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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-10-17, Page 4Page 4 Timei-Advacate, October 17, 1979 SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.4., 0.W.N.A. CLASS 'A' and ABC Published by J. W.Eady Publications Limited LORNE EEDY, PUBLISHER Editor — Bill Batten Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh Advertising Manager — Jim Beckett Times Established 1873 vocate Mon% la•tit!liont WI "L'arA;A, Advocate Established 1881 Amolyarnated 1924 Mainstream Canada Good News for Canadians Composition Manager — Harry DeVries Business Manager — Dick Jongkind published Each Wednesday Morning Phone 235-1331 at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $11.00 Per Year; USA $30.00 ..,..'-......H ".. ,.-M.....__.... .0•Wnwave,ao Say thanks, not help The collapse of a local fireman at a barn fire last week when he was over- come by smoke points out once again the risks that these volunteers take in protecting area'properties and lives. Several of the firemen were cer- tainly going beyond the call of duty when they entered the smoke-filled barn in an attempt to rescue some livestock. It's easy to argue that animals or buildings aren't worth the risk some of the firemen take, but they always seem to set that consideration apart when it comes to fighting to help save the belongings of area residents. Most people have probably never stopped to ask themselves why in- dividuals volunteer for the many .fire brigades in the area. Probably most of October is fire prevention month and it is a good time to stop and think of the men who stand ready to come to your assistance if the need should arise. However, there is every indication they would be just as happy to have you stop and think about fire prevention in your home and consider the ways in which you could 'reduce the chances of having to call them. That's probably the best way to say thanks! the men who serve would be hard press-, ed to .come up with the answer ... at least one that would appear logical in view of the risks and hardships in- volved in the service and the amount of stipends paid. Another boost. By W. Roger Worth The recent oil strikes off the Newfoundland coast are good news for all Canadians, for two reasons, First, it creates a nice feel- ing to see a long-lime friend and associate succeeding and becoming wealthy, particularly when for so long the financially- troubled province contended with the highest living costs in the country and unemployment which sometimes surpassed 20 p/o Secondly, depending on the extent of oil and natural gas developments, the province may be able to provide the Roger Worth is Director, Public Affairs, Canadian Federation of Independent Bitsiness. enrgy needed to allow Canada self sufficiency in what is a cru- cial commodity, Without en- ergy, Canadians would, in that oft repeated phrase, "freeze in the dark." What's really important, though, is the impact of New- foundland's good luck - to- gether with hard bargaining on the part of the government - on therest of the nation, and the Atlantic provinces in par- ticular. Up to now, it has been oil and natural-gas producing provinces Alberta and Saskat- chewan that, thankfully, have subsidized the rest of the coun- try to the tune of $15 billion during the last few years. If Newfoundland becomes a "have" province on the basis of oil, together with the boom- ing fishery, the nature of Ca- nada will change substantially, Instead of being forced to seek support from fellow Cana- dians, Newfoundlanders will be able to pay their fair share of federal government sub- sidized programs such as pen- sions and unemployment in- surance, and Ottawa's equali- zation grants system for the province will be reversed. On a more personal level, the thousands of hard-work- ing Newfoundlanders enrich- ing life in other parts of Ca- nada because they couldn't find employment at h ome, may again become "down homers" as the economy ex- pands. Which is good news indeed. Further, the spinoffs from .Newfoundland's success will be felt throughout Atlantic Canada as the nearby source of energy is developed. At the present time, Canada's East- ern provinces import virtually all of their oil and have the highest unemployment rates in the country. The energy finds will also create a new sense' of confi- dence in the Atlantic region, providing an added impetus for the resourcefulness of peo- ple in the four provinces. And so-called "New fie" jokes will become as dead as the proverbial do-do bird. It's been a long time coming. You can cut the costs As a time when most people are showing considerable concern over the economy, this area appears to still be getting more than its full share of good fortune. The recent4announcement that Bell Aerospace at Grand Bend has landed a mammoth contract with the United States Army is certainly a real shot in the arm for the entire area, and the OXFAM-Canada, the international development. organization, launched its 1979 Fund Appeal qcrossOntariorecently The target for the appeal is $200,000. Proceeds go to aid self-help projects education, nutrition, agriculture, economic development, and health care around the world. Canadian actor and broadcaster, Don Harron, is sponsoring this year's appeal. In an open letter to OXFAM's supporters, Harron says, "A charity should above all respect the people it works with, by letting them decide where the work is most urgently need- ed, instead of trusting outside experts." "OXFAM does that. I can't