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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-05-18, Page 4A n impossible task In the peaceful enjoyment of all that is fine in our modern society, the part the police. have played in bringing about that pleasant state of affairs is too frequently overlooked. Those words of Commissioner Eric Silk remind us that this is Police Week. Some people may question the observance of such a week, pointing out that a police officer is similar to any other person in that he merely gets paid to do a job. But as our "employees" we expect them to give more value for their wage dollar than most of us would be prepared to equal. On TV, a policeman is an oaf who couldn't find a bull fiddle inside a telephone booth. In real life he's expected to find a little blonde boy "about so high" in a crowd of 10,000 people. In fiction he gets help from private eyes, reporters and "who-dun-it" fans, while in real life all he gets from the public is "I didn't see nuttin." We expect them to be friendly, kind and courteous even after one of us crawls intoxicated from behind the wheel of a car. We expect them to let us get away with minor infractions like failing to obey a stop or yield sign and complain when they aren't around to catch the guy who pulled out without stopping in front of us. We expect them to catch the thieves who ransacked our home last night but we resent it when they tell us to take more precautions and to put a chain on the door. We expect them to watch over our children but resent it when they apprehend our holy offspring for committing an offence. We expect police to keep traffic accidents to a minimum by strong law enforcement, but when we are caught doing a few miles over the speed limit we get upset. We expect them to enforce laws and at the same time to minimize their powers. They are required to have the wisdom of Solomon, the disposition of a lamb and muscles of steel. They work in all types of weather and see more misery, bloodshed, trouble and sunrises than the average person. In spite of the fact that "you can't find one when you want one," they are usually there when it counts most. The best way to get one is to pick up a phone. Sometimes we give them medals for saving lives, stopping runaway horses or shooting it out with bandits. Sometimes we give the medals to their widows. At a time when respect for the law - and the people who enforce it - is in urgent need of revival, a week to draw attention to their "impossible task" is a good idea. Wages not for boredom At long last, industry, especially the auto sector, is realizing what housewives figured out eons ago - that repetitive boring jobs must be given some variation and meaning. People laughed patronizingly when housewives headed out from the homestead in droves to take night courses/paint, sculpt, volunteer, drink coffee, garden - anything but dishes and dusting. Now industry even has a fancy name for the boredom disease - "Lordstown syndrome." The Lordstown (Ohio) General Motors plant went on strike recently out of sheer boredom - spot-lighting the com- bination of fatigue, stress and depression that shows up in workers exposed to un- broken monotony and strain on the assembly line. Lordstown called sharp attention to the fact that young workers these days are more restless, independent and rebellious than older employees. (Average age at this plant was under 25). Various experiments are being tried, more time off, four-day work week, and a talked-of-six-month year. Some companies are studying "job enrichment" schemes which motivate workers with phases of recognition and job rewards. In Germany, Lufthansa, lets many employees work as much or as little as they please. Sweden's Saab-Scania has robots to do the monotonous assembly line operation, leaving workers free to produce an entire engine, instead of just one part. It shows that these days wages aren't for boredom. Even better if spread around Notice DRAINAGE Rumors circulating in the area suggest that our price for laying tile is 12centa per foot. This IS NOT TRUE. Our price for hauling from job site to machine, digging, laying and backfilling IS 11 CENTS per foot less a discount of one cent per foot for cash