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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-09-08, Page 2Page Two The Wingham Advance-Times, Wednesday, September 8th, 1954 CUSTOMER’S RITE « « * Several Western Ontario towns have lately been try­ ing the Friday night opening instead of Saturday, follow- bration a lot of town people put a 10t. mg a move which started in th<y cities some years ago J of work into preparations for the Most of the proponents seem to feel that Friday night is event. And among the many was one, just as good a night to keep the stoies open ab batuidax—jhis tWo week>s vacation erecting plat. 1 ’"' "1‘ sforms at the town park, laying out | seats at the park and in the arena, j chasing around town for material, ; and generally rounding up help to get f these things done. Somebody or other !i talked Bill into being chairman of the i property committee, and it was a job | that Bill found couldn’t be done from (the desk. Not many' people would devote 50 percent’of their holidays to guch work, but Bill stayed with it and did a mar- i vellous job. It’s reported that he spent the second week at home recuperating ? frpm the effects of the first. | Bill’s a native Winghamite, born in ’ the town in 1922. He is the son of Mr, ' and Mrs. Percy Harris, of Charles i Street. After receiving an education | in Wingham Public School and the ’ High School, Bill got ,a job with Wing- ham Manufacturing Company back in 51937, after a brief flurry at big city ( life in London. Subsequently he work- ? ed for the Western Foundry prior to | his enlistment in the army. I In 1942 he joined up in the Royal »Canadian Corps of Signals, taking if you can onlv educate the people to it. As far as we can see the idea was not dreamed up with anv particular benefits for the customer in mind. Most customers, particularly those from the country, would pre­ fer to shop on Saturday night, and furthermore they would like to shop right up to twelve p.m, if possible. If, as some people say, the customer is always right, then the mer­ chants should stick to Saturday night. Saturday night in the rural districts has long been a tradition. Ifs a chance for town and district people alike to get together and visit—in the stores, on the street and around the town. Perhaps the Saturday night is doomed by progress, we should think it would be for a more appropri- than the fact that the merchants want a long But if so. ate reason week-end. NO PLACE FOR KIDS summer brings a long list of fatalities on the Thumbnail Sketches During the recent anniversary cele-1 Every . _ highways and during the ensuing horrification, the general____ public is apt to forget that there are also a large number oi'ibasiq training in Kitchener, and later accidents on the farms Tudging from newspaper accounts training in Barriefieid. He / I • ’ A A* . on A ’ went overseas in 1942, and was attach-of people becoming entangled m tractorb, t > b jed to the 2nd. Armoured Brigade sig- other farm implements, life on the farm must be risky m-’nais. flp&A a While he Was in England,* Bill used A - i • - r .i .4., 4 to spend his leaves in Norwich, Nor-One ot the prime causes ui larm accidents appearb to :folk\here he hatl a number of rela_ be ihe vouthfulness of tractor drivers. Children from the 'fives. Here he met Joan Beit, whom a°'e of five up have been known to drive tractors, and be :he married in 1944. They have a four- killed by them. And the latl mat thl> lb bt» b^tl d * Thre©'months after his marriage farm parents some food for thought before they send, their JBni was on ins way to France, land­ children off to the fields on tractors. ; Children of less than fifteen years of age have no busi-; ness driving tractors. They haven't the technical know-’ ledge or. more particularly the judgment necessary to handle such machines. . . • AfTd parents who allow them to do so are foolishly j and criminally risking their children's lives. j sjt ? *» »■WESTFIELD ing shortly after D-Day. He served throughput the campaign as a wireless operator with the rank of Corporal. On his return to Canada he went back to work for the foundry. He re­ tained -his interest in radio work and about five years ago obtained a part time job with ''station CKNX as an operator. When Doug Frjf left some two years ago to go into the Ministry, Bill was taken on full time, and Jias been there ever since. Bill has .built his own house on Charles Street in what used to be Dr. Kennedy’s orchard. He’s a homebody and likes to spend his time puttering around the house. He is a member of the Wingham Dodge 286 of the Masonic Order, and of the 99th Battery, in which he holds the rank of Battery Sergeant Major. nunimnmmnmm>nnummtiumufmn>n»4nnin>niv work and classes Will re-Open On MOrt- REMINISCING 1^“ , S “ TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO SIXTY YEARS AGO We understand that the Palmerston _ _ , _ f Telegraph has been purchased by Mr.NEEDS ADVERTISING |G. H. Mooney, of this place, who will 4 J remove it to Ripley, and start an in-People are continually bemoaning the fact mat ama-dependent newspaper in that thriving feur sports aren’t amateur any more.’ What used to be a*pttie viUage. .............................. - . » - | 'pjjg addition to the agricultural i building is being finished this week. iThe building will now afford ample j accommodation for all the inside de- | parunents of the show. * Last week's Blyth Standard eon- jtained a valedictory of Mr. W. H. Ir­ win, who has sold the paper to Mr. A. E. Brad win,- latety of Toronto Satur­ day Night. Mr. Bradwin is a Wingham boy, and can be depended upon to '‘elevate’’ the Standard, and make it deserving of the hearty support of the people of Blyth and vicinity. “Labor Day”, the new holiday, was not very well observed in Wingham, although it appears to have been pretty generally kept throughout, the country. The Wingham Turf Club hais an engineer staking out the track on the new park lately purchased from Mrs. Johnston. They -will do some work on it this fall and finish .it in time their spring meeting next year. nice, friendly game, with all the kids in town taking part, has turned into a big money proposition, with a S1?U- dollar-a-week battery taking the gravy and the club being left with a whopping deficit at the end of the year. High-priced ‘"imports” don't seem to have improved^ the gate very much in many of the towns that have tried] them. Or if they have, they've taken all the profit. Yet j everybody seems to think that the public won't pay to seej the ordinary, garden-variety of local sport. ? Whatever the answer—and we don’t know any more ■about it than the'experts—one thing is for sure. In this -day of entertainment on all sides you can’t attract the cus­ tomers by jusAarranging a game and waiting for them to jeome. What many a hockey or ball team needs is a booster club—plus a planned advertising and publicity campaign— just like any other project in the entertainment field. 4: 35: s for POOR WELCOME x .According to Police Chief Bert Platt, speeding has in­ creased on the approaches to town since the speed trap signs were removed. Several members of the council have expressed the view that the signs should be put-up again as a deterrent to those whose foot is heavy on the ac- clerator. Huge signs shouting “Speed Trap 1” seems to us to be a poor way of welcoming visitors to town. When they are used in conjunction with a “Welcome to Wingham” sign, they look very incongruous indeed. I On the other hand there must be some way of slowing j down incoming motorists before some small child is killed | on the town’s approaches. | Most motorists will slow down if you can just catch ■their attention and remind them that there are apt to be children on the road ahead. And there is probably a way of doing’ this without hurling threats of speed traps, if only someone would sit down and figure it out. * * 4s 0-0-0 THIS MODERN WORLD The high school board has lately been receiving com­ plaints from rural parents whose children are- forced to undergo the hardship of walking a mile to catch the school bus. Some of the parents apparently think that the school ‘bus should pick up their children at the gate. And we have no doubt that if gate service were provided, those with long lanes would be asking for service to the front door. Meanwhile public school children -without benefit of school busses, have to walk distances up to two miles, with no apparent concern* on anybody’s part. . Perhaps gate service is a necessity these days. Per­ haps school bus drivers should really be knocking at the door and getting the kids out of bed. But if so,'let’s not hear complaints about the high cost ‘of education. Published at Wingham, Ontario Wenger Brother®, Publishers, W. Barry Wenger, Editor Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Authorised as Second Class Matt Poet Office Dept. Subscription Rate One Year 12.50, Six Month® |1.25 in advance 'NX ft A. M SO per1 year ,<. Foreign Rate ftUft per year Advertising Rates on application FORTY YEARS AGO Among those who failed to pass medical and physical test at the mili­ tary camp at Vai carrier, were the fol­ lowing who went from this point: | Messrs. Pitt, Woods, Chapman and Aitchison. Although disqualified from the first contingent, owing to the very strict examination, they will, in all probability, be able to secure some paces shduld another contingent be sent. The boys arrived home Thursday last. While* Mr. Thomas Aitkens, of Turnberry, was loading a stove onto -a single wagon at the rear of Ross & Bell’s hardware store on Friday morn­ ing, he had the misfortune to meet with a very severe accident. He was in the act of moving the seat forward to make room for a stove he had pur­ chased, when the seat fell forward onto the horse, causing it to take fright and bolt. Mr. Aitkens lost his balance and fell in front of the wagon, one wheel passing over his body. He was