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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1964-05-21, Page 3Enlhusiasm Is Shown of WFSC Annual Last Wednesday the annual meeting of the Wingham Figure Skating Club was held at the home of John Strong. The treat surer's report showed that the carnival was a financial as well as artistic and well -at- tended success and a profit of $318.46 was realized on this production, The test chairman, Mrs, J, Day, reported 78 tests tried this year in Winghatn and 80'%% of the Wingham skates tests were passes. A special thanks was given Mrs, Day for hand- ling the test -day details so ex- pertly, A meeting is to be held ear- ly this fall with the club pro- fessional to plan an original carnival next year and to carry out some unique ideas suggest- ed at this meeting, The possi- bility of producing the carnival two nights and of sponsoring a Snow Queen contest or mas- querade carnival must be con- sidered. Use MECCA for SCRAPES BRUISES BNFECTIIONS Mecca, a favourite family ointment for over 60 years quickly heatsminor wounds. Nonirritating, soothing antisep- tic. Sold at all drug counters. Buy Mecca In tin or tube The figure Skating trophy - case committee of Roy Bennett and Ross Hastings is empowered to design a suitable case for the arena, to co-operate with the Arena COmnliSSion and other in. wrested groups and have the Marguerite Burrell trophy instal led in rhe• case before a new season begins, No decision was made regarding the hiring of the club professional for next season but applications were considered. The nominating committee presented its report naming the president andeight directors. Mrs, M. Willie was thanked for her wore on the executive in the past and Mrs. J. Deneau and Mrs, D. Elopper were wel- comed to the executive, Mrs, J. Strong served a wel- come lunch before the brief executive meeting began. A vote of thanks was passed to Burke Electric for their free ser- vices and wire used for the car- nival and to CKNX for their facilities and properties donated at that time, The following officers were elected: Pres. , John Strong; vice-pres., Roy Bennett; trea- surer and corresponding secre- tary, Mrs. H. Wild; recording secretary, Mrs. G. W. Tiffin; costume convener, Mrs. E. English; ice supervisor, Mrs, J. Deneau; telephone convener, Mrs. J. Stephens; magazine re- porter, Mrs, Don Hopper; pro- perty manager, Ross Hastings. Mrs. J. Day was named test Our skilled mechanics will get to the bottom of what's wrong with your car and make it right and ready to roll. Free, item- ized estimates given on every job. chairman, Assistants for the test chairman and telephone convener are to he named in the fall. The enthusiasm with which new ideas were received at this meeting bodes well for the future of the club. Mission of the Christian Family Is Unit Theme FORDW ICH- The afternoon Unit of the United Church Wo- men met in the Sunday school rooms. The theme of the meeting was "The Mission of the Christian Family". The conveners for the Fam- ily and Mother's Day program were Mrs. Verna Galbraith, Miss Minnie McElwain and Mrs. Harry Lohr, A story on how the church can help the Christian family was given by Mrs. Gal- braith and Scripture readings pertaining to mother and home were read by Mrs. Ii, Lohr, Miss Minnie McElwain read an article on Mother's Day. "The Old Church Choir", was sung by Mrs. Jack Wilson. Mrs. Robert Gibson, lst vice president of the UCW presided, due to the absence of the unit leader. Roll call was a verse on "God Bless Our Home". Thank you notes were read and Mrs, William Wilson invited members to a trousseau tea for her daughter, Phyllis. A beautifully decorated birthday cake was a feature of lunch, honouring several mem- bers. Pick Chairmen For TB Survey In preparation for the tuber- culosis survey in Huron County June 22 to July 24, chairman for nine districts have been ap- pointed. Mrs. K. B. McRae, of Clin- ton is general chairman. Other chairmen are: Dr. J. C. Ross, of Goderich; H. C. Lawson, of Clinton; Horace Delbridge and John Pryde, of Exeter; Donald I. Stewart and E.C. Boswell, of Seaforth; E. R. Knight, of Brussels; G. A. Watt, of Blyth; Keith Arthur, of Auburn; Elmer Ireland and Ed Walker, of Wingham, and J. E. McKinley, of Zurich, BUILDING CAMP FOR GIRL GUIDES A dormitory for Brownies and staff members is nearing completion at the new camp for Girl Guides and Brownies of Peel and Halton Counties at Camp Wyoka, near Belmore. The Guides will live in tents this summer. Fu11 development of the camp, comprising 100 acres and a lake, will take about ten years. The property was pur- chased by White Oaks area of the Girl Guides of Canada to serve the 6,800 members in the two counties. DO YOU HAVE A SUBSCRIPTION? You'll be sure of not missing your copy of The Wingham Advance -limes if you take out a subscription today. Your copy will be in your mailbox every Thursday morning without fail. If it isn't convenient to come into our office now, just fill out and mail the coupon below and you can pay for the subscription the next time you're in town. In the meantime you can be enjoying the news, and the display ads will keep you posted on the merchants' latest features. It's alt in The Wingham Advance -Times! r__._ PLEASE BEGIN MY SUBSCRIPTION TO THE _.