HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1962-01-10, Page 2CVO TWO. Tile Winona -1, Advance -Times, We besday sTi>11, 10 1!►(3
e ,
SURVIVAL TRAINING STARTED HERE
'Ole opening' of a c(urse in na
tional survival at the Armouries here
on Monday is an encouraging sign
of increasing; :awareness of the dang-
ers
n g-
ers under which we exist at present.
8olneho v, action of any kind is bet-
ter than lwaiting around like so lawny
sitting ducks.
Canadians weft sensibly refrained
from going into as panic when the brig
bomb scares vert in progress during
the fall, but there is the very real
danger that their calmness springs
from old-fashioned laziness both
mental and physical. \lost of us
simply don't want to think about
nasty things like atomic war.
As a net result there has been
very little action on the part of the
general public to (lo anything what-
soever about civil defence, In those
areas where F ntergency Measures
THEY DON'T KNOW US
t\11 the smaller communities in.
Cannula have been left in the back-
ground for the past 15 years as the
metropolitan areas boomed ant!
broadened and grew fat with new
prosperity. True, some .111(ht51ries (licl
locate in the towns, but they have
been a veru small minority in the
expansionist development.
There are, of course, many sound
reasons why the larger industrial
enterprises stick together in. the
heavily populated sections. '1.'1e in-
terchange of raw materials, of com-
ponent parts and of highly skilled
labor is much more readily accom
plishecl when all the major industries
are huddled in a close complex. The
most important factor of all is that
the big industries have sought out
those centres of dense population
where mass markets are right at
hand.
f1 is our firm belief, however, that
there is another reason for this con •
centration of financial and industrial
weight. The vast majority of the
young middle-aged executives who
must make the major decisions are
city born and bred. They have an in-
stinctive feeling that unless the
houses are built every 22 feet along
narrow blocks civilization has ceased
to exist. They fail to realize that-
there
hatth.ere are benefits available in the less
crowded areas which would many
tilnes outweigh those to he found in
the city.
This situation affects not only
the location of industries, but the
sale of products as well.. City purch-
asing agents are loath to give serious
consideration to a salesman unless
his company's address is in one of
the large centres. As far as they are
concerned, the only worthwhile items
that exist in the smaller centres are
beef, eggs and summer cot tares.
it may be that we exaggerate the
sense of city pre eminence, hitt if
slurp is indeed the rase we in the less
crowded sectious should be giving
the hatter serious thought. Our con --
tarts with city business men are too
infrequent and certainly too disin-
terested. We have so much to offer
to the general economy of the coun-
try that we sllnlild be advertising
ourselves with entlallsiasm and
energy.
Spare in this column would
scarcely perfnit a detailed outline of
the various ways in which stich a
program could he carried out -hitt
it certainly can be done. It taught be
a very worthwhile project for 1962.
The Wingham Advance=Times
Published at Wingham, Ontario
Wenger Taros. Limited
W. Barry Wenger, President
rtobert O. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer
Member Audit Bureau of Circulation
Authorised by the Post Office Department as
Accor d Class. Mail and for payment of postage
in cash
Subscription Rate:
011e Year, $4:00; gig Months, $2,25, ltt 1LdVariee
V S.A. $5.00 per year;. Foreign rate g9,00 per yens
Advertising Rates on appiicatton
01-garii ations have been activated,.
the directors have made a good start
on plans for our part in a surprise
attack. \\'e gather plat ('fell the dir.
e('tives front headquarters' .have .been
confusing So far, but it is to be hoped
that the tangle will unrar'el itself he
fore long.
To (late this area of Western On-
tario has been set aside as a refugee
location, \whet'(' evacuees from the
major cities could be housed, fed and
hospitallized in case of attach on. the
industrial fronts along the lakes. The
plans presently call for 'a town the
Size of \\'inghaurr handling many
times its own population -as many
as 31) or -111 thousand persons.
,So far there has been next to no
interest in tile ronsirnetion of fall-
out shelters in communities here-
abouts, The government in general
ellen 11rages private individuals to
on. tluc t their own shelters where -
ever possible, but there seems little
likelihood that .any large percentage
of the population will or can do so.
