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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-01-30, Page 4 (2)OUR POINT OF VIEW Ouer a barrel Some residents of Exeter no doubt will be chastising themselves for signing easements for the new Anne St. drain without receiving compensation in view of the fact a few of the "hold -outs" received $3.00 per foot for signing similar easements. The entire situation is most interesting to debate, and indications are that members of last year's council were not even in agreement over the situation. However, they found themselves "over a barrel" and were faced with meeting the demands or paying the contractor for down-time involved while expropriation proceedings were undertaken. They no doubt all agree that a tactical error was made in not having the easements procured at an earlier date so steps could be taken to resolve the matter before the contractor began work. Hopefull, it will be a lesson well learn- ed and the problem will not be duplicated in the future. There are those on council who were critical of the residents who would not sign the easements _without compensation. However, to be fair, they must realize in some cases compensation is warranted. While the drain will bring benefits to the residents in question, it also creates some problems. For instance. a backyard swimming pool may become an impossibility. One of the residents was also concerned about not being able to erect a garage due to the drain. Those are circumstance that deserve special consideration.' 'Many others will benefit from the drain without having any of the nuisance of construction on their property or the hinderances to future plans that may be impeded by a drain of this nature. However, it would be most unfortunate if residents in the future use this as a prece- dent to automatically extract funds from municipal coffers to allow public services to cross their properties. There are circumstances when com- pensation is warranted and others where it is not. Unfortunately. the wisdom required to judge these circumstances is most dif- ficult to attain. However. the situation does point out that negotiations must commence long before any construction commences so municipal officials do not have their strengths for negotiations badly weakened by the necessity of expediency. Frightcntng statistics Health and Welfare Canada have been distributing calendars on which several health hints and facts have been printed. Here's a sample: The average Cana- dian beer drinker consumes the caloric equivalent of 198.cream puffs a year. Forty percent of young adults are overweight—a hefty percentage. -Seven per- cent of the Canadian drinking public con- sumes 40 percent of all alcohol sold. Canada's problem with drinking is 670.000 problem drinkers. Drink to me only with thine eyes—and your liver will last longer. I used to drink like a fish...I was hooked. Don't let a drunk drive you home...leave your car where it is. There are many other health topics covered in addition to the problems associated with alcohol. but those take on a special meaning following the statistics released last week by the Exeter OPP detachment. It is more than just startling—it's frightening—that offences under the Liquor Control Act jumped by almost 300 percent in the area last year and that a majority of them involved young people. This certainly lends credibility to those who have been suggesting that alcohol. and not drugs. is the main concern with young people today. It also suggests that programs regar- ding the dangers of misuse of alcohol must be stepped up in our schools and homes. When it is considered that one user of alcohol out of every nine ends up with a drinking problem. the local statistics should be sobering indeed. Redy for "Eny more apels?" sed Dick. "I already ate -them," sed Jane. Is • the English language redy for enything like this? --Yes. say members of the Australian Teaching Federation who recently ap- proved the first step in a program of spell- ing reform. The federation hopes to convince school systems throughout Australia to teach • children a more phonetic way of spelling. "How can we justify the frustration suffered by so many young children as we prop up and maintain an archaic and stupidly complex system of writing words?" the president of the federation questioned. This newspaper is nearing the stage when we would support some change in the written word. Spelling appears to be com- ing a "lost art". it? 4 .541/449, Weite/td Last week. in conducting job inter- views for a position as a reporter, each applicant was given a test of some words common to many news reports. One young man (with a grade 12 education) had 14 out of 19 wrong. while a university graduate mustered a much better record but still spelled five wrong. Unless some general changes are made. incorrect spelling will continue to in- crease. By the way. the assistant editor took the same spelling test just out of curiosity. He had all the words correct. although his choice in two were different than that of the editor's way of spelling. But. according to our trusty dictionary yes. we do use one occasionally t either spelling is correct. And that points up just how absurd the English language really is at times' Rite? Sugar and spice Diaper* by S tali C.;: Now I'll point straight, cliff Came across a new party game recently, and thought you might like to try it on your guests. It all began with some friends of ours who like to play with words and create wild puts. They had a bit of a problem and one said to the other: "We seem to be in dire straits." The other replied solemnly: "Yes, Dire Straits separate Tierra Del Freakout from the Cape of Good Dope. i believe." Or something like that. And they were off. They tried it on some of their friends. and the result was a collection of puns that even Shakespeare would . have -blushed at. All you need is a knowledge of Times Established 1873 geographical terms and a total inability