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Cancer Can Be Beaten
There's too much delay between
performances.,
That's the reaction of many
following the highly entertaining
production of the Huronia Singers over
the past weekend.
Their offering of Patience was
enthusiastically received by all who
availed themselves of the opportunity to
see and hear the talents of area residents in
this delightful operetta by Gilbert and
Sullivan.
It recalled similar operettas of some
years ago, and certainly the reaction that
there's too much delay between such
performances is understandable.
Most in the audience would certainly
welcome such treats every year, although
they no doubt understand the great
sacrifice in time and energy that must be
- expended by those associated with such a
production,
Our commendation goes out to
those who conceived the idea and were
able to enlist the support of the cast and
the production crew, and to all involved
goes a hardy and prolonged chorus of
"bravo".
Hopefully, they will feel "obligated"
to display their talents more frequently so
the delay between performances will not
be so great.
New source of Terror
William Cochrane, dean of a medical
school in Calgary recently commented on
the "medic" shows which currently
appear on television. He said he derived a
good deal of amusement from "Marcus
Welby, IvI.D." and "Medical Centre" (if
those are the correct names of the shows).
There can be no denying Dr.
Cochrane's right to comment, for he must
be a man of considerable standing in his
profession — but we strongly disagree that
the general public reacts with any degree
of pleasure or amusement to these same
shows. As a doctor, he is able to assess the
situations presented and dismiss the
implications of tragedy which they so
often imply — because as an expert, he can
maintain a sense of reasoned perspective.
That is hardly the case with the
ordinary layman who watches, as
week-by-week, new and frightening
physical disorders are used as the focal
Let's get the facts straight
point for emotional climax. People who
never gave a serious thought to their
minor aches and pains are starting to,
diagnose all manner of complicated
ailments after a visual diet of medical
crises.
It is not difficult to imagine the
wrenching fear that grips a family when
they find out that mo ther's blood count is
a little off — after they have witnessed the
sufferings of a leukemia patient on the TV
screen.
If these programs served to
emphasize the danger signals of cancer
and heart troubles — the ailments which
are unfortunately all too common, they
might serve a useful purpose. As they are
produced in their present form, week
after week, they serve no purpose but a
build-up of a dozen new and
nerve-wracking kinds of fear.
Wingham Advance Times
Worlds apart
Astronomers tell us we live in a
world within worlds.
Politicians, however, would tell us
we live in "worlds" within the world.
Politics — international, national,
provincial and municipal — are built on
that premise. Each "world" endeavors to
sustain itself independently with as little
external influence as possible.
Only culturally are we moving
positively towards establishment of a
global. community. Mention trade and
commerce: the politicians wax eloquent
and the money-changers and
bl ac k-m arket eers rub their hands
together in anticipation of the profit
that is sure to follow. Meanwhile,
mankind suffers.
Nothing will change until we see
ourselves as individual members of a
glob al community with basic
responsibilities embracing all people,
regardless of their color, religion,
nationality or politics.
The resources of Canada — natural
and human — should be shared on a
reciprocal basis with all countries of the
world with much less political
squabbling and economic philandering,
Only then will we be able to begin to
build the best of all possible worlds.
— Contributed
spend their time tracking down
the convicted killers who ap-
parently lose track of time and
fail to return to their retreats
after a holiday weekend,
Now that April' is with us, it
would be appropriate to remind
area residents to watch their
income tax calculations. These
days you can spend a longer time
in jail for evading tax than do
convicted killers and the fines for
being late can amount to more
than what is paid by a drunken
driver who may have slaughtered
someone on the highway,
Strange, isn't it?
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The scarcity of jobs is saving
money for the government and
many industries, but it is cer-
tainly cutting down the revenue
for newspapers.
The Ontario government, for
instance, has 396 job openings for
students at Ontario Place.
Normally, one would expect them
to place some advertisements to
advise students of these op-
portunities.
They didn't bother. Almost
4,000 unsolicited applications
have already been received and
hundreds more are pouring into
Ontario Place from every part of
the province.
No further applications are
being accepted.
The same situation holds true
for most people who have sum-
mer job openings for students,
and it certainly points up the
problem many of our young
people will have in being gain-
fully employed,
Take a look around. If you see
an opportunity to create a job for
a student, consider it most
seriously because there is a very
great need,
Many places he'd rather be
Here are some signs of our
modern times:
On a garage: We stand in
FRONT of our brake jobs.
Over the box office of a small
movie theater: First run — if you
haven't seen it.
On a community-sale barn:
Your friendly used-cow dealer.
On a florist's truck: Drive
carefully — the next load may be
yours!