immediately taken to Mr. Geo. Moir’s shoe shine parlors and his friends phoned for, but was taken home later in Mr. O. Taylor’s auto­ mobile. To what extent he was injured, it is not known at present, but as Mr. Aitkens is an elderly man the shock may confine him to his house for some time. The stove was completely demolished, but the horse escaped in­ jury. Mr. T. Fells boasts of having the heaviest yield of oats in this district. He had sown a little over one and a half acres On his lot in TUrnberry Township, and last week when he threshed, the yield was over one hun­ dred and thirty bushels Of odts. This figures out to about eighty-five bush­ els to the acre. This is certainy an exceptionally large yield/and one that Witt be hard to beat. Miss Spatllng Who Was a member of the Cuthbert touring party, returned home on Saturday after spending sev­ eral weeks touring on the Continent. The plans of the party were hot in­ terfered with in any why On account Of the war, save for a few delays, In Paris the party witnessed the recruit­ ing of 10,000 Americans, Miss Sparling will again resume her music lesson the j A section atthe 1929 statutes was read, at the council meeting with re­ gard. to the Transient Traders By-law m town, which showed the local by­ law to be very much out of date, and after a short discussion $300 was fixed as the fee instead of $50 as formerly. This fee is merely a protection to local merchants against the dumping of bankrupt or other stock into town for a short sale. One of the biggest real < transactions in Josephine Street ness properties took place last when J. Hanna disposed of his property to -Mr. A. J. Walker figure around $12,000. Mr. takes Mr. Walker’s store at a valua­ tion. The Hanna store'is one of the ideal business locations in town, has' exceptional window display possibili­ ties, and has an abundance of space. It is steam heated and has the most comfortable living quarters above. The deal becomes effective of January 1st. next. There is one regrettable feature about the transaction which means the probable removal from the town of Mr. Hanna, who all his life has been associated with the business. Three pair of local bowlers attend­ ed the Annual Scotch Doubles tourna- 'ment in Goderich on Wednesday of last week. D. Rae and H. C. MacLean- were successful in winning, second prize in the Association event, the prize being casseroles. 0-0-0 FIFTEEN’ YEARS AGO estate , busi- week store at a Hanna When the news was flashed about the world on Saturday that Britain had declared was on Germany, Can­ ada was ready for the shock. Those who remembered the Great War and all that it meant grimly felt that all had been done by Britain that was possible to preserve peace. So far the local Battery, 99th Wing­ ham Field, Battery, R.C.A., has not received word to start recruiting. Two other batteries in this district and which belong to the same brigade as the Wingham Battery, are already being called. They are the Listowel and Walkerton batteries. It is understood that they will recruit up to strength, about 150, remain billeted in their respective towns . for about three weeks prior to being transferred to to Petawawa for a period of training. Dr, W. A. McKibbon underwent an emergency operation for appendicitis in Wingham General Hospital early Tuesday morning. We are happy to report that the Doctor is making satis­ factory progress! and on behalf of the people of the community wish him a speedy recovery- Strikes and, the Farmer These past few weeks we have not­ iced several stories in the daily news­ papers of labour disputes in the farm equipment manufacturing field. Some of these disputes have resulted in strikes and plants being forced to shut down. Workers have been put out of wbrk, in the struggle between the unions and the plant operators. The general theme is always the same. “We want more wages, shorter hours, more benefits, more take-home pay, and greater security. The workers blame the company and the company blame the workers in a vicious circle of slanderous propaganda 'that does little to promote good feeling between the employers and the employees. We here in the quiet farming com­ munities, seldom come' in close com- tact with such violent labor disputes as crop up often in the large metro­ politan ,a£eas. Strikes are almost un­ known, labor problems are few, and when there are such problems,-*- they can be solved quite amiably enough mainly because the employers and employees know each other by their first -names. That neighbourliness, in and out of the shop, helps a lot. So, we look with awe at the violence, pic­ keting, fighting and rumblings that issue from the strike-bound plants in the cities, and I am referring parti­ cularity to the farm Implement'manu­ facturing plants, currently involved in labor management disputes. A lot of folks in the city and many in the small towns, even fail to real­ ize why it is the farmers are so con­ fused over the fact that