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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-07-31, Page 4Requires urgent attention It's not difficult to agree with com- ments by members of Exeter council that it is most disheartening to learn that the community is losing out on commercial development because of delays in planning changes. That the situation has existed for the past year and a half and may continue for another two years is completely absurd. This is particularly true when it is evi- dent that all those involved in the decision on the lands in question are in agreement that it should be rezoned from residential to commercial. It is a matter that requires the urgent attention of council, because a further two- year delay for two prime commercial areas should not be tolerated. Here's your chance It may have tones of being another pre- election stunt, but the ball has been tossed to Ontario residents to make suggestions on how the government can reduce some of its operating costs. An advertisement in last week's paper asked for briefs from individuals, groups, organizations or associations listing ways and means they may suggest for reducing the costs of government and public ex- penditures. So, those people who have had occasion in the past to remark on some of the money being "wasted" by the government, or some costly method of providing a service, now have an opportunity to present their opinions. Those briefs are requested by September 15, so speak now or hold your peace. LET IVIE. KNOW WHEN SCA001. BEttlINIS RUIN. 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Phone 23$-133 I INN Our response to now By ELMORE BOOMER Counsellor for Information South Huron For appointment phone: 235-0560 Whales are cetaceans Complairtartts were accessories Exeter council's displeasure over the manner in which Main St. was closed for last week's sidewalk sale may be justified, although their criticism should have been mellowed to some extent by the fact many of them were accessories to the fact — or slightly after the fact. Several council members were on the street shortly after it was closed, and if they felt so strongly about the actions taken by the Board of Trade they certainly had an opportunity to take action at that time to re-open the street to traffic. Silence is often considered to mean consent, and it may have been under these conditions that the street closing was un- dertaken. It should also be remembered there was considerable pressure put on the Board of Trade officials by merchants to have the street closed when it became obvious that the reasons for not granting the re- quest in the first place had not materializ- ed. The sidewalk sale has turned out to be a most important merchandising event for a number of the merchants and it is only natural that they wanted to ensure another success. It is most unfortunate that the two groups couldn't have come together to dis- cuss the situation a couple of days prior to the sale so the matter could have been straightened out without the problems that have now arisen and touched off some ill feelings, It is interesting to note that the Board of Trade action was not unlike that taken by council regarding the renovations to the former post office. Council decided to go ahead with the project, despite being told not to do so until a lease had been signed. If that action back- fired, the town could lose out on the $35,000 spent on the renovation project and that is obviously much more severe than closing down a street for one day. Both incidents point out that too often people become impetuous and that can lead to problems. Other side of the door Lord, behold I stand on the other side of the door and listen to your knock Often I'm close by pretending not to hear keeping so still you'll think I'm away because I don't want to be bothered with you Lord don't want to listen to what you have to say Other times I shout out I can't come to the door right now I'm busy sharing the latest gossip on the telephone preparing dinner for special company manicuring my nails so I call to you to comeback later when I'm less occupied with important things Then there are days when I open the door just a crack being careful to keep the chain on so you can't come all the way in I peek through the slit listen a little but don't want to hear too much of what you have to tell I'm afraid you might ask me to do something I don't want to something that doesn't fit in with my plan something that might require some sacrifice So I hold the door only slightly ajar fora minute and then shut it again But today, Lord I took the risk of throwing the door wide of inviting you in To my surprise you brought the glorious gifts of your friendship your graciousness your enthusiasm your energy your love your jdy Now I'm so elated with well-being and jubilation I want to laugh and dance and sing to tell the whole world about this wonderful thing of unbolting the door of opening it up to let you come in when you knock Here's a summer summary Herewith Smiley's bi-annual Summer Safety Hints. Various departments of government: Agriculture, Lands and Forests, Tourism and Tripe, Fire and Water - annually send out a list of things to do to protect your life and various other things during the hot season. It is my opinion that these lists are not only repetitious and redundant, but overlapping and underpinning, so once in a while I try to publish a few Summer Safety Tips that can be used as filler by all lazy, hot, tired