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If anyone thinks he's too busy to round up the family mutt or the barnyard felines and take them to the clinics, we suggest he contact someone who has had to undergo the series of shots following a bite from a suspected rabid animal. The tune "wasted" is a small price in comparison to the amount of time and discomfort arising from such shots. Let us help you get a new home NOW! Many candidates? Right now, with Winter coming on, is the time to move to the spaciousness of your new home. Pay for it while you enjoy it! An easy payment mortgage at Victoria and Grey Trust may cost less than you think. Get it today at Victoria and Grey. Two Kippen area Scouts, Donald Littleton and Gary Dietz were presented with the Governor-General's lifesaving awards in the spring of 1966, The pair dove into a pond the previous summer and managed to find Brad Littleton on the bottom and while one started artificial respiration, the other went for help. The doctor on the scene credited their quick action with saving the youth. Area commissioner Jack Gallant made the presentation. T-A photo VG The .senior Trust Company devoted entirely to serving the people of Ontario. VICTORIA and GREY TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 425 Main Street EXETER 235-0530 Some ratepayers in the ,borough of North York in Toronto have an unusual contest underway. They plan to pick the most useless member of the borough's council. The council member who gets the most votes will receive a portrait of an abortus politookus — a fictitious animal which supposedly depicts a typical council member. It's certainly a novel idea. Perhaps we should run a "nasty award" contest in this area among council members. The number of candidates is certainly lengthy. After all, take any average council member in the area. He probably went to a nomination meeting with some two percent of his fellow ratepayers to get started on his political career, Anyone who would attend a nomination meeting in the first place has to be a candidate for the nut house, because all they do there is discuss business pertinent to his community. But, anyone who would take a look around and feel some sense of duty in allowing his name to stand to operate the business of his community is really off base. What does he get out of it? Well, there's some pay. It works out to about 10 cents an hour when considered against the time one is expected to spend on his community's business. Is it a happy time? Well, perhaps! That is if the person happens to enjoy getting complaints and criticism, especially for items over which he has no control and which are generally petty things when considered in ratio with some of the important problems facing most municipalities. We could go on at great lengths pointing out how anyone in political life could be considered a prime candidate for nasty awards. People get only what they deserve in their elected representatives, and generally speaking, it's a great deal more time and effort than most people are prepared to give, particularly those useless souls who have nothing better to do than come up with useless suggestions for useless awards that do nothing but keep good people from seeking public offices and discouraging the good people who already hold such offices. Downgrade security How come when a. few handsful of Vietnam protesters come to North Battleford from Saskatoon and Prince Albert that the CBC-TV network sends a crew with one of its top reporters all the way from Regina to report on the lonely affair on the national news, but when high school curlers gather here from every srovince in Canada the city's too remotely located to send a crew? It appears to us that you have a better chance of making a CBC news broadcast if you have long hair, or if you parade around a near vacant airfield protesting the war in Vietnam, even though our government or people have nothing to do with that issue. Talk about American domination'of our industry. How come we pay so much attention to our neighbor's business and so little to our own? Why don't they protest about some of the problems we face in Canada and that we have power to cure? Like what's wrong with having a protest about inflation, or giving our Indian citizens a better deal, or getting the government to do some thing about the weather? Of course there's nothing wrong with a good old-fashioned protest. Protest is part of the liberty we enjoy in this country, but let's use it intelligently for things we can change in our own society. When we use our liberty fraudulently we simply milk its responsibility, and downgrade our future security. How cone we don't know any better? - North Battleford (Sask.) News-Optimist He was about ready to take off when we politely suggested he should close the door. However, he smilingly replied that the.door had been taken off this particular craft as it was being used by the sky-divers. With that, we hitched our seat belt a few notches tighter and set off down the runway with the breezes blowing furiously in our face. We suspect our pilot was a little chagrined at being left off the aerobatic team and he appeared to be using this flight to point out to the officials on the ground that he could fly with the best of them. There were none of those lazy turns. All of a sudden we were flying sideways and we opened our eyes long enough to see the ground at a dizzy angle below. If you're looking for any aerial