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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-06-25, Page 4Needs consideration While many of the recommendations in the recent fire protection survey for Exeter may not be carried out due to cost, the need for improved fire hall facilities should prompt council into some early discussion on the matter. Several weeks ago this newspaper advocated that council give some consideration to determine the future needs of town facilities and whether the present town hall structure could be renovated to serve a useful purpose or whether some new facilities must be considered. If the building has deteriorated beyond the point of being of any use for a period of several years, then it becomes only a question of how soon it has to be replaced. However, if the building is structurally sound enough to facilitate a major renovation program, then an idea of the cost in relation to a new structure should be ascertained. The need for improved facilities for the fire department and other municipal departments is already evident, and while projects to rectify the situation may not be undertaken for some time, it would appear necessary for council to determine what avenues will be open when in fact the time comes to improve the situation. Some long-range planning is essential because this constitutes a major project that can not be decided upon in short order. * * In that regard, we question council's decision to take no action whatever in regard to the Ontario Hydro office at the southern limits which is being offered for sale by public tender. Council had previously indicated some interest in the building for housing works department equipment and in fact had asked the property committee to investigate the possibilities. It was surprising that they decided this week to drop this plan without any investigation whatever. No particular reasons were given for the reversal of their original interest, Reeve Boyle indicated the building would cost too much money, but obviously he nor any other member of council has any idea what price will be required to purchase the structure. If a number of persons are interested in the building on the basis that it will fit their needs, the cost may well be too high for council to meet. On the other hand, it may not be of value to anyone except for storage, and in this case the purchase price could be relatively small, We think council should reconsider their position and at least have the committee investigate the property. If it could house the equipment, there is no harm in council submitting a low price on the building. They may be out-bid, but there's no harm done. * * The use to which such a building could be put by council again partially hinges on the long-range plan involving the present town hall facilities. Removal of the works department from their present quarters behind the town hall could possibly make this area available for the erection of some new facilities for the fire department and save local ratepayers a considerable amount of money in the future. This would be particularly true if the Hydro building was suitable and was sold at a figure well below the price to build new facilities of this nature. Discussion of a long-range plan would indicate whether the Hydro building would fit into any suggested plans. There's some hint that the department of highways facilities at the north end of Exeter may also become available in the future. • Again, this may present a possibility for council, but it would appear difficult to determine that without a debate on the future needs of the community. Not an easy battle The government's announced intention of seeking a guideline of not higher than 6 percent in the settlement of wage disputes seems to be meeting with little success so far. The recent settlement with the workers at Sifto Salt in Goderich was for 35 percent over a three year period, or about eleven and a half percent per year. Several other settlements within the past week have been far above the 6 percent guideline. Unquestionably many working people feel that a 6 percent increase is unfair in the face of steeply rising prices and cost of living — yet unless someone is willing to see the wisdom of a levelling out of the economic pressures the working man will inevitably suffer the worst effects of an inflationary trend which was and still is all but out of control. The cost of labor is the chief contributor to rising costs of production of the very items he has to purchase for his everyday needs. As usual, the really helpless victims of this cost-price squeeze are the pensioners and others who have no means at all of rectifying the frightening problem created by the shrinking value of the dollars which make up their fixed incomes. — Wingham Advance-Times Rememeet tie 60`4? Many new facilities and recreation pursuits were made available to youth in the area during the past decade. The swimming pool above has seen much activity since being opened in Lucan in the sumrher of 1963. A pool was also opened in Exeter in the decade just passed and it too has been put to good use by area youngsters. el Groups leave Exeter, Zurich, Parkhill at 10:00 a.m. and converge on Grand Bend The Coffee House Will Be Open and Walkathon Forms can be picked up after June 24 . The senior Trust Company devoted entirely to serving the people of Ontario. VG CONESTOGA COLLEGE Huron Information Centre I • THINK! Make sure what you leave ends up ere you want it ! The safest way to ensure that your heirs will get everything you intend for each of them is to appoint Victoria and Grey Trust to administer your estate. WCTORM and GREY TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 425 Main St. Exeter 235-0530 Walkathon Sat., July 11 10:00 a.m. To Raise Money For The Missing Piece Coffee House GRAND BEND Co-ordinator ARNOLD GINGRICH London 439-2915 What are you doing with your future? Did you know that 18% of our former occupations are now automated, and that 51% of today's occupations could be automated? Did you know that a youth entering secondary school today may need to be retrained to FIVE new vocations in his lifetime? Did you know that training is now taking place in over 100 occupations in the area served by Conestoga? If interested please fill in the coupon and mail to P.O. Box 802, Seaforth, Ontario. r Name' Address: Occupation: Would you like Academic upgrading Would you attend in Huron Centre only 0 Anywhere 0 What course or courses would you like Are you eligible for Manpower Benefits Prefers Part time D Evenings 0 Full time 0 Days 0 . . ... sir . nr . nor 0 eiVeStiiitaNifferANONSOW ANN 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 Editor — Bill Batten—Advertising Manager Phone 235.1331 ,,,t+AwA" SUBSCRIPTION RATES! Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation, September 30, 1969, 4,751 Canada $6.00 Per Year.; USA $8.00 Oh, for the life of a teacher Some remarkable people Show me a teacher in June, and I'll show you a character with a crumpled shirt, a wrinkled brow, and a desperate look in his eyes. His spirit is treading the lush green of the golf course. His inward eye is contemplating the dark swirl of water under a log in a trout stream. And his winter-fat, pudgy body is there in the classroom, which is more like a steam bath. Room temperature, 90 degrees. Before him loll about 30 students, eyes glazed, minds turned to something important, like a swim, or a joyride, or just lying in the sun. Chief difference between them is that the kids are arrayed in their coolest, while he, adhering to some ancient and ridiculous tradition, quietly steams in his swaddling of shirt and tie, jacket and trousers. The students are there only because they have to stick around to write last-hope tests, and find out whether they've been promoted or have to write the "finals" The teacher is there only because somebody, in his infinite wisdom, has decreed that school will continue until a certain day in June. It's not exactly what we in the so-called profession's jargon call "a good learning situation." Someday, someone with some common sense is going to close the schools on the first day of June, and open them on the first day of August. June is a mo nth for joy in Canada, not imprisonment in a sauna bath. The days are long, the mosquitoes haven't really found the range, and the world is green and glorious. By August, the sun has lost some of its blast, the days are shorter and that first wild lust for the lushness of summer has abated. School could run from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., and there'd still be a decent chunk of a summer day to be enjoyed. It's not only the heat that makes June rough for teachers. It's the last-minute panic. There are 64 memos from the office, telling you to be in three places and doing three different things, at the same time. Or so it seems. There are the final exams to set, supervise and mark. There are marks to be mustered that would murder a mathematician, and written down in six different places. There are new books to be ordered, and old books (about 10,000 in my case) to be sorted and counted and stored. And everything is to a deadline that always seems to be yesterday. Some of the young, new teachers find it a traumatic experience. Something like trying to milk a cow while looking over your shoulder for the dangerous bull known to be in the same field. The oldtimers just get One of the popular features of this newspaper over the past month or so has been the appearance of a multitude of graduation pictures. Each year the number of area students graduating from various institutions of higher learning continues to increase and a quick check indicates we ran about 65 such photos this year to date. We offer our congratulations to the many graduates on their achievement and wish them well as they head out into the world to follow their chosen vocations. Most of the graduates were duly presented with degrees and certificates at graduation ceremonies attended by their parents and grandparents and one of our faithful correspondents recently sent us an article outlining a speech made to one graduating class. * * * The speaker introduced the graduates to representatives of some of the most remarkable people ever to walk the earth — the graduates' parents and grandparents. He summed up the qualities of these people as follows: These are the people who within just five decades have increased life expectancy by approximately 50 per cent — who, while cutting the working day by a third, have more than doubled the per capita output. These are the people who have given you a healthier world than they found. And because of this you no longer have to fear epidemics of flu, typhus, diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever, measles or mumps. And the dreadful polio. is no longer a medical factor, while TB is almost unheard of. irascible, and ignore the bull. But who can complain? There is the deep satisfaction of knowing that Joe Dough has passed and somebody else will have to teach him next year, that Naughty Nancy, she of the cocky walk and the talky talk, has her ring, and will be driving nobody crazy next year except the poor simpleton who gave it to her. There is the sincere satisfaction of knowing that some of your graduating students will probably contribute a lot more to the world than you have, as doctors, nurses, teachers, engineers. There is a special touch of sadness when the kids in the two-year course, who are finished with education, probably forever, inarticulately tell you they have enjoyed their year with you. Their future is not in pastel shades. They seem so young and vulnerable. You have a great wish that at least they'll find happiness, if not affluence. And finally, there are two glorious months ahead in which you don't have to leap to your feet and scuttle somewhere like Pavlov's rats, every time a bell rings. I think I'll stick it for another year. , 4-1.r0:15 Pttl rt., • • 4-13' "*— "She's got this crazy idea, rra not good enough for her." "You are an Irresistibly beau. tiful, poised and lovely person, Unfortunately, you weigh 189 pounds." Let me remind you that these