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There is grave concern these days, in
the town of Exeter about the future of
that community — and with very good
reason.
Military advisors to the government
have apparently recommended that the
Canadian Forces base at Centralia be
closed. So far the final word has not
been pronounced by the minister of Na-
tional Defence and businessmen and civic
leaders are holding their breath,
Established in the early years of
World War II, the Centralia air base be-
came ohe of the largest and most import-
ant of Canada's training bases. So im-
portant and high developed, in fact, that
it was kept open without question after
the war while other bases at Hagersville,
Port Albert and dozens of other places
were permanently abandoned.
The facilities at Centralia became, in
the years following the war, one of the
strongest links in Canada's chain of in-
ternational relationships, for trainees
Sometimes we wonder how long this
nation can remain prosperous and pro-
gressive if its businessmen continue as
the target for both government and labor.
Beset by union disputes and demands for
unparalleled wage increases, business will
now have to stand up to another on-
slaught from Ottawa.
The government has announced in-
tention of revising the Combines Investi-
gation Act and adding more inspectors to
enforce the regulations of the act.
If there is anything this country
doesn't need, it's more inspectors.
The underlying purpose of The Com-
bines legislation is sound enough. Its
purpose is to prevent an innocent and un-
protected public from being robbed by
price-fixing business giants in cahoots
with one another.
The only drawback is that the prin-
ciple seems to apply only to businesses,
which after all must survive on their un-
sullied reputation for honest dealings
and fair prices.
The same principle does not apply to
the two single items which cost the Ca-
nadian consumers the giant share of their
weekly pay cheque — cost of labor and
cost of food.
Labor unions are backed by some of
the stiffest of laws in their right to form
combines for the setting of wage rates.
They are permitted by law to enter into
strike action with the purpose of forcing
employers to meet their demands. They
An official of the Department of
Tourism and Information recently rated
Goderich above-average in hospitality.
Chris George, district representative
of the department, said he had been in
Goderich three times in the last month
and patronized 10 business places.
• "I didn't buy something in each
place," he said. "Some places I just ask-
ed a question to which I knew the an-
swer—and these people bent over back-
wards to help me. In every instance but
one I received friendly, courteous service.
In one place I did make a purchase, I
didn't even get a 'hello'. I don't think
I'll go back there."
Mr. George was speaking to a semin-
ar on hospitality attended by 100 persons
who come in contact with tourists, main-
ly in retail sales, accommodation and the
tourist services field.
• He told the group one dollar in every
The Strathroy Age-Dispatch finds that
there are plenty of citizens who are ready
to suggest what "they" should be doing
in the community. The "they" is that
mythical group who should apparently be
making vast improvements in a town
Without anyone exactly knowing who
"they" are.
"We should like to suggest that per-
haps 'you' should be substituted for
'they', says the Strathroy writer, and he
adds:
"Strathroy is made up of people and
•
from many European countries, as well
as those from Commonwealth lands, re-
ceived their primary training at the base.
Throughout the years the town of Ex-
eter has remained the nearest centre of
any considerable size and its economic
growth since the early 1940s has been
largely dependent on the presence of the
air base and the significant number of
Air Force people who either lived in the
town or did a major portion of their
shopping in its places of business. It is
estimated that about $5 million a year is
added to the local economy by the De-
partment of National Defence.
It isn't hard to understand why every
thinking person in the South Huron area
is deeply concerned. The need to stream-
line and consolidate the country's armed
forces is self-evident, The vast savings
which can be effected will benefit every
Canadian—but the economy pinches pain-
fully when such a big slice must be taken
out of one small area.
constitute combines of the most powerful
kind.
Farm marketing agreements are also
combines of hundreds of participating
producers with the avowed intention of
controlling the market for certain food
commodities in order to secure the best
possible prices when they do sell.
In the case of both unions and farm
marketing groups the benefits accrue to
"common" folk, and not to big business
moguls, so combines of this sort are con-
doned and given government blessing.
We fully agree that in the cases of
both labor unions and farm producers
assistance is given to persons who might
not otherwise be in a position to fight for
themselves, Certainly the farm economy
must have some sort of bolstering if rural
prosperity is ever to be achieved and we
are not arguing with the end result but
rather with the means of securing that
result.
Sometimes it does appear that the
role of the businessman in today's eco-
nomy is forgotten. He is, after all, the
person whose foresight and courage have
provided a livelihood for the nation's
working people. His willingness to risk
money in the development of trade and
industry has built the factories and
stores which manufacture and market the
goods our country has to sell. Without
his continued efforts the economy of the
entire nation would come to a halt. Why,
then, is the businessman always the goat?
ten in Ontario pay cheques comes from
the tourist industry. He encouraged new
ideas in tourist promotion, saying none
would be too silly or costly to be given
serious consideration.
