The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-05-28, Page 4I; •
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Editorials
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right to express .an opinion in
public contributes to the pro-
gross of the nation and that it
must be .exercised .freely to pre -
Serve and improve democratic
government.
county police?
It would appear, from Exeter's latest police issue,
• thElt Mayor Pooley's proposal to establish a county
twice is well worth considering.
t Exeter council has endorsed its police committee's
action in accepting the resignation of PC Robert
Aitken, which should bring this issue to a close, Yet
the air around it will remain clouded because of the
closed caucus meeting and the secrecy this entails,
which will not sit well with the public.
We question the manner in which the case was
handled, although we respect the committee's sugges-
tign that it was attempting to protect the individual.
Itt did not do that; in fact, because the public is left
to; its imagination, it may have done the individual
more of a disservice than if it had divulged the
circumstances.
In our opinion, council was misled, unintentionally
or. not, when it gave the police committee power to
act in connection with the resignation. Certainly our
impression at that time was that the resignation was
voluntary, a. point which is now very much in doubt.
Secondly, the mayor's insistance that the council
give unquestioned support to the police committee's
action is not justified, in our opinion. Council has the
right to question any committee decision and to revoke
it, if necessary.
Thirdly, the lack of explanation or public state -
.Ment, coupled with a closed meeting, can only create
an atmosphere of suspicion, no matter how well
intentioned the desire for secrecy may be.
It would be folly, however, to create an issue over
what has happened, even though some important
principles are involved.
The more vital point to learn from this and the
former police controversy here, in our opinion, is that
it is not easy for a small municipality to administer
its own police force; nor is it easy to police a small
town when one is dealing, essentially, with one's
eighbors and close friends. Rare are those who can
enforce the laws effectively and impartially and retain
the goodwill of all who may influence the council,
A properly -organized county unit, which would
provide qualified training and discipline for its staff, is
worthy of serious consideration.
Protecf best crop
Although modern farm equipment can carry'
out many complicated tasks, it still lacks one ingred••
lent which only the farmer can supply: judgement.
And lack of judgement can often end in tragedy,
Recently an Ontario newspaper showed a
photograph of a fiye-yearold boy riding a set of
double discs. The photo was seasonal—it was spring
and the boy was a typically healthy farm lad—but
the photo didn't appeal to Ontario Department of
Agriculture's Safety Specialist H. E. Wright. The
reason: the photo brought back too many heart-
rending memories.
• "I hope for the boy's and the parents' sake
that the boy was taken off the discs before the
tractor was moved,", says Wright. "Only last year an.
eight-year-old Wellington county boy suffered crack-
ed ribs and laceration when he slipped from the
tongue of a manure spreader and was run over by
a wheel. The circumstances were similar to those in
the photo."
He adds: "In 1956 an eastern Ontario child
was killed when he fell from the tractor into the
path of a trailing corn -stalk shredder, The next year
a seven-year-old Waterloo county boy died when he
fell from the tractor in front of a rear wheel.
After looking into the circumstances of acci-
dents like these, the safety specialist urged the adop-
tion of two safety rules, "There is only one seat on
the tractor—and that is for the operator; and there's
no tractor or piece of farm equipment on the market
that's designed to carry passengers."
"Maybe you've heard it before, he adds, "but
remember: these youngsters are the most important
farm crop that you can grow."
Advice still good
•
A bit of advice from an Ontario weekly, The
Aurora Banner, in 1909, still sounds mighty sound:
"If you are a kicker. and see the shadow of failure
in everything that is proposed to help the town, for
heaven's sake go into some secluded spot and kick
your own shadow on thee
clay bank,
and thus givemme
n
who are working to build up a town, a chance. One
long faced, hollow-eyed whining kicker can do more
to keep away business from a town than all drouths,
short crops, chinch bugs, cyclones and blizzards conn
bined,"
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"I never should have told him I quit my job it
ruined our honeymoon."
Just this minute I looked at
the calendar, and realized that
I have another birthday coming
up next week. I'm never sure
how old I am, I 'always have to
remember the year in which I
was born, and subtract it from
the present year For the past
three or four years, I haven't
had a clue whether I was 37,
38 or 39, without doing arith-
metic.
rith•metic.
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The figuring completed, it
came as no shock to ire that
I'll be 39 on June 2nd, and I ac-
cepted the fact that I'm well
past the midway mark with a
reasonable lack of panic. After
all, I've still got some hair, hall
a dozen of niy own t.eeth, and
one or two of my faculties.
