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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-01-14, Page 4times ista►ished 1673 Times-Advocat•, January 14, 1981 Advocate b,Qb . hed 1661 Amalgamated 1924 SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W N.A. O.W N.A.CLASS 'A and ABC Published by .1 W- Eedy Publications limited LORNE EEOY, PUBLISHER Editor — 8i11 Batten Assistont Editor — Ross Hough Advertising Manager — Jim Beckett Composition Manager — Harry DeVries Business Manager — Dick Jongkind Published Each Wednesday Morning of Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0366 Phone 235-1331 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada 514.00 Per Year; USA 535.00 welcome port - While most motoris will agree with the old adage tt y old port will suffice in a storm. those who periodically end up`befng stranded in Exeter find that "pot" a bit more hospitable than they could dare hope. Members of the Exeter Legion generously provide emergency accom- modation and the victims of a storm find their needs well met. The hall has a full complement of recreational ac- tivities and some comfortable. lounging areas for those who just want to rest after their harrowing experiences on the road. Legion members quickly get the coffee pot brewing. direct travellers to a telephone and even help in securing over -night accommodation when that need arises. The Legion members and the com- munity can take pride in knowing that visitors find Exeter a friendly place even when their stays here are not always voluntary. It may appear to be a rather small service_ but the Legion members hopefully recognize just how welcome their generous hospitality is for those caught in one of the area's blizzards. Another tea party? Without any apparent fear of hosting a tea party similar to one stag- ed many years ago in Boston. Exeter council agreed last week that taxation without representation is okay. They supported a resolution from North Burgess Township which would prohibit non-resident taxpayers from running for office in .municipal elec- trons. What prompted the great fear about non-residents in North Burgess and then Exeter' Wetl. nothing in par- ticular. North burgess only ••preceives that the extension of the right to run for office to non-resident landowners may in certain circumstances cause un- due hardship to resident electors of the municipality resident Under what circumstances" What undue hardship" Surely they can be more specificso their fears can be con- sidered. In fact. their resolution was so poorly considered that they in- advertently excluded tenants from run- ning for office too Or was that in- advertent" • If the election of a non-resident land- owner can bring about undue hardships or be a threat to the interests of those people who make their home in a particular municipality. it may be that the law should go one step farther and prohibit them from voting at all. After all. they may just find someone who is eligible to run for office to carry through on their wishes and create some undue hardships. As councillor Jay Campbell suggested in opposing the resolution. the people pay taxes and have a right to hold office. although he was probably correct in noting they may have some difficulty in winning an election. There would appear to be few municipalities in Ontario where non- resident landowners have more votes than residents. If they do get elected. it is either because the voters in general want them to be or that the non- residents may take advantage of the residents' apathy in getting more voters to the polis In either case. the residents have no one to fear but themselves Don't get nipped In a writer like this. you dont have : to out skiing Dr snowmobiling to risk frostbite If it is cold enough it may nip you while y •Du are doing your errands or s:'•i ye:.:'it :ne snow , St . .A.^..buiance first aid ex- ;. -•&r.- frDstbite is easily as •7e skin becomes waxy r,umb Warm the area gra = ,.,may heat If you face or Yat :s ,oyer the frozen area ..Gnu until normal color arc zee.. :r: stsiallellaai BV SVD F.E':MER .', •ries c' . c -•-E.- a :;•>k a::,. ._nt _ ar.aiar f.e-.•e- 7 i7N t o t f a i -.y. -i : ;K: eac. r.`. .. ''-er. 771e7 47" 7.7 + • - f .r 541C tet, ,lc.f 7 ne.r 7 :)71.s;a 7 ex ttK rf • .K, a 'e to rte OILciFl 6f V1eJirw•!::f E:J,e &-►C •'r'b::. C- .1'1.5-t a -c f :,r: p: ' . ;re: ;,:f .7 f -:Yr. For frozen fingers or toes. remove tight boots or gloves. A good way to thaw your hand's to place it inside your clothing under your armpit. Feet may be wrapped in a warm blanket or snuggled under a companion's jacket Don't rub with snow and don't rub Where blisters occur. they should be covered lightly with a sterile dressing and bandaged carefully. Under no cir- cumstances should the blister be broken. If frostbite is severe. see a doctor immediately '14'1'ist- 4 Perspectives Jamaica in order to get their crop picked I know for a fact t:ia: there are many similar 2a5s .n varices urban and -,:rat