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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-07-18, Page 4 (2)Page 4 times Established 1873 Times -Advocate, July 18, 1979 Advocate Establishes 1881 imes -Advocate SERVING CANADA'S BESTJiARMLAND C W N.A.. O.W.N.A. CLASS 'A' and ABC Published by J .W Eedy Publications Limited — _1QRNE Amalgamated 1924 Editor — 8i11 Batten Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh Advertising Manager — Jim Beckett Composition Manager — Harry DeVrtes Business Manager — Dick Jongkind Published Each Wednesday Morning Phone 235-_1331 at Exeter, Ontario Second Clogs Moil Regtstrohpn Number 0386 +CNA SUBSCRJPTION RATES Canada 511 00 Per Yeor USA 522 00 b Conserve energy One of the most heated topics these days is the energy crunch and in- evitably the price of oil. The big problem doesn't seerfi to be the shortage of oil but whether we can afford it or not. Most Canadians don't seem to be taking the gas shortage in the United States very seriously. %Ve smile about motorists -lining up for gas while some of us drive along quite happily at 10: 20 and maybe 30 miles above the speed limit of 50 miles per hour. Maybe we will be sobered a bit and slow our driving when gas prices reach $1.25 a gallon for regular by the end of 1980 and that might be a Iow estimate. Most may be able to get by with higher gas prices by curtailing driving a bit. but. how about home heating? Most of us refuse to even think of what would happen if Canadian families can no longer afford- to keep oil tanks filled to heat homes. What are we going to do about it? Several suggestions have come forth in recent weeks. They may not be earthgshattering as far as conserving energy is concerhed but. could be a start in the right direction. The first came from the School Bus Operators of Ontario changing the school year by eliminating the month of January as 'far as studies are con- cerned. It sounds great to close school during January to save fuel and eliminate danger to students riding buses during hazardous weather. The bus drivers suggested shorten- ing the summer vacation. This could cause as many problems as the winter does. Can you imagine students trying to study in weather like we had during the past week? It would probably cost as much money to air condition class rooms as it does to heat them in January. The bus drivers noted that the long summer vacation was originally in- tended to aid farmers who needed their children to help with the harvest. This is no longer the situation with farming operations becoming so much more mechanized. The real problem would come in eliminating holiday jobs for students if summer holidays were decreased. Jobs in January would be very scarce. A second suggestion to help in the energy erisis has come from the town of Hawkesbury in the form of a ► :solu- tion asking for earlier implentation of Daylight Saving Time to include the month of April.• Danger surrounds Each day an ever -widening circle of danger surrounds mankind it is a vicious circle that reaches the front pages only occasionally it is the com- bination of babies and bombs Each day. the world's nations are spending considerably more than SI billion on their bombs and their military es- tablishments .And each day. 170.000 new babies come into a world threaten- ed by a . hortat?e of basic resources in a century that is haunted by the memory of two gltnhal wars and counties: lesser hut nevertheless grisly conflicts. the great powers and all of the smaller nations are spending between 5375 billion and 5400 billion on various military expenditures each Year The 535(1 pillion figure for the Year 197l represented more than the combined national product of South lsid the Far East and Africa. The danger of the proliferation of By SYD FLETCHER , sin a recent trip to Michigan i got talking to a young motorcycle rider who . was travelling to the nor- - thern part of the state in the c'xrrce Of the conversation he remarked that he really liked travelling to Canada because it was such a clean place. that one just- didn't toss even a cigarette butt on . the ground over there, Then he added that if he wanted to go to Canada he had to go by car• if he tried to cross the border on his bike he'd be turned hack. Now in a way i can un- derstand the Customs' reasoning. Gangs. drugs. riots. all seem to be • associated with motor- cyclists.* w1 basic kind of fear. Discriminatory? Certainly it is bias against all the nice weapons is matched only by the other potential disaster facing humanity overpopulation If present trends con- tinue. Mexico. one century from today. will have a larger population than the So}liet inion and China combined. An unchecked population in the poorer lands will mean that the already crowded island nation of Indonesia would have 1 78 billion people In 100 years. or almost half the present pop- ulation of the globe The circle of danger can and must he broken :1 greater awareness of the twin curses that haunt us - arms proliferation and overpopulation - can help meet the crisis Once people un- derstand fully that only they themselves can control the destiny of humanity. the solution will be at least within our grasp From the Office of Church in Society, United Church of Canada. • PerspediS young People that ridr hikes. ye' fear can do strange things to your powers of rational thinking 1 remember one - hot summer's night that i was resting out on the front porch, swinging away' • on the hammock. thoroughly en- joying -myself You could smeli the fresh -cul hay in the fields