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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-05-31, Page 4Poor way to get response On Special Savings Accounts as of June L VG The senior Trust Company devoted entirely to serving the people of Ontario. TICTORIA.dGREY TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 Manager: Ron Cottrell Main St., Exeter 235-0530 CENTENNIAL BUTTONS Now Available at the Exeter Clerk's Office and Some Exeter Stores BUY NOW AND $AVE MONEY Centennial buttons are now available at a cost of $2.00 for adults. Persons with buttons are allowed into all c entennial events at reduced rotes and the button will ac- tually save you between $5.00 and $7.00 on admission prices. A limited number only are available, so please get yours today. In addition to saving you money on all events, you will be helping us advertise our upcoming centennial by wearing your button from now until June 29, ANTED The Centennial Committee are planning a "museum" to contain historical and antique items pertaining to the heritage of Exeter to be displayed in the Exeter Town Hall June 27 to July 7, Arrangements will be made for pick up and delivery, Anyone wishing to loan items for this display please contact Norm Whiting at 235=1964 or Louise Giffin 235- 0164 as soon as possible. Formula for tragedy Drink Milk FOR GOODNESS SAKE! "Here's something in the price-range you mentioned." Formula for tragedy: take children near water and turn your back for a mo- ment, These words may sound all too familiar: "When I looked back my two-year Old son was gone, The wind had carried his red and white beach ball some fifty or sixty feet past the markers. The shore was full of children, but not Michael. I ran to the water's edge. Frantic, I yelled for help. A crowd gathered .Someone shouted `There he is!' and an arm's length from shore was the motionless body of my son. A lifeguard dashed through the crowd and gave moth- to-mouth respiration. After what seemed like a century of nightmarish waiting, Michael coughed up water and began to cry." Formula for tragedy: take children near water and turn your back for a mo- ment. The formula works. There is a way to prevent this kind of horror. There is a formula for an enjoyable day at the beach: vigilance, more vigilance, and constant caution. Brian Paterson, Director of the Canadian Red Cross Water Safety Service in Ontario has this sound advice: "Supervise — stare at — paste your eyes on — small children and non- swimmers of any age whenever they are in or near the water. Even in supervised areas guard your children yourself. "If you take family picnics in unsuper- vised areas. or go to a cottage, always check the water and the shore very careful- ly for broken glass, sharp rocks or holes. Throw twigs in the water to see if there is a strong current. "Swimming lessons under a Red Cross Water Safety Instructor will give your child safety knowledge as well as swimming techniques, The badges he earns for the different levels are a challenge to acquire more training." During Water Safety Week, June 3 to 9, and all summer long, remember the for- mula for an enjoyable day: vigilance more vigilance and constant caution. It won't spoil your day. Misleading word EXETER DAIRY PHONE 235-2144 It's difficult, today, to think of a more misleading word than "development". One of the most monumental examples of its mis-use must be in "James Bay Develop- ment Project", hereafter called James Bay Exploitation Project. Over 12 years at a cost of $6-billion, the James Bay Exploitation Project would turn nearly one-fifth of Quebec (an area times the size of the United Kingdom) into a hydro-electric district. Five thousand square miles of land, occupied by some of Canada's most independent Indians and Eskimos, would be flooded by four giant dams. The exploitation project was announced by Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa at a political rally last year. Not until six months later did he agree to meet for 15 are presented by those in- terested. That provides a more har- monious atmosphere than bluntly telling people a program is being dropped or that they are con- travening a bylaw. Certainly, there's considerable merit in councils testing reaction to proposed policies or changes, but the methods chosen by the two councils are questionable. minutes with representatives of the 5,000 Cree Indians and others who lived in the affected area. No publicly available cost- benefit study of the project has been carried out. A tiny ($30,000) study of the project's effect on nature was rushed through long after the project was an- nounced. Much of the power would be guaranteed to the Americans. Almost all of the profitable heavy construction equipment would be manufactured in the USA, making jobs there. Bourassa wants to ram into reality an ill-based election promise of 100,000 jobs, regardless of any other values. The James Bay Exploitation Project should be halted until comprehensive studies of its total im- pact are carried out and fully debated. — Contributed It may become habit Councils at Grand Bend and Exeter have taken interesting avenues recently to test public reaction to policies. Grand Bend decided to drop their lifeguard program, with one member of council indicating that the reason for the action was to get public reaction. In Exeter, letters were sent to some ratepayers pointing out they were contravening a local bylaw by planting hedges too close to streets. A ratepayer who appeared before council to discuss the Matter, was advised that the letter had been sent to get a reaction from the recipients. Unfortunately, such avenues of testing public reaction are ex- tremely poor in terms of public relations. In both cases, people became upset