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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1962-02-14, Page 1ALONG THE MAIN DRAG J:y The Pedestrian. ONE UP HIS SJ,le,l!VICa— "Big .dim" Deneau, while match- ing wits with "Son Jim" at crib- bage on Saturday, came up with a perfect hand, which made quite an impression on the household. Jim is now considered an expert by the crib players of the family, but w(' '' are wondering who dealt the cards! 0-0.0 'THE IUU(IH.TER SIDE — An envelope containing a mes- sage from the district office of one of our major church denominations IF which we lifted from our mail this week bore the . cheering message, "Remember the Church in Your Will". That's just the difference between the here and the hereafter. 0-0-0 I3a'GONJ. 16 RA— It was amusing to note the name of one of the schools which was auctioned in Kinloss Township the other day. Known as Grey Ox School, that building surely must have had associations reaching *well back to the clays of the pion- eers. 0- 0-0 HARD WORKIi K $— It would be difficult to find any group of citizens who devote more time to the public interest than the local firemen. They have spent 1.11 their recent spare time painting and cleaning up the fire hall, Soon they will embark on a train'rg course for firemen and all on. their own time! TEA CALLED OFF if you intended buying a calve for a.11 the Valentines around your house at the St. J'auiis tea this afternoon, you'd better drag' out a cake mix a and hustle up a creation of your own:. Seems there were sever- al other .fu.neti:ons phutned for today so the. ladles have post- poned the tea. Car Flips, No Injuries (Gorge F. Hetherington of Blue - vale was the owner and driver of a car that went out of control and turned over on Highway No. 4, south of 'Wingham last Friday eve- ning, The mishap was investigated by Constable Ron Bell of the local O.P,P. detachment. No injuries were reported, Theft Results In Charges .Randolph Fisher of 'R,R, 2, Wing - ham, has been charged with the theft of a car from the lot of the Armstrong Garage a week ago last *Sunday. The `scar was later found abandoned on No. 86 Highway three miles east of Lucknow. Fish- er is also charged with breaking and entering the same night at the Foxton service station' where a supply of ciga',rettes and a small sum of money was taken, ► With • which is amalgamated the Gerrie Vidette and Wroxeter News WiNORAI1, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, 1`'J7JRit1.ARY 14,. 1902 1 N(4X/1'1ES 10 Cents ew Maitland Authority olds First Meeting Here' Last Thursday afternoon saw the Maugure! mooting of the newly. formed Maitland Valley Conserva- tion Authority at the Wingham town hall. Harold Cosens of Wal- lace Township, was elected) chair- man of the 29.member authority. He was the chairman of the for- mer Middle Maitland Authority, which has been absorbed by the new and larger body. Each of the '.9 municipalities which comprise the 'new authority were represent. ed at the meeting which was under the chairmanship of Arthur Lator- nell, supervisor of fielad officers, Conservation Branch, Department of Lands and Forests. Elected vice-president was Ro- bort Wenger, of Wingham, who had been active in organizing the new authority, Cy Bamford of Listow- el, secretary -treasurer of the old Middle Maitland authority, was named to the same post in the en- larged body. TEACHER PRESENTED—Mrs, Emerson Shera is seen following a presentation by board members and staff of the Wingham Public School marking her retirement from the teaching profession. She was on staff at the local school for 21 years. Back row, Roy Bennett, board chairman Dr. K. M. MacLennan; Inspector J. Kinkead of Goderich and Principal T. S. Beattie.—A-T photo. CUTS CAKE --Mrs. Emerson Shera, who retired after serving 2 years on the staff of the Wingham Public School, cuts a cake dura ing a gathering to mark her retirement. She was given a chair by the school board and a diamond -studded watch by the staff members,—A-T photo, El WHIM JN WILOXI:TIOtt I MINISTERS Wednesday, mama" 14. In the I '' Colnttulnity Hall at 8.:10 p.m. Ladies phtt,Se bring lunch. Actin; 25c, F14b AGREE ' l<inettes Meet TO TAKE MEMBERSHIP xzik.t scout House SKATING Public sic+rt:ing 'ednosrhty evicen- ing, 8 to 10. N'o piddle eluding Friday or Saturday evenings. Flab CANCICLLAATION Valentine Tea and bake stile that was to be held ►n St, Paul's An- glican Church on Wednesday, Feh, 14th, Is cancelled. V 1'tb "r.P;llC4IJLIHI 1N ''Jirl'If,( 111111('1 'Euchre party will he hold in the Whitechurch Community Hall Fri- day, February 16, at 8.80, sponsored by the Hall Board. Good prizes, Lalteh served, Adm, 50c. Flab *VARIETY CONCERT W,I),I.I.S. The students of the Wingham DistrictT.Iigh School will present a