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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1962-01-03, Page 21".1 '1;'e Two e W n hsn A\c-Timet, Wednesday, J> elan. 3, 100`~ FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE? The Yuletide season,. both Christ- inaS. 4nd New Y.ear's, are wonderful days for reflection. Tile other days in. the year tend to fade out into 4t1n. even greyness, with few cli:;tinguish ing marks after an interval of time . , but iuost. of us can recall the high lights of the last week in the year. We will remember the l't)ugh trip we had corning holal? from (.arannie's place in 193() ---•. or the New Year':] . Day in 1947 when it snowed so hard. New Year's Day has a particular significance for uses because it was. our 'first day of editorship in Wing- ham—eleven years ago. \.Vitll this thought in mind we pulled out the file copy of The Advance -'Innes fur the first issue .of the year 1951. There were all kinds of interesting things in it. The most striking dote in. the entire paper was our own reaction to Wingham, which \\;as a complete- ly new town to us rot that time . . , and it was quite apparent that we had been forcibly impressed by the enthusiasm of 'Vingh.ani people for their own community. Most people welcomed us with excusable pride, by assuring us that we were moving to a gland little town. In the intervening years we have become convinced that they were right ----but in that same interval a lot of the Wingham folks we know have lost faith in this community as "a grand little town." Perhaps we ,are wrong, but it is our guess that the new residents who have moved here during the past five years have not been welcomed \vith the same optimistic words. Is there any better time than the beginning of a new year to think about the town in which we live—to Concentrate on the community of which we are the living cells? Fine buildings and imposing streets, of course, clo not make a town. They are only the trappings. Twenty-five years ago Kirkland Lake was a hodge-podge of twisting streets and. slap -happy shacks—but it was one • IT WAS ACOODYEAR The year which has just closed was a good one for this town and the surrounding community. Not only did we escape any large-scale disasters, but the town showed a steady progress for which all can be thankful. This is not and never has beena "boom" town. We have never experienced any population explos- ions or sadden inlrsts of activity, but during 1961 employment remained at a high level ; many ne\v homes and commercial buildings were added ; a new park development was set in motion. Sometimes we are inclined to look with envious eyes on those neighbor- ing communities where development has been faster than it has been here. Isar pastures do look greener, some times, but these booms are not all joy for the folks who have to foot the bills for new municipal services and accommodations. Our .attitude isn't the sour grapes sort of thing. No doubt, if a big industrial expansion could he forseen for Wingham we would be overjoy- ed, too. However, there are some real merits in the slower and more steady sort of growth which has taken place here.• If we keep right on boosting and working there is no foreseeable rea- son for this healthy economy to weaken. The Wingham Advance -Times Published at Winghant, Ontario Wenger Eros. Lintited' W. Barry Wenger, President Robert O. Wenger; Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Authorized by the Pest Office Department as Second Class Mail and for payment of postage in each Subscription bate: One Year, $4.00; Six Months, $2.25, in advance U.S.A. $6.00 per year; • Foreign tate $5.00 per year Advertising Rater on appiicritlon grand town. It's the people 'rho make the difference ---how they gleet you, \cheater or not they are reitlV' to at'ec'1)t Ile\\' Ct)lllt1'S illlcl ab6ve all, how complet ely they are sold on their own community as the best place in the world. Eleven wears ago we dared not be critical, Perhaps the penalties for doing- so he the same Inow, but will tl 1 , l at least we can speak with more in- timate knowledge e of the subject. The town is still the best we have ever known --- but somewhere along the line its people have forgotten 1 hots to be enthusiastic, 11 1%2 is to � high. be a good year 1.01 all. ()f usIt , ll time We worked up a little stearin for what \ye have and can be in this community. Too mainy of our people are talking about how wonderful