HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-07-09, Page 4Valuable program
It is encouraging to note that a
record number of area youngsters have
signed up for swimming instruction at the
local pool this year.
Recreation director Alvin Willert
indicates classes are filled to capacity and
particularly noteworthy is the fact that a
large number of the participants are in the
under 10 year old age bracket.
There's no disputing the tremendous
value in children learning to swim at an
early age, not only from the standpoint of
recreation but in the safety element
involved. Many kids spend a considerable
portion of their free time around water
and ,obviously such activities involve
fewer dangers when one has the ability to
swim,
Not only that, swim instruction
includes an emphasis on the need for
respect of water and the dangers lurking in
it for the unwary.
It is a rare thing for an experienced
swimmer to lose his life by drowning. It
does happen occasionally, but generally
only when some unusual circumstances
exist. In boating mishaps or other such
accidents, his swimming ability provides
enough self-confidence to enable him to
think clearly and avoid the panic which
quickly encompasses the poor swimmer
and often contributes more to his death
than the circumstances into which he has
fallen.
At Last week's inquest into the
drowning of two area girls, the
importance of swimming lessons was
brought out in two ways.
The obvious point was that neither
girl would possibly have drowned had
they been better swimmers.
Equally important was the fact that
the girl with the most training realized she
was not strong enough to cope with her
two struggling cohorts and in fact was
instrumental in calling back one of the
other girls who was attempting to save the
pair.
While it is only speculation, it is not
unreasonable to suggest that without this
clear thinking, more lives could have been
claimed in the unfortunate incident.
One of the first lessons the young
swimmers at the local pool learn is to stay
away from a person in trouble unless they
are certain they have the ability to get that
person — and themselves — back to shore
safely.
It is a lesson that is taught in no
uncertain terms . One of the instructors
usually jumps into the water and calls for
help to see the reaction of the youngsters
on the deck.
Those who jump into the water and
swim out to assist are quickly pulled
under for a frightening ducking to ensure
that the point is made that a drowning
person is most difficult to control and can
quite easily take an unqualified rescuer to
a watery grave also.
The swimming instruction offered at
the local pool is certainly one of the finest
services we offer in this community.
Two percent increase
After a bill was rushed through the
House of Commons arranging a generous
increase in pensions for Members of
Parliament, one of their numbers, Stanley
Knowles, called upon the ministry to
consider an immediate and substantial
increase in old age and Veterans' pensions.
This outstanding M.P. reminded his fellow
members: — "We have done something in
this field for ourselves." But mainly he
focused on the telling statistics of poverty
among the aged.
No less than 51 per cent of all old age
pensioners have submitted to income tests
and are drawing a guaranteed income
supplement which means they are in
special need. The maximum they receive
in pension plus supplement is $111.41. a
month.
Because ufthe escalator,supposed to
take care of rising living costs, was limited
to 2 per cent per annum they have
received increases of only 6.1 per cent
since 1966. Meanwhile the cost of living
idex has risen by 15.7 per cent. This they
are 9.6 per cent behind or, as Knowles put •
it, "That is the same as taking $9 out of
every $100 they get."
In this set of circumstances which
group had priority for a pension raise? Old
age pensioners or MPs at $18,000 a year?
Hypocritical gap
A recent issue of the Globe and Mail
gave especially good coverage to the
various aspects of the LeDain report on
drugs. In an editorial commentary in the
same issue the newspaper had some
interesting remarks to make concerning
the report in general. Some of the
comment paragraphs were as follows: —
". . . Canadians take vast amounts of
mood-modifying drugs every year — three
billion aspirin tablets, 55.6 million
standard doses of amphetamines, 556
million standard doses of barbituates. A
1966 study showed that in an average day
7 per cent of Torontonians over 15 years
old were using, on prescription, a
mood-modifying drug.
But while Canadians are gulping
down unprecedented numbers of drugs
with one hand they are pointing an
accusing finger with theo ther at those who
either don't do it in the accepted way or
don't partake of an acceptable list of
drugs. There's no logic to this, Mr. LeDain
says. In fact, "There is a hypocritical gap
between (society's) moral condemnation
and its actual behaviour."
Elsewhere in the report he points to
alcohol as "the most popular
psychoactive drug among Canadians of all
ages. Its use continues as our most serious
drug problem." In support he cites
statistics showing that the number of
alcoholics over 20 years old rose 63 per
cent between 1951 and 1965..."
Reatemeeit de 604?
Exeter's sewer system got underway in the past decade and on July 21, 1963, the first tests were made on
the new system. Works superintendent Jim Paisley is shown here with an engineer in one of the lagoons west
of Exeter as the first sewage starts to be pumped through. Although many residents are still anxiously
awaiting the use of the sewage system, the project is well ahead of schedule.
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at Huron Park will be open to public Monday
through Friday, from 8:30 to 5:00 p.m. until Sept,
15, 1970.
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Enjoy your holiday
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Walkathon
Sat., July 11 10:00 a.m.
