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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-05-15, Page 4The committee studying a sports com- plex for Exeter and area have planned a trip to view the Tillsonburg complex on June 18. This will provide an excellent oppor- tunity for anyone wanting to know what a complex is all about. The jaunt is planned for the evening of June 18 and the cost is only $3 for a bus seat and we certainly recommend it to anyone in the area who is interested, A time of decision regarding the proposed complex in this area is quickly approaching and as we have stated before, it is imperative that people avail themselves of information on which they can make a decision. So, whether you're an opponent or a proponent, a trip to Tillsonburg is one of the best ways we know to see a complex firsthand and to judge whether such a facility is needed in this area and if it is feasible. Call Jim McKinlay at the local recrea- tion office if you want to be among those in- formed by having taken the trip. Some optimistic The rush for Olympic tickets indicates that many Canadians are confident that the international spectacle will go ahead as planned, despite the suggestion from others that all is not well with the progress on facilities in Montreal. Unfortunately, many area residents were caught off guard when tickets went on sale, no doubt feeling they would have am- ple time to make up their minds whether they would attend or not. However, it is now apparent that those decisions will have to be made quickly and people considering a trip to Montreal next summer will have to get into the long lineups or face disappointment. The method chosen for the sale of tickets is most unfortunate in that residents of the hinterlands do not have the same opportunities as their city cousins in acquiring ducats. In addition, there was little publicity provided on when the tickets would go on sale. However, it appears too late to correct that situation,and if you are among those wanting to see the world's top athletes per- form, you'd better act quickly. Take time for safety Life, with all its modern conveniences, grows more complicated each day and presents more opportunities for accidents. To say, "Oh, it couldn't happen to my child!" is to tempt fate. It is impossible to create a completely safe home and even if such a place could be conceived and constructed it would be im- practical as it would allow children to grow up in an artificial environment. They must learn to recognize, respect and avoid danger and to properly cope with life and its risks. The Canada Safety Council sponsors Child Safety Week each year in an effort to focus public attention on the needless loss of 2,000 young lives and thousands of in- juries to children under the age of 15. In this campaign they urge adults to "take time for safety" and to endeavour to instill in the young a safety consciousness which they will carry with them throughout their lives. Forty percent of students in high schools and universities are shy — this according to a recent survey among 800 such American people reported in Psychology Today. "There I was sitting all alone on the side while everyone else was having a good time dancing together. I just knew they were all noticing me and feeling sorry for the. I kept looking down at my shoes the whole evening until the awful dance ended." No doubt shyness is a universal experience but for some it is truly incapacitating for large parts of their lives. Most people have times of shyness, moments of em- barrassment when things outside of themselves seem to threaten. Other people have known chronic shyness but grown out of it. And of course some are just chronically shy. For some people it is an un- pleasant experience. The con- sequences may be felt through life. Such consequences are listed below. People have difficulty meeting people, making friends, or en- joying potentially happy situations. Depression and a terrible loneliness often take their toll. Shy people don't seem to be able to express themselves clearly or to be fruitfully assertive. Other people are confused and cannot see clearly personal assets in the shy person. The shy person often is thought to be hostile, bored, snobbish or weak. A deficiency in. thinking clearly and communicating easily before others often results. The shy one is excessively preoccupied with his own feelings and reactions. Shy people overact to situations which others could handle easily. It is as though they sit under klieg lights every time the sun shines on them. It is evident we are not talking about quiet but self-reliant people. Nor are we talking about times of natural shyness found in children or the feeling of adults hit with minor damages that totalled hundreds of.dollars, A resident of Exeter, FL J.M, "Gibby" Gibson, RCAF Clinton, public information officer and SIT instructor, has been ordered an tempor'ary duty to Canadian Headquarters, Ottawa, to report May 25. His duties will be to help in the preparation of the Armed Forces display for the CNE. FL Gibson will be commanding officer of the tri-service team that will Man the exhibit. Our response to now By ELMORE BOOMER Counsellor for Information South Huron For appointment phone: 228-6291 or 235-0560 Forty'percent shy SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND 0.W.N.A. and ABC Publisher Robert Southcott Editor — Bill Batten — Advertising Manager Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh Plant Manager — Les Webb Composition Manager — David Worby Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation March 31, 1974, 5,309 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Conadd $9.00 Per Year; USA $11.00 Phone 235-1331 Chance to recycle yourself OUR POINT OF Chance to view complex Pokey is back in town I think it was actor Gary Grant who said in an interview that although we all know everyone has bowel movements, we don't excrete in the living room where