settings that require c reap labour ye: cannot find people who are willing to do the :asks I would like to see ser.:exes by judges that wo;ur 'orce prisoners to do productive work instead of set>_ceiess tasks :ha: re:urn, nothing :o society Ncr-V;oien: prisoners could t►e assigned to the abc ve :ype cif :asks receiving a percentage of the wages uha: a person. would norrraily rece:ve This money could 5e retained by :.he prison un;i: the end of the sentence and then given to the prisoner when he )eaves Then instead of inviting the :oar It rye:tarn to crime .iecat.e he canna: get a job he could conceivably have enough cash to start up a srr al: business or at least have a start until he could get a jot Violent prisoners could be taken to the far north in the spring. five hurid. ed miles from civilization There would be little or no danger of escaping Far fewer guards would be needed: nor would ther,e be a need for expensive bindings r1,ey would be forced to build their own shelters for the coming winter. forced to live off the land where possible I believe it would make better persons of :her., than leaving them in the present cages we presently use I'm not sure that these solutions would work but surely there are better possibilities around than what we are doing now 1 BATT'N AROUND with theeditr. Individual rights The discussion at Exeter council's meeting last week regarding the rights of an individual is one that will continue to wage throughout the ages without any clear answer. The problem that arises in giving any one person his her individual rights comes when that person's action in- fringes on the freedom of another in- dividual. What prompted the discussion was the recent court ruling in which it was held that the police did not have the right to make spot checks in their attempt to nab drinking drivers. In an attempt to circumvent that ruling. On- tario Attorney -General Roy McMurtry advised the police to continue stopping motorists. but to advise the drivers they were checking vehicles for mechanical deficiencies. The main point of the whole exercise. of course. is to protect motorists from dnnking drivers That there is such a need is evident in the high proportion of accidents attributed to drivers who are under.the influence of alcohol. The court ruling came. not as a result of complaints from non-drinkers stopped by the spot checks. but of course by an individual who in fact was found to be above the legal limit in his blood alcohol content and the very type of driver the police were attempting to get off the highway before he smashed into some sober driver. The interesting aspect is that while there may be those who consider such spot checks to be an infringement of a driver's rights. his own safety is being protected by the police when he is haul- ed off the highway. • The fact remains that the innocent. law-abiding citizen has little to fear when it comes to the powers that are given to law enforcement agencies in this province. The odds are still weighted very heavily in favor of the criminal element. In too many instances, the police have been relegated to the position of investigators after the crime. Ironical- ly. they also have to suffer an indignant public that questions why they (the police allowed the crime to take place. They are also hampered by a court system that is often too lenient in the punishment handed out. which does lit- tle to serve as a deterrent. and in too many cases turns out to be nothing more than a license to break the law. If eve -v individual adhered strictly to his;own rights and didn't infringe on the rights of others, there would be no need to have police. But, thatUtopia farther removed from society each day and not the least of the reasons is the great hue and cry that goes out for the protection of an individual's rights. There is no argument that those rights must be protected, but it still leaves the basic question of how we are to deal with those who go beyond those rights and infringe on the rights of others. Being stopped inaroadside check for dnnking drivers would appear to be a rather shall infringement in com- parison to the tragic results of being stopped in a deadly collision with a '-inking driver. if the police are forced into using Suar and ySpice by SmUe Nemesis and books Here's a promise If I don't get a book published in 1981. I'm going to die trying. And you're all invited to the funeral. No flowers. please. Just bring a mickey of rye and sprinkle it gently over the cremation box. the under- taker. the preacher. and any relatives who happen to be lurking about. Reason for mention of the mickey is that Nemesis has struck Again. Last Fnday night I struggled into the house with two arms loaded with groceries • newspapers. and other miscellaneous garbage. Right inthemiddleof the load was a mickey. just to conceal it from the neighbours. who would withdraw their children from my Sunday School class if they saw the naked article The mickey. that is I gave a sigh of relief after