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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1960-11-09, Page 1ELIA kil- 1 ALONG Ti MAIN RAO I By' cache 'Pedestrian otindl to Establish eserve Financing Councillor D. C. Nesmith suggest- ed that the matter of traffic CURLING CLUB WILL wfurNo, TO RETURN OFFICIALS READY FOR NOMINATIONS With thenomination ocmominiante up 4 • F ionmeeetinfidryr local , November 25th, the general pebble may be wondering what the present members of council are going to do, Are any of them glaing to retire? Can new faces be nkpected at the council table? The situation as it stands at the Moment would indicate that all the members of the current council will likely stand for office once again. One seat will have to be filled, as. Councillor Harold Pocock has left towri and is now living in Exeter, Mayor McKinney has suggested he would like to retire before too long, 'but is apparently going to be in the running, provided Councillor Don Naamith will continue to carry on in his capacity as chairman of the public 'works committee( streets being the main problem), In the light of this, Councillor Na- smith feels that with the new Wingham - Turnberry Planning Board, of which he is chairman, now organized, he is willing to carry on in order to see this work furthered. Reeve Roy Adair indicated that he will be in the .running again for the reeveship as he has been a member of the Huron County Council committee In ,charge of the new Home for the Aged at Clinton for the past four years, and wpuld like to be on hand to see the dem- pletion of the new 'building. Deputy-Reeve Joe Kerr, Council- lors W. F. Burgman, Warren Callan and Jack Gorbutt all have suggest- ed that they will he willing to Stand for another term. Councillor Gord- on Buchanan stated that he will also stand for office as he is deep- ly interested in the new 'Riverside Parks Board and wants to see the work of this group continued and will support the new organization, in council. FIREMEN TO ,COLLECT,. FURTHER RESEARCH from the 8th concession of Turn- berry in 1927, where he operated a general store for 12 years and later a service station. After a four-year stint with the RCAF he again went into business in Bluevale, where he has remained as postmaster. Mrs. Smith was acting postmistress auring his absence. He has served four years on the township scohol board and seven years on the township council, as well a; representing Turnberry for some• time on the board of direct- ors of the Wingham General Hos- pital. DRIVER PERMITS MANGE IS MADE IN EXAMINER SET-UP A change has 'been made in, the system used for examining appli- cants for motor vehicle driver per- mits, Up to the present a local resident has always acted as ex- aminer, Bob Casemore having filled the position for the past four years. Under, the new system one ex- aminer will handle the work for several towns in this area, with headquarters at Clinton. He will be in Wingham one day each 'week to test prospective drivers, and resi- dents of the smaller centres near- ay will be expected to come to Wingham when examinations for driver ability are needed, So far there has been 'no formal announcerhent as to when and where the examiner will be avail- able. "blow, golden trumpets, mournfully, for all the golden youth that's fled, for all the shattered dreams that lie, where God has laid the quiet dead, beneath an alien sky." o With which is amalgamated the Gorrie Vidette and Wroxeter News WANGIWI, ONTARIO, WUDNESDAY, NOVEllIBEfi, 9th, 1.960 SINGfaN COKES 11,0 coots OPEN .TIOUSE-i- Parents and all others interested in the public school and its young scholars are invited to attend the annual Open House this (Wednes- day) afternoon at three o'clock, All the rooms will be open to the public, where classes will be car- ried on until 3.30. The teachers will remain after classes are dis- missed to meet parents,' 0 a 0 GETS AROUND— WIPP John Hanna manages to find plenty to do, The last few days have included. the, Bruce County Warden's banquet at Formosa, WAline .laying of the cornerstone for the addition to the Bruce County home at Walkerton, the Huron 'County Warden's banquet in God- erich, annual dinner of, the Huron, County Holstein Assoc., a dinner for the •Goderich Trotting and Turf Chib, and a diamond -Wedding cele- bration at the home of Mr,. and Mrs, Lerne iScrimageour in Blyth. 0 - - 0 NO REPORTS' YE'T— ,. Bruce County woods were full of hunters bright and early Mon- day morning for the opening of the deer season. With a light covering cf snow on the ground conditions, should'have been ideal—hut so far we don't have any reports from successful nimrods, More than like- ly they haven't been. home since the action started. 