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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-11-30, Page 4�4gd`,A • The Times -Advocate, November 30, tf81 p' This newspaper believes the .right .to exprege do opinion In pubtip, contripptles to the progress of the Batson and that it must Oe 0 , S sired freely .and without preludice to .preserve and, ,Improve, demo. erotic goyernnlent. t us procee The engineer's report on a proposed sew- age system for Exeter has been .completed. As. expected, it provides no reason for jubilation in retard. to cost. On -the other hand, it Amid. appear .,,sthat the community •can afford to proceed with a •'a -partial installation. The estimate for constructions of Stage I, - : that portion which will provide service to the cpmmercial and heavily built-up areas of the toren, totals slightly more than $207,000. With the tire- „ ariping arr•angements avail:able the annual cost to „lie, municipality, including operation of the plant,. rias been estimated at $26,262.00, Even if only .one- quarter of •this amount was raised through service charges, the remainder could be secured by an • addition of less than seven mills to the tax rate,. The above figures take into co.lisideration tlae 2517� write-off grant available through borrow- ing from the Central .Mortgage and Housing Corp. :::Further savings may be made. .according to the report, if the town takes advantage of the winter works assistance program. At this stage, of course, there remain many considerations before any decision_ can be macre to `undertake the project. Council must make a "thorough study of the plan' anct of the methods of financing. The OWRC must approve the proposals, F inally. permission must be secured from the Ontario Municipal Board to borrow the required funds. ���• Nevertheless, the main consideration at the moment is that the installation would appear .fin- airciallyy 'feasible. particularly if council is prepared to budget its other expenditures carefully, With --this prospect, council should proceed as quickly as possible, avoiding the procrastination and de - :T -ay which sometimes besets such projects, It should so be careful to prevent pigeon -holing of reports ,,and proposals at various stages which could mean lite loss of what benefits are available now from MHC and winter works assistance measures, ,i,tielpful methods We continue to like the effort Reeve Earl I,s9fon makes to show his ratepayers in McGillivray td iiship. how their taxes are spent. Mr;. Dixon, who is retiring as reeve this year but will continue -to serve as a councillor, pain"stakingly breaks down the rate on a black- board to show how the 'taxes on an average -size farm are spent. He also provides a comparison with - the -previous year and explains the reasons for the differences, - '\Ve noticed :that in another community, council formed itself as a panel to answer any questions which ratepayers might wish to ask through an unpartial moderator. Such efforts --and there are many similar odes which can be adopted --serve two purposes. Not only de they assist in helping to give the rate- payers a better insight into their - affairs but they also show a community spirit by inviting close scrutiny. MOVEZ?;BaaiS.4'.n.,11%1'4 a4iitk:: ., ,.t ....., Makjng changes The Times -Advocate has a different and, we hope. more pleasing appearance this week. You already have noticed that we have eliminated the lines between the columns of type, termed "column rule" by us, and the lines at the eiid of stories,. referred to is the trade as 1'jim nasties". We've been prompted to make these changes by typt'ographical design experts NOW spoke to us recently at a regional meeting of \l•ecliv newspaper personnel, The elimination u1 the lines, they suggested, will .contribute to easier reading as well as a cleaner appearance. We hope you like .the changes, If you don't, please let us know. Tears in the street ;\ child is crying in the street, • lie has no food or place to eat, Ile has no shoes for on his feet, He's crying, crying. Bombs are falling all around His crus are muffled by the sound, And there he sits upon the ground, Just crying, crying. Some planes are flying overhead, His mother, father, both are dead, The streets are torn, wet, and red, He's crying, crying. People running here and there, They pass Bins by without a stare, No one left to really care, He's crying, crying, Will someone stop and hear his cry As they go running, running by, And mend his heart, •so it won't clie From crying, crying, All alone and feeling sad, No longer has he got a dad, Just a broken-hearted lac! 