editors. Even though the summer is half over, and thouisands of people have drowned, or nearly drowned I think a few swim- ming suggestions would not come amiss. Never forget that amiss is as good as a mile. So my first tip is that if you're going to swim amile, make sure you don't go amiss. I think that requires no further explanation. Speaking of amiss, never try to make love either reclining in a canoe, or in a reclining canoe. In the first instance, if the thing rolls over, which it usually does, you are caught in a death-clutch and will have to punch your partner in the belly to break the hold. It is also embarrassing, not to say dangerous, if your partner is swifter with a left hook than you are. In the second place - a reclining canoe - it is obviously leaking, and you shouldn't be out there in the first place, Much better to confine your canoe love-making to a standing position, Then, if women's equilibriumation seems to be taking over - that is, if there is any chance that you are going to be the least bit upset, jump overboard and swim like hell for the nearest lifeguard. Now for diving, Never dive into unknown waters. Many a man you'll meet on the streets, whimpering, limping, middle- aged, headscarred. Ask him what the matter is, and he'll respond: "I dived into unknown waters." This is his euphemism for ad- mitting he is married. Try not to dive into a swimming pool. Use a diving pool. If you do happen to dive into a swimming pool, and it has a plastic bottom, wear a plastic helmet. If it happens to have a concrete bottom, and you are turkey enough to dive into it, „ you probably won't feel a thing. Never dive alone. Personally, when I dive, whether it is from 30 feet, 12 feet, four feet, or even my accustomed 18 inches, I am always accompanied by water "rgr PP rrlAtziC dui/`_ 54y5 : ,emce p•Ve."-- H.) I A1411,41,,,Per .7a de-nix evvK e nu wings, an inflaled tube, and my entire family. It may not be Olympic grace and style, but I don't have a hole in my head from hitting rocks. Never take a person out over his or her depth. In other words, if your mother-in-law is only five feet tall and can't swim, don't take her out to where it is six feet deep. Just take her out where it is five feet deep,hand her some lead weights, and tell her to do push- ups, Enough about swimming. How about boating? Well, the same principles apply there, Never put more than 12 people in a 12 foot boat, six people in a six foot boat, or more than 88 people in a bar that is built for 44. This way you can not only be safe but sorry. If it is a sailboat, do not load it up with sailors. Sailors are usually drunk and disorderly, according to the police records of all the ports of the world. The same, by the way, goes for soldiers, if you happen to have a soldier boat. If you have a power boat, of course, this is your chance to show the world. Take any average swimmer, and a pair of water skiffs. Throw both over the back of the boat. The order doesn't matter.Shove the throttle wide open. Then show everybody what Napoleon would have been like without Waterloo. Water on the brain? Let's turn to other aspects of summer danger. Do not stamp out bonfires with your bare feet, In the first place, those coals are probably just fireflies going through their second incarnation, and have just Dr. Morton Shulman, the controversial member of the Ontario Legislature from High Park, is well known to most Ontario residents, He wrote a book entitled "How to Make a Million" and outlined in it some ideas for people wanting to get rich. Sales of the book, of course, helped add to the Shulman fortune. Now Dr. Shulman is apparently working on his second million. Or is it his third? At any rate, he's writing a weekly column for newspapers. It is presently carried in the Toronto Sun. Dr. Shulman generously of- fered the column to this newspaper. The price tag? Only $35 per week ? We hesitate to disappoint Dr. Shulman, but unfortunately the shareholders of this newspaper never managed to gain success from the information contained in his book, so they can't afford the price for his newest writing ventures. If journalists managed to get $35 for every 20 inches of copy they churned out as Dr. Shulman hopes to, we'd darn soon get ahead of the doctors and lawyers in the wage scale placements and might even come close to matching the plumbers. For readers' information, the Bill Smiley column• costs this newspaper $2.50 per week. However, as a former newspaper man, Bill is more closely attuned to the wage scales of columnists than the controversial MPP from High Park. Dr. Shulman's fee is obviously more indicative of those gar- nered by medical professionals, but if it is the type of pay scale we could expect under an NDP government, yours truly can hardly wait to get out and cast a ballot for Paul Carroll. + + + Jacob Reder, man about town, dropped into the office last week for one of his periodic chats and displayed a sheet taken from a German calendar. II was a note written by a wife to her husband. It said, according to the translation by Jake, "I am at the theatre. You will find your dinner on page 26 of the cook book". An accompanying photo shows the husband setting about the task of preparing his dinner from instructions contained on the prescribed page. It's nice to know that some German wives are more con- siderate than their Canadian counterparts when they go out gallivanting. + + + While the price of sugar has started to escalate again, there was a considerable length of