The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-10-05, Page 4Nat4 The, TitritS-Aiivoca* ..citc.t9er 121
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This newspaper believes the right to express an opinion in publie
cp tributes to the progress of the nation and that it must be fixer,.
ei d freely and without prei9Flice te Preserve and itnprovs rno
er tic government.
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Those roll calls
We're intrigued by those questions mem-
bers of area Women's Institutes are requested to
answer at roll call time during their monthly meet-
ings, The ladies in charge think up some dandies.
For example, we'll bet Reeve Clayton Smith
of Usborne township would have „liked to have
been hiding in the corner when members of Elim-
ville WI were asked. recently: "What I would do if
I were reeve• of Usborne".
We'll bet the Kirkton group has fun with
this one when it comes up in, February:, "Defects
of my figure of which I am aware". And there
should be some good laughs at Grand Bend in
March when the ladies are instructed to "Model
your oldest hat".
Dashwood ladies must have done some soul-
searching in June when they were asked, "What
makes a good wife?"
Clandeboye ladies reveal "What I admire
most in elderly women" at this month's meeting.
The WI's have lots of ideas for roll calls: "A
rural sound that appeals to me", "The most neigh-
borly thing that ever happened to me", "Some-
thing a child has taught me", "One improvement
I hope to see in modern schools", "SuggeStions for
making new citizens feel one of us", "How I would.
• like to be remembered if I was in hospital", "How
I can help my child at school", "A cure for
wrinkles", etc. etc.
We're happy to see the ladies aren't afraid
to tackle even controversial questions, such as
the one Elimville will answer in. March: "My
• opinion of the proposed central school". A roll call
One way tohelp,.
The world's problemS, in this generation as
in no other, seem to engulf the individual in a
feeling of helplessness and frustration.
The conflicts that divide the great masses
of the world's population sometimes seem to attain
a magnitude that beggars the efforts of even great
national leaders and powerful governments to re-
solve them.
At the base of these pyramiding problems,
ordinary people begin to feel that their influence
in decisions about nuclear arms, national sovereign,
ty, economic •competition, is diminishing beyond
recognition.
And yet all the world's problems, ultimately,
concern the destinies of ordinary people — the
hungry, the diseased, the frightened. In terms of
people, problems are immediate, practical and
understandable.
CARE of Canada, the international relief
agency, gives Canadians a chance to attack world
problems in a personal, meaningful way. A one
dollar package of flour, milk, beans and other
staple foods, marked with a Canadian name and
the immediately recognizable green Canadian maple
leaf, feeds not only hungry bodies but withering
minds and hearts.
CARE launches its Food Crusade at the
season of Thanksgiving, during the celebration of
our abundance, in the hope that we will be moved
to share the treasures of our harvest with other
people m other lands who, otherwise, may find
little cause to give thanks,
Effective action
Huron and Lambton counties, who derive
considerable revenue from the tourist industry,
will welcome the recent announcement by C. E.
Janes, Lambton East MPP, that the provincial
government will ban oil drilling on Lake Huron for
at least five years,
Mr. Janes said he had received: this assur-
ance from Energy Minister Robert Macauley. He
added. that Premier Frost feels there should be
complete prohibition of drilling on the lake, except
in time of emergency.
Mr. Janes is chairman of the international
committee formed a year ago to protect Lake Huron
from pollution. Of immediate concern was pro-
posed oil drilling operations which have contribut-
ed substantially to the contamination of other
great lakes.
The committee not only succeeded in stop-
ping the proposed drilling at that time but now
has received assurance of a five-year ban with the
indication that the prohibition may continue in—
definitely.
Here is an excellent example of how alert
municipal and provincial representatives acted
quickly and effectively to protect important natural
resources from the threat of commercial. exploita-
tion. Those who spearheaded this action, including
officials at Grand Bend, roust be commended,
like
ing.
Ittne7e,rwrestridtter,tie.woria r`Ots mexsed. 12.5
"Weren't you eliminated in the semifinals?"
