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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1966-06-30, Page 9THE TENTH HOUR—Weary, smoky and hot these firemen take a brief rest while keeping an eye on the fire Friday morning. They had been on duty about ten hours. From the left are Keith DeVries, Lorne Gardner, David Crothers Jr., Chief Jim Carr, Robert Deyell, Deputy Chief Dave Crothers and Norm Cronkwright with Lynn Hickey in the foreground. —Advance-Times Photo, notz/Ziente Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, June 30, 1966 SECOND SECTION May you never have a child who is going to college. And if you have one, please accept my heart-felt condolences, Ours is a male, I don't know what college girls are like (any more, he said sadly) but I sus- pect they're just as Much of a cross to hear, for their parents. I had to get out of bed this morning at 6 a.m. to get rid of ours, but it was worth it. After he'd climbed on the bus, in a flurry of last-minute kisses and admonitions, I must confess to a distinct lifting of the spirits. It isn't that we don't love our son, We have the deepest affec- tion for him, and show it in the usual stupid ways. That is, we worry about his welfare; we puff with pride when he does something well; we spend hours trying to figure out what. is best for him: and we put up with murder from him. Typical, nor- mal parents. And it isn't that he's a delin- quent. Although there are times when I've been tempted to look up the exact definition of that word. No, he's really quite a decent, average college student. He's generous, idealistic and perfect- ly good-natured, if you don't cross him. He is reasonably pol- ite — to everyone but his fami- ly, He is thoughtful with old people and children — until they bore him. He can work steadily for 12 hours at some- thing he likes doing. Like sleep- ing. lie would give you the shirt off his bark: and is completely self-centred. lie can dance all night, but collapses when the lawn is half-mowed. You'd wonder why we'd have this sense of relief when he leaves. There's lots of fun alien he's around the house. lie plays guitar and sings, plays piano well, plays mouth organ, is full of beans. When he's around the house. Ay, there's the rub. lie has just spent three weeks ''at home." Phis included a couple of days visiting his 'grandparents, a week off hitch-hiking to Mon. treal and back, three days with a friend at the latter's cottage, and a day with another friend in the city. But it's been nice to have him home. And he's been a great help to me, He mowed Ono-third of the lawn one day; dug four feet of a 60-foot border a not her, and washed the car another (at the coin-wash). I'm not trying to imply that the boy is bone-lazy. It's just that lie's too busy. When he is home, he usually gets to bed an hour, sometimes two, before I get up at 6.30. When I get home for lunch, about 1.30, he is just coming to. By 2.30, it's too hot to mow the grass, but just right for the beach, Honesty compells me to admit that he did set a new record this time. He gat in at 3.30 one morning, and was just strug• gling downstairs for breakfast at 5.30 p.m., when his accom- plices of the night before ar• rived to pick him up for a (late they'd made for 7 p.m. Even they were a hit startled. Oh well, youth and all that jazz. I guess. Anyway, he's off to his summer job, working on a cruise boat on the west coast, Got a free rail pass from the company, He started figuring out his expenses for the trip out. A berth for three nights: meals in the diner for three days; per- haps a couple of nights in a Vancouver hotel in case his boat wasn't in, plus meals for those two days. My jaw dropped grad- ually but steadily during this recitial. He was pretty badly shaken up when I told him he would be renting a pillow for 25 cents and sleeping in his seat, would he eating ham sandwiches wherev- er the train shipped long enough, and \vould stay at the YMCA when he got there. We compromised on $50. My wife and 1 were talking it over, It seems odd," she said, "that we're forking out $50 so lie can get to a job, so that he can save money, so that it won't cost us so much next year." I agreed. Anyway, our vacation plans for the summer are made. A week ago, the old girl stated flatly that the only trip we could afford this summer was a week camping in a government camp, with a borrowed tent. Ten mintues after he'd left, she informed me that we were making a trip to the west coast, and taking a cruise on Hugh's boat. now to plug Canada's brain drain: lower income and estate taxes here than in the U.S. JUNE 1917 The financial report of the Methodist Church, Belgrave, for the past year, shows