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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1953-12-30, Page 2WELCOME 1954 As we join with you in welcoming, 9a brand New Year we are resolved to uphold our reputation for top quality materials and services by bringing to you, in 1954, as we have in the past . . . Complete stock's to meet your, seasonal building needs. Prompt delivery—"the materials you want when you want them".• Friendly advice from courteous, experienced men on any phase of your building program from Planning to Financing. From all of .us at Beaver Lumber • A Happy New Year. BEAVER LUMBERca PHONE 66 Limited WINGHAM May you get the bid part of the year's • Happiness • Enjoyment • Success • Prosperity HURON MOTORS LIMITED Phone 237 Ford & Monarch A. D. MacWilliam Wingham Z,<151115.19,0111tOINK0iiti-EALSIMOIttlaititArgalte011gaillV A New Year bows into a world that prays for peace and hopes for a new era of understanding among mankind. May 1954 see these prayers granted, these hopes, fulfilled . . . and leave the world better for its coming. %INGHAM PUBLIC UTILITIES 7140145Abigarg$401011165140645,45760316V guests neverend. W, H. liminaan, Mr S. HYndman and ehildren, of Pranbrook, were Christmas guests of Rev, Mat., thew and Mrs. Bailie. The following were Christmas guests at homes in Bluevale; Mr. George Newman, of Clifford, with his daughter, Mrs. Stanley pa.ri- lug and family. Mr. and Mrs, Gordon Gipson, of Clifford, were with the Darling family also, Donald Darling, Toronto, spent Christmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Darl- ling. Mr. and Mrs. Jack McMinn and child, with Mr. Norman McMinn and Mr, and Mrs. Arnold Lillow. Mrs. William Nicholson and Allen, with Mr, and Mrs. Percy King and family. Mr. George Meehan, of Saskatoon, with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Elliott and Mr, and Mrs, Eddie Waddell and family, with Preston relatives„ Mrs. W, J, Johnston with her sister, Mrs. Milton Watson, Gorric. Mr, and Mrs. R. H. McKinnon, Blue- vale, Mr. and Mrs, Spence McKinnon, Dresden, with Mr. and Mrs. John K. McTavish and family, Miss Jessie Holmes Port Dalhousie, with Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Arnold. Misses Mary and Robena Duff and Mrs. Aitken, with Listowel relatives. Mr. Clare Hoffman, Crediton, with his parenfs, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoffman. Among those who entertained fam- ily parties were; Mr. and Mrs. Burns Moffatt, Mr. and Mrs. Alex McCrack- in, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hall. Mr, and Mrs. Carl Johnston enter- tained a family party of 22, Mr. and Mrs. George Thornton a party of 27. Mrs, W. H. McKinney, Elizabeth McKinney and Mr. and Mrs, Glenn Sellers had Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Carter, Harriston, Rev, W, Blackmore, Mrs. Black- more and son, Bobbie, of Toronto, had Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Ray- mond Elliott. SPLITTING/ THE MELON The teacher of a civics class, who asked her pupils to explain what was meant by "splitting a melon," was, agreeably surprised to receive the following written answer from one of her pupils, whose father is a mine worker: "Splitting a melon is a term used in corporation finance and means dividing the profits. In the old days when corporations split a melon, part of the money was left with the corporation to increase its plant and production and part went to the stdckholders in the form of a dividend. Nowadays when a melon Is split, the stockholders get the skin, the government gets the meat, and the seeds are left with the Corpora- tion so that it can raise more melons fbr the governument later on." -- Rhodesian Tobacco Grower, Miss Betty Irwin, of Regina, who is attending Western University, is spending the holiday season with her cousin, Mrs. Peter MacEwan, Mrs. Andrew Lamont and Doug-al Strachan. Mr. George Thomson, Ph. D., tea- cher of English, at MoUnt Allison University, Sackville, N. B,, is enjoy- ing the holidays with hi.i parents Mr. and Mrs. George Thomson. They motored to Sarnia on Friday to oave Christmas with,. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Barry and family. Mrs. Dobie accompanied by her son, Eugene, both of Toronto, were Christmas visitors with her daughter, Mrs. James Johnston, Mr. Johnston and Kay. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bosman and baby, of London, were visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bosman. Mr. and Mrs, Jos. H. Smith, Wilmer and Mac, spent Christmas week with Mr. and Mrs. William Myers, at Don- caster. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest King, of Wing- 'ham, have bought ,•the, Walter David- son house from Mr, Burns Moffatt, administrator, and will reside, in Blue- Vale. The play "A Close Shave" had its twelfth presentation at Kippen one night last week, sponsored by the United Church there. Mrs. J. W. Pring, widow of Rev. J. W. Pring, fell and broke her hip at, her home in Palmerston, She was re- moved to Palmerston hospital. Mrs. Pring was a former well-known resi- dent in Bluevale, when her husband was minister of the former Methodist Church. She is in her 92nd. year. A Christmas collection of nearly $70 was taken up in the United Church for Korean and European relief. Mr. Eddie Arnold, C.N.R. agent here has been transferred to the C. P.R. station at Dublin. Mr. Reg. Bitton has bought the house vacated by Eddie Arnold, and Mrs. Bitton and children will move from their home in Belgrave shortly. Mr, and Mrs. Charles Campbell and daughters, spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs, Stanley Darling. Mrs, Mary, Gibson, of Clifford, was a Christmas 1 visitor at the Darling home. PIMP Two 'rho .w)fishipg. AdV9.00044ue.S. Wednesday, Pecs $14 , — 0q.01) RESOLUTIONS look -back on a year too often filled with sins of omission and commission, a year in which no matter how well we have done, we might have done better, And, in a burst of remorse, we are apt to make a lot of resolutions that next year, by George, we'll do better, While such resolves to do better often fall by the way- side,that is not to say that New Year's resolutions are a total loss. It does us good, once in a while, to take stock of ourselves and to formulate, if even for a passing mo- ment, plans to better ourselves. The traditional New Year's resolutions may provide a fund of humor for the jokesters, and those who indulge in them may be looked upon with a certain amount of amusement by their friends. Yet if we didn't resolve to do- better at New Year's, we probably never would at all, * * * PLOUGHING PROBLEMS Last week's deluge of snow, while seasonable enough ,and just in time for Christmas, points up some of the problems in snow ploughing which face the men of the street department. Keeping traffic circulating under con- ditions such as prevailed last week is no mea;feat. One of the big difficulties has been the fact that lane- ways and parking lots at the rear of business premises have been choked up with snow. Rather than park at the back or in driveways and run the risk of getting bogged down, motorists leave their cars on the street. This in turn makes it difficult for the street department when they come along with the snowplough. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the plough tends to throw up banks of snow in the driveways, making it even more difficult for motorists to get their cars off the streets. Short of spending more money in ploughing out all the lanes and driveways of town, there's probably only one solution to the problem, and it's a solution that is not very likely to be used. That is to put the family car up on blocks for the winter, and go to work on foot. CITY 'WAYS A sidelight on a recent news story from the city of Toronto, concerning a rooming house fire there, gives a certain amount of insight into the ways of a big- city. It appears that a woman had jumped from the second :storey of the building during the fire, and lay writhing on the pavement while a crowd of spectators looked on. One -of the onlookers, with a little more of the spirit of helpful- ness than is usually found in the city, took off his-coat and placed it over the victim, protecting her from the cold until the ambulance arrived. When he later recovered his coat at the hospital, he found that his wallet, containing $15, was missing. The account went on to say that the man had been off work for some time, and that the money represented his total :savings for Chistmas. People are people, whether they live in town or city. ]3ut somehow we can't picture that happening in a small town. * NEW HORRORS A recent newspaper account intimated that the Rus- sians are now in possession of a new and mightier