nearby and hear the crickets just a -thumping out their tune A perfect Traffic -haft Ificiry well slowed down on the highway that tut across the end of the front lawn with only the odd 'lopg-distance truck gearing down for the curve. and once a police car zipping through, in a real hum There was a long pause when nobody passed and then two motorcycles reared by, and i saw their brake lights come on. They turned abruptly into my land and cut their engines. For a minute there was a long silence and then f could hear low voices in the dim shadows i could see them helmeted and black -bearded, walking insolently up the laneway i could hear the clank of metal - and' a flash of reflected silver Sounds like something out of a Grade C movie. doesn't it', You know. the -kind that - Hollywood cranks nut by the dozen. full of violence and fear Whatever. a few strange thoughts whipped through my head. like. with that light over. my head 1 make a perfect target. and. (wonder •if f;randpa's old shotgun is still behind the door. Where's that cop now that i need him' What was that story in the paper last week^ Not that i was nervous mind you Out of the shadows came a pleasant. soft young voice, politely asking the way to the nearest campground. it was just as welt they couldn't see my embarrassed -face as 1 replied' to their questions. Fine young people. Really nice. As they left. i realized that i was sweating. though the air was much cooler now. As i said, fear does strange things to you. • BATT'N AROUND with the editor Tourism is big By ROSS HAUGH • Do you know what industry is Canada's largest employer^ Our first guess. would have been agriculture or food. but. that's not cor- ' rect. Tourism is Canada's largest employer More than one million Canadians hold tourism related jobs. That's about nine percent of the work force or one job -out of every 11. Tourism is the world's fastest growing industry and according to futurists by the year 2000 could be the largest. in terms of international tourism receipts Canada is in eighth place behind the United States. France. Ger- many. Austria. Spain. the United Kingdom and Italy. In 1978. tourism generated an in- come or$il billion for Canada. five percent of our Gross National Product. As the sixth largest earner of foreign exchange it was worth $2 billion. The tourist industry is made up of more than 80.000 businesses. Some are large. but. most are small and 90 per- cent of them. are Canadian owned. While the largest components are the airlines. railways and hotels probably just as important are the hot dog stands at the side of the road. boat manufacturers: tourist cabins. fishing lodges travel agencies. souvenir shops. etc We have no idea about the amount of money generated in this area from the tourist industry. but. we would guess it is quite substantial and rates as high as any area not only Ontario. but in Canada. - Despite. the gas shortage south of the border 'We would guess the number of Americans visiting _Grand. Bend hasn't changed too 'much. especially those from Michigan. In recent years the number of Americans visiting Canada generally decreased sharply but. .this trend should chahge. •The devalued dollar should certain- ly help our tourist industry. Not only will it bring more'from the United States. but. also cut 91e number of Canadians leaving the country for their vacation. The lesser worth of our dollar and shortage of gas in the U.S. should promote more travel in Canada for Canadians. We have a large and beautiful country. So. let's vacation at horns. Both governments and industry seem to be making more concerted ef- forts to keep our residents at home dur- ing vacation by making travelling at home more attractive and affordable. The package dears provided by railways and airlines appear to be catching on. By the end of April. ViA Rail had made 1.011 sales compared to only 35 in 1978. By the end of March. CP Air had sold 1.589 packages compared with 1.- 207 in the same period last year and Air Canada had sold 1.267. When tourism does we 11. everybody benefits. A recent Canada Tourisni Sugar and Spice Dispensed by Smiley ( Happy Anniversary A couple of big anniversaries .are coming up for weekly newspapers, or community newspapers, as they are called these days. in July. the Canadian Community Newspapers Association is celebrating its diamond jubilee at a convention in Toronto. In Wiarton. Ontario, the Echol is celebrating its 100th birthday this July I'd like to take in both. as a member of the former foNleven years editor of t1le latter for the same od: . ,r ..t its 1r,4 �'_- �{,�" S. !!'�• Some of the happiest years army } p* as far as work goes. were spent in the weekly Pawspaper husiness. And as wark .goes. it went a long way --about sixty hours a week. It requires a certain type of per- sonality and outlook to be a happy weekly editor Or it did when 1 was one. it', a lot different now. with young. hard-nosed editors. fresh out of )our- nalism school. imitating the techniques of the dailies. First of all. you had to have a com- plete lack of material desires. You could rirake'a 11 Sing, but you, nev got rich. or even well to do. Next you had to keep your hack shop h fitt r`ffltf ; . ,t Anyone who-had ddye-tried t� keep' a fTting staff happy knows that it's about as easy as attending a picnic of rat- tlesnakes without being bitten. Then of course you had to tread the thin line between being fearless. in- dependent and outspoken, and selling enough advertising to keep body and soul together. The guy who attacked the town council for some