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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1949-05-04, Page 4Make your days colourful with B.H Paints, Beautify and protect your home — inside and out. • • • Evergtime tiou see PONTIAC 'pill sail A -.- iWcam 411,041,WAP-Veso*eirmvaa% • ••• •••,, , THING ON WHEELS , and PRICED RIGHT tool THE MOST 119 9.PoirriAr A PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS ' PAGE FOUR. NOW is the TIME PROPHET'S ADDRESS TELEPHONE 380 WINGHAM CHOOSE YOUR NEW RADIO from our stock of Philips, Northern-Electric, DeForest—Combinations - Table Models We have a good .selection of . Washers -" Cleaners - Toasters Irons Lamps • McGill Radio Service We are proud of the men who sell "SUPERTEST'l products. Their faithful adherence to the principles upon which the Company was founded—QUALITY PRODUCTS, SINCERE INTEREST IN TAP. CUSTOMER AND HIS CAR, COURTEOUS FRIENDLY SERVICE—is responsible in no small • measure for the tremendous popularity which "SUPERTEST" products enjoy today. In honour of the tenants and dealers of Wingham and Seaforth Branches, a .social evening' was held April 28 in Wingham at which long association awards were presented to the following: Twenty Years: R. S. HAWTHORNE, Seaforth, Ont. Ten Years: V. CASKANWPV.i.`„ Winghatn, Ont. L. C MORSE, Listowel, Ont. W. MORSE, Atwood, Ont, C. SMITH, Wroxeter, Ont. Range or Rangette Bumper to Bumper Service—and the cost is most reasonable. Let us do it now so your car will operate efficiently this Spring and Summer. HONOURS Its TENANTS and DEALERS PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED "Canada's All Canadian Company" FORA MOTHER'S DAY GIFT She will enjoy for many years. TO J3UY THAT NEW +a. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES held in Picturesque Wingham—Dis- cussion on Splitting of Split Atom". This great event I could not miss, so The following is the Prophet's Ad- after throwing some glad -rags into a dress given by Miss Mary Ross at a club bag, I dashed to the nearest air- recent open meeting of the Wingham port and took the first passenger plane High School Literary Society. to Wingham. I had just settled down "I was totally unprepared for the to a belated lunch on the deck and was headlines which leaped at me on the watching with vague interest a floor morning of May 1st, 1969. They read show number when Miss McInnis, "Special United Nations Conference alias "Mabel Jackson", dripping with rammummunlownimmisismaimman II ri Common Sense . . . •" a I Dollars and Cents . . . • • am FOR THRIFTY CAR OWNERS a a a . a • • NE mg am Motors 1 a 1 • G. M. 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My train of thought was quite rude- ly interrupted .by the appearance of two hostesses, who insisted we fasten our air belts. I looked up and lo-and- behold there stood Ruth Machan and Muriel Brydges in stunning green and white uniforms.' Muriel Brydges ex- plained that after her graduation from Stratford Hospital and Ruth's front Victoria, they had worked night and day to produce a liniment which would cure all types of `Charlie Horses'. However after two deaths and three partial cripplings, they had given up their ideas. The plane .landed at Belgrave air- port and soon we were walking to- wards the chrome municipal airport buildings. As I neared the gate I heard a familiar voice shouting "This way, this way, folks, try Johnston's cut rates for your taxi service. Save pennies! dollars!" I turned and there, in full view stood Jim Johnston, It was not until recently he said, that he had gone into the taxi racket. Used cars had been his highlight but noW he was making a small fortune by placing his rates 1/10c lower than those of Bryl Bennett's Black Hacks which served most of the city, He agreed to drive me toward the centre sections so, within 5 minutes of land- ing, I was enjoying Belgrave's beauti- ful landscapes. Next to what had been, at one time, Belgrave's cemetery there arose, a one-floor glass building in the shape of a hockey stick, fronted with bright neon lights which' flashed "For Paintin' - Try Stainton". Jim Johnston informed me that this mod- est little store was the pride and joy of Murray Stainton, called 'the her- mit' by village children, He had pur- chased the