HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-09-24, Page 2OUR POINT OF VI
Some legitimate complaints Were
aired at the recent meeting of Huron
officials to discuss the Design for
Development Midwestern 'Ontario
Region,
The major one was the fact that
Many of the statistics in the analysis
Were badly outdated, while many others
were incomplete.
Because the analysis is to. form the
basis of future planning for the entire
region, it is. obvious that those
responsible for the report were remiss in
not taking steps to ensure, wherever
possible, that the latest statistics were
used.
Many of the figures used were from
1961 sources, and it appears rather
foolish that we should plan our future
on facts that are nine years old. That
would indicate that our plans for the
future will be nine years behind the
times even before we get started,
It was clearly evident at the
meeting in Exeter that more up-to-date
figures could be readily obtained by a
reversal of procedures.
Rather than having those preparing
the analysis come to area officials to find
out what they did wrong, it would have
been much better to have come to those
same officials in the first place to get the
correct information,
Examples cited at last week's
meeting indicated that an incorrect
analysis was made on some water and
sewer systems in the county, and, yet
these two services are among the most
important assets communities have to
provide as a basis for future
development.
Hur on's elected officials were
correct in suggesting that these errors
could in fact be detrimental to industrial
expansion if the figures quoted were
used by industries to choose new sites.
Because many of the sources of
information were various government
agencies, it is quite apparent that the
Midwestern Ontario Development
Council should take immediate steps to
make certain that some of the
imformation about the region available
from these sources is corrected and
updated.
Need .correcting
Battle hits area
Pollution of the environment has
been a major topic of discussion in the
past year or so and citizens across this
nation have been given clear indication
of the consequences of thier bad habits
through the past years and the cost
involved in correcting the situation.
"Make 'em clean it up" has been a
constant plea from citizens who have
watched TV and newspaper accounts of
water and air pollution by large
industrial concerns.
Now the shoe is on the other foot,
Area municipal officials have been
advised that the air, water and scenic
pollution caused by dump grounds has
to stop.
Discussion at last week's meeting
indicates that it will be overcome only
by a rather sizeable price tag.
However, readers who recall our
publication earlier this year of a full page
of pictures taken of the area dumps
should realize that the price must be
paid.
The dumps are a disgrace, and while
we may argue about the need for steps
to correct the air pollution problem
caused by the dumps, there is no
question that the dumps must be cleaned
up and new methods of disposal
undertaken.
Co-operation between area
municipalities will help keep the price
lower than it would be if each was to
undertake such a project, and early
indications are that this co-operation
will be possible.
Equally important is the need for
cracking down on those thoughtless
people who use township roads and
dump entrances for disposing of their
refuse.
Rasta:dm de 604?
No wonder taxes are high
Now
Earn higher interest on our
Guaranteed Investment Certificates
now paying as high as eight
and three quarter percent.
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"EV010'0040 IN WILDING MATERIALS"
One of the features of this newspaper during the past decade was the photography of former advertising
manager, Val Baltkalns. This photo was taken at dusk on a fall evening as an area farmer prepared his
bean crop for harvesting. Val entitled it, "Above the Man the Sky".
What have you got to tell?
I don't advocate taking the
law into your own hands, .but
can't help feeling a glow of
satisfaction when a human
being, in this age of anonymity
and conformity, reacts to an
intolerable situation with a fine
individual rage.
We all have a wild streak In
us, a spark ready to catch fire,
but we usually manage to
smother it under the wet blanket
of society's manners and morals.
And a good thing, too, but
sometimes a pity. There is no
better purge of tension than a
good blaze of anger once in a
while.
Sometimes this streak is
warped, and it comes out in
vandalism, sadism or blind
violence.
But within every man,
however humble and
unassuming, bides a black
panther. And within every
woman, behind those smiles and
make-up and hairspray and
deodorant, lurks a leopardesss.
Just recently I went out to
get some corn at a roadside
stand. There were two bushel
baskets and this god-awful
woman and her slob of a
husband were going through
every ear of corn, ripping down
the husks and throwing the
discards back. This is the
epitome of bad taste.
I stood behind them, waiting,
blood coming to a boil. Just as I
was ready to hurl a searing bolt
of invective at them, the farm
kids rolled up with a wagon
loaded with big, green, luscious
cobs, fresh off the stalk. I
walked to the wagon, grabbed a
dozen, walked back to the stand
and plunked their juicy carcassFs
right down beside old greed-guts,
who had just paid for a much
inferior dozen. The look on her
face poured oil on my troubled
waters.
