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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-07-29, Page 4Analogy of a litter bug Practically every day we read of youngsters cleaning up river beds, picking up bottles here and there, writing nasty letters to assorted editors and generally working themselves into a white heat about pollution. It is therefore a rather strange analogy to hear from the chap who cuts the grass in local parks, including the quarry grounds, that the quantity of bottles and cans tossed into the grass at such places increases each and every year. It is a major problem, especially when it comes to keeping the tires on his equipment inflated. Perhaps some student of psychology can give us an answer? It is appallingly apparent that some youngsters, (by no means all, but some) think it is fine for them to toss garbage around but a terrible performance on the part of others. At any rate, it is an interesting sidelight on the behaviour of genus homo. St. Marys Journal-Argus What's with time anyway? PROCLAMATION By authority vested in me by the Municipal Council of the Town of Exeter, I hereby proclaim Monday, Aug. 2 a Civic Holiday for the town of Exeter and I respectfully request all citizens to observe it as such. JACK DELBRIDGE, Mayor , is your phone book listing correct Please tell us now, before we print the new EXETER Directory on August 26th. Look up your listing in the current Directory. If you wish to have it changed, call your Telephone Business Office at 1-271-3911. Bell Canada 81.1114 rnahogod and owned by Canadian.. Amalgamated 1924 ',, Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.WN.A., 0,W.N.A., CLASS and ABC Editor Bill Batten Advertising Manager Phone 235-1331 Published Each Thursday Morning c,o4A 01"" witko, at Exeter, Ontario Second ClasS Mail Registration Ni.nnber 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation, September 30, 1970, 4,675 SUBSCRIPTION ROES: Canada $6.00 Per Year; USA $8.00 ....„jAk,;;*4 ;3.e; It's abundantly clear that members of Exeter council have learned a lesson regarding contracts. The original agreement signed several years ago between council and Canadian Canners Limited for the disposal of the local firm's affluent, was not in the best interests of local ratepayers. It has been a sore point with councils ever since, and while there may have been extenuating circumstances which prompted the signing of the agreement, it appeared to have been done without receiving good legal advice. Charging a special .fee for industrial refuse at the Exeter dump appears to have considerable merit on the surface. After all, if it entails additional costs. to local ratepayers to handle this material, it would be more logical that such costs should be directed back to the user. However, council will have a most difficult task in deciding on what basis charges should be levied, Some industrial firms may dispose of large quantities of material at certain times, but over the period of a year it may not entail any more refuse than what is dumped on a weekly basis by some of the downtown commercial establishments Summer species catalogue A different task Learned a lesson which have their garbage picked up by the local contracting firm. If the cost of garbage pickup is considered, then it may be costing just as much to dispose of material from many stores as it does for industrial firms. Industrial and commercial establishments already pay extra tax rates and presumably some of this should be considered for garbage disposal service and facilities. The local sanitation committee has a big job to come up with a satisfactory recommendation that will not appear discriminatory. This year's council gave the proposal submitted by Canadian Canners a cursory examination and quickly handed it over to their solicitor, OWRC and consulting engineer for their opinions. The advice of all three is obviously required and council should be commended for their action to ensure that a new pact will be fair for all concerned. Discussion at last week's meeting indicated only a few contentious issues in the company's proposal and it appears that there will be little difficulty reaching an agreement. Ah, this is a grand time of the year, entirely. Once the heat wave is over, you couldn't find a more wonderful place in the world to live. The sun is like a bronze hammer. But at night you need a blanket. The swimmers are swimming, the sailors are sailing, the golfers are golfing, and the drinkers are drinking. True, the workers are working, but they're just back from their two-weeks-with-pay, peeling gloriously and bragging about the sensational place they found, with hot and cold running rats, or they're looking forward to their two weeks at CampMissevathing. So everybody is happy. The children are delightful, graceful, brown little things, with ice cream smeared around their mouths, The mothers are strutting around in garments for which they'd have been thrown in the penitentiary twenty years ago. And loving it. (I personally think some• of them should still be in- carcerated, but personal opinions have no place in an objective column.) The dads, the lucky ones who are able to be on holidays with their families, are bubbling with joy. You can tell