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Grand Bend Reeve John Payne may be
correct in his opinion that as landlords of
beach acreage at Grand Bend, the Ontario
government should pay the entire cost of a
survey to determine what land is actually
included in the lease held by the resort.
However, he must also realize that the
land in question is of little value to the
province and the return on a $10,000. expen-
diture to have it surveyed would probably
be nil.
In fact, such an expenditure to settle
the matter of a few posts being erected on
the beach would be economically
questionable for all the parties involved.
Certainly, if some permanent occupa-
tion was being considered, then it would be
a ,different matter.
The resort council appears to have lost
sight of the tax monies being garnered from
the two commercial establishments which
have moved to provide parking for their
patrons by erecting the fences on the land in
question.
The areas reserved are not sizeable and
certainly do not create any hardship on
public parking facilities.
From that standpoint, it is difficult to
reason the great upheaval that has arisen.
Surely the parties involved can work
out a solution satisfactory to all without
prejudicing their respective positions and
without the outlay of $10,000.
Looking for a literate man
Times Established 1873
Advocate Established 1881
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SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND
C.W.N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC
Published Each Thursday Morning
at Exeter', Ontario
Second Class Mail
Registration Number 0386
Paid in AdVaace Circulation,
September 34,1971,6,175
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Editor --- Bill Batten -- Advertising Manager
Assistant Editor Ross Haugh
Women's Editor -- Gwyn Whifsmith
Phone 235-1331
50 Years Ago
The Times "T-word" picture
puzzle came to close, and the
following are the prize winners:
Ethel Anderson, Winnipeg,
Manitoba; Wm. H. Wood,
Usborne; Kenneth Stanbury, Ex-
eter; Mrs. H. Ford, Usborne;
and Miss Vosper, Exeter. The
judges were G. S. Howard, Geo.
Mawson, and E. J. Wethey,
A pretty wedding took place on
Thursday June 1, at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Thos, Laing, when
their only daughter Margaret
Hazel, married Ulric Rae Snell,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Snell of
town. The wedding music was
played by Lena Coates and .
Margaret Moodie sang. Nellie
Anderson acted as bridesmaid
and Silas Reed was the best man.
Miss Fear has returned to her
home at Blyth after being
engaged for the millinery season
with Miss Armstrong.
The following was the result of
the election of officers in the
Exeter Lodge of Oddefellows;
Asa Penhale, Jr„ P. G.; L. Day,
N,G.; E.M. Quance, V.G.; R, N.
Creech, Rec-Secretary; W,
Johns, Financial Secretary;
E.M, Dignan, Treasurer.
25 Years Ago
The fifth annual field day of the
Huron County Federation of
Agriculture is being held in Ex-
eter Community Park on
Wednesday,
Main Street United Church has
extended a c all to Rev, H.
Mahoney of Knox Church, Peter-
boro, to become the minister for
next year.
Peter Fraser, first year stu-
dent at the University of Western
Ontario, has been awarded the
Huron County Scholarship for the
highest, man.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Lamport,
who have spent the Winter at
Port Alberni, on Vancouver
Island, returned' home to Exeter
a few days -.Igo.
The township of Blanshard is
preparing for a celebration June
26, to, commemorate the 100th
year of the incorporation of the
township.
C. R. Hagey was engaged by
Hensall village council last week
to prepare plans for installing
waterworks in the village,
15 Years Ago
A. J. "Jake" Sweitzer, Exeter,
was one of three Lions elected as
Canadian directors of the inter-
national service organization at
the 37th annual convention of
Ontario and Quebec clubs in
Peterboro last week.
Progressive Conservative can-
didates were successful in all
ridings Monday during the
"Diefenbaker Sweep." Elston
Cardiff posted the largest ma-
jority of his 17-year career in
federal politics.
Hensall Kinsmen Club an-
nounced this week it has con-
• tracted for a professional
vaudeville show to feature its
Ontario Bean Festival program,
Huron County's livestock
judging team won first prize at
the recent Lambton-Middlesex
Short-horn Field Day competi-
tion at Fraser McFarlane's
farm, Ailsa Craig. Members of
the team were Ray Cann, Ex-
eter; Keith Coates, Centralia;
and Bruce Coleman, Seaforth.
They were coached by Jack
Peck, Kippen.
/0 Years Ago
Hensall council let two tenders
Monday night, both to Levis
Construction Company, Clinton
for a $6,500 road repair and im-
provement project.
Lt. J, Glenn Allen, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clifford Allen, Fuller-
ton, received two awards at the
graduation ceremony at the
Royal Military College of Canada
over the weekend.
Hundreds of people, many of
them school-children, greeted
Lester B. Pearson, at St, Joseph,
Zurich, Hensall and Exeter, as
the Liberal leader passed
through on his way to an evening
rally in London.
