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Appalling situation
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Consider credit cards as,
high interest time bombs
By Alan Glum, CA
It's that time again
The announcement by Hensall Reeve
Harold Knight that he will not seek re-
election serves as a reminder that this
is municipal election year and the date
for filing nomination papers is rapidly
approaching.
Positions for area council seats and
those on the two school boards will
again be open to qualified ratepayers in
the various municipalities.
Obviously, it is not too early for
citizens interested in serving on these
various groups to consider the task or
for others in the communities to be
looking for people they think would
serve and to encourage them to enter
their names. •
Sitting members, of course, should
also be considering their positions with
the intent of making up theirminds so
people will know what vacancies may
exist. Each year, there are a few sur-
prise retirements at the 11th hour and
on some occasions this has resulted in
the need for second nominations.
Hopefully, those who plan to step
aside will follow the example of Coog
Knight and make their intentions
known well in advance so• others may
be prompted to come forth and offer
their services.
Over the next few weeks, this
newspaper will be contacting the pre-
sent members of area councils and the
school boards in an effort to learn of
their plans, but any who wish to make
their decisions public are naturally in-
vited to give us a call so the electors
can be kept up to date on the situation.
* * *
How about those crazy kids who have
now established a new world record for
sitting on their motorcycles out at
Country Corners in Mt. Carmel!
At the time of writing, it appears that
none of the four is prepared to give in,
although as the temperatures start to
dip, their endurance may be waning.
To our knowledge, it is the first world
record that has been achieved in this
area, and while it may not be signifi-
cant to many people, the entrants have
certainly dispelled any suggestion that
young people don't have any endurance
or perseverance.
By the time a winner is declared,
he/she may be ready to trade the
motorcycle in on a snowmobile.
Speaking of records, the, people at
Pym Farms were smiling all the way
to the bank with their $13,915 cheque for
the champion market• steer auctioned
off at the Western Fair last week.
Howard Pym and his clan have been
consistent winners in a variety of
similar contests and now have the
proof that the effort through the years
in 4-H work and the local feeder calf
club does indeed pay dividends.
Readers are reminded that the local
feeder calf club will again be auc-
tioning off their animals at the fair this
Saturday and it is an opportune time to
get some excellent beef for your
freezer.
Don't be frightened off by that $11 a
pound price. The Exeter fair prices, un-
fortunately for the club members, do
not reach such record highs and most of
the animals are sold at a few cents over
the current market prices.
That little extra you may end up pay-
ing can be considered as your contribu-
tion to the work of some area young
people and obviously that is a small
price to pay to keep them interested
and striving towards attaining the en-
viable position of the Pym family,
There are people on hand at the sale
to look after your animal after it has
been purchased and it is easy to make
arrangements to have it prepared for
your freezer with no effort on your part
whatever.
So, consider giving the kids a
necessary boost, Perhaps a friend or
neighbour would be prepared to split a
carcass with you and enjoy the benefit
of seeing exactly what you are buying
while it is still on the hoof.
*
Public opinion polls, apart from the
dangerous fact that they are often used
to sway public opinion ratherthansam-
ple it, are frequently suspect because
so much depends on the wording of the
questions put by the pollsters.
This was one of the main concerns of
hockey officials during a survey of
parents some time ago that subse-
quently led to many rule changes for
minor hockey players this coming
season. Many of the questions led the
parents to the answer the pollsters
were apparently wanting.
As an extreme example of loaded
questions, an advertisement recently
appeared in a magazine in which these
"objective" questions were posed by a
popular TV evangelist:
1. Do you approve of pornographic
and obscene classroom textbooks being
used under the guise of sex education?
2. Do you approve of present laws
legalizing abortion that resulted in the
murder of more than one million babies
last year?
3. Do you approve of the growing
trend towards sex and violence replac-
ing family-oriented programs on
television?
