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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1964-12-31, Page 9--, Ontario Hydro Photos Ontario Hydro forces are busy developing resources to meet increasing power demands, For the third year in a row coal-fired stations played a vital role in supplementing the sharply reduced output of hydro -electric plants as a result of low water levels. Highlights of the present program include, clockwise: A Hydro crew working in sub -zero weather on Kipling hydro -electric project in James Bay watershed; helicopter airlifting hardware for Extra High Voltage line under construction near Parry Sound; specialists attaching tubes through which natural uranium fuel will enter reactor of Douglas Point Nuclear Power Station between Kincardine and Port Elgin; water "cannon" blasting loose rock from walls of Chippawa power canal at Niagara Falls in preparation for rehabilitation, scheduled for completion in 1965, jolt win A.NanctmEinte Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Dec. 31, 1964 SECOND SECTION SUG4R AND SPICE by Bill Smiley • 6 e ti • r • Y • Happy New Year The words will be on every tongue today. We will greet our neighbors and our friends with the age-old expression of good wishes, not just for a festive holiday, but for the course of the next twelve months. How much meaning will lie behind that ready phrase? It might be a worthwhile custom. to wish one another Happy New .Year on the first day of every month all year, If we did so we might actually think about the meaning of the words and tend to do something more practical about making the other fellow's year happier. Another angle might be to sit back tonight and think for a few -minutes about what sort of new year most folks a will enjoy in central Africa—in the Am- erican South—on the Indian reservations right here in Ontario ... in. Red China. We have long since passed the point where we dare think only of the New Year in terms of our own families, our own town or our own nation. The risks involved in neglecting the course of events beyond our own boundaries are much too real. Perhaps you believe that there is • nothing we can do about the staggering problems which face other races and tribes, If so you are wrong, The direct actions which can be taken by aur gov- ernment and by the United Nations, as two specific examples, are controlled positively and precisely by the amount of understanding and assent we provide. it is quite true that your individual ap- proval will not be heard within the con- claves of the mighty, but our collective "No" is registered and observed when the time for decision arrives. Mankind is passing through what we hope will be its final pangs before a new age of understanding and co-operation becomes a reality. The tong centuries of upward struggle from the swamps of ignorance and intolerance are approach- ing their climax. We can do much to hasten the glad day when reason and decency may prevail, not only in respect- able Canadian towns like Wingham, but unto the uttermost parts of the earth. Let us breathe a prayer, then for the poor and the hungry everywhere — "Happier New Year!" Recognizing The Problem A word of commendation is in order for CKNX-TV on the presentation of two programs Tuesday and Wednesday even- ings of this week to aid parents and high school students to a better understanding of the "new" mathematics curriculum. Though this editorial was written before the programs were presented, we are sure that any guidance on this subject was welcome. Grade IX students are studying mathe- matics in a new form, and although it should in the long run make better ma- thematicians of these young people, the approach is so radically new that in many cases the pupils are experiencing con- siderable difficulty. The decision to present the two pro- grams is recognition of the fact that in- terested parents do, in fact, have a worth- while place in the education of the child. However, under the new system, the par- ents were left pretty much in the dark and so were unable to be of any great help to their troubled youngsters. For our part, we have been intensely interested in this new course. It applies a line of reasoning which should give the student a much better basic under- standing than has been the case in the past. There is every indication that the world of the future will present require- ments for mathematics on a much more extensive scale than ever before. If the two programs over CKNX even aroused a keener interest in the subject they will not have been in vain. Now We Should Be Satisfied Between Lester B. Pearson and John Roberts the residents of Ontario, at least, should be satisfied with their flags. In- stead of a single model to fill all our needs we are going to have a trio of ban- ners from which to choose. First of all there is the new flag of Canada with its two broad red bands and maple leaf. We can use it for special occasions like the fourth of July when there are lots of American visitors in the • country. They will be deeply impressed by the fact that we Canadians are pro- gressive; that