The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-01-29, Page 10Crediton, Mary Van Osch, Crediton Zelda
Muller, Crediton, Patti Tasko, Crediton.
photo by Bagley
PROVINCIAL AWARDS — were received by five Huron County girls
last week for completion of their, twelfth 4-H club, Pictured from left to
Voluntary action needed
right are Janet oielen,
Inthout, Dashwood, Ann
Teturnablesi help restore environment
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Page 10 Times-Advocate, January 29, 1976
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By ELAINE TOWNSHEND
The old telephone I remember ...
The drama
of old Lake Huron
Remember the old wooden
telephone that hung on the wall?
The children had to stand on a
Chair to reach it. The phone had a
crank on one side, a bell-shaped
receiver on the other side and on
the front, a cuplike apparatus
into which the caller spoke.
If you remember the old-
fashioned phone, you probably
recall the party line. It wasn't
unusual for twenty-one homes to
be hooked up to the same line. A
different ring was designated to
each house. The first was 1 long
ring, the second, 1 long and 1
short, the third, 2 longs and soon.
Imagine the length of the ring in
the twenty-first house!
Everyone took turns using the
busy line, but they couldn't talk
long. If they hogged the wire,
they'd be in their neighbours'
black books. They usually shared
the line good-naturedly, and they
gave the farmers top priority.
Everyone understood the
urgency, when a sick animal
required a veterinarian or a piece
of broken machinery needed
repair.
Eavesdroppers must have had
a heyday. They heard the far-
mers complaining about the price
of their last milk shipment. They
listened while the housewives
swapped recipes and rehashed a
recent quilting bee or ladies aid
meeting. They heard the children
comparing notes on the new
young teacher, and they listened
to the old folks reminiscing about
the good old days,
With se many people on the
line, the eavesdropper enjoyed
anonymity for awhile, Even-
tually, though, the neighbours
pinpointed the community
busybody.
When a fire broke out, one long,
sustained ring signalled an
emergency. Everyone rushed
outside to locate the smoke. With
true neighbourly spirit, they
charged across the fields or down
the road to help. Thus each
section of the road had its own
form of a volunteer fire depart-
ment.
To call a number on another
line, a black button on the side of
the telephone was pushed. This
summoned the operator, who
connected the caller with the
other party. Even com-
munication between two towns,
that were only eight miles apart,
was classed as a long distance
call.
The telephone and its com-
munication network has come a
long way, The large wooden
phone was replaced by the
compact square one, encased in
black plastic. A ten-digit dial
substituted for the crank, and
today,' push buttons are being
introduced. The stylish Con-
tempra phone, with its dial or
Touch-Tone buttons in the hand-
set, is the first model to be
designed and manufactured
entirely in Canada.
The modern telephope comes in
a variety of colours, ranging
from pastel shades and white to
avocado green and cherry red.
Choosing the colour that blends
with the decor of the room-• is an
important decision for the
householder. Meanwhile, the
installation of extensions cancels
the dangerous rush from the
farthest upstairs bedroom down
to the kitchen to answer the
phone.
While the number of phones in
a house increased, the number of
parties on a line decreased. The
average rural line now carries
four homes, and most phones
seem peacefully private.
Of course, the bill is higher now
than it was for the early
telephone, but the local calling
area has expanded. Today's long
distance call travels in-
stantaneously from Ontario to
Many adults today tell of their
youth as a period financed almost
entirely with two-cent pop bot-
tles. Gladly risking the tem-
porary loss of circulation in
cramped fingers, they carted
hundreds of bottles back to
corner variety stores to convert
their bounty. Five-centers were
seen as gifts from the gods.
The newly-found wealth
financed gobs of ju-jubes, black-
balls and sugar babies necessary
to fuel the endurance to continue
the neighborhood search for the
valuable containers. School,
friends and family were
grudgingly accommodated into
this lifestyle based on constant
quest. Peripheral vision was a
decided asset.
But then the youth grew up and
the returnable pop, bottle gave
way to disposable bottles and
Newfoundland or to British
Columbia. Communication with
the Far North, overseas coun-
tries, ships on the ocean and
mobile vehicles is no 'roger a
phenomenon.
How could the users of the old
wooden telephone, with its crank
and its party line, imagine the
future that lay in store for it?
convenient cans. Affluent now, he
subsidized the slide toward a
throwaway society, He began to
see economic production in a
straight-line relationship in
which things are produced, used,
consumed and the wastes
discarded. He was happy as long
as someone picked up the gar-
bage,did it quietly and trucked it
out of sight.
Then at a certain age, the child
'began to take on the respon-
sibilities that come with
adulthood. Examining the world
with fresh eyes, he witnessed
things that troubled him deeply..
The vision was of a planet facing
a serious energy shortage and a
deteriorating environment, an
evil vision entwined in the useless
wrappings of his youth.
Clearly, the price of con-
venience had been too high.
And so the voice of, the youth
joined that of government to halt
the persistent and expanding use
of non-returnable containers in
the soft drink industry,
In this province the voice of
government is calling for con-
certed voluntary action by the
soft drink industry to provide the
consumer with a workable 'and
acceptable system for restoring
the availability and use of the
returnable bottle by March 1976.
