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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1966-05-05, Page 9S. S. NO. 9 EAST WAWANOSH, known as the Red School or Currie's School, was built in 1872. It burned in March, 1933, and the new school was built and opened in Sep- tember of the same year. This picture was taken of the pupils in 1902. Front row: Harold Walker, Garfield Shoebottom, Margaret Shiell, Earnie Linklater, Katie Shiell, Bernice Shiell, Harvey Linklater, Eva Linklater, Dick Deacon, Mary Elliott, Gwen Currie, Verna Taylor, Chrissie Rintoul, David Johnston, Laura Currie, Herb Shiell, Barbara Stiles. Second row: George Walker, Albert Walker, Ella Walker, Mabel Mowbray, Raymond Elliott, Jim Ferguson, Pearl Deacon, Billie Stiles, George Currie, Lillian Walker, Norman Butcher, Tessa Anderson, Alex Rintoul, Mabel Butcher, Mack Abram, Dan Ferguson, Stan- ley Elliott, Earl Elliott. Third row: Miss Grieve, teacher; William Elliott, Wilburn Ferguson, Jennie Shiell, Albert Rintoul, Roy Anderson, Carrie Deacon, Maggie McDougal, Lena Deacon, Leslie Deacon, Bella McDougal, Roy Deacon, Alex Mowbray, Robert Mowbray, William Shoebottom, Howard Shiell. Trustees—Thomas Taylor, Elisha Walker, Mrs. John Mowbray, Mrs. John Elliott, Mrs. Irvin Elliott. —The picture was loaned by Mrs. Allan Pattison. ict,/ ante It's .Been A Tough Week . mediate outlook. Plans to buy cars and appliances, for instance, are down. Of households polled, 8.5% expect to buy a new or used car within the next six months. This is down understandably from buying levels last fall (12,6% when the new models were coming out—but it is also the smallest proportion in the past two years. In housing, however, the potential de- mand situation is sharply different. The proportion of households making concrete plans to buy a house before fall is the highest for any March since the survey began in 1960 and second only to the ex- ceptionally large number last December. it would be too hard to make the trans- ition from normal life to one of study. However, there have been 590 trainees who have entered this course in Stratford to date and 180 have graduated, while another 79 have up-graded themselves by at least one grade academically. There are 79 still in school who will probably graduate but have at least progressed on grade. Therefore 57% of the intake have learned to study all over again. .The age of trainees going through this school ranges from 16 to 63 years. The governments have also realized that a person could not go from 10 to 20 months without any money so they have made it possible to award subsistence allowance to trainees who qualify, for the time spent attending school. The amounts vary according to family condi- tions and place of residence. When the course is completed the trainees will receive certificates in both their skill and any academic grade they have completed from the Department of Education in Toronto and it will be re- cognized all over Ontario. It is required that interested appli- cants must go to their local National Em- ployment Service office to obtain a refer- ral slip to the school in Stratford. people were protected from the rough element which has spelled the doom of so many other similar projects. There will be a second gap when the Lyceum' Theatre closes—also for lack of public support. The management of the theatre has brought first-class films to town and has made every effort to main- tain the theatre, but now they have decid- ed its operation cannot be continued on the present scanty attendance. There is no law which forces people of any age to attend dances or shows. This is a free country, But let's not hear that plaintive cry that there is nothing to do in Wingham. It's too late for that theme now, several other village sites which have long since reverted to open countryside. The casual passer-by would never dream that 60 or 70 years ago there were homes, stores, mills and hotels on these sites. And yet it was in these hamlets that the first community life in our country began, In these places young people worked and loved and married and raised their fam- ilies. From these all-but-forgotten spots the roots of a new civilization shot forth branches of settlement which have de- veloped over the passing years into our rich and rewarding homeland. Mr. Leishman's suggestion that a cairn at Marnoch would be an ideal centennial project is a very sound one. It need not be so costly as to require federal aid, In- deed it would be in extremely bad taste to ask others to assist in a memorial so intimately connected with our own fore- bears. We Canadians are not too alert at according honor to those courageous and hard-working people who laid the firm foundations upon which our present pros- perity thrives. What more suitable way could be found to mark 100 years of success? Second Chance at Education Unwanted Amusements The Writer Is Right Consumer Set to Cut Back? Last week this newspaper carried a letter written by Henry Leishman, of Clin- ton, an aging native, of East Wawanosh, in which he pleaded for the erection of some permanent mark which would iden- tify the site of the once-thriving village of Marnoch, We agree whole-heartedly with Mr. Leishman. It would indeed be a tragedy to permit all recollection of these early centres of settlement to disappear. The younger