we are inventive and im- aginative and don't hesitate very long when we discover that it's time for a new flag. Then, too, we can still fly the Union Jack, according to word from Ottawa. Permission to retain the old British jack ▪ is a concession to one segment of our national family. Those of us who cherish our British ancestry will be able to run it up the mast an the 24th of May and the anniversary of the Battle of Jutland and snap to a sharp salute as its red, white and blue crosses flaunt themselves on the breeze. Mr. Roberts has suggested the latest and finest flag of alt. It is to be a counterpart of the now deceased red en- sign with the Ontario coat of arms in the corner rather than the dominion coat of arms. This flag will bring tremendous relief to members of the Royal Canadian Legion and thousands of other folks who fought their hearts out for a flag that would retain the union jack in its make- up. This New Year finds us short of snow but with an abundance of flags. No- body should be unhappy. Labor Has No Place to Hide Most observers say the court judg- ment brought down with regard to the strike against Gaspe Copper Mines Ltd., of Murdochvtlle, Que., could prove to be one of the most far-reaching in the his- tory of Canadian and international trade union movements, according to Amy Booth in The Financial Post. The court decision is still subject to appeal. United • Steel Workers of America has been ord- ered to pay Gaspe approximately $2.4 million ($1,747,645 for company losses • during the seven-month strike in 1957 plus 5% simple interest on the total from December 31, 1957). This is by far the largest judgment ever handed down in Canada against a union. In addition, the union has to pay Gaspe's legal expenses, $750,000, The strike itself cost the union about $800,- 000 in welfare payments to the strikers, on top of the cost of four separate or- ganizing campaigns that have been launched by the union, What Mr. Justice Antoine Lacourciere of the Quebec Superior Court makes very clear are these two points: 1, unions, corporations and individuals are, in fact, as well as in theory, equal under the law; 2, unions cannot hide behind their workers. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Eros. Limited W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert O. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer IVlember Audit Bureau of Circulation; Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Asgoci- atien; 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 U.S.A.—$5.00 per year; Foreign rate -45.00 per yeaar Advertising Rates on application A Christmas Crisis Or Two Maybe I'm getting old, but that Christmas rush seems a lit- tle rushier every year. And ev- ery year, it takes me a little longer to get over it, physically, financially and psychologicially. Everything, this year, was going along fine. That is, in its usual maudlin state. Tree wasn't bought; exam papers un- marked; Christmas cards not purchased, let alone sent; no idea of who would be at our place for Christmas; dozens of presents to buy for people who wouldn't be satisfied with the moon wrapped in solid silver. But this was normal, and no cause for alarm. Then, things began to go haywire. First, my wife discovered she had a hernia. This was rather a blow to all hand. She thought it an extremely unlady-like ail- ment. I associated a hernia with wearing a great belt called a truss. I don't know why you wear them, but I haven't been reading those ads on the back of True Confessions all these years for nothing. But trust her. It was merely a dainty hernia of the esophagus or sarcophagus or something, a tiny puncture in her diaphragm, not to mention her self-esteem. The next thing was worse. My daughter, my delicate little flower, my baby, was invited to the Christmas Prom. There was hell to pay. "She's only a child! It's ridiculous. She's certainly not going to start running around with a gang, at het age." First I pointed out that it wasn't a gang that had asked her, only one kid. Then I ob- served that the "child" is nearly 14, wears most of her mother's clothes, and is legally enrolled at the high school, where the dance was to be held. The child's aunt and other adult sympathizers intervened for her, and the Old Battleaxe began to soften. But I almost spoiled it. "What kind of a boy is he?" she demanded. I told her that as far as I knew, he was a nide lad, that It wasn't his fault his dad was an alcoholic, his mother ran around with men, and he had to work in the poolroom on Saturdays. She swallowed the works, and it took nie a week to convince her that he was a perfectly nor- mal 15 -year-old in grade 10, with the biggest paper route in town. I shouldn't have been so smart. It cost me the following: a new pair of shoes; a new dress which is suitable for wear- ing to next year's Prom, and nothing else, except that you can't wear the same dress you wore to last year's Prom; and about 12 hours of listening to the old lady telling about how tough things were for girls when she was 13. Right on top of this came the worstest thing of all. We had