things are in Listowel ; how busy the stores are .in Walkerton or how God- erit'h is expanding. Let's put a little pep into our thinking about VVinghatn. Since the most of us are going to stay right here \\C \would be better employed in promoting all those qualities we so t(111111C in our neighbours. A NEW WAY OF LIVING 'rhe opening of a new year is tra- dition.ally the time to look back at the past, and, of course, to attempt some sort of forecast for the future. The past, we know, has had -its ups and downs. The world and its inhabi- tants have been filled with alarms and terrors -•fears which an age of unrest and dangers have brought. about. In years gone by it \vas possible to peer into the- future in. a .limited way. The opening of a .new year held its mysteries but to a large extent we could foresee the general pattern bf life as it lay before us. The Bomb has changed all that. Though we are inclined to shy away :from the subject, every one of us knows full well that 1.962 could be our last year on earth. We haven't met many folks who are getting themselves into a blue funk over the situation, but it has created a 'new attitude in most thoughtful minds. We are all aware that our survival is 11 OW purely in the .lands of our Maker—which is a very good place to leave any problem. This burden of fear is a bother- some one•to carry, but in some cases it does have a salutory effect. It would be a vain creature indeed who could glory in his own .night at the present. time. ARE THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND? One evening recently we heard a television interview in which a leader of organized labor spoke quite con- fidently of the time, S0011 to come, when labor would be seeking- a 20 - hour working week. Is it any wonder r that our vaunted prosperity �riff• fails to bring us all the blessings it should? 'Po suggest, at a time when over half the people in the world are star- ving, that the laborers of the West- ern world need only work for two days a week and still live in luxury is to invite the loathing of the rest of mankind. If our production fa • cilitics are so developed that we can squander not only otir wealth but our tilde; surely we could divert some of our affluence to these who have nothing at all. One of the tragic aspects of this sort of reasoning on the part of labor. leaders is that it is so injurious to the cause of organized labor itself. The trade unions have been of tree mendotts value iii bettering the lot of the average worker in North Am- erica, but the rest of us, who must suffer -under their new and. radical ideas are ceasing to remember their worth in the light of their objectives, „111111,111111tlllil,111[,II1,IIt111,M1,111,IY,u,l I11111111I11III,III,IIIII„I,la„I„1,,,11„,II.I,,,I,Iii, 1, 1„11111„IIIIIV'7 ONE MOMENT, PI EASE I Ie0R,WAJU) OTTO 100 It always seems to the that there is a, similarity between our going forward into a trees year, and Joshua lending the Israelites across Jotxlan into the promisrd land, Behind Joshua and his, people were long years of wandering In the wilderness with all of their disappointments and frustrations, but also. the proven experience of God's providence, proteetinn and care, behind them was a known way of life, with cotttparative peace and security. Before them lay the unknown with all of its pussiltili• ties, challenges, uncertainties, fn face of this, many an Israelite must have longed to linger on In the old Way of life, but mei was not to be for the order to go forward' was positive and irrevocable. However, r, with the order to cross the Jordan was the promise: "The Lord thy GM is with thee whitltet•soever thou geese,” At the beginning of this new year we, lila ,Joshua's Israelites, stand at a border -crossing. Behind us, as with them, are many wander.. ings, disappointments and frustra- tions; but behind us also is the ex- perietlt'e of God's providence, pro- tection anal e'are, Behind us, too, is a known way of life and com- parative security while before us all Is .obseured in a cloud. of un certainty. ConYsequently, many of us might prefer to go on 1n the stone old ways of the past, hut R(14 V,. Renner,. '1'eeswttter, Ontario, time forcea us on into the new year with all its unknown. quali- ties, As with Joshua .and Israel, our orders to move forward are positive and irrevocable, Israel had to go forward ard conquer the Promised Land. You and I must go forward to possess the new year. However, as we do go