'SVho's crying, crying. We have much to wear and eat, The people smile on our street, Do you not wish' that 'you. could treat The; boy who's crying, crying? Would you not take- hini by the arm So no one else could cause him harm And give hint. love and joy and charm And stop the crying, crying. Would you not stop, if you rvere there, Extend your hand and offer care Or even just a silent piayer May stop the crying, crying. Just raise his head and dry the tear, Your love has now replaced the fear And life again is Once More dear ,' .And no more crying, crying: ' Now lie's home and in your bed And no more planes 'roar overhead, Then on his face you see, instead Of tears, he smiles. R. J. Sweitzer Sugar and Spice dispensed by Bill Smiley What in the name of all that' -hysterical. is going on in Cana. these days? You can't pick up a paper or a magazine without the word FALLOUT bitting you like a big black blud gebn., Afi':er years of virtual indif- ference to the threat of nuclear war, suddenly the whole of North America has gone hog- wilet for shelters. is avidly de- vouring every bit of garbage published about radioactivity, an[{ -1 C ` s hall, arguing such ques- tions as whether there'll. be 75 pet" -e sit or 85 per cent of our population wiped out in a mis- sile attack. t had noticed the rapid build-up of panic in our pub- lications, but hadn't paid too much -•attention to it. One be- comes a bit cynical about the constant state of apoplexy of our daily press. .,,* This week, however, my kids at yschool were delivering their annual oral compositions — thosd"who didn't skip school that"day. Do you know what theiG„favorite topic was? Fall- out shelters- flus' was too much. When cute ; little girls of 16, who should be discussing such sub- ject;;""s's dances and hairdos, stand hp there in front of the class and say, "Mr, Smiley, fellow students, the topic I have chosen to speak art"today is What Will,You Do When the Bomb Falls?", it's time some- body ealled a halt to' the hys- That's bad enough, But these panic purveyors have even got my wife interested. 'That's what worries me. Things must be serious. For•year, I've been trying to get her interested in world affairs. Some of these attempts have almost driven ine straight' up the wall, across the ceiling, and down the other side. "Do you realize we're fac- ing total annihilation?" I would ask her. "Yes," she would answer, "but when ars you going to stop smoking so much," She never khew the president of Ghana from the president of the local Rotary Club. Her idea of a big international cri• sis was when Princess Marga- ret married Tony, or when Liz Taylor bagged a new husband. Now, she's talking fallout shelter, Not that she's changed her mind about what's import- ant in the world. She still thinks nuclear .fission is something• vaguely uncomfortable, like trout fishin', only more so. She is firmly convinced that war is a lot of ridiculous nonsense, indulged in by Hien every so often to bolster their egos pie Cxeter Zimes' b ►ovate Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 Puhlished Each Thursday Morning At Stratford, Ont. Authorized at 5etolid Class Mail, Post Office De"'t Ott-- P , awa AWARDS -- Prank Howe Beattie Shield, best front page (Can. ada), 1957; A. V, Nolan Trophy, general excellence for news. papers published in Ontario' towns between 1,500 and '4,500` popultetion, 1958, 1957, 1956: J, Geoege Johnston Trophy, typo. Brat, iU1 excellence (Ontario), ,Iitsurat5co' 1957; E, T, Stepllehsdri Trophy, p best front page (Onfarrio), 1956, 1955; Afl•Canada Federation national'safety award, 1953, arel.in-Advance Cif t I do u at n, Sept, 30, 1961=3,505 SUBSCRIPTION ltArESI Canada $4,Ob Per Year; USA $5,00 No, she hasn't become into nationally -minded. It's just tha she doesn't like to be out o style, and these days fallout 1 the fashion. She still thinks rait diation is something to do wl where you put water in a car but she's not going to miss tit show. r- but I think gree found the so- t lotion, it will be a lot cheaper 1 to hire a fleet of bulldozers to s cover our house with earth, - than it: -will be to build a shel- 1 ter big enough to hold every- , things my family insist is es - 0' sen.tiai 'lo survival. * Big worry, at the moment, is where we're going to put the piano, in the shelter. She doesn't want it to get damp. Affects the tone. She's also a little troubledabout the ex- act shade of the drapes. There won't be any windows in the thing of course, but lack of windows never stopped a wo- man from fretting over cur- tains. The kids are getting organ. ;zed, too. They're quite practi- cal about the whole thing. Told they might bring their most cherished possession, Kim voted for Piper, the cat, and Hugh for Playboy, the pup. 1, agreed, as we might have to eat them There won't be room for much food. You see, my wire needs her sewing machine, her steam iron, her hair dryer, and of course, the 'acuum cleaner, to keep the place tidy, She in. sists we put in the hi•fi, so we can rot to .Rath lis a n i n o f 1. We're not going to eat like pigs, she claims, so the din• ing room table must go in, And she doesn't want any tybooted rescue workers tromping around on her good rug, so that has to go inside, Along with all the good china, silver and glassware, * We're not going 10 try to get the car inside, because it's in- sured. But Pll be 'hanged Jr 1 leave the lawnmower out, It's a secondhand power mower 1 bought this 'ell for 520, and 1 never was able to get the motor started, so I'm not going to just let that go up in smoke, without getting ,Some use out of it,. Kini isn'tany trouble, Ex, cept that she says she won't go into the thing unless we fake the television set. Hugh is bound hs bike is not going to be left out in all that radio. active dust, though it doesn't seem to bother him that it's been sitting out in the snow for the past two weeks, It's take,' a lot of, planning, Hunter:" 1'I met 'A bigbear In the woods." Excited Friend: "Did you give Milli both bashers1" llunter: '•'1"he Beck with Botts barrdlsl. 