The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-03-19, Page 2The Times -Advocate, March 19 1959 _
EditoriaIs
This .newspaper believes the
right io express en opinion in
public contributes -to the pro-
gr.ess of the nation. end that it
must he exercised freely to .arra•
serve and improve democratic
government.
• Merit your support
This is a time for giving.
The projects are worthy.
.•The established Easter Seal Campaign to help
crippled children is one which has universal appeal.
If you haven't paid for your seals yet. do so Immed-
iately . , , for the children's sake.
On Thursday of next week, Exeter Lions will
conduct their annual blitz for the Red Cross cam-
paign—another organization which merits support.
- • Give as much as you can,
Leader with vision
The Tinier -Advocate is pleased to add its tri-
• bute to those paid recently to the retiring chairman
of the Ausable River Conservation Authority, John
r• • A. Morrison, at a banquet in his honor.
We well recall the vigor which Mr. Morrison
▪ injected into the authority when he was elected to
its chair. His enthusiasm for conservation created
;,.a spirited transformation in the attitude of this body
4 which had previously lacked the drive to tackle the
MW
•relatively new program of conservation,
• " Tinder his leadership for he past nine years,
• the authority has played an active and important role
" in the watershed. It has done a remarkable job of
w implementing many programs throughout the area
without creating hostility among the member muni -
Z: cipalities.
e
Mr. Morrison deserves the gratitude of all of
• the citizens in the watershed.
!!'s fashionable here
The fashion preview appearing in this and last
weeks' editions of The Times -Advocate show that
local stores offer an excellent variety of modern
:merchandise at reasonable prices.
It proves again that it pays to shop at home,
Retailers, wherever they may be located, must
stock popular merchandise to serve their customers
well. Exeter merchants, generally, measure up well
and they therefore receive excellent support from the
community.
It's the ideal situation, of course, because the
-stay-at-home dollar pays endless dividends to the
-entire community,
MWODA's position
In a recent bulletin, the Mid -Western Ontario
Development Association outlined its position as an
industrial promotion organization serving four coun-
ties.
We repeat the statement here because we be-
lieve it should be digested fully by municipal officers
as well as interested taxpayers in the area.
"The formation of the Association was never
intended to replace local initiative and effort, but
solely for the purpose of encouraging and supporting
the local effort to solve their own growth problems
and to lay long range plans for sound, orderly de-
velopment of the region in which they live.
"We work to develop established businesses
and to bring new businesses into the region. Where
a new industry will locate within the region depends
entirely upon their requirements and ,how well pre-
''pared the municipalities are to fulfill these require-
ments. The success of the Association depends upon
the co-operation of each municipality in supplying
information about themselves as well as personnel
who are vitally interested in the, growth and de-
velopment, not just of their own particular municip-
ality, but the region as a whole to serve on the zone
committees and the board of directors."
The objectives of the Association, as set down
in the by-laws, are:.
"(a) To provide co-ordinated local leadership
for promoting the econolnic growth of the Mid -
Western Ontario region consisting of the counties of
Huron, Perth, Waterloo and Wellington.
"(b) To aid industry already established in the
said region and to secure new industry by publiciz-
ing the advantages (if the said region for business
'and manufacturing purposes."
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hand. ]+'ather wants roe to go for a.MRS.”
After about ten years of the
business, a weekly newspaper
editor becomes something of an
authority on "banquets,"
. Nowa banquet. when I used to
read about them as a kid, was
a sumptuous affair. The word
conjured up visions of Roman
voluptuaries reclining on
couches, drinking Falernian
wine and gorging themselves on
all manner of goodies borne in
by half -naked Nubian slaves,
* • * h: lir
Twenty.five years later,
prepared to adinit that a ban-
quet consists of: a shot of toma-
to juice in a paper cup; a plate
heaped with mashed potatoes
and gravy, cold turkey and luke-
warm, lumpy turnips or canned
peasancarrots; a piece of pie
which can range from delectable.
