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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,