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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-01-08, Page 15HALF-PRICE FILM PROCESSING BLACK AND WHITE 8 Exposure 500, 12 - 700 KODACOLOR 8 Exposure $1.31 12 - $2.39 By-pass "middleman store- keeper," send DIRECT to processing plant and save 50%1 Send film, cash, cheque or money order along with this ad to: Clinton Photo Service CLINTON, ONTARIO J. L. WOODEN STUDENTS GIVE BLOOD, TOO Persons or alt ages responded to the tall to give blood at the annual 'Red Cross donor clinic at the Exeter Legion Hall during the holidays, Officials said the 128 persons in attendance was the best showing for a clinic in about seven years. Al3ove, Ron Dougall, a student at Centralia's College of Agricultural Technology is shown registering with Mrs, Harold Wurm, T-A photo PARENTS What do you think are the educational requirements for Huron County? The Huron County Board of Education is interested in the views of people who are concerned about education. There will be meetings held to discuss various educational topics; please attend one or more of these meetings which are announced below: Stephen Central School - Thurs., Jan. 8 J.A.D. McCurdy School - Thurs., Jan. 8 Exeter Public School - Tues., Jan. 13 Usborne Central School - Thurs., Jan. 15 Zurich Public School - Wed., Jan. 14 Hensall Public School - Wed., Jan. 14 *South Huron District High School - Wed., Jan. 14 THE TIME FOR EACH MEETING IS 7:30 p.m. * Note The parents of students attending South Huron District High School should see the Bulletin explaining this meeting which was issued to the students on January 5. Mr. J. D. Cochrane Mr. J. Lavis Director Chairman Huron County Board of Education Education officials looking to use of Clinton base SPEEDING UP THEIR TYPING — Typing is among the subjects being taught at night classes currently underway at South Huron District High School. Shown above preparing for a test in the advanced typing class are Mrs. Bob Wildfong and Mrs. Raymond Beaver. T-A photo ago but made no definite commitment. MacNaughton replied to a question of takeover of some of the facilities by the University of Western Ontario, University Affairs must determine the full potential of enrollment but there has been no direct contact with the London based university. Some day a satelite campus of Conestoga College near Kitchener will likely be built, but the enrollment there from Huron is not great. McKinley added that Fanshawe College at London is also ready for expansion and is really not far from Clinton. MacNaughton said that the province and Education Minister William Davis have been taking a good look. There are no quarrels with the facilities, they are excellent. In fact, the large instructional building is bigger than anyone would require. The provincial treasurer also Exeter council briefs EVISSEUMIRMMOWISSERSERMOMEMBEINIEMBR: This is the second of a continuing series giving prominent people of the area an opportunity to express , their views of the challenges that lie ahead. This week's article is written by Joseph L. Wooden, principal of South Huron District High School. By J. L. WOODEN The challenge of the '70's: obviously a long list of problems could be prepared. There would be a variation in emphasis depending on the individual's viewpoint. For example, Herbert Read, a student of the arts feels that our technological civilization has suppressed the natural sensibilities of men; he feels that many people have been reduced to dull-eyed, bored, and listless automatons "whose one desire is for violence in some form or other — violent action, violent sounds, distractions of any kind." Read feels that the great modem democratic state is inimical to the development of the arts; he feels that democracy has a "total incapacity" to recognize genius. He associates the decline of the arts with the decline of religious worship for he argues that "the same forces that have destroyed the mystery of holiness have destroyed the mystery of beauty". The challenge of the '70's for someone like Read would no doubt be in developing an educational process that would emphasize the arts and use the arts because he feels that "an education through art does not fit human beings for the mindless and mechanical actions of modern industry, it does not reconcile them to a leisure devoid of constructive purpose; it does not leave them satisfied with passive entertainment. It aims to create "stir and growth" everywhere, to substitute for conformity and imitation in each citizen an endowment of imaginative power in a kind perfectly unborrowed and his own." For Read our civilization is sinking deeper and deeper into barbarism. The greatest challenge of' the '70's, in my view however, lies in developing an intelligent response to the ecological and environmental crisis which is upon us. The factors which Read feels are driving us deeper into barbarism are the same factors which are responsible for the environmental crisis. We are becoming increasingly aware of the problem of our deteriorating environment. Certain people in education have been discussing the problem for years, conservationists have been crying in a wilderness of complacency for years. But now the media have taken up the cry and more people are aware of the pollution