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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1960-09-08, Page 4HOI "I *Moll! It 'MI !,0 at I lolls 11 •0!!1!1 !S” w ti RIMM um 10 ookot imsmt !up !Ito,'to 11 TIA ", DON .McGREGOR FUELS AND WELDING Electric and acetylene welding Tieilers built of all PHONE. 737 - EXETER P4 0111,41011111111011111111111,11”11111141 lit ttt 1111111111 1 II tmi itm111111111111111111 itlm My boy is as smart as a whip! Yet sir, a regular chip Off the old block. Why, already he's saving his money so he can go to college. That's right. Yes sir, A chip off the old block. Wouldn't be surprised if he gets to be a big star on the football team, He's just like the old man. Now, boy, tell 'em where you're saving your money, Speak up, b6y! THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, naturally! 4 The ThrosA.O.Yo.cetA., $eptethher L 1960 Editorials Avoid hazards. This. newspaper The right to .express en opinion in public. OIntri.lovte.a to the .progreto of the nation and, that it must be goer,. rood freely and without prejudice to preserve and Improve demol, critic government. In the mirror An,oft-ignored point about today's living :is expressed capably by Mrs. M. C. Fletcher, Exeter, in the "Thought for the Week" in Grand Bend Ho day recently,. We reprint it for your consideration; There really are no bad young people! Some- one may wish to debate that assertion. As their parents, let us look in the mirror. Honestly.now, take a good look, What do you .see? You are that young person—or the badly abused term "teenager"—grown up. So, let us turn back the pages. How good is your memory? Just what did you do at the ages of 13, 14, 18 and 20? Whom did you pal with? Where. did you go? Let us be truthful with our answers. I believe we perhaps went to about the same places, only didn't get there quite as quickly; didn't stay as long; and had to be home earlier. The young men were just as nice, only didn't have the same hair cuts. In fact, we were just like our parents. When Mary is a little girl, she does as mother does. As Mary grows older she still tries to pattern herself after mother. Then later, she is as mother is. So parents, as we are looking in that same mirror, remember we are very responsible for what- ever our children are. Now perhaps we had better start being the kind of person we would have your child be. Landmark disappears "'And if I a* re-elected, I will buy my *rite it., new fur coat Dear, you've been. tampering with my speeches again," Nice thought The Aurora tanner has begun a campaign to elect a 'HurOn county publisher prithe minister. Says the banner: "George Ellis, publisher of the Goderich Signal- Star, has just returned from a trip to England. He found his time was up, with still lots to see, so wrote in the Signal-Star that he expected to return to England when he retired, 'but by that time we will probably have flat feet, heart trouble, rheumatism, gall bladder trouble and all other ailments that prevent you from enjoying life when you reach the stage when you are supposed to enjoy your years -of retirement.' "'We think the government should advance us money to enjoy ourselves in the days of our youth (or comparatively so) when we can enjoy it. Then hold it back from us in the later days when we get it but are too ill to enjoy it anyway.' "Starting today, George, you can be priale , minister!" dispensed by Bill Smiley "Since the doctor ordered him to get more rest, he's . been coming down to the office earlier." ,47 "goola* . aaaa, 7eAnieg trtdirito4ttellirotatisgi ed, • 3!trflflotrAollt.lr.VMME4Fasy".Ate,feilltiritraelf)EVESinnlawno, Farm machinery travelling on our highways llinst be regarded as a hazard. This large, .slow-mov- egnipment has been involved in ..a.a increasing number of accidents. It would be unfortunate indeed if, in view of t• he growing problem, highway officials found it n• ecessary to enact laws curtailing movement of such machinery on highways. It would impose a definite handicap on the farmer. Nevertheless, there have • been indications that such actions are being con- sidered. Worried about this situation, one district farmer recently suggested that, farm people them- selves can help to relieve the problem by taking a more realistic attitude toward it. In the interest of their own safety, in addition to the convenience of motorists, farmers should drive machinery on concession roads wherever possible and practical, he suggested. "Many farmers who• use the highway could get to their destination just as quick- ly and certainly more safely by using the back roads", he said. He also felt, and it's one thing he tries to do himself, that farmers should pull their equipment off to the shoulder of the road when, they find traffic piling up behind them. "I get angry myself when I find myself tied- up behind a combine or some other machine on the highway. I can understand how the other motorists feel when they find themselves in that situation," commented the farmer, "Unless we do something ourselves to relieve this problem," he