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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-07-29, Page 2this Sunday, Wednesday afternoon and during the evening. throughout. the week, Larry Snider ROSS COLE `.=.1•111M,MeINIMPINIM I111........111••••••••••••n =11NIIIIMMEINT PROCLAMATION By authority vested in me by the Municipal Council of the Town of Exeter, I hereby proclaim Monday, Aug. 2 a Civic Holiday for the town of Exeter andl respectfully request all citizens to observe it as such. JACK DELBRIDGE , Mayor W. JOSEPH HOGAN IR/fNaaaIeStnareaaaSMN.MaMtaaVaa'afatl(Mli?t%tIV‘aaaaaaf-Mazae& aaa.:waaa„.„, saaa, ,;to Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 `fie ereferZintes-Usocale 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 EDITORIALS MEET THE TEACHERS More new staff Take a bow, Mr. Pickard Listen to a few of the comments made about him by just a few of those who have worked with him: Mrs, Jean Weber, his assistant: "He has the patience of a Solomon. He's a guid- ing hand for council. He has a way with them. And he's sacrificed money for the sake of town work. He is able to get them (council) to do things the legal way without being bossy, according to the statutes." To her he is a man of extreme tact and patience. The present mayor, Jack Deibridge: "Mr. Pickard always has the answers to al- most anything we've asked him, usually at the tip of his tongue." Former mayor R. E. Pooley: "I would have been lost without him. I wouldn't have cared for the jab of mayor without a man of that calibre." Something that is not well known is the help he has given lawyers and younger clerks in neighboring towns and townships. Clerk of Grand Bend, Murray Des Jar- dins: "I have always had a tremendous re,- spect for his opinion and his advice. I feel that he could be considered the Municipal World of this area." We will all miss Mr. Pickard as clerk. We will still have him to consult with and as a source of information. He is a most diffi- cult man to be replaced, Reading, camping, music, arid sports (particularly swimming and skiing) are Miss Emerson's main interests. She has worked with Girl Guide and Wolf Cub groups in London. She has at- tended camps in Ontario, ghs- tario College of Education in Toronto. He is a native of Sarnia, and has bean active in youth work as an assistant cub master at Grace United Church. Mr. Cole haa taken part in several stage productions, as a technical assistant, while at- tending university at Waterloo and Toronto. Mr, Cole will be moving to Exeter during the latter part of August prior to the com- mencement of his duties in September. Youth leader Ross Cole will be coming to Exeter this September to as- sume his post as English teach- er at South Huron District High School. He attended King George VI Public School and Northern Col- legiate Institute and Vocational School in Sarnia, gr a du a t in g from the latter in 1961. Mr. Cole received his Bache- lor of Arts degree, with a major in English and Psychology from Waterloo Lutheran University in 1964. Last year he attended the On- Camp counsellor Miss Margaret Emerson will be coming to South Huron Dis- trict High School this September where she will teach History and Girls' Physical Education. Miss Emerson took her ele- mentary and secondary educa- tion at Goderich, Ontario. She was graduated from the Univer- sity of Western Ontario in Up- nours Physical and HealthEdu- cation, and then attended the Ontario College of Education in Toronto. She holds a Permanent Specialist Certificate in Phy- sical Education. Miss Emerson taught in ,the London School system for three years. For the past two years, she has been doing post-gra- duate work in history at West- ern. Fuzzy thinking MISS M. EMERSON bec, and many areas of the United States. This summer, Miss Emerson will be a counsellor at the On- tario Camp Leadership Centre at Bark Lake, a counsellor training camp run by the De- partment of Education, where she will be working primarily in the fields of swimming, canoeing, camperaft and out tripping. ONE MAN'S OPINION by John C. Boyne A civic clerk is one of the most im- portant people in any community. Just ask the mayor or any councillor. Ask most rate- payers. The choice of a clerk can be as im- portant, or more, than the public's choice of Peliticians. What can he do? He can create a cli- mate for progress, or if he is a poor clerk, set up enough roadblocks to discourage the most enthusiastic council. He's a man of little power, but much influence, He's the man both ratepayers and council lean upon, de- pend upon, and therefore, the man who keeps local government working. It's the measure of the clerk whether that govern- ment is efficient or backward. Have a good clerk and you'll have municipal development. Have a good clerk and you'll have a climate for growth, hap- pier ratepayers, a better works department, a more efficient council, and maybe even more money in the civic treasury. He's a man with little power, but much influence. If things go awry in community gov- ernment, it's very often not the mayor's fault. It's more likely to be a poor clerk. That's why the provincial government