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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-04-18, Page 4miles from home These two scenes indicate the variety of scenery available in an afternoon drive in the area. Despite the apparent differences in location, these pictures were taken off the same bridge in the Pinery Pro- vincial park. T-A photo. Just a few 50 YEARS AGO Rev. Samuel Sharpe, BA, BD, died on Sunday morning justpre- vious to the service in Caven Presbyterian Church. He was in his 49th year. William Gardiner captured alive nine young foxes while cnt- ting wood near Russeldale. They were taken from inside an elm tree. The masons are this Week starting on the foundation of a neW house to be erected by Mr. S. aory on his farm in Stephen. Mr. James Jewell has the con- tract. Last week Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Hogarth of Stephen received word that their son, Pte C 1 in ton Hogarth had been killed in action at the battle of Ypres in 1911. This is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Hogarth to give his life for his country while a third son is at present on the firing line in France. 25 YEARS AGO A pretty Easter Wedding, was solemnized Saturday April 24 when Anne Grace, daughter of Mrs Snell and the late J. C. Snell of Exeter became the bride Of Aiibrey C. Farquhar, Seri of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Farquhar; Over 1'73 tons of sugar Were applied for at the office of the Local Alfieri Board. The Work of receiving, hating and, totalling the applications from 8,856 pee, pie Is now dernpleted. A Salvage 'collection Of Old phonograph records 18 to be Undertaken in Exeter P Wit School Saturday. Principal H. Sturgis of the Exeter High School reports that Se pupils have left the various forms for farm labor. "TlfelM15118` *fete their exams at Eager. 15 YEARS AGO Gordon Farrow has sold his home on Edward Street to H. W. Kelson, manager of tile Bank of Nova Scotia. ",For a festival only two years old this community might well be " proud of its early achieVement" F. J. Holton, adjudicator, said at the conclusion of the Music Fes- tival held this Week. Over 1,500 persons attended the festival, Mrs. William cant was ap- pointed Distriet.Deputy Presid- ent of the Rebekah District As- Isaosctiavitieoetik.at a meeting in Goderich Exeter council completed ne- gotiations Wednesday to purchase two parcels of land around the river -- the land to be used in Connection with the prop'ose'd beautification of Riverview Park, 10 YEARS AGO Exeter Lions "clean Sweep broom blitz” in Exeter will take plade tonight, Members will can- Vass the town thoroughly in an effort to reach their Objective be sell 1,000 brooms in aid of welfare work. Mourners crowded the EVaii- gelical UB Church, Zurich, Wed., besday'afternoon to pay last re- spects to Mrs. Harold Finlay, Hit 2 Zurich, second victini of Sunday's two-car crash neat Poplar Hill. Ltis was estimated at $4,000 When the repair shop owned by Hilton Laing near Trlvitt me- morial Church; caught lire Tues- day 'at neon. The blaze started from a blow torch and spread to gasoline. AndrewrDougall, tl sb Teiship; ha§ purcha sed the Muse on Main Street owned by lienrY Bierlitig. Mr. 131erlinghaS purchased the dwelling owned by Len Nikes on lturon and William Streets. 00,111tAN IV figq , r IrrAt • Here's GOOD News! Conklin's Offers ".NEW 1,!r WER PRICES ON JOHNS-MANVILLE FIBERGLAS PANELS for PATIO ROOFING Naturally you want color and quality when you build your patio roof. This fine quality Johns-Manville product is just what you're looking for . . . and the price at Conklin's Is now substantially lower! Corrugated, it comes in Patio Green, Patio Yellow and Patio Coral. Ideal for home or cottage ... 26" wide. 8-FOOT SHEET, now ... 10-FOOT SHEET, now ... 12-FOOT SHEET, now ... $6 24 $7 80 $9 36 Conklin's Price on MODERN, WOOD FENCING AS LOW AS . 49' LIN. FT. CHOOSE FROM 28 DIFFERENT DESIGNS! Exeter, 235-1422 Grand Bend, 738-2374 BELL LINES by W. W. Haysom your telephone manager Each year about this time I ask for your help. Help in keeping telephone service uninterrupted to you and your neighborhood. You see, to protect our telephone cable from most hazards, we bury much of it underground. Some of it could be buried on your real estate. With the spring months many of us start home improvement projects — planting trees or shrubs; erecting fences or patios. Before you swing into action with any such plans, could ask you to give us a call at Bell Canada? We'll be happy to check, free of charge, to see if any cable is located on your property. Just give us a call at 114 and we'll get the information to you as quickly as possible. All it takes is a hefty thrust of a shovel or a well-sunk fence post to damage buried cable, if by chance, you should choose a spot above that cable. This damage could disrupt regular telephone service, long distance, data-sending fatilifies or even emergency communications that might be transmitted by telephone wire. Just to show you what can happen to our carefully buried cable I'm including a photograph this month: Al- though it looks like a piece of modern sculpture, there was nothing very artistic about the mangled and torn wires left inside when a corn binder Sliced into it. A shovel or fence post might not tornpIete as pretty, a job but, it would be just as effective in disrupting cominunications services. Often in chatting to different subscribers in this area I aim asked qUestions about telephone companies other than Bell Canada. Many people seem Unaviare that there are Many independent telephone companies which serve thou. sands of Subseribert Within Ontario and Quebec. In fact, at the end of 1967 there were a total of 241 telePhone corn- genies or telephone systemt other than Bell Canada serving 425,484 telephones in the two provinces. Largest