\n organized plan for fall utilization
of basements in public and mercan-
tile buildings would appear to be the
best answer in this regard,
Such a program, however, would
have to be carried out \with the in-
itiative of nlunlelpal government and
no local council would take action
on a public shelter program without
fairly firm knowledge that the voters
were 111 agreeinent.
The national survival course,
however, is a veru practical form of
action, for if we are ever faced with
nuclear disaster, the first problem
would he to handle the casualties, to
arrange for feeding, clothing, and
treatment of those without homes,
to restore the vital services such as
electricity and water supply, and to
combat the outbreak of epidemic dis-
ease. It is good to know that a nu-
-Hens of trained persons will he avail-
able to direct the rest of us should
the need arise.
THEY HAVEN'T
IMPROVED
Several years ago we spoke, edi-
torially„about the poor taste of radio
and television entertainers who util-
ized religous themes to popularize
their songs. in the interval there has
been no iinprovetnent. In fact 1he
tendency has reached 'rather sicken-
ing proportions,
'l'h.e most recent breach of decen-
cy to which we \vere exposed was
the Western style interpretation of
the 'Twenty-third Psalm. If you are
one of those \•Lao have become so
accustomed to pseudo - Western
music that you can sec nothing out
of place in the nsc of Biblical back-
ground for songs which are given a
week - by - \veck popularity )clarity ralin
g,
then don't read fnrther.
We do believe, however, that
there are still many persons in this
land who feel, as we (lo, that re-
ligious .themes belong in ,a properly
dignified setting. Wes, we know,
there are such things as negro
spirituals. The tempo of religious
music need not he shackled to funeral
pace. The spirituals, however, were
first sung by a devoted people as an
exp1-ession of their belief in God -
not drummed til) to attract the big-
gest possible: radio or television
audience,
One tinge, away brick in'the '.Tthit•-
ties, when radio was a comparatively
young medium, the Cantons Cab
Calloway orchestra was crit o1'f the
air waves in the opening bars of a
lively rendition. ft so happened that
the band leader had decided to swing
"The Old Rugged. Cross." l'i'e stayed
off the air for many months,
Nowadays any adenoidal flash -in -
the -pan with a guitar can howl out
the Bible's most beautiful and sacred
messages and he merits not only ap-
plause but a fat living besides.
;.!wrmmmPrrnnnnmmgnmfnlNIrnnsmmnittrnnr,nu,u(,S,f({,.... ...... Pnpstln,Im,n1nmuunrrn„imr,Iprnnlml.
ONE. MOMENT PLEASE!
This is the Epiphany season in what Is that equality based? The
New Testament answer is clear,
Only on Christ and on faith in
Elim. Ii( is the great reconciler;
He has reconciled man to God,
man to Himself and man to his
fellows. Only in Him. are peace
and fellowship .assut'.ed,
We live in a world of dreadful
divisions between black and
white, between the communist
world and the free world, between,
Israel and the Arab states. How
are they ever to be reconciled?
The Christian is pledged to work
for peace by every possible means,
lett hw must maintain at the same
the Christian Church. It is the time
in the Church year when our
thoughts etre direeted to the ap-
pearanct• of Jesus Christ to the
Gentiles. Thus, as St. Paul re-
minds us, salvation is possible to
Jews and oent:iles on equal terms,
There is only one door to salva-
tion and that .door is faith in Jesus
Christ, Through that door Lew
and Gentile alike must enter.
There is no difference and there-
fore in Jesus Christ Lhe equality of
all men is established.
A great deal is Iwarcl today about
the equality of all nevi. But on
REV. T, C. ATTWELL
Gort'!e, Ontario
time a profound .scepticism, and
a yet profounder hope, The Chris
Mian !motes that in the .end men
will find peace only as they enter
into to thew 1 creation re'ea n!n Chri •
st,
in which fellowship, the equality
of all men are already accomplish-
ed realities.