atomic weapon identified as the "C" bomb. As the atomic bomb is more powerful than conventional TNT, and as the hydrogen bomb is more powerful than the "A" bomb, so is the new "C" bomb reported to be more powerful than the hydrogen bomb. It isn't a particularly pleasant thought. Not because the Russians have it, for what they have we too, will have, and vice versa. The thought is unpleasant because every new weapon, each more powerful than the last, eventually becomes the property of all countries. And they will use it as they see fit in what, if it comes, promises to be the most frightful war in history. One can't help wishing that the human race would use some of its ingenuity to• find ways of getting along -with itself, instead of spending its energy in elaborate plans to blow itself up. Mankind's epitaph, if anyone bothers to write one, -might well be "They could control everything but them- selves". * * * EDITORIAL COMMENT A young Linwood motorist who was convicted of -pushing another car at 60 miles an hour was order6c1 to be -examined by a psychiatrist. Sometimes we think psych. - trists should be compulsory for all motorists. Whether the number of deer was sufficient to justify the open season is a matter for the experts to decide, says the Hanover Post. But there will be many farmers who will find it difficult to agree that the damage to crops caused by deer is greater than the damage to property .and stock caused by hunters. SIP xnghaut Eint,es Published at Wingham, Ontario Wenger Brothers, Publishers, W. Barry Wenger, Editor Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Dept. Subscription Rate — one "Tear $2,50, Six Months $1.25 in advance A. $3.50 per year r Foreign Rate ;.120 per year AdVertising Rates on application f041.,..yi a SO. all' `rp. era iSnai johngght of East WaWano.ah, visited east ShildAy with Mr. and. Mrs, James V. )3x.-eon, of Morris. Harold Mills, Muriel Redmond, Mary Cosens, David. Perrie and Marvin Craig, of Toronto University, are spending the holidays with their re- spective parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Lloyd left on Wednesday for Halifax, from whore they will sail for South America, to spent the winter in Eritish Guiana,. Miss Elizabeth Wellwood of New York, is spending the holidays at the home of her sister, Mrs, F. R. How, son, Minnie Street. Mr, and Mrs. Wm, Rae, of St, Marys, Mr, and Mrs. A. Porteous and Mr, and Mrs, Rae Porteous, of Luck. now, Mrs. Porteous, Rae, and Mrs. Henderson, of Stratford, spent the week-end with Messrs. 0, Thompson and D. Rae, 0 - 0 - 0 FIFTEEN YEARS AGO When a car crashed a hydro pole carrying high tension wires at Green- ock on Saturday night, all the lights in this district went out, It happened in the midst of the Christmas Eve shopping about 9.45 o'clock and the lights were off for 1 1/A, hours. Other places that were in darkness for this period were Lucknow, Ripley and Kincardine. Local merchants solved the problem by bringing into use lamps; candles, flashlights and in some cases car lights were trained on store windows, It is a long time since the hydro service has had such a severe interruption. An unidentified man about sixty years old was discovered frozen to death on a concession road, four miles from Lucknow, lying in a ditch under. a tree Wednesday afternoon. Alex MacKenzie, first farmer to break through snow clogged roads as a re- sult of Tuesday's blizzard, discovered the body, The victim'was warmly clad and wore a new pair of lumberman's rubbers, Dr. Gillies, of Teeswater, Bruce County coroner, attributed death to exposure. Henry Fremlin, 68, an employee of Sherlock Manning Piano Co., Ltd,, of Clinton, it is feared, perished in the terrific storm that struck this locality on Tuesday. He has been missing since Tuesday afernoon. On Tuesday morning a new Buick coupe driven by Mr. Jerry Moir, of London, and the government snow plow, crashed on highway 4 about 1114 miles south of town. Dr. Connell sew- ed up Mr. Moir's cut hip and he went to London by train at noon. His car was damaged to the extent of about $300. Mr. Crich's car from Seaforth, was sideswiped and one side badly damaged also, Both these accidents happened when the storm was at its height and visibility was very cad due to the falling and drifting snow. RUN WEEk END STOCK CAR TEST Lyle Schmidt has a stock car ready for the Teidotdale races