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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1967-08-17, Page 4Randy Bowers, Crediton lr Photo by Haugh SPECIALS 25% OFF 'WATCHES Famous Brand Names Including Bulova Elgin Gruen and others Some home-made fun should be one of the most fun-fined days ever staged in this district. As the name of the day suggests, the organizers are hoping all residents will let their hair down a bit and join in the activities, which will conclude with, an old time fiddlers' contest and square dancing in the arena. It's the type of day our ancestors knew well, before television and pro- fessional entertainment turned us into a nation that too seldom can provide participants—as opposed to onlookers. The success of the day will depend some on whether we can turn back the hands of time to enjoy some home- made fun. There's no -doubt it will be good tonic for most of us now living in as world where news reports indicate that good clean fun is difficult to come by. Area residents get an opportunity to get back in the swing of centennial activities this week during Exeter's "fun day" being sponsored by the Lions, Legion, Kinsmen and Board of Trade, The merchants of the community are planning an old-fashioned sidewalk bazaar and indications are that bar- gains will abound, although we doubt that any merchants will be able to of- fer 1867 prices on any commodities. A program of activities for the en- tire day has been arranged through the efforts of Board of Trade president Carf Cann and it should prove enter- taining to all age groups. Carf has spent a great deal of per- sonal time in this endeavour, and with the cooperation of all concerned, it Facts aren't correct OPPORTUNITY FOR High School Graduates WITH I. Ambition to get ahead 2. A desire to learn 3, Ability to work effectively with others 4. A willingness to accept responsibility THE Bank of Montreal OFFERS YOU I. Broad training and educational programs 2. A challenging profession 3. Competitive salaries 4. A Future with a future! Consult the local Manager of The Bank of Montreal COM- POUND IT! of Centralia and the provincial govern- ment reported they were interested in buying it in April. A few months may not appear worth arguing about, but it also must be remembered the provincial govern- ment started an extensive study of the base some two months prior to the April announcement, and of course, it took them some time to make the de- cision to make the study. All things being considered, the provincial govermnent took less than six months to enter the picture, and we don't think anyone could consider that an unnecesary delay, especially when some time was lost to see if private in- dustry might be interested in its fa- cilities. Much time was lost in seeing whether other federal agencies wanted the base too. The Free Press points out the air force had to protect the taxpayers' in- vestment and just couldn't walk out and leave valuable equipment and fix- tures around. This may be true, but the amount of money tied up in equipment doesn't come close to the taxpayers' investment in houses and all other buildings on the base which the federal government didn't appear to be concerned with one little bit, let alone their lack of con- cern for the economy of this area and the people who came to look on the base for their livelihood. Few residents of this area can crit- icise the provincial government and in fact we end up owing them a real debt of gratitude. VS ayete ditorpeed Puy a Ate While most of the news regarding the development of Centralia over the past few weeks has been encouraging, an unfortunate hassle has developed with a consultants' report paid for by the provincial government criticising the federal government for the manner in which the base was stripped and workers taken off the payroll. The 'consultants aired some of the views expressed in this newspaper at the time the base was closed. Similar to most residents of this area, we found it difficult to understand the speed with which the base was closed and a couple of hundred workers tossed out without much 'thought for their future. While it won't help any now, we can't help but endorse the suggestion that 'the department of national defence take a close look at the procedure to be followed if more bases are to be closed. In an editorial this week, the Lon- don Free Press passed on some criti- cism to the provincial government for not making up its mind earlier about the future of the base. The writer sug- gested much of the stripping would not have occurred. However, the key to this argument was in the writer's announcement that it took the provincial government over a year to make up its mind. That makes the argument appear sound, but the trouble is the facts are incorrect. It wasn't until July that the fed- eral government announced the closing No rest, but a good elixir Interest of 6 1/2% compounded 1/2 yearly increases your Victoria and Grey Accumulative Guaranteed Investment Certificate by 37% in 5 years. VICTORIA AND GREY TRUST Finds a haven at the beach you can really let your hair down and not have to worry about re- ports getting back home. Not that this was of concern to yours truly! But we imagine some people do find this a bit hard to swallow. We toured around Sauble Beach for only a couple of minutes, but one of the first persons we spotted was OPP