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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-02-07, Page 1Off notsZintit Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Feb. 7, 1963 Country Faces Second Election in Seven Months •• Could Vote in April Industrial Arts Teachers Meet The winter meeting of the Saugeen District Industrial Arts Teachers was held in the Wing - ham District High School on Saturday. The group was wel- comed by Dr. W.A. McKibbon, vice chairman of the Wingham District High School Board and by Ftank Madill, principal. In attendance were President Robert B. Vivian, Wingham; Vice president, Norman Mar- shall, Kincardine; secretary, Addison Black, Thornbury; Frank Garrett, Chesley; John Gilbank, Listowel; Ken Weido and Bill Myers, Mitchell; Gor- don Gibson, Orangeville; Rus- sell Davis, Wiarton. Special guest was Inspector H. W. Beatty of the Vocational Educations. Branch, Department of Education, London. Mr. Beatty spoke most informally with the group stressing a closer liason between industrial arts and vocational departments and teachers. An interesting com- parison of shop budgets devel- oped from the discussion. Following a fine chicken dinner at Danny's Drive-in, the group made an interesting tour of the Berry Door Ltd. factory, through the courtesy of Herbert Fuller, general mana- ger. On returning to the school Emerson Stuckey, head of the commercial department, Wing - ham District High School, gave a fine demonstration of the re- production of drawings and in- struction sheets by using copy- ing machines. Copies of examinations used by the different teachers were distributed to those present. Next meeting will be in Mit- chell late in March or early April. THE HANNA TROPHY was won by a local rink in the annual mixed bonspiel held at the Wingham Curling Club last Saturday. Vice -skip Mrs. Joseph Kerr and Skip Allan MacKay hold the trophy with Malcolm MacKay, left, second and Mrs. Allan MacKay, right, lead. The rink won the 11 o'clock draw and the bonspiel with three wins and a plus of 12.—Advance-Times photo. Provincial Vote Now in Question The course which will be adopted by the Roberts govern- ment in Ontario has been thrown into considerable doubt by events in Ottawa. It was generally be- lieved that a provincial general election would be held not later than June of this year, but new plans may now be formu- lated as a result of the Ottawa crisis. There is a suggestion that Premier Robarts could immedi- ately call for an election in Ontario and have it all over with before the federal vote. On the other hand, he may prefer to wait until the voters have had an opportunity to re- gain their wind. A longer period of time is Kincardine Man Has Birthday Mr. and Mrs: George Dreh- mann, accompanied by Mrs. W. Wellings, Mr. Wesley Haines and Mr. H. McLena- ghan, spent Sunday in Kincar- dine at a birthday party in honor of Mr. George T. Haines' 86th birthday. He enjoys fair health and is able to attend church every Sunday. Mr. Haines is a brother of Mrs. Wellings and Mr. Haines of Wingham, and a uncle of Mr. Drehmann. required for a federal election than for a provincial vote, which would permit the pro- vince to get in under the wire if it was thought advisable. Annual Meeting Returns Former Hospital Directors The recreation room at the nurses' residence was filled on Friday evening for the annual meeting of the Wingham Hos- pital Association, when reports of the past year's operations were heard and directors were elected. President R.B. Cou- sins presided over the gathering. In his address the president referred to the difficulties which have been experienced at the hospital, due to the im- plementation of Ontario Hospi- tal Services Commission regu- lations over the past two or three years. During the year the board had requested OHSC officials to make a survey of various hospital departments and the resulting recommenda- tions had proved helpful. Among these recommenda- tions was one for reducing the number of patients under care in the hospital to eliminate over -crowding. This has been accomplished by placing elec- tive surgery cases on a waiting list. However, the president said that there is still an urgent need for snore hospital beds. Another of the OHSC recom- mendations was that the associ- ation's by-laws should be re- drafted to conform with the needs of a modern institution. A committee was appointed to take charge of this task, and it has proved a heavy one. The committee's work has been completed and the new by- laws are now awaiting the ap- proval of the lieutenant -gover- nor in council. Mr. Cousins 'extended appreciation to the medical staff Mrs. Morrey, the members of the Ladies' Auxil- iary and the hospital personnel committee. Another matter to which he referred was the forthcoming change.of the hospital's name. The directors of the association agreed several years ago to the change, whereby the institu- tion would be known as the Wingham and District Hospital. Many formalities had to be gone through in order to make the change legal, last of which was a special meeting of the as- sociation during the past year. The documents now are wait- ing for the signature of the pro- vincial secretary. MINUTES READ Secretary John Strong read the minutes of the last annual meeting and of the special meeting, held September 14th. Business arising from the minutes