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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-12-17, Page 4#Pegg. 4 The, 'inllea!Advoca.te :December 17, 1959 Editorial This newspaper believes the right to express an opinsor!• b public contributes to the pro- gress of the nation and that it must be exercised freely to pre- serve. and smprgye democratic government. e A good �. nig�'1f _ Whether you're a parent or one of the per- ,Iormers or not, you'll \\'alnt to see the "Hi -Time Re- ;�vue" presented by SHDHS next week. If you've never been to one before, you've missed a good show, • You won't see anything like the slickly -pro- 7duced variety programs that you witness on tele- tvision. You can't compare it with professional enter- 3tainment, But that's the special feature of it. It's ;enthusiastically amateur, which snakes up for every - :thing else it may lack. But you'll be pleasantly surprised at the ;talent you'll watch, the singing you'll hear and the zvariety of entertainment you'll enjoy. • We guarantee you won't be disappointed. iFlectors protest We suspect that one of the reasons Hensall ratepayers returned their council members with such large majorities was to protest some of the antics which took place at the nominating meeting pre- ceeding the election. Some of the heckling and controversy which took place was definitely not in order and the con- duct of those who did it should not have been toler- ated. Let us make it clear that we are not neces- sarily referring to those candidates who were de- feated at the. polls. They were the victims, true, but there were others who contributed to the contro- versy. One particularly disgraceful incident was the heckling of one speaker who was trying to pay tri- bute to a veteran councillor who had died during the year. We're all for sound, constructive criticism and fair questioning of municipal officials but personal- ity clashes and petty bickering do not serve any useful end. Fortunately, the vocal group at the nomina- tion was not typical of Hensall residents, as the re- sults of the vote proved. Unfortunately, those good citizens did nothing to help the situation by being absent from the municipal meeting. Concert disappears Discouragement of elaborate Christmas con- certs in the public schools will come as a disappoint- ment to many adults. The concerts have always been one of the highlights of the year in many communities, par- ticularly rural school. sections. They were not only good entertainment but also among the few remain- ing social events held in the familiar old school houses. They'll be missed. Kids are wonderful actors in their own fashion, whether they perform their parts well or not. The shy Bobby who forgot his lines was just as entertaining as the sparkling Mary who did everything well. There was always a Jane who kept pushing her halo out of her eyes, a Jim who kept smiling at his mother and dad, a Sandra who sang to the ceiling or a Bill who had an itchy tummy. They were at every concert and they all added something memorable' to the night. Now that's on its way out. And you can hardly fault the Dep't of Education for discouraging it to allow the teachers to put more emphasis on the three 'R's'. That's more important, after all. It looks like the school concert will become one of the things we can add to the list of events that took place "in the good old days". * * * * Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before. — Hubbard. * * * * In our confederation there will be Catholics and Protestants, English, French, Irish and Scotch, and each group by its efforts and success will add to the prosperity of the Dominion, to the glory of the new confederation. We are of different races, not to quarrel, but to work together for the common welfare.— Sir Georges -Etienne Cartier. * * * * What causes highway accidents? 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'Either you've made medical history, Mr. Martin, or this was a double' exposure—" Sugar AND Spice Dispensed by BILL SMILEY Christmas is fine for kids, the selfish little ingrates. And it's pretty good for old people, be- cause somebody pays some at- tention to them for a change, But for everybody in those prime -of -life years, it seems to be a time of tension, scrambl- ing, worry and weariness. * * * It's a great pity, but Christ- mas has got out of hand, econ- omically and socially, The Fam- sly Provider watches with grow- ing unease as the demands in- crease annually and he knows he'll be in debt until June. The harassed housewife, trying to cope with children's concerts, an ever -swelling list of gifts and cards, and an ever-increasing round of pre -Christmas enter- tainments, along with 'all the cleaning and fussing to do be- fore the big day, becomes a study in exhausted asperity. However, it's all our own fault, and there's no need to feel sorry for ourselves. People who have weak stomachs shouldn't ride on roller coasters. And people who haven't enough gumption to climb off the pre - Christmas bandwagon and make it a good and happy time, deserve to wake up on Christmas morning worn out, hung over and broke. * * * Despite the seasonal scramble and the high-pressure salesman- ship, it CAN he a happy climax in our year, with a little effort, a little thought, and a good measure of tolerance. Just adopt the following simple formula, and you'll have the happiest, most rewarding Christmas sea- son you've ever enjoyed: * * . * DON'T win a 25 -pound turkey at a pre -Christmas raffle, totter up the stairs under its weight at 3 a.m. and throw it trium- phantly on the bed just as your ball -and -chain is getting up on her elbow to blast you. I did one