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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-04-11, Page 9New Opportunity for Training With its decision to open the RNA course to male students, the board of directors of the Wingham General Hos- pital has provided a new opportunity for young men in this area. They may now make application to the Wingham and District Hospital for the course which will open next September. We do know of some men who are definitely interested in taking the course and it is expected that it will attract more applicants as time goes by. The men will receive the same course as the female applicants, and upon graduation will re- ceive the same diplomas as registered nursing assistants. Though the nursing profession has never been broadly popular with men, there is a wide field in which they can serve. Male nurses are badly needed, not only in the larger hospitals, but in the growing number of rural hospitals as well. The work is highly gratifying for those men who have wanted to enter the field of medicine but do not have the necessary educational requirements. The number of male students which can be accepted for the September course is limited, so any person interest- ed would do well to apply soon. Homemakers Badly Needed One of the courses which could be taught in the new vocational section of the Wingham District High School is for registered nursing assistants. We do not know that such a course has been decid- ed upon for our school, but it is one of the options open. However, it would ap- pear that it would be of limited useful- ness. As we understand it, the course is spread over a four-year period and in- cludes practical work in a nearby hos- pital. Though the details have not been clarified as yet, we fail to see why young people would take a four-year course at vocational school when they could enter an RNA course in a hospital and emerge with the same standing at the end of 10 months. There is, however, another related field in which the vocational school might provide an even more worthwhile train- inc;. The entire province is in desperate :U of homemakers—women trained to do practical nursing, look after small children and generally take charge of a home while a mother is ill. This type of service is already under study by the Children's Aid Society of Huron County. The availability of trained homemak- ers would mean tremendous savings for our public institutions. The CAS can foresee the possibility of keeping many young families together in cases where they at present have to be taken into care because of the temporary illness of a mother. The hospitals would have more free beds, for in many cases moth- ers are sent to hospitals, not because they are seriously ill, but because they are unable to remain at home for lack of a person to attend to relatively simple nursing needs. It is evident that the requirements for such training would not be as strin- gent as those demanded for registered nursing assistants. A broader class of young women could receive the training, thus providing themselves with a means of livelihood and the public with a badly needed service. We believe that the new vocational schools would be offering a much more practical form of education if the home- maker classes were provided. Congratulations We are sure that many people in Wingham were as pleased as we were last week to learn that Bill Laidlaw, a gradu- ate of the Wingham District High School, has achieved such notable success in his scholastic career. We recall Bill as a lad who spared no effort to reach his goal, and apparently he hasn't changed. His most recent distinction is the award of a fellowship from the National Research Council in Ottawa, which will take him to Oxford University, England. At this world -famed place of learning Bill will continue his researches in theoretical chemistry. Though none of us are too familiar with such an advanced subject, it is like- ly that his work will eventually contribute a great deal to the welfare of the human race. It is the men in these fields who are opening the doors to a whole new world of understanding. Our sincere congratulations to Bill Laidlaw and our best wishes for his con- tinuing success. He is a son of which Wingham can be proud. Thank You, Mr. Minister The appointment of Hon. Charles MacNaughton as Ontario's minister of highways is already bearing sweet fruit for the rural areas of the province. Com- ing as he does, from one of our smaller communities, Mr. MacNaughton has shown a clear understanding of the needs of rural Ontario. His budget for the Department of Highways for the coming fiscal year provides for greatly increased assistance to municipalities for their road and street work. For the first time in the history of the department the budget for muni- cipal subsidies is larger than that for provincial highways. In Wingham's case, being included in the class of towns over 2500, the subsidy will be 90 percent on approved expendi- tures, rather than the former 75 percent —a welcome increase indeed. The total set aside for municipal aid is $98,000,000, an increase of some eight and three-quarter million dollars. The amendments provide, among other things, a higher rate of contribution to connecting link extensions of King's Highways through municipalities and an extension of subsidies on storm sewer construction. Also announced is a new formula for determining the rate of sup- plementary assistance to townships in cases of demonstrable need. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert O. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulation; Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Associ- ation; Member Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Authorized by the Post Office Department as Second Class Mail and for payment of postage in cash Subscription Rate: One Year, $4.00; Six Months, $2.25, in advance U.S.A., $5.00 per year; Foreign rate, $5.00 per year Advertising Rates on application VARSOVIENNE was the name of the Swedish folk dance by Grade III pupils of Miss Joan Armitage, a very pretty dance which the children performed quite gracefully.—Photo by Connell. bbanct&Einte Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, April 11, 1963 SECOND SECTION '�IfIIfIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIII!illltlilllllllll!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItIIIIIIIIIItIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll�' SUGAR anlc SPICE mmiumiliom`' ,'!!IIIIIIImhIIIIIlhlIIIIB V Bill S m i I evuuumuui ii i 7,1 Well, now that the nonsense is over (and boy! aren't there a lot of dopey voters in this country?) we can get back to the important things of life. I'd like, at this time, to pass along a vote of appreciation to the women of Canada. They have put up with 'a great deal in the past coupe of weeks, and it's not oven yet. It has been a harassing experience, but they've taken it as brave- ly as usual. No, I don't mean the election. Night after night, our wo- men have wheedled, coaxed and threatened, trying to get small boys and grandfathers to bed at a decent hour. Night after night, they have receiv- ed only blank, uncomprehend- ing stares from their hus- bands. But hold, ladies. Reck naught of the scowls of young Wilber, the snarls of grampa. Don't be distressed by the ut- ter nothingness of your bitter half. Bear with them. NHL playoff time is to them what Paris is to a middle-aged French teacher, what Strat- ford is to the faded chap who helped paint the scenery for the Hayfork Centre Drama Festival. * * * Stanley Cup time is a won- derful spring tonic. It is Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan to the males in your family, from eight to 80. Where you, see only a lot of large young men rushing at each other, they see a ballet. Where you see only brutality and blood- shed, they see the drama of a bullring. As you shudder at the bestial roar of the arena mob, they are thrilling to the skill and gallantry of the gladiators. You see, mum, hockey at its best is poetry in motion, music in flight. An NHL goalie has all the grace and deli- cacy of a toreador. Maybe we don't think of these compari- sons, as we sit on the edges of our chairs, watching the warriors weave their intricate design of combat, but we're aware of them. It's a national disease, pretty well restricted to the male species, and it makes the so-called "fever" of the World Series or the Grey Cup game look like a mild case of the sniffles, in com- parison. How did we get this way? Well, it's a little embarras- sing to explain. But nine out of 10 boys in this country are exposed to hockey early in life. And eight out of 10 of them have had, at one time or another, a desperate desire to become a truly great hockey player. The urge may have lasted five minutes or five years, but it was so pow- erful it hurt, when it was in force. * * * And about 90 per cent. of us know perfectly well that if it hadn't been for sheer bad luck, or bad management, we'd have made the NHL. Some of us were too heavy, some too light. Some were a little slow; others could not hoist the puck. Some started to smoke; others to go with girls. It was just some lousy break like that that kept us out of the big time. Even knowing this, how- ever, we're not envious. We watch the best players in the world with the complacent camaraderie of a movie extra watching the stars at work, with the friendly concern of a burlesque stripper watching a prima ballerina. We sit there as they flash about the ice, and muse, "There, but for the fact that I always went over on my ankles, go I." During my own hockey car- eer, in the days when we used department store catalogues for shinpads, I played in the same peewee league as a fel- low who later went up to De- troit Red Wings. I still think it was only the fact that he could skate six or eight times faster then I could that made him outdistance me in our hockey careers. Many a time I tripped him as he went by. * * * Go through any family and you'll find they have some great hockey traditions like this. That fat fellow watching TV once scored the winning goal with only eight seconds to go, if the lousy ref haddena called