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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-03-09, Page 4Let's set the record straight ct~M o t,ww ', At 0 K'S R Athilthig Ne111,95 MARCH 1972 R MEDICAL CARE PRESERVES YOUR HEALTH. Before childbirth, mothers visit their physi- cian regularly to avoid danger. They take vitamins and minerals to insure baby's better growth. lk INFANT MORTALITY DECREASES EACH YEAR. Pediatrics, the medical science dealing with the care of babies and children and their dis- eases, protects them from preventable harm. Most "child killers" are controlled by vac- cines, anti-infectives and antibiotics. ADOLESCENT CARE BUILDS YOUNG' BODIES, One good daily vitamin supplement capsule protects against the dietary losses of teen-age hurried and missed meals. THE MIDDLE YEARS OF LIFE PASS QUICKLY. Medicines are available to overcome most dis- eases. Regular medical check.ups disclose ill- nesses which can often be speedily cured, SENIOR CITIZENS NOW AGE MORE SLOWLY. Geriatrics, the medical science dealing with the study of old age and its disease*, is well advanced in knowledge. Now you tan live longer than even the Bible predicted. R R r. PHARMACY IS DEVOTED TO YOUR ILEALTIL It is our Cherished privilege to supply the medicines and health-needs that can keep You More sickness-fret. Bob Middleton, PhmB Stan Harrell, Phtne MIDDLETON/in/5m PHONE 235-1570 EXETER TO t' R n R5RVRn Requires more caution It's unfortunate, but true, that traffic lights can create more dangers .than they overcome, .especially when they are first put into operation. Drivers and pedestrians alike find it difficult to change practices built up over a number of years, and certainly the new traffic signals in Exeter will create problems in the corning weeks. Even those who have watched the lights being installed and should be ready 41r5 C411.ro 41? 110UPEP 1ti trolittRhAtArdW for them will have to keep their wits about them and concentrate more. While traffic lights give direction to drivers and pedestrians, it is wise to remember that some people may miss the lights and therefore you should proceed with caution even when you have been given the right of way. Proceeding properly at the direction of the lights does not ensure safety, Thrilling results The engineer watched horrified from the cab while his heavy diesel locomotive, unable to stop in time, rolled over an 8-year-old boy on the tracks near Timmins and severed both his legs below the knee. Had this accident happened half a century ago — instead of three years ago — Denis. Lapalme might have died, or at best been doomed to a wheel chair for life. But today, because of Easter Seals and the Ontario Society for Crippled Children, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, Denis climbs trees, rides a bicycle, runs with his dog, plays hockey, football and baseball, and has been returned to the community as an active member. Denis is just one case. There are 14,524 other crippled children across Ontario who need your help and a similar promise of hope through your purchase of Easter Seals during the month of March. This year's goal — an all-time high one — is $1,627,500. It was a snowy day in November, 1922, when a dozen men — some of them physicians and surgeons and others representing 10 service clubs — met at the Prince Edward Hotel in Windsor under the auspices of the Rotary Club. After a long discussion the 12 men realized the tremendous number of uncared-for cases of crippled children across the province and were appalled. They realized, too, the special skills Whiting Auctioneer*. and Appraisal Service Profit by Experience We give complete sale service Book your sate early to avoid conflicting dates Free service for charitable organizations NORM WHITING-, f.ICENSED AUCTIONEER Phrine collect 2351904 gxeter BUSINESS AS USUAL During Our Renovations There's No Fuss or Muss In Our Coin Laundry Facilities — The Work Is Taking Place Next Door OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Grand Bend Cleaners & Coin Laundry Main & Sanders EXETER At The Stop Lights "Look ntommy -- a hockey gamer some of them had acquired during World War I in dealing with severe battle casualties. They decided to employ some of the almost miraculous techniques of orthopedic surgery which was then developing rapidly. So they did something positive about it and formed the Ontario Society for Crippled Children, In the first year the 10 service clubs looked after 75 handicapped children. Today 230 service clubs are affiliated with the Society in the tiniest villages and largest cities across Ontario and wherever crippled children need clinics, braces, artificial limbs, wheel chairs, summer camps, cerebral palsy clinics or transportation. Clubs endeavour to mail seals to every wage earner in the district they serve, and although in other years the response has been rated good, only a small fraction of those receiving seals contribute to the great humanitarian cause. Because service clubs work without fanfare, all too often their work goes unrecognized. Many handicapped children in the area are enjoying life to-day because service club members cared enough to give generously of their time, their talent, and often their money as well. Easter is a happy time and your contribution, even if very small, may make it possible for a crippled child to walk gaily with his playmates in the Easter Parade next year. Your own home less than rent! Picket lines at the front door lauded our own abilities over hers. No doubt this came about on the day the darkroom technician advised her that some of the rolls. of film she had presented for processing were completely blank. She had her camera syn- chronized for flashbulbs, but unfortunately was using an electronic flash. Now honestly, should it take all day to convince someone that she's wrong in