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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-07-23, Page 4Unfortunately, old cars .and trucks are not similar to old soldiers. When they die they don't fade away, They remain as a blight on the countryside and this area is no exception. Exeter council has already noted the increased problem and unless. some action is taken, it is a problem that will become worse and worse as more cars are junked and abandoned. Council members are correct in suggesting that the owners of these eye-sores should be ordered to have them removed from their properties. But there are difficulties. Where do you take an old wreck? Even the auto wreckers won't take many of them, because they are already overcrowded and in many instances this is not removing the problem, but merely changing its location. A suitable "grave-yard" should be found and then perhaps council can enlist the support of some of the local garages and service clubs in having a blitz to remove the wrecks to that location. It is a project that could be undertaken by a number of township councils in this area as well. However, a long-range solution must also be found to prevent a duplication of today's growing problem. Councils should investigate the possibility of passing the required legislation to prevent old wrecks from being abandoned on private property, The nuisance is not confined solely to automobiles. Farm machinery, appliances and other manufactured goods create problems also and a fortune appears to be waiting for the person who can come up with a profitable method of disposing of such articles. Ref/ambit dz 604? On with the job OUR POINT OF VIEW Fortune available? Twenty years of carelessness and lethargy will cost Ontario taxpayers $30,000,000. That's the price tag the government has set on instituting a program of sewage treatment that will restore Lake Erie to its 1950 condition within 10 years. The cost of operating the system and the added costs to industrial concerns along the lake will add considerably to that cost: The sizeable cost points out the economics of taking a strong stand at the present to ensure that other lakes, rivers and streams not polluted as badly as Lake Erie are kept in their present condition and improved. The battle against pollution is shaping up as World War III. Everyone will either be a winner or a lo ser. Let's get on with the job. Our instant garden "imfis1101100.. !Nal:RANCE AGENCY (9,T. (Terry) Wade Total Insurance Service Auto Fire — Liability Glass Sickness and Accident income Life — Pensions — Surety Bonds, etc. would be happ needs,cli5uss your A particular insurance Call today or at renewal tirne. ,,41110 irrio Phone Crediton 234-6368 or 234-6224 WADE Practice safety on the farm R. Norm Tait Representative Of THE LONDON LIFE INSURANCE. COMPANY Phone 262-2406 Hensel! 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Consitt ZURICH BOX 130 236-4332 4 About imports , army Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., 0,W.N.A,, CLASS 'A' and ABC Editor — Bill Batten Advertising Manager Phone 235-1331 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation, September 30, 1909, 4,751 SUBSCRIPTION RATES! Canada 4.00 Per Year; USA OA „At ogO$ ;ma iessommatattir woo PIAM wrstic, , r PYI Vir* .414*Ptt 'APHIS '"P"PAV.1 0 ' Who holds upper hand? This was probably one of the most unbelievable pictures to appear in this newspaper during the past decade. It was taken one year ago during the flood of July 24, when a torrential rain dumped an estimated five inches of water on Exeter and area, flooding South Huron Hospital, many homes, businesses and crops. Damage was estimated at up to $500,000 and while no serious injuries or loss of life resulted, it was one of the greatest disasters to hit the area. T-A photo It's high summer, with a hot sun, a blue sky and perfect conditions for sitting at the picnic table typing this column. But there's something wrong, something off-key. It took me a while, but I've got it. Instead of the lush green jungle that used to encompass our back yard, there are splotches of color everywhere, destroying the solid • green effect I'm so used to. My wife has been off on another of her wild, off-season bursts, like doing the spring house-cleaning the week before Christmas. It all began with one rose. She received a large rose-bush, ready for planting, as a gift. Our rose bed, like the rest of our flower beds, was suffering severely from malnutrition and neglect. They were like children who undergo the same treatment —stunted and retarded. Our roses had shrunk to three, one dead, one dying and one which produced about two tiny blooms a year. In a fit of ill-considered fury after some barbed remark from My wife, I went out and dug up the lot and planted the new one. I should have put it quietly in the tool-shed and let it die a natural death. It only took the one log to break the jam. The rose was a beauty. It looked so lovely and so lonely that the old lady, no gardener, sent me out to buy another. I got a dandy for fifty cents, age, sex, coloK and kind unknown, but dubious. The boss was disgusted, but we planted the thing anyway. Then she bought two more and stuck them in, with peat moss, fertilizer and invocations to the gods. I thought that might bring a little peace, but she'd caught fire. In a flurry of self-disgust, she went at her window-box like a wolf coming down on the fold. It was a dilapidated object that runs along the side of the garage. I rather liked it as it had been for several years, with the fresh, green weeds spilling down over the side. But there was no reasoning with her. Out came the weeds as if they were scorpions. Off I went for a carload