it back for an offside. That old gentleman in the rocker remembers the time Howie Morenz came to town, when Howie was still an ama- cher, and he'd have seen him play if he haddena been work- ing the night shift that night. That urchin gnawing his nails in the corner, why he was the third highest scorer in the third best team in the Squirts league, this very winter. Oh, it may all seem very childish to you women. But it's in our blood. It's part of the simple, strong, poetic heri- tage of the Canadian male. Have patience. The plague, One Moment, Please By Rev. G. Howard Pace, Belmore, Ontario At this season of the year the minds of many are centred, reverently and gratefully on the Cross of Christ. But we must understand something of what the Cross has to say to us if it is to have any real meaning or application to life. First of all the Cross tells us of the heinousness of sin. As an English writer of the past centruy penned: "The Cross is presented to our consciences and not to our sympathies and tastes" . As we gaze upon the Cross of Jesus with Elizabeth Clephane we, each one must see, "The very dying form of One Who suffered there for me." REMINISCING APRIL 1913 The clock given by the Federal Government for the postoffice has arrived by C.P.R. and will be placed in position as soon as the tower is in condition to receive it. On Tuesday afternoon as Mr. Robt. Beattie was going down to Lower Town to collect the mail his horse became frightened at the Salt Block, where some repairs were being made. He was thrown from the rig, being badly injured about the head, but we are pleased to learn that he is doing as well as can be expect- ed. APRIL 1926 Rev. W. D. McIntosh, who has for the past year been co - pastor at Wingham United Church, has received a couple of calls. One to the Embro Uni- ted nited Church and one to Orange- ville, both are splendid charges. The Embro Church is one of the largest. It was in this church that Rev. Dr. Gordon, father of "Ralph Connor", preached for years. The congregation is large and choir and minister wear gowns. The stipend is $2000 with a month's holidays. During his short stay in Wing - ham Mr. McIntosh, wife and children have won the esteem and love of all who know them. Mr. McIntosh is a clear and forceful speaker and wherever he decides to go, he will be followed by the best wishes of a host of friends. APRIL 1938 The Wingham Revolver Club entry in the United States Re- volver Association won first place in the D Class, Novice. The classification was deter- mined by the scores made in wanes shortly. And then, but not until then, will you re- trieve us to the dull, ordinary round of family togetherness. "In his own person he carried our sins to the gallows, so that we might cease to live for sin and begin to live for righteous- ness." (1 Peter 2:24 N.E.B.) It is Emil Brunner who de- scribes this scene: "In the Cross of Christ God says to man: There is where you ought to be. Jesus, my Son, hangs there in your stead, his tragedy is the tragedy of your life; You are the rebel who should be hanged on the gallows. But lo, I suffer instead of you and because of you, because I love you in spite of what you are. My love for you is so great that I meet you there with my love, there on the Cross. I cannot meet you anywhere else. You must meet me there, by identi- fying yourself with the One on the Cross. It is by this identi- fication that I, God, can meet you, man, in him saying to you what I say to him, 'My be- loved Son!'" This is the cost of our sin and should cause us to realize its awfulness. This, too, is what Isaac Watts des- cribes as, "Amazing pity! grace unknown And love beyond degree." And the benefit can be ours as we bow before the Cross in humility and faith. Only there and in this attitude can we say in life experience: "We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins." (Ephe- sians 1:7 A.V.) But the Cross presents us with a question too. Count Zinzendorf stood before a picture of the cruicified Christ. The stain of blood was on His face from the thorn pierced brow. The body sagged heavily on the nails which held the hands and feet. The horrible agony and the wond- rous love portrayed held his gaze. The inscription beneath stirred his heart as it ought to stir yours and mine, "All this I did for thee; What hast thou done for Me?" the first three matches. All told ten matches were held. The scores were reported to Headquarters and the standing given out from there. The team here had a total of 9866 points and their nearest rivals in their class, En Long- meadow, Mass., had 9757. The percentage scores of the local marksmen were as fol- lows: Dr. Kirk 91.3; T. W. Platt 85.4; Alf. Mitche1175.4; F. Sturdy 70.8; D. Cleghorn 70.3. APRIL 1948 Teen Town enjoyed two dances during the Easter season. The first one was held in the Council Chamber and the se- cond in the Masonic Hall. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. MacWilliam, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Burton and Mr. and Mrs. H. Posliff at- tended the dance along with a good attendance of teensters.