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DON ROOTH ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR * Domestic * Commercial * Industrial Motors, Controls Lighting 10 Huron St West 235-0282 February 28 1963 Letter to. 1..11e. editor efends attack on EM scfroprybooster slul 0 $ many protects presidents, Miss Edith Maar. lane, mrs. Clarence Merge-Ili secretary and press, Was. Nell Tweddle; assistant, MrsopetIK- las McLean; booth treasurer, Mrs. Charles G arr o di trea- surer, Sybil Stevenson; Sewing committee, Mrs, Lyle Stokes,Mrs. Grant Hughes, Miss S. Stevenson, Miss H. Mc- Farlane; knitting c.o m mitte e, Mrs. G, Stokes, Miss Shirley Hamilton, Miss Nell Wilkie; entertainment, Mrs, Jack Ste- venson, Mrs. Douglas McLean, Mrs. G, George, Mrs. A. BO- gette and Miss Nell Wilkie; sunshine, Mrs, Lyle Stokes and Mrs. A, Brigette; auditors, Mrs. Clarence Morgan, Mrs. Fed Crouch, Church parade marks Boy Scout Week here Rovers, Scouts, Cubs, Rangers, Guides and Brownies marched in a body to James St, United Church Sunday in one of a number of observances marking Boy Scout Week. During the week, the Ranger flight was initiated, a father and son banquet held and displays presented in several local store windows. --T-A photo Facts never collide; in their long procession there is always harmony from the first Move- ment to the last. Arthur Meighen. The Victory .Boosters, Ailsa Oratg, a .service organ*atten with a membership of 19, has concluded .a successful year under the leadership of thePre, Went, Mrs. Jack Priestley. One of the aetivities, of the group 14 assisting in the Work of the Red cro.ne, ma- jor project was the operation of the ,refreshment booth at the local ball park for 84 ball games in the summer menths. Financial assistance was given to several groups induct, ing Red Cress, Canadian Cancer Society, Bible Society, Easter Seal fund, C.NII3, and Muscular Dystrophy. Sewing convener, Mrs. C. George, reported the comple- tion of 15 Red Cross layettes and 155 slips. Mrs. Guthrie Stokes, knitting convener, re, ported 50 knitted articles cern- pleted for the Red Cross. Officers for 1963 are: Pre- sident,Mrs. Roland Neil; vice- Coughlin tree, girl strangles The fiVe-yeareold. daughter of a dent Was strangled Exe by terr pr ea4ski caught a tree m 4 t ederahtuo:rihter,of Thursday.mr ,Deborah andMrs. Go rdon Ca.en, was playing In a tree When she slip- ped. and her parka became She was found by her father, an accountant in a Walkerton .141? oa rniik, es, ryaayberodi ju.ntg enr000nr olteh e ra ripe las, came home to tell his mother that Debbie was up in a tree and wouldn't talk to him. Funeral service was held Sat- urday at St. Paul's United Church, Alkerston, Besides her parents and bro- ther, Deborah is survived by a grandfather, Sylvanus Cann, Hayfield; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James Whittaker, Galt. Bruce Cann, Main St., is an uncle of the girl. His family attended the services Saturday. Present Scout awards at father-son banquet indelible ink". District Guide commissioner, Mrs. W. G. Hun- tley, read the scripture. in a body to church service at James St. UC in the final ob- servance marking Boy Scout week. Rev, S. E. Lewis entitled his sermon, "How to write your name in the world's strongest By work you get money, by talk you get knowledge. T. C. Haliburton A number of awards and tri- butes were presented at the annual Boy Scout father and son banquet in the Legion ball Wed- nesday night. Joe Buhagian, a Scout leader, received his wood badge from Assistant District Commision- er Harold Sissons, chairman for the presentations. The badge signifies completion of an ex- tensive training course in leadership. Jerry Drysdale, Hensall, a member of the Rover crew, received his Queen Scout badge from leader Ralph Sweitzer. He is the ninth member of the crew to win Scouting's highest badge. A presentation was made to Warren D.- May, for his co- operation over the years in pro- viding window space for Cub displays by the "A" pack. Chairman of the group com- mittee, Jack Delbridge paid tri- bute to a number of local men who assisted Scouts in their annual Christmas tree project. They were guests of the com- mittee for the banquet. Guest speaker was Ashraf M. Khan, Marlborough St., a native of Pakistan now serving with the RCAF at Centralia. Mr. Khan described the edu- cational facilities provided in Pakistan and outlined some of the Scout work going on there. He noted that the country, although divided into east and west parts by India, is the fifth largest in the world. Mr. Khan lauded Scouting, pointing out it was one of the movements strengthening the bonds of international friend- ship. The Naugensippi hillb i l l y "band" presented a few num- bers and led in a sing song. Several sixes of "A" pack sang some international songs. Among those taking part in the banquet were Mayor W. E. Simmons; Fred Darling, presi- dent of