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Columnist Richard Needham, a modern Cassandra who is never happier than when he is crying disaster, prophesies with some glee the wiping out of the American dollar, and with it the Canadian, owing to inflation. He says to put your money in a Swiss bank, in Swiss francs. Question: what money? Because of that same inflation he's talking about, ninety percent of Canadians are lucky to make ends meet, let alone have anything to invest. Needham also says he doesn't believe in stocks and bonds. Nor do I. When I was young and foolish, just out of the service, and had a couple of thousand dollars in back pay, I was twice bitten. Now I'm thrice shy. Both "investments" were based on red hot tips. One thousand shares of a real dog called Ansley, a "gold mine"' which turned out to be moose pasture. It rose three cents in a week, and I was counting my paper money and congratulating myself on my shrewdness. Seriously considered becoming a speculator and getting rich fast. In two weeks Ansley was down to twelve cents. In two months it was off the board, as we wheeler- dealers say. But the second tip was too good to pass up. It came from a friend who was not only an ex-P.O.W. and therefore to be trusted, but a stock-broker and therefore on the inside. He was sinking every nickel he could raise into Eldridge, another gold stock. There really was a mine this time. So I went for 1,000 shares at 33 cents, Like the other, this stock immediately went up a few cents, no doubt due to heavy plungers like me. Then it began to slide, slowly and gracefully. When it was close to bottom, there was an announcement to shareholders of a reorganization of the company. It would now be called Elder and we would get one share of Elder for each eight shares of Eldridge we possessed. This was a little disappointing, but it was better than a goose egg. Each year came glowing company reports of the great future for the stock. The reports were all we got. Then came another an- nouncement. Elder was going to amalgamate with Peel and the outlook was roses all the way. Again there was a juggling of shares. I wound up with twelve shares. Not bad when I started out with a mere 1,000. But hold. Peel-Elder actually did stagger through and is now a respectable stock, if the term is not automatically contradictory. My twelve shares are now worth almost as much as the original 1,000. In 25 years I am down only about $40. Except for that 1,000 shares of Ansley, which I've written off to experience. That's a pretty dang ept financial career, if you ask me. You thought this story was going to have a sad ending, didn't you? This all seems to have very little bearing on anything, but it does. When the Smileys finally decide to go to England, the dollar is steadily slipping, and prices in Europe are rapidly increasing. Result, the trip costs a lot more than' we figured on. Somehow, there is a parallel there to my career in the stock market. "Why does anybody want to travel, anyway", groaned my wife, as she contemplated the horrors of getting ready. "I'd much rather stay at home," Her trouble is that she's a woman. I could throw a sweater, shirts, socks and underwear in a bag and be off, without a back- Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 A designated batter emergence of motorcycles and many young people when even local residents were forced to elbow their way down the main thoroughfare. This year 1973 seems to be the beginning of what we hope will be a return to the family type of visitors. We have talked to a few of the GB mer- chants and they are pleased with the switch in the type of people coming to the resort area this year. One of the reasons for the change could be the excellent way in which the Ontario Provincial Police detachment has been handling any problems which have cropped up in the last couple of years. The Attorney General's department has seen fit to send a large force of 29 men to Grand Bend for the summer along with an enlarged staff at the Pinery Park and this is bound to help. The area group which only this week purchased the Village Inn hotel, located only a block from the beach are trying to do their part in restoring Grand Bend to a family atmosphere. Village Retreat and Recreational Services headed by Ervin Gingerich of Zurich will be attempting to continue the renting of rooms to visitors while -providing home cooked meals. Gingerich told us Thursday he was in receipt of a letter only that morning from a church group in Michigan enquiring about the possibilities of renting the entire Village Inn for a week-end this winter. The village of Grand Bend has many advantages going for it to attract all age groups. It has one of the finest beaches in the province of Ontario and many recreational activities.• Roller skating continues to be a great attraction at the summer resort for youngsters from this area. We know, having a son who spends a lot of time on the rink. Miniature golf is also popular and only Saturday a new privately owned tennis court was officially opened north of Grand Bend, actually in Stephen township. + We make numerous trips to Grand Bend during the summer months and on some occasions visit the beach with our camera to take in the sights and some of the humorous incidents which are bound to happen when persons from all walks of life and from all parts of North America are on holidays. On warm, sunshiny days at the Bend, many different activities are taking place on the beach, all at the same time. It's quite normal to find two remarkably good-looking girls in bikinis which are "barely there" looking up every couple of minutes to survey the situation. Quite frequently they fix their