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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-04-23, Page 8PROCLAMATION FOR THE TOWN OF EXETER The Mayor and Council for the Town of Exeter proclaim that the week of April 19 - 25 shall be known as CHILDREN'S AID WEEK The Children's Aid Society of Huron County provides assistance to families, assistance to unmarried parents, adoption service and foster homes, Please be aware of children's needs all year round, Be alert to the neglected child in our own community, and report it to y6ur C.A,S, If you're able, think about. Opening your own home the year round for children with problems. Thank You Mayor J. H. Delbridge W.* Papp Times-Advocate, April 23, 1970 "" ' ••••'" Facts N' Fancies By Gwyn aft lit oder Bringing up parents is a tough job. Any youngster will tell you that! My kids inform me that my job of raising them is a breeze compared to what they go through to get me clued in to the late 20th century. It seems my ideas, outmoded and outlandish, are so ingrained that bringing me into line is a most discouraging task for them. But they keep trying. Starting with thy appearance they beleaguer me about my clothes, my hair style and make-up. "Shorten your skirts. Buy a wig," they implore. "And for Goodness Sake stop wearing that dreadful red lipstick!" I believe that lipstick should have nice bright, cheerful names like Cherry Red or Apple Blush and I still like to use a little rouge. This is just further proof that I'm over the hill. Now it is a crime to admit you even possess lips so you cover them up with some kind of pale glunk that makes your mouth look like a hole in your face. I suppose this makes sense since the modern eye make-up leaves most eyes looking like two burnt out coals, and I guess three holes in the head is better than none! My reading habits are atrocious too. "Look at this trash", stormed one daughter recently as she swept through the books beside my bed . . "Not a decent book among them. Why don't you go to the library and get yourself some good reading material." What she really meant, of course, was that my bed-time reading didn't include anything with the modernistic, sexy trend. Anyway, I took her advice and visited the library. I mulled over the shiny new books . . . read the flap covers about stories in the raw and the way things really are with everything hanging out. Finally I chose a book from a shelf, slipped it under my coat and headed for home. Sneaking into the house I slipped into the bedroom where I hid it under my mattress. At supper time I assured my daughter I had taken her advice and got a 'good book' to read. I could hardly wait 'til the dishes were done and it was late enough for me to slide decently away from the family and into bed to enjoy an evening of powerful reading. Digging the book out from under the mattress, I settled back and opened the cover. Before I was through the preface I was chuckling. By the J.A.D. McCURDY PUBLIC SCHOOL Huron Park Kindergarten Registration for September, 1970 Thurs., Apr. 30 10:00 - 12:00 A.M. 1:30 - 3:30 P.M, NEEDED —Birth Certificate — Immunization Records time I was into the second chapter, tears of laughter, streaming down my face hid the words before me. The family rushed in to find me hysterical . . rolling helplessly on the bed and completely convulsed by the - words I had been reading. My daughter snatched the book from my hands. "Oh, Mother," she cried in disgust, "you are incorrigible." She read the title, "The Best of Stephen Leacock," and threw it back at me. My choice of entertainment is rotten too. When I go to a movie or play I like to have fun, to be lifted up and feel better for having been there. Sometimes I attend a movie with my older children and on the way out they discuss the show in terms of surrealism, realism, naturalism, symbolism, and several other 'isms. Since I do not understand what these words mean I innocently remark that it was a dirty movie and not worth the time or money spent on it. The children roll their eyes heavenward, throw up their hands in despair and regard me with eyes filled with real anguish. It's the same with everything . . . politics, religion ... I'm just not with it. But, like I said before, the kids are persevering and if they keep trying hard they may find us thinking much more alike in the next five or ten years. THERE MAY BE HOPE FOR ME, YET. When I was young, I knew it all. Mrs. L. M. Hartwick, Judith Hartwick, Woodstock, Mrs. Mildred Batten and Ronald Truemner, Woodstock spent Sunday with Mr. & Mrs. Howard Truemner. Dennis Cann of Edmonton, Alberta, spent a week with his parents Mr. & Mrs. Carman Cann of Usborne Township recently. Mr. & Mrs. Harry Noels, Mr. & Mrs. Maurice MacDonald, Grand Bend, were Sunday guests with Mr. & Mrs. Jack Dickins, In fact, it rather seemed bizarre That they begat so bright a star Who lit the world with all her knowledge Long before she went to college/ On politics and social crime, Religion, philosophy, all theories sublime I long expounded, but could never figure Just why my audiences weren't bigger. Well, now that I'm older I know nothing at all. I'm completely bewildered by events that befall. I'm confused, I'm befuddled, I'm out of touch There's not a thing I know of much, But still, there is one saving grace, I've raised me a family to save my face. They know everything from A to Zee And can straighten out their father and me! Edward Street. Mrs. Roland Neil, Ailsa Craig, visited her uncle, John Prance, William Street, recently. Mr. & Mrs. B. M. Francis, John Street, returned from Florida where they have been since last November. dam r0 egae The Times Advocate extends Birthday Greetings to the following list of Senior Citizens: WILLIAM ELFORD, RR 3, Exeter, 80, April 20 DAVE SHEPPARD, Parkhill, 93, April 24, MRS. JESSIE RICHARD, Strathmere