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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-06-06, Page 7MILDMAY ROTARY BINGO $130Q. in PRIZES at MILDMAY COMMUNITY CENTRE Wednesday, JUNE 12, 9 P.M. Alignment Service BRAKE DRUM TURNING SHOCK ABSORBERS SPRING REPLACEMENT Special pay for Fathers Wolves and Father I What a wonderful world of meaning to be found in that simple, homely word. Toa child, father means safety, security, a refuge from pain and defeat, Father means discipline, the setter of the rules and regulations that go- vern a small world and give it direction. M we grow and our horizons expand, the dimensions of his guidance increase to meet our ever changing needs. His strength and experience help to shape our character. His wisdom leaves us the master of our own destiny. The word conjures up sever- al other images that have been comic standbys in our society. Father, the payer of the bills; the bringer home of the bacon; the long -suffering•down-trod- den servant of Mom and the kids; the golfer, the fisherman, hunter, sportsman who spends week days at the office and week -ends with the boys. Despite all these durogatory COME TO THE RIR •. ,I. 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In the Stone Age, the family's "head maid" was a tyrant and one of his sons woulc eventually kill him in ,1 hand- to-hand battle and replace him as head man. Researchers say the first known tribute to father; was by a Babylonian named Eln;esu. His elegy, written on a Clay tablet about 2, 000 years before Christ, asked the gods to grant his father good health and en- during days. During Biblical times, it was a crime punishable by death for a son to disagree with his father. Early Romans call- ed down curses of the family gods on children who c;it them- selves loose from parental au- thority. Many of the ancient rituals are still practised in some lands like having father choose his son's bride. In the African Su- dan this custom still exists. After giving him five children, a wife may return to her par- ents, leaving Papa to raise the brood, And in Ecuador, it is customary for an expectant mo- ther to be put out of the house while her husband is coddled and humored until he recovers from the shock of becoming a father. Father's Day as we know it was originated by a mother. In 1909, Mrs. John Bruce Dodd of Spokane; Wash., proposed the day as a tribute to fathers everywhere. Her own father, William Smart, was a Civil War veteran who raised his six children after his wife died. The Spokane Ministers Associa• tion sponsored the first city- wide Father's Day in 1910 and it rapidly became a national holiday. The Day chosen is the third Sunday in June. Turtle Doves In a fight between wolves, Konrad Z. Lorenz, the Austrian biologist, found that the winner did not kill the loser, but re- strained himself at the last mo- ment, not closing his fangs on the exposed jugular of the beat- en wolf. Lorenz says the basis for this seems to be that wolves are so well equipped that, with- out this inhibition, there pre- sently would be no more wolves. On the other hand, there is the matter of turtle doves. These are such indifferent fighters that, if one gets the ad- vantage of another in some con- fined space where flight is im- possible for the loser, the win- ner will keep pecking away until he has made a hill. To some people this may sound a bit like home life, where, however, the victim is more likely to get talked to death. Among implications from these studies by one of the world's greatest scientists: popu- lar impressions may be mis- leading. The wolf, well known to be blood -thirsty, turns out to be more complicated than that and even, in one kind of situation, generous; the turtle dove, a metaphor of the love with which it rymes, turns out to be a blood -thirsty killer, if presented with the rare oppor- tunity. The larger implications for humanity are that for most of our million years we have been comparatively ineffective, somewhat like turtle doves, so that we could the better afford our lack of inhibitions; but now we are even more effective than wolves and therefore we urgently need to become fore- sighted like wolves. --The Print- ed Word. The Little Woman: "Frank, dear, the doctor tells me that I need a change of climate." Husband: "All right, the weatherman says it will be cooler tomorrow." First Canadian Post Office Was Located Next time you receive a letter, look at the postmark and reflect how quickly it reached you. Two centuries ago, the post office was ahap- hazard venture that served generally to make postmasters rich; today it is an efficient government service that ranks with the best in the world. It was born in Halifax and the closest thing it has to a birth certificate is an announce- ment clipped from a Boston paper of April 17, 1755. It was inserted by the post office at Boston, and said simply that mails could be sent from and received at Halifax. This has been taken as of- ficial, but the year earlier an advertisement in the same paper said one Benjamin Leigh had opened a "bureau of intel- ligence and out -ward post of- fice" at Halifax. That would make Canada's post office 208 years old. In those days full -sailed ships took a month or more to cross the Atlantic, and it took much longer for the mail they carried to be sorted, and then forwarded. Eventually these ships gave way to steamers that crossed the ocean in days, and now fast ships are giving way to planes that do it in hours. Hard -riding postal couriers have long since hung up their spurs in favor of snorting loco- motives, until today, a nickel will speed a letter from Black Diamond, Alta., to Cape Town, South Africa, in less time than it once took a spe- cial delivery to get the two - hundred miles from Halifax to Louisbourg, N.S. , and it used to cost marry times as much. A plaque on the old federal building in Halifax adjoining the present post office, says: "In 1755 a line of