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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1956-08-08, Page 244v400* -1***, Nktatheatilar 44, 04 404' RAILWAY sERVIcE TO BE OR NOT TO I1E 17'teep concOrn is felt in this seetion of 'Western Ontario over the an.- nouncement that mail service by rail i$ to be .discontimied on several lines of the C.N.R. The railway has made no pnblie sstatement in regard to ex- pres$ and passenger services, but since it proposed to discontinue all three the last time the question arose, municipal Officials fear that the situation will be the same this year. • rroin the economic standpoint the railway company may be justified in 'considering such a move, but there is no doubt that it is a most unpopular one with the communities which are served by the Q.N.R. Although passenger business on the lines in question, including the one which serves Wingbam and its sur- rounding rural community, t� a low point; civic, officialS'fe:et`tiat complete lack of such serViie in; the' nature of a black 'eye, io:rthe • area, At the very time s'onie in- fluktries from the larger-cen'ires% are beginning to select sites in this part. of the prO vince, the railway .p'roposes; to . indicate that the area generally, 'is- nbt • of. sufficient importan•ce. to Merit iiaS- • senger service. •• At Tuesday evening,8,.'meetinvof , the Wirighani.toWn councitseveral 9f • the .councillors expressed ttie;opinion ..that the railway companY could' do much to improve business conditions • .on the Palmerston -Kincardine linelfe better business practices *ere empl6y- • ed. One man exspressed the opinion -that •a more agressive selling polity ' would reVult in increased, revues: for tke.railway, as it almost ..al*.a.m.,,doe'f in; other types of enterprise The COUNTRY ;ROAD An astonishingly, high proportiOn of Ontario's traffic accidents occur the gravel roads 'Whichcriis7cr.O.W.,the province. Though- these roadS" #.•,e not normally used by the', speed: de- MonS who infest the major:highways, they are frought with their ovkikp047- tictilar hazards: . Next time you are di throUgh the peaceful and completelyihaTmleSs countryside, takea look at the Whea- tracks in •the. gal, el a,tyie are travelling •0 ost r.Oad,.,•„if you ,think of the -implications, you 'vriIi be .looking at what can '-;ly'15e8C4nel ih!e 'road to doom. • Just note the way Ihe . Pair. , • crr avel-free tracks courses . do01;,tifie centre .of the thoroughfare hill arid down dale -- right iii the Centie all the way: Sure, ,sure the-, earful driver • wouldn't 'follow', thse .twoPa:Ao*ely smooth . tire marks • up zand'Over•Ilve face of a sharp the 'traffic he is meeting is; .careful type of driver .isn't the onein.questiOn at the moment. We are thinkink cof the idiot who almost crashed ...u.S.hvait-. only:a Week .ago He h'adti"':e.giV-int 'TAR114 BEAUTIFICATION . . , WORTHY PROJECT The centennial celehra..tiolis 'aye taken place in this locality dur- itg• the past month have spu-rred ‘.gOod'' deal of private activity it . the beautification not only of town and village properties ---- but farm hornes as well: Not too many years ago few farms were more than casually weIrkept but today it is the general 'rule'to find well -painted buildings, oftemincluding barns, tidy homes with attractive lawns and flower beds, - What ;a tremendous difference it makes in the appearance of the' • countryside!. Even the most; thought- ful people are forced to make their first judgments of men or their'hornes — by appearances, This part 'of 0 n- •,tario,'for the most, part would certain- ly lead visitors to the belief that we are an, inditstrious and progretsive people. 'The *Ingham AdittliteekTintes Published tit WitighisM, 'Winger Srotheri, W. tarry 'Wenger, leintot, Member„ Audit /tutees* of eirctihitioe ':AUtheitited ,as Sealed. Chtivhfill, Poet Office Dept.; iiihibontitation iltnte one teat sa.no, Sti *Atha $1.110 in advsurite it A. g4.0o per tett Foreign 140 per tete A640,11161 itlite$ on li,001iCetioli 40/ • gestion that more modern equipment and faster service would be of great benefit is heard whenever the railway question is discussed, Although no statements have tieen forthcoming fromrailway employees, it is understood that the union opposes • the use of any type Of equipment which would require less than the present' five -man crew If such is the case the rail workers' must bear a. portion of the responsibility if some of their num- bers find themselves 'Without emPloy- .