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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1957-11-20, Page 2PROBLEMS INCREASE Aprons Modelled FOR COUNTY CAS At Tea and Sale A largo number of ladies tonna 110NOREHAT BAN 'JET RETIRINO WAROCN geaSonal unemployment always their way to the 011001 room of Makes more problems since it tOnt: the Christmas, tea and sale spongy Rew-relt Township, Who has served brings wale- it idleness, AisQ(M red by •the Woman's Association, as the warden of Huron County for, frayed nerves and 114044. Th6ge The room looked festive with ,the past year, and Mrs, Dowdy, affect the attitudes of Parents, askets of ehrysantheniuM8 'and' wore honored on Wednesday eve- ,Whie4 in turn, reflect the child-. Silvered evergreen 'boughs- On the. ning of last week, the occasion of ren. serving table was a tall silver the warden'.s' banquet,, which was This was the opinion of Mrs. candelabra holding lighted red held'in the auditorium of ,Knox Mary Chaffee, direeter -of the Hu, miles while the smaller teat Presbyterian Church, GOderieh, ron County Child ren's Aid Soci ety The platform had been, as she reported oomnty tablesa carried the same deeeramti:doe, in recognition of his services to the county, the -warden was presented Council last week. into a living rem. 'his was the scene of an interesting *event, with an occasional chair, Reeve Sbe said that this year the types the modelling of different Styles' Ernie Fisher of Goderich• reading of proble,ms have been more acute; of aprons which were described by tie addreas, and Deputir Reeve 3.00 outside communities have brou t Miss CarolineCaroline Wellwood. TheKerr, of Wingharri, making 'the gh W: BuSlifield, presentation, About three hundred us families who came here and dis- models were Mrs, taniinietdetoga.r:ataeldn, have the children, de not want Christmas ones. The children's Principal speaker of the evening "I can do nothing, Yes, you 'may utility aprons as well as the fancy inW:Otihratvea Imieoatrhaeragsatay1,1 bare, Stainton, and they. showed ing counties. in- Gibson, Mrs. Jack Reavle and Bar- persons'ciiiing eix,,w wardens of squrra'und, Frank Madill, Mrs.' Garry attended the ban uet in- , . aprons were worn by Dianne Cas- was county Judge Prank, Ping- 1inder such home conditions, with such- an .attitude 'on 'the part of ghe usually stable Member of a home, •the ehildren cannot help hut be emotional prohlops, physical problems and impossible to cope' with as a family group, We have . had to seek the help of the psych- iatrist and psychologist, the doctor and also one foster home after an- other, trying to find some spot where the children could remain long 'enough to adjust, We hive had to hear the prob- lems in the foster homes where the, children in revolt have torn the paper off' the walls, eaten teeth.. paste by the tube and, of panne,' broken anything they could handle, It is a continuous miracle that Joster parents can have under- standing and patience in their ;ef- forts to. help a 'child and they de_ So almost volimtarily as our beard:: ing rate is very low. They also. understand punishment does no- -good. The child has never beep loved or, cared for and he does not know how to accept change, kind 7 ness or punishment. A little eight- year-plg openly wept when the foster father kissed him goodnight along with his* own boys and yet he 'had let the pigs out three time's that day, to say nothing of over- turning the tractor. Don't let any one tell you that we have not the finest families on, 'this earth in our ownfRuron County who have come to our assistance this sum- 'Men, We have had some very distress- ing court cases„ 'one Of incest in which You,. w?nder if ever such sears can be erased. Yet we' real- ize we only touch 'the surface,, of our County 'and these are only the problems in our 'Protection field that Mrs, EWan Ross has worked with. Problem ef , Unmarried Mothers The problem of the unmarried mother remains very much the same. Though this past year it, too, has •brought uS* a different type' of situation and we have in several eases been able to assist until such time a's the mother mar- ried and accepted her- own child, This always gives to us an added sense of satisfaction. Through the Adoption Pool spon- sored by the Department of Wel- fare,, we have been able, to secure 'achild for many homes. We have -35 children on adoption at the pre- sent time. We' also find, due to the 'tightening of money, we 'be- lieve, that we are having fewer ap- plications for adoption, - We sin- cerely trust we will not revelt to those days