HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1964-09-17, Page 8Page 8 - Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, Sept. 17, 1964
Driver Training Course
Opens at District H. S.
A Bourse Il d.iyt r training will
be established shortl% at the
Winghalll Dirtt'.et lli.0 School.
It will he the :i',t time •;ueh
instruction lt,,s ne' 11 aa<<iihihh
for young o' the district.
It is e,Neied til. .t two glas-
ses per year will :'e held w illi
24 students 'li e.a.eh rias:. Pre-
ference w :11 be ^t e:1 to those
not :dread:. I:olei:11, a lie ease .
Those wishing t.' enrol must st he
at least 1. ; e . Lie and
have. the per.'.liisskS' e!i parents
or guardian.
During the saintlier staff
member h. 6 . Wood, who w
haildlt' tlae classroom portion
o; the program, and A. D.
N1 ie' j.11i.:iu, who will do the
behind-the-wl.eel instruction,
took a speei.:l coarse in Toron-
to in order to qualify as in-
structors.
Each student taking the
course will receive 25 flours of
classroom time, six hours le -
hind the wheel, and 18 hours
in the ear observing.
The lect.tres will cover the
following, points: traffic laws
of the province; fundamental
principles of automobile oper-
ation; laws of nature and man
governing driving; qualities
necessary for the driver; own-
ership ot a ear and responsibil-
itit s involved; highways and
their design; protessional driv-
ing, tactics.
rhe program is extra-eurri-
e alar to the regular school pro-
gram in that the lectures will
start at :2.1 p. in. for one-
hour periods each week. The
actual driving instruction will
start at 3.:20 and can be con-
tinued in the eve rings or un
Saturdays if necessary.
Nanning by the hoard has
been. going on for some months
Ia the belief that a driver train-
ing course is badly needed and
will ..ssist those w ho graduate
w becoming skilled drivers.
Insurance rates for the graduate
are about 111 per cent less than
for the untrained driver who
obtains a license. On comple-
tion of the course each student
must pass the regular Depart-
ment of Transport tests before
becoming a licensed driver.
Cars for the course are sup-
plied to the school by the area
dealers. In this case the first
car is being supplied by Mc-
Clure Motors, the Wingham
G.M. dealer.
Visitors Handicap Hospital Efficiency
(Continued from Page One)
440, x-rays 850, blood trans-
fusions 15, laboratory tests
2227, electrocardiographic ex-
aminations 75, post mortems
2, physiotherapy 100. Total
hospital -patient days amounted
to 7756, for a daily average of
84 patients over the three
month period.
Mrs. Morrey reported that
there is an extreme shortage of
top level nursing personnel and
quoted the numbers which
should he employed in each of
the nursing departments as
outlined by Miss Montieth of
the Ontario hospital Services
nursing division. Total full-
time nursing staff for the hos-
pital should he 89. The staff
falls far short of this figure.
ALL PASSED
The director of the Nursing
Assistants' Course reported
that 18 graduates of the 1963-
04 course had successfully pass-
ed their College of Nurses' ex-
amination for registration.
Nine of these girls are now em-
ployed on the staff.
Twenty-four members of the
new class entered training on
Monday of this week. The
girls are, for the first time, ,
rooming in recommended
homes in the town near the hos-
pital. Members of the hospital
Auxiliary served coffee in the
recreation room from 2 to 4
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Chairman R. 0. Cousins re-
ported a visit by Mr. Teasdale
of the OHSC, who examined
the residence building in view
of its possible use as a training
centre for the RNA students.
Ile was unable at that time to
snake any final commitments
because new regulations were
being drawn up and new stand-
ards were being set for such
training centres. it was antic-
ipated that they would he com-
pleted this month.
DeWitt Miller, chairman of
the management committee
was asked to contact the De-
partment of High,, ays in regard
to the possibility ot securing
hospital direction signs to be
placed on the int.. rsections
leading to the hospital.
Mr.Cousins said that be ex-
pected the architects will have
called for tenders for the instal-
lation of the two new 125 h. p.
boilers, but no definite word
has been received to date.
Mrs. English, reporting for
the Hospital Auxiliary, said
that several electric fans had
been purchased for the comfort
of the patients during the hot
weather in July.
Mr. Cousins said thatseveral;
comments had been heard by
board members about the fact
that members of the hospital
engineering staff were engaged
in making renovations at Mrs.
Money's new residence on
Carling Terrace, across from
the hospital and asked that she
explain what had taken place.
Mrs. Morrey replied that the
men had offered their assistance
to her and that she had accep-
ted the offer. The chairman
asked whether the men were on
vacation at the time and Mrs.
Morrey replied that they were
and some had worked for her on
their days off.
In regard to purchases of
materials for the house, she
said that all supplies had been
charged to the "house" account
for which she had issued her
own personal cheques.
George Day Dies in
Wingham Hospital
The community was sadden-
ed on Tuesday evening to learn
of the passing of George Linfred
Day at the Wingham and Dis-
trict General Hospital. He was
in his 68th year. The deceased
had suffered a heart attack last
month and had been making
satisfactory progress toward re-
covery when he was stricken
with another fatal seizure.
The late Mr. Day was well-
known in the district as a farm-
er on the 9th Concession of
Turnberry. Ile had a host of
friends in Wingham having also
been occupied as a barber in
the Lloyd Hayden shop for ma-
ny years.