in 30 days. PLEASE DISREGARD RUMORS TO THE CONTRARY. FRANK K1STNER DRAINAGE LIMITED Let's Build A Workshop for Retarded Adults The Following Donations Are Acknowledged. Your contribution May Be Sent to Bruce Shaw, Box 788, Exeter St. Boniface School Harvey De Fore Florence E. Jones Arnold Mathers Diane Holt Mabel Hicks J. Stewart Dr. J. Underwood C. Pullens Hurondale Dairy Don Joynt Eleanor Russell Mr. & Mrs. Doug Gilpin Anonymous R. Elgie R. Sharon Huron Hope School Crediton United Church Elimville & Thames Road CGIT C. V. Pickard Dr. M. Fletcher Elgin Rowcliffe Dunlop Canada Ltd. Reid's Taxi Grand Bend Lions Club Ladies' Guild Grace Church CFPL Act Fast Anonymous St. Patrick's School C. Poortinga Lloyd Ballantyne Norris Webb Noni Hemingway Zurich $ 85.00 Thedford 5.00 Exeter 10.00 Exeter 20.00 Exeter 5.00 RR 1 Crediton 50.00 Seaforth 10.00 Seaforth 20.00 Grand Bend 25.00 Hensall 50.00 Hensall 25.00 Thedford 10.00 Thedford 10.00 Exeter 105.18 Kippen 5.00 Parkhill 5.00 Huron Park 38.20 30.00 10.00 Exeter 50.00 Exeter 25.00 Exeter 25.00 Huron Park 50.00 Crediton 10.00 400.00 Greenway 15.00 London 140.00 11.00 Dublin 61.00 Hensall 10.00 Exeter 10.00 St. Marys 10.00 Grand Bend 25.00 ZURICH CANVASS Mrs. Howard Finkbeiner 3.00 Jack Turkheim 25.00 Mrs. Edna Eickmeier 1.00 Arthur Miller 1.00 Gord Hay 2.00 Seth Amos 1.00 Ruby Neeb 2.00 Joe Denomme 10.00 Huron Motor Products 300.00 Mrs. Lawrence Corriveau 1.00 Alice Thiel 5.00 Anonymous donations (3) 10.00 Bob Johnston 1.00 Tom Meyers 1.00 A. Demooy 1.00 Ward Neeb 2.00 Elroy Desjardine 1.00 Mrs. B. Wuerth 1.00 A. J. Kalbfleisch 10.00 Mrs. N. Koehler 2.00 Peter Deichert 10.00 William Decker 1.00 John Consitt 15.00 Anonymous donations (3) 37.00 Mrs. Adella Regier 2.00 Ken McCarter 3.00 Carl Thiel 2.00 William Ferguson 2.00 George Haggitt 5.00 George Sweeney 5.00 Charles Cro 10.00 Herb Mousseau 2.00 Rose Fisher 1.00 Juliette Denomme 5.00 Anonymous (1) 25.00 Ken Mittelholtz 20.00 Jim Bedard 5.00 Mrs. M. Weido 5.00 Roy Gingerich 5.00 Gord Smith 5.00 Anne Turkheim 2.00 Irene Farwell 1.00 Theresa Hartman 10.00 Mrs. Lang Foster 1,00 Anonymous (8) 42.00 Raymond Hartman 15.00 Louis Farwell 20.00 Don Farwell, Stratford 20.00 William Davidson 2.00 Ted Steinbach 2.00 George Watson 5,00 Karl Regier 15.00 C. G. Farm Supplies 25.00 John Goldsmith 1,00 Adelbert Smith 5.00 Edwin Regier 10.00 Anonymous (9) 18,00 Percy Bedard 20.00 Anonymous (1) 25.00 Anonymous (2) 20.00 Anonymous (2) 15.00 Anonymous (8) 9.00 Oliver Thiel 2.00 Earl Oesch 20.00 Leah Beech ler. 2.00 Edward Smith 5,00 Milne Rader 5.00 Aubrey Bedard 5.00 Inez Yungblut 10.00 Margaret Hess 5.00 Paul Cyr 2.00 Gertrude Fleischauer 2.00 Anonymous (5) 13.50 Mrs. George Thiel 1.00 Percy Webster 1.00 Bob Farquhar 1.00 Jim Billo 2.00 Anonymous (1) 20.00 Leeland Willert 2.00 Anonymous (1) 10.00 Anonymous (3) 3.55 Mrs. Gordon Lavery 1.00 Mrs. Gary Maxwell 2.00 Mrs. Joe Kenda 2.00 Dr. Garnet Leitch 25.00 Kenneth Gingerich 5.00 Mrs. Hess 1.00 Mrs. Bill Lawrence 1.00 Clarence Gascho 2.00 Mrs. Frances Kipfer 5.00 Mildred Gingerich 2.00 Moses Erb 5.00 John Gascho 1.00 Mammie Hoffman 2.00 Earl Zimmer 5.00 Anne Desch 2.00 Victor Deichert 2.00 Carl Oesch 2.00 Jim Parkins 2.00 Anonymous (1) 50.00 Anonymous (1) 25.00 Anonymous (1) 20.00 M. G. Deitz 2.00 Cliff McIntosh 2.00 Louis Gingerich 5.00 Anonymous (1) 10.00 Eileen Consitt 20.00 Donald Merrier 10.00 Anonymous (7) 15.00 Roman Meidinger 50.00 Elzer Masse Leonard Masse, London 150.00 10.00 Anonymous (1) 10.00 Jerome Deitrich 50.00 Jerome Ducharme 10.00 Anonymous 12) 7.00 Allan Smith 2,00 Mrs. Malvin 1.00 Roy Clarke 5.00 Ken Clarke 2.00 Gus Maas 1.00 Clare Masse Trucking 50.00 E. Masse, London 5.00 Gerard Masse 10.00 Lennis Bedard, Goderich 2.00 Idel Gabel 1,00 Earl Becker, Dashwood 25.00 Pat Regier 5.00 Len Zurk 2.00 George Grenier 10.00 Marian Vanderhoek, Dashwood 6.00 Wayne O'Rourke, Dashwood 2.00 Anonymous (3) 12,00 Anonymous (1) 10.00 Clare Geiger 5.00 Steve Gingerich 10,00 Edgar Gingerich 3.00 Harold Widriek 2640 Bill Baechler 10.00 Edmund Erb 10.00 Matthew DUcharrlb 10,00 Aaron Gingerich 10.00 Total to date $11,160.12 R.R. 1, Dublin, Ontario PHONE 345-2572 - "OUR AIM IS TO PLEASE YOU" - Member Ontario Farm Drainage Association .. . .NACS2 Amalgamated 1924 Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 toceferVines-Atruocale SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., 0.W.N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC Editor - Bill Batten-Advertising Manager Assistant Editor - Ross Haugh Women's Editor -- Gwyn Whilsmith Phone 2351331 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Class Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation, September 30,1971,5,175 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $8,00 Per Year; USA $10.00 A „ .t. „. 