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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-11-10, Page 4We get the message Published Each Thursdai Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation Sapternber 30, 1975 5,409 Canada $11.00 Per Year; USA $22.00 . , CCNA Matti IOU Page 4 Times-Advocate November 10, 1977 PA N Beats the cartoons One of the most interesting programs on television these days is the coverage provided of the House of Commons debates. It is unfortunate that it comes on at such a late time each evening as there is little doubt it would supplant cartoons as the main feature of the day. The recent questions relating to RCMP activities and the discovery of bugging devices dn some parliamentary offices has sparked some heated debates during the question period. Unfortunately, a considerable part of the TV coverage is difficult to follow in view of the Honorable Members' almost total disdain for following correct parliamentary procedures. Speakers are droned out by the banging filled the 40 million gallon reservoir and water rose 18 in- ches over the top of the spillway. Officials said the reservoir filled in less than a day. A safety patrol program was launched for public school students at Hensall last week. Senior students supervise crossings at four intersections near the school four times a day, headed by Captain Jerry Drysdale. Charlene and Marlene Desjardine, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Desjardine, RR 1, Grand Bend, celebrated their fifth birthdays on Sunday, Students from Dashwood, Staffa and Crediton were among the seven to be awarded UWO bursaries recently by the Huron County scholarship committee. They were Robert Clarke, RR 3, Dashwood, and Donald Dearing, RR 1, Staffa, and Katherine Ondrejicka, RR 1, Crediton, who received a scholarship for the girl from the county with the highest average at the university. of desks or the heckling which banters back and forth across the floor. If local meetings were conducted in such a manner, most chairpersons would immediately demand that order be main- tained, or they would ask the "com- batants" to leave the room. Television provides many Canadians with their first glimpse of the antics of our elected representatives as they fritter away valuable time with nonsensical remarks and a mammoth duplication of questions. Gentlemen, your constituents are watching, and what they are seeing is most discouraging at a time when this nation faces so many crucial issues. 55 Years Ago On Tuesday of last week, there was a breakdown in the engine that hauls the train from the north. The freight engine was used to take the train to London. This year three of the Junior Farmers Improvement Associations of Huron County held plowing competitions. They were Wingham, Exeter and. Howick, The Exeter competition was in stubble and was judged by Mr, Jas, MacLean, Richmond Hill. The standing of the Exeter boys was a follows; Oliver Rowcliffe, ,Harold Jeffrey, Earl Shapton, Victor Jeffrey, Milton Luther, Alvin Fyrn and Carman Doupe, On Monday while Mr. E, Rowcliffe was driving south on Main St. with W. J. Statham's bread wagon, he was run into by Dr. Graham's auto. The car struck the horse and carried it a short distance. The shafts of the wagon and part of the harness were broken, and the horse slightly bruised. About 200 car loads of celery have been shipped from Thedford this fall. Attracting wolves "You fool you mean to tell me you've been exchanging our perfectly good counterfeit dollars for Canadian dollars?" It may seem that scientists of the Canadian Wildlife Service have discovered the obvious. In this case, however, the wolf attracted by this internationally famous perfume is not the woman-chasing human variety, but Canis lupus, a fur-bearing car- nivore abundant in most parts of Canada. As part of the Canadian government's contribution toward making the trapping industry more humane, biologists have studied ways of making traps more selec- (eiggereeeze tive. If some specific scent or other lure could be developed to attract only one type of animal, the killing of non-commercial species might be reduced, thereby .adding to the humaneness of trapping. Through the testing of various scents it was discovered that Chanel No. 5 had a specific attraction for wolves. The next problem is how to get the trapper's wife or girlfriend to let him use the expensive perfume on his trapline. Loss bigger than the gain Costs escalate imagine the gals skating onto the Junior "A" circuit with those toothless gaps in their smile and the occasional scar that denotes an errant stick or puck. Canada's $16 .4-billion education system is going through a dramatic up,- heaval as school enrollment plummets. The long-term outlook is bleak and experts in the education comfnunity expect the crunch to get worse, at least until the mid- 1980's, One authority suggests the problem arises because of Canada's rapidly declin- ing birth rate, mainly