HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-08-12, Page 4A costly gamble
Incredible as it may seem, many
Canadians take little precaution to
protect their cars from theft. Few
people, if any, would leave their wallet
or valuables on the sidewalk. Yet many
people think nothing of leaving a $4,000
automobile unattended, with keys in the
In larger cities in Canada an average
of 20 stolen vehicles a day is not
uncommon. The Canadian Automobile
Theft Committee figures theft claims,
recovery and damage costs for 1970 will
come to at least $100 million.
The unfortunate aspect of many car
thefts is the contribution made to crime
in the teenage youth of our society. An
unattended car with the keys in the
ignition is an open invitation, and a
surefire formula for crime, to the
joyrider. It does not stop with the first
theft; if successful, it leads to another
and another.
You can discourage many of these
car thefts by simply adopting the
attitude that you are not going to tempt
anyone into a life of crime. Make it a
habit to lock your car. By habit, we
mean every time you leave your car
unattended, lock it. If you have clothing
or valuables in the car, put them in the
trunk out of sight of would-be thieves.
Don't encourage a criminal act by your
negligence.
If enough people locked their ears,
they would contribute to a great extent
in reducing the crime rate in our society,
Spilt in
It's ironic that less than a month
after they so triumphantly declared a
candidate for the coming provincial
election, the Huron New Democrats
already have a split the ranks.
After Paul Carroll, the young,
energetic school teacher from Goderich
who is also the reeve of the town, was
declared as the official candidate, he was
immediately congratulated by his only
opponent, Ed Bain, also of Goderich.
All night long, the guest speaker,
Ken Bolton, M.P.P. for Middlesex South,
joked about the disunity of the Liberal
party in the legislature, how the Liberals
could never agree on anything which, he
said, left the NDP to be the effective
opposition to the Conservatives.
And when the meeting was over the
New Democrats heard the news that
their fellow NDP'ers in Saskatchewan
had unseated Ross Thatcher and they
seemed to take it as an omen that they
were destined to knock off the Tories,
even in this strong Torie riding with the
Torie of all Tories, Charlie MacNaughton
holding sway.
But now, less than a month later,
Mr. Bain declares he will run as an
independent and he has been expelled
from the riding association.
It's too bad for young Paul Carroll.
With his party united he would have had
a tough fight but he might have stood a
chance. He is a good man, if
inexperienced, but it seems a shame to
throw him to a lion like Charlie without
even a strong party behind him.
the ranks
B u t anyone listening at that
nomination meeting could have seen
something like this developing sooner or
later. For despite the protestations of
the party hierarchy that they have one
policy, one voice, it was apparent 'that
the NDP was a grab back for a thousand
ideas.
The NDP is the haven on one side
for the tough labourites like Mr. Bain,
and on the other for the intelligencia like
Mr. Carroll. It spans the spectrum from
those who would like to nationalize
everything, to those who are more
moderate and practical, from those who
don't want American investment to
those who do. From moderate farmers in
the Federation of Agriculture to the
immoderate National Farmers' Union.
All these elements could be seen at
that meeting. As usually happens in the
party, the moderate won out and Mr.
Carroll was nominated as party
candidate, but the labour side, the hard
line side was alienated, leading to the
decision of Mr. Bain to run alone.
The pity is that now we might as
well save the cost of an election in
Huron and send MacNaughton back for
- another five years, unless the Liberals
come up with a strong candidate which
right now seems unlikely. That he would
win is a foregone conclusion, but he
might have been the better for a little
tussle.
— Clinton News-Record
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As predicted, our holiday week
vanished in short order. Jut as
the end of the better half's work
list was in sight, it was time to
head back to the office.
It wasn't all work and no play,
however, We managed to take in
a few short hops to some at-
tractions and spent a couple of
days living off the in-laws.
A visit to Ted Relouw's
Pineridge Zoo south of Grand
Bend was much enjoyed by all
members of the family. Ted has
built up his menagerie con-
siderably since our first visit and
the natural surroundings the
animals enjoy will make this' into
a first-class attraction for the
area.
It's certainly worth a visit if
you have youngsters in the family,
or if you are interested in
animals.
By way of comparison, we
again visited the African Safari
and Game Farm near Rockton,
and found Ted's zoo to be equally
enjoyable.
One of the biggest problems in
the tour through the lion farm is
the fact you have to drive with
your windows closed. With the
family transportation not
equipped with the luxury of air
conditioning, it can get un-
bearably hot when the tem-
perature is in the 70's.
It is, however, a great at-
traction for the kids, but again
readers should be reminded to
plan a trip on a weekday if
possible and when the tem-
perature is on the cooler side.
The other highlight of the
holiday, was the local ball
tournament on Civic Holiday.
