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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1955-12-14, Page 1w >-^<1 r W 4 * ♦ .w With which is amalgamated the Gorrje Vidette and Wroxeter News Subscription $3,00 per year, 7e per copy WINGHAM, ONTABIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, lilOS —UIAW MONG THE MAIN GRIG By The Pedestrian TO COIN A PHRASE—Hon. Mac­ kinnon Phillips’ reference to Wing­ ham as the “little big town" strikes us as being quite a compliment, and the phrase might well make a good slogan for the town, as actually Wingham has quite a bit of stuff for a place this size. Perhaps we should ask the minister if this one was off the cuff or if it has been copyrighted by some other enterpris­ ing town. If there are no patents pending it might be a good little catch-line to latch onto. , 0-0-0 STILL THE JUVES—Hockey fans in the neighborhood will, be sorry to hear that Wingham’s intermediate team, which started off with such promise, has folded its tents like the Arabs—even before they were proper­ ly pitched. No intermediate hockey this year, in other words. However there's still the juveniles, and fans who complain about not having a home team to root for can get out and root for them. There’s a game on Friday in case you’re interested. 0-0-0 SNOW FUN—Men of the town’s public works department are having a great time keeping up with the snowbanks along the main street this year. So far they’ve managed to keep ahead of the game, getting the old stuff cleared away in- time to make room for the new. Sad part about it all is the fact that come spring it evaporates all by itself, any­ how. Trouble is, it’s a long wait until spring. 0-0-0 CROSS YOUR FINGERS—Police Chief Bert Platt reports that although the roads have been treacherous the past few weeks, accidents have been confined to the odd dinged fender, if that’s what they call ’em nowadays. Let's keep on taking it easy until next April, and keep it that way. ... • . ‘ • rO x 0---’0•• * •MAH.TNG EARLY?—Archie Peebles and his staff at the postoffice are having their Christmas rush these days, and- the place is beginning to look like a bargain basement. If you haven’t got those Christmas cards off yet, better get cracking. Students Shaken Up As Bus Takes Ditch Four students of Wingham District High School were treated at tha Wingham General Hospital for minor cuts and bruises when the school bus in which they were travelling slid off an icy road on the 6th concession of Turnberry and went into the ditch on Thursday. ‘ Allowed to go home after treatment at the hospital were William Rettin- ger, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Rettinger, R.R. 4; Wingham, who was treated for bruises; John Moffatt, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mof- att, R.R. 1, Wingham, brush burns to the left thigh; and Ethel Breen, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Breen, R.R, 1, Wingham, brush burns on the left leg. The job of cutting b^nks lasted about NEW HOSPITAL WING OPENED X BE GENEROUS’ The Wingham Lions Club has agreed to head up the Wingliam Campaign for the Belgrave Brenda VanCamp Fund. You are urged-, to make your donation at either bank on Maui Street, You will receive an official receipt by mail, , IPs Christmas Time so OPEN UP YOUR HEART, WTNGHAM, and GIVE! -r Fred Lewis, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis, R.R, 1, Wingham, re­ ceived a laceration over the left eye­ brow but was released from hospital on Saturday. NOTICE Drug stores in Wingham will be closed on Monday, December 26th and Tuesday, December 27th (Boxing Day). However they will be on call at the following hours: Monday,' Decem­ ber 26th, McKibbens, 10.00 to 12.00 a.m. and 1.00 to 4.00 p.m„ Tuesday, December 27th, Vance’s, 10.00 to 12.00 a.m. and 1.00 to 4.00 p.m.14:21b COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS CONCERT A Community Christmas Concert will be, held in Forester’s Hall, Bel­ grave, Tuesday, December 20, 1955. Sponsored by Schools No. 9, 7 and 13, East Wawanosh. Admission 35c. Time 8.30 Sharp.F14* Wroxeter DeCembci' SANTA CLAUS COMING TO WROXETER Santa Clatis will visit Town Hall on Saturday, 17th. Pictures will be Shown at 2 p.m. followed by a visit from, Santa With treats And fun, for the children ©f the village And community, Spon­ sored by the business men of Wrox- eter. K7:14” v VIE tL - IB . • ’ ■ ‘A?’