The Wingham Advance-Times, 1956-05-16, Page 2Ahvanec-.Tunee, Wed., Ali' rt1.5ri
New Plant. Sets: .0 Remork..0b.1e .Recorcl •
Last week marked '4 momentous
oceaSiOn in Wiugham's history in that
the first finished product of the new
Berry Door factory rolled off the
asseMbly line, We would like to be
arnOng the first to congratulate the
compahy on its fine achievement. •
From a standing start in February,
barely three monthsacro, when ne-
gotiations were completed for the use
of the factory building, the Berry
organization has been able to furnish
and equip the building for produc-
tion — a truly remarkable feat. It is
a tribute to 'the officials of the home
'company in Michigan, and to its em-
ployees here, that so much was ac-
"cdmplished in such a short time.
Wingham's new industry is one of
which any town might be proud. It
will have a modest beginning, yet
there is prospects of a bigger future,
and it is the type of industry which
will, grow with the town. Because of
its connection with the Lloyd factory,.
its situation here is a particularly
happy one, and it is perhaps better
equipped than any other industry
possibly could be, to settle in Whig-
ham.
Its parent company, the Steel Door
Corporation, has made remarkable
progress 'in the United States with its
sale of garage doors. We know that
the people of Wingham will join with
us in wishing equal success to the new
Canadian company.
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The Bible Todall By Rev. G. D. Pairson:B,2%.,
See. Upper Canada Bible Society
Methods of fire-fighting have un-
doubtedly improved over the years,
and modern means of • communica-
tion have done much to contain fires,
once they have broken out. However:
the number of fire hazards is also
increasing as more and more tourists
and sportsmen take to the woods.
Eternal vigilance by all thoSe who
enter the bush will still be the price
of survival there, and the best assur-
ance that such disasters will not occur
again.
SOME DAY THEY'LL
LEARN
• Nothing wrecks small-town sport
as quickly As the introduction of pro- .
fessionalism, says the Wiarton Fcho,
We've seen it happen time and again.
A baseball or hockey team will be
going along nicely, providing fun' for
the players and spectators alike. Then
somebody on the manageme% of one
of the teams decides it would be nice
to win all the time.
A professional,' or several, are
brought into the line-up. The team
begins to win them all. The other
teams have to retaliate. Pretty soon
the league is 'hot stuff, every team
sporting several high-salaried pros.
Wien collies the dawn. The club
management starts trying to pay the
bills. Ir'4,:penses are away out of line
with revenue. One team quietly folds
its tents and quietly drops out of the
league. Another follows. 80011 there
no league.
Wiarton was fortunate to stay out
of that mess. Ottr town has avoided
getting into the frantic semi-pro
scramble of district hockey teams,
Instead, a lot of time has, been
spent here in the past few years hi pro-
viding equipment and coaching for
youngsters. In future years, while
some other towns are licking' their
wounds and wondering Why they can-
not ice or field a good ton), the Witty-
ton policy will pay off, In the mean-
time it is producing healthy recre-
ation for the little fellows, and intro-
ducing them to sportsmeriship arid
'spirit.
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FILLING PRECRIPTIONS ,
IS OUR BUSINESS
For Prompt, Courteous and Efficient
Prescription Service Bring Your
Prescriptions ,to
VANCE'S D STORE .
If you are stuck and can't get down just
give us.'n 'rail, or better still, have your
de:ctfo:r ielephone us and leave the script at
your house. We can then drop the medicine•-off and ,pick u
the script at the same tithe. This will help us to Yget your
d medicine to. you more quickly than ever,
DURING EVENINGS AND HOLIDAYS CALL (i05
• There 'Is No Substitute ,For Quality .
VANCE'S' DRUG STO1tE'
RESCRIPTIONS
Arc filled in exactordance with
yaw- ian's wishes AT
Perhaps Not Necessary--But Very Nice
a provincial 'grant. They . may im-
prove the appearance of the main.
street, and give visitors the idea that
here is a town that really cares-about
its personal appearance, but all that
shows on the balance sheet is a debit
,of $500.
Looking over the figures in the.
1956 ,estimates: it would appear that
there are many necessary expenditur-
es, depending on what you mean - by
necessary. Maintenance and improve,
ments on streets, will cost us $24,000,
during the year. Maintaining otir
educational facilities . alone will cost_
us • nearly $60,000, plus considerable
extras in the way of debentures as the
cost . of improvements. Recreation.
and community services will 'cost us,
(,'),000, and maintenance and improve-
ments on the cemetery will cost
$5,000.