0 - 0 - READY FOR FRIDAY— The Cenotaph will present a much improved •appearance for the Remembrance Day service on Fri- day morning. New steps' have been built, to permit easier and safer approach to the base of the monu- ment and the lettering on the shaft has been re-done'so that the names of the ,fallen are more legible: 0 - - 0 THANKS If tton LEGION— The executive of Branch 180, Ca- nadian Legion have asked the Ada vance-Times to expresa.apprecia ation .to the Girl Guides and the school childrbn who sold poppies on Saturday, as well as to all thOse who generously donated to the Legion through their purchases, Final results have not been tabu- lated as yet, but it is expected that total sales will more than ex- ceed last year's figures. RECEPTION There will +be a reception for Mr. and Mrs, Ross Higgins (Wilma Johnson) in the Foresters Hall. Belgrave, on Friday, November 18. wDancing to a popular orchestra. adies please bring sandwiches. Everyone welcome. F9b SHOWER. TN BLUEVALE Shower in Bluevale, -Thursday. November 10th, for Mr, and Mrs. Ross Higgins (Wilma, Johnson) Ken Wilbee's orchestra. Ladies please bring lunch, F9b —a-- CHRISTMAS TEA The Wingham United Church Christmas tea and sale will be heir' in the Sunday School room or Wednesday, November 23, F9b ODDFELLOWS FOWL BINGO Oddiellows Christmas fowl bingo will be held in the •Oddfellows Hall, Friday, December 0th at 8.30 p.m, Come and win your Christ- liras dinner, • F9b EUCHRE IN WROXETER Thursday ...veiling, Nov. 10th in Community Hall. Ladies please bring lunch. Fab NOTICE In order that we May observe Remembrance Day there Will be no milk delivery on Friday, November 11th. Thank you. :Bateson's Model Dairy. 4110TICE 'Wroxeter stores vidl be open" Thursday afternoon and'elosed Fri- day, .November 11th, LADIES' AUXILIARY MEETING The Monthly meeting of the La- dies' Auxiliary to Winghath Gen- eral Hospital will be held in the Council Chambers on Friday' after- noon, November 11th, at three o'clock, SHOWER AND DANCE in honor of Mr. and Mrs, Lyle Reidt Wary Helen MacDon- ald of Wingham) in Wroxeter Community Hall, Friday, Nov. 11 Ladies please bring lunch. Good Music and everyone welcome. F9b. EUCHRE Country Curling Club euchre and annual ineetkng at Currie's School, Thursday, November 10th, at 8.30. Ladies please bring sandwiches. E'Db No major issues came befdre the Wingham town council at its reg- ular meeting on Monday evening, routine. matters taking up the two and a half hour session. Clerk 'William Renwick read a letter from the local branch of the Canadian Legion, thanking council for installing cement steps at the cenotaph and for proclaim- ing November 11th a holiday. Elwood Irwin and James Lee attended the meeting and requested permission from council to connect 25 YEARS WITH P.0, A. D. ,SMITH GIVEN LONG SERVICE PIN Alvin D, Smith was honored re- cently when the area postal sup- erintendent, I. E. Jones, of Walker- ton, called at the Bluevale post of- fice to present a silver lapel pin emblematic of 25 yeafs continuous service with the Canadian Post Of- fice Department. Mr. Smith moved to Bluevale clerk and the mayor, council &a' cided to establish two reserve funds, One will be classified as' working fund and the other for equipment. By setting up 'Lira() reserves, the town's financing will. be improved, it was explained, as it* will obviate the necessity, evert« tually, for borrowing from the bank on notes and thus.. save the ta,x". payers interest charges. Fite thousand dollars was placed in the equipment reserve and $4,000 in the working reserve, The move will not mean any increase in taxes aac the funds will be transferrd from the general account. Council, discussed the ineagities, as the members saw, them, of taxen paid by mail order company branch offices, and passed. a motion re- questing the Department of Muni- cipal Affairs to consider changing the regulation to bring the local mail order offices, under the same tax setup for business 'tax as the department stores in the city. Mayor McKinney explained that at the present time these offices are classified as retail outlets, and are taxed on a basis of 35% 01 assessment, whereas department stores pay 75%• of assessed value of the buildings, After passing the motion, council agreed to have the clerk send copies of the motions to. councils in other communities for support. Traffic Lights ened, He also reported that work on the new police office in the basemept of the town hall had been completed. The reeve also said that work would start shortly to raise the building covering the weigh scale. He told council the building was too low to accept large trucks and that it would be jacked up and set on two courses of cement blocks which will add 16 inches for extra clearance. Councillor Jack Gorbutt, who heads the fire and band committee, reported that the fire trick is away having, a new tank installed and that other maintenance work on the vehicle is being done at the same time. The pumper, he said, will be baCk in Wingham on Wed- nesday of this week. Councillor W. F. Burgman, chair- man of the cemetery committee, re- ported that the fall cleanup at the cemetery is nearly complete. Councillor Jack Gorbutt, also a member of the Recreation Com- mittee, said that the winter recre- ation program is now set up and Work will begin shortly on the construction of a 20-foot addition club rooms on Josephine Street. to the south side of °the curling The extension, which will be to the club rooms at the front of the leti't,abYtttee;!'