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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1964-09-24, Page 9r Congratulations to the Mayor Sincere congratulations are extended to Mayor R. S, Hetherington on his ele- vation to the bench as judge for the County of Huron. His many friends in Wingham and throughout the county are pleased that he has been selected to fill a post of such importance. He will, however, be sorely missed in his own community. As mayor of the town Mr. Hetherington has striven stead- ily for progress and many of the projects currently under way were encouraged and initiated by his foresight. There was a time when the county judge had a very easy job . , , but the new appointee takes on his duties under vastly different conditions. Most county judges today work long hours under con- stant pressure, The multiplying demands of a complex society have added greatly to the work load imposed on the judic- iary. In addition to the hours they spend in court they carry home with them heaps of evidence and precedent which must be studied in detail if sound judgments are to be delivered. Knowing Bob Hetherington, we can fully expect that his decisions will en- hance the all-important traditions of justice which are the very foundation of our free society. Outstanding Unit Congratulations are in order, too, for the instructors, officers and rank and file of the Wingham District High School Cadet Corps. Announcement was made last week that the unit had won the Strathcona Award for the third consecu- tive year. The award signifies top place among the 13 schools which make up District No. 3, Points for general excellence and ef- ficiency are decided and tallied up by regular army officers whose standards are extremely high. The fact that the local boys have won the shield threesuc- cessive years certainly indicates a very high standard of performance. Public May Choose Last week's issue of this newspaper carried a report of the hospital board meeting and information about the dif- ficulties which are created by thoughtless visitors. If you failed to understand the significance of that report, you should give it second thought. The vast majority of hospital visitors are keenly aware that they must comply with visiting regulations in the interests of the patients, but a small minority con- tinue to disregard the dictates of ordinary common sense. Their thoughtlessness is jeopardizing the privileges of all visitors, for unless there is a drastic change in their pattern of behaviour the privileges are bound to be curtailed. Since the Wingham and District Hos- pital is a comparatively small, local in- stitution, its directors have sought to permit the greatest possible freedom to relatives and friends of the patients. They have consistently reasoned that it should not be necessary to enforce the totally impersonal regulations which are needed in a big city hospital. Some visitors, through either ignorance or carelessness, continue to ignore even these lenient regulations. There are specific rules which govern the admission of young children as visit- ors, and with very good reason. Smaller children are often carriers of childhood diseases which could spread through hos- pital wards like wildfire. in addition, it is most difficult to keep the smaller child- ren quiet while they visit the sick. A great deal of the nuisance arises with those who are visiting a relative or friend who is not seriously ill—perhaps well on the way to recovery from an operation. Because the one person in whom they are interested is able to sit up and joke about life in hospital, there is a sub -conscious idea in the visitors' mind that every patient in the institution is equally cheerful, In many instances the patient in the next bed is waiting in agony for the noise and confusion of visiting hours to end. During afternoon hours admission for visitors is permissable only through the main entrance and the visitor is required to state the person he wishes to visit. A card is then issued to the caller, grant- ing permission to sec that particular pa- tient, This system is not employed mere- ly to annoy the caller. It is intended to control the number of visitors in any one ward at a given time. It is solely for the protection of the patients—as you would want to be protected if you were occupying one of the beds. Some visitors, however, secure their permission to see one patient and then travel all over the hospital calling on friends in half a dozen rooms. The net result is a confusion and uproar so per- vading that the nursing staff can scarce= ly carry out the necessary duties. A four - bed ward assumes all the hall -marks of a family reunion. The last thing the hospital directors wish is to curtail the visiting privileges of those who bring comfort and cheer to the patients. This is a