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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1967-10-12, Page 4INVENTORY CLEARANCE OF TAILORED-TO-MEASURE SUITS CONTINUES ONLY 85.95 AND WITH EVERY PURCHASE YOU RECEIVE FREE A ZIP—IN LINED POPLIN WEATHERCOAT GOULD & JORY Dial 235-0270 Exeter South Huron District High School EVENING CLASSES Sewing Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday — Intermediate 1 sewing — Beginners sewing — Intermediate 2 sewing — Advanced sewing This will mark the beginning from beginners to advanced. of a graded sewing programme moving Typing Monday & Wednesday — Beginning typing Tuesday & Thursday — Advanced typing Physical Fitness Millinery Oil Painting Academic Subjects NOTE: (for women) Monday evening Monday Thursday Grade 12 & 13. Anyone interested in a grade 12 or 13 academic subject is asked to call the school (235-0880) and indicate the subject and grade level. 1. The above courses will begin the week of October 16, 1967. A fee will be charged. 2. Persons interested in enrolling in any of these programmes should telephone South Huron District High School between the hours of 10:00 am and 4:00 pm. The number is 235-0880. The last day for telephoning will be Friday, October 13. 3. Interested people should come to the school on the night that the course, they wish to take, is being held, during the week of October 16, 1967. • LAST DAY: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 3, Courses in technical subjects cannot begin until the Technical Wing of the School is completed. Announcements regarding evening Technical subjects will appear in future issues of the Times-Ad. vacate._ simeftgam Sherioch Howl Safety Sleuth lit a vsfs 4041 in my hon0 No reason to change It will possibly come as a surprise to many area residents, but they have a date at the polls on Tuesday to elect their representative to the Ontario Leg- islature. The campaign has been rather dull in this particular area, an indication that the opposition have failed to mount much of a challenge to the Hon. C. S. MacNaughton. As indicated earlier, this newspa- per is wholeheartedly supporting Mr. MacNaughton in his bid for re-election and there has certainly been nothing come out of the present campaign to indicate this position should be changed. Charlie has served the riding of Huron extremely well in recent years, and most electors take pride that their representative serves in such a respon- sible position in the government of On- tario. His personal record has been ex- emplary, and while his position is extremely time consuming, he has nev- er failed to find time to serve the best interests of this riding. His leadership in getting the pro- vincial government to establish an in- dustrial park, as well as a school of agriculture and home economics at Centralia, has been reason enough for residents of this area to support him in the upcoming election. In addition, there appears to be no reason not to support him as a member of the Robarts government. There are problems and grievances in Ontario, but they are the type of problems gov- ernments in other provinces and na- tions wished they had. They are prob- lems associated with unparalleled progress and our fast-moving society and on most occasions the government has shown the ability to meet these problems as quickly as we could ex- pect. Neither of the opposition parties has presented any platforms that would suggest it could do the job any better. An indication that the opposition is grasping at straws is a statement re- ceived this week from Huron's Liberal candidate, Morgan Smith, who points out: "We have followed their (PC'.3) fumblings in revitalizing Centralia. Afraid of an empty ghost-town, they started an Agricultural and Home Eco- nomics School. After their failure to gain industry following a year of effort, they use our tax money to open a branch of a community college, when the college itself should have been lo- cated in Huron." For Mr. Smith's edification, we should point out the Conservatives have certainly not fumbled in revitalizing Centralia, as was pointed out last week in this newspaper. If there was any fumbling over Centralia, it was done by the federal Liberals, although as has been pointed out, they wouldn't even try to carry the ball. Secondly, residents of Huron have been urging an agricultural college for some time and most of us are indeed grateful to the efforts of Mr. MacNaugh- ton and the Hon. W. A. Stewart in get- ting one. While the decision of the location of community colleges was not up to the provincial government, most resi- dents of Huron will be pleased to have a branch located in Huron, realizing full well that the more densely popu- lated area around Kitchener and Water- loo was more a logical location for the college to serve this area. Turning to the NDP, we simply can't support any group advocating so- cialism. In supporting Mr. MacNaughton, a look at the political scene would indi- cate that one of his strongest foes will be the complacency of area voters. It's not enough for his supporters to mere- ly say they hope he wins again. It's votes, and not hopes, that win elections and failure to exercise the re- sponsibility of voting next Tuesday is really a vote for the opposition, regard- less of which candidate you may favor. Get out and vote on Tuesday and "keep a good man working for Huron". Count your many blessings state of New Hampshire has been running a twice yearly sweep- stake. The total amount raised for education in the period is only $4.5 million. Now the state of New York has started a monthly draw, also to finance education. Gross reven- ues were forecast at $30 million a month, but in each of the first