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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-06-15, Page 4Never a detriment The shareholders of the Exeter Lawn Bowling Company are,to be commended for their decision to turn their bowling greens over to the town, There has been a growing fear that as shareholders died or moved away from the community, control of the facilities could fall into a few hands and it was a distinct possibility that private interests could gain ownership to do what they wished with the property. Obviously, it would be more valuable to private interests for commercial purposes than as a bowling green and the attractive green area could disappear from Exeter's Main Street. Although they accepted the gift without hesitation, some members of Exeter coun- cil are now having second thoughts about a clause that stipulates that the 11 greens will remain for the use of bowlers for all times, They point out that if bowling enthusiasm wanes entirely, the facilities could not be used for any other purpose and they would prefer to see this requirement changed to allow other uses if in fact there Was no one interested in bowling. There may be some merit in relaxing this stipulation to a degree, but it should not be changed substantially. The history of bowling goes back several centuries, and as leisure time increases, there is little indica- tion that the sport will fade entirely. It may wane in interest for a period of some time, but past experience has proven that it always makes a come-back. Exeter's abundance of recreation and park facilities would preclude the need for property's use for these purposes. Certainly, it will never be a detriment if maintained in its present condition, even if it is never used for lawn bowling. A green area, for no other purpose than being a green area, is a welcome site along a community's main thoroughfare and we fail to share the concern of some members of council that it should be altered for other purposes if bowling disappears. Parable of the corn The Glengarry News recently carried this little gem which came from Chitty's Law Journal: There was a man who was in the business of raising chickens. However, he raised no corn to feed the birds and the hens refused to lay eggs unless they were fed. Nearby there was a farmer who grew large quantities of corn, so the chicken farmer went to him and offered to work one day each week for a wage of $5.00, The agreement was made. The chicken farmer went to work each week, earned $5.00 and gave the money back to the farmer in return for five bushels of corn. For a time everyone was happy. The hens got their corn, their owner earned $5.00 a week and the farmer had the labor of the chicken farmer one day each week. Then one day the chicken farmer went to the farmer and said, "The price of everything is going up so much that I cannot work for less than $7.50 a day." The farmer agreed that seemed fair enough, but added, I agree that prices are going up and that you should get $7.50 a day, but prices have gone up for me too and I can't sell you a bushel of corn ,for less than $1.50." The chicken farmer agreed that was fair so he worked for $7.50 a day and paid $7.50 for five bushels of corn. Finally he got $10.00 a day and paid $2.00 a bushel for corn. And the farmer was happy and said to his wife, "Things are good. I get $2.00 a bushel for my corn." And the chicken farmer said to his wife, "Things are good. I get $10.00 a day for my labor." And the statistician said, "Isn't this wonderfol, National incomes are at new high levels." And the politicians bragged about it and said, "It was our party that did this for you." Everybody felt so good about it that they voted for the politicians. The speaker was speechless N; ;: ':;SPXW, :SAMWMffl Need new rules for bikes Want A Gift That's A Bit Different? May We Suggest • BAROMETERS • TRAVEL KITS • BAR SUPPLIES • BEER STEINS • BRITISH STERLING TOILETRIES CLOCKS See Exeter's LARGEST STOCK of Fine English China • ROYAL DOULTON • WEDGEWOOD • ROYAL ALBERT • AYNSLEY • ROYAL. WORCESTER froceleahnesabucirafe SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND C.W.N.A., O.W,N.A., CLASS 'A' and ABC Editor — Bill Batten—Advertising Manager Assistant Editor — Ross Haugh Women's Editor — Gwyn Whilsmith Phone 235-1331 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 'NV?, SIGNET RINGS BINOCULARS •BESWICK HORSES Lead Crystal and Cornflower ALSO AVAI LAB LE -Ca,tneptieli JEWELLER MAIN ST. EXETER '' ..a.ZfaiSZ;:;ZEEFS;:,'E'ZSEKEEE;ZVMIESN2k:K Atf "Of course I'm polluted — I've been breathing that city air all day long!" Life as some sage, put it, does have its ups and downs, . does it not? Item. I have a beloved aunt and a beloved uncle. She was widowed a couple of years ago, and he became a widower some years ago. They were very close. Each was living alone in a good- sized house. They finally decided to pool resources, sell their houses and live in an apartment, as company for each other. They went off to Florida this past winter. In the same mail I received news that she was ill with terminal cancer, and he, at 80, was getting married. Well, "Life is the life," as my daughter said when she was about five. We thought it a pretty philosophical statement, at that age. It covers a lot of ground, Speaking of daughter, the bride, She and her husband made it to Vancouver and halfway back in a ten-year old car, which is about the same age as an 80-year- old man. Coincidentally, my uncle is going to Vancouver for his honeymoon. Kim rolled the car over at Regina, on the way home. I haven't got the details, but, of course, it wasn't her fault. They They got $10 for the remains. I hope my uncle makes it to Vancouver, and doesn't decide to roll himself over in Regina, unless for a very good reason. This prelude, as usual, leads me directly into my theme: making speeches. My daughter hasn't made a speech, my uncle hasn't made a speech, and