-...._. —I I WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES 1 I 1 1 I I NAME 1 STREET OR BOX NO. 1 TOWN 1 ONE YEAR $4,00 6 MONTHS $2,25 OUTSIDE CANADA $5.00 1 LMAIL THIS COUPON TO BOX 390, WINGHAM, ONTA.IOJ Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, May 21, 1964 - Page 3 MEMBERS OF THE Literary Society at Wingham High School 1913-1914 included, back, left to right: J. A. Mc- Burney, C. M. Ewing, B.A., N. McKague, A. G. Rintoul, president, G. R. Smith, B.A., L. Robinson, E. Wilkinson. Third row: N. Christie, K. Pringle, M. I, Whyte, M.A., J. Bosman, J. Ferguson, M. Perrie, lst vice-president, J, Cur- rie, N. Nicholson. Second row: N. Hibbert, T. Armstrong, B. E. Anderson, H. E. Ricker, M.A., E. V. Cooper, B.A., G. Jefferson, M. Isard. Front row: H. Thompson, assistant treasurer, A. B. Henry, prophet, M. Foran, G. T. Cruick- shank, secretary, V. Johnston, W. Wallace, C. MacLean, treasurer. The picture was loaned by Miss K. Pringle. By Murray Gaunt, M.P.P. Report from Queen's Park The longest session of the Ontario Legislature is now his- tory, What appeared to start out as a rather dull and routine session, the first since the pro- vincial election last September 25th, ended up in its dying mo- ments to be one of the more in- teresting and exciting sessions. The week began with the es- timates of the Attorney General, a department which is noted for being rather explosive and has been responsible for two succes- sive ministers being put into compromising positions and thereby proving very embaras- sing to the Government, The last estimate to pass through the Legislature was the Department of Lands and For- ests. On Friday, May 8th, the Session prorogued for the sum- mer. The following is, inpart, the speech which I delivered on Thursday. "Mr. Speaker, before em- barking into the main text of my speech I would like to make a comment about the 52% rise in the Ontario Hospital Insur- ance rates. A great deal has been said about this previously but I did feel it was sufficiently important to make another com comment at this time. It seems to me that this sharp in- crease in hospitalization rates affects the people in the low in- come brackets most severely. These are the people who can least afford to pay this increase and as a result many of them will be dropping out of the plan because they cannot afford the premium rates. These, Mr. Speaker, are the people who need hospitalization most, "I want to confine most of my remarks to the Great Lakes water levels which are., as we all know, critically low at the present time. Let me preface my remarks by saying that our Federal Government, United States Government, Ontario and Quebec governments all have a responsibility in this re - regard. However, in view of Ontario's position in the econ- omic life of this country, I feel the onus falls particularly heavy on the shoulders of this govern- ment. From a constitutional point of view certainly the Great Lakes, in some regards at least, fall under the jurisdiction of this province. Low lake le- vels are causing hardships from the Lake head to Montreal. Lake Huron is :t feet below nor- mal which is its lowest level on record dating back to1860. Lake Michigan is about as low; Lake Ontario is down 2 feet; Lake Erie about 11 feet below normal and Lake Superior 1 foot. This, undoubtedly, affects many peo- ple because 25'',x, of all Canadi- ans are within the Great Lakes basin, "There have been many rea- sons given as to the possible causes of low lake levels: These include lack of rainfall, a mys- terious tilting of the earth, eva- poration, the Chicago Drainage Canal and the removing of for- est cover from the shores of the Great Lakes; the deepening of the channel at Sarnia and Port Huron. In the Walkerton Her- ald -Times of April 2 an editor- ial appeared on this subject. It reads in part as follows: "'In Lake Michigan the Chicago Drainage Canal takes an estimated 2% of the water. But the trouble here, referring to Lake Huron, was created when the channel at Sarnia and Port Huron was deepened an- other 6 feet. This had the same effect as pulling the plug of the bath tub - the bath tub in this case being Georgian Bay. Those who have enjoyed our beaches know that the level of the Bay has gone down 3 feet since the channel at Sarnia was deepened three and a half years ago. It is reasonable toassume that the level will continue to drop until it finds its level which appears to be equal to the six feet that the channel was lowered." "My honourable friend from Wellington-Dufferin in his wa- ter speech pointed up the fact that precipitation has been be- low normal the past few years. This has certainly contributed to the present problem of low water levels. My honourable friend indicated that sufficient quantities of water could he ob• twined by sound conservation practices such as conserving the run-off which amounts to 160 million gallons of water per square mile across the province. I suggest this is idealistic in that it is highly unlikely that we will ever reach the point where we could. conserve all the run-off or even half of it al- though we should certainly con- stantly work toward the goal of conserving as much run-off as possible. "According to the report of the Select Committee of the Ontario Legislature on Lake le- vels of the Great Lakes