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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1966-05-19, Page 9Dear Sir: 08w 56enFoSuorutnhdA,v, On etEaraisor„ The Arts Council of Ontario, and the Community Programs Branch of the Ontario Depart- ment of Education have co., operated in the formation of a Craft Foundation to serve the artisans, is moveofOn t ario, grew Th out of a eonference of craftsmen held at Couchiching in 1965. Among the considerations which promp- ted this move was a concern for 'Canadian Culture', An im- portant part of that culture is the work of Canadian artists and designers many of whom have a professional ability and only lack a market. Another part of this native culture is the use of the leisure time increasingly available through shorter work- ing hours, For these, some training and Instruction isneces- sary to make the creative im- pulse a satisfying experience. From a very practical point of view, it is economically de- sirable to encourage Canadian craftsmen, It is estimated that about one tenth of the money spent each year in Canada by tourists for mementoes to take home, is spent on Canadian- made goods. The rest is spent on imported goods, so that the net profit for the province's tourist industry in this field could be ten times what it is now. To make a beginning to achieve some of the objectives recommended by the Confer- ence of Craftsmen, an Interim- Local-Committee is anxious to know the following: (1) Who are the craftsmen in the counties of Grey and Bruce? (2) Who are the retailers who feature the products of Canad- ian Craftsmen? (3) Who are the retailers who would feature Canadian crafts if they knew where to get them? So far the committee can of- fer to the craftsmen and the out- lets who feature their products a public relations service for the coming tourist season, so that visitors are made conscious of local crafts and where to find them. If those concerned will send their names to the office of the Director of Recreation, City Hall, Owen Sound, the com- mittee will make an index to be part of the tourist informa- tion service, and C.F.O.S, will publicize the index as a public service for the duration of the summer season. The committee is anxious to have the names and addresses of all interested craftsmen, in order to form a properly elect- ed committee to represent this area. The committee will as- sist the Ontario Craft Founda- tion with its research, it will be the voice of the craftsmen of the counties to inform the Foundation of the needs of the area, and to inform the crafts- men of the plans and services of the Foundation. Some of the proposed ideas in market- ing, training, the training of instructors, the upgrading of quality, courses in design and many other areas of craft inter- est will be more valuable if they do indeed, serve the needs of this area, It is necessary that the interested people of this area make their needs known. Please send your name, ad- dress, and craft interest to: Mr. Ronald Gillespie, Director of Recreation, City Hall. Offices, Owen Sound, Ontario. This will entail no obliga- tion, it will only ensure that you will be invited to a meet- ing where the objectives of the Ontario Craft Foundation will he explained in more detail, and where you will have an op- portunity to see how it may serve you, whether you are amateur, hobby or professional craftsman, or a business person who is interested in encourag- ing and promoting the local craftsman, Very sincerely yours, Mrs. W. N. Hawkins, Interim -Chairman, Cra ft Committee for Grey and Bruce. Think twice; once for your- self and once for the other fel- low. DRIVE SAFELY. REMINISCING MAY 1917 Wingham people will be proud to learn that Sergt. C.R. Wilkinson has been awarded his "Cross guns" while taking a sniper's course. This is count- ed as a great honor and he is the only soldier from his dis- trict who has won them. Friends of Hal McLean will be pleased to learn that he was recently gazetted as Major. He is an instructor in bayonet work, Quietly at the bride's home in East Wawanosh last Wednes- day, Miss Ethel Carter was united in marriage to Mr. Alex Cloakey, a prosperous farmer of Morris. They have taken up housekeeping on the groom's 200 acre farm on the fifth line. MAY 1931 Mrs, R. Vanstone who has been spending the past winter in Florida, returned home last week. Mrs. Vanstone has dis- posed of her residence to J.H. Crawford. William Ingham, who for the past ten years has been con- ducting a tire sales depot and vulcanizing plant, adjacent to the Wingham Glove Works on Josephine Street, expects to va- cate his premises in the near future and will occupy the High- way Garage, formerly occupied by Mr. Young. These are be- ing fitted up for living quarters above. MAY 1941 During the past week four more men from here joined up with the Royal Canadian Air Force. They are: Robert Chal- mers, Marvin Smith, Fred Mel- lor and DeWitt Miller, Cecil Walpole, an employee of the Western Foundry, had the misfortune on Monday to cut the end off a finger while oper- ating a saw. Mrs. Sam Griffith, of Wrox- eter, and Mrs. Robert Taylor and Irene, Wingharn, attended the graduation of their niece, Dorothy Millar, at Grace Hos- pital, Windsor, last week, Mrs. Kenneth MacLean, at the annual meeting of the Wo- men's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, at Brockville, last week, was elected as Glad Tidings Secre- tary. It seems to me that, despite the inroads made by easy com- munications and transportation, the ancient mistrust between rural dweller and city dweller is still very much alive. Each feels that the other is out to skin him at the first opportunity. Each expresses it , in scorn for the other's way of life. "I wooden live in the siddy if ya gimme the whole lousy mess on a silver platter," snorts your smalltown neighbor. This statement, echoed from coast to coast, is usually fol- lowed by a bitter diatribe against "city living." High rents, crippling taxes, heavy traffic, smog and unfriendliness come under