sight for his building after his ant-trapping invention' had paid off. This was an ingenious device consist- ing of a minute bale liberally sprinkled with peppermint powder which lured the prey. After the unsuspecting ant entered the machine it was pierced by a darning needly working on the lever principal and ground to a fine powder which was extensively in glue manu- facturing. We -Are driving peacefully along Josephine when I heard a roar, screams, the screaching of brakes, and sweeping toward us down the street, enveloped in dust, was a long red and black truck travelling at breath taking speed. Jim was forced to the curb. "That was Lois Burchill" he gasped, "Best -driver around this part, been one of John Labatt's prize shippers for years now". By this time the taxi had stalled being of the '49 type with clutch and gears, so I started along Josephine on foo.t. Mason's Book Shoppe still, rested on its orginal.sight, so I strolled in to look the place over% The colourful magazine counter lured me and as I grew closer, the smiling countenance of Alice Laidlaw, spelt A-L-Y-S, beam ed at me from one of the magazine covers, Below her there read "Can- did Confessions honors its most illus- trious author. See page 60". I shuf- fled madly through the pages and soon came upon varied scenes of Miss Laidlaw's home life ,etc. It seemed since Alice had begun writing for Can- ,did Confessions, its sales had tripled. Her greatest short, short novel which had swept her to fame in '55 was "Parkwater's 'Passionate Pair". I strolled out of Masons and turned left and there, instead of the fellable Dominion Bank, I found a combina tion, night club, pool hall and bookies centre. Standing in front in a grey and maroon uniform was a sad, sober, doorman. I stepped up to him and asked him who owned the establish- ment, His eyes darkened with fright, he looked to right and left and fear- fully whispered "Dynamite Dawson". He further informed me that Fred Dawson, after his advanced course in typewriting tedmique from Mr. Mc- Arthur he had taken over the "Dean- ery Boys" and had organized a power- ful sophisticated gang. They had pull- ed many neat jobs and during the last raid on the Dominion Bank had moved right in. I had just reached the corner when bang, sweeping around it in a para- bolic curve came Ruth Burgman. She had to rush she said, she was now gossip columnist on the Advance Ad- vane-Times and had been gathering up the last bits of juicy news for her col- umn, After this was finished she had to rush home and prepare food for her little 'Cranim' children. I mean cram all her little children with food, Her afternoon was to be spent in Witigharn General; assisting in a serious brain operation. Just after Rtithies depart- ure Mary Porter and Grace Holmes came tripping down the street, To, gcther, the gielS had invented a new shade of cream yellow for typewriter ribbons which had not increased the maximum. rate of typing but played "Clancy Lowered the Boom"" as you typed. I noticed a large sign across the street which read "Pennington's Re- ducing SMobn". After investigation I found that Harold had gathered to- gether all his electrical and chemical knowledge to produce a new electrical reduced-machine and effervescent pills in order to aid in the beautification of the fairer sex. The pills were the most noteworthy as they were divided by a „starch colonial pill into acid and alkaline solutions. The capsules were placed in the ears at right angfes to the ear-drums and the vibrations thus Set up decreased one's weight as much as 10 lbs. in one day, At the back of Pennington's saloon was Uncle Ern- est's Barber Shop for Children, Uncle Grants, as the little ones called lam, was briskly rubbing one of his faMons "beer" rinses into the scak of Hugh Feagan's oldest boy Herartin, Hugh was patiently waiting with his other eleven little ones. Hugh informed me he had retired -now, since the monthly family allowance cheques along with the royalties from his new flavoured jaw breakers, provided sufficient in- come for the maintenance of his happy family. Before 1 left the barber shop, Uncle Granty sold me a ticket to the concert series now starridg Lois ,Cless a Srakey, He warned we to go early as Lois had drawn capacity crowds for the last three