three invitations for the Friday before Christmas: a staff party, a dinner party, and the Biennial Pre -Christmas Buffet and Brag of the Young -At -Heart Fighter Pilots. I had a terrible time making up my mind which to attend. They invited wives to the first two. The third one is held only every two years because it takes the Young•At•Ifearts two years to get over it. Well, after I got home from the fighter pilots' party, and had a couple of buckets of plasma, I knew I'd made the right choice. Imagine exposing your swee- tie -pie to a lot of rich foods and stuff, and her with a hernia and all. That was about the only thing that wasn't exposed there, for a day or two. Oh, well, everything else went off on schedule. The tree fell over four times. The turkey was tougher than an old rubber boot. All our presents had to be ex- changed because they didn't fit. And we had the shortest, sweetest cocktail party, on Box- ing Day, that we've ever had. Usually, when you ask people to come from five to seven p.m., you lever the last couple out sometime early on December V. This year, it was all over at 5.30. I'd forgotten to order the booze. INFANTS BAPTIZED GORRIE-Rev. Fred W. Taylor of Gorrie United Church receiv- ed into the church by baptism on Sunday morning John Gary, infant son of Mr, and Mrs, Rae Adams of North Bay and Gerald Samuel, infant son of Mr, and Mrs. James Edmonds of Strat- ford. Reminiscing DECEMBER 1914 Mr. Samuel Young has leas- ed the blacksmith shop on Vic- toria street (his former stand) and has opened again for busi- ness. On Wednesday, December, 9th, at the Manse, Wingham, Miss Nettie Bryce of Turnberry was united in marriage to Mr. Marshall Haines, a prosperous farmer near Guelph. The last regular meeting of the Literary Society was held on Thrsday, Dec. 10, Pres- ident Rintoul in the chair. The programme was as follows: -- Harmonica Band, Auction Sale, Chairman's address, Solo by Miss M. Isard, Presentation of books, Field Day Prizes, Speech by Miss N. Hibbert, Prophet by A. Henry, Violin solo by Miss Edna James, Jour- nal by Mr. A. McBurney, Solo by Mr, W. Elliott, Critic's re- marks by Mr. J.C. Hutton. Mr. Geo. T. Robertson is making arrangements for the opening of a garage and gen- eral machinery repair shop in his large frame building on Minnie street. Mr. Geo. Tur- ner has been engaged to take charge of the repair work. Mr. D. McPherson has this week leased the Queen's hotel stables from Mr. J.E. Swarts and will at once put in a stock of feed. Fire on Saturday evening last completely destroyed the dwelling house on Mr. John T. Currie's farm on the 12th con- cession of East Wawanosh. At the close of the Decem- ber Session of the County Coun- cil, Warden D. Cantelon of Clinton was presented with a gold -headed cane. DECEMBER 1928 A very pleasing feature of St. Andrew's Sabbath School Christmas entertainment, was the presentation of books to nineteen scholars who attended practically every Sunday. In addition to these the following diplomas were awarded in the memory course, Beginners memory course, Margaret Hughes, Irlrna Harrison, Eve- lyn Curtis, Jean Tervit, Mar- garet Frazer, Helen Burgess, Mildred Reid, Marion Hughes, Harold Ross, Irene Chittick; Primary, Gracey King and Mildred Reid. Junior, Mildred Reid and June Buchanan, Cate- chism, Anna Chittick, Marion Fry, Marion Mitchell and Mil- dred Reid. DECEMBER 1939 There was not as large a crowd present on Friday after- noon in the Township Hall, Gorrie, for the annual How - ick nominations. The meet- ing did not create the same excitement as the previous year and each speaker received the attention of those present. Practically the same men are running for office as last year, the only difference being that Wm. Ries jr. did not qualify for the council. For Reeve, the opposition will be 3. W. Gamble and J.A. Bryans; for Deputy Reeve, A, E. Toner and D. L. W eir, and for the Council, Robert Baker, Edward 1r1cCa1- lum, E. H. Strong and John Winters (three to be elected). Mr. and Mrs. Peter Watson 'dee Marian Casemore) were the guests of honour at a gath- ering of friends and neighbors. The evening was spent in dan- cing to the music of MCCharles' orchestra assisted by Clark Johnston of Wingham who also entertained with songs. Mr. Jackson of Holyrood was caller - off. A clog dance by Kathleen Reid and the Scotch reel by Wilma and Theresi Gaynor, Florence Mcpherson and Shirley Bannister, the Irish jig by Theresi and songs by Maitland Johnston of Wingham were en- joyed. The military course that has been held at the Armouries for the past few weeks was completed last week and the examinations'held. Three of- ficers, all lieutenants, George King, Howard Bedford and Elmer Bell, also 15 other ranks, tried the examinations. Mrs. Blackwood, her mother and daughter, Betty, left on Friday for Sarnia. Mr, Blackwood who has been ap- •ointed manager of the Bank of ommerce there, was here for couple of days when the mov• ing was taking place. Mr. and Mrs. Northwood have taken p residence in the Taylor lame vacated by the Bldck woods. Mr. J. A. 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