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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-08-01, Page 9• They Come But Once A Year ,The Advance -Times office will be closed for the first two full weeks in August. We fully realize that the closing both office and plant works some fiardship for regular customers and ad- vertisers, but we wish that there was a method of continuing our services with- out interruption. However, most of our staff members are now entitled to two weeks' holidays annually and it becomes an impossible task to continue operations with short staff all summer, We often wonder whether holidays are really worth the effort. Everybody works like mad for a month in advance of the holiday period to have all the necessary jobs caught up by the time we close—and by the time we get back an- other month's work has piled up, Mind you, we're not complaining because busi- ness is good. We just wonder where it all comes from. These compulsory annual holidays are a good thing. They provide all of us with a change of scenery and most of us are glad to get back to routine living when they are over, with a new sense of appreciation for the life which had be- come so monotonous ---as we thought, This is a far cry from the old days when holidays were only for the rich and leisured class. We can recall the days when we were learning the printing trade. We worked the first seven years without a holiday of any kind and the work week then was a full six days with two or three evenings thrown in. You can't blame us too much for wanting to get a breather now. Concern For The Public The article we carried last week in regard to the efforts the RCAF makes to keep aircraft noise to a minimum is in- dication of the increasing attention which is being paid to noise nuisance every- where. In towns such as ours we are not particularly conscious of the noise prob- lem, chiefly because there is no problem here, Our streets are pretty quiet at most times. However, if we lived in one of the larger metropolitan centres we would be keenly aware of the need to reduce noise to a minimum, Even the minimum 3n a big city is a pretty noisy sort of ex- istence. if you have no experience with noise and what it can do to you, just try driv- ing into Toronto along Highway 401 at eight -thirty any week -day morning. The roar of truck motors and the slapping of tires on concrete, rising from a thous- and vehicles within earshot, can become a positive mountain of mental interfer- ence. After thirty minutes the mind is groggy from the effort to hear only those sounds which have some real significance. We have heard of tank drivers in the armored corps during the war being taken from their vehicles in a state of deep shock after too many hours beside the deafening noise and vibration of the motors. Alf this, however, is relative. it de- pends on what you are accustomed to. A couple of years ago we were driving to an airport from New York City in a taxi and fell into conversation with the driver. Learning that we were Canadian he offer- ed the information that he had visited Canada once. He said he stayed in a place called Toronto, but he didn't re- main too long. We asked him why and he said the place was too quiet. He couldn't sleep at nights. A few blocks later we found out why Booming Bloor Street seemed like a country lane. The driver pointed out his home to us. A nice little apartment situated almost underneath the famous New York Elevated Railway. Imagine a train every 10 minutes right over your bedroom ceiling! This Shrinking Planet The air age has really caught up with us! Several of our -friends have spent their holidays in Europe his summer and before the season is over we know of more who will be going over the water. The trip has become so simple that it is hardly worth mentioning. Mr Of course air travel had cut the re- quired time to a mere nothing several years ago, but the monetary consideration was a hurdle. Now, however, there is an increasing number of charter flights with return tickets offered for about two hun- dred dollars, England and back. We cannot avoid the conviction that this increasing inter -continental travel boom will eventually lead to a more promising future for mankind. Under the constant threat of war, man is searching for complicated remedies to his problems and new methods of easing international tensions. Nothing we know of can help more directly than a closer relationship between the common people of the earth. Wars have never been started by plain farmers or small business men. They have been the special hobby of the world's great leaders—the men we either selected or permitted to emerge and control our destinies. When a sufficient number of Russians have personally met an equal number of Americans the threat of war will fade to a tremendous degree. They will both find the world is peopled with human beings and not with the ogres they have been led to believe live on the other side of the "curtain." Note For Busy Executives The Blenheim News -Tribune recently carried the following "Executive Diction- ary of Useful Terms": A Programme—Any assignment that can't be completed by one telephone call. Channels—The trail left by inter -office memos. To Clarify ---To fill in the background with so many details that the foreground goes underground. To Activate—To make carbons and add more names to