the gun. Cost of living draws comments like, "Costs ya a buck every time ya blow yer nose." And what does the smug su- burbanite think of the country? "Ya, I KNOW it's nice in the summer up north there, but wuddaya do all WINTER in that dump?" There's no use in point- ing out that you do exactly what he does: work, play, bring up your family, try to pay your bills, and get so soon old, so late, smart. On most matters, I take a stand. But in the denunciation of the other fellow's mode of life, I take two stands. The first. is gentle agreement with my smalltown friends. I go along with the belligerent argu- ment that the city is no place to live; that I'd hate to battle that traffic everyday; that living is cheaper in a smaller centre; that our air is a lot cleaner; that it's wonderful to live within five minutes of fishing, curling, golf and friends. And when I'm listening to some old buddy who lives in the School. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Pattison celebrated the 40th anniversary of their marriage on Thursday last. Master Stewart McGill of R.R. 1, Wingham won a Gold Medal for obtaining the high- est points in the boy's solo class of eleven and under at the God- erich Musical Festival last week. Harvey Aitchison left for a seven weeks' vacation overseas on Saturday. Ile sailed on the SS Atlantic and will visit the battlefields of World War I where two brothers died. While in England he will visit Wing- ham. The main cause of chronic cough among young adults is cigarette smoking, the Canad- ian Medical Association advises" Other causes, however, must nor be ruled out without invest'. gation. city and loves it, I nod sagely when he- declares the city is an exciting place to live; that it's wonderfel to take in all the shows . and concerts; that it's grand to go out for an exotic meal in a fascinating place, with go-go girls and stuff; that the small town doesn't provide the same cultural opportunities for your kids. Privately, I chuckle at both points of view. Both are full of contradictions. The city fellow. claims there's no privacy in a small town. Ev- ery old biddy in town knows your business. The smalltown chap explodes, "Privacy! Bow can you have privacy in the city when you're stuffed into a crowded apartment building, or living on a two-by-four lot be- side people you don't like who have horrible kids?" The smalltown fellow raves about the mythical "rat-race" in the city. And goes out and roars around in service clubs and fra- ternal organizations and athletic clubs and church groups at a rate no city rat could stand for a month. The myths multiply. The city stands for culture. And in a city of a million, theatres are half empty. concerts play to small crowds, good restaurants go broke, a few hundred attend art exhibitions. The small town stands for recreation and good living. And in a small town, one-tenth of two per cent. of the population is revelling in that fishing, hunting and so on that's at the front door, The rest are doing what the city folk do: drink, chase women or men, or sit around watching the slop on the moron machine, When we drive to the city, as we do almost every Saturciay for the daughter's music lesson, the whole business is brought into perspective for me, on the un- likely site of a four-lane high- way. Down to the city, oh one stream, pour the thousands of smalltown folk going in for a clay to shop, take in a show, suck up some fast culture. Up from the city, in the other stream, pour the thousands of people going north for the skiing or the fishing or the swimming or the scenery. They don't even wave to eacJi other. If it's so great at home, why don't they stay there? And do you know what they say when they get home after the weekend? "Boy, it's nice to be home. It was a great week- end, but I sure wooden wanna live in the (city-country)." Please underline the right word. MAY 1952 A number of changes on the staff of the Wingham District nigh School have been announc- ed by the board. Mrs. Marguer- ite Chopin will replace Mr. N. Maynard as the commercial teacher. She is a graduate of Queen's University and has taught for three years at the Shaw Business Schools in Torone to and two years at Napartee Collegiate. She comes here. from the Alliston District High LETTERS 79 TIAE EDITOR -erea' A FEW OF THE REASONS YOUR HELP 1$ NEEDED —The Telegram, Abbancoeimt Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, May 19, 1966 SECOND SECTION SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Two Ways Of Life May 12th, the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, was Na- tional Hospital Day, the occasion on which public attention is directed to the, tremendously important role of our hos- pitals and the people who operate them. It is difficult to believe that it is little more than 100 years ago since "The Lady With The Lamp" went to the Crimea and began mankind's first intelli- gent fight against the utter misery which prevailed in military hospitals. What great advances have been made since that time! More than one million persons will be admitted to Ontario's active-treatment hospitals this year. To many, this might seem a staggering number for a province of about seven million people. To others more closely associated with the hospital picture in Ontario, it only mirrors the heavy burdens our hospital people meet with efficiency, day in, day out, as they care for the sick in this province. This year in Ontario, some 84,000 hos- pital employees, plus another 16,000 part- time employees, will be combining their time, their talents and their training in more than 220 public hospitals, with al- most 48,000 hospital beds. By the year's end, 14,200,000 total days of hospital care will have been provided for both adults and children. The theme of this year's National Hos- pital Day—"Heads, Hearts and Hands ... In the Service of Others," acknowledged the role being played by all these people. They, as the guardians of community health, are ensuring that the hospital pa- tient in this province is