time that it was at a price most housewives could afford. In fact, the price dropped so low at one time that the United States government was con- sidering price supports for raw meat is liable to bring dozens of barbecue artists from all over the neighborhood down on you, asking what kind of sauce you use. Pee on 'em. The coals, that is, Another thing you should not stamp out with yotir bare foot is your flowerbed, even though it taunts you, thwarts you, thumbs its nose at you and sticks its bare roots in the air at you, as mine recently did. There were two rose bushes among them, in mine. Then Of course, there are bugs. Don't spray them, Don't swat them, They, too, are merely lower forms of consciousness trying to rise to a higher, in their next incarnation, I had a Buddhist monk flying "arOtind inc the other night, whining: "Don't hit mei Don't hit rile! I was once an altar boy for St. Thomas Aquinas," Splatttl Is he going to be sur- prised when he is reincarnated as an Anglican bishop. Female, as much right to live as you have, Secondly, the smell of roasting sugar at the producer level. However, when sugar prices were down, it was rather disheartening to , find that all those items that had jumped excessively due to the sugar increases failed to come down accordingly. It seems to be a phenomenon of our time that once a price goes up it never comes down, even if the reason for the increse has been overcome, Most Of the manufacturers who use sugar no doubt stocked their warehouses at the time the price was down (in fact that's probably why ii's going back up due to their stock-piling) but any day now they'll be announcing in- creases in their own products again because sugar prices are starting to climb. That's known as taking ad- vantage of inflation, and con- sumers would probably be shocked to know just how many manufacturers are making ex- cessive profits and blaming it all on inflation. It's not very sweet, is it? + + + There's, good news for gar- deners, especially those of us who get behind in the task of riding the plots of weeds. Researchers in eastern Canada have found that one of the best methods of weed control is to put some geese out in the vegetables - particularly strawberries. It seems the geese like the tender shoots of weeds and for some strange reason don't eat strawberries. The geese can even chew off weeds sprouting in close to the 50 Years Ago The fire alarm sounded Tuesday when it was learned that the CNR depot was on fire and soon there was ,a mad rushfor the scene. When firemen arrived the roof was smoldering in several places and a bucket brigade was at work. The stork left a wonderful treasure at the home of Mr. and MrS.Alphenus Holtzmann of Crediton, on Monday. It was a pair of lovely twin boys. On Thursday last a quartette of bowlers from Hensall motored to Lucknow to participate in the annual tournament held in that town. Our all star rink composed of A.Whiteside, skip, W.Goodwin, W. A. McLaren, and M. R. Rennie captured the Joynt challenge trophy. Miss Nola Faist and Miss Helen McIsaae and also Elgin Woodall of Crediton left this week to at- tend Westervelt school in London. 25 Ytars Ago The British Empire hails its new princess - a 6 pound daughter to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. The newly formed Grand Bend Lions netted $900 in its first money-raising venture Sunday night, A cocker spaniel pup was won by Walter Chemik of London who took $50 instead of the pup. Gerard Vendenbitssche, a new Canadian from Belgian, has turned useless swampland into a gardener's paradise at Grand Bend, He was able to buy a 250 tract of land, that was considered useless from the government for $12 an acre, and has grown vegetables for market, The nation wide railway strike caught IIensall grain elevators right at the peak of the threshing season. AU mills will be forced to close before the end of the week. Chief John Norry and Mrs. Norry will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary next week. Rev. It. J. Snell will be one of the 36 Ministers and laymen from the London conference to attend the 14th general conference of the United Church of Toronto Sep- tember 12 to 21. 15 Years Ago FrL W. E. Balkwill, Exeter leaves his position on the con- struction engineering staff at RCAF Training Command Headquarters at Winnipeg to become construction engineering officer at Camp Borden. Hundreds of district residents paid their last respects to R. Hon. Arthur Meighen, twice Prime Minister of Canada, who was buried in St,. Marys Cemetery, this week. Miss Helen Westeott assisted by Mrs. Harold Broderick, hosted a dinner party at the Dominion Hotel, Zurich in honor of Mrs. Robert Dennis, of Hollywood California, who is visiting relatives and friends in the district. Hensall village council Set the mill rate levy at 64 mills and the commercial levy at 69. Material for Exeter Curling Club's new building to be erected east of Riverview Heights began arriving this week. 10 Years Ago Kenneth Kerr, formerly of Elmira and Trenton, Ontario has been appointed editor of The Exeter-Times Advocate effective August 9. This is the last edition of The Times-Advocate to be printed in Exeter at least for the time being. Although all the type setting- will continue to be done in our own shop, the paper will be printed on new offset press set up in London, Miss Mary Van Camp was in Owen Sound and entered two of her paintings in the Jury com- petition at the Tom Thompson Art Museum. The show concludes August 7, Hal