The Wingham Advance-Times, 1964-07-23, Page 9ea es,e 4.110
Bridge Wiii Be improvement
Town council's narrowly -passed de-
cision to proceed with the Department of
Highways program for re -building of the
McKenzie bridge is one with which we
thoroughly agree. Though some of the
councillors and no doubt some townsfolk
feel that the cost is too much for the
ccmrnunity, we do believe that the time
has come to take action.
The most important aspect, of course,
is the safety factor. The old bridge has
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caused many accidents over the: years and
it is u .te ,apparent that a wider span of
modern design will reduce the hazard for
metori•,ts.
The most appealing reason for the
change, however, is that a new bridge
will be a vast improvement from the
standpoint of appearance. The parks
cor'nrnis<,on has done a wonderful job of
improving the river area adjacent to the
bridge, but their efforts are largely wasted
as long as the unsightly old span remains
in place. The erection of a new bridge
will fittingly round out the program of
a beautification in that area.
Few people, particularly those of the
younger generation, realize that municipal
spending has entered upon a new phase.
For the past 20 years most municipal
taxes have been poured into a "catching
up" program, made necessary by eight or
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nine years of depression conditions and
six years of war, in which little was done
to more than barely maintain the neces-
sary municipal services. We have been
paving streets that should have been at-
tended to 10 or 12 years ago; we have
renewed sidewalks and street lights .and
a dozers and one other repairs that were
overdue.
At long last we are reaching the stage
where we can afford those local im-
provements which do not fall completely
into the category of necessities but do
have tremendous values for the com-
munity as a whole. Our parks .program
is typical of this latter type of planning.
We are delighted to see that the rural
municipalities around us are preceeding
with similar plans, the latest being East
Wawanosh Township, where a park will
shortly be in the making.
Money spent for recreation purposes
will never meet with the approval of all
the voters, but its benefits will be enjoy-
ed by every citizen, regardless of his
convictions. The new bridge will be an
improvement not only in the appearance
of the northern approach to the town,
but will serve a very worthwhile purpose
as far as the motoring public is con-
cerned.
Auxiliary Is Wise Move
Congratulations are in order for the
• person who conceived the idea of the
formation of an auxiliary fire brigade.
There are plenty of young fellows who
are keenly interested in fire -fighting, and
this new organization will provide an
ideal means of retaining their interest
and at the same time giving them some
training. When they are needed on the
senior brigade they will be of very real
value, even at their first fire.
Volunteer fire brigades of the sort
which is common throughout Western
Ontario are somewhat unique. City
dwellers simply refuse to believe that we
have sufficient protection when the fire-
men are not professionals who remain
at the fire hall throughout their work
e
shift, ready for any emergency.
However, the record of successful
sorties leaves no doubt that these rural
fire brigades are efficient. Their equip-
ment has been brought up to date and
because of their intense interest the fire-
men turn in highly credible performances
at the fires they are called to quell.
We have long advocated greater par-
ticipation in the annual schools operated
by the fire marshal's department. We
feel that every possible opportunity for
further training should be accepted, not
because our firemen are doing a poor
job, but because it is vital that they be
permitted to keep up with the latest
changes in equipment and techniques.
Uneasy Heritage
No spots on earth seem to be as un-
happy as those places where white men
are reaping the whirlwind that follows
in the wake of slavery. The United States
from north to south and east to west is
torn by hatreds and strife as the direct
consequence of a growing negro popu-
lation. It was, of course, the system of
slavery in the southern states which trans-
planted negroes from their native Africa
and created all the causes for the grief
• which have come about since that time.
In Africa itself the resentment of
black people toward white men who were
once their masters has reached dangerous
proportions. Only South Africa remains
determined in its plans to subjugate col-
ored people long after the curtain has
been rung down upon an era,of intoler-
ance,
There is little point in bewailing the
inhumanities which created these con-
ditions in byegone centuries. There have
been slaves since the dawn of time. No
religion, including Christianity, ever suc-
ceeded in ridding its adherents of the
blight of slavery. All that can be done
now lies within the realm of education—
training the newly -free to govern them-
selves with wisdom and the much more
difficult task of training their late mas-
ters to think like decent human beings.
R is a task which will not be completed
within our time, nor within the years of
the next generation.
Sympathy Versus Judgment
Having some experience as a member
• of a hospital board, we feel sorry for the
directors of the Palmerston Hospital at
present. These men bear responsibility
for the operation of an institution in
which human lives are at stake. When
they learned that a doctor who used the
hospital for the conduct of his practice
N was somewhat Tess than reliable as a sur-
geon they quite properly refused to per-
mit him the use of hospital facilities.
Now their fellow townsmen have raised
a hue and cry to force the directors to
allow the doctor hospital privileges.
Dr. Graham must be a very likeable
✓ fellow. A coroner's jury reported that
he had committed errors during an op.
eration on a Palmerston woman, one of
which caused her death. The fact that
he left a 6 -inch surgical clamp in her
abdomen and that he tied off the wrong
duct from her gall bladder, permitting
peritonitis to develop, were acknowledged
in the jury's findings, but so strong was
personal sympathy for the doctor that
the jury concluded they found no evi-
dence of negligence.