0. . Turn as father of the bride I'm sure you are sick of reading about my daughter's wedding, but hang on. She's the only one I have, and it will be all over this Saturday. (The last typewritten with crossed fingers.) If she ever does want to get married again, she'll get exactly three words from her old man, "Beat it, kid." However, there's something to be learned by every experience, and both the kid and I are lear- ning. Fast. For several weeks, she has been floating around aimlessly, telling her mother, who is a fuss-budget of the first water, "Stop worrying, Mom. There's not that much to do. It's a simple wedding, and I'll be here to help you get ready." Typical of today's youth, Naturally, she wasn't here most of the time, and she didn't help at all, though her intentions were impeccable. Then fate stepped in. A week before the wedding, just when the thottle was going to be opened wide for the final drive, her mother went into hospital. For the kid, it was like having a malicious goose snatch from un- der you the magic carpet on which you are flying. For me, it was like picking a bouquet of wild flowers for the wedding, and discovering that what I had picked was poisiiin ivy. This is Tuesday, and the bride still hasn't got her wedding dress. This is Tuesday, and the estate looks much as the world must have when old Noah finally found some dry land. The house was to be spicked and spanned. The house is a shambles. The yard was to have been immaculate. The yard is a melee of last fall's leaves, broken picnic table and lawn chairs, fallen limbs and cat dirt. Don't worry. We'll cope. We'd better, or Kim and I will be taken away about 3 p.m. on Saturday, by the chaps in white coats. Today I came home and found my baby wringing her hands and head and feet. She'd been going like a whirlwind, doing all those "little things" she kept insisting her mum not worry about. Like clean shirts and socks for dad, shopping, cooking, washing dishes. Ordering flowers, Trying to get shoes to match the non- existent wedding dress. Feeding and throwing out two cats, one of them pregnant; visiting her mum. Same for me. Trying to get a gang of boys to rake the yard, and it rains all day. Trying to cope with people who want to know whether the wedding is on or off. It's on. I think. But there are going to be some short-cuts, in which I am a firm believer, and of which I have tried to convince my wife for years. The windows will not be washed. Who looks out the win- dows during a wedding ceremony, anyway? Anyone who does should be ejected. The furniture will be dusted. But only in the livingroom, where the event will take place. I don't intend to have a lot of people running around our bedrooms and wiping their fingers across the ledges. In fact, I don't intend to have a lot of people running around our bedrooms at all. If they want to look at something, they can go outside and look at my two dead elms. The cups and saucers will not all be washed. They will be dusted. The silver will not be polished. It, too, will be wiped with a dry cloth, and if there's an egg-stain on a spoon tough toe- nails, Everything bulky, ugly or out of place, will be stuffed smartly into the basement or the attic, and the doors thereto locked. I've found that Kim and I, without her mother around to heckle us, have a similar basic philosophy: "What's it all going - Please turn to page 5 For the past two summers, members of Exeter's RAP com- mittee have been debating seriously the idea of dropping the summer playground program, due in part to the fact that the expenditure of something around $600 appeared rather steep for the number of children taking ad- vantage of the program. Certainly that