over council's position and even though the consternation created may ap- pear minimal, it's the type of situation that should be avoided. If councils wish to test public reaction, they should make that. point absolutely clear so that all concerned can make their views known on the understanding that a policy is up for review and that a decision will be held in abeyance until the pros and cons those receiving the benefit should pay for it, and while there may be some virtue in having a portion of the cost borne by all taxpayers, that portion should certainly be minor. The wide gap between Exeter's present building inspection fee and that being suggested by Dr. Mills is primarily brought about because he will have to hire full- time employees while the local inspector is retired and receives pay only on a per-call basis, However, Exeter council ap- pear not to be thinking of the future at all, nor are they con- sidering the fact that plumbing inspections are as much a necessity as building inspections. We agree with the three council members who wanted to have the health unit proposal approved in principle with further debate being held on the matter of the suggested fee structure. Such a move would appear to have everything to gain and nothing to lose. drive in the sunshine. If neither a visit nor an outing, is possible, send a small gift - make them happy with a cheery, telephone call. A card or a letter is well within the capabilities of most anyone. A few moments of your time and a postage stamp can loom very large in the sterile, unevent- ful, lonely life of one confined to bed or a wheelchair. As a small offering of thankfulness to God for our good health, let us do something nice. no matter how small for a Shut-in on June 3. This is a day set aside to honour a large segment of our population. very few of whom are ever seen as they reside in prisons.. the prisons of their own bodies. . bodies that do not respond to their wishes and commands. These friends, people just like you and me, are confined to their homes, hospitals, nursing homes. Many are forced to spend days, weeks and years staring at four walls. Any one of us could find ourselves in the same predicament and until we do we can- not fully understand how much a small act of kindness can mean. June 3 is a day for visiting a shut-in and, if feasible, to take him or her out for a + + + A recent nation-wide survey in the United States reports that 120,000 deer and 1,200 other big- game animals are killed annually in collisions with motor vehicles. The damage cost to the vehicles involved is estimated at more than $30 million annually. That's a lot of bucks! Who knows, it might become a habit! — Contributed + + + ,Long before you perform an act, you have performed the thought, so if you never want to do anything bad, do not think bad. + + + It was rather surprising that Exeter council turned down a proposal by Huron MOH Dr. Frank Mills to have building and plumbing inspections handled by the county. At the present time, there is no plumbing inspection, despite the fact provincial regulations require municipalities to conduct them. On top of that, plumbers throughout the area have been requesting such inspections for quite some time. Exeter does have a building inspector, but our understanding is that he could still function under the county proposal. In -the past, there has been considerable difficulty in finding suitable building inspectors and there is every indication that when Doug Triebner does retire, the same situation will arise again. Main concern of local council members is the high price of inspection fees being suggested by Dr. Mills. However, they should keep in mind they are proposed figures only. His main object is to make the inspections self supporting, and there is considerable merit in that idea, We subscribe to the theory that About to be a grandfather One minute you are a Dad, in your prime, just a broth of a boy taking a breather after raising a family. The next, you are a Grandad, doddering, heading into the lean and slippered pantaloon stage. That's what happened to me this week, Over the phone, long- distance, a familiar and dear voice asked with a giggle, "Hi, Dad; how'd you like to be a grandfather?" Immediate reaction was, "Oh, no!" Followed at once, as I realized the enormity of my mistake, by. "Oh, yes!. Great!" The kid then talked to her mother, but for some reason, didn't mention the main item on the agenda. She left that to me. When I'd picked the Old Lady off the floor, fanned her back into consciousness, and wiped away the tears, the whole thing struck me in its bleak truth. Here we were. Not even Times Established 1873 15 Years Ago middle-aged, except by the calendar, My wife still attracts whistles. I still have an eye for a thigh at the beach. And we're about to be plunged back into a world of bottles and nappies and colic and constipation and talcum powder. At first it seemed as though someone was playing a practical joke. But fortunately, the resilience of human nature came into play and we bounced back to not only acceptance, but an- ticipation. "That girl should be right here with me," announced her mother. "If she's as sick as I always was . . . " And was she sick! She threw up every day, all day, until you could see the in- sides of her heels. This lasted for about four months, with each of them, It runs in the family. Her mother was the same. f used to bring my wife tea, and soup, told drinks and hot, and Jimmy Sharrow, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, William Sharrow, Grand Bend, first child born after the South Huron district hospital was opened in 1953, snipped' the ribbon to of- ficially open the nurses's residence of the hospital Sunday