the sponsoring Lions; Rev. S. E. Lewis, A. 3. Sweit- zer, Ross Taylor and Tom Vick- erman. Other presentations were: SCOUTS Second class badge-- D. Grainger, C. Keating, J. Par- ker, Fred Simmons. Proficiency badge s--John Grassick, drafting, poultryman; Dave Beavers, citizenship, poultryman, drafting; Mark Hinton, life-saving, swim- mer's , camper's; Ken David- son, artist. CUBS "A" PACK--First star, John Krampp, John Sturrock, Jamie Fulcher, Ross Huntley, Bobby Read, Paul Armstrong, Timmy Stover; badges, David Hinton, homecraft; Paul Martin aridDa- vid Hinton, toyniaker; David Hinton, first eider; Bobby Read and Bruce Simpson, house or- derly. "B" PACK--Second star, Jim Parker; first star, Michael Southcott, Ron Van Amerongeti, Ron Britt-nell, Gordon Hafecost, Peter Mason; badges, Jim Par- ker and M. Bower, team player; Jim Parker, toy Maker. CHURCH SERVICE Sunday, the six Scout and Guide groups in town marched cape py eraWIlng into our Pro- tected holes for 14 days? We would be idealists, indeed, if we imagined for one moment that civilization as we know it could survive such a catas- trophe. We have wasted much effort and billions of dollars .on a defence program that offers us no defence. We continue that waste on survival preparations for a catastrophe from which there can be no survival. We must face the situation criti- cally and realistically, the struggle cannot be won on mill, tary grounds, it must be bar- gained and negotiated for on economic and ideological grounds, Certainly Canada is not a world power, but she can make a substantial contribution to world peace by propagandi- zing our democratic ideals, by solving world food distribution problems and filling empty sto- machs, by disseminating know- ledge and teaching the uneduca- ted, by demonstrating positively to all people that we believe in the basic .equality of all men. Prime Minister Diefenbaker admitted recently in Parliament that in the last few years. Canada had wasted more than$800,000- 000 on an abortive defence pol- icy. That is more than forty dollars for every man, woman and child living in this country. Just imagine how much food (for both bodies and minds) could have been provided with that money! Mr. Craven accused me of indulging in many vague gene- ralizations in my first letter, I felt I was quite specific and noted that Mr. Craven made no attempt whatever to answer any of the questions asked, I have been even more specific in this letter, stating actual and factual opinion. If Mr. Craven is unaware of this body of opinion and the obvious conclu- sions to be drawn from it, then he has no business holding the position he does. In closing I should like to state quite sincerely that I have no doubt that most of the of- ficials serving in EMO are sincere and well-meaning in their efforts, but I also have no doubt that these efforts are gravely mis-directed and ter- ribly unrealistic. In these let- ters I have been very critical of EMO and particularly of the statement made by former Hu- ron co-ordinator MacDonald: ". . .we are very fortunate in our County of Huron; if we pre- pare we can survive a nuclear war involving this continent". I feel that this statement is misleading and that it tends to give people a false sense of security; as such I protest it. That, of course, is one of the special privileges of living in this country, the right to pub- licly disagree with our elected and appointed officials. The sad and unfortunate fact is, though, that we have exerted so little national effort in attempting to give this same privilege to the many millions now denied it. Thank you. "Name Available on Request" chose the easiest course of action, which was, to, leave it up to each individual family unit to provide their own shelters, at their own ‘exPSnae, if they wanted them. There was to be no compelsion. EMQ was crea- ted for the task of co-orairia. Oen, to provide shelter plans, •to distribute survival. Informa- tion, and as the directing agency through Which the efforts of individuals and communities would be integrated. If government and EMO offi- cials are so certain that most Canadians could survive a nu- clear war if adequately pre- pared and sheltered why have they not diverted some of the defence budget to establish an over all shelter system? In view of the statements made byHuron EMO officials would this not be our most effective method of defence? Of ensuring the survi- val of our people? The answers to these ques- tions rests in the fundamental and extremely complex ethical and political dilemmas referred to above, It rests in the inabi- lity of many technically-quali- fied experts to agree amongst themselves on the merits of an over-all shelter program, or on what methods should be used to achieve it, and on whether the end results of such a program would adequately solve the pro- blems or only create more and worse problems. This inability to reach agree- ment