1 ,gave hint the whole i,ttli='r I RING FOR l jj NURSE SHELL BRINGS YOU 1161. KIP!: t, iInt•„, jminahn. IBL,•il'orld r+hl,.l »it,•i•a. hope you don't mind, but I've brought you a littlek occupational therapy,„ As the "Times” go by • HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T -A FILES 50 YEARS AGO Parsons and Davis, Centra- lia, are doing a big business buying and shipping poultry. 1, J. :1.1et'ner, up, of Zurich, left. for Ottawa to attend to ,hls duties at the Dominion Parlia- ment, Mrs. Wilson, organizer for the WMS, w.+s' in' the' Thaiites Rokd- area and :organized a WMS• in Bethany church. .• last Sunday services -were Held in the basement of Cavell Presbyterian' church owing to the new pipe organ being in- stalled. Miss Elsie ,McCallum of. Lon- don and Miss Edna :11cCalluui of Toronto last week presented Main Street Methodist Church with four oak collection plates. 11r. Clinton Sweet was shot through the hand while out shooting on Saturday. 30 .YEARS • AGQ Exeter' Creamery Co. Ltd. was awarded' two first prizes and presented with' two silVer trophies at the Canadian Crea- merynian's convention. .in. Tor- onto. The Girl'. Guides celebrated the first- anniversary of their organization at the home of their leader, hiss Marion Woods on Saturday. Harry Hoffman is attending the Bell Telephone Plant School in Toronto this week. About 27 hunters of the Thames Road area bagged 60 rabbits on Wednesday. • It's just too bad that taxes Your libraryEarl Terry and, IIns• all girl 15 `YEARS AGO A' eapaeily crowd of over 400 adults packed the arena to en- joy the annual public school concert on Friday night; Over $1200 has now been sub- scribed to the Exeter Agrieul- lural Society to help meet ex- per,ses in connection with the new part, A W. Morgan resigned as clerk of Usborne ToWnship, Il.e will complete the work of 1946. Warden R, E, Shaddick of Hensall was presented with a clock at the annual warden's banquet in the British Ex- change Hotel, Goderich, The newly formed Dashwood Public Library is located in Cieman's Furniture Store, Eight new members were initiated at the meeting of Exeter-Hensall branch of the Canadian. Legion, 10 YEARS AGO Dignitaries of the Hereford breed associations assembled at Clinton Friday -to formally recognize the unusual _achieve- ment of two young farmers who ran one-twa in the King's Guineas class at the Royal Winter Fair with the same first name, the same breed of cattle and from the same coun- ty, Bob Hero of Granton and Bob Kinsman of Cromarty were the two honored, A gift from Exeter, the old- est mayorality in England, to Exeter, her younger sister in Canada. to commemorate the latter's elevation to the status of a town was 'presented at a special session of the English city's council, By MRS. JMS Stories of Yuletide Looking for Christmas sto- ries? The Stories of 'Yuletide is a new hook in your library and contains the history of the Christmas flower, the poinset- tia, the story of the most po- pular Christmas poem "Twos the Night before Christmas;" a children's , Christmas favorite Up 'en 'the ' 1•lousetol.; The story o:f, Silent Night and of the. carol: Good Wences- laus; also:the ,stories of three Christmas hymns, This hook -- tease •turn to page 5 choir from London delighted a crowd close to 500 in James Street Church Wednesday night, The 84,000,000 building pro- gram at RCAF Station Centra- lia is well underway.. A huge supply house is nearing com- pletion and the skeleton of a new control tower is rising. Exeter officially honored the town's champion bantam base - hall team with a banquet and presentation of jackets at Club Monetta. ' and. Santa Claus have- to come at the same time, John Passmore, Ed McQueen, George Brock and George Fol. lick have returned home from • a week's shooting up in . the Bruce peninsula: JOTTINGS BY JMS Crew of 150 at this bee Associated. with the above The above picture was taken m picture is a an who has been on the occasion of the raising outstanding in this community of the barn en the Pollak and who after serving Exeter farm, a half. mite most of fixe- for 27 year's On the Public illi• ter in 1899. 