makes the clerk legally liable to personal fines if coun- cil contravenes some provincial statutes. He's the man who keeps councils out of legal hot water. And if he's smart, he can help coun- cils to work their way through the tangled web of provincial law with greater speed and to greater advantage for his community. Councils today have much less power than many ratepayers imagine. Provincial statutes have made the whole business of municipal government overwhelmingly com- plex. The clerk is about the only one any council can turn to for advice on these mat- ters. The clerk really has two masters, the council and the provincial statutes and he must keep both in harmony. He's a man of little power, but much responsibility. That's why a good clerk is a God-send to any community. C. V. Pickard is as much as that and much more. He's a man who's not been known to lose his temper—ever. Not that anyone can recall. For •a man in his situation, that feat is remarkable in itself. He's the man who is called the local Bible of information of municipal govern- ment, the man who has most of the answers to most problems at his fingertips. He is a man of much knowledge and much under- standing. Faith and action We find the remarks of the editor of the Clinton News-Record somewhat disturb- ing on the matter of minimum wages. Unless we are mistaken, the argument would seem to be there is justification in having two economies, one for the city and the other for the rural countryside. This seems difficult to swallow. There is little reason why workers should not be paid their full value just because they live in small towns. If there is anything working against the growth of the towns and villages outside the metropolitan areas then it is sure- ly this backward policy on wages. We do not advocate extravagance. But as long as there are two wage rates, then it would seem only reasonable that more work- ers will continue to gravitate to the cities rob- bing the towns of their most precious com- modity, people. Huron Co-Operative Medical Services Wishes To Announce Their New 3-RATE STRUCTURE MR. IN BETWEEN EDITOR FOR A WEEK A time of change PROVIDING COVERAGE FOR: — SINGLE: 1 person covered — FAMILY: 2 persons covered — FAMILY X: 3 or more covered Area native W. Joseph Hogan will be teaching history in grades 10, 11 and 12. He has taken his elementary and junior high school training at the Mt. Carmel Continuation School. After completing Ms secondary school education at North Middlesex District High School, he attended the Univer- sity of Western Ontario from which he graduated with a Bach- elor of Arts degree. Upon attending the Ontario College of Education, Mr. Hogan accepted a position at the Mer- lin District High School, where he taught for the past five years. Mr. Hogan is married and has a one and one-half year old daughter. His interests include sports activities and reading. This summer he is taking an ad- ditional history course at the University of Western Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. Hogan will be residing in Exeter. It's really a lot of fun editing this paper for a week or two providing that's all the time you've got. Inmost ways a newspaper as large as The T-A is a lot of work, particularly for the editor. But I've inherited a lot of pictures, a lot of assignments and alot of almost completed stories from Bill, so I'm in the comfortable position of being able to do the job, but have fun at it too. Bill was a good editor, and we're all sorry to see him go. Me particu- larly. We all wish him the best of luck in the big city and with the new magazine he's been charged with to create. We should get a report on his progress with it in the fall for the paper. The new editor is Ken Kerr from Elmira and Trenton. The Elmira Signet is one of the brighter tabloid weekly newspapers in Ontario. The Trentonian took first place last year as best all-round weekly newspaper in Canada. There's supposed to be about 500 weeklies in Canada, some of exceptional quality that will match or better what some dailies put out. Ken is the first editor The T-A has ever had that's a stranger to the town, or the townspeople strangers to him. It will take a while before he is able to meet all of you, or re- member your names, Or know where Shipka is, or know who to call about the fall fair, or whether we have a correspondent in Cromarty or not and who she is. It all takes time. The toughest is to remember names and know what people are referring to when they talk about events Or doings of just a few years ago. That brings up another point. When we come back from holidays there will be some changes made in your T-A. PREMIUMS PAYABLE HALF-YEARLY: merely deluding yourselves." "Now what use is it, my brothers, for a man to say he has faith if his actions do not correspond to it? Could that sort of faith save one's soul?" "Faith without action is as dead as a body without a soul." "If a man or woman has no clothes to wear and nothing to eat and one of you say — Good luck to you, I hope you'll keep warm and find enough to eat and yet give them nothing to meet their physical needs what on earth is the good of that? Yet