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.Rears repeating again
Two items which appeared on our
front page last week are worthy of
comment, The first being the fact that
rabies is still very much a threat in this
area.
The high rate of this disease in
recent years has declined, but the news
that a rabid fox was shot near Grand
Bend last week should serve as a
reminder that we have by no means
escaped this dreaded disease.
Everyone should be reminded that
all animals acting in any unusual manner
should be treated with a high degree of
caution, and the warning should be
repeated over and over for children.
They are perhaps more susceptible
to examining dead animals than adults,
and through their natural love for
animals, are more apt to come in contact
With a wild animal which may in fact
appear overly friendly — Which i$ one of
the traits of this disease,
The second matter which warrants
comment is in regard to, the thoughtless
person — or PeTsOns — who have been
opening water hydrants in Exeter in
recent weeks.
We can only hope they didn't
realize the seriousness of their actions at
the time, and that the statements made
last week at Exeter council will make
them aware of the sequences which
could result.
Council's offering of a $100 reward
may also serve as a strong deterrent in
this regard,
Those were the days
If teachers ever get the idea their
prOfession has seen few changes since the
good old days, it might be wise for them
to read this list of rules for teachers
which was posted by a principal in the
city of New York in 1872.
In fact, these nine regulations are
good medicine for almost anyone who
feels down in the mouth.
(1) Teachers each day will clean lamps,
clean chimneys and trim wicks.
(2) Each teacher will bring a bucket of
water and a scuttle of coal for the day's
session.
(3) Make your pens carefully. You may
whittle nibs to the individual tastes of
the pupils.
(4) Men teachers may take one evening
each week for courting purposes, or two
evenings a week if they go to church
regularly.
(5) After 10 hours in school, the teacher
should spend the remaining time reading
the Bible or other good books.
(6) Women teachers who marry, or
engage in unseemly conduct, will be
dismissed.
(7) Each teacher should lay aside from
each pay a goodly sum of his earnings
for his benefit during his declining years,
so that he will not become a burden on
society.
(8) A teacher who smokes, uses liquor in
any form, frequents pool or public halls,
or gets shaved in a barber shop, will give
good reason to suspect his worth,
intentions, integrity, and honesty.
(9) The teacher who performs his labors
faithfully and without fault for five
years, will be given an increase of 25
cents per week in his pay, providing the
Board of Education approves.
Asking for trouble
With the opening of the hunting
season this fall several new regulations
came into effect. It is no longer lawful to
hunt ducks, for instance, with only a gun
license. A duck hunting license must be
obtained in addition to the gun license.
Another regulation, and one which
is the height of dangerous folly, requires
that every hunter,must wear on his back
a big white patch bearing the number of
his gun license. As every hunter knows,
it is extremely dangerous to wear any
white clothing in the woods, for some
trigger-happy gunman is all too apt to
mistake the white flash for the tail of a
running deer and let fly.
True, it is not yet deer season, but
believe us, there are more than a few
hunters who are always prepared to
jump the starting gun by a month or so.
The required number patch is so
large that it really should be sewed to
the hunter's jacket if it is to be properly
kept in place during bush travel — and
thus the coat is going to look pretty silly
when used on any other occasion.
We hear that the color of the
number patch is going to be changed to a
fluorescent orange or red — but we still
wonder how any person in authority
could be so witless as to issue the white
ones, even on a temporary basis.
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Experience battles science
These days I have a rough,
idea how an old chorus-girl feels.
Nostalgia, regret, and yet certain
pride that one day, in the dim
past, you were up there under
the footlights, doing your
wiggle, your grind, your bump,
or whatever, with the best of
them.
All this is because of a young
fellow called Alex. He's a friend
of son Hugh. He's in the armed
forces and was recently
transferred to a nearby base. For
some reason, despite their
obvious and many shortcomings,
he has taken to the Smileys, and
usually drops around on the
weekend.
He's a pleasant and intelligent
lad and we enjoy his company.
He's rather lonely, is a long way
from home, and likes a
home-cooked meal. I don't
blame him. There's nothing
duller than an officers' mess on a
weekend.
But what really bucks me up
is that the kid is learning to fly.
He hopes to wind up on
helicopters, flying with the navy.
But in the meantime, he has to
learn to fly a conventional
aircraft.
And this is where Ibegin to
feel ''ke the old chorus-girl
aforeraentioned. There's very
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little difference in the procedure
he must undergo and that which
I underwent 25 years ago. I bask
in his awe as I reel off the yarns,
true, untrue or just slightly
embellished, of my
flying-training days.
Oh, I'm properly scornful.
