The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-05-06, Page 2Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924
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SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND
Member: C.W.N.A.., O.W.N.A., C.C.N.R. and ABC
PUBLISHERS: J. M. Southcott, R. M. Southcott
EDITOR: William Batten
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THE LUXTON FAMILY OF EXETER — Mr. and Mrs. Bob Luxton are
surrounded by their children, left to right, Dan, aged 1, in Mrs. Luxton's
lap, Joanne, 6, Jean, 8, Doug, 3, and David, 4.
"Electric heat has cost us
less than it's cost before
with any other heat," says
Mr. Bob Luxton, 349
Marlborough South, Exeter.
Electrical heat is a child-saver, that's what it is. That's the way it turned
out for Mr. and Mrs. Bob Luxton, 349 Marlborough South, Exeter. Young
Doug, aged 3, suffers from chronic asthma and Mrs. Luxton says dust
free electrical heat kept his problem to a minimum for the first time
this winter. "Doug has been very good," she reports. Mr. Luxton has
found that besides costing less in their new home, electrical heat pro-
vides no upkeep problem, no drafts with moving air, or humming ma-
chines. There's no humidifying problems, either, which is important with
five children. And the convenience of thermostats in every room! "That's
wonderful, yes," says Mrs. Luxton. Because the girls' room is on the
north, it gets an added boost of heat. And the bathroom is kept toasty
warm for bare feet. "Woudn't have anything else," the Luxtons say.
Exeter
Public Utilities Commission
235-1350
R.E. Feeley, Chairman 1-1,1. Davis, Manager
EDITORIALS. ONE MAN'S OPINION
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What has been described as an at-
tempt to "bring a little sanity" into summer
partying at Grand Bend has led young peo-
ple from London's United Churches to a de-
cision to operate a coffee house this season
to provide a fellowship for holidaying youths
at the resort.
It is encouraging to see young people
so concerned about the conduct of their co-
horts that they plan to expend money and
energy in an attempt to correct the situation.
But why do London youth—and their
leaders--think they have to move into Grand
Bend to institute such a program? Why the
unjust inference that Grand Bend is Western
Ontario's "den of iniquity"?
This newspaper will agree with Rev.
George Goth of London's Metropolitan Unit-
ed Church that there are some "wild parties"
in Grand Bend during the summer months,
but we repeat a previous contention that the
problem is not confined solely to Grand Bend.
It is equally a problem of communities
such as London whose youth move into Grand
Bend in the summer to conduct "wild par-
ties", In the majority of cases we suspect
these youth are conducting themselves in
much the same manner as they do at "home",
The only difference is that it's probably a
little more open due to the fact they are
away from home.
Therefore the solution is not to move
into Grand Bend to set up a coffee house and
provide fellowship for visiting youth. This in
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effect is trying to close the door after the
horse has escaped.
The solution will come only by start-
ing at the base of the problem which entails
coming to grips with the problem of teen-
age drinking and morality in the home com-
munities of the holidaying youths.
Only when the church and other con-
cerned groups reach out to all young people
and try to give them a moral code to follow
can we expect any decline in the number of
wild parties in Grand Bend, London or any
other community.
While it is certainly not our intention
to discourage any youth group from attempt-
ing to correct problems with their cohorts,
we doubt their venture will meet with much
success. The persons they attract to their cof-
fee house will undoubtedly be of the type
who wouldn't attend a wild party in the first
place.
Dr. Goth says it's "an attempt to bring
a little sanity into some of the wild parties
they have up there". It may well be that Dr.
Goth and his young people would meet with
much more success if they were prepared to
actually visit some of the wild parties and
bring a little sanity into them by their very
presence.
They'd have to be prepared for some
failures and probably a great deal of abuse,
but the church and its disciples may soon
have to learn that they have to "take" their
religion to youth rather than expecting youth
to "come" to them.
MANUFACTURERS LIFE
It is as futile and fruitless
to try and evade responsibility
as it is to try and get away
from God — there is no greater
exercise in futility.
The first part of Psalm 139
makes that very clear: "Whith-
er shall I go from thy spirit?
Or whither shall I flee from thy
presence? If I ascend up into
heaven thou art there: if I make
my bed in hell behold, thou art
there. If I take the wings of the
morning and dwell in the utter-
most parts of the sea. Even
there thy hand shall lead me."
It is clear that a confrontation
with reality, with responsibility
and with God is ultimately ines-
capable.
Too many people in our time
are like the two cockney boys
who met on a street corner,
One asked the other "Where
are you going?" The other re-
lied, "Nowhere". "OK", said
the first one, "I'll come with
you".
Life without meaning purpose
or direction needs to be trans-
formed by One who wants to
motivate us at the very centre
of our being. He alone can pro-
vide the meaning we all look for
and so seldom find.
Comments or criticism will be wel-
comed. Write PO Box 31 Exeter
Crack down on crackers LETTERS Ti?E EDITOR
It's that time of year again!