the memo. To Implement a Programme—To hire more people and expand the office. To Point up the Issue—To expand one page to 15 pages. To Expedite—To confound confusion with commotion. Co-ordinator—The guy who has a desk between two expediters. Reliable Source—The guy you just met. Consultant—Any ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home. Expert—A person who has made all the mistakes possible in a limited field of knowledge. Under Consideration—Never heard of it. Under Active Consideration — We're looking in the files for it, We Are Making a Survey — We need more time to think of an answer. Hope For The Elms News of a promising Canadian cure that "inoculates" elm trees with a dis- ease -fighting chemical is bringing hope to tree -lovers disheartened by the spread of Dutch Elm disease, says Frank Oxley in The Financial Post. Dot -sized beetles— carriers of the disease fungus—are busy across North America, have parks super- intendents wondering whether to tear out ravaged elms and plant other trees or battle the disease. Lack of a control program could cost a 10,000 -tree city up to $80,000 and many trees. 'I'HiE WINGI-IAM 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; )Y oreign tate, $5.00 per year Advertising Rates on application REMINISCING AtJGU$T 1913 A portion of land at the rear of the Town Ball was trans- formed by By-law No, t;78 to his Majesty the King for the pur, pose of an erection of an ar- mory, on motion of Ee11 and Isbister, Little .Alex. Walk"r, aged two and a half years, a:.comp., anied his mother, Mes. 1:, 13, Walker and some otl:b.r ladies from the Kincardine ;wash to uptown to do some While his mother was in a store, Alex, thought he we.:ld take a look about the town ui see how it compared with Wi,+;ham. About an hour later A. was found about a half mile distant in a house and was a';tioying his dinner with his new rade friends, Hugh Clark '.1.P. sug- gested to the father that he make a politician of his son. Wingham Markets: Wheat -- 800 to $1.Ori Oats -- 40 to 450 Barley -- 50 to 51d Peas 800 to 900 Hay -- $13 a ton Bran -- $20 to $21 Butter -- 22¢ to 240 Eggs -- 20¢ to 210" Potatoes -- $1, 50 to $2,00 per bu. Live Hogs -- $9,60 The firm of John Kerr and son has disposed of their bus- iness to Mr. Jos. Irwin, who is now in possession. Mr. Irwin comes highly recommended and invites all old patrons and many new ones to visit his store. We have not yet learned Mr. Kerr's intentions but trust that Wingham will not lose such a good citizen. 0--0 -0 AUGUST 1926 On August 7th, Coun, and Mrs. E, J. Mitchell, celebrat- ed their Silver wedding anni- versary at their home on John St. All their family were home for the occasion, Building operations in Lower Wingham are certainly brisk at present, Mr. W. J. Deyell has a gang of men employed remodelling the Lower town school. The Wingham? Rubber Co., is this week making another large shipment of Aero Cush- ion Tires to their agent in Ire- land. This makes the fourth shipment to the old land since the present Company took over the business. The agent in Ire- land writes that at a recent Auto Motive Exhibition at Bel- fast, his exhibit of Aero Cush- ion Tires was the chief attract- ion, 0--0--0 AUGUST 1938 Mrs. Ernest Lewis is in Ni- agara Falls attending the Flor- ists' Convention which is being held, concluding today. Winford Y. Lloyd, lumber- man of Toronto, passed away at his home, on July 17th, af- ter an illness of several weeks. He was born 60 years ago in Wingham and received his ed- ucation here, He was a son of the late Charles Lloyd, of C. Lloyd & Son, Ltd., door manu- facturers, Wingham, and work- ed in the plant for son -ie years, An enjoyable evening was spent at Currie's School on Friday evening when the mem- bers of the Jolly Time Literary Society held a reception in honour of the recent marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Marsh, 0--0--0 JULY 1048 George Porter, son of Mr, and Mrs. D. B, Porter, has been awarded the Lions Club Scholarship for general pro- ficiency in the Entrance class of the Wingham Public School. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stanley and daughter, Winnifred of Chesley, are moving to town this week, Mr. Stanley having purchased one of Mr. D. Kenn- edy's new houses. Six pairs of Wingham Bowl- ers attended the Doubles Tour- nament at C;oderich on Wednes- day, 11. L. Sherbondy and J. A. Wilson won third prize and O. (laselgrove and J. H. Craw- ford won fourth prize. Mr, Jack Walker received word this week from the Can- adian School of Embalmers that he had successfully passed his examinations and has re- ceived his diploma. THE MORRIS TOWNSHIP Federation of Agriculture's park east of Belgrave on the Maitland River is a popular spot and has been the scene of considerable work this year. Latest addition is th;s sign at the entrance to the area.