the cir- cuit raised $1308.07 for all purposes. Belgrave supplied $607,60 of this amount, Brick Church $446.3'7 and Sunshine $249.02, A good year is count- ed on. Report of Form 1 Examina- tions in Wroxeter Continuation School: Wilbert Doig (Honours); Helen Gibson (Honours); Bruce Edgar, Jack Edgar, Bertha Smith, Jean Young, Vera Gam- ble; Rhoda Henning; Lizzie Cathers; Hugh MacLean; Hans Rasmussen; Cecil Mines; Mary Miller. An early church wedding was solemnized in Sacred Heart Church, Wingham at 4.45 a.m. on Wednesday morning when Nurse Elizabeth Agnes King, daughter of Mrs. Luke King, was united in marriage to Mr. William Hickey of Owen Sound. Rev. Father Fallon performed the ceremony. The couple left on the 6.45 train for Toronto and points east. JUNE 1931 Master Trevor Davison, son of Rev, and Mrs. Davison, re- ceived a nasty tear in the calf of his leg by a rusty nail while playing in the United Church shed on Saturday. Mr. George Olver was the local delegate to the I. 0. 0.F. Grand Lodge which was held in St. Catharines last week. Mr. George NicEwen was the dele- gate from the Wroxeter Lodge. The following from the dis-, trict were successful in passing their examinations in the Fac- ulty of Medicine at Toronto University. Sixth and final year II. H. Hetherington, Bluevale Road; Fifth year, J. A. Munro, Wroxeter; Fourth year, W. G. Robinson, Belgrave, F. A, Parker, of Wingham, was elected president of the Western Ontario Osteopathic Association at their 17th annual convention held in the city of London recently. JUNE 1941 Mr. Ross Howson, medical student at Western University, is on the staff of the Muskoka hospital for the summer, Miss Marie King has been re-engaged at the Junction School with a salary increase of $100.00, Lieut. Dorothy Thompson, of Toronto, arrived here on Sat- urday to take charge of the Sal- vation Army Citadel. Miss Patricia Parker was successful in obtaining her first year Honour Arts at Victoria University, Toronto. She with Miss Ruth Hamilton is spending the summer at Grand Bend. The wedding was solemniz- ed at Sacred Heart Church, Teeswater, with Father Hawkins officiating, when Grace, young- est daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Kreutzwiser, became the bride of Harold McCormick, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John McCormick of Culross. JUNE 1952 On Friday evening, a large and appreciative audience was in attendance as 50 music pu- pils of Harold Victor Pym were presented in recital in the audi- torium of St. Andrew's Presby- terian Church. Mr. John Mc- Kibbon was chairman. Some of the pupils participating in the recital were Piano, Grade 1, Jeanie Gurney, Gordon Moffat, Beth Merrick, Karen Smith, Greer Dunlop, Claudia Hasel- grove, Mary Fisher, Ann Rae, Kathleen Fisher, John Moffatt, Dale Thompson, Betty Purdon and Donna Moffatt. Grade II, Norma Rutherford, Donna Ren- wick, Mary Elliott, Walton Mc- Kibben, Ferne Vanstune and Sharon Thompson. A new business, Mills Tire Service, has been opened in Wingham on Josephine St. in what was Joe Kerr's garage, op- posite his present location, Reg Mills, proprietor, has hat.; years' experience in this ausi- ness in Toronto. A pretty wedding took place at Wingham United Church on Wednesday, at 2.80 in the af- ternoon, when Dr. W. A. Bee- croft performed a double ring ceremony, uniting in marriage Grace Annie Padilla Campbell, only daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Robin Campbell of Wingliam and Frederick Earl McG,:e, son of Mr. and Mrs. John McGee, R. R. 3, Wingham. CENTENNIAL PRAYER "Lord, help us learn the broth- erhood That knows no boundary line, The fellowship of race and creed That serves its fellow man in need, And owns no will but Thine." —Mrs. Mabel Goldrich, Reminiscing Oh, these college boys! Although this comment is written pre- vious to Monday evening's meeting, it seems pretty obvious that the swimming pool question is strictly one of financing. Any person who is the least bit inter- ested in the community and particularly the young people in it will readily admit that a swirrming pool would be a won- derful asset. The whole question will be resolved b• whether of not the people of the community, as represented by both individuals and service organizations, are prepared to provide the necessary money, The need for a pool has been focused this year by conditions which have de- veloped in the river, In past seasons the water in the river swimming area was checked regularly for bacterial content and except on isolated instances, was found to be safe for public swimming, ac- cording to repeated reports The Advance- Times has had from the persons respon- sible. This year, however, the