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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-01-13, Page 499' SUPER SPECIALS Sugg. 24's List $1.4599 ' 30CC Sugg. 99' List $1.98 ANACIN 100's Li Ssturi..45 99' SUDDEN Regular, Super Hold & Unscented BEAUTY Sugg. List $1.59 99' DRISTAN DRISTAN NASAL MIST -CG DISCOUNT BROMO SELTZER Family Size Sugg. List $1.29 99' 99' VO5 SHAMPOO Oily, Normal & Dry Formula with ACR ISAL Sugg. List $1.39 For the Best in Pizza Call Mr. Pizza 235-2092 Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 010,1111.1)01/ r 0i40.4 14 Ass° "..1,SPAP(Oc (0 °P." Questionable priority The Huron-Perth Separate School board had an interesting — and questionable — challenge issued to them at their inaugural meeting by Rev. Father H. J. Laragh of St. James Church, Seaforth. In urging the board to hire teachers who attend mass and to also ask pastors for an evaluation of prospective teachers before they are hired, Father Laragh appears to be establishing some unusual requirements. In any school system, the main requirement of any teacher must be his, or her, ability to teach. Obviously, those officials trained in determining such requirements are the ones who should be entrusted primarily with that choice. Basic education is too important to make attendance at mass one of the prime requisites for teachers. Certainly, tp4 if candidates are on equal basis as to ability, then attendance at mass may well be one of the determining factors in the final choice. Likewise, an evaluation by a pastor may be welcome, but a candidate's evaluation by educational officials should still be of greater concern. This is not in any way suggesting that Father Laragh's apparent concern for religious education in the schools be discounted. If he feels a teacher is not conscientious enough in this regard, he has the opportunity to make his services available to assist that teacher with private tutoring or to move into the classroom with personal assistance to ensure the children receive the training which the board subscribes. Obviously necessary The near-tragedy last week to which a school bus and a big truck collided west of Lucknow should point up the need for an additional safety precaution where student transport is concerned. The driver of a third truck, who witnessed the accident is reported to have said he could see children tumbling about in the bus as it rolled over onto its side. If he was right it is quite obvious that the youngsters were not wearing seat belts. The safety factor of seat belts in passenger cars has been preached without pause for the past several years. If their value is so important in passenger cars, how much more so it should be in fully-loaded school buses. We are quite aware of the difficulties faced by school bus drivers. In fact, we have wondered how some of them retain their sane ability to drive these big vehicles amid the din of 35 or 40 youngsters. The problem of making sure that everyone of them was safely belted to his seat would be no small chore. Difficult or not, the risk of injury incurred in an accident should be enough to merit whatever measures or disciplines are necessary. Wingham Advance-Times Get at. the source Snowmobile enthusiasts have no others to blame but themselves for prompting Exeter council to regulate their, ctivities. We say "themselves" in a broad sense, because there is no question but what, only a few snowmobile owners were really responsible for the flood of complaints which forced council into making the decision. )3ut that's the story of creating laws.' It is, in most cases, merely a matter of protecting the majority from the irresponsible minority. Council members have been extremely fair with the machine enthusiasts. They have issued ample warnings and pleas for co-operation, The repeated failure of some operators to heed the warnings and pleas left council with no alternative. Informal discussions with Reeve Derry Boyle, who is chairman of the police committee preparing the regulations, indicates that council will remain as lenient as possible, while still protecting the residents of the community from the nuisance perpetrated by the few who have forced the action. However, we wonder if the action is being taken against the proper people. With only a few exceptions, the objections against snowmobiles are the noise they create and the interference they cause for television sets. While regulations about hours and areas where the machines may operate serve a purpose, practically all the complaints could be snuffed out with the manufacturers producing a machine that created less noise and did not interfere with TV sets. In this day and age, such a technical achievement should not be an impossibility, and the manufacturers would probably arise to the need very quickly if the provincial government forced them into such a situation. The machines may then be more costly, but most enthusiasts would pay the extra to have the freedom to cavort to their heart's content. Exeter council should consider petitioning the government to put pressure on the manufacturers to reduce the complaints created by their products. TODAY'S CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN 961totpTelegram8yndicate This happy-looking baby is Larry, seven months old. Jamaican in descent, he is a big boy for his age, sturdy and solid, with lovely dark eyes, black tightly curled hair and medium brown skin. Larry is in excellent health but he has an enzyme deficiency known as G6-PD. It is a fairly common condition among American Negro males and also affects