Along the highway
JOTTINGS JMS
Saturday evening as I was A couple of years ago I
motoring on the highway be- Picked up a niteh-hiker at
uveas Exeter and Grand Bend Grand Bend and brought him
to Exeter. As we neared So-
1began to reminisce on thedom my passenger asked me if
changes and some of •the things 1 knew the place where seve-
which have happened on this rat members of the Silas Stan -
strip of highway since the time lake family had been burned
when horses were first used to to death. He was a distant rel -
convey the public to and from alive of the family. 1 was able
this popular summer resort. to point out the farm and give
I recalled the time whoa I him what details I knew of the
had •a close brush with a6se- tragedy.
rious accident and possibly It was in June, 1923, that
death. 11 was in the early days Mrs. Silas Stanlake, four chil-
when the London, Huron and dren and a brother-in-law, lost
Bruce railway did a thriving their lives when the farm
business and holiday seekers home was destroyed-, It was
from London carne 10 Exeter about eleven o'clock in the
by train and transferred to a evening when fire broke nut
horse-drawn bus bound for the in the kitchen. Mr. Stanlake
lake and driven by Mr, Harry had come down stairs to inves-
Hoffman, of Dashwood, tigate, He was followed by a
Harry had an. ingenious way son .Harry, aged 15 at. the time
of tucking in the passengers and an adopted daughte r.
and the luggage, On the orca- These two escaped, through a
sion referred to it was on the broken window.
eve of a holiday, The bus was Those who perished in the
packed. Harry -had a board that fire were Mrs. Stanlake, aged
he laid on the driver's seat. 38; Albert Stanlake, aged 46,
Harry sat out in front to drive and four out of five children,
the horses. A gentleman sat viz; Clarence Audrey, aged 12;
on the other end of the board Charlie, 9; Wilfred 4; Arthur
and I was sandwiched in be- Gilbert, a babe of three weeks.
tween the two. We stopped at There was ,only one means of
Maple Grove, just north of escape from the upstairs room
Grand Bend, to let off some and the fire had gained
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regular ehip off the old block. Why, Already
he's saving his, money so he can go to cellege.
That's right, Yes sir, a chip off the old block.
Wouldn't be serprised if he gets to be e big
star on the football team. He's just like the
old Man. Now, boy, tell ?ern Where you're
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Reduction of Rates
for Horne Heating
The Exeter Public Utilities Commission is
pleased to announce a 10% reduction in the elect-
rically home heating rate,
Effective September 1, 1961, the new net
rate will be 1,35 cents per kilowatt hour,
EXETER PUBLIC
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of thepassengers, much that e • passengers, lime;
After a two hour ride from the trapped victims was impos-
Exeter 1 was somewhat ex- sible,
hausted from my cramped po- The funeral was conducted
sition and when Mr. Hoffman from the. M. E. Gardiner fun -
got down -from the bus to as- eral parlorconducted by Rev.
silt the passengers that were A. A. Trttmper,
gelling off,' I Moved to the
front of the board and at the
Tr'
seine time the passenger on
the other end of the board also.
ou
feeling cramped, for relaxar library
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tion, decided to. stand up.
This left me out en a limb
and 1 fell behind one of the . By MRS. JMS
horses. This caused some con- ce,,:.,yes,,,,e,eieweevetesewweeewegeeeee,
sternation' before I was res-
cued from my perilous posi-
uninjttred tint tvas Through Gates of Splendor
that might take up -several hours at a _meet-- oie..14-ep4Lwag.
..-4(•'.111rokrnocl: by Mr. "Iroffin an 'that Life Magazine and Elisabeth
• ; :had I :fallen behind the other Elliot's book "Through Gates
Keep it up, ladies.. It's good to see groups • hose, I would have been of Splendor" tell the story of
encouraging the expression of opinions, exchang,-'1'- kicked to death. the five missionaries — Peter
ing helpful hints, creating humor and membership'.1.0se life in fire Fleming, Roger Youderian, Ed
McCully, Nate Saint and Jim
participation, 1was reminded of another Elliott — all young, all mar-
oecasion, when there was con- ried, all except one, fathers -
11 • .4 • A siderable loss of life similar to who tried to make contact with
Sugar and Spice
Civilization has taken majes-
tic forward strides in the past
fifty years or so. Half a cen-
tury ago, people had cellars
below their houses. In these
cool caverns were found such
things as: pickles and pre-
serves; barrels of apples; tur-
nips and potatoes covered in
dirt to keep the frost out; and
eggs kept fresh in -white stuff
called water -glass.
