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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-10-14, Page 1B. Robertson Is President Bruce Robertson, principal of f•Iowich Central School was elected president of the Princi- pals Association Of Wellington No. 4, and Perth No. 3 public • school inspectorate at the re- organization meeting, He suc- ceeds Ivan Kreller, principal of the Harriston public school. Murray H, Kirkby, of Ger- rie, principal -f Wallace town- ship public school, was named • secretary. • • • Former Reeve of Turnberry Dies Roland Grain, a former reeve of Turnberry Township, passed away in Victoria Hospi- tal, London, on Tuesday. He had been confined to hospital for the past six weeks and was moved to London only six days before his death. He was 85 years of age. Deceased was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Grain, and was born in East Wawanosh Township in 1880. He attended the Zetland School. As an adult he farmed at Zet- land until his retirement to Wingham 14 years ago. In 1938 he was married to the former Mary Edgar, who survives. He was a member of the Anglican Church, attending St. Paul's in Wingham. He is survived by one daugh- ter, Mrs. George Robertson (Olive) and six grandchildren. One sister and two brothers pre- deceased him. The remains are resting at the Currie funeral home until Friday afternoon when services will be held at 3.45 with Rev. C. F. Johnson officiating. In- terment will be made at the Wingham cemetery. ALONG THE MAIN DRAG! By The Pedestrian Pedestrian REALLY ROUGH— + There was no doubt at all about what was falling on Tues- day morning. It was plain, old- fashioned snow. It didn't last long — but on October 12th who needs it at all? 0--0--0 • GOOD HUNTING— Had a fast call from Slim Boucher at the week -end, He was on his way back from the North, having bagged one moose for himself and two more forhis less fortunate pals. • 0--0--0 REMEMBER WHEN?— Recent picture in the A -T of the floods in the spring of '47 caused some reminiscing about the rough winter which preced- • ed the floods. At this season of the year, with another winter in the offing, memory of those giant snowbanks makes one shudder. 0--0--0 RUMMAGE SALE— Speaking of winter — better get down to the arena on Satur- day afternoon and get yourself a warm coat. The Hospital Auxiliary rummage sale fills almost every human need. If you're not a potential customer • the ladies will be glad to get anything saleable you may have around the house. 0--0--0 BAD FOR BALL— The Midget ball team from Mildmay must have watched • the World Series games in sun- ny California with envy. The Bruce County boys played for and won the All -Ontario champ- ionships against Cochrane on the Wingham diamond on Sat- urday and Sunday, Both games • were played in pelting rain. Doll Winner Despite bad weather on Sat- urday many ladies turned out to • enjoy the Catholic Women's League annual fall tea, bake sale, bazaar and hotne produce table held in the Wingham Council Chambers. The event was convened by Mrs. E. Rich and President Miss Anna Mc- Donald greeted guests at the door. A doll with complete layette was raffled and wort by Debra Edgar of Waterloo. ingbam titan cit.. Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Oct. 14, 1965 FIRST SECTION Chaimian Reports Hospital Job Is Getting Back on the Rails At a Meeting of the dire-- tors of the Wingham and Dis- trict Hospital on Friday evening Chairman R. B. Cousins report- ed on the findings of an execu- tive committee meeting held the previous Wednesday. Mr. Cousins and building commit- tee chairman Robert Gibson said that it was expected that struc- tural steel for the building would arrive on Tuesday of this week and that a crane would be brought in to Commence erec- tion of the steel. The building program at the hospital, which was started in the early summer, has run into a series of delays and deep con- cern has been expressed by the board members to the'archi- tects and the general contrac- tor. Representatives of these two firms were of the opinion that the new sections of the building could be closed in from the weather within a month. Mr. Cousins also reported that no action has been taken on the purchase of an inciner- ator for pathological waste, which was authorized at the September meeting of the board The architects are further in- vestigating the available equip- ment for this purpose and it is expected that more information will be available before the purchase is finalized. SEPTEMBER STATISTICS Hospital administrator Mrs. I, Morrey read the statistics for the month of September, when there were 15 births, 5 deaths; 104 operations, 144 out patients, '319 x-rays, 6 blood transfusions 731 laboratory procedures, 35 electrocardiographic examina- tions, 80 at cancer clinic and 1 coroner's report, A total of 2,135 hospital -patient days re- sulted in a daily average of on- ly 71. Mrs. Money expressed appreeiation