To Raise Money For
The Missing Piece Coffee House
GRAND BEND
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.
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Bunips, blood and enjoyment
Find new meaning for 'pig'
It's hard for the average chap
to get away from the daily bind:
wife, kids, job, mowing the lawn.
He's fortunate if he can sneak a
game of golf or get out fishing,
without experiencing a deep guilt
feeling. This week, I did it, have
no guilt feeling, and spent one of
the most enjoyable days I've had
in years.
A colleague who is an ardent,
crafty and persistent angler, and
is leaving the area, decided to
treat me to a day's fishing at one
of the secret places he has
reconnoitred over the years, and
would rather sell his wife and
children into slavery than reveal
its location.
He doesn't have to worry. It
took us three hours to get on the
lake and I couldn't find my way
• rsa We
back there with the help of a
bloodhound handcuffed to a
Mountie. We began on highways
that dwindled to gravel
concession roads that shrunk to
mountain-goat paths that ended
in solid bush.
We crossed a couple of bridges
that looked as though a well-fed
family of butterflies couldn't
walk across them without going
through. And we were in a van,
with a boat in the back. On each
occasion, I felt something in my
mouth, and knew it wasn't my
foot, but my heart.
But finally, there was the lake,
lovely and utterly solitary. Just us
and the bugs. And we were
outnumbered about eight million
to one. Mosquitoes the size of
starlings.
Those beasts lapped up fly
dope like kids licking ice cream.
You could have had a bath in the
stuff, and they'd still have come
in like another wave of Zulu
warriors.
Later, I was put ashore for a
short portage, and got an inkling
of what the coureurs-de-bois
suffered. Any man who tells me
that "the bugs don't bother me"
is a liar. When you're swallowing
about six with each labored
breath, and your nose and ears are
full of them, it's not hard to
believe that a man could go insane
in a very short time, alone in the
bush.
While ashore, in thick bush, I
could put my hand to the back of
One of the most distasteful
aspects of protest events is the
abuse to which the police are
subjected. Shouts of "pigs" now
greet them when they arrive to
maintain order at protest
incidents.
Keeping one's cool while being
subjected to such taunts must be
extremelydifficult,but the police
in Long Beach, California, have
apparently taken this in stride
and in that community it has
become acceptable.
This is primarily because in
police parlance in that
community, some quick-thinking
officers have brought new
meaning to the word "pig". It
now stands for PRIDE,
INTEGRITY and GUTS and in
the plural, the "S" stands for
SERVICE.
According to the associated
press, officers by the hundreds
are wearing miniature pigs as
uniform tie clips. Off duty,
policemen are turning up in
T-shirts bearing portraits of swine
and the declaration, "Pigs are
beautiful".
An amusing cartoon caught
our fancy last week. It showed
two pigs (four-legged type)
standing in a barnyard and one
was issuing this warning to the
other: "call me 'cop' once more
and I'll let you have it ... ".
While most of the unsavory
incidents which arise at some,
protest events are frightening, we
often wonder what the scene
would' really be like if the police
used as little restraint as most of
the protestors.
Perhaps some of the marches
would be broken up more quickly
if the police used a little less
restraint.
* *
Providing kids with clothes has
always been a rather expensive
proposition, but judging from the
attire of a large number of the
my head, and remove it with a
solid handful of blood and
mashed mosquitoes. In five
minutes my head was a
phrenologist's delight — a solid
mass of bumps and blood.
But once on the lake, we got a
modicum of relief. And the
fishing was very pleasant. It was
one of those too-rare summer
days that are ideal for fishing:
Cloudy, odd flash of sun, threat
of rain, and just enough breeze to
ripple the surface.
We trolled and chatted and ate
sandwiches and had a slug of rum.
It must have been the last item
that did it. After more than an
hour without even a snag, I was
caught on bottom, right after
we'd had a snort. We backed up to
try to save the lure, and suddenly
the bottom began to move.
I knew it wasn't a real fish. A
speckled, rainbow, or bass will
fight, jump and try to snag you
under the boat. This was an old
rubber boot. Besides, there were
no rainbow, speckled or bass in
this lake.
After five minutes of praying
that my rotten line, un-used for
two years, wouldn't break, I
caught a glimpse of him, and my
suspicions were confirmed. Just a
dirty big sucker I'd probably
hooked by the tail.
Oh, well, I had to get my lure.
So I dragged him up, my partner
netted him, and with
considerable chagrin I discovered
I'd caught a 51/2-pound lake trout.
Sneaky devils go for the bottom
instead of coming up and
fighting.
Another hour without a touch
and we decided to move into the
other secret lake, where the big
speckled are. After' a vicious
60-foot portage of sorts, which
left me gasping like a trout out of
water, we were on it. Again, a
'completely lonely little lakes
wooded to the water, with not a
cottage or water-skieri n sight.
My partner took a 101/2-pound
lake trout as the sun went down
and total peace reigned. He didn't,
like to, but he was forced to Smile
young people on the streets of
Grand Bend this summer, all that
is changing.