variety concert In the school and!. toritun on the evenings of Thursday, February 22, aryl Friday, 'February 23, at 8,15. `.).here will be musical selections by the Glee Club and by the, orchestra; a physical education demonstration by the boys and dances by the girls, The Drama Club will present a one -act play "The Castle of Mr, Simpson," (hv permission of Samuel French). All proceeds of the concert are used for 4choo1 activities. Students are sell- ing tickets now, Admissi4n,50 cents F14b 1103P ASSOCIATION The regninr meeting of the Wingham and District Ministerial Association was held on Monday i n S t . Andrew's Presbyterian Church with 1; members ,present. The hymn "() Master Tart lire Walk with 'Ghee" was sung and Rev, H. Donaldson of Fee forth r"ad Psalm 66 and lad in prayer, A discussion followed the read- ing of the minute's by 1t^v, Evan Mel,agan of Jilyth. Tt wt), decided to take 0111 a tnember:4hip in the. Wingham (general Hospital Assoc- iation ;and Mat. Gordon Fish of Wingham Wars appoint( al to repre- sent the gratin. A welcome was extended to those present. by 1Mf,. Fish and his sou. ,iect for the program was "Lew. man's Work in the Church". The film, "Above and Ilr'yon(1'' was shown as 0 tart of this program. Mt•. 1e'i:,h was thanked by Rev. IT. L, Jennings of Brussels, who also closed the meeting with i11':ryer. The March meeting will he held at the Salvation Array Citadel, it, Wingham. SPORTSMEN'S MEETING The regular monthly meeting will be held Thursday, February lath, at 8 oiclock, F1413 The KirtrLt.(es hold their regular meeting at the Soont hall 011 Mon- day night. Mrs, Bruce MacDonald presi:died, A get-together ens dis• cussed for the month of March. Mrs. John Currin: won the raffle, The doll clothes the girls aro making for the fall lea aro coming; along nicely. A delicious lunch was served by Mrs. Max M('Cllrter Two Charged With Car Theft Here Two Clinton sten 'Robert '1'homp- 1 son and Thomas :,hart) etre in the Go,ierich j1111 charg;acl with ear theft following an e.pisorle at the local rink on lvtonda.y evening. The two were spectators at a, game be teem the {Clinton and Wingham Juveniles, and were ejected from the rime by the local police for causing a disturbance. Latera car owned by 11 I envie, of R.R. 2, Wingham, was reported stolen from the parking lot at tlr' Fto:1 Front Grocery. An investigation by Police Chief ;tamps Miller as sisted by Provincial ('nn:ata.blc' Ron T3ell led to apprehension the e reheension of the II pair In Clinton where they were charged with the theft, I R[TI IN TEACHER HO OR[! FRIDAY Mrs. Emerson Shera was the guest of honor at a special gath- ering at the public school on Fri- day. evening of Last week to mark her retirement from the staff, Mrs. 'Thera' has been teaching for 30 .years, the past 21 of which hava` been in Wingham. She started in the profession at Gorrie. Some 50 staff and board mem. hers, their husbands and wives, were on hand for the occasion which took the form of a social evening, Games started the activi- ties, followed by a card party and lunch later in the evening. Board chairman Dr. K, M. Mac- Lennan assisted by Roy Bennett, presented the retiring teacher with a beautiful occasional chair and 't cheque on behalf of the hoard, and Stewart Beattie, principal of the school, presented Mrs. Shera with a diamond -studded watch from the staff. A huge cake, fittingly inscribed, was cut by the ;vest. of honor dur- ing the lunch period. Special Service United Church Youth of Winghann A community Youth Service will he hold in the -Wingh:un United Church on Sunday evening at 8 n'cincic when young people of the various churches will participate.The ministers of the twin have ar- ranged the service, and while the emphasis is on youth, it. is hoped that. parents and other a(htits will atte'nrl as well. There will be a comaleca1 choir of young people from the community and 'Herbert C. Treneer, organist of the United Church, will direct the music. Rev. T, G. Homier will be in charge of the service trn-1 the ':a) '1kzo will be Major Arline of Hamilton, Divisional i Youth Secretary for the SalvationArray, mare4' Pitcher iv to relive of New fnundburd and spent. the greater Anel of life there, cr,vering all fid. is Irt the Sn'vntir.'t Army rnrle•:leer i„ that province before coming to the e mainland to take up work in sever- al of the larger Corps. Hc' was , e.nnumtndet' of the Vane0�m'er 'rem- ; pie before being moved to Hamilton I as 0 member of the fgivisicnal Warr. I He is from a prominent Salvation Army family and several of his 1 brothers and sisters 'are offieca'ti. Major Pitcher's name is familiar 1 to tnany in Wingham who read The War Cry. to w'hi('h he is a regular cnntt'ihutnt', and at the moment a .series of his articles on the Books of the Bible