Town property immediately
east of the CM railway between
the projection of Sanders St,
south, and below the projection
of John St. Was Sold to Lou Bailey
for a boxed plant business,
New twist to fable
Once upon a time, in a far-away coun-
try, there lived a little girl called Red
Riding Hood. One day her mother asked her
to take a basket of fruit to her grand-
mother, who had been ill and lived alone in
a cottage in the forest,
It happened that a wolf was lurking in
the bushes and overheard the conversation.
He decided to take a short-cut to the
grandmother's house and get the goodies
for himself. The wolf killed the grand-
mother, then dressed in her nightgown and
jumped into bed to await the little girl,
When she arrived, he made several
nasty suggestions and then tried to grab
her. But by this time, the child was very
frightened and ran screaming from the
cottage.
A woodcutter. working nearby, heard
her cries and rushed to the rescue, He killed
the wolf with his axe, thereby saving Red
Riding Hood's life. All the townspeople
hurried to the scene and proclaimed the
woodcutter a hero.
But at the inquest, several facts
emerged:
(1) The wolf had never been advised of
his rights.
(2) The woodcutter had made no war-
ning swings before striking the fatal blow.
(3) the Civil Liberties Union stressed•
the point that, although the act of eating
Grandma may have been in bad taste, the
wolf was only "doing his thing" and thus
didn't deserve the death penalty.
(4) The Students for a Democratic
Society contended that the killing of the
grandmother should be considered self-
defense since she was over 30 and,
therefore, couldn't be taken seriously
because the wolf was trying to make love,
not war.
On the basis of these considerations, it
was decided there was no valid basis for
charges against the wolf, Moreover, the
woodcutter was indicted for unaggravated
assault with a deadly weapon.
Several nights later, the woodcutter's
cottage was burned to the ground.
One year from the date of "The Inci-
dent at Grandma's," her cottage was made
a shrine for the wolf who had bled and died
there. All village officials spoke at the
dedication, but it was Red Riding Hood who
gave the most touching tribute.
She said that, while she had been
selfishly grateful for the woodcutter's in-
tervention, she realized in retrospect that
lie had over-reacted. As she knelt and
placed a wreath in honour of the brave wolf,
there wasn't a dry eye in the whole forest,
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It's encouraging to learn that the
former CFB Base at Clinton is slowly
springing back to life through the efforts of
developer John Van Gestel,
Similar to the closing of the base at
Centralia, the demise at Clinton was felt by
many people throughout the county.
Houses are selling at the Clinton site
and some industries are already looking
seriously at establishing plants in the
buildings.
Sport Ontario has also become in-
terested in the recreational facilities and a
meeting of interested sporting officials last
week indicated some major development
could take place in this area.
Certainly, it will be a long time before
the economic contribution regains any of its
former stature, but at least a start has been
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How would you answer?
Those of us in the journalism
field usually have little problem
in asking questions, and in fact
there are many who feel we ask
too many and some for which the
answers are none of our business.
The shoe was placed on the
other foot this week and the
writer was at a loss to know how
to answer a question fired our
way by Ernest Hillen, the chap
from Weekend Magazine who
arrived in town to do a story on
the local police force.
"For what is Exeter noted?"
he queried.
We fumbled around for some
answers, but none came that
appeared satisfactory. Surely
there must be something in our
99-year history on which we can
hang our hats so to speak.
Lucan and Biddulph Township
have the Donnelly family,
althoughat times they would prob-
ably he glad to hand over that
dubious distinction; Hensall is
considered the bean capital of the
world: Grand Bend has Ontario's,-
finest vacationland; Dashwood
has sausage; Clinton has the dis-
tinction of radar pioneering;
etc.; etc.
However, there appears to be
nothing down through Exeter's
history to coincide with the
aforementioned, although in re-
cent years we have gained some
note for being the rodeo and
horse show capital of Ontario.
That may• well continue to
thrive and give us instant
recognition when the name Ex-
eter is mentioned, but it still has
a way to go.
Perhaps one of our readers can
suggest an appropriate answer to
the question.
* * *
Members of the Northwestern
Ontario Development Council
are unhappy about the way
money is being distributed under
the federal Regional Develop-
ment Expansion program
(DREE) of incentives to in-
dustry.
They suggest the regional
economic expansion department
of the Hon. Jean Marchand
should be renamed "the depart-
ment for more employment in
Quebec."
Their suggestion is based on
the fact that Quebec concerns
received more than half the
number of grants and nearly half
the money in all Canada under
the program.
To the end of 1971, 620 Quebec
enterprises were aided by DREE
out of 1,179 for all 10 provinces
and they received $103.5 million
out of a total of $224.4 million for
the whole country.