that is exactly what a bare faith without a corresponding life is like— useless and dead . . . to the man who thinks that faith by itself is enough I feel inclined to say; 'So you believe there is one God — that's fine — so do all the devils in hell. For my dear shortsighted friend can't you see far enough to realize that faith without right actions is dead and useless'?" Too often the Christian faith has been used as a subterfuge — as a means of escaping from responsibility. The established Church in Germany during the rise of Nazism is a case in point. So too are the many examples of those who practice exclusiv- ism in the name of faith. To understand our faith is in the light of James to strive to live in Christ's way — IT IS NOT TO HIDE BEHIND AN APRON OF CHEAP GRACE. BASIC PLAN SINGLE FAMILY $18 $36 By Morley Chalmers The paper goes to London to be print- ed on a new Goss Community Web Offset Press. (Sounds impressive doesn't it). This is a new press just recently installed to print weekly newspapers in Western Ontario. Our printer, Harry DeVries takes about 12 hours to print this issue (our last) on the old T-A press. In Lon- don, on Aug. 12, it will take about 45 minutes. The June edition of the Lucan Shamrock was printed in Lon- don as a kind of preview. The quality of printing will be about the same, but there will be other changes. We go back to eight columns from nine. That will make the paper a full inch narrower when you spread it out to read. The news columns will also be wider to pro- vide an easier scan of the reading matter. To celebrate the changes we're preparing new columnist and section headings with a new technique we've just perfected in our shop. Bob's been fussing over it for a month. Last week and this week we've also been throwing away the book of rules on front page makeup and have done a bit of experimenting, such as setting some matter two columns wide, run- ning a picture the full width of the page and a few other things. We in- vite your comments. Something that will be of particular interest to the advertisers is that color comes back to The T.A. Re- member when we brightened the paper Up a bit with some spot color now and again when we were being printed in Stratford? Well, advertisers being willing, it's back again. Advertisers will also be pleased to note that cost of full page ads has also come down substantially. (You really didn't think I'd let this FAMILY X $42 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SINGLE FAMILY FAMILY X $37.50 $75.00 $87.00 Claims are now being paid at the full Practice in General Section of the 1965 Ontario Medical Association Schedule of Fees Book. The COMPREHENSIVE PLAN now includes full coverage for up to 10 treatments per person eligible under the contract from a Chiropractor or Osteopath. opportunity go by without mention- ing the ads). And since so much of this already has been devoted to changes at The T-A, I'll go all the way and use this one and only opportunity to say a few other things about this news- paper. It occurs to me that weekly news- papers, perhaps especially The T-A don't say enough about themselves in their columns. We record the activi- ties of almost everything anybody anywhere does, who they visit and what they say in council, but the newspaper, also a legitimate and vital part of the community, goes unreported, uncommented on. Watching the goings on in the Grand Bend newspaper world first hand last summer, and from a short distance this year, is quite an object lesson what newspapers are and what they do for a community. It's frightening to think of a town like Exeter, or any town, without a newspaper. Besides losing out on all the local doings, the community can lose much of its sense of identity. I think that was what Grand Bend was looking for some 10 years ago when it first started the rumble about getting a newspaper into the resort. In its attempts to get a newspaper, any newspaper, Grand Bend would appear to have been looking for just that — an Identity for itself, and an identity it could show the outside World. It rather frightens ni e to think The T-A is supposed to be the same thing for Exeter, Exeter's face to the world. We're more than that though. We've got to be much the same thing for Lucan and Hensall and a couple — Please turn to page 4 IMPORTANT NOTICE to EMPLOYEE GROUPS 50 YEARS AGO Thursday evening a recep- tion was held in Hensall Metho- dist Church for the new pastor Rev. J. F. Knight and family who came to Hensall from Char- ing Cross. The first move of war was made just one year ago when the Austrian ultimatum to Servia which led up to the war was de- livered. Latimer Grieve, Bruce Riv- ers, Clair Wood, Leon Treble, Owen Atkinson, Harry Persona, Gerald Burden, Trueman El- liott, Elmo Howey, Reg Bissett and Harry Windsor are camp- ing at Grand Bend. Huron Co-operative Medical Services can now provide your group with low cost medical coverage, plus these additional benefits: 15 YEARS AGO The work of laying a black top on Highway 23 is now well under way. The work will be continued from the Blue Water Highway through Dashwood, Ex- eter to Russeldale where it will join