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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-09-23, Page 4DISCOUNT TOBACCO HEALTH BEAUTY AIDS PATENT MEDICINES COSMETICS • SUNDRIES SHOP G & G DISCOUNT FOR QUALITY, VALUE' FRIENDLY SFRVIOE 433 MAIN ST. EXETER, ONT. nod mothor dentonds to know reltv "mt don't rune' !romp rliir4rig the iveek like ether inmates' The kids love confusion Doctor needed? 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 Smoked shankless PICNIC SHOULDERS lb. Fresh country style SPARE RIBS lb. Swan TOILET TISSUE rolls 49' 100 FOR YOUR FREEZER cut, wrapped and frozen lb. 66' Sides of _Beef 10 lb. box BOYLE'S Coleman's rindless LUCKY Bacon DOLLAR DASHWOOD Phone 237-34/1 sandwich style loaf Bread for A risky business NOTICE To Parents of Huron County Students Because of difficulties which have arisen in the settlement of claims against School Accident Insurance policies, the Huron County Board of Education has removed its authorization for the sale of such insurance through the school system. Those parents wishing such coverage are asked to arrange same through their own personal agencies. R. M. ELLIOTT D. J. COCHRANE Chairman Director With obscene and nuisance telephone calls becoming a bit of a problem in this area, it would be well for the persons responsible to realize that it's a risky business in this day of modern technology, In the first places the calls aren't jokes. They're crimes, by federal law, and you can be fined and sent to prison for up to six months if caught and convicted. Secondly, telephone companies are quickly advancing their facilities to catch such callers. Some special telephone equipment can not only trace back and identify a phone from the receiving party's end, it can also _identify anv _ number you call from your end. And don't think you can beat it by keeping your call short, either. Because the equipment can also prevent you from disconnecting. As long as the party you call doesn't hang up, the line' will remain open. No matter what you do. And while they keep the line open, they can make another call. To the telephone Company. The odds on the side of the telephone companies are increasing all the time. That's worth remembering before you get the urge to make an obscene or nuisance telephone call. Need early decision Exeter's RAP committee will have to make a serious study of the recommendations made for safer operation of the local swimming pool as detailed in reports submitted by a Red Cross supervisor and the chief instructor. The decision should not be left until next spring. It should be made now while the recommendations are fresh in everyone's mind. While the monetary aspects of increasing pool staff and equipment must be considered, we doubt that local Good news from almanac ratepayers would be upset at having to make up a deficit if in fact it means that children will receive better instruction and supervision. However, as the two experts have pointed out, there are limits to the number of children who can be effectively trained by one teacher at one time. The physical limits of both the instructors and the facilities may require some major changes in the local swim program. Scraping the bottom like pretty leaves or caterpillars. They should never, ever say, "Hurry up." Usually they are fat, but not too fat to tie kids' shoes, They wear glasses and funny underwear, They can take their teeth and gums off. It is better if they don't typewrite, or play cards except with us. They don't have to be smart, only answer questions like why dogs hate cats, and how come God isn't married. They don't talk baby talk like visitors do, because it is hard to understand. When they read to us, they don't skip, or mind if it is the same story again. Everybody should try and have one - because grandmas are the only grown-ups who have got time. Make sure your heating oil man can do all this "The tenure of the conference was," Mr. Jacobs said, "that the grant rejection (Gr. 11-13) should not become an election issue". Here, in our opinion, out of potential chaos, comes a policy of common sense. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Liberals and the N.D.P. We predict that this 'plank' in the opposition's platform will backfire in the next Provincial election. And instead of providing the vote-catching power they so sadly require, it will sink them deeper into the slough of despond. Stouffville Tribune The Ontario Liberal Party is surely scraping the bottom of the vote-catching barrel, in making the Separate School grant rejection, an election issue. The same goes for the N.D.P. What do leaders Nixon and Lewis hope to gain through this? Certainly not the Premier's post. For, if we read the majority of Ontarians correctly, and we sincerely hope we do, they will not be drawn into any 'war' for the sake of religious convictions or Party affiliation. An indicator of this, was the conclusion reached at a recent Separate School trustees' conference held in Toronto and explained to the York Board by its Chairman, Eugene Jacobs. Help our ecology and reduce your water bill too - put a brick in your toilet tank. This raises the water level and lessens the quantity needed to complete the cycle. That little tidbit was among the many in the recently published edition of the Farmers' Almanac for 1972. That journal has now been published for 155 years with its weather forecasts and timing for the planting of crops and treating of