`wilf- tiec tiPyaa aPortfdit of the site formerly taken up by the VanCamp store building, which was dismantled this fall, The new section of the club rooms will in- clude main floor and basement utilizing the basement excavation or the former store. Already one of the most attrac- tive curling clubs in the area, the added space will make much roomier quarters for club members and guests alike. Curling enthusiasts are now get- Over 80 members of the Can- adian Legion Branch No. 180, the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion and municipal representa- tives paraded from the Legion Home to the Salvation Army Cita- del on Edward Street last Sunday morning for the annual Remem- brance; Day church service. They were led by a hand composed of members from the' Wingham Corps band and the Owen Sound Salva- BEAUTY SALON 'OPENS Bill's Beauty Salon opens for business Monday, November 14. Corner of Victoria and Leopold Streets, Phone 477M. F9 4' ATTENTION HOCKEY PLAYERS All boys interested in playing Midget, Juvenile, Junior Hockey, meet at Wingham Town Hall, Tuesday evening, November 15, at 8,30 p.m. F9b BELG RAVE DISTRICT CREDIT UNION NOTICE Office' hours will be 2 to 4, Tues- day afternoons, instead of even- ings, for the Winter months. lf6b First of the regular euchres sponsored by the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion is to be held upstairs In the Legion Home en Monday, November 14, begirt- rang at 8.311 p.m. Please collie and bring a friend, Prizes. Lunch. opened with the Department of TO AUXILIARY CAPTgS, Highways. This view was ' not, supported by all councillors and' was left over for further study, Friends and acciaaintances of Reeve Roy Adair, chairman of Envoy and Mrs. G. 'Stanley New, the property .committee, stated man were pleased to learn theta that he will look into a roofing .the7..al?acl..40011. ,PI'.9n19,W1, l'1'P 0 0 4r4R9-K"TiaifiAl. 1:0 tokV114:.ha,11.,,,W1390, now Auxiliary CaptainA of the" Sal- sheet metal on the tower has loosa RECEIVE PROMOTION laingdht;riacttortihae Streets ho ujldo s ebpch cc- - ENLARGE BUILDING The rank of Auxiliary Captain is a new one and the Nowmans are the first two people in the Domin- ion of Canada to be so appointed. On Friday evening of last week, when two carloads of young people from the Wingham Corps attend- ed a Young People's Rally in Hamilton, Col. A. G. Cameron, '':150 boys have registered for hockey. I Chief 'Secretary for Canada, pub- Building permits amounting to licly congratulated the Wingham $2,100 covering two 'minor projects couple on their promotions. I were approved by council, Count 8,200 Pennies In UNICEF Collection On behalf of UNICEF the girls of Wingham CGIT wish to thank the people of town for their increased contribution this year, The total now stands at $240.41, the largest contribution in the five years the appeal has been made in Wingham. The girls .counted 8,200 pennies which could provide 41,000 glasses of milk, so =eh needed by many children of the woad& When we realize that the $10.00 turned Into UNICEF in nickels could cure 10e children of yaws we should feel pleased to have a share in this cause. Since the countries receiving our aid contribute $1.05 for each dol- lar we give, our money is multi- plied in helpfulness. The Wingham girls were glad to share their Hal. lowee't with the needy 'children of the world. Wingham's Hallowe'en Was not destructive but devoted to the best kind of construction— the building of better bodies through UNICEF. Fiord reports from the other groups in the area are not yet com- plete but we did note last week NEW POSTMASTERaGordeit Suteliffe, formerly With the postal that the Mission Band at White- department at Clinton es Senior clerk, took over his ditties last week, church had received $17.00 for rig the new Postinester, succeeding Arebie Peebles- who refired at the , UNICEF be the Hallowe'en, mike- end of October after .20' years on the Ph. than there, a private sewer to the town line at the Swatrldge property on Car- ling Terrace. After informing the two men of some of the problems, and pointing out that all, costs involved would he their own, coun- cil gave the necessary approval. A by-law was read setting up now rates for plots and work at the cemetery. This by-law backed a motion of a year ago when the rates were established: Reserve Funds Following an explanation by the Ont.. Assembly Pres. At Majestic Lodge. Sister Louise Clark, president of the Rebekah Assembly of Ontario, made her official visit to Majestic: Rebekah Lodge on Monday, Also present was Sister Martha Patter- son, past president of the Assem- bly and Sister Shirley Phair, dis- trict deputy president of Kincar- dine South. The Walkerton. Rebekah Lodge conferred the degree on one candi- date, The Bervie Rebekah Lodge, of which the district deputy pres- ident is a member, closed lodge. About 100 were present and en- joyed a social half hour together after the meeting, MARK OF CONFIDENCE v.ation Army in Canadian Territory, Letters confirming' the promotions and of congratulations have been received by Capt. and Mrs. New- man from the Chief Secretary and the Field Secretary. Capt. and Mrs. p'ewman had no thought of promotion and it is cnly within the past few weeks that word of such a possibility reached