HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-11-12, Page 4It's rather difficult to understand the
controversy which has erupted over the
matter of parking on the east side of the
Exeter arena.
If it was a matter of eliminating
parking for 50 or 60 cars, the opposition to
the no parking regulations may be worthy
of more consideration.
However, probably no more than 15
parking spots are being eliminated and this
number certainly shouldn't take priority
over safety precautions.
Those few parking places could easily
be recovered if the town snowplow was
used to clear off additional parking spots
north of the horse barns or even south of
the grandstand.
Surely local sports fans are hardy
enough to walk another 100 yards or so to
get to the arena. It should be considered a
small disadvantage indeed in comparison
to the peace of mind of everyone
concerned that the fans in the arena could
exit more quickly if an emergency arises.
We do concur with those who suggest
the present no parking signs are difficult to
see mounted on the arena.
The suggestion that signs be erected
at right angles to the building or even
placed on posts alongside the building
should be considered.
Apartment living zooms
Apartment living has been growing
at a tremendous rate in the last few years,
and is now making its first impact on
Stouffville. The outlook for the near
future is more of the same. With taxes,
building and land prices zooming, people
are being forced to give up any ideas they
have of single-family homes in favor of
apartment living.
Some commentators even go so far
as to suggest that growing attacks on law
and order have something to do with the
trend, and suggest that apartments are the
safest places to live.
We know that this type of thinking
has already come to such cities as New
York where security guards and private
police are hired by apartment owners to
guard the tenants.
This is a terrible situation and one
which we hope never gets this far although
signs are not hopeful. Such a system for
public safety would be returning to the
medieval age of moats and fortresses.
Stouffville Tribune
Fig leaves instead of slacks
Paying too much
It's disappointing that Stephen Reeve,
irn Hayter failed to get much support for
his recommendation that county council
should. tender for their insurance
protection.
When the county board of education
announced a saving of over $20,000 by
such a move, we urged other municipal
groups to consider the same action in an
effort to reduce costs for taxpayers.
Why would a cost of $4,000 to
$5,000 for consultants be required to draw
up specifications for the insurance
coverage? The county knows now what
coverage it has and surely it's nothing more
than the simple matter of asking other
insurance firms to submit prices for
providing the same amount of coverage.
The county broker advised that a new
company could terminate coverage at any
time if they found it unprofitable after the
policies came into force,
Does that mean that some insurance
companies play by different rules than
others? We doubt it, If a new company
could cancel insurance so easily, it must be
assumed that the present broker could do
the same. If the present broker can't, then
it must also be assumed that agreements
could be obtained in writing preventing a
new firm from doing so too.
Reeve Hayter didn't suggest that a
new broker be secured. This newspaper
doesn't suggest that either.
What we do suggest is that the county
council at least discuss the matter with
other firms or ask for prices and then make
their decision.
Until that time, ratepayers must
assume that they are paying too much for
their insurance coverage, in view of the
results obtained by the county board of
education,
As Reeve Hayter concluded last
week: how can county councillors go back
to their ratepayers and tell them they
didn't make an effort to lower insurance
rate costs?
Safety over convenience
R'efftemeeit de 604?
Anyone under five may think this picture came from another century rather than another decade, but most
area residents will quickly recognize it as one of the many which featured our pages during centennial year.
The year 1967 - brought out costumes, antiques and probably the greatest amount of enthusiasm and
fun which has been shown in this area for a good number of years. The highlight was the church service at
James Street United Church when an overflow crowd — many in centennial costume — attended to start the
year off, Rev. S. E. Lewis preached by the light of coal oil lanterns and his "hell-fire" sermon was in keeping
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I have just got home from
something as rare and delightful
as a personally conducted tour of
Buckingham Palace - a teachers'
staff meeting that lasted only half
an hour. This is equivalent to
building the Pyramids in three
weeks.
Meetings, as such, are a
particular annex in hell for
anyone who has been in the
newspaper business and attended
at least one, and sometimes two,
every working day of the year.
Ninety-five percent of
meetings are unnecessary,
unenlightening, and
unproductive. They are the
refuge of bores of both sexes,
who take out their personal
frustrations by frustrating
everyone else. These people have
their little dinkies: Raising points
of order; moving amendments to
the motion; and haggling for
interminable times over items
that could be solved in eight
seconds by a three-year-old with
two heads.
Occasionally, a meeting
produces sparks, a clash, a
conflict of personalities or ideas
that light the Stygian gloom. I
well remember one town council
meeting. One of the councillors,
somewhat the wear for something
or other, called one of the other
councillors, "a gibbering old
baboon." A nice thrust.
He wasn't too far off the mark,
but was in no condition himself
to hurl such charges. The
offended party promptly started
peeling off his jacket, and offered
to thrash the other "within an
inch of your life." The other
councillors and even the mayor,
quailed. Chiefly, because both
councillors were well into the
seventies. I might add that the
only blood shed was verbal. But
that was a meeting.
Staff meetings are not quite
that bad, but they inevitably
produce in me a headache so
fierce that only a great dollop of
some sedative beverage can allay
it.