L close with the words of a well-
known hymn:
In Christ there is n( Plant or
West,
In I•Iim no South or North,
But one great fellowship or love
'throughout the whole wide
ourth,
mt>�rm�mrim>�Ilm�llumulolullmlllllmn�li�lm�tlnlmmnu>mi!I�mllull�ar�!m!au�l!mrulllmlml
and
SPICE
By Bill Smiley, milm
We all know what a sump pump
is. Lt's a pump used for sucking
water out of a hole 'in the ground.
The hole in the ground is very of-
ten somebody's basement. The
sump pump is used in spring and
fall, in the rainy seasons.
What is needed in this country
in mid-January is not a sump
pump, but It slump pump. This is
the three of year when we all gel
into a. bit of a slump and need
something to pump us out of !L,
0-0-0
The businessman is down in the
month. The 01113' pe01418 %glib any
money left after Christmas have
taken off for the south. 'Thus, his
only customers are those belated-
ly trying to exchange Christmas
gifts.
It's the slack period for the
skilled tradesman, and he sits
around the house, driving his wife
weird, while he broods bitterly ov-
er his trade, which is always a
feast or a famine in the small town.
Teachers and preachers are de-
pressed. The former, shocked by
the ineptitude revealed by the
Christmas exams, face the long,
dreary midwinter term, the most
trying of the year. The latter
shucld.er at the thought of the out-
door funerals, the endless cups of
tea to he swilled with old ladies,
the interminable struggle with low
income and large family,
Old. people sit in their cheerless
rooms in the nursing homes, and
watch with little hope as the drab,
dark days unfold so slowly. Moth-
ers of young children wearily wipe
water off the floor, look for lost
mitts, and endlessly pelt on and
take tiff snowsuits,
0-0-0
The householder has his mom-
ents of despair as the stack of
Christmas hills eyes him insolently,
the furnace chugs away, burning
more fuel than the Queen Mary,
and icicles threaten his new eaves -
troughs.
• Even the ,jolly farmer is slightly
•down.in the.dhiMRS. His work loud
is lighter in winter. But he has Lo
walk a, quarter o1' a mile. through
snow to the highway with' his milk
cans; his tares have gone rip again
and his sons are talking about lea-
ving•the, farm as anon a5 they fin-
ish sekool.
It's time to get out the slump
pumps, chaps. Don't tell me you
haven't got one or can't afford one.
That's the beauty of being a hu-
man. We all have huilL-!n slump
pumps.
Mr, Merchant, lift: those droopy
mouth -corners! You know perfect-
ly well that business is always
lousy at thistime of year. It'll
pick up in the spring. Stop grouch-
ing. (Give a pint of blood, fall in
love, start a whispering campaign
against the mayor, or get down to
the curling rink, Do anything.but
stand around like a kicked hound
dog, feeling sorry for yourself.
Mr. Carpenter, or Electrician,
or Painter, brace up! Get off your
tail and get out of the crouse. It's
always slack in January. You'll
get your revenge this spring when
everybody will want your services
at once, and you can play as hiti'.i
to get 11s a wealthy widow,
0-0-0
Teachers and Preachers, cheer
up! You never had it so good. You
eat heat every day now, which
was not always the case in your
vocations. Who gets so many
holidays? In what other calling
can you get up there and blather
for hotirs without fear of interval).
tions? What ham actor has your
opportunities?
Old People, ,hang on! Think of
how ba.d you were when you were
yoting, and all the full yoti had.
Demotic more attention from your
Chileh'eir. Learn to titre rook '21
roll. Write tetters. !Coil:, Spit,
Chew, Snarl.:Laugh, One of
these days yoll'lt be strolling as
(,ltutis lovely spring $tuishinc a.gaitt,
Young Mothers, don't despair. t
When the kids hammer on the
back door, five minutes after
you've shoved them otttside, just
unzip them philosophically. Be.
fore you know it, those same kids
will be sneaking In the same door
at four a.m., and you'll he wishing
they were back. in snowsuits.
0-0-0
Householder, give us a smile- It
won't he long until you're con-
plaining about the dam' grass
growing so fast. Farmer, don't be
down! Just 4411 and drool over those
fantastic crops you're going to
have next summer.