10 gawdoffai, depending on who
made it; a slug of warmish tea
or coffee poured from a large
porcelain pot by a perspiring and
rather cross lady member of the
catering organization.
• *
But not only the viands are
changed. It's the atmosphere. At
the banquet of my boyish imagi-
nation, the participants began
about 9 p.m. They ate and drank
in leisurely fashion, exchanging
quips, epigrams, verses. Their
digestion was aided by the muted
strumming of lutes, About mid-
night, they would clap for the
dancing girls and acrobats.
Later, still belching richly, they
would totter off, aided by their
servants, for their sedan chairs,
home and bed.
Nowadays the banquet starts
sharp at 6:30. So everybody mills
around hungrily until 10 to 7,
while the good ladies in the kit-
chen mutter imprecations and
try to keep things hot. There is
a vast shuffling of chairs as
everybody is seated. The vice-
president runs madly about try-
ing to squeeze two extra chairs
in at the head table because
somebody goofed.
k e a
Then there's a sharp "ping"
as the chairman hits his water -
glass and mutters something.
There is another vast shuffling
as everyone lurches to his feet.
There is a jumbled clinking of
glasses for the Queen, ;followed
by Grace. That Grace has been
following the Queen for years
and don't bet she won't be along
on the Royal Tour this summer,
N ,V *
Then there is the painful
struggle back into the narrow
space, the chairs standing as
biose as the Grenadier Guards
shoulder to shoulder. The ladies
rush in with plates. They are
halted in their tracks by the
chairman, • who announces he
would like to introduce the head
table. The table is unimpressed,
but those seated at it bob up
with various expressions and
stand there with arms hanging
down.
it # *
When this embarassing ritual
is ended, the ladies, not to be
denied again, heti themselves
upon the head table. The chair•
man's wife, who hates •lumpy tur-
nips, carries one sparkling con-
versation with The Guest Speaker
on her left, agreeing that yes it's
been quite a winter and yes
there's nothing lo beat real
home -cooked food at a banquet,
s
The chairman, desperately fry
ing to remember the brilliant
Sugar
AND
Spice
fai'Ied to win ap.rova
Fifty years ago a deputation
from 5t. ,;Marys visited" Exeter
with the view to promoting• a
branch of the CPR to run through
the townships of Blensherd, tis•
borne and Exeter with its desti•
nation Sarnia or boder ch, Sar-
nia preferred.
Village council and interested
citizens: met with .the delegation
early in February, 1909. The
project was to extend the CPR..
running from Stratford to St.
,51arys through this rich agri-
cultural district.
11 was estimated that the cost`
would be $25,000 a mile, npt in -
eluding bridges, and the mun-
icipalities would be required to
give their assistance if the road
was to be built. The CPR was
prepared to do its share., The
amount suggested for Exeter
was $10,000.
Reeve 'r, H. McCallum pre-
sided at the meeting and among
•those who spoke in favor of the
project were L. H. Dickson,
John W. Taylor, William Bawden,
W, J, Heantan, A. Q, Bobier,
W. II. Levert and others.
Dispensed By BILL SMILEY
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"chairman's rem arks" he wrote
out that afternoon, gulps with
untasting palate, interrupted at
every second bite by the wife of
The Guest Speaker, who. knows
that she is supposed to he char-
ming to the locals, but is wish-
ing she was home watching TV
and wondering why the hell she
drove 60 miles from the city
with that megalomaniac hus-
band of hers who can't refuse
an invitation to speak,
* •* ,•
Meanwhile, down in the rest of
the hall, it is not exactly hila-
rious. At first, there is a little
scattered conversation, Then the
pangs begin to strike. Morosely
watching the head table guests
wading into the turkey, everyone
gets into the celery and olives
and eats his bun.