And then there was a flying
instructor I was going to strangle
as soon as we landed. However,
he was about six-two to my
five-eight, and I'd have needed a
pail to stand on. So I settled by
telling him to go to hell.
Amazingly, he sidled off and
that's the last I heard of it.
People in authority are often
cowards. Just show them your
teeth and claws.
Another strangling I
contemplated was that of a
German sergeant who had put
the boots to me. "Just as soon as
We goofed!
London Road South,
Exeter, Ontario.
September 18th., 1970
The Editor,
Exeter Times-Advocate,
Exeter, Ontario.
Dear Sir:
September 17th page four,
specifically the picture with the
some of us remember the 60's as
question "Remember the 60's?"
Referring to your issue of
the period when you called a
Harvard a Harvard and a
Chipmunk a Chipmunk.
Now that you have identified
the Chipmunk as a Harvard,
please tell us if you are prepared
to go the whole way by
identifying. a Harvard as a
Chipmunk.
Yours truly,
D. B. Hogg
ED, NOTE — Thanks to Mr.
Hogg and about 25 other readers
who informed us of our error
last week.
I'm untied, kill him even if
he kills me. "But I wasn't untied
for several days, and by that
time we were buddies, I smoking
his pipe and the pair of us
jabbering away in a stew of
French, German and English.
These were comparatively
simple incidents, but they
happen to most people. (Let's
hear about some of yours.)
A couple of recent news
stories convinced me that Man
has not been turned into a grey
cypher, even in this smothering
society.
A chap in Miami had sent his
prize dog, via airline, to Texas
for stud purposes. The dog was
worth $25,000. The airline
goofed, and somehow the dog
was returned to Florida, where it
was found to be dead of heat
prostration.
Now, the logical, civilized
thing to do Would be to sue the
airline. Of course, you might
spend a year or two in the
courts, with a possibility of
losing the case and winding up
with a mitt full of legal bills.
This fellow chose direct
action. He went to the airport
with an axe and stated hacking
at the underbelly of an aircraft.
He did damage worth
$100,000 before he was
stopped. Foolish, but somehow
admirable. This is no
computerized man. More like
the Charge of the Light Brigade.
Then there was this
84-year-old gentleman who was
living with a 59-year-old lady in
her trailer home. She threw him
over for a 72-year-old rooster,
who kicked him out of the
trailer,
What could he do? Go to the
police? Nope. There was no
charge he could lay. The lady
Next time you think "the
government" should be
providing more services for you,
stop to consider the heavy cost
involved in providing those
services . . . whether it be at the
federal, provincial or municipal
level.
It may shock some readers to
know that a recent survey
turned up the fact that nearly
one of every five working
Canadians is currently employed
in the public sector of the
economy, providing services in
some shape or form.
Interestingly enough, the
total of 1,494,896 Canadians in
the public service is not far short
of equalling the number who
work in manufacturing, the
nation's largest single productive
employer and wealth producer.
The number of public
servants has been increasing at
staggering rates in the past
decade, many of them whose job
it is to decide how we should
live.
If some of the numbers were
trimmed, the decrease in taxes
may enable some of us to live in
the manner prescribed by the
civil servants.
* * *
The arrival last week of the
1971 cars serves as a reminder
that another year is quickly
nearing the exit.
At the start of 1970, Exeter
Councillor Tom MacMillan
advocated that a centennial
committee be named to arrange
special celebrations for Exeter in
1973.
Several service groups in the
community have already
indicated their support for such
a project, but as yet council have
not taken any steps to get the
ball rolling.
Drains, dumps and dogs —
among many other important
issues — have kept them
occupied for the past months,
but it is to be hoped council can
give this matter some serious
consideration in the immediate
future.
* * *
The settlement of wage and
working agreements with
Canada's post office workers has
brought an end to that topic,
although complaints about
postal service continue.
Readers of Maclean's no
doubt would enjoy the incident
related in a recent story by
Walter Stewart.
It seems that last year the
post office re-staged the old
dog-sled mail run from
Churchill, Manitoba, to
Chesterfield Inlet, NWT.
The sleds carried
commemorative envelopes which
were to be distributed according
to instructions the Churchill
postmaster sent to Chesterfield
by modern airmail,
The dogs took 14 days to
reach Chesterfield — and then no
one knew what to do about it
had transferred her !Oars to
another, and that was that.
