HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-10-30, Page 4Regardless of how bad, things are, it
seems that it isn't necessary to look too far
to see that others are in a much worse posi-
tion,
That no doubt was the opinion most
people reached on hearing Elmer D. Bell,
Q.C., speaking at the Exeter Kinsmen 25th
anniversary celebrations.
Many times we consider the amount of
crime in Ontario and become worried and
concerned about the situation, and there
are times when that is warranted.
However, as the Ontario Police Com-
mission chairman pointed out, the
residents of Ontario are more fortunate
than those in most other areas in North
America, and indeed the entire world,
when it comes to law enforcement.
It's obviously regrettable that the peo-
ple responsible for police enforcement
have to be continually updating procedures
to keep ahead of the crime rate, but it does
provide some consolation to find that Mr.
Bell firmly believes that Ontario is
providing the deterent to crime that will
prevent us from falling into the situations
that are evident in many areas of the
U.S.A,
It is costly, as indicated by Mr, Bell's
figures, but it is nevertheless an expense
that most Ontario residents are willing to
pay, albeit concerned that it is necessary to
protect themselves from others in our
society whose morals are non-existent,
Correct procedure
As Mayor Bruce Shaw noted this week,
it is necessary to "read between the lines"
to get some of the information out of the ex-
tensive report submitted by the South
Huron recreation centre committee.
People looking for definite suggestions
as to the feasibility of the entire project —
or even portions of it — will no doubt be dis-
appointed to find that there are few con-
tained in the report.
It is full of lengthy lists of pros and
cons without any statements about which of
those two lists the committee may favor or
see as a practical undertaking for the area.
To some that may suggest the com-
mittee have been wasting their time for the
past year, but on closer examination and on
hearing their reasons, it is obvious that the
report has been well handled and
thoroughly considered.
Perhaps one of the major comments
was that of chairman John Stephens when
he said the committee have been "wrestl-
ing with the distinction between what we
need and what we want in light of what we
can 'afford".
The entire proposal boils down to that
consideration, with the aspect of "need"
and "afford" being the two prime con-
siderations.
While the committee may have some
ideas of what is needed, it is almost im-
possible for them to determine what can be
afforded without taking the step that was
approved by council in hiring a consulting
firm to come up with plans and some cost
estimates,
The cost is obviously going to be the ma-
jor determining factor and no project of
that magnitude can be considered by mere-
ly picking a figure out of a hat.
The committee's efforts to date will
provide most of the necessary background
for the consultants and that has no doubt
saved the community a considerable
amount of money.'
The members deserve the commen-
dations passed their way by council and the
steady, thoughtful approach they have used
will surface as being the correct manner in
which to consider such a project for South
Huron.
Bird gets too slow a burn
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Better off than most
The search for peace
"re passed our stop 32 blocks back but Gaston's determined to get
our money's worth."
Being a Bobby Orr isn't easy
Offer me a ticket: to any , exotic •
spot in the world, any October —
Rome, Paris, Athens, Rio, Tahiti
— and I'd turn it down flat.
There could not be, anywhere
on this globe, a finer place to be,
in October, than Canada.
October has everything.
Glorious golden days with the
foliage flung across the land in
such magnificence it's as though
the Creator were chuckling, "I
am far from dead. Just try to
match this with your puny
genius."
Nights are remarkable. Cool
enough for a sweater, but usually
calm. Perfect for a stroll around
the side streets of a small town,
with the smell of burning leaves
poignant on the soft air, and the
spurt of orange flame as someone
pokes up his fire. It's against the
law to burn leaves, but such laws
were not made for small towns,
and are generally ignoied. And
why not?
All the burning leaves in all the
small towns of Canada wouldn't
pollute the air as much as one
hour on five per cent of the high-
ways in Canada, with about a
million stinking cars belching
their bad breath.
But October has something for
everyone. The hunter is happy.
He can squat in a blind until he's
almost crippled, or lurch through
a swamp until he's almost on his
last lurch. He may see nothing
more than a few late and lazy
crows, or the starling heading
south, but by George, he feels
great when he gets home and
tracks mud all over the house,
and tears into that peanut butter
sandwich his irate wife has left
out for him.
More intelligent hunters, of
course, will go after partridge,
and prowl along an old bush road
in comfort. The most intelligent
hunters will sit down in the sun,
lean against the bole of a tree,
have a perfectly relaxed nap, and
go home with a good appetite and
a clear conscience.
