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SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND
C.W.N.A., O.W.N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC
Editor — Bill Batten — Advertising Manager
Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh
Women's Editor — Gwyn Whilsmith
Phone 235-1331
CLAYT MATHERS,District Rep.
Last July, this newspaper carried an
editorial pointing out that council's plan
to institute special levies for industrial
users of the dump facilities would be "a
most difficult task",
We were wrong. Discussions around
the council table in recent meetings
indicate that it is in fact an impossible
task,
Those who think the original Ten
Commandments are old hat in this
permissive age, might be shocked into
second thoughts after reading Patricia
Clarke's Ten Commandments of the
Secular Seventies in the April issue of
the United Church Observer.
With tongue-in-cheek, Mrs. Clarke,
Associate Editor, in her column, suggests
the following list, made up by her
family, while sitting around the
television set. She notes that the list is
by no means exhaustive and invites
readers to send a better one if they wish.
But, she says, "personally we're stocking
with Moses."
1. You shall have no other gods than
self-fulfilment. And for this a man
shall not cleave to wife and children,
but forsaking all responsibility to
others shall seek the Real ME.
2. You shall make of yourself a graven
image of what is young, sexy and
non-smelly; and you shall bow down
before Maclean's toothpaste,
Gillette shaving cream, Right Guard
deodorant, Hai Karate after-shave
lotion, Arrow shirts, Carhart jeans
and Florsheim shoes.
3. You shall not take unto yourself
any responsibility for what you do,
or for those under your care. For
you cannot help an unhappy
childhood or the influence of
Council members have only to look
at their actions of last week to see how
little logic there is in their plan, Two
industries complained about the special
fee and they were quickly dropped from
the list, while those which did not
register any appeal were still to be billed.
The points raised by the two letters
were merely bypassed, when in fact they
should have been seriously considered in
the disposition of the entire matter.
One firm questioned if the large
amount of taxes they pay did not meet
some of the extra costs involved in
industrial garbage handling. Obviously,
Commandments updated
they must, not only for that firm but all
others being considered.
The other firm agreed to*pay extra
fees if council could explain the logic
behind the plan and also point out why
industrial users were being charged when
commercial and residential
establishments were not,
Had they come to grips with this
challenge they would have seen that
their present scale of levies did not have
any logic, and the plan itself is
unreasonable ,
The plan to charge special fees
should be scrapped until a basis that is
not discriminatory can be established.
That may be impossible!
Silence may mean consent, but it is
not a fair way to gain extra revenue for
the town coffers, and contrary to
Councillor Ross Taylor's suggestion,
council must assume the onus for
proving the need and fairness of a special
levy, rather than forcing the industries
into proving they should not pay it.
5. Honor the young, for the old have
had their chance, and it is not
important to know anything. It is
only important to relate.
6. You shall not wait to get anything
you want, but you shall go now —
pay later in all that you can do,
whether it be lying with a woman
not your bride, or spending money
beyond your income, or losing
weight by taking drugs.
7. You shall not deny yourself any
physical gratification. Of such is life
made, and you only go around once.
8. You shall not steal anything small.
But if you steal 5500,000 or more,
then verily I say unto you that you
shall be a celebrity and interviewed
on television.
9. Your wash shall be clean, though
your rivers be dirty.
10. You shall covet your neighbor's car
and his color TV and his
whiter-than-white wash, for of such
material possessions is the kingdom
of heaven. Besides, you deserve the
best, it costs less than you think and
higher demand is good for the
economy.
television or what everybody else\
lets their children do.
4. Six months shall you labor and do
all your work. Then you shall take a
winter break in the Caribbean.
Open house was too 'open'
A nother name change
Last week's newspaper had no
sooner hit the street carrying an editorial
about the change in names of
government departments when a bulletin
from the department of transportation
and communications arrived.
The headline story told that the
designation of "department" will
disappear from the provincial
government, giving way to the new one
of "ministry".
So, what was the department of
highways a few months ago, and has
been changed to the department of
transportation and communications, will
now be known as the ministry of
transportation and communications.
One question, Mr. Davis: how is a
name change going to "greatly improve"
service to the public in the long run, as
you suggest?
It should help our employment
statistics. Think of all the work involved
in changing government stationery,
vehicles, signs, etc. to the new names!
God's in His heaven
and heard, but not touched.
However, that's another story.
Jeannie fell in love with a New
Ze!'lanu ,..:rman, during the war.
His name was Andy. Said he
owned a sheep ranch. But I
reckon he was a shoe clerk.
He was no different from
thousands of Canadian ser-
vicemen, who married lovely
English ducks on the strength of
their big cattle ranch, or gold
mine, back home, The girls came
out expecting The Ponderosa,
and found they were the sole
menial on 120 acres of cedar and
Times Established pm Advocate Established 1881
Let's see. The first New
Zealander I ever met was a
French teacher called Jeannie
Cameron. I kissed her up in an
apple tree one day. She was
twenty-six. and lonely. I was
nineteen-and nineteen.
