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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-01-30, Page 4eigaSiSeSS.SeSSOSS:s: eSeeiteeSeei:?Sg SeseeieseseeseSee„ eSeSeReei!iiieeseeeeeeee',SeeieSS—Aegeeegaggeieieese: Quer a barrel Cloak not your sins residents in question, it also creates some problems. For instance, a backyard swimming pool may become an impossibility. One of the residents was also concerned about not being able to erect a garage due to the drain. Those are circumstances that deserve special consideration. Many others will benefit from the drain without having any of the nuisance of construction on their property or the hinderances to future plans that may be impeded by a drain of this nature. However, it would be most unfortunate if residents in the future use this as a prece- dent to automatically extract funds from municipal coffers to allow public services to cross their properties. There are circumstances when com- pensation is warranted and others where it is not. Unfortunately, the wisdom required to judge these circumstances is most dif- ficult to attain, However, the situation does point out that negotiations must commence long before any construction commences so municipal officials do not have their strengths for negotiations badly weakened by the necessity of expediency. Some residents of Exeter no doubt will be chastising themselves for signing easements for the new Anne St, drain Without receiving compensation in view of the fact a few of the "hold-outs" received $3.00 per foot for signing similar easements, The entire situation is most interesting to debate, and indications are that members of last year's council were not even in agreement over the situation. However, they found themselves "over a barrel" and were faced with meeting the demands or paying the contractor for down-time involved while expropriation proceedings were undertaken. They no doubt all agree that a tactical error was made in not having the easements procured at an earlier date so steps could be taken to resolve the matter before the contractor began work. Hopefull, it will be a lesson well learn- ed and the problem will not be duplicated in the future. There are those on council who were Critical of the residents who would not sign the easements without compensation. However, to be fair, they must realize in some cases compensation is warranted. While the drain will bring benefits to the Living with a hockey addict Frightening statistics It's now complete! Yes, the entire Batten family have become totally addicted to hockey. Not just watching, but playing, Actually, it's a bit of a laugh. Mother has been complaining for the past four years about the amount of time dad and the kids . spend at the arena, and yet when she became engrossed in the sport, she's been at it more than the rest of us. It all started when the mothers of the novice hockey teams were asked to play their sons as part of the local minor hockey day ac- tivities. The ' better half was hard to convince. Ever since her in- structor at a golf class told her to stick to softball (which she never played either) she's had a bit of a defeatist attitude about her athletic ability. There was no way she .was stepping on the ice to play against her six and eight-year-old sons. your spirituality and most of your job. Dr. Tozer says God loves earl- did people and we must look to and trust Him for deliverance from conscious and deliberate sins in our lives. Another factor modern man hates to face is discipline. He often refuses to commit himself, "I want to be free," he says, "I don't want to commit myself to anything." Well, let's consider two men. One will not pledge himself to anything; will not accept any responsibility, He wants to be free. And he is free, in a sense . , . just as a tramp is free. The tramp is free to sit on a park bench by day, sleep on a newspaper by night, get chased out of town in the morning, and find his way up a set of creaky stairs in some flophouse in the evening. Such a man is free, but he is also useless. Another man . . . maybe prime minister or any great man who carries upon him the weight of government is not free. Such men, in sacrificing their freedom step up their power, If they want to be free, they can be, just like the tramp, but they choose rather to be bound. Again Tozer, says there are many religious tramps in the world who will not be bound by anything. They have turned the grace of God into personal licence. But the great people are those who, though they know the flesh is weak, will still dare to commit themselves to certain sacred vows; and who, eventhough they may fail to keep those vows on occasion know they can go to God in humility, ask forgiveness and start all over again. It takes courage to commit oneself and stick to it but with God's help we can all do it, A. W. Tozer says one of the troubles with our society is that sin has been driven underground and come up with a new name and a new face. Sin, he says, is being called many fancy names, anything but what it really is, He admonishes us, "So if you're jealous, call it jealousy. If you tend to pity yourself and feel you're not appreciated but are, like a flower born to blush un- seen on the desert, call it what it is „ . self pity," Tozer is right, of course. Most of us hate to deal firmly with sin in our lives. (Though we're not so reluctant to point it out in others!) The Anglican prayer book has a prayer that speaks about confessing our manifest sins and not cloaking them before the face of the Almighty. But, I fear most of us do have the tendency to 'cloak' them or lump them altogether, as if by not call- ing them by name we can fool God into believing we're a pretty sinless lot after all, Of course, we fool no one but ourselves, Take resentfulness. If you're resentful admit it instead of acting like a lady I know who behaves like a hen thrown out of her nest. She sputters about, run- ning hither and thither clucking and complaining . . . somebody