two months ticket sales have amounted to only $6 million. The school budgets that were predicted on lottery ticket sales apparently are going to be in a bad way. They're at it again us past the intersection at Wil- liam and Sanders Streets, and it is a rare occasion indeed when we see youngsters coming from the north or south obeying the stop sign. It's also quite frequent that pedestrians on Main St. have to step aside for bike riders. We agree that a sidewalk is no place for a horse to be ridden, but at least they're easier to hear than a bicycle zooming up from behind. To go one step farther, it's not too difficult to point out some poor driving habits of car owners. In short, most people break rules and regulations every day, whether they be in a car or on a bicycle or horse, and our high accident rate is ample evidence. We may well be the first one caught, but we believe the situa- tion would be considerably bet- tered with some stricter law en- forcement. Those who argue that legalized lotteries would be a painless way of financing school and hospital costs contend that the public would be quick to put hundreds of millions of dollars into lottery tickets if they could buy them easily and openly. Judging by what has happened south of the border, that would seem to be a wrong assumption. For the past three years the tasteful ones we have seen in a long time was provided by a brewing company who had a group of men dressed as football play- ers parade onto the field and lift their thumbs towards the heavens and sing the Red Cap forever song. Those of us with children know only too well how commercials affect our offspring, and it is un- fortunate when their idols of the sporting world appear to be en- couraging them to drink. While professional athletes are not permitted to endorse beer or cigarette commercials, it ap- pears to be a low trick when a brewing company would attempt to indicate that football players are endorsing their products. If you don't think kids are brain-washed by TV commer- cials, we have news for you. We dropped up to the football game at SHDHS on Friday and some of the public school lads were nat- urally on hand to watch the ac- tion from the corner of their own playground. One of the youngsters found a beer can on the ground and im- mediately he and his cohorts raised their thumbs and started singing the Carling song. Sur- prisingly enough, some of them knew all the words, although we imagine there were a few who would probably have trouble try- ing to recite their own memory work for their teachers, The Wall Street Journal of Aug- ust 1, 1967, quotes an official of the Johnson administration to the effect that ,•in this business you have to choose between lying to people or scaring them to death". During the debate on keeping horses in Exeter, all parties ap- peared agreed on the fact many youngsters do not know the rules for the safe riding of their horse. This is undoubtedly true, but we hope young horse riders are not being put into a class by them- selves. The truin is, their habits are no worse than we see every day involving bicycle riders. Our walk home for dinner takes During a conversation with Mayor Jack Delbridge the other night, he pointed out that if this year's weather went hand in hand with a centennial, it was a good thing it came only every 100 years. Most farmers in the district would agree with Jack's conten- tion. It has been a year of ex- tremes, with first too much mois- ture and then not enough. Thanksgiving is the normal time of year for assessing crops, and this year's appears to be considerably below average in some areas. However, when prices are bas- ed on supply and demand, a below average yield usually results in above average prices and for many farmers, 1967 certainly won't be a disaster by any means. But we can't escape the fact farming is still one of the riskiest businesses there is, although in this part of Ontario total crop failures are almost non-existent. So, while Thanksgiving in this centennial year may not prove as bountiful as many years, we all have much for which to be thankful, and we don't have to look any farther than the pages of our daily newspapers to see that. It's just about impossible to find people or places better off than we, although on too many occasions we are more prone to count our grievances than our blessings. In our reading over the holi- day weekend, one of the wisest bits we came across was this: "What we have we feel we have earned by the sweat of our brows, but what we fail to secure is blamed on shortcomings of oth- ers'•. That's a shoe that would fit most of us! Similar to most other red- blooded Canadian males, we spent most of the weekend parked in front of the idiot box watching the World Series and other sport- ing attractions. Naturally we were interrupted on many occasions by commer- cials and one of the most dis- inent. Court reports of previous years should serve as ample warning to area youths, but in case they have for- gotten, we should point out that police and court officials take a dim view of such practices. Stiff fines and orders to make restitution have been levied and there is every indication that the same prac- tice will prevail. While some area youths don't seem concerned with fines these days, it should be explained that acts of mis- chief are covered under the Criminal Code and in most instances such a mark on anyone's record is much, much more costly than any fines. We realize that few people to whom this message is directly aimed are readers of editorials, but we seri- ously urge all parents to draw it to the attention of their offspring. Some youths in Crediton have been making a nuisance of themselves with a