Fishermen like October. They
flog themselves out of bed in
order to hit the water at dawn.
Every one of them has a lurking
hunch that this morning he's
going to hit that big rainbow. And
he can stand there, shivering, in
the misty morning, happy in the
knowledge that none of the
nuisance anglers of Opening Day
will be fouling his line, scaring
the fish. They're all home in bed.
For the sports fan, October is
the zenith of the year. He might
see almost nothing of his family
for a month, but he's as happy as
an 'idiotwith an ice cream cone,
sitting in front of the boob tube,
wildly switching channels as he
tries to club-house sandwich the
height of the football season, the
beginning of the hockey season,
and the World Series.
October is Thanksgiving. By
some piece of uncanny good luck
or good judgment, it usually
turns out to be a beautiful
weekend, and this year's was
nigh perfect, in these parts.
It's a grand occasion for
closing up the cottage, or getting
together with the family for a
gorge of turkey andpunkin pie, or
just getting out into the country
and counting the things you have
to be thankful for.
This year we had our daughter
and. her husband for the holiday.
She insisted on cooking the entire
Thanksgiving dinner. And she
insisted on using her method,
which is known as slow roasting.
This method "keeps all the
good of the turkey in, and when
it's finished, it's so tender it just
falls off the bones." End of quote.
You cook it for hours and hours
at about 200 degrees, instead of
the usual 325 or so. Many a turkey
I've cooked in the normal
fashion, and they always come
out golden, meat falling off the
bones.
I said, "Carry on, kid." My
wife bit her lip, her tongue and
her fingernails, but kept silent.
Every hour or so she couldn't
stand it, and would sneak out,
while Kim wasn't in the kitchen,
and have a look. The turk just lay
there, like a big, dead bird. It was
pretty obvious that the only
process that was setting in was
rigor mortis.
But no interference with
modern methods. The grand
moment arrived, after cooking a
nine-pound bird, practically a
midget, for nine hours.
Her husband can't carve, so I
did the honours. I like my steaks
rare, but I can't say I'm wild for
rare turkey. I almost sprained
my wrist on my first slice with
the carving knife.
Meat falling off the bones? I
had to tear it off with pliers. But it
was a great dinner. The stuffing
well and truly stuffed, the canned
peas were exceptionally tender,
and the white wine was bang on.
There was only one catch. The
kids had to get their bus right
after dinner. That was Monday
evening, My wife and I looked at
the kitchen, looked at each other,
and went to bed. We finished
doing the dishes Wednesday
evening.
Amalgamated 1924
It's been a hectic week for a
group of Exeter parents, as
they've been outfitting their
youngsters for the opening of the
minor hockey season.
The procedure is "old hat" to
many who have boys playing in
the higher categories, but there
were a large group who were
sending their budding Bobby Orr
onto the ice for the first time.
Some arrived in full regalia,
while others appeared for their
first trip around the ice with little
more than a pair of skates,
helmet and a hockey stick.
With few exceptions, the six,
seven and eight-year-olds wore
beaming smiles and they were
still smiling when they left the
ice, regardless of the ability
which they possessed.
For some,it was a chance to
display their skating ability as
they weaved in around their
cohorts on the ice surface. But for
the majority, it was a battle.
They were on the seat of their
pants more than on their skates
and it reminded the writer
Barnbi's first encounter Vvit* ree'l
in Walt Disney's classic.
While Bambi had four legs to
control, the youngsters found that
two presented enough problems,
and their determination was
taxed on several occasions as
they attempted to unwind the
pretzel-like contortions in which
they so uncerimoniously found
themselves.
However, with parents sitting
in the stands adding words and
expressions of encouragement,
the young pucksters appeared to
thoroughly enjoy their first en-
counter with, our national past-
time.
There were naturally some
exceptions. One lad, decked out
in full hockey regalia, made
it half way around the ice and
decided he didn't want to play
hockey.
He stood along the boards with
his head covered in his arms and
refused the words of en-
couragement to at least watch
the other lads and see what ex-
citing things they were doing.
There was no pressure put on
him by either his father or the
coaches to join in the fun. As he
left the ice the youngster was
asked to come back on Saturday
morning and it came as a bit of
surprise to find that he was ap-
parently quite willing to do that.