continued, "we farmers may find ourselves bound up in strict highway regulations which will handicap our operations." Better design Ten years ago almost every industrial product used in Canada was designed in another country, very often the United States. Now that situation has changed radically as more and more Canadian manu- facturers have come to realize that merely copying some other country's article was not good enough for themselves, their customers or Canada's economy. Design is not just a matter of style or good looks. Good industrial design is one that which takes into consideration choice of raw materials, the pro- duction of the article, the packaging and the ship- ping as well as appearance and function. We had a good example of what can be done in this regard in our own town more than a year ago when designs created by a local man at Marchand Furnace Ltd. received awards from the National De- sign Council. This is just another indication of the fact that Canada is "growing up". —St. Marys Journal-Argus Sugar and Spice This week the Old Girl and I Those were pretty good days, mill observe our 14th anniver- in retrospect. All I wanted to do eery. You noticed 1 didn't ,W.,..was. read books, eat, drink and 'celebrate", We just obseite..„tleelii,.. When felt like it, And 'Chem, rather coldly. She's been avoid . perSonal entangle:tents it little cool about anniversaries like the plague. My chief ambi- - .eince the time I bought the pros- tion was to avoid work in any ent and the card, a few years form, and my only desire was to find some exotic land crawl- back. ing with beautiful native women, She'd been beefing about her and there settle down in the paint brushes being hard to clean. On our anniversary, 1 silo. But, even as the walls of Jer- gave her a lovely little package icho, I tumbled. Like most of paint brush cleaner, suitably young men of that age, I was gift-wrapped. also handed her just like an egg. I thought T was A. beautiful anniversary card. It bard-boiled, but I wasn't even cost me .40 „cents, and had flow- half-cooked. One crack in the ers and cupids and all sorts of shell, and I ran all over the thing,S on it. Only thing was that it was place. • headed off; "To my darling hus- band, on our anniversary," I'd In short, I got married, and forgotten to read if. I've been running all over the place ever sirice. Our marriage, These anniversaries are hard- in those 14 years. has had its • er to take than birthays. The ups and downs. And a good part • whole 14 years was brought of the time we seemed to be graphically to the fore tonight at going sideways. In those 14 fran- dinner, when I looked around, tic years, however, I've changed and realized that all these peo- -a lot, My cynicism has become pie belonged to me, and were merely a healthy scepticism. I any responsibility for feeding. haven't a hope of being selfish clothingarid housing, among any more. But some things ether things. haven't changed. I'm still broke, Fourteen years ago, I was a 'and I'm still free. young veteran of the air force, Oh, not free in the old way, full of ginger and peculiar ideas, mind you, I can't go out with With the aid of other young vet- girls` any more. I can't sit up • erans and various wenches I with the boys until the wee had been successful in getting smell hours, and I can't throw through all my gratuities in a all my wordly possessions in a few months of high living. I bag and take off for Rio. Not was broke, free, cynical, sel- unless I want to arrive at the fish, and happy as a trout. airport with a kid clinging to I thought Love was something each leg, and my wife flying made up by women and the from my neck like a pennant. movies. Marriage and children But I'm free in the things that were for the dopes, Money was really count, I can go golfing • something for other people to or fishing any time I feel like scramble after, The Home was it as long as the kids don't where old people went when they want to go swimming, I can ran out of money. Family ties speak my mind on any subject, were neckwear I borrowed from around our house, without fear My brothers, of contradiction, As long at I Xlit Outer Zimetabilocate Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 180 Amalgamated 192/1 a Le:0 Published Each Thursday Morning At Stratford, Ont. Authorized as second Mess Mail, Post Office Dap% Ottawa AWARDS t- Ortok Haws !asstd.. Shield, best trent page Kittilde), 1937) A. V. :NOW Trophy, general eacelleritit for newitoispees published in Onferig MWrit beheein 1400 and 4,50 popqlsicion, 19581 1901.1054; 6iOtee. Johnston Trophy, tveaarsolddsi ssalitots (Ontario), 190; E., Stephentort Irophyy. beet front oto* (Ontario), 1956, 19551 All.Canedei Insurancs Federation 'national safety award, 1951, 'relibinAtIvariet Circulation, March 31, 1060 ithiStOttOttiON p.m Per Year; USA 0.60 One of the did landmarks of Exeter is soon to disappear at the property has been taken over by the Ontario Liquor Con- trol Board for the location of the new liquor store to be erected in town. The building at one