to blush at the atrocious puns you produce. Some of your friends will un- doubtedly try. if i know people. to turn it into a pornographic geographic game. This is almost unavoidable. because there are a lot of poeple with dirty minds. unlike you and me. These excrescences on the face of our pure and bland society will come up with filthies like Sunapya Beach. the State of Nymphomania in which we find a mountain called Mons Pubis and a wood labelled Shewor Forest. Pay no attention to them. They'll suffer enough in the next world for contriving such Advocate Established 1 881 Living with a hockey addict It's now complete! However, the more they chuckled Yes, the entire Batten family about the fun involved in shifting have become totally addicted to her out of her panti hose or dling abilities. hockey. Not just watching, but bouncing heragainst the boards, No, writer is not cam playing. the more she seemed inclined to plaining.NttheWith thesis not being Actually. it's a bit of a laugh. get out and prove_she could stand paid professional hockey players Mother has been complaining for the pace. the past four years about the So, when she heard the other these days, we'll give her a amount of time dad and the kids mothers were holding a practice chance to make it. spend at the arena. and yet when session one morning before the We'll even put up with the dish - she became engrossed in the big game, she decided to join pan hands acquired while the sport. she's been at it more than them. lady of the house spends her time the rest of us. First of all, she borrowed apair out on the rink, but just wait until It all started when the mothers of skates from a local pee wee we get our hands on the guy who of the novice hockey teams were player and tried her luck on the suggested the niothers play their asked to play.their sons as part of backyard rink. She quickly found sons at minor hockey day! the local minor hockey day ac- that her figure skating alailities Actually, all the mothers who tivities. had completely failed her. The better half was hard to Particularly in a pair of hockey convince. Ever since her in- skates. structor at a golf class told her to Before the practice she stick to softball (which she never borrowed a friend's figure skates played either ) sh&s•had a bit of a and donned her eldest son's defeatist attitude about her uniform and took to the ice She athletic ability. found out it was even better There was no way she .was exercise than her yoga class. stepping on the ice to play against Mother delighted in telling her her six and eight-year-old sons. young opponents how flashy the - — ---- — team of mothers looked on the ice streams and they supply such and there were stories about doozers and Uptaha Creek them having to control their shots Niktha Creek and Sleau Burn. It' to keep them ffom flying over there's an alcy in the crowd, he tt i top of the nets and not might suggest Live R. At the breaking so many of the boards. basis of this body of water is Font Afte.r the kids were home from of Life. and running off from the school ;khedominated play on the main river are Minna Rills. In backyard rink, and father feared there somehwere you will find he was going to get involved in Compression Springs. strenuous arguments about who Don't go away, it gets worse. In should be allowed to play with the front of me i have a map, puck. showing this unusual world, Next morning, we arrive home drawn by an excellent cartoonist for lunch to find the women have who became involved. been back at it. Another practice On that map is an island called session at the local ice palace. Nomanison Island (the poet Her shot wasn't working too Donne). on which is a lighthouse well and she decided it was due to called Gotta Light and a cape the poor condition of her son's called Cape Waukin. All we need gloves. was They were too thadad shouldi get ht. out he is aa Bullfighter's Cape. Someone drew cities, so that on and buy her a pair. the map we have Greater Kappa With her zeal for the sport. we City and, in small print Lesser even face the prospect of having Kappa City. •in these cities may to buy a whole set of equipment, be found such things as the Pubic just in case her hockey activities Library. Brut Al Copse (a small conflict with those of her son. wooded area,' and a narrow Right now, there's every in - street labelled Gunman's Mall. dication the Exeter Broncos On the map is a kingdom called would lose one of their players if Kingdom of Kum (ruled by King mother was playing the same Klimact Eric )) and above that is night. a smaller adjunct called Higher She wants a shower installed so in Kum. and below it another she can take a quick dip to get of her work-outs e, monstrosities as Taka Peak. itsa Butte, Para Buttes and Maka Pass. Oh. they'll suffer. But not as much as you'll suffer when your guests get into the swing of things. and start producing such items as Melon Coulee and Sherbet Shore. Perhaps what you should do is partition your guests into groups, give each group a geographical term. and see what happens. Thus. you might say to one group: "O.K.. your topic is bays. Let's hear some bays." So you get such items as Hound -dog Bay. and Stagat Bay and Brought To Bay. To another group. you submit Amalgamated 1924 called Lower In Kum. the sweaA tAAICA brand their fathers played and to Just off the State of Nym- Dad has to flood the rink every phomania hes Kumin Sea, in night in the backyard so tt is make tdhatt iad nformation ets ation nta available a blurt are found a Fast Eddy and smoothhher anew foundh not so interfere puck han- about their play. a Current of Ents. Then there are the great blank spaces on the map. One is entitled Ara Plain and the other Just Deserts. And there are hills and mountains. We have Kitchen Range, Ovatha Hill and Duty Cols Nor is mining left out. There is an ancient mine. begun by the Incas. called Old Pala Mine. Another. Owtafya Mine. There are huge forests dubbed i Never Wood. and Yew