forward into 1002 we,. tike Israel, have the assurance of our (Jud: "Be strong and of good courage, Xie not afraid, neither be thou rdis- mayed: for the Lord, thy God is with thee whithersi, ver their ge- ese', And as St, Paul says: "If God he for us, who can. be against us?" mmllmmlmumIIlillmIt!IIImmmlmltlmlmhmlmI0IllIlumtlimIDIIlmlllllmnmm SUGAR and SPICE y Bill Smiley romm Well, Mac, how did you get through the New Year's Eve or- deal? What's that? Your eyes are still bleeding? And Mabel, how about you? Is it true that you hung a big, wet kiss on Mac's boss at the stroke of twelve, burning a cigarette hole in the lapel of his new suit in the process? Well, that's how it goes in this country, on New Year's Eve. The Latin countries have their carni- vals, The Germans have their beer - drinking festivals, the Indians their religious orgies, the Africans their tribal dances and rites. These festivities go on for days, some- times as long as a week, 0-0-0 Everybody involved in these af- fairs looks forward to the occasion as a chance to release pent-up hellery, They start slowly, gather momentum, build up to a climax, then totter back to the kraal or whatever, exhausted, cleansed, purified. Butr the poor old Canadians have just one night in the year in which to kick rip their heels, unleash those wild, surging desires so characteristic of the race, and throw inlribitlions out the nearest window, whether it's open or not. That's wiry theyllre so poorly the rest of the long, bard winter. I'm a quiet, steady sort myself• but I've been to enough New Year's Eve parties to shake my head in sympathy. We Canadians build u)+ a tremendous head of steam during a year because, being such nice quiet, conservative, unemotiona. folk, we plug all our normal out- lets for 364 days of the year. Or the last day, we open all the valves at once. The result is a cross be. tween an oil well coming in and ar do amm Yi t n clump 7 oiri tu1. g g up. In the resultant WHOOSH! marriages are irretrievably wreck- ed, careers ruined, young men turned into doddering skeletons lovely young women into decrepit hags. New Year's Day is spent in sur- veying the ruins, with jaundiced not to mention bloodshot, eyes. An interesting color scheme, that. Yel- low and reel. 0-0-0 It's not until the next day that the marriages are pasted together again, the careers resumed, the young men put hack on the path of destiny, and the dolls restored to a semblance of radiant beauty, One thing I find rather peculiar. Canadians either get stronger as they grow older, or they have more inhibitions to unload. Go to a teen age party in New Year's Eve. The kids dance decorously, eat with manners and generally behave as sophisticated adults should. Visit a party o.f young adults, hi their late teens or early twenties. They may ;have a :few drinks, but net ninny, and it's a pretty quiet, moony .affair. They're all going steady, you see, and trying to make an impression on somebody. Then take a party of young mar- rieds, with children. These charac- ters are all exhausted, up to their eye -balls in debt, frustrated, and slightly disillusioned ,about life. Watch out for the fireworks at this one, especially at midnight, when the Auld Lang Syne nonsense ends and the kissing starts. Somebody will get athick ear or a splitlit lip, I've had both in my day. 0-0-0 But Canadians hit their New Year's Eve peak, 1 think, in the forties and fifties. Tor one thing, their kids are 'past the childhood stage, and are probably not at home to keep an eye on the old- timers. For another, all the men are at the dangerous age. For an- other, all the warren feel that their husbands are neglecting them. This is the identical formula for which the scientists who split the atone .looked for, for years. It was right under their noses. 