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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-08-26, Page 4To meet Peter or to talk to him, you'd never suspect this young lad is currently attending a school for the retarded. Peter is 10, a friendly outgoing boy who carries on a ood conversation. He comes from an extremely deprived background, the sort of situation Where a child is left lying in his crib with no one paying any attention to him. He was four before he learned to walk. Now in a good foster home and in the encouraging atmosphere of the school, he has shown marked improvement in both physical and mental development. The psychologist who tested him was impressed with his personality and feels hp has not yet reached his potential — an encouraging outlook. Peter is a lovable youngster who seems younger than his years. He is very popular in the vicinity of his foster home, with both children and adults. He visits many people in the district and likes nothing better than to help do chores around other people's houses. A healthy, good-looking boy, Peter is Anglo-Saxon in background, and has brown eyes and dark hair. He's a sensitive child, needing an affectionate, easygoing home without academic pressures. With his winning personality, he can fit into any family with children either older or younger. To inquire about adopting Peter, 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. NAY'S CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN 11111111111111101111111111111111.111 crorontoTelegraf n syndicate eggegfpliktiltaiticip Drive safely How about thee? Despite the amount of concern related to this topic, the editor was unable to come up with the answer. The questioner replied it was Jesus, who after the 5,000 had been fed, exhorted those about Him to gather up the crumbs so that nothing would remain. Some Biblical scholars may have a different theory about the incident, but regardless of that, it behooves us all to follow the example of not leaving any crumbs — or anything else — behind us. One Chair Cleaned FREE FROM AUQ 26 TO SEPT. 9 CiY FOAM-ABSORPTION PROCESS Many religious leaders claim, and with some justification perhaps, that part of the problem with today's society has stemmed from a lack of religious. conviction.. Whether you subscribe to that theory or not, there is an interesting point contained in an item reported in last week's Mitchell Advocate. A reader asked the editor to name the person who was the first to campaign against littering. Get it in writing Enthusiasm is a rather contagious thing, and Grand Bend Reeve John Payne .no doubt caught some of it from his fellow citizens when they quickly accomplished the goal of building their medical centre and filling it with two doctors. Now the Reeve is proposing a $200,000 sports complex. That, of course, is a much larger project than the one just completed. In terms of cost it's five times more expensive. In addition, it would provide a service of less universal demand than a medical centre, However, as Reeve Payne points out, considerable assistance from the provincial treasury is available, thus reducing the amount required from local sources. . Brings Carpets and Furniture Back to Life! No ruinous soaking No harsh mechanical scrubbing Revives colors and texture Furnishings back in use the same day Your Favorite Chair Cleaned FREE! * *when we clean 'your wall-to-wall carpeting, three-piece sectional, or two-piece suite Call 228-6853 FOR FREE QUOTATION Our suggestion would be that the resort enthusiasts pin down this provincial assistance before advancing too far with the project. Some assurance, in writing, is needed that the Townships of Stephen and Bosanquet could get $20,000 to help too. In addition, the outcome of a similar project in Port Stanley should be watched closely. Municipal officials there face court action on behalf of some residents regarding money taken from the village coffers to help build a sports complex. Enthusiasm is not only contagious, it can also lead to some unfortunate squabbles and situations. The resort sports centre should be put into more definite terms before private canvassing advances too far. JESSE T. REED JOHN A. SHEPPAR D .c.2 • • `ti PARENTS' 1 36COLUMBIA DR. HURON PARK Age of the ugly girl Councillors poor geologists "Super Vic" ROOFING SHEETS N E w THE ULTIMATE 'For commercial, industrial, residential and all your most 'valuable buildings. LAYS 30 INCItES 70 WEATHER emphasize the bad points. Where this passion for ugliness will end, no one knows. Are these supposedly "hip" youngsters governed by the same herd instinct which causes women to conform to fashions which flatter no one. Fashions for women for the past three years have resembled something out of a horror movie. Are the current styles just a snide joke of the fashion creators, a put-on like the one in the Tale of the Emperor's Clothes, which proved that most people will agree on almost anything in order not to differ from majority opinion? Only a child had the good sense to say — "but the emperor has nothing on." They tell us this has been the Age of Aquarius. But it's really been the Age of the Ugly Girl. Of course there are a lot of lovely ones — they stand out almost incandescently, so fresh, so natural, their hair shining, their faces clean and unmade-up. Yet they too are a trifle over-exposed and in their extreme minis and long hair, resembling nothing so much as a bevy of lovely mermaids. Nonetheless, these attractive ones only serve to emphasize the generally unkempt, unpressed, almost unwashed look of the majority of girls who stroll our streets. For them, mini skirts and "hot pants" only serve to emphasize their legs, lean, knock-kneed and scrawny, or ugly fat. As girls, they seem deliberately to choose the styles that — Contributed B.C. and is reproduced below. We'll