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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-05-16, Page 4Licensed dining room beneficial Believe it. or flot, residents of Exe- terwill. go to the polls: in about 10 days 'to •decide whether this community • will open the way for more liquor out- lets. We say 'believe it or not, because to date the vote has attracted little pub-, lic debate, which. is a far cry from the manner in which. most liquor votes are conducted in Ontario 'communities. There are :obvious advantages and disadvantages in a 4'•quiet." election. Valle it does not .give rise to bitter debates as have been evidenced in some eonununities, it does create the problem a people not: knowing what. they are voting for, and in fact even that they are supposed to vote. A vote which is conducted among an uninformed electorate is not bene- ficial to the community, nor is a vote 'that fails to attract residents to the polls to decide the future of their corn- triunity, There are five questions to be voted upon in the May :27 election and each is what could be described as an independent vote in that the outcome on each question. can be carried or de- feated regardless of the outcome of any of the other ballots. That is to say, one question could win approval and the other four could be defeated. The five .questions, and what they mean, will be detailed in this newspaper prior to the election so all readers may lmow exactly for what they are voting. After careful consideration, this newSpaper is urging local residents to vote "yes" on the question of the sale of beer and liquor with meals... A ma- jority of 60 percent on this question would pave the way for a licensed din- ing room in the community and we are of the opinion this is needed for the benefit of the community. There are several reasons for our stand on this particular question. First of all, a great number of the motoring public enjoy a drink prior to, with, or after their meal and at the present time no restaurant or dining room in Exeter is able to offer this service. As a result, tourists and travellers bypass the community and therefore we miss out on the opportunity of .doing business with these people or do not give them an opportunity to. ge.t to know our community better. With the small businessman feel- ing the pinch from all sides, local mer- •el-o--tnts need .every opportunity possible to attract- :business, And people who stop to dine are :often potential Shop- pers. Many .travellers are also aSscrei, ated With industrial concerns and it is. not :stretching a point to suggest that many 'would perhaps become interested in our community if they •would stop and eat here. This community also is lacking in a dining room or faf'llity where service clubs and other small groups can. told, their meetings, In recent years, many of these groups have gone out of town to hold their meetings and it is a less than happy' situation when local serv- ice :chil;*:- have to :meet outside the .O9r0-. ninnity which. they serve,. There is also a need for a dining room where industrial and business people can host their associates or clients in :an atmosphere that is con- ducive to the b.usineSs talk Whith often accompanies such gatherings. The major opposition to any liquor outlet is expressed on the basis that it provides an opportunity for people to aver-indulge and therefore create. traffic and social problems. A licensed dining room does not lend itself to such a situation, because its main function after all, is to satisfy one's hunger, and not one's thirst. Gen- erally speaking, it is not a place where people sit around drinking for three. or four hours. The dining room, too, doesn't dis- criminate. The non-drinker and the drinker alike can enjoy its facilities. In this way the drinker and the non- drinker can respect each other's views. The T-A urges "no" on the other four questions. As former T-A editor Don Southcott wrote during the last vote: "there's nothing to do in them (cocktail lounges and beverage rooms) but load yourself up". While some pro- gress is being made to permit other activities, consumption of alcohol is the sole objective. It's a bit frightening It becomes rather frightening when a nine percent increase in taxes is re- ferred to as a "stand-pat" or even a "retrograde" budget as mentioned at Exeter council last week. However, those descriptions are incorrect when the budget is compared with last year's expenses. The boost is indeed due primarily to rising costs of salaries, services and materials. Part of the increase was due to a deficit from last year when council decided— and rightly so we think—to pay the Pryde Boulevard storm drain cost out of current revenue rather than deben- taring it. It seems we have to rtm to stand still these days and there is nothing to suggest that t h e future looks any brighter as far as rising taxes at all levels are concerned. However, we were cheered by Mayor Jack Delbridge's plea that we should "pay as we go" as much as possible. He correctly noted that gov- ernments are heading for troubles in the repeated practice of spending more than they take in and then pass the bill along to the future generation. Obviously, such a situation places us in jeopardy and too often money is spent on services that are not accutely needed just because we can in effect say "charge it". The Mayor's comments are worthy of serious consideration by all mem- bers of the local council and by mem- bers of governments all all levels. If we can't live within our means, how can we expect the future genera- tion to be