Those attending the seminar were told
26 percent of the tourist dollar is spent
on retail merchandise, 22 percent on ac-
commodation, 21 percent on food, 19
percent on transportation and 12 percent
on miscellaneous items,
Even in towns such as Wingham
where tourists are less numerous than in
the lakeshore communities it is evident
that courtesy and old-fashioned friendli-
ness can mean a great deal in such prac-
tical places as the cash registers. We do
have lots of summer visitors and we want
every one of them to come back and
bring their friends with them.
it is the kind of people living here who
determine the nature of the community.
If the people who live here do things,
then Strathroy becomes known as a town
which is going places. If the people who
live here don't do things, then Strathroy
becomes known as a place dying on the
vine.
"It is really up to you. If you believe
in something, go after it. Even if you
fail you will have stirred up your neigh-
bors to the point where they may take
their turn at doing something for the
community."
REMINISCING
JUNE 1917
Mr, C. Waltnsley has sold
his restaurant to Mr, E. C.
Fond of ilager$Yille. Mr, Pond
takes possession at once,
The Hip School Boardhave
secured the services of Mr.C.
L. Brown of Toronto, as princi-
pal of the school, at a salary
Of $1800 to succeed Mr. G. R.
Smith.
Another of Wingharn'sbrave
young men is officially report-
ed killed in action on June 15
viz Theodore St, Clair McDon-
ald, son of Mr, and Mrs. T.T.
McDonald. This young hero was
a Sergt. but discarded his strips
in order to do his bit in this
great war.
Mr. T. J. McLean left on
Wednesday morning for Engle-
hart, New Ontario, where he
will spend the summer on road
construction.
Wm. C. Homuth, a respect-
ed resident of Turnberry, pass-
ed away on Wednesday after a
lingering illness. He was in
his 43rd year and is survived by
two daughters.
JUNE 1931
At a meeting of the board
of governors of the Royal Can-
adian Humane Society held at
Hamilton and attended by Capt.
George J. Guy, Mr. M, J. Ov-
erell and A. G. Bain, awards
were granted including the fol-
lowing: Norman Barnard, Blue-
vale, for the rescue from drown-
ing of William Townsend in the
Maitland River at Bluevale on
June 3, and to Wilson Thornton
of Bluevale, for assisting in the
rescue.
Mr. Victor Loughlean, who
has been employed in the bar-
ber shop of Mr. J. 0. Habkirk
for the past few years, is open-
ing a barber shop in Clinton.
Mr. Fisher, of Lucknow, will
be in partnership with Mr.
Loughlean. Mr. Cliff Taman
of Blyth has taken "Vic's" place
with Mr. Habkirk.
JUNE 1941
Mr. and Mrs. George Orvis,
Wingham, announce the en-
gagement of their youngest
daughter, Hazel Tervitt, to
Private Cameron Lewis Taylor,
youngest son of Mr, and Mrs. G. W. Taylor, Wiarton, On-
tario. The marriage to take
place the latter part of June.
Gordon Leggatt is leaving
Wednesday for the RCAF Depot,
Manning Pool, Toronto, hav-
ing enlisted for service with this
branch.
A number of Miss Tena
Reid's girl friends gathered at
the home of Miss Marion Simp-
son recently and presented her
with a beautiful mirror. Miss
Reid is a bride-elect of this
week.
On Tuesday, June 17th, the
staff of the Wingham Public
School, Miss B. Reynolds, Miss
B. Joynt and Mr. A. W. Ander-
son, gave a farewell party for
Miss M. MacDonald and Mr.
G. Kidd. For several years Miss
MacDonald and Mr. Kidd have
been popular and efficient
teachers and will be greatly
missed, As a token of esteem
and best wishes for the future
Miss MacDonald was presented
with a walnut coffee table and
Mr. Kidd with an occasional
chair.
JUNE 1952
A near tragedy that was
averted at Wroxeter several
weeks ago has just come to our
attention. While a number of
youths were swimming at the
Wroxeter dam, Charlie Moore,
12, of that village got into dif-
ficulties when he got out too
far, as he couldn't swim. It was
only through the heroic efforts
of Shirley Reidt, 13, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs, Harvey Reidt,
that a drowning was prevented.
Rev. and Mrs. Alex Nimmo
were recently honored by the
members of St. Andrew's Pres-
byterian Church and their many
friends at a reception held in
the Sunday School room in hon-
or of their 25th wedding anni-
versary.
Dr. W. A. 13eecreft,
ister of Wingham United
Church announced to the of-
ficial board that he had ac-
cepted a call from the Ottawa
Presbytery to Rideau Park Unit-
ed Church, Ottawa, effective
at Easter,
THE STANLEY WORKS, 123-year-old manu-
facturer of hand tools and builders' hard- dent Keith Funston, left, and Edward J.
shares, checks ticker tape with NYSE Presi-
ware, was listed last week on the New Duffy, specialist in the stock. Stanley
York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol
Works, headquartered in New Britain,
"SWK". Company President Donald W. Conn., has paid dividends in every year
Davis, centre, who bought the first 100 since 1876.
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Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, June 23, 1966
SECOND SECTION
SUGAR.