There was some great action on
the diamond and the final was as
exciting as could be hoped for.
The organizers did a great job
and we know the fans enjoyed it.
During our jaunts around, we
visited Paris (Ontario that is)
and paid particular attention to
the crosswalks which are in use
in that town.
There were three or four in the
main business section, plus a
couple of traffic lights.
However, we now have to agree
with those members of the local
council who predict that people
won't take the extra few steps to
take advantage of the safety of
crosswalks.
We witnessed a half dozen
jaywalkers in our single visit,
despite the fact the crosswalks
were of the type used in many
major cities and require that
motorists stop when pedestrians
start across the street.
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Several small towns are using
flower boxes to make their main
thoroughfares more attractive.
They certainly do present a
colorful welcome, but again there
are some problems,
In Clinton, for instance, the
flower boxes are being damaged
named my parents, my older
brother and sister, the street on
which we lived, and described the
house we lived in, She knew the
exact year in which I was born,
She had been a high-school girl
boarding in town. The people with
whom she was boarding came
down with the terrible 'flu of that
era, My' mother took her in for a
month.
Women. Nothing is sacred,
even a man's age.
by vandals. Two have already
been destroyed this summer.
That's one of the handicaps
that accompanies most projects,
but it shouldn't deter those in-
terested in making their com-
munity a more attractive place in
which to live.
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No trip, even a short one, is
complete without encountering a
few hitch-hikers.
While we realize the necessity
of unemployed young people
seeking free lifts, we get a bit
upset when they almost force you
to stop by standing on the side of
the pavement, rather than on the
shoulder of the road.
It,'s a rather dangerous
practice, particularly if you
happen to be meeting a large
truck at the same time.
We enjoyed a picture in one of
the newspapers recently showing
a youth carrying a sign "I had a
bath",
By the appearance of many of
the young people on the side of
the road, he was an exception.
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Returning home is often one of
the most enjoyable aspects of a
holiday, but it seldom shows any
great change in the home town.
Not so this year, particularly
for those who may have been
50 YEARS AGO
Among those leaving on the
Harvest Excursion to the West on
Wednesday are A. Pym, R.
Williams, W. R. Taylor, Mr. and
Mrs. Jos. Hawkins.
During the electrical storm
which passed over this section on
Saturday afternoon the Methodist
Church at Centralia was struck
by lightning and burned, The two
pianos, the pulpit and the seating
both up and down stairs were
saved. The walls alone are left
standing. Plans are being made
to reconstruct the building which
was partly covered by insurance,
Mr. John Caldwell, north of
Exeter, met with a painful ac-
cident on Thursday last, He was
working around the manure
spreader and in some way got his
hand caught in the gearing,
mangling it severely.
Mr. E. M. Dignan has pur-
chased the property of Mr. W. H.
Moncur on William Street. Mr,
and Mrs, Moncur and son will
take up residence in Toronto,
25 YEARS AGO
Stan Often has been tran-
sferred froze the Exeter branch
of the Bank of Montreal to the
managership at Gore Bay,
Manitoulin Island.
Rev. A. H. Daynard was of-
ficially inducted as pastor of
Staffa and Zion United Churches
on Friday evening, coming from
Jarvis, Alta.
Cattle raisers in this com-
munity are faced With a serious
problem as pastures are drying
up through lack of moisture.
Orland Taylor, Grant Cud-
more, Edward Hunter-Duvar,
Leo Witmer and Charles Parsons
are spending 11 days at Camp
Hiawatha, near Goderich.
Aboard the Aquitania, which is
expected to dock at, Halifax this
week, ate several brides coming
to this district.
away for two or three weeks.
Many changes have and are —
taking place on the Main St.
The new office of Usborne &
Hibbert Mutual Fire Insurance
Company is rapidly underway at
the south end, while Len
McKnight is in his new home in
the Milt Robbins building and
across the street, Wally Hem has
redecorated the Exeter Grill and
it will now be known as Wally's
Restaurant.
A big change took place to the
exterior of the Burkley
Restaurant as the top storey was
• taken off and replaced with a new
roof and the addition at Le Pines
Motel is underway.
A new pizza establishment is
opening and on our way to work
Monday we saw a monkey
staring out the window of the
former McKnight's Men's Wear
Shop where Harold Patterson is
moving his Pat's Pet Shop.
Gould & Jory have a new sign
over their building,, Exeter
Electric have new siding and we
have a telephone booth now
located at the post office.
All in all, quite a few changes
for the Main St., and all to the
betterment of the community.
15 YEARS AGO
Jimmy Hainilton, RR 1,
liensall, didn't exactly strike
gold when he went digging for
worms last week but he did come
up with a rare coin, The lad
unearthed a large one cent piece
dated 1857.
