The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-07-27, Page 6••• .•
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Tars newspepsr (believes the right to a preae .an epinit?n in public
contributes to the progress of the nation and that itmusthas eecer.
. ised freely end without pt•etudie�e f preserve ated tntprave demos
;retie geeernment.
A considerable amount of credit for the ewe
i~ese. of the conservation pro,'ram in the Ausable
watershed over the past six yeas must be given
to. its retiring field officer and sec l chary -treasurer,,
H. G '`Hal" Hooke, who has :bean transferred to
ffmilar post at Peterborough -
Since he was the first full -tinge servant of
eheauthority, it may he difficult to assess his cora=
trAfition in Concrete terms. Nevertheless, it is not,
able that during the period of his service, the:
atethority has developed from that of a rather cone
used and uncertain public body to a fuel -fledged
arid- aggressive intermunieipiil .service which has
become one of the most active comervation agents
- in the province,
Others must share in the achievement, n,f
course, but it takes key personnel with efficient
administrative and co-operative talents to develop
and. carry out a successful program for a group
composed of individual representatives from some
24 municipalities of varying status. In performing
a major portion of this role. Mr. Hooke has proven
himself a most capable civil servant.
In community life in .Exeter. both Mr. and
Mrs. Hooke have made additional contributi.nns of
significance. Mr. Hooke has been one of the enthus-
iastic Scout leaders who have developed that pro-
gram to the most successful youth development
program in local history. Mrs_ Hooke has • begin
active in her church and the Beta Sigma Phi
Sorority,
In addition to its sincere appreciation for
their efforts here. the community extends to this
young couple best wishes for happiness and suc-
cess in their new endeavour.
Fooling whom?
The Wingham Advance -Times, in an ed.itoi'
sal entitled "Are we fooling our kids?", questions
the modern practice of some schools who refrain
from noting failures and even merit standing of
;students in their annual promotion lists,
The method is employed here in certain
eases, encouraged by local education officials. The
reason, apparently. is to avoid embarrassing or
hurting those who have not measured up. Nor,
we are told, is the merit standing a fair reflection
of the individuals 'progress because it does not
relate his native ability to .his achievement,
One of our main objections to the trend is
its failure to provide any recognition at all of
those who have excelled in their work. Nor does
it divide the students into different categories of
achievement, thereby eliminating whatever incent-
ive there might be to encourage the individual to
improve his position.
Says The Advance -Times,
"In a society which has grown as keenly
competitive as ours there is serious room for doubt
that the kindly attitude which overlooks or ignores
failure is, in truth, any kindness at all. Living, as
we do, in an affluent age. Where all the luxuries we
enjoy are taken completely foe granted, we who
are parents or teachers or school board members
•.. or perhaps even ministers of education. have
a sort of unthinking faith that things will always
be just as good as they are now. Of all false con-
elusions this is, perhaps. the most ridiculous. for it
.is the one arrived at by we of the older genera-
: tion, the veterans of the Great Depression . . , the
very people Who know that life is not necessarily
a bowl of cherries—who can so vividly recall the
difference between the 28th of June and the 1st
`ef September, 1929.
"There will be no easy path for these young
people. They will have to undergo the blood and
sweat of experience before they know any real
sense of security. And evben they do emerge from
the valley of the shadow they will walk with a dig-
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Opportunities
The Ontario Federation of Agriculture is
performing a service to its members by outlining
the educational opportunities available to young
farm people in the province,
The OF.t, points out that some youth, who.
did not finish their formal education, would move
from the fiu'ln if it weren't for the fact that they
have insufficient education for a trade or profea.
sional job. Many of thein aren't aware of the govt
assistance available to them,
At the :request of its members, the OFA has
summarized the educational opportunities now
being' offered in a four—page brief which has been
distributed to 1900 directors, executives and of..
ficials of farm organizations in Ontario,
Special vocational training is a federal.
provincial program designed to train or retrain._
unemployed workers. Through National Employ-
nient Services offices, persons over 16 years of
age may be eligible for six months to one year
training in various trades. In addition to free tui-.
tion, they receive a living allowance of. from $2,50
to $6.00 a day..
Through the dep't of education, ccrrespond-
epee courses are provided for all academic sub-
jects from grades one to 13 and nine trade courses
in the fields of automotive mechanics, carpentry,
machine shop practice and radio theory :and prac-
tice. Academic courses are free to Ontario resi-
dents; trade courses are available at $10 each,
Apprenticeship training is available for 12
different trades through the Provincial Institute of
Trades in Toronto. A 10 -week formal training pro-
gram is provided in Toronto and living allowances
• are .available,
For students wlio have passed grade 12,
there are four technical institutes in the province
which provides three-year programs leading to
employment in business and industrial occupations,
Evening classes are offered for employed persons
wishing to improve their education,
Some of these opportunities merit serious
consideration. not only by some farm youth, hut
urban youth in the area as well. Investigation
should be undertaken now in preparation for fall
and winter training.