But he wasn't foiled. He
struck back. He made a
firebomb and set fire to the
trailer, causing $15,000 deluge, Boy, I hope I on be as jealous and resourceful as that
when I'm 84,
because that letter sent by
airmail hadn't arrived.
Ever notice how it is that
when you get a sore finger or
toe, you keep stubbing the
injured digit?
That's about the way we've
been feeling the last few .weeks
about comments related to the
air force and airplanes.
A couple of weeks ago we
criticised the federal government
for plans to build a costly
museum at Trenton. A few
former airforce types quickly
corrected us. The only public
cost was in the donation of
about 35 acres by the
department of national defence.
Last week, in our series on
the past decade, we featured the
last flight over the area by an
RCAF harvard.
Even before the ink had dried
on most of the copies, Lorne
Kleinstiver phoned to point out
that the airplane was not a
harvard, but rather a chipmunk,
50 YEARS AGO
Twelve autos containing
members of James Street Choir
visited the peach orchards about
one mile west of Thedford last
Thursday. The journey, a
distance of 33 miles was made in
about an hour and forty
minutes.
The large water tank on the
corner of Main and John Streets
is being filled in with earth this
week. The tank is 36x14x14 and
was used to hold water in
connection with the old
waterworks system. A portion of
it gave way under the weight of
a road roller recently.
Exeter will be put on the
hockey map this winter by
Zurich and Exeter going
together and entering a team in
the OHA and the Northern
Hockey League.
Mr. W. C. Pearce and Mr.
Peter Walley sustained quite
severe injuries while riding on a
water tank and an automobile
ran into them one day last week.
Both were badly bruised and
shaken up.
Mr. W. D. Sanders, who has
been on an extended trip to the
coast and different parts of the
West for nearly three months,
returned home Saturday night,
25 YEARS AGO:
After 58 years in business, R.
N. Rowe has disposed of his
furniture business and funeral
home to his grandson Robert C.
Dinney.
Benny Goodman and his
Orchestra, 'The Greatest of
Them All,' is appearing at the
London Arena, Friday of this
Week
Out of thirty-seven persons
Summoned to pollee court in
Exeter Friday of last week for
failing to secure radio licenses 35
were convicted and paid fines of
$5,06 each,
Wein Bros, had the prize
winning float In the Exeter V*
Parade, Thursday,
Troubles come in three. We're
awaiting the third one now.
That recent article in the
London Life employee magazine
was a bit of an ego-deflater. We
got the impression we lived in
some hick-town that the writer
stumbled upon and felt that his
readers should be made aware
that such a place existed.
We were certainly cheered to
learn that there were
"compensations" for living in a
low-wage area.
The article may provide one
more compensation in addition
to the four parks and all kinds of
athletics which impressed the
writer.
Now that London Life
employees have learned more
about us, those city slickers may
not descend upon us to try and
sell insurance — especially if you
tell them you play darts.
15 YEARS AGO:
Marion Creery was chosen
Huron Agricultural Queen at the
Junior Farmer Variety Show in
connection with Exeter Fair
Wednesday night. Runners-up
were her two cousins. Perla Hern
and Rose Mary Dobson.
Leslie Riley, of Cromarty was
the Hensall School Fair
Champion exhibitor with 37
entries.
Fire razed the barn of William
Atkins, R. R. 1 Clandeboye,
Tuesday afternoon. Loss of
implements, tools, and seed
grain, fertilizer and about 200
chickens is estimated at
$9,000,000.
The Exeter Drama Club has
commenced rehearsing a
three-act play "Angel Street."
The cast includes W. G.
Cochrane, Mrs. Len Dilkes, Mrs.
James Glaab, Mrs. R. C. Dinney
and Frank Wildfong.
Twenty children from Exeter
Public School are taking part in
the Safety Patrol program
organized by Principal A. B. Idle
and Chief Reg. Taylor.
10 YEARS AGO:
RCAF Centralia officials have
received approval to erect a
$43,000 curling rink on the
station.
The sleek CA.3, Miss
Supertest III, will be a feature
attraction at Exeter Fair this
week.
Value of awards won by
SHDHS approaches the $6,000
mark exceeding any previous
amount won by a graduating
class.
RCAF Centralia played host
to the biggest crowd, between
15,000 and 20,000, In HS
history, Saturday, at Air Force
Day,
Hank Green and Ray Smith
Pulled seven ike from the
Ansatible River phis week with
the largest measuring 31 inches
and weighing seven pounds,
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