by the way they affectionately cuff their kids, roll their eyes until the whites show (sheer ecstasy), when their wives hand them a one-foot shopping list, and stroll trance-like through the supermarket, knocking clOwn little old ladies. The other dads, the unlucky ones who have to stay in the city and work while the family is at the cottage, are pretty sad. You can tell by the way they act after work. Some of them, just the odd one or two, haven't even the heart to go home to that silent, lonely house. They know they'd burst into tears. So they just head, with a miserable, bereft gleam in their eye, to the nearest air- conditioned bar. Poor devils. No one to talk to except go-go girls. Some of the better-adjusted unlucky dads, of course, don't do that. They go straight home from work and straight to the refrigerator. Then they tear off their shirts and shoes. Then they look at the kitchen sink, almost throw up, shrug manfully, and turn on the television. Waking with a start at 10 p.m., they phone and order some Chinese food. Then they turn on the lawn sprinkler. This is the only known positive method to make sure it rains all night. Then there are the happy, irrespressible teenagers. You can spot them, regardless of sex, by their hump. They have all been told, all through their lives, to keep their shoulders back and heads up. As a result, they walk with their heads on their chests and shoulders humped. That, not clothes or hair, is the main reason you can't differentiate between the sexes. How can you tell it's a girl if she isn't sticking her chest out? And of course, in summer in Canada, and everywhere I guess, we have the summer animals. Raccoon are cute, but a pain in the arm to campers. Bears are sweet, too, but a menace in the provincial parks. Tip to cam- pers: if you want to stroke a bear, make sure you do it with your artificial arm. But we can cope with these animals. What concerns me is the ones that walk upright. They come in all sizes and intensities, There is the mild little man who power-mows his lawn every night, whether it needs it or not. He's probably just trying to get away from his wife's incessant babble. Then there's the power-boat baby. He can be any age from eight to eighty, But with fifty horses behind him, he's Kirk Douglas, or Burt Lancaster or John Wayne or somebody. He's trying to prove something. And, naturally summer spawns the motor-cycle gang. This is the wolverine of the two-legged animal. It destroys for pleasure and leaves its stink everywhere. But it's a pretty good world. Have a happy summer. Life brings forth its many oddities and variances and one of those is time. Everyone knows how time flies. Christmas comes about every six months, monthly mortgage payments and car payments seem to roll around every 12 to 15 days and income tax deadline looms before us so quickly we never get time to recover from one year to the next. Most people manage to live with the problem, but for some unexplained reason, the pleasant things that come along .on a regular basis always seem so far apart. One of those is holiday time. This is our final column before our annual one-week rest away from the hustle and bustle and yet it seems that about two years have expired since last year's holiday. To add insult to injury, we have no, doubt but what next week will vanish in the short order of about three days and it will be back to business as usual. Somehow, it just doesn't seem fair! However, if the better half has her way, this year's holiday could turn out to be an exception to the rule. She has enough work projects on hand that time will no doubt drag very slowly. + + Kids can be funny! This week, our number one son developed a rather sizeable rip in the seat of his favorite shorts. He came home with a large portion of his rump showing through the hole because he had neglected to put on his un- dershorts. Because all his other trousers were in the wash, his mother urged that he at least put on his underpants until she could get another pair of shorts readied for him, But there was no way! He emphatically pointed out he wasn't going to have any under pants sticking out for people to see and he quickly exited through the door with his posterior still showing through the rip. + + + Those of you who may periodically switch from driving vehicles with standard shift to automatic transmissions, know the hollow feeling when you jump your left foot for the clutch in the vehicle with the automatic transmission. Over in England, motorists who are accustomed to using the left foot for the clutch may now purchase a pedal for automatic transmission cars that serves absolutely no purpose but to keep the left foot active and happy. The Auto Left Foot Pedal Co. (what else would you call it?) of Manchester, which manufac- tures the pedal says that they are particularly useful for people with arthritis who should keep their legs moving. + + + Ausable River Conservation Authority resources manager Roger Martin took us to task last week for suggesting in a previous column that the waters in the reservoirs at the Morrison dam and Riverview Park were polluted. He had tests conducted to prove how wrong we really were, and we'll have to admit the amount of bacteria was low indeed, Our