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seem to turn up this time of year. Here we are half-way
through November and already Christmas shopping lists are
growing and the unpredictable November weather is be-
ginning to settle into winter's chill. Bad weather, lack of
a baby sitter or available car presents no problem when
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the list had been compiled after he had
taken a tour of the community to see
conditions as they exist.
Some of the points were of a mi-
nor nature while others were more
major and the action taken by council
indicated that some needed prompt at-
tention and were therefore most ap-
propriately presented.
This conscientious approach to his
position on council has long been evi-
dent in Mr. Wooden's service to the
community and one that all council-
lors would do well to copy; although
we must point out that other mem-
bers of council certainly do show simi-
lar thought and concern.
In our news item last week, we
suggested the talk that marked the
meeting carried a suggestion that it
was "election talk", despite the fact
there will be no election in Exeter this
year as members of council have one
more year on their terms.
It leads us to the conclusion that
council members throughout the area
should approach each meeting with the
thought of an election in their mind.
Throughout the year this newspa-
per expresses opposition to some of
the decisions reached by council, but
if their attitude of last week is indica-
tive of what we can expect throughout
the coming year, we certainly have no
concern whatever that we won't have
an opportunity to vote for any new
candidates.
For want of. better word, last
week's meeting o • Exeter council was
most "encouraging
First of all members appeared
unanimous in theppinion that a tight
rein had to be maintained in coming
up with spending programs for next
year.
This was directly indicated in some
of the comments of council members
who expressed the idea that while Exe-
ter's share in the 'austerity program be-
ing suggested for all levels of govern-
ment may not be iarge in terms of the
country - wide picture, it nevertheless
was a contributing] factor.
We commend councillors for this
attitude because too often it is easy to
dismiss such appeals on the basis that
one small contribUtion is hardly worth-
while.
Council also:iiin. ook a long look at
sanitation costs d compared their
present practice Nklith that of contract-
ing the job out, Aid such periodic re-
views of their costs in all departments
is certainly warrLted.
Similar to ny other business,
council's costs go up each year, but
this increase should never become a
habit to the point of not assessing those
casts against other methods.
The third point arising from coun-
cil that is worthy of comment, was
the lengthy list Of business presented
by Councillor „Tod' Wooden. Obviously,
t What's in a name? Only a few who remember?
What's in a r ,name? Well, if you
use the wrong ot* when you address
correspondence it; means a delay in
reaching the pally to whom you're
writing.
This is what is happening with
persons attempting to reach some of
the tenants at the former air base and
married quarters at Centralia. The ad-
dress to be used is not Centralia, but
rather Huron Park.
It's an unfortunate situation. The
ODC is using Centralia as the name of
the industrial patt and the agriculture
school is also u the Centralia name.
That's only na because it's the
name that's al s been associated
with the air base
Fact is, very few people knew it
as Huron Park, even in this immediate
area.
There is no question that indus-
tries settling there would want to use
the Centralia address because it is well
known across Ontario and for business
purposes they require a familiar ad-
dress.
In view of this fact it would be
advantageous if postal officials would
consider setting up a system whereby
the Centralia address could still be
used.
It may create some problems for
them, but probably not as many as at-
tempting to have people change to the
Huron Park address.
In view of the terrible weather-
which is becoming rather cus-
tomary for us in this area-the
poor attendance at Saturday's
Remembrance Day service at
Exeter's cenotaph is possibly
understandable.
However, our seat in James
Street United Church appeared
dry and warm, and actually the
weather could hardly be used as
a plausible excuse for not attend-
ing the church service at least.
Certainly, conditions were
much better than those faced by
many of the men and women who
fought and died for our freedom
and it is downright shameful that
less than 100 persons joined the
Legion and the other groups who
took their places in the remem-
brance services.
Have residents in this com-
munity really so little to re-
member?
J us f a typical weekend
The debate over the Good Roads
convention has sparked some in-
terest among our readers.
One Exeter businessman ap-
proached us with a novel idea
the other day that would perhaps
put a damper on the great exodus
of area officials to Toronto to
attend the event.
He suggested that the expenses
of all delegates be doubled and
that they be required to take their
wives to the event with them.
Now wouldn't that put a damper
on a few activities?
* * * *
Life does go on. Always the
same, and always different. Bits
and pieces make up the patch-
work quilt that covers'kur naked-
ness.
And bits and piecits of a typ-
ical weekend will rake up this
column. I'm no richerl:pr poorer,
sadder or happier, t,'{Viser or
otherwiser. Just a wk older,
with a few more pataltres. Some
red, some black, scutie yellow.
Making a motley.