These are only a few of •the im-
provements for which we will_ be pay-
ing during the next year. In the face.
of these figures a little .matter of $500
for improvements to the.,appearance
of the main street seems like very
small potatoes indeed.
Forest Fires Take Lives As Well As Trees
The town, council's decision last
week to dispense with the flowerpots
which, have beatitified the main street
of Wingham. for the past couple of
years, Avill certainly not be popular
with the aesthetic, types around town,
and there•are a few: During the brief
span : of their existence Wingham's
floWerpots: have drawn much favor-
able comment, and not only will many
of the'townspeople miss them, but
Many of,the visitors as well.
„;(.5.n the face of, it, the $500 which
Avoilid,cost to keep the flowerpots
lilociitling seems like a trivial matter,
,even with, a soaring mill, rate such as
the town has experienced in the past
i8W yews, $500 is hardly more than
a :fifth of a mill, or, as some one
figured it out, about 85c per house-
hold per year, which seems like a
small price to pay for something
which sets the town apart as a com-
munity which takes a pride in its
•main street.
' Of 'Course flowerpots don't accom-
plish anything. They don't make the
'town any money, or Save the tax-
payer's any, and they're not subject to
Scanning over a list of the great
forest fires in Ontario during the past
half century, as published recently by
the department of lands and forests,
one is struck by the fact that while
damage to timber and natural re-
Sources was great, the loss of human
life in many of the fires was even
gre a fen
A fire in 1910 in the Rainy River
area took the lives of 42 people; a fire
in the South Porcupine area in 1911,
claimed the lives of 72 persons; the•
Haileybury fire in. 1922 was respon-
sible for 44 deaths,' and more recently,
a fire in the Fort Francis district
caused the, death, 0,17 people in 1938.
The greatest disaster of. all was the
Matheson fire of 1.916, which burned:
nearly -1,000 square miles of forest,:
farin and mining lands, and.resulted
in the death of 223 persOns.
VOrtunatdy fires like these are
not con-anon occurrences, and gener-
ally speaking, of latter years the in-
evitable forest fires do not seem to
have been as costly in terms of human
life. Modern methods of fire fighting
may have something to do with the
fact .that the death toll nowadays is
lighter than it used to be.
The tendency these clays seems to
he to place more of a monetary value
on the damage caused by forest fires,
People seem to think more in terms
of the number of board feet of lumber
lost in a forest fire, and its value on
the market, rather than the threat to
hunianlife which every fire is liable
to bring.
Because there appears to be a
tapering off in the number of lives
lost in northern fires, however, there
,no guarantee that the MatheSon
disaster may not be repeated again.
Given the proper 'conditions and cir-
cumstances, it is still possible that
fire might wipe one or more commun-
ities off the map, as it has done in
the past,
The 'Wingham: Advance.Times
publiNhod at Iittiaghata, Ontario
Waite* Brothel, robust-rent,
W. Barry yijeugetri tditor
Men their Audit. Bureau at direulatioit
uttioriteil e M Sedrid' Mee Mad, Post Office bept.
litiSetriOtion Atte bun tear $1.00, Fitt wtonthe
$L 1O In iidrititiele
U. 6, A, 400 Pot Yeat fortieth Rata *4,00 per *oat
AdVertiiirw Attie on applitition
Cyprus is in the news as perhaps
never 'before. The calibre of the
Bible' colporteurs who' travel from
place to place and call .house to
house with the Book of bboles in
the 'midst of the explosive situation_
there is illustrated in the 'story' o f
Nicholas,
Although of Greek, parentage
Nicholas was born and raised • in
th e polyglot community of Cairp..At
nineteen he volunteered to oppose
the Italian, invasion of Greece and
saw ,some of the fiercest fighting,
In the midst of the suffering of the
hitter winter in thd wild hills of
Albania, w ith comrades wounded
and dyin g all about him, he resolv-
ed that he would spend his post-
war life seeking to brin g peace to
people however he could,
When the tide of war turned in
favour of the Allies, and he was
stationed near Thebes, one day in
a house where he was billeted he
found a New TeStanient in ancient
and modern Greek, printed in 1839,
Over a century before, by the Brit-.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Our 'former townsman, W. T.