of zinnias, begonias and other bewildering things. Working as carefully as a surgeon, so the window-box wouldn t fall off the wall, she planted it and gave it a coat of paint. But we had some flowers left over. That meant I had to dig up a corner of another crumbling flowerbed, and we planted the leftovers. I was confident this was the end. She hasn't even pulled a weed for years. No such luck. Blazing with enthusiasm, or simple insanity, she shot me off for another carload, zinnias and marigolds. )3y the time I returned, she had weeded the front half of our moribund tulip bed. She had dug little holes and set in them a handsome row of orange and yellow marigolds in half an hour. An instant garden. Now she has her eye on the old peony bed. Once a mass of green and bloom, it has shrivelled to a few sickly plants producing eight blooms. It seems it is to be dug up and completely replanted with another exotic species. With all this new beauty, of course, we had to buy a new water-sprinkler. The old one was Lucan, Ontario July 16, 1970 The Editor, The Exeter Times-Advocate Exeter, Ontario, Dear Sir, In your last two editorials you have been comparing the importation of dairy products to the importation of industrial products but there is no comparison. Ford Motor Co. does not pay the difference between the price of a Ford and the price of a Volkswagen to the German company. The way the dairy industry has been set up the farmers pay this difference to the Borden Co. This is where our main beef arises. Also the government pays the dairy farmer a subsidy and the press always writes this type of news up as the farmers' getting another big handout but in actual fact this is a handout to the dairies. The milk board price is arrived at by finding out what the most inefficient dairy can afford to pay and that is the price for the whole industry. perfectly all right. It cost $2.95 ten years ago arid water would Still come out of it, though it didn't really sprinkle any more, just shot out two jets in opposite directions. New one, $11.00. She's fascinated, and keeps me moving it about all day, from one flower bed to another. "No, no. Move it another two inches to the right." • It's all ridiculous, of course, Even I know that you don't plant flower beds in the middle of July. They'll all be dead in a week, either from the haste with which they've been ripped from the womb and thrown into life, or from simple drowning. I liked the old jungle, with the odd tiger lily struggling up through the milkweed, or a few hardy daisies reaching for the sun. Why can't women leave things alone? The government makes up the difference between this price and the price it takes to keep the farmers calm. I wish the price of farm products was based on the amount the most inefficient farmer in Ontario has to have to obtain a net profit of $3,500.00 per year. The rest of the farmers would be in the game class as the dairy owners. We have talked to the milk board, the dairy Commission and the governments of Ontario and Canada but received either no answer or a lie so what is the next move. We decided we had to openly prove our claims. That we did in Ingersoll. The N.F.U. has appeared before the agriculture committee in Ottawa on the wheat problem with recommendations which are far more sensible than operation lift but were ignored. Bill C197 on National marketing which has had second reading now will give the power to people appointed by government to enter any farm and have power to tell the farmer They say truth is stranger than fiction, and there's little room to doubt that in a story out of New York last week regarding the theftg taking place at Kennedy Airport in that city. The federal justice department estimates that $43,000,000 in stocks and securities have been stolen from the U.S. mails at Kennedy over the past three years. Losses in other air cargo runs at around $3,000,000 a year. It has been estimated that the Cosa Nostra has 30 top agents working in the airport and that one of the Mafia heads virtually controls all trucking out of the large airport. A couple of informers had been located to testify at hearings, but by a strange coincidence, they ended up being shot to death before they could spill the beans. It becomes rather frightening when one reads of such facts that the U.S. government may be losing the battle with organized crime for control of the huge air terminal. As if the government didn't have enough worries already! * * * Since virtually everybody dislikes paying taxes it is hardly news if a pollster finds that most Canadians think taxes are too high. But it is definitely news when the percentage of those who think taxes are too high dramatically zooms skyward. As recently as 1965, according to the Gallup poll, 49% of Canadians thought taxes too high while 39% found them about right. Today the Gallup poll count shows 75% of Canadians find taxes too high while only 21% think them about right. Significantly the proportion of those with no opinion fell from 12% in 1965 to a mere 4% today. In five years, indifference or hesitation has almost disappeared as everyone feels the tax bite. The Financial Post says this should set the political parties thinking hard. They will have to take note of the public mood. Voters are becoming too when, where and how to sell any of his product. Should we just continue to talk? 