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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-02-16, Page 211. The Timee..Ativecate, February 16, 1761 A44 • I •Best in t e end This 1191S1Pi1Per 'belleVes. the richt itt express An entnion in .p -011o eentriOtites'te the progress: ofthe .netien end that lt trot h5 exet. owl freely on4 withput gretudiee .19 preserve AN, improve ;1enho. ;retie Averment. Although it mon ay cost csiderable to dO 60. it appears Avis'e to take to the Ontario Municipal Board the dispute over apportionment of costs for ' the Parkhill dam. An impartial,hearMg of all the arguments should belp to establish a formula . which is fair, • This newspaper was surprised, as other observers were, when the Authority appeared to • rna,ke little attempt to bring the complaining multi. cipalities together to reach a settlement. The ex- t.planation given by Chairman Freeman 'Hodgins at .the., annual meeting Friday afternoon, however,. indicated there was little recourse. None of the other municipalities was willing to accept a larger portion of the cost; indeed, it did • • appear that any upsetting of the apportionment might have created sufficient dissatisfaction among municipalities to jeopardize the project itself. :cinder these- conditions, it appeared impossible to :lower the levy placed on Bosanquet and Stephen, -the two major benefitting municipalities, which are not happy. ') 4 That the chairman's action was justified be. .came apparent when he appealed on two occasions at the annual meeting for suggestions by which an agreement could be. negotiated. None was forth- coming. Froin a public relations standpoint, no doubt it would have been better if the municipalities had been able to agree among therriSelves, Even so, as so often happens in such cases, there may have been those municipalities which might have felt they ,had received the "short end of the stick". Such a feeling could harm future progress of the Authority's work. open hearing by the municipal board . will allow each municipality to present its case formally and authoritatively, with the assistance of legal and engineering experts. This, in the overall outlook, is best because the considerations involv- ed.here are too complicated to be analysed fairly by laymen. • Each municipality, even those who are pre- pared to appeal to the board, runs the risk of having its assessment raised by the municipal board, whose decision is final. Be that as it may, .-the fesult should be as fair as it is possible to -get under our presept governmental maphiriery. No whipping post The research direetor of the Canadian Labor Congress, Dr. E. A. Forsey, has exploded . the oft -heard theory that immigration causes un- employment— He indicates the number of immi- grants brought into Canada in recent years has payed no significant part in creating the present problem. Dr. Forsey finds that only about one-half the total of immigrants actually join the labor force= --about orae million of the two million who hire'faiiiiirltif Canada since 1948. The remainder of the new arrivals are dependents who become consumers.and thus create jobs• . The research director also points out that the immigrant to Canada has been offset, to some Avoidthis hazard While the coroner's jury attached littleif any, blame to the Ontario Dept of Highways for the fatal accident -on No. 83 highway in November, lye feel the dep't has at a moral responsibility to amend its. Operational instructions to avoid any recurrence of such a tragedy. Before ‘ve explain, however, let us make it clear that there was no suggestion at the inquest of any negligence on the part of the operators of the snowplow truck, no indication that they had not followed the department's instructions in such circumstances, nor that there was any legal =Ong,. doing on the part of the operators or the don't, should also be clear, to those who. have read the reports, that there were a number of WI- fOrttillate and tinpredictable circumstances which contributed to the .accident; had they not been co- incidental, it probably would net have .occurred. The changes we would suggest the delft consider arise fromthe obvious fact that a Ma- chine of snowplow size stalled in the middle of a busy highway without lights on a dark night con- stitutes a very real hazard. With the department'S. concern .for traffic safety, it should be the first to agree that tai this situation should be avoided. if at all possible and (b) adequate warning signals must be established immediately. On this particular case, it was apparent that • the snowplow truck had not been operating, satis- factorily prior to the accident, not even after it had been serviced by a dep't mechanic. Should, then, this vehicle have been on the road in this condition, particularly at night, even though there was some snow to beremoved? The dep't .should weigh carefully the hazard of such a defective vehicle on the road as compared to the hazard of the snow, and give its