Not that the relentless years
haven't taken their toll. Thanks
to an oft -broken nose, I have no
sense of smell whatever. But
this is not entirely a disadvan-
tage. True, I can't smell per-
fume on dames, but this is safer.
I can't smell food cooking, but
it keeps me from gorging and
growing obese. On the silver
lining side, I can't smell onions,
skunks, manure piles or whiskey
breaths.
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And I have a lot of littte aches
and pains. I don't leap out of
bed any more, carolling "here
hath been dawning another new
day, think wilt thou let it slip
useless away?" I kind of edge
out, groaning and grunting,
swinging my bad leg to the floor
with both hands, But it's amaz•
ing how much dancing, weed•
ing and praying that had leg
gets me out of.
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No, it isn't the physical disin•
tegration that gets me down,
What disturbs me is the auto-
matic acceleration of time with
the advancing years. The older
you get, the faster it flies. Which
is both unreasonable and unfair.
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Sugar
AND
Spice
Dispensed Sy BILL SMILEY
at an alarming clip. By the
time you have acquired the wis-
dom and perception to savour
every moment of life, every
scent and sight and sound, your
senses of smell. sight and hear-
ing are dulled, and time is
careening past you like a fire
truck.
And when you have grown old,
and every second is infinitely
precious, suddenly there is no
time for anything except to pre-
pare for death, Perhaps it is as
well that we grow weary and
full of aches and miseries when
we get old. Otherwise, how could
we bear to part with life, just
when we have realized at last
what a privilege it has been to
be born and to have lived in this
fascinating world!
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When we become so absorbed
in ourselves, so concerned, with
what happened yesterday, so
worried about what will happen
tomorrow, that we let time slip
past unnoticed, we profane the
gift of life. We are like blind
men standing on the bank of a
deep, swift beautiful stream,
arguing about the colour of the
water.
When you are five years old,
life progresses. at a barely dis-
cernible pace. It is always made
up of endless investigations of
mud breakables, dogs and simi-
lar interesting things, broken
only by leisurely, messy meals
and long, dreamless sleeps. A
regular picnic.
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When you are ten, life is still
in no rush. A month away. or
even next Saturday, seems like
a long time. Summer holidays
stretch lazily, interminably a-
head. You can't conceive of be•
coining a middieaged man of
thirty, it seems so far off,
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At fifteen, especially if you're
suffering from a small case of
unrequited love, some pimples
on the day of the dance, or some
such catastrophe, a few hours
can be as endless as eternity.
Even at twenty, time is limit-
less, something to be spent, not
treasured,
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In other words, during the for-
mative years, when your ap-
preciation of life is about as
deep as that of a puppy, time
dawdles,loiters, tarries, pokes
and inches along You waste
great gobs of it playing, pre-
tending, dreaming, mooning or
just rushing about:
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Then, when you begin to ma-
ture enough to enjoy life to the
full, time begins • to dangle along
Zurich fire in 1933
razed iarg.e stores
It was in August, 1933, that
three large buildings in the busi-
ness season of Zurich were
totally destroyed by fire and at
least a dozen other buildings
were damaged and practically
the whole town was threatened
as the hind carried the burning
embers from building to build.
ing and many an incipient blaze
was nipped in the bud by an,
heroic bucket brigade.
The fire tock place on a Mon-
day afternoon and the loss was
estimated between $20,000 and
$22,000. It was the worst in the
history of Zurich.
Thefire started in an out•
hcuse at the rear of B. Iiaist's
bakery and the flames spread to
the hayloft above and scan it
was a seething furnace and out
of control.
The huldings destroyed were:
the E Haist bakery and confer•
tionery, one of the finest around,
with residence in connection,
loss about 59.000; Young and
Son's butcher shop, loss $2,500;
Louis Schilbe and Son's flour
and feed establishment with resi-
dence above, recently renovated,
loss approximately $7.500.
Louis Prang's brick residence,
adjoining the butcher shop, was
damaged to the extent of around
$L000, while on the opposite
side of the shop Dr. Cowen's
residence was damaged to the
extent of $500.
It was while fighting the fire
at the bakery that sparks caught
fire to the frame establishment
of Louis Schilbe, about a block
away. Mr, Schilbe at the time
was fighting the fire at the bak-
ery, The building was soon a
That's why, as another birth-
day approaches, I pledge my-
self again to try to slow down.
