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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-02-08, Page 4Correctin The early interest and support shoWn for the recently formed South gurCon and District Association for the Mentally retarded is most encouraging, Until only a few years ago, the mentally retarded were completely ig- nored by society and unfortunate par• ents were almost obliged to bide them away.. However, all that has changed now and the mentally retarded are being accepted by most people for what they are — htunan beings who can in most cases take a place in the communities in which they live. Experience has proven that under the proper circumstances these people can respond to training and 'there are now many mentally handicapped per- sons in Ontario who make their own living through their own abilities, We in this area should perhaps feel a bit guilty that it has taken us a wrong this long to realize that we have com, pletely nve, these,. people and their parents, liewever,, all 010 can now be Changed. by the formation of this new Association and its stated purpose of providing the :Nil spectrum of Services that can be beneficial to the, mentally retarded.. This will not be done in short or der, of .course, but will take time and. planning on. the part of those who have Volunteered to perform this rep$911Si- W14 for all ,rnembers of the South Huron community. It will take the cooperation of all residents and groups to fulfill the goals, but that assistance has already been indicated in the numbers repre, sented at the organizational meeting. Let us, remove some of the guilt of our past failings by continuing 'this support and interest. We're not masters yet Man's great technical and scientific feats appear to have brought a false sense of security to most people, and recent acts of nature in Western On- tario have provided ample evidence of this. The severe ice storm which hit London and neighboring communities a few weeks ago found huundreds of householders without even a candle to provide some light when electrical power was cut off. Few had any means of providing auxiliary heat or cooking methods. Most people in this area would find themselves in the same predica- ment. Opening a can of pork and beans to eat would even be impossible for some because their openers are elec- trically powered. While such storms are infrequent and power is not usually off for such periods of time, the experience of our neighbors to the south should remind us all that some simple and inexpen- sive methods of providing emergency lighting, heating and cooking arrange- ments are still a needed requirement in most homes. The weekend floods in Dresden and Wallaceburg also suggest that peo- ple are ill-prepared to face emergen- cies and there were examples of people endangering their lives by waiting too long to seek safety. Similar examples often occur at house fires when people take needless risks with their lives by attempting to save some belonging that really isn't worth the risk. The final lesson we can learn is the danger associated with driving on flooded roads during spring thaws. Surely the most stunning news over the weekend was that of a woman who had her three-year-old daughter pulled from her arms as she waded through deep water in which her car was stranded. 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Soutlicott, R M. southcott Editor: Bill Batten Advertising Manager: Howie Wright Phone 235-1331 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Authorized Is SicOnd Class Mail, Post Office dept, Ottawa, and foe Payment of Postage In Casts Paid in Advance dirculaticm, September 30, 1967, 4,338 SUBSCRIPTION 'RATES Canada $5.00 Per Year; USA Ati imlowstatazzamammagozawo Some dreams ... and nightmares Living within one's means is becoming increasingly difficult these days. Many find them- selves in dire trouble in their effort to keep up to their neigh-7. bors' standard' of living. In most cases, the neighbors are in the same predicament. We received a rather interest- ing indication of the trend of our times when the bank sent us some personalized cheques for our chequing account this week. AlSo included in the book were deposit slips to keep the account filled up. The strange thing is, there are only five slips on which to make our deposits at the bank, and yet there are 25 blank cheques. However, the bank does pro- vide a solution. On the inside cover of the bOoklet containing the cheques and deposit slips Is a note that loans are avail- able at the bank. * * * * The ClOSing of the Canada and Dominion Sugar Company plant in Chatham comes as a stagger- ing blow to the economy of that area and certainly, to a degree, will be felt throtighotit Western Ontario. Lloyd Lovell, who, has grown sugar beets for 8? years and has served on the Ontario Sugar Beet Growers Marketing Board for the past nine years, points out that the board had worked hard to get a good