I've seen adults haggling
bitterly for half an hour over the
chewing of gum. Where it could
be chewed, when it should be
chewed, and how it should be
chewed (open mouth or closed.)
The only result was that the kids
went on blithely chewing gum,
wherever, whenever and however
they could get away with it.
Deep moral, social and
psychological issues are involved
in a problem of this magnitude. Is
gum bad for the teeth? What do
you do if you send a kid to the
office, he removes his gum on the
way, and swears angelically that it
was the teacher's imagination,
that he was really chewing his cud
out of sheer nervousness? Is it
better for the student to chew
gum than to chew his fingernails
down to the blood?
"Jesus wore long hair and a
beard, didn't he?" How do you
counter this one (a favorite, by
the way, among male students)?
Do you say, "Uh, well, uh, Jesus,
uh, THROW THAT GUM IN THE
BASKET." Or would you say,
" O.K., Buster, turn that
blackboard into an ouija board."
This particular staff meeting
was about girls wearing slacks.
Human experience has showed
that girls will wear whatever other
girls are wearing. And girls, these
days, are wearing slacks. They are
ASSIEMMMOOMM
Amalgamated 1924
No doubt there'll be a few red
faces evident in the area with the
revelation that the night the
Progressive Conservative
supporters picked to honor
Charlie and Addie MacNaughton
conflicted with two area
municipal nomination meetings.
Even without the conflict of
dates, it was a rather poor week
for the organizers to choose.
Conscientious citizens will
have at least two nomination
meetings on the agenda that week
and there are still a few people
who choose to spend a couple of
nights at home.
However, things such as that
happen, unfortunately, as the
Exeter RAP and rodeo
committees will recall. •,
In our quest for something to
help stir nomination meeting
interest, we could suggest that they
big night at Huron Park for the
Provincial Treasurer could be
extended to include the
nomination meetings for all area
communities.
The presence of Gordon
Sinclair, Premier John Robarts
and other dignitaries should
attract a large crowd.
If a holiday was declared for
the day after — and Mr. Robarts
could possibly lend some
authority to such a decree — the
nomination meetings, dancing,
socializing, etc. could continue as
long as need be and it would
probably be one of the best
attended and most interesting
nominations ever staged.
We imagine a large number of
readers joined us last week in
registering some surprise that the
Exeter sewage lagoon was a
sanctuary for wild ducks and
geese.
While some hunters
apparently were in the act of
spoiling this, the discussion
indicated that their ignorance of
the situation—and the lack of
signs--was the main problem.
We hope council's action in
attempting to protect the birds is
successful.
The Batten family took a hike
to the Morrison Dam, Sunday,
and the boys were most intrigued
by the wild ducks and geese we
spotted there.
Our presence frightened about
18 Canada Geese into the air on
two occasions, and this is a sight
that should be protected, because
there are few places where it can
be duplicated without driving
several miles.
Game hunters may argue for
comfortable, they can look
smart, they are warm in our frigid
winters, they prevent boys from
peeking up the stairs as the girls
ascend in mini-skirts, and they
have probably contributed more
to containing the population
explosion than the old-fashioned
night-dress,
Anyway, I expected a
marathon. About three hours.-
They can wear slacks, but only
once a week. They can wear
slacks, but they can't wear blue
jeans. Nobody in my class is going
to wear slacks. If it's all right for
the boys to wear blue jeans, why
can't the girls. And so on.
It was fantastic, but the
openly, and bluntly expressed
feeling of the majority was that
girls should be allowed to wear
whatever was in style. And that
was that,
One commercial teacher, who
could have been expected to
come down heavily on the side of
"no slacks," said she didn't tare if
they wore fig leaves as long as
they were "neat and tidy."
I'd like to hear what you think
about long hair, girls wearing
slacks, and all the other things
that were unacceptable in out
day. Drop a line.
the same benefits, but .s long as
the birds start coming into this
area in larger numbers, we
imagine the nimrods will find
spots where the hunting will be
good.
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There's more to automatic
washers than just stuffing them
full of fluffy unmentionables or
greasy overalls.
A trade publication tells about
the lady in charge of preparing
turnips, carrots and potatoes for
church suppers who has been
cleaning them in her
tumble-action washer for years.
Now there's a unit with what
they call a "hand-wash agitator"
that you can wash goldfish in, if
you set the washing action lever
at "gentle".
It'll take up to 15 fish at a time
and they seem to enjoy it. More
than that number and there's not
enough oxygen in the water to go
around.
However, it should be water
without any fluorides added.
Apparently the gold fish aren't
concerned about tooth decay.
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Next time you are prone to
express an opinion on the number
of "rotten kids" in your
50 YEARS AGO
Mr. Ira N. Marshall, of
Usborne, has purchased the
hardware business of Percy F
Doupe in Kirkton. Mr. Davis
Roger has rented Mr. Marshall's
home on Con.13, Usborne.
During the past two weeks
revival services have been
conducted in the Methodist
Church at Elimville and were
largely attended.
