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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-12-10, Page 4Poignant pictures She explained a trousseau tea was no place for a man and the invitation to have him play the bells was the type of excuse she had been looking for to get him out of the way for the afternoon. * The only disappointing aspect of the afternoon was the greed displayed by some kids as they lined up for treats. Some had two or three bags of chips held in one hand while the other was still outstretched to get more. ; . Many, of course, had to take some home for brothers or sisters, but one little girl advised that she wanted to take some home for her father. After it became obvious that many in the line were back for second or third helpings, those passing out the treats had to turn 50 YEARS AGO: Mr. Amy Wexler lost one of the markers off his auto and replaced it with a cardboard marker. While in London he was fined $10 and costs. Mr. J. S. Harvey was in Guelph on Tuesday attending a meeting of millers. Bread has been reduced to 12 cents for a 24 ounce loaf in Exeter. It has been selling two loaves for 25 cents. Mr. William Hodgert has opened his livery stable for the winter. The luxury tax was abolished on Monday and the announcement was received with great satisfaction by the merchants of town. Mr. Wickwire, editor of the Hensall Observer, was in Toronto attending the OFU convention. 25 YEARS AGO: Woodham citizens paid honor Friday evening to 10 returned local soldiers, the event taking the form of a community banquet. The returned men were Graydon Camm, Norman Hazelwood, Leonard Harris, Gladwyn Hooper, Alvin Murray, Russell Parkinson, Roy Shier, Arthur Muchard, John Tomlinson and John Wilson. Derwyn Jones, son of Rev. and Mrs. Walter Jones of London, formerly of Exeter, has been awarded the highest scholarship of Huron College valued at $200. per year until graduation. After two weeks of grand weather winter has settled in a hurry. Tuesday morning citizens awoke to find 14 to 16 inches of snow on the ground. Forty-nine Huron County farmers attended a meeting in Clinton to organize a Crop Improvement Association. Huron is one of two counties in Ontario which has not organized. 151/EARS AGO: Exeter Public School board members paid tribute to retiring chairman, R.E. Russell, who has been chairman for four years and a member since 1945. He was presented with a wallet in recognition of his service, last Monday night. Two Kirkton sisters, Marilyn and Patsy Marshall, topped the them down to ensure that everyone would get some. In that regard, potato chips serve as a good treat, because one look at the smudges around some mouths and faces quickly indicated they had already been served. * * * Santa Claus was naturally the highlight of the day and the jolly, old chap certainly was never in better form than on Saturday. Many on the parade route were greeted personally and that was a thrill. Our three lads still can't get over the fact that Santa walked up and instantly recognized "the Batten boys". For those not in the know, we should point out that Garnet Hicks was in Saturday's parade. list of South Huron 4-H winners at the county Achievement Night in Wingham on Friday. Marilyn won the Bank of Commerce trophy for highest score in dairy calf clubs, and Patsy received the Harvey C. Johnston trophy for the highest score for a member under 16. Christmas carols of many lands were sung by the Earle Terry singers of London on their program presented at South Huron District High School Thursday evening. The concert was sponsored by the Travellers' club of Grade 12 and 13. Exeter Senior Citizens, whose singing of Christmas carols at their social evening on Tuesday was recorded by radio station CKNX, will be able to sit beside their radios the week before Christmas and listen to their voices coming over the airwaves. ' 10 YEARS AGO: Exeter has experienced a near record year in construction during 1960, Clerk C. V. Pickard reported to council • Monday night. Value of buildings for which permits have been issued totals $686,300. New candidate Jack Delbridge led the polls for council when the votes were tallied up Monday night. Others elected were Ross Taylor, Eldrid Simmons, Ralph Bailey, Bill Musser and Claude Farrow. Bill McKenzie got the nod of Chester Mawhinney in the race for reeve. Mrs. Gerald Wurm, Thames Road east, was a winner of the Christmas, Jackpot sponsored by Exeter businesses. She received $100.00 from the president of the association, Murray Greene. Thursday at Main Street United Church, WMS members celebrated 50 years of missionary effort with a special program. Cutting the anniversary cake were Mrs. J.W. Powell, the only surviving charter member, and Mrs. George Jaques. Mrs. R.E. Russell is the 1960 president. Lucan electors decided to revert to an all-male council for '61, after supporting a woman representative for the past seven years. They turned down Mrs. A.E. Reilly, in her bid to unseat Reeve Ivan Hearn at the polls, Mon day. A Friendly Greeting and Soft Music Makes Christmas Shopping a Pleasure MEN'S WEAR 235-2320 Exeter Main St. Coleman Epicure Bacon 350 lb, 490 Sun Spun 8 oz. New Crop Cheese Slices Mixed Nuts Main St, 238-2512 Grand Bend • • • 0 • GIFT SUGGESTIONS * TIES * SHIRTS * SOCKS * SCARVES * GLOVES * HATS * DRESSING GOWNS * PYJAMAS * SLACKS * SWEATERS * VEST SUITS * CO-ORDINATES * SUITS - MENS & BOYS * etc. etc. THANKS FOR SHOPPING AT McKNIGHTS Len McKnight & Sons Head Cheese Homemade Blade Roast Rolled Pot Roast Short Rib Roast Cross Cut Roast