help but respect OXFAM-Canada's commit- ment to work with people who are help- This worthy organization needs ing themselves," Harron said. your help! Please be generous., Con- Recently OXFAM has been very tributions are tax-deductible and should active assisting people affected by the be sent to Box 18,000, Toronto. • Perspectives feeling in the pit of my stomach. That night my wife laboured to well past mid- night, trying to teach me to step-hop. Instead I could only manage something that looked like the old hop,step, and jump that I had never perfected half as well at high school track meets. When the people in the apartment below began hammering on their ceiling, most incon- siderately I thought, we had to stop practising till just before breakfast when we had another go at it. It still looked like the hop, step, and jum. An p d the kids would probably have thought it looked like that if they had known the difference. They seemed to enjoy it though. Maybe it was the sight of a sweating stout red-haired object bouncing on the gym floor in a very unusual demonstration of the schot- tische or just the difference hr having a man for a teacher. The dragon though, was not impressed with my efforts, and did not hesitate to methodically point out my shortcomings. My mark for that lesson showed that I had only been hopeful about a twinkle in her eye as she blasted me. It was just as well that I l to teach the schot- e again that year or my teaching career would probably have ended right then and there, As winter winds start to send their chilling reminder of things to come in the days ahead, there's rising concern over the fact that 'heating oil supplies may not be sufficient to meet the needS before summer's warm rays return. Picture if you will, two lines on a graph. One is population, going up; the other is oil going down. They had to meet sometime - and they did. For several years now, Canadia,ns have been admonished to save energy, but to what effect? The cynics claim it's'all a.big rip-off by the oil companies and the complacent suggest that their small contribution in cutting back won't really do much good anyway. The latter are right to a degree since energy conservation isn't the complete answer. but it will give us extra time to replace our brutal meat-ax technology based on cheap resources with a second generation of more subtle technologies attuned to biological and ecological realities; and there's little doubt that we do need that time. Those who may scoff at the contribu- tion they can make to energy conserva- tion (and to their own pocket books) may be interested in a press release which crossed the writer's desk this week from the Council of Ontario Universities. Since the start of their energy management .programs, Ontario's 15 universities and one polytechnical in- stitute have realized savings of more that $36 million. In 1978-79 energy savings represented a cost avoidance of more than $11 million. There's little doubt that most home owners can make sizeable reductions in energy use and costs and when they see the price on their first tankful this fall, it may spur a few into some action. * * Many people are turning to wood Some, people, much too refined to in- dulge in pornographic books or blue movies. get their voyeuristic kicks from reading the "Personal" columns of the newspaper. Not me. I ain't refined. By the time I've skimmed the front page, been bored by the pomupous editorials, I'm through with the paper. It is strictly for wrapping garbage in. Never do I read the classified ads, selling everything from houses and cars to bodies. I haven't tithe. And besides. they're all the same. Whether it's a car. a house, or a body, it's the greatest buy of the century. Many of them carry the same message: "Must be seen." Well, I strayed. Yes, I wandered. The other day, looking through the ads for teachers in the hope that I could find my daughter's address in Moosonee (she hasn't written 118 in over three weeks arid I have a piercing picture of her and the grandboys stumbling around the tundra looking for the place), I staggered, 'by some mis- chance, onto the "Personal" column, No wonder those warpies read it, the people.who leave the room, note in air„ One member of the staff spent a good portion of a recent weekend out collec- tion wood for his fireplace. He proUdly announced 'how he had saved some hard-earned (?? ) cash by picking up some deadfall timber and chopping it down to size. That of course also resulted in a few blisters and a healthy sweat and he was savoring the pioneer instincts he could unleash when he curled up in front of his cozy fire with a good book. Unfortunately, the darn wood wouldn't burn and he has now worked up some more blisters and sweat by when someone mentions sex, or tells a funny, slightly offcolor joke. It's a kaleidoscope of sex, sin, silliness and sickness to warm the heart of any peeker through others' windows. I read with at first amusement, then amazement, and then a. bit of shock, though I am fairly unshockable. This appeared in "Canada's National Newspaper", which maintains a lofty moraLtone on most of its other pages. It was like looking under the rug in a highly moral dowager's 'house, while she is out getting tea, and finding a lot of dirt under it, First under suspicion are the items under "Massage", Some of them are innocuous enough, but what about this one: "No appointment needed. 