hair and make sure all their straps are in the right places. On very rare occasions do any of these beauties really go into the water. Probably would ruin their expensive hair-dos. Interesting to watch, though. Then, there are always a couple of morons on the beach playing with a Frisbee and it's almost certain the silly thing will be whizzed right at your head. Also on the list will be a-couple of kids who have just covered a total stranger with a good coating of fine sand mixed with some lake water and a large dog probably a German shepherd after a dip in the lake has shaken itself off beside a sunbather. There are good looking people at the beach who know it and show it off. Add to this the not-so- good looking people who show it off anyway. Makes interesting watching when there are all kinds of people with all kinds of ideas on how they should look to others. Thanks for listening. 50 Years Ago Mr. Wes Dearing organized a picnic for the Trivitt Memorial choir and assisted by Messrs. Isaac Dunsford, Wm, Taylor and Jas. Stanlake, motored the choir to Goderich. After spending several hours there, the choir went to Bayfield where supper was served. The evening was spent at Grand Bend. The Boy Scouts held their annual service in Caven Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning last. There was a splendid congregation present. Rev. Telford, of Blyth, Scout- master of the Blyth troup, oc- cupied the pulpit and preached a very inspiring sermon. On the platform with him was Scout- master T. Pryde. The Boy Scouts, along with the male members of the choir occupied the choir loft and sang a very suitable anthem. A quartette was sung by Tom Pryde, John Pryde, Kenneth Stanbury and Roy Batten, A number of Boy Scouts left Wednesday for "Bannockburn Farm", the home of Rev. Jas. Foote, near Varna, 25 Years Ago Over 400 invitations have been mailed for Winchelsea Old Boys and Girls Reunion to be held August 2. L.V. Hogarth and Jack Weber leave Saturday to attend a school of poultry diseases at Dr. Salbury's offices at Charles City, Iowa, A large water tank, bought from Port Albert airport is being installed at Zurich, Its capacity is 65,000 gallons. Work on the new runways at Centralia RCAF Station is progressing rapidly, The landing strips are being doubled in length to give one mile runways. Newton Clarke, Woodham, was winner in the field crop com- petition in barley. 15 Years Ag0 Hensall children are taken to Turnbull's Grove every Wed- nesday afternoon as part of the summer playground program sponsored by the Hensel] Recreation Council, Two district youths were fined $50 and costs for throwing beer bottles from a car Saturday evening. Sale of the old Hensall Public School to Fred Haist, London, has lowered village taxes this year by almost two mills. 10 Years Ago Over 300 former pupils of Whalen public school answered the call of the bell Monday for a reunion which marks the closing of the building for educational purposes - but not for community gatherings. The school has been purchased by a local group to serve as a public hall. About 3,000 bales of hay, 400 bushels of newly-harvested barley, and a number of im- ' plements were destroyed when the barn of Arnold Westlake, RR 1, Cromarty was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Formation of a centennial committee to make plans for the celebration of Canada's 100th birthday in 1967 was proposed ,Tuesday by Mayor W.E. Sitii- mons. Construction of the $200,000 hockey and skating rink at RCAF Station Centralia is proceeding on schedule, Completion is set for the end of September. By ROSS HAUGH For the next two weeks while our esteemed editor is batt'n" his way around the province of Quebec on a working holiday, a couple of pinch hitters will at least attempt to fill the usual space. • This week we will take a shot at the job while next week, Janet Ecker will pass on some of her experiences of the summer which we know she is enjoying im- mensely. Sort of feels like the designated hitter now in use in the American baseball league where he bats for the pitcher who is the most im- portant player on the team. Janet with two years of jour- nalism at the University of Western Ontario behind her was the guiding light behind our Centennial issue and she is staying on for the balance of the summer to give the other hard working members of the editorial staff a couple of weeks holidays. The only thing we are con- cerned about with the editor away is the very emphatic im- balance on the editorial staff with yours truly the only male member being faced with the women's liberation force of Gwyn, Susan and Janet. While we are trying to guide the, ship through waters whick,May become a little rough along with our regular duties, Gwyn Whilsmith is handling Bill's advertising beat and will be helping in the layout and paste-up department on Wednesdays. Susan Greer is back at the women's desk after a two week rest and Janet Ecker will be doing features, general reporting and a lot of the leg work which is necessary around here. + + + A visit to the beach! In this area, a sunbathing trip to the shores of Lake Huron and Grand Bend in particular is quite common during the summer months and becoming in- creasingly popular with local people after an absence of a few years. A jaunt to "The Bend" was a must for area residents during the past 10-20-30 years when older folks could park on Main street and watch visitors stroll up and down the street. This certainly changed over the -last five years with the ward look. She says, "But the house if filthy," and goes into an orgy of vacuuming and scrub- bing. The place looked all right to me. "What am I going to wear? What shall we do with the cat? How