when it was almost im- possible to place a child unless Service could be secured from him, Again our peepleirof Huron County are to be commanded in their tak- ing children Who are handiertimed and giving them security 'and love -a far cry from the old days. Iii and -Around ,these definite avenues of Work We have had re- ports for the Official GUardia'n in diVoree. We have had brief ser- vices such as securing for a child placed many years ago a birth certificate when his birth has not been regiatered. Here we found a boy Who had never been a brit. liant Student, but who had stayed by his foster mother, had Worked her farm, for her, as well as his own, and Wild, to our minds, had inelafd.e a "success Story" •ail for hin'n- .s tok the tear t its my desire to make oliir Atalanta more theaningfill. Yeti Will first be interested 'Mir hay. Mg 221 children it Whom we art interested'--59 of whom are fit fns- tee homes. That We held 40 new. APPliettilOMS for adoption during, the year and even 'with our plate- alba of $4 for adoption, We have 26 betties Still awaiting children, There Were. 66 boriieS where we have tried to 'Work With the par-, Oita to keep them together rather than take thd, ohlidrem Nineteen mainairled mothers sought our help and We interviewed Merl se that We have been Working with 46 unmarried mothers and N men /s $18.000,t)0, to make a total 'of at- most .$100,090,00, He :pointed out, however,, that approximately Doo,oe had been .reeetveei front the estatmeainoiia fst,tnio indigents, Aci justice _ to the end pf October amounted to $22,799,61, with an estimated $4,000 mneaeidntegenconret:moth ltahnee ofoti rtth e hyoetiasrp, for the ten-month period Oa 687,64 and-- it is expected that $3,200.60 he needed for the bal- anl:aeyo,mf etn fe h:s year, r fox bounty 'have risen sharply with: $1,031.00, paid , out this year to date and it is ex- pected that an additional 31,500 will be paid before the end Of Decem- ber,. , Total fox 'bounties paid in 1954 were $1151.50 and last Year the figure Was down to $748.00., Total costs of the health unit for the year are expected to he $34,- 000.00, and the county highways have required $686,541,94 to the end of October, out of.whA $270,- 00040 bank loans have iieen re paid. Wine,hern ljnited Church to attend Harry: Gowdy, popular reeve of lick, Karen Walker, Ruth Currie, Debbie Gibson, Brenda MeTaggart. and Trudy McGuire, Following the modelling the iaprOn booth was popular sales place as Were also 1, 'the home baking and Christmas cake tables, :The girls of the C.G,I.T.' sold corsages and candy and the Young Woman's Auxiliary had Christmas cards. The sale was opened by Rey, D. MacRae and the guests were re- ceived at the door by Mrs. Loa. MacRae and 'Mrs, W. H, dwards; president of the Association, A nursery in the gymnasium took care of the younger children' while the mothers enjoyed a‘ cup of tea. land, who emphasized the lamer-1 tam . rola plaYed by county councils in the. government of our nation. Other speakers at the meeting included jail W. Hanna, of Wing- ham, M,P,P.. for 'Huron-Bruce; .Reeve W. R. Dewitt, of Ilnllett;" ex-Warden George C, Pagen of, Goderich; Reeve William McIteri, zie, • of Exeter; Mayor J. H, GA- ham of Goderieh; Rev. R, G. Mac- Millan, Goderich; Reeve ' Cecil Blake of Ashfield and Mrs, Burton Stanley of Clinton, Reeve John V,' 'Fischer of Turn- lierry Township, last year's warden, was chairman of the gathering. Mrs. Nelly Harkn,esd and Mrs, Seloielder and'children of Tees. water visited on Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Tif- fin, Mt, and Mrs., Oliver Stokes of Turnberry 'visited on Sunday at the home of lift and Mrs, Soe‘Tif- fin, Mrs, Caesar of , Dungannon had charge Of the l ordyoe school for a few days this week, during the Illness of the, teacher, Mrs, George violet yr. mania Moore 'was 'able to return home freal Whighain HOS- pital on TileNclay last. Mn-', and Mrs. Earl Toot and 0111001 of 'Ripley visited on *tut, day at the home of Iher sister, Mrs,' Ebner SleIghtholm, Mr, and Mrs, E, Ili. Walker have been ill with flu. Mr, nail Mrs, Prank loss visited lest rriday with Mr, and :WS, Itenneth Xing of Woodstock, and all Spent Saturday London., Mr, and Mrs Wm, rtintoul and 'children visited on StindaY with Mr, and Urs,, Mack Cardiff of 13rusSele, " County Council (Continued from Page One) the County Council wheir new iskItlen takes effect in 1.958,. Huron council approved a reso- lution by the eq'balization. commit- ne the atesesutstinalt r,katu authority ty lls ot t roe eenxlabmeri Pram eipalities be delegated to Alex