10 a.m. to 10 'p.m. .7 days a week." With a wornan's naene and phone number, Maybe she's just a hard worker, who doesn't get up too early, and doesn't like days off. but I doubt it. Then you come to the section headed: "Readers. Palmistry, Horoscopes," Again, some of them are legit, as legit as a fortuneteller can be. But there are some intriguingones: "Mrs. Selma will help you in all problems of life, No * * The writer suspects the chap's wife was a bit more understanding than the one represented in a tale of woe about another buff who decided he would ,drastically reduce the family fuel bill by installing a wood stove. He found the first year of operation a little on the steep side as evidenced by his following account of itemized expenditures. Stove pipe. maintenance, etc, $458.00 Chain saw 149,95 Gas and maintenance for chain saw 44.60 4-wheel drive pick-up, stripped8,279,00 Maintenance on pick-up 438,99 Replace rear window of pick-up (twice) 310.00 Fine for cutting tree in provincial park 500.00 Fifteen cases of beer 126,00 Littering fine 50.00 Safety shoes New living room carpet Paint walls and ceiling Log splitting Fifteen acre woodlot 3,000.00 Taxes on woodlot 314,00 Replace coffee table (chopped up and !Aimed while drunk) 75,00 Divorce settlement ° 33.-678.00 Total first year's costs 48,881,54 Savings in conventional fuel first year 172.52 Net cost of wood stove operation first year . 48,709,02 problem so small that she cannot solve (How about big ones?). One visit will convince you," Hanky-panky? Sure sounds like it. But that is kid stuff, only mildly titillating, compared with the sick, arrogant, lonely, blunt, no-holds barred medicine that comes under the heading: Companions Wanted. This is where the real meat of the "Personal Column" is, and I imagine an in- veterate reader skips the masseuses and the fortune tellers quickly, and gets down to peering into private lives, When I was in the weekly newspaper business, there was the occasional pathetic guy who would come in to the office and place an ad: "Successful young farmer, good farm, stock, house, seeks partner interested in matrimony. Write Box 220B." It was pathetic because we knew the guy. He was 53. ugly. His farm was six- ty acres, mostly second-second-growth bush and pasture. His "stock" con- sisted of two pigs, four chickens, and three mangy cows. His "house" was a Huron MLA for 10 years. Kids in Exeter. Hensall and Lucan raised $282 ,for UNICEF, the United Nation's Children's fund which can buy five glasses of milk for one cent. Paul Wilson.•who is atten- ding Victoria College, University of Toronto was elected president of the Mid Western Ontario zone of the Christian Young Councillors, Monday night members of Exeter Public School board viewed preliminary sketches of its proposed three-room addition. 15 Years Ago New organ chimes were donated to Main Street United Church by Mrs. W. J. Beer in memory of the Beer and Quance families in honour of the church's 69th anniversary. Guest speaker for the service was the Rev. H.J. Mahoney who was minister at Main Street 'United Church 15 years ago, School bells at three Usborne Township schools sold for more at a public auction Saturday than the three one-room school houses did. One of the top prices paid at the Huron County Hols- tein Club sale at Glanworth recently was $420 for a bred heifer consigned by Ross Marshall. Kirkton. The first trailer rolled out of Exeter's Custom Trailers plant on Highway 83 at 4:30 p.m., bringing to completion several months of planning and building of Exeter's newest industry. shack without plumbing, heated by a pot-bellied stove. He never received an answer, but would come in once a week for two months asking for the mail from Box 220B. But these city slickers are a lot more subtle and tough. I'll give you a few examples that curdled me a bit. The egos are fantastic. "Professional man, married, mid-thirties, seeks married woman for afternoon or evening meetings." How would you like to be his wife? "Gentleman, 48, business owner, lives in new apt. seeks charming, attractive lady to share his life with," No men- tion of marriage. "Middle-aged business man seeks younger male com- panion," Well. "Sophisticated gentleman, creative type, seeks the pleasure of sensuous woman 30-45. If an exciting affair with an appreciative male is your style, send snapshot and phone no. to,.." He could be 80. But It's not all men. "Lady, 55, R.C., wishes to meet gent up to 60." If you're sixty-one you're out, but you could be twenty-one, "One wild and crazy guy wishes to meet one wild and crazy gal who loves dancing and camping and would like to share a serious relationship." On a dance floor? In a tent? "I am a lovely, loving female, 33, divorced and a writer, who is also tolerant, perceptive, idealistic, off-beat, romantic, cerebral and a `Cancer, looking for an honest, stable relationship. I am looking for a man,,, (and a llst of adjectives like hers). Someone with a calm exterior, but brimming with hidden fires and worlds to explore, Under 50 and over five feet seven inches," That's what gets me. After the great build-up, the blunt facts. If you were fifty- one and five-six, you'd miss out on this fantastic woman. `Intriguing. Blonde young lady seeks wealthy man for daytime affair." That's the shortest and most honest of the bunch. She probably works nights. I'm afraid the only one that tempted me was: "Russian lady, Beautiful. (That's nice, nothing against beautiful Russian ladies.) Seeks gentleman over 40. (0,K. I qualify). Lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Great climate there.) For marriage purposes." Always the