She wasn't a New Zealander
then. She was a high school
teacher. And I was a student, In
fact, when the word got around
that I was kissing my French
teacher up in an apple tree, it
very nearly ruined me with my
fifteen-year- old girl friend, who
thought teachers should be seen
rock. Or Johnny didn't happen to
own that gold mine. He just
worked in it.
The chaps were not being
dishonest. After all, if you said to
an English girl, "The old man has
120 acres", it sounded as though
there must be ten servants. If he
said, "I'm a gold miner", it
sounded as though he had a gold
mine,
Well, Jeannie went to New
Zealand with Andy, and I hope
— Please turn to Page 20
Amalgamated 1924
Just as we sat down to pound
out our weekly epistle, our for-
mer agriculture teacher stuck his
head through the door to make
known his return from a winter in
Argentina.
Andy Dixon visited several
spots in the world in the past few
years as part of his work of
breeding corn for the Alex M.
Stewart & Sons firm at Ailsa
Craig.
By heading off to a warmer
climate, an extra crop of corn can
be harvested each year, thus
advancing new crops much faster
than could be done locally.
He terms his five-month stay in
Argentina as one of those ex-
periences of a life-time, even in a
brief conversation, one quickly
grasps how much he enjoys living
among the peoples of other
customs.
And live them he does. Prior to
his trip he studied Spanish to
enable to converse with the
natives, and while he claims to be
anything but fluent, he points out
there are few people his age
undertaking the ardous task of
learning a new language.
Andy finds that getting the
people to slow down in their
conversation is the main
requirement, as well as trying to
get them to cut out their slang
and shortforms, which com-
pletely throw people struggling
with a new tongue.
One interesting aspect is the
fact that people learning a new
language can't converse
satisfactorily so you can get some
hand movements in to help fill in
the word gaps.
Having been on the subject of
traffic lights for the past couple
of weeks, we found it interesting
to hear his opinion that we have
our legislated ourselves as fa r
as traffic laws are concerned.
Cities with populations of over
100,090 in Argentina do not have
any stop signs. There are a few
traffic lights at extremely
congested intersections, but in
the main a driver is on his own at
other corners,
Traffic moves much more
quickly, and surprisingly enough,
there are few traffic accidents.
Drivers use their horns a great
deal to indicate their actions, but
in the main, one progresses
across from either side.
Even more startling, is the fact
drivers do not use their
headlights when driving in the
cities at night, Instead of using
the horn, a driver blinks his lights
to signal his approach to an in-
tersection to warn drivers ap-
proaching from a different
direction.
The best. time to travel, of
course, is from noon to around
4:00 p.m. That's when everyone
else is having a siesta as
everything comes to a halt.
The Dixons quickly took up the
habit too. "It was just too darn
hot to do anything else," Andy
explained.
As all parents know. it is im-
possible to know when one's
offspring are going to come out of
the blue with their first questions
on sex.
With TV and animals about the
place, it is equally impossible to
shield from their first encounter,
Parents just don't have the
luxury of picking their own time
and place for these first few
encounters with small children.
So it. was that we returned
home from the open house at
Centralia College fully expecting
to get some rather direct
questions on the subject,
primarily because we had joined
our three oldest in watching one
of the slide presentations
prepared by the students in the
veterinary services laboratory.
The pictures of some cattle on
the screen naturally attracted the
attention of the boys, and we just
couldn't come up with any
suitable reasons to get them
moving on, even as we came to
the startling realization that the
slide presentation was a step by
step portrayal of the complete
methods of artificial in-
semination.
Fortunately, there were
enough animals and other ex-
citing displays to quickly move
their attention to other subjects.
However, if recollection of the
slide presentation should prompt
some questions in the future, you
can rest assured the writer will
quickly transport his offspring off
to our friend the college staff to
let him explain things.
You've had ample warning,
Doc!
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The preceding brings to mind
just how much people have
changed within the past few
years. The slide presentation was
being explained by one of the gals
on the college staff and she ap-
peared quite at ease with her
audience.
Her contemporaries of 15 years
ago would have found it most
embarrassing.
We can recall at. Ryerson when
we did interviews with fellow
students as a class subject.
50 YEARS AGO
The Boy Scouts held a Good-
Turn Day Saturday and went out
in pairs to do a good turn to shut-
ins and others.
Prof. A. W. Anderton, organist
of James Street church has been
re-engaged for another year.
Another ice storm struck this
village last Thursday and Friday
doing much damage to the
telephone lines.
Mr. W. J. Beer has the contract
for installing the electrical fix-
tures in the new Centralia
Methodist church.