in our air, water, and land than ever before. Awareness, however, is not enough; a drowning man is aware that he is drowning but if he can't swim he will drown. Our economy has developed a highly complex technology which has made possible a degree of productivity undreamed of in the past. It is this productivity which is the basic cause of our deteriorating environment. Not only is this true but the economic process would grind to a halt if we attempted to alter the production — consumption cycle. For example, the automobile — oil — steel complex is the basis of the industrial economy of North America and it is fair to say that this complex is more responsible for the deterioration of the quality of the environment than any other factor. More and more cars, more and more highways, more and more blight and pollution. The automobile has long since passed .its stage of usefulness and is now ,becoming a major negative force. The car is responsible for the appalling decline in the quality of North American, European, and Asian urban life. The giant conurbation or megalopolis which some people have described as a "horror" could never have evolved as it did without the automobile. How, then, do we stop the air from being filled with poisons, our rivers from becoming sewers carrying all kinds of filth, our land from being destroyed when the entire structure of our economy is based on the continuation of the process of destruction. Every year we extract enormous quantities of the earth's resources — minerals, Holiday season without inc ident Exeter residents and visitors here apparently enjoyed a happy holiday season — at least they didn't run afoul of the law. Chief Ted Day told council Monday night that there were no problems over the festive season and said the people should be complimented. 'There's usually some incident that mars the holiday," he added. Only one minor accident was reported to the local police from December 24 to January 4. This week a pair of accidents caused total damages of about $1,400. The first occurred Monday morning on Main Street near Victoria and involved vehicles driven by Roy A. Vodden Jr., RR 2 Zurich and Glenn McKnight, 221 Main Street, Exeter. Investigating officer Constable George Robertson estimated damages to both vehicles at $600. Tuesday morning, vehicles driven by William Morley, RR 1 Granton and Bob Coleman, 70 Huron Street, Exeter collided on Main Street near Huron. Total damage was estimated at $800 by Corporal Harry Van Bergen. In his report for December, Chief Day listed the following statistics: Four accidents with property damage of $155; 115 complaints investigated, 27 summonses issued for other forces, 13 drivers given warnings and three charged under the Highway Traffic Act, four charged under the Liquor Control Act. There were three thefts, all under $50, and all the stolen goods were recovered. A stolen car was also recovered, it being located in Windsor. There were 31 parking tickets handed out during the month. timber, fish, food, water and so on. These resources are used increasingly for the replacement of goods that we dispose of at an ever increasing rate. We have no intelligent policy for the re-using of materials, so we not only face the problem of declining resource bases, we also face the problem of accumulating garbage and junk much of which is virtually indestructible or which, in the process of its destruction, creates more problems. We similarly use up more and more of our best land for sprawling suburbs, highways, airports, and so on — over 1,000,000 acres per year in North America. We could go on cataloguing the destruction of what we are fond of calling the good earth. We are drowning and two factors are responsible; perhaps these are inherent in us and not even the evolutionary impulse will have time to change them and so like lemmings we will commit mass suicide. The two factors are greed and the inclination toward unlimited reproduction. Our economic systems — be 'they capitalist, communist, or whatever, are geared to the concept that technology will provide unlimited production and people will consume the fruits of this production in an ever increasing quantity cycle. This we have called progress. We have identified progress as a quantitative thing rather than a qualitative one — more people, more profits, more, more, more. We are about to pay for the misuse of the earth which results from our greed; some say within 30 years or so an ecologic disaster of unimagined magnitude will befall us unless we change now. The uncontrolled growth of human population is the other factor. The disastrous population increase is nullifying the increases in food production. The quality of life is greatly reduced by the pressure of growing numbers of humans on resources of all kinds. Perhaps the 1970's will be the decade in which government policy regarding population limitation will have to be developed. "We must give up the false belief that an increase in the number of human beings is necessarily desirable and the despairing belief that increase is inevitable, and the fatuous over' optimism that shuts its eyes to the grevious effects of over-population". The challenge of the '70's is directed primarily at our technology which has to date been unplanned, and