Perhaps the evangelist could have
gone one step further and added this
completely impartial question:
Do you believe that people should
send money to phoney TVevangelists.
one of whom led hundreds of people to
Guyana and induced them to kill
themselves?
Dear Sir/Madam:
This letter is being written
to create public interest in
the development of a multi-
ple sclerosis unit in Huron
County.
Multiple Sclerosis is the
most common neurological
disease of young adults in
Canada, a part of the world
which is known to be a "high
risk" area for MS. But too
often multiple sclerosis is
confused in the public mind
with other diseases such as
muscular dystrophy.
Multiple sclerosis is quite
distinct since it is a disease
of the central nervous
system and is usually
diagnosed in young adults
who are between the ages of
20-45, their most productive
years. An estimated 35,000
Canadians have multiple
sclerosis which may cause
impaired vision, numbness,
loss of the ability to walk.
There is no known cause or
cure for MS, as yet.
Canada. for unknown
reasons, is one of the high
risk areas for MS. For-
tunately, many of the 35,000
Canadians who have MS can
carry on their daily lives
with little or no disability.
Others however have to
come to terms with relying
on canes or walkers or
wheelchairs. Some must be
hospitalized.
The impact of multiple
sclerosis affects all facets of
a person's life, physical,
social, emotional and
economic. The burden is felt
by the family and communi-
ty at large.
The National Multiple
Sclerosis Society consists of
seven divisions across
Canada which are the Atlan-
tic, Quebec, British Colum-
bia, Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, Alberta and
Ontario. There are 42
Chapters including units,
within the Ontario Division.
The Objectives of the
Society are threefold:
(1) Research - to find the
cause and cure of multiple
sclerosis. Doctor Jonas Salk,
discoverer of polio vaccine,
has said that every disease
"has a time" when
researchers appear to be
gaining on it. The California
scientist believes MS in-
vestigators are picking up
momentum - the odds have
swung in their favour.
The MS Society of Canada
believes this. In 1978, it
allocated over $1 million for
research. The sum was a
record outlay for the 31-
year-old voluntary agency,
and indications are that
research funding will con-
tinue to grow.
(2) Patient Services - both
direct and indirect. These
services are for people with
multiple sclerosis and their
families. providing both
physical and emotional sup-
port to assist in effectively
living with the disease.
(3) Education -
educational programs are
designed for people with
multiple sclerosis, their
families, the volunteers, the
health professionals, and the
community. Up-to-date
literature, films, as well as
speakers are readily
available to all groups.
With this brief explanation
of multiple sclerosis,
own memory lane,
In a July editorial, this newspaper
suggested members of the Huron Coun-
ty board of education deserved an
apology for having aspersions cast
against their integrity.
The suggestion was made on the
heels of a rumor that the board had
reversed an earlier decision to reduce
'their salaries from $3,6000 to $3,000 per
annum. The rumor indicated the move
had been made behind closed doors and
our editorial was intended to discount
the rumor on the basis that no responsi-
"Fear always springs from ig-
norance," Ralph Waldo Emerson
wrote. That may be an over-
simplification, but it nonetheless helps
to point the way 'to an understanding of
fear. It is usually the product of in-
complete knowledge or incomplete
thinking. Consider the fears one
develops at the outset of life.
"Mommy, I'm afraid of the dark.
Please leave the light on." Early
childhood brings a succession of misin-
formed, unfounded fears. Yet a fear is
a fear, whether it has its foundation in
It is
The judgement by Provincial Court
Judge MAurice Charles that police do
not have the right to stop drivers at ran-
dom and require those they believe to
be impaired to take roadside breath
tests should of course, be appealed. If
the higher courts support Judge
Charles, then the law should be chang
ed.
It should be changed on the premise
that driving a vehicle is not a right but
a privilege. It is a privilege for which
the driver must qualify by passing a
test and getting a driver's licence, and
for which he must ensure that his vehi-
cle is qualified, by being roadworthy,
insured and displaying a licence. The
police must then protect these licensed
drivers, especially from themselves.