-’ ->.'A BIS $ >-’S- •'O IB The Wingham public works depart­ ment has been having a busy time of it during the past‘ couple of weeks, keeping up with the heavy fall of snow which has blanketed the district this month. On Monday a- ’snow loader was busy loading snow cjff the main street to a waiting truck which carried it to the dump, down the snow a day. Some of the have been kept Parrish and his sidewalk plow. Patrick and streets, which see the heaviest traffic of school children, have been cleared, and one side of Diagonal road plowed, as well as several cross streets. The town grader has . been used to good effect on some of the town streets to keep snow from getting too deep. It is expected that a small tractor with loader will be rented by the town in the near future to assist in snow removal, sidewalks of town plowed by Ephriam team using the old John Scenes from the opening of the new 50-bed ' chronic patients’ wing at the Wingham General Hospital, on Wednesday last are shown above. Top—Hon. Mackinnon Phillips, Ontario minister of health cuts the ribbon to officially open the new wing. 'Left to right are Mrs. Iris E. Morrey, hospital ad­ ministratrix; Dr. Phillips, Warden of Huron County Earl Campbell and H. C. MacLean, chairman of the hospital board. Centre—Dr, Phillips and Mrs. Morrey look on as Mrs. Chris. Newman demonstrates some of the work done by the Hospital Auxiliary in the auxiliary’s room in the new wing. Bottom—Chatting before the opening ceremonies are H. C. MacLean, Dr. Phillips, Mrs. Morrey and Roy Cousins, vice-chairman of the board. .—Staff photos Tuck Shop to Serve Hospital Visitors When you enter the front door Of the new wing at Wingham General Hospital, you will notice at the left, a glass case attractively filled with gift articles of various kinds. This is the little tuck shop which is operated, by the Ladies' Auxiliary to the hospital- There ■ are all sorts of things for in­ fants as well as for adults. Every afternoon and evening a member of the auxiliary will be there to serve you and assist in your Selection, so when you want a gift for a patient in the hospital, take a look at the tuck shop. LIST STORE HOURS FOR HOLIDAY SEASON' A complete listing of store hours iii Wingham during the holiday has been published in an advertisement by the Wingham Business Associ­ ation appearing on pago 9. , ShoppOrM arc advised to clip this ad and keep it in a handy place for toady reference. * Mrs, Walter Pocock, of Wingham, has been appointed pro-tem super­ intendent of the Huron County Home in Clinton, succeeding Mrs. Martha Jacob, who retired December 1st, after serving as matron for 33 years. Mrs. Pocock’s appointment was announced Monday, following a three- hour special session Of Huron County Council’s county home committee. The appointment is subject to con­ firmation by the Hon. Louis P. Cecile, Ontario minister of welfare. A registered ntirso with 28 years' experience, Mrs. Pocock has been a residedht of Wingham since last spring. Prior to that she lived in East Wawanosh for over twenty years. Chosen from amongst 30 applicants for the Pocock will assume next Monday. Mrs. Pocock has associated with the nursing profession in Wingham, and during the Hast year setved as vice-president of tho Ladies* Auxiliary to tha Hospital, position, Mrs. her hew duties been actively X. A new era for the hospital treatment of chrpnic patients opened up in the Wingham district last Wednesday, when Hon, Mackinnon Phillips, Ont­ ario’s minister of health, snipped the ribbon which officially opened the new 50-bed chronic patients’ wing of the Wingham General Hospital. Part of a long-range government plan for the active treatment and rehabilitation of chronic patients, the new wing will also ease the burden of overcrowding at the Wingham Hospital, which last week saw 86 patients in a hospital with a 48-be<l rating. Climax of three years’ endeavour to get more accommodation at the hospi­ tal, Wednesday’s ceremonies were of a simple nature, and were held in the friendly atmosphere of the new wings main corridor. For the purposes of the opening ceremony a white silk­ ribbon had been tied across the corri­ dor at its intersection with another hallway near the nursing station of the new wing. Several hundred crowd­ ed the hallways for the ceremony and for the tour of inspection following the official opening. Valued at $850,000 H. C. MacLean, chairman of the hospital board, welcomed the visitors and traced the history of the hospital from its first inception in 1906. He said that from a humble beginning fifty years ago the institution had grown to its present size with an esti­ mated. value of $850,000. Mr. MacLean Salk Vaccine to Banish Polio Minister Declares at Opening Hope that polio will be a thing of the past within five years, was voiced by the Hon. Mackinnon Phillips, at the opening of the new chronic wing of the Wingham General Hospital last week. In his remarks at the opening of the new wing, Dr, Phillips released figures on the incidence of polio among children who had received the Salk polio vaccine this year, and in an interview after the opening ceremony he said that health authorities had high hopes that the dread disease Byrnes Fleuty, son qf W.