included a notice of motion by Clarence Hanna and A, D. MacWilliam at lastyeat's annual, that representatives of the townships be appointed rather than elected, to make sure that the men chosen by township councils are members of the board. However, under the new by-laws recommended by OHSC such appointments cannot be made and township councils will have to continue the present practice of nomina- ting their representatives. These nominees are normally elected at the annual meeting. Messrs. Hanna and Mac - William withdrew their motion in the light of the requirements of the new bye-laws. LETTEi2PROM AUXILIARY The secretary read a letter from the Ladies' Auxiliary, acknowledging a communica- tion from the chairman of the hospital board, and pointing out some of the areas in which the ladies felt they had not re- ceived fair treatment. The letter stated that they had asked last year for some assistance with mending of hospital sup- plies, but had no intention of giving up the cutting and sew- ing of new supplies. The letter reasserted the claim that some members of the auxiliary were locked out of the sewing room at the hospital last fall. Following the reading of the letter Mr. Cousins issued an in- vitation for members of the auxiliary to meet with the full board of the hospital to talk over the problems mentioned. Mrs. English, president of the Auxiliary, accepted the invita- tion and agreed to arrange the time with Mr. Cousins. REPORTS Mrs. I. E. Morrey, hospital administratrix, gave her statis- tical report for 1962, giving details of the tremendous amount of work handled in the hospital. W. B. Anderson, chairman of the finance committee ex- plained the auditors' report. He said that some $18,000 had been expended for fixed assets in 1962, represented by such new equipment as x-ray, re- placement of stand-by genera- tor, etc. 1 -Ie also explained that the hospital must purchase such capital cost items out of its own funds, which have been accumulated through kequests, grants and recovery of slow ac- counts prior to the participa- tion of OHSC in the hospital's program. The only assistance received from OHSC in this re- gard is Le the shape of a depre- Please turn to Page 12 Kinsmen to Stage Home Bingo In an effort to raise money for its badly depleted service account, the local Kinsmen Club has completed plans for a Home Bingo, which will start on Thursday of next week, February 14th, with a $100.00 prize. The bingo will work like this. Cards at one dollar, are being sold by the club mem- bers, or can be obtained at a number of business places. Numbers will be drawn each week and published in The Wingham Advance -Tithes until a winner is declared. To win the 8100.00, the bingo player must have a "full house" or all numbers of the card filled. The game will likely take six or seven weeks to complete. Besides Kinsmen Club mem- bers, cards may be purchased from any of the following places of business: Burke Elec- tric, Stainton's Hardware, Walker Home Furnishings, R, A. Currie & Sons Furniture, Rem- ington's IGA, Red Front Gro- cery, Hanna's General Store at Belgrave, Willis General Store in Whitechurch, Moffat's Gen- eral Store, Bluevale and Ed- gar's General Store in Wroxeter. The public is requested not to phone the above merchants for information on the bingo. The details of the rules which appear on the back of each bingo card are as follows: 1. $100.00 prize for full house. .2. Numbers to be drawn and Please turn to Page 12 No Confidence Motions Topple Minority Diefenbaker Regime Town Council Hears Development Plans The first hour of the Febru- ary meeting of the Wingham town council was taken up with a discussion of industrial prob- lems in the community and a short address by Elmer Goebel, manager of the Mid -Western Development Association. He had been invited to address council, before a decision was reached on joining the Associa- tion again. Wingham has not had membership in the group for the past few years. Mr. Goebel outlined the function of the association, stating that the association's board of Z;,rectors and he rep- resented the four counties of Wellington, Waterloo, Perth and Huron, and when talking to prospects could only try to sell the region and not any indivi- dual community. The latter, he said, must be done by the communities themselves. How- ever, owever, he pointed out that the association is making surveys of every community, to obtain statistical information which would be of value to any indus- trialist looking for a new loca- tion. A special report on all aspects of the region is current- ly being prepared, he said, and at the moment the association has some types of maps of the area that are not available anywhere else. Questioned on the outlook of industry coming to smaller centres, Mr. Goebel said that there is now a definite trend in this direction. He agreed that some firms from other count- ries just will not consider any- thing but the metro area due to the labor pool, transportation and market area, but a good many are now considering other parts of the province, and some industry in the metro area is beginning to move out to small- er centres. Mayor Hetherington said that many have felt the associ- ation only works for the larger centres such as Stratford and Kitchener. Mr. Goebel dis- agreed, repeating that it is his job to sell the region and not any individual