let readers judge how closely this newspaper comes to filling the requirements outlined. A newspaper should be like a woman, provocative all the time, not prone to gossip, sure of its ground but very aware of all that is going on. A local newspaper en- compasses the whole spectrum of life from birth notices to obituaries, our accomplishments and our failures are duly reported. The written word is powerful and that power should be used with care. It can make live or destroy ideas and people. It must often write with a sense of humor; if we can laugh at our own problems it can lift the burden and monotony of everyday life. A subtle barb cloaked in humor can often reach its target much faster than the poisoned arrow SELLING BASIS, PER 100 SQUARE FEET OF METAL MEASURED IN THE FLAT BEFORE FORMING, MADE FROM 36 INCHES WIDE SHEETS. and with a more desirable effect. A paper needs the courage to make our public officials smart a little when they are remiss in their duties, Local business needs its pages to advertise and compete with all their services. It must beat the drum for progress with anticipation of better things to come; praise the organizations, it helps them try a little harder, followed by con- structive criticism to help them correct their faults. An editor is an author who must write a best seller every week or go out of business; a kind of "Don Quixote" who must jump on his horse and ride off in all directions at once in order to meet his press deadline, a modern day martyr indeed, who is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. 4 GIANT SIZE HIGH MAIN NAILING RIBS, TWO AND HALF TIMES THE SIZE OF AVERAGE ROOFING SHEET RIB. Only "SUPER-VIC" gives you so many advanced weathertight Features. Trees are for the birds 50 YEARS AGO The Huronia Male Chorus, under the leadership of Mr. W. R. Goulding, with Mr. Francis Abbott, as reader, provided a program at Hayfield Monday evening. Mrs. George Grant played a couple of numbers on the violin. Chas. Godbolt sang two Scotch songs, and piano duets were played by Mr. Grant and Mr. Goulding. Mr. W. J. Beer is in Hamilton taking a course in battery rebuilding. An effort is being put forth this week to have all the bricks of the church which was recently destroyed by fire at Centralia, cleaned and the debris removed in readiness for commencing work for a new church. Liberal donations have already been received. Mr. B. M. Francis attended a Dominion Light Dealers' con- vention in Brantford on Monday. I'd suddenly remembered a storm at the cottage, when I was a kid. Same thing. Purple sky. Dead calm. Sudden wind of cyclone force that knocked over giant pines like toothpicks, and a torrent of rain. One 80-foot pine snapped about halfway up and smashed through the roof of the cottage. It wasn't so bad this time, but one of my oaks, with a girth of about 40 inches, lay there like stricken bull. It had destroyed a fence, several smaller trees. Fortunately our neighbours had got the kids inside before the real fury of the wind broke, and no one was hurt. This morning I talked to the hydro man who was stringing new lines. He said he and his mates had worked all through the night, in a driving rain, and laconically remarked that it wasn't much fun. But to get back to trees. They provide shade and they're pretty to look at, What else? They shower you with unwanted leaves in the fall. They suck up all the juice and prevent you having a decent lawn. My two virginal elms have been raped by the Dutch disease — Please turn to page 5 PL118 b:IETOHWSITDUERGDUYTTBEERASDCS BESIDE OUpLED queen of Kinsmen Summer Playground. Five cadets from SHDHS were members of the company which won the top trophy at Central Command Cadet Camp at Ipperwash this summer, They were Barry Blann, Nick Fedossow, Paul Wilson, Bill Robertson and Rinus Van- derneut. Calitain E. D. Howey is the chief instructor of the SHDHS corps. Elizabeth and Diane Knox, twin daughters of Rev. N. D. Knox, Exeter, tied for cham- pionship honors of the juvenile girls division at the swim meet, Friday, Rickey Weber, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Weber, is in Owen Sound Hospital suf- fering from a severe eye injury caused by a fish hook last week.. Doctors are hopeful the sight of the eye will be saved. District farmers have suffered considerable loss from sprouting of grain because of heavy rains which prevent threshing. The crop is also being docked at grain centres because of high moisture content, THE MAIN RIBS, give three fold protection end ensure snug fitting side laps. 25 YEARS AGO Messrs. Hector Heywood, Vernon and Calvin Heywood leave the forepart of the week for Dunnville to dismantle the building recently purchased by Exeter Board of Education previously belonging to the RCAF. The percentage of Exeter High School students passing in all subjects in the departmental examinations averaged 85 per- cent which is unusually high. At Achievement Day for 4-II clubs in Huron County in Clinton, Miss Marion Rundle was chosen to represent the County on a free trip to Chicago. E. W. Brady has equipped his new plant on Main St,, with the most modern machinery and has secured a license to use the SanitOne method of cleaning. Dr. R. H. Doyle, Exeter, received facial lacerations, broken nose, several fractured ribs and other injuries when his car crashed into a tree on a sharp turn near Point Clark, 15 YEARS AGO Judy SnelgrOve and Dale Turvey were named king and 4 4 4 mut. Bade/Ingo' deivaied, the beet... "SUPER-VIC" ief ,yo-evt, 6edtaly 'V' Standard Galvanized Vic $ n95 PER & Roofing As Low As Li SQUARE 10 YEARS AGO Finance Minister Donald Fleming and his wife enjoyed a "most memorable" visit to his birthplace here Thursday. They visited his old home on Victoria Street, the public school, and Caven Presbyterian Church, where Mr. Fleming was christened. Clerk