Lodge, Strathroy, 83, April 28, MRS. ANDREW HICKS, Listowel Memorial Hospital, 94, May 2, We are always pleased to give this special service to our senior citizens. If you know of anyone who would like to have their birthday acknowledged please let us know. Usborne Central School Kindergarten Registration Tuesday, May 5 1:00 — 3:30 All pupils born in 1965 are eligible to enroll, Please bring immunization cards and birth certificates. Not one event could e're befall. But what I knew right on the sight Just how to put the whole thing right. I was a wonder, yes, indeed, And of more w. had no need. My parents, so long out of touch. Knew nothing, or scarcely very much. THE SUCCESS OF THE 'ANNUAL HOSPITAL SALE is due to the volunteers who give freely of their time to unpack, sort, display and sell the many items contributed by members of the community for the sale. Mrs. Rufus Kestle and Mrs. S. B. Taylor were in charge of the jewellery counter. T-A photo New library books are for the use of everyone Librarian, Mrs. John Schroeder, reports more new books at the library but she reminds the readers if a library is only a storage house for books, Coven Church will host lodge Pride of Rebekah Lodge No. 338, I.O.O.F. met in the Oddfellows Hall with the Noble Grand Mary Fisher presiding. A thank you letter was read from District Deputy President M. Bowra who had been entertained by the Lodge previously. A Rebekah service was held for Mrs. Glen McKnight at Hopper-Hockey Funeral Home. Oddfellows and Rebekahs will attend a church service at Caven Presbyterian Church April 26 after first meeting at Lodge at 10:45 a.m. Ticket sales are brisk on a quilt to be drawn in June. A it is not much good no matter how many excellent volumes are on the shelves. Libraries are for everyone; the casual reader, the student and the dedicated book-lover. The library is no longer a hushed place for a few readers. It is for everyone to enjoy. If you haven't visited the library for awhile why not drop in. It belongs to everyone. Some of the new books in the latest shipment are: SEVEN MINUTES by Irving Wallace, MARIE ANTOINETTE, a biography by D. Mayer, RURAL ONTARIO, by Blake (Photography), CALL THEM FIFTEEN G. Donaldson (Prime Ministers from John A.to Trudeau). donation was given to the Eye Bank Program. Following the meeting Mrs. Lillian Pym showed coloured slides of her trip to Mexico, which took her as far south as Acapulco on the west coast: Two for The Price of One ... PLUS A PENNY STOCK UP AT THESE BARGAIN PRICES KIDS AND ADULTS FLOCKED TO THE RUMMAGE SALE sponsored by the South Huron Hospital Auxiliary, Saturday. Here, youngsters pick up many treasures for a few cents from the table of Mrs. Verne Pincombe, volunteer worker. T-A photo Short Ribs, Blades Want Meat Values Check These Prices bar 99' 89' pkge99' 75' 43' 37' 27' 22' 2/39' 2 /3 5' 75' 128 oz. Jug LIQUID JAVEX Chocolate, White, Banana CAKE MIXES 15 oz. Jar Rose e iNeitD PICKLES Minnettes Choice Quality 28 oz. tin TOMATOES 88's \\Ot doz. 79' California Navel ORANGES 60's Anacin Tablets 69' Phone 2:35-M2 • • • • • • Coleman's Oven Ready Stuffed Picnics Boneless lb. 65 Schneider's Blue Ribbon lb. 59' Bologna Sliced or Piece Schneiders Vacuum Pack or Bulk Wieners lb. 5 9 or Chucks,Country Style Roasts of Beef th.69 Butt Pork Chops lb 6 Giant SPIC & SPAN Plel isoiliilf SOAP Libbys Deep Brown BEANS Aylmer Tomato CATSUP 11 Garden Patch Choice PEAS Riddell Sultana RAISINS 12¢ Off Label 10 8d Off Label Florida Juice ORANGES 2doz 89' 125's malsorwm, Complete Line of Bulk and Packaged Garden Seeds In Stock. Also Certified Seed Potatoes FRUIT & VEGETABLES • • • • • • • • • Open Friday Nights Until Nine FROZEN FOODS Carnation French Fried Potatoes Straight cut 49 0 2 lb. Fancy . ••••`‘,. 4.4%,(62V•;*•54..,•;', Head & Shoulders Shampoo 409 Viva Bathroom Tissue White or Coloured 2 Roll Pkge. 27 Lotion or Jar • • • • • 14 oz. tin oz. bottle 14 oz. tins 2 lb. Poly 2 Pkges. World's Finest Flower Seeds Free with Betty Crocker assorted • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Cabanita BANANAS 2 th.29' Fancy Grade MAC APPLES Controlled Atmosphere 311).39' Guilty shoppers cause increase in food prices One reason food prices are so .corn? This means that a produce high today is The .Shopper!. Not man is continually discarding the average shopper but the damaged produce and minority which makes us all bear straightening up the display, One the increased cost of food. solution has been prepackaged For example, have you ever produce, While most shoppers seen a consumer pick up an item .dislike prepackaged produce, and by the time they reached they probably .dislike the price the next aisle over, decided they increases that follows excess really didn't need it? Instead of handling IOSSes, returning it to its proper place, they just put it down anywhere. If it was a refrigerated or frozen item, it would have to be discarded when finally located. In addition, this kind of practice keeps a stock clerk busy just tidying up and returning-. other items to their proper shelf. This means that the store has to raise the prices to cover these extra and unnecessary expenses. Another reason that causes It's a shame that the average prices to rise stems from those shopper who doesn't leave items customers who must "test" on the wrong shelf; or everything for freshness. We're manhandles produce; or takes all for fresh produce, but must shopping carts off the premises, one snap beans, squeeze mush bear the cost of those who tomatoes and strip back ears of do. And of course, everybody has seen supermarket shopping carts all over the place. The loss in carts each year must be astronomical when you think that each cart costs around $35. Theft in the store is yet another major contributor to the high cost of food. Shoplifting accounts for nearly one percent of gross sales yearly.