i,5 a. feature. The Cubs, Scouts, Brownies, Girl (Guides and (. GIP groups have been invited to attend the' service ou Smolt*, awning :11',1 are asked to gather in the gvmnasinnt of the church prior t,,) the service •a,o that 1 they stay attend in a body. at for • Executive Named A nominating committee brought in a slate of chairmen for the var- ious advisory boards. These chair- men will comprise the executive of the new authority. Named to the posts were: flood control, Alvin Smith, of Turnberry; , reforesta- tion, Daniel Bauerman, of McK11- lop; land use and farm ponds, Har- ry F. Tebbutt, of Hullett; public re- lations, W, J, Kelterborn, of Mil- verton; parks, recreation and wild life, Oscar Nickel of Listowel. The membership of the advisory boards will be named by the execu- tive members at a later date, Explains Work Arthur Latornell outlined briefly the various sections of the Conser- vation Act which were pertinent and went on to speak on the duties and responsibilities which must be accepted by the members. He said conservation work is broad in scope and is of interest to many people. Conservation, he explained, is actually the care of all our nat- ural resources. The new author. ity, he said, can take an interest in many fields and it is the duty of the officers to carry out the wishes of the authority as a whole. In reply to a question by Mayor Miller of Clinton, Mr, Latornell ex. plained that the boundaries which were set up for the vote which was held last September, when the new authority was formd, were purely arbitrary. He said that the first move would be a boundary survey by engineers, who would work in co-operation with the various mu- nicipalities. He said that it is hop- ed this work will be completed by the first of May next. The speaker went on to say that 'it is the duty of the advisory boards to collect ideas for work within the scope of the authority, and it is posible Cousins Is Elected airrna':c of Hospital )toy Cousins of Brussels was el- retcd chairman of the board of dir- ectors of the Wingham General Hospital on Friday evening. Suc- (reeding H. C. MacLean of Wing - ham, who has held the post for sev- eral years. Mr. MacLean presided for the opening of the meeting and a ,1,0 - tion was passed, asking the board's secretary, John Strong, to assume th1,ehair for the election of a new chairman, Mr. MacLean announc- ed his intention of relinquishing the chairmanship because of ill health and nominated the vice- chairman, Mr. Cousins, who was elected by acclamation. Dr, W, A. McKibbon voiced th< I appreciation of the board member, i for the many years of faithful ser. i vice Mr. MacLean has given to the hospital, Mr, MacLean will con- tinue to serve as a member of the board. DeWitt Miller was electoi by acclamation as vice-chairman. Mr. Cousins that assumed the chair ' and in doing so exprerased his appreciation of Mr. MaeLeaa's interest in and devotion to the hospital, John Strong was re -ap- pointed secretary and Mrs. I. Mor- rey administratrix. The chairman named the following as a striking committee to bring in a slate of committee chairmen and members: A. D. MacWilliam, 11, E. Walker, Robert Gibson and W. I3, Ander- son. The report of the striking com- mittee was accepted: :Management Committee, DeWitt Miller, chair- man, Dr, W. A. McKibbon, Robert Gibson, Barry Wenger, Mrs. N. D. Cameron; Finance Committee, W. B. Anderson, chairman, G. W. Tif- fin, H. C. MacLean, A, D. MacWil- liams Property Committee, J. V. Fischer, John Colvin, E. E. Walker, Robert Coultes, Alex Robertson, January Statistics The. administratrix, Mrs. I. E. Morrey, reported there were 23 births during the month of Janu- ary, 51 operations, 105 outpatients, 265 x-rays, 1 BMR, 13 blood trans: fusions, 1662 laboratory- procedures, 39 electro -cardiographic examina- tions, 22 at cancer clinic, 1 post mortem, 4: blootj bottles sent out, i There was a daily average of .120 patients. 1 Mr. Cousins, chairman of the management committee during the past month, reported that the re - Home Damaged Damage was estimated at $1,200 when flames early Monday damag- ed the home of Harvey McDowell at Westfield in East Wawanosh Township several miles west. of Blyth. The fire, believed caused by over- heated furntice pipes, ignited the linoleum and chesterfield in the liv- ing room. Blyth firemen extinguish- ed the blaze. Playoffs Start With Clinton Following a real ding-dong battle in the last game of the schedule here on Monday evening between the Clinton and Wingham Juven- iles the two teams will enter play- offs on Wednesday evening at the Clinton arena. The second game will be played in Wingham on Fri- day night. The series is a best! three of five affair. 