able to in addition to paying off the debts we're passing along to them? SUBSCRIPTION RATES: T-A photo by Hough deoce Walt ePutedited9e , PS,• 40- "5:4 g-4 fr, 1V.:" 4. • -^Sc' 4 Expensive to change pockets Angelo's Pizza for true Italian flavour to complete a perfect evening. For take out service CALL R 238:2161 RUSSELL ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS & FREEZERS EXETER 235-0505 TRACIUAIR'S HARDWARE ADMIRAL REFRIGERATORS EXETER & FREEZERS 235.2511 FISHE R S HARDWARE 'atA-qv IIEPF116511ATOPg'& ,FREEZERS EXETER 235 .2160 Plant ',Flowers of Hope! .1-14P Mg INIgNIAL4Y RETARD.gp. before you become upset over another messy defrosting job, or tackle another sticking ice tray, or pry apart packs of iced-up frozen food, or become frustrated over the lack of storage space and endless trips to the store, see the new "NO-FROST" refrigerator-freezers now on display at your local appliance dealers. They're bigger, better, never frost-up and never require defrosting ... ever!!! EXETER PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION R. POOLEY. Chairman H. L. DAVIS, Manager Phone 2351350 Commissioners M. A. Greene .1, H. Deibridge SERVING CAl•IADA'S BEST FARMLAND 0.W.N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC Publishers: J. M. Southcott, R. M. Southcott Editor! Bill Batten Advertising Manager: Howie Wright Phone 2154331 Listen for a tremendous thud &der intes- °cafe a wife. My old lady, after a couple Of quiescent weeks fol- lowing an operation, is in full cry again. "What do you really think about 'that criirnby old bedroom stiffer" We bought it on sale 15 years ago. As far as I'm concerned, it's fine. There's'a raised plat- &tin, called a bed, on Which to sleep, and a number of drawers without handles, which I can open — Please turn to page 5 44115MMANICIA, Amalgamated 1924 coninlimity newspapErx The saying goes that one should not look a gift horse in the mouth, but many persons are doing that in regard to the Ontario govern- ment's shelter grant. The adage about the gift horse and the rebate on our property tax are not similar in many ways. The horse, of course, was presumably an out-right gift, while the rebate on the property tax is taking money out of one pocket and putting it back in another. The sad part is that it is reportedly going to cost the resi- dents of Ontario the rather large sum of $800,000 to make the transaction. There are some people who will benefit from the rebate. These are the people who don't buy many articles for which they pay sales tax, people who don't smoke, drink or drive cars or do any of the other things on which taxes have been increased to make the payment of the $19,000,000 rebate. However, it would appear that the "average Joe" isn't really going to be much ahead when all is said and done, and in fact he's going to have to contribute to the $800,000 administration figure to enact the rebate. A similar situation exists in most "gifts" we receive from the government. Family allow- ances is one example where the administration costs are very high. Because inflation and govern- ment spending are much on people's minds these days, we wonder if some other method could be devised to provide such assistance without having to spend vast sums of money to administer them. An additional per-capita grant to each municipality in Ontario would enable councils to re duce property taxes without the work and headaches involved in administering the present tax rebate'proposed by' the provincial government. Increased exemptions for children for income tax pur- poses would be a much cheaper method of paying family allow- ances, it has also been suggested that considerable savings could be effected in the Ca.nada Pension plait if the unontributions" were collected through taxation as is money for the old age pension. Few of us have much of an idea of how much money it spent in hiring people to administer the various forms of social bene- fits with which we are how pro- vided. However, a member of EX- eter council reported last week that an offitial from the Canada Pension Plan setup had been In town and this' person's lob— for which he was probably well paid—was to go around and in- form people that speakers could be made available to talk to groups 'about our pension plan. Later on in the Meeting, some mention was made of govern- ment inspectors and it was noted there were inspectors to inspect the inspectors and someone even suggested there were probably Inspettors to inspect the in- spectora Who inspect the IntpeC. tors. ;Last Week the editor of the Sarnia Gazette printed an editor.- tat regarding the manner in which We are governed and added this footnote: "No special reason for this editorial other than we get so bloody mad once in a while at the insane way we are being got/err:6e: Canadians are becoming as snack-happy as Americans, ac- cording to a Canadian Grocer survey of snack foods manu- facturers. This market is head- ing for the biggest year in its history. The boom in "munch, crunch and dip" snack foods has drawn major companies into the field and more are expected to jump on the bandwagon. At one time, potato chips, pretzels and pea- nuts had the market pretty much to themselves, but the story is different today. Party-food Shop- pers are buying more of the newer snack varieties. Annual retail value of com- bined snack and chip consump- tion in. Canada is $2 a head. In ,1966, Candians crunched and chewed their way through 66 per- cent more snacks than they did 10 years ago. The sale of pot- ato chips alone reached $20. One brewery advertises these as being the "thirst-makers" and may be one reason why Canadians drank two percent more beer last year. If you're interested, Canadians consumed 14.89 gallons of beer per capita during centennial year, although the figure in Ontario was slightly higher at 15.94 gallons. Medical advice in some tele- vision commercials should be taken with a grain of salt . . . not a dose of salts. That's the word from the On- tario Medical Association which endorsed action seeking with- 50 YEARS AGO The annual meeting of the Ex- eter District of the Methodist church 'was held in the Lucan Methodist Church with Rev. S. W. Muxworthy presiding: Attend- ing were J. W. Baird, S. G. veiland, Exeter, G. A. Barnard and. A. E. Johns, Elimville, W. A. Finlay, Centralia, C. W. Bak- er, Crediton, J. F. Xnight, Hen- sall, Harold Williams, Grand Bend. I In accordance with the new regulations of the Food Control- ler quite a quantity of flour and sugar have been returned to the dealers in town by some who had a greater stock on hand than the new law allows. Mr. Francis Marshall has been engaged by Hensall villagers owning cows to herd them for theTteeasOonnta.rio Flax Company re- quires 300 acres of land for Exeter Flax Mill. Apply Joe 'Davis, Exeter Flax Mill. 25 YEARS AGO epl erant Sanders, son of Mr. S. M. Sanders, town, recently completed an advanced course as a radio Mee/tank at the Boca. Raton Field, Florida: Mr: Harold Whyte and his Scouts and Cuba will haVe charge in Exeter of the Navy League "rag Day Saturday, The Jackson-Press at 'King- Sten of Which SeltiOil grandson of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. SeldOn, Exeter is the head, Was gutted by fire on Sunday with art estimated loss of Over $200,- 000: Huron County contributed Well to the Russian Relief fund At did drawal of TV advertising which recommends milk of magnesia as a cure for stomach ache in children. The committee warned that it is dangerous to give a lax- ative to a child with stomach ache without a doctor's advice. By now, the annual obsession }mown as the perfect lawn has struck the average homeowner. Possibly the oldest status sym- bol was the comparative dryness of the various caves our an- cestors inhabited, but the neatly clipped lawn must have become the mark of the successful man very early. The lawn descends from the days when oyEnership of grazing animals denoted wealth. The man with plenty of sheep, goats or cattle was surrounded by clipped turf. When he owned all the animals that the land could pos- sibly support, he had the most closely-clipped lawn on the neighborhood—which was incon- testable evidence of his wealth. The development of the lawn mower made cattle barons of us all, but the machine has several shortcomings, including the in- ability to provide the fertilizer that animal herds did. There are many manuals on lawn care 'but none of them touches upon the basic element of success. That secret ingred- ient consists of the ability to argue well enough so that the lawn in its present condition will be accepted by your wife. the whole of Canada and the value of clothing shipped ran into the million of dollars. 15 YEARS AGO Exeter Businessmen's As- sociation, meeting Tuesday, con- sented to spearhead a movement to decorate the town for Coron- ation Day, JUne 2. Grand Bend pee-wee hockey players were Winner's of the "D" group in the recenthockeytotrn- arnent at God erich and Were tend- ered a banquet by Grand Bend Lions with Red Kelly of the Detroit Red Wings as speaker. The Exeter Tiines‘Advqcate was one of two newspapers which received an award from the On- tario Safety League gat a luncheon in Toronto Tuesday. Ralph Genttner vat elected president of Exeter Kinsmen Club Thursday night. A charter mem- ber of the club with three years perfect attendance he won the top position by acelamation. 10 REARS AGO Highland Hill Dairy, Exeter, haS amalgamated with Egeter Dairy Ltd. Tire new plant Will operate under the 'name of 'Ex- eter Dairy Ltd. Wiiliairi D. Schaefer of New- ton graduated from Ontario Vet-, erinary College and will be as- sociated with the practice of Dr. Norman Amos at KirktOn. Exeter's grand old lady, Mrs. Ann Carling, died quietly in her sleep Monday morning in her 97th year. She was Exeter'S Oldest resident. A federal health grant of $7,000 has been approved toward the cost of conStruction of 'the new ;tun, tee residence tot south Huron' Hospital, Sometimes you, feel like At- laS, trying to carry the world On your shoulders. With a slip- ped disk and an arthritic knee. Well, what caa you do? You Can't drop it« it would 'break into pleces. And you can't set it down for a rest, You lrnon you could never pick it up again. This is the predicament in which the average middle-aged husband and father finds him- Self most of the time. Thatot the fellow you find wand- ering daZedly in a supermarket; • l ivies Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 fir blundering through a swamp trying to catch a seven-inch Speckled trout; or playing golf With intense ineptitude. if you ask him he'll swear That he's tot quite over the hilt yet, that he can carry his World for another few steps. But if you corner him and quiz hiM, you'll find that he's not Only over the hill, but sliding down the other side so 'fiat there'll nothIng but a gteaseball left ...3,ten he hits the bottom. He'll also be broke, if he hiS Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Authorized as tecued tins Posf Office Dept, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Cash Paid in AdVante Circulation, September 10, 1967, 4,338 Canada X5.40 Per Year; USA $1.00 • A- ' S'