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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-06-03, Page 4Why the delay? Jerry has just turned six. As you can tell from his expression, he is a delightful boy. But he has been held back from adoption for medical reasons. He has hydrocephalis (an abnormal build-up of fluid inside the skull). An internal drain called a shunt has been inserted and is working well. The condition has not affected his intelligence and his head is normal in size. His activities are not restricted in any way, though he has a slightly unusual walk. His general health is good. Jerry is an energetic boy who likes active games and gets on well with other children. He is outgoing, sociable, inquisitive. He is interested and attentive in kindergarten. He has definite ideas of his own, but in general is a co-operative youngster with no behavior problems. This boy likes music, especially singing, and he picks up both words and tunes easily. He is fond of playing with mechanical games and puzzles and enjoys children's TV programs. Jerry needs parents who can accept his medical history without spoiling their pleasure in a good-natured, appealing young son. It would be best if he could be the youngest in the family. Though he is having no current problems, it would probably be reassuring to adopting parents if a hospital were fairly accessible. To inquire about adopting Jerry, 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. TODAYS CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN %thatoTelvram 8yndicate SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., O.W.N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC Editor — Bill Batten — Advertising Manager Phone 235.1331 77?EvoR THE OPP TR4rFiC 840G sayysr 'IP 04106 Tye rArr Yo,e ore mew Not 4nse' r en. I0,P $1 1)0 Ix Ihp BeavF.1 Iknie C1135431. for more than dir homes Name Street . Crly Pa, 'IP I own e lot YES :3 NO t.1 - If , oi ..... 7-1 1 I 411 tyl.• — or_ Now that the urban municipalities have succeeded in getting welfare administration taken over by the Huron County council, Clinton Mayor Don Symons is suggesting they tackle the prospect of having recreation run on a county basis. He claims it's the only equitable method of distributing the costs of recreation over both urban and rural areas. , With a few exceptions, organized recreation programs are operated only in urban communities in the county while many rural residents avail themselves of the programs. In Exeter's case, this is not as much of a "freeloading" system as some would think. Many of the local recreation programs are operated under a self-sustaining basis where those engaged in the program pay registration fees which meet a large portion of the costs of the program. This obviously is a most equitable basis, although few programs reach a true self-sustaining position when many of the indirect costs of recreation in Exeter are taken into consideration. As the Clinton Mayor points out, town ratepayers pay for expensive facilities through taxation, while rural neighbors gain benefits from them without meeting any of these costs. However, he should remember that in most instances where facilities have been erected in urban communities Where are the signals planned for the Crediton Road crossing of the CNR? They were approved by Huron county council about one year ago and apparently the department of transport gave their okay a couple of months after that. Since that time, one man has died and two have been injured in crashes with trains at the crossing, While the lack of a signal can not be held entirely to blame for the crashes, it is obvious that someone has been negligent along the line in not moving quickly to have the signals erected when Has some merit partially on a donation basis, rural residents have contributed voluntarily to the projects. This was the case with the local swimming pool for instance. While Mayor Symons is presenting his idea mainly from the standpoint of getting financial support from his neighboring townships, his recommendation has merit from another point, that being the provision of better recreational programs in the rural areas. If operated on a county basis, recreation officials may still be centred in the urban communities, but they would have a responsibility to provide recreational activities and organization in rural areas. As an example, officials responsible for recreation in the southern part of the county would be able to provide professional assistance and planning for programs in communities such as Crediton and Huron Park as' well as centralized programs in the townships. From this standpoint, county-operated recreation has considerable merit, and while it would cost rural residents on a general taxation basis, it would also provide them with more recreational programs. We hope Mayor Symons' suggestions will gain some discussion, including the benefits which could be derived by rural residents and not solely the possiblity of them contributing more to the existing programs being operated in urban centres. in fact they have been considered necessary and approved. Both accidents may have been avoided had the signals been installed as soon as approval was received, and certainly the fatality at the crossing last fall should have spurred someone into action. We suggest Huron County council get the matter cleared up immediately before another tragedy occurs, especially in view of the fact the road will be heavily inundated with tourist traffic in the coming weeks. Delays in such an important matter are inexcusable. Little information for public FREE BASIC SHILL ERECTION OF ANY BEAVER N I o Should be a happy month MiiiiMigrikeiaMiNaNAWAVOSERMUraiiiiWOMMOSEMMAINISIbefififateMM I Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 0,4 A DIAN