- merit% It's a simple case of half a cake being better than none at all, On Van- couver Island and at other points in Canada and the U.S. bus -type rail 'equiment is being used with complete suecess and grep econon‘y. :This, ,neWspaper and the general P..W)14..P,4•8Y1.11Pathetid understand- ing df,the railway company's economic efileths; No good businessman en- Joys:oPerating even a small portion of li'cthicernia,t aJoss,. However the Canadian' National Railway System is soincthing: greater than a mere busi- ness: Of the ties which bind widOriread nation into a unified whole ---and .spite of the fact that this concept as applied more particu- 4.1.-Y..ffo't,he :NVestern °Provinces, we • in Wes.tereOntario. feel equally impor- .tant.: '11toS,t of, the railways which now serve our areawere assisted financially by our municipal governments when 'the, tracks":were laid, and in turn the •ra1li.ya4rs :guaranteed continuing ser- • viCe... ,SurelY'.thertiS abetter approach to the problem. than. Merely throwing ! S tokivtAN-6 CARE any ' thought ,-to ,the, possibility of an app!'04,..Ohing,car. He just smashed up the hill at 0' Miles an hour, right phoUli.‘in the middle of the road. •Oh, yes, *F.' did. ,get out' of his 'way,---bUt only by scant, inches. does; of , course, breed °lack of *cautibri, and it is frequently the driver, who is,, just on' his way .'to' a ppighbOU:ring. farm who is guilty, "in fashion, of the great- est the safety rules. you Want to live to enjoy youi o-randdhildren (and who doesn't) be careful ton•the.country roads. Bear in thatthiijd ;: there are no "marks at the ce#tre; -line "rid -that you have many feet less in :.Whie4 .to° manoeuvre be- tliOen•-;ditches in an emergency. In-' terse'ctioi•is:.•;- and': entrances to farm lanes! are often hidden by trees or_ hnihesiatid! tractors, horse-drawn ver., hiClies.,aba :Other 'slow-moving convey - arcs i..are,‘apt• .to be just over that ' . • . . reSpecter of either per- . . SOifssAir-' plase& It can happen in the COUntcyside 'just as quickly '4z4"pa.::affe4iive'ly as it does on a four- sariehigif ay. • g•••; • • STILL'IN 'A PLACE BY ITSELF es, 4,ve're at" i'agin!. Blowing iii"own',hoi-n that. is. However, in this age of television and the" like the is some° tendencf on the part of the public to take the old established *media of information too much` for granted. • A Canadian Press dispatch from Ottawa' oh. July 19 warmed the ink - stained cockles of our heart. It 'read, in part:. • "Three Opposition members to- night called for fast& delivery of hotneta41'newspapers to -Canadian servicemen in Europe. ."Alistair Stewart . , said a lack of hometown news was a major com- plaint be;heard on a visit to the Can- adia trigadeGroup iii Germany last year. • PairC1011,01 (P.C., Hamilton West) and Douglas Harkness (P.C,, Calgary North) agreed, 'Mrs. Vairclough said she was told that troops with a newspaper sub- scription get their papers In bundles Of WIC Month or more p There seems to 'be some jttstifi- tAtioft for our existence but we Jo hope you don't have to join the Army to find out that we provide something you wouldn't like to be without, WAN SFiAkfc' 4.4"" ' ' 400000M"00M0m°0°110001000010timisilisipisisiiitil ' ' .1 t sii t is t t • ttt sins tt I t lll suss The Bible Today See. Upper ,Canada Rible Society By Ilea. • The first Bibles ,to be published in Russia in 38 years are noW off the press, Deseribed as handsome, marine blue volumes, they con- tain the Old and, ,New Testament and a few illustratigns. An in- Serintioll cleats they were pub- lished with 'the benedietion Of His Holiness the Patriarch of Mos- cow and all Russia. Alexi" tlit spiritual head of the, Russian Orthodox Church.: A decree issued over the eigna- tare of Krushchev -himself in, November 195%; states ca,tagorical-: ly that the churehes must be lett free to conduct their worship without hindrance pr interference. by state authorities; priests and ministers should be regarded' ,as loyal, citizens and insulting ,at- tacks should be strictly S.voided, Concurrent with ..