of these is ec Queb Telephone which Operates 138 exchanges and serves 125,625 telephones. Many Of the Companies are quite Indeedi.we refer to them as systems, for they have their own lines and telephones but they terminate on the switchboards of other companies; including'ours. If they'd only happen in threes We used to have a supersti- tion in my air force days about things happening in three's. Everything would go along well for a week or two, then the roof would fall in. We'd lose three pilots in one day. Or one pilot would have three extremely hairy experiences in a row: a bail-out, a crash-land- ing, a fire. It happened often enough so that you began to believe in it. In war-time superstitions tend to become principles. it hap- pened to me. One day I was hit by everything but the kitchen sink and came home with 32 holes in my aircraft, including one about 18 inches in diameter, and just two feet frotn my Seat. I had to land without flaps and brakes. Nothing much left ek- cept a chewed-tip piece of metal, almost useless, and a white- faced pilot, almost equally use- less. Next day, one of My bombs developed a hang-up and I had to land with the thing, detonated and ready to blow, danglingunder my left wing. This didn't im- prove my morale much, either. People started avoiding me. The third day I was shot down and taken prisoner. Met Paddy Byrne of Dublin, one of the few survivors of my squadron, in a London subway station after the war, and he told me the boys were running a pool on when I'd get it. But that was in the old days, When men were men, and boys Were terrified. At least I was. However the war was peaceful compared to present days. Now things don't come in three's, but in sixes and seVens. Same pattern. Things go along OK for a while and then the gods clobber you with everything they have. The other night, for example,. Kim and I Were preparing for one of our exotic dinners. It was a peaceful; domestic scene. She was playing the piano. I was right on top of the dinner. The rainbow trout were crisp- ing nicely, the baked potatoes were baked, and I was just giving the canned corn that extra little stir that makes it so delicious; when the doorbell rang. It Was our neighbor. The one on the left, where the bank rob- bers were caught last year. It was about 30 degrees outside, and his internal temperature was around 212. He wanted to use the phone. He was about to kill the man On the other side of his house because he was needling him. He phoned hiS Morn asking her to come and stop him. It's rather difficult to avoid hearing this sort of thing when you are five feet away, poking the potatoes and flipping the fish. Anyway, two Wirt and a couple of beers later, I hadn't eMSgliTM IMISSUINSIMUL42:04% ::::•,-s,MOM171MOCASMI li.!!!.!!1!09!,!!!!.1!..!!!!!!!!!!!!PIV!!!!0!!..90..!.I.VIti.WIIIVO.!.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.111! l !!!!!!Iii4s1. NEVER Assume the p014- slcoPws a s much about your ,business -,q§,ipp OP• .11190, why advertising is sa indisP.COISaRg. Only half the picture. Living in this area of Western Ontario has many advantages, not the least of which is the fact the scenery is never monotonous. This point was brought to our attention during a couple of family outings in recent weeks and we doubt that many residents of this country can share in the pleas- ures we can enjoy within a few miles of our homes. In a matter of minutes you can be amidst a completely different type of terrain than what is found here in South Huron. As an example, we recently headed north and as you near the Auburn area you are im- mediately out of the flat land we have here, and quite sub- stantial hills are to be found in large numbers. We even wondered at times how some farmers work their land in that area as the hills roll off in every direction pos- sible leaving some narrow gullies that must be difficult to navi- gate with a tractor. Some of the hills must also require some powerful equipment to tackle them and some of the huge bould- ers would appear to defy anything short of dynamite. No trip to this area is com- plete without a jaunt into pic- turesque Benmiller with its wind- ing stream and old mill, If you happen to be among those who haven't been in this New sights unfold each mile area for some time you may not know that the Maitland River Conservation Authority have re- cently opened a park near Ben- miller and it is quite spacious and scenic. It is located on the high bluffs overlooking the Maitland but a quick glance suggested one would have to be part mountain climber to descend to the river below. Perhaps there are trails down to the water if you look more closely, but we get dizzy at heights so didn't take too long gazing down the steep incline. Leaving Auburn and area we headed back south through God- erich and it wasn't long before we had arrived back in the area of the black muck to be found along Highway 21 south of Grand Bend. This rich garden land is in sharp contrast with the sand dunes one spots only a few feet away on the other side of the road and this does provide some interesting questions into the makeup of this area. Much of the garden land was once covered by various lakes and we recall during our report- ing days in Grand Bend that much of the bog land smouldered from fires deep in the mossy sub- stance and we don't know whether they still smoulder or not. Next we turned into the Pinery Park to view scenery one usually associates with northern Ontario. The river running through the Pinery is one of the most pic- turesque to be found anywhere with its almost black hues con- trasting with the silver birch which line its shores. This is a naturalist's para- dise and always appears so calm — Please turn to page 5 The industrial commission in Olin ton: recently PolnPLOKd a study which indicated that half the people