Apparently a lot of people in Palmer-
ston are prepared to overlook any past
errors on the doctor's part and would
like to see him exonerated and left free
to practise as usual.
We have every sympathy for the
doctor's plight and for his blighted hopes
in his chosen profession — but wisdom
would certainly indicate that he might be
well advised to seek some other field of
endeavour.
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MRS. GEORGE W'CHIE AND MRS. JACK
TAYLOR were lo of busy at the Co -Op
chicken barbed on Saturday evening.
They served the vegetables and salad to
diners who came to enjoy the meal served
in the community centre.—A-T Photo.
Wingham, I:star!,-, Thursday, Jul:.
IaEMINISCI G
JULY 1914
A horse, helou::-n, to Mr.
A. J. Taylor, of '1' 1-r erry,
was frightened on .:dnt -:day
morning last by tht ?;u;:t crowd
which rushed across:•'iunle
street to witness the lady hal-
loouist land, The: animal dash-
ed through the th on.;, upset-
ting the rig and user: luk; Airs.
Taylor and her dauwt?r,r \ io-
lently to the ground. it wa
miraculous that nont ,•f the oc-
cupants and none of t:l.: pedes-
trian; were injured,
A portion of the h inporary
seats erected at the park gave
away on Wednesd;+'. when the
crowd gathered ':: watch the
balloon ascension. In the
morning Airs. Forster was seri-
ously injured by the fall, and
in the afternoon Mrs. Fralick,
of town and Miss Annie Mole
of Auburn being the rnost seri-
ously injured. The former re-
ceiving a severe shaking up
and suffered greatly from the
shock. Miss Mole was injured
in the hack. A number of
others were shaken up by rhe
fall.
Five citizens of town were
prize winners in the Toronto
News Picture game contest
which closed a week ago. Miss
Maud Fleuty headed the list
coining ninth and winning a
cabinet of silver valued at
$100. Miss Fleuty did exceed-
ingly well, as over seven con-
testants were in the game. Mis:
B. 11. Reynolds won a $30
Eastman Kodak and Miss C. J,
Farquharson, Dr, Redmond
and Mr. Dudley Holmes, K.C.
received kitchen wets.
JULY 1928
Mr. Russell Hopper, who has
been employed by A. J. Walker
for the past six years is snaking
arrangements to open a furni-
ture and undertaking business in
Exeter and expects to leave
Wingham about the middle of
this month. Mr.•liopper is an
honor graduate embalmer and
we feel sure that success will
crown his efforts in branching
out for himself.
The two cluster of Peonies
presented to the town by the
Prince of Wales are in full
bloom, one being white and the
other red, and add much to the
beauty of the lawn in front of
the municipal building. Great
credit is due our towel clerk,
Mr. W. A. Galhiaith, and the
members of the council, for the
shape in which the lawn is kept
during the summer.
JULY 1939
See Shirley 'It triple in
-The Little 1'riuee,s", Lyceum
Theatre, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday.
Mr, 1., Shac.<leton, of De-
troit, daughter, Doris, and son,
Carl, visited last weci. with
SUGAR A
D SPICE
Man's orst Madness
By BILL SMILEY
Great strides havo been made
in the twentieth century toward
the conquering of disease. One
after another, typhoid, smallpox,
diphtheria, polio and whooping
cough have been knocked on the
head. And the medical people
are hot on the trail of cancer.
That's why it's so discour-
aging to realize that while
today's medicine -men have
had their noses glued to a
test-tube, a little virus that
at first seemed harmless, has
sneaked around behind them,
spread with the stealth of
spilled maple syrup, and is
now resulting in an epidemic
of appalling proportions.
Worse still, there is no drug
that will kill it for it is not a
physical ailment but a mental
aberration. Already this highly
contagious mania has hit so
many people that it's not likely
anything will stop its ravages
of the race except the radio-
active fallout that will stop
everything one of these days.
Its symptoms are unmis-
takeable, its victims easily
discerned. When under an
attack, they will: suddenly
leave work in the middle of
the afternoon; miss the fu-
nerals of close relatives; skip
meals, though they love
their victuals; desert their
loved ones at all sorts of
odd hours; inexplicably re-
cover from pain or illness
that would have them moan-
ing In bed, In the winter.
Oh, yes, this disease is most
prevalent In summer, as
polio was.
This mental illness to which I
refer, of course, is that ancient
and honourable state of mind—
it's not a game and don't ever
think it is—called golf.
Don't snort, gentle reader.
Perhaps you have thus far
escaped the anaconda coils
of this serpent -like sport but
you're not safe unless you're
over 90, bed ridden and the
relatives are sitting around
wishing you'd hurry up and
die so they could get out and
hit a hole -in -one.
Just the other day I was sit-
ting on a bench at the 7th tee.