operators explicit instruc- tions in such cases. Obviously, they are under con- siderable pressure from the public to remove the snow. They must have some definiteauthority to back up any action tof-remove the plows from the road. The other suggestion concerns the use of adequate warnings to other traffic. Directions shoulct be given the, operators concerning frequent and periodical inspections of the condition of flares, the method of lighting them and their placement. No instruction of this kind had been given, according to the evidence provided at the inquest, . As was indicated earlier, .the dep't. has only • a moral obligation to institute such regulations but, since it is in the'position of setting the stand- ard for traffic safety in the province. it should undertake them„ extent at least, by .the humber of persons emigrat- ing from Canada, again reducing the addition to the labor force through immigration. In addition; he could find no correlation between the ,number of newcomers in anyone year 'and the unemployment in that'tiarticulat year, nor was there 'anything to suggest that those. which have absorbed more immigrants have found, greater *unemployment difficulties. Forsey's conclusion: "High Immigration does not necessarily mean high unemployment". So let's stop using the newcomers as a whipping post for our current situation. opo+oloro.• 4 27•."7..r.,.,rn•f•mzen.r.m..ttnm..'.4.rear.temniattsimii-ev.T(t=..mminitIStlittognotr-rm,r-vx'nemstansicaimcm::zs.i.maz.2==ziattntifts'.1T.Y.:.;18,itql Sugar and Spice 'Did you read that big blurb about me in your local paper recently? It got Headlines like this in many weeklies: "Sugar and Spice Columnist Most Widely Read in Can ad a." That's pretty heady stuff to read about yourself. However, it didn't impress me mucl,, as I had written the story myself. It slid 'in the story that this column is now running in one hundred and eleven news- papers across Canada. Let's have.a. look at this in round figures. Round figures are the only sort 'which have any at- traction for me, and most rd - tied -columnists, except women, feel the same way. * * Supposing the average circu- lation of these weeklies is 2,000. That means there are 220,000 subscribers exposed to Sugar and Spice. Heck, let's make it an even quarter -mil. lien. And let's say an average of three persons reads each paper in which the column ap- pears, That's a fair figure. All right. We now have three- quarters of a million potential readers of the column each week. Ah, let's make it a mil- lion and be done with it. When / stet tossing figures like this around in my 'head, I start feeling pretty import- ant. By George, I think there aren':. many fellows writing a column for which a million or two people are waiting fever- ishly each week. Just imagine all those people, from Yar- mouth, N.S., to Chilliwack, 13.C., fighting to get the paper first, hanging on every word. With this in mind I set out to impress the family with the famous personality in it-, midst, "Do you know that there are a million people reading Sugar and Spice every week?" I ask young Kim, "Pretty goOd, • Dad," she says, "can I go to the Ex- plorers' sleigh -ride tonight?" I try Hugh. "Do you realize that my column is read from toast to coast?" I enquire. "How come we can't afford a TV set then?" he wants to know. Plinchy, but still seeking some recognition, I approach the Old Girl. "How many papers do you think are run- ning the column now" "That reminds ie YOU for' 90t tO put the papers out with the garbage this morning," she says, "and I had to go out in my dressing gown in the snow and I nearly broke my,neck on those back steps. When are your going to start Tbt (xeter Tinittabbotate Times Established 1813 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 . .% ePOhlished Each Thursday Morning At Stratford, Ont. Atnherited aS Second Class ,Mait, Post Office -Pep% Ottawa AVVAIOS Pre* HOW'S Beanie Shield, host front page' (Canada)? 19571. A. V. Nelin TrephY, general 'excellence fee' neWspanerti,PUblished in OnteriOf6Wris between .1,500 and 4500 . P�Pt011, 1/S0, 1957, 11561 J. George jehnsten TrePhY, typo. graphite, extellerice (Ontario), 1957;. E, T. Stepherisen Trophy, beat frOnt page (Ontario), 1956, 1955; Alf-Canade intOrance derittioit national safety award, 1953. dirsolatiorf, Sept, 30, 1960 . 1,091 51J105011$110N• AYEtt tanala $4.00 Per Year; USA. 13.06 . dispensed by. Bill Smiley looking after things around the house, like other men?" * * This is rather daunting, but it doesn't completely dismay me. I'm like an old prize- fighter who has been knocked to the canvas so often that his bum is more tender than his , beezer. I just wander away mumbling to myself that some day I'll -be famous and then they'll appreciate mei by golly, and they'll miss me when I die, and stuff like that. • But I must admit I became extremely depressed the other day. I was reading Pierre I3er- ton's column. Berton, for those outside the limited range of the Toronto daily for which he works, is a brilliant product of —Please turn to page 6 ....so. • Yin • lost.tait r rrrni "Do men favor—go out the back way."