Cpl. George Mitchell, who now heads the sum- mer detachment there. While in Tobermory we were enjoying breakfast in our motel dining room when the better half struck up a conversation with the waitress. The girl reported she lived ujust north of London" and naturally this prompted fur- ther questioning. You guessed it! She turned out to be the daughter of SHDHS teacher Vince Elliott. The latter part of our holiday was spent in Detroit as we fin- ally decided it should be safe in that community by now. A trip to the zoo was included and there somewhere between the elephants and the bears we spot- ted two local residents, Mrs, Don Gaiser and Mrs. Mike Cush- man. Finding people one knows in such out of the way places is nothing new to the writer. While travelling to San Francisco afew years back we visited one of those popular folk singing spots named "The Red Garter" and while sitting there taking In the music in a dingy corner, we were startled to have someone come up and shout: ,,Bob Rus- sell... and Bill Batten!" It turned out to be a Dashwood area girl, Anna Messner, and since that day we have never been surprised to see anyone we knew, regardless of where we may be. That probably ex- plains why we're always on such good behaviour. While in Detroit we never pres- sed our luck by venturing into the riot area, but a first hand report from our hosts in St. Clair Shores indicated the recent uprising was a most frightening experience. They were several miles from the district ravaged by looters and arsonists, but similar to most people in their district, pur- chased a gun and had it nearby. It was lights out at 9:00 pm and the darkness was broken only by police cars patrolling the streets. The Detroit Free Press pub- lished a special issue while we were there that showed full color pictures of the burning city and the armored cars and machine guns. While many of us in this area may have looked upon the incident -- Please turn to page 7 Well, here we are back after a week's rest just brimming with vim, vigor and vitality. That's the way it's supposed to be, but somehow holidays just never do manage to send the juices flowing again, and most of us return to work in worse shape than when we left. However, we don't advocate the elimination of holidays, be- cause they're still the elixir that enables us to return to work refreshed in mind any- way, regardless of how much we may have taxed our physical abilities. Readers will be happy to hear that this year's holiday wasn't quite as disastrous as last year, It almost came close, but we managed to enjoy most of our days of leisure with the excep- tion of a couple of days when a strained back made moving around a chore and when a case of tonsilitis made living with our eldest son a bit of a night- mare. We should point out the bad back was not a result of over work, but rather over play, as junior is now becoming too heavy to toss around with ease. * * * The holiday started with an impromptu trip along the shores of Lake Huron and didn't con- clude until we reached Tober- mory. We found that it had to conclude there unless one is a good swimmer or has a passage booked on those boats that carry holidayers farther north to the Island. While our trip was cut short by Junior's tonsils, we did note that the shoreline of Lake Huron is quickly filling up with cottages and camping sites and it won't be too many years before it will be filled from Sarnia right through to the Tub. One interesting aspect was the sight of tobacco in the Port Elgin region. The number of fields of this valuable crop has increased greatly from the last time we journeyed into that dis- trict. Now that more and more people are taking to the roads to enjoy their holidays, it's practically impossible to find a spot where than can be said of a good many tenth-generation Canadians. It's fun to watch and listen. Over here are a couple of Ital- ian grandmothers, in black dress- es, both built about five by five, yattering away eighty miles an hour. Just over there is a ma- jestic young woman with Slavic features, a baby, a bikini so sparse you couldn't blow your nose in it, and a bust that would knock your eye out. Maybe both of them. Back up on the sand a bit is the teenage crowd. They too have discovered our beach this sum- mer. About six teen of them sprawled in a loose circle, heads together, indulging in harmless sex-play, laughing, punching, smoking and making their intri- cate plans for the evening. But they're decent youngsters, who apologize when they hit you on the head with their football. No hip- pies, thank the powers. Here comes an elderlyGerman gentleman who must have drunk half the beer west of the Berlin Wall to produce that magnificent pot. There's a youngJewishfath- er, spoiling his kids rotten. There With summer on the wane — and boy, how it waned around here — I've made a discovery. With the minimum of encourage- ment, I could spend the rest of my life as a beach bum. Never was much of a hound for the beach life before. As a boy, I swam in rivers and lakes, but not at beaches. Anyway, kids are too busy swimming and div- ing and horsing around to be bothered lying on a beach. As I grew older, beaches still had little attraction. I just didn't like sitting in the sun. I don't tan. I just sort of turn a burnt orange. Beaches were for women, little kids and old people. I pre- ferred golf or fishing. Well, I'm