to the medical staff and the Admissions and Discharges committee for hold- ing down the admissions during the building program when ac- commodations are at a prem- ium. Chairman Barry Wenger of the Finance Committee refer- red the board members to the financial statement, showing that .all departments had operat- ed within their budgets. Total expenses at the hospital for the first nine months of the year are $484,958.00. Divided by the number of patient days regis- tered in the same period the perdiem cost rate per patient works out to $21.88. The finance chairman also read a list of the major pay- ments for the month, as well as the report of a meeting of his committee which recom- mended the sale of $25, 000 in securities to provide for interim building expenditures. The re- port was adopted by the direc- tors. WILL BUY RESPIRATOR Dr. W. A. Crawford, re- porting for the medical staff, said that a donation had been offered to the staff for the pur- chase of needed equipment for the hospital. He recommended Driver Injured and Small Bridge in Howick Wrecked A Wingham man received painful injuries and a small steel bridge on the 10th side - road of Howick Township col- lapsed as the result of a mishap on October 7th. John Joseph King is suffer- ing from a broken cheek bone and a broken nose, sustained when his car struck a girder on the small bridge over the Mait- land River just north of High- way 87, a mile and a quarter east of Gorrie. He was travel- ling south at the time of the ac- cident. As a result of the impact one girder on the bridge was pushed off the abutement and the deck- ing collapsed. The road has since been closed to traffic, and probably will remain so un- til next year. The car was badly damaged in the crash which was investi- gated by Provincial Constable Ken Wilson, of the Wingham detachment. OTHER ACCIDENTS On Saturday about 10,15 in the evening cars driven by Brian Sproul of Listowel and Thomas Finlay of Stratford, collided in the village of Molesworth, with damages estimated at $500.00 to each car. There were no in- juries. The same evening a car driven by Grochino Renon, of Kitchener, skidded on the wet planks of the bailey bridges south of town and suffered $250.00 damage. Once again the driver was not hurt. On Saturday afternoon a car driven by Walter Burgess of Wingham was hit in the rear end by a car driven by George Harris, of R.R. 3, London, a mile and a half north of Wing - ham. Damage was estimated at $200.00 to each car. No one was injured. All accidents were investi- gated by O.P.P. officers from the Wingham office. that the money be used to buy a respirator at a cost of approx- imately $800 and his recom- mendation was accepted - Mrs. English, the representa- tive of the Ladies' Hospital Aux- iliary, uxiliary, reminded board mem- bers that the fall rummage sale will be held this coming Satur- day at the arena and asked that as many donations as possible be sent in for the sale, Mrs. Morrey reported on a district meeting which had been held at the Kitchener -Waterloo Hospital at which topics of in- terest to board members were discussed. She said that another such meeting will be held on Dec, 1st and suggested that all board members who can attend will benefit from the discus- sions. THIS BRIDGE on the 10th sideroad, How - ick Township, partially collapsed when one girder was struck by a car driven by John J. King, of Wingham, last Thursday. The driver was injured and the car badly damaged. Agriculture Minister Hays Outlines Planks in Liberals' Farm Platform A six -riding Liberal rally, held at the high school here last Wednesday, heard Agricul- ture Minister Harry Hays state that there is no doubt that a Liberal government will be re- turned. He called for support from Western Ontario, none of the six ridings representedhav- ing a Liberal member in the House of Commons. All six candidates who were on the platform are contesting seats held by Progressive Conserva- tive members. The group of candidates in- cluded: Kent Lamont, the rid- ing of Bruce; William Mathe- son, Grey -Bruce; Gordon Green, Wellington -Huron; Dr. J. Fin- ley, North Grey; Isabel Mac - Fergus Man Named NDP Candidate At a nomination meeting at- tended by 25 supporters in Fer- gus on Tuesday evening Jack McLeod was nominated as the candidate for the New Demo- cratic Party. Guest speaker at the meeting was Donald C. MacDonald, provincial leader of the N.D.P. Mr. McLeod, who is 37 years of age, will represent his party in the riding of Wellington - Huron for the November 8th election. -A-native of Engle- hart in Northern Ontario, he is studying for his master's degree in engineering. He is a gradu- ate of the University of Toron- to and has taught high school in Englehart and Toronto. ELEVEN TOMBSTONES were toppled by vandals at the Wingham Cemetery over the week -end. Nearly all were quite old and were not too solid on their bases, Cern- etery workers have repaired a number, and