* 4,44 ei4.4.41.5 ANNOW.11. tiii4a44.00.:;.'• 1 .0 a - Ving rattles Syndicate, Ino?Viecitla rlglthteterVerl, What a, day had at the 'office. rui OV�i 1 glut, to be honie,'," 3-28 1.980? ring Ireatuns Syndicate, be, World shags reserved. "1 was cleaning the fish bowl when the argument •started." Flax -pulling days With the passing of Joseph Davis it brings to my mind a little joke on myself. in 1924 Mr, Davis and I were members of the Exeter coun- cil, I was planning a trip over- seas with members of the weekly press, association and I felt 1 needed some exercise, so I used to walk with Mr. Davis to the north end of town fol- lowing council meetings, it was usually 'fate, . between. 11 and 12 o'clock. After a few such trips I was accosted by a young lady in one of the stores as to what I was doing at that hour of the night at the north end of the town, But my association with Mr. Davis was years before that. It was at the turn. of the cen- tury when the growing of flax was a promising industry in this community. The flax had to be pulled by hand and the flax -pullers had to be in the field by 7 a.m. The millets -,were picked up in town and driven to the field in a wagon with a hayrack fitted with seats. As I remem- ber it there were from 25 to 30 boys and girls in the gang. When we entered the field the foreman would step off a- bout a yard for each person and the puller was supposed to follow Ms swath in a straight line, which was not always the case as the, fast, puller pulled out in front._ • 'After gathering an .armful,o flax it was tied into a sheaf with. .a few strands of flax. Each person carried his own grub and was paid anywhere from 250 to 750 a day accord- ing to size and ability. The Jag- ger& who dropped behind were balled out by the overseer. It; was usually a tired but jolly crowd which was driven home at night. My brothers and I usually wound up the evening with a swim at the dam. I recall that on one occasion the season was wound up with a visit to one of the•hotels in Stephen 'township with free drinks • for all' Who wished thein, . . When the season for pulling the flax .was over the flax was taken to the old flax mill in Exeter north that disappeared. years ago. After threshing the flax for seed the flax was again taken to the field to be JOTTINGS BY JMS spread nut to rot This re. (faired another gang, It was again taken to the mill to pre- pare the fibre from which is I:wed-need fine linens as well as twine, rope and -cordage. Miring one of, the seasons the returns turned out to be not only a financial loss for me but a disagreeable and painful experience as I con- tracted a very bad dose of poison ivy which has 'made me allergic to it ever. since, Your library y MRS. JMS Short of the Glory Each year the Ryerson Press, Toronto, offers a $1,000 award for a novel written by a Canadian on any subject ex- cept,spy, detection and crime stories, Winner for the 1960 award is "Short of Glory" by Eliza- beth Granger Bennett. It is a story of Canada in the days of New France when English and French battled for the goodwill of the Indian and the mastery of the new continent. Its author has endeavored to develop one thought—that per- haps some day men will learn to be at peace with one an- other and that people of dif- ferent races may learn to live together. Abigail Davis is the heroine and is the daughter of a stern New England Pur.itan. She, with her younger sister, was kidnapped by Indian raiders and finally sold to a French family, She married, changed her religion and became Gab- rielle Damours. Her husband died. and, with her child, she returns to her former life in New England. Short of the Glory is Mrs. Bennett's third historical novel. Her husband is Dr. Harold' Bennett, Principal Emeritus of Victoria College. Princess Margaret This book, the only complete biography of Princess Marg- aret, tells the story of her life from her birth on a stormy night in ancient Glamis Castle to her historic wedding m all its pageantry. She is the first Royal Prin- cess to bear the name of Jones. As the "Times" go I,Dy • ' HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T -A FILES 50 YEARS AGO • .Mr. George Beaver, Credi- ton, left for Sandusky, Mich,, where he Will learn the tailor- ing with his brother, Sol. Mr. S. M. Sanders returned Sat urd a y from Milwaukee where he attended a Canners' Convention. Mr, A. E. Hodgert will move to Toronto next week to make their future home. The Literary Society of Exe- ter High School held an elec- tion of officers last week, P're- sident is C. Wood; vice-presi- dent, C. Copeland, secretary, R. Dougall; treasurer, I Ran- nie, pianists, L. Grieve and Gtee Club leader, L. Martin, Workmen are busy putting nn a neW rod on ,the Fanson block which was unroofed by the wind, During Sunday eve. ning it rained and the water soaked through into the husi. ness places of Messrs, Cole, Powell and :Marchand. 