An elderly man came up. play-
ing with two others. He let them
go on without him, and collaps-
ed beside me. "Played whuff six
holes today." he wheezers trium-
phantly, "Had a whuff heart at-
tack two weeks ago. whuff.
Gotta take it easy. Played whuff
three holes yesterday. I'll make
whuff nine tomorrow."
Golf used to be a game for
rich people and a few pro-
fessionals. It was associated
with country clubs, snobbery
and social climbing. But
something has happened in
the last decade, and we
rabble have stormed the
barricades and infiltrated
the fairways. Go out to a
course any day and you'll
see a butcher and a baker,
a printer and preacher. a
hair dresser and hotel keep-
er, hurling themselves with
unanimous vigour and inac-
curacy in the general direc-
tion of the bouncy little
fiend of a ball.
Old ladies who should be hom
knitting garments for grand-
children sweat happily around
the course, hacking divots a
big as dishpans. Attractive
young women who should be
sitting around at a beach, just
looking beautiful, putting lan-
guidly about in long, tanned legyl
and short, tight shorts. Thereby
wrecking the concentration of
old codgers, who are distracted
into slicing $150 balls into the
rough, after spending $300 in
lessons to get rid of that slice.
Oh, I know. The whole
thing is ridiculous. "What
could be sillier," I used to
say before the virus entered
my veins, than walking
around hitting a little ball
with a stick." I still think
it's crazy, a mere obsession.
And the day I break 100, Pan
going to throw away my
clubs and start living again,
which will probably be about
the same day I'm elected
president of the Women's
Institute.
Mrs. R. J. Cantelon.
Mr. Alex. Elliott, Wing -
ham Junction, Norman, Bill
and Dorothy, spent the wee! -
end with relatives in Port Hu-
ron.
A1r. Howard Pococ.<, of
Queen's University, Kingston,
visited with his mother, '.1rs.
Geo. Pococa, Diagonal Road,
over the ,eek -end.
Reeve Raymond Redmond of
)rase Wawanosh, returned nu
Tuesday fruit a two wee,.s' vis-
it to the World's Fair, New
York,
Two rinks of lady howlers
played in the Luekno,: tourna-
ment on 'I•uesday, The rink of
Mrs. Reg. Duval, Mrs. V', B,
McCool, Mr;. E. Webster and
Mrs. G. Williams, s.<ip, won
third prize. The other rink was
Mrs. A, W. Irwin, Mrs. F.
Sturdy, Mrs, M. Iohnson and
Mrs. J. Kerr, s.<ip.
Mr. Charles 11, Hopper,
salesman for tate National Fer-
tilizer Company, o! ingersoll,
was successful in ,.inning; a
trip to the World's Fair, New
York, or the cash equivalent,
in a recent compstitien tor in-
creased sales.
A chorused "our' (I do)
echoed twice through Montreal
Stadium Sunday as lnr, young
French Canadian couples were
wed in all liniglle 111ir5S tnar-
riage, The ceremony, held in
conjunction with the annual
congress of the Young Catholic
Worker movement, of which
the couples all are tn.t1ihts,
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we e:t eying them waiting?
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unfavorai ie puhl!eity marriage
1s getting; from tlt, world's di -
':ort'e courts." f;o, folia persons
attended the ecrcmouy.
Every pair of White Shoes at
and t,clow cost --
$1.
$l,'.r9, to ='2.tilJ - Secure your
share of bargains at Greer' s
Shoe store.
Mr. and Mrs, John Falconer
left on Monday for a month's
trip to rhe West, They were
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
\Vellwood of Caledon.
Mr. and A1rs. Peter .\rktll,
Teuswatcr, Ont., announce
the marriage of their daughter,
Grace Evelyn, Reg. N. , to Mr,
John Cameron, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Cameron, ,Strat-
ford, Ontario.
JULY 1949
At a baptismal service held
an Sunday morning in St. An-
drew's Presbyterian Church, the
following children were baptiz-
ed, Carol Eva, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Alex MacDonald;
Michael Stewart, son of Mr, and
\lrs. Stewart Forsyth; Ralph
Howard, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Wailar of Kitchener;
Sharon Elizabeth, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford Reavis;
Virginia Lenore, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. David Murray;
Malcolm George, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Ross.
Last Friday evening fourteen
Wingham Bowlers attended the
Mixed Doubles at Lucknow.
Miss Mary Johnston and W. B.
McCool won second prize.
The banns were announced
in Sacred Heart Church on Sun-
day Morning of the approaching
marriage of Kathleen Frances
i3rophy, Reg. N., daughter of
\1r. and Mrs. Jos. Brophy, of
Wingham, to Mr. George King,
Teeswater, son of Mrs. King
and the late George King. The
wedding will take place on
Saturday, August tith, at 11;30
a, err.
Last Thursday, Mr. and Mrs,
A. Roberts and Mr. and Mrs.
ti. L. Dunlop left for New York
to represent the Wingham Lion's
;nub at the International Con-
vention.