Then came the furnace, and
the cellar became a basement,
with a plank floor. Now it
ontained bundles of news-
papers, a stone crock and
bottle capper for making home
brew, boxes of limp love let-
ters, old trunks full of older
clothes to be dragged out on
Hallowe'en, and the winter's
supply of coal,
Not many years passed be-
fore the basement received an-
other. face-lifting. With the ad-
vent of oil or gas heating, a
cement floor was installed. The
basement became the laundry -
room cum workshop. The
belch of the sump pump was
replaced by the swish of Mom's
washer, and the hum of her
dryer, and the whine of Dad's
bandsaw; as she kept the
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family clean and he happily
fashioned jiggly -legged tables
and rickety trellises.
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Between the second and third
world wars, when everyone
was building those inverted
strawberry boxes with attach-
ed carports, the basement was
again transformed. puring the
Forties, the Fifties and right
into the Sixties, apparently in-
telligent people poured millions
of dollars into these curiosities,
which were known as "recrea-
tion rooms."
They installed television sets
in them. They built elaborate
bars in them, They jammed in
pingpong tables and dart boards
and juke boxes and fireplaces
and record players and pool
tables and panelled walls and
tiled floors and neon lights,
They did all this for two
reasons,
First of all, they wanted a
place where their child ren
could play, happily and safely,
And where their teenagers
could have friends in, and
dew, and eat hot dogs, and
have good. wholesome fun. And
second of all, their living
rooms were so small that it
looked like a poker game in a
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what has occurred during the a legendary tribe, the Aucas,
• past couple of weeks when a in Ecuador of which one fact
number of persons lost their was known — that they ,killed
dispensed by Bill Smiley lives in a fire. —Please turn to page 5
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Pulman when they invited an-
other couple in.
For generations, these good
people tried to get their child-
ren and their guests to go down
and enjoy life in the "recrea-
tion room." The small kids,
quite sensibly, refused to have
anything to do with them, pre-
ferring, like normal children,
to play out in the mud and on
the road. After one dismal
evening of "recreation," with
mother or father dashing down
the stairs every twenty minutes
to make sure they were having
a whale of a time, the teen-
agers avoided them with alac-
rity.
And guests, lured to the
recreation room by the hope
of a drink, seized it in one
hand, looked around, whistled,
said, "Boy, this rnusta setya
hack plenny," and headed right
back upstairs for the kitchen,
where the real party inevitably
took place.
* * *
It was not until the 1960's
that the cellar -basement -laun-
dry room -workshop -recreation
room achieved real dignity,
and attained its true And last-
ing status in our society.
At first, it labored under the
rather insipid name of "fall-
out shelter." In fact, what
brought up this whole train of
thought was finding an old
newspaper, dated 1961, I came
across it wh'I en was pulling
a thigh -bone off Aunt Mabel's As e "Times go by
skeleton, hack in the corner
there. 1 needed it to' carve a
new soup spoon.
Anyway, there was this clip-
ping, ten years old. On it was
a story in which Prime Minis-
ter Diefenbaker — that was
when there used to be what
they called a "government"—
announced that he and his wife
and staff would go into an or-
dinary fallout shelter should
there be a nuclear attack. Ap-
parently that was before they
started firing the salvos of
glandular gas,
'Uncle Dud, who was quite a
kidder- before his second head
-went metal, told me one time
Mr. Diefenbaker wasn't killed
in the first attack. He died of
apoplexy when someone inad-
vertently ]et it slip that the
contractor who had built his
shelter was what they used to
call a Liberal.
* *
At any rate, it wasn't long
before the "fallout shelter"
became known as what it has
been called since, the "living
room," Maybe it was because
they were the only places where
atiyone, was living, Unlike the
people 1 mentioned, who never
recreated in their recreation
rooMs, we really live in out
living rooms, And I must ad-
-Please turn to page 5
rld n1', te<ftv#4,
sol,:ty,, dori3 believe we eVert
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• HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T -A FIL.ES
50 YEARS AGO
On account of the downpour
of rain on Sunday anniversary
services in the Centralia Me-
thodist Church were postponed,
The Ladies Aid of James
Street Methodist church helc
harvest home services on Sun-
day with Rev, Robert Hicks
preaching in the morning and
Rev. J. E. Millyard in the
evening. Miss Delight Hobbs
gave two selections on the Ifio-
.1in,
Henry Willert of Dashwood
was named reeve of Stephen
Township owing to the death
of Samuel Sweitzer,
Mr. Jos. Yellow -had a suc-
cessful barn raising last Wed-
nesday. The barn was raised
on the site of the one that was
destroyed by fire,
The new Orange Hall at
Woodham is about completed
and will he opened about No-
vember 4,
Last week Messrs W. Snell
and A. Marchand purthased
the Mansion House from Rob-
ert Leathern and will tear it
down and build three new
hemes,
30 YEARS AGO
'The new residence being
built by J. W. "fern on Wil-
liam St. is nearing completion.