Maybe it's too late to plunge
into the stream anew and savour
its myriad wonderments. But
at least I'm going to sit on the
bank and dangle my toes in it,
rather than try' to build a bridge
so I can get to the other side
as quickly as possible,
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News Of Your
LIBRARY
ay MRS. JMS
Marjorie Freem an Campbell
after two years of hard work and
deep research has written the
history ' of the Niagara Penin-
sula,
Niagara, hinge of the Golden Are
Highway between the United
States and the Canadian inte-
rior, shipway connecting upper
Great Lake ports and the west
with European and world trade
marts, the Niagara is one of the
most international and highly in-
dustrialized regions of Canada.
The falls at Niagara is a world
phenomena Its Pearce Bridge is
the largest single port of entry
on the Canadian -American bor-
der; the Welland canal has the
highest lift and longest lock
around the globe; at Queenst.on
heights people are amazed at
the magnitude of Ontario's Hy-
' dro's installations and the penin-
sula posesses the biggest blast
furnace in Canada.
After telling in her interesting
manner of the history and the
rapid growth of towns and cities
in the peninsula the author makes
a prophecy of what will happen
because of the opening of the St,
Lawrence Seaway.
Louis Blake Duff writes "1
feel that this ably r written book
will long remain an outstanding
example of how a Canadian his-
tory ought to be written,.
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Moonlight en Midday
F'or those who have been to
Alaska and those who are plan -
total loss but most of the -con-
tents of the store were saved.
Several hundred yards away
and in a different direction the
roof of the implement shop of
Oscar Klapp caught fire but was
soon brought under control.
Other places slightly damaged:
were the stables owned by JRhn
.Hey and S. Zimmerman; the
lumber yard of F. Kalb' eiseb;
the residence o£ Milford. Schilbe;
the home of Mrs. Schwalm and
the hoot and shoe store of
Charles Fritz.
Miss Anna Overholt was on
duty at the telephone office and
a call went out for help, Dash-
wood and Hensall responded
with their fire engines and did
noble work but there was a lack
of water. The Clinton chemical
engine arrived as the fire was
under control.
Hydro and telephone wires
were down. The streets were
lined with household effects and
the contents of stores. Several
threatened buildings were emp•
tied of their contents.
Mervyn Stelk fell from the
fire truck and fractured two
hones in .his leg; Gordon Iiowald
fractured his wrist when he fell
from a roof; Newell Geiger top-
pled backward from the roof of
a house and suffered severe
back injuries; Leroy Thiel fell
from a wagon during the excite,
merit and the wagon wheels
grazed his head.
Fire Chief Mousseau and his
fire fighters were commended
for their heroic efforts.
For days after the fire the
town was visited by interested
sightseers,
As the
"TIMES"
Go By
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50 YEARS AGO •
A number of gypsies were at
Grand Bend on Tuesday having
camped at Brewster overnight.
The Molsons Bank is opening
a new branch at Kirkton which
will he ready for business at
once,
Every day the town is letting
a chance slip that one day it will
be sorry for. Some day it will
need more water supply and the
river is the place to look for it.
There is no spot so suitable as
the old dam site. It is owned by
James N. Howard who will dis-
pose of it at a reasonable price.
Messrs, R. N. Rowe and Ben-
son Williams are attending the
convention of Chosen Friends at
Toronto.
Messrs, Joseph and Edward
Gill, Grand Bend succeeded in
caturing 18 pike in the old river
last Friday.
The butter factory of Centra-
lia owned by Thomas Willis was
destroyed by 'fire early Sunday
morning.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. Howard Hunter has gra-
duated from the OAC at Guelph
with his BSA degree.
Mr, M, W. Pfaff, the retiring
secretary -treasurer of the Cana-
dian Legion was presented with
a set of -military brushes by pre-
sident, Mr, T. Pryde and the
honorary president, Dr. G. S. At -
Hing a trip there the book "Moon-
light at Midday" is a "must."
Sally Carrigher, the author of
this hook, brings to the reader
the real Alaska.. No one except
a gifted naturalist could have
written this book for her trained
eyes could see what others pass
by.
The book deals not only with
the flora and majestic scenery
of Alaska but with the people
and their way of life. Much of
the book concerns Eskimo iet-
lements well off the beaten
track.
