The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-02-17, Page 4Trees or potholes.?
The provincial government has an-
nounced a "belt-tightening" policy, and
while that's good news for harried tax-
payers, there is some question about the
priorities governments have placed on
spending.
For instance, the department of
transportation and communications has
indicated to county and municipal of-
ficials that money for road work will be
greatly reduced this year.
Exeter will receive subsidy on
about half of what council had planned
to undertake this year, and without the
provincial assistance, the work here will
be sharply cut.
The announcement follows by only
a couple of months letters from the
government outlining a vast amount of
' money available for projects, to ease
unemployment. The local council took
advantage of the offer, but the work to
be undertaken has far less priority than
road construction and maintenance.
Part of the money will be used to
plant trees at the local dump. Such a
project may have some benefits, but
councillors would much rather have
spent the money on road work or other
services which would have resulted in
greater benefits to the taxpayers who
have provided the money for the tree-
planting scheme.
The irony of the situation is that
many of those employed in the road
construction and maintenance business
will not have enough work to keep them
busy during the upcoming spring, sum-
mer and fall months.
Presumably some of them will be
unemployed, and then come next wint-
er, the .government will announce give-
away programs to help ease unemploy-
ment. Exeter may again decide to plant
some more trees at the local dump. The
people who are unemployed because of
the reduction in road jobs will have an
opportunity to take the job of planting
trees.
Exeter's dump will then be full of
trees and the roads will be full of pot
holes. Road construction workers will be
unemployed during their normal work-
ing year and will be employed during the
winter months. Instead of doing mean-
ingful work on roads, they'll be planting
trees,
The strategy is difficult to under-
stand!
Vigilance required
The rash of house-breaking incid-
ents in the area is causing residents some
concern, and understandably so.
While most people keep little cash
in their homes, the mess left by the
thieves and the unsettling circumstances
of having them enter your home is cause
for concern.
Perhaps of even greater consterna-
tion is the possibility of having a con-
frontation with them if one should arrive
home while they are at work.
Tracking down such culprits is most
difficult. Basically, they are amateurs,
because the professional thieves don't
bother with the slim pickings available
from homes.
About the best the police can hope
for is that some alert citizen will have his
suspicions aroused by a strange car or
person and will call police.
The key is to call the police. You
need not have any qualms about sending
them on a "wild goose chase" because
often one of those chases ends in results.
Neither should you worry about
getting involved. In cases of this nature
there is little chance the police will
require your testimony and they certain-
ly will not let anyone know who tipped
them off.
So, start looking out for your
neighbors and hope they're doing the
same for you,
Where are priorities
Spacecraft that can quickly be turn-
ed into nuclear bombs, underground
nuclear tests that bring protests from
around the world, missiles fired from the
submarines and bombers — these are the
monstrous weapons that continue to
haunt mankind.
Total defense costs around the
world are today nearing the $200-billion
figure annually. This is an indictment of
national leaders, and tends to point up
particularly, the stupidity of the two
superpowers, the United States and the
Soviet Union, whose defense planner
admits that, Washington and Moscow
have reached nuclear parity.
The most ludicrous aspect., of the
continuing arms race is the sorry state of
the United Nations, without doubt the
most vital single organization in the
world. Although Washington and Mos-
cow spend countless billions on defense,
between them they owe more than
$45-Million to the U.N.
The worst offender is the Soviet
Union which owes a total of $32-Million
— $22-Million for this year, and $10-Mil-
lion for previous years.
For the first time in history, the
United Nations annual budget for 1972
will pass $200-Million, yet the nations of
the world each year spend a thousand
times more-on weapons and other means
of defense.
The arms race and the financial
plight of the United Nations, which is
always pleading with its members to pay
its debts, are negative examples of man-
kind's follies.
Where do our priorities lie? Do we
keep pouring billions of dollars into
nuclear and thermonuclear bombs until
sonic fiend like Hitler decides to attempt
global conquest by nuclear war? Or do
we seek world peace through a body like
the United Nations?
Any sane person will know the
answer.
— Contributed
Uneasy rider
The subject should be aired
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Kim introduces her intended
I'm rather interested in the
subject of marriage these days,
for various reasons. Not for
myself, Oh no. Once bitten , . .
But I was asked to write a
ceremony for a mock wedding to
take place at a bridal shower
recently, I used some stock gags,
"Marriage is a solemn in-
stitution, and is only to be entered
into if you wish to spend the rest
of your life in an institution." And
"Do you take this woman to be
your awful wedded wife?" And
the conclusion, from a "bishop"
who has his services confused,
"And may God have mercy upon
your souls." Stuff like that.