°1rtibliCation ef, this decree came tae announce- ment that the fight against re- ligion with ideological weapons was to, be stepped tip, in the con- • Viction that Christian beliefs will eventually die oat. Russian churchmen, with the Bible in their hands, have a new weapon to use in ,their fight agailist athiesrn. The churches in .Russia are per- mitted to hold services of wor- ship now, Thia was not the cage twenty Years ago accdrding to Rev. Theodore Adams, president of the '13aPtiSt' World Alliance Wire visited Russia reeent1y, as well as at that time, Reporting to the Baptist Convention gf .Ontario and Quebee in assembly in Brantford this month afr.Adams said that freedom to worship is the extent of religious liberty, ., Suggested Bible Readings . Sunday, 1 Sam. 17:30-58; Mon- day, 2 'Sam. 11:1717; Tuesday '2 'Sam. 12:1-14; Wednesday, 2 Kings 2:1-15; Thursday, 1 Chron. 11:1-19; Friday, 1 Chron. 16:7-36; Saturday, Psalms 116;1-19. " 4Remin1sirig4 SIXTY YEARS AGO ' Miss Hooper, of Bluevale, 'nar- rowly escaped injury on Friday. She had her horse in the ,shed of the Queen's ankhad just.got into theOcarriage to drive home when a wheel came off. The horse be- came unmanageable and ran' aergss ,the street towards the brick block and Miss Hooper was thrown out. Another horde that, was 'tied in front of Clegg's hardwitrie store, broke away and started to,run, also but both Were' aught before they had gone far: • 4 On Friday evening a nuralrer. of citizens gathered at the Korman house to show their appreciation as a citizen of the proprietor. Mr. Fred Korman, who has sold his property and will remove to ,uelph this week. The Citizens' Bead was preaent and enlivened the evening by the rendition of several choice selections. Mayor McKenzie was voted to the chair and Mr. Kor- man was presented with a Meer - °Ileum pipe and tobacco pouch, Mrs. Korman with a handsome fan and Mr. John Kormah with a watchguard and locket. On Wednesday morning during the severe storms which passed over this vicinity, lightning struck land fired the barn and stableo1 11VIr. George Wade of Tuth.errY, just mitside .the limits of tconiri.' There was in the barn 14 acres of wheat, 10 acres of peas and about 10 tons of hay. There, were ,Mtrnecl also 19 sheep ,and a calf and -all the farm, implements excepting the binder, an old Mower Mid an old wagon. - FORTY YEARS AGO \11'rs, W. X. Cloakey and daugh- ter, Vera, were visiting at the home of Mr. J,' G. Stewart this week, . Mr, H. Thomson of town, has purehased Mr. John Armour's fifty acre .farm 'Oh the 6th ecnicessioh of Turnberry and Will get posses- sion on the 15th of October. Thie is a nice property and conveniently located. On Motion Of Councilirs Spot - ton and Tipling, the property corn- mittee Was instructed to Wait en the Turnberry Council at its next meeting with a view, of obtaining a grant for the building of a side- walk to the cemetery, • Thousands of rrien are required' to help with the ,tharvesting ,of Western crop., Mem:nit:Ms froth pints irt On, tario and Saskettchervaa WW be run and special train s oPerated. The east to 'Winnipeg 'will be $12. TWIENTV.PIVt rEAli„S AGO . TWO lag rinks attended the twilight tournament in Listowel Ob Thursday evening arid both were StreeesSful in getting ih for prizes. The rink .ecimposed of George Wil- liams, W. VenVityck, 15. Rae and A. Taylor, skip, Wofitat prize and received tiankets, The other, rink, W. R. 1VieCool, 'W. A. Millet; 0, ThomPsdn and Mason, .altio, Won Otlatiloris as third prize. the Tattoo on Wednesday 'everi.,, lag was attended by an exdatititrite ally large crowd, nearly 2,000 being there, Bands were present from Blyth, LuckneW, Harriston, Walk- erton, Hanover and Goderich. F/FTEEN YEARS AGO ° Five pairs of Wingham bovalers attended. the Hunt Trophy Tourna- ment jn Gocierith on Wednesday. 3. 'H. Crawford and W. R. Hamil- ton won the trophy and ..1", A. Wil- son and E. R. Harrison were also in the money, winning fifth prize. B. J. Nash and A. M. 