is best illustrated by ci- ting some of the opinions of these experts: --First and foremost is the belief that no shelter system could provide adequate pro- tection, that such a system would be self-defeating as it would only encourage the enemy to build larger and dirtier wea- pons. --That dependence on shelter security might discourage ef e forts to find solutions other than military ones to attain apeace- ful world. That such a system would show that we expected war and thus encourage the enemy to strike first. --That a government-spon- sored and government-encou- raged shelter program would lead the public to believe that shelters insured their safety, and eventually through the oc- currence of various cold war crises, lead them to the belief that, alter all, nuclear war would not be intolerable, and when it was over they would survive victoriously. --Others stated after a care- ful study of the over-all trai- ning and operational require- ments for establishing and maintaining a potentially ef- fective shelter system and post- attack recuperative capacity, that the requirements were those of a garrison state and as such incompatible with de- mocratic principles. The only point on which the experts fully agreed was this: that for attacks in the 10,000 megaton range, estimates of a limited recovery could only be highly-speculative guesses. In January, President Ken- nedy reported to the world that the U.S.A. had the nuclear capa- city to destroy the Soviets se- veral times over, thus adding the word "overkill" to our cold war vocabulary. Mr. Cra- ven will note that President Kennedy did not say 'impair' or 'damage', he said 'destroy'. Last December 19 the United States put its 200th ICBM on the firing line. Withintwo years they expect to have in place more than 1,000 nuclear-tipped ICBM, each aimed at a target in the Soviet Union. Are we to be so naive as to assume that the Soviet do not have comparable nuclear strength? And that we, situated as we are directly between these two protoganists, can es. By MRS. J. H. PATON CLANDEBOYE Mr. and Mrs. Russell Blake of McGillvray township were honored by their family on their golden wedding anniver sar y when a smorgasboard meal was served to over 50 guests in the Legion Hall in Lucan Saturday evening. The table was centred with a lovely anniversary cake in 50 design. They received many gifts, in- cluding a leather upholstered swivel rocking chair, in gold, electric blanket and cups and saucers and plates. The couple exchanged wed- ding vows in St, Andrews Church, London, With the Rev. James Ross officiating, Febru- ary 26, 1913. Mrs. Blake, the former Miss Evelyn Lewis, chose Miss Myr- tle Lewis as bridesmaid. She is now Mrs. Chester Blake of Port Credit. Her husband was his brother's best man. Following a wedding trip to Detroit they took up residence in London for five years, then moved to a farm. Con. 4, Mc- Gillvray in 1918, where they still reside. Both are members of the Clandeboye United Church. The couple have three sons, Arnold, Clandeboye; Norm an and Wilmer at home and two daughters, Mrs. W. E. (Olive) Sovereign, Lucan, andMrs. Pe- ter (Lauren) Srigley, London. Another son Elias died in 1961. They have ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Four generations were repre- sented at the event. Mr. Blake, of a family of seven boys, had two brothers livihg to attend, Chester of Port Credit and Fred of McGillivray township. Relatives were present from Rochester, N.Y., Port Credit, Toronto, London, Ingersoll and Ailsa Craig. Last year we added a new Volkswagen. Gordon Maines of Kirkton and Mr. Morris and son, funeral directors, Windsor and Rev. Lancaster and Mrs. Lancaster, officiating rector. PERSONALS Mr. Austin Bice is a patient in St. Joseph's Hospital where he underwent surgery on Fri- day, February 22. Mrs. Harry Murless is quite ill at her home with asiatic flu. Mrs. Emily Tomes visited a few days with her son, the Rev. Stanley and Mrs. Tomes and granddaughter who was ill at the home of her other grand- parents., Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lloyd, London. On Sunday they left for Big Trout Lake, Ontario after spending• a months vaca- tion. They also visited Toronto, Hamilton and Kincardine. Mrs. Suzy Simpson and son Mark visited with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Horde in Komoka on Wed- nesday. Cpl Boggs left for Trenton on Tuesday to take up his regular parachute jumping. Mr. Rea Neil, director, was a delegate last week for two days to the annual convention of the Ontario C onc e ntr a.t e d Milk Producers held in Ottawa, at the Chateau Laurier. Attending the trustees and ratepayers banquet at the Lon- don Teachers College on Fri- day night were President, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Simpson, vice-president, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cunningham and secretary of the McGillivray School