Miss • Carrighar carie to the
remote village of Unalakleet as
a naturalist sharing the Eskimo's
interest in wildlife, One said
"You are the first white person
who ever stayed here that • did-
n't come to teach us or to preach'
to us or to tell us things. As
their companion in whaling and
trapping, the author had a
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chance to observe them as few
have.
Her love for Alaska and her
perceptiveness make this a re- ture industry.
markable book. a. W. W. Taman, who has been
Add these books to your read- in the gents' furnishings busi•
ing list to borrow front your 11. ness for 48 years, has sold to
brary, Len McKnight and Norm Walper:
kinson, in turn presented 'lir.
Pryde with a president's jewel.
Mrs. W. H. Harness was
elected president of Exeter Worn -
en's Institute succeeding Mrs.
George Etherington.
Mrs. M. Sheere celebrated her
eghtieth birthday on Saturday.
A mass meeting, will be held
in Leavitt's Theatre, June 7, to
open tlxe provincial election cam-
paign in the interests of James
Ballantyne.
Messrs, Hugh Creech, Harry
Jennings, and Gordon Greb, Mis-
ses Helen Penhale and Margaret
Taman, who have been attend-
ing the University of Western
Ontario, have returned home for
the holidays.
15 YEARS AGO
Rev R. C. Copeland, former
pastor of Main Street United
Church,,was elected president of
London Conference,
Dr. Borden Sanders has suc-
cessfully passed the examina-
tions of the Medical Council of
Canada,
Miss Margaret Henry of the
local teaching staff was ap•
pointed President of Huron Pres'
bytery, •
The King's birthday will be
observed June 8 with a school
holiday.
FL/LT 'Bartle Motz arrived in
Exeter for a visit with his par-
ents after two years with the
RCAF in Great Britain and Afri-
ca.
LAC Ellis Pearce of Brant-
ford spent leave with his parents
Mr, and M>s. W. C. Pearce.
10 YEARS AGO
Ed Hunter-Duvar' will open his
new service station at the south
end of town on Friday, night,
The station was built in less
than two months.
Fred Luxton received his BA
degree at the University of West-
ern Ontario last Saturday
The big event of the week was
the visit to the County of Huron
and to Exeter of the ''rime Min-
ister of Canada Rt, Hon, Louis
St, Laurent.
Mrs. Frank Whilsmith sailed on
May 27 from Montreal on the
Empress of Canada for England
where she will visit with rela-
tives,
111r, Helge Jensen has returned
from sa trip to I-Iackettstown,
N,J and Montrose,Penn, where
he attended a deonstration of
modern machinery for the furni•-
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ANNOUNCING THE OPENING -OF A. NEW BUSINESS
SUPERIOR
MAINTENANCE
SERVICES
PHONE 707 EXETER
wish to announce the opening of a new business. hi
Exeter and Hanover. 'This business offers services
that many have been waiting for, :including:
* WINDOW CLEANING * FLOOR MAINTENANCE
* WALL WASHING , * HOUSE CLEANING
* CHANGING STORMS AND SCREENS
* SMALL REPAIRS * GENERAL JANITOR WORK
Mr. Lloyd Hoffman, the manager in Exeter, has ex-
tensive experience in the maintenance field and is
looking forward to giving friendly service to a friend-
ly community.
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KNOW THESE
NEW TRAFFIC LAWS
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Effective — Monday, May 25th
You must lower your headlights:
(1) when within 500 feet of an approaching
motor vehicle; and
(2) whenfollowing another motor vehicle
within 200 feet,
It is an offence to place signs on the windows
and to hang objects in the motor vehicle
which obstruct the driver's view.
It is an offence to load a truck or trailer in
such a way that any part of the load falls on
the highway during transit and the penalty
for such offence has been increased up to a
maximum fine of $200 and in addition the
licence pr permit may be suspended.
Passing on the right is now permitted in•cities,
towns and villages including Metropolitan
Toronto but only:
(1) when overtaking a motor vehicle making
or signalling a left hand turn;
(2) on streets having two or more lanes in
each direction; and
(3) on one-way streets.
O F1 TAR I O
ONTARIO DEPARTMENT
OF TRANSPORT
Hen. John Yeremke, Q.C., D. J. Collins,
Minister Deputy Minister
This interpretation of the above laws is published
for .information only. For accurate references
motorists should refer to the Provincial Statutes:
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