30 YEARS AGO Having disposed of our busi- ness and having vacated the premises the office of. the Ross - Taylor Co :Ltd.; Will on and after Feb. 12 he located in the Wickwire Print Shop. The Queen of the Ice at the carnival at the Dome Rink Monday evening was Mitt Lulu Lindenfield. A story -telling contest under the auspices of the Exeter Wo- rien's Institute was held Tues- day eVerting, 'Miss L, M Jeck. ell, G.. C. Koch and E, Jr. Wet - hey Were the judges, Mrs. George Stiell. has leased her residence en Andrew St. 1.6 Morse brothers o the Exc. ler Liinibei' .Co. While playing, hockey On the EXeler rink Monday Poland. Williams of LfsbOrne was struck iti the eye With the :puck later. ating the lid. A three.intit darning needle WAS :taken from the BOO.. M Mr. S. tniott bp 15r. Dunlop, Ile does 'Mt 11. having SWailOWed 15 YEARS AGO Over 500 attended the Exe- ter High School At Home Fri- day evening Music was fur- nished by Scotty MeLaughlan's orchestra -Observing Boy ilcout week local groups with • Scouts and Cubs of Grand Bend under the leadership of W. F. McLaren marched from t h e Legion rooms to James Street Church for serviee. Mr and Mrs Samuel Shier of Kirkton celebrated. 63 years of Married life ,receiving a cable front the Xing and Queen The basement is being dug for a new BA. gas station at Grand Bend on the property purchased from Cyrus Green. Mr, William Warren of 1.1s- berrie Township has sold his farm to Mr. Frank Lostell of Hay Township. Cpl Eugene Beaver Who ar. rived home from overseas en the Aquitania on February 4, o .10 YEARS AGO The first carnival ever held in }Tenni' arena was Well at- tended, Youngest Skater Was Pattline tell, two years and. three MenthS, . Flu hit the local Ifydrit and PVC staffs this week iVith ten ernployeeS absent from work. Mrs. Peter Frayne observed her Nth birthday on Thurs- day At ,a inee,ing Of the Town Council Monday evening grant of $2,000 was Made to the Exeter Branch Canadian Legion toward their new building With a tec0M4 mendation that the 1052 edUri, cit make a similar geStu. Mr, Bert Wainwright has Ad - tented the position as Seete. Lary of the village of Grand Denations are WI Coining in Thr the Clara Vosper Meinorial, Iiistary has „a way al r-#. utatingtitt gOSSiti- hat hIstery beat t6 kazzla„ 1 !'oleeteinellnieetenteellnerlitlenetneeetteleenlinetenenteetteineleteletteeeetreterne, D Rus Burntre. Heating, Plumbing, Sheet Metal Work • 403 ANDREW ST., EXETER sn,,,,,mmummi,,,,,pimumunmpto,:mnummimiummlimiffinummimmitumitpunnwim„ COMPLETE 11 Anti Freeze • -RediatOr Ceps at Pressure ceps.. PHONf 719 RADIATOR SERVICE • Fan Belle * Thermostats • CheCk0Ver 4.r HAVE IT ALL LOOKED AFTER AT BOB'S FINA RADIATOR SERVICE • PHONE 081 NORTH END EXETER 1 Dangerous Exposure If your camera is Tost, damaged Or Min, elet wit yea plenty. Why not protect your _photo equipment with Hare. ford's Camera Floater Policy? Less than, 30 a day will buy $400 worth of protection on all your photo equipmept, Iron enlargers tdgadget bags. ca. us for details, Os W. H. Hodgson Ltd. W. H. Hodgson M. J. Geiser PHONE 24 EXETER. BELL LINES by W. W. Maysom your telephone manager Mrs. Audrey Green of Exeter finds the Princess adds pleasure to phoning. More and more people around town are talking about our new Princess telephone. Already many of our customers in Exeter have had one installed and from all reports a lot of others have expressed considerablp interest. What do they like most about this lovely new telephone? Well, this is what folks are saying: "It has such a nice light feeling when you pick it up," ... "I like its graceful styling — that low modern look." ... "I like the way it glows with a soft light, and then lights up for easy dialing at night whenever you lift the receiver," Well, these are obviously people who know all about the new Princess. But what about you? Have you looked at the display of Princess phones in our office at Exeter? If not, it's something you should see. Next time you're down this way be sure to drop in. You may prefer to call us at 124 and find out more about the new phone, or ask our man in the green trtsck. We were veryglad to announce dial telephone service for Exeter in February 1962. A real modern service for Exeter with all the trimmingS. We will keep you informed on the progress to dial. New London telephone directories were sent out this Week to all subscribers of Exeter? Centralia, Crediton and Hensall, Please den't forget to write your fire, police, hospital and doctor's number in the front of your new 'hook, You never know when you'll need the number in a hurry for an emergency. Early Sunday iliorhing,2:01 CO. be tiXact, we we come Crediton intO th6 realtil of dial serViCe. After months of arduous work the end et the old inagnet6 phone Will dem, replacedby the most rnedern tele, phone Serviee, available. 'Read year directory fen' ini strtittintia how to dial Crediton from Exeter and Cent.. ralia after Sunday at 2t01 4.