When: elderly folk are scared out of
their wits; ladies have their nylons burned
off; fire brigades are kept busy; kids are
seriously injured.
Yes, it's the time of year for fire-
crackers to make their appearance with their
accompanying list of costly tragedies of vari-
ous nature.
Many communities have taken the only
action desirable to control the nuisance of
firecrackers. Some have passed laws pro-
hibiting the sale of the lethal weapons to
children, while others have laws prohibiting
the use of any such articles by other than or-
ganized groups engaged in public fireworks
displays.
Until all municipalities follow such
stringent rules they have no one to blame
but themselves for the costly accidents which
sooner or later mar each firecracker season
in all communities.
Need specialists on board too
Nothing is constant except change, and
that profundity finds more than the normal
amount of truth when applied to our educa-
tional system.
Education has changed drastically in
the past decade and it is now obvious that
even the most knowledgeable have no idea of
what approaches will be followed in the next
decade.
The winds of change are reaching gale
proportions in an effort to keep education in
pace with the jet-age and the ideas of "yester-
day" have already been blown aside by those
of "today".
The annual Easter week education con-
ferences and comments by leading educators
indicate some of the following things may
happen in education.
—Elementary school teachers will be
required to have university training.
—There will be even greater stress on
teachers becoming specialists.
—Students will be permitted to ad-
vance at their own pace and the locked-in
grading system will be junked.
—Students will receive instruction
from teaching machines.
The list goes on almost indefinitely
and indicates that education costs will con-
tinue to spiral.
It also indicates that Education Min-
ister Davis will have to implement his plan
to eliminate local school boards in rural On-
tario and replace them with county units.
The county units would consist of per-
sons who would be paid stipends sufficient
to warrant the amount 'of time to run a larger
education system and would probably also
necessitate the hiring of a county director of
education such as urban centres now have.
This is the only way in which rural
areas will be albe to keep abreast of the
changing situation and their urban cousins.
BATT'N AROUND WITH THE EDITOR
A few weeks ago the Satur-
day Evening Post ran a fright-
ening, detailed article on teen-
age drinking. Among other
things the statistics are quite
clear that most accidents in-
volving young people are caus-
ed by drinking and driving.
From time to time we are
reminded that young people in
every big city inNorth America
are becoming addicted to the use
of drugs. This addiction usually
began as a means of escaping
boredom — "just for kicks".
Richard J. Needham in the
Toronto Globe and Mail com-
ments, "North American drug
addicts, alcoholics and juvenile
delinquents are concentrated in
its great cities the places
where there is the least reason
for boredom—where there's the
most to see and do."
"They're starving in the mid-
dle of a super market — they've
got an inward sickness far
worse than their outward en-
slavement to hooch or heroin."
He doesn't attempt to define
that sickness. There does ap-
pear, however, to be a sort of
emptiness or meaninglessness
or boredom which afflicts not
only our young people.
The desire for '-kicks" or
"escape", is not confined to
any one age group. The "pop"
song with the phrase, "Let's
Get Away From It All" appeals
to all of us at one time or an-
other.
Indeed the so called "jet
set" has made an occupation
out of trying to evolve novel
ways of "getting away from
it all",
The tourist industry mush-
rooms by holding out the pro-
mise that by going to Hawaii
or the West Indies or Florida
or Europe or Asia you'll be
able to do just that.
Of course, we all have abuilt
in "escape hatch" in our living
rooms — the TV set.
The space race intrigues us
all. It involves the desire to
discover, the desire to know. It
answers our spirit of adventure
and plays a part in our defence.
But I often get the feeling that
it too is another symptom of our
common desire to escape from
the world as it is.
Don't get me wrong. We all
need some type of "escape"
at one time or another. The odd
trip or movie or TV show can
be healthy and helpful—but when
it gets to the point where a 3-
year old would like to watch
TV all day somebody has to
step on him — at the risk of
losing an economical baby sit-
ter.
Our lives become just a little
jaded — somewhat satiated by
the continual search for escape.
If our techniques of getting away
from it all do not better equip
us to face life head on then they
are poor prescriptions.
Too many of our modern ways
of escaping are indulged in as
"cure ails" when really they
solve nothing. They are also too
often used as a means of shirk-
ing very real responsibilities.
How many people there are for
example who try to find the
solution to life's difficulties and
problems at the bottom of a
bottle.
We all need to be reminded
that ultimately we can't "get
away from it all". Sooner or
later we have to mature enough
to face life as it is or try to
change it.
Let us off the hook !
Still 'concerned'
Dear editor,
Unintentionally, the name
"Lutheran" was omitted from
the list of religious sects found
in Exeter.
Over 25 years ago, an Exeter
minister stated that 95 percent
of the churches could close their
doors without affecting the lives
of the people in our community.
That is equal to saying that
the churches' influence is next
to nil.
Many churches have quit Sun-
day evening services due to de-
creasing attendance. It isn't
that people are living be t t e r
lives, but rather because the
preachers have NO VITA L
MESSAGE for the people.