Thought, that was the end of it,
Then my daughter arrived home
for a weekend, with her current
fiance. It seems the young man
had asked her to marry him.
The weekend was pretty ob-
viously a confrontation thing,
where the parents and the boy
friend are exposed to one
another, with the potential bride
sitting by, darting wildly nervous
glances at both parties. Let's
listen in for a moment as panicky
thoughts scoot through her mind.
(Oh why did Don have to say
that? Mom'll think he's stubborn
and stupid just because he didn't
agree with her. Oh, no, he made
another grammar error! Sure
enough, Dad pounced on that, Oh,
please Mom, don't go into that
three hour story about how you
and Dad lived on $60 a month
when you were married. Oh
lordy, why is Dad asking him all
those questions about how many
sculptures he's sold, and how
he's going to pay back his student
Reeve Derry Boyle stated in
rather concise terms that he
would not change his mind about
having Huron County retain
membership in the Midwestern
Ontario Development Council
despite the recommendation of
the Exeter Industrial Develop-
ment Commission that Exeter
should be a member.
That's his prerogative, of
course, but it does provide some
food for thought about whether a
person represents himself or his
community in such duties as a
member of county council.
Certainly Reeve Boyle- or any
other member of council does not
have to follow the wishes of a non-
elected group in a community.
But what happens if his council
makes the recommendation?
We would suggest a member
would then be morally obligated
to set aside his own personal
stand, because in fact he is
representing the community and
the policy for that community
rests with the elected body.
Let us make it amply clear that
we do not find fault with Reeve
Boyle's position. He may well be
of the same opinion as the
majority of council members.
However, we feel that council
were slightly amiss in their
responsibilities by not discussing
the matter more fully to ascer-
tain if they are in agreement with
Reeve Boyle's position or that of
the local industrial group.
It would have helped clear the
air for all concerned.
+ + +
"The University is the great
Canadian Dream Machine. It, is
no longer in a position to deliver
what many peope think is the
promised reward — the 'good
job."
This quote from a report on the
career expectations of 2,100
University of Toronto un-
dergraduates, appeared recently
in the Financial Post.
It is the bitter conclusion to a
study by the student union of
Canada's largest university and
it gives additional weight to a
suggestion that the pass-arts
degree be abolished in favor of
vocationally-oriented community
college programs,
That suggestion is made by R.
C. Quittenton, President of St.
Clair College, Windsor, in a brief
being considered by the Ontario
Commission on Post-Secondary
Education.
It reflects, in a dramatic way, a
creeping and unheralded trend.
Community college graduates
seem to be faring better in the
employment market than
university graduates with
general degrees.
There are indications this
preference for the non-degree
graduate will increase. There are
going to be a lot more of them, for
loans, as well as mine because by
George he isn't going to support
us? Oh, dear, I wish I'd never
mentioned it.)
Actually, it wasn't like that at
all. In fact, I took the whole thing
very lightly, as who wouldn't
whose daughter has been
engaged three times within a
year. The only thing that floored
me was that Kim said this fellow
wanted to ask my permission to
marry her. This seemed so old-
worldly in this day and age that I
immediately became suspicious,
as,,,
(Uh-huh. Wants my per-
mission, eh? Let's See, Per-
mission means approval.
Approval means it's going to cost
me a lot of money, one way or
another. And so On.)
However, as I said, / took it all
rather off-handedly until I went
downstairs Sunday Morning and
found my wife and daughter
arguing about the wedding: how
many guests, who they were to
be, what she'd wear, where the
Please turn to page 5
one thing. In 1960, Canada had
hardly a score of technical
colleges. Today there are more
than 100 non-degree-granting
public institutions.
+ + +
February is Heart Month,
although there is no local
organization set up to collect
funds on a canvassing basis.
However, those interested in
assisting with the much-needed
research in this field can send
their donations along to the
Canadian Heart Fund at 247
Davenport Road, Toronto 180.
There are few families in the
area which have not been af-
fected directly with heart attacks
or ailments of some nature. The
suddeness of heart attacks was
certainly brought to our mind
again quite vividly this week with
the news that London's new
mayor, Fred Gosnell, had suf-
fered a heart attack on Thursday.
Only the evening before, we
had seen the London Mayor at the
UWO Purple Patches' presen-
tation of West Side Story.
lie was standing in the hall
chatting with some friends and
there was no indication of his
impending plight,
Heart disease presently kills
about 77,000 Canadians every
year, frequently with little
warning.