'Crawford played in the Krupp Peebles at Woodateek on Wednesday. Wingliam ladies took first and second at the Irish • trebled,' in Lucknow on Thursday 'afternoon and evening Mrs. J. Kerr, Mrs. 3. A. Wilson and Mrs. E. R. Har-. risen won first prize. , Capt. W. A. ,McKibbon of Camp Borden, is representing the Royal Canadian Medical Corps at Fort Kitax Military Camps, Kentucky. Mr. IA. k. DuVai severely in- jured hi elbew when he fell, at the mink ranch on Saturday. Six local children raised ,f2.05 by means of a concert on Tuesday this, week and have. handed .the motley into this office to fee - 'warded: to the Telegram British War Victirirs' Fund. The' held the concert in the barn at the rear of The Advance7Times and oharged one and two'cents for admission. T,he concert party was composed of Lois Hayden, Jack Hendersen, Bud EraestBuckrnan d Beheld ' ; • ' ,a Mr., Dutican Kennedy, president Of Wieghani ,Post a the Canadian Legiori'," will attend the Provindfal convention of the Legion which is beth k held in St. Catharines. THEPARABLE • Of. .THE. HAMMER' . The day matt stopped' trying tO drive a primitive nail with a rock and deaised a rough tool that would do it better lie bedame a capitalist. Stephen Duryea, was a Mechanic uritil he began. feeling sorry for people Who eouldret af- ford a horse, He dreanied up the gas engine and another capitalist and the automotive industry Were born. George Westinghouse, watch- ing men race along the top, of swaying freight cars to set the heed brakes, thought of using air to do this hazardotis job. Re made speedy 'transportation bah possible and safe, as ,he created a new in- dustry. Eli Whitney grew tired to 'death watching slaves laboriously picking seeds out of raw cotton. It there had to be Werk like that, he thOlight, there would have t� be eleabis, for cotton would never be Worth enough to pity for e� hal& hand labor, Re went live and thought about it and Ultimately reduced the &Arai in to do the Work of black had. As soon as man begarcto think. of 'using aa, hammer instead of a rock, or a gas engine instead of a horse, espitallaht -was born, /t was the and result .of the urge to pro- duce more and to Make It better' Mid, more useful. A by-product 'of Jp iVrOSt tire of 1:911 Could Happen Agailn South Porcupine was only two years iold when en, July 3.1, 1.911, It ava4 englafed In a forest We- e:WA, By Mon, a relling black Oleled lifted IWO above the wost. ern horizon. In almest no time, the Whole weetefn sky was ablaze with a ruddy glow, A wall of •flre 20 Miles Wide Advanced on the gom- munity throwing tongues of flame 140 feet above' the fereSt., swSon; Ing all before it, The wind, it is recalled, whipped into a swirling tornado, test the tree "tops,es firebrands Miles ' head, It Was like g deluge of fire from the heavens, Terror-strichen beings' Songiit refuge in root -houses, cul- verts, creckS, ravines, mine shafts s live cinders and blazing tree tens dropped on them in their flight, The fire reached Hollinger and the neighboring Timmins.. Homes and other buildings were swallow- ed up like matchwood. The victinis blinded by the "'dense smoke"; ran 1.10.t gut of but late the devogring fjahres, Dome Was wiped out, The fire shifted to West Dome mine. nobert. Weise, the mar -lager, and his wife, and child WO shelter with 20 ethera in the mine shaft.. All Were fotind attffecated, gro Drown or Burn? Then the .Vilhd shifted' and the flames leated across the interven- ing sPace and fell upon South Por- cupine, Men, women and children fled like hunted things down Main Street, isilhoUtted against the back- ground of smoke and flame "Hud- dled in masses; they Made' for the lake and plunged in. But this etre haven became their place of doom. They floundered in the sod den reeds and the ooze of the lake bed. To drown or to burn? They chose to drown. But the horses, panic- etricken, rushed hack from the lake into the wall of fire. A few had been tied' tO the Wagons hurriedly backed into the' lake as possible shelters for humans, The heat from the seething furnace blasted them, man and animal, with scorching breath. Unable to wade farther, ex- hausted trying to find a footing in the oozy lake bottom, they fought until they sank. Fire caught er,,:aar of dynamite,---: 480 cases of concentrated death 'en a lakeshore railway siding. It went up With a deafening rear, gouged. 