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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The new district fire truck, first
in this area to be purchased on a
co-operative basis, was
christened Thursday night during
a reception in EXeter attended by
officials from Usborne, Stephen
and I-lay townships, as well as
from Exeter,
CaVeil Congregational Circle
sponsored a unique afternoon tea
in the form of a Japanese garden
tea on the lawn of Whilstnith
apartments. Miss Kyoko Egami,
a Tokyo girl attending Alma
College, performed Japaneses
dances,
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