* * •it
Just about the time the head
table hogs are served their cof-
fee and are lighting up, the com-
mon types at the end of the last
table get their plates, They eat
like fury, but are just starting
their pie when the chairman
pings his glass, From then on,
they have to sneak bites and
chew unobtrusively, their heads
twisted toward the head table,
While The•Guest Speaker is in.
troduced, the catering ladies tip-
toe about, gathering up dishes
with the silence of a crew •01
auto wreckers. Then they go •out
in the kitchen and enjoy their
own dinner, amid a phenomenal
rattling of crockery and subdued
peals of laughter,.that have The
Guest Speaker gfit,ting his teeth.
OIs, I'm not.down ,on banquets.
Don't think that for a ,minute.. 3
love them, But I think I was
born about 2,000 years too late.
['ll bet I've been at 300 banquets
in the last ten years, and I
haven't had a goblet of Falernian
wine, been waited on by a Nu-
bian slave, or seen a single dan-
cing girl, at one of then.
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LIBRARY
By MRS. J.M.S.
Just received at your Iibrary
is an authoritative guide for the
modern hostess with no. staff of
servants to help her:
Good Housekeeping Party Book
The 17 chapters in this book
cover every detail from wanting
to have a party, right through
serving the last cup of coffee.
On motion of 1-I. Spackman, •a
committee comprising members
of the council, L. H. Dickson,
J. W. Taylor and Thomas Har-
vey was formed to meet the St.-
Marys
t.Marys delegation to discuss
terms, etc.
A meeting was called for the
following week and a notion
was made by F. W. Gladman
and T. B. Carling that a bylaw
be submitted 'to the ratepayers
to grant $10,000 'to the St. 'Marys
and Western Ontario Railway
Company, The meeting unani-
mously expressed theanselves in
favor of the motion, •
Reeve McCallum stated that
the council had diet the St.
Marys delegation previous to the
lueeting to see if a lesser sum,
$5,000, would be acceptable. The
delegation suggested that they
were asking Exeter for $2,500
after the right-ef=way to Exeter
had been purchased; $2,500 after
laying steel and ties; $2,500 after
grading done and $2,500 when in
operation, This would cost Ere,
ter $735.82 A year for 20 ygers.
the contpanY agreeing to btdld
a statipn, equip yards near the
centre of .the ton and complete
the. whole by .September, 1911,.
After establishing the road the
CPR would take it over.
Considerable discussion and al-
most the chief point of interest
at the meeting was where the
railway would cross the town
and ,where the station would be
located. It was stated that it
would be, within 600 yards of
the town hall;
Blanshard and Usborne were
askedto provide $20,000 each
and in April a bylaw was, sub-
mitted to ratepayers of each
township, Usborne carried the
bylaw 240 for, and 1$3 against..
Blanshard 'defeated the bylaw
'by 18 votes, One of the argu-
ments used in B1.atlsltard was
that Usborne intended to defeat
the bylaw and that Blanshard
would have to pay the whole
amount, •
However, after the enthusias-
tic reception given the proposi-
tion by the 'council and citizens
of Exeter the bylaw was never
submitted and what seemed a
beautiful • vision At ' that• time
petered out. The CPR took over
the charter and paid the cost
of •promotion.
As the
11TlMES"
Go By
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.50 YEARS AGO
Mr. Peter Moir last - week
moved onto his neW farm known
as the Andrew Campbell farm
situated on the Thames Road
near Exeter.
August Kuhn of the Bank of
Commerce at Stratford spent
Sunday with his parents in Cred-
iton, •
Mr. James Ogden, Whalen in-
tends to work at the framing
with Mr. Brintneil, Exeter this
summer.
Several transfers. of property
have taken place 1•ately • in Kirk -
ton in anticipation of the new.
railway. .
At a meeting of the Literary
Society of the High School a pro-
gram was given. by Firm II con-
sisting of an essay by -Gladys
Ifesele, mouth organ solo' by L.