will coniplete the work this week. The in- cident is being investigated by both town, and provincial police, Beth, Perth and Maitland Ed- gar, Huron. Bruce McCullough, Kitch- ener, president of the Western Ontario North Liberal zone, was chairman of the meeting which was attended by about 250 par- ty stalwarts from the six -riding area. The agriculture minister, opening his remarks, said that the Liberal farm policy had been outlined earlier in the day by Prime Minister Pearson in Winnipeg, but his remarks on the subject were the first time the program had been made public in the east. Mr. Hays claimed that the Liberal agricultural policy had been ready to convert into leg- islation for over a year but time had not permitted it being brought up in the house. He said this was due to the obstruc- tionist efforts of the opposition Late Copy Proves Real Headache in A -T Office From time to time we remind correspondents and press report- ers for various organizations that our work is made much easier if news is sent in to our office early. Many people are now co- operating but there are still those who forget that we at the news- paper office do not just work from Monday to Wednesday. Weeks with holidays in them are particularly difficult since we must try to do the same amount of work in a day less time. We try not to make our readers wait an extra day or inconven- ience our advertisers because of these holidays. We like to publish your news. We also realize that there are times when it is impossible to get a news item in any earlier — but it is pretty discouraging to drag yourself home after midnight on Tuesday and then find a post office box full of material wait- ing for you Wednesday morning, most of it about events which took place as early as Monday and Tuesday of the week before. A good rule for press reporters of organizations would be to mail or phone your report to us the day after the event takes place. We would appreciate your co-operation, which had delayed all legisla- tion. Some of the Liberal pol- icies should have been in force . a long time ago, he said. The agriculture minister said his party's platform in re- gard to farm problems is based on the idea that farmers do not want handouts but want their business to be on a sound basis. The program outlined by Mr. Hays took in the following points, which he said were of major importance to all farm- ers; --An increase in the amount of money available to farmers through the Farm Credit Corpor- ation. Unsupervised loans will be doubled to $40, 000 and supervised loans increased to $50, 000. New legislation will make it easier for a farmer to pass on a farm to a son or for a young farmer to get established. Short term loans will be doubl- ed to $15, 000 for machinery. More stress on the loans for machinery to be purchased on a shared basis by two or more farmers. —Farmers sell wholesale and buy retail, the minister said, and legislation is needed to ob- tain better control by farmers over their marketing procedur- es. He said marketing legisla- tion would be passed to guaran- Please Turn to Page Eight Films of Europe Shown to lions A meeting of the Wingham Lions Club was held in the Queen's Hotel on Tuesday eve- ning, when Zone Chairman, Bill Conron, reported on the Zone Advisory meeting and club officers' school, which was held in Clinton on September 29. The next zone advisory meeting will be held in Blyth on November 17th, The club is again holding a $100 Bond -a -Month draw, the October draw to be made on Friday, October 29th. Members of the club will look after filling 12 stockings with Christmas gifts for patients at the Ontario Hospital in God- erich. These patients do not receive gifts from relatives at Christmas. Lion President Bud Cruick- shank showed colored films taken on a recent trip to Eur- ope. The films, taken in Eng- land, France, Holland and Bel- gium, were very interesting and informative. Wingham Merchants Pay Tribute to Farm Friends The business people of Wingham have long been aware of the fact that the farmers of the area have con- tributed tremendously to the growth and prosperity of the town and have made Wing - ham the finest shopping cen- tre in this area. The Wingham merchants fully recognize that through your knowledge of agricul- ture and animal husbandry, and the application of this knowledge you have made our area one of the most profitable agricultural sections of the prov- ince. The business people of Wingham are proud of their ability to supply your varied needs. The feed mill, farm supply stores and implement dealers will furnish you with their professional and scientific assistance in the care of your land, crops, fowl and livestock. The local lumber suppliers and farm supply people welcome rhe opportunity to assist you with your feed, seed, fertilizer and shelter problems. Consult them at any time for free infor- mation and estimates. 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