Yates, who is now travelling' Mr
Gowan, Kent & Co., Toronto, re-
turned. from a trip to 'the 'West
Coast on Saturday. Their mahy
friends will regr e t to learn that
Mr. and. Mrs. Yates will move to
Toronto in the course of a few
weeks.
William Elliott' had two fingers
injured while workin g ' at Duff's
mill, 'Bluevale, on Saturday. Dr.
Toole dressed the-injured Members.
Messrs. C. Ruetel, L. Sills and
R. McLeod wheeled to Kincardine
on Sunday.
* . *
FORTY YEARS AGO
Mr, W. R. Henderson, son of Mr,
and Mrs. T. M. Henderson, of
White Bear, Saskatchewan, and
formerly of.,the-BluevaleZnoad, has
enlisted ELS a private with the 208th
Battalion„:IVIr. Henderson gave up
a pogitlein as a teaeneicti,Qa„,.s*r y
of $1,200 to enlist to do his bit for
King and country. ..His Battalion
was authorized on the first of
February 'and is now better than
1,000 stron g, Old frie nctsybere will
congratulate our former resident
on his loyalty.
Grand Military Demonstration at
Clinton on Wednesday, May .24th.
Phyllis Drills, Bayonet .Exercise,
Signallers, Battalion Drill, Exhibi-
tion by Machine Guns, Bomb
Throwing, Trench Warfare, Bugle
and Brass Bands. Last chance to
See the soldier boys before they go
to London, Special rates from all
points in the county.
`Mr. Harry McAllister, section
hand on the G:T.P, met with a
Painful accident at noon On Friday
last, A wheelbarrow fell off the
hand car and this kali the ear off
the track. In trying to save him-
self Mr. McAllister jumped, from
the car and. in eibing so fell, break-
ing his left leg near the ankle, He
was taken to• the hospital, /t will
be sonic weeks before he will be
able to resume Work,
Mr. 'Will Galbraith is visiting
for a few day's with hia parents,
Mr, and Mrs. ,lohri Galbraith, Ife
has enlisted at Toronto In the
Mechanical' Transport Livision of
the C,A.S.C.
At a special Meeting of the town
tounell in Clinton, held last Week,
It Walls decided to order a tank car
of oil to be used en the principal
'Weds of the town instead of water
ail fortierlY,. All the principal
streets at town are triacadarnizetl,'
and it IS eRpeeted that the oil will
not Only Make the Street:I titlAtless,
but 'preserve' the roads as Well,
The firm of Elliott If-ion,, brick
ntid tile. rtiaetttaettrtora 'hag been
dionfOlVed, Mk, Chits "Elliott will
Continue the istatries
ish and Foreign Bible Society.
Nicholas began to peruse: it idly
until one after another, passages
cau ght his attention. The Book be;
gan to, fire his irnaginatien. He
refused to be disturbed even when
food and cigarettes .Wete offered
to him. He read on and: on, for days.
After demobilization he was offer-
ed a position as a eolporteur, and
gladly accepted.
He was sent to Cyprus at the a ge
of thirty-three, Now,, as he tramps
the streets and hills of the city and,
country lie carries not only -a.
Supply of Bibles for distribution,
but the more than century old copy,
that had sparked his own interest
in the Holy. Scriptures.
Suggested Bible Readin gs •
Sunday, Psalms 101: 1-35; Mon-
day, Psalms 113: 1-9; Tuesday,
Psalms 147: 1-20; Wednesday,
Colossians, 1: 1-29; Thursday,
Colossians 2: 1A3; Friday,' Colos-
sians 3: 1-25; Saturday, Colossians
4: 1-18.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
The Fry & Blackhall Upholster
ing factory received a nice order
from a Montreal firm this week for
a carload of chairs, to.be.shipPed,
in a month's time, and alsp.anin7
quiry regarding a second earload,.
A t few orders like these ,and the
fadtory would be back to normal.
The general esteem k which our
hospital is held is providin g many
willing workers to assist the
Chamber of Commerce in raising
the fund necessary to pay for the,
electric cooking equipment now in-
stalled in the hospital,
At a meeting of the veterans,
held in the CoU n cil Chambers on
Friday evening, final arran gements
were made for the establishing 'of a
branch of the Legion in Wingham.
At a previous meeting, an or ga n i-
zing committee was nominated to.
select a slate of officers for the
new organization, which 'was pre-
sented at the meeting on Friday
evening.
