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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-09-07, Page 4Stay alive The technology that is being poured into agricultural production has reduced the risk of being kicked by a horse or gored by a bull, But it has increased the chances of serious and even fatal injury in the opera- tion of farm machinery, the use of agricultural chemicals and a variety of other activities in which farmers may be engaged almost daily • . , from silo gases to snowmobiles. One false move . . a moment of carelessness . . . can be disastrous. Familiarity breeds contempt, and this is particularly true of accidents. Records indicate that most persons become involved in highway accidents within a short radius of their homes on roads with which they are extremely familiar. The same holds true for farmers, who often get killed or serious- ly injured performing chores they've under- taken hundreds of times before. With the busy fall harvest season upon us. area farmers should be reminded that safety pays. Safety is also a full-time job. Vigilance required The number of area thefts in the past few weeks is rather disturbing. However, it does not suggest there are an increasing number of thieves. It is often found that an unusual number of thefts can be almost eliminated if the police can capture one or two persons. Last week, for instance, the thefts from cars in the Centralia and Huron Park area were probably the work of the same person or persons. Residents in rural areas are normally more trustworthy towards their fellow man and there are still many who leave their homes unlocked, keys in their cars, valuables out in the open, etc. It is a practice that should be changed for your own protection. The rash of thefts also indicates that citizens should be more conscious of what is going on about them. The movements of strangers along a country road .or a village street should be given some surveillance. Contact the police if you suspect something amiss in your neighborhood and hope that your neighbor will do the same in your absence. Owners of car stereo systems are being particularly victimized of late and those who have this equipment in their car would do well to purchase some of the locking devices available to prevent such thefts. Certainly, they should have a record of the equipment's serial numbers to aid police in their investigations. Most thieves find their work extremely easy due to the carelessness of their vic- tims or the lack of concern by their victims' neighbors, That proverbial ounce Of prevention is a wise investment. Need gun controls Canadians look at the tragic record of political assassinations in the United States over the past decade and say "it can't happen here, we have gun controls." In Canada all hand guns are supposed to he registered. But purchase of rifles and shotguns is wide open. Anyone 16 or over can buy a rifle and convert it into a hand weapon by sawing off the barrel. Not even much cash is needed to buy death — !15 or $20 second-hand. Police feel the situation is ridiculous. They refuse a hand gun permit to a man who walks down the street and buys a rifle. More than 2,000,000 rifles and shotguns are in the hands of Canadians and there are an estimated 100,000 unregistered hand guns in Toronto alone. Crimes involving firearms are in- creasing. In Toronto there were 336 in 1970, and 386 in 1971. Police want citizens to rid themselves of the idea that guns mean protection. More often they mean acciden- tal death. They cite the tragedy of the bank manager who threw off a quick shot at a fleeing robber — blasting a teller through the head. Easily available weapons promote violence in violent times. Japan, which has tough gun laws has a rate of only two gun murders per 100,000 — while Charlotte, North Carolina, where guns come easy has a rate of 25 per 100,000. 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Editor — Bill Batten — Advertising Manager Assistant Editor -- Ross Haugh Women's Editor — Gwyn Whilsmith Phone 235.1331 SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., O.W,N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation, March 31, 1972, 5,03, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $8.00 Per Year; USA $10.00 R gionthig News )4 SEPTEMBER 1972 MORE TIPS ON TAKING MEDICINES Sometime ago we published in our bulletin several rules to follow when taking a medicine. Here are a few more important rules that you should always obey. DO NOT TRUST YOUR MEMORY Always read the prescription label at least twice. Once before opening the container and again just before you actually take the media eine. Never take a medicine in the dark, even if you think you are sure about its location. THERE ARE "CHILDREN PROOF" CONTAINERS A great many products must now be put up in containers that are very difficult for smaller children to open. But this does not mean you can get careless. Keep all medicines out of sight and locked up if possible. Do not take medicine in front of small children. They want to imitate and if they see where it is they will figure out a way to reach it. BE CAREFUL OF THE LABEL Keep the label up facing you when pouring a liquid from a bottle. This can prevent it from dripping and making it hard to read. Never switch a label. Be careful if you are taking two medicines at one time. Close one before opening the next so that you do not accidently switch the covers. Be sure the label remains on the containers until the medicine is all used or is disposed of. REPORT NEW SYMPTOMS AT ONCE Do not assume that a reaction or new symptom is normal. Some drugs do have side effects and these should be reported to your physician, at once. He may wish to try another drug since there are usually more than one that treat the same condition. YOUR PHARMACY Bob Middleton, PhmB Stan Harrell, PhmB Re J1 g R R RO R FiL R R KEN D. BOWES Manager Phone 235-0530 They already have invitation There would be