Hooke, former field officer for the Ausable River Con- servation Authority has been appointed secretary of the select committee named recently by Premier Robarts to consider all aspects of Authorities throughout Ontario. Cetacea is the name given to the order of animals in which there are 85 species. These animals are mammals and live entirely in water. Most of the whales are salt- water animals but some are equally at home in fresh water. The blue whale grows to a weight of a hundred tons or even more. Other whales are smaller than man. The Cetacean order includes such varieties as the dolphins, so popular in aquaria, Most of the large whales feed by passing water through the baleen. These are plates hanging from the roofs of their mouths which strain out the food from the water. It is not known how the food is extricated from this strainer. One of the larger species of whales - the sperm whale - and most of the small whales have teeth and feed by capturing and swallowing their prey. This information and much more is contained in the January, 1975 issue of Audubon. It is beautifully illustrated material printed in the interests of the whales themselves, Whales have been termed the `dreaded monsters'. Hut this title is expressive of mystery and legend rather than ravenous danger. The whale has a low profile in the human consciousness. Most known facts regarding these animals are ours through a study of dead whales rather live ones. At this tine death-dealing Man has decimated the great whale herds of the world's ()deans and with Space-age technology are killing the remaining animals. The whales are wonderfully shaped for their existence in the Sea. Their bodies are streamlined for quick passage through the water, A thick layer of blubber, oil rich and insulating, lies just Under the thin skin of our mon- stets. This layer of blubber allows the Warm-blooded whale to swim through icy water in complete comfort, Not only so, but, here is a food-storage plan for bleak days, Heat must not only be main- tained by provision of this therMal blanket but mechanisms against Overheating are also necessary. These are called the retia, or rete in the singular. The rete is a series of veins and arteries found in the flukes, flippers, and dorsal fin, The blood of the animal usually, passes through the retia without event. If, however, body heat rises, the blood is brought to the surface of the animal and excess heat is given off into the water. This radiator is found in other birds and animals but is most elaborate in the sea mammals. The toothed whales are tremendous divers, attaining depths of three to four thousand feet. The pressure exerted at a depth of 3700 feet of water is nearly two tons per square inch. Not only can whales withstand severe pressure, they can return from great depths very quickly without suffering from the 'bends', It is thought that a whale holds its breath during the dive and thus obviates this condition which is a killer for men. The question then arises as to how a whale can hold its breath for up to two hours. The answer seems to be that much of the whale's body is closed down during an extended dive with blood going only to the heart and brain, Upon surfacing the whale makes up its oxygen debt by gulping greedily at the air. The exhalations of the whale are seen anti heard as a 'blow'. The warm breath forced into the cooler environment becomes steam. Much could be added about the whales life cycle. It is a playful animal and enjoys its sexual activities. Any sexual act is prefixed with much foreplay, gentle nudgings, and seemingly romantic motions. The whale has one of the largest and most conVOluted brains of all animals. A 19 pound brain is not unusual. The whale is the great feeder of the deep with Only one enemy - man. With huge- factory ships, whalers are independent of land for long stretches of time. With the innovation of the modern harpoon no whale is fast enough tO escape, With modern tracking methods, Once a whale iS spotted, it cannot escape. This is true whether it be day or night, Whether it is in the depths or on the surface. As yet there is no viable compromise between Whaling nations and conservationists that has promise of saying one Of the world's gentlest creatures from extinction. roots of plants and not disturb the roots of the desired crop- something that few people can manage with a hoe. An added benefit provided by the gaggle of geese is the fact they help fertilize the garden while they're busy chewing off the weeds and they can work through all types of weather. This is a particular advantage in wet weather when weeds often get ahead of gardeners before the terrain dries. Under normal conditions, two to four geese per acre will do the job in plantings, and unlike humans, the birds work con- tinuously. Some trickery is required to keep them moving through the rows. Housing and some sup- plementary food is placed at one end of the field and water at the other. So, after a short meal, the geese head down the field for some water, plucking the weeds as they go. Somehow it -all sounds too simple! No doubt it's against the law in Exeter.? + + + Speaking of birds, a reader called this week to note that she had found about four dead robins in the vicinity of her home over the past couple of weeks. She wondered if other local residents had noticed any unusual number of dead birds. If you have, we'd be pleased to hear about it and try to find out some explanation for the situation if it appears to be ab- normal.