estab- lished its 1052, precipitation and evaporation are the domi- nant factors controlling the le- vels in the Great Lakes. How- ever, excessive precipiation in only one year following a per- iod of average or below aver- age. precipitation has little, if any, effect on the levels of the Great Lakes according to the report. "The report also mentioned a tilting movement of the earth's crust. During the cen- turies since Pleistocene ice sheet has retreated, the land to .ward the north-east has risen considerably. Old shorelines in the Lake Erie area are much more nearly horizontal andgeo- logists claim that it is near the hinge line, that is the line along which crusted movement does not take place. Present day deductions indicate that the hinge line runs from slightly south of Duluth, crosses the en- trance to Green Bay, passes close to Goderich and on through the Niagara Peninsula, North from this hinge the land is rising and south of this line the land is subsiding. The nat- ural consequence of this tilting is that the lakes with outlets north of the hinge line, tend to become deeper and flood their southern or south-western shores relative to the amount theirout- lets are raised, while the lakes with outlets south of the hinge lMe tend to have their general level lowered relative to the amount their outlets are depres- sed. "I have mentioned the fore- going reasons simply to indicate and underline the fact that the alarming lake levels are not due to any one particular rea- son but a combination of rea- sons, a cotnbination that has resulted in consternation being expressed by people whose live: are and will be affected if something is not done tomain- tain normal lake levels. "The problem now remains what should he done both in terms of long term planning and in terms of a short term remedy to correct this very ser- ious situation. In order to of- fer sotne constructive sugges- tions I am going to outline to the House: a number of proposals urged by the Georgian 13ay De- velopment Association, ()nee again, I emphasize that 3 pro- posals are things which could he done in the way of short term remedial me asured to correct at least its part the low lake levels in Georgian B a y and Lake Huron. "1. It has been suggested that the level of Lake Superior be lowered by 18" to bring Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Georgian Bay up just over 1'2". It has been estimated that a one inch drop in the level in the Lake' Huron t3asin cost the shipping interests $256,000 or one-quarter million dollars. At the present time Georgian Bay is 6" below the 1952 level. There is also a tremendous loss 'encountered by hydro electric power when the lake levels have dropped to disastrouspro- portions, "2. To assist the marina op- erators currently out of water a 50'io subsidy on the cost of dredging and dock rebuilding be irtiplemente•d. "3, Emergency investigation lof Collingwood Harbour and immediate investigation of con- ditions in the harbours of Mea - ford, Port MacNicoll, Port El- gin, Southampton, Owen Sound, Kincardine and Goderich, "4. As an intermediary term project within two to five years the Georgian Bay Development Association wants a control point established at the foot of Lake Huron. The Lake Huron basin has averaged a fluctuation of as much as 5' over the last 10 years and during the period of record of 103 years the max- imum fluctuation has been 6'. Lake Superior has had, of course, a control dam for many years dating back to around 1001, I understand. This darn has been successful in control- ling the low level to within a very few inches, "5. The Association's fifth point is one directed at the long term possibility of divertingwa- ter from the James Bay water shed to the Great Lakes. A scheme somewhat in the dream stage at present but possibly feasible, My colleague from Sudbury and others have spoken about this scheme at great length when we were disct:ssing estimates of Energy and Res- ources Management. This scheme has commonly been re- ferred to as the Kieran's Plan, It has been tagged with all sorts of derogatory connotations, such as pipe dream, prohibi- tively costly and simply not feasible. These statements do not reflect imagination and vi- sion - something we are going to have ro have in order to cope with this problem. "I would therefore like to close by urging the government to display leadership and sin- cerity by negotiating with all governmental authorities con- fronted with the problem oflow water levels on the Great Lakes. The time for action is NOW and I hope that I, along with ethers in this Legislature, have contri- buted to easing the government into uncharted waters in an en- deavour to thwart a situation which nature has thrust upon us. The state of the Great Lakes is a matter of vital consequence. to the future of our province." TAKE FIRST AID KIT ON FISHING TRIPS The angler should always take a fiat aid kit along on his trip:, including needlenosed Olen: with a wire cutter. If the flesh is pierced by a fish hook, the hook should be press- ed on through until the barb is clear of the flesh. It should then he snipped off and the hook withdrawn. The wound should he cleansed with anti- septic. If possible, get to a doctor. If any redness devel- ops, the wound should be soaked in hot water and epsom salts.