kicking the back door shut, and my rubbers off It must have been the sigh that did it the mickey slipped through its camouflage and dropped squarely on the middle toe of my left foot. breaking same At the exact moment of the hit. I dropped the rest of the stuff. Have you ever crawled around, on the kitchen floor mopping up milk and broken eggs scrambling behind the fridge for apples. with your left foot stuck out behind you. simultaneously calling on the gods to punish the perpetrator of your pain' Well. the gods seemed to be otherwise engaged. as usual. so I decid- ed to punish that mickey myself. And I did R'ith one foot in a bucket of ice water I punished it In fact 1 killed it although 1 am a gentle soul at heart All this. of course. has nothing to do with this column. I am merely using the rather trifling incident to impress or my students what Nemesis is When they asked me on Monday why I. was limping. again. I just said some type of false pretence to reduce • that carnage on the highways. so be it. Only the guilty seem to complain. • Some area travellers have returned from jaunts south of the border to tell of being frightened out of their wits by being pulled over for speeding and fin- ding themselves looking down the business end of a revolver when the police officer appeared at their win- dow. Don't be too surprised to see that policemen in this province may soon be seeking the right to take similar action in view of the recent murders of some of their cohorts. They're already agitating for bullet- proof vests and a rule that two officers be required on patrols. Who can really blame them? One of the basic problems is the t in our democracy. we have one group of people making the laws and then tur- ning the enforcement over to another group and then having yet a third group deciding whether the second group has acted correctly in carrying out the wishes of the first group. Law enforcement officers constitute the group in the middle and all too often are not given the tools necessary to carry out the wishes of the legislators nor are they given the support of the courts when they attempt to carry out those wishes. In short. they're damned if they do and they're damned if they don't. It makes one happy to. be a newspaper editor' `emesis. Retributive justice. If you :resist on buying mickeys• which do bad things to your head. you can expect them to do bad things to your feet.- That explanation certainly cleared up ore dramatic term for them What I really began to talk about in this column is "putting together" a book. Very few people write a book any more. They just put it together. Thus we have two books on that silly tittle soap opera Dallas. One is called The Quotations of J.R Ewing. and the other is called something equally idiotic. And there's a third in the put- ting together" process. called The Women of Dallas or something. ::an't think of anything more howl- h.- than being stranded on a desert : s: a -id with only these three books. Eien if it was 9:30 in Newfie. ). I can't stand the Ewings and '.' busy Oil. I sort of like old J.R.. r.ecause he treats his wife just the way --zine treats me. Although I cvi't stand Sue -Ellen with her ever -quivering lips and her ever -batting eyes. What really gets me is that another c :d side -kick of mine has "put ic.eetber" a book. That's bad enough. h.:- beating me to it. but what hurts is ifs a pretty good book In fact. one cif .rig reasons I'm a little ferocious is :t,: • 1 stayed up hall the night reading and I'm grouchy as a would-be w -.ter with a sore toe today :: snot the sort of thing your average hy,:„, ewife would sit down to read while s: = s having her morning coffee, or While waiting for Edge of Niigtn to crone on isut it does have bad language. a bit of sex. and lots of violence in it. And it's pretty honest - an unusual thing in a book these dais 'Wain! you see the :-u h -embroideries in mine i ?error in Ow Starboard Seat is the nar,e of it It is veetly over -priced but well produced. at $12.95. And it's about 41 operational trips aboard a Mosquito by a Canadian airman. Dave McIntosh. during World War II. The Mosquito. built of wood. was one of the most interesting aircraft in that guerre des anciens combattants (that's what it says on my pension cheque.) The Mossie was a night -fighter. in- truder. bomber and general har-har- asser of Germans. It was fast. heavily armed. lightly protected. and pretty well operated on its own. with a pilot and navigator. Dave. an old friend at college. and since then a journalist all over the world. and a grey eminence in the newspaper world of Ottawa. was the terrified young navigator in the right seat I can't believe he was quite as terrified as he claims he was. When i first knew him. be was a sports editor at the Varsity. and deliberately taunted. in his daily column. various In- credible Hulks of his day. in the form of jocks with wounded egoes. He weighed about 134 at the time. On the other hand. as Mackenzie King would have said, 