On one side of a signboard on a
secondary road: Road closed —
do not enter! The other side
reads: Welcome back, stupid!
In the window of a drugstore:
We have remedies for the
moaning after.
In an Italian restaurant: Have
you tangled with our spaghetti.
In the window of a loan com-
pany: We serve the man who has
everything , . but hasn't paid
for it.
On the outskirts of a small
town: Slow. No hospital.
Near a fire hydrant: Park now,
pay later.
At a car wash in a suburban
shopping center: Motorcycles
washed at half the price, in-
cluding the riders."
In a maternity shop window:
"We provide the accessories
after the fact."
On a diaper-service truck:
"What pill?"
Near a road crossing on a
secondary: "Crossroad ahead,
better humor it."
Outside a municipal building:
"Don't even -think of parking
here!"
As I write, the so-called first
day of spring has long gone, but
the only indication that winter is
nearly over in these parts is that
the curling season is drawing to a
close.
Outside the window the
snowbanks look like the iceberg
that sank the Titanic. Inside., the
furnace thumps away like a bull
moose that has just outrun a pack
of wolves, And every four days, it
seems, the oil delivery man
wades through the drifts, inserts
that solid gold nozzle in the side of
the house, and whistling
cheerfully, pumps another $30
worth of oil into the great guzzler.
It is a time to try men's souls. It is
a time of year when I curse my
Irish forebears for not
emigrating to New Zealand or
South Africa or Jamaica.
However, it happens every
year, and there's ahv7vs some
little ray of spiritual or emotional
sunlight to penetrate the late-
winter blues,
My little ray of sin:shine (at
four o'clock in the att ,,irnoon) is
sleeping the sleep of the pure at
heart, She's been in the sack
since '7:30 this morning, after
sitting up all night talking to her
crazy mother, who suffers from
insomnia.
It's not that Kim disturbs the
quiet, gentle routine of our daily
life. She doesn't disturb it at all.
She destroys it.
As mentioned, she's a night-
owl. Does her best work, writing
essays and stuff, after midnight.
And just like the owl, she can
sleep all day.
Safne with eating. She's never
hungry when anyone else is. If
dinner is carefully planned for
six-thirty, she is suddenly
famished at five-thirty and
smashes herself up a big mess of
bacon and eggs or spaghetti and
sardines, leaving her mother and
I looking ruefully at the roast. Or
else she is not hungry at dinner-
howr anu will eat nothing but
some celery, and then about
eight-thirty is fainting and slaps
up a vast concoction of fried
bananas and mushrooms.
These are minor things, of
course, and she's a delight to
have around the house. When
she's here, at least I know why
my socks are disappearing and I
haven't a clean shirt to wear,
The problem, you see, is that
we ask her home for a weekend.
50 YEARS AGO
The Young People of James
Street Church put on a play, "All
on Account of Polly," in the
basement of the church Tuesday
evening. There was a very good
turnout and the play was very
entertaining. The cast was as
follows: Amy Shapton, Mrs, H.
Jones, Hubert Jones, S, Reed,
Fern Short, Margaret Kuntz,
Wilfrid Shapton, Hedley May,
Hilda Powe, Chas. Fisher, Alice
Handford, Ila Johnston, Elva
Harvey, Verna Coates, Clarence
Boyle and Dorothy Hardy.
The second ice storm to visit
this section within a few weeks
occurred on Thursday afternoon
of last week, The lights were off
until Sunday evening and the
telephone wires suffered con-
siderably.
F. E. Ellerington won several
prizes at the Seaferth spring
show With his team of horses.
She throws a clean blouse in a
shoulder bag and heads home.
But she hates the city so much
that her weekends turn into a six-
day sojourn, and she has to wear
somebody's clothes, and she and
her mother can't abide each
other's taste in garments, so she
wears mine, which are so drab
and nondescript that nobody
could fight over them,
As I said, these are trifles. But
she's always in some kind of a
hassle, and these are the things
that produce the hours-long, all-
night sessions with her old lady,
while I lie blissfully, dreaming of
the grand old days when she was
a cuddly infant. She's still pretty
cuddly, by the way, but not for
the old man.
And that's the sort of thing she
and her Ma can talk about for six
hours at a stretch, without either
one drawing a full breath.
They can talk about Don and
The Wedding. This is not the title
of a Russian novel about the Don
River. Don is the other man in
her life, and The Wedding is
causing more confusion around
here than anything since the
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Another youthful letter writer
has attempted to set the adult
population of Exeter straight this
week. She joins some of her
contemporaries by berating
people under a nom de plume for
their prejudices and then
proceeds to point out that only by
establishing a youth centre will
we be able to halt an increase in
drug abuse.