I haven't made a speech. And therin hangs a tail. The tail hangs between the legs of a good friend of mine. Five weeks ago, he asked me if I'd make a speech, just three or four minutes at a ceremony to mark the retirement of a dear friend and colleague. Reluctantly, I agreed. I hate making speeches. However, this was a special occasion, The lady who is retiring is a fine teacher, a gracious person, beloved by her thousands of ex-students, of Irish descent, and a good Anglican. What more could a person have? Two weeks later, my good friend who was in charge of lining up the occasion, asked me if I would make a short speech at the ceremony. Rather puzzled I told him he had already asked me. He assured me that the speeches would be short, there were only four speakers, and I would be last. This suited me. He who lasts last laughs last, or something. Another member of the dough- headed committee in charge of the big event kept reminding me that I was to speak, and needling me about having the speech ready, I replied with a certain hauteur that I never failed to deliver, and that the speech would be ready. And it was. At 11.45 a.m. on the morning of the ceremony, I sat down and wrote a light but loving tribute to the victim. The ceremony began at 2 p.m. It was a huge success. The retiring lady was almost over- whelmed. She had expected a tea with perhaps forty or fifty people, and some kind of a gift. Maybe a watch, or a brooch, or an oil painting. By 3 p.m. there were over 500 people in the place,some of them from over 1,000 miles away. Then the speakers began. They ranged from her first principal, who plodded with kindly intent but size 12 brogans, through her early life,revealing her age and various other unmentionables. He was followed by a couple of former students, a couple of former colleagues, the local member of parliament, for whom she wouldn't vote if it meant she was damned for eternity and a temporary colleague. The temperature in the cafetorium (how do you like that word?) was about 110. The acoustics were hopeless. A great groundswell of murmuring arose from the back of the hall, where people couldn't hear a word and started having a reunion. The speakers were in- terspersed by the reading of telegrams from the Minister of Education, the Prime Minister of the province, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, whoever he is. I was sweating about a quart a minute, not from fear, but from humidity. My wife started to get hairy, as speaker after speaker mounted the podium, She shot looks and hisses at me, and murderous looks at the chair- man. My speech rustled in my breast pocket. The gifts were fabulous: an oil painting set, a French poodle, live, and an in- perpetuity scholarship, in her name, for students of French. It ended and the mob's murmur became a roar, My wife leaped up, went to the chairman, and said something probably not worth repeating. She came back to me, eyes blazing, and blurted, — Please turn to page 5 ME,Vik.MAXGORIA Amalgamated 1924 The death of a young area cyclist this week adds to the number of tragic accidents oc- curring on highways as a result of the increased popularity of the two-wheelers, It is becoming increasingly evident that it is unsafe for bicycle riders to use main high- ways for the same reasons that it is unsafe for snowmobiles. They should be confined to secondary roads and provincial authorities should be urged to give this matter urgent con- sideration before the carnage mounts any higher. It is also urgent that officials give some consideration to im- proving safety requirements for bicycles. There may be some merit in requiring that bicycles have a type of slow-moving vehicle sign comparable to those now used for farm 'machinery. The two move at similar speeds along our roads and yet farm vehicles are much more readily seen than a bicycle. In addition, the riding habits of bicycle riders must be vastly improved. The only way this appears possible is for the establishment of more stringent punishment for those who fail to obey the rules of the road. Only this week we watched seven lads (about 12 years old) coming home from school. They were approaching Main St. from John St. East and rather than come to the corner and make a stop as the law requires, they pulled diagonally to the south side of the corner and proceeded to enter Main St. on the wrong side of the road without even slowing down noticeably. Our suggestion would be that youngsters guilty of such in- fractions should have their bikes impounded for a week, with subsequent infractions bringing longer periods of impounding. In the case of auto drivers, suspensions of driving privileges are much more feared than fines, and we imagine the same would hold true for the younger set, If they had to walk while their buddies were riding, they may become more conscientious in their riding habits, and that could save their lives. + + Words and action often come back to haunt people and we recall quite vividly a situation in a grade three class at Exeter Public School when a fellow classmate was admonished by the teacher for not getting his work done quickly enough, "You'll be an old man by the time you get done," she said. Our buddy did set about to work more quickly for a few minutes, but then started to dawdle and while day-dreaming, he proceeded to use his pencil to draw a moustache on his upper lip. Several minutes later, the teacher looked at him and laughingly pointed out that her contention had come true. At a special council meeting this week, members were talking about the fact that they were sometimes guilty of giving long debate to "petty" items and quickly passing those which should have received more consideration in view of their greater importance, Later in the meeting, they spent half an hour arguing (the word used twice by Mayor Jack Delbridge) whether they would 0 THE RED CROSS IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU HELPING PEOPLE LIKE YOU charge $25 or $100 per year as the license fee for a mobile home park. Then, it came time to decide on the monthly rate for the units and a fee of $15 was established in no less than five minutes. So, it took 30 minutes to argue about a matter concerning $75 a year and a small fraction of that time to decide on a fee which, if based on 100 mobile home units, will realize $18,000 in revenue for the town in one year. Noticed anything new lately about some of the canned foods and toothpaste tubes on the shelves? They've gone metric! The contents are being stamped in ounce and metric measurements, and they're in the vanguard of the metric switch. The new measuring system - and the whys and the wherefores of it - is explained succinctly (so they say) in a new booklet -prepared by the Consumer and Corporate Affairs Department , It is available without charge from The Consumer, Box 99, Ottawa. Main reason for the changeover is that Canada has to catch up with the rest of the 50 Years Ago The London Silver Band of the Salvation Army gave an open-air concert at Victoria Park Sunday evening, One of the largest crowds that was ever present, assembled in the park. Shortly after the service had started, a wind storm came up, followed by a very heavy downpour of rain. The storm was accompanied by sharp lightning and thunder. The park was filled with cars and most of them had to be assisted through the mud, Major W. J. Heaman and R. N. Creech won the Merner trophy at the Scotch doubles bowling tourney at Seaforth, last Wednesday, open to Huron Coun- ty. This makes the third time that Exeter bowlers have won this trophy and it now becomes their permanent property. During the thunder storm Saturday evening, lightning struck the Main Street Methodist Church, but fortunately, the damage was only slight. The lightning struck the top of the roof, close to the front of the church. A number from town motored to Goderich Monday evening and took in the moonlight excursion on the steamer Greyhound. 25 Years Ago Over 2,000 people took the op- portunity on Saturday to attend the first post-war display af- forded the public at the Centralia airport. The township of Blanshard, is preparing to commemorate the 100th year of the incorporation of the township, June 25. Rev. C. L. and Mrs. Langford arrived from Mitchell Thursday, and Mr. Langford preached his inaugural sermon as new rector at Trivitt Memorial church on Sunday. Miss Irene Beaupre was in- stalled as President of the newly organized chapter of Beta Sigma Phi. Nona and Lois Pym won the right to represent Huron County in provincial competition when the Annual Achievement Day of Junior States of the county was held in Clinton, Saturday, Magistrate James Morley has resumed his duties on the bench after an illness of 13 weeks. world. Now, about 90 percent of the world's population lives in metric countries and the bulk of international trade is conducted in metric units. The need for Canada to adopt a universal system of measurement has become urgent if we are to maintain ounposition as one of the major trading nations of the world. We'll all be affected by the change, so we urge readers to get a copy of the booklet and see what is in store for them. By the way, you don't have to worry about waking some morning to find yourself faced with an entirely new system. It will be a gradual change which will probably take a minimum of 10 years. Similar to those canned goods and tooth-paste tubes, most items will soon be carrying both measurements systems. One of the perplexing facets of the situation is that our children will be more conversant with the new system than we will and we'll have to be asking their help to figure things out. 15 Years Ago Awards for outstanding achievement were presented to students of South Huron District High School Thursday evening in the school auditorium. Awards for top marks were given to Cornelia Verkerk, grade IX; Jane Horton, grade X; Dick Charrette, grade XI ; and Roly Tinline, grade XII. Exeter, Hensall, Lucan and surrounding areas will be affected by the new long distance cable being constructed by the Bell Telephone Co. from London to Clinton. Work on the start of the development of the Pinery park has been delayed until late summer because of the need for further surveying in the area. Eight area homes were ran- sacked in broad daylight, Tuesday. Police are in- vestigating the possibility that they were all carried out by one person. During the wind and hail storm in the Cromarty-Staffa district, Tuesday, a section of the roof of a barn owned by Wilbur Glanville was destroyed. Meanwhile, area residents have been sweltering in oppressive 90 degree temperatures and heavy humidi- ty. 10 Years Ago Huron's four candidates are working feverishly as the elec- tion date draws near. They par- ticipated in an all-candidate debate at Seaforth Tuesday night, before a crowd of 600 peo- ple, Participating were Carl Heminway, NDP; Earl Douglas, Social Credit; Elston Cardiff, standing PC member; and Ernie Fisher, Liberal. The Grand Bend and Area Chamber of Commerce finalized plans for their "Fly-in", which is planned for the Grand Bend air- port June 23. Huron county council has adopted a road program, covering 48,5 miles of construe- tion innine projects, Leading Aircraftsman John H. Virtu, Who recently wrote his group three exams in electronics air, attained an average of 97%, the second highest in the whole of the RCAF, LAC Viau was transferred to RCAF Centralia in October, 1958. There's still time to Save-as-you-Order Yes, you can still take advantage of our volume dls, count offer on HAVOLINE. and URSA Motor Oils, all- purpose MARFAK, and many other quality Texaco lubricants. Call us now only a few days remain, Don't miss these savings! Farm Lubricants WM. McFALLS FUELS EXETER, ONTARIO PHONE 235-2840 call us todayand save! FOOT TROUBLES? 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