remarkable people lived through history's greatest depression. Many of these people know what it is to be poor, what it is to be hungry and cold. And because of this, they determined that it would not happen to you, that you would have a better life, you would have food to eat, milk to drink, vitamins to nourish you, a warm home, better schools and greater opportunities to succeed. Because they gave you the best, you are the tallest, healthiest, brightest, and probably the best looking generation to inhabit the land. Because they were materialistic, you will work fewer hours, learn more, have more leisure time, travel to more distant places, and have more of a chance to follow your life's ambition. These are also the people who fought man's grisliest war. They are the people who defeated the tyranny of Hitler and who, when it was all over, had the campassion to spend billions of dollars to help their former enemies rebuild their homelands. And these are the people who had the sense to begin the United Nations. It was representatives of these two generations who, through the highest court in the land, fought racial discrimination .. . to begin a new era of civil rights ... While they have done all these things, they have had some failures. They have not yet found an alternative for war, nor for racial hatred . . . They have made more progress by the sweat of their brows than in any previous 50 YEARS AGO The Dominion Radiator Co., Toronto, has been awarded the contract to install , a heating system in the Crediton School for the price of $2,760.00. Mr. R. N. Rowe received a motor hearse from the McLaughlin Automobile Co., on Friday last. He will retain the old hearse for the winter and unfavorable roads. The Grand Bend bridge which is being built jointly by the counties of Huron and Lambton and which was originally estimated to cost $7,000.00 is going to exceed that amount considerable and it is believed now it will cost nearly $30,000.00. A fire which started about five o'clock on Thursday destroyed four buildings between Main and William Streets. Burned were the barns and ice houses owned by W. J. Statham and F. Wood, and the barns of C. T. Brooks and F. E. Willis. The fire is supposed to have started by some boys who struck a match to see some pups in Mr. Stath am's barn. Mr. Allen McDonnell, of Hensall, has gone to Toronto where he has secured a position with the McLean Publishing Co. 25 YEARS AGO Miss Margaret Tape, who has been on the High School staff for seven years has accepted a position with the Port Arthur Collegiate Institute.- Prior to her leaving Miss Helen Penhale and Mrs. Shirley Colby entertained the Sit and Knit Club in her honor when she was given a presentation. Midnight Express, a pacer owned by Frank Taylor and driven by T. Yearley, won two firsts and a fourth at the Clinton races Wednesday. The training of pilots at No. 9 S.F.1%S., Centralia, has been concluded, The buzz of airplanes which for months has been a familiar sound in Exeter has almost died away, "The Newest Band of 1945", Stan Patton and his all reed orchestra, will be featured at the Mid-Nite dance at the Lakeview Casino, Grand Bend. era—and don't you forget it. And, if your generation can make as much progress in as many areas as these two generations have, you should be able to solve a good many of the earth's remaining ills. It is my hope and I know the hope of these two generations that you find the answers to many of these problems that plague mankind. But it won't be easy. And you won't do it by negative thoughts, nor by tearing down or belittling. You can do it by hard work, humility and faith in mankind." * * An article which appeared in this newspaper last week regarding the recent one-day strike of local post office employees contained an error which should be corrected. We stated that the newspapers had been delivered to the post office before the employees went on strike. Actually, our delivery man was told by the post office employees they would not be working when he showed up to drop the papers off at the post office on that particular mottling. However, he failed to understand the implications of their advice, and still put the papers into the post office. So, it was actually through no fault of the post office employees that Times-Advocate subscribers couldn't get their papers through the proper channels. 15 YEARS AGO A parade of new cars, led by R.C.A.F. Centralia's Bugle Band, Exeter Legion Pipe Band and the Dashwood Citizens Band, will start Exeter Kinsmen's Dominion Day Celebration early Friday evening. Grade eight pupils of Exeter Public School enjoyed a bus tour to O.A.C., Guelph on Monday. Three of the reasons why Exeter Mohawks are leading the Huron Perth league are three sluggers. Bob Meharg has an impressive .500 batting average and Red Loader and Harry Holtzmann are hitting at a .412 clip. All crops need rain but farms south and west of Exeter are suffering most from the current dry spell. Mr. George Wright is a patient in Victoria Hospital where he underwent an operation. Mrs. Wright and boys arrived from Florida and are visiting Mr. Wright and friends in Exeter. 10 YEARS AGO Dr. Carey B. Joynt, formerly of Hensall, now head of the Department of Internation Relations at Lehigh University, Penn., has received a grant to support research into the field of world relations. R. L. Beavers was installed as president of Exeter Lions Club, Thursday night by Internation Councillor A. J. Sweitzer. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cerson left Monday for a trip to the west. They plan to see the Calgary Stampede and visit in Regina and Portage La Prairie. It was announced this week by John Berry, Goderich, that a total of $13,366.17 had been contributed by Huron County to the blitz for World Refugee Year held in May. Exeter citizens contributed, $1,460.00; Crediton, $776.85 and flensall, $300.00, Musical selections by the Exeter Citizens Band under the leadership of Brother Theodore Walper featured the annual memorial and decoration day service of the Exeter Lodge IOOF, at Exeter Cemetery on Sunday. 4