There are a number of ways to
bring back the refillable pop
bottle:
One way is to stop the use of
non-returnable pop containers of
any sort.
Another is a convenience tax —
the consumer who can't be
bothered returning bottles pays
extra for the privilege of
SC4rority members
see property film
The Alpha Pi Chapter of the
Beta Sigma Phi sorority met
January 20 at the home of Mrs.'',
Viki Zyluk, Exeter. Maryann
Topp was co-hostess for the
meeting.
Eila Martin and Gay Lemmond
were in charge of the program,
"My half of the Apple."
Roll call was "Are women any
happier in their roles today than
they were years ago?"
A film on family' property law
was shown. The film dealt with
'problems encountered under
present property laws in Ontario
and what would result from
the adoption of Ontario Law
Reform Commission proposals.
discarding his containers.
Still another approach would
set a refundable deposit on all
soft drink containers, refillable
or not,
Ontario could even pass a
regulation requiring retailers
who carry soft drinks in non-
returnable containers to carry
the same brands and sizes in
refillables.
There are other approaches
which could be taken. At the
beginning of this year,
Environment Ontario banned the
use of plastic and aluminum in
non-refillable soft drink con-
tainers. Again utilizing
provisions of the Environmental
Protection Act, the ministry also
set limits on the sizes of steel or ,
steel and aluminum pop .cans
which can be sold in the province.
But one way or another, the
money-back refillable •container
will be Coming back in style'.
No one denies the convenience
Of non-returnable containers. But
we must all make some sacrifices
to protect the beauty of the en-
vironment and to conserve
energy and non-renewable
resources. If we thought we could
go on forever merely satisfying
our short term needs
We'd only be kidding ourselves.
By MRS. FLORENCE HENDRICK
A$ I was born, raised and lived
my married life (N years in all)
in view of Old Lake Huron, it is, I
think, the centre of my childhood
Memories.
It was .always there on the
western horizon; so familiar a
sight that it was commonplace
and almost unnoticed so
Many different shades of blue
through the summer and so
snowy white in the winter. And
always the beautiful sunsets!
- There we went to swim in the
summer at Turnbull's Grove, It
was much different then. I
remember the old log house near
the highway with the apple or-
chard all about it. We picked the
apples from the branches, Sheep
Noses, Astrachans, Pippins,
munching them as we strolled on
our way. Then down the roadway
to the lake with its wonderful
wide sandy beach and a great old
basswood tree at the foot of the
bank.
I remember, too, one beautiful
summer morning going down to
the lake with my grandfather to
take in his fishing nets. I can still
see those fish, pickerel, perch
and herring, flapping and
sparkling as they lay tangled in
the yards of nets on the sand. My
grandfather and uncles made
those nets with a shuttle and
heavy fish cord using the same
tatting stitch I use now to make
my tatted lace.
But perhaps the most vivid
memory of the lake happened
when I was ten years old. There
was a great storm raging all
night, the lake was wild, and the
next morning we waded to school
through high snow banks. It was
November 9, 1913, My grand-
father, Robert Turnbull, took his
customary walk to the lake that
morning and there out in the
angry, swirling waters he saw an '
uplifted arm. Thinking • it was
someone in distress he hurried
for help. They pulled out a frozen
corpse. Six more bodies came in
on the waves there, just north of
Turnbull's Grove, and nine more
at Grand Bend.They were from
the crew who perished when their
ship broke up in the raging,storm.
People were very wrought up
over this tragedy, and crowds
attended the inquest which was
held in my grandfather's barn
where the frozen corpses lay.
There are many happy
memories • . . going to the bush
for flowers in spring, for berries
in the summer, for nuts in the fall
and to boil down sap in the old
sugar shanty in the late winter. I
used to go back to the pasture for
the cows before milking time, a
pleasant childhood chore.
I remember my mother hit-
ching up the horse and buggy and
driving to Tiernan& Edighoffer's
store' in Dashwood to do her
shopping. In exchange for
groceries she took eggs in a
basket and butter she had
churned, packed in a crock and
covered with a clean tea towel, I
guess what I recall best about
those trips was the sticks of
'candy she always brought home
to each of us children. I can still
remember the delicious taste as
we sucked on those candy sticks
given free of charge by the
storekeeper.
I went to school at Smokey
Hollow School on the Dashwood
Road (later to be known as
Weyburn), It was in a lovely
situation, with the creek running
behind it and the hills around. It
got its name of Smokey Hollow a
long time ago when there was a
mill on the other side of the creek
and the smoke from it settled
there, What times we had
sleighriding down the hill and
skating on the creek in winter,
Several years later, I taught
there, just before I got married.
Each Sunday, we rode in the
old double rig to the white
Presbyterian Church at Grand
Bend to hear the preaching of
Rev. Samuel Carriere who now
lies in the Grand Bend cemetery.
There are so many memories
of those early days. They do not
seem so long ago but they are
really almost a lifetime away.
egivr ded
The Exeter Times-
Advocate is pleased to wish
Happy Birthday greetings
to the following;
Mrs. Norma Coleman,
Lucan, 92, February 2.
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