C. V. Pickard caught a good-size small mouth bass near Wingham last week. The catch measured 201/2 inches in length and 121/2 inches around the girth and weighed 3 1bs., 9 oz. The LCBO store at the corner of Main and Wellington expects to open Friday morning this week. SHDHS enrollment will jump again this year to about 750 students, 80 more than last year, according to Principal IT. L. Sturgis. The teaching staff has been increased to 28, Ilensall and Centralia bantam baseball clubs captured the "b" and "C" divisions WOAA championships this week. ALL-MACAULA LIMITED HENSALL PHONE 2622713 An interesting piece of material was sitting on the table at last week's meeting of Exeter council. Several members picked it up and the general agreement was that it was a type of fossil that had been brought back from someone's holiday trip. It was "as light as styrofoam" according to one member, and before the night was over, one member bad broken off a piece and crushed it into dust. As it turned out, Ken Ottewell had brought the material with, him. It was not an exercise in geology. The material was not some rare formation found in a far-off corner of the world. It had been produced right in Exeter. The startling revelation was that it was actually part of the foundation of a local house now under construction. The inferior portion of the wall had been discovered by building inspector Doug Triebner. The explanation was that the cement being poured into the footings had not been agitated properly. The coarse material apparently settled at one end and the water and light material had formed at the other, the latter forming the crumbly material on display at the council meeting. Triebner had ordered the in- ferior section replaced, although it was indicated the builder had merely planned to plaster over it to hide the fault. The foregoing gives ample indication of the value of having a knowledgeable inspector on the job, and in having a person who can devote the time to keep an eye on the various jobs under construction around the com- munity. His close scrutiny may draw complaints from some, but generally those are the people who are trying to enact short-cuts which are not in the best interests of the prospective owner. + + + The new bylaw drafted by Ken Ottewell and his committee spells out more clearly the building permit regulations and is something that has been needed for several years. Building permits have been a bone of contention with councils in the past and have resulted in a great many hours of debate and concern. We hope council will quickly set out on a course of strict en- forcement. Policies in the past have varied so much they were ineffective and left most people guessing. Through the leadership of newcomer Ken Ottewell, this appears in for a welcome change. Our only criticism would be in the final paragraph dealing with penalties. The wording appears to have been borrowed from another era and should be up- dated. + + + One of the categories in this year's Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association awards contest was "What my local paper means to me". It was open to readers of weeklies across Canada. The award was won by a B.C. lady for an entry first printed in the Peninsula Times, Sechelt, something rotten in Denmark. If not in his own backyard. That snarl you can't quite hear outside my window is a chain saw. The operator is hacking up one of those brooding oaks which came crashing down during yesterday's summer storm, cutting telephone, hydro, and indispensable of indispensables, the TV cable wire, both for myself and my next door neigh- bour. All I'll get out of that is a bill for $100 and twelve bucks worth of fireplace wood, too green to do anything but smoulder. I'd just got back from a long drive in 90-degree heat, lugged in all the junk from the car, and settled in the backyard with a cold drink and the evening paper when nature took one of her whims. For a few minutes, it was en- joyable. The wind came up, The lawn chairs went flying. The acorns rattled, and leaves and twigs hurtled down on me. I even went in and called the girls to come out and enjoy the storm, Then the trees started to twist and dance. Even the mighty oaks were writhing like tormented creatures, I love storms, but when the rain came I dashed for shelter. For years I have been a tree- lover. Not that I knew anything about them, or ever planted any. But I did know the common varieties. And I did have a feeling that they were something special in a world steadily growing more ugly. I had what you might call the "only God can make a tree" syndrome. There was something mystic about trees. I have written ecstatic columns about the trees around our place: the matronly maples; the magnificent oaks; the towering spruce; the virginly elms; the lilacs; the single butternut. I have sat in my backyard and watched them by the hour, deeply moved by the human qualities I gave them. Even that dirty great cedar that drips mucus or something all over the clothesline. I have been fascinated by the clunking of acorns falling, by the sweet, longing whispers of my two elms, by the muttering of the dowager maples, by the solitary arrogance of my spruce, which I have to crawl under to get into my tool-shed. But I'm beginning to have doubts, like a priest who has been swept away by something he doesn't quite understand, and then discovers that there's Tinies Established 1873 Amalgamated 1924 Advocate Established 1881 SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND O.W.N,A., CLASS 'A' and ABC ALL-MACAULAY Editor — Bill Batten — Advertising Manager Phone 235.1331 LIMITED CLINTON PHONE 482-9514 BALL-MACAULA Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation, September' 30, 1970, 4,675 woresarm., RATES: Ca nada $6.00 Per Wail USA $8.00 LIMITED SEAFORTH — PHONE 527.0910 (