time was the office and, showroom 'for the Verity Plow Works before that company moved to Brantford and became associated with the Massey-Harris company. It was the home of the ,first electric light plant in. Exeter owned and operated by the late Charles B. Snell And. Chris Zuefle. They built the tall brick chimney. for the Steam boiler that was fired with cordwood. The lights came on at dark and were turned off at midnight. The first street lights were of the carbon type where two sticks of carbon came close to- gether to form' an electric arc. The lights • had to be lowered each day to adjust the carbons. The system was the butt Of many a joke as the lightS fluc- tuated, One familiar expression was that "another stick of wood had been fed to the boiler." I well recall the time when a deep well was drilled at the hack of the plant. A steam engine was used for the drilling and one night, after dark some, of the boys tied down the whistle of the engine. A. large crowd ga- thered at the scene wondering what had happened. I was just a youngster at the time but ran from the scene when the whistle started and I laid down on the grass behind a fence on. Andrew Street. Following the introduction of hydro the plant was taken. over by Mr. Sylvanus 3, V. Cann, now of Bayfield. The north part of the building was converted to a resideride for Mr. Cann and has been. used as such ever since. The south part with. the boiler was turned into a cider and apple butter factory. Apples were more plentiful in those days and apple butter was used quite extensively during the win- ter months and many a cellar had its apple cider barrel, Mr. Cann erected a small. .booth at the south end of the building where he sold groceries and. confections. He also ope- rated. several gasoline pumps, each pump having a different Passenger: "What's the ave- rage tip for this run, porter?" Porter: "A dollar sir—Thank you, sir; you're the first one that'S come up to the average today," 40 YEARS AGO Mr, Brute Walker left Satur- day for Toronto where he will resume his studies, James, hav- ing gone last week to take up dentistry. Master Charlie Acheson is hol- idaying in London. Mr. Donald. Urquhart, has shipped nearly 10,000 bush- els of wheat from }Jensen since Saturday last. Mr. C. R. Howard, who has been An, accountant on the staff of the Canadian Bank of Com- merce in town, left on Wednes- day morning for NOW York where he has been appointed assistant accountant of the New York brarieh. 'Mr. D. *Urquhart, Hensall, has gold his oatmeal Mill, grain ele- vator add grain butinest to Mr, George Mi. ckle of Rielgatown who takes possession ittniediate- Y. A carload of cement arrived ~In Centralia last week fot Roger 13ros, to build silos, for William tssery, Murray Elliott and S. Hodgson. /5 YEARS AGO Miss Mary Gardiner, Thames Road, left for Clinton where she will, take a business course At the tusiness Mrs. WilliamPenrice of. Exe- ter displayed three hatid-hOOked rugs at London Fait and WOO three first pHses, Warren Brock, UShorne, car- ried Off numerous priata for hotses At Western Pair, Dr 1. Barry Browning M.D. has disposed of. his practice in "Exeter to tor. ekson et Al- berts and will, move to Lemdon shortly, Miss Dorothy Davis has taken. Petition as stenographer At the Hydre office succeeding Mitt ItOt a.Dearing, Drilling for water on the tarni of Me, Nelsen. Kestle :has been Abandoned after the taking of live test holes. JOTTINGS 5Y JMS brand of gasoline, lie worked long hours and did quite a *trio- ing business before puilips were Ordered back off of Main Street. Since that time only the Apart- ment has been occupied. Your library By MRS., JMS The exchange of Huron County booki took plaea oft Thursday. Among the non-fiction received was: Remedies and Rackets The alternate title it "The Truth About Patent lifeciieineS Today." It exPoses the slick, colorful techniques used by drug prothators 40 get their products into your medicine cabinet. The author, James Cook, a medical writer, reveals that over-the-counter and thrOugh- the-mails drug traffic is bilking sick people Out of millions Of dollars every month., Variout brands of aspirin tablets, all of which are essentially the same, are being sold at a baffling variety of prices. Millions Of dollars are being spent for products which Are advertised as weight-reducers but which actually have no influence On weight. Thousands upon thou sands of arthritiet are being persuaded to buy high-priced remedies and treatments, many of which are nothing more thati compounds of aspirin,' or other simple salicylates. Hosts of can- cer quacks are growing rich sell- ing witch-doctor brews which have no effect on cancer. According to Mr. Cook a . cru- sade a g a i s t these frauds brought about the first Pure Foods and Drug Aot in. 1906. By requiring manufacturers to . ,list narcotic ingredient§ on teir labels the law helped to elimi- nate some Of the most vicious of the patent medicines, but had no effect on other evils of. the traffic. In 1937 after more than 100 people died after dosing themselves with,Elixir of Sulfa- nilamide the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1935 prohibited the sale of dangerous drugs with• out a doctor's prescription. This gave the governnietit greater power to prosecute dealers in harmful meditines. The author concludes "The citizen must demand of his leg- islators laws which really pro- tect him and, having Obtained such laws, must Set that they are effectively enforced." 