construction project on the new bridge has necessita- ted the draining of the upper pond and Long Ho The summer of 1966 may prove to be a tragic one for many communities in the United States, Civic leaders in dozens of the larger cities are gravely concerned about the probability of bloody race riots in which colored people may enter open conflict with whites, Apparently a new and very dangerous situation has arisen. Up to the present time the efforts of American negroes to attain equality of opportunity with whites have been chiefly confined to peaceful and non-violent demonstrations in the southern states, Increasingly, however, there are reports of militant negro or- ganizations, led not necessarily by hood lums, but by educated and intelligent men who have lost faith in the etfec- tiveness of the non-violent methods advo- cated by Dr. Martin Luther King. Such outbreaks would not, of course, be without precedent. The violence which characterized the riots in the Watts ghetto on the West Coast was one ex- The Spectr The continuously increasing costs of goods and services since the early years of the second war have created a condi- tion of generally increasing prosperity. As in all such circumstances, the cost in- crease is injurious to those who must live on fixed incomes, but the upward trend has brought a higher standard of living to most classes of people, This year the graduated scale of climb seems to have been abandoned, Many of the commodities which must be pur- chased, particularly the materials used by the manufacturing and service industries have been increased not by five or ten percent, but in some instances by one, two and three hundred percent. The same change seems to he taking place in the all-pervading costs of labor. We heard of one strike threat in a near- by community where the wage demands were for a $75 per week increase — al- most 100 percent, No person who is not fully informed 'of working and living conditions can ad- equately judge the validity of such de- mands, but it does appear very evident that if these demands are met the general cost of living in Canada will vault right out of sight. Then comes a galloping form of inflation which can spell econo- Will You When the Dominion - Independence week-end is over there will be more than 100 Canadians and 600 Americans dead in traffic accidents if the predictions of the National Safety Council are realized. The double holiday week-end always finds both Americans and Canadians crowding their own and each other's highways in a happy escape from their daily tasks and cares, This year's toll in death and injuries is likely to surpass any similar period in previous years. And it seems that the public is beginning to accept these grim and tragic facts with a shrug of the shoulders, Last year, in the three-month period beginning July 1st, according to records maintained by one of the Canadian auto- it is quite possible that the absence of that reservoir of water has contributed to the sharply-increased bacterial content of the water below the dam, Adequate swimming facilities are no longer regarded as a pure luxury for a community. Wingham, with its tragic history of drownings in past years and its pitiful lack of safety precautions at dangerous river points, has every reason to recognize the value of water safety and swimming courses, Several hundred children have been taught to swim during the past few years and the courses must he continued whatever the cost. The river swimming area has served a very useful purpose and could con- ceivably do so for some time to come. However, the contention that it is unre- liable is quite true. If sewage content is likely to be found in the water at any time there is no doubt that a proper pool is needed. In the final analysis the availability of money will be the deciding factor, t Summer ample. As far back as the thirties white and colored elements murdered one an- other in Detroit. Sober public officials who are charged with responsibility for public safety are watching developments in all the major cities with deep fear that violence of un- precedented magnitude may spread from place to place like a summer forest fire. Crowded into slums of the worst kind, many northern U. S, cities contain huge negro populations. In Chicago, for instance, the black ghetto contains over 800 thousand negroes. It does indeed seem tragic that a na- tion which has achieved so much in material and scientific progress should find itself so completely outdistanced in its program for human betterment. The solution to the negro problem should have been initiated 50 or even 100 years ago. Now the question is — will there he time to correct the oversight