Now, let's hear all those slump
pumps working in unison, sucking
out the black, muddy thoughts.
Slump ! Pump ! Slump ! Pump !
That's the way. Feel better al-
ready? Just ]seep them going and
you won't hear a thing when I go
down cellar and shoot myself.
Reminiscing
JANUARY, 1924
Mr. Harry Carson, engineer on
the London, Huron & Bruce is
enjoying a month's holiday.
A lady and two children on a
sleigh narrowly escaped death
while crossing in front of the
L.H. & B evening train on Jose-
phine. St. New Year's Eve:
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Fowler of
Bolton and Miss Messer of Lon.
don were holiday visitors at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. John Fow-
Irr, J3luevale Road,
Mrs. W. H. Ferguson, formerly
of Belgravo, now residing in To-
ronto, paid her friend:I in Wing_
ham a call on Saturday, She is
one of the leading lady organizers
of the Liberal party in Ontario .
Mr. George Patterson has been
appointed to succeed the late J. G.
Stewart as clerk of the 8th Div-
ision Court at Wingham. Tie is a
son of Mrs. Isabella "P.attei'gou1,
Frances St.
Glenn Armstrong, an old Gor-
rie boy, is running as third deputy
reeve of the Township of York.
Many of our readers will regret
to hear of the death of Robert
Mainprize at Tisdale; Sas)c, He was
a member of the firm of GIlchrist,
Mainprize and Green, who owned
and operated the Union factory
here for some years. He after.
wards owned the eleetrie light
pltt:nl la Brussels,
0-0.0
,irAN"(JATI;Y, 1937
Messrs, Wallace Gur'ney% and
Jack Reavie, who returned from a
trip to Florida, on Saturday, had
the pleasure of calling On Mr, and
Mrs. Alex C)rawfor.d and Mr. and
Mrs,,Peter (Iowans 'while at S.
Peteshu rg,
Dr. J. H. Bennett, well-known
resident of Nelson, B,C,, cued In
hospital. Ho was 58 years old.
Bdr.n in Gorrie, he first studied
for .the ministry and then took up
school teaching before his train-
ing in medicine. ]le practised at
Points in Northern Ontario before
going to British Columbia.
Mr. Walter Simmonds of Lower
Wingham suffered a broken ankle
last week when his team bolted
with a load of hay at the farm of
.Iim Fallis in 'rurnberry. lar was
thrown from the load.
Mr. Sam Bennett suffered a
heart attack on Tuesday evening.
Mr. John Hartley, newly -ap-
pointed public school inspector,
is making his first official visit
to the public school this week.
George Carter and Rutherford
Reavie were -both injured while
working in the bush on the farm
of the former's father, : Charles
Carter, in East Wawanosh. George
suffered a fractured leg and Ruth-
erford a. had gash on his arm,
0-0-0
JANUARY, 1947
Rev. John Pollock resigned as
minister of Ailsa Craig and Nairn
Presbytel'ian Churches last: week,
due to ill health.
Mrs. James Halliday had the
misfortune to fall and break her
ankle on Monday.
Mr, ,Terry Latton is visiting at
his home here.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Bader spent
Christmas in Toronto.
Mr. Dan Arbuckle of Ottawa
spent the holidays with his father,
Mr. William Arbuckle.
An assistant officer to Capt.
Agar of the Salvation Army has
been .appointed in the person of
Lieut. E. Smith, He has .been with
the Mountain Corps at Hamilton,
Mr. ,I -I, -A.. Fuller was installed as
Master of the Wingham Lodge,
A,F,&A.M• •
Mr.:" A. J' W(ilker ' was named
chairman � of the Wingham Public
IJtil!ties Comfission,
After serving 18 years on the.
Kinloss Township Council, Richard
Elliott. is retiring this month.
Miss Eileen Dark, formerly of
Wingham, has. graduated as a re-
gistered nurse after three years'
training at Victoria Hospital, Lon'..
don.
fikele
zglift72
"Zww'Il terra M cbauWe k 70, Ott Use NW bolo/.