working in the community's major businesses and.industries did not live within the community. Chairman of the commission, Clar- ence Denomme, pointed out this was a drain on the leeal economy because While people were being paid in Clin- ton they went to their homes in neigh- boring municipalities to spend their money. Central Huron Secondary School, the largest employer in Clinton, is typ- ical with 28 of its 67 employees com- muting to work. We don't know what a similar study would indicate in Exeter, but there is an indication that it would show a large number of people com- muting to jobs in this community. However, it is most difficult to reach any conclusions until the other Exeter's Main Street received a much needed sweeping last week. The winter build-up of sand and grime is always extensive and during the stiff breezes of the past week, the street was something akin to the Sahara Des- ert at times. Shortly after the sweeper had com- pleted its task, most local merchants and Main St. residents were out sweep- ing off their sidewalks, as there was naturally a considerable amount of dust scattered about. We hear a great deal in newspapers and through other media these days about Canada's housing shortage and the lack of low - interest borrowing rates; but how much do we hear about the real causes of so-called lack of liv- ing space for the population. Canada, and its much publicized high standard of living, has made every individual want to live in a personal, home, with as much vacant ground around it , as possible. The average Ca- nadian family consists of four or five people. With the drop in the size of the family and the payment of widow's al- lowances, family allowances, retarded allowances, disabled benefits, old age pensions, industrial retirement pensions and all the other forms of handouts in our fast-becoming socialist state, the result is that the individual not only wants his own little home, but also he has the money to maintain that home. In the old days this was not so; the old, the crippled, the retarded and SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND CLASS 'A' and ABC Publishers: J. M. Southcott, R. M. Southcott Editor: Bill Batten Advertising Manager: Howie Wright Phone 2151331 side of the situation is also reviewed and this appears to have been bypassed by the officials in. Clinton. The other side is a:study to determine how many people commute from Clinton to jobs in other communities. We suspect that if this type of study was also conducted it would in- dicate that Clinton is not as badly off as might be suggested. Taking a look at Exeter, we know of many people who commute to jobs in. Clinton, London and other commu- nities and we are of the opinion it balances off with those who live in other communities and work here. It's a situation brought about by the easy means of travel, the supply of houses and personal preferences and is hardly worthy of major concern. We suggest the folk in Clinton conduct 'the other half of the study and perhaps most of their concern will fade away. All of this dust from the sidewalks was merely pushed back into the gut- ter and soon will be blowing in the breezes again. Merchants certainly can't be criti- cised for sweeping the dirt back on to the 'street from where it came, but we do mention for their consideration that it would appear more sensible to dump the sweeping from the sidewalks into their garbage cans so it would not, re- turn to create more dust problems for them. all the others having to move in with their relatives, or spend their days in a "house of refuge". A brief look at the housing situa- tion in St. Marys now will reveal on the surface that there is a housing short- age. But a closer look will also show that it is not so much the shortage of units, but that the number of individ- ual homes with accommodation for sev- eral persons are actually inhabited by one or two people. This brings result- ant non-use of space, and all the other facilities including the heat, water, elec- tricity, drainage and other things which are commonplace today. It is no wonder that costs are go- ing up appallingly. What we need is a plan whereby more use is made of available accommodation.--Perhaps when Socialism gets along a few steps more, officialdom will organize a billeting system, which was used in Britain and on the Continent in wartime, when ev- ery available room is occupied all the time. — St. Marys Journal-Argus had my dinner, but my neigh- bor had and he was cooled out enough to go home to bed, Well; that's the way things went all week. Next morning I almost murdered myself, putting out the garbage. The cans ere in a little Stoop, with a lid over it made of tWo-by-fourS. I pushed the lid back and started te Wrestle out One can, which was frozen to the bottom, When the damn lid fell; clunked me on the forehead almost knocking me senseless. Dripping blood, I staggered Off to work. That weekend I was caught in one of these last-kick-of- winter storms and died a theta, and deaths, creeping through 'Wind and snow and drifts, a fOnr.and- a ,half-hour trip that normally takes two hours, Had fight with my daughter, Which she won. My wife is having an operation. My !Alec are Sereatning. The back-yard, be- cause we didnot get the leavec raked last fall, looks like Hiro- shima. Ten people want me to have a committee meeting about nothing. We had a cloud-burst and my cellar's of water. Half ,the light bulbs in the house are Witt but and you need a ladder to replace most of them. I nearly out my entire upper lip off when I slipped 'oh -soap while shaving, Arid I haven't paid or even thought about my Income tax. .wontier Whether they take Old guys back into the air forte, Where things' Only happen in threel;s, Just a suggestion What is the cause? 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