,*•
Fa-zap' yvats AGf
Kenneth r Smith of near' Moles-
Worth was given a bad frig ht, when
a man believed to be Gilbert
Shantz of New Hamburg, who es-
caped from the Ontario Reforma,
tory at Guelph, snatched his dinner
pail as he was going through the
hush an his way to school. Shantz
escaped With two other men and
all were apprehended but Sh'antz
again made good his getaWay. As
the, lad passed a deserted shanty a
man rebelled out and snateljed his
pail, Prom the description that the
lad gave the police County Con-
stable Gardner is certain the man
is Shantz. 'He was sentenced at
Kitchener early in April for armed
robbery.
During the past week fotir more
men from here joined up with the
Royal Canadian Air Force, They
are Robert Chalmers, Marvin
Smith, Fred Mellor and DeWitt
Mt. W. 13, MeCOol attended the
Ontario-Quebee Division of the
Weekly Newspaper Association
Which WAS held in the Royal Con-
naught Hotel, Hamilton on Friday
and Saturday last week, Mes,,,M e.,
Cool ate-imperiled hint as far as
London, visiting with Mr, and Mrs.
Hugh Carmichael,
Constable William Gardner of
town arid Provincial Constable Otto
MeClearig of Walkerton, are Search,
ing for two Eiricardine youths lie,
lieved to have entered Crawford*s
Garage and Bert Armstrong's Set,.
vice .Station here, picking off $5,l0
at the termer. and 07,00 At the
fatter, Sixteen charges of robbery
Will fade the youths When they are
apprehended, They' were Ile Pikera
When It Carrie to Well* •ears, as
they are believed to, have stolen
three in their daring escapades,
The peilde are denfident they wili
soon. clear up these theftri,
Local Responsibility
Most of the operational
the transfer of plans into hard
work and sweat—fall on the
shquiders.
The federal Anfl e kpvincial levels
of governmeWs "-must provide the;
plan; only the people can, carry it,
out, And the, government—
the mayor or reeve wort his coun-
cillors—are the afielais i n closest
contact with people,
The threat' of diSaster, whether
foto any enemy. attaeking with
H-bombs or' from 'flood; .ha rricane
or fire, makes the need of an or,
ganization in every community
capable of minimizing tire effects
of disaster obviously . important.
This car be 'set 'up only by each
community, for only,a, community's
inhabitants can assess ' 'how its
faeilities, its lay, of the land and so
on may beat be risedt...to protect
itself from. theinangers an enemy
attack would bring! o
The, first Whig (MY organization
needsis difeetkiri.•, So' the initial
step a community 'must take to-
ward a civil defence organization
is:, to . set up ;it control committee,
with possibly that mayor or reeve
chairm'an,'.It muat,prOvide the
guidance for „citizens willing to
help make the CD,-,plan wor k.
To direct the Marla deVeloPed
by' the Committee, a civil defence
director must be, ,a ppointed. He
would beta i fullti rrV 'Parktiine
official or volunteer d epending on
the Size' pf the 'di diorninunitYi His
duties, of course:v.991cl be as var-
ied as 'the needs of a city dbmpared
to a village.
Most• Canadian towns and vil-
lages fail: into two, categories, for
civil defence purPoses: Mutual Aid
Areas or Mobile ,SeppPri and Be-'
ception Areas, Tne ,Mutual Aid
Area is the region around a Target
Area—usually, the , large cities—
whose comMunities :,are, organized
to provide help whe r e needed when
disaster st r ikes, The, Mobile, Sup-
port and Reception Area is outside
the MUtual Aid Area .and is or-
ganized ,to reecive `long-term
evacuees and easnalties and to send
help to a Target A i ea.•
}:rea
A community's C.D. plan . would
be determined,. therefore by the
-classification „urider which it
falls. ,To develop ,its .11.1an,'. a Coni-'
E IDM 6NT 014 (Cic',L-Natu ral s t-
writer -•Kerfry Wood of Red Deer,
Alta,, tells 'the story of Maskepe-
tape, a peace-making Indian in 'the'
days When the 'llidvba edif the Mot-
hills ,were th r iving. and .Spent their
leisure time scaring enemies.' 't
Around 1815 Maskepetoon had a
reputation in the central ,Alberta
valley of the Blindman riVeras a
wa rr ior Of great strength, inllita.ry'
ability and horsemanship,
Then he believed ne saw a'.4ision
on Sunset Hill, highest peak of the
Medicine' Lodge Hills, indicating
that he should lead a life of peace.