year, the bed. collapsed, and the Old Battleaxe wound up on the floor in the embrace of a cold and very dead turkey. This is conducive to neither peace on earth nor good will toward men. * * * DO be as helpful and incon- spicuous as possible around the house during those hectic days before Christmas. Your wife is not necessarily undergoing her change of life. Those screams at the children, snarls at you, aed other maniac depressive symp- toms merely mean that•(a) she lost her Christmas card list -from. last year, or (b) Aunt Sadie and Uncle George have just written to say that they'll be along for Christmas, with the five kids, or (c) she has found the present you bought for her and hid so carefully, and she is not en- amoured of that lovely pair of kneeling pads. * * * DON'T leave all your Christ- mas shopping until the last day, then get a few hookers under your belt and sally forth to wrap it all up in one merry excursion. Fellow I know did. that last year. It took him until April to get rid of the pony that arrived on Christmas morn- ing for his four-year-old son. And he never could get back the down payment from the airline company on one of those "Fly Now—Pay Later" trips to South America, with which he presented his wife. DO take the fancily out in the woods to ge`. a Christmas tree. As your wife points out, it's an old tradition, and sort of, well, fun. You wind up with wet feet, bead colds, torn clothing, the car all scratched, and a tree that looks as though it had been the locale of the Annual Spruce - buds Convention. But you can always buy one down at the corner the next day. * * * DON'T allow women and child- ren in the house when you're putting up •the tree. There is a time that tests ..hen's souls, and by the Holy Old Jumping Jeremiah, that is one of them, It is not the . Language 1 wnrry about at this time. It is the fact that there is an axe too handy. * * , DO make up a big basket and take it yourself to the poorest family in town, on Christmas Eve. But don't he put off if they're all sitting around watch- ing television and the youngest child looks at your basket and pipes: "Another chicken, Ma. That makes four geese, two turkeys and eight chickens". It's the principle that counts, * * * To top off this recipe for a happy Christmas, I suggest you memorize these lines, the only known fragment from the works of Hugh Dunnit, the 'great Welsh bard of the eleventeenth century: Rather than help the wassail Flow, Or loiter under the mistle- Toe, Get up early and off you Go, On. Christmas Day in the morn- ing. Visit your friends and wish them cheer; Add to your wishes "A Happy New Year"; Scorn all offers of rye or Beer, And you'll feel better, I know, my Dear, ' On Christmas Day in the morn- ing. The Reader Comments Is it necessary? Exeter, Ont. Dec. 11, /59 Dear Sir: What good is Safety Week, when the road one mile south of Exeter is allowed to remain in a dangerous condition for three days when it could have been' removed by 15 or 20 minutes work by the Dep't of Highways London Division. The very least they could have done was phut up bump signs but, no sir, not one small indi- cation of very rough and slip- pery conditions until you were sliding clown the road sideways, Three days, eight cars ditched and four injuries later the rain eame and melted the roughslip- pery condition away with nary a bump sign erected.. How come the part of No. 4 Highway from Lucan to Exeter never gets salt or sand or plow- ing until Elginfield to London is well serviced? I mentioned this to an em - Jottings by JMS Rejected hydro scheme paper of 1913 reveals A copy of the Montreal Deal' Star, dated January 151 1913, ad- dressed to The Exeter Advocate was found beneath a linoleum in the residence of the late Mrs. AlcAvoy, Huron Street, and brought to The Times -Advocate by Mrs. Mervyn Cudmore. Tlie Star boasted a daily eirvu- lation of 85,000 and was sold at one cent per copy. On the front page is the pic- ture of a brick store being moved to a new location while the gro. cer kept on selling. There are only a few pictures in the 24 pages of the paper, a marked contrast to the newspapers 4f today. Almost half of the front page was devoted to advertising, in. eluding one for Sunlight Soap, Dyer's Jelly for rough skin and chapped hands, dyspepsia tab- lets, boneless codfish, milk sci- entifically pasteurized, Dodge steel spit pulleys and a drug store ad with a long list of bar- gains The leading article on the front page was from Albany, N.Y., stating that a joint legislative committee investigating water- power resources had studied the plan of the Hydro -Electric Pow- er Commission of the Province of Ontario and reported that in their opinion "it is not a suc- cess measured by economic and business standards," It reports that hydro is fur- nished to the municipalities be- low cost; that if ,the same meth- ods were applied to it as are employed in business transac- tions of a similar nature it would show an annual loss of at least $432,170 a year. "In addition to the loss to the province, the local municipal distribution pow- er system of the city of Toronto showed a net loss to June 30, 1912, of $268,984. t�T The report goes on to show that the distribution expenses are heavy thm was a burdenand upon the thescheconi-e et unity, One item states that License Inspector Beckett. had discover. ed. that .a large quantity of whiskey has been shipped into Owen Sound, a local option town,. in barrels marked as contain. ing pickles. Air. Beckett demand- ed that the barrels should be turned over to him and suits• manses were issued against the warehouse officials and the ship- pers of the whisky. Another item stated that eight. new