 version will be equally rewarding for those those who still think enough about money to try and save some in their shopping. This will be followed by the Saturday and Sunday performances of the Mid-Western Ontario Rodeo, an event that continues to grow annually and which also provides new forms of exciting entertainment. We have an idea that if a poll was conducted among athletes, the one sport which would be considered the most dangerous would be rodeo participation. A quarterback may have trouble keeping his back bone solid when he sees a 275-pound tackle charging at Mm, but that's mild in comparison to sitting on the back of a long-horned Brahma bull which could literally rip a fellow apart in a second if given the chance. Falling under its hooves or under those of a surging bronc rate high up on the list of things we'd rather not do. However, those are the things that help make the rodeo such a crowd pleasing affair. Again we urge area residents to make it a weekend to entertain their friends and take them out to the rodeo. There will be special foods to eat on the grounds this year, so mom won't even have to worry about cooking for the visitors. 'Short-hop' dangerous Farmers are a great bunch of folks. They are hard-working genuine people who certainly play an all-important role in the economy of this entire community. We realize how busy they are too, especially at this time of year when the harvest is in full swing and time seems to be of the essence. Still we caution farmers to be ever alert when using the public highways for the conveyance of farm equipment from one location to another. Since these are most generally slow moving vehicles, they must not only bear the proper sign advising motorists of this fact, they should also ride the shoulders of the road whenever possible to avoid deadly traffic delay. One other nuisance — and potential hazard — is the short-hop from one laneway to another, perhaps less than one-quarter of a mile down the road. Today's farmers often have second barns on farms adjacent to their own, They may use the family car as transportation from one barn to the other at chore time, for instance. With minds intent on the job at hand, the farmer will sometimes pull out (safely perhaps) in front of a row of cars moving at the speed limit only to slow down and pull off the highway a few yards down the road. We wonder if in courtesy to through traffic and in consideration of his own safety, the farmer would be much wiser to wait until the traffic has cleared to make his short-hop to the other barn. Tribute to all teachers With school soon starting for another year it may be a good time to tip the hat to the teachers who will spend the next ten months or so with the youngsters parents have just tolerated day after day for the last six or eight weeks. Among those persons who often get the least recognition for their contribution to the welfare of this nation are all the hundreds and hundreds of teachers who perform wonders with the youthful generation; and within that organization of skilled professionals is a group of compassionate souls with a real mothering instinct. That's the kindergarten teachers of the country, and what a tremendous group they really are. One such fine teacher who has her whole heart in her work is Mrs. Ken Williams who teaches kindergarten in Clinton Public School. Her pupils love her and for good reason. She helps them experience things that are new and different. Her classrooms are filled with all kinds of marvellous living things of special interest to the children. Last year, the Clinton News-ReCord reported Mrs. Williams' findings following an ,outing on the farm. We reprint those statements as a tribute to all teachers — everywhere. Discovering that 14 of her 40 kindergarten pupils had never been inside a barn she (Mrs. Williams) decided this • was an omission that must be corrected before summer holidays. "The children's impressions, now made public, must have been as surprising to Mrs. Williams as were the cows to the children. "These are the conclusions the kids reached. "Cows don't bite people. "Cows have big soft eyes. "Cows can stick their tongue up their noses. "Cows don't hit at you with their tails when you walk behind them. "Cows give lots of milk. "Cows are really big — almost as big as our teacher." GETTING A REFRESHING DRINK — A cool drink of water from a fountain can be refreshing to persons of any age. Above, at the recent Sawyer reunion at Riverview Park, youngster Roy Sawyer of Oakville is being helped to a drink by Bill McDougall of Fullarton with Brian Walker of Windsor turning the tap. T-A photo Keeps Them Happy and Healthy Exeter Phone 235,2144 Dial 235.0270 MILK And Paves The Way To Better School Performances Exeter Dairy Ltd. Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., O.W.N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC Publishers: J. M. Southcott, R. M. Southcott Editor Batten—Advertising Manager Phone 23.5.1331 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Nuinber 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation, September 30, 1968, 4,520 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $6.00 Per Year; USA $8.00 , . . .. . .. ' . ... ospNIAN community newspopCts The high price of non-interest The kids are pathetic It's been a rough summer for a lot of people, including yours truly. There's nothing like getting home, exhausted, after a trip and finding a) that your wife has lost the house key and you have to break in through a cellar window, and b) that an oak limb 40 feet long and ten inches thick has fallen across your hydro lines during a storm. However, these are minor things. I got into the house with no more than a scraped knee and a bad temper, and a good neighbor had climbed up and sawed the limb in two, allowing half of it to crash down on my fence. But this is a mere bagatelle compared to what others have gone through. Teachers are supposed to recharge their batteries during the summer vacation, and hit school in September tanned, fit and bursting with idealism. We'll be lucky to open this fall, the way our staff is folding up. A hernia and a heart attack, a total collapse from exhaustion, various slipped discs and other ailments have decimated the ranks. All I have is a touch of heartburn, and I attribute that to a couple of days of Bloody Marys for breakfast, served by friends we were visiting. It's been a bad summer for a lot of parents. First, two kids I met on a visit to the old home town, told me nonchalantly that they'd flunked their first year at College. Their parents weren't quite so nonchalant. Apoplectic is the word. Same day I met an old friend who was at his cottage. They'd In addition to the closing of the nearby armed forces base, Clinton residents have another problem . . . that of juvenile delinquents who are responsible for an increasing number of incidents of rowdyism and van- dalism. Clinton council is considering the implementation of a curfew to get the youngsters (ages 10 to 16) responsible off the streets. Examples of the vandalism are many. Kids have been seen perpetrating acts that range from pelting the police cruiser with eggs to draining gas from local service station pumps and then setting it on fire. This, area has experienced several acts of vandalism in recent weeks also, but the majority has been of a relatively minor nature. However, no such act can be condoned and we wonder what the answer is to the problem. Perhaps school will act as a bit of • a deterrent in that youngsters won't have so much idle time on their hands, but that only partially solves the problem. More police no doubt would help curtail some of the activities, and perhaps an "investment" in additional law enforcement for a short period would pay dividends. However, the main problem really is not in catching the law breakers, but rather it is teaching them the difference between right and wrong. It is also a matter of finding alternative pursuits that will provide them with a method of passing their time so they don't have to look around for other ways to get their kicks. Unfortunately many of the adults faced with solving such problems look only for the easiest methods, and in this case it is probably hiring more police or clamping on a curfew, the latter which also affects the 95 percent of the kids who are no problem. The ideal solution is one that will probably prove no more costly in monetary terms, but it will prove more costly in the time expenditure required from adults. There are a hundred and one left one son at home, working. The night before, my friend had received a call from the police in his home town. They had raided a big teenage party. At his place. A friend of my daughter, a pretty, blonde 17-year-old, had a stroke and her right side is paralyzed. No need to ask how her family feels. A distraught mother told me three weeks ago that her 14-year-old daughter had disappeared, run off with another kid. She phoned, collect, this week from Vancouver. Alive, but who knows what she's been doing? The lady is a good mother, in every way. Has two daughters, one a fine, steady girl, the other a young rip. Why? And everywhere you see them on the highways, dirty, bearded, long-haired. Hitchhiking from nowhere to nowhere. Some of them cluster in "communes" in the big cities. A commune is usually a falling-down house in a slum area. It has a kitchen of sorts, a toilet that works occasionally, and the rest of the floor Space is covered by mattresses and sleeping-bags. Theoretically, everyone — Please turn to Page 6 activities most youngsters in any community will quickly join if in fact some responsible and energetic adults will come forth to provide the necessary leadership. This adult leadership has been dwindling considerably in most communities in recent years, and generally speaking one finds that the number of incidents of