variety of pranks over the past few months but they reached serious proportions last weekend when the air was let of tires of several cars and buses. No doubt the culprits were laugh- ing during the morning as the victims went about the chore of filling the tires again. However, we wonder how hard they would have been laughing had one of those victims required his car for an emergency that night. Apparent- ly no such emergency arose, and the people who should be most thankful for that are the perpetrators of such unthoughtful acts. For some reason, this appears to be the time of year when acts of van- dalism and mischief become more prom- Good and bad comes in threes There's an old superstition that things, good or bad, run in sequences of three. I'm inclined to respect it. During the war, casualties on my squadron always seemed to follow the pattern. We'd lose a pilot today, perhaps two the next day, then none for a week. Then three more. It happened to me. One day I was shot to ribbons by flak. Had to land at 140 miles an hour. No flaps, no brakes. Fortunately, remembered a movie. Jammed on throttle, jumped on the rudder, and groundlooped just short of a nasty ditch. Two days later, I had a bomb hang-up and had to land with a 500-Ib. bomb, fused and ready to go, dangling from my left wing. That was the smoothest landing ever made in World War II. The 50 YEARS AGO Wellington Hern had $45 taken from his pocket while being medically examined at the ar- mouries in London. Mr. Clinton Sweet on Tuesday purchased the farm of Paul Coates in Usborne for $13,000. Word was received Thursday by Mr. John Norry stating that his son Pte Norman Norry had been wounded in the leg while fighting in France. 15 YEARS AGO Installation of artificial ice at Exeter Arena will get into full swing next week after the Monst- er Bingo is over. Close to $350,000 worth of construction is taking place in Exeter. Included in the figure are the $250,000 South Huron Hospital and the $60,000 arena renovation. Sam Fletcher, founder of the Fletcher Institute, gives the sec- ond of his lectures on public relations at the Exeter Legion Memorial Hall next Tuesday. A large crowd attended his first lecture Tuesday. QL Times Established 1873 only thing that was a bit dis- concerting was that the control tower made me land not on the landing strip, but on the grass beside it, so that I wouldn't ruin their runway when I blew up. The very next day I was shot down. This business of things happen- ing in threes is still going on. Monday the furnace goes on the blink. Tuesday, your wife gets ugly about the garbage ox some- thing. Wednesday, some jerk creases your car in the parking lot. Even the good things come in threes. And that's what hap- pened to me this week. Three delightful opportunities for the weekend, and I can take in only one of them. Sickening. First of all, I signed up to help supervise a trip to Expo tirMOL.'VWESPZIMMEM.Wer Advocate Established 1881 from our school. This in itself should prove a fairly hairy ex- perience. Can't you see me marching up and down the halls of a monastery in the middle of the night, in my pyjamas and raincoat, trying to prevent boys from being boys, and girls from being girls? I'd just committed myself to this when old Australian buddy, "Dutch," phoned to remind me that this was the weekend of that ancient and honorable bash known as the Canadian Fighter Pilots' reunion. Same place, Montreal. And he had booked me on a flight to and from the flesh-pots of that fair city. I was sorely tempted to with- - Please turn to page 5 4110.1011$2RONWISENSIMMIR Amalgamated 1924 eiefer'Zines-A6uocate SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., O,W.N,A., CLASS 'A' and ABC Publishers: J. M. Southcott, R. M. Southcott Editor: Bill Batten Advertising Manager: Howie Wright Phone 235-1331 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dep't, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Cash Paid in Advance Circulation, March 31, 1967, 4,379 RATES: Canada $5.00 Per Year; USA $7.00 25 YEARS AGO With the recent enlisting of Mac Cornish in the RCAF, this is the fourth son of Mrs. John Cornish, Elimville, in active service in the war. They are Mac, who leaves this week for Manning Pool, Ewart of the RCOC overseas, Cyril of the RCAF in Quebec and Ralph of the RCOOC overseas. Mrs. Gerald Skinner received a cablegram Tuesday stating that her husband, Pte Gerald Skinner who had been training In Ottawa, had arrived safely overseas. Mr. Jack Kestle is one of a group of UWO students who left London Saturday to help relieve the shortage of harvest help in Saskatchewan. Browning's Drug Store, C. L. Robertson and W. S. Cole, drug- Otte ifr Egeter announce that in keeping with the National Econ- omy store hours will be 9 am to 8 pm daily and 0 am to 12 pm Saturday —Sundays and all holidays closed. SUBSCRIPTION clas s community noW$paricrs 10 YEARS AGO Provincial Constable Charles Salter, formerly of Exeter, after 10 years with the Wingharn de- tachment has been transferred to the Kitchener OPP detachment. South Huron District High School graduates have won a record $3,200 in awards this year, largest amount received by a graduating class in the school's history. A new black and white five- cent Stamp, showing Queen Eliz- abeth and Prince Philip in pro- file, is being issued by the post office department to Commemor- ate the October visit of the Royal couple, Myrland Smith, 19, who oper- ates a beauty salon in Exeter, was ehoSen Harvest Queen at Exeter Kinsmen's Harvest Jubi- lee Friday night. ArT, MaigA,igg.4 ..AND PM-06 ..,4;0/11E IOECT-KILl-ER OR FONT f;PRAY,9 MANI,..,TAKE YOUV, CUP13OARP- FLOOR. 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