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Davey has just learned to
smile, though he wouldn't do it
for the photographer, For all of
his four months he's been rather
a sober boy, but the smiles are
coming more often and are
worth waiting for.
Davey looks like an East
Indian baby. His background is
really West Indian and
Anglo-Saxon. He has straight
silky hair with a tiny bit of curl
at the back, beautiful big dark
eyes and light tan skin.
He is healthy, active, and
quite strong. He loves to have his
legs free so he can kick and he's
fascinated by his own hands,
which he finds more interesting
than any toy. You can see his
eyes are fixed on his hand more
than on the camera.
Davey is easy to look after
because he's a good eater and
sleeps right through the night.
He likes to be cuddled and he
loves attention, but doesn't
demand it.
This baby will be a fine son
for a couple wanting to share as
many milestones as possible with
their little boy. To inquire about
adopting Davey please write to
Today's Child, Department of
Social and Family Services,
Parliament Buildings, Toronto
182. For general adoption
information ask your Children's
Aid Society.
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A couple of recent news items from
Ontario communities should give
members of Exeter council some food for
thought.
In Wallaceburg, the council has
decided that all home owners must
separate their garbage. The glass will be
placed in one container, dry garbage in
another, and wet garbage in another.
'Mile that may appear to be a great
deal of work, there's a practical reason.
The council will sell the glass to a
local glass factory for recycling, and in
addition to curtailing a pollution
problem, it is expected the net returns
from the glass will be about $20,000 per
year.
Proximity to a glass factory could
make the situation more practical for
Wallaceburg, but it's one that Exeter
council would do well to investigate.
The returns could be enough to pay
for most of the present garbage pickup
costs, and while the first year's saving
could be returned in the form of lower
taxes to enable ratepayers to buy an extra
garbage can or two, in the future it could
Prior to the Christmas holidays, a
mild furor arose over the recent decision
by the Huron board of education to
restrict police interviews with students in
county schools.
The board ruled that students under
21 cannot be questioned by any police
officer on school premises unless the
officer has obtained written permission
from the student's parent or guardian.
Exeter Police Chief Ted Day and
some of his counterparts across the
county were critical of the board decision,
noting that it would seriously hamper
police in their investigations of offences
committed by students.
• As Chief Day explained, some
parents of local high school students live
up to 20 miles away from the school, and
coupled with the fact that in many
families both parents work, there would
be long delays in getting permission from
parents to interview students.
In some incidents, this delay would
result in a serious curtailment of police
getting evidence in cases such as indecent
assaults.
This newspaper does not concur
with the increasing move to protect the
guilty. The ever increasing crime rate
indicates the dangers inherent in putting
obstacles in the way of police.
Great to be back to work
Policy needs review
The Huron board of education
should certainly be fully aware of the
need for full investigative powers for
police. Schools in the county have been
hit by vandalism and break-ins in
increasing numbers and such incidents do
not tend to suggest that police powers
should be hampered.
In the eyes of the law, a person
becomes an adult in most instances when
he reaches the age of 16. Obviously,
persons of that age should not receive any
greater protection just because they
happen to be students at one of the
county schools.
We think the policy needs a serious
review.
Certainly, the board must be
concerned about the students' interests.
Police interviews with students should be
conducted after the facts have been made
known to the school principal and should
be arranged in a discreet manner.
Police officials are obviously aware
of the need for tact when interviewing a
student at a school, and we have never
heard any complaints regarding the
manner in which the local officers have
conducted themselves.
If the board's policy did stem from a
"bad situation" in one of the schools, the
poli6e in question should have been
reprimanded by their authorities.
pay for a considerable amount of local
work.
The second situation is in Parkhill,
where a recent issue of the Gazette reports
that the energetic mayor, Adrian Ansems,
has received favorable replies from
Ontario officials to run a sweepstakes
lottery in Parkhill to help pay for a new
arena.
Many states, provinces and
communities in Canada are now using
lotteries as a means of raising money for
local projects and to our knowledge, most
have been successful.
At a time when taxes are on the
increase just trying to meet present needs,
lotteries will probably increase in use as a
method to raise money for special
projects.
While we have some reservations
about lotteries, wouldn't it be great to
have the gamblers in our midst pay for a
new town hall!
Who knows? If we can get cash for
more of our garbage and run lotteries,
municipal taxes may disappear entirely.
Rather ironical isn't it?
Thank goodness for work and
routine. They're the best therapy
there is in the neurotic world we
live in.
The highly-touted "holiday
season" should be enough to
make a great many people agree
with me.
Looking back, I predicted a
quiet holiday. And it started out
all right. Kim came home from
college a couple of days early,
quite happy, just like her old self.
But each day her face lengthened
as she sorted the Christmas mail.
Nothing for her. Day after day.