close-knit, friendly community and the hospital should be operated in that spirit. But the prime function of the hospital is to make sick people well. If its efficiency is seriously affected by the visitors, then the visitors will have to be controlled. They are not nearly as important as the patients. If you must bring the entire family to the hospital you will have to make sure there is someone to take charge of the small fry while they wait outside or in the lobby. Use the main entrance— not the back doors and fire escapes. Read the visiting regulations posted in the front lobby and abide by them in the understanding that they have been writ- ten with the welfare of your loved ones as their prime consideration. Is Your Mind Still Open? Is your education complete or do you • long, at times, to know more, to acquire new skills or to add further interests to your life? If so, you pass the first test, for only the utterly ignorant person ever f feels secure in the scope of his own know- ledge, Within the next few days you have an • excellent chance to launch out into new fields of self-improvement. All you have to do is pick up your telephone and ask the office of the Wingham District High School for an application for night classes. Many options are being sug- gested and those which attract at least 15 applicants will be opened to the pub- lic. True, the evenings are already pretty well taken care of, but it's a matter of where your own deepest interests lie, The school is offering you a golden op- portunity. THE W1NGHAM 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 tJ.S.A,—$5,00 per year; 1! oreign rate --$5,00 per year Advertising Rates on application CONSTRUCTION STARTED --Cement footings and cement block foundations are nearly completed at the six room addition to the Turnberry Central School. Landoni Con- struction Co., of Fergus, has the contract. Besides the six classrooms the addition includes a playroom at the west end of the school and increased administration area. noteiZi Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Sept. 24, 1964 SECOND SECTION SUGAR AND SPICE It's The Happiest Day! By BILL SMILEY Everybody happy now that school has re -opened? You should be, With the possible ex- ception of Christmas Day, it's the happiest and most exciting occasion in the year, for a large part of our population. When I was a kid, we all hated going back to school. And it was real. Schools were grey and grimy. Classrooms were stuffy and •poorly lighted and smelled. Teachers were maiden ladies of eighty or ninety years old, and crabby as hell. Nowadays most youngsters are thrilled to enter the portals in September. They've had enough summer. They want to get back with their peers, and gossip, play, work, stretch their minds, find somebody to hate besides their parents. Nothing is quite so charming as the gossoons entering Grade 1. Shined and curled and star- ched beyond recognition, they march off on opening day with the new schoolbag, clammy hand clutched by a disgusted older brother, or pompous sis- ter. They're as scared and ex- cited as a pilot on his first solo flip. Next in sheer delightfulness, I think, are the kids entering high school. Last year they were the big wheels in Grade 8, the monitors, the safety patrol mem- bers, the seniors. Suddenly they are plunged into a vast high school where they are nothing, the youngest of the young, the rookies, the chickens just out of the nest. Their bewilderment is something to behold. Mothers either weep or brea- the a sigh of purest relief on opening day, depending on whe- ther they have lost the first of their nestlings, or have just got rid of the last of the little hor- rors who have been nudging them towards an institution for the past twelve years. Fathers, too, heave either a sigh or a groan, depending on the age of the kids. If the stu- dents are young, it means the old man at least knows they're in school and safe, not being buried alive at the sandpit, or falling into the water -filled ditch, or running out in front of speeding cars to get their ball. If they're university age, he breathes heavily and grunts with a mingling of pecuniary pain and wild elation as he signs the first of many cheques for tuition fees, plus room'n board. The "drop -outs" are happy as morons. They quit last Easter, took a job, the job petered out, and now they fervently agree with their mother, who said they were too stupid to make a living unless they had a univer- sity degree. So they've dropped back in, to keep warm for' an- other winter. The school board is happy. The long dull summer, with nothing to do but make money, is over, and they can get back to the fascinating topics of how much the new boiler will cost, how lousy the new teachers are, how much they dare submit to the council in their budget, and how different things