everyone can see us. A little bluntly Put perhaps, but to the point . . . which was that while we all know many people use foul language, have sex, and do violent acts, we don't need to have it sprewed out at us from the television screen. I'm a little uptight this week about two CBC programs which singed our ears with filthy language and left nothing to the imagination . • all in the.name of culture. As a Christian and a parent I'm concerned. Everywhere we turn our standards are been put down. There was a time, not so many years ago either, when we could send our children out in the world knowing that teachers and leaders of community and nation would not feel it their duty to question the ethics of the parents. They supported us and we sup- ported and respected them, and kids weren't torn between the two as they often are today. Because my children are spread out over a period of 16 years, we've watched the changing attitudes and have come to the conclusion that generally speaking, parents today, especially Christian ones get little or no support from anyone outside the home, accept perhaps the church. Not only do we not get support, but our beliefs and standards are very often up for ridicule. We are made to look like the bad guys . . , stuffy, in- tolerant and thoroughly unat- tractive. Put a little bite in your bark We've tried to teach the children to respect their leaders, but it's becoming increasingly difficult as we hear of persons who influence their lives daily, behaving in ways that make respect almost impossible. Young people are very im- pressionable. Because it's natural for them to need and want to look up to someone, they look to leaders of society, for examples. How sad that the examples being set are often so bad. . It has become the norm for marriage partners to break up and move in with someone else's partner; four letter words are accepted almost everywhere; it's almost impossible to find a movie the whole family can see just for the fun of it. While there still are some good programs on television, a lot of it is just so much sewage. The fact that these things are accepted as the norm doesn't necessarily make them right and I for one am stick and tired of being put down as a narrow minded nincompoop because I don't accept it. I'm also getting weary of other Christians who do nothing but wring their hands. It's time we stood up and be counted! Granted we may be in the minority but there's still enough of us around to make our weight felt. Someone else has said, "Christians should be the watch dogs of our society", I agree. There are times when we should be barking loudly and insistently, maybe even putting some bite in it, instead of giving a few pitiful, whiny yelps. Did you ever go around feeling good all the time, and have to stop and wonder why? That's been happening to me all week. I find myself whistling, tossing cheery salutes to colleagues and generally feeling as though I'd just won a lottery. "Settle down, boy. This isn't like you," I admonish me. I am not normally a gloom-pot, but neither do I go around grinning like an idiot. My wife, early in our acquaintance, nicknamed me "Stoneface." My average ex- pression could probably be described as saturnine. That's why I was a little alarmed to find myself breaking into broad smiles this week. When I actually found myself being jolly with the boss, I knew it was time to stop and pull myself together. "Look, Bill," I said to myself, "you have not been drinking; you are not senile; nobody has left you a large sum of money. Pull yourself together. Why are you going around all hummy inside like a little old humming-bird?" And then it struck me. Pokey is in town, Pokey, if you carne in late, is Nocov Chen Sieber, my grandbabby, all rosy, satin cheeks and huge brown eyes and golden hair and little white teeth and twenty-two pounds of hellery of him. Some of you will remember an old song that went, "Sugar in the, morning, sugar in the evening, sugar at supper time ... . " Those ancient, spavined ladies who were once the fabulous Andrews Sisters made it a hit, Well, that's what it is like when my grandbabby is around. It's sugar first thing in the morning, when I get down for breakfast, The sugar consists of a little jig of glee, two big eyes,a tiny white grin, and two wee arms thrust up, demanding a pickup, a dozen or so kisses, a dandle, a song, a little soft-shoe shuffle, and anything else that the old man can muster for the early service. Of course, it's all a plot. Reason tells me this. The kid has been trained from birth to know who has the money in the family, who is the softest touch, the biggest sucker. But the reason is washed away by the floods of emotion when the downy head snuggles into one's neck, or the tiny finger goes into the air, pointing at a sun reflection on the wall, or the sturdy little body, proceeding like a bishop on roller-skates, mar- ches to the fire-irons, picks up the poker, and gravely •hands it to one, ignoring everyone else in the room. So. The hell with reason. I'm making a new will. My wife has practically everything else tied up, but the kid is getting my rubber waders and fishing rod, my golf clubs, my 25 shares of mining stocks, and the beautiful foot-stool that his great- grandfather, on his father's side, fashioned with his own hands. That's all I own, but it should set him up pretty well for life. And that may be only a start. We took him to see his other great-grandad on the weekend. It was quite a symbolic, touching meeting, their first. There was a little more than eighty years between them, but they were close buddies from the start. Great-Grandad was waiting, arms open. Great-Grandbabby stuck out his arms. Great- Grandad's eyes got all red around the edges. Grea t- Grandbabby grinned. It was as simple as that, For the rest of the weekend, there really wasn't anybody else around of much account. There was only one cock-of-the-walk, all 15 months of him. This despite, or because