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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-05-20, Page 4Not opposed in principle Exeter council's decision to thwart attempts to stage a tent crusade drew criticism from one letter writer last week and there were also some verbal comments regarding the matter. In one area church, the minister commented that it seemed unfair for council to try to stop the religious meetings while at the same session they had approved yet another lottery. In fairness to council, it should be noted that at no time during the discussion was it apparent that members were opposed to a tent crusade in principle, but rather only that it was scheduled for a residential area, A one-night stand, or even a tent meeting for a week would probably be acceptable for a residential area, but when the group in question apparently planned a crusade for the entire summer, that is a different story. Council members were concerned about the noise, although they didn't imply they were "awful sounds" as the letter to the editor implied. A religious meeting in a tent does create noise. It may be a good noise to be sure, but on a long-term basis it is bound to deprive neighbors of their right to privacy and serenity. Not everyone wants to 'listen to singing and gospel preaching every night. However, we hope those interested in sponsoring the tent meetings do not misconstrue council's attitude. They opposed it solely on the basis of it being planned for a residential area and we have little doubt but what approval would be given to the erection of a tent in an area that did not infringe upon the rights of people to enjoy privacy in their own backyards. There are such areas within the community. Important crop While this area has always displayed a keen interest in new farming crops because it is one of the most progressive agricultural districts in the nation, there should be an even keener interest in the "crop" planned on one Usborne Township farm in the coming months. That new "crop" will be homeless boys and the success of Erwood I will obviously depend on more than the five young people who have undertaken the challenge of cultivating the lives of some eight lads. It will depend to a large extent on the acceptance and co-operation of the entire community and there can be no more bountiful harvest results than helping the boys on the way to more meaningful lives. These will be boys not unlike the other 12 to 16-year-olds who reside in our community. Some .will be tall and others will be chubby; some will be good at athletics and others poor; some will have good scholarship abilities and others will not; some will have quick smiles and others will appear serious. What they do not presently share with their local contemporaries is the love and stability of an average home life. But let it be made amply clear from the outset, that that is not their fault. They were born into a situation over which they had no control, and it behooves each of us to repeat that time-worn statement, "there, but for the grace of God, go I". During the most formative stages of their lives, these lads have had few people to whom they could turn for the many amenities provided by normal parents. They've been left to shift for themselves in many cases, and it is to their credit that they have not been shattered to the point where help is too late. Five young people have decided to engage themselves in that task, and that too is to their credit, because their backgrounds indicate that each could find more lucrative work in a society that more easily caters to those who strive for monetary gain rather than those who are prepared to make sacrifices to help their fellow man. The farm staff has already issued a plea for animals, flowers and shrubs and no doubt there are many in the area who could fulfill these needs. As stated, the future contributions for area residents will be to join the farm operators in their challenge of providing a proper environment for the lads under their care, and obviously that environment will include the complete round of schooling and extra-curricular activities which boys of that age enjoy in this community. We trust that the faith placed in the area by the young people operating the farm will be forthcoming. -kr..:.k,...gmtaftitrzsmatemest/meggtOW:Mg,401 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, 1970, 4,675 SUBSCRIPTION RATES1 Canada $6.00 Per Year; USA $8.00 004 • 01A M w John is 10,a slender boy with brown hair, blue eyes and fair skin. His background is Scottish, English and German. He wears glasses for shortsightedness, but has no medical problems and his health is excellent. John is a quiet, perceptive lad, interested in the whole world. He has a good sense of humor and a dry wit. He is doing above-average work in school. John gets on well with both adults and children and is anxious to move to an