(;;J. Fleuty, of Wingham, figured^largely in the arrest of a suspected'’bank robber in Cooksville yesterday afternoon. Along with Thomas Rice, of Weston, Fleuty grappled with' and held the suspected bandit until police were able to get the man into handcuffs. Howard 'Kramer, 24, of Burford, A good record was hung up by the Wingham U.C.O, creamery in tho Ontario Creamerymen’s competitions this past summer. Prizes were award­ ed at the association’s annual con­ vention in Toronto this month. Buttermaker G. MacKay was pre­ sented with 4th prize in the work­ manship competition, and buttermak­ er G. Perrott was credited with 7th place in the combined competitions. In addition to these prizes, the U.C.O, creamery also won honourable mention in the butter quality and the yeast and mould competitions. The latter is a check on plant efficiency and sanitation, and indicates extreme care in controlling bacteria in the luscious foodstuff. j In hanging up this good record, the Wingham U.C.O, plant had to com­ pete with the best in the province and to have all churnings produced be­ tween May 1st and October 31st-, graded by goverment graders. Another district creamery made a remarkable showing when Thompson’s Bros.’ Mildmay plant Won the work­ manship championship for the fifth year In succession, closely followed as usual by the Teeswater plant, only a fraction of a point behind. Canada Packers plants in Clinton, Walkerton and Cheslcy were other district prize winners. had been the object of a police search ip connection with a recent bank robbery at Otterville. At 2 p.m. yesterday Provincial Police Officer Elvin Willsie stepped into a barber shop in Cooksville to ask one of the patrons to move his car which had been parked too close to the line of traffic on the highway. The constable looked at the man in the chair who was having his hair shampooed, and believed he recogniz­ ed Kramer. Upon questioning the suspected man momentally satisfied the officer that he had mistaken his identity, but the constable returned soon after to ask the barber's patron to accompany him to the police station for questioning. The wanted man’s response was to dart through a doorway and race across adjacent properties with the police in pursuit, firing their re-, volvers and ordering him to Eventually the man’s flight led into the public school and on the yard at the rear, wire fence forced building. In the corridor Fleuty and Rice attracted to the scene by the firing. They grappled with Kramer and Byrnes Fleuty threatened him with a .22 calibre revolver until the con­ stables arrived suspect. Mr. Fleuty is funeral home in close to the school building. his he halt, him into highwhere a return to the was met by Who had been and arrested the the owner of a Cooksville situated might be eliminated altogether during the next few years. Dr. Phillips revealed that of 375,000 children of grades 1, 2 and 3 who re­ ceived the vaccine during 1955, only one mild polio case has been contract­ ed. The normal incidence of polio amongst children of that age would be 89 cases, since the age group vac­ cinated comprised 24 per cent of the total of the 162 cases contracted throughout the year. Children of that age group are considered to be most vulnerable to the disease. . In his figures on the incidence of polio during the past three years, Dr. Phillips said that there were 2,100 cases in 1953, a “bad year” for the disease, of which 924 were paralytic and 110 resulted in death. In 1954 there were 238 cases, with 86 paralytic and 11 deaths. In 1955 162 cases were reported of which 68 were paralytic and there were four deaths. The mini­ ster said-’that-,this was the lowest figure on polio since accurate records Were first kept in 1932, and that deaths resulting from the disease had been cut from five to two and a half per cent Double-Checked Vaccine Tracing the history of the use of