The expense of shoes has
apparently been completely
eliminated by a number of the
rising generation and the main cost
involved in attiring many of the
males with suitable trousers is for
the patches used to hold some of
the garments together. Even
self-respecting Knights of the
Road would hesitate to be seen in
some of the shabby clothes which
mark the scene these days.
The expenditure on hair cuts
has been slashed considerably,
although the saving in that regard
may have been eaten up in
providing some of the jewellery
which adorns the neck of male
and female alike.
While we do question the
attire of many of the young
people, the only thing we find
repulsive is the fact that several
appear to have complete disdain
for soap and water.
* * *
It's no doubt a case of "sour
grapes", but many people present
for the awarding of draws or
contest prizes always reach the
conclusion that the wrong person
won.
The fellow who just bought a
new car wins the car raffle, the
dapper dresser wins the new suit,
the guy who makes repeated
deposits at the bank wins the cash
and some farmer with a field of
beef cattle wins the hind quarter.
However, all that was changed
during a draw at St. Marys
recently.
A church group staged an
evening program and raffled off a
love seat.
The winner? The father of six
girls! Obviously, it couldn't have
gone to a more deserving chap
and no doubt the furniture will be
well used. * *
Three pretty Exeter girls and
local tire dealer Jim Newby were
featured on the cover of the July
50 YEARS AGO
Mr. Herb Hanlon, of Centralia,
has gone on a business trip to New
York for the firm of Dickinson,
Nicholson and Co., London.
Mr. Fred Preeter, of
Dashwood, in some way fell from
the overlays in his barn to the
floor beneath, causing serious
injuries and rendering him
unconscious.
Rev. McAlister has taken up
his pastorate of Main Street
Methodist Church and preached
his first sermon on Sunday.
Miss Reta Rowe left Tuesday
for Guelph to take a course in
agriculture.
Miss Stella Gregory is
attending the County W.C.T.U.
convention this week at Clinton.
as he laid it Own beside my "big
one",
A nice day. Two strikes, two
lakes, two fish, And my wife
nearly died of shock when I
walked in holding them,
issue of Goodyear News Canada.
The magazine is published by
the Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Company of Canada Limited and
the cover shows Patti Robinson
sitting on a tire waving to
Jo-Anne Burke and Joanne
Moore as they move along the
sand at Port Franks with Jim in
his Dune Buggy.
The magazine also featured a
two-page spread on the local tire
firm, telling of its growth in the
road, track and farm markets.
Jim also joined Jo-Anne and
Patti to display the new
Goodyear racing jackets and
mini-dresses in another sectionof
the magazine.
* *
While summer is just nicely
underway after a rather unsettled
launch, the advertising men will
soon have us realizing that it
won't last too long.
All the major snowmobile
companies will start advertising
their products this month, and
some have even been at it since
late June.
That appears to be rushing the
season just a bit, particularly for
those of us who have not yet
become tired of watching bikinis.
' I won't be needing you to
clean the house today, Nellie.
My husband is home with a
cold."
15 YEARS AGO
The biggest pea pack in the
history of the local factory of
Canadian Canners Ltd., will end
Friday, Manager H. K. Penhale
said this week.
Provincial Police crackdown
on rowdyism and unlawful
drinking at Grand Bend over the
July 1 holiday paid off this
weekend.
Five water storage wells, with
a capacity of 11,000 gallons each,
are being constructed in the
police village of Centralia for fire
protection.
The West All-Stars, from
Dashwood, Zurich and Auburn,
edged the eastern rivals, from
Exeter, Mitchell and Clinton, 4-3
in the Huron Perth's annual
classic ball game at Zurich.
Mr. & Mrs. Warren May are
holidaying in Newcastle, N.B.
with the former's parents, Mr. &
Mrs. C. A. Anderson.
10 YEARS AGO
Stanley Sauder, director of
Exeter Vacation Bible School
announced a record attendance
of 233 last week.
Mr. Eldrid Simmons was
burned about the face, arms, legs
and body, Tuesday evening when
he was using a blow torch.
Twenty-two Exeter Girl
Guides and Boy Scouts have won
their St. John's Ambulance First
Aid Junior Certificates.
Examiners were Dr. R. W, Read
and Dr. D. A. Baker.
Mr. & Mrs, James Masse who
have the largest living family in
Canada t 11 daughters and 10
sons, will celebrate their Golden
Wedding anniversary next
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25 YEARS AGO
Dr. J. G. Dunlop, who for the
past sixteen years has been a
practising physician in Exeter,
has disposed of his practice to Dr.
R, H. Doyle, Simcoe.
The Exeter Red Cross are •
asking for donations of fruit for
the making of jam for British
children.
Mrs. Harry Gidley, librarian,
slipped on a wet leaf and fell in
front of Mr. George Hawkin's
residence and suffered a
compound fracture of her left
wrist,
The cement foundation is in
for the new grandstand at the
Exeter fair grounds and a new
oval has been graded for a race
track.
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