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.
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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
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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-
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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.,
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Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, May 5, 1966
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