weelf,s by her piano in- terpretations of "You are My Sun- shine" and"The West, a Nest, and You Dearie" . On the same program was opera star, Jean Adair, singing the song which had brought a fortune "I'm a Lonely Little Petunia in an Onion Patch". This was Jean's last appearance before her marriage to the screen star, Bill Hilbert, My next visit was to **Ingham's museum. Immediately outside it stood a bronze statue of Mr, F. E. Madill to commemorate the great day on which he proved that the formulae 5 - 4ac -= 0 was a faulty test for tan- gency. III the main rotunda of the museum enclosed in a glass case was shining little black Model 'I' and stand- ing proudly by it, gazing with rapture at the golden inscription below it were Lois and Harry Scott. The museum had paid .them a fabulous sum in order to procure this little gem. I found Mr. Hall in the stamp collector's sec- tion, He had resigned his position at Wingham High and had gone into deep stamp research, In his spare time he experimented in the museum "labs" determined to find out why modern experiments did not worlf. In the Egyptian mummy section I found Miss Herd skillfully explaining the art of embalming With the aid of labelled bottles to a group of young undertak- ers. Later that afternoon one of Ben- nett's Hacks took me to another at- tractive little subenb, Bloevale, Mere I met Donna Henry dragging herself wearily up the streets, She had just come off duty at James Hall Bluevale Memorial, she said, where she was floor scrubbing supervisor. She• toM rile of the wonderful position Margaret Treleaven had obtained in the photo- graphy field. Margaret was working with R.K.O. studios carrying cameras from one stage set to another, We turned into the Illuevale 'Branch of the Dominion Bank and manager George Ganunage stepped forward and greeted up. He told us that he had just recently been moved there and that he had fought hard for the White- church, but because Of. his age bad bedn forced to accept the Bluevale of- fer, In his spare time Ile was working on the production of a new ray Burglar alarm, The ray had such an effect upon the burglar that he deposited in- stead of withdrawing cash. Loud cheers could be heard across the street so we rushed out. There, high on a soap box was Hydro Commissioner Doris Clark, giving an impromptu ad- dress to some tax-paying citizens;' Doris had been voted commissioner after capturing some light breaking delinquents on Hallowe'en and taking them to Mr. Platt. Maxine Cowan had been named her assistant because of her liberal assistance during the in- cident. At that particular moment, a long black' Rolls-Royce swept around the corner and reclining on silken pillows in the back seat sat Vivian Ernest. She was returning from her winter home in Florida to her husband Clay- ton Thompson, Clayton had concoct- ed a new brew which sold under the trade name of Thompson's Torrid Tea. One torrid tea bag could be used sev- en times without diminishing the Wednesday, May 4th, 190 toward Machan WINGHAM ONTARIO strength of the brew. school pals. During one short day: ham's distant sky-scrapers when I re- The sun was setting behind Wing- Wingham High School had flashed the memory of our happy dayi az back and would never be forgotten. gretfully bid goodbye to my old high So you are in for, a thrill when you visit your Pontiac Dealer. You'll see a car of breathtaking beauty — a car with more comfort and roominess, broader vision, greater safety. It's a powerful, responsive ear, easy to drive — and a pleasure to drive. You'll say it's a really remarkable motor- car value, whether you comptre it with luxury cars, medium-priced ears, or other cars in Pontiao's own price field ... For Pontiac is priced with the lowest! See it today! P440 Yes, Pontiac's first completely new line in more than seven years ! Into its creation went years and years of research, trfals, designing and re- designing, testing and re-testing. And finally everyone was satisfied . everyone said, "That's it . . here's a ear that's fine enough in every way — a car that, incorporates the 14 major advancements we sought — and yet retains all the thoroughbred characteristics that Canadians have learned to expect front Pontiac." REAVIE MOTOR SALES TELEPHONE 241 WINGNAK ONTARIO