Al- exander 'the county assessor, The county 4.rarian, Mrs. Eek. Mier,. reported that 1957 bad- been a busy year becaUse.'Of increased direct service, - now covering the entire County. She said there is great need • for more children's books and that since the first of the -year 2,866 votameq have been purchased and ,catalogued, dlerk-Treasurer -Erskine in:his report on. the county's fin., „ancial position, drew attention to several increases -in the county's expenditures over the past Year, Indigent patients 'had cost $86,- 846.07 dap to the end of October, he said,- and the estimated expendi- ture' for the balance of this year RS. S. 1IIAMNEY REPORTS ON MEETING, DONNYI3ROOK7-The W,M,S. of Donnybrook Church met on Tues- day at the home of Mrs. .11; Jef- ferson,:\yith eleven• ladies present, Mrs. 13., Chaneney was in charge of the meeting and, gave the call to worship, using the program, as given in the Missionary Monthly, A hymn was sung in opening, Mrs. Jas. Leddy read the SeriPture leS- son from the 2nd chapter of Philip- pians and read the prayer. Mrs. H, Woods gave a reading on Christian Stewardship and a hymn was sung: Mrs. H, Jefferson read a letter written by the missionary for prayer, Miss Nancy Forbes, while she was in Seoul, Korea., Mrs. Tom Armstrong and Mrs. Sara, Thompson Sang a duet. Mrs, Ernest 'Snowden read a poem en- titled "Consider" and Mrs, Gordon Iveylor one ' on "Greatness". Mrs. Wm, Hardy read, the chapter in, study book, "Japanese Churches": Minutes of the last meeting were approved as• read arid' the treas- urer's report given, Mrs. h,-Robin. son received the offering. Mrs, Stuart Chamney gave a brief, re- port bf, the sectional meeting which was held in Goderich, A hymn was Sung in closing and lunch served by the hostess assisted by Mrs, Morley Johnston and Mrs, E. Sneveden. DONNYBROOK Several Ideal men were fortunate enough last week' to ght a deer, \ Mr, and Mrs. Sam Thompson were' Sunday visitors with her• father; Mr.' Cecil Chamney hi Vic- toria . Hospital, London, MrS. Okla:Miley who had spent a few days 'in London -returned home with thorn. We are pleased, to' re- port that Cecil is making satisfac- tory progress'toWard recevery. Mr, and Mrs. Mason Robinson also Visited, with Mr. Chamney on Sun- day; Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Thompson and Howard included, Mr, and. Mrs, Bert Fitz- gerald of, Kincardine, Mr. and Mrs, Keith Fitzgerald and Mr, and. Mrs. Ronald. Wisener of Godepieli, , Other recent 'visitors included MX. and Mrs. Sam Jefferson and family of Newmarket and Mr,- and Mrs, Joe Marshall and family of LittoweIwith Mr. and Mrs. H. jefferann; Mr. and Mrs. Carman 1-Torley, of Sarnia With Mr, and Mrs, E, Robinson; , Mr. and Mrs, Itelland MoVittie Mr.- with Mr. and Mrs. R. Chamney;• Miss Limy ThompSon Of Bronth at her home here and Mr. and Mrs, Cliff Henderson and fanilly 'of Kipper). With Mr, and Mrs, Stuart Cham- ney. thrOughout the year. There were 107 ''brief services of which three Were Family AllOwance itritestiga- tions and nine Were •Investigations Or :the Official Guardian, These brief services vary from a few 'ours to a few days of work, yes, evell weeks, In an effprt to straigh- ten out a problem. which 10 urgent knit does not need continuing 'ser- vice, ' 'We made 4901. visits and had 400 interviews, an average of nine Interviews or visits ai day for 'a WOrget ,and Our 4.0,1581 tra,- , yelled in carryineout the work means on an average 'a worker has traven'td NO miles a Week. We have sent out 2005 letters. and re- ports arid there have been 176 court atteridanCei t 'Rainbow Club Plans for Party The regular monthly meeting of the Mary Hastings Rainbow Chlb was held in the Legion hall on Tuesday, November 5th,, The presi- dent opened the meeting •with the Housewife's " Creed and Lord's prayer in unison. Minutes and cox- responderide were :read, and roll call Was answered by' p members with two new membirs joining, Emily Elston told cif her visit to Kellogg's plant at London and of the plans being made for the central picnic, The area picnic will be held at Clinton in 1958. The -Christmas party will, be held on Thursday,' December 5th at, the Legion Hall, A turkey dinner will be servo at-7 o'clock by the Leg- ion ladies. Tickets for dinner can be obtained from Lola Sanderson up to. November 23rd. Draw was, held for the lady each is to buy, a gift for , Eva Bain is td •look after a short program. The regular draw of t pair of flannelette blankets Pas won ,of LaVina, Robinson. Several contests were held and lunch wasa served by. Elsie Cairns, Verna King, Mar- tha Warwick, Mary Campbell and. Ann' Nicol: Lucky birthday Was wen by Georgina Crothers. The next ,zneeting will be the Christ- mas party on 3 Thursday, December 5th, at 7 °Week in the Legion hasp. WIIITECHURCH Mr. -and Mrs. Walter Elliott and children visited on Sunday at the home of his brother, Mr.'Mitchell Elliott of Ansa Craig,, Mr, Nat Thomson was lucky enough to get a deer last week.' A deer PasSed along a few feet south of J. ID. beeeroft's house on Tues- day noon, and alth6ugh three of the Beecroft family were there watching, no •one made a mope to Stop its progress to the road, Mrs. Robert Watson of Bruce- field and Miss Janet Watson „of Aylmer visited on. Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Beecroft. Mr. and Mrs, Clarence Chamney, and Mr. and Mrs, Mason Robinson visited on Sunday with Mr, Cecil Charrineg, a' patient in 'Victoria Hospital, London: Clayton Robin. son visited with Robert and Forest Armitage of London, Mr. and Mrs. Irvine. Zinn of 'Woodstock spent the Week-end at the *borne of their son, Mr. Kenneth • mwormomumma.oainspoargoof...a..tjark.,mroi....0.1 .4..0.0.1•!""6•.••94,..".••kW I.D.A. 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I ... 11111/ .... i .......... 1. . 11111111111111111 .... il .. 11 ... . .. .. ' . 1 . 1111 . 1 ...... 11111011111:1111111 ...... 1 . 1 .. 111 .•‘. 14 hen • you visit us .. you know it is not expensive to,give FLOWERS . OUR ARRANGEMENTS ARE AN ' OUTSTANDING VALUE — ka,41.....Y•so,"".1•41,41.i4'11% ,Funeral Flowers Wedding ,Boucluets Special arrangements HOLLAND GARDENS' FLOWERSHOP " Phone' 887 or 735J12 VVingham HiliptitiotjaH . i ... ..... i . . .. . . .. LC:D1-TH attrEi et) h ' (ANGLICAN) dr(J, inaotan t. Rev, C. v, Johnson, L.Th, - Rector W. At Connell - Organist Sunday Poore Advent, a , 114 11,00 a.m ,---NtorningPraYer 2.30 p.m.—Sunday School 7,00 pm,/,...4,vettOg Prayer • * , Wed., Nov, 20—Iloard of .Mtnagem t 7.30 .1` Wi4hafo iktIv.a0004lkelo„ weih000ior, Nov, •0, A NEW AGE IS DAWNING Yew of us are so Uninformed that we .have • failed to realize the act that the' world has changed rather drastically since the end of the second World War. The 'atom-. ic age' is something more than a mere phrase; it is a new and utterly different concept of the future. • Though we are all so familiar with•the startling 'advances of the past few yearS, it does take time to fully appreciate the changes which are likely to take place in the years' which lie ahead, President Eisen- hower's address last week, however, spelled out one of the greatest changes we are likely to encounter. • Speaking' to .a Western world which iss frankly worried and sun,' prised that Soviet scientific know- ledge has apparently outstripped our own, the president pointed to several fa,Cts•which.1St be digest- ed ang'accepted if ive bare to survive. Most prominently mentioned, of euttrse, Was the increased budget Which will be necessary if we are to even, keep abreast in the race 'for protective weapons. , However, for once it. Was not the matter of higher taxes which struck us most forcibly. It was the presi- dent 's outline of "the man of to- indi-roW". He spoke at some length on the tremendous need fore more, scIentists • and mathematicians, the men and ivornen with sufficient mental capacity to aid if" the de- Velopment of the unseen myriads of new tools and weapons which will play Such a' lage part in our lives. , We may be wrong, but we believe that this is the first occasion when humani capability has been classed, at- government level, as the number. one national reS,burce. The president did not speak of hOw manY billions of dollars' would be poured into the search for •new uranium field's; he YOUR .TURN ONCE' MORE The following editorial is.sitnilar to the one we write each year about this:, time. It has to , do with the personal welfare of almost every ,adult person in our town and in the :neighboring townships. ' You're right F Municipal. nominations., , many ot !the municipalities in this area,will ii old: their, nomination rucetiugs„ on • Friday of this week, 'and if , the .