related to increased use of the pill and other contraceptive devices, and in addition the sharp reduction in immigration. As a result there aren't enough students to fill available seats, reducing the need for teachers, and an OISE official notes that at least 65 percent of Ontario) teaching graduates have failed to find jobs in the profession. But there's more! Public complaints about rapidly rising education 15 Years Ago Exeter's second newspaper, published by members of room 13 at Exeter Public School was distributed following its first publication Thursday. The paper was complete with cartoons, news stories, editorials, and jokes. Members of the staff were David Frayne, Norman Howey, Karen McArthur, Randy Jones, Ron Durand, Gary Wurm, Graham Hern and Linda Wells. Biddulph Township Public School Board has taken an option on eight acres of land on the farm of Frank Hardy for the proposed site of,Biddulph Central School. The Meritorious Service Medal, highest award of the Royal Canadian Legion was presented to R. E. "Ted" Pooley during the Remembrance Day Service at Exeter Legion Hall, Saturday night. Mrs. Clifford Jory, RR 1, Kirkton, teacher at Exeter PS received her Bachelor of Arts degree at the recent convocation at UWO. She majored in English and History and has taught at Exeter Public School for the past eight years. 30 Years Ago The new highway between Exeter and Dashwood is being built. The London Civic Symphony sponsored by the Exeter Recreational Council are presenting a high class musical program in James Street United Church tonight. The Exeter Badminton Club swept the Ladies' the Mixed Doubles Tuesday night in a tournament with Seaforth, Plans were discussed at the Lions Club meeting Friday evening for setting up an organization to raise and ad- minister a fund for the erection of a hospital in Exeter. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Penwarden, Centralia, celebrated the 25th anniversary of their marriageln the Eastern Star chapter rooms. + + + costs are reaching a crescendo, and there are also criticisms about the quality of teaching. The questions uppermost in the minds of Canadians is why costs continue to spiral while enrollment drops. In 1975, for exam- ple, it cost taxpayers approximately $13 billion to support 6.2 million students in the country's 15,000 elementary, secondary and post-secondary institutions. This year, enrollment declined to six million students, yet spending jumped to 16,4 billion. Now, you hard-hit taxpayers, consider this — according to Statistics Canada, spending next year will reach $17.6 billion as enrollment plummets to 5.9 million students. How much longer can we con- tinue to grin and bear it? • Winchester Press 20 Years Ago The new Morrison Dam in Usborne township was unof- ficially christened last week when rains and melting snow and girls competing for positions on team sports. Certainly, there are many girls in this community who could hold their own with boys on the ice, However, there are limitations. Girls from age six through to 12 could probably play hockey, but they would find the going con- siderably tougher as they hit their teens, It is virtually im- possible to think of any girl taking the punishment handed out by teenage boys on the hockey rinks in this province. No doubt the East Germans and the Russians could develop that type of female, but it is not in keeping with the more gentile develop- ment of this nation's female population, with the usual few exceptions. It is interesting, of course, that the case which brought on the ruling involved a girl who played goal. From a physical standpoint, it is perhaps one of the least demanding positions on the team, as far as body contact is con- cerned. It does require more agility and perhaps even more intestinal fortitude, but few goalies have to be concerned about running headlong into a 175-pound 14-year-old defen- cemen or being crushed into the boards by that type of physical specimen. The point is, young ladies develop in a more delightful way than their male teenage cohorts, and sports involving bodily contact are not in keeping with that development. Somehow, we just can't Dear Sir: "Come on, guys, get out there and hustle!" That's one of the repeated pleas 'made by the people who coach minor hockey teams, and it now appears they may have to change that to "come on, people" as the Ontario Human Rights Com- mission have decreed that girls must be allowed to perform along side their male cohorts. The decision is being appealed by the Ontario Minor Hockey Association, who feel that the male bastion should not be in- vaded by "the weaker sex". People involved in sports at all levels have made comments on the subject following the historic decision, some backing the move and others opposing it most strenuously. There are, of course, some serious ramifications contained in the ruling that should be considered before members of the distaff side start cheering too wildly. The most