not a woman or a little kid, so I must be turning into an old person. Someone will think unkindly, no doubt, that it's the advent of the bikini that has prematurely aged me. This is merely a half-truth. I'm not particularly addicted to the sight of navels, though some of the other stuff displayed is mildly interesting. No, it's the other sights and sounds that fascinate me. Now, I don't like the huge, crowded, commercialized beach. it in- spires in me, with its noise and clutter and bawling transistors and screaming humanity, nothing but nausea. But the beach we go to, almost every day the sun shines, is not like that, It is clean sand and cool, blue water and friendly, relaxed people. There are no loud-speakers bellowing the lat- est beat. There isn't a hot-dog stand or a motorcycle or a beer can in sight. That doesn't mean it's as quiet as a church. The gulls wail, the mamas holler at their children, the kids scream and fight and cry. But when you stretch out on the sand after a dip, and the sun bores into you, taking away the aches and the tensions, it's as though you were hearing it all through cotton wool. For some reason, "our" beach has become a mecca for new- comers to Canada. Foreigners, as we used to call them in the old, unenlightened days. You can lie there all day and scarcely hear a word of English, And what a pleasant change that is. You could be at Odessa, on the Black Sea. My Hungarian and Polish and German have improved tre- mendously. But they're great people. They love the sun, mind their own business, and pick up their junk when they leave, which is more 15 YEARS AGO Cann's Mill Ltd. have com- pleted a new display room at the front of their mill and the ad- dition has attracted considerable interest because of displays of live poultry and a Holstein calf. Town employees were granted a flat 10-cent-per-hour increase by town council Monday after- noon. The raise brings average hourly rate to 90 cents. Over 1,500 pheasants were re- leased this week in Stephen Town- ship by the South Huron Game and Conservation Club. An addition costing $2,000 has been made to Hensall Town Hall to house the new fire engine which cost $10,687. 50 YEARS AGO The seventh annual tournament of Exeter Bowling Association proved to be an unequalled suc- cess with 46 rinks entered. "The greens are easily the best in Western Ontario" was the pre- vailing sentiment. Arto Delve was cranking an auto Thursday morning. It back- fired with such force as to break a bone in his arm at the wrist. Drying fruits and vegetables is an old art that is being re- vived this year. The housewife can use this method without trouble with the simplest fac- ilities. Help out the food ques- tion this way. The people, who have already responded to every demand made by their country, will likely com- ply with the food dictator's re- quest for meatless days. Phone 235-1331 sari Campbell — YOUR JEWELLER 25 YEARS AGO The Red Cross is asking for old spectacle frames. A Home Hospitality club under the Exeter Red Cross Branch has been formed with Mrs. D. A. Anderson at the head. At an emergent meeting of Exeter Lions Club it was de- cided to start a sinking fund for a new hospital to be erected in Exeter. Mr. Joseph Creech, who for Several years has been prin- cipal of Exeter Public School, has enlisted with the RCAF and Will take a course at the Galt Aircraft School. Exeter Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Cash Paid in Advance Circulation, March 31, 1967, 4,379 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $5,00 Per Year; USA $1.00 110110~4001004A—......g27` l'is;',VAWAITZ4M,Thazzi,okietiorsossitoge 235.2720 Is a Hungarian couple, tanned the colour of tar, with two beautiful blonde urchins. And speaking of urchins, this is the real fun of the beach. They are through, over and around the prone bodies. They build castles and darns and forts. They hurl themselves into the water, shrieking with delight. And they're all so brown and firm and smooth you could eat them. Why do all those darling, chubby five-year-old girls have to turn into bored, neurotic, har- assed women? Why do all those careless, sturdy, happy little devils of boys have to turn into hard, suspicious, Ulcerated men? A good question. But I still haven't told you why I like the beach so much. I've discovered that it's the Only place in the World where my wife will shut her mouth for two or three hours at a stretch. Publishers: .1. M. Southcott, R. M. Southcott Editor: Bill Batten Advertising Manager: Howie Wright • `Or OireferZimes-Usocafe Times Established 1873 SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., 0.W.N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC Advocate Established 1881 . ; . Amalgamated 1924 i(.0; :'f• , REMEMBER: Quality watches are always your best buy. 10 YE ARS AGO A swimming meet at RCAF Station Centralia, August 14, with swimmers from Goderich, Lis- towel, Milverton, St. Marys and Centralia taking part, was held. Mrs. Ken Campbell, Exeter, won Sorority Sue, the pretty doll raffled by Beta Sigma Phi, With the doll was a complete ward- robe including 20 outfits) shoes, chest and stroller. The three thousandth trailer to be built in the General Coach Works of Canada Ltd. plant at Hensall was shipped last week to Toronto. Last course of French air force cadets trained under the NATO plan, graduated from RCAF sta.tion, Centralia, re- cently,