Construction of the Morrison
dam in 'Osborne held up by red
tape and engineering delays,
may be started this month and
completed by fall.
Local factory of Canadian
Canners Ltd., became jammed
this week when beans started
rolling in with the pea pack still
under way.
Flying Officer D. Broadbent,
RR 3 Exeter, crash landed a
Harvard training plane in a field
of grain near Brucefield, Friday,
after its engine quit during a
routine instruction flight.
10 YEARS AGO
For the second time in two
months, Walper's Men's Wear
suffered a major theft loss of over
$3,500 worth of pants and suits
over the weekend.
The district's new fire truck
successfully passed its initial test
Thursday, when firemen fought a
barn fire on the farm of Howard
Pym, near Elimville.
A West Nigerian delegation
toured General Coach Works of
Canada Ltd, at Hensall this week
and appeared impressed with the
quality of the manufacturing,
according to plant officials who
accompanied them.
Mrs. Valeria Armstrong and
Mrs. Alvin McBride, Exeter,
Mrs, Hugh McEwen, Hensall,
and Mrs. Owen Norman,
Woodstock, returned recently
from a six-week trip to the British
Isles and the continent.
Rev. Merrill J. James, 35, has
assumed the pastorate at EUI3
church, Dashwood, Ile succeeded
Rev. 3. W. Gillings last month.
Just a collection of notes this
week. Don't try to find any
coherence in them.
I noticed in one of my favourite
weeklies that an old-friend of
mine had been arrested for being
drunk. When he turned up in
court the following Tuesday, he
was so drunk he had to be taken
away for another week. This
takes some ingenuity, But I'm not
surprised. Same chap some years
ago, when his house was burning,
threw his six children out the
upstairs window into the snow.
Saved them all.
Why don't people ever listen to
me? At least ten years ago, in this
space, I said firmly that Red
China should be recognized,
admitted to the U.N., and that
silly old dictator, Chiang Kai
Shek, turfed into the Indian
Ocean or somewhere. The
column was received with real
anger in some places. Now,
everybody and his brother is
buttering up the real Chinese and
pouring cold water on the phoney
Chinese on Formosa. Oh well,
even my wife won't listen to me,
so why should the politicians?
And speaking of that woman,
who has made my life a roller-
coaster of ups and downs, she
pulled another one recently. I'd
been muttering for months about
a colour TV set. Each time, she
stated unequivocally, which is
the only way She ever states, that
we couldn't afford it with two
children at university, the
mortgage, the insurance coming
due, and the yak, yak, yak. Each
time I subsided, as is my wont,
and also because I didn't really
care, Hardly ever watch the
stupid thing anyway.
So. I came home late one af-
ternoon, a couple of weeks ago,
and there she was, playing with
the buttons on a huge, expensive
colour TV. It's been here since,
"on trial", and I've been sub-
jected to endless hours of
discussion about colours. It's
been worse than those un-
speakably boring sessions we've
had over the years on decorating.
Do I like the mushroom with the
lime green? Do I not think that
the teal in the drapes will clash
with the off-blue in the rug? That
sort of thing.
At no time could I have cared
less if she had painted everything
midnight black, but I had to
pretend I cared, or there'd have
been an outburst of tears and
recriminations. "You just don't
care, do you? Other men are
interested in their homes, I'm
doing my best to make our home
beautiful and you just sit there
with that look on your face!" And
so on.
It was like that with the TV set.
Didn't I think there was too much
orange? Why wasn't the green
coming up more vividly? I finally
called -the dealer and said we'd
keep it. That's the way I buy a
car, I don't shop around, trying
all the models. I just walk around
the beast, kick the tires, and
make a deal.
'The other woman in my life is
about as much trouble. She is
more convinced than ever that
capitalism is beastly, and that
she is an exploited slave of the
system. As I was driving her
home from work the other day,
she exploded bitterly, "I only
made eight lousy dollars in tips
today!"
I had to bite my lips so hard it
drew blood. Those tips, plus her
wages, made it $20 for an eight-
hour day. My first job paid one
dollar a day, for a twelve-hour
day, seven days a week. (Kim's
opinion of the capitalist system is
seasonal. It bothers her not in the
least to milk the old man for a
cool $2,000 when she's not
working, but going to school.)
Finally, another woman has
entered my life, out of the
shadows before I was born. Back
in June, when I had a birthday, I
challenged readers to guess my
age. Some charming people
suggested 48, 49. One miserable
old editor, Jim Nesbitt of Brooks,
Alta., had the indecency to
suggest 54.
But Mable McRoberts of New
Liskeard, Ont,, was dead on. She
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