important is the fact it could open up a two-way street. After all, if females are going to compete in some areas now confined strictly to men,'it must be assumed that men too can cross the threshold into women's activities. Imagine, if you will, what would happen to golfing if all tournaments were opened to members of either sex. The trophies and pay days enjoyed by. many women today would be virtually wiped out as men would dominate the sport. The same would happen in tennis, because even an aging Bobby Riggs has been able to hold his own with some of the top female com- petitors, Imagine what Jimmie Connors would do to Chris .Evert! Her huge pay days would be eliminated and slowly, but surely, women would disappear from the ranks of tennis professionals or even as top amateurs, The point is, that women would be put at a decided disadvantage if they had to compete against men in wide-open sporting events, and yet that is basically where the ruling of the Human Rights Commission is leading us as it eliminates the male and female designations for various events. sold the same product be denied a building permit. What course should council have taken? Any council that acts on behalf of any vested interest rather than according to what, it believes to be right is in- competent, irresponsible and perhaps even guilty of a criminal offence. Returning to my opening comment, perhaps those who are not happy with the decisions of council should express their dissatisfaction openly and should be prepared to investigate the other sides of all arguments. Council tries desperately to please everyone as it handles problems, but it is impossible to 'listen' to everyone although every citizen who comes before council will be heard. Council may be justifiably accused of being 'short-sighted', but `blind' is a little extreme! Dear Mr. Batten: Re: Your Coverage of the Canadian Cancer Society's Huron County Unit Annual Meeting Bruce Shaw Mayor * * * Exeter Gun Club Exeter, Ontario. Dear Sirs: + + + In some aspects, of course, there is nothing wrong with boys 0 IP the table to the chesterfield by a block and tackle after Thanksgiving dinner. But you'll find a few bad apples in every barrel. And by the way, McIn- tosh apples are only $6 a bushel this year, and you can get throught a bushel, the pair of you, in about three nights before the TV set. Avarice? Ridiculous! There isn't an avaricious soul in this fine land of ours. Except the doc- tors, maybe. And the businessmen, and the lawyers and the teachers and the union workers and the dentists and the politicans and the civil servants, But I can't think of one avaricious three-year-old. As for Sloth, you can scratch that one off the Canadian list right now. Migosh, you'd think we were lazy or something. It's common knowledge that the gross national product of this country is only slightly behind that of 14 other developed nations and well ahead of one of them, Lazy bedamned. Well, God, I think you've got Your signals crossed somewhere, and it's time you stopped wetting on us from a great height. Knock it off, We I have received a clipping from your paper dated October 13, 1977 in which your reporter has described in detail the talk I gave at this dinner meeting. I would like to commend the reporter, whose name I do not recall, for the remarkably detailed and accurate recording of my talk which she achieved. Neither my wife nor myself can remember her having a tape recorder and we believe that this was accomplished from her notes, If so, it is all the more remarkable an achievement. There is not a single instance in the entire story where I have been misquoted or misin- terpreted, I wish to extend my compliments and thanks to this unidentified reporter, Yours sincerely, R. Hasselback, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C) are beginning to get peed off as well as peed on, and if You aren't careful, we might all go to the Devil, I wonder if the rector was right about that Pale Gas? Maybe the letters stand for; Promiscuous; Asinine; Lazy; Epicurean; Greedy: Apathetic; Silly. Boy, if they do, we're in trou- ble. And I apologize, God. OK, God. We get the message. We give up. You may stop weep- ing any time over the stillness of your favorite creation, man. Although at times I'm not so sure it's weeping You're up to. I guess You tried to give us a little warning last winter, when you dumped more than 16 feet of snow on my humble abode. But wayward children that we are, we ignored Your broad hint and went right on sinning the sins of pride and presumption, as we have done through the thousands of years of floods and plagues and droughts and famines. So You decided to sock it to us, beginning about the middle of August. The wheat is rotting in the fields. The vegetables lie deep and putrefying in the mid. And the overcast is so bloody low that even the birds are walking. Enough, Your Heavenliship. Don't let it rain no more. I've been searching my own soul to see where I went