return on beets for farmers and the 1967 crop year Was successful for farmers--"except those who failed to get their beets harvested due to adverse weather ConditiOnto This Was not a position relative only to sugar beet growers, as 'many farMers in the diStriCt had various crops spoil in the We titroted Mr. Lovell last week as noting the end of sugar beets would not result in diked economic hardShip for area latinerd, btit he asker4 us this Week to point Out that there will naturally be some economic less. Growers had found this a profit- able eash drop 'and now they fade the prospect of having to move Into some Other crop to take its place. The iMpliCatiOnS are greater than may meet the eye On first obteryation. It means that over 20,000 ,acres of land in 'Western Ontario will now have to be devoted to some other use. While such a 'Change Is pos- sible„ it dOeS suggest that 20,- 000 more 'acres put into beans, corn.turnips arid other Crops Could have some bad effects on Mead crops On the basis of price 'beihg: established by supply 'am demand, -Obviously, more production In some of these crops .can, result in over-production and a leddert- big In price fel' all farmers ton, teriied. Farriterd already point out prices are too low On nyany' OrbpS, so a tattler drop Could be very SerieuS., The company's decision to Close the Chathan' plant Was based on econOrrifotattitt wasn't being profitable and he One earl o cv.EY Co P1 /40 ER ‘‘t Utto Loans help balance ratio? We had quite a discussion in class the other day about dreams. School kids have a natural re- luctance to revealing their inner selves, especially to teachers and parents, but after we got warmed up, I was wishing I'd had a. tape recorder. It was fas- cinating. It removed barriers. The whole thing was sparked by a short passage of poet Dylan Thomas' recollections of child- hood, in which life is as jumbled and unreal as a dream. It ends, "The memories of childhood have no order, and no end." Thomas dreamed, later in life, that he could fly, as a child. I've had this dream many times, and I waken from it feeling won- derful, but then a terrible sad- ness comes over me as I realize it was just a dream. Some of the kids have had the same dreatn. It takes dif- ferent forms. Some flap their arms until they gain altitude, then just sort of glide. Mine is always the same. I take a long, running broad-jump, and by sheer will power, keep my feet from touching down again, I never get more than 10 inches off the ground, but I'm flying, swiftly and easily and surely, swooping around obstacles and absolutely free of the surly earth. One boy admitted a redurrent dream in Which he is at bat in the World Series, bases loaded ) a home-run needed to win the game. Seventy thousand peOple are screaming, "Come on, Datil You can do it." Then comes the sick realization that the mob is his mother, shaking him and saying, "Come on, Dant Come on, Dant Time to get up for school." Same chap confessed to a dream that would fascinate Siggy Freud. He was buying a new pair of pants. Tried them on, took them off for the tailoring, came out and found his old pants gone. He walked all the way borne with no pants, and wasn't the least bit embarrassed. A girl confessed that she of- ten dreams that she is the cen- tre of things, a big Broadway star just about to launch into the greatest musical in history, with every eye on her. She is the girl least likely to be a great star, though a delightful person who will make an excel- lent nurse, a grand wife and mother, Another girl has nightmares about big dogs who are always going to eat her. Still another dreams of cowboys and Indians, and she's always the cowboy, And by golly, she looks like a cowboy. She's long-legged and laconic, a Grade 12 Gary Cooper Who needs only a hand-rooled Hull Durham smoke to complete the image. Another boy dreams that he has had a sword rtin through him, but doesn't feel a thing. From there we get into the hist- riessof whether or not you can feel and smell and hear in dreams, whether they're in col- or. Then we get into the theory that if you have a nightmare, and actually hit bottom at the end of that fail; or that the monster catches up with you, you'll die because your heart will stop. This kid came up to me to- day and said, "Sir, last night I dreamt I fell six storeys and I hit bottom, and I didn't die." "Did you bounce?," I en- quired, "or did you unconscious- glyentslpyr?r,d your wings and land "Nope, I landed hard ) but I just lay there, all sort of spread out, but not hurting and not dead. I was trying to jump into a pud- dle and I missed it." "Glad you're still with us," I countered, "but you've ruined one of our theories." He was delighted. He was the one who has the sword run through him about once a week, and doesn't feel a thing. Another teacher's theory squelched. D*rearns are great; I'm all for them. Even nightmares are good for you. You can wake up with pounding heart, in