apologies, Roger. We hope you continue to enjoy swimming in these two bodies of water, but we trust not too many youngsters will be encouraged to do the same, because we still think it's much healthier and safer swimming in the supervised confines of the local swimming pool. The Listowel Banner recently complained about a press release from the department of agriculture regarding a home gardener's correspondence course being offered at the University of Guelph. The press release (that's a lot cheaper than advertising) stated that the applicant needed only one requirement — an interest in gardening. One of Listowel's finest replied to get more information and found that in addition to the in- terest in gardening, he required $51 for tuition fees and another $18.55 for bulletins and leaflets. The editor of the Banner recommended that the depart- ment of consumer affairs have a chat with their fellow civil ser- vants regarding the false and misleading advertising they were sending out. On the lighter side, we received a release from the Canada Safety Council in which there was a story about a new device being developed to keep drunks from driving cars. An electronic gadget is hooked up to the ignition system, and unless you are sober, you have 50 YEARS AGO Saturday night a portion of the four-storey building of the St. Marys Milling Company was destroyed by fire. The chopping mill and flouring machinery was the older portion of the mill and was completely destroyed. A big shipment of cattle is to be taken from this district com- mencing Wednesday of this week. Some 1,459 head of the finest export cattle in the country are being sent to England and Scotland on four different boats. The men going are Wes Snell, W. T. Colwill, Ulric Snell, Harper Rivers, Jos. Amy and John Morgan. Russell Caldwell, son of Mr. & Mrs, John Caldwell, north of town, broke both bones of his right arm above the wrist last week when he fell out of a tree. Mr. R. T. Luker, who has been following the races both in Ontario and the United States of late, last week disposed of both of his race horses, Topsy Todd and The Emblem. 25 YEARS AGO The winners of the field crop competitions were announced as follows: Oats, Oscar Tuckey, Earl F. Shapton and Harry Beaver; Barley, Wm. Elliott, George Link and Harry Strang, Dr, Hobbs Taylor, M.L,A. /for South Huron, officially opened the new Exeter Turf Club track, Wednesday. Nearly 3,000 spec- tators were on hand to see the first herse meet in Exeter since 1941 One thousand dollars was sent to the Dominion Red Cross headquarters this week, It will go towards meeting the overseas commitments of the Canadian Red Cross Society. Only 10 percent of the 187 wells in Hensel] that were tested were graded as class A, it was reported by the Dept. of Health. Eighteen wells were listed as testing class A, while 69 percent were tested as class D. 15 YEARS AGO Three prints submitted by Exeter photographer, Jack Doerr, have received awards of merit in a continent-wide photographic show in Chicago this week. difficulty punching out the correct instructions to get your system unlocked. " The manufacturers claimed 50 percent would fail the test and have to wait if their blood alcohol concentrations were 10 mgs or higher. Right above that story was another item that appeared to be typed by some drunk. It was related to a summer tire cam- paign and the typist was having trouble with the "r". It was as follows: "corect tie inflation is of the geatest im- potance from the point of view of safety duing the summer months when the heaviest motoring takes place on Canada's roads and highways". Now, all we need is a system whereby people have to be completely sober before they can manipulate the keyboard of their typwiter oops, that should be typewriter. On that happy note, we leave you for a week. Think you can stand it? Pollution in the Ausable river west of Exeter is killing thousands of fish. Deputy game warden, Jack Green, said the fish began dying Sunday. By Monday night there were hundreds floating down river. Helen Hendrick, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Sam Hendrick, Exeter, came fourth at the Kirkton Garden Party, Wed- nesday night, with a lively recitation "Watchin the Sparkin'". Friday night's Cowboy and Indian parade, organized by Exeter Kinsmen Playground supervisors, was the largest in the history of the four-year-old play ground. Over 200 costumed children led by Exeter fire truck and the Exeter Pipe Band marched to Riverview Park from Victoria Park. 10 YEARS AGO H. G. "Hal" Hooke, retiring field officer of the Ausable Authority was honored at a picnic arranged by the public relations advisory board. Mr. Hooke was the first permanent field officer for the authority and came to the area in 1955. He is being suc- ceeded by J. T. McCauley. At a meeting in the Clinton District Collegiate Institute Thursday, chairmen and secretaries of four secondary school boards signed contracts regarding the sharing of costs in operating the proposed new vocational school to be built in Clinton, Despite the rainy weather of the past two weeks, good crowds have been attending the Sunday evening gospel services at the Starlite Drive-In Theatre, Shipka. 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