An oyster supper will be
served by the Crediton Women's
Institute next Tuesday for 40
cents and 25 cents.
The Ontario Temperance Act
came into effect in the County of
Huron on December 1. The
operations of the Canada
Temperance Act has been
suspended.
Mr. William J. Carling who left
Exeter a few years ago for
Brighton has sold his farm and
will move back to Exeter.
Reverend A.A. Trumper was
elected Worshipful Master of
LOL 924, Exeter, with William
Lutman, deputy master, and
Aaron Sutton, Chaplain.
25 YEARS AGO
C/Sgt. Glenn Fisher became
the possessor of a silver trophy
cup when he broke the tape to
win the E.H.S. Cadet Corp's
Obstacle race on Friday
afternoon. Frank Gregus was
second and Jack Hennessey came
in third,
The Exeter Wartime
Committee last week packed and
shipped 83 parcels of Christmas
Cheer to those in the service
overseas from the Exeter district.
Splendid progress is being
made in the erection of Mr. Jas.
Grieve's new residence on William
Street. The interior is now ready
for the plasterers.
Citizens of this village were
seriously disturbed last Friday
morning on learning that a house
in the village had been
burglatized. This news came as
distinct shock, as this village and
vicinity have a well won and
rightfully deserved reputation for
law and order,
community, ponder the
following item we gleaned from
the Ladysmith -Chemainus
Chronicle this week.
Last Saturday a Ladysmith
youth (long haired) was working
hard digging a ditch to raise a
little money for his school in the
town's cleanup campaign when
his temporary employer
remarked "There are a lot of
rotten kids in Ladysmith aren't
there?"
"I don't think there are that
many, Sir," the youth replied. "I
think the few rotten kids we have
are so good at it they seem like a
lot."
By the way, if you're
wondering how come we get a
paper from B.C. each week, we
should •explain it is edited and
published by Jqhn A.
MacNaughton.
He has more than a passing
interest in one of the men who is
frequently mentioned in the news
columns of this newspaper.
John is a brother to the
Provincial Treasurer of Ontario
and we started exchanging papers
with him when he apparently
decided it would be a good idea to
keep an eye on what his brother
was doing.
15 YEARS AGO
Official opening of the Chapel
of the Four Evangelists and
dedication of the Dickson
Memorial windows took place in
a special ceremony at Trivitt
Memorial Church Sunday evening
with Rev. N.D. Knox performing
the rites.
South Huron District High
School panthers won the right to
advance into W.O.S.S.A. football
playdowns Wednesday afternoon
by upsetting the league-leading
Mitchell squad13-11 in Mitchell.
Close to 500 people visited the
new grain elevator erected by
Cann's Mill Ltd., during the open
house Wednesday afternoon and
evening.
Exeter chapter of the Order of
the Eastern Star presented two
treatment lamps to South Huron
llospital this week.
The Huronia Male Choir under
the direction of Mr. H.L. Sturgis
provided a concert in Staffa
Community Hall last week.
10 YEARS AGO
Former wardens were among
the 367 guest who attended
Huron County Warden John
Durnin's banquet at Goderich
Thursday. Guests included 1923
warden B.W.F. Beavers and his
wife; and 1943 warden, B.W.
Tuckey and Mrs. Tuckey.
All six prizes in Exeter
Legion's Remembrance Day
essay contest have been won by
girls. The winners were Barbara
McDonald, Marion Kerslake,
Bernice Grainger, Linda Walper,
Dianne McKenzie and Shirley
Genttner.
Councillor George Rether is
recovering from a back injury he
received Friday while helping
his neighbor, Ross Tuckey, move
to the latter's recently purchased
home on Andrew St,.
New Girl Guide commissioner
for Exeter and District is Mrs.
Greta Lavender, Hensel]. Mrs.
Lavender 18 also camp advisor for
Huron County.
Pamela Coward, eight and a
half month old daughter of Mr. &
Mrs. Murray Coward broke her
arm at her home on Thursday.
NOTE CHANGE OF
DATE
ONTARIO
Assessments Review
Court of Ontario
Take notice that the first sitting of the
Assessment Review Court for the year 1970 for the
municipality of THE TOWNSHIP OF STEPHEN in
the County District of Huron-Perth Region will be
held at the Clerk's Office, Crediton, commencing at
the hour of 1:30 p.m., NOVEMBER 25
Signed,
Nelson H. Kahle, M. I.M.A.
Regional Registrar (Acting)
for Assessment, Region No. 24
Dated at Exeter this 10th Day of November, 1970
NOTE CHANGE OF
DATE
ONTARIO
Assessments Review
Court of Ontario
Take notice that the first sitting of the
Assessment Review Court for the year 1970 for the
municipality of THE TOWN OF EXETER, in
the County District of Huron-Perth Region will be
held at the Town Hall, Exeter, commencing at the
hour of 1:30 p.m. NOVEMBER 24
Signed,
Nelson H. Kahle, M. I.M.A.
Regional Registrar (Acting)
for Assessment, Region No. 24
Dated at Exeter this 10th Day of November, 1970
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