The police have the legal power to
Home buyers and house builders
will be dismayed to learn that
mortgage rates are now outpacing in-
terest levels.
The prime lending rates have been
steadily declining since April of this
year and in general the mortgage rates
followed suit. But since then the going
rate for a conventional, five-year
mortgage has risen to 14 per cent.
Long term money is more expen-
sive to get now and banks and trust
companies must offer good rates for in-
vestors before they are willing to part
with any money.
By SYD FLETCHER
As we travelled along
Highway 7 toward Ottawa
this summer, I got my wife
to drive for a few miles. It
take a lot of persuasion to get
her behind the wheel on a
long trip, but somehow the
sight of me beginning to nod
helps her to make the big
plunge.
However, the time limit is
understood. Half an hour, or
a big city coming up. I learn
to catch a nap fast.
Just nicely asleep and I'm
ble group of people would take such ac-
tion in secret, particularly after their
move to reduce salaries had been given
so much ballyhoo and applause for their
effort to reduce education costs.
The defence of the board members
was apparently ill-founded. They did in
fact rescind their earlier motion to
reduce salaries and they did in fact
perpetrate the deed behind closed doors
in an apparent move to keep the situa-
tion from the taxpayers.
Their actions are appalling,
the mind or in external reality. Parents
should treat childhood fears seriously,
gently and gradually attempting to put
them to rest.
The very baselessness of childhood
fears offers parents an opportunity to
teach their children a lesson 'that will
last all their lives: that most fears exist
only in the imagination. It can be better
demonstrated to a child than to a per-
son of any other age that, in the
childlike words of Rudyard Kipling,
"Of all the liars in the world,
sometimes the worst are your own.
fears."
stop a driver to chi that his wheels
are properly aligned. They should have
equal power to stop a driver to check
that he is properly aligned.'
If there is a hazard on the road that
obstructs vision, we remove it; if a
road is unsafe, we close it; if a driver
has drunk himself into being a danger,
we should take him from behind the
wheel - and put him in jail for a good
long time. We know, because the
statistics keep confirming it, that the
driver most likely to become involved
in an accident is the driver who has
been drinking to excess.
Stopping drivers to check their
alcoholic content is not abusing a right.
It is ensuring that they are not abusing
a privilege.
(The Leamington Post)
Investment certificates are giving
out about 12.25 per cent interest and if
that money is to be used for mortgage
investment the institutions need a
spread of 1.75 per cent for return on
their money.
In Goderich, residential building is
non existent. Not one single family
residential unit has been created this
year.
If building and sebsequent job crea-
tion are to be achieved the mortgage
rates must be semi-attractive.
Goderich Signal-Star
Now though, as the
summer has worn on and
Terry has become something
of a legend and a folk-hero,
coupled with his temporary
(hopefully) set back, they
have begun to realize what
an important thing he is
doing and how fortunate they
were to see him.
In these days of
newspapers and television
being crammed with
pessimism and gloom it is a
superb thing to hear that
mankind is still capable of
nobility, that Canadians as a
people can respond, finan-
cially and emotionally to
such an event.
To Terry Fox, I extend my
gratitude for awakening that
spirit across this country.
May only the best come to
him in the future.
citizens from Huron County
area are invited to a public
meeting, September 22, 1980,
at 8:00 p.m. at the Vanastra
Recreation Centre. This
meeting will be the begin-
ning of a "unit" of the Multi-
ple Sclerosis Society. For
further information please
contact Rita Crump at 357-
2335, Wingham, Ontario.
Yours truly,
Rosella Spera
Field Co-ordinator
and Mary Crober
District Patient Services
Co-ordinator
Multiple Sclerosis Society
Ontario Division
** *
Our students all seemed
glad to be back at school and
to be with their friends
again. We were glad that
Andy is managing so well
after his accident last June.
He and Eloise both arrived
at school on crutches.