Wood. and She Wood. and Hee Wood, and of course. the biggest of all. Tail Wood. There are points, succinctly titled Getthe Point and Point A Forder. There are dangerous. dirty great rocks looming just off Dire Straits. They are fearsome to sailors. and no wonder. They are known as Acid Rock and Country Rock. There are a couple of sounds. one called Mersey Sound. another Safen Sound. There are a couple of depressions,or faults,in the map. One of these in Kronic Depression, the other is [tier Fault. There are elevated coast lines. These are dubbed Base Cliffs, Treble Cliffs, and the High Coast of Living. Got the idea? Try it out. f guarantee you'll be ill in twenty minutes. But don't let them pawn off on you such junk as Generation Gap. Parr Gulf, and Cape Porn. competed in the contest Saturday night should be commended. For many of them it was the first time on skates for several years, and certainly the first time most of them ever had a hockey stick in their hands. Most of them didn't know whether they were right orleft- hand shots, but that didn't worry them. For the first .practice, Agnes Vandergunst took no chances and brought two sticks to determine which one was best for her. Hockey will never become a sport where the entire family can perform at one time, but we happen to think that once a year every mother and father should be required to suit up and play in at least one game. In that way, they would more easily understand some of the difficulties their sons face in a game. It's easy to see what has to be done while you're sitting in the stands, but the chore becomes much more difficult when you get on the ice in the heat of a game. Many rail -birds expect the boys to play perfect hockey and criticise every little mistake they make. By forcing them to get on the ice once each year they would become more understanding and cognizant of the fact that it is a fast game and mistakes come easily. Too often, spectators—and parents in particular—fail to take this into consideration. The writer has the same problem, but at least once early • in the season, we advise the kids on our hockey team that they're playin hockey far superior to the Cloak not your sins A. W. Tozer .ays one of the troubles with our'society is that sin has been driven underground and come up with a new name and a new face. Sin. he says, is being called many fancy names, anything but what it really is. He admonishes us, "So if you're jealous. call it jealousy. If you tend to pity yourself and feel you're not appreciated but are, like a flower born to blush un- seen on the desert, call it what it is ... self pity." Tozer is right. of course. Most of us hate to deal firmly with sin in our lives. (Though we're not so reluctant to point it out in others!) The Anglican prayer book has a prayer that speaks about confessing our manifest sins and not cloaking them before the face of the Almighty. But, [ fear most of us do have the tendency to 'cloak' them or lump them altogether. as if by not call- ing them by name we can fool God into believing we're a pretty sinless lot after all. Of course, we fool no one but ourselves. Take resentfulness. If you're resentful admit it instead of acting like a lady I know who. behaves like a hen thrown out of her nest. She sputters about. run- ning hither and thither clucking and complaining ... somebody is always doing her wrong or misunderstanding her. Well. if you've got that kind of spirit you had better deal with it instead of covering it up with an artisitic sounding Greek translation. Call it by its right name and get rid of it by the cleansing power of Jesus' blood. and the grace of God. And then there is your temper. No use to christen it by some other name like righteous in- dignation. Call it what it is. Because if you have a bad temper you will either get rid of it or it will get rid of much of SERVING CANADA 5 BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., O.W.N.A. CLASS A' and ABC Editor — Bill Batten — Advertising Manager Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh Women's Editor — Terri Etherington Phone 235-1331 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation Morch 31, 1974, 5,309 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $900 Per Year; USA $11.00 1 r a CNA R(u( RIRRON AWARD 1971 )LD 'TIMI 50 Years Ago Mayor J. A. Gregory of North Battleford, Sask. was in town in connection with the winding up of his late father's estate. Roger Northcott of Hay Township is in a low state of health, suffering from a severe heart attack. Water is scarce in the com- munity. Some farmers are driv- ing their cattle long distances to water. Creamery butter, 41 cents. eggs. extras 60 cents; eggs, seconds 35 cents; hogs selects. 11 cents. 25 Years Ago Dr. Hugh Creech, son of Mr. & Mrs. R. N. Creech has discovered a drug for retarding cancer at the Institute of Cancer Research in Philadelphia. Mrs. Hanna Taylor of Exeter observed her 87th birthday Mon- day. Leslie M. Frost officially _opened the new Exeter District High School. Fifty-three young men of Ex- eter and community made application to form a Kinsmen Club Tuesday night at a banquet at Club Monetta. 