Salk vaccine in Canada and the United States, Dr. Phillips credited the double-check system used in Canada for the effectiveness of the program. He said that the vaccine had been produced in the Connaught Labora­ tories in Toronto through the co-op­ eration of federal and provincial auth­ orities, and that each batch had been double-checked by the laboratory and by government analysts before being released for use. Thanks to this sys­ tem of checking, six bad batches of the vaccine had been found before re­ lease, Dr. Phillips said. Discussing the future of the Salk vaccine treatments, Dr. Phillips said in an interview after the ceremony that it is hoped to release 1,400,000 doses of the Salk vaccine next spring —enough to vaccinate every child up j to 15 years of age in the Province of Ontario. Children who have not al­ ready received the vaccine will get two doses, and those who were vac­ cinated this year will receive their third and final dose. He revealed that 96 per cent of the parents had agreed to allow their children to be vaccinated, and that the cost to the government for the vac­ cination program was estimated at 50c per injection. paid tribute to those who had made the new wing possible, A D. MacWilliam, chairman of the finance committee, said that without the assistance of the publicity com­ mittee, the new Wing would never have been built. He thanked the fed* eral and provincial governments for their grants to the hospital and dis­ trict municipalities who had borne a share of construction costs. Rev. H. L. Parker, of St. Paul’s1 Church, conducted the service of dedication for the new wing. The speaker was introduced by Thomas: L. Pryde, M.L.A. for South Huron, who spoke in the absence of John W. Hanna, local M.L.A. ‘(Little Big Town” In his remarks Dr. Phillips paid tri­ bute to Wingham, the “little big1 • town," with its new television station and its up-to-date facilities. He con­ gratulated Mrs, Morrey on her school for nursing assistants, one of 6 or 7 in the province which, in the words of the minister, “are playing a great part, in the nursing team of today." Dr. Phillips said that the department is hoping to save 1,000 graduates a year from such schools to assist registered nurses in their work. Outlining the increase in population in Ontario over the past few years. Dr. Phillips told of the increasing problems confronting the provincial government in providing schools, hos- (Continued oh Page Eight) An emergency meeting of the Wing­ ham Public School Board will be called in the new year to meet with School Inspector J. H. Kinkead on the question of a new addition to the Wingham Public School, it was de­ cided at the regular meeting of the . schoql board on Monday night. It is hoped that the proposed meeting will help clarify the Department of Edu­ cation's position on the board’s re­ quest for permission to go ahead with the building of a new addition to the school. It is understood that approval of the department on the new addition is “forthcoming,'' but members of the board are in doubt as to whether the. department Will approve a proposed basement assembly room in addition to four classrooms needed. Estimate cost of the addition runs as high as $100,000. 15 MINUTES WILL DO IT A special meeting of the Wing­ ham Business Association will be held on Monday night at 8 pan. in the council chamber. All progress­ ive businessmen on the main street are urged to attend. Nature of the business to be dis­ cussed has not been revealed by President Hugh Carmichael, but he assures us it will be an important matter for local businessmen. According to the president, 15 minutes at the town hall on Mon­ day night should suffice to clear up the business. PROCLAMATION At the request of a number of citizens I hereby Peanut Canvass Nets Lions $246 The Peanut Drive conducted by the Wingham Lions Club on Monday night netted $246 for the club’s funds, it was announced yesterday. Proceeds1 of the drive Will be used' by the club to help furnish a room in the new wing of the Wingham General Hospital. CANDLE LIGHT SERVICE The annual Candle Eight service will be hold at St. Andrew's Presby­ terian Church, Wingham, on Sunday evening, December IS, 1955, at 7 p,m. Special music will be provided by both junior and senior choirs; F14b •»PROCLAIM ; • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27th, 1955 y As a public civic holiday for the town of Wingham and I hereby call upon all good Citizens to observe the Same. R. E. McKinney, Mayor NmMi *