is always doing her wrong or misunderstanding her. Well, if you've got that kind of spirit you had better deal with it instead of covering it up with an artisitic sounding Greek translation. Call it by its right name and get rid of it by the cleansing power of Jesus' blood and the grace of God. And then there is your temper. No use to christen it by some other name like righteous in- dignation. Call it what it is. Because If you have a bad temper you will either get rid of it or it will get rid of much of Health and Welfare Canada have been distributing calendars on which several health hints and facts have been printed. Here's a sample: The average Cana- dian beer drinker consumes the caloric equivalent of 198 cream puffs a year. Forty percent of young adults are overweight—a hefty percentage. Seven per- cent of the Canadian drinking public con- sumes 40 percent of all alcohol sold. Canada's problem with drinking is 670,000 problem drinkers. Drink to me only with thine eyes—and your liver will last longer. I used to drink like a fish.„I was hooked. Don't let a drunk drive you home...leave your car where it is. There are many other health topics covered in addition to the problems associated with alcohol, but those take on a special meaning following the statistics released last week by the Exeter OPP detachment. It is more than just startling—it's frightening—that offences under the Liquor Control Act jumped by almost 300 percent in the area last year and that a majority of them involved young people. This certainly lends credibility to those who have been suggesting that alcohol, and not drugs, is the main concern with young people today. It also suggests that programs regar- ding the dangers of misuse of alcohol must be stepped up in our schools and homes. When it is considered that one user of alcohol out of every nine ends up with a drinking problem, the local statistics should be sobering indeed. Our response to now Redy for it? "Eny more apels?" sed Dick. "I already -ate, them," sed Jane. --- Is the English language redy for enything like this? Yes, say members of the Australian Teaching Federation who recently ap- proved the first step in a program of spell- ing reform. The federation hopes to convince school systems throughout Australia to teach children a more phonetic way of spelling. "How can we justify the frustration suffered by so many young children as we prop up and maintain an archaic and stupidly complex system of writing words?" the president of the federation questioned, This newspaper is nearing the stage when we would support some change in the written word. Spelling appears to be com- ing a "lost art", By ELMORE BOOMER Counsellor for Information South Huron For appointment phone: 235-2715 or 228-6291 Last week, in conducting job inter- views for a position as a reporter, each applicant was given a test of some words common to many news reports. One young man (with a grade 12 education) had 14 out of 19 wrong, while a university graduate mustered a much better record but still spelled five wrong. Unless some general changes are made, incorrect spelling will continue to in- crease. By the way, the assistant editor took the same spelling test just out of curiosity. He had all the words correct, although his choice in two were different than that of the editor's way of spelling. But, according to our trusty dictionary (yes, we do use one occasionally) either spelling is correct. And that points up just how absurd the English language really is at times! Rite? Community health centres N ow ill point straight, cliff geographical terms and a total inability to blush at the atrocious puns you produce. Some of your friends will un- doubtedly try, if I know people, to turn it into a pornographic geographic game. This is almost unavoidable, because there are a lot of poeple with dirty minds, unlike you and me. These excrescences on the face of our pure and bland society will come up with filthies like Sunapya Beach, the State of Nymphomania in which we find a mountain called Mons Pubis and a wood labelled Shewor Forest, Pay no attention to them. They'll suffer enough in the next world for contriving such dling abilities. No, the writer is not com- plaining. With the salaries being paid professional hockey players these days, we'll give her a chance to make it. We'll even put up with the dish- pan hands acquired while the lady of the house spends her time out on the rink, but just wait until we get our hands on the guy who suggested the mothers play their sons at minor hockey day! Actually, all the mothers who competed in the contest Saturday night should be commended. For many of them it was the first time on skates for several years, and certainly the first time most of them ever had a hockey stick in their hands, Most of them didn't know whether they were right orleft- hand shots, but that didn't worry them. For the first practice, Agnes Vandergunst took no chances and brought two sticks to determine which one was best for her. Hockey will never become a' sport where the entire family can perform at one time, but we happen to think that once a year every mother and father should be required to suit up and play in at least one game. In that way, they would more easily understand some of the difficulties their sons face in a game. It's easy to see what has to be done while you're sitting in the stands, but the chore becomes much more difficult when you get on the ice in the heat of a game. Many rail-birds expect the boys to play perfect hockey and criticise every little mistake they make. By forcing them to get on the ice once each year they would become more understanding and cognizant of the fact that it is a fast game and mistakes come easily. Too often, spectators—and parents in particular—fail to take this into consideration. The writer has the same problem, but at least once early in the season, we advise the kids on our hockey team that they're playing hockey far superior to the brand their fathers