Those figures do hint that the
federal government program is
not being shared equally across
Canada, and while the need in
Quebec may be greater, it is
difficult to believe it is all that
one-sided.
* * *
Bumper-to-bumper traffic on
holiday weekends has become so
bad that one driver complains
that he ran out of gas 20 miles
year pension, which will amount
to $38 a month every second leap-
year.
In the same mail was another
letter from an old friend, with a
clipping enclosed. It was an ar-
ticle by Norm Ibsen about the
rapid rise in illiteracy, or the
decline in literacy, or whatever
you want to call what's
happening to our youth.
A Professor Gold, chairman of
the University of Waterloo's
English department, blames the
Sabot System because it's tur-
ning out students incapable of
expressing themselves, They
can't communicate, I quote the
writer of the column, Mr, Ibsen,
Who says, With tongue in cheek,
]'lease turn to page 5
back before he found out about it.
You don't have to believe that
little quote from the Ontario
Safety League, but anyone who
has been tied up in holiday traffic
knows full well how exasperating
it can be, let alone running out of
gas.
It points up the common sense
suggestion that both employers
and workers should give serious
consideration to the advantages
of starting vacations in mid-
week.
The drive to and from vacation
areas is both pleasanter and
safer on weekdays and you'll also
have a better chance of finding
accommodation, especially if
you're heading for a camping
area.
* *
Next time you happen to see a
picture of some hot pancakes
smothered in rich maple syrup,
don't let your mouth water too
much. The whole thing may be a
Take.
Professional photographers
were recently interviewed by the
Financial Post and outlined some
of the tricks of the trade.
One of them is using motor oil
on pancakes to give the impres-
sion of that maple syrup.
...Who says pictures don't lie.
*
Apparently there are new
regulations requiring that an am-
bulance be in attendance at fires,
•
and while such a move does
provide on-the-spot service if the
need arises, it does appear ab-
surd in some situations.
One such case was the fire
Thursday night at the Kints
farm. The fire had been set inten-
tionally to clear away a barn, and
while the fire department was
required to attend to dampen
down nearby structures, there
was little need for an ambulance.
The same holds true for many
minor fires and certainly in the
case cited, someone should have
advised the answering service of
the details so no call was put
through for an ambulance.
The entire matter of setting
deliberate fires may need some
consideration from other stand-
points as'well.
Unfortunately, when the fire
siren rings in Exeter, "all hell
breaks loose" and people come
racing from all directions and
even youngsters on bicycles give
chase.
We realize that this is not the
way things should be, but we
cannot escape the fact that that
is the way things are.
Sooner or later, someone is
going to get hurt—or worse—and
obviously it would be doubly
tragic if it occurred over a fire
which had been deliberately set.
For a writer, facing a deadline
with nothing in his head but a
vacuum is about as joyous an
occasion as facing his wife at 4
a.m., after phoning her at 5 p.m,
to tell her he's going to have two
drinks, not three or four but two,
with the boys on the way home
from work. I hope those figures
haven't confused you, but
perhaps you get the general idea.
Sometimes, however, coin-
cidence creates a column. I had
nothing in my head for this
week's column. Not even fog.
Just vacuum, Good old coin-
cidence came to the rescue.
Today I met in the halls one of
my English teachers. He's a
mature chap and pretty tough.
Been through a war and twenty-
five years of' marriage, spent a
stretch as a weekly editor, and
has raised three children, How
much tougher can you gel? But
he was almost in tears.
"They can't read," he
mumbled brokenly: "they can't
read." I patted his back and
wiped his eyes, as we department
heads do, (though I reserve
weeping on my shoulder for
women teachers only), and
gradually found out that he was
talking about a Grade 9 class in
the four-year stream.
"There. there," I consoled.
"Of course they can't read.
Neither, with a few exceptions
can my Grade 13 students. Kids
aren't supposed to learn to read
any more. It might destroy their
sensitivity, Now you just go and
show them a nice little movie, or
let them express themselves on
the tape recorder, Or let them
lean out the window and watch
the cars going by and then have
them write a poem. But don't
correct the spelling in the poem.
You'll destroy their creative
spirit. Just go on back in there
and stimulate them."
That's one thing my teachers
have to admit, When they come
to the chief, they get inspiration,
motivation and a fresh new ap-
proach, Some of them even
say they'll try to stick it out to the
end of the term.
Well, I felt pretty good, as we
all do after giving meaningless
advice, but that wasn't enough to
write a column about.
Got home after school, and
opened my mail. There was a
very nice letter from Margaret
Grieve of Oakville, who taught
for 41 years. and says she hadn't
a single regret on leaving it —
The Profession, though there
were many good years and an
abundance of pleasant
memories. That cheered ,me up,
for some obscure reason, Maybe
I'll even stay on another year,
and collect' my twelve-