their income is going down, While laborers in the city, manufacturing equipment for them are asking for and receiving in­ creases in wages, and other benefits, which will soon be reflected in price advances, if the plants are to oper­ ate. ' .» I sometimes wonder,, if the folks in the farm implement plants, the ones who assemble the implements, shape the steel, ever read the papers, and realize that the farmer is the man who keeps them employed. One of these days the folks in the farm im­ plement plants are going to awake, with a jolt when they find that farm­ ers are not prepared to pay the ever increasing prices for those machines, unless they.in turn get more for their products. This will . mean a reversal of the present trend that sees farm prices faling in every - category this summer and fall. You don’t have to take my word for it, consult the Dom­ inion Bureau of Statistics, the Depart! ment of Agriculture, dr better still, anyone in doubt, might even try farm­ ing themselves. How long can the ^tretch go on? How long can the plants guarantee employment for workers at ever in­ creasing wage rates, while farm prices go down. Are union officials as in­ terested in the economic situation of all segments of agriculture, as they would like to lull the farmers into thinking, when they, pledge their sup­ port to farm programs? Do union of­ ficials have the wholehearted approval of workers when they make these de­ mands, and who are these so called organizers who appear so often, -when­ ever there is a dispute? Do they ever work on the. assembly line? Are. they concerned about markets for the ma­ chines they build, are they cold, meth­ odical businessmen, seeking advance­ ment regardless of the cost or the in­ evitable result?' These are questions farmers are asking as they watch farm prices go down, machinery work­ ers asking for more wages and bene­ fits, and machinery prices go dp, as a result of granting these benefits. They are wondering if G. H. Millard really meant it, when he stated at farm meetings in Formosa and Mitchell. “Your problems and ours are the same, and we must work together.” Mrs. Jasper McBrion, and RodgW Drew of Goderich, visited with Mr, and Mrs, Gordon Snell, Miss Minnie Snell has returned to Toronto, after spending holidays with, her sister, Mrs, J, L. McDowell - friends, Mr. and Mi's. Henry Miss Sally Taylor,, of Comber, visited with Mrs. Frank Campbell, Mr, and Mrs. Elmer McDougall and family of Sheffield visited with Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Campbell. Mr, a and Mrs. Elmer Horne, of Windsor, visited Mr. and Mrs. Doug­ las Campbell, and Mi\ and Mrs, Gor­ don Snell, on Wednesday. Mr. Wm. Walden is visiting his daughter Mrs. Reg Jennings, and Mr. Jennings, Detroit. Miss Gladys McClinchey, of Auburn, was a visitor with Miss Donna Wal­ den. Mrs. Earl 'Wightmen, is visiting with her daughter Mrs. Harry Booth­ man and Mr. Boothman, at Sarnia. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Walden and family were at Sarnia last week, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Snell and fam­ ily visited at Port Elgin, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey McDowell, spent some time with Mr. and Mrs, James Boak at Crewe. Mr. Gordon Cook of Cochrane, has returned home after visiting his bro­ ther, Mr. Walter .Cook and other friends. Miss Violet Cobk, of Goderich visit­ ed her mother, Mrs. Fred J. Cook. Mr. and Mrs. John Hildebrand and family are with Mr. Earl Wightman. and other Smith and MW BcUy Sturdy, and Miss Marg­ aret Wright, of Auburh, with Miss Ruth Cook. Mr. Alderic Richard, of New Bruns­ wick is: employed with Mr, Afhold Codk, , Mrs. Frank Campbell, „ is visiting with friends' in Comber. Mr; and Mrs. John Buchanan, were Wingham visitors on Sunday. Mrs. G. Henry, of Vancouver, B.C., is visiting her brother Mr, Earl Wight­ man and Mrs, Wightman, and other friends. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cook, Miss Mary Tunney visited Mr, and Mrs. C, Fulton, at Clifford, on Sunday, ST. HELENS Marion Irwin, of; Deleware,Mrs. , ------- with her mjirimbaphone and cathedral chimes and Mr. Keith Barbour of London, tenor, soloist, both of whom, were so well Received on Flower Sun­ day will be among the gilest artist® on the variety program under. the auspices of the Y.P.W. on Friday night. Be sure to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Sparling and Miss Lois Webb spent a few days last week at Ryerson Camp held at Nor­ mandale on Lake Simcoe. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Berndt Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Berndt Jiy of De­ troit and Mr. Keith Black of Centralia attended the MacPherson-Elliott wed­ ding at Whitechurch on Saturday and were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon MacPherson. Miss Margaret Miller, student nurse at the Stratford General Hospital was home for the week-end. 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