AND SPICE
by -.,1301
Tragedy: Part One
We went through a "beach
village" last weekend, on our
way to visit the grandparents.
You know the sort of place: per-
haps 83 year-round residents,
and once the weather warms,
about 10,000 par-boiled foreign-
ers every weekend and -all
through July and August.
It's not my cup of tea, but
such a resort has something,
There's a carnival excitement
for the teenager. And for family
groups and the middle-aged, it
means getting away from the
city, yet not having to cope with
the wild, frightening silence of
the real country.
Sun and sand and sky at these
places are magnificent. So are
sonic of the bronzed, bikini-clad
goddesses wriggling past the
penny arcades and shooting gal-
leries.
But it isn't these things that
give the beach village its atmos-
phere. No, it's a compound of
other things that make them
fascinating.
There are the wonderful
smells: hamburgers frying; stale
beer; gasoline fumes; fish; faul-
ty septic tanks.
There are the fresh-air
sounds: eight thousand gulls
fighting over garbage; the
squeal of tires and vroom of ex-
hausts as the punks scatter kids
like quail; the whine of power
boats beheading swimmers.
And of course there arc the
sights. Here the pen falters.
Words alone cannot convey the
impression of that pink, pot-bel-
lied man in the purple sport
shirt, that lavish lady whose
Report from Queen's Park
provinces this year to help ex-
pand welfare services. This
will include increases to old
age pensioners where the need
for such increases is apparent.
The costs of the program
will be shared on a 50-50 basis
with the provinces.
The Legislature is now con-
sidering the estimates of the
Department of University Af-
fairs. After this there will be
three departmental estimates to
approve, Public Welfare, Agri-
culture and Attorney General.
A Worried Community
Here's an Example
Unequal Justice
Maybe "They" Is Really "You"
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slacks match exactly her orange
hair.
Nor do the beach villages
neglect the sense of touch.
There's the stove-hot, sticky as-
phalt underfoot. There's the
cool thrill of bare feet on some
kid's dropped popsiele. There's
the satisfying crunch underfoot
of a half-eaten bag of potato
chips.
I'm not knocking these places.
They have their own charm, like
zoos. At any rate, there we
were, heading for this beach vil-
lage, which lies across our route
to Granny's. And suddenly they
started to batter past us, in
pairs, in threes, in gaggles of
five or six: the motorcycle
gangs. There were at least three
different ones, with such names
as The Marauders across the
backs of black leather jackets.
"Oops. Looks like a rough
weekend at the beach," says I.
My family was enthralled, just
watching them fly by, black
jackets, cowboy boots, dark
glasses.
We stopped in the -village to
buy something. The invasion
was on. They were everywhere.
The storekeeper groaned when I
mentioned it, "I sure hope they
don't start nothin."
We got a closer look. My wife
was appalled. She'd never seen.
such a collection of females in
her life. Greasy hair, dirty
clothes and a built-in chip on
the shoulder. I guess it's diffi-
cult to stay dainty on the back
of a motorbike, but they did
look like a jam of tarts from a
Glasgow slum,
The men were equally inter-
esting. You could tell them from
the girls because they hadn't
taken off their leather jackets
to expose every inch of legal
flesh.
They were obviously into the
beer already, but they weren't
having any fun. They weren't
relaxed; they were tense. They
didn't walk; they swaggered.
They didn't laugh; they sneered.
Big, burly brutes, dirty, long-
haired. I must admit they gave
me a small, cold chill down the
back.
Nothing happened. We were-
n't beaten up or insulted. We
drove off, glad we weren't stay-
ing there. Next day, I heard
there'd been quite a rumble at
that village.
On the way home, over the
same route, we were wondering
whether they had left. There
didn't seem to be any sign of
them. Then we turned a corner.
There was a big crowd in the
middle of the road. A policeman
waved us by. On the pavement
were two bodies, covered with
blankets. But you could see the
cowboy boots sticking out. A.
greasy-haired girl crouched,
stroking the face of one of the
young men lying there.
I don't know whether they
were dead, I don't think so, be-
cause nobody seemed hysterical,
and the cops were calm, even
indifferent.
It was rather like watching
the last scene of a tragedy,
when you'd seen only Act I and
then had to leave.
BY MURRAY GAUNT, M.P.P.
Huron-Bruce
During the debates in con-
nection with the Department of
Education it was suggested that
Ontario's history books should
be rewritten to stimulate inter-
est among students for Cana-
dian history.
A number of Opposition
members said that more em-
phasis should be placed on the
struggle for responsible govern-
nent and the roles played by
leaders in the movement for
Confederation and by later fed-
eral and provincial leaders.
Unfortunately, most Ontario
students have never heard of
former provincial premiers such
as Oliver Mow at or George
Drew.
An inadequate Canadian his-
tory course is offered in Grade
10 and an optional course is
available in Grade 13.
The Canada Assistance Plan
has been introduced by the Fed-
eral Government and willmake
$85, 000, 000 available to the