astray, and for the life of me can't admit that I've been more sinful than usual, to call down Your wrath in the form of 40 days and nights of rain. Maybe it's nothing drastic, but just a sort of general slippage over the years, throughout Thy people, Let us now undo our shirts, contemplate our navels, and meditate on our sins, and perhaps You will stop the sluice and turn on the juice. Personally, I've slipped a bit, and I don't deny it. Oh, I haven't lusted after my neighbour's wife, I haven't stolen anything except that pumpkin out at Foster's Farm the other day, as a Hallowe'en treat for my grand- tons, and I haven't murdered anything larger than a mosquito for years. I haven't borne false witness, except to the Department of Revenue, which doesn't count. Maybe I haven't honoured my father and my mother, but there wasn't much point, since they've been with You for years. Well, that takes care, rather roughly, of the Commandmehts, gut what about the Seven Deadly Sins. Maybe that's a horse of a different hue. Lot's see. What are they? Oh, yes, remember what the rector said one day in +CNA Due to the amount of com- plaining involved in the location of the Exeter gun club, and the fact that our club does not like to hear complaints about anyone involved in shooting sports, we the Executive Members of the claybird gun club would like to offer you the use of Our shooting facilities in Hay Township in- cluding our land. We request your attendance at our next meeting to discuss the matter, This will be at 7 p.m, November 14, in the South Huron District High School. I personally feel that if your club feels as strongly as it should about giving shooters a good name you will strongly consider thisipropOsal. Each group has much to benifit by your Move, The claybird club offers not Only trap, but also skeet arid small bore rifle shooting. All true sportsmen will benefit' from the better name shooters will haVe instead of hearing about some club which iS supposedly disturbing a quiet neighbourhopd on a Sunday. Yours truly, l3ill McNutt President Claybird Gun Club c,c. Larry Mason, Ed Lin- denfield, Doug Triebner, ,gxeterAlk, Ontario Provincial Police, Thrair Chief, Exeter Town Police, Stephen Township, Exeter Towh Council, Tittles Advocate, and Ikon Hart, SUBSCRIPt ION RAtE Last week I read Randy Tieman's letter to the editor in the T-A and thought that perhaps a reply would be in order. The need for a reply was reinforced by two anonymous letters I received from two employees in the business section. Just to clarify a few facts. Council never asked anyone in Exeter for money for the new arena or the old town hall; council is not about to approve a new shopping mall and council must act not only in the best interest of the majority but also according to what the individual councillors, collectively, believe to be right. Now, let's assume that council can either prohibit or attract a shopping mall, What factors should be considered? 1) Is there a need? 2) Will existing businesses be hurt? 3) Will the local ratepayers benefit as a group? 4) Will the existing services be unduly taxed? 5) Will employment in the town increase? 6) Will council have a voice in determining exactly what businesses will be allowed? 7) Will the town be enhanced esthetically? and 8) Will there be a growth in the volume of commerce in the Town? There are probably other considerations as , important as well. I `"Would suggest that regardless of the perspectives of your readers, that each answer the questions posed and try to determine if there should be a 'shopping mall' in Exeter, (For the opponents of such an enterprize, I would suggest that a namely eolfya tdneempolecbraiatiecite,not be institution, considered for probably up to 75 percent of the town's population would no doubt support the idea. The problem, therefore, should be left to Council no matter What predicament it gets itself into) But the point is: council is extremely limited as to what course of -action it might take. If the developer conforms to the town's zoning by-laws and if he meets the requirements that have been laid out for him, council is powerless and indeed has no right to stop him. Council must, however, guarantee thatthe developer does not cause ah undue burden for the town. It could, for the reason of prOtecting the general interests of the community, delay the development, but council cannot stop it. We are noW in the process of attempting to determine What is the best way to achieve those endS, I remember when the local service stations hoped that council would block another station coming to town and again when an existing merchant asked that another businessman who Unfortunately, we also see where the ruling would prove to be detrimental to minor hockey, particularly in smaller centres such as the area towns and villages that ice all-star teams. One of the facts of the sport as it is presently organized is that the better players get better in relation to the