25 YEARS AGO
Messrs. T. Pryde and Son are
removing an old landmark from
Exeter's Main Street to be
replaced by a modern building
for their cemetery memorial
work.
At council meeting Monday
evening it was decided to build 50
wartime houses.
Donald J. Scott, young Lucan
district farmer, was declared
king of the 1947 Middlesex Seed
Fair held in London.
After three weeks of blocked
roads the bulldozer was a
welcome sight and made quick
work of handling the snow.
(Saintsbury news).
The application of E. D. Howey
for the position of secretary of the
High School Board was accepted.
15 YEARS AGO
A donation of $35,000 from Dr.
James Bell, of Hensall will make
possible construction of a nurses'
residence for South Huron
Hospital during the coming year,
the hospital board announced this
week.
1 Hubert Jones has confirmed
One of our buddies from Varna
was being interviewed and the
question came up as to his
summer employment. He took
much pleasure in announcing to
his co-educational class that he
was an artificial insemination
technician.
An embarrassed hush fell over
the entire class and the questions
came to a complete halt.
My, how times do change.
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And speaking about the change
in times, we were most
pleasantly surprised to receive a
post card from China this week.
Yes, China!
Jim MacDonald, principal at
Centralia College, is on tour of
that country and said he thought
the editor may appreciate a card
from the other side of the world.
He was quite right,
It was a most attractive post
card with five large stamps
depicting scenes and people of
China. By the time we had
finished showing it off around the
office, the card contained only
two stamps.
Jim reports the food is
tremendous and the day after he
sent the note, he was to see the
Great Wall and the Ming Tombs.
He reports the "moa tai" is
something other than tremen-
dous, but we'll have to wait until
his return to find out what moa
tai really is. We can only guess
right now.
the sale of his business, presently
conducted as `J.H. Jones
Groceries' to two of his em-
ployees, Andrew Bierling and
Howard Holtzman,
Jack Doerr, Exeter
photographer, has received two
merit awards for prints which
were hung in the International
Photographic Exposition in
Washington D.C. last week.
SHDHS board revealed
Tuesday night it has saved
enough money on the con-
struction of its five-room addition
to finance conversion of a class
room to a science laboratory.
Hospital auxiliaries from the
district were guests of South
Huron Hospital Auxiliary
Tuesday afternoon when
they gathered here for their
annual meeting.
10 YEARS AGO
Huron County Council decided
at their recent meeting to bell the
county farm because it hasn't
been making money.
Walter C. Spencer, who has
served 15 years as a member of
Hensall PUC, was presented with
a long service award at the an-
nual meeting of the Ontario
Municipal Electric Association in
Toronto recently.
Joseph Bullock's poolroom at
Crediton was robbed over the
weekend for the second time
since the first of the year,
Carol Brown, Hensall, won a
$50 scholarship, two first prizes
and three second prizes at the
Stratford Kiwanis music festival.
The largest sale of the year was
at. the farm of Chester Dunn, west
of Exeter, Huron Street, when
over 100 men attended from a
wide area, Cann's Mill Ltd.,
bought the farm,
Hel p Crippled. Kids.
F. & J. Toth Real Estate
APPOINTMENT
Mrs. Elizabeth Callcott
Mr. Frank Toth is pleased to announce the
appointment of Mrs. Elizabeth Callcott to his sales Staff.
Mrs. Callcott is well known in the Centralia & area
communities and has a wealth of experience in the real
estate field. She invites her many friends and clients to call
her at 228,6882 for all their real estate needs, whether
buying, selling or arranging mortgages etc. call 228-6882 or
the London office: 432-7171. Mrs. Callcott will be pleased
to serve you,
F. & J. Toth, MIS, Realtor
598 Pall Mall Street
London 24, Ontario
A COUPLE OF
GOOD MEN
TO KNOW IN
THE DISTRICT
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ED JEFFREY, Conklin Manager
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Ed Jeffrey was recently appointed manager of Conklin's
yard in Grand Bend. Before that, he was manager of
Conklin's Southampton yard. He has a very extensive
background in lumber and building products — a good man
to know in the district.
Ed and his wife, Phyllis are both natives of the area. He was
born in Goderich; she was raised in Zurich. They have three
children: Joseph, 14, Lisa 3 and Jim, a year and a half. 0
Clayt Mathers was formerly manager of the Grand Bend
yard. He is now District Sales Rep for Conklin yards in
Exeter, Thedford, Goderich and Kincardine as well as
Grand Bend. His job is to help Conklin customers,
from rec rooms, kitchens and room additions to complete
commercial as well as domestic, in planning everything
buildings — home, farm and cottage. He and his wife, Elsie
reside in Grand Bend.
Clayt Mathers and Ed Jeffrey — two good men to know in
the district.
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