livestock, recipes, household hints, fishing guide, history, astrology, astronomy and lots of humor. Present editor Ray Geiger points with pride to the Almanac's weather predictions for last year. A worse than average winter with much snow and cold weather was the prognostication, and area residents will find little quarrel with that. It is encouraging to note that the 1971-72 winter is expected to be "average" and if we live long enough we are expected to enjoy a mild winter the following year. The Farmers' Almanacs are not for sale, but the Canadian edition is distributed free as a good will gesture by Victoria and Grey Trust. Because the Almanac was an important document in most homes in the early parts of the century, many readers may be interested in one item contained in this year's product. It's en- titled "A Grandmother Is • according to a young grand- daughter." A grandmother is a lady who has no children of her own so she likes other people's little girls. A grandfather is a man grand- mother. He goes for walks with the boys, and they talk about fishing and tractors and like that, 1 Provide systematic delivery. 2 Keep your furnace in tip-top shape. 3 Offer a budget plan with ten even payments. 4 Give you emergency repair service, day or night. 5 Finance a new furnace for you. for small children, maiden aunts and Socred M,P.'s." Editor K. A. G, Marshall then followed with a blistering editorial against the directive handed down by Premier Bennett banning liquor and tobacco ad- vertising. "We now have been judged sufficiently mature enough to be permitted the sight of four-letter words; to be unaffected by the sight of naked women; but not mature enough for the sight of an unclad bottle of beer or a nude cigarette." "Scientists tell us that they haven't yet found the fountain of youth. But we in British Columbia can feel mighty proud of our Daddy (Bennett): he's found a way to turn back the clock." Marshall notes that if tobacco and alcohol, even used in moderation, are half as bad as Bennett would have us believe, then they should be taken off the market immediately and their sales totally prohibited. While some of his remarks must be tempered with the realization his newspaper received some $300 per month in advertising revenue from liquor and tobacco firms, it does appear rather ridiculous that impolite or four-letter words can be used in print along with nudes of all descriptions and views while tobacco and liquor advertising is found unacceptable. if governments wish to dictate what people can see and read, we suggest they have areas to tackle before reaching the liquor and tobacco ads. + + + We exchange papers with several weeklies and one we receive is from Smithers, British Columbia. The September 1 issue just reached us and it had a most interesting front page. It noted, in large type, that the Smithers Interior News was "New- - Improved, Now contains no naughty booze ads. Suitable "I think they're piling too much homework on her:" Your distributor will Grandmas don't have to do anything except be there. They're old, so they shouldn't play hard or run. It is enough if they drive us to the market where the pretend horse is, and have lots of dimes ready. Or if they take us for walks, they should slow down past things Bill McFalls Fuels 227 Wellington St. Exeter Phone 235-2840 staff. John Goman, inspector, said that nearly 75 percent of the lady teachers in the district are married. Town public works department started dumping garbage in the new refuge ground in Hay township this week and began to level off and landscape the old one. Four new teachers joining SH- DHS staff this year are Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Perry, Miss Heather Goldstein and .Mrs. Andrew Dixon, William Moody, road superintendent in Usborne township for 23 years,, celebrated his ninetieth birthday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Stanley Coward, Wednesday. Mary Ellen Kerr, daughter of Rev. Samuel and Mrs. Kerr of Exeter, won the Beta Sigma Phi nursing scholarship this year, sparks by a welder working overhead. The library isn't ready, there is no cafeteria, and the gym is not finished. These are pretty im- portant areas in a school that size. Did you ever try to teach poetry with a jackhammer blasting a few feet away? It's like trying to have an elegant garden party in the middle of a monsoon. Did you ever try to teach anything in a room that has one naked light bulb at the back and is so full of somebody else's junk (equipment), that you couldn't see your students even if you had lights? Just to compound the con- fusion, the numbers of all the rooms have been changed, Thus, my old room, 269, is now E202 or 204, I'm still not sure which. Time was, when a little grade- niner would ask, "Sir, can you tell me where Mr. Jacklin's room is." I would answer with sublime confidence, "Sure, Just along the hall to the boiler room, turn right, and it's about three doors down on your left." Now, I haven't a clue where Mr. Jacklin's room is. I think he moved somewhere, and the place is so big I couldn't tell the kid how to get there if I did know. It took me half an hour to find rooms. In fact, there's a certain gaiety and esprit de corps among the staff, the sort of thing that always emerges in a great disaster, like a bombing blitz or a paralyzing blizzard. And the kids love it. Kids love confusion, especially in their teens, when they begin to resent bitterly regulations, rules