generation naturally does not know much of the busy life which hummed about these smaller communities, and because they are still too close to history they don't really care much. Nevertheless, in another 50 or 60 years there will be an intensive search for all the details of the earliest settlements in this locality. It is, of course, most important that the details of pioneer life should be preserved in print, but a phys- ical mark of some permanent nature should be set up so that future genera- tions may read what has been set down in the printed records and then relate those stories to actual geographical sites. Not only is this true of Marnoch, but also of Sunshine, Bodmin, Zetland and One of the commonest complaints we hear from our young people is the ex- pression of a thought as old as man. Whenever they are bored they are prone to exclaim, "There's nothing to do in this town." Sad to say there will soon be less to do, for after months of effort the Kins- men are finally abandoning their weekly dances at the Kin Pavilion because there is not enough support from the young people to keep the venture operative. The Kinsmen have devoted a tremendous amount of time and money, individually and collectively to the dance project. They have provided excellent and apparently popular music; they have personally supervised the hall so that the young The Federal government has recog- nized the fact that in this age of speed it is necessary that a Canadian not only must have a higher level of education but he must keep improving that knowledge. It has therefore entered into an agreement with each province to make existing edu- cational facilities available to adults in different categories. Canadian Vocational Training Pro- gramme 5 has been devised to train adults who qualify, in a skill and at the same time raise their academic level. The pro- gramme in Stratford is under the direc- tion of the board of education and C. L. Searcy is the co-ordinator. The school is located in the beautiful new $3 million Northwestern Secondary School on For- man Avenue. Anyone is qualified to attend school on this programme who is unemployed, over the age of 16, has been out of day school for one year and is considered to be capable of improving his knowledge. Unemployed means anyone who is not working a total of 24 hours per week. This could be a housewife who has never been employed or a person who lost em- ployment the day before application for Programme 5 is made. Various skills are being taught for both men and women, Some people think • Is the consumer about to curb his free spending ways, Dalton Robertson asks in The Financial Post. The possi- bility is raised by McLean-Hunter Publish- ing Company's latest survey of consumer- buying0 intentions in Canada. It presents a paradox with wide impli- cations for retailers, realtors and produc- ers. The arrival of spring has very clear- ly boosted consumer optimism. More people think this is a good time to make a major purchase than at any time since 1960. Nevertheless their actual buying inten- tions suggest less certainty about the im- 0 We've been a pretty lucky crew around our place this year. All winter, friends, neighbors and relatives have been coming down with everything from the ordinary stuff — pregnancy and insanity — to exotic items like oriental hepatitis and whooping mumps. We haven't had so much as a sniffle. It was too good to last, and we got the whole bundle this week. Nothing serious, physically, but mentally and emotionally, a shattering period. First it was the dentist. Kim's was her. regular six-month check-up. It's a breeze. She waltzes in blithely, has her gums frozen, and the dentist pumps a little concrete into a pin-hole you couldn't see with a telescope. It's a little different for fa- ther. I also go regularly to the dentist. Every three or four years. When I have a broken tooth or two, and have wild, stabbing pains from several of the other old stumps, and have postponed my appointment about six times, I go down for my regular check-up. Sweating, trembling, and con- demning all dentists and their inane questions to the murkiest depths, I sit there trying to tear the arms off the chair. Too gut- less about needles to have the freezing, I go through the ago- nies of Prometheus as the poor man prods about among the snaggles of porcelain, looking for a piece of genuine, human tooth he can drill. And then there's always that excruciating moment when he steps back, with some kind of chisel cocked in his hand, shakes his head more in pity than in sympathy, and says. "Trinmm." Visions of the blood, the pain, the ignominy swirl through my head, Well, that's the way the week began. Worse was to come. I've been suffering from a bad shoulder for years. I know. Ew erybody has one. Or a bad back or a bad hip. One week, the doe• for says it's an inflammation. On the next visit, he says it's an old injury aggravated by tension. Next trip, it's bursitis. Next, af- ter X-rays, it's a calcium depos- it. If I had half the calcium in my teeth that I have in my shoulder, I could be one of those grinning-ape models in the toothpaste ads. Anyway, I finally decided to do something about it. Or my wife did, She didn't mind my groaning in my sleep. It was the cursing, every time I rolled onto that side, that upset her. She was worried about my soul. I