is not a high expenditure, but when you're working with tax dollars on a tight budget, every dollar has to be considered if an official is providing the type of responsible leadership expected. The whole thing takes on an incongruous appearance when it is considered in the light of re- cent grants made under the Op- portunity for Youth program which has provided $9,950 for a similar type of project in Exeter and Huron Park and $5,740 for a recreation program in Zurich. The point is, or course, had anyone asked local officials in any of these three communities for something around $5,000 fora summer program they would have been deemed slightly out of the realm of propriety. Let us point out quite emphatically we find no fault with the youths who have applied for and received the grants. Readers will recall earlier this year we encouraged area young people to make applications un- der the program so we could benefit from some of the han- douts as other communities have been doing. The money is going to be spent and we commend those who have displayed the initiative to get some of it for this area as a portion of return . on the tax dollars which go to provide this type of assistance. Neither do we intend to condemn the programs. The students need jobs and if this is the way the government is going about providing those jobs, area young people should be as eligi- ble as any others. Many-of the projects are most worthwhile and in fact we think those being carried out in this area will fall into that category - with some reservation. That reservation is the fact that only three communities in the area will benefit, when the funds being made available could have been spread out a bit more to bring equal benefits to other neighboring communities such as Hensall, Dashwood, Lucan, Crediton, etc. While the local RAP playground program has been back-sliding for a number of reasons in recent years, there is no question but what $2,000 would amply cover the costs of a program here that would revive the interest it had at the outset, We imagine the same could be said for the needs of Huron Park and Zurich and this would leave ample funds for recreational ac- tivities in the other aforemen- tioned communities where the kids may well be without any type of organized activities for the coming summer. It is unfortunate that the Opportunities for Youth program does not work more closely with local municipal officials so all could share in the benfits. In effect, the other communities are paying for the programs through tax dollars, but because no young people sub- mitted projects on their behalf, they are left entirely out of the picture. If the young people responsible for the approved projects could see their way clear to include some of the "have-nots" it would be most encouraging. * * * There are many people who question the whole idea of free grants to youths and industries, while the governments point out the object is to create more jobs. The needs of people have to be met, whether they have jobs or not, so the theory is that money put into creating jobs is better spent than doling it out in the form of welfare and other social programs. While that appears sound, there are those who argue that the private sector of the nation could create the jobs if they were not so heavily taxed to meet the costs of the government programs. Gerald Filion, president of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, is one of those per- sons and he points out that the spending of the three levels of government and their agencies has increased by staggering rates during recent years. Since 1966 the tax revenues of the three levels of government have increased 50 percent faster than the economy has grown and the portion of the Gross National Product spent by governments has increased from 30 to 37 percent, "There is the evidence of what 50 Years Ago The new Methodist Church at Centralia was opened ,and dedicated on Sunday by Rev. J. W. Hibbert, president of the Lon- don Conference. It was presented to the conference by Messrs. John Essery and W. R. Elliott, and was presided over by the pastor, Rev. Arthur Sinclair. Rev. Mr. Hibbert was the preacher for the day, The choir, led by Mr. Andrew Hicks, M.L.A., gave an excellent ser- vice, assisted by Miss Marion Casselman, violin soloist, of Chesterfield, and Miss Margaret Moodie. Miss May Nelson has taken a position in Harvey and Harvey's north store and Miss Ruby Davis in the main store. Mr. Maurice Senior has returned home from Toronto, where he is studying law at the University of Toronto. Mr. A. J. Ford has recently planted out one thousand trees covering five acres. The *trees are for silk worms. 