There may well be some truth
to that prediction, but we fail to
find substance in her contention
that the youth who asked for the
support necessary to start a
youth centre were denied any
assistance.
Our recollection was that they
were made aware of the problem
of finding suitable ac-
commodation for such a venture.
However, they were advised to
make a study of the needs and
present these to council so con-'
sideration could be given
regarding financial assistance
from the town coffers,
To our knowledge, they haven't
been heard from since.
Did their survey of the situation
suggest there was no need for a
youth centre, or did the work
involved in taking such a survey
prove too much? Or was the idea
a passing fancy?
Finding suitable ac-
commodation for youth activities
in Exeter would appear com-
paratively simple, and could be
provided at little cost.
It's unfortunate the young
people failed to come to grips
with the problem and didn't
provide the answers requested by
council.
Similar to all projects, facts
about the need must be
established and not just opinions.
Some young people in the com-
munity are of the opinion a drop-
in centre is not required. Which
group is correct?
Rather than sitting around
composing letters to point out the
prejudices and inadequacies of
their seniors, we suggest the
young people spend their time in
more productive pursuits and
perhaps some of their goals could
he attained.
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Officials at the Salvation Army
House of Concord must have
some magical treatment for
some of the youths which the
courts send them to correct.
.A local youth sent there
recently was in the correctional
home for only two days when he
was allowed to return home for
the Easter weekend.
No doubt officials at the home
could give some reasons for their
action, but they'd have a hard
time convincing us of the wisdom
of it.
However, we're becoming
accustomed to such happenings.
After all, if convicted killers can
get the weekend off from
penitentiary then it would
nattirally follow that a youth at a
correctional home should be
given even greater favors.
And it does help to keep
policemen employed. Think of
the layoffs if they didn't have to
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day we discovered our tomcat
was pregnant,
The great event is scheduled
for May, Typically, ICim an-
nounced that they had chosen
May 7th as the day, And
typically, her Mother, who never
misses anything important like
this, though I doubt if she knows
the name of the prime minister,
checked the calendar and
discovered that May 7th is a
Sunday. Not many people get
married on Sunday, though I
don't know why not, There isn't
Much else to do.
I've had a lot of free advice
about the wedding. Most people
Chuckle fiendishly as they tell me
What it's going to cost. "Well,
— Please turn to page 5
15 YEARS AGO
A massed choir of 175 voices of
grades three to eight from
Usborne township schools, under
the direction of music instructor
Lawrence Wein sang for a
capacity audience in Thames
Road Church, Friday evening.
Les Parker, past president of
Exeter Kinsmen Club, was
elected deputy governor of the
zone ate rally in Simcoe, Sunday,
The women of Centralia
district held a kitchen shower
Wednesday f or Mrs. Gerald
Isaac, whose home was recently
destroyed by fire.
Youth Fellowship of Calvary
EUB Church, Dashwood,
presented a pantomime at their
sunrise service, Sunday. Those
taking part were Donna
Eagleson, Ruth Schade, Donald
Bender, Stanley Heist, Jack
Schade and Ronald Snell, Shirley
Bender, Joan Guenther, Joyce
Haugh, Carol Schade and Lynda
Tiernan.
Bronze arrowhead badges were
presented to Douglas Jermyn i
Wayne Bowen, Bob Wood and
Tom Arthur at the Scout father
and son banquet last week.
10 YEARS AGO
Mary Shaw, daughter of Mr, &
Mrs. George Shaw, was chosen
queen at the annual At-Home
dance at the High School, Friday.
A fire which threatened an
entire business block in Hensall,
was contained in the Silco Store
by brigades from Hensall, Zurich
and Exeter. Damage was
estimated at $50,000.
H. J. Normingtort, son of Mr. &
Mrs., E. B. Normingtori,
has been awarded a 0,4o0
National Research Council
scholarship,
Exeter Furniture Limited Is
currently working on an order for
church furniture to be installed at
the Guy Indian Residential
School in northern Manitoba.
2$ YEARS AGO
The war-weary, weather-worn
people of Great Britain are to
receive immediate help from the
Canadian Red Cross to the extent
of $1,500,000.
Miss Annie Elford of the
London Name] School is spen-
ding this week practice teaching
in Exeter Public School.
A large gas tank in front of
Snell Bros. & Co., garage sprung
a leak and 125 gallons of gas
seeped away. Fumes found their
way into the drains and up into
several houses,
Henry Ford, who has had one of
the most notable careers In the
industrial world, died suddenly at
his home in Detroit at the age of
8 years,
The Dashwood girls have
reorganized for softball for 1947.
Chosen manager was Sheldon
weir); coach, Howard Xitoripp
and captain. Dorothy Tetreau.