such circumstances? + + + It appears to be only a matter of time before some spectator gets seriously injured while watching a game at the local arena, and RAP should look seriously at the need for ex- tending the protective screen to other sections of the arena. Today's hockey players shoot the puck at a much greater rate of speed than their predecessors, and with the slap shot, have much less idea of where the puck is going. No one would dream of stan- ding in the area behind the nets if there was no screen, and yet on many clearing plays, the pucksters shoot the puck over the boards with as much force as they do when they are shooting on the net. In addition, the rough and tumble style of play of the local juniors results in many crashing checks along the boards when players and sticks go flying into the crowd. At last Tuesday's game, one Now, when you're making out your income tax return — worrying about budgets — this is the time to decide to stop paying rent. Get that dream home you want. Own it for less than you pay for rent and live in your own home while its value rises through the years. See about a mortgage — today — at Victoria and Grey. player ended up sitting with the spectators after a skirmish along the boards and there were two occasions when fans got into a bit of a mixup with players when their sticks ended up in the row of seats. For their own protection — and at times for the protection of players — the spectators should be behind screens or some other suitable enclosure. + + + Speaking of hockey, we still wonder how much enjoyment some of the local junior players get out of the game. We realize they like to play it roughly, but in some games it just turns out to be "dirty." On the other hand, we enjoyed watching a couple of games of the rec league last week and found the players — many of whom are junior graduates — to be having some fun while still playing their best. No one minds some body checks, but when the game degenerates into a battle of slashing, butt-ending, high elbows and sticks it cannot really be called hockey, Experience has shown that hockey can be just as exciting and entertaining without the emphasis on dirty tactics as is displayed in today's junior hockey circles. The players would have a heck of a lot more fun too! The senior Trust Company devoted entirely to serving the people of Ontario. VG VICTORIA and GREY TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 KEN D. BOWES Manager flamed by Women's Lib, dull husbands, and rotten kids, walk out the doors demanding more money, better working con- ditions, and vast fringe benefits. That will be a day that will make the present vast tie-ups due to strikes look like tiddleywinks. That will be a day that might signal the end of civilization as we know it. I'm not kidding, and I'm definitely not exaggerating. If the housewives of this nation with- drew such elementary items as cooking and cleaning, sex and sewing from our lives, the whole foundation of our society would collapse. Not immediately, of course. For perhaps two days, husbands would chortle, "She'll soon come around. She knows when she has a good thing." And kids would roar with laughter, "Is your old lady on this strike kick too? It's a riot. But she won't last. She needs guys" After a week, the comments would change tone. Husbands; "What the hell is wrong with that crazy woman? I've given her the best years of my life." And kids: "Look, if she doesn't come back, she's in for trouble. I haven't had 0 El They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but we're not certain what approach the women's editor was taking last week in her comments on this writer. Buttering up the "boss" is not a new trick, and on occasions most people have used it to try and make some gains in one way or another. Evenbefore we'd had a chance to digest her entire column, the lady's scheming was slowly rising to the surface. Seems she had some inlaws coming to town for the weekend and needed a place to bunk them. A quick check of her list of acquaintances with room to spare quickly pointed the way to the editor's home and so it was by less than chance that he was within ear-shot range to hear of her plight, In addition to clearing up some reasons for her flowery remarks, we feel some comment is justified regarding her in- troductory paragraphs in which she claimed the editor was in- fallible and she never won an argument. While there are few occasions when we do engage in battle with our distaff cohort, perhaps some light should be shed on the situation to point out to readers that one must look with pity upon some of the situations in which she finds herself. The most recent example was "Pancake Tuesday." The editor and his assistant were arranging picture assignments for Tuesday, February 15 when she noted from her adjoining office that we in fact were a week early and that her calendar was circled for February 22 for this annual event. Under some circumstances, we would have backed off slowly to check our facts completely before engaging in any dispute on the date. However, we were already well aware that the area Anglicans were planning their pancake feast for the 15th and there was little chance a Presbyterian was going to come along and change the date. As an another example, she hinted that the editor excels in photography, and we fear, left the impression that we have 15 YEARS AGO Exeter Figure Skating Club, featuring for the first time its own talent, won sustained ap- plause from a crowd who enjoyed its "Ice Frolic of 1957" at the arena Saturday night. Exeter barbers bumped the price of adults haircuts to 85 cents this week. Carl Hewitt, Stratford PUC employee and native of Exeter, was killed Thursday when a `dead' line he was reeling in contacted a 2,200 volt primary wire. Norm Hyde captured awards for best general agriculture