The situation is not unique with
youngsters who are attempting a
To the editor:
In your issue of October 23 on
the editorial page there appeared
an article under the heading
"The demand strengthens". At
first I took this article to be the
work of some crank who was
sounding off about something of
which he or she knew very little,
I was about to leave this as I
finished reading it, but it
bothered me so much I decided to
try and find out who wrote this as
it was signed "Contributed",
To my amazement I found out
even though they were afraid to
sign it, that it was contributed by
the United Church of Canada, of
which I am a member,
In the first place, they state
that the sales of rifles and
shotguns increased almost 40
percent in 1975. It would have
been much better if they told us
why the membership in the
church is decreasing.
They state that the 'removal of
the cause of a problem goes a
long way towards its solution,
Yet, they sign a pact with the
devil when it comes to booze and
tobacco and high speed cars and
shady business practices of the
day, which not many years ago
they were against and were
defeated because they were
new activity for the first time. In
fact, the writer has experienced
it with one of his own sons,
That situation turned out
satisfactorily and now it's dif-
ficult to keep him off the ice.
Hopefully, that's the way things
will work out with the bashful lad
who made his debut this week
and by the end of the season he too
will be as enthusiastic as the
others.
Being a coach in the youngest
division may be one of the most
demanding because of the
various levels of skills involved,
but it is also the most rewarding
because there is no category in
which progress comes so quickly.
With a few exceptions, the lads
who had spent more time sitting
than skating this week will have
mastered many of the skills by
the time the season terminates
next spring and they can then
look forward to being the
"polished" players when they
join the new crop of beginners in
the following season. •
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Last week we took occasion to
congratulate the Exeter Kinsmen
ontheir'service to the community
for the past 25 years, so we'd
better balance the books and give
the local Lions a bit of a pat on the
back too—particularly since they
treated the writer to a free dinner
when they hosted their deputy
district governor.
It was the first Lions meeting
we've attended for about seven
years and it was surprising to
note that about the only member
who attended both of those
meetings was Larry Snider, A
few others were missing that
have been associated with the
club for a long period,of time, but
there has certainly been a big
afraid if they stood up against it
those donations would dry up.
And, it is much easier to pick on
some small group,
I have beetLa peace loving man
and a sportsman all My life. I
believe in God and His, work in
the world, but when some
misinformed group starts saying
I should not own a gun, then they
are not minding their own
business and I resent that,
Fred Walters,
Exeter, Ontario.
change in the faces in Exeter's
oldest service club.
It's a more youthful club and it
was interesting to note that
George Godbolt was one of five
new members joining last week.
His father was a member at the
last meeting yours truly at-
tended, so the Lions have now
become a second generation
service organization in the
community, although there have
been previous father-son com-
binations.
At any rate, they appear to
have a much more youthful
appearance, and this no doubt
explains the reason why they
have been more active in the past
couple of years in serving the
community.
Similar to the Kinsmen, they
undertake many projects which
the community may take for
granted, such as, the recent
" for the Canadian
Institute for the Blind.
An indication of their new
enthusiasm is the fact that Larry
Snider noted that the recent
campaign was completed in one
night in Exeter. IN the first time
enough volunteers have been
assembled to do the task in one
night and no doubt that was
appreciated by the campaign
chairman as he did not have to
worry about getting people to,
come out on additional nights to
canvass areas that had not been
covered on the blitz night.
This obviously bodes well for
the future of the club and the
contributions they made to those
who require their assistance in
the community.
Messrs. Albert Gaiser, Gordon
Ratz, Ross Tuckey spent several
days • deer hunting on Philip
Edward Island near Manitoulin,
The province of Ontario has
approved a $32,000 grant for
South Huron Hospital, it was
announced this week by Thomas
Pryde, MLA for Huron.
15 Years Ago
Ontario minister of education,
the honourable John Robarts,
will officiate at ceremonies to
open the new addition of
S.H.D.H.S., Friday night.
Miss Dorothy Davis and L. J.
Penhale were honored by the
Public Utilities Commission for
25 years of service to the local
commission.
Principal H. L. Sturgis was
given permission by S.H.D,H.S.
board to invite the district
teachers to hold their annual
conference at the school.