"No, we weren't given much
instruction before going solo. It
was do or die, survival of the
fittest. Of course, we didn't have
radio-compass and ground-to-air
control and all that jazz. We had
to be natural pilots. Yep, you
had to get out of a tight spot
with quick wits and sheer
nerve." And so on.
I curdle his blood a bit. "Yes,
we had to fly in everything: rain,
snow, fog. Lost a lot of student
pilots. Twelve killed on my
course alone. The brave and the
lucky got through. And of
course most of them were killed
on operations."
But I'm also very helpful.
When I looked over his
procedures, I found they were
basically the same as mine. You
had to get the ruddy thing
started. You had to taxi it to
takeoff point without hitting a
gas truck or a mechanic. You
had to get it off the ground,
somehow, without breaking it,
and you had to get it back onto
the ground, somehow, without
breaking it. Same thing today.
I haven't bothered telling him
that, out of a class of 65, I stood
55th in ground school, 48th in
flying. There didn't seem any
point. After all, I did get my
wings, and I dropped as many
bombs into plowed fields, and
shot as many cannon shells into
clouds as the next fellow.
But I have been helping him
out with some of the hard bits.
He's having a bit of trouble with
his landings. Bounces. I've
briefed him carefully on what to
do when you bounce 28 feet
while making a landing. "Turn
off all switches, put your arms
over your eyes, and wait for the
second bounce."
He didn't seem to think this
was scientific enough, (They're
all so scientific, these young
fellows.) So I gave him, from
personal experience, the
ultimate advice on smooth
landings. "Just attach a
1,000-pound bomb to one wing,
ready to go off if you bounce,
and you'll land like a feather."
I gave him a lot more good
tips from the personal
experience point of view. Spins,
Residents in this district
should have experienced no
difficulty at all in determining
the many things for which they
should give thanks this
Thanksgiving.
The year 1968 has been
excellent in most aspects and
even the weather has been better
than usual.
In a society where greed has
become the main blight, there
will be many who could wish for
more than what has been
bestowed upon them, but if they
were to think clearly, there
would be little on their list of
wants.
Think about it for a minute.
What country could be a better
place in which to live than
Canada? Sure, we have our
problems, but when these are
placed in, comparison with the
problems of peoples of other,
lands, they are minute indeed,
and perhaps most of them would
disappear entirely if more of us
took time to take stock of the
benefits we enjoy as Canadians.
There may be some
arguments presented to the
contrary, but we are of the
opinion that no province has as
much to offer as Ontario; and
bringing it even closer to home,
we doubt anyone could come up
with a better spot than right
here in the confines of South
Huron and North Middlesex.
If we have any problem, it is
probably the fact that too
seldom do we take stock of our
position and consider it in view
of those less fortunate than
ourselves. By comparison, we are
over affluent and unfortunately
our gratitude is often lacking
because we tend to judge our
position more in comparison to
the few who have a bit more in
the way of worldly gifts rather
than in comparison with the tens
of millions who have
considerably less.
It would not be difficult to
envision the gratitude these tens
of millions would have shown
had they been able to sit down
and enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner
of the kind most people in this
district enjoyed. Perhaps what is .
difficult to envision is the fact
most of them would have been
equally grateful just to be
allowed to rummage through the
garbage and eat what was tossed
aside from our over-abundance.
Truly, we have much for
which to be thankful, and we'd
all be better off if we did more
of it.
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Councillor Joe Wooden is
probably correct in his
statement that the new rumble
strips erected at the intersection
of Highways 4 and 83 give the
appearance that the road is
under construction.
But, we should be prepared
to put up with it if in fact the
for instance. Told him how
sickening they are and how easy
it is to spin into the ground.
Told him how to get out Of a
spin to the left, for example.
"Hard left rudder, stick full back
and swallow hard." Reflecting
later, I wondered if it wasn't
hard right rudder and stick
forward., Oh, well he'll find out.
Nothing like experience.
As an expert, I've explained
to him how you recover control,
on takeoff, when you are headed
for the control tower instead of
the end of the runway. "Cut the
motor„ put on your brakes, and
pray,"
With all this, extra help, he
should pass his crucial test, He's
coming along nicely, except for
that glazed look he g etS hi his
eyes after a couple of hours of
my stories. I put it down to
nerves Or too rilUch dinner,
wonder?
changes at the intersection
reduce the number of accidents
taking place there.
We are of the opinion it's
about time we were prepared to
make a few "sacrifices" in an
attempt to reduce the carnage
on our highways.
How many people are of that
opinion is questionable. We note
that the speed limits on
Highways 400 and 401 will be
increased to 70 miles per hour in
the near future.
Unfortunately, there appear
to be too few people capable of
handling cars safely at these high
speeds, and we presume most
drivers will now consider it okay
to get up to 75 or 80 m.p.h.