per tin 890 lb. 654 lb. 654 lb. 690, lb. 794 lb. 590 PRODUCE Lettuce Spys or Macs Waxed Turnips 2/45'4 5 lb. bags 2/8 54 lb. 50 Instant Coffee Tomato Catsup Beans with Pork Maxwell House York Brand 6 oz. 1.19 230 14 oz, 2/350 Sun Spun 11 oz. Peanut Butter Chip, Lemon Nut Chip Chocolate Chip Colonial Cookies 13oz. bags 2/890 Jam Guest Raspberry or Strawberry 24 oz. 2/890 WALLY'S MARKET Follow the Crowd of Satisfied Customers to McKnights • • In this day and age there are few occasions when you end up getting more than anticipated, but one such occasion was certainly Saturday's Santa Claus parade in Exeter. We continue to hear nothing but raves about the parade and there are few people who can recall seeing a better parade in this community. The entries were all of a high calibre and we know the judges had a most difficult time picking out the winners. We happened to have been given one of their sheets and the notes contained there show that several were in the running and the order was changed around a couple of times before the final decision • was made. The number of young people involved in the parade was most heartening. The Exeter Teen Town under Danny Laing and his cohorts decorated three or four entries and the students at SHDHS had two exceptionally fine floats in the parade. It may be of interest for some to know that the winning entry from the Exeter United Church didn't get on the drawing boards until late in the week after Carf Cann approached a couple of youth leaders and suggested they should enter a float. It would be impossible to extend commendation to everyone who personally helped make the parade such a success, but we imagine they too have heard enough raves about the parade to realize their work was well worth the effort. The willingness of people to assist was most gratifying and we had one instance where one citizen even went so far as to volunteer the services of another. We phoned Rev. George Anderson on Thursday to see if he and his class of bell ringers at Trivitt Memorial Church would play the bells to add a festive note to the community while people were awaiting the parade. Reverend Anderson wasn't home, but his wife was CERTAIN her husband would undertake the job. She was planning a trousseau tea and had apparently been trying to come up with some reason to get her husband out of the way. BeCause of the dance, I have a new suit, first in six years, new shoes, new gloves. Quite smashing, really. I don't have to go back to the dentist for two days.. The cat is spayed. The snow tires are on. My wife, who predicted her own death by noon, is alive and well and snarling commands. Not a bad old life, really. Better here than the graveyard, though I could use some of that rest. If only it weren't eternal. "I've been to a suop-Ini" 11 UP 4, cik ABOUT CONSTMAV- AVOIP FRAM CORK DAMAGED 1)14105 KEEP AWAY FROM NEAT GLA55 COL, ASBE51b5 Fl REPROOF DECORA- TIONS HERE'S MOW TO MAKE YOUR5 FIREPROOF! .54W 0115Y BEAVER— 4 USE ONLY LIGHTING SETS BEARING TI445 5F-AL. 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Yuletide Poinsettia Bone China Cups & '2" Saucers also plates, Crean, & sugar sets, mugs and cake plates available Fancy linen & cotton banquet cloths in white or ecru — all sizes Ideal for holiday entertaining Open Thurs., Fri. & Sat. nights till 9:00 p.m. till Christmas RETSILLA GIFT STUDIO Highway 21 GRAND BEND 238.2064 P•904:040441a4A04840.00.144,X104041:SUVASS:4044:044740-0fria,Vii0-NaNZI•NaWA *40.;•;125546110.3.WOPAIA.Nia04 Wit*Ni= WiZI.WZ*W4Ska • 0 Not a bad old life, really similar dimensions in her own skin. I offer all sorts of comfort, like, "Well, now we can put our feet on it," or "Nobody'll notice that, when it's covered with coffee cups," but the result is more like throwing oil on fire than on troubled waters. The phone hasn't been working for two days. For me, this is unmitigated bliss. But the old lady is utterly convinced that all sorts of people have been calling us about a death in the family, Lord forbid, or a birth in the family, Lord doubly forbid. That's the in-calls. I never call anybody. But without the out-calls, she feels as helpless as a female with both arms in a sling, and a back zipper to be zipped. I've got a knee like an elephant. One of my old foot-ball war knees has decided to start me off on a merry winter, and is swollen right down to an ankle like a piano leg. It began with curling too vigorously. But it didn't help that I went to the local ball-of-the-year on Friday night with a game leg, and danced a lot gamier than I should have. With an elastic bandage and Advocate Established 1881 pain pills, I manage to get about just lame enough so that I can't possibly help with moving furniture. You should see that wife of mine manhandling a grand piano all by herself, with me helping by grunting. I doubt if she's lost ten pounds in the last two days. Just to make it a truly joyous day, I'm marking exam papers. This is something like the Chinese water torture. Drop by drop, it pierces your skull that you never were, are not, and never will be able to teach anybody anything more than to tie his shoelaces. All I have learned today is that "prostitute" is now spelled "prosecute", that "savagery" has become "savagism" and that a fellow who flies an aircraft is a "piolit". However, I am not complaining. The painting is finished. My knee feels much better now that the furniture is all moved back. It has stopped snowing as I've written. The phone company has been able to break through. The old girl has forgotten her despair over the gouge by spotting a bump in the plasters And I just marked an exam paper worth 90 per cent. • Amalgamated 1924 On occasions, news stories and pictu res are much more effective in stressing a point than any amount of editorial viewpoint, regardless of how well the latter may have been written, Such was the case last week, or at least we trust it was. Normally, this column would have contained some support for the fact that the first week in December is Safe Driving Week. There were an endless number of press releases available from which to draw points to pass along to readers on safe driving and the need for each of us to become more aware of the dangers of highway travel. 