afternoon. Rev. C. W. Down, Exeter, who marked the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination Sunday by preaching in James Street United Church where he was ordained was presented with a coffee table by the congregation. Over 500 people flocked to SH- DHS to attend the annual chicken barbecue given by the school's agriculture department, Over 400 chickens raised at the school under the direction of Andrew Dixon were cooked and served. Advocate Established 1881 everything came up. You'd think the babies would appear looking like something out of Belsen or Buchenwald. But then she'd settle down, eat like a hyena for three months, and produce a little fa tso. However, maybe the child will escape this. Modern girls don't seem to do anything the way their mothers did. Last night she was eating beef as though the last steer in the world had been slaughtered, and today she was out raking the lawn, Anyway, I'm now looking at the positive side. I can hardly wait for the kid to arrive. I've been watching the television com- mercials for those disposable diapers, and am keen to have a go at them. I've told everybody so often about how I won the war prac- tically singlehanded that all I get aWea 'Mee Amalgamated 1924 10 Years Ago Paula Boulianne, Crediton, Marilyn Hamilton and Sandra Walper, both of Exeter and Sandra Williams, Clandeboye were four of the students among the members of the 1963 graduating class froth Victoria Hospital School of Nursing, 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 Susan Greer Phone 215.1331 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Second Glass Mail Registration Number 0386 Paid in Advance Circulation, March 31, 1972, 5,037 Canada $8,00 Per Years USA $10.00 sus ckiPTIoN RATES: now when I casually mention the Normandy campaign and the Falaise Gap, is a rolling of eyes, which then become utterly apathetic. Here comes a new listener. And then there are the bed- time stories. There's nothing finer in life than to blow and burble in the stomach of a fresh- bathed child, bundle it into its nightwear, then launch into a story, with its eyes wide, the occasional chuckle, then the eyelids falling and the gentle breathing of deep sleep. So I must dust off some of my dandies, They were a mixture of Mowgli and Tarzan and Kaa the Snake and Munkle-Unkle-Unky, the oldest and wisest monkey in the whole jungle. They might have been a little confusing to the adults who had read the books, but the kids loved them. Geography got a bit mixed. Tigers turned up in Africa, and gorillas in India, but nobody cared. Sometime I must tell you about how Mowgli, the wolf boy, after seeking the advice of Munkle- Unkle-Unky, scattered a band of marauding elephants by swinging through the tree-tops and sprinkling the ground with thumb-tacks.It was a real gas to see those elephants hopping around on two feet, trying to pick out thumbtacks from the other feet with their trunks. Then there's going to be the fun of teaching the little blighter all sorts of things. If it's a boy, I'll teach him to fish and swim. If it's a girl, I'll teach her to swim and fish. Their grannie can teach them all the other things, everything from playing Mozart sonatas to making out the income tax return. She's much better at practically everything than I. So she says anyway. Maybe it'll be twins, t have a vision of the Old Lady and me, she sitting with the boy on her lap, I with the girl on Mine, burping them on a Saturday night while their mother is out on the town. One thing worries me. What kind of a world is the little stranger going to grow up in? I hope the general outlook im- proves by about 300 percent in the next ten years, or it's not going to be a pretty place to be sexing in, There's only ,even .and a half months to go, Wouldn't it be a real bummer, after I've adjusted so well and made all these plans, if it turned eut to be a false alarm? Construction of the new $200,000 hockey and skating arena at RCAF' Station Centralia is progressing on schedule. Columns and trusses are being installed this week. The building, whieh is being financed by non- public funds IS expected to be finished in September, Paul Wagon, aen of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Wilson, Exeter, has graduated from the University of Toronto with the highest marks in the honors English language and literature course. 50 Years Ago Mr. Earl H. Davidson, of Ontario Boy Scouts Headquar- ters, Toronto visited Exeter Troop Monday night. Miss Blanche Senior is in Toronto where she has a week's engagement to sing at the Hip- podrome in the musical novelty, "A Sprig of Heather"a There was very little stir in Exeter on the long weekend. ,The weather was fine and ideal for =motoring. Quite a number took in the celebration at Crediton and a number went to Grand Bend. The local bowling greens were opened for the season on May 24th when a tournament was held. The reports for the University of Western Ontario were published last week. Students from this district are Mr. Melville F.Gladman, B.A. degree and second class honours in History and Political Economy; Miss Margaret Strang, first class honors in first year General Science; B,A,, M.C.; Miss Jean Walker, second class honors in English, History and French. 25 Years Ago A housing program of 50 weelings will be completed at RCAF Station Centralia this summer. Miss Helen Anthony has resigned from the staff of Alma College to take a position as Children's Work secretary of the D.R.E.C. with headquarters in in the Wesley Buildings, Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Harold McDonald were fatally injured in a tar aceident at Mootseville Saturday evening. Jack Fulcher and Howard Holtzinan are in Toronto for ti three-week course in seed analyzing,