1 believe he was as terrified as he claims. Because 1 was too. He didn't even have any flak on his first trip. I did, and I thought it was.a combination of hell and Christ- mas Its a great read. Blunt. critical. credible Better and better W.W. D books are being written Wait till you read mine. But McIntosh. if you and your plot were the two guys who shot up the Ger- man freight train in which i was lying prisoner. hands and feet tied. I'll go to Ottawa and personally strangle you Mainstream Canada Catching up With Reality as 14 . Roger 14 orth Poor ofd Richard [homes. The auihorilies took assn) his homemade still and num he has a court dale 10 keep. \o, Thomas hasn't het•n bootlegging. In fact, the On- tario conservationist has onls produced enough alcohol to uperi Ie his car and truck dur- ing the last fess months. I he cost of the fuel: a loss, loss 30c per gallon. .S hs did Thomas break the lass:' He claims he couldn't af- ford.Ihe cosi of a $200,000 bond that ssould hase allossed him to operate the dinky little energy laser that he patched together milk materials sal - s aged from junk yards. Roger 14 .orth is Director. Public .4ffairs, Canadian Federption of Independent Business. In addition, he hopes to make the point that Canada has mans archaic lams and a ridiculous amount of gosern- ment bureaucracy) and red tape. Similar reports of entre- preneurs haling difficult) licensing tin) energy distil- leries are coming in from across the counln. As usual, gosernmenls hase been slots U► catch up milk realil). Ssstems like the one des eloped h) Thomas could help os eremite Canada's energy shortage, esen if it is t,rils in a miniscule mal. !here's nothing nem. of course. abotil e.cessis e gmernmenl paperburden and onerous regulations that deter ( anadians from coming up mill innosalise solutions to sen real problems. `lemhen of the (Canadian Federation of Independent Business, for esamplt. regu- larl) list gosermnent-related paperburden and regulations as one of their most serious problems. %e're not suggesting that esers Canadian should hase a homemade still in his or her back yard, or condoning peo- ple hreaking the Tams. But forcing indisiduals to put up 5200,000 for the pri- silege of producing a fess gal - Ions of alcohol is surely a little stiff. esen if the producers can case mune) hs operating their sehicles on 30c per gallon fuel. DOLLAR um Lowest cost insurance goal of young families By Anne Drozd, CA Getting the necessary insurance coverage at the minimal cost should be the goal of all young families, whose need for insurance is greatest just at the time they are least able to afford it. Fortunately, insurance protection is available at a reasonable cost in the most crucial areas. Protection against high medical and hospital costs, loss of income due to illness and unemployment, high dental costs and untimely death are all available. Governments believe that some of these are so important that they provide Dollar Sense offers general financial adsice by members of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. coverage in some of these areas themselves, charging the same fee to high risk subscribers as to low risk citizens, thus levelling the burden over the whole population. A combination of govern- ment and private group plans will usually give all the protection a family needs against most event- ualities. Group auto insur- ance is the latest addition to the list of plans. Large employers freq- quently provide the widest coverage and often pay half or more of the premiums on such policies as medical, dental and hospital insur- ance plans, group life insurance, income protect- ion, and unemployment insurance. A person who had to buy this protection privately and bear the cost himself, as many self-employed people do, could be looking at premiums in excess of 51,000 a year. ,To this person, unemployment insurance is not available at anv cost. Such a person should concentrate on three types of insurance; basic no- frills OHIP coverage, loss of income insurance to pro- tect against prolonged illness or accident, and life insurance. There are a variety of plans available in the latter two cases, and the buyer should shop around for the best deal. Group policies can often be a better bet than a private policy, and are often available through trade, professional or fray ternal associations. Mort- gage insurance is a useful addition. It pays off the house mortgage in the event of the owners death and has the advantage of being available to all, regardless of age or medical condition. Keep abreast of insur- ance needs that will change as the family expands, and as the children grow up. While term life insurance is highly recommended for the young breadwinner, this might be switched to whole life insurance, with a savings component, after the children are indepen- dent. Anse Drozd is with Touche Ross & Co., Chartered Accountants, Toronto. .Join the majority. Be a non-smoker 'L• T National Non -Smoking Week Jan. 18-24,1981