Two students from South
Huron High School were
hired under an Experience
80 grant so that our pupils
would have an opportunity to
participate fully in the
playground activities at
either Dashwood or Exeter.
Five of our pupils supported
the program at Dashwood on
a regular basis. The
program at Exeter was less
successful with two pupils
participating part of the
time although five had
originally indicated an in-
terest.
A great deal of time and
effort went into organizing
an integrated summer
program and it was reward-
ing to know that seven of
our students were able to
take advantage of the
program.
Both Sheila Eisenschink
and Janice Heywood are to
be commended for their
work.
We now have three adult
volunteers who each come in
a half day a week. Both Mrs.
Hyde and Mrs. Elder were
with us last year and Mrs.
Jossul hopes to join us this
month.
Again this year we will be
able to count on the students
from McCurdy School to
help with lunch duties. Wen-
dy Bierling and Debbie Hor-
ton will be assisting us this
year.
This will be the third year
that the students from the
Community Home
Economics Course have
worked with our students as
part of their course. They
will be joining us one mor-
ning a week during the
winter term.
Our senior students will
continue to launder and iron
the aprons and cloths used in
the food labs at the College,
and will again do the
sweaters and socks for the
hockey team. This is
meaningful training for our
pupils and is a service that is
appreciated by Centralia
College.
Our first swimming class
will begin at Vanastra on
Wednesday. September 17
and continue for six
sessions,
September 26 is a P.A.
- Day and students will not at-
tend classes that day.
Huron Hope School
Dollar Sense offers
general financial advice by
members of The Institute
of Chartered Accountants
of Ontario.
to buying on credit and
managing a credit account?
If you are not sure, here is
how you can be. First -- and
most important -- never use
a credit card to buy any-
thing you can't afford to
pay for at the end of the
Month. Convenience is the
only justification for having
the card, and you must
avoid the interest penalties.
If you have to borrow to
buy, borrow from a bank --
you'll pay much less in
interest.
Next, plan your expendit-
ures. This goes beyond
merely not buying on
impulse. It means drawing
up a realistic budget that
allows for a certain amount
55 Years Ago
Dashwood Brass Band is
kept quite busy filling
engagements the last week.
They played at Parkhill and
Ailsa Craig fairs and this
week will furnish the music
for the Merton Fair.
We congratulate Mr. and
Mrs. H. Hartly and 1V.r. and
Mrs. Jas Rock, Gre enway,
whose babies won prizes at
the Parkhill Fair. Greenway
is sure some place when it
can produce two prize
winning babies in one year,
Eh, what!
The final game of the
South Huron Baseball
League was held in Zurich on
Friday last, Crediton win-
ning the game and cham-
pionship by the score of 6-5
Theil, the pitcher had the
misfortune of breaking his
arm in the beginning of the
fifth inning while pitching a
ball to the home plate. He
was replaced by O'Brien,
William Motz pitched for
Crediton and twirled a good
steady game.
30 Years Ago
In an address by W.E.
Middleton at the corner-
stone laying ceremony at
Exeter Public School he said
that the old public school has
been completed and oc-
cupied in November 1874 at a
cost of $7,000.
Induction service for Rev.
E. M. Cook was held in
Clandeboye United Church,
Tuesday evening September
26.
The newly organized Lions
Club of • Grand Bend held its
first supper meeting at the
Brenner Hotel Friday
evening.
Lorne Passmore won the
tractor championship at the
24th annual North Huron
plowing match at Bluevale.
At the morning an-
niversary service at St.
Paul's Anglican Church,
Kirkton a cross was
dedicated which had been
presented to Canon James in
honor of 40 years service in
the church,
Night schools in basic
English for new Canadians
will be conducted in Exeter
High School starting October
17.
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of impulse-spending, You
can't resist it forever, SR
plan for it. Never, ever
throw away a credit receipt
or a monthly statement.
You should know at all
times exactly how much
you owe. Don't wait for the
monthly bill to remind you
of that late-night dinner
you couldn't even remem-
ber the next morning.