Fara leader
it was a well-deserved tribute which Huron
Hog Producers' Ass'n paid to a former president,
Bert Lobb, recently. He was presented with an en -
scribed gift in recognition of his leadership during
the critical period when the .compulsory marketing
program was being established.
1'ir. Lobb did a big job for producers in
Huron, a county noted for its reluctance to change.
This observer watched him conduct a number of
contentious meetings which could have led to chaos
without his firm, yet reasonable, command of the.
chair, He • was careful to be democratic in his
handling of discussions, but he would not allow
iit lcontents :to ab tse•;their..privileges. .
The tribute cited his effective leadership
farm organizations for some 20 years. That's a
notable period of service in a difficult and often
unappreciated, field.
nity which has been denied a whole generation of
kids who were led to believe that this life is just
one big bottle of tranquilizers.
"Despite all the social services we can over
invent .(much less pay fort, since this is a human
society, the smart guy will always be on top.
Is there any point whatever in trying to pretend
tc our. kids, Whether they are at the top or the
bottom of the list, that competition doesn't exist?
It isn't a fad; it's not a phase. It's one of the 'facts
of life."
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Sugar and ice
--Tin living a kind of crazy.
-mixed--up life these days. On
the surface. it's sensible enough.
I go to lectures and study hard
all week. On week ends; I go
'home for a couple of restful,
refreshing days with my fam-
i•y,
Theoretically. that's the pic-
ture. I slog around all week
in the city heat, I labor long
and late over MY books. I'm
lonely and frustrated. Then. on
Friday afternoon, limp, ex-
hiaatsted and red -eyed. I head
for the cool north country,
where I he in a long chair.
stip a long, cool drink. and re -
=cup my strength for another
harrowing week.
But it isn't like that at all.
1t's just the opposite. Down
.!fere, 1 Ilya with the peaceful
precision of a monk. 1 saun-
ter in the shady streets in the
evening, and listen to the mus
ted squeal of tires. I read all
night if I want to. 1 eat when
I'm hungry. Ismoke 80 fag?;
a day if I dam -well feel like
it.
Despite the fact that they're
building a subway a hundred
yards away. I can step nut into
the quadrangle of the college,
of an evening, and enter a
world of meclies al tranquility,
I can have a shower at any
hour without a child hamnier-
ing on the bathroom door, in
agony. the minute l get wet. I
can step out of my trousers
and kick them into A corner
if I want to.
I can smoke in herl if T
wish. 1 can sit around stark.
staring naked. as 1 ant at the
moment. J can tiro, across the
hall in ball' an hour and enjoy
a rye and tap -water aperitif
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with another gray -thatched ref-
ugee from domesticity and ex-
change withhim lies about
how much money we gave up
to go into teaching.
NO, it isn`t this end of the
stick that's turning me Into a
gaunt and haggard creature
who is one massive twitch. It's
that weekend shift that makes
me so shaky I can't oat soup
without sprinkling it all over
my shirt.
First, when I get home, I
have to run the gauntlet of a
brief, penetrating interrogation
by the Old l3attl.eaxe. Somehow
she has got i.t into her head
that gill having a wild Fling
down here in the city. Ever
since we were married she has
been convinced that the nice
-tow I escape her vigilance F
begin to drink furiously, dash
from one night elub to another.
and acquire mist eens right
and left.
How Tran supposed to ate
coinplish these bacchanalian
orgies on the $2.90 I have for
spending money after paying
my room and hoard, she
dnean't explain. But she still
thinks of me as the gay. dash-
ing dog that she first met, 15
years ago, and refuses to see
the gray old wolf, most of his
fangs gone. who sits across the
kitchen table, assuring her.
with some indignation, that
such a thing never entered his
mind.
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After alio has checkers on
my morals, the duet begins,
Her soprano carries the mel-
ody; the kids are driving her
crazy, the car is full of ref-
tles, the lawn is burned to a
crisp, and there are hordes nf
visitort about to descend. My
croak' baritone plays the ac•
coittpaninient; the course is
itnpossibiy hard, I'ni working
like a dog, the city is an in-
ferno, and I'm siek of retteu-
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advice that if it hiidri't 'tome
1;vas trial
sowatcl., , . , rs
I'd hate taken it.
xom ray lulls wintd _
s.
"Can I get you folks' anything? Coffee? Snack?