were when they were at school. The caretakers are happy. After all, it's rather frustrating to spend all summer washing, waxing and polishing, with no- body to appreciate. Now, their two months' hard work vanishes in a twinkling, and they can go back to 10 months of grousing about dirty kids and sloppy tea- chers. The merchants are happy. Their "Back -to -School" adver- tising campaign went over pret- ty well. Now they can relapse comfortably into criticism of the stupidity of the school board, the hours and salaries of the teachers, and the manners and morals of to -day's students, com- pared to those of their own gen- eration. Theoretically, the teachers are happy. They return to school clear-eyed, refreshed, bushy - tailed, dedicated, after their long vacation, which they spent lying on the beach, pounding a golf ball, or touring Europe. In reality, most of them tot- ter in, red -eyed, wrung -out and broke, after seven weeks of sum- mer school and one dreadful week visiting relatives, during which their kids were holy ter- rors and it rained every day. NAPOLEON -- By McBride Reminiscing September 1914 The graduating exercises in connection with the Wingham General Hospital were held in the opera house on Monday, when a large number of people were in attendance. The hall was very nicely decorated with flags, plants and flowers. The chair was occupied by A. H. Musgrove, M.P.P. and on the platform with him were the members of the graduating class nurses in training, Miss Mat- thews, Lady Superintendent, physicians, clergymen and members of the Board of Direc- tors of the Hospital. Following the presentation of diplomas and medals, the graduating nurses, Misses Ida Stanley, Mamie Adams and Lillian Mof fat were each presented with beautiful bouquets of flowers by three little girls, AgnesMc- Lean, Constance Dymond and Elenor McLean. SEPTEMBER 1928 A very pretty wedding was solemnized at the manse, Blyth, at high noon on Wednes- day, when Margaret Lena, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Brown, of Morris Township, became the bride of Harvey M. Robertson, ofBlue- vale. Local Station 10B. P. which has been operating with a power of 15 watts has increased the power to 23 watts, A test program will be broadcast Thursday evening from 7.30 to 8.30. The first half hour will be popular songs and mu- sic with the last part Barn Dance music by Arthur's Trio. Your comments are welcomed by 1OB. P. September 1939 Mr. and Mrs. W, A. Camp- bell announce the engagement of their youngest daughter, Eurith Copeland, to Donald Charles, only son of Mrs. Na - smith and ;he late Arthur P. Nasmith, of Dundas and To- ronto. The wedding; will take place quietly on Friday, Sept- ember 22nd in Toronto. The following graduates of this June from Wingham high School will be starting new careers as follows: Jean Cruickshank, nurse - in- training at Victoria 1lospital, London; Doris Armitage, attending Mac donald Institute, Guelph, two year course; to Stratford Normal, Verne Walker, Dor- othy Golley, Margaret Coulter, Norma Weatherhead, Vivian Waddell, Newton. Damage to the extent of $4000 was caused by fire and water at Cook's factory Tues- day afternoon. Mrs. Cook, from the home across the street from the factory, noticed the smoke and notified the men in the factory. A call was put in for the fire brigade and when they arrived a pile of shavings and sawdust at the rear of the factory was a mass of flames and the fire had worked its way into the roof of the building. Three lines of hose were put in- to action but it was about one and one-half hours before the fire was extinguished although it was under control much soon- er than that. The machine shop was little damaged but the roof was. Considerable da- mage was done to the stock in the shipping room and in the finishing room which will all have to be refinished. The loss is partially covered by insur- ance. Miss Mary Cruikshan;<, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Ben- son Cruikshank, left on Mon- day for Ann Arbor, Mich, , where she will enrol in a four- year course in journalism. Miss Cruikshank successfully passed her preliminary examination for college entrance last weei<, September 1949 Rev. Geo. A. Milne, Brus- sels, was elected moderator of Huron -Maitland Presbytery last week, at a meeting in St. An- drew's Presbyterian Church here. Rev. Nlilne succeeds Rev. Alex Nirmno, Wingham. A call to Rev. R. D. A. Currie, of Port Albany, B. C. to the three -circuit charge of White- church, Calvin and Langside Presbyterian churches was SUS' tattled. Rev. Currie will he inducted at a special service September 11?th, in Langside Church. Mr. and \trs. herb Fuller are visiting with the former's cousin, Willi ed alton, in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, and also enjoy- ing a motor trip through the Southern States.