receiving the best medical care possible. It is perhaps too much a truism to say that in the past 100 years we have sr A recent edition of the Toronto Globe & Mail carried a story about Dr. Victor Johnston, former Lucknow physician, whose vision and energy were largely re- sponsible for the establishment of the College of General Practice in 1954. He will be honored with the presentation of a Doctor of Laws degree at Western Uni- versity this month in recognition of his great contribution to the field of medicine. When Dr. Johnston first became inter- ested in the formation of a College of General Practice there was indeed some danger that the "country doctor," as most of us knew him, would disappear from the scene. It was Dr. Johnston who saw the vital need for medical men who could identify and treat a wide variety of ail- ments. He labored to provide for better education and status for the general prac- • quiet of a Sunday afternoon was disturb- Until a year or so ago the peace and ed only by the squealing tires and racing motors of a variety of cars in the hands of the younger set. Today, however, something new has been added in the shape of motorbikes of all descriptions. They range all the way from over-stuffed 0 bicycles with tiny engines to full-scale motorcycles—but they have one thing in common. They all make too much noise. On Sunday afternoon we watched with some interest while one lad on a shiny red machine tooled back and forth on the main street. His interest in travel must be extremely limited for he accom- plished the grand tour of the business section something over 40 times. Nor was he content to putter back and forth but instead continually revved up his A small item in last week's paper mentioned the fact that contributions would be accepted by the Children's Aid Society at Goderich in order to provide summer holidays in camp for the children in care of the society, We can think of no more rewarding way to part with money than by donat- ing to this fund, Thank God we don't have a great number of children in public seen tremendous changes in medical re, search and knowledge, Sweeping changes in modern medical technology in recent years have perhaps obscured what is still the paramount truth: that the individual remains the key to the quality of our hos- pital care, From the doctor who visits the patient in the ward, to the kitchen worker who helps prepare his meals; from the trustee who ensures high hospital standards to the community volunteer who works and serves to make these standards higher, we can be justly proud of our hospitals and our hospital people. Truly, here are close to 200,000 heads, hearts and pairs of hands in Ontario, all engaged as a "team" in the service of others. National Hospital Day is usually mark- ed by an invitation to the public to visit their own hospital and see some of the work which is daily carried out, but the building program at present in progress at the Wingham and District Hospital made such an "open house" impossible. The administrator and board are looking ahead to a day in the fall of this year when the public will be invited to visit the hospital and have a look at the new facilities which are being provided. It is interesting to note, however, that our hospital admitted 2077 patients dur- ing the past year. Of these 360 were emergency cases. A total of 30,083 hos- pital care days were provided for resi- dents of this area. An average of one person in every five is admitted to hos- pital in any one year. An institution which is so vitally im- portant to such a large percentage of people in the community is deserving of the interest and support of everyone. titioners. He was born at Auburn and after completing his education at the University of Toronto, set up in general practice at Lucknow, where he remained for 30 years. In addition to a full-time career as "family doctor" for a widespread com- munity he found time to further his own knowledge and to interest himself in the activities of the medical associations. He served as president of the Ontario Medi- cal Association in 1949-50 and four years later was named to head the newly-form- ed College. Last year he was doubly honored when he was made the first recipient of the William Victor Johnston Medal of Honor, receiving the award named for him and in recognition of his outstand- ing service to this all-important branch of the healing arts. motor in case any admiring spectators should fail to notice what a dashing figure he was cutting. Sure, the young folks need action and most of them are simply out to enjoy themselves in an innocent fashion. But why in thunder do they have the right to make a public nuisance of themselves? Why don't they get out on the open road and see the country? If their blasted bikes are so wonderful why don't they use them to go somewhere? At least they could spread their nuisance value over a wide segment of the population. Most young people have too much sense to create this annoying sort of dis- turbance. The few who haven't should be invited out of town before the folks who have to listen to them go completely berserk. care in Huron County, but the ones who do need this type of assistance should be a serious concern to every one of us. A couple of weeks at camp could do wonders for a youngsters who has reason to feel that the world is a rough place to get along in. Just address your letter to The Child- ren's Aid Society, Court House, Goderich. In Service to Others A Great Contribution Public Nuisance Chance to Give Joy THE WINCHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited, W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert 0, Wenger, Secretary-Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member Canadian Weekly newspapers Association. Authorized by the Post Office Department AS Second Class Mail and for payment of postage in cash. Subscription ttate: year, $5.60; 6 months, $2.75 in advance; ti.S.A,, $7.00 per yr,; Foreign rate, $7.00 per yr. 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