community. Cost of membership, he said, is 6 cents per capita, which is about $180.00 for Wingham. After Mr. Goebel left, the council discussed the subject further and decided to rejoin the group. Industrial problems locally were hashed over, with Councillor Nesmith stating that the town should be in a posi- tion to purchase prospective in- dustrial sites and hold them for this purpose. Mayor Hether- ington did not think this was possible, even though Mr. Na - smith pointed to the fact that Kitchener has in the past few years bought huge tracts for this purpose. SEWAGE APPROVAL A letter from the Ontario Municipal Board was read which stated that tentative permission was given for financing the sewage project now in the hands of the Water Resources Com- mission. The mayor stated this would mean the O.W.R.C. would be in a position to call for tenders soon. Another letter from the Board of Transport Commission- ers requested information on whether or not the council was going to object to the applica- tion by the CNR to discontinue passenger service on the branch line through Wingham. The matter was held over for further study, BACK RESOLUTION A resolution from Wentworth County, regarding the use of mineralbase detergents was read, with a request that coun- cil support the move to have this type of product banned for sale in Ontario. Council dis- cussed the subject briefly and it was noted that the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority had backed the move. With this in mind council decided to support the resolution. Council also agreed to again take out membership in the On- tario Municipal Association. GRANTS Council agreed to the fol- lowing grants: Salvation Army, local, $100,00; Hamilton branch $50.00; Retarded Child- ren's Association, $200.00; Please Turn To Page Six • f 4-H GIRLS (PRESENTED ---The annual meeting of the East Huron Agricultural Society held in Brussels last week saw two top winners in 4-H work presented with prizes. From the left Doug Miles, agricultural representative for Huron and Clem Steffler, 1962 society presi- dent Zook or while V. E. Grenke, Can- adian Imperial Bank of Commerce man- ager at Brussels, presents pen and pen- cil sets to Barbara Turnbull, R.R. 2, Brussels, who tied with 927 points as top in the beef club. Barbara Brey, R.R. 3 Brussels had 927 points in the dairy division. —Photo by Connell. Canadians face their second federal election in seven months as a result of the defeat of the minority Progressive Coni servative government in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening. The Diefenbaker administra- tion, which has carried on with a minority leadership since the opening of Parliament last Sep- tember, lost two votes of con- fidence, and as a result it was expected that dissolution would be announced on Wednesday, Most probable date for an elec- tion appears to be early April, perhaps Monday, April 8th. Carrying on without a clear mandate since last June's elec- tion, it has only been a matter of time until the opposing par- ties decided to end the ad- ministration of the Progressive Conservatives. The minority situation was brought about when election returns showed the total number. of Liberal, NDP and Social Credit mem- bers was greater than the Pro- gressive Conservatives, al- though the latter had the Larg- est single body in the House. DEFENCE ISSUE Mr. Diefenbaker's thorniest problem arose over the question of national defence, particular- ly on the point of whether or not Canada should accept nu- clear arms. The controversy has raged for several months and no clear-cut decision was forthcoming. On January 3 of this year Gen. Lauris Norstad retired NATO commander ex- pressed the opinion that Cana- da was not taking its proper responsibility for the -defence of the Western world by refus- ing or delaying the acceptance of nuclear arms. The argument continued until last week Dean Rusk, American State Department Head,voiced the same thought and there were angry charges from Ottawa that the USS was attempting to dictate Canadian defence policy. Final blow for the Diefenbaker regime came on Monday morning of this week when Defence Minis- ter Douglas Harkness announced his resignation from the Cana- dian cabinet and the same eve- ning appeared on a television broadcast. He clearly stated that he was not in agreement with the official government policy of delaying the accep- tance of nuclear arms and also made the statement that he believed the prime minister to be relatively uninformed about the subject. At time of writing on Wed- nesday there remains some doubt about the exact moves which will be undertaken. There is a possiblity that Par- liament will not be immediate- ly dissolved, in part because this session has not had time to vote the necessary supplies of money to carry out the machin- ery of government until a new Parliament is elected. How- ever it is expected that emer- gency measures will be adopted and the election will be an- nounced. Earns Awards John D. Hoover, B, A. , son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Hoover, R.R. 3 Brussels, who is attending Library School, 1 McGill University, Montreal, has been awarded a Grolier Society Scholarship ($250) and an Annette Hill Memorial Bursary ($300). John is a grad- uate of Wingham District High School and will receive his B.L.S. degree on May 31st of this year.