Local hunting enthusiasts who
were dreaming of a tempting
feed of pheasant-under-glass had
their dreams spoiled because
most of the pheasant were under
cover. They have consolation in
the fact that there are plenty of
geese along the shores of Lake
Huron this fall.
10 Years Ago
A flash fire early Wednesday
morning 'gutted the large Dow
barn in the Wellington Street
area, killing livestock and
destroying a complete crop of
hay and straw in the lofts. The
barn which is owned by the Dow
family had been rented to Arnold
Whitney. No estimate of the loss
was available at press time.
Three girls took top hotioit in
the first annual kinsmen "Miss
Auto Show" at the arena Friday
evening, Kathy Rowe received
second prize, Pat Scott was third
while Sharon Morenz was
crowned queen of the show,
We are a sick people. We are a
generation which has seen
phenomenal increase of jails,
asylums and hospitals. We are a
people who have made
psychology and psychiatry
substitutes for religion. Books on
peace of mind sell like hot cakes.
We desperately search for some
kind of peace and rest.
Rev. Peter Eldersveld says
that fundamentally, our problem
is that we are at war with God.
We have rebelled against Him
and assaulted Him. Our natures
have become so twisted we are
prone to all manner of evil.
Instead of love, there is hate;
instead of peace, there is war. We
have made a world in which we
express animosity of the most
hateful kind in all directions. We
,do not'even have the capacity to
love our neighbors, our working
cohorts, or sometimes even our
own families. There is tension,
strife and incompatibility.
So, although we seek it, we find
no peace. We are a disorganized
society for when we are at war
with God we are, therefore, at
war within. Our fears grow. Our
problems mount. Our tensions
strain. No wonder our casualties
are so great and so many.
It was St. Paul who told the
Philippians, ". the peace of
God which passeth all un-
derstanding, shall keep your
hearts and minds in Jesus
Christ." God has given us a
Saviour, Jesus Christ, and if we
believe in Him we can find this
peace for which we so much long.
Some of you may say, "That is
ridiculous. How can you expect
me to believe anything so
unreasonable?"
Of course, it's unreasonable
. . that's just what Paul said . .
that it is completely beyond
human understanding. No mere
man or woman will ever be able
The soyaburger was a flop.
Why did people turn away from
this meat extender and sub-
stitute?
Turkey is available the whole
year around. It is cheaper than
most meat. It is nutritious and
tastes "good". Why do people
reserve turkey largely for
Thanksgiving and Christmas?
Food is more than satisfaction
of biological hunger:
Psychological hunger must also
be assuaged. It is estimated that
70 percent of affluent society's
food dollar is spent on non-fuel
values.
The turkey dinner, is an
emotionally charged event. It
speaks of family-togetherness
and that without quarrelling.
The pensioner with little money
eats steak just to show the world,
and more especially himself,
that he can still cut the financial
mustard.
And really who wants to eat
anything so uninteresting as
soyaburger, especially when it is
billed as a substitute for meat.
Margarine is a spread in its own
right now, it costs almost as
much, or in some cases more
than butter, and is eaten on an
increasing scale by everyone,
The eating of food then is not
just for survival , but where
possible, that is where there is
money, it is expressive of
psychological, social, and
cultural values. In our western
society the cookbook remains a
best seller.
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It is reported in the latest issue
of Topical, the Ontario Civil
Service Commission publication
that 100 children in the province
die each year from excessive
vitamin intake.
Iron taken in massive doses
can be fatal. Iron tends to ac-
cumulate in the body and when
accumulation attains a certain
level death can be the result.
There is a move afoot for the
investigation and regulation of
vitamin including multi-vitamin
pills, by Saskatchewan and
Ontario. Most such pills are
formulated according to the
manufacturer's whim.
In the meantime John Q. Public
is advised to have iron intake
prescribed only by a doctor. It is
to be remembered that a full
bottle of some vitamin pills can
be death-dealing. They should be
kept from children as other
recognizably dangerous drugs
are.