of the fact that Great- Grandbabby had no less than the following heeding his every wish: one great-great-aunt, two great- aunts, two great-uncles, one gran,. one grandad, one mother, and four assorted cousins, young enough to be his brothers and sisters. Talk about a spoiled- rotten kid! To my mind, this is the way a baby should be brought up, amidst a veritable horde of people who love him because he is a beautiful baby, and love him even more because he is. theirs, with all that fine blood in him. This still happens among a few primitive tribes, but has almost vanished from our vaunted western society, where even grannies and grandads, let alone the "greats" are neatly tucked away into nursing homes where they are lucky to get a, per- functory visit once a month from their own children, let alone ever have a chance to cuddle and kiss the tiny ones, who bear their blood and bones and spirit. No child in this world has ever been spoiled by a surfeit of, love. And who has more time and love -to give than the "grands" and the "greats?" At any rate, as I told my daughter after she had come in from pacing off her grandfather's land. "That boy obviously knows which side his bread is buttered on, You have trained him well. He has me hooked. He has his great-grandfather hooked. If he play8 his cards right, he might wind up as a memberof the landed gentry, as well as the owner of a 15-year-old pair of hip waders." INFAVVAMMEATM Amalgamated 1924 The risk involved in heading onto Ontario highways in a motor vehicle has been well known for some time, but a recent promotion of the ministry of transportation and com- munications certainly brings the point more to the forefront. They've decided the risk is so great that it is now practical to provide drivers with an op- portunity to donate vital organs that may be intact after the .owner of said parts has been killed in an accident. A rather macabre suggestion at the least! However, it is a good idea, as long as you can consider the fact that it's not going to be you that ends up as one of the donors. Many people, have indicated a desire to have vital organs donated to those who need them, but have never taken the time required to make the necessary arrangements. Unfortunately, by the time a bereaved family gets over the The Editor Exeter Times-Advocate Exeter, Ontario The students and staff wish to take this opportunity to extend an invitation to the public to join us in celebrating Seaforth's 100th birthday by attending our, production of "Salute to Seaforth." To dispel any misconceptions, "Salute to Seaforth" is an original stage production, written and‘produced at Seaforth Public School as a centennial tribute to the Town of Seaforth. The idea for the musical history was sparked by the 1955-56 "Crossroads" production written by Prof. James Scott of Seaforth. The content is based on Miss Campbell's book "History of Sear orth , " "Salute to Seaforth" is written in nine scenes and a number of interludes which outline a developmental history of the area. It begins in the 1830's just after the death of Col, Anthony Van Egmond and concludes with the return of Van Egmond, Dunlop and James Dickson (the first MP) in 1975, The cast totals 125 characters. They are assisted by two choirs totalling 90 youngsters from Grades 3-8 and the production team involves most of the school students from grades 1 - 8, Where possible stage sets have incorporated items dating back to the 1800's, The production nights are Wednesday, May 21, Thursday May 22 and Friday 23 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $1.00 and are available from the school. We want the public to join with us as we roll back the years to the days of "Guideboard Swamp" and the thriving• hamlets of Egmondville and Harpurkey. Yours truly Publicity and tickets section Seaforth Public School Buffalo's coming! ALKADY GAVE. AT THE. TAX shock of a tragedy, it is often too late for them to fulfill the victim's wishes to help someone who needs a new kidney or an eye. With the legal declaration now attached to a driver's licence, those in authority at the scene of an accident or a hospital can take the appropriate steps to make a transplantation of organs possible within the limited time at their disposal. Obviously, it is not a pleasant thing to consider when one is still alive and kicking, but once they've pulled the sheet over your head and listed you among the victims of traffic statistics, those vital organs which are still intact may as well be put to some good use. The signing of the organ donor section of your driver's licence is strictly voluntary, but we imagine that many people will affix their names without any qualms. In fact, it will give them some sense of satisfaction in knowing that if their number should come up, they've given someone the opportunity of a new life from a body that has been estimated to be worth around $89.00 after its last breath has been squeezed out in the twisted wreckage of a high- way crash. The situation may produce some new highway slogans.'With a donor card attached to a licence, a driver may be tempted to be more careful on the high- way if he or she was reminded every few miles by a sign that says "Don't be a donor today." +. + It finally happened . . Reeve Derry Boyle speechless! That unusual situation arose at last week's Exeter Minor Hockey Association banquet when the town's most ardent sportsman was presented with a plaque for his 30 years' devotion to minor hockey in town. The presentation came as a complete surprise to Derry and for the firSt time in our long 40 Years Ago Miss Mildred Walker of the Institute of Public Health ,London, formerly of Exeter, was one of the recipients of the King's medals on Monday. The McCall-Frontenac Oil Co., of Toronto, have purchased the corner property of Mrs. E. Willis, Main St., South, Exeter, on which they intend to erect a new and up- to-date service station. J.J, Knight retired last night after 51 years with