played and to make that information available when dad gets on their backs about their play. However, the more they chuckled about the fun involved in shifting her out of her panti hose or bouncing her against the boards, the more she seemed inclined to get out and prove she could stand the pace. So, when she heard the other mothers were holding a practice session one morning before the big game, she decided to join them. First of all, she borrowed apair of skates from a local pee wee player and tried her luck on the backyard rink. She quickly found that her figure skating abilities had completely failed her. Particularly in a pair of hockey skates. Before the practice she borrowed a friend's figure skates and donned her eldest son's uniform and took to the ice She found out it was even better exercise than her yoga class. Mother delighted in telling her young opponents how flashy the team of mothers looked on the ice and there were stories about them having to control their shots te'lreeP thetri fforn flying' over We; of 'the nets and not' breaking so many of the boards. Aftes the kids were home from school; she dominated play on the backyard rink, and father feared he was goirig to get involved in strenuous arguments about who should be allowed to play with the puck. Next morning, we arrive home for lunch to find the women have been back at it, Another practice session at the local ice palace. Her shot wasn't working too well and she decided it was due to the poor condition of her son's gloves. They were too tight, The hint was that dad should get out and buy her a pair. With her zeal for the sport, we even face the prospect of having to buy a whole set of equipment, just in case her hockey activities conflict with those of her son. Right now, there's every in- dication the Exeter Broncos would lose one of their players if mother was playing the same night. She wants a shower installed so she can take a quick dip to get of the sweat after her work-outs, Dad has to flood the rink every night in the backyard so it is smooth enough not to interfere with her new-found puck han- The ideal life is only the normal or natural life as we shall someday know It. professionals and laypeople, and society as whole have run to meet emergencies as they have arisen, like the local fire department, One fire has been put out, only to find another of meaner proportions just a few blocks away. The emphasis of cure has its own built-in limitations. The whole scientific process cries out for prevention instead of cure, for community-centered treatment instead of isolation in hospitals, for cost reduction rather than escalation, for en- couraging health rather than defeating illness, Society has at its disposal many instruments decisive for the encouragement of mental health. There is a new con- sciousness around that more can be done, more is demanded of us at this time. With the addition of mandatory consultation and education services to the mental health centre services in the United States came the first official public avowal of the necessity for prevention of mental illness in that country. The social revolution of the sixties indeed is a force that demands better than we have produced up to now. The em- phasis has changed from material and professional ad- vantage to the welfare of the individual. Personal satisfaction and growth has taken priority over institution, empire, and ingrown professionalism. It is an exercise in cen- tradiction to trace mental health movement from its inception. In 1841 Dorothea Dix visited the East Cambridge jail and found people guilty of insanity housed there. Any treatment in those days was carried on in the community and included forced seclusion, neglect, beatings and imprisonment. It was Miss Dix's personal crusade both in the United States and Canada that gave rise to the mental hospitals which now we know. These became at their zenith institutions whereby the mad and mentally ill could be safely separated from the community. No doubt there were many personal empires and a general professional security with such institutionalization. Now the tide turns and mental hospital populations are going down on both sides of the border. The communities are allowing natural and social curative processes to have some effect in the lives of the sick. In February, 1963 President John Kennedy asked for a bold new approach to mental health. The United States Congress passed the Community Mental Health Centers Act. Communities eligible for such support were to receive up to two thirds of the cost of mental health centres. The first question that came up for discussion was simply. What is a community? Geography or early patterns of growth have determined the borders of communities since communities have been. It was decided that for purposes of mental health cen- tres in the United States a community should be according to population not the lay of the land, A community mental health centre, to be eligible for federal funds must be ready to minister to 75,000 people and not more than 200,000 persons. Com- munities could be large or small geographically depending on location in overpopulated or underpopulated areas. No doubt there would be much local anguish over some of the practicalities of such community service. The loss of local autonomy, or a hospital or a service would be greeted with outrage. Having decided the size of communities and thus in many cases their location the planners asked themselves, What services will be provided? To be eligible for federal grants, it was thought best that five distinct services must be offered. The five services thought necessary for a full-orted community health program were as follows, inpatient services, partial hospitalization, outpatient services, emergency services and consultation and education services. These five essentials are seen as basic but not final measures of a mental health program. There would be much learning and erilargementof service,a creative branching