nefarious bylaw, and the guy who went out and tried to sell ads to the six merchants on the town council were the same guy, very often. There were the inevitable typographical errors to harry the obfuscated editor. in a wedding write- up; the bride very often came out as the "bridge". in funeral accounts, the pallbearers were apt to be described as "six old fiends" who carried the coffin • to its final rest. in a small town, there are currents of jealousy and antagonism and family feuds that run deep and strong. Praise a local politician for making a good move, and his third cousin from the other side of the family would call you up and tell you. with vivid detail, what a snake -in -the -grass your first man was. • Venture to criticise, however gently. an athlete or a public figure. and you'd ve your ears scorched by eighty-four ese relatives who norma"_^ ••Tr -i the guy, but rallied to their roots when an aspersion was. cast on the clan. Yell hath no fury like a Women's institute whose boring account of its meeting. including everything from who said Grace to what they ate, was cut by the blue pencil. ••Artd-ttfenLef courS'e; there were the drunks who would call you up at 3 a.m. to ask you to settle an argument about who scored the final goal in the 1934 Stanley Cup playoff. And the kooks who would .call you up and try to plant a libeljgus:pamour, or demand that you conte out to the farm and take a picture of their home-made threshing- maching. There was always some country correspondent furious because her "news". consisting of who visited whom on Sunday afternoon, was crowded out by a, rush of late ad- vertising. "Why don't you leave out some ads?" There was no lack of variety in the weekly business, when you were reporter, editor. advertising manager, proof reader, and general bunboy for the tyrants in the back shop.' i distinctly remember a St. Patrick's Day night, when there was an unex- pected heavy fall of snow. An elderly gentleman of Irish descent had been celebrating the day in the pub. When he hadn't arrived home by ten o'clock, his housekeeper called for help. The local pubs were alerted, and the hockey rink, where there was a game in progress. release indicates the revenue from 100.000 visitors to a community during a year amounts to $2 million. This is money - that makes its way right through the whole economy by way of food stores. banks. restaurants and theatres to name only a few. Research has shown that a signifi- cantproblem for Can dian tourism is the perception 1a we are not as friendly as we might be to tourists. Tourism is important to all of us. So. the next time you have the oppor- tunity reach out a friendly hand to a visitor. DolUAR MEOOE Let tenants -help' to pay - cost of your mortgage Hy Jack Boultber.; (:A If you're a single person you should not assume who wants to own a home carrying costs that gre•atI Iiuf ean'taLITurd-Id-earn. a ---'exceed 30 per ceiiT of your mortgage and other home- gross income -- because owner costs, consider abuse this ratio the lucid - buying a house anyway and rote of mortgage fore - renting part of it to a closures rises quite steeply. paying tenant or room- mate. Not ornl will you get rent -money from the tenant or tenants, but you may also receive some•signifieant tax breaks that further reduce • your over-all costs. If you rent out part of your' living -space- the ihtriUnt' Tax Act allows you to deduct a pro -rated proportion of the costs of ownership, including mort- gage interest -.almost all of your mortgage payments in the early year~..-, property taxes, -home insurance premiums, maintenance and reliair .costs, utility bills and other expenses General financial advice by members, of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. _ - direc•tly related to the reni al arrangement. These -tax. savings, coupled with the rental income itself, can put hoose OV.nershij) within the reach of roan single people who, having only one source of income where couples usually- have t o, may despair of ever gv4ting out of their rented apart- ment. Let's look at some �gurt•s. As a general rule, Found some interesting informa thin in a recently purchased book called Quick Canadian Facts. Did you know there were 117 daily newspapers in Canada with a total cir- culation of five and a half million readers ^ The number of weekly newspapers has grown rapidly. In 1971 the weekly paper total was 923 It is now well over 1.200. Some 1.600 telephone systems operate over 13 million telephones in Canada. They range in •size from Bell Canada with nearly two-thirds of all telephones to small rural systems with sometimes as few as 100 subscribers. The number of local phone calls made during 1976 reached the astronomical figure of 21. 30L348.468 Now we know why we get a lot of busy signals. Most of the male population. at least half of the half -lit. stormed off to search for the missing man. We found him. covered in snow. about a quarter - mile from his house. Back to the rink and the pubs • - 1 remember shouting at deaf old ladies who were celebrating their ninetieth birthdays, and getting some of the most surprising answers. "How long has your husband been dead?" s�:'1??v •�jp'M�' was much.go in.' bed... . "To whaj do you attribute your long life?" "Yes, i was always a good wife." - And so on. To be a successful editor. though not necessarily a good one• you ha to continually straddle fences. This becomes a bit of a chafe after a whole. Yqu had to be at<ile to write on 'demand. 