the Canadian National Railways. At'the age of 17 he entered the railway service at Exeter as an apprentice to learn the telegraph "key". In 1900 he was made agent at Exeter and served as such for 12 years. The Silver Jubilee of the ac- cession to the throne of King George, and Queen 'Mary was fittingly observed with an im- pressive celebration on Monday morning, acquaintanceship, we found him completely lost for words, Mayor Bruce Shaw was quick to spot an opportunity, suggesting that he would present the Reeve with a plaque prior to every meeting of council if such a presentation had this effect on his vocal cords. This may have prompted both Derry and Bruce to some action, as they suggested later in the week that the town should come up with some form of recognition for people in all walks of life who make special contributions to our community or achieve some prominence by their endeavours elsewhere. It's a point well taken and certainly there should be something tangible to bestow on those who are deserving of special recognition. Whether it be a lapel pin, a plaque or a silver spoon is not particularly important in our estimation. The important thing is that the recipient has been singled out and duly recognized. The difficult decision comes in determining not what will be given, but rather to whom it will be given. Those guidelines will be most difficult to ascertain and must obviously precede any decision on what type of award will be bestowed. If the guidelines are such that only one award every couple of years will be presented, then from an economic standpoint it can be more lavish than if the award may be given to half a dozen people every year. Those guidelines must also be straightforward enough to ensure that recipients can be chosen without a great deal of hassle regarding whether it is merited. The more one thinks about it, the more it becomes obvious that it is a matter requiring study and debate and it appears to 'be a situation where a special com- mittee should be appointed to bring in recommendations. classrooms and a playroom was let to McKay-I Crocker Con- struction Company to be built within a year. The Huronia choir sang before a large audience Sunday evening and netted $100 for the' Manitoba Relief Fund. The South Huron District Annual will be held in Grand Bend church on June 9. 15 years ago Carfrey Cann and Gerald Godbolt attended the provincial ACTS convention over the weekend at Glen Holme. Mrs. Richard B. Etherington, RR 1 Hensall, was 'elected president of Hurondale Women's Institute for 1960-61 at the annual meeting recently, Tenders will be called im- mediately for the construction of an Exeter curling rink, Close to ' 60 shareholders of the local club voted unanimously on the river bank site. 10 years ago After 25 years of service, clerk Pickard dropped a bomb- shell in the laps of Exeter council Monday and could provide them with one of their biggest 'tasks of the year; that of finding a replacement for his position as clerk-treasurer. The severe-but brief-wind that hit Exeter late Sunday afternoon didn't result in serious damage for many individual property owners, but a large number were when they are finding their way in a new situation. Shyness is a matter of self labelling. Such people need a better opinion of themselves. Their view of themselves is obstructed by the fog of their own making. Some look upon shyness as the product of our over achieving society which demands ef- fectiveness and success. People imprison themselves in shyness in order to escape responsibility for mistakes or to fulfill certain cultural values. Young people and especially _girls used to be taught "Be conspicuous by being inconspicuous." Other sources do not emphasize the cultural and social causes of shyness but rather turn to childhood development. Shyness results from a lack of one or two "musts" in a child's life. A child must always feel loved and wanted. Each person needs to know that he belongs. Everyone operates at best ef- ficiency when he feels secure. Parents who exclaim "I won't love you anymore" or shoW other drastic signs of disapproval can bring anxiety to a child. Some parents do not restrain their children or teach self- restraint in them. Others em- phasize the "do's" and don'ts" wanting perfect children. Still others bring up their children according to their own varying moods. One moment they over indulge and the next are terribly impatient. A happy middle ground of restraint and loving acceptance is the great parental virtue. The other "must", is simply — A child must have opportunity and freedom to learn to do things he wants to do and be his own person. Parents can limit a child's early experience by not allowing him to do things 'he does awk- wardly or by tying him to their apron strings by making every decision for him, Children who have too much "Don't touch!" or "Can't you do anything at all" especially when they are trying to accomplish become hesitant. People often expect too Much from their children and in their disappointment make disparaging remarks about them. Often praise for a child's achievement is absent. For all shy people, and no doubt there are many of us it is a comfort that there are so many. It is not an exclusive experience of any one individual. Also a distinct encouragement is found in the fact that with acceptance and appreciation shyness can be overcome. ,1210.507-4',S, ''.:VA.,VVM:ger,MSV'RMMENPFr'KS Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 GRAND BEND June 13 and 14 1E,BASTMEL4M,MOZWSUMAWAM:22k 25 years ago Joyce Chambers of Crediton and student of Exeter District High School won highest honors hi solo class at the Tri-School Music Festival held in the gyintorium 'of the school. More than $2,000 has been sent to help the homeless people in the Red River district, driven out by floods. Don Southcott has completed „/ his final year in journalism at the University of Western Ontario. Contract for the addition of Six