Mr, and Mrs. S. W. Jory an-
nounce the engagement of
their second datighter, Mildred,
to Leslie W. Thomson, son of
Mr, and Mrs, W. H. Thomson,
the wedding to take place in
°eLlbss""Flossie Hunter loft the
beginning of the Week for Tor-
onto where she will take a
course in soda' Selena* at the
University*,
M. Richard Hunter of Us -
borne won six fir81, prizes and
three seconds in Shropshire
sheep at Exeter Pair.
Mr. and Mrs, G. W. Horne
announce the engagement of
their daughter Elva L. to Wit -
Nam J. Reutly, son et the late
Matthew and Mrs, Routly, the
marriage te 'ake place ih Oc-
tober.
CaVell Presbyterian Church
WAS the scene of an ithpres-
SiVe eereitiony en Monday eVe.
sing when Presbytery of Hu
-
Ten dedicated D. 'Margattit
Strang as Indict! eVatige-
Heal MisSietiary' In the Nate
;liver eountry _under the Bnard
of Missiens of the Presbytt-
tian Church,
15 YEARS AGO
M, R. Cudmore, who for the
past seven years has worked
at the DeHaviland Aircraft
Co., Toronto, has joined the
Lindenfield firm and moved
his family to Exeter.
Exeter IOOF celebrated the
75th anniversary with a ban-
quet in jellies Street United
Church basement.
Mrs. William K. Higgins and
son' Robert of Paisley, Scot-
land, arrived in Exeter on
Thursday to join her husband
here.
Gross receipts were $4,000
at the ninth Liens Club Frolic
held in the arena Wednesday
and Thursday evenings,
Port Albert, the former RC-
AF Station in Huron County,
is to he the scene of the Inter-
national Plowing Match next
week, . •
Walter Sovereign, editor and
publisher of the Lucan Sun,
died Tuesday in his 82nd year,
10 YEARS AGO
Ray Fisher of Zurich won
the $500 jackpot at Hensall Le-
gion Bingo Monday evening.
Mrs, Nellie McCarter, Mrs,
Georgina Dobbs, Mrs, Ella
Middleton and Mrs, Vera Fra-
ser were delegates. from Exe-
ter to the OES cohventitm at
the Royal York Hotel, Toren,
to, last Week,
Lorne Passmore, RR 3, Exe-
ter, waived top honors in the
South Huron Plowing Match
for the third year in a row
When he won the open tractor
class in the competitiMis Wed-
nesday afternoon,
Joan Hopper and Don Petrie
have entered the UniVersity ol
Toronto to study medicine. Col-
leen Gill has entered St. Jee,
eph's Hospital. Londen, to
train for a nurse,
Attending Normal School at
London are Maxine Bolvden,
EvolYn Deslardine, Barbra
Hunter, Malcolm Kirkland and
John Whitehouse,
Peter Cowen set # record at
the .1i1xeter 'Public Sehool field
Meet en Friday afternoon when
hecaptured the senior boys
thampionship.
in the 1.65O-1060 'polled Sale§
of the Canadian mandatturi0
industry increased from $14
billion in $23.6 billion, while
net moths declined front $825
million to $745 million.
NOTICE RE:
Plumbing -0
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For the convenience and protection of the t.
public, a uniform plumbing inspection service IA
provided in Huron County under the auspices of
the Health Unit. Commencing October 15th, 1961, I
permits trill he required for all work covered by j
the Provincial Plumbing Code. Inspection Fees are 1
based on the Schedule adopted in County By-law
No. 58, 1961, under authority of the Ontario Water
Resources Commission Act.
For further information, please write or
phone—
W. L. EMPEY, Chief Inspector,
Court House,
Goderich,
Telephone JA 4-7441,
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