15 Years Ago Huron Lumber Co. has been your spirituality and most of your job. Dr. Tozer says God loves Can- did people and we must look to and trust Him for deliverance from conscious and deliberate sins in our lives. Another factor modern man hates to face is discipline. He often refuses to commit himself. "I want to be free." he says, "I don't want to commit myself to anything." Well. let's consider two men. One will not pledge himself to anything: will not accept any responsibility. Ile wants to be free. And he is free. in a sense . just as a tramp is free. The tramp is free to sit on a park bench by day. sleep on a newspaper by night, get chased out of town in the morning. and find his way up a set of creaky stairs in some flophouse in the evening. Such a man is free. but he is also useless. Another man . . . maybe prime minister or any great man who carries upon him the weight of government is not free. Such men. in sacrificing their freedom step up their power. If they want to be free. they can be. just like the tramp. but they choose rather to be bound. Again Tozer. says there are many religious tramps in the world who will not be bound by anything. They have turned the grace of God into personal licence. But the great people are those who. though they know the flesh is weak, will still dare to commit themselves to certain sacred vows: and who, eventhough they may fail to keep ' those vows on occasion know they can go to God in humility. ask forgiveness and start alt over again. it takes courage to commit oneself and stick to it but wifh God's help we can all do it. Our response to now By ELMORE BOOMER Counsellor for Information South Huron For appointment phone: 235-2715 or 228-6291 Community health centres In February, 1963 President professionals and laypeople, and John Kennedyjsked for a bold society as whole haven run to meet new approach to mental health. emergenciesas they have arisen, The United States Congress like the local fire department. passed the Community Mental One fire has been put out. only to Health Centers Act. Communities find another of meaner eligible for such support were to proportions just a few blocks receive up to two thirds of the away. The emphasis of cure has cost of mental health centres. its own built-in limitations. The first question that came up The whole scientific process for discussion was simply. What criesout for prevention instead of is a community'. Geography or cure. for community -centered early patterns of growth have treatment instead of isolation in determined the borders of hospitals, for cost reduction communities since communities rather than escalation, for en - have been. it was decided that for couraging health rather than purposes of mental health cen- defeating illness. Society has at its disposal many instruments decisive for the encouragement of mental health. There is a new con- sciousness around that more can be done, more is demanded of us at this time. With the addition of mandatory consultation and education services to the mental health centre services in the United States came the first official public avowal of the necessity for prevention of mental illness in that country. The social revolution of the sixties indeed is a force that demands better than we have produced up to now. The em- phasis has changed from material and professional ad- vantage to the welfare of the individual. Personal satisfaction and growth has taken priority over institution, empire. and ingrown professionalism. it is an exercise in cen- tradiction to trace mental health movement from its inception. In 1841 Dorothea Dix visited the East Cambridge jail and found people guilty of insanity housed there. Any treatment in those days was carried on in the community and included forced seclusion. neglect, beatings and imprisonment. It was Miss Dix's personal crusade both in the United States and Canada that gave rise to the mental hospitals which now we know. These became at their zenith institutions whereby the mad and mentally ii1 could be safely separated from the community. No doubt there were many ,personal empires and a general professional security with such institutionalization. Now the tide turns and mental hospital populations are going down on both sides of the border. The communities are allowing natural and social curative processes to have some effect in the lives of the sick. tres in the United States a community should be according to population not the lay of the land. A community mental health centre, to be eligible for federal funds must be ready to minister to 75,000 people and not more than 200,000 persons. Com- munities could be large or small geographically depending on location in overpopulated or underpopulated areas. No doubt there would be much local anguish over some of the practicalities of such community service. The loss of local autonomy, or a hospital or a service would be greeted with outrage. Having decided the size of communities and thus in many cases their location the planners asked themselves, What services will be provided? To be eligible for federal grants, ft was thought best that five dietinct services must be offered. The rive services thought necessary for a full-orbed community health program were as follows, inpatient services, partial hospitalization, outpatient services, emergency services and consultation and education services. These five essentials are seen as basic but not final measures of a mental health program. There would be much learning and enlargement of service,a creative branching out. There are some definite new directions charted for the medical and psychiatric medicine in these American innovations. The emphasis has been on the cure of sickness. The purchased by Beaver Lumber Co. Ltd., manager A. J. Sweitzer announced this week. , Harry Dougall was re-elected chairman of the Usborne Township school area board. Nearly 13.000 trees have been planted in the Ausable water- shed and the Pinery Provincial park by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forest, it was revealed by District Foreman J. K. Reynolds this week. The per -day public ward rate of South Huron Hospital has been raised from $11.50 to $13.35 it was announced by Supt. Miss Alice Claypole. Exeter PUC called for tenders for construction of a filtration plant near its pump house beside the dam. 10 Years Ago Huron County Council defeated a motion to erect a 75 bed separate wingon present land at Huronview. Stan Frayne Was elected chair- man of Exeter's RAP committee at the group's first official meeting of the year. Monday. Also elected were sec.-treas. C. M. Farrow: vice-chairman Ron Bogart. Mr. & Mrs. Robert MacLean of Tuckersmith Township celebrated their 50th anniver- sary. i The ideal life is only the normal or natural life as we shall someday know it. 1 •