Watson and a debate "Resolved
that Elizabeth was a better
Queen than Victoria" with the
affirmative taken by H. ,Tones
and V, Sweet and the negative
by A. Coleman and W, Wilson.
The latter won.
A banquet was tendered Beat-
tie Martin by about 30 of his
friends prior to his leaving Exe-
• ter, ..
.25 YEARS .AGO
Leon V. Treble, Toronto, a na-
tive of Exeter, has been appoint-
ed art director for Brigden's
Limited who are art buyers of
all kinds and descriptions.
Mr, Bruce Tuckey has pur-
chased the• #arta of A. W..Fother-
by on Highway No. 4 north of
Exeter,
Friends met at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John Northcott
on St. P'atrick's Day to cele-
brate their silver wedding .day.
A :carload from Exeter were
in• Stratford Thursday- evening
last :.attending,. the badminton
tour, anent,
Miss Violet Gambrill, presided
at the organ in Main St Church
on Sunday owing to •the illness
of Miss Evelyn Huston.
At the council ,meeting it Was
decided to discontinue all. relief
after April 15 and the Relief
Board be disbanded.
IS YEARS 'AGO
Exeter Connell at the meeting
•
Planning the party, issuing invi- .
tations, choosing the menu, ar-
ranging decorations, serving re-
freshments a n d entertaining
guests are , all discussed and
scores of recipes are given.
.buffet suppers, weekend host-
ess, evening get -to -getters, 'en-
tertaining for the business cou.
pie, showers, weddings and an-
niversaries, teen - time games.
and School age parties are the
titles Of some of the chapters.
A full chapter is given over to
the club ,meeting and special
fund-raising parties and suppers.
A chart advises on quantities to
buy for serving crowds. •
This book should be a godsend
for beginning acid experienced
hostesses.
Princess Margaret
An informal biography written
last year by Gordon Langley
Hall, an Englishman, who has
reported on the tours of the' rival
• family for several year's, is also
newly arrived at your library,
The birth of Princess Margaret.
.was a public event: ahnounced
to all the world andsince that dry
in Scotlandshe has not escaped
Please 'Turn to Page 3
on 'Abenda*y night voted :to • pur•
chase new fire equipment - with.
electric siren.
The Exeter branch of the Red
Cross Society itas • exceeded all
previous efforts in the annual
campaign for funds having sub-
scribed $8,000.
A toal of 167 volunteers re•
ported for the seventh Blood
Donor 'Cline on. Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Frayne
have received word that• their
son, Stanley, is now in ' Italy,,
Harold, Holtzman , who . ,hal
been employed. with Jones:. and
May .left Saturday for.•.London
having joined the RCNVR.
AC2 Hugh Wilson. of Manning
Depot, Toronto is• spending a
five-day leave with hie parents;
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Wilson.
10 YEARS AGO
Two. nonagenarians, Mrs. Rob-
ert Gillies celebrated her 93rd
birthday on Wednesday and Mr.
Thos. Appleton will celebrate•
his 94th birthday on Thursday.
Miss Katie Scott of Hensen
who has been, branch manager
of Hensall: Bell Telephone for 38
years has' not missed a -day 'due
to illness. •
This year the Department' . of
Highways _will widen and grade
Highway 83 from Dashwood to
the Bltie Water.
Daylight Saving will commence
midnight Sunday, April 24. and
continue to September 25.
The Huronia Mabe Choir will
donate a substantial portion of
the proceeds of the annual con-
cert on April 1 to the proposed
district hospital.
Dr. Lulu Geiser; formerly, of
Crediton, has been. honored as
Research Fellow by Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass.
Two hundred bean growers at
a meeting in Zurich chaired by .
Bert Kropp were informed that
the floor price ,would be $4.i5.
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Catholic Women's League, RC-
AF Station Centralia, for• • in-
cluding the reports of our
monthly meetings itt your paper.
Sincerely
Mrs, .1. W. Thompson
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