Why do they not have worth-
while sermons for people whose
needs and problems are greater
and more complex than ever
before?
One reason is because they
are powerless — not connected
to the Source of Power. They
are as empty buckets standing
in the pulpits — incapable of
satisfying thirsty, hungry souls.
And why are they empty and
powerless? Because they have
to preach within the confines
of man-made dogma dictated by
a board of governors at the
head of their man-made sects.
They could not preach the Gos-
pel if they wanted to because
their hands are tied.
These ruling, groups are far
from Christian — just having a
form of religion—because their
doctrines do not conform to the
Bible.
Any minister who ridicules
salvation by faith, or the need
for conversion (as Paul ex-
perienced) or being born again
as the basis upon which a truly
Christian life is built, is NOT
teaching what Christ taught.
— Please turn to page 3
Area residents took full advantage
of the first pleasant weekend we've
had since way back last fall as golf-
ers, fishermen and convertibles were
out in full force for the welcome May
weather.
Scores of kids were out drowning
worms at the Morrison dam reser-
voir and a few were having good
luck, while it appears from other
reports that many ardent fishermen
who headed farther afield had to come
home practically empty-handed.
It should be explained that the
stocking of trout in the area dam
came as a surprise to area officials,
who last week reported to us that the
pond would not be stocked until May
15.
This was duly recorded on the
pages of last week's issue, and no
sooner had the paper hit the street
than a representative from the de-
partment of lands and forests was
out at the date putting 1,500 tasty
trout into the water.
We mention this fact in the hope
area youngsters who may not have
been informed of the change in plan
will let the editor and the folk up at
the Ausable River Conservation Au-
thority office "off the hook".
Holiday time will soon be here and
a word of warning should be handed
out to any area residents planning to
take a trip through Rogers Pass on
the Trans-Canada Highway in B.C.
Shell News advises all drivers to
give grizzly bears in that neighbor-
hood a wide berth and there is ap-
parently one unusual reason why you
should.
This was discovered when high-
way engineers devised a plan to
forestall snow slides by triggering
them before they got dangerous.
The army tried first by using mor-
tar bombs, and when civilians took
over they used charges of dynamite.
But after laboriously hooking up the
charges, getting themselves away at
a safe distance, and, presumably
pressing the plunger, nothing happen-
ed.
Investigation showed hungry griz-
zlies were digging up the dynamite
sticks and devouring them like lolli-
pops.
As yet there have been no reports
of mysterious ursine explosions in the
area. But you have been warned!
50 YEARS AGO
J. E. Jones of Crecliton was
ordained into the Me tho dist
Church at the London Confer-
ence,
Zion Methodist Church on the
Elimviile circuit will celebrate
its fiftieth anniversary June 13
and 14.
Mr. Alva McMahon, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John McMahon of
Hay Township, is among the
successful students to graduate
from the University of Toronto
with his BA degree.
Miss Edna Follick has passed
her Associate Vocal examina-
tions of the London Conserva-
tory of Music with honors.
oldest and one of its most re-
spected businessmen in the per-
son of Mr. Thomas Trevethick
in his 83rd year. When a boy
of 16 he worked with his father
as carriage maker and wood-
worker, later taking over the
business.
Donations to an Exeter Dis-
trict Fund to help the stricken
victims of the Manitoba flood
are being received at The Exe-
ter Tirries-Advocate.
Supplies are so short in the
stricken flood area in Manitoba
that a plane which flew from
Centralia RCAF station with
radio equipment to Winnipeg
has stayed to aid air lift opera-
tions.
Exeter Chapter OES is under-
taking to furnish a $600 room
for the South Huron Hospital.
25 YEARS AGO
W. J. Beer has a live mud
puppy which he caught in a clip
net While fishing for smelt at
Grand Bend. it is about a foot
long,
Mrs. Herman Kyle was elect-
ed president of Exeter Women's
Institute at the annual meeting
held at the home of Mrs. W. J.
Goulding, who was elected sec-
retary.
Mr. J. C. Vidt of the Exeter
Refrigerated Locker Servic e
and his staff, Mrs. Short and
Gerald Ford were at Guelph
Wednesday attending the first
Ontario conference of locker
service operators at the OAC.
Mr. Robert Norris, a Mech-
anic at the Ford garage, has
been called to report for duty
with the RCAP.
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10 YEARS AGO
The district sweltered in a
heat of 84 degrees Tuesday and
Wednesday, May 3 and 4.
Fire Chief Bill Chambers,
who has been in charge of the
brigade since it was reorganLz-
ed following World War II, has
submitted his resignation.
Inspection parade of SHDHS
cadets was termed the "best"
In the 11-year history of the
corps by Chief instructor Lieut;
E. D. Howey.
Marie Hodgson and Donna
Bridges, both of Exeter, re-
ceived $25 prizes for the best
essays' on the importance of
hospitals at a ceremony atSouth
Huron Hospital Sunday after-
noon.
15 YEARS AGO
Crecliton, last week, lost its