Kim was badly shaken when a
friend of hers, a la-year-old
girl, was killed an .hour after
she was talking to her. The
child's neck was broken. The
boy driving didn't have his li-
cense, had little experience, hit
an icy patch, and couldn't cope.
One young life snuffed. Point-
lessly, uselessly. ,
40 This is hard to .: ake when
you're young; and daughter
took it hard. And ‘ s pretty
hard for an ordinary muddle-
headed man to explaht that God
is too busy to go running around
preventing every auto accident
and catching every 'tittle spar-
row that falls, regardless of the
old hymn. it.
Nearly cracked dp, myself on
Saturday. Burling h4pily along
the highway when waken smack
into a stretch of wef*now, with
no warning. EverybOtiy on the
brakes. Thought I was going to
mount a Volkswagen' in front of
me. Decided to go ground him,
rather than over. Torok a beauti-
and less oxygen is absorbed. The
victim becomes short of breath
and the strain often leads to a
heart attack or a collapse of the
lungs.
The cost of research into a
cure for the disease is another
of those intangible pollution
costs.
Doesn't life have a number
of merry-go-rounds?
The editor of the Wingham
Advance-Times has been waging
a battle against people—and
especially government of-
ficials—who use big words that
few of their listeners understand,
if in fact even the person using
them does.
The Wingham paper got some
good ammunition from Rep.
George A. Goodling, a Pennsyl-
vania Republican, who wrote in
his weekly report to constitu-
ents:
"I hope you will be as inspired
as I was when I read in a report
from the Department of Housing
and Urban Development, the fol-
lowing:
" 'Action-oriented orchestra-
tion of innovative inputs, gener-
ated by escalation of meaningful
indigenous decision-making dia-
logue, focusing on viable urban
infrastructure'."
Rep. Goodling adds the com-
forting thought he doesn't under-
stand what they are saying either
and the Wingham paper sites
this as a prime example of ',goy-
ernmentalese", better known as
"gobbledegook".
one vote; Jefferson became
president of the U.S.A. on one
vote; it took just one vote to
introduce conscription in the
States; and Oliver Cromwell
gained control of England by a
one-vote majority.
During the past few weeks
we've been reading and hearing
a great deal about pollution, and
some of the statistics make life
in rural Ontario appear most
beneficial.
However, even in the rural
areas, pollution is a problem and
one has only to look at area
streams to agree with that con-
tention.
According to statistics pro-
vided by the Federation of On-
tario Naturalists, pollution of
air, water and soil costs each
person in Ontario about $72 per
year. That's a total of $500,-
000.00.
Air pollution costs each resi-
dent $25 per year, water pollu-
tion costs $22 and soil pollution
has a price tag of $25.
Some of the costs involved
with pollution are obvious, but
it may well be the not so obvious
effects which may, in the long
run, have more serious con-
sequences.
For example, diseases at-
tribute to air pollution are in-
creasing steadily and emphysema
is already the fastest growing
disease in North America and one
of its main causes is air pol-
lution.
There is apparently no cure
for it. Oxygen bearing cells in
the blood become contaminated
ful four-skid sashay, during
which two other cars passed
me, one on each side.
Heart stopped thudding after
I'd passed two cars in the ditch.
Turned to Kin, who's learning
to drive, and said coolly, "Did
you notice that technique for
getting out of a skid? Just turn
the wheel into the skid." She
gave me a long, hard look that
she has learned from her moth-
er, and snorted, which she has
also learned from the same
source.
We were on our way to spend
the weekend with the Old Lady,
at her pad in the city. What a
peculiar feeling to enter a strange
apartment building, go up an
elevator, walk along a hall, knock
on a strange door, and have your
own wife answer! It seems al-
most indecent or something, as
though you had a kept woman.
But three or four hours later,
after you've got down to fight-
ing over finances, apologizing
because you haven't got the storm
windows on yet, and promising
that you're going to help Kim with
her Latin, things are right back
to normal.
And it's difficult to prolong
that sinful feeling that you're
keeping a mistress when you
go to bed with a woman, and
there's a great lump of a daugh-
ter sleeping on the floor, an air
mattress and a sleeping bag, two
feet from you.
That air mattress allowed me
to deliver one of the last great
puns of my life. I knew this cute
gal on our staff had a mattress.
We talked about me borrowing it.
And the other day, in the staff
room, I asked, in loud clear tones,
"Miss S ...Could we get to-
gether on that mattress?"
As all heads swung toward us
with fascination, I waited to see
whether she'd slug me, or laugh.
She laughed. So did the others,
but some of the old ducks rather
nervously.
My wife has a nice little apart-
ment, but one weekend in it nearly
drove me up the curtains. There's
no place to hide and read, or
look at yourself in the mirror,
or cut your toenails. Except the
bathroom. And you can only stay
in there so long. At home, there
are all sorts of nooks and cran-
nies for looking at your navel,
or picking fluff out of your belly-
button.