Canadians are highly depen-
dent on drugs, It Is estimated that
we eat up to 2,50 drugs and
chemicals a day. No one knows
the effect of these Combinations
of drugs,
Professor Hall of ,,McMastet'
to comprehend this great gift of
God, It is not something that fits
nicely into a little pattern of
human thought, If we could
understand it, it would be far too
small. It would be just like all the
other kinds of peace which men
are constantly thinking up up , —
and which never work,
For centuries many have
believed that peace and rest will
come to the world by man
somehow being able to sage it
through his own efforts, through
his own wisdom, better
education, through the Almighty
State. What folly! Look at the
world man has created for us . . .
a world of blood, crime, fear and
tension. It hardly becomes
anyone to stand in the midst of all
this present day stress and call
the peace of God nonsense and
unreasonable.
You don't have to be an in-
tellect to have the peace of God
but you do have to be a believer.
This peace may be unun-
derstandable but not un-
believable. It's a mystery, but
that doesn't mean it isn't a fact.
Other things in life that are
much less important are like that
too. Take electricity, I know
nothing about it but I press the
switch when I go into a dark room
and get light without knowing
how it happened. I'd be an idiot to
sit down in the dark and refuse to
turn on the light until someone
gave me a complete course in
electronics.
The peace of God is our
salvation in these trying times.
We need reconciliation with Him
first of all. Our sins must be
forgiven. Our debt must be paid.
Only when this is done can we
have peace in our hearts, in our
minds and in our lives. God gave
us Christ to atone for and tran-
sform our lives. If we believe in
Him, we can have the peace He
made for all of us,
University's biochemistry
department emphasized the
chemical dangers of civilization
at a recent gathering at the
Canada Centre for Inland Waters
at Burlington.
Influenza, pneumoni, and
tuberculosis have been defeated
as killers largely by dealing with
environmental factors, according
to Dr. Hall. Our professor is
calling for such a crusade against
cancer. He stated that many
scientists are agreed that 90
percent of cancer is en-
vironmentally caused or at least
encouraged.
Sixty percent of people sur-
veyed in Smithville near
Hamilton indicated that they had
taken at least one pill 'the day
before. In 1972 doctors wrote 10
prescriptions per Canadian. The
intake for some people must be
horrendous.
The drug intake is not limited
to prescriptions or to the
estimated 50,000 chemical for-
mulations available over the
counter. It is part of daily living.
Pesticides contain 900
chemicals. Their residues are
found in our daily food. Drugs
given to farm animals come to
our tables via the meat we eat.
Bakery-produced bread has up to
20 intentional chemical additives
and many other unintentional
residues.
Pharmacology has not kept
pace with this modern effluence
of affluent society. Industry is
largely unchecked in its flooding
of our living with drugs.
Governments are silent about the
incipient dangers, according to
Dr. Hall.
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Psychology Today recently
published a review of scientific
findings concerning the effects of
malnutrition on the development
of the human brain.
There is a brain-growth spurt
from the twenty-first week of
pregnancy up to 2 years of post-
natal growth. The adult number
of nerve cells are produced
during the time between the tenth
and twentieth weeks of
pregnancy.
It is the insulating and packing
cells of the later spurt of growth
which suffer diminution when
children do not receive enough
food. Such damage cannot be
reversed by special diets later on.
Such damage is visible in
slower rnentation and lower LQ,s
in children and subsequently
adults. Certain physical awk-
wardnesseS and inabilities are
also fostered,
It is estimated that 300 million
children throughout the world
suffer these effects of under-
nourishment,
Times Established 1873
Advocate Established 1 881
50 Years Ago
Mr. Wm. Statham, who some
time ago disposed of his bakery
business in Exeter, recently
purchased a similar business in
St. Thomas,
Thomas McMillan was elected
to parliament as the represen-
tative of Huron-Perth on Tuesday
of last week. He defeated J. J.
Merner, Conservative candidate,
Owing to the increase of traffic
and somewhat hazardous corner
for turning at Cromarty, it was
thought advisable to place a
dummy policeman on the corner
so that in future any collision
may be avoided.
25 Years Ago
Miss Anna Brock recently
attended two junior farmer
conferences in North Bay and
Dryden. She assisted with the
leadership of these meetings.
The mortgage of the Pen-
tecostal Church was burned
Monday night. The church was
destroyed by fire a year ago and
has been rebuilt.
At a directors meeting of the
Ontario Federation of Agr-
ticulture held in Toronto a motion
was passed to give every
assistance to the Dairy Farmers'
' Co-ordinating Board in their fight
to have margarine:manufacture
and sale banned by Ontario
Government,
Thoughts for food
•
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By ELMORE BOOMER
Counsellor for
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