uncontrolled and has brought us close to the edge of destruction. Technology must now take us back from the edge but this will happen only if we alter our values and change our idea of what constitutes human progress. We can no longer measure progress in quantitative terms and assume that as long as we make more money, have more people, produce more cars and Accidents — Continued from front page The final crash occurred Tuesday at 9:20 a.m. at Huron Park, involving vehicles driven by Kenneth Morrison, Huron Park, and Gordon E. Kenney, RR 1 Exeter. Damage was set at $300. In the two-week period, the local detachment officers charged nine persons under the Highway Traffic Act, 10 under the Liquor Control Act and one under the Motorized Snow Vehicle Act. Warnings were given to 47 drivers under the Highway Traffic Act. sell more soap, everything is wonderful. For what will it profit us if we have the highest private standard of living in the World but have an environment outside our houses and high rise buildings that is unfit to live in, Popular Ag Rep dies in London One of the most popular agricultural representatives in Western Ontario died on New Years Day at Victoria Hospital, He was Keith Riddell who retired as agricultural representative of Middlesex County in 1965 after 36 years of continuous service to farmers of the county. Mr. Riddell's 42-year career with the extension branch of the department of agriculture began in 1923 as assistant agricultural representative for Bruce County. He became Bruce's Ag Rep two years later and was transferred to Middlesex in 1929. A testimonial dinner honoring his retirement on March 9, 1965 was attended by more than 600 persons. The guest speaker at that time was Ontario Agriculture Minister William A. Stewart who had once been a Junior Farmer during Mr. Riddell's regime. It was Mr. Riddell who organized the first Middlesex Seed Fair which has now developed into the Western Ontario Farm Show. He was nominated as the Liberal candidate in the Middlesex West federal riding in September, 1965 but withdrew his name a few days later due to ill health. Surviving besides his wife, the former Dorothy Sping are a daughter, Mrs. Gerald (Catherine Beth) King, of Tucson, Arizona, two sons, John K., RR 1 Hay, a teacher at South Huron District High School and Douglas G. of Burlington; a sister, Mrs. Viola Gilbert of Toronto, and two brothers Norman F. Riddell of Granton and Harold G. Riddell, Windsor. Funeral service was held Saturday at the A. Millard George Funeral Home in London with the Rev. George W. Goth, D.D. of Metropolitan United Church officiating.., Internment was in St. Marys', Cemetery. List officials for Stephen A delegation composed of members of the Huron County and Stephen Township Federations of Agriculture attended the first meeting of Stephen Township council Tuesday and asked that all farmers be charged the Federation levy of two-fifths of a mill on their taxes. Tom Cunningham and Gordon Ratz said all farmers will be informed by the local Federation that the levy will be continued. Council will hold a special meeting Monday when applicants for the position of Road Superintendent will be interviewed. The following appointments were made by council: Fence Viewers — Russell Finkbeiner, Edward Lamport, Ralph Weber and Harry Sheppard; road patrolfrien — D ash w ood, Ervin Rader; Centralia, Earl Dixon; Crediton, Lawrence Hill; Stephen Community Centre — Mrs. Harvey Hodgins, Mrs. Ross Krueger, William Averill, Lloyd Bender, W. L. Hodge, Gerald Dearing, Joseph Dietrich, Roy Gibson and Bob Bushfield. Crediton Community Parks Board — Gerald Schenk, Steve Dundas, Cecil Desjardine, Mrs. Lorne Hodge, Fred Bowers, Clarence Fahner, Bob Galloway, John Buxton; Centralia Centennial Board — Steve Dundas, Gerald Dearing, Ken Hodgins, Earl Dixon, Ralph Lightfoot, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hirtzel and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Breen. Dashwood Athletic Field — Joseph Dietrich, Jack Ford, Bill Vandeworp, Bob Hoffman, Glenn Webb, Ervin Rader and one representative from Hay Township. Dog control officer and pound keeper — Exeter Veterinary Clinic. Firemen called —but no damage The Exeter fire department responded to two calls over the holiday. Friday the volunteer brigade was called to Cartadian Canners on a false alarm and Tuesday morning firemen responded to a call to an Spartineet above Beavers Hardware. An oil stove apparently overheated but was under control by the time firemen arrived. The future of the Canadian Forces Base at Clinton was one of the major topics discussed at last week's annual brief presentation by commodity chairmen of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture to the three members of Parliament in the County. Provincial Treasurer Charles MacNaughton and Huron MP Bob McKinley both said several negotiations are now underway but were reluctant to disclose any details. McKinley said almost every federal department could use a small portion of the facilities, but Clinton was too far from Ottawa to be practical. He said the Department of Transport was the last to have a look at the facilities. The other MP attending, Murray Gaunt representing Huron-Bruce in the provincial house said people from the Community Colleges Branch in Toronto toured the 150-acre Clinton site about two weeks January 8,. 