exhibits and Robert Down was named champion swine showman at Review Day at the Western Ontario Agricultural School at Ridgetown recently, "Aid you hay* anythb* In bad Wald& a dial even mg?" 50 YEARS AGO The weather for nearly a week was very mild and spring-like. The snow had pratically all disappeared and the frost was beginning to leave the ground. Then it turned colder Tuesday accompanied by snow. The choir of the James St. Methodist Church gave a musical entertainment in the church Friday evening. The program consisted of miscellaneous numbers followed by the ren- dering of the 'Cucifixion' by Stainer. Messers Goodwin and Milne Rennie, of Hensall took the solo work. The Hurondale Women's Institute met at the home of Miss Jeckell Thursday afternoon last as a surprise on the eve of her leaving the community for her future home in Exeter, An ad- dress was read by Miss A. Case and presentatitta of an ivory hand mirror was made by Miss H. Ellerington, a decent meal or a clean pair of socks for days. And Dad is get- ting nasty. Wants me to do the dishes and garbage like that." In two weeks the "innocent bystanders" would he on their knees. And the garbage would be up to their knees. Husbands; "Listen kid. You go our and tell your mother that I'll give her eight, no, ten dollars a month to blow on herself. Sky's the limit," Kids: "Listen Dad, this is all your fault. We need that woman, even if she is only our mother, All our buttons are off, and the sink's full of dishes, and the dishes are full of crud." In a month, the hospitals and the mental institutions would be overflowing. The take-home chicken joints and the delicatessens would be booming, but the supermarkets would be heading for bankruptcy, Family axe-murders would be so com- mon they wouldn't even rate two inches on Page 38. There's only one thing that will prevent this catastrophe. As we all know, housewives are ex- treme individualists, They can't even agree on the texture of toilet paper. How could they agree on such fringe benefits. Some would want forty cents to sew on a button; others would settle for a quarter. And if they did form a union, it would take them twelve years to draw up the constitution, and everyone would want to be president. So relax, you neglectful husbands, and demanding kids, We're probably safe. But give the whole idea a long, deep thought, It's only a matter of time. In the past generation, Joe Nobody, you and I, have suffered from every conceivable type of strike that the warped little human mind can conceive. You name it: from dock- wallopers to doctors, from technicians to teachers, everybody seems to have had a whack at trying to strangle a few more bucks or privileges out of the innocent by-stander. That's you and I. I'm getting pretty sour about the whole nonsense. Somehow, I can't fathom either the economics of the ethics of a man who is worth $1.25 an hour, and Is getting $2.75, demanding that he be paid $4.00 and another $2.00 in fringe benefits. Strikes are annoying, frustrating and usually pointless, in these days. The workers gets a raise and it takes him two years to get back to where he was, financially. The employer merely raises his prices, or taxes. The rest of us get it in two painful places; the neck and the pocket- book, But that's all common knowledge, and beside the point, One of the these fine days, the most potent work force in the country is going to realize what a powerful weapon is the strike, and hit the picket line. When it does, we'll look back with nostalgia and longing to the good old days when a strike merely meant you couldn't take that trip, or there was a shortage of sanitary napkins, or some similar calamity was thrust upon us. That will be the day the housewives of the country, in- VIONSAIMMISNMATM Timis Established 1871 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1714 `Op ereferZimett-Almocide "We hove CM incentive plan where I work too--anyone who meets his quota gels fo keep his iobl" SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., 0.W.N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC A 4. lOYEARS AGO Vincent Ryan, 15, Grade X student at Mount Carmel won first place in the impromptu division of the district, public speaking finals at Wingham. George Godbolt was first in the prepared speech. Huron Hog Producers showed deeisively that they want to retain their compulsory Marketing plait when they elected a full slate of board- supporting committee men Tuesday, llensall public school board is negotiating with three school sections in Hay township to have the students from these areas attend school in Hettsall, Oliver Jaques, Hensall, was re- elected county master of South Huron Orange Lodge at the an- nual meeting in Seaforth. Myrtle fslinham, a nurse at South Huron Hospital was injured Friday afternoon when the brake pedal in her car seized and she struck a power shovel. 25 YEARS AGO One of the worst series of ac- cidents ever to happen in this district occurred early Monday morning when two men, Allen Fraser and Rollie Motz were seriously injured. Seven cars and three trucks piled up in a snowdrift, Rationing of maple syrup has been lifted this season. No coupons Will be required as in past years, Miss Lenore Normington of IlenSall won the shield for girls in the Lions oratorical contest in this zone held in London Public Library, Mr, & Mrs. W. S. Cole recently moved into the house they put- chased from the estate of the late N. J, bore. E, llowey has been ap- pointed secretary of the High School Board, Editor — Bill Batten Advertising Manager Assistant Editor Ross Haugh Women's Editor Gwyn Whilstnith Phone 051331 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance dirtulatiOn, September 30, 19,,17S SUBSCRIF'TION RATES; Canada WOO Fer Year; USA 510.00 .4i.: "The boss complimented rite foe thinking big d Soff -of *cry"