Italians, Greeks and Middle Eastern, African and Oriental races with quite high frequency, ranging from 5 to 40 percent. This is a benign condition through which the hemoglobin is affected by certain drugs — the sulfas, anti-malarial drugs, aspirin and Vitamin K. Peopl4 with G6-PD have a normal life span and no treatment is needed except to avoid the prescribed drugs. Larry is an alert, responsive baby, reaching all his milestones at appropriate times. He has an easy-going, cheerful disposition, chuckling and blowing bubbles at the slightest encouragement. This baby's medical condition should not be a problem. He needs parents who will welcome a lovable little son and accept the drug situation calmly. To inquire about adopting Larry please write to Today's Child, Box 888, Station K, Toronto. For general adoption information ask your Children's Aid Society. You can be part of all this They're rapidly losing a friend is conspicuously displayed without dropping down to fill their crops. The answer to the problem may be varied. Perhaps too many people took advantage of our editorial suggestion and the birds have a great variety of feeders at which to dine? Perhaps they gorged them- `selves so much on the seeds from our garden this year that they have enough to carry them through the winter? Whatever the reason, we're slightly miffed! Our "sacrifice" *of a new shirt, a colorful tie or a 'comfortable chair is not being rephid by the birds and unless -'4.11* have a change of heart within the immediate future they will no longer have an ally on this paper's editorial columns. So there! + We were encouraged at a recent council meeting when Bruce Shaw talked his fellow councillors into completing their investigation into fluoride. Council had previously ap- proved a cost study into this matter, but it was one of those things which no one specifically was asked to look after. An article in last week's Goderich Signal-Star prompts us to again add some fuel to the fire. It gave statistics from a survey taken in Goderich to show that fluroide in drinking water and topical fluoride brushing as liteentellAtnes-Ainsocafe SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., 0.W.N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC Editor-- Bill Batten Advertising Manager Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh Women's Editor •-• Gwyn Whilsmith Phone 235.1331 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386' Paid in Advance Circulation, September 30, 1970, 4,675 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada 4e.6u Pow Year; USA $10.00 Wiae472' ,...eNEMA2R3-1=takaira This is the time when pundits across the land speculate in type about what the coming year will bring forth, If there is one thing we don't need more of in this country, it is pundits. We have political pundits, economic pundits, sports pundits. Most of them spend most of their verbiage disagreeing with other pundits in the same field, What is a pundit? It is a person who knows a little more about practically nothing than we non- pundi ts. Having unburdened myself of those sour sentiments, I now We don't mind "sharing Christmas" but unfortunately the guys with whom we shared it this year are either plain stupid or completely ungrateful. You know how it is? You try not to be too selfish in making out your Christmas list and this year the family decided to heed the advice of one of dad's editorials. That brought our 1971 editorial "success rate" up to something like .004 percent. At any rate, come Christmas day and all the members of the family are busily engaged in shouting screams of glee as they unwrap their'r many ,presents. "rust what `I iivantesir exelairrig Steve as :•• he tries ' on his -dew hockey equipment. Even mother is overwhelmed by our selection of a new pair of slacks and a blouse. Naturally, we were, looking for something exciting in:, return. Amid warnings to be careful over our fragile gift, we carefully. ripped off the stickers and wrappings. To make short order of the suspense, the gift unfurled was strictly for the birds. That's right, the family had followed dad's editorial plea to feed the birds and the feeder and bag of feed was an opportunity to put our suggestion into practice. That'f. fair enough! Similar to most residents in this area we live in abundance and sharing our Christmas with the birds was a commendable idea. It was, therefore, with some amount of pride that we carried the new feeder, amply filled with delicacies, to a tree in the backyard so the family could sit in front of thepicture window and spend many happy hours wat- ching the colorful array of feathery creatures which would be attracted to our feeding station. That was almost three weeks ago. In that time there have been exactly two birds arrive at the feeding station and their length of stay was what could best be described as fleeting. Even the darn sparrows flirt about the tree in which the feeder rapidly. The reason? We're all greedy as pigs — the strongest unions and the most firmly en- trenched capitalists -- will get more out of the trough than the runts, the ordinary Joes. There will be a federal election, and whoever wins, there will be promises galore, new brooms being waved in all directions, and the country, according to the pundits, will still be going straight to the dogs. The churches will continue to be one-third filled and scram• bling for enough money to stay alive, But there will be a con- tinuing search for some sort of spiritual experience by our youth. Thousands who are now merely a gleam in somebody's eye will be born. And