—A-T Photo. barn AttiattooZina Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, August 1, 1963 SECOND SECTION ==9111111111111111111111111111111111➢(IIDIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIIII11111IDilllllluuoallullllIIIIIImIIIGmmNliIIsHmllulonriIflu"i,Ir INt(inel,!Lm SUGAR and SPICE iHllIHI llllllllIl ;` luuuu siiiic iuiBy 8111 SadiG'y ii�iiiiiiiiiaimli g: What a difference a generation or so has wrought in the once -joyous art of summer cottagingt About 30 years ago, it was a gypsy sort of existence, based on the idea that people should enjoy life. Today it is a combination of status seeking, nerve wrecking and organized horror, like most of the other facets of society in the Sixties. In those days, the cottage was a cottage, not a pa- latial "summer home", To- day, the same structure would be called a shack, and they'd run you right out of the sub -division (which could be the best thing that ever happened to you). Can you imagine one of these young married couples, the kind who grin and wink feverishly on the beer commercials, going, with their children, to a place away off nowhere, with coal -oil lamps and a two-holer out back and no supermarket within 50 miles. Can you imagine Mummy going all summer without even one single car? Can you imagine Dad with just one lousy little rowboat? Can you imagine children who could possibly exist without water skis and transistor radio s? It's pretty appalling, isn't it? * * * And yet, summer cottag- ing was, within memory, a simple almost pioneer exist- ence, with its own very spe- cial pleasures, its deep de- lights, its subtle joys. It was a wonderful, golden two months each year In the lives of many young- sters, a time they still re- member with savage regret for what they have become. For one thing, Father did not have to thunder up a highway with thousands of other zaniacs, each and every one intent on getting there in the shortest pos- sible time and taking noth- in' off a nobody in the process. lather was a sum- mer bachelor, and he Ioved every minute of it. When school ended, he loaded down the old car to the groaning point, piled the kids in the back. took the whole family to the cottage, dumped them. and went sensibly back to town, where all the other sensible fathers spent the summer. He got a rest front his wife a n d children, a n d spent the evenings quietly and happily at the bowling green, or pottering among the raspberry bushes, or running around with the local grass widow. And what was Mother do- ing? Don't worry. She was kept busy, and therefore happy, taking slivers out of feet, keeping bowels open, taking the kids swim- ming twice a day, and fill- ing their greedy little guts with unpasteurized milk, ungraded eggs, and un- inspected meat. * * * Nowadays my heart aches for cottage parents. The day they arrive, Dad charges around like a bull moose, hooking up the pres- sure system, blowing fuses in the hydro system, try- ing to get his dirty great boat in the water, and running in all directions lugging vast cans of gas, brutally heavy outboards, and back -breaking cases of beer. When everything i s operating, he has to dash off to the village to get some indispensables, such as a box of tissues, a bot- tle of olives and some mixer for the gin. When he gets back, he learns that he is to take the kids for a swim, set up the barbecue for the party they're giving that night. and go back to the village for some cigarettes for Mum. What are the kids doing, on that glorious first day at the cottage'? 'they're sitting around whining because there's no TV and "Nothing to do", :Snd what is Mum- niy doing? She has switch- ed on her electric stove, flopped some frozen dinners in the overt, and is sitting with a drink, looking at the lake with bored disdain. No slivers to take out, no vege- tables to prepare. no drink- ing water to fetch. She's unhappy. * * * Sunday night. or Monday First CNE Drew 8,234 Exhibits The first Canadian National Exhibition was opened by the Marquis of Lorne, on Friday, Sept, 5, 1879. It proved a success. More than 100, 000 paid admission and there were 8, 234 exhibits. This will be the 85th year of the CNE. In 1962 the CNE set an all- time attendance record. There were 3, 009, 500 paid admis- sions. The record one -day attendance is 334, 000 set in 1961. In the 85 -year history of the largest exhibition in the world, the number of exhibits has grown to such proportions they are uncountable. WORLD OF PEACE While the Columbia project whirlpools round and round in the B, C. -Ottawa gorge, Prem- ier Bennett's own pet Peace River project bubbles ahead at a good clip, says The Financial Post. The enormous diversion tunnels near completion. Work on the diversion dam will be- gin in the autumn. So far, more than $92.4 million in contracts have been let, If all goes well, the Peace will start pumping power in late 1968. morning if he's a real nut, Dad hits the highway again and arrives back on the job creased, cross and sorry for himself. But the hor- rible part of it is that he has to be at the cottage every week end. plus his three - weeks - with - pay in August. At least twice a week, back in town, he gets a phone call from Mum, and he'd better be home to take it, not out "roaring around and having yourself a big time." Her call reveals that she is bored, that the kids are giving her a bad time, that the septic tank isn't working, and that snme people are going to "drop over" on Saturday night and be sure to bring lotsa likker. Sure, they have many things the old-time cot- tage rs didn't have lights, water, indoor plumbing. But today's cottager. in his frantic search for ease and convenience, has created a Frankenstein monster. lle's a slave to all that ma- chinery. and a captive of all that social life, and he hates his wife, who'd be much happier taking out slivers with a needle than wondering if it is too early to have her first gin and tonic.