draw-backs One of those new African nations is kicking out of the country all the Indians. This is an emotional and political, rather than a rational decision. African blacks hate these Asian Indians because the latter are better educated and on the whole, much wealthier than the natives. The reason for this is that the Indians are smart, work hard, and in backward countries, usually wind up in control of much of the ecomony. Trouble is, with these Indians in Africa, that nobody wants 'them. Many of them have British. passports:, as their grandfathers went to Africa when the territory was under British 'rule, to build railroads. They're clinging to these passports like life-belts, but it isn't doing them much good. Britain doesn't want them. It has enough racial strife on its hands already, after admitting thousands of Pakistanis, Indians and West Indians after the war. There have been race riots, white against coloured. India, their homeland, doesn't want them. It already has more refugees than it can handle. Canada has been approached, and, as usual, dithers. We could do a lot worse than accept a sizable chunk of these people without a home, They are W.U.M.fAiWikaaMtargr&S, Times Established 1873 industrious, peaceable and capable. They wouldn't be coming here as penniless im- migrants. Most of them are fairly well off. Many of them have skills and professions we need. I don't know much about Indians. I have some Canadian Indian friends, but the only Asian Indians I have known well were four chaps with whom I learned to fly Spitfires in England, longer ago than I care to remember. Perhaps they weren't representative, because they were all from well-to-do families, and all spoke good English. But they were certainly a cross- section of that class, and gave me a good idea of why there is so much strife in India. You'd think that four youths who had come all the way from India for advanced training would have been pretty close, thrown into the midst of all those Poles, British, Australians, Canadians, and a dozen other species of whites. On the con- trary, they could barely stand one another. There was Krishna. Smallish, very handsome, flashing black eyes that could almost literally flame when he was angry. He spoke such precise and fluent English that he made the rest of us feel like hicks. He was a Christian. There was Ahmed. A lanky kid of about nineteen, sleepy-eyed, slow-moving, a big grin, and not much to say. He was a Pakistani Moslem. And little Koori. He was pigeon- chested, weighed about 115, had huge, mournful black eyes, and was in a perpetual state of terror when flying. He should never have been there. One day he and I were sent up to practice dog- fighting in our Spits. I knew he didn't like flying, but not until that day just how deep was his fear. Every time I'd take a pass at him and go, "Tut-tut-tut-tut" like a machine gun, he'd veer wildly off about a mile and call wildly, "Smilee, Smilee, don't come so close." He was a Hindu. And then there was the inimitable Singh Thandi. Flashing white teeth, chuckling eyes, magnificent silk turbans, under which he bundled his hair, which came down to his tail-bone. Curly black beard, Fastidious as a model. Kept his beard curly by tying a handkerchief around his jaw at night and knotting it on top of his head. Singh was a Sikh, another religion heard from. But he was a Labor Day has come and gone for another year with few in this area looking upon the occasion with any greater significance than it being just another welcome holiday. For the lady of the household, it is much more. It's the final day of the summer holiday and brings to an end two months of having offspring continually underfoot, It may have only been an ac- cident, but one of the pieces of literature which crossed our desk over the Labor Day weekend was pertaining to a research program on family finance undertaken by the BBC, They estimate the housewife works at least 85 hours weekly and her duties encompass 11 jobs - nurse, teacher, catering manageress, buyer, public relations expert, etc., etc. If she were paid the going rate for such jobs, she would earn $8.750 per annum, That's an Englishman's estimate presumably, but it is much lower than one recited to the writer by his better half only a week earlier. While reading an American magazine she came across the information that she was worth $15,000 per annum to her hubby. To have the dreary drudgery of household chores raised to professional level and to be paid for it all is enough to go to any woman's head. Obviously, few males could dole out that kind of cash for our housewife, so it would become a matter of asking our benevolent governments to meet their pay demands. Now that, girls, could just create some thorny problems for you. Not all women are good housekeepers and if governments paid housewives, job standards would have to be introduced. Then, never mind the means test, think of the encroachment and publicity of home inspection tests. Is she a good cook or a poor one, is she economical or wasteful, does she negelect her children, is she slovenly or tidy, is her home dust free? pretty lousy Sikh, They're not supposed to drink, smoke, cut their hair, and a lot of other things. He didn't smoke or cut his hair but he could put away about twelve pints of beer in an evening and, except for a little giggling, be none the worse. But he had his hangovers. He was a crafty devil. When he had a particularly bad head, he'd just stay in bed, When the C.O. tried to give him a blast for his ab- sence, he'd roll his eyes at the ignorance of these infidels, and say politely "Sorry, sir, today is holy day for Sikhs. Cannot fly on holy day." The baffled C.O. had no answer, as these Indian boys had to be well treated, Singh would have nothing to do with the other "Indians" and joined a convival little group with Van, a Belgian, Sven, a Nor- wegian, a couple of Australians and Jack Ryan and myself, Canadians, With the beard, the