15 YEARS AGO In the deciding game played at the Sharon diamond before a large crowd on Wednesday eve- ning Grand Bend defeated Shan On, to win the distriet softball championship. • Rev, and Mrs. Ferguson, Rod- ney and Judith moved into the Presbyterian manse, Mensal]. Rev. Ferguson will bi inducted as pastor of Cannel Presbyter- ian church on Friday night. LAC Keith Weber of the RCAF who has been overseas for two and a half years has retuned to his home in Dashwood, Leading Seaman Glenn Robin- son. arrived. At his home, Cen- tralia on• Sunday, The first annual picnic in five years of members Of Huron County Council Add their wives was held it Itarhot Park Wed- nesday afternO0n, me picnic was discontinued during the war. Cpl., Gordon CighnOte, with the RCAF at Tot Bay, NeWfoutiti- land, has returned to his home and is awaiting his discharge, 'AtI 10 YEARS AGO Mrs. Thos. Dinney, Mrt." Johns, Mrs. Olive Grainger arid Mrs, E. S. Steiner attended the 'Mary Heating§ Hontewilies /k- nit at Springbank On Saturday, Ilensall wilt hold its Annual achoplfair on MAO/1y, Septette. ber 24 in the ebrirnunity ten- tre. Exeter Kinsmee art consider , u the project of numbering heuses in the village. The cornerstone for , the addi-tion to txeter Public School *ill be laid on StOtellibtr 21. A six point prOgram mote safety, of public' sehoal children 'Crossing it dangerous interatetiont Esker wet insp. ped out by village council and public school teachers on Men, da;iglinilgahritd 14111 aed tacker Dalt-ICS inereated the pride of iblik to IO e*nte at tittle end ri mita at MO. the radiator needs attention GO DIRECTLY TO Bob's Fina iSL Rad Service Corner Hiehwat 4 and; $3 PHONE 881 NORTH EXETER a • 11 llllll ttttt lllllllllll 1111111 lllllll ! llllllllll 11111 lllllll 11111/111/11 llllll 1 llll 1111111111M11111111111111111111111111 llllll 1111 QUALITY ' Your -registered pharmacist is a specialist of skill and experience Your doctor's right hand man in ,sateguarding yOur health is the pharmacist who fills his prescriptions , with professional precision. Call on us for fl,rompt,:,, service at any hour. Andrew Johnston REXALL DRUGS Phone 447 Exeter New and proven pharmaceutical, constantly Added, keep our stocks up-to-data. SERVICE 1111111111111111121111111 lllll 1,1 ,11111,11111111111111111 111 ,111,1,1111111111,1111111 lllll lllllll itei lllllll 111111111 llllll 1 ttttttttt mt es! ttttt tt ttt ttttt 1111111111111111111/11Plit111111/V EXETER for ELECTRIC ii More than 15 stores in Exeter sell electrical appliances—mete stores per capita than any city in i Canada. You deal direct with folks you know, + Competition is keen + Business is clean 4. Prices' are low No gimmicks, no high finance charges, Regular prices in Exeter are often lower than sale Prices in the city; WE SELL AND SERVICE ' KELVINATOR • The World's Oldest Maker of RefrigeratiOn KELVINATOR DEEP FREEZE CHESTS KELVINATOR REFRIGERATORS •\/ KELVINATOR. RANGES KELVINATOR WRINGER WASHERS KELVINATOR AUTOMATIC WASHERS KELVINATOR DRYERS Th. Quality Is High The Priest Attractive • • Sandy Ell iot 0 444 Mein St. Phone 476 Iitmeetteeteeeteeieerefeeffeeteleteeeeeleteeeeeeeeeiiiieeitiieetemeineoitiamewasii,o,A do it down in the cellar, or while I'm mowing the lawn. I can stop my son from wearing my T-shirts and sox. .If I can catch him before he gets Out of the house. * * * Fourteen years ago, abhor- red the idea of possessions. I didn't want to sink any roots. Since then, I've collected an awesome assembly of junk, and my roots are so far down they're blocking the sewers. Besides the ball•and-chain, I've acquired two children who eat like sharks, two mortgages, a great big, old house that swallows every nickel I can raise, acid enough accum- ulated stuff to fill a couple of warehouses, A lot of wafer has gone under the bridge in those fourteen years. And most of it has ended up in my cellar. But there's plenty on the credit side, too, We've two healthy youngsters whose daily presence is a joy in our lives, and also a great booster of sedative sties at the drug store. Was it worth it? Would I do it again? You.'re darn right I would. It't been a Wonderful ex- perience, and as we step off into the fifteenth year, I can't help giving thanks for the gentle, lovely, Steadfagt helponate who has been by my side, ever ready with a word of encouragement, or a slam on the ear, if that didn't work, 44 4 11 4 4 44 4 4 44 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 S i . 4 44 4 4 ». 4 4 4 4 4 11 1. 1 1 /4 . 4 4 4 4 44 4 44 4 1 44 4 4 4 .1 1• 1 •4 1 44 1 1. • •• • ••• • •• • • As the "Times' go by HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T-A FILES