next spring, but he couldn't wait that long to give her a trial spin. Now that the track is paved, he was a hankerin' to get going, so over the week end, went, down to roar around the oval. He hadn't roared many times, until a fair audience gathered, to watch Smitty soar into the corners, side- slip, and ,spin around. Jack Under- wood's hand got itchy to hold the wheel, of the cutdown, „soupekup and braced stock-car, and 'he took a few trial turns. Competition should be interesting come the spring. And now that winter's here, can spring be far be- hind? —Palmerston Observer, aur5 eburcb ( CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN CANADA ) Mind= Second Sunday after Christmas 11.00 a.m.—Holy Communion 7.00 p.m.--tvening Prayer and Sermon 2.30 p.m.—Church School Week of Prayer Services January 4th - 8th, 1954 sponsored by Wingham Council of Churches Monday through: Friday at 8 p.m. in Vingham United Church Preacher—Rev. R. M. Jones Anglican Rector of Southampton "Come and Worship Worship Christ The New Born King" This is the period of the year when most of us stop, " '''' """'"'"'"1""""'" '' ' if only for a =went, to take stock of ourselves and our FoRTY MAO moral and spiritual resources. For a brief moment we The entertainment held in Zetiand A i 4444444 issiotaulapkOr REMINISCING 0 - 0 - 0 TWENTY-EWE YEARS AGO Dr. Margaret Calder, of Wingham, who is travelling in company with Mrs. J. A. Frost, of Owen Sound, Mrs. E. T. Burnett and Mrs. John Mc- Crimmon of Kincardine, is amongst the Canadians who are seeing the world from the decks of the Empress of Australia. Ontario Gazette announced that from and after January 1st., the coun- ties of Huron, Perth, Waterloo and Wellington will constitute a new county district. It is understood that the judges of any of these counties will have jurisdiction in the district, the intention being to facilitate pro- cedure, in case of absence or inability of any of the judges to act. The December "Blue Bell" employ- ee's magazine of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, records the pro- motion to a still more important pos- ition in the telephone service of G, C. Dalgleish, an old Wingham boy. Mr. Dalgleish becomes line foreman on the central division construction staff. Mr. Patrick Gibbons attended the twenty-fifth anniversary of the or- dination to the Holy priesthood of Dean Laurindeau, in Ford, The Dean was presented with a substantial purse and numerous other costly and equally beautiful gifts. Mr. and Mrs. George Walker and school on Friday evening was in every way a success, The 'attendance was large and the program. one of the best ever rendered in the school, Mr, A, H, Musgrove, M. P, P., was chairman, and every number on the program was appreciated, especially the Scotch songs by ,Duncan lgeTav- ish, of Localsh and the Highland dancing by Miss Verna MacDonald, of Wingham, After the program the boxes were auctioned off by Mr. W, A. Currie, of Wingham, whose excellent work secured $56.70. After expenses are paid the balance will be used in purchasing a library for the school. A public meeting was held in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday after- noon to discuss the matter of forming a Relief Committee to look after any person who may be in destitute cir- cumstances during the winter months, After discussion, a committee com- posed of the mayor of the town, John F. Groves, town clerk, and A. L. Pos- lift, principal of the public school, was appointed. The clergymen of the town and the Captain of the Salvation Army with two members from each church was appointed as an advisory com- mittee, Should there be any cases of hardship in the town, the same should be reported to Town Clerk Groves. Municipal Nomination meetings for the nomination of candidates for the various municipal offices will be held next Monday, In the rural municipal- ities these meetings will be held in the afternoon and in Wingham in the evening, commencing at 7.30 o'clock. We hope to see the meeting largely attended and good men nominated for the positions on the council and board of education. While the general level of prices increased forty-six per cent between 1897 and 1912, the actual cost of liv- ing increased about sixty per cent according to a special report on prices during 1912, contained in the annual report of the labor department, just printed.