0-0-0 Again, the crisis, or turning point, is right at midnight, when everybody has this insane desire to kiss somebody else. I don't know where this custom originated, and I'm against it. Not only is it un- sanitary, but my wife clobbered me right on the nose one New Year's Eve, just because a couple of agile ladies beat her to me, when the gong sounded. This midnight moment is the time for all the poor dogs who are married to frigid wives to dash around hanging great, romantic busses on the best -looking dames at the party. It is the time for the little woman, with a touch of gypsy in her soul, browned off with a husband who thinks a kiss is a waste of time, to swoon for four- teen glorious seconds in somebody else's arms. I'll tell you more about this again but right now I have to do a little explaining to the Old Battleaxe. PETE WILL SHOWS MOVIES OF EUROPE The Presbyterian Couples' Club met on Tuesday evening in the church basement with thirteen couples present. The presidents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred McGee, got the meeting under way and Mrs. Bruce MacDonald led in prayer. Two favorite solos were sung by John McKibben, "How Great Thou Art" and "The Lord's Prayer". A short business period followed and the offertory and roll call were taken. Mrs. Redmond •Mac- Donald gave the offertory prayer. Redmond MacDonald introduced his brother-in-law, Pete Will, who has spent four years with the Air Force in Germany. Mr. Will show - films of the most interesting points in Germany, England, Hol- land, Switzerland and Spain. Bruce MacDonald closed the meeting with prayer and a delicious lunch was served by Mr. and Mrs. Redmond MacDonald and Mr. and Ars. Bruce MacDonald, Who were in charge of the meeting, WHITEGHURGH Mr. and Mrs, Charles Martin, Mr. James Martin, Mr, and Mrs. Ezra Scholtz, Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Laidlaw and family and Mr. and Mrs, Cameron Simmons and fam- ily of London spent Monday with Mr, and Mrs. Clayton Scholtz of Goderich. Mrs. Irene Paterson of Torontc spent the week -end here, and Mr. Chas, Taylor, who spent the past week in Toronto, returned home. Miss Marjorie I-iall of Acton, Mr. and Mrs. Dawson Craig, Alex and Harvey, and Mr, Albert Pat- terson spent Monday with Mr, and Mrs. Robert Ball, Wingham. Mr, William Forster, Mr. Lorne Forster and Mrs. Stewart, Miss Norma of London and Mr, and Mrs. Ronald Perrett and children. Goderich, spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs, Walter Elliott. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Montgomery, of Blyth, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Mont- gomery, M. and Mrs. Aldin Pur - don, Wingham, spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Angus Falconer. Mrs. Cecil Falconer,,who spent last week with relatives at Sarnia, re- turned home with Mr. and Mrs. ralcorter and sons of Sarnia. Mr, and lvtrs, Gordon Sieight- holm and family of London and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sleightholtn and family spent lVlonday with their mother, Mrs, Frank Sleight - holm, Mr. and Mrs, Robert Mowbray, Wingham, and Mr. Peter and Miss Annie Kennedy spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs, Harry Tichbourne at Goderieh, Mr, and Mrs.. Albert Coultes and Dianne rind Mr. and Mrs. .Pack Coultes and baby spent Monday with Mr. and 'Mrs. Melvin Kerry of Paisley. Miss 'Barbara Coultes left on Tuesday to attend Ryerson Insti- tute in Toronto for another term, after spending the holidays with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Cecil Coultes, Mr, and Mrs, George Coultes and Mr. and Mrs, Jaynes Gaunt and Janet spent Monday with Mr, and Mrs, John Gaunt. Mr, and Mrs. Forest Payne, who spent the week with Mr, and Mrs. William Kennedy of Marnoch, re- turned home on Tuesday. Mr, and. Mrs. Eugene Armitage and family of London, and local relatives spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. John McBurney. Grant McBurney, who has attended' Wa- terloo College last fall, left on Monday from Crumlin airport for Montreal, where he will be employ- ed with the Canadian Industrial Steel Co., for the next three months. Mr, and Mrs. Sheldon Jacklin and family, Brussels, Mr. and Mrs, Harold Slesser and family, of Glamis, Mr. and Mrs. Graham Cook and family, Ripley, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Cook, Belmore, Mr. and Mrs. Ray White and family, Belgrave, and Mr. and Mrs. Don- ald Cook and family and Mr. Lloyd Cook, Wingham, spent Monday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs, Harry Cook, Marnoch. Mrs, Cook's father, Mr. Alfred Cooper, of Bea- verton, is visiting at the Cook home this week. Mr, and. Mrs. George Walker spent Monday with her mother, Mrs. Wm. Humphrey and Miss Lila, at St. Helens. Communion service will he oh - served in Calvin -Brick 'United Church this Sunday. Mrs. R. J. Currie and Linda and Marion McGee spent last week with Mr. and Mrs, Robert Gibson at Brantford. Mrs. Currie left on Monday to spend a week with. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Falconer of Sar. n ia, Sharon and Doris Rintoul spent the week -end with Mr. and Mrs. Mac Cardiff of Brussels, and Mr. of Ash- field Ralph n and Mrs. Cameron field visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. William Rintoul. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Martin and children vieltecl on Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs, William Martin of Kitchener. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Leishman of Goderich and &formerly of East Wawanosh are now patients at Huronview Home, Clinton, Mr. and MFs. Stewart Coupland of Toronto spent the week -end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Robinson and Wroxeter re- latives. Tommy and Billie Robin- son, who spent last week in To- ronto, returned home- with them. Mr. and Mrs: Carl McClenaghan visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, William Parker and family of Exeter. Mr, and Mrs. Ben Mc- Clenaghan, who had been visit- ing with Mr. and Mrs. James Mc- Intyre of Ridgetown, and who had returned to Exeter, accompanied them. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mason r Monday family visited on Mond y with Mr. and Mrs. barn Skinner of Cen. tralia, Mtss Janet Watson, who had been visiting with her sister, Mrs, Gilbert Beecroft, returned home to Aylmer on Friday. Mr, and Mrs. Albert 13ieman and family visited on Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Roger Inglis and George of Walkerton, Mr. •anrd Mrs, Hector Hamilton and family of Gerrie spent Monday With Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Bee- croft. Mr, and Mrs, Lorne Humphrey and children of Hespeler and oth- er local relatives from West Wa. wanosh spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Etoy Robinson. Mr. and Mrs,. Kenneth Purdon arrd children, of Thorndale, spent the week -end with,his parents, Mr. and Mrs, John Purdori, Local Pur- don families met at the Purdon horse on 1VIonday for New Year's. Mr, and Mrs.(,"latide Coffin, Sohn and Alex, visited With Kitchener and Preston relatives rail Saturday. Mr, and Mrs. Archie Purdon, Kathy and Lori, With her mother, Mrs, Webster ,lackjitt, of Listowel, spent Monday with Mr.And Mrs. Douglaa Nauman, or Kitchener; Mrs. Harold..Congrant had the pleasure of talking over • the phone on. Sunday with her mother, Mrs. John Lochead, and other relatives, Who had gathered at her mother's home in Vancouver, 13;C, 12r, and Mrs. Wm, Reavie and Mrs.'Rutherford Reavle were in London on Sunday and visited with Mr, 1l.eavie, at Westminster Hos- pital. Mrs, Robt, Arbuckle aecorn- panned them ttnd visited with her slater, Miss Helen Me?vwsn, cit Teeswater, who 14 a patient in Vic- toria Hospital, and their nlnther, Mrs, .John Mel'lwan, of Wingham, who had been in London, accomp- anied them. home, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Leaver, Mr. and Mrs, T), A. Hackett and ,Joan, of Ashfield, and Mr. and Mrs, How- ard 1Valiser•, Joyee and Glen spent r Monday with Mrs, ,T. M, (.Oultes, Belgrave. Mr. and Mrs, Chas. Showers and Glen, Turnberry Twp., Mr, and Mrs. Leslie Showers and children of Tor- onto, Mr. and Mrs, Chas. Robinson aa'at sut.ts spent .IViontlay with Mr and Mrs. Lawrence Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Showers lef' on Tuesday to Attend the funeral o her father, Mr. #-less, at Rambo, Well drillers have started to drill ;x at the dome of Mr. Roy Robinson this week. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Lapp and children, of Wingham, Mr. and Mrs, John L, Currie and family, Mr. ;john ()rt•, of London, and Miss Marilyn Ritchie, 02 'rceswalei;.: spent Monday with Mrs. Wm, Orr, Langide, Many in this district were• sad- dened on Tuesday by the sudden passing of Mr. Albert Walters, of Wingham, who lived ter many years in Culross, and extend syn t pathy to Mrs. Walters and family.',,' 1VTiss Camille Iloodless, of Toron- to, spent the week -end with. Mr, and Mrs. Ronald Jamieson, Birth. 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Week of Prayer Services ,gheld•the being in BAPTIST CHURCH MONDAY,JAN. 8 TO FRIDAY, JAN. 12 at 8 p.m. This is a eomn'runity effort ,and you are in.vitrsl to attend. a emiiaambelma.monlimodo••••••inamn40.•••O oahs'aoa1111mon.i1,eimol1{.aonm.o neffi. ..00160a..a111.a.1Mnall.n.111•,141=1n0•n...UOMPaMMn..M..,a t, au['g QCburc (ANGLICAN) ingijann Rev, C. P. Johnson, L,Th. - Rector Mrs. Gordon Davidson Organist lst•Sunday after the Epiphany—JANUARY 7th' 10.00 a.m.—Sunday School 11.00 a.ni—1-ioiy Communion 7.30 p.m.—A..Y.P.A,