25 Years Ago Centralia United Church celebrated their 25th anniversary on Sunday. Morning, afternoon and evening congregations were enjoyed by capacity con- gregations. Services were led by Rev. Arthur Sinclair, of Blyth, who was the clergyman at the time the church was built and dedicated. The Hopper-Hockey Furniture Company are preparing to remodel the apartment on William Street into a modern funeral home with a connecting residence. The building was recently purchased from A. 0 Elliot. The District Annual of the Women's Institutes was held in Thames Road Church on Tuesday. Workman have been leveling the grounds and the gravel is ready for laying the cement for a new out-door roller skating rink to be erected by Earl Neil. 75 Years Ago The Corbett-Lieury set, coached by James Lochkart, won the Times-Advocate juvenile square dancing competition at Exeter Lions Victoria hay Festival Monday afternoon, This is happening within our economy," he states. "It is a major reason why the private wealth-producing sector cannot do an even better job than it is doing of creating new and productive job opportunities. Far too much of its life-giving return on investment is being siphoned away into the public sector . ." The key words in his comments are "productive job opportunities." The government is creating many jobs to be sure, but many are not what one would term productive. There was an example of this locally some short time ago when we questioned the wisdom in providing cash for Exeter council to plant trees at the local dump while the roads budget was chopped. Certainly, it is a highly complex problem, but more and more Canadians are becoming concerned with the fact the spen- ding of governments gets bigger and bigger and bigger, year by year by year. set has won the Parkhill Lions Club trophy three years in a row and the championship at the Lon- don Sports Fair. The Farmer's Unions sponsored a debate Wednesday between Liberal Andy McLean and Progressive Conservative Elston Cardiff who outlined the farm policies of their respective parties. Discontent over farm conditions was revealed as a major factor in the Huron elec- tion campaign. Mrs. Miyo Obakata of London gave a demonstration of Japanese flower arrangements at the annual W.A. Blossom Tea held in James St. United Church last Wednesday afternoon. While Mrs, Obatakata fashioned flowers and shrubs into simple but effective arrangements, Mrs, Lyman Cousins, president of the Garden Club of London described the natural beauties of Japan, 10 Years Ago Excavations for the new separate school in Exeter were started on Monday by the Rawlings Construction Company, Aylmer. The school, to be named the "Precious Blood Separate School" is planned for com- pletion by September. A capacity crowd was taken down memory lane in song and dance on Saturday at the J,A.D. McCurdy School auditorium during the third annual Spring Revue, The professional calibre entertainment was ,provided by the girls' glee club, the Har- motones band and the pupils of the school, • Joseph • Zimmerman ' of Dashwood suffered a $2,400 loss over the weekend when professional thieves broke into his TV and radio store, Stolen were more than 400 TV tubes, a portable television set, three radios, .two record players and a repair kit containing about $500 worth of tools and tubes, Three Huron Newspapers won awards in the competition spon- sored by the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association, The Times-Advocate placed second for the best newspaper in towns of less than 3500 population. Clin- ton News-Record placed third in the same division and two awards Went to the Zurich Citizens ]Yews. It placed third for papers printed in under 1,000 population class, and third for papers showing greatest improvement, f