Well, 24 hours of telling her
she could pass the year, if she'd
stop worrying. That's like telling
Niagara it could be a nice little
trout stream if it would stop
falling.
And home, with Kim driving,
and me twitching. And column to
write and lessons to prepare and
Hallowe'en candy to be bought.
And that fearsome washing mach-
ine still to be tackled.
Think I'll have a snort and
go to the coin laundry.
overhauled his turnip waxing
plant and is now in a position
to turn out a carload a day with
a minimum of handling.
50 YEARS AGO
Mr. John Caldwell Jr. has
purchased the 100 acre farm of
Post Master Russell being Lot
4 Con, 1 Hay for $7,000. Mr.
Caldwell farmed in the West for
several years.
Wheat is selling for $2.10 a
bushel.
Two firms in Canada have re-
ceived licenses to manufacture
margarine and 300 licenses have
been granted to import it.
Mrs. W. J. Heaman and her
mother Mrs. Skelton assisted by
a number of ladies of town gave
an entertainment at Mrs. Hea-
man's home for the wives and
children of the soldiers over-
seas.
15 YEARS AGO
Huron County Pioneer Museum
curator Herb Neill is delighted
with the latest acquisition to his
already imposing list of ex-
hibits—the village of Crediton's
old hand-pumper used by the
fire department.
Officials hope the South Huron
Hospital will begin operation
around the end of January 1953.
Mr. and Mrs. William Moodie,
formerly of Usborne and now of
Exeter, celebrated their sixtieth
wedding anniversary recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Reg Knight have
moved to Exeter into the resi-
dence purchased from Larry
Snider. They farmed on No. 4
Highway, north of Exeter.
10 YEARS AGO
Mrs. Carl Oestricher, Dash-
wood, won the diamond-set lady's
wrist watch offered as the grand
prize at the opening of Jack Smith
Jeweller's new store.
Garnet Hicks of Usborne Town-
ship was elected chairman of
Exeter Community C entr es
Board at a meeting last week.
He Succeeds Edward Brady, who
resigned after heading the board
for five years.
Ladies of Exeter and district
organized for curling at the Town
Hall Thursday evening. Mrs.
Norman Bray, Huron Park, was
elected president,
Decorator Hill McLean and
SHDHS teacher Ken Ottewell bag-
ged eight blue geese on the Hag-
mater farm, near Grand Bend,
Monday.
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25 YEARS AGO
The Exeter-Hensall branch of
the Canadian Legion are due for
congratulations for the manner
in which they have acquired and
furnished their building on Main
Street which, on Thursday, is
being opened for the comfort and
entertainment of all men and
Women in uniform, now serving
King and Country.
The Exeter Lions Club, hold-
ing their supper meeting in Triv-
itt Memorial Parish Hall, voted
a donation of $200 for furnish-
ings and comforts for the
Women's canteen at SP TS No. 9,
Exeter.
LAC Allan Penhale, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Asa J. Pen-
hale of Stephen, won the squad-
ron commander's trophy for
highest academic standing in his
class at the graduation ceremony
for wireless air gunners at No.
4 Wireless School, Guelph.
. Seth Winer has completely
Town council's bitterness over
the fact the department of high-
ways will not erect a large stop
sign at the intersection of High-
ways 4 and 83 is understandable
to a point.
However, they appear to have
missed the important comment
in the latest letter from the
department which notes that the
majority of accidents at the
corner are not caused by motor-
ists failing to stop, but rather
by motorists who do in fact stop
but then pull out into the path
of north or southbound traffic.
Obviously, no amount of stop
signs can prevent such accidents.
But there have been accidents
caused by motorists who have
failed to stop and we see no
problems with council continuing
their efforts to have a large sign
erected at the corner, although
we do suggest they are being a
bit unfair in some of their criti-
cism of the department.
During the past few months
it has been particularly encour-
aging to see area councils ex-
pressing some concern over
dangerous locations within their
communities.
This has been evident from
both Hay and Stephen Township
as Well as Exeter in recent weeks
and members of these councils
are to be commended for their
concern for the safety of their
residents and those who drive
in their municipalities.
Area nominations will be held
in just over one Week, and to
date we haven't heard of any
real rush of candidates for the
vacant-- - or fill ed--seats on
councils.
We doubt there will be any
great rush, but once again we
urge ratepayers in all muniCi-
palities to consider the need for
the best people possible to run
their affairs.
There's obviously no indication
of whether there will be any
elections in the area, but if there
is We offer the following figures
to indicate just how important
your vote can be.
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