1 t9 signation of one registered nurse had been received, effective Feb- ruary 8th, Mr. MacLean stated that Mrs. Morrey had been excluded from the meetings of the Joint Confer- ence Committee tfive doctors and five board members). despite the fact that a motion of the hoard of directors had specified that she sit on the committee as an ex -of- ficio member, ir, accordance. with Thd by-ld:vrs -on hospital accredita- tion as outlined • by the Canadian Hospital Association. Mr. Mac- Lean also stated that he had re.. quested the• minutes of the meet- ings of the joint conference com- mittee and they had been refused him. Letter from CHA Mr. Cousins read a letter from Dr. W. I. Taylor, chairman of the accreditation committee of the CHA, outlining the position of the hospital administrator as an ex -of- ficio member of the joint confer- ence committee. Dr. B, N. Corrin was admitted to the board meeting and Mrs. Mor- rey read a statement outlining her reaction at being excluded from the meetings of the joint (1o•fer. once committee. Dr, Corrin ex.. plalned the stand he had taken in this regard and read sections from the by-laws on hospital accredita- tion which, in his opinion, indicat- ed that the hospital administrator must not, of necessity. be in atten- dance at joint conference commit- tee meetings. It was for this rea- son, he said, that she had been ask. ed to leave. after a motion had boon passed by a majority of the com- mittee. Considerable discussion by the (Please turn to page Ten) for these boards to Include spec.. ialists in various fields, wisp are not necessarily municipal delegatea, Mr. Latornell also said tiie pub. lie information committee had an important job to do. He explained that the authority will deal with public money and the public 'will have the right to know how it Is being spent. Government grants are roughly 50 per cent of the funds raised by the municipalities for authority work. The department speaker explain. ed that the usual procedure follow, ing the formation of a new author- ity is a request to have the whole area surveyed as to its resources and problems. This work is done by government experts, who write a report with recommendations from the survey. The authority, however, does not have to wait for this report before getting started with its work, Following Mr. Latornell's re- marks the meeting agreed to have the executive consider a budget and report back at. a later date. It was also agreed that meetings of the authority should move From plan- to place across the water- shed. The matter of minimum le. vies for the smaller contributing municipalities was left in abey- ance. The new authority also passed a. resolution requesting the Conser- vation Branch to make the neves. sary survey of the watershed, The field officer for both the Ausable Authority and the new Maitland Authority, Terry McCau- ley, of Exeter, was also in atten- dance as were several Department o2 Lands and Forests personnel, in. eludingLarry Scales, of Stratford, zone forester; E. K. E. Dreyer of 1 Hespeler, district forester of the Lake Huron District; Peter Ad- a dison, of Maple, regional forester. Large Area The newly -organized Maitland Valley Conservation Authority will bo one of the largest of the 31 auth- orities in the province and will rover nearly 1,000 square miles of territory, taking in all three branch- es of the river. The land drained by tate watershed extends inland as far as Arthur Township from the river mouth at Goderich. The following is the list of dela gates appointed by their respective municipalities to the new author- ity: Arthur Township, H. Preston; Blyth, S. R. Fa4rservice; Brussels, George McCutehoon; Clinton, W. J. Miller; Colborne, H. Watson; Ellice W. Mogk: Elma, J. R. Coghlin; Goderich, Robert Hayes; Goderich Township, R. H. Oakes; Grey, C. R. Dunbar: Harriston, 0, Aitche- son: Ho.vick, E, H. Strong; Hulielt, H. F. T''hhutt; Kinloss, W. Evans; Listowel, O. M. Nickel; Logan, E. M. Oppenhauser; McKillop, D. Bauerman; Maryborough, M, Mitchell: Milverton, W, J, Kelter. horn; Minto, L. C. Feick; Morning - ton, J, Reid: Morris, Ross Smith; Palmerston, Howard Latsch; Sea - 'forth, N. C. Cardno; Turnberry, A. D. Smith: Wallace, Harold Cosens; Wingham, R. 0, Wenger; West Wawanosh, H, Culbert; East Wa- wanosh, C. Hanna. CONSERVATION EXECUT newly -organized Maitland Wingham last week, this From the left, front, are R Harold Cosens, chairman, IVE—At the inaugural meeting of the Valley Conservation Authority'held in group was elected to the executive. , O. Wenger, vice-chairman, Wingham; Wallace Township; Cy Bamford, sec- retary -treasurer, Listowel; Terry McCauley, field officer, Exeter; back row, O. M. Nickel, Listowel; Harry Tebbutt, Hullett Town ship; A. D. Smith, Turnberry; W. J. Kelterborn, Milverton, anct Daniel Bauerman, McKillop Township.—Advance•Times photo. J ,