Area Board, Mr. David Henry and Mrs. Henry. Mrs. Al Boggs entertained in honor of her daughter Vicky's fifth birthday on Saturday. The guests were Terry and Jerry Morgan, Tracy Boggs, June and Cynthia Donaldson, MarkSimp- son,Jeffery Hill and Cathy Tayor of Lucan. Mr. and Mrs. Clare Paton and son Jimmy were guests on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Maur- ice Cobleigh and family, Lucan, the occasion, Arthur Cobleigh had a birthday, Mrs. Wilbert Windsen visited on Tuesday evening With Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Paton. Clandeboye couple mark anniversary DON'T ARGUE ABOUT MONEY! Now we've added a bit more. 235.0640 JOIN EXETER COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION Limited DEVON BUILDING By GORDON MORLEY Miss Verna Greenless spent the weekend in St. ThoMas. Saturday evening visitor s with Mrs. Gordon Allison were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Schenk, Mr. and Mrs. Don Pettigrew, Erie and Jack Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Morley spent Satnrday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Erie Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Yearley and Mrs. Erie Hamilton spent the week end in Toronto. Mr. and MrS. Don Maguire, Saintsbury and Mrs. Bill Ma- guire, London visited with Mrs. Friday. Walter Morley and family on Mrs. Jim Trevithick and Miss Verna Greenlee visited With Mrs. Evaegelthe Adams on Thursday. Mrs. Earl Mbrley held a sue- cessful quilting bee on Friday. Mrs. George Lee is enumera- tor ill this district for the com- ing federal election April 8. faliMi rs. Dean White required medical care, following a recent Kelly Robinson attended the drainage convention last Week, If you've been waiting for a bigger Volkswagen, it's here. The VW 1500 Station Wagon. With all sews in position, it's a five passenger car, Fold down the back seta and you get a cargo area of 42 cubic feet that will fake 705 lbs. And there's more luggage space under the front hood. (Capacity: 125 lbs..) One more convenietice; this station wagon has na tailgate, The VW's rear door lifts up Out of the way. The engine is in the back to give better traction. And it's cooled with air insfecid of water to eliminate cooling system problems, The Volkswagen has no radiator to freeze in winter or boil in summer. 1001mmeepoiriimmemereilemie, The cruising speed and the top speed of the VW 1500 are the some, 80 miles per hour, yet town and country gas consumption averages 33 miles per gallon. Standard equipment on the VW 1500 station Wagon includes bucket seats that adjust to 4 9 different positions; floor mounted gear shift; fully synchronized gear box; a clock; a side view mirror; windshield washers; padded dash, board and sun visors; three ash trays; four arm rests. If you've been waiting for a bigger Volkswagen (for a little more money) its at your nearest VW showroom ready for a test drive, And be prepared for one mote surprise, This station wagon holds the road like a sports car • I HUNTERH,:DUVAR LTD, MAIN 'STREET TELEPHONE 284100 George: Don't you think there should be federal aid for edu- cation? henry: It might be all right if they'd Start by teaching Meth' motto in Ottawa, Tp The Editor: Someone, somewhere, reeene tly wrote that one of the great- eSt impediments to universal understanding was the inability of so many people to intelli- gently comprehend what they read, hear or see. As you so cogently Pointed out in a recent editorial "no amount of written explanation ever is able to make clear every Point to every per- son". This statement readily applies itself to situations other than the subject of your editor- ial. Several weeks ago your news- paper published my letter which criticized EMO, ip particular a statement made by the former Huron EMO co-ordinator, T.M. MacDonald. It also questioned the puny efforts being made to achieve the peace we all yearn and hope for, and of the general attitude of Western society to the problems of war and peace. The T-A published the reply from W.R. Craven, publicity di- rector of Huron EMO. In this reply Mr. Craven revealed a specific lack of understanding most of what I said, and in general, revealed a shocking lack of knowledge of the con- flicting opinions held by many technically-qualified expert s concerning the problems of civil defence. First, to clear up a misunder- standing. Mr. Craven accused me of slandering Mr. MacDo- nald. Since when did disagree- ment with another person's opi- nion constitute slander? And, if the word 'propagandize' is bothering Mr. Craven, I would direct his attention to the dic- tionary definition of propagan- da, which is: "effort directed systematically toward the gai- ning of public support for an opinion or a course of action". Mr. Craven would have to agree that this is .,exactly what EMO is attempting to do in Huron. Secondly, I do not presume a special insight in being able to forecast