cases of smallpox had been reported in two days, The super- intendent of the Department of Health stated that lie had' no doubt that the spread of the disease was clue to the annual exodus of city people to country districts during the New Year holidays. Three kiddies were discovered in an empty house lying in straw like young animals and the father was sentenced to six months in prison at hard labor. In sentenc- ing the accused, the judge said he was a disgrace to society. January sales of merchandise at big reductions predominated throughout the paper. There was only one grocery advt. The ad listed the following .articles that could be bought for 250: 10 bars of laundry soap, 3 bottles of flavoring extracts, 3 packages of coin starch, 3 pounds of fruit or peel sugar, 3 boxes macaroni, 6 bars Queen's laundry soap, 6 pounds rolled oats, 6 pounds of rice, 2 pounds prunes, 6 pounds rolled wheat. Men's high grade suits, regu- lar $12 to $15, were being offered for $9.95; ladies' coats from $7.50 to $25; corsets from 150 to 600. As the "TIMES" Go By M':wt.. ... .... yE., ,€vd °s�R;@�"F"�i�,#t.:�x.. <, :.,H :• ...,: �xra,r4 50 YEARS AGO The King Edward mail boxes for No. 1 between Parkhill and Brewster arrived Thursday and have been put up. A frequent occurrence at this season of the year is the vocal solo of Mr. Hog. Mr. Ed Jones, Loney Heywood. and John Walker, students at Al- bert College, Belleville, have re- turned home for. vacation. The water wheel for the new waterworks system arrived last week and on Friday was taken to the power house at the river. The wheel weighs 2-1/2 tons. The petition from the resi- dents of Centralia asking that the village be incorporated as a police village has been granted. Misses Winona Hower!. and Vieteria Miners have returned home after taking a course in the Normal School at London. .25 YEARS AGO Mr. R. B, Samuels for many years manager of the Bank of Montreal, Kindsviile, formerly an employee of the Maisons Bank in Exeter was guest of honor at -a testimonial banquet tendered him by some 60 busi- nessmen. Exeter lost its oldest resident on Wednesday when Thomas Jo- seph • Hatter died in • his 98th year. In the first organized drive of the season between 30 and 40 hunters were successful in ac- counting for over 200 jack rab- bits. Dr. G. F. Roulston of town was theehoider of the lucky tic- ket which won a German Shep- ployee of the Exeter Bran.ch of the Dep't of Highways, Stratford Division, and he said "Well somebody has to be last." Well, just why should this end of the London Division always he last? We pay the same licence fees un this way as they do between Elginfield and London so how come..? In the last three days a man has received a severe injury to his heft hand, may lose a finger, a woman received a painful in- jury to her ankle, possible frac- ture. A young :student nurse will carry a scar for life on her face. All because a rough slippery spot was not ploughed or even mark- ed on No. 4 Highway one mile south of Exeter , How come--? L. M, Harvey herd pup at the London Dog Show on Wednesday. G. E. Thompson was elected president of the newly organ- ized Men's Association of Cen- tralia United Church. :4Ir. T a m e s Geromebte of Greenway has opened his chop- ping mill lot the season 15 YEARS AGO Rflm.n. Norman Stanlake of Nanamaino, B.C., is spending his leave with Mrs. Stanlake and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nel- son Stanlake. The first community night program was held in the Huron - dale school on Dec. 8. Mr. and IV.Irs. William Wood convened the program. Mr. Percy Harris, Cromarty marketed about 800 turkeys that netted over 12 tons and Mr. Ted Pooley of Winchelsea sold over 400 birds. At the Township Hall in Elim- ville Hugh Berry was returned as reeve and all council mem- bers were returned: Gilbert Duncan, Wm. Ellerington, Oscar Tuckey and Clark Fisher. Mr. W. R. Goulding, music director at the Zurich School while returning from that vil- lage one day last week saw seven deer run across the road. The Prices Board have an- nounced that the butter ration is being cut from seven ounces a week to six per person per week on January 1, 1945. 10 YEARS AGO At community night at Lucan last Friday $7,000 in prizes were given away in a selling campaign that raised $12,000 for the new Lucan Community Hall now in course of construction. After 22 years of municipal life in Usborne Township Reeve Hugh Berry has announced his retirement. Mr. and 'Mrs. John Jones of the highway south of Exeter are retiring from the farm and will move to Exeter early in the new year. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smalle- cornbe of Hensall observed their golden wedding anniversary on Tuesday. S ch a o 1. officials have an- nounced classes in the new Exe- ter District High School will start Monday, January 9. 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'They are "gift -wrapped" in a ' bright cover that glows t With the spirit of the season. fe''M' 'MY BANK' let gfllOr fer.IDUrl oAtiZ o InenbitaQ, rvwk064 Mad Scc these special Christmas features at your neighbourhood brand: of lltc 1 of At today (rinit'l forget la bring your ; Christmas shopping list). BANK OF MON'1' u AL 4 c4dad fc>W S'euf4 eater Branch CHARLES Snit'I'1f; Manager Centralia (Sub•Agenty): Open Tuesday and Thursday Grand Bend (Sub.Agency): Open Mon,, Wed.; and Pro, Ctediton Branch: CLARE IRWIN, 1tlanager (Open Tuesday, Thursday and on Friday 4.30 - C, p.m.) Dashwood (Sub -Agency): Open Mon., Wed, & ilknsalt.Branch liENNETH CHRISTIAN, Manager tuean 13rsnch: JACK S'I'EACY, Matttge Zurich Branch: JOHN BANNISTER, Manager !OMkIPIS rtitlt E1111"Anlitli'S IN tvr v wACX Of Lift PRI 911