Her secret desire, of course,
was a message from the loved one,
who is spending the winter up
around Hudson Bay somewhere.
Nothing. She alternated between
reviling him and glooming about
the place.
The day before Christmas, it
came — long letter, so personal
that she would read only bits to
her avidly-interested mother.
And the thing that really killed
her was that in the same mail she
received an equally ardent letter
from a young man she's been
seeing at university. "Just to pass
the time until Joe gets home."
She chortled at the irony of it all.
Gentle grandad arrived and we
settled in to spend a quiet
Christmas Eve. All serene. Then
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comes a phone call from son
Hugh, from some god-forsaken
village in deepest Quebec. He and
a friend had been in a car
accident. The car was a write-off,
but they were both alive. (They
weren't even supposed to be
coming home for Christmas.)
They arrived the next day, all
racked up and bruised and
abrased and cut. The only thing
that hadn't been damaged in the
accident, it seemed, was their
appetites. They got through
about eight pounds of . our
nine-pound goose.
Then there was a round of
X-rays of chests, calls to
insurance adjusters, and
confessions that some people had
six essays overdue, that others
had an exam right after the
holidays and hadn't done a tap of
studying and that others were out
of a job.
This was all very good for my
wife's nerves. Combined with the
general slobbiness of the young
people — they all smoke makings
and there's tobacco all over the
floor; they eat and drink coffee in
a continuous process for 24 hours
and never wash a dish; their
clothes are draped all over the
house; and the hi-fi goes at a
brain-shattering decibel count —
all this made her come down with
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what seemed like stomach 'flu
but to me was a break-down.
She threw up regularly. She
couldn't eat or sleep. She had no
energy. She snarled. She
whimpered.
As a result, I was busier than
the proverbial one-armed
paperhanger.Tal king to Kim about
her love life. Assuring Hugh that
he wouldn't die, even though
every time he coughed it was like
an arrow in the chest. Calling the
doctor. Getting Alex in touch
with insurance people. Telling my
wife to get off her tail and give me
a hand.
And I cooked everything from
the Christmas goose to the New
Year's ham. And washed dishes
until I couldn't bear a TV
commercial about the beautiful
hands you have if you use Ivory
soap. And didn't have time to
watch TV anyway. And would
come down in the morning to
read my paper and find that the
young gentlemen had seized a
section each and were immersed
in it and their third cup of coffee.
But the worst thing of all was
the complete lack of privacy. I am
not anti-social, but I do need an
hour or two a day to escape from
people, read, think, sleep.
The only privacy I had was
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Members of the Prices and
Incomes Commission would
probably be perturbed if they
heard of some of the salary
increases being approved around
this area recently.
Their six percent guideline has
been completely overlooked in
many instances. Some municipal
councillors have been giving
themselves boosts of 20 percent
and more and Exeter council
recently approved a 100 percent
increase for one member of their
staff.
The latter increase was for the
local welfare officer, and those in
the know about the local welfare
situation, would probably agree
that heis still underpaid. In fact,
he'd get more money from
council if he went on welfare,
rather than being the welfare
officer. Ironical isn't it?
The Commission would
actually have a hard time arguing
against some of the boosts
council members are giving
themselves too.
A 20 percent increase may
appear high, but when it comes to
only $100 per year in terms of
hard cash, it is not very excessive,
particularly when one considers
the amount of time public
servants generally give to their
community.
As we have pointed out
before, in some cases municipal
council members get only a few
cents an hour when the work they
do outside the council chambers
is taken into consideration.
You can't argue with the
theory of giving a person what he
is worth, although agreement
upon coming up with such a
figure is obviously impossible.
We heard a story recently
about a contractor who couldn't
figure out why production was so
low with his crew. His foreman
advised that the men didn't think
they were getting enough money.
The contractor boosted their
wages — not excessively either —
and production increased
tremendously.
Municipal councillors should
be treated the same. Give them a
fair salary for their efforts and
then it should be expected that
they will give a fair return for that
stipend.
That should result in more
business-like meetings, better
committee study and a more
conscientious consideration of
one's duties.
The investment would be
returned quickly, although we
hasten to point out that many
municipal officials already go
beyond the call of duty and in
those cases there'll be no change
just because they get a pay boost. * * *
Speaking of salaries, we were
surprised to learn a few weeks ago
that the Ontario assessment
department paid $20 per hour to
the men who sat on courts of
revision.
That's a rate we would call
excessive, particularly when the
persons so engaged did not
require any great amount of
specialized training.
when I locked myself in the
bathroom, and then my wife
would be shrilling from her bed,
"Are the dishes done? Who's
going to vacuum the rug? There
are four loads of washing in the
basement!"
The only other private
moments were when I went
shopping. And baby, I didn't
hustle through the supermarket. I
strolled like a tired tortoise,
enjoying every voluptuous
moment of it.