the results of a nuclear war. All the comment and ob- servations made in that letter were based on facts and conclu- sions gleaned from the writings and reports of many experts in civil defence and nuclear warfare. Facts that are avail- able to anyone who cares to do a little research on the matter, facts that should be known by every EMO official, but obviou- sly not by Mr. Craven. Despite what Mr. Craven be- lieves one does not have to be a military, political or EMO expert to read and know the facts. They are readily avail- able to all who care to look and find. They are contained in testimony given before commit- tees of the U.S, Congress, data published by the Atomic Energy Commission, reports in sober and authoritative journals both Canadian and American. No se- cret information is required for one to reach these alarming conclusions concerning the dis- astrous result of a nuclear war to Canada. To name a few other sources: The late Dr. Arthur Compton, Nobel prize-winning physicist, who was director of the Ameri- can research group which deve- loped the first self-sustaining atomic chain reaction; Paul F. Wagner, deputy assistant direc- tor for training, education and public affairs, Office of Civil and Defence Mobilization, Wash. D.C., who has written extensively on the subject; Do- nald M, Michael, director of planning and programs, Peace Research Institute, Wash. D. C. , whose writings on civil defence planning are contained in no less an authority than the Bri- tannica Book of the Year; Leo- nard Bertin, science editor of the Toronto Daily Star, a dis- tinguished Canadian scientific reporter; the speeches of Ex- ternal Affairs Minister Howard Green, whose main efforts at the U.N. have been directed to- ward the discontinuance of nu- clear testing and toward dis- armament — efforts that have won for him the nickname "The Minister for Disarmament", but which have not gained the undivided support of the Cana- dian government or of the pub- lic. Mr. Craven made disparging remarks concerning the quotes I used of professor Arnold J. Toynbee and Dr. Linus Pauling, These two gentlemen, I dare say, have More factual know- ledge of the possible effects of nuclear warfare on mankind, than our local EMO officials could ever presume to have, prof. Toynbee, the World's foreelost living philosophic hiS- torten, is a keen and constant observer of civilitation and the possible effeets upon it by.stich a major catastrophe as a nu- clear War. Dr. LIM'S Patiling, Nobel prize-winning physical chemist, has through his re- search on molecular structure beconrie one of the foremost authorities on the effect Of clear fall-our radiation on li- ving cells. Mr. Craven assumes our ig- tibrante of nearly everything, including hoW and why EMO was fornied. When the Canadian government brought' EMO into being, there Were at that time (and stillate) Mans/Opinions and agruinents supporting both pub- lic and private shelter pro- grams, But, these progranis Po - sed 'eo Many complek arid Sunda- Mental ethical, and political dil. entniaS that the go e tint n Alvin E. Andrew former resident Alvin E. Andrew, 61, for- merly of Exeter, died sudden- ly in Aneroid, Sask. on Monday, February 18. The deceased Was born at Elitnville, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Albert Andrew and lived in Exeter prior to moVing West, 11e is stirviVed by his Wife, Jean, one soy, Wayne, Edmon. ton, Alta, and his Step mother, Mrs. Olive AtidreW Exeter,. Funeral services will beheld in the Aneroid United Church' today With butial in Aneroid cemetery. Coal was first reined in Cape Breton Island in 16'72 and In Al. berta in 18/2. Miss Etta Carter dies in Windsor Miss Etta Carter, 82, born in Bidduiph township, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Alice McKernan, in Windsor Wednes- day February 20. She was the daughter of the late George and Jane (Simpson) Carter, and had resided in Windsor about 50 years. The body rested at the Morris funeral home, where a service was held Friday evening with the Rev. Gordon W. Butt, Wind= sor officiating. On Saturday afternoon,a Committal service WaS hel in the St. James cemetery chapel here with the Rev, E. O. Lan- caster, rector of St. James Church Officiating. Temporary entombment was in the remise- She is stirViVed by one sister Mrs. Ailed ivicKernari, Windsor, four nephews, Andy and Carter, here, and two nephews Kenneth and Fred McKernani Detroit: She was predeceased by two brothers, Gilbert and Levi, one sister, Mrs. Litzie Dixon. Relatives from adiStanCe and local relatives and friends Were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Carter following the graveside service of the late Miss Etta Carter of Wieciser, Attending were Mrs, Alla' Me, kettiati, Windsor, Miss Alice Mandell, Mr. and MrS. Kenneth Mekernat and faintly, Mr, and Mrs." Fred Mek ern an and fay billy, Mr. and Mrs. C. DOOdall and family all of Detroit.Mrs.