The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-04-17, Page 4-••••-•
Family pooch goes AWOL
Best foot forward
Now that the weather is a little
more condusive to outdoor living, it is a
fine time to think about sprucing up the
property for the long, hot summer
ahead.
Nothing speaks so well of a town as
rows and rows of painted houses and
tidy yards. Exeter and most of the
communities in the area are blessed with
caring citizens who know that repairing
and picking up are two vital jobs around
the average household every year.
Unfortunately there is always that
minority of residents who allow the
steps to sag, the paint to peel, the litter
to collect. Since we do dwell in a
democracy where people can make a
choice about how they will live, it is
nearly impossible to expect full
co-operation in the matter of property
neatness.
We wonder if there is, not
; something more we can do to promote
' clianer, more beautiful surroundings. It
may be that some persons cannot attend
to the outward needs of their property
because they are without strength to do
the work themselves or funds to hire the
job done.
In the case of senior citizens, for
instance, it would be wonderful if the
service organizations or youth groups
could sponsor a kind of municipal arbor
day when free labor would be supplied
to rake leaves, burn sticks and papers, do
odd bits of carpentry work or some
painting.
Local councils should be able to
legislate change where the sloppy
conditions become health problems.
Garbage piles that attract rats and mice
and long grass and weeds which promote
allergies and insects should be cleaned up
at the expense of the delinquent
ratepayers.
It would take some foresight and
some planning but there are ways to
perk up a greater portion of the
countryside each spring. Centennial year
motivation did wonders for the farming
community. Maybe we can take our cue
from that.
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FFFECTIVE UNTIL APRIL_ 26 Exeter council decided last week
it's time they took a stand against the
continual nibbling away of their
authority by senior levels of government,
and it is difficult to argue with their
decision.
In the span of only two or three
years, local communities have watched
their control lessened or eliminated in
such matters as libraries, assessment and
education and there's every indication
this list could be considerably
lengthened in the near future to almost
completely eliminate the function of
local administration.
In some areas, councils have not
argued with the principle involved in
setting up larger areas of administration,
but they have objected to the manner in
which it has been done.
Mayor Jack Delbridge probably
summed up the feelings of most when he
pointed out he was tired of being told
what council would do, rather than
being given any opportunity to express
their opinions on the matters first.
It's evolving into a type of
dictatorship that is becoming
increasingly difficult for people to
understand, and the increased costs
being faced give good cause for
apprehension.
Stop the nibbling
Many of the changes look good on
paper, but when put into effect they
don't match up to that position. Tax
increases being faced in some
municipalities are staggering and this
alone is reason enough to urge the senior
levels of government to stop and take a
look at where they are leading us or
perhaps more correctly where they are
pulling us.
The absurd situation being reported
in some communities would suggest that
the senior levels of government have
even failed to fully investigate the cost
of some of the programs they are
implementing. If they did, they
obviously made some glaring errors.
While it has been mentioned before
that local administration is losing out
because of the apathy of the people, it is
becoming evident that some of that
apathy will disappear when most receive
their tax bills this year.
It's obviously time someone took a
stand, and while the matter of Huron
wanting to take over a street in Exeter
may not be considered a major issue, it is
an example of what is happening and is
as good a place as any to start objecting
to the backhanded methods which make
a mockery of democracy and diplomacy.
FANCY TURNS TO FISHING—In spring, a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of fishing. This was the
case at the Exeter Dam, Tuesday afternoon when Dennis Keller, David Krampp and Michael Burke tried
out their fishing techniques for the first time this year, T-A photo.
Meet my mother-in-law
For years, the mother-in-law
has been the butt of jokes with a
touch of bitterness in them.
They have been pictured as
domineering, interfering women,
ruining the grandchildren,
breaking up marriages. They
have been caricatured as
unwelcome visitors who
criticized, made trouble and
generally were a great big pain in
the arm, .And often with good
reason.
I've never been able to write
sarcastically about my
mother-in-law. In the first place,
she'd have had my hide for a
door-mat. In the second, she was
one of the sweetest and most
gentle persons I have ever
known.
Now, don't get me wrong.
She Was no saint. She was no
little, old white-haired lady
handing out cookies and
benovolency all over the place.
Far from it. She was born and
raised in County Antrim,
Ireland, and she had most of the
traits of that peculiar race.
Equally quick to tears and
laughter. Witty and stubborn.
Quick tongue and quick temper.
Warm and fiercely loyal to her
own and with a wonderful
capacity for giving love,
Her children loved her and
her grandchildren adored her
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and her husband worshipped
her. Like so many grannies, she
had spanked her own children
when they needed it, but grew
furious and tearful when they
spanked theirs.
She came out to Canada as a
young woman, beautiful of face
and figure, with long, black
curly hair, a haughty, fine-boned
Irish look and a warm and lively
spirit. She sang like an angel.