out, There are some definite new directions charted for the medical and psychiatric medicine in these American innovations. The emphasis has been on the cure of sickness, The streams and they supply such doozers and Uptaha Creek Niktha Creek and Sleait Btirn. It ) there's an alcy in the crowd,'' he° might suggest Live R. At the basis of this body of water is Font of Life, and running off from the main river are Minna Rills. In there somehwere you. will find Compression Springs. Don't go away, it gets worse. In front of me I have a map, showing this unusual world, drawn by an excellent cartoonist who became involved. On that map is an island called Nomanison Island (the poet Donne), on which is a lighthouse called Gotta Light and a cape called Cape Waukin. All we need is a Bullfighter's Cape. Someone drew cities, so that on the map we have Greater Kappa City and, in small print Lesser Kappa City. In these cities may be found such things as the Pubic Library, Brut Al Copse (a small wooded area,) and a narrow street labelled Gunman's Mall. On the map is a kingdom called Kingdom of Kum (ruled by King Klimact Eric)) and above that is a smaller adjunct called Higher In Kum, and below it another called Lower In Kum. Just off the State of Nym- phomania lies Kumin Sea, in which are founda Fast Eddy and a Current of Ents. Then there are the great blank spaces on the map. One is entitled Ara Plain and the other Just Deserts, And there are hills and mountains. We have Kitchen Range, Ovatha Hill and Duty Cols. Nor is mining left out. There is an ancient mine, begun by the Incas, called Old Pala Mine. Another, Owtafya Mine. There are huge forests dubbed I Never Wood, and Yew Wood, and She Wood, and Hee Wood, and of course, the biggest of all, Y'all Wood. There are points, succinctly titled Getthe Point and Point A Forder. There are dangerous, dirty great rocks looming just off Dire Straits. They are fearsome to sailors, mid no wonder, They are known as Acid Rock and Country Rock. There are a couple of sounds, one called Mersey Sound, another Safety Sound. There are a couple of depressions,or faults,in the map, One of these in Xronic Depression, the other is Itzer Fault. There are elevated coast lines. These are dubbed Base Cliffs, Treble Cliffs, and the High Coast of Living, Got the idea'? Try it out I guarantee you'll be ill in twenty minutes. tut don't let them pawn off on you such junk as Generation Gap, Parr Gulf, and Cape Porh. Came across a new party game recently, and thought you might like to try it on your guests. It all began with some friends of ours who like to play with words and create wild puns. They had a bit of a problem and one said to the other: "We seem to be in dire straits." The other replied solemnly: "Yes, Dire Straits separate Tierra Del Freakout from the Cape of Good Dope, I believe." Or something like that. And they were off. They tried it on some of their friends, and the result was a collection of puns that even Shakespeare would have blushed at. All you need is a knowledge of iffsWileigEGM4 Times Established 1870 Advocate Established 1881 monstrosities as Taka Peak, Itsa Butte, Para Buttes and Maka Pass. Oh, they'll suffer, But not as much as you'll suffer when your guests get into the swing of things, and start producing such items as Melon Coulee and Sherbet Shore, Perhaps what you should do is partition your guests into groups, give each group a geographical term, and see what happens. Thus, you might say to one group: "O.K., your topic is bays. Let's hear some bays." So you get such items as Hound-dog Bay, and Stagat Bay and Brought To Bay, To another group, you submit sVanessaSSEWMCBMIMA Amalgamated 1924 41te ettftaintes-Usocate 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 — Terri Etherington Phone 235-1331 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Moil Registration Number 0886 Paid in Advance Circulation March 31, 1974, 5,309 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $9.00 Per Year; USA $11.00 purchased by Beaver Lumber Co. Ltd., manager A. J, Sweitser announced this week, ,. Harry Dougall was re-elected chairman of the Usborne Township school area board, Nearly 13,000 trees have been planted in the Ausable water- shed and the Pinery Provincial park by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forest, it Was revealed by District Foreman J, K. Reynolds this week. The per-daypublic ward rate of South Huron Hospital has been - raised from $11.50 to $13.35 it was announced by Supt. Miss Alice Claypole, Exeter POC called for tenders for construction of a filtration plant near its pump house beside the dam. 10 Years Ago Huron County Council defeated a Motion to erect a '15 bed Separate Wing on present land at Huronview. Stan Prone was elected chair- man of Exeter's RAP committee at the group's first official meeting of the year. Monday. Also elected were sec.-treas. C. M. Farrow; vice-chairman Roe Bogart. Mr. & Mrs. Hobert MacLean of Tuekersmith Township celebrated their 50th anniver- sary, sesSeeggege'eeseeeeseefeeaeeeesessseSSSeeeaeeeeisoeeeeeeeeVASeie gelnswelsswitasserssesma 50 Years Ago Mayor J. A. Gregory of North Battleford, Sask. was in town in connection with the winding up of his late father's estate. Roger Northcutt of Hay Township is in a low state of health, suffering front a severe heart attack. Water is scarce in the com- munity, Some farmers are driv- ing their cattle long distances to water. Creamery butter, 41 cents, eggs, extras 60 cents; eggs, seconds 35 cents; hogs selects, 11 cents. 25 Years Ago Dr. Hugh Creech, son of Mr. & Mrs. R. N, Creech has discovered a drug for retarding cancer at the Institute of Cancer Research in Philadelphia, Mrs. Hanna Taylor of Exeter observed her 87th birthday Mon- day. Hon. Leslie M. Frost officially opened the new Exeter District High School, Fifty-three young men of Ex- eter and Community made application to form a Kinsmen Club 'Tuesday night at a banquet at Club Mofietta, 15 Years Ago Huron Lumber Co. has been