Wigitor Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation, September 30, 1970, 4,675 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $6.00 Per Years USA $8.00 4 '"''''MAMOMarraNgaijaPA, You have to believe the battle of "nerves" has now commenced between the Huron County board of education and the secondary school teachers they employ. The teachers, or at least an overwhelming majority, have resigned. Of course, they don't think the resignations will stand. Jobs are too scarce and many of them have heavy financial obligations (the same as the rest of us) that won't allow them to sit around idle, even if they Can count on some assistance frorh their cohorts across the province. The board has predicaments too. It would be foolhardy to replace the entire teaching staff and the principals within the county in a year. It would be caotic. So, the battle goes on. Unfor- tunately, the public have no idea of which side they should be backing. Both groups choose not to. tell those who pay the bills what the grievances are, so the ratepayers can't bring any public pressure to bear on the group which a public debate may in- dicate is in the wrong. In fact, the ratepayers may have some doubts that either group is really capable of operating an efficient educational system for the county. That comes about because the board and the teachers can't figure out what offers have been made. The board claims a five percent wage increase has been offered, while the teachers reply that it's really only two percent. Surely the mathematics teachers and some of the highly- educated and highly-paid board employees could sit down with a piece of paper and a pencil and determine exactly what the offer is. Failing that, we suggest they turn the matter over to some of the elementary students in the county and let them advise the taxpayers if it's five or two percent. + + + Everybody's got a problem, Like the ruffled customer who recently called the Consumer Protection Bureau of the department of financial and commercial affairs. Seems he read an ad in a U.S. published magazine. "Convert your black and white TV set to color," the ad- vertisement suggested. "Send $15 for the kit". So he did. And he got the kit. A paint brush and a can of paint. And no money-back guarantee either. It reminded us of a story one of our former teachers told of a similar gadget. It was guaran- teed to kill flies and the cost was nominal, Those who sent away for the gadget received two pieces of wood and a set of instructions. Catch the fly and place it on one block of wood, then place the second block on top and squeeze. Obviously, it worked! + + + From time to time we urge area farmers to check their fences to make sure cattle do not wander out onto the roads. For some strange reason, cattle usually find the holes at night and come crashing up out of the ditch y/ithout giving motorists any advance warning. An accident involving a steer usually smashes a vehicle up to quite an extent, and the chances of injuries are high. In some cases, farmers have been held negligent. One farmer in .the Wingham area is probably busy checking his fences this week. He was travelling on a county road and crashed into a cattle beast, causing $500 damage to his car. Oddly enough, the animal was owned by him and was killed in the crash. The costs involved would have 50 YEARS AGO Lawn tennis and softball leagues have been formed by several of the neighboring municipalities. In lawn tennis there are four villages represented: Zurich, Centralia, Crediton and Exeter; in the softball league are Exeter, Zurich, Centralia, Crediton and Dashwood. Miss Olive Knight, who has been attending high school here, left this week for Guelph where she will take a course at the Macdonald Institute. Mr. John Hunter met with a nasty accident while erecting a windmill for Mr. Nelson Baker. While stretching a large spring it slipped, and the hook on the end caught Mr. Hunter's left hand inflicting a nasty wound. A serious fire was prevented Sunday morning at the home of Mr. John Elder, Hensall. A spark escaped from the stove and ignited the wood box, The fire was put out by the assistance of neighbors. 25 YEARS AGO Big machines ripped up hun- dreds of cords of walnut, hemlock and black ash which once formed the surface of a pioneer road between Dashwood and Exeter. This is the first step in improving the highway between Exeter and Grand Bend, Dr. Milner is this week moving into the residence he purchased on Ann Street. Mr. George Anderson, veteran tinsmith, celebrated his 83rd birthday, One of his first jobs in Exeter was to put the galvanized roof on the Town Hall. At the District Annual of South Huron WI, held at Egmondville United Church, the members asked for a home economist to help them, the same way agriculture representatives Ore provided to help the men. paid for a great deal of new fencing! +++ A cartoon circulating the office during the past week depicts a couple of hippie-types with the male member of the duo making the following statement: "I'll run over and pick up our unemployment cheque, and then drop off at the university to see what's holding up my cheque on the federal education grant, and look into my research grant cheque. You go to the free VD clinic and check on your tests, then go to the free health clinic and pick up my glasses, and after that, go and pick up the food stamps and slide by the food market. Then we'll meet at the federal building at 12:00 for the mass picketing of the stinking establishment." It's the type of cartoon at which many taxpayers would have trouble laughing. 