can I be ready in time? What if it rains all the time? Who's going to mow the lawn?" And on and on. I answer: "Just wear your swim suit. Then, if it rains, you'll be all set. You wouldn't be ready in time for your own funeral, and you wouldn't know what to wear. We'll put the cat on the back lawn and she can graze it, like a sheep. " Like any wife, she truly ap- preciates understanding and help like this. However, all these things can be ironed out. It's the financial aspect that's bad. After spending a small fortune getting ready to go, I think we have enough left for a one-way ticket. We'll get home somehow. I have a rich niece in England. If she doesn't kick through with the home fares (and I think she would, with alacrity, after we'd visited her for a few weeks) we might have to swim. I should have stayed in the stock market and bled to death slowly, with dignity. The Ontario Safety League notes that approximately one out of every eighteen licensed drivers In Ontario was involved in an accident last year. Country commuters HISTORY OF THE 'IN HEEL Our farms certainly are becoming more efficient, A recently discovered clip- ping from the London Free Press says that while in 1900 the average Canadian farmer produced enough food for 5 people, in 1969 he fed 31. Today efficiency has increased even more, It is possible though, that our increased farm productivity involves sacrificing some of the old fashioned rural feelings of community and neighborliness. We are see- ing a gradual end to the hundred acre farms, each owned and occupied by one family, as these 100 acre parcels are bought up by large farm operators. This results in a house being vacated on each 100 acres and often being sought by commuters who have little or no connection with the farming community. These new rural residents form one or two acre islands in the middle of the productive farm lands. They leave their homes for jobs in nearby cities or towns each morning and return at night too tired to participate in and probably with little interest in established rural institutions like the Women's Institutes or 4-H clubs. The rural commuters often keep the friendships that they make in the cities and towns and have more connections with the communities where they work than with their farming neighbours. The new oc- cupants of farm houses are thus quite different from the previous family farmers The provincial government has a new regulation to control the practice of having wrecked cars standing about. "Enforcement measures will be applied gradually," Environment Minister James Auld said, "but our intention is to es- tablish control over private and commer- cial accumulations of junked automobiles. When the regulation is fully enforced, the owners . . . will have to choose either proper disposal or the establishment of a regulated, well-run waste management system." Strathroy municipal council will be delighted to hear this. Junked automobiles — often left standing in the front yard — have been a source of annoyance for years. Local attempts to cope with the matter have been largely ineffective. When the subject comes up, councils have been left SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., 0.W.N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC Editor — Bill Batten — Advertising Manager Assistant Editor —4 Ross Haugh Women's Editor — Susan Greer Phone 235.1331 on their own 100 acres and probably con- tribute less to the farming community. The increasing influx of city people to the country means that people whose livelihood may be pretty well divorced from the farm economy and whose commit- ment to farming is not very intense are sur- rounded by productive agricultural land. Conflicts of interest are bound to arise. One such conflict surfaces when city people, who live in the country want all the good features of country living - clean air and peace and quiet - and object to the drawbacks, like the occasional unpreven- table farm odours. The need to feed the growing Canadian population as well as economies of scale, make larger and larger farm units in- evitable. And the pollution and hectic pace in our cities means that there will be more commuters seeking a farmhouse and a few acres as a permanent habitat. But it seems to us that something - a feeling of communi- ty which comes out of sharing common in- terests and experiences perhaps — may be lost in our rural areas. Perhaps though, a new kind of com- munity, with commuters and farmers each bringing something quite different and equally valuable to it, will grow up fri place of the old, close knit farm relationships. What do you think? We invite your com- ments. —Huron Expositor wondering how to tackle the matter. Sometimes they wonder if they can force the owner to move the vehicles by resorting to a nuisance bylaw. Generally, they have hoped for results through pressure. There are an estimated 500,000 aban- doned cars in the province. In order to get them removed, it is obviously necessary to have some system for disposal of the cars. Since each vehicle contains more than a ton and a half of steel, reclaimation seems like a good idea. So, work is going on to deter- mine the most economical system for a practical cleanup program. Once in operation, the program likely will have to continue for years, at least as long as people continue to drive and Wear out automobiles. —Strathroy Age Dispatch STONE AGE .016 tL • t AtZ. TV14.1711.1911,7114....411%.... INDUSTRIAL AGE Removing the derelicts Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Humber 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation, March 31, 1972, 5,037 RATES: Canada $8,00 Per Year; USA $10.00 !IAA, Aw. e • 1-, — -IL% Vol CAHN-AGE