•wagPmwwi,+•..
h!�IIIIlIIIIiNIilltitI!It*iItUllirllillltlw!i►UII!Ilr►llu!JIrr►lilt►ItMlIIUIUNIIiutllNiIIIN!1!�Il!I!l ,
L.D.A.Special 'rice;
IIII fi[:IiI.ItI:f[.1 IJI�:Jlft'
Prices Effective January 8th to January 13th
Regulnt+ $2.00
Hudnut EGG CREME SHAMPOO $1.29
Hudnut BLISS SHAMPOO, reg. $2,00.. , $1.29
',D.A. STOMACH POWDER, reg, 98c, 4 -oz. 79c
reg. $2,49, 16 -oz. $1.89
Noxzema SKIN CREA!VI, 10 -oz. spec. val. $1.35
Listerine TOOTH PASTE, 63c , , , , , .2 for 79c
Maclean TOOTH PASTE, 98c, and f ree
45c Silvikrin SHAMPOO
IDASAL TABLETS, 300's, 99c, for ... .
98c
79c
r
--Jlll111111111l111l!I111I111111111111111111IINII111JIIIIIIII111III11111911111111116A1111Mllf 111121III'Idylll0I1Et11HWl111111i
SM1110aaeaea011.a.r,roar.wrnraa.,.ran,:.wi.rnu..no...rowrn.+..nwrnawn.wu,u.n.r.,1w,nw,&.n, 11
Elliott's Beauty Loiuiige
BEAUTY GETS HEAD
START FOR 1962!
Give your hair a grand Beauty
Treatment! We shape and curl
hair in a way that is most be-
coming to you. Courtesy and
skill at all times. Perms, Tints,
Sets, , q
! PHONE 1098 FOR APPOINT1 NT
L•04 0M10(1.roar.n,ar•uasn�nsnaro.r.n.a..n.r.nwrn.r,n.w.na..nwan.4ila ..41...+e..rnarawa.
BELTOE
HEARING Ai
•SERVICE CLINIC
THURSDAY, JANUARY i lth
1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
VANCE'S DRUG STORE
W!NGHAM
PHONE FOR FREE HOME APPOINTMENT
Service to all 1V[akes of Hearing A ids
Eo R. THEHE HEARING AID SERVICE
88 QUEEN STREET ,SOUTI-I - KITCHENER
Buy the appliances, home furnishings, clothing or better
car your family needs ... with a Shopper's Loan from your
nearby HFC office. You can
borrow from HFC with con-
fidence, thanks to greater
privacy ... helpful neigh-
borhood service ...and
thechoiceofHFCloansthat
cover everything from
sharp shopping to making
adown paymenton a house.
AM'Nl`
OF
LOAN
$100
500
750
1000
1600
220(1
250()
MONTHLY PAYMENT PLAN
T2 20 30 36
mouths months months months
9.46
46.;3
69.21
91.513
146.5 2,
3(11.46
228.93
i 6.12
30.01
14.13
68.1
91,11
129.41
1.17.05
31.65
41.45
68.81
94,62
107.122
95.19
Abu payments include principal and Intelost.
11,1114 e based on prompt repayment, but d01101.
Include the cost of life insurance.
Life Insurance available at low group rale
HOUSEHOLD FINANCE
G. N. Crawford, Manager
35A West Street Telephone JA 4-7383
GODERICH
0
i
•
..a...uOINIW....ow.. o..b n..u..1.,ia.a.o•11...=11araar.,0.. n..in...a..ra...,.,,....n.... n..., n..r..rw.
t . aur (Iiurcij
1 (ANIGLICAN)
. .._._ jfl I
Rev, C. F. Johnson, 1„'I'h. - Rector
1\4 rs. Gordon t)avidson - Organist
2nd Sunday after the Epiphany -•...JANUARY 14
1(I.00 a,111. ----•Sunday Srh(m1
11.00 ,1..111,-•--•Moririlrg Prayer-
'
MMfonday, n11. 1.5__- , ,
. , ,1 .11t�lr• (.turd, \ c �,tl v, 3 p.m.