15 YEARS AGO Premier Leslie Frost officially opened the new $700,000 Huron County Courthouse Tuesday afternoon before a crowd num- bering several thousand. Mayor R. E. Pooley, Reeve Wm. McKenzie and ex-warden Earl Campbell were among those taking part in the ceremony. Gangs of up to 50 members are making rapid progress on con- struction of the addition to Exeter Legion Memorial Hall. Exeter council announced this week that the town has an option to buy 100 acres of land in Hay swamp to establish a new dump. Ausable River Conservation Authority authorized a call for tenders for the Morrison Dam in Usborne at its meeting in Parkhill, Wednesday. 10 YEARS AGO Bernice Grainger, 20-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn Grainger, was chosen queen of South Huron Youth for Christ at a banquet at Clinton, Saturday night. Exeter and district junior band won second prize at the Kiwanis Music Festival in Woodstock recently. The band was under the direction of Conductor James Ford. The shortage of public school teachers has come to an end. The local Public School board placed an advertisement last Saturday and Monday for one teacher, and by Tuesday had received 90 applications. Hurondale Dairy, Hensall, owned by Ron Mock, has pur- chased the Zurich Dairy. The transfer is effective im- mediately, Jule-Du-Mar-Oil Limited, undaunted after 12 years of drilling on the Schenk farm near Crediton, is bringing in neW equipment to go deeper in its search for oil there. Est • _.... • • Quality Controlled Components Cut Building Costs Safely. You Save Up To $3000. Beaver Home Components are built under strict QUALITY CONTROLS at the modern Beaver factory using precision engineering methods for a true and square home. LOT OWNERS NEED ONLY $200. 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PHONE DIRECT Ken Ducharme 235-1582 Main Street ]BEAVER Main Steet Exeter 235.1582 BY POPULAR DEMAND Exeter Community Credit Union REPEATS THE SPLIT/BIKE DRAW For The Month of June PLUS TWO ADDED PRIZES 2nd Prize Transistor Radio 3rd Prize Men's or Ladies' Timex Watch EACH Five Dollars deposited to your savings account entitles you to a ticket free Winner of Bike for May Nelson Cockwil I 168 Mill Street, Exeter, Ontario It Could Be You This Month June is one of the happiest months of the year in Canada. Or it should be. In other countries they have spring. In this country, we have a bleak month before the last snow goes, and June bursts forth in all her lush, soft splendour. Grass is startling green and the cattle fill their bellies with the juicy sweetness after a long winter of confinement and dull fodder. Young ones of all species ac- tually gambol, snort, kick up their heels and butt their mothers on one side, then on the udder. Our trees have forgotten their groaning and cracking in the teeth of winter; they bow and whisper like ladies at a garden party while the squirrels scamper saucily about their legs and the birds twitter among their ample bosoms and verdant hair. June is full of anticipation. The boat owners are painting and repairing and launching, The golfers are having their finest hour before the silly summer duffers swarm onto the courses. And school is nearly over. And the most beautiful marriages ever conceived are in the offing. It is a month when surely every Canadian should be shouting, "Praise the Lord", or "Let joy be unconfined", or at least, "Wow! This is the greatest!" But a benevolent Providence, in its wisdom, must remind man that every rose has a thorn, that every light contains its darkness, that every good has a balancing evil. It's probably just as well, If there were no bad smells, we wouldn't appreciate the good ones. If we never felt pain or illness, we wouldn't appreciate health. So, in June, as in life, there's another turn of the wheel, another side of the coin. There's all that glorious nature, just waiting to be revelled in. And there are all those mosquitoes and black-flies just waiting to revel in turning you into a swollen porpoise or a stripped skeleton. There's all that luxuriant grass. But the dam' stuff is up to your knees before you get your lawnmower overhauled. And there's all that young life. June was a happy month for my mother, more years ago than it is decent to talk about. She proudly bore her third son, me. But what she got was a sickly whelp who cried for two years without stopping and barely survived every infant's ailment there was in those days. There's all that anticipation, But the boat owner discovers that the rats have been at his sails, or the termites at his hull, or his motor has developed a perforated ulcer. And the golfer swings too hard on his first day out, slips a disc and is out for the summer. To be sure, school is nearly out. But June is pure hell for both teacher and student. For the teacher it is a scramble of final reviews, an avalanche of evaluation, a surfeit of statistics. Fair enough. He's paid for it. But he might as well be teaching a couple of cords of wood. The bodies are there, but the minds and spirits have fled through the open windows into the musky June air. It's even worse for the student. There is that oaf talking about poetry when the greatest poetry in the world is taking place outside that stifling rectangular prison. The blood stirs, the limbs go languorous, the eyes go glassy and that retarded adult up front might as well be talking to himself in Swahili. As for those beautiful marriages, conceived in heaven,. and time-tabled for June. If I had any statistics, I'd say that statistics show that fifty per cent of them will end in a life of quiet desperation, thirty per cent of them will be unbearable, ten per cent will be impossible, five per cent unspeakable. The rest will wind up having their sixtieth anniversary pictures in the local paper. I'm not being cynical about June. I wouldn't miss it for anything. I am merely, as usual, presenting the facts. Mortgage and interim Financing • Land Availability Assistance •Serviced by nearest Beaver Lumber store • Guaranteed Materials of Highest Quality.