-pattern: of the past few years-is to be repeated; the attend- an'c&-Will 'riot be very large. We noticed only the .other clay that one roan in ,Hanover had suggested a 't eo 'entree tiie.voters out td the `frieeting 'thiS yer. was quite properly answered by one of the civic officials in that town, "If we have to get them that way we might as well quit." These periods of indifference to' public affairs are not entirely new. They have occurred before, and have generally led to ,a -spirited upheaval ,,atnotig the electors, when they awakened after a few years to the fact that they were not very well in- formed about civic affairs. If you don't intend to attend the. nornination meeting in yotir muni- cipality, that's your business. There is no law to force you out to the gathering—but brother, don't make any remarks next year about the kind of councillors you have or the way your town, or to*uship is run. lt doesn't matter if it's, run right into the ground: If your taxes are • tripled you haven't got a thing to say. If you want to speak your piece, Friday will be your golden OPPorttmity, provided for •you in years past by law makers who were much mote •conterned about your , Welfare than you are yourself. the Winghatrt AdvaneekTirnes PObliebed at NtlitithArn. Ontario %Ventfer .iirOtherth * Barry Wenger, tditet Attinaber Audit Bureau o circulation AuthatliM: Ole 14e06104 duo* Mall, Nit bake Dept.• to time tine teet 0.ek sot wine' lOitabee U. IL A. 4440 per yea* 11110CIA0111 itate 44,00 par. year Adrortiiiig *Moo on' IP011eiltiOn dealt almost summarily with • the practical f arrangements to provide materials and instruments to for- ward the scientific program — but he emphatically stated that young people with the necessary promise must be sought out 'in the high schools and .aided-to receive further education so that every possible hu- man brain thay be swung into the battle for survival. This concept of the unparalleled worth of human beings is not a new one, It is a gospel which has been "preached for generations by the people who . have always been labelled as "dr,eamers". Now, how- ever, the exigencies of the inter- plantetary age have left no further room for equivocation. It has fi- nally been stated flatly by, the leader of one of the most important nations on the globe that there ?is nothing tflore important than the human brain, regardless of whether it is found in a person of position and wealth or in the cranium of a penni- less negro fran the slums of a„south- ern city., THINKING IN NEW FIGURES Last week the Huron 'County Council learned from its .road en- gineer that further increases in cost must be borne by' the taxpayerS if we are to maintain and rebuild an adequate county road system. Since it is unthinkable_ that any of our present 'roads can he returned to nature,, the people of fhe county A7d11. have to,$)vallow the 'unpalatable fact 'that a million dollars is expected for ,nett - year: The engineer further pointed out' that the present budget for the re-, building of bridges is entirely inade- quate, since many of the present 'Structures are 'too narrow' and too weak to carry present-day traffic loads. These slaterrients. rare' 'made', :in the' fact that road and ',bridge ex- penditures have been doubled and tripled in the past few years.' 'The problem, facing municipal •governments is a serious one. They are beginning to wonder just how • . much more strain the taxpayers will accept, pal-denial-1v in view of. a. current belief that incomes and • bnsiness profits in most towns and townships in this area haYe reached the top of the climb, and in some cases, particularly .on the farms, have been declining for some time. On the other hand, our present onomy has become, so dependent upon good, year-rgund roads, that life in our part of the world would, practically come toa standstill were the means of transportation to be - permitted to become' unusable. STRANGE BUDGETING A few weeks,ago we *rote to a 'long list of firms which had benea ed. as sub-contractors in the erection of the new Wing at the public School or have been supplying materials-for the use of the staff and students at the school. r;rom several of them, notably the :loo-al firms, we received , courteous answers and messages of . congratulation to the town, We were amused; however, by the replies of many of the 'larger firms which have taken hundreds, even thgusands of dollars of public money mitt of Wingham for supplies of various kinds. Several of them regretted that "their -budgets did not permit this type of expenditure". Apparently, however, their budgets do permit the rather heavy. expense of a salesman ,to come to Wingharn its often as it is believed an order will be waiting, - _ Admittedly, the 'payment for the advertising we were, attempting to sell would have been received only by our own firm, but we still think the takpayers of Wingliam, 'and the school board which places the orders would „have appreciated this small sign of recognition. Some of these big-time businessmen like to have all the, traffic going One direction, ,