and rigidity. They can wander through the ruins, pretend they got lost, chat with the workmen, and be late for class. That's living. Teaching in our school this fall has been a combination of walking the plank and running the gauntlet. When school opened, about fifteen hundred kids and eighty teachers walked into something that looked as though the Irish Republican Army had been using it for a couple of years as a testing ground for bombs. A new addition, about the third since I came here, was in its glorious death throes. That means it might be finished in six months. It was begun a year ago. It wasn't so bad during last winter and spring, because most of the construction was outside: brick piling and steel work. In fact, it was quite lively, especially in the spring, with the Italian workers ogling the girls through the windows and being ogled back, and drinking beer on the job, and yelling and laughing. But during the summer, the termites, the inside workers, got into the mausoleum and the result, for a while at least, is complete chaos. The termites are the elec- tricians, plumbers, floor and ceiling men and others of that ilk. If you aren't tripping over an electric cable or walking through some fresh-poured concrete, you're liable to be showered with NitiManniiMMEMS'," Times Established 1873 the new staff "lounge", which turned out to be a square, bleak, underground hole with no win- dows and a couple of light bulbs hanging from the ceiling. In the proposed cafetorium (a bastard word if there ever was one), the windows were sealed off because it would be air- conditioned. Then it was learned that it wouldn't be air- conditioned. Can you imagine what it will be like in there with the smells of cooking and five hundred bodies, on a hot day. It seems to me that school architects are in a class by themselves, like carpenters who would never tackle anything bigger than an out-door privy. Perhaps I wrong them. Perhaps they are hampered by rigid budgets. But I can't imagine any firm that specializes in designing schools being asked to build something that combined aesthetics and utility. However, there's always a bright side to things. The public address system is not working. The bells are not working. These are two boons, and I hope they never get them working. None of the teachers has gone stir-crazy yet, despite the ar- chitect's fetish for windowless 41,04740-raWIEMNSIIIMMORA42 Amalgamated 1924 Advocate Established 1881 0,14APIAPI 50 YEARS AGO Bread dropped from 12 cents to 10 cents a loaf in Exeter this week. Mr. 0. C. Ward is in charge of Mr. Reg Hodgins' implement shop during his absence. Miss Verda Hill has resigned her position with Mr. J, A. Stewart's store; the vacancy has been filled by Miss Josephine Davis. Messrs R. T. Luker and Son won first money with The Emblem at the Chatham races last week. The Dominion Stores, Ltd., have leased for a term the store owned by Mr. A. J. McDonell. 25 YEAR AGO Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Desjardine of Grand Bend, returned from a seven weeks' motor trip to the Pacific coast, covering over 5,600 miles. The garage of Graham Arthur was broken into and a quantity of cigarettes and cigars stolen, together with a radio and a battery. A box containing fifty cent pieces was also stolen. Miss Helen Penhale entered Osgood Hall, Toronto, as a law student.' Exeter Lodge No. 67, L.O.O,F. will celebrate its 75th an- niversary with a banquet in the James St, United Church basement next week. Judge and Mrs, S. A. Branton of Prince Albert Sask., visited recently with the former's nephew Charles and Mrs. MacNaughton , Judge Branton was a delegate to the General Council of the United Church at Montreal. Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter., Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0346 Paid in Advance Circulation, September 30, 19/0, 4,6/5 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $6,00 Per Years USA $8.00 Waactoge,:.:ZZ-"L`L.:Sda' Ult...4 Oki 15 YEARS AGO Married women teachers have stepped into the breach and saved South Huron schools from a critical shortage of instruction Fred Walters, Exeter, Ontario. 10 YEARS AGO Canadian Canners Ltd., finished packing the biggest corn crop on record Wednesday. Manager Don Graham said the plant will start into carrots next week. Members of the Trivett Memorial Anglican Church choir reported thefts of about $5,00 and several wallets during the special Prayer for Peace' service Sunday nights. RCAF Training Command Band from Trenton will entertain SHIMS students to a concert in the auditorium Monday af.' ternoon. An officers' school for executives of 16 district Lions Clubs was conducted at the Green Forest Motor Hotel, Grand Bend, recently. A London police official will give town authorities and mer- chants advice on methods of preventing robberies at. a special meeting Thursday night. To The Editor I have just put in one week needing the services of a doctor and have not been able to get by a recording or a Doctor's secretary who informs me that all ap- pointments are filled up for two or three days. I am paying insurance for this kind of service which I cannot get. I am not complaining about the doctors who say they are over- worked. What I am saying that it is time we citizens of Exeter petitioned our council or the Powers that be to invite more doctors into Exeter to relieve this workload and look after the welfare and health of the citizens of Exeter, I I