turban and the silver tongue, he attracted girls like flies. He loved flying as Koori hated it, Never forget the time I shared a room with him in London, on a weekend leave. About 11 a.m, we started to pull ourselves together. tie got up, groaning, holding his head, and tottered about in his shorts, his great mass of hair hanging down to his bum. (He didn't wear a turban to bed.) There was a knock at the door, — please turn to page 5 Reports pertaining to these subjects would have to be filed by the inspectors for job evaluation of all housewives. Similar to most government inspections,there would of course be surprise events with the housewife having no warning. Commenting on the suggestion, the Unchurched Editorial of the United Church of Canada, says that courses in homemaking just might be compulsory to qualify for pay. Courses in child-rearing should definitely be mandatory, they claim, pointing out this is long overdue anyway. Training for every other job is compulsory, yet the most im- portant of all, motherhood, is left to chance; it's supposed to be a natural gift. If all women really qualified for motherhood, the tragedy of misfits, delinquents and battered and neglected children could be greatly reduced. ' Paying the housewife to stay at home would remove the need for day-care centres. Women's jobs could then go to cut down male unemployment. "Yes," the UC article points out, "paying the housewife could raise standards in the home environment and benefit the whole nation as well". That may be true, but if they're considering figures up in the $15,000-a-year bracket, we know a great many males who would welcome the opportunity to compete for the job of housewife. Those half-hour (minimun) 50 Years Ago Mr. E. Taman, Saskatoon, has taken a position of coatmaker with his brother, William. Mildred, daughter of Mr. Murray Elliott, Centralia had the misfortune to get the top of one of her fingers cut off in a cutting box. She and her brother were playing around the machine at the time. The Outdoor Club of Main St. Church held a wiener roast at Grand Bend on Monday evening. There was a large number pre- sent. The young ladies of the Main St. Outdoor Club went to Clinton last Thursday and played a game with the ladies of a class of Ontario Street Sunday School. They defeated the Clinton team 24 to 20, Following is the line-up of the Exeter team: Elanor Medd, Helen Dignan; M. Heywood; M, Walker,; Adele Lovie; Inez Tuckey; Mabel Johns; M., Broderick; R. Lamport; and Mrs. T. Elliott. 25 Years Ago Exeter's new subdivision where 50 new wartime houses are being erected is a scene of great activity, A cheque for $2,000 was received as a grant for Exeter's new community Park from the Ontario government. A tomato blight has swept the village and the destruction of a very promising crop of tomatoes is complete, Miss Margaret Dougall has received the certificate from the Department of Education giving her the authority of a fully qualified specialist of instrumen- tal music for high school and supervision of music for public school. Murray Stephen. Elimvillc. has resumed his studics in Special Art at the Beal Technical School, London. coffee breaks with the gals and the afternoon bridge parties sound inviting at that price. + Passed any hitch-hikers lately? It's almost impossible to travel anywhere without having someone stick out his thumb, and realizing that many are young people touring the country because there's little else for them to do, it's difficult to pass them by. Last year you may recall one of the signs which appeared on the highway was that created by a thoughtful young fellow who proclaimed to all drivers: "I've had a bath." At the recent newspaper convention in Montreal, publisher Rene Piche arrived from ,Kapuskasing, where he is also mayor, to relate one that may even be more difficult to pass by. On his way to catch a plane at Val d'Or, he spotted a hiker with a sign that simply stated: "Jesus would". Recently, a 60-day check of hikers was conducted on the Trans Canada Highway. It turned up 17 runaways, four fugitives from mental institutions, three escaped convicts and nine per- sons with criminal records. Still want to pick 'em up? 15 Years Ago "Kaukauna Aldebaran" ' a Doberman Pinscher puppy owned by Mrs. Lloyd England, Crediton, scored a remarkable win last week when she swept all major awards at the CNE Dog show conducted by the Canadian Kennel Club.The 11-month-old bitch captured trophies for best in show, best Canadian-bred in show, best Canadian-bred puppy and best in working group. Exeter Agricultural Society will present its second trade fair next Tuesday in connection with the annual fall fair. There will be a display of commercial and in- dustrial exhibits. There will be two new instruc- tors at SHDHS; Miss Marilyn Bowman, Norwich, a graduate of McDonald Institute, who is in charge of the domestic courses for girls; and Miss May Arnold, Chatham, a graduate of UWO, who will be teaching mathematics. The T-A received its first awards in national competition this week, capturing first prize for best, front page, and third prize for best, all-round newspaper. 10 Years Ago With Mayor Eldrid Simmons casting two deciding votes, town council Tuesday night passed a motion requesting the Ontario Liquor Licence Board to conduct a vote on outlets here. Bonnie K. Hogarth, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. f, V, Bogart, Exeter, recently graduated from McConnell Air Lines school in Minneapolis with an average of 9(1 percent. She plans to work with an American airline. The 20 members of the senior grade at the new Precious Blood R.C. separate school set up tem- porary accommodation in the Exeter Library Tuesday as their room in the new building has met with unexpected construction delays. UMMEMREVAPAPIRSVINVIERENNOMEWAMWOKM.W;.: Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 VICTORIA and GREY TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 re