majority of those who are somewhat below average. The boys who are chosen for all-star teams develop their skills to a greater extent than those who are left in the houseleagues due to a difference in the ice time each is given. It may not be the best system, but it is nevertheless the one which is in vogue and has been for many years. Normally, the boys who start off in houseleagues stay in houseleagues until their interest in hockey has been satisfied. Only a handful develop skills to the same degree as the all-star team members. This can be shown by looking at the Exeter minor hockey system. Most people involved can tell you what players will be on any given all- star team in any given year. Of all the kids who started out playing hockey some eight or nine years ago, 16 of them were chosen for an all-star team and those same 16 are still in action with the all-star midget team. Probably a number equal to that or even greater started out with them and have dropped out of hockey or are still in the houseleague. To get to the point, if girls were chosen for all-star teams in the novice, atom and pee wee level, it would exclude some boys who would normally make those teams. However, when the girls reach their teens and drop out because they can't stand the heavy going, there would be no boys with the ability to move in to take their places. The minor hockey program would Suffer seriously on the all-star level, which is still an important part of the pgogram, even though the houseleagues provide an equally important facet for those of lesser ability. That is the basic problem with the Human Rights Commission ruling as this writer sees it. Better to have the girls organized in their own leagues so they too can continue to play hockey into their teens against other girls, if in fact they want to play hockey. + + + It is usually impossible to make a gain without a corresponding loss. Females may have gained the right to play on registered minor hockey teams, but their losses may be far greater in many other sports where they have enjoyed their own associations and the rewards for achievement in those sports. Certainly, mixed sports such as curling and bowling can be en- joyed as the teams are balanced, but the Human Rights Com- mission is making a drastic error in ordering that all sporting events at the amateur or professional level should be Open I equally to rneh and women, For all but the exceptional, the females would lose out in those cireurnstanees. : • l'rfark timesEstablished 1£1'3 Advocate Established 1881 TETI IWZ.SAMaterae AMalgamated 1924 Imes dvocate SerAng South /I won.Nerth 4tidlthOx L La thhfon Since 1V1 SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., O.W.N.A. CLASS 'A' and ABC Published by J. W. Eedy Publications Limited LORNE EEDY, PUBLISHER Editor —gill Batten Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh Advertising Manager Jim Beckett Plant Manager -- gill Weekley Composition Manager — Harry DeVries Business Manager — Dick Joegkind Phone 25-1331 church. Pale Gas. Now, I am not suggesting for one moment that the rector was emitting from the pulpit colorless hot air. No, it was his way of remembering the SeVen Deadly Sins. This might be useful for my readers, if they are still with me, contemplating their navels and wondering where-in they have erred and are like lost sheep. Wet lost sheep. PALE GAS P for pride; A for Anger; L for lust: E for Envy; G for Gluttony; A for avarice; S for Sloth. Now if we can just prove that we are scot free on those counts, I don't think, God, that you have any right to go on watering us like so much asparagus. I can vouch for myself, and I'm sure for most of my readers, if I deny the first sin, Pride. What is there to be prideful about when you haven't done anything to be proud of? Does it count if you're proud of your kids for coming in first in the music festival or growing the biggest squash for the FaII Fair? Anger? No way. Well, maybe a little peevishness, like that litany of damnation hurled at the turkey in the blue Pontiac who tried to cut in front of you in traf- fic, Or a few barks at the old lady once in a while when she presents you with a $60 long- distance phone bill. Or a slight scream of rage at the kids when they calmly say they are quitting school and going to Europe to find themselves. But real anger? A firm "no" there. Lust? Most of us over the age of 30 don't even remember what it means. A fig for lust. Or a fig- leaf, if you want to be prim about it. Envy? Not a chance. Not among me and my readers, at any rate, Oh, we may turn a little green When we see someone smarter, more handsome, better dressed, or richer than we, but there is assuredly no envy in- volved. We enjoy belt* stupid, ugly, shabby and poor. Gluttohy? Out of the question. What do you think we are, pigs? Oh, there Might he the odd one of us who has one or three over the eight when it comes to drinks. And I did heat that a few of my readers had to be hoisted from