'Yours truly, Joe O'Neill Jr. Director District 5 National Farmers' Union RR 3 Lucan, Ontario. Dear Sir, During a recent visit to Ip p e rw ash Beach, I was astonished by the senseless behavior of our armed service personnel there. When a convoy of army trucks proceeded up the beach road towards the cadet swimming area, pedestrians and motorists alike way!" were bluntly told "Get out of the The drivers of the jeeps at the head of the convoy completely disregarded the safety of those Walking along the beach road arid consequently, some pedestrians were nearly rim over. During this exhibition of dangerous driving,these men quite successfully forced all oncoming traffic off the road. Should these seemingly deli berate attempts of antagonism and intimidation continue, the armed Serviees are in great danger of losing the respect of the civilian population, if they have not already done so, Vic Pule her Exeter sophisticated to accept programs of lavish spending without reckoning the cost in ensuing taxation. We find it rather difficult to know where the Gallup poll turned up 21 people in every hundred who felt that today's taxation was about right. * * The weather has been a favorite topic of conversation for the past couple of weeks, with the vast amount of rain proving to be a detriment to farmers and those who have been spending their holidays in a tent. The weather has one advantage for those who have been on holidays and cramped up in a cottage or tent while watching the rain wash out their planned fun in the sup. It makes them glad to be back to work. By the way, tomorrow (July 24) marks the anniversary of our flood of last year. That should serve as a reminder that things could be worse. * * There appears to be no sight of settlement in the mail dispute and most people using mail service have come to the conclusion they will have to follow the -"mail early" policies usually reserved for Christmas parcels and cards. Last week we received a letter from Toronto some eight days after it had been written. 50 YEARS AGO On Sunday afternoon last Mr. J. M. Southcott of the James Street Sunday School was presented with an electric reading lamp in appreciation of his services as superintendent. Mr. & Mrs. Richard Treble moved their household effects to London Saturday last, where they will make their future home. Mr. Jack Swan of Hensall, has accepted a position in Windsor and left last week. Mr. H. F. Either of Crediton, has commenced removing the old furnaces in the school. Harvesting has commenced and there is every prospect of this years crop being a bumper one. 25 YEARS AGO Rev. Ernest Grigg has returned to Exeter after spending two weeks at a young people's camp at Lakeside, 43 miles from Detroit. Honors for the largest family in this area to receive the family allowance goes to Mr. & Mrs. Albert Smith, Zurich, with a family of 13 children all under 16 years of age. Britain M. Sanders, second year Student of the medical school of the University of Western Ontario, has passed his examinations with honors. Sgt. Eric and Mrs. Carscadden who are spending their furlough with Mr. & Mrs. Garnet Miners visited this week at Preston, London and Hamilton. Mr. Harry Cole, S.B,A., with the RCNVR spent the latter part of the week at his home here, having just returned home from overseas. 15 -YEARS AGO Wellington Brock was named Winner of the Kirkton Agriculture Society field crop competition in oats this summer. lie received a score of 80 points out of 100, Joseph Senior, who served as Unfortunately, it contained an invitation to an event being held on the date we received the letter. So, if you plan to invite relatives to visit for a weekend, better allow at least two weeks for the delivery of the invitation . . . or better still, use the telephone. * Being of a rather modest nature, we rather hesitate to mention our showing in last week's Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association golf tournament in Goderich. However, we're not so certain we can trust the sports editor to impart the correct facts to our readers. Actually, the editor ended up being a major prize winner, having recorded the second low net score of 74. Some readers would probably be interested in knowing how the organizers arrived at tallying net scores, but unfortunately space is at a premium this week and we don't have room to go into the details of what the editor actually shot on the Goderich course or what handicap he was allowed. Nor will we go into great lengths about having some 11-year-old kid beat us by about 20 strokes. clerk of Exeter for over 30 years and who photographed hundreds of families in this district, died in California this week. He was 90 years old, Miss Marie Wildfong, after spending 16 months at the Mission Hospital in Bella Coola, B.C. has returned to her home in Exeter for a two months' vacation. Mayor R. E. Pooley officially opened the Beta Sigma Phi Wading Pool at Victoria Park Wednesday evening. "No relief in sight", is the hot news from the weatherman. The mercury reached 93.1 last Thursday and could touch 95 in the next day or two. 10 YEARS AGO Speed limit of No. 4 highway was raised to 60 mph Tuesday when the Dept. of Highways erected signs between Exeter and Clinton. An attempt by a middleaged couple to steal $170.00 from a register at Darlings IGA was foiled by cashier Louise Blorrimaert who caught the woman taking bills out of the Cash drawer. When she accused them the couple dropped the money and fled. Over 500 took advantageof the free TB clinic when it set up in Exeter Tuesday and another large crowd invaded the elinic Wednesday. Miss Kay Hay, town, acdompanied by her niece, Miss Margaret Ann Prance, Winchelsea, are visiting the former's sister and het family, Mr. & Mrs. Gordon McDonald, Winnipeg. Four farms in Osborne ToWriship, were hit by a tornado which swept' north to south along 'the seventh concession about 6:00 p.m. last Wednesday. There were ne injuries but damage was done to buildings on the farms of Laverne Skinner, Emmerson Penhale, Wesley Heywood and Nelson Coultis,