'I.'he barn was ilties Commission chose to re- blamed down cluring' threshing sign his position at the ender in 1908 And was rebuilt in 1904, this year, T retei` to Luther ,I, In the pieture,• but hardly ?enhale, ;distinguishable, is Luther In addition' to his 'duties on/ytho . topmost. figUte and below the PVC Mr. Pcnhale has been him at the left is his brother; Aft active director and a past Asa J. Pcnha1e, The farm at president of the South Huron the ,(tnie was owned' by William Hospital since its incepttoii 12 H ,P'enhalc, and members of years ago, the family in the picture were Mr. Penhala was ono of six Mrs, Penhalr, Nettie, who died shareholders of the xxeter three Years ago, and Stella, Canniftg Company before it was now Ms's. Clayton, Vanoottver, • akin eves' ir' 1923 by the 'Lana. f,f*, The Parris ryas taken over cilan Canners. At that time disc, :in 1912.ly Asa 4, and at pre- S. M. Sanders was superinten' sent is owned by Chester Dun,dent of tis hcompany and Mr. The balm was one of the Tar. PenhAle was The manager, In gest at that time, befog i0x li later years Mr. Pehhale Was icer, The framer ,vas George the district super'itttcndent for i•Toltzrean, of Crediton, and the Canadian 'Cagttersr retiring lit ;stonc'niason .ark was stone by 1063 'George .t.Easterbrook of Exeter, The picture, Was taken by Jo• Sept rSenior and seated in the' buggy was 1Ti•, Seniors father, The :framework - 61 the barn was put together by Wooden pens, There were ab001 150 men at '(lie raising and as the suits, ing 'v'as done.befoft the advoet 01 the tide hone this meant that a personal visit had to be made t.o all those participating:. Pot, the raising sidbs were chosen and the tate was en, it Was all manual labor And the work Was completed bo. for the Hien at down foe stepe per,- the winners sitting down first, Preparation for The meal r'e., golfed severrt days and Assist. arse from the WoJiietl Or die neighborhood was freely given., A harit raising ,was one of trio' highlights at the turn of •tife ccntur l at Your Shell Furnace Oil order means heofn:a-hurry. Whether ;you wont fast heat ate toezh of your thermostat, orservice quick as a wink, we'll bring You :II complete home heating service at your call -24 hours in every day! And you get these extra benefits at no additional cos#,. Keep Filled Service: We .refill your tank whenever our records show your supply is running low. Trouble-free Heat; With Shell you. get Sonitor pies a special additive to keep your heating system at peak ,efficiency. Complete Mainlenance Service: Wearrange, complete maintenance service -24 hours a day! Get full value for your heating dollar— call for Heat'n-a-hurry! Phone 80 Exeter ART CLARKE A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CUSTOMERS OF THE B OF M How your Money worked at my Bank in 1961 This ie my personal re• port to you on what the dol. Jars you entrusted to us did in 1961. it must start with e "thank you" for the trust which you — and three million fellow Canadians — have shown in the Bank of Montreal, by depositing your savings with us. Throughout 1961 your bank kept that money working hard for private individuals: and for the community as a whole,,t.hrouglt loans anri investmerits,.i1'iuch of that : money went to people in all'walk's of life, to finance purchases of all kinds. it went to small and large busi.•. tresses. expanding their operations. It helped create new jobs, it assisted fa.rniers to improve their farms... built new schools and financed• research and cduea• tion . , . it paid for new roads and community modernization. Char•les•Srnith, :Manager 'Exeter Branch Bank of ,Montreal Every section of the country, and people in every walk of life, benefited by the money Cana. dians entrusted to the B of Al. Cl'earl'y, in 1961 these deposit•dollars of yours did a double ;job of work. They helped to build your • future, and they did a big job in lielping'10 make fait a better.l'uture for Canada as a whole,. 'MY BAN Ht, ev CABA01415 .... . • . . . . 1 1 1 Facts behind 'the Figures in the B of M's 144th Annual Report DEPOSITS: 'Triose stood at the highest figure in the history' of the Bank. Nearly hallf is the personal savings of cuatothery. The rctiraili(Icr is money deposited by business firths, Cott. - auniity organizations and .governments. At the cod of thy, ' Batik's '144th year on October 31.84* 1961., total deposit* atuoru'ited to ,$3,646,622-,258. ' ' LOANS: Besides investments in gover'tiritent and other high. glade public securities, any fhnusand'S of loans wcie made � m throughout the year to people in all walks of life — to farmers, miners, fishermen. °thrice,, lumbo men, ranchers, salaried people; to industrial And business enterprises large and small"; ' . In community organizations: and lo'Protincial Governments and !\ unhcipalit es, Total loans at year-end—;51,933,7990,626, when you *eve Money at the It oP Ji jou not only Creep. It sale and carvinginterest! Nisi' inn, kit juu inal.e a s(i(in11 • I II, Cyr r11Ct11 for yourself in Canada's otic„'t li tion' a11(1 111 Itte,' are ahead. Wlletitel' )'Oit 'NAl11 ( e.._. . -, -., -. to sarp, nttinc) 01 bo1.1o„• 1t f(ir some;• ward purposty you'll lilrtti Ito tng htis n0s5 at the 11 or 11.,• So, if ii'a about intrnej, i<ec Caita'dazs nem thank first 1 EANK OF M • ON'T'REAt ex/444414. v`'t, — Fa RESOURCES& $3,949,6,15,542 trorkira tritlCaltndfe.•t73 Ofiij, teak shire Mff