After corisultineraqnenicine man,-
Maskepetoon agreeWito become a
man of peaee1,,,,,,4P
While lie was seeking solitUde
Again on Sunset., Hill,' Bjackoot
warriors swooped ' ficik-the4
south and attacked his tribe
killing the chief and MaskerieloPies
fa ther. Maskepetoon
elected chief.' •
Graceful Host
• , • It Was a little later that hiaqiihrie
as a pericernaker spread threugh-
out the prairies. This came About-
when a blackfoot trading party, inr
eluding the killer of Maskepetoon's.
father, came into the camp. 'Ten-
sion in the camp was dispelled
when Maskepetoon, man of peace,
gave' his ,father's killer the parian's
finest horse, the chief's finest
Clothing and Asked the Blackfoot
to take the place of his father. .
Tribal skirmishes continued de-
Spite the peacemaker's efforts, Bad
times cam e niiV(b, the,„,elepletion
of the buffalt$AVirrd' pirsteri#er
pigeon 1'1°610 tinN ilkireading, of
whisky by' triderS7 ,.
About this Unite Robert'. /tUndle,
first Protestant missionary ,In Cen-
tral Alberta,, arrived and converted
Maskepetoon to Christianity.
Later in the'„early"1860's, a mis-
sionary group lled by 3011 Me'
Denigall came into the_dyeir, and
With lVfetilitigall:a.klelii F /thiskepe-
tool( achieved a year's truce'With
the Blackfeet.
By the late 1860's hunger was
ravaging the tribes, llintest was rife,
And Maskefietocin set out to visit
another tribe bearing a Hudson's
Bay Company flag, the only truce
sigh recognized lary preiltie Indians,
He Was never 4601.0,,'ettalti, arid
neither' the plack death heir
the location of>hifi grarNs have ever
been isstablished;
Mit Wood,'Wlftiqold 'this story at
meeting of the
Prtdhas of the Indian so'atety,, 're*
Zeived a C4overiior.derieraira award
04 year' tor him book hi the jilt*.
pile tattiory,,,rvbe ttioraikere
munity should form a Civil De-
fence Planning Committee.. Its
members would include heads of
each civic government department
concerned with civil defence, per-
sons representing transportation,
industry, labor, the police and fire
chi efs, the towns engineer, the
medical officer of health: The C,D;
director would be chairman,
Officials of churches, service
chrs, iwelfare agencieri and so on
also may be included on the corn-
mittee. In short, anyone Who can
help organize the eommunty's
clines far Whatever purpose dis-
aster will 'require of then', whether
for emergency ,feeding, shelter,
first-aid--even to baby-sit for
children• separated from their par-
earl, •
The eanirtlunity civil defence dir, •
ector and his staff must' make Sur-
veys of the r esources available;
they must know 'the condition of
readi, the amount of sleeping space
available for evacuees frau' bomb-
ed cities, the toed supplies avail-
able:, Could their community, pro-
wruu
fire fl, Nutmeat? I-low
v.141.1440ANY WAttUt ;wk.
another town? Could they ,provide
organizations aim at using
m uch hospital space has the corn.
i n g commUnitios so that thei r et„
gation. must keep in thrall with
forts can be-coordinated in time of
ourn47.TIOW many doctors?. Nut's-
civi l d efence officials in neighbor*
es? Where can they bo roo,e h mi ?
disaster,
Just as the 'federal and provin-
cial
'rho P. director, rind bin organ',
all existing Agencies to meet Ms-
pplementing them with
volunteers, sp should the commun-
ity organilation. Most civil defence
organizations are broken down into
these services; headquarters,, fire,
police, health, welfare, warden,
engineering and miblic Utility res,
tpration, rescue and ambulance,
Every community rigs the nucleus
of -these services Already in exis-
tence, The purpose; therefore, of
the community civil defence organ-
ization is to provide direction for
existing services and to expand
them through recruiting and
training of volunteers,
'The importanee..of the Volunteers
—the storekeeper, service station
-operator, farmer, housewife—can
hardly be exaggerated, For the call
on each .C.D, service will increase
in direct porportion ter , the scale
of whatever disaster may come,
AS PEACE TAKER
Belgrave United Church
SUNDAY MORNINGat ELEVEN
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