Your hats and ,coats?"
Wielding of matches
Last week there was a dis-
play in London of a collection
of paper match covers, much
the same as some people col-
lect postage stamps. One lads'
had several thousand covers,
Seeing it on TV started me re-
flecting on some of the things
I have seen in relation to match
making.
The first earried me back to
a convention of the Canadian
Weekly Newspaper Association
held in the city of Ottawa. As
a sidelight to the convention
we were taken on a tour to the
Eddy plant at •close -by Hull in
Quebec where matches, paper
pails and tubs were made.
Few of our readers today
will, remember the old sulphur
match that was packed in a
green paper package that could
be spanned with a thumb and
the •middle finger. The sulphur
match head was poisonous and
following some fatalities among
children it was later abolished
and the present match head
was substituted.
What I saw in that match
factory is unbelievable because
of the accuracy and speed with
which those packages were
filled, but first I should ex-
plain how the match head was
applied to the stick. There was
a revolving steel screen, as I
remember, about a yard wide
from which the wooden match
protruded and this passed over
the solution to gather the match
head. How the matches were
Pressed into the screen and
later removed I did not find
out but the thing I started out
to write about was the pack-
aging of the matches.
There were several long
lines of tables with women sit-
ting on. either side and before
thein was •a moving tray with
the matches. With one hand
the women grabbed a match
box" afid with the thumb and
middle finger picked out
enough matches to fill the little
green box.
The astonishing thing was
that the packer completely
filled the package in one opera-
tion faster than it has taken
me to ,write this last sentence.
I did not see one that had to
put in the second match and
as I remember those packages
when purchased from the store.
you could turn the. package flip-
side down without losing a
match.
On another occasion with a
newspaper party we were in
Northern Ontario visiting a
saw mill where wooden match
the "Ti
JOTTINGS EY JMS
sticks were made and boxed,
later to have the match head
applied and finished for mar-
ket.
First a birch log was put
through a machine that peeled
the log the thickness of a
match. A number of layers of
wood were placed one on top
of the other and as they passed
through another machine the
layers were again reduced so
as to square the match while a
large steel blade cut the match
the proper length. The snatches
tumbled belter-shelter into a
large box and I wondered how
they were ever going to get
them straightened out. They
were carried along a conveyor
belt into boxes the correct
width of the match. The match-
es were jiggled along, tossed
to and fro until the boxes
came out at the end of the line
completely filled and in per-
fect position.
At that sane mill. there were
two box cars standing on a
railroad siding, one car filled
with long planks of wood. The
planks were •slid from one car
onto a conveyor belt, then
passed through :a machine that
planed the planks and without
a stop the planed lumber
passed on into the car ahead.
Again speaking of matches
I have before me a paper pack
of matehes from the Waikikian
Hotel from Honolulu, Hawaii,
that was given to nye by L. 3.
Penitale, who picked them up
on his recent trip home from
Australia.
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Penguin copies of three
Shakespeare's plays currently
being shown at the Stratford
Festival this season are now in
your library—Love's Labour's
Lost, Henry VIII and The
Tragedy of Coriolanus.
Anyone appreciates seeing
the plays better if you know
"what it is all about" and one
likes to review them by read-
ing them even after seeing
them.
New E=nglish Bible
A copy of the new transla-
tion of the New Testament of
the Bible is also in your li-
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE s -A FILES
SO YEARS AGO
Mr. J. E. Jones, junior pas-
tor of Jeanette's Creek, is vis-
iting at his -home near Credi-
ton.
The Rodger Bros. have coin
pleted the mason work on the
new Orange Hall at Woodham,
Four rinks of Exeter hosie
ens went to Clinton in Guer,-
titer's auto bus from. Dash-
wood. One rink won umbrellas
each,
k new hollow wire gasoline
lighting system has been in-
stalled >t Centralia church. It
t
is a big improvement over the
old lamps,
Miss Gladys Kestle. Miss
Mildred Braun and Harry
Trio -Inter of the Exeter School
have been granted AI o d el
School Entrance Standing. This
entitles them to attend one of
the new Model schools just
opened.
Among those who took In the
excursion to the West via CPR
were John Bray, Percy Dun-
can, Thos. Hndgert, W, Stone.
E. Willett and Theo Rader.
30 YEARS AGO
During the severe electrical
etorm Which passed over this
area the barn on the farm of
W. J. It'otney, town line about
three miles north of . Hensall
was burned,
Mrs. Margaret Ague, Hen -
gall's oldest citizen, celebrated
her 100th birthday on Friday.