She was thrown into a sober
puritan community and married
a shy young farmer who loved
her deeply for 46 years and still
does.
Perhaps she was not cut out
to be a farm wife. But she pulled
her weight. She worked — and
how she worked! Milking,
gardening, scrubbing clothes and
floors by hand. She was
indefatigable in her pursuit of
the demon dirt, and her house
was always spotless.
But it was never sterile, as
some spic-and-span houses can
be. It was never a house, but a
home, filled with the warmth
and love and life that only an
unusual person can provide.
There was singing and laughter
and chatter and a complete lack
of tension.
It wasn't roses all the way.
She went through the depression
and the mortgages, and those
rending decisions about whether
the last 50 cents available was
going for a music lesson or dress
material for the girls or feed for
the hens.
And she didn't go through it
patiently and submissively. She
was too Irish. She complained
like hell. But she didn't whine.
Her complaints and common
sense (this is one thing that is
seldom attributed to the Irish,
and should be) produced results.
Despite her fire, she had a
wonderful way of coming to
terms with the situation,
whether it was emotional or
material or spiritual.
She bore three handsome
children. She was pregnant, and
terribly sick with one of them,
when she got word that her
young husband had lost an arm
in a threshing machine.
She learned that one of her
daughters was going to marry a
broken-down fighter pilot, with
a total income of $60 a month,
and no prospects, Most mothers
would have fought like a tigress
to avert, or at least postpone the
marriage. She gave
encouragement, though her
heart must have been sore, and it
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It's been a rather sad week
around the Batten household.
Our pet poodle has been missing
since Friday noon and despite a
rather thorough search, no trace
has been found of him.
Thinking back over the past
year and a half since the little
black mutt joined the
household, it should be easy to
say good riddance.
After all, he's had a history of
messing up the rugs, chewing up
the boys' plastic toys, jumping
up on people when they come in
the house, scratching nylons,
bothering the neighbors and a
hundred and one other things
that at times made his stay less
than pleasant.
However, such things are
generally overlooked by pet
owners, and we are no
exception.
There are many fond
moments with most pets. We
recall when he first joined the
family and we took a family
photo with Garcon and our two
eldest lads crowded into a
basket. He was nothing more
than a ball of fluff.
There's the memory of the
laughter as he was put through
the punishment of his first bath
and the wife's impolite smiles as
his "master" completely failed
to train him to do any of the
easiest tasks a dog should be able
to perform.
Garcon was not the amorous
type one usually thinks of in a
frenchman. His pleasures came
more in rough-housing with the
kids and many amusing
moments were spent in watching
him wrestle or play tag with
Scott.
Similar to most dogs he took
a great deal of punishment from
the kids. However, he showed
his greatest aptitude in
knowing what he had to take
and what he didn't.
A pull on the ear from a
four-year-old was something he
felt was not in order and he
repaid it with a snarl that made
it clearly evident that the ear
should be freed.
However, the baby could tug
on the same ear as hard as he
could and all he would get is a
whimpering plea from the dog to
quit.
* * *
The demise or disappearance
of a pet is something that
completely shatters some
people. They are recognized as
members of the family and are
missed as such.
We didn't think it had
reached that point with Garcon,
but perhaps it had progressed
further than we thought. Steve
saw a black poodle up town on
Monday and immediately
became excited when he thought
it was his.
Obviously, he too had
forgotten the times the
mischievous mutt had stolen a
cookie from him or jumped on
him to hold him down and lick
his face,
But thinking back, Steve's
reaction would be normal for
any lad who had been caught
feeding his dog ice cream and
maple syrup from his spoon
between his own mouthfuls.
One thing we do know, if
someone spotted our dog and
decided he would make a nice
pet, they are in for a
disappointment. They'll need a
great deal of patience and more
than once will hold a discussion
as to whether or not, he should
remain in the family circle.
Added to their woes is the
fact he's subject to epileptic
seizures and on occasions forgets
he's supposed to be
house-broken.
However, if they do tire of
him we're certain the Batten
family will welcome him back.
If he met a worse fate, we say
farewell to a good companion,
Now that the Ontario Liquor
Control Board is opening up new
self-serve stores, the Ontario
Temperance Federation is
attempting to provide some
appropriate names for them.
The Federation newsletter
suggests they may become
known as boozeterias,
stupormarts or drinkomats. Or,
since customers will be hauling
wares around the stores in
bottle-buggies, would
alcohaulery be suitable?
Even bottle-buggy may not
be the chosen name for that
vehicle. It could emerge as
joy-wagon or lush lorry.
Actually, the boozeteria — or
whatever you choose to call
them — will reduce the embar-
rassment of some first-time
shoppers at liquor stores.
We know of a couple of local
ladies who, on their first visit,
looked over the display of wines,
etc. and then picked up their
choice and walked over to the
cashier to have it wrapped.