43 Unfortunately, we didn't need any Following this week's elections and the recent nomination meetings, several new faces will be evident around district council tables in 1971-72. In the face of declining interest in municipal politics, it is encouraging to see some people with enough dedication and interest to fill the spots vacated by those who have served faithfully in the past. It's too bad there aren't more people with the sense of responsibility noted by one of Usborne's new councillors, Jack Stewart. "It's everybody's duty to serve his municipality," Jack stated. Those successful in capturing council seats know full well that the next two years will be most difficult. The question of improving dump facilities was mentioned at most nomination meetings and the matter of regional government was broached too. Fire protection is another of those thorny issues which most councils face every year or two, and coupled with the normal problems of roads, sidewalks, drains, etc., it's going to be a busy two years. It's a thankless job on most occasions and about the only interest they'll see displayed by ratepayers is when complaints and problems arise. They'll even find that, despite our commendation in their willingness to stand for office, this newspaper on occasions will scold them if we feel their decisions are not in the best interests of the ratepayers they serve. However, we can assure them that editorial views will contain constructive criticism whenever possible and we hope council members throughout the area will It's one of those days. A wild, white yonder outside the window, snowing and blowing as though we'd never seen the stuff before and someone was trying to impress us. And just two days after some nit of a cab driver told me sagely, "Sure looks like we're gonna have a green Christmas." We're redecorating the living-room. It's 30 x 18 x 10. Move all the junk out of that crypt to paint and there's no place elsewhere in the house in which you can draw a deep breath without carving in some ribs against an upturned chair or a book-case with its feet sticking out. Everything's gone fairly smoothly, but my wife is slightly hysterical about one slip. For two years she's been bellowing at the kids to keep their rotten bare feet off her new mahogany coffee table. (Nobody, of course, adults included, is allowed to put a cup of coffee on the coffee table.) This morning she found that the painters had put a gouge about a foot long and a quarter inch deep in that virgin territory. She's suffering as much pain as though someone had taken a can-opener and put a gouge of • Times Established 1873 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 of those words, because the point was brought home much more forcibly through the pictures and stories relating to two tragic highway crashes which claimed the lives of three men in one day in this area. The exact reasons for the accidents. may never be known, but the odds are overwhelming that ONE person made ONE mistake, That mistake could be any one of the numerous ones that cause accidents, but probably it was the type of mistake which many drivers have committed. Take another look at those pictures. Think about the fact it took only one mistake, Think of the agony and grief. always realize that our columns will be made available to them to explain matters to ratepayers when the need arises. A newspaper is often the only easy vehicle for permitting a dialogue to be conducted when it involves large numbers of people and it is regrettable in our opinion that too few people take advantage of it. But enough for the new councillors. It is obvious from the preceding that those who have served in the past and have terminated that service this year also require special mention. They have served faithfully, some for many years, and obviously a few lines here could not in any way express the gratitude that should be bestowed upon them. While appreciation should go to all retiring members, special mention should be made of two area reeves stepping down this year in the persons of Stephen's Jim Hayter and Usbome's Roy Westcott. Both men assumed special duties in winning the warden's post on Huron County council and one has only to look at the statistics given at the Usborne meeting by Roy Westcott to get some insight into the amount of time and effort that job requires. Warden Westcott travelled an estimated 35,000 miles and attended 300 meetings. If these two men ever figured out the pay they received on a per hour basis, it would make our minimum wage levels appear enormous. To them, and all others who are stepping down, we express our commendation for a job well done. SUBSCRIPTION CLIIK,7.015=71.1Z.MX;istae2kiek....m57,..7A Jobs well done Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance Civculation, September 30, 1970, 4,675 RATES: Canada $6.40 Per Year; USA $8.00 SEVAMEZZELSZ;22,k021MMUMWLMIMS r