Every six months, do an
analysis of your spending
on credit. Nothing fancy --
just so much for clothes, so
much for entertainment,
and so on. You might be
surprised to learn where
your money went.
When it comes to paying
your credit bills consider
paying on the last day
before the payment is due.
This may seem like surpris-
ing advice, but why should-
n't you gain interest on
your money (especially if it
is in a daily-interest
account) for as long as you
can without penalty. Do you
have a desk calendar, or a
calendar on the kitchen
wall? The day you receive a
credit bill, make a note to
pay it on the day before it
falls due and . don't
forget.
Finally, paying the bill at
the bank is simply the
safest route, because your
receipt is date-stamped and
the payment goes directly
to your account, whereas
mail can go astray. ,
The most vital key,
however, is to know pre-
cisely how much money you
owe at all times. If you lose
track of that, you're in
trouble -- and that's about
as plain as I can put it.
Mr. Gunn is with Deloitte
Haskins & Sells, Chartered
Accountants, Toronto.
20 Years Ago
Exeter Fall Fair attracted
its largest crowd ever. An
estimated 4,500 people paid
the biggest gate receipt in
the history of the 106 year old
show.
An oil painting class was
organized in the library
basement Tuesday evening
with Mr, G.C. Koch as in-
sructor.
Richard Skinner, baby son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ross
Skinner, won the six months
and under class at the first
baby show held at Exeter
Fair this week.
Marie Hodgson returned
home after a year teaching
Home Economics to 11-year-
old pupils in secondary
schools in London, England'.
Mrs. Luther Reynolds,
Exeter won her fourth
straight championship in the
flower class this year. This
year she added another title
by capturing the champion
jam trophy.
Ignorance and fear
a privilege
Rates must drop
Perspectives
awakened by a tremendous
commotion with the kids
jumping up and down in
excitement and an
l awareness that the car is
slowing to a crawl,
Terry Fox is running, or
should I say hopping along
the side of the road next to
the huge rocks of the
Canadian Shield. He looks
strong and determined, his
face glistening with sweat as
he moves westward into the
afternoon sun.
For a few moments the
kids are actually quiet. Then
they want to know why a one-
legged man is running
across Canada, why anybody
would do something as
strange as that. I am not
sure they understand the
depth of character and
strength of personality in-
volved, but we try 'to ex-
plain.
Credit cards, can be
plastic explosives if abused
— time bombs waiting to
blow you out of the water
and sink you into deep
financial trouble.
They are marvelously
convenient, of course, and
you wouldn't want to give
them up altogether, But
remember this; credit cards
-- or rather, the abuse of
them -- is by far the largest
single cause of personal
bankruptcies in Canada,,
and those are spiralling out
of sight. Also, credit card
interest rates -- always
severe -- have now risen to
as much as 2 per cent per
month, or 24 per cent per
annum, on overdue
amounts. That's a high
price to pay for conven-
ience.
Are you really financially
responsible when it comes
15 Years Ago
The new centralized
service of the Canadian
National Railways which
went into effect Tuesday in
five area communities in- '
clouding Exeter has caused
protest in some quarters.
The new service will in effect
close the five stations in
these municipalities and
have all services operating
out of the London area office.
Mayor Jack Delbridge will
represent Exeter at the
International plowing Match
slated for early October. The
Mayor may have a little
advantage over some of his
rivals as he actually does
plow about 100 acres per
year.
Mrs. Art Whilesmith of
town and Mrs. Douglas
Cook, Hensall were fortunate
in having a painting hung in
the display at Western Fair.
Out of 160 entries 52 were
hung.
Terri E. Laughton who
started with the Exeter
Company of Girl Guides,
and has since been a Lone
Guide has been awarded the
Gold Cord. Very seldom is
this honor awarded to a Lone
Guide because of the dif-
ficulty of the work involved.
Crosswalks are for pedes-
trians,
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