The deceased was a son of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Day. In 1924 he was married
at Bluevale to the former Ethel
Hastings, who survives.
He is also survived by one
son, John Hastings Day, of
Wingham, three sisters, Mrs.
Eva Towle, Stratford; Mrs.
Etta Cousins, Woodstock and
Mrs. Irene Mosgrovc, Stratford,
One granddaughter, Jane Day,
of Wingham, also survives.
Mr. Day was a member of
St. Andrew's Presbyterian
Church, Wingham, and Branch
180, Royal Canadian Legion,
Wingham. He was a veteran of
the First World War and had
served in France.
The funeral will be held
from the R. A. Currie and Sons
funeral home on Thursday,
September 17th at 2.00 p.m.
Rev. Gordon Fish will officiate.
Interment will be made at the
Wingham Cemetery.
STREAKING SAND
Meteoroids are usually frag-
ments of matter about the size
of a pea or even a grain of sand,
which describe random orbits
around the sun. Sometimes
they are pulled into the earth's
gravitational influence. When
this happens, the friction of our
WINGHAM
atmosphere snakes thein glow
and we see them as a streak of
light across the sky.
E.M.C. Meeting
Local Director Crawford
Douglas Outlines Plans
Crawford Douglas, local
Emergency Measured Co-ordin-
ator and Stewart Forbes, county
co-ordinator outlined a plan
for emergency measures in
Wingham and District on Tues-
day evening to those designated
to fill local posts.
Major Changes in
Postal Service
A major change in postal
service becomes effective here
October 4, when Wingham will
become a distributing centre
and mails from Belgrave, Brus-
sels, Fordwich, Gorrie, Wrox-
eter, Bluevale and Teeswater
will be received at Wingham
and processed for onward de-
spatch. Mails from main cen-
tres will be received by 6:10
a.m. and will be sorted to the
boxes at 8:30 a.m.
A despatch to Whitechurch,
Lucknow, liolyrood, Ripley and
Kincardine will be made at
6:10 a.m. A despatch toBel-
grave, Brussels, Fordwich, Gor-
rie, Wroxeter and Bluevale
will be made at 7:15 a.m. and
4:15 p.m. Teeswater will re-
ceive mail from Wingham at
'7:50 a.m. and 5:45 p.m.
Mails to larger centres will be
despatched at '7:25 p.m. and
8:00 p.m. in trucks to Guelph
and London. On Sunday one
despatch only will be made to
Stratford for onward despatch
at 3:05 p. m.
The new service will be an
improvement as mail despatch-
ed from Wingham will be de-
livered to most points in On-
tario the following morning.
Mail which previously arrived
at 1:00 p.m. from the London
area will arrive at 5:00 a.m.
under the new schedule. Col-
lections of local street letter
boxes will be scheduled to the
new despatch times.
The plan has been developed
by Mr. Douglas to set up an or-
ganization of local volunteers
working under a by-law passed
by town council last year.
Each division of the plan,
covering welfare, medical,
fire, police, supply, commun-
ications, transport personnel,
public information, children's
aid and air traffic, were cover-
ed in the plan with the direc-
tors for each department told
to set up planning covering
their individual responsibilities.
In a month's time another
meeting will be field in. an at-
tempt to co-ordinate the whole
scheme and settle any problems
that have come up.
P.S. Board Met
Monday Evening
The board of the Public
School met for a regular ses-
sion on Monday evening and
passed a record number of ac-
counts that had built up since
the end of the school term in
June.
Principal Stewart Beattie re-
ported to the board on staff
changes and enrolment figures.
An inspection was made of
work done during the summer
which included the paving of
part of the back yard where the
walk was low, several new
sidewalks and the replacement
of the flag pole and flag.
Regular summer mainten-
ance ineluded the lowering of
the ceiling of the Grade 5
classroom in the old building
as well as the painting of two
classrooms and the washrooms.
A new retaining wall was also
constructed at the back of the
kindergarten play area,
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Wingham District High School
Evening Classes 1964-65
The Advisory Vocational Committee of the Wingham District High School is
planning to offer a programme of Evening Courses this year. Classes will be
held only if a sufficient number apply (at least fifteen) and qualified instructors
are available.
PROPOSED COURSES
GENERAL COMMERCIAL TECHNICAL
Oil Painting Typing Auto Mechanics
Sewing Bookkeeping Carpentry
Farm Management Business Machines Electricity
Driver Training (Must be a good Welding
(Classroom instruction) typist)
OTHER POSSIBILITIES:
Conversational French, public speaking, physical fitness, rug making.
Suggestions for other courses will be considered provided sufficient interest
is shown.
INSTRUCTION PERIODS:
Classes will be held each Wednesday evening from 8 to 10 p.m.
The Fall term will start on October 14th and end December 16th. The Winter
term will begin on January 6th and end March 17th.
Some classes may be for only one hour a night.
FEES:
Each course will require the payment of a registration fee.
It will likely be $5.00 for each course except welding where the fee may be
$10.00. No materials are provided in this fee. Fees are not refundable unless
the course is cancelled.
REGISTRATION:
Applications or requests for other courses must be mailed or phoned to the
school. Application forms will be then forwarded to be returned by Septem-
ber 30th. After this preliminary survey a further announcement will be made
of the courses being offered. The fees will be collected on the first night of
classses October 14, 1964.
Gordon S. Moir, J. Leslie Fortune,
Chairman A,V.C.
Board Chairman.
F. E. Madill,
Principal.
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