All in all, its wonderful to be
back to work.
If that's an example of what
happens when provincial or
federal governments take over a
duty previously held by a
municipal government, it's
another vote against regional
administration.
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No doubt many people in this
area from time to time would
consider themselves "poor
people", but to our knowledge
none attended last weekend's
poor peoples' conference in
Toronto.
However, • we can take
consolation in the fact that as
Canadian taxpayers we did
contribute some of the $110,000
granted by the federal
government and some of its
agencies to transport delegates
from across the nation and to
help sponsor the convention.
In view of the fact many of the
delegates were demanding higher
scales of welfare and other forms
of assistance from the taxpayers,
it would appear rather ironical
that the government doled out
such a healthy amount to help
them.
It's similar to a strike-bound
company giving the strikers some
50 YEARS AGO
Mr. S. M. Sanders has
purchased the large James
Pickard Block owned by William
Jackson of Clinton and now
occupied on the north side by the
Jackson Manufacturing Co. and
on the south side by the Y.P.C.A.
Mr. Harper Rivers, who has
been conducting a butcher shop
in London, has sold out his
business.
The Misses Huston left
Monday morning for Dunnville to
take charge of their millinery
rooms.
Mr. S. J. V. Cann has
purchased the old power house
building across from the
Metropolitan Hotel from Mr.
Chris Zuefle and will occupy it as
a turning factory and cider mill.
Messrs Alvin Brintnell and
Harry Bierling have been engaged
by T. H. Newell to assist in his
Gray Dort Sales business.
25 YEARS AGO
Capt. Grafton Cochrane
arrived home Monday after
almost two years overseas where
he was on the staff of the
Canadian School of Infantry in
England. He is now on thirty days
leave before receiving his
discharge.
Miss Audrey Sims, a recent
graduate of St. Marys School of
Nursing, Kitchener, has been
successful in passing, her RN
exams.
In the municipal election
Monday, Benson W. Tuekey was
returned for his seventh term as
reeve of Exeter. His opponent
was Aaron J. Sweitzer, a member
of the council for the past two
years.
Fred Huxtable, agent for The
International Harvester Co., is
this week moving into the new
building he has erected on Main
Street. Sandy Elliot will remodel
the building vacated by Mr.
Huxtable for a showroom.
A. B. Seaman H aro I d
Holtzmann is this week in
London receiving his discharge
from the Navy. He has been in the
Navy the past two yearg.
financial assistance during the
strike.
The investment may pay some
dividends. The discussion also
centred around the poor people
developing programs of self-help
in an effort to reduce the
dependency-inducing nature of
many of the present services
provided to poor people.
One of our newspaper cronies
from Lucknow happened to be in
Toronto at the same time as the
convention and in fact was at the
same hotel where many of the
discussions took place. We
assumed he was representing we
poor newspaper men at the
conference, but such was not the
case.
At any rate, he reported that
at dinner, he had trouble getting a
spot to eat in the plush restaurant
at the hotel. Most of the places
were filled by the so-called poor
people.
However, the cafeteria at the
hotel, where meals are much
lower priced, was hardly crowded
at all.
15 YEARS AGO
Wallace G. Seldon succeeds
retiring chairman R. E. Russell as
head of the six-man Exeter Public
School Board. New vice-chairman
is Claude Farrow.
County and municipal
officials along with many of the
ratepayers he served paid respect
Thursday to Hensall Reeve
William Parke who died Tuesday
following a heart attack.
C. S. MacNaughton was
re-elected chairman of the South
Huron District High School
Board at the inaugural meeting
Tuesday night. E. L. Mickle of
Hensall was named vice-chairman
to succeed A. W. Morgan who
resigned after serving on the
board since its inception in 1946.
Council in Usborne Township
began their year with a bank
balance of $13,000 carried over
from 1955. Big project for the
municipality is the conservation
dam on concession 2-3.
To help merchants and other
businessmen avoid the risk of
keeping cash overnight or over
long weekends the Bank of
Montreal's Exeter branch has
installed an "after-hours"
depository unit.
10 YEARS AGO
New Main St. street lighting
program to be proposed 'by the
PUC will cost between e27,000
and $29,000 Mayor R. E. Pooley
revealed to Council Monday
night.
Attorney-General Kelso
Roberts QC speaking at a
Progressive Congervative rally in
Clinton Tuesday night predicted
the party would remain in power
in Ontario for another two
decades. The party has formed
the government since 1943.
Andrew Johnston has sold his
drug store in Exeter to R. H.
Middleton, Hensall. The latter
operated his own drug store in
Hensall for 20 years before selling
out to Trevor Wilson, Mr.
Johnston established his business
here four and a half years ago.
Mrs. Eliza Sims, Exeter's
oldest resident is Celebrating her
97th birthday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Lee Wilson.
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