adoption home where he will really belong to a family. This young lad takes part in most sports, but is not a keen competitor. He prefers reading or drawing or working on school projects. He likes the outdoors, is enthusiastic about camping, and is fond of animals. John needs a home with few children so the parents will have much time to devote to him. His qualities of intelligence, curiosity and humor are not readily apparent while he feels his way in a new relationship, so adopting parents will need to be patient till he feels comfortable enough to reveal his real self. He will be a fine son for a warm, stimulating couple. To inquire about adopting John, please write to Today's Child, Department of Social and Family Services, Parliament Buildings, Toronto 182. For general adoption information, ask your Children's Aid Society. 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Our construction program for the next.' ten-year period includes numerous cable programs; whereby old lines will be replaced by new underground cables ; new cables installed will enable us to provide extend- ed area service to neighbouring communities as war- ranted; additional office equipment will have to be installed to meet the requirements of old and new customers and in some instances extensions to ex- isting buildings will have to be made, all of which will exceed a cost of $250,000.00. The proposed construction program will take place in all three exchanges of the System, namely Dash- wood, Grand Bend and Zurich and we are certain the proposed programs will benefit all our subscr- ibers, however, in order to help us achieve our goals it has become necessary to take a look at our rate structure. Our rate structure has not changed since our exchanges were converted from manual oper- ation to dial operation and since the material req- uired in our construction program is increased in cost; we feel a rate increase at this time can be justified. The rate increases we propose are in line with the major telephone companies. Application has been made to the Ontario Teleph- one Service Commission for authority to make the following charges' for telephone service effective July 1st, 1971. EXCHANGE RATES - All Exchanges PER MONTH Individual Line Business 7.30 Residence 4.05 Two-Party Line Multi-Party Line Extension Phones Business Residence Business Residence Business Residence 5.85 3.15 4.40 3.05 1.45 1.25 PBX Trunk GRAND BEND ZONE RATES Zone 1 Individual Line Business Residence Two; Party Line Business Residence Zone 2 Four-Party Line Business Residence Multiparty Line Business Residence If individual or two-party line service is required outside the Base Rate Areas of the three exchanges or Zone 1 (Grand Bend), excess circuit charges will apply. SUBSCRIBER RATES A paid-up subscriber shall pay 50 cents per month less than the above listed renter rates. A new subscriber shall pay the subscriber's rate plus $1.50 per month for ten years at which time he will be considered to be a paid-up sub- scriber. This application will be heard before the Commis- sion at its next regular meeting in Toronto. Any re- presentations to be made to the Commission with respect to this application should, therefore, be sub- mitted on or before May 31st, 1971, and addressed to The Chairman, Ontario Telephone Service Comm- ission, Department of Agricuture -and Food, Parlia- ment Buildings, Toronto 2, Ontario. If you desire any further information in reference to the need for increasing the telephone rates, you may apply to the undersigned either personally, by telephone, or by letter. W. C. Horner, Seeretary.Treasurer Hay Municipal' Telephone System Zurich, Ontario 11.00 8.05 4.80 6.35 3.65 5.50 3.25 4.40 3.05 Be a blood donor • This is going to be a long, tough summer for parents of young people in the senior high school and university brackets. They're going -to be stuck with bored, restless children. And the only thing worse than having a bored, restless child on your hands is a severe case of the crud, with complications. The reason it's going to be a bad summer is that there are no jobs for the majority of young people who would normally be working. The other day I carried out a brief poll of one of my senior grades. Most of them are bound for university or nursing or some such. I asked how many had a job lined up for the summer. Out of . thirty people, two had. One will work for his father on a dairy farm, The other, a girl, will punch a cash register and only got the job because she'd worked at it last year. So there we have twenty-eight frustrated young people. I have the greatest sympathy, not for them so much as for their parents. Nothing will break up a good family relationship more quickly than having a healthy young animal lolling about the house all summer. They eat as though every meal Going to be bad summer Here's some more fodder In less than a month, several area young people