Give so more will live.
+ + +
Speaking of the University, it
was our first visit to the campus
for a good number of years and it
has expanded drastically.
50 YEARS AGO
Miss Lila Taylor, daughter of
Robert Taylor, of Zion, who is
fast gaining a reputation as an
artist, held an exhibition of her
paintings in Senior's hall Friday
and Saturday last. Miss Taylor is
a pupil of McGillivray Knowles,
of Toronto.
Mr. W. J. Beer was in London,
Tuesday and Wednesday, taking
some advanced work in con-
nection with Masonic work.
Miss Gertrude Winer left
Monday for Kitchener to take a
position as milliner.
Messrs. R. N. Creech and J. M.
Southcott were in Clinton on
Friday attending a meeting of
Huron County publishers.
The Epworth League of the
Main Street Methodist church
held a successful valentine social
Tuesday evening. Mr. W. H.
Johnston gave an excellent talk
on Valentines. The principal item
of interest was a debate "Should
the modern woman make the
advances." On the affirmative
team were Misses Rose Laniport,
Greta Mawson and Edna Follick,
The negative was taken by
Benson Tuckey, Howard Dignan
and Lyle Statham, The young
ladies won.
25 YEARS AGO
Over 400 attended the annual at
home dance of Exeter High
School, Thursday night.
The Jones, MacNaughton Seed
Co., has moved into their new
building and commenced
operation this week.
14, IL Whyte, superintendent of
rural hydro for the Lucan
district, who was an active
Scoutmaster of the Exeter troop
While here, is reviving Scouting
in Lucan,
Miss Lenore Nortnihgton of
Herisall won the shield for girls in
the Lions oratorical contest for
this zone.
W. H. Hodgson has been ap-
pointed secretary Of the EXeter
Public School board at a salary of
$175 per year.
Even the old (figuratively
speaking) grad we were with had
trouble finding his way around
the campus, He dropped us off at
Alumni Hall and then went to
park the car. It was then we
found that there was a basketball
game in progress at that building
and we were supposed to be at
Delaware Hall, or some such
place.
Our chauffeur returned about
10 minutes later, having learned
of his mistake from a parking lot
attendent whom• he finally
spotted after-searching through
most of the campus. If he'd been
looking for parking spots rather
than mini skirts he would have
been back sooner, perhaps but of
course we wouldn't mention that
to his wife.
We paid another visit to the
campus on Saturday to take in
some of the Ontario ping pong
championship and learned a
valuable lesson about the parking
lots.
A car had pulled into the lot
ahead of us, but then backed out.
It cost a quarter to get the arm on
the gate to go up and as soon as
we had pulled in, the chap behind
got back in line and followed in
before the gate dropped back
down. -
As we've always suspected,
this university training is indeed
valuable! With sharpies such as
that around, we think they can do
away with student loans.
15 YEARS AGO
A dog knocked over a coal-oil
lantern in the loft of Roy Mason's
big hip-roofed barn in Stephen
Township, Monday evening and
set off a fire which razed the
building in half an hour.
For the secondyear in a row,
The Times-Advocate has been
judged the best weekly
newspaper in its class in Ontario.
McKerlie Automotive's new
branch opened in Exeter on
Friday. The branch is the fifth in
the McKerlie organization.
Students moved into the new
addition to SHDHS this week and
relieved the congested conditions
which existed in the original
buildings.
Exeter Boy Scouts and affiliate
groups in this district took part in
a world-wide observance of the
50th anniversary of the birth of
the movement Sunday at special
church services.
10 YEARS AGO
Crossbar switches, the latest
type of equipment to handle
telephone calls, takes over
Sunday and will automatically do
the work that 12 operators have
done in the past.
Winners of The Times-
Advocate's mathematics com-
petition held at Exeter H&S Ass'n
meeting Tuesday night were,
first, Richard Ashtori; second,
Marcia Saucier; and tied for
third, Gail Lennox and Larry
Skinner,
Lloyd Miller, RR 1, Staff a, is
home from hospital recovering
from exposure after he was
nearly buried alive in his silo last
week.
The area was hit by its worst
storm Of the season, Tuesday,
When Over eight inches Of snow
fell and mixed with freezing rain.
The popular dance craze "the
Twist" was an added attraction
at the Junior Farmers' meeting
Wednesday, the prize whining
couples were Frank Dints and
Darlene Peayne; Marlene
Pram and Sam Kingnia, and
Eric feints and Margie Oke,