* * *
The English language seems
to be undergoing what might be
called a "language explosion".
Dictionary editors are
hard-pressed to keep up with it.
For instance, one 1969 edition
contains 14,000 words and
phrases that were not in the
1968 edition.
But where do the new words
come from? How could editors
find 14,000 new entries?
It seems as though forming
new words is everybody's
business — the politician, the
scientist, the economist, the
fashion designer, the man on the
street, and of course, the
teenager.
There's the word "gaposis"
50 YEARS AGO
Exeter citizens recently
purchased the bus of the late
Thomas Creech and presented it
to Mr. John Gillespie, our
veteran busman. A few minor
repairs are being made, after
which Mr. Gillespie will
commence its use to serve the
public as he has done faithfully
for so many years.
A cold and blustery spell of
weather struck this week with
high wind, much rain and some
snow.
Returned soldiers this week
included Private John Williams,
Private W. J. Veal, Private Offa
McPherson, and Private Homer
Bagshaw.
Wanted — a qualified teacher
for S.S. No. 5 McLean: to
commence duties May 5th,
Salary $500; duties light. (advt.)
The order-in-council
permitting the importation,
manufacture and sale of
oleomargarine expires with the
official ending of the war,
Legislation will be required to
continue the permission.
25 YEARS AGO
Dr, and Mrs, D. A. Anderson
on Tuesday observed the fiftieth
anniversary of their wedding.
Ass't. Scoutmaster Don
Traquair and Patrol Leaders Bill
Weekes, Jim Whyte, Donald
Easton and Don Southcott were
in Clinton Wednesday and
Thursday attending a leaders
conference.
"Put Victory First" is the
slogan for the Sixth Victory
Loan campaign, the organization
for which is now complete.
The hydro was installed in
Thames Road School during
Easter holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Reaman
and daughter Carol of Columbia,
5, A., arrived in town for a three
months vacation.
The purple martins have
arrived in town.
'the ladies of Hensall WI and
the War Service Committee will
ship 50 boxes to the Ilensall
boys who are serving overseas.
for instance. It means "any
conspicuous or abnormal gap,
deficiency, etc." Now when you
read about the credibility gap,
you'll understand gaposis.
Here are few of the 14,000
new words added to one
dictionary this year. Some have
been around a longtime as slang
or "trade" words, but now
they're official: brain-picking,
cliffhang, file 13, flab, freedom
walk, head start, inner space,
instant replay, old-shoe,
plain-Jane, suitcase farmer,
telephonitis, yoo-hoo, glop,
miniskirt, chinfest, etc., etc.
It's certa:ely going to mean
that scrabble players will have to
up-to-date dictionaries to avoid
arguments about the
authenticity of some of the
words they use.
* *
The Canadian Film
Development Corporation,
recently criticized by private
film groups for inactivity, is
allocated $325,000 in the
government's spending estimates
this year. Of the $325,000
allocation for the next fiscal
year, $200,000 is to be spent on
administration, $125,000 on
awards and grants.
Movie producers are
notoriously big spenders but
even at that it seems a bit thick
that it would require spending
$200,00 on staff to hand out
$125,000 in awards and grants.
The taxpayers, obviously, are
not going to get much for their
money.
15 YEARS AGO
The officials of James St.
United Church have decided to
proceed with plans for the
erection of a new building to
take care of the ever increasing
enrolment in the Sunday School
and to provide a modern ladies'
parlor and assembly room.
Tentative plans call for an
expenditure of approximately
$50,000.
A capacity congregation
attended the Palm Sunday
service in the Lucan United
Church when new electronic
organ chimes were dedicated in
memory of the late Rev. James
John Brown, former minister
and well-known resident.
Adjudicator F. W. Holton,
supervisor of music in Brantford,
termed the South Huron Festival
this week one of the largest and
best in Ontario. He was very
impressed with the quantity and
quality of the entries, and
compared Exeter favorably to
much larger centres.
10 YEARS AGO
Paula Boulianne, Crediton,
who heads the S.H,D.H.S. paper
staff this year, has been chosen
posture queen of the school over
seventeen other competitors.
Dr. M. B. Dymond, Ontario
Health Minister, inspected the
local hospital this week in
company with Mayor R. E.
Pooley, C. S. MacNaughton,
Huron M.L.A., and William
Ellerington, chairman of the
hospital board. Dr. Dymond
found the hospital full with
patients in the corridors.
The 1200-bed hospital
planned for Huron County will
probably be a multi-purpose
mental health institution, Dr. M,
D. Dymond, Ontario minister of
health, revealed at the P.C.
meeting in Clinton. He
confirmed earlier reports that
tenders will be called this
summer for drainage of the site
and construction of a power
plant,
Excelleht, progress is reported
as a staff of 80 men are engaged
in preparing the new Pinery
Park.
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