'a hole 20 feet in the earth and sen i etidal wave across the lake that lifted men, logs and canoes high in the air ,and dashed them back in "deadly confusion. Then came darkness and the anguish of the long night. ' Death Toll: 73 Pottsville and the fameus Gcd.tlen Cit Y next and on swept the flames across the Clay Belt, catch- ing Goldlands and Porquis June, !.engulfing atcorea.'of tiers' homes, not 'sparitig schools and all else in their path. Thirty miles on the fire raced in as many minutes—and now the fate of Cochiathe; too, was sealed. The fire demon leaped the gap and Wiped Cochrane out. • • When, finally, on July 19, heavy rain quenched the conflagration, 73 'persona had lost their lives. - Ontario has • entered another forest fire season. We cannot af- ford to lose human !fees, our creatures of the forest or our tim- ber, Fire fighting equipment to- day Ise"better 'than it was in 1911 but "eoristant vigilance is necessary to see that our -wooded 'areas are not unnecessarily' destroyed.' Records of past years show that '85 per, tent of forest fires in the proviace, are man -caused, ',either diliberatelyihroug eareieestiess. ¶i3v,' officers '�f the pi'pvinaccrio- UM Forte' Mae teen ''aSeiktried to full-time duty with the Depart- ment of Lands And Forests and .under the new law ehforcement set-up, arson in the bash is to be tracked down relentlessly and Such eridies against the community and public ety punished severely. "If you are travelling or 'cmp- ing summer, take every pre- caution with' matches fires and cigarettes. Forest fires'are-'co'stly, this'capitalism was that there was more employinent for workers, and, more ;wages, too. There are many more ante mechanics than,, there ever were hostlers, and the one gets More in a day than, the other earned in a week. If the bandyrnan about the house Were to,, 'start replacing shingles with a reek, most people would feel that acione could =eke a living 'at that sort Of work. They would, probably supply him With it ham- mer., With It he could drive more nails and do it better, 's'o you could afford to, pay hini more, That, then, is a, capital investment in industry. It is the result of some of the people saving some of the meney they Might otherwise- have spent, to buy hammers or Machine took: or facterfeS, The result for other", la that they have Sur& ,and eerier' ettployhtellt, They can make bet- ter goods, and so earn Mere, That N the: Simple System that We speak 611 Often ivith hushed Vides, as capitalism and that IS the way It works, There is one eat& in all this, theta Wohldn't be any hammers or gas engines, unless sofrietme had, thought about them and 'decided to provide 'them,. When the firsethrIll Of providing had pealed. It Would Neeklypfcials Effective August BATH SALTS Assovoll 'Vl4gorangeN pe, ,cAseARA TABLETS 1.0(r$ ;3c. cocoANuT OIL SHAMPOO 39e cg, COLD -CREAM :tb, jar . 69e Cream 23c12 for,$1,29 Colgitte 'DENTAL. CREAM 289 tor IDASAL (A.sA.) 59c Agency for— DuBarry, '#,uclaUtt, Ajar "And :keyless Cosinelies 110t11.1,9 -STORE •ritcsourTioN Dutioom Thone 18 WINGHAM Complete -Animal Health Department RADIOACTIVE' FALL -OUT It would be a waste of tiine to head for the hills 'if a nuclear war ever came to Canada—unless the hills had been preparecl ahead of time. Nor would it be any Wiser to lie down in resignation to' die in Rieces. Fall -out might 'g'et you Wherever you were. The facts 'about nuclear weap- ons, , particularly the hydrogen bomb, are cold, hard and frighten- ing. But they are real, and civil defence officials have spoken and written of them in detail and with the view that; "Ye shall know the truth and truth shall make you free", turning away from, the facts wilt not change them.' Now, what are the facts about fall -out? What is Jail -out? Explosion .of all naelear weap- Telephone Men to Serve. in Arctic While students throughout Can- ada are enjoying' their sununbr holidays' travelling, fishing or just lounging in the' sun; 250 men whose age averages about 25 are attend- ing elasses.daily in an cild building located in the heart of downtown The building house s a defence communications school—one ,of its kind in Canada—operated