1 remember one week when there was absolutely nothing to fill a two -column, four inch space on the front page. In about -twenty minutes' 1 knoaced..out eight column inches of sparklingprose'in.which-the--reader `'`� -• ' t,tar that nothing wort`Fr-reporting had happened that week itsounds as though I'm knocking the game. Not so. These are found memories. And there were rewards, most of them intangible. it .was kind of nice to be introduced to strangers as "our" editor. it gave satisfaction when a subscriber from away down in the States dropped in on his way to.the summer cottage and said he. "Sure liked that piece about the deer hunt." And there was a certain quiet pride in one's status. My daughter, aged eight. produced the fitting requiem when i left newspaperwork and went into teaching: "But Daddy," she observed, "that means you're not The Editor any more. 1 sadly agreed. In other' words, if your mortgage payments care 8-150 a. month and your other homeowning_ costs total 82,000 per year, you should be earning almost 825,00p per year before tax to carr it alone. However, if you rent half of the same house to a paying tenant or room -mate for 3200 per month, not only will you receive that money -- 82,400 per year -- bust you can also reduce the tax you pay on income from (11Iii r s(,ur(e- •• _.including. your salad -- by about 3500 _it voil are ina40per cent tax bracket. Your carrying cost. will be about 84,480 iv year, or 8375 per month -- which means you need to be earning only about 815,000 • per year before tax to pay off the property iii reasonable safety. Just because you're not married, •it doesn't mean you can't use another person's earning power to help pay for your property. In fact, isn't that what your present landlord is doing, except on a somewhat larger scale? Mr. Boultbee is with Coopers & Lybrand. Toronto. aawfn memory lane, 55 Years Ago The Central Hotel. which was purchased some time ago by M.r. Chester Lee of Paisely- from W. T. Acheson passed to the hands of his new proprietor. The face of the town clock has been painted white and the figures on the dial have been painted black. This week electric lights have been installed and the clock is plainly visible at night. it makes a -very decided im- provement. After an illness of many months duration the death of Mrs. Clara Anderson. one of Centralia's most highly esteemed and respected , foot to -foot wide. two citizens occurred at the home of her daughter at St Thomas. Mrt. Anderson was one of the pioneers of this com- munity. coming from England 12 years ago and living the rest of her life in Centralia princess Tuesday - night. She's attractive Pat shall. daughter of Kirkton dairy farmer. Ross - Mar- shall. Pat will represent the county in' a province wide dairy queen competition at the CNE this fall. Confronted with a report that arsenic had been found in drainage water monday night requested the Huron County Health Unit to determine the source of the poisoning which has already killed one cattle' beast. General Coach Works, Hensall has introduced a - new model in• it's economy line The new home its a 33- 30 Years Ago A record breaking crowd of between three and four hundred witnessed a thrill - packed racing meet al the community park Wednesday afternoon. Two thousand small - mouthed bass were placed in the Ausahle River just above the Exeter Dam recently at the request of the Exeter Gun and Conservation Club. All the schools in the area have been visited by members of the Exeter Lions Club wbossh" • bicycles illuminating tape. t Teachers ,Gu bedroom model with a suggested retail price of 83.995. Town council agreed upon a compromise Monday night when it decided to raise the speed limit on No. 83 high- way. Members approved 40 and :3o mph zones inside the town. rather than 50 and 40 areas suggested by a traffic analyst. 15 Years Ago • Council Monday night agreed to ask B.M. Ross engineer. to provide ten- tative figures for the best and most feasible way of extending sanitary sewers into the industrial area east of Highway 4 and south of 83. Aided by the fine weather of the past few days. work- men are making rapid progress on Exeter's news swimming pool ()peeing It date has been predicted for 11 irst of August. . ete and:Jeffrey Culbert eek l,ucan were dressed ap- Howey, and Cecil Wilson ••Pussy Caf Song" at Kirkton rove poen • marking (;arden Party. Wednesday.. €ronto f ntal papers in -p}e Garden Party marked Toronto for the last month Its 2nth anniversary with fine 20 Years Ago weather and over 4.(100 in Grand Benxi toasts TV att(Tndatrce There were 17 Celebrity Joyce Hahn today entries in the Juvenile The petite star M "Cross Programme. Canada Hit Parade" will beThe Township of Stanley guest of honour in a and Tuckersmith will em - mammoth parade and ploy a "shuttle system" in variety show on the beach Septernher to give many of this afternoon. their elementary school Huron county picked a students the advantages of ;natural" for. a dairy graded education •• • • • Thr Editor: On July 4th in Exeter T.A you had a write up in court news which stated that Yvonne Dietrich was fined in court Tuesday previous by .Justice of the Peace Wedlake. This is not true 1 did not appear in court. i was stopped on Number 4 high- way •hy O.P.P. Woodward and charged for not wearing my seat heli. i mailed the money for the fine to Goderich Court House. 1 called the T.A. and asked if they would correct it but they didn't do so in last weeks paper. 1 guess it wasn't important to them. However its important to me as 1 did pay the fine andh'ad no intentions of appearing in court. Yvonne Dietrich. •