The question is, how many
will then be satisfied with
reducing their speed to 50 or 60
when they get back onto roads
where the hazards are even
greater due to slower local
traffic, kids on bicycles, etc.,
etc.?
Fast driving is not unlike a
drug. It can be habit forming.
So, what are the advantages?
Well, it means a driver going
from London to Toronto will
reach his destination a few
minutes earlier with the new
speed limits.
However, we fail to see in this
day and age of extended leisure
why a few such minutes should
be considered so important.
Surely the reduction of
50 YEARS AGO
Sunday shortly after dinner
when news came over the wires
that Germany was seeking peace,
the whole town started
celebrating. The continuous
ringing of the bells brought most
of the citizens into the streets.
Autos, tooting, formed a
procession — one man counted
69.
Mr. Ed Treble got a nasty slap
in the face when a belt broke at
the Ross-Taylor mill on
Tuesday. His face was cut near
the eye.
Word has been received that
Pte Hector N. Heywood, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Heywood of
town, has sustained a gunshot
wound in the left hand and had
been admitted to the hospital at
Camiers on September 30.
On Monday morning shortly
after the glad tidings had been
received that peace had been
proclaimed, a sad message cut
short the celebrations of Mr. and
Mrs. William Brimacombe and
family when they received word
that their son, Pte Thomas
Brimacombe had been killed in
action.
25 YEARS AGO
DDGM Bro. W. H. Dougall
and his installation team from
Hensall visited Exeter Lodge No
67, IOOF Tuesday evening and
installed the newly elected
officers. Noble Grand of Exeter
Lodge is William Cann.
Fifty five head of western
cattle were rounded up in
cowboy style and shipped to
market Saturday from a farm
near Staffa. Messrs Ulric Snell
and Frank Taylor, mounted on
horses, went among the cattle
and drove them into a corral
from where they were loaded
into trucks. The cattle were the
property of the late Milo Snell,
Thanksgiving Day passed very
quietly. The weather was ideal,
1-lotdog-loving Canadians got
a reprieve when the PriCes Board
announced that its order, which
was to have banned manufacture
of hot dog rolls for the duration,
has been revoked,
human suffering and death
should be of more importance.
We join in extending
congratulations to the
Dashwood Tigers who brought
an Ontario baseball
championship to the area over
the weekend.
Area ball teams have
distinguished themselves over
the years and the intense rivalry
between area teams has often
been the only spark needed to
get them up on their toes
enough to carry right through to
titles and near titles.
One ardent Dashwood fan
pointed out this weekend that
the new champs were not the
best team in the district as far as
playing ability was, concerned;
but they made up for any lack in
this department with hustle and
determination.
Those two ingredients are still
among the most important
aspects in any sports contest and
young players throughout the
district can learn a valuable
lesson by taking their example
from Ontario's new OBA "D"
champs.
It's been a good year for
Tiger supporters in this area and
ball will probably hold front and
centre for several weeks to
come.
15 YEARS AGO
Six SHDHS students were
competitors at the International
Plowing Match held • at
Cobourg, October 7, 8 and 9.
Robert Dobson, Alex Meikle,
Glen Northcott and Jack Bell
represented their school, Lorne
Ballantyne plowed for Huron
County and Emil Hendrick was
sponsored by Larry Snider
Motors.
The biggest calf club
competition in Ontario started
Monday. The first carload of
cattle from the West was
distributed in Hensall to club
members Friday and another
carload will arrive Monday.
Another milestone in the
growth and development of
RCAF station Centralia was
passed Friday night when a new
Officers' Mess was officially
opened.
Twenty two men and 17
tractors invaded the farm of
Red Beer, two miles west of
Hensall and plowed 50 acres in
four hours. Mr. Beer is
convalescing from a three-week
stay in hospital.
10 YEARS AGO
Steve Storey, who has
patrolled right wing for the
Lucan Irish for the past four
seasons, has been named playing
coach of the Irish Six for the
'58-'59 season.
The Exeter Times-Advocate
offers to award the person who
sends in the best news tip of the
week, two free tickets to the
Lyric Theatre which may be
used for any regular
performance,
Thirty six pupils of Drayton
school attended the marriage in
the Christian. Reform Church,
Exeter, of Betty Petrusma of
Ottawa to their teacher, Williani
VanWeiren On Saturday.
McGillivray School Area
Board have taken an option on
land for a central school on the
farm of Levi White, Concession
14 and have engaged an
architectural firm, Blackwell &
Hagarty, London to draw up
plans.
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A Savings Account, at 4%, on which you may
write cheques at any time.
A Savings Account, at 5 1/2%, on which you may not
write cheques, but from which you may make
withdrawals at any time,
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