by The Bell` Telephone Company' of Pan-, ada. The 250 men are being trained for service on the:Mid-Canada Line. . Young technicians recruited Within the seven companies which farm the Trans -Canada Telephone System are taking a ;course Which covers the entire range...of modern cemmunications. After, six months of study—three months basic aad three -Months 'adaarteed$,trainingza:;„, tneaiining: telephnils,')nen e*t0;" itir • a .:goocif knowledge. of WerVe' transinissfort,""radat; ' telephone, radio -telephone, teletype, Irower distribution 'and many other components of up-to-the-minute communications. In addition to the telephone men, one class of R.C.A.F. men in uni- form attehded the advanced course. be natural for the provided to think that: there .might be some return for the long hours of planning and the disappointment and coett of the undertaking, Perhaps, if there hadn't been some such thought of a personal advantage, there wOuld never have been a hammer. If this Is true Of liaramers, how much more true it is of a, die press, paper machine, `steel mill or steam en- gine. They all Mean just what the gas engine meant, so there must be incentive for everyone at their production,. Thus the workers with their more and better jobs are just as allrelY _capitalists as are the in- ventors and investors,— Stele) Flashes, t. ons, including the H-poinb, has four . characteristics; blast; heat flash; immediate ralation; re- sidual radiation, Fl all-out carries,' the residual rodiatien. 'The blast tieduits 'from an in- stantaneous release of immense energy by fission and fusion of atoms. It produces an extremely high temperature witlairi a few millionths of a second in the form, of 'a ball "of fire, Its light has been estirhated to be about 100 times that of the sun. Where the fireball tearebes the ground the surface becomes high. radioactive for a considerable time and almost, everything, in. eluding great chunks of e is pulverized. The fireball be three miles across, It sucks up the pulverized material .possibly 70,090 feet in the air. It is this pulverized radioactive material Which may be carried by the winds over areas 150 miles long and 20 miles wide, I r bigger, and then settle to the earth, contaminating all it touches, This is called fall -out. Humans and animals subjectea' to fall -out radiation may receive fatal' ' doses or enough tQ cause-: severe illness. Safety .lies only in' shelter. So the hills Won't save anyone Without adequate shelter and without it, death might come slowly and painfully. The federal and provincial civil defence organizations have a plan to take care of both „these prob- lems. But it can be used to pro', tect every community in the coun- try from possible nuclear disaster only if eery community country—and its inhabitant re willing to study it and put it into I practice. But fearsome , as this may sound, there are . bright spots. Radioactivity of fall -out decays very rapidly anZ, generally speak. ing, 48 hours after it has fallen the danger has largely disappear, eif,hOse.. in:ipt.oper shelters would tip -,domes sireitd'r, f roijm 11 ut veiy simple to prepare. The basement of a house will provide* about 90 per cent immunity. This may not be enough in some heavily con, taminated areas, put additional, immunity can be obtained by' sandbagging the' basement win.. doWs and the floor • s.bove. Per protection from radiation depends' on the thickness of what is be- tween a person and the radio- active material, not the shelter's strength. footAn coouvtedrol tor; orfe nechar twh twhe ual dt 11 gr6iire; excellent immunity, civil defence Officials say. In rural areas Med* thing in the form of an ol fashioned root cellar Would be,* ready-made fall -out shelter, Sinee net One could predid farhoemadaobflatsitinlevoowlhdeareefftlhoefofael-o alrtit xnellns 'of warning residents iti? an endangered area quickly aftef the bomb went off Must be And once the residents hal/Week warned and have taken shelter, It I stefaentso oefernedeetertrnitirlaignaginVahlesno be set up,• titti"..o• .Chttr(H. (AnotaeAro umbran Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 11,00 a.m,—Morning rayer & Sermon Mr, V, Hallett,, Diocesan Layteader, L'ondcl