a cold sweat, scared out of your living wits, but what can compare with that relief, that glorious comfort , as The thing gradually fades, and you realize that you are alive and it is warm and safe and snug in your own bed. The only thing that is boring about dreams is when Other people try to describe theirs. Amalgamated 1924 argue against decisions made on that basis. However, one of the reasons it wasn't economical is due to the fact cane sugar can be imported at lower prices from countries where the standard of living makes production of all goods much cheaper than here in Canada. In recent weeks, many experts have commented that various segments of Canada's industries are in threat of being priced out of world markets by increased wage costs. Is Ontario's sugar beet in- dustry the first in a long line to suffer? How many more will meet the same fate before we Canadians realize the dangers of continued inflation and take the necessary steps to halt it? Getting back to farming, we have already noted the problems that could be associated with putting 20,000 acres of highly productive sugar beet land in Western Ontario into other crops. This is a problem that is also associated with other farming segments as well. Not too long ago, a Huron farmer suggested the days of the dairy cow may be numbered in view of the in- creased use of artificial pro- ducts replacing dairy products. This again leads to the question of whether or not the land and 50 'YEARS AGO The Food Controller's regti- latiOnS are changed to make the meatleSs days Wednesdays and Fridas instead of Tuesdays and Fridays,y Owing to so many heatless days Trivitt Memorial Ohnreh the frost did conSiderable damage by heaving floors and causing damage to the seats. A knitting contest was arranged with Miss Etta May I3oWey and Miss Lillian Boyle as captain's. For the month of 'January they ehliSted their friends in knitting socks and in all 1412 pairs were brought in,-,Mist HOWOY'S side Winning With 844 pairs 'and MISS /3tlyl&S side 568 pairs. 25 YEARS AGO Owing to the depradationS ,of the weatherman, roads for the second consecutive SitlidaY Were blocked. Orediton and titirisley churcheS being witheut, service. Here's What the new book Con- tains-tone green sheet tor tea and teffee coupons; one pink Sheet for Suga.t. coupons, two Orchid sheets for butter 'Coupon's and four sheets of buff Spare A coupons and one white Sheet tor canning Sugar. MiSs Ardys who has been employed With the the.iti, *SS for seine tithe, has taken over the `Management of the store Since the enlistment of Mr. VII. ham McGee 'in the RCAF. facilities presently being used by the dairy industry can be put into other agricultural uses with- out detrimental effects. In short, do farmers face fur- ther controls regarding their production? Such a question ap- pears absurd in view of the fact over half the world is liter- ally starving, but it is neverthe- less a question that may soon have to be answered. * * * * While attending the recent meeting of the South Huron and District Association for the Men- tally Retarded, we stopped to consider this whole matter of mental retardation and just who decides when such a designation should be used. It's a relative situation. No one reading this column would con- sider himself mentally retarded, but in comparison to say an Ein- stein, such a designation would perhaps be correct. However, to give ourselves some encouragement, we refer to such men as genius. This suggests there are only degrees of mental retardation and that is one reason why it is our responsibility to give all humans an equal opportunity to use what abilities they have been given. 15 YEARS AGO Bill Brock of lienSall district has been chosen one Of two by the 'Canadian Red Cross to attend the coronation in June. An aunt and her niece are vying for the title Of Queen of SHDHS "At Heine:" Among the Six contendersfOr the honor are Jean Taylor, Exeter- ' and her niece, 'Beth Taylor, RR '3 Ex- e'er. Grand Behd LiOnS Club made a second donation of $800 to the 'South Huron Hospital PUndi The club along with Exeter tiona preAdottaly dOnated$,000, pro-10 beedd from the tirearit Cottage raffle. lb VtAItS AGO Take 22 I ne he SnOW, Sprinkle it Over a three,.day -per., led, beat it severely with winds gitating up to 64 ;miles per Wit' and freeze the concoction at temperatUreS as IOW as two de. 'odes below zero--that's the nipe fOr the worst blizzard the. area has suffered Over a decade, Saturday to Manday. The general store at Elittiville which has been operated by Mite Philip Vittrolt and her late hus- band for the past 21 years, has been sold to Mr. andlvits.nobert flays of Wroketer Vhe 'get pasty session Monday. Jane 'Horton, ElenSali t last Week became - the third member of llenSall Giri Guides to receive her Gold Cord, the highest award in Guiding* Don't Send - TAKE your boy to the arena and stay to see him play WW1 Times Eitablished 1873 Advocate Established 1881