them on an unofficial ba- sis, 'They have been hard-work- ing and unassuming in their call- ing as the people of this district know, and apparently this fact has not gone unnoticed by higher of- ficers of the Salvation Army, who stated this promotion ayes a mark of confidence. Post Office Hours Remembrance Day There will be no money order or savings bank business transacted at the local post office. on Friday, Remembrance 'Day, and there will he no rural delivery, The wicket for dispensing mail will remain open until 6 p.m, for and 12 noon to 3 ,p,m. The lobby WI 'arerna in-atrpeir * until , p 1 o those who rent boxes. Mails will be received and des- patched as usual during the day. ting set for the opening of the season next week. Those who are interested in the game and have not previously curled are asked to contact Murray Rae, and to do so at once, since rinks are to be selected immediately for the first round robin of the year. Lion Army Band. Following• the national anthem and invocation, the congregation sang "0 God, Our Help in Ages Past" and Capt. G, S. Newman read 'the ..Scripture lesson. Major Wheeler offered prayer and "0 God of Bethel" 'was sung. The bands rendered an instru- mental selection and Capt. New- man read another passage of Scripture. "There Is a Better World, They Say", was the song which -followed a vocal selection by the. Owen Sound Party, and William Henderson, bandmaster of pthreaye Winghamr. Corps Band, offered Walter Pickford, padre of the Wingham Branch, Canadian Le- gion, preached the sermon. His theme was "Back to Bethel". Mr. Pickford told of Jacob's vision of the ladder to heaven and the an- gels. He was told in his dream to return to Bethel and start a new 'ife, He, too, had sinned, against God and his brother. Mr, Pickford said that God Is also calling us back to Bethel. We have been lax and have neglected our duties, In stating what Beth- 0 means today he 'said it Is our first love, God, who should con- tinue to be our first love; it is a good life we once knew, and We .trust renew our faith as children, and thirdly, it is a return to Bible reading which Many of us have neglected. In summing up he said that calling us back to Bethel means living up to our Christian beliefs and going into active ser- vice for the Lord, a. "When the Trumpet of the Lord Shall Sound" was sung ,and the benediction was Prom:mooed. The hand played a selection as reces- sional music, at the dose of the serViee. NO ENTRY MADE FOR INTERMEDIATE TEAM Winghain will not ice an inter- mediate hockey team this year. Due to the fact that Lhere were not sufficient players available to fora team for the 1960-81 season no entry was. made 1n the Meal i a te fi catiOri Prospects at the present time are that a Junior "D" team will be organized, and an entry has al- ready been put into this classifi- cation. The final decision will conic when it is decided whether or not to forego a Juvenile team for this year, since virtually the same boys would be involved in both junior and juvenile play, The outcome will be known next week. Remembrance Day Service on Friday. The Remembrance Day service will he held at the Cenotaph on Friday morning at 10.30 with Presi- dent Jack 'Orvis of the Wingham Branch Canadian Legion, BESL, No. 180, as chairman. The parade will fall in at the Armouries at 10.15 with Alex Cor- rigan as parade marshal and the Belgrave Pipe Band will lead the procession of Legion members, La- dies' Auxiliary, town officials and representatives of other groups to the Cenotaph. When the fire siren is sounded our firemen speed to the scene of action without fear or hesitation. It is their business never to turn down a call for help. They are, however, respOnding to another cause, above and beyond the call of duty. They were not asked to go to the aid of muscular dystrophy victims but they, chose to do so, and joined firefighters all over Canada to raise the bulk of the funds employed by the Mus- cular Dystrophy Association of Canada for medical research, aim- ed to put an end to the tragic disease. On the evening of Friday, Novem- ber 25, the members of the Wing- ham Fire Department will make a door to door canvass to collect for MDACC. The firemen seldom ask for help, but on this one night of the year they do seek your co- operation in aid of the muscular dystrophy victims. If you will not be home on Friday evening any fireman would be pleased to re- ceive your donation ahead of time. Firemen throughout the Domin- ion will be calling at homes from November 20 to 26 and all contri- butions will be turned over to MDAC. District Deputy Visits Lodge Dr. James Little of Lucknow, district deputy grand master, paid his •official visit to Wingham Ma- sonic Lodge on Tuesday evening, November 1st. There was a large gathering of Masonic brethren present for the meeting, with guests present from many sur- rounding lodges. Salvation Army Bands at Legion's Church Parade PROCLAMATION At the request of a number of citizens I hereby proclaim Friday, November 11, 1960 A PUBLIC-CIVIC HOLIDAY FOR THE TOWN OF WINOFIAM I hereby call upon all good citizeos to Oserite the sarne. R. E. McKINNEY, 11/layor. "C,od Save the Queen,"