good luck to them when they enter a mighty complex world, Thousands will die, and let's just hope you and I are not among them, I don't want to go until I get my mortgage paid Off, Isn't that the supreme purpose of living? Thousands of kids will ex- periment with drugs and some of them will end up tragic figures, shattered human beings. But thousands of Others will ignore the • chance -of becoming — Please turn to page 5 60 YEARS AGO The directors of Molsons Bank have decided to withdraw their bank branch from Dashwood. It was announced by Hon. W. T. White, minister of finance, that the government had decided to grant the request of the Farmers Bank victims for a thorough investigation of the affairs of the bank. Mr. T. G. Creech and his men are busy harvesting ice from the pond. Mrs. George Millson, Whalen, is laid up with blood-poisoning caused from a chilblain on her heel. County councillors W. J. Heaman, reeve of Exeter, Fred Hunkin, reeve of Usborne, Henry Willert, reeve, and William Yearley, deputy-reeve of Stephen, left Tuesday to attend county council in Goderich, 25 YEARS AGO Mr. W. W. McBride has sold his coal business in Exeter to Mr, Harry Bierling, The old Board of Education has now been dissolved and the new Exeter High School District Board will take over the duties. Miss Jean Snell last week received her degree as a Registered Nurse. Messrs. Howard Pym and Emerson Penhale of Elimville relit-tied home after spending four months in Alberta. Arnold Cann, Donald Kernick, Edwin Miller and Ronald Elford attended the three day short Course for Junior Farmers at University of Western Ontario, London. 15 YEARS AGO Redecoration of Zion United Church, Usborne, was completed last week and the congregation held its first service in the church in six months. While the ren- ovations were going on, church services were held in a near-by school. Larry Snider, Exeter, was elected chairman of South Huron District High School Board Tuesday night. New officers for James St. Choir are; president, Maxine Reeder, vice president, Bill Batten; secretary, Jean Taylor; treasurer, Barbara Brintnell, Exeter Drama Club is planning another presentation this season. The farce, "Father's Been to Mars" will be produced in March, 10 YEARS AGO Exeter's reeve, William McKenzie, passed away in Victoria Hospital, Tuesday morning. Mr. McKenzie had been active in town and county governments for the past decade. Klongskilde Ltd., established in the former North Land building on No, 83 highway has purchased the Salsbury building beside it. Exeter's Mr. Poppy, Fred Wells, died after suffering a heart attack and a fall near his home, A. "Jake" Switzer, who has been chairman of the Exeter Boy Scout Group Committee for the past 10 years retired from that position this week, Jo Anne Miners, Elimville, and Iris Becker, Dashwood, were awarded county honor pins by Mrs. IL Strang, district President, at Achicvnaent bay in Seaforth, Improve your home now! Between now and Spring is the time to renovate, to recondition and decorate your home. Let Victoria and Grey help you finish the rec room, take advantage of furnishing sales, move up to better living. Have fun improving your home in the grey months ahead — adding to its capital value, too — with an easy-to-get, easy-to-pay-back loan from Victoria & Grey Trust — the people who have been helping people like you since 1889. VG The senior Trust Company devoted entirely to serving the people of Ontario, 14C7ORL4 GREY— and TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 propose to leap into some pun- ditry (pundineering?) con- cerning 1972. Read carefully, now, so that you'll have a clear picture of what we shall face this year, Most parts of Canada will have lots of snow. I hope nobody will give me an argument on that one. Right now, outside my window, it looks like plucking day at the chicken factory. The population, taxes, and your fuel bill will increase. This statement is not based on fact but on pure intuition. Especially the part about taxes. According to some of the rosy statements in the new tax reform bill hustled through parliament, I will pay less taxes this year, about enough less to buy an overcoat from the Salvation Army. But they can't fool an old tax- payer like me. I know with sickening clarity that if one level of government hands me a few bucks, some other level will be digging three times as much out of my back pocket. The wage-price spiral will continue, though perhaps not as provided by the Huron County Health Unit are valuable aids in preventing tooth decay. Goderich dentist Dr. James Peters and dental health nurse Mrs. William Belling of Exeter compiled the results for the survey. The study shows that while there is no significant change in the decay of teeth already erupted (cut 'through the gums) before 1969 when the survey began, the decay in newly erupted teeth has been cut in half. There is also. n a vast im- provement in the umber of teeth without decay in children bet- ween the ages of six and eight who were born and have lived in Goderich since birth. In 1969, 11.1 percent of the children had decay-free teeth and in 1971 the figure was 10.5 per- cent. In 1969, the average deciduous (baby) teeth with decay was 6.8 percent and in 1971 it was 5.7 percent, The big difference noted was in newly erupted first permanent molars. In 1969, the percentage of first permanent molars was 32.7 percent and in 1971 the per- centage had dropped over half to 14 percent. Obviously, the results indicate that the matter should be fully investigated locally. KEN D. BOWES Manager 01 f