vandalism and rowdyism rises in direct relation to the decreasing amount of activities provided for the community's youth. Not too long ago we can recall reading in the Clinton paper that leaders were needed for certain youth activities in the town. Some organizations had to fold up because the adult help did not materialize. Now Clinton residents — similar to those in many other communities — are paying. the price of their lack of interest in their young people. * ** The major problem in the Exeter area appears to be hot-rodders and a look at the tire burns which mark several area roads indicates that everything up to drag races is conducted rather frequently. The drivers are wise enough to keep off the roads where police may more readily spot them, and in fact it is almost impossible for police to catch 50 YEARS AGO Miss Margaret Sharp of Siincoe formerly of Exeter, is to be congratulated on passing her Normal school entrance exams with honours. Don't forget to attend the Musical Concert in the Opera House Thursday evening given Ontario School students of the School For the Blind. It will be an evening of solid enjoyment for all music lovers. Charles Steinhagen of Hay, who some time ago suffered from senile gangrene in one foot,, and who had part of the foot removed by an operation, is able to around and engage in his work. The following Exeter boys have returned this week from overseas: Private H. J. Fuke, Pte. B. S. Case, Cpl. P. E. Dearling, Pte. A. Hackney, Pte. C. B. Allison. Mr. Reg. Parsons returned last week from Toronto, where he attended the Summer School. He has accepted a school at Erieau, his duties to commence Sept. 2. 25 YEARS AGO Among the special features of the Exeter Fair this year will be the opening of the fair by the Hon. George Doucett, Provincial Minister of Highways. A twin-engined Anson bomber from Centralia airport crashed on Dick Kinsman's farm east of Hensel on Sunday, catching fire while in the air. Both occupants were uninjured. Members of the Exeter Golf Club enjoyed a tournament at the Oakwood Golf Course, Thursday afternoon of last week. Fourteen men and ten ladies took part. On Saturday last, Mrs. Patrick O'Connor and two children arrived in Exeter from London, Eng, to join her husband who is employed as a hydro lineman With the Exeter P.U.C, the drivers involved in such car tests. They're conducted on straight sections of road where an approaching vehicle can be spotted in time to halt any activities that could result in charges. Its a problem in most areas, and certainly not concentrated in this district alone: A trip across a back road in the Tavistock area recently indicated that it was very prevalent there. In fact it was difficult to see a section of road that wasn't covered with some type of tire mark. In the Toronto area, police have started using aircraft to spot such activities, and perhaps they will soon have to think about stake-outs in corn fields or riding bicycles in plain clothes. At any rate, when those who perform such dangerous hot-rod tactics are caught, we can only hope that the courts will provide them with good stiff sentences and time on foot to consider the responsibilities involved in having the privilege of driving. It is becoming rather obvious that fines — even those up to $50 and $100 — are not enough deterrent. Driving suspensions may prove more thought. -provoking. 15 YEARS AGO Kathryn Hunter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hunter, Exeter has been awarded the first $50 scholarship to be given by the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority. Pride of Huron Rebekah Lodge has purchased a hospital bed to be loaned wherever needed. Mary Skinner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Skinner, Elimville, won county honours for completing six 4-H Home projects this year, at the Achievement Day at Seaforth Thursday. Dashwood Tigers retained the Huron-Perth "D' championship Wednesday night when they defeated the Zurich Lumber Ki ngs, 3-OLast year's OBA "D" champs, the Tigers will now enter provincial competition to defend their title. 10 YEARS AGO First scholarship to be won by a member of the 1959 SHIMS graduating class is a $200 U. O, entrance award which went to Bill Etherington, RR 1, Hensall, Robert Wolfe as King and Ann Robertson as Queen, reigned over the Cowboy and Indian parade which marked the end of the Exeter Kinsmen playground for this summer. Col. E. E. Tiernan, OBE, CD of Dashwood has been appointed commandant of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corp School at Camp Borden. A significant development in district schools will be the opening on September 8, of the new central school in McGillivray township. There will be three new teachers on the SIIDIIS staff this year. Cecil Wilson,will be returning to the scool and joining the English department; Victor Dinnin will be teaching English and Math; Ron Bogart is the new instructor in Agriculture,