shots in this issue, you may be disappointed. Trying to operate a camera while holding on to a strap with both hands is a feat we have yet to master and trying to focus while one has his eyes closed is not conducive to good photography. We'll take the pilot's word for it. There was quite a crowd! * * * Polluted waters long ago closed down the many favorite "ole swimmin' holes" along area rivers, and now it appears that fences are in danger of closing down access to many of the fine beaches in Ontario. Ownership of beach property has been debated for many years, with most people going on the assumption that lake front property owners owned land only to the high water mark. In most cases, this left ample room for weekend swimmers who invaded the beaches to cool off in the blue waters of Lake Huron. One of the most popular beaches in this area has been at Port Blake, located at the end of Highway 83. On busy weekends, cars lined both sides of the highway extension. Is that now lost? It would appear that some residents of the nearby summer subdivision would have us believe it. They've erected a fence right down to the water's edge and a large sign advises those who come to their favorite retreat that the beach area north of the fence is the private domain of the subdivision residents and their guests. While there appears to be some moral issue at stake in the matter of beach access, it is a matter that will no doubt be settled in the courts, One court ruling on property at Lake Erie has given beach ownership to the water's edge to the property owner, but it has been suggested that not all property deeds are the same as the one in that case. Rulings on other beach areas are required before high fences —Please turn to page 5 Rejoice, they're gone again If area residents were trying to find something exciting to enjoy a final fling on the last holiday of the summer season, they didn't have to go far to find it. South Huron became the entertainment capital for the Labor Day weekend and probably only the ONE attracted more people as some 25,000 to 30,000 people congregated at Centralia and Exeter to watch the rodeo and air show. Any fears that the events would conflict and both would suffer were certainly unfounded. The rodeo organizers had to turn some patrons away on Sunday because the seating was taxed to capacity and the air show organizers saw hundreds line up outside the fences to watch their event. Oddly enough, they weren't too worried about the loss of revenue, because they had more people paying than they had ever dreamed possible. It was a weekend jammed packed with excitement and we suspect more people than just the writer woke up Monday with sore eyeballs and neck resulting from the strain of watching an airplane do a crazy flip or a cowboy doing much the same type of manoeuvre off the back of a brahma bull. It's difficult to imagine what makes a man interested in such activities. It obviously isn't the money that prompts them to enter such events, so it must be the challenge or the desire to prove that you've -got a bit more intestinal fortitude than the average Joe on the street. We'll certainly not contest the point. Just trying to get pictures over the weekend extends our bravery to the breaking point. Standing in front of a bucking shoot awaiting the arrival of a frothing. snorting brahma bull is something we can do without, especially in view of the fact the direction to be taken by the bull is always unknown. Taking pictures of the air show has less dangers, although we talked our way into a situation Sunday afternoon that we won't duplicate again. We thought, in the interest of good photographic journalism, that getting an airshot of the crowd and the planes would be the proper thing, so we asked a couple of officials it we could get aloft with one of the pilots. They were most obliging and we were soon climbing into an airplane with one of the daredevils at the controls. education taxes, could kiss the minister of education on both cheeks. For, despite all the wonderful things to do in summer, there is nothing more bored than a teenager of either sex, just hanging around home. I can't blame them much. I get bored silly myself, just hanging around home. And adolescence makes it even more frustrating, because the body is full of beans. not meant for sitting in a lawrichair, reading a book. But the pattern goes something like this. Sleep till noon or later. Get up after the lunch dishes are done and make a shambles of the kitchen preparing a messy hanburger. Leave the mess for Morn. Demand why there isn't a clean shirt. Slouch to the streets or the park, or hitchhike to the beach. Sit around and rap with a gang of other bored teenagers. If dinner is at six, be sure to get home at either five or seven and 50 YEARS AGO Exeter High School re-opened on Tuesday of this week with an initial attendance of 88. The staff consists of Mr. E. J. Wethey, Miss Stella Gregory and Miss Verna McLaughlin. The automatic water supply system has been installed at the pumping station by the waterworks department. A serious fire was averted at the G.T.R. station on Friday evening last. Shortly after the train had gone south, Mrs. Wm. Hodgert noticed a blaze opposite the baggage room door. The blaze originated under the platform but how is a mystery. It was soon brought under control. Master Charlie Acheson is holidaying in London. A carload of cement arrived in Centralia last week for Roger Bros. to build