The Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-08-29, Page 9amemit
Drag Out Your Stetson
This is it folks. Wingham goes Wild
West at the week -end. Frontier Days are
here again.
Though you may be fully acquainted
with the shindigs which take place dur-
ing this annual event sponsored by the
Lions Club, you are probably like all the
rest of us—happy to see the town take
on a festive air and prepare itself for a
bit of merry -making.
Because the town does not have a fall
fair, Frontier Days add a welcome bit of
sparkle to end-of-surnmer living. We
have all come to, associate Frontier Days
with that time of year when families are
re -united after the holiday season and are
getting ready to return to school and busi-
ness for the fall.
As we have done so many times be-
fore, we want to remind you not just of
the fun which is in store for you at the
week -end, but rather of the very serious
purpose which lies behind the annual
event. It is, of course, the Lions Club's
most important money -making event of
the year. The funds which are raised
through Frontier Days are devoted to the
betterment of the community in many
different ways.
Enjoy yourself to the full during Fron-
tier Days, in the knowledge that your fun
will make some less fortunate person
happier too.
Welcome Increase
Prime Minister Roberts' recent an-
nouncement of en increase in the grants
for hospital construction in Ontario was
indeed welcome, and particularly so to
the people in this locality, where local
hospitals are.facing the need of increased
space and facilities.
As recently as Friday evening the dir-
ectors of the Wingham and District Hos-
pital discussed recommendations from
the Ontario Hospital Services Commission
in regard to improvements which must
shortly be made in the building here.
The greatest need in this case is for a
new operating room, obstetrical room and
other such "service" areas. Equally im-
portant, it is becoming increasingly evi-
dent that the original section of the
building, converted many years ago from'
a private residence, will have to be re-
moved.
Although the cost picture is still wor-
risome, the increase in Provincial grants
will certainly bring the attainment of this
project much closer to reality.
Though we are not in favor 'of sub-
sidies and hand-outs to all and sundry
where government is concerned, the field
of public health is one place where small-
er communities must look to the Province
and the Dominion for assistance. Costs
of hospital buildings are simply beyond
the scope of the local sources of revenue.
Not A l l Bad
Atomic energy is bringing widespread
benefits to Canadians today as a source
of good in everyday life.
In industry, medicine, electric power
and other fields, atomic or nuclear energy
is being put to work in thousands of ways,
reperts the August issue of the Commer-
cial Letter of Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce.
"It is often assumed by laymen that
1.40 nuclear energy (in its peaceful uses) is
still a force of the future—waiting, but
not quite ready, to serve mankind," says
the Commercial Letter.
"In fact, nuclear energy is here now
and is being used, in one form or an-
other, to make our lives easier, healthier
and safer."
Canada is among the leaders in the
harnessing of the atom as a source of
good. There are now five nuclear re-
actors at Chalk River, Ontario, and a
major addition is being built. World
atomic interest has centred on the Nu-
clear Power Demonstration Station that
generates electrical power at Rolphton,
near -Chalk River. The research of Can-
adian scientists is bringing further ad-
vances in the practical uses of nuclear
energy.
"Good progress in the use of atomic
energy to improve living conditions has
already been made, and in the years ahead
new applications will doubtless affect our
lives in many ways," the Commercial
Letter says. "It is estimated that by 1980
about one-third of all the electric energy
generated in Ontario will be from nuclear
power.''
The second stage of Canada's nuclear
power program, the Douglas Point Nu-
clear Power Station, is under construction
near Kincardine, Ontario. This is Cana-
da's first full-scale nuclear power station.
Recent public announcements indicate
that plans are well advanced for a new
and much larger atomic power plant in
Ontario.
Watch Those Bicycles
How many times have you had "close
calls" when a youngster on e bike whip-
ped out in front of your car. The other
day we sat for a few minutes oozing
cold sweat after a boy of six or perhaps
seven tumbled off his bicycle just as we
were about to pass him.
Next week the kids go back to school.
There will be dozens of them on their
bicycles in the morning, at noon and
after four. Unless they have changed
vastly since school closed in June only a
small fraction of these youngsters will
give any more than a passing thought to
their own safety or the hazards of motor
traffic. Watch out for them. They
won't watch out for you.
The frank truth is that many, many
boys and girls are riding bicycles before
they are old enough to deserve this kind
of equipment. The carelessness with
which we permit our smaller children on
the streets on the most treacherous of
vehicles is truly amazing.
This column has suggested many times
that some organization in town should
undertake a bicycle safety school, where
the kids could be taught safety pre-
cautions, and where, ideally, they could
be passed or turned down for bicycle
operator permits. In this way those who
are too young to be responsible for
themselves in traffic would be forced to
wait a year or two.
Perhaps this sounds a bit rough on
the youngsters, but it would be better
to have them sore at us than to lose them
under the wheels of a truck.
Rough Time Ahead
Among the people we envy least this
week is Frank E. Madill, principal of the
Wingham District High School. The be-
ginning of any new school term is a try-
ing time for a high school principal and
his staff, but this year the Wingham
school presents what must be the grand-
daddy of all headaches.
The opening of the September term
means lining up timetables not merely
for the regular high school courses, but
now they must be fitted to meet the
needs of those who are branching out into
the new vocational courses as well. To
add to the confusion the new additions
to the school will not be completed.
Classes and plans will have to be tailored
to meet the temporary disruption created
by the building program and to permit
work to continue on the building.
The new educational program under-
taken by the Department of Education
promises much for the youth of the pro-
vince—hut we suspect it will add many
wrinkles to the brows of high school
principals and their staffs.