stone-dead clincher at the end. I'd have to ask my wife, company in particular. Basically, the company has been idle for the past couple of years and there was naturally some concern that it would ever get back into production. That it showed such determination is a credit to the management. The addition of up to 55 jobs in the next few months will be felt throughout the area. Need your alp struggle against the Somoza dic- tatorship in Nicaragua, and refugees fleeing minority rule in Southern Africa. OXFAM's projects in these areas include medical supples foir , Northwestern Nicaragua, a vegetable garden in Zambia, and a nursery in Angola. During the OXFAM fund drive, special events are planned for many localities in the province. OXFAM committees in Kitchener-Waterloo and Ottawa are organizing benefit concerts. The Deep River committee is holding a bazaar. Appeal letters and information brochures will be distributed throughout Ontario. It all started because I didn't have any money. Not that I have very much now, but then we had just got married. We had bought our furniture on credit from a big department store, and they were billing us for it even though they had not delivered it yet and we were sleeping on the hardwood floor. Freckles, our multi- coloured Volkswagen was on her last legs, almost literal- ly, it had so little pep that I almost had to pedal up the really steep hills. We had got married on the' strength of my fiancee's new teaching job in Chinguacousy Township, a place not really so remote as the name implies. She would be getting the princely sum of thirty-three hundred a year. We had the cock-sure attitude of the young that our finances would eventual- ly work themselves out. I would be able to go to un- iversity somewhere in Toronto while my wife work- ed and supported ins. After a couple of months of married life, we dis- covered that sixty-one dollars a week will barely pay the rent and bills much By SYD FLETCHER less cover that first tuition installment, so I began to look at other possibilities. American Motors wanted assembly line workers; Ford wanted a parts man, and I had fifteen years of schooling which seemed to be going to waste. Teachers' College was free, my wife told me if I didn't really want to go out to work right away. Before I really knew what was happening I was enroll- ed, and was commuting from Brampton to Toronto, a would-be teacher. My first lesson, I was informed ex- actly three weeks later, would be teaching the schot- tische to a giggling pack of eight-year olds, Grade three experts at demoralizing a student teacher.Not so hard at that when he has two left feet, about as much rhythm as a waltzing elephant, and has not yet mastered the two-step. The schottische may be somebody's favourite dance but I can hardly bear that kind of music even now without shuddering. Perhaps it's the memory of the old maid I was teaching for. She had handed the assignment to me with some sort oft malicious satisfaction at the gull?. With, WM it. Leah*. sfr classroom with its arrow- straight rows and unsmiling students I had a horrible It's all in the personals stoves in an attempt to reduce their heating costs and those considering such a move would be well advised to secure a copy of the October issue of Canadian Consumers in which stoves are rated, While wood stoves are more sophisticated than those by which grandpa warmed his feet, they are still 'bad news for careless people and modern airtights are no less subject to the hazards of . the over-firing or chimney fires than his parlour stove was.-Now, as then, knowing your stove is the key to safe, efficient wood heating. Wood stove efficiency depends most- ly upon design, installation and chimney. but to some extent it also depends on your stovemanship, accor- ding to the consumer publication. ° Several excellent how-to books are available on the entire subject and those embarking on .such a plan to reduce their home heating would • be well advised to read up on the informa- tion before they find their new stove is not all it was cracked up to be, or that' Tow charge from creek they have to arrange for a quick visit 50.00 by the local volunteer fire brigade. Doctor's fees for removing splints from eye 45.00 Safety glasses - 29.50 Emergency room treatment (broken toes-dropped log) 125.00 o t carting away his free wood the dump. 49.50. 899,00 110.00 150.00 55 Years Ago The Exeter Times has taken over the Exeter Ad- vocate, their plant, subscrip- tion list and good will. Beginning next week this paper will appear as The Times-Advocate. Miss Lila Taylor, a. promising artist of Usborne has had her work recognized by having one of her pic- tures, a winter scene, "The Homestead", hung in the Canadian Academy at Ot- tawa. Mr. S, Fitton is remodell- ing his store, dividing it in two. 30 Years Ago Theg5,800 cottage won by Jack Drysdale of Hensall at the CNE arrived in Hensall Friday night. The men from the firm which donated the cottage arrived to erect the building on the bowling green. Mr. Drysdale donated it to the Hensall Chamber of Commerce as a community hall. Rev. F. E. Clysdale of Thorndale, a pastor of Main Street United Church 25 years ago preached anniver- sary services Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Allison of Thames Road observed their 59th wedding anniver- sary Sunday. • 20 Years Ago The first of two main thoroughfares in the new eastern development was designated Pryde Boulevard by town council Monday night. Tha name specifically honours the late Tom Pryde,