silos for William Essery, Murray Elliott and A. Hodgson. Going back to school could be a traumatic experience, but it isn't. It's sad to see the summer go, and all those things you were going to do not done. But there's a certain excitement as we step into September, surely the finest month of the year in this country. It is certainly not a sad occasion for mothers of young children. Most of them heave a sigh of relief, right down to their sandals, at the thought of school opening. Children are wonderful creatures. But, like booze, they should be taken in small doses. In summer, they are constantly wanting to eat, do something dangerous, or fight with their brothers and sisters. A young mother's .nerves are tough, but can be stretched only so far. Even more grateful for our educational system are the parents of all those teenagers who didn't have a job this summer. Most of them, even those who complain bitterly about high demand to be fed immediately. Then spend an hour in the bathroom, fancying up, and drift off to stay out half the night, muttering vaguely that you don't know where you're going or when you'll be home. This, of course, after "borrowing." in plaintive tones, a little something from the old man. With exceptions, this is how it goes. It's demoralizing for all parties. And it's one reason even teenagers are glad to get back to school and their parents are not glad, but ecstatic. Then there's the business of clothes for school. Little kids are sent off clean and shining, in fairly conventional apparel. Big kids battle every inch of the way. Big boys aren't. so bad, though even they are showing peacock tendencies. It's the big girls who cause the trouble. After a summer in shorts and jeans, sweatshirt and bare feet. ViNitiakii&XU Times Established 1873 15 YEARS AGO Preston Dearing and son, RR 1 Exeter, captured every major prize in the Dorset Horned sheep class at the Canadian National Exhibition on Thursday. Theodore Parker's proposition for a vote on the hog marketing program is getting strong support in Usborne Township, according to reports. Dragged on his bicycle 44 feet after being hit by a car on Main Street, 12-year old Bev Sims is in Victoria Hospital, London, with a broken right arm, dislocated shoulder and severe abrasions. Exeter Bantams captured the Western Ontario Athletic Association "C" championship Saturday when they defeated New Hamburg on the local diamond. Fred Hunter and Jim Russell were the winning pitchers. A fishing party of Police Chief Reg Taylor, Harry Holtzmann, Les Mitchel', Bob Sanders and Bob Cutting got a nice catch of Northern pike at Field, near North Bay this week. 4 SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., 0.W.N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC Editor — Bill Batten—Advertising Manager Phone 2351331 SUBSCRIPTION RATES:, RIZSMINAMESPRINEMPIANUNIMMESSIMIX Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 25 YEARS AGO AQMS Vernon A. .Heywood, R.C.E.M.E., arrived in London on Tuesday after serving for four years overseas. Hensall Continuation School was to have opened on Monday but the pupils will enjoy another week of holidays owing .to the fact that. Teddie and Freddie Saunders„ twin sons of Morley Saunders, principal, ,have the measles and the family is quarantined. .On Sunday morning the fine red brick residence of James Gardiner on the Thames Road together with all the contents was completely destroyed by fire. A new race track oval has been built on the fair grounds and is said to be one of the finest of its kind. James W. Morley, Exeter, Was among 39 new King's Counsel in Ontario appointed. by Attorney-General Leslie Blackwell, of Toronto. Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid hi Advance Circulation, September 30, 1969, 4,751 Canada 56.00 Per Year; USA $8.00 ;71 they are exceeding loath to don dresses and skirts and shoes. So they do the next. best thing — battle their mothers over every- item of attire, and demand something exotic: a buckskin jacket, a prayer shawl, a micro or Maxi Skirt, a see-through blouse, However, once they're back at school. the kids enjoy it. For a while. They discuss their summer romances and immediately begin new ones. They brag about the wild times they had. They positively swagger it they're hitchhiked to Vaticouv-er. They swiftly assess new teachers and try to drive them up the wall. They groan with exaggerated dismay when, they find out that Old So-and-So will be teaching them again this year. And how do the teachers feel? Most of them are glad to get back to work. They re broke, or they're sick of muddling around with their families. or they want to see what kind of rotten time.table .they have this year, or they just plain love teaching. know one who'll be glad to get back, for all the reasons mentioned above. 10 YEARS AGO Temperature hit a peak of 90° Wednesday climaxing a week of hot, humid weather. And the draught continues. Police reported no accidents in South Huron over the Labor Day weekend, a much better record than was reported over the province. Enrolment hit a new high at, SHDHS this week when 669 students registered. Biggest grade is nine, which numbers 207. William W. Rader, 19, Hay, escaped serious injury Friday when his ear exploded in flames on the eighth concession of Stephen. Mary Louise Fritz who spent the summer holiday in Mexico and California returned to Toronto on Sunday to resume her teaching duties at St. ciair Junior High School.