Hwy 23. Canada's first major railway strike has started to hit hard into the normal life of the na- tion. Only first class mail is being handled by post offices. The Times-Advocate is being delivered by car to nearby cena tres. Miss Julia Dunlop won a child's Austin car in a draw at Thedford and donated it to the Exeter Lions Club to raise funds for the hospital. mr. William H. Sweitzer has acquired some fine river-front property at Grand Bend and has erected several cottages. Weekly Indemnity — Accidental Death and Dismemberment Group Life Insurance Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ont. Enrolment Will Provide: ▪ Coverage beginning first of any month •— No waiting periods ▪ No medical examination% for employees or their families For detailed information, arrange an interview at your conven-ience, to discuss the requirements of yoUr group. Bert Kiopp RR3 Zurich Director Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Cash 401020ittlizik. _omitMe Wict , Huron Co-Operative Medical Services Paid-in-Advante Circulation, September 30, 1964, 4,063 SUBSCRIPT ioN RATES: Canada 54.00 Per Year; 'USA $5.00 N/' Ontario Street, Clinton, Ontario PliOne Clinton 40/00.51 ... ........................................................ The story is told of a busi- nessman whose methods were recognized by the whole com- munity, including himself, as deviating widely from honesty and justice. He managed to excuse it all by this statement: "I know I am not living an honest life, yet I don't trust in my own merit for salvation. I trust only in Christ and in His substitution on the Cross for me." Thus has the faith been used as a smokescreen. Thus has the faith been used as a cover all for hypocrisy. Mary had hit her cousin — her mother scolded her and then finished by saying: "God will be displeased with you, but if you ask Him, He will forgive you". "Will he r e ally"? asked Mary. "Yes", replied her mo- ther. "Well," said Mary, "I wish I had slapped her harder," Too often the Church has said — all is well, all is forgiven— have faith and everything is fine. If faith is interpreted as a full response in obedience to God in all of life that's fine, but too many people mean by faith intellectual assent to cer- tain dogmas. As a result the good news of the gospel is heard and accept- ed with the head, the mind, the intellect and that's that! So the Churches themselves are largely responsible for the lack of awareness of the fact that this faith is to be related to daily living. Too often in history, pious phrases have been followed by hatred, by discrimination, by neglect of the needs of others, by downright dishonesty, etc. When this happens h o 11 ow faith is shown for what it is — so much shallow verbiage. At a student conference, one African negro stated: "White and black, red and yellow, rich and poor can kneel before one God and say our Father." Yet when Ghandi sought to go into a South African Church to hear one of his English friends speak he was turned away at the door! He found the old caste system still alive in a most pious, highly Biblical, deeply spiritual church. But that faith had been cut off from life and action. An Italian missionary worked in an American city in a mission supported by a large wealthy congregation. In bitterness he once stated to them, "You want us to be Saved but you don't want to associate with us." Too often faith in the head has not permeated the heart to motivate and influence our ac- tions. It deeds to be said with in- creasing clarity and urgency in our time that it is not enough to recite a creed and accept the fundamental beliefs of the Christian faith. More still is required of its, This is plain from a section in the Book of James, chapt- ers 1 and 2. The J. B. Phillips translation particularly makes It crystal clear. Here are just a few excerpta from that sec- tion: "Don't I beg you, only hear the Message, but put it into practice, otherwise you ate .Z.SIMIZAZOMMItSZWZIMMINVONS440' 25 YEARS AGO , A barn belonging to Messrs Jack and Harold Hunter of the Hunter Line, Usborn e, was blown from its foundation and collapsed during a Wind and electrical storm following an excessive day Of heat Thursday. Mr. Mau ride Quahce and Clif- fOrd have a half acre of po- tatoes, the net proceeds of which they are donating to the Red tress. Dr. C. C. Misener of Credi- ban has enlisted a8 an officer with the 24th field ambulance, a branch of the ROM Canadian Army Medical Corps which is going into barranks at Listowel. The Exeter WI have been ask- ed to assist in the province- Wide enrolment of graduate and practical nurses launched by the Department of Health. 10 YEARS AGO Over 600 Danner pupils and teachers attended the centennial reunion of Mclvalls School, Bid- dulph, saturday, July 23. Two Weeks after the new re- suscitator wa s purchased at Grand Hend it had helped in saving four liVes. Thursday was the sixth con- seeutive day with temperatures over 90 degrees. It hasn't been this hot and dry fOr 41 years. Staffa school's most pro- minent graduate, The Honorable William H. Golding, 76, was fea- tured speaker at the reunion and 95th anniversary Satarday, July 23.