1510 pap, 3 Quides to celebrate Radio stations from coast to coast will offer a nation-wide salute to mark the Diamond Jubilee of the Girl •Guides of Canada-Guides duCanada. At 7;15 p.m. on Wednesday, January 14, 300,000 Girl Guides, Brownies and RangQrs gathered at birthday celebrations across Canada will join hands in a symbolic tribute to Guiding. In Toronto, a National 60th birthday party will be held at Hart House Theatre on the University of Toronto campus. A pageant including the history of Guiding will be presented before, the Chief Commissioner, Mrs. K.B. Clysdale of St. Marys, members of the Executive Council of the Girl Guides of Canada-Guides du Canada, and members and leaders of the Girl Guides and their brother association, the Boy Scouts of Canada. Canada's first Girl Guide Company was founded in St. Catharines, Ontario, in 1910 with 21 members. Today, Canadian Guiding has 300,000 members in every province, the Yukon and Northwest Territories and in Companies and Packs on Foreign Soil, where Guiding is carried on for the daughters of Canadian Armed Forces abroad. The nation-wide radio tribute to be spoken in Canadian Guiding Communities at 7:15 p.m. local time will read: "Tonight we salute the 300,000 Girl Guides in Canada who are marking their Diamond Jubilee across the nation. Let us join them in their sparkling chain and honour their 60 years of service with Canadian girls and wish them many more years of fun, fellowship and adventure. In her own way, each girl will be using this time to re-affirm the promise she made at her enrolment." Special events will mark the Diamond Jubilee Year throughout 1970. These include National Scout-Guide Week, February 15-22; an International Conference for Young Adults from many countries and across Canada, to be held in Banff, Alberta, August 21—September 4 and "Carousel Canada", a series of Inter-Provincial adventures enabling Canadian Guides to learn of life, culture and industry in other parts of Canada. Taxes — Continued from front page obtained by having taxes paid in quarterly instalments, rather than twice per year. Carscadden said this would be possible, but noted it would require the preparation of an interim tax bill. "It would be easier for a lot of people to pay four times a year," Councillor Dobson remarked. The matter was turned over to the finance committee for further study. Challenge of the 70's Need to develop intelligent response Paisley was given permission to investigate the possibility of having the former home of Cliff Mitchell cleaned up. The home on William St. was gutted by fire a year ago. Paisley suggested the remains should be set afire by the firemen. He was told to try and receive permission from the property owner to, have the building cleaned up. said Clinton facilities could not be compared with Centralia, it would be impossible to adapt to industry use, similar to the change that has taken place at Huron Industrial Park. Warden Hayter agreed with the others that a great deal of interest has been shown and added the Mid Western Ontario Development Council is behind us with all their support. To this MacNaughton said, "Keep it up, whether you believe it or not governments respond to pressure.' Lavis again heads board John Lavis, Clinton, was re-appointed as chairman of the Huron County Board of Education, Monday evening. The nomination was made by Bob Elliott, also of Clinton who was later re-appointed as vice-chairman, and seconded by Dan Murphy, Goderich. In making the nomination, Elliott told board members he felt Lavis deserved another year as chairman of the board. Elliott said Lavis had served during the first and most difficult year and needed another term as 'chairman to utilize the experience gained. "He may have made mistakes," Elliott remarked, "but a chairman can't make those mistakes alone. The whole board is right behind him." In a very brief acceptance speech, Lavis thanked the board members for their confidence and indicated his intentions to serve diligently through 1970. Councillors Tom MacMillan — and George Vriese were named as Exeter's representatives to the Lake Erie Economic Council. The membership of $190.20 was also approved. Some discussion was held on the advisability of joining the Lake Erie region again this year, with some members suggesting membership in the Mid-Western Region being ample. However, it was agreed that Exeter's ties are more strongly related to the area to the south than the east and Deputy-Reeve Mery Cudmore suggested council should keep on a broad scope in view of regional government advances. Councillor MacMillan suggested to council they needed some method whereby a follow-up could be made on business approved by council or designated to someone for action. He said he had been looking through past minutes and came upon several items on which no action had appeared to take place. ' Members agreed it was a problem and none could recall the disposition of some of the items he mentioned. Reeve Derry Boyle suggested it was the committee chairman's duty to report to council on action taken by his committee. Council members came up with no other solutions to the problem cited by MacMillan. Works superintendent Jim