wasn't. But when it got to the point where I couldn't pour a bottle of beer any more, with- out weeping, I realized that man cannot exist on pain pills alone. I've mentioned what a yellow streak I have about needles. The doc said, as he took out this ele- phant-syringe, loaded with cort- isone, "You'll feel a slight pin- prick as the needle enters," The cold sweat stopped flowing. Nothing to it. Then he started to lean on the needle. Have you ever had a pin- prick with a crow-bar? The only comparable experi. ence I've had was one time in a veterans' hsopital. I was wheeled into this room for "tests." Flat on my back. Two nurses held a hand each, one on each side of the the bed. Decent of them, I thought. Comforters. As I was smiling at them, in turn the doc rammed this huge hypodermic in my chest and shoved down. Then he started to suck (marrow out of my breast. bone, as it turned out). In the next three seconds, those nurses wound up on opposite sides of the bed, without touching the floor. I was told later that I had been a volunteer for a research project. Well, I won't bore you with a lot more sick detail. Suffice it to say that my wife and daughter went to the eye doctor. Kim, who wants glasses like she wants a hair lip, got them. My wife was sore as hell because she paid 10 dollars for the ex- amination, and didn't get any glasses. Just to cheer us up, we phoned Hugh on Sunday. We knew he was starting to write his final university exams on the Monday. Wanted to wish him luck. A croaking wreck whe MAY 1917 Bread has "risen" again, not in the bakers' or the domestic housewives' pans, but in price at Wingham. After having ad- vanced to nine cents a loaflast week it went up another cent this week, and is retailing at ten cents a loaf. Mr. Hugh McBurney receiv- ed word from his son, Allan, and his friends will be pleased to learn that he came through the fierce battle of Vimy Ridge without a scratch. At the regular meeting of the General Hospital Board held on Friday it was decided to spend about $1000 in remodell-• ing and enlarging the hospital. Nurses' quarters, including the parlor and balcony, will be built and the large dining room in the rear of the main building will have one storey added to it, also two storeys will be add- ed to the kitchen. This will make the whole building a three-storey structure. G. R. Smith. Principal of the High School has been ap- pointed Head of the Department of Mathematics of Kingston Col- legiate and Lecturer in Methods in Mathematics in the Faculty of Education of Queen's Univer- sity at a salary of $2, 000. MAY 1931 Dr. and Mrs. L J. Brown of Woodstock, announce the en- gagement of their daughter, May Bernice, to Mr. John Har- ley Crawford of Wingham, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Crawford of Brampton. Wingham Construction Com- pany began operations on Mon- day on the changes to the Wing- ham, Teeswater portion of No, 4 Highway. This includes a deviation from Wingham boun- dary to the second railroad crossing by means of a new road and will mean the elimination of two rather dangerous railway crossings. At a meeting of the veter- ans, held in the Council Cham- bers on Friday evening, final arrangements were made for sounded more like Edgar Allen Poe's raven than our jolly boy, informed us that he'd been sick as a dog with the 'flu for three weeks. SECOND SECTION the establishing of a branch of the Legion in Wingham. Mr. Bernard Browne has re- turned from Toronto, and in- tends opening a barber shop in Mr. I. Haugh's building next to the Peacock Cafe. MAY 1941 Miss Mary G. Cruikshank was successful in passing the first year degree course examin- ations at the Ontario Agricul- tural College. D. W. Hoffman was successful in the second year degree examinations at the same college. J. R. Henry, of Belgrave, was successful in the exams for the two-year course. Robert Chettleburgh and Roy- al McArthur reported for duty with the RCAF at London onFri- day. For her poem "Little Boy An- gel", Mrs. A. R. DuVal re- ceived honorable mention in the Canadian Authors Poem Contest. The engagement is announc- ed of Florence Gwendolyn, Reg. N., daughter of Mr. John Mc- Quillin and the late Mrs. Mc- Quillin, of Lucknow, to Mr. Carl Edward Johnston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Johnston, of Bluevale, the marriage to take place early in June. MAY 1952 Vicki Moszkowski, fir ;titer of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Mosz- kowski, R.R. 3, Wingham, successfully completed her first year at the Ontario Veterinary College, Guelph. Murray Stainton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Stainton, is back in Wingham after playing hockey this winter in Scotland. At the regular meeting of Wingham Public School Board three new teachers were added to the staff: Miss Edythe Bea- com, Londesboro; Miss Grace Colley, Wingham, and Miss Jean Pennington, Teeswater. Hugh Patrick, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Mun- dell, Bluevale, narrowly es- caped serious injuries on Friday, when he was struck by a truck driven by Mr. Leslie of Tees- water., 4 4 Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, May 5, 1966 THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited, W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert O. 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