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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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