1Tor daughter is Mrs, Colin
Pletcher at the Thames Roars
memo,
117r. Mervin Elstoti of Cen-
traite will conduct the ,services
its the Anglican Church, Kir1s-
etett, for the reef of lite inon'h
of ,Tule and all of August.
17r. W. McNichol and Mr, T.
rfarbnrn, Thames Road have
acrepted aft offer to ftitni-h
5ttusic one night earth ti -eek at
1poeriverh Dance Pavilion,
Mf. Wtllianc Wat'ina has
teen aOrointed night coiialablA
Tor kiketertaking the pla^e of
Mr, Earl Farsons i4,110 resigned
oecing to ill -health.
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IS YEARS AGO
Mr. Sheldon Wein of, the
local Lakeview Farris attended
the convention of the Interna-
tional Baby Chick Association
in St, Louis, Missouri,
Mrs. Hosier Tinney, English
war bride, arrived in IIensall
to join her husband, Pte. Ho-
rner Tinney who arrived home
in February.
The cement foundation for
the new Gospel Tabernacle on
Main St. is now well under
way,
Miss Ann Whitten, Goderich,
has taken over as new chief
operator at tile local Boll Tele-
phone office this week. Miss -
Helen Rowe having resigned.
The Exeter Board of •Iduca•
tion are calling for tenders for
six bus routes that will cover
the townships of TJsborne, Ste-
phen and Hay for conveying
pupils to Exeter High School:-
An
chool:An honor roll containing the
names of the 133 enlisted per-
sons from Stephen Township
was unveiled by Dr, le. Hobbs
Taylor, Mt,A, at the Crediton
Community Park.
10 YEARS AGO
Stephen council voted to
grant $.30 to the Crediton Ath-
letic Field Committee at its
meeting Tuesday evening,
Eight-year-old • Tommy Tete.
lin of St. Marys won first 5
prize at the_ Kirkton Juvenile
Contest Wednesday ovening,
Thomas Pry('e, MLA, was plat-
ter of ceremonies,
Mrs. Albert icing, Crediton,
was honored with a family ga-
thering of children, grandchil-
dren afid great grandchildren,
on her Rath birthday.
Mrs. John Essery, who cele•
heated her 041h birthday ori
Monday received a telegram
:froth her granddattghteg its
Central itterica,
Grand Bend thd dreeijWay
churches have 0alled l3ev, W,
C. Sniith of Port ferry to ha•
dome tiheir M1111Wter in SeTYteaii-
Caltti.iit 11. It, 'Wade of tyre•
darn is attroding tliri 'National
Cadet CAMP at Bafiff;
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bEFORE September 1 in order to avoid the 3%
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'60 Ford Sedan, 6.eyl., low mileage alma'59 Plymouth 4 -Door Station Wesel.), V-8 $1,795
'59 Ford 6-Cyl. Sedan, automatic a Hien white $1,795
'57 Mercury 2 -Door Hardtop, a beautiful thing to
drive and t'ide in •. .51,695
'60 Austin Cambrian, low e milea a beauty1, 495`
mileage, �,
'58 Ford Sedans (2)
'58 Pontiac Sedan Your Choice $1,495
'57 Olds 4 -Door Hardtop
'58 Chev Coach, a steal $1,295895
'56 Pontiac Sedan, 6-cyl.
TourTour'55 Monarch Sedan t Choice $ 995
'57 Plymouth Sedan' s$1,289955
'54 Ford Sedan, a beauty $ 495
'53 Dodge Sedan $ 450
'54 Mercury Sedan $ 495
'53 Chev Sedan, a beauty $ 495
'52 Ford Sedan, automatic $ 245
'50 Pontiac Sedan , $ 200
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'54 Meteor o 150
'53 Pontiac Coach $ 95 -
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'57 Ford Tandem 750 Tractor, a steal $2,995
'58 Ford F -600' 7x12 Dump, with trailing axle $2,995
'52 Intl180 and 1$•ft dump trailer $1,495
'58 Ford Pickup, has everything but the kitchen sink $1,095
'57 Ford Pickup, styleside V-8 ... $1,000
'56 Dodge Panel, she's good for something, some-
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John Deere 420 Crawler and Front End Lada",
you're robbing me I•und at . $1,595
M'56 Card 6.1-t• Moto? -Driven Combine, used 'very
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'59 Brady Hay Chopper, used one season $ 395
'60 Massey 4•Ful'row Plows, 'narrow bottom, late new $ 345
'60 Oliver ,on rubber, pulley , . $ 175
'59 Massey 2 -Furrow 3 -Point Hitch Flaw .,,, $ 100
'56 ,lohn Deere 3 -Furrow Drag PloW 5 75
Ford 2 -Furrow Lift Plow $ 65
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