packets was placed on the route be- tween Falmouth and New York. This was part of a general scheme for closer and more an Halifax regular connections between the colonies and the mother country. These packets called at Halifax. In that year and in this city was established the first post office in the Domin- ion of Canada as now consti- tuted." The plaque was erected by the Historic Sites' and Monu- ments Board of Canada, but the historical society claims the facts are twisted. It says the packets probably didn't call at Halifax at all. More likely they sailed directly to New York, the society says, and sent the mail by post to Boston. From there it came to Halifax on trading ships. Overseas mail wasn't brought to Halifax by a regular monthly service until 1818. Canada's second post office was opened at Quebec in 1765. Mail came down the St. Law- rence river by canoe or river boat and was taken across the Bay of Fundy by barques. Then horsemen brought it to Halifax, establishing a regular mail route through the Anna- polis valley. Later an overland route was chosen from Saint John, N.B. via Moncton and Truro to Halifax. People not on postal routes were quite happy because the couriers had a monopoly, and it cost one shilling and six- pence to send a one -ounce letter from Halifax to Yar- mouth, N.S. Now it costs five cents. Newspaper publishers made special deals with the deputy post master -general for their province. Deputy postmaster - general Stayner of Nova Scotia is reputed to have made a 500 pound salary, 2,103 pounds on the side from newspaper delivery, and another 450 pounds on other deals. Big changes in the post of- fice came in the middle 1800s. in 1838 the Great Western ship Sirius, a sidewheeler, crossed Wingham Advance+Tirrles, Thursday, June 6, 1963— Page 7 the Atlantic under steam and the next year a contract was let for fortnightly steamship mail service to Halifax, in 1848 post office accounts were abolished between the provinces, rates were equalised, and in 1851 postage stamps were adopted, and at Confed- eration the post office took roughly the same form it has today. The local post office in Canada may be a complex big- city igcity operation or the backroom of a village general store, but everywhere it's taken as much for granted as coffee for break- fast. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IF CAUGHT IN A STORM If you're indoors don't stand in doorways or near open win- dows. Keep away from large metal objects, the fireplace, plumbing fixtures, telephone and television. All of these can conduct lightning into your house. If you're outdoors, seek shelter in a building. Or get into an automobile and roll up the windows. If no other shelter is avail- able, stay low in a ditch, under a cliff, in a cave or flat on the ground. Never allow yourself to be- come the tallest object in the area, for lightning usually chooses high targets. Never stand under an isolated tree— lightning's favourite target.• Other dangerous spots are in a boat, in swimming, atop a hill, near a wire fence, overhead wires or towers, on a horse or on a bicycle. -- The Safety Counsellor. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111r1111111.10111 HANOVER Drive -In THEATRE .THUR.-FRI. JUNE 6-7 "LOVER COME BACK" Rock Hudson - Doris Day Tony Randall — Technicolor Adult Entertainment Comedy romance for all "AIR PATROL" CARTOON SAT. -MON. JUNE 8-10 "THE ERRAND BOY" Jerry Lewis—The wackiest er- rand boy in history ".THE LAST WAGON" Technicolor - CinemaScope Richard Widmark - F. Fall CARTOON TUES.-WED. JUNE 11-12 "THE GLENN MILLER STORY" James Stuart - June Allyson Technicolor One of the all time great motion pictures "PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO" Ray Millan CARTOON 1.111111111141111111111111111111111111111IHI11iiIINI CROWN THEATRE HARRISTON THURS.-FRT.-SAT. JUNE 6-7-8 "JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN" in Technicolor --Starring Geoffrey Horne . Robert Morley Belinda Lee Shows at 7:15-9:15 MON.-TUES: WEDNESDAY JUNE 10-11-12 "WHATEVER HAP- PENED TO BABY JANE" Starring BETTE DAMS and JOAN CRAWFORD There's never been a thriller like this before—(Adult) Shows at 7:16--9:20 dageliminorMillimismominom iiimmonmonpapppwwwwismc BROWNIE'S DRIVE -1N CLINTON SATURDAY and MONDAY June .8-10 "SOME CAME RUNNING" FRANK SINATJ A SHIRLEY MacLAINE DEAN MARTIN Colour -Scope Cartoon Adult Entertainment TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY June 11-12 "OKLAHOMA" GORDON MacRAE SHIRLEY JONES Colour Cartoon CLINTON LIONS CLUB Theatre Night --June 11 Regular Admission—Tickets from Lions Club Members THURSDAY and FRIDAY June 13-14 'ROME ADVENTURE' TROY DONAHL'E SUZANNE PLESHETrIt'i ANGIE DICKINSON Colour Cartoon 1I11111I I I 11111/1111 P 11111111 I I I I I I I 11111111141, LISTOWEL DRIVE-IN SAT. -MON: TUES. June 8-10-11 CLIFF RICHARDS The newest sensation of the Teen Age set in "WONDERFUL TO BE YOUNG" Colour -- Plus ELVIS PRESLEY in "G. I. BLUES" WED.-THUR.-FRI. June 12-13-14 BOB HOPE, LANA TURNER, JIM HUTTON, PAULA PREN- TISS in "BACHELOR IN PARADISE" Adult Entertainment Color Plus ROD STEIGER in the most daring robbery ever plan- ned by a woman "WORLD IN MY POCKET" 1111111111111III II/1ll<III1111ll ili 1111.111111. HARRISTON DR IVE-IN THEATRE THUR.-FRI. JUNE 6-7 "NO MY DARLING DAUGHTER" Stars Michael Craig -Juliet Mills Adult Entertainment "THE RAVEN" Stars Boris Karloff - Vincent Price - Peter Lorre It's a comedy of horrors for the family SATURDAY ONLY JUNE 8 "FIVE BOLD WOMEN" A rootin' tootin' Western pack- ed with thrills and pretty women "TWO LITTLE BEARS" Starring Eddie Albert - Brenda Lee All Color Program SUNDAY LATE SHOW -11 p.nt. "THE CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA" Plus — "THE DEVIL'S PARTNER" MON: TUES-WWEDNESDAY JUNE 10-11-1'2 Walt Disney's "SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON" in Technicolor — Plus "KETTLES IN THE OZARKS" III111111111111111Di111®1IIII.1118111r1111KIIKIIR