will complete their secondary school education and will face the decision of planning their fiiture course of action. It will not be an easy decision. Plenty of avenues are open to them, but as many have been finding out in the past year, some of those avenues are dead-ends as far as obtaining work in their chosen fields. College graduates by the hundreds are having difficulty joining the labor force and there- are also many young teachers and graduates of community colleges who have found that the demand for their abilities is considerably lower than the number of graduates. At the same time, there are too few graduates in some lines of endeavour. It therefore becomes a matter of choosing a field in which the chance of employment is high. It may not be the first choice, but that is the price that will have to be paid if the young people wish to obtain gainful employment. + • + + One of the incongruous aspects of ,journalists writing about pollution is the fact that the very paper on which they have their words of wisdom printed becomes a disposal problem and adds to pollution. Fortunately, a solution appears evident and we many soon be able to pound out as many words as deemed necessary without our own pollution haunting us. Animal scientists at an American agricultural research station say that newspapers can be blended with other ingredients to provide tasty meals for cattle and other farm animals. They claim that a good cow should be able to stow away several 80-page journals a day providing they are properly mixed with molasses, soybean meal, minerals and the like. Some journalists may feel that's a rather poor fate for their efforts, but it probably still rates a bit higher than having fish wrapped in them. It could open the door to a new source of revenue for members of the over-worked and under-paid fraternity. We could tether a cow or two in the backyard and cart honic.., the press overruns or the huge bundle of government and cor- porate press releases we receive daily, thereby providing feed at a minimal cost and still enjoying the low-cost milk and beef wi:ii which we would be provided, However, we're certain some wag will quickly point out that no cow could manage to digest some of the stuff we write. + + As long as researchers con- tinue to come up with ideas to vast pool of unemployed, for the same figure? Is it the government's fault? Partly. The $50 million the federal government put up to alleviate the students' situation was too little and too late, and had so many strings attached to it that Mr. Benson might just as Well have thrown it into the Ottawa River, All it has done is create another branch on the vast oak of bureaucraey,That's where a good chunk of the money will go, It's - ?lease turn to page 5 dispose of our waste, we may yet lick the pollution problem, or at least thwart it from licking us. The Glass Container Council of Canada is continuing its efforts to come up with uses for empty glass containers and tests are already underway for glasphalt road paving material, building bricks, glass insulating wool, aerated concrete, acoustic tiles and other items. Recycling depots have been established at several centres across Canada and they're paying one-half cent for each empty glass container, or $15 a ton for bulk amounts. We urged Exeter council to look into this matter some time ago after it was reported Wallaceburg was expected to raise several thousand dollars by having residents. sort out the glass from their garbage and put it into special containers. It's something that should still be investigated, + + + The calendar often does strange things and one such occurrence will be this weekend. We'll be celebrating the 24th of May holiday on the 24th of May. Oddly enough, that's the latest 50 YEARS AGO The' Women's Missioliary Society of the Methodist Church of Exeter district held their 25th annual convention in Crediton, May 11. In attendance, interest and enthusiasm the convention was a decided success. Mr. George Brock, of Hensall, who last week lost all his equipment in the fire, has decided to build a two-storey cement shop on land purchased from Mr. Thomas Murdoch. Mr. W. M. Schenk, of Stratford, has opened a new grocery, confectionery and bakery shop at Dashwood. Mr. Sam Wein, of Crediton, has sold out his barber shop to Emmerson Wenzel, of Kitchener, who takes possession in August. Mr. Cunningham is moving into Mrs. James Taylor's house this week. Mr.. James Weeks is moving back to his own home being vacated by Mr. Cun- ningham, 25 YEARS AGO Exeter will this year celebrate its first peace-time 24th of May since World War II. All returned men are being entertained the evening previous. Mr. John Thomson has sold his farm at Eden to Mr, John McAllister, a returned veteran. Mr, and Mrs. Thomson will move to Exeter into the home recently purchased from Harold Whyte. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hendry have moved into the new apartment 'fitted up over the Bank of Mon- treal, • Mr. and Mrs. Hector Taylor were in London attending the graduation exercises of their son, Grant, Who received his BA degree in chemistry, Dr, W. S. Stanbury, a native of Exeter, arrived in Canada recently from England to take charge of the Red Cross Society's national blood transfusion ser- vice. the holiday can be celebrated and in recent years it has fallen as early as May 18. The extra few days should pay dividends if the weather of the past weekend is any in- dication, although those who have been thinking of heading for Lake Huron for a refreshing dip hadbest be advised to stick their big toe into the water for a test before plunging head-long into the blue waters. As a picture elsewhere in this edition will show, the fishing fleet at Grand Bend was stuck in the ice only one week ago, so the lake obviously has a few degrees to warm up before it will be enticing for other than polar bear club members. This weekend will also produce the crash and sparkle of fireworks and once again, parents should be reminded of the dangers associated with the colorful displays. The setting off of any type of firecrackers or rockets should be handled by adults only, with the children watching from a safe distance under supervision. 15 YEARS AGO OPP , Constable Elmer Zim- merman, who has been in charge of the Exeter detachment since 1949, has been promoted to corporal and transferred to Guelph. At least six farmers in McGillivray township suffered severe damage to buildings Friday when a short-lived tor- nado ripped through about three miles of farmland south of Crediton. Disaster struck twice on farm of Earl Hamilton. Wednesday night, fire destroyed the farm home, and Friday, the tornado ripped off part of the barn roof, At the AOTS supper meeting in James St. Church, Monday, Mervin Cudmore was elected president to succeed the charter president, Dr, H. H. Cowen. Census for the mass TB X-ray clinic in Exeter will be taken on Thursday and Friday, chairman C. V. Pickard announced this week. 10 YEARS AGO A new $15,360 fire truck to serve Exeter, Usborne, Stephen and Hay townships was ordered Tuesday following completion of negotiations for its purchase. Oliver Jaques, Hensall, was elected associate deputy grand master at the convention of Royal Black Knights of Orangemen in Windsor last week. 'Boom Boom' Geoffrion, Montreal Canadiens' ace, was guest at the Exeter Minor Hockey banquet this week. Peter DeVries, 14 year old son of Rev, Bren and Mrs. DeVries, won top marks from the ad- judicator, J. L, McDowell of London Teachers' College at the annual Grade IX music festival. Jack Fulcher, area census commissioner, addressed members of Trivitt Memorial Guild on the forthcoming census take. were their last one. They get lazier and lazier, staying up late and sleeping in late. They have no money for recreation, and get surlier anthurlier. They develop a feeling of being useless and unwanted, and resent any advice. Too darn bad about the spoiled brats, you say, and I agree. But that doesn't alter the situation. I'd rather live for the summer with a porcupine that had an ulcer than a student without a job. Thousands of them will hit the road, like the hoboes of the Great Depression, drifting about the country, bumming meals, a place to sleep, and losing their self- respect in the process. And just as the hoboes used to raise enough for the occasional gallon of wine, some of these kids will panhandle or steal to get money in order to get high on drugs. What's the answer? Don't ask me. I'm a question man, not an answer man Then let's ask some questions. Is it partly the kids' fault? Yes. Some of them would rather bum all summer than clean them- selves up to the minimum standards of a pretty free society. Others have never done a dirty day's work in their lives, and would not stoop to menialchores. (My first job was cleaning out lavatories.) And a great many of them simply sneer at the whole protestant work ethic. It's all right for the old man, but I'm going to do my own thing - not work. But I think the majority of these kids would welcome a job of any kind. Tough toe-nails for them. There aren't the jobs. Industry doesn't want them, for practical reasons. They have to be trained for even the simplest factory work, and by the time they're producing, they're off to school again. Industry prefers to hire perople who are going to be content to put round pegs in round holes for years, at minimum wages. And speaking of wages, the tourist industry, which used to absorb so much student labour, can't afford it any more. Minimum wage laws in jobs that used to be supplemented by tips have made many resort operators turn their backs on students. Why hire an awkward girl waitress with no experience, at a buck fifty an hour or whatever, when you can hire experienced waitresses from the • •