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S. S. NO. 17 HOWICK, the Fordwich Public School,
formally closed its doors on Saturday afternoon when
a school reunion was held. The original building was
put up in 1872 and the present structure was built in
1900. During a brief program Harold Pollock acted as
chairman and read a history of the school. John
Gamble read the list of teachers who had taught in the
section from 1872 until the present time.—A-T Photo.
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By the time this appears in print, I hope to be lolling
arrogantly beside the saltwater swimming pool at the
Manoir Richelieu, one of Canada's most lush hideaways
for worn-out millionaires and tired -out weekly newspaper
editors.
Both will be gathered there this week, the former
trying to regain their lost health, the latter trying to ruin
theirs, at their annual convention.
At the moment of writ-
ing, it's merely a hope.
Between here and there
lies a nightmare of car,
rail and boat travel, with
a wife and two children.
I have no doubt what-
ever that the journey will
be an unforgettable hor-
ror composed of car
trouble, missed trains, sea-
sickness, forgotten bras-
sieres, mislaid baggage
checks, furious wife, and
lost children. This is the
way we always travel.
* * *
As usual at our place,
the kids and I have taken
the preparations for at-
tending this convention
with admirable calm, while
my wife has been sewing
and ironing and swearing
softly since the first of
July. I swear she'd need
three years' advance no-
tice should we ever decide
to go to Europe for a
month.
What really baffles her
is the unpredictability of
the good old Canadian
weather. Late August can
be reeking hot, cold and
c l a m m y, or brisk and
breezyc' Figure three
changes of clothes a day
for three possible climates,
for four people, for seven
days, and you have the
measure of her misery.
This week, while she
stews at home, getting
ready, I'm at a slightly
different type of conven-
tion. It's a gathering of
schoolteachers. Oh, there
are similarities. You wear
a name badge at each. You
eat meals at each. There
are receptions at each.
Each has a key word:
"dedication" at this one
and "grass-roots" at the
newspaper one. There are
interminable uplifting
speeches at each.
But what a difference in
the details! At our first
evening at the Manoir, I
shall lead down to cocktails
my beautiful wife, en-
hanced by a smashing hair-
do and new gown. We shall
sip languidly and exchange
bons mots with ald friends,
while a white -gloved waiter
passes the hors d'oevres.
Then, wooed by dozens
of handsome, young public
relations men who want us
to sit at their table, we
shall proceed in stately
style to the Lobster Ther-
midor and the Baked
Alaska.
* * *
Things weren't quite like
that at my first meal at the
teachers' gathering. My
dinner companion was
pleasant, but not exactly
exciting and by no stretch
of the imagination beauti-
ful. He didn't even get a
new hair -do for the conven-
tion. He was my room-
mate, director of the tech-
nical wing in a high school.
None of this decadent
dining at seven. Dinner
was at five - thirty. We
washed our hands and
went down to weiners and
beans, followed by a palata-
Letters to the Editor
Dear Barry: from 3 p. m. to 4 p. m. and
Well just a line to say we high tea is our supper time.
are getting the Advance okay
and we sure do enjoy it -- all
the news of home. We are
having a good time at Brighton
the last two weeks. It was just
like Wingham; 78 degrees in
the day, but nice and cool for
sleeping. We both get sun-
burned.
We liked Edinburgh and
toured a lot by bus. Frank says
it costs us about 2 cents a mile.
We find it very cheap. The
roads are very narrow and I
often close my eyes when I see
another bus corning. '
We find some things differ-
ent. A pullman over here is a
dining car, not for sleeping.
Also meal times are different.
We get mixed up with the high
and low teas. The low tea is
ble, but not quite exotic,
dessert of canned cherries.
At the Manoir, great pub-
lic institutions like finance
companies will vie with one
another to provide pre -din-
ner receptions and post -
dinner convivialities for the
editors.
At this convention, the
only reception was a cof-
fee -and -cookies affair at
9.30 p.m., and the guests
paid for the grub.
*
At the Manoir, each eve-
ning will produce its small
parties, followed by danc-
ing and entertainment in
the handsome casino. At
this one, evening enter-
tainment consists of a walk
around the grounds, follow-
ed by a couple of hundred
other lonely teachers who
miss their families, and
ends with a coffee from the
automat in the basement.
Teachers and weekly edi-
tors are good and useful
people, and have much in
common, though they often
hate each others' innards.
Both try to inform, educate
and raise the standards of
society. But when it comes
to conventions, though I'll
probably be healthier after
the teachers' affair, I'll
have a lot more fun with
the editors.
We are here now for two
weeks, then on to Tunbridge
Wells. When we were coming
to Brighton we went to St. Pan-
cras Station, then acress London
by taxi to Fuston Station.. I
never saw more people lined up
for trains. The taxi took us
past Buckingham Palace, so we
waved and hung on as, I think
the taxi was only on two wheels
part time. We hope to see
more of London later on.
Sybil and Frank Seddon
0--0--0
678 Broadview Ave.
Toronto, Ontario.
The Wingham Advance -Times,
Wingham, -
Ont.
Dear Sir:
Please find enclosed a
cheque for four dollars (:i.%.1.00)
as payment on my subscription
for the paper which runs out
sornetime in August.
My paper very often does
not reach me until the Mon-
day after it is printed and
sometimes as late as the Tues-
day. This makes the news
rather old. It may be due to
our own mails.
Thank you very much.
Yours truly,
Eliz. K. Wylie.
Chosen for
UN Bus Trip
Miss Linda Papple, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Papple
of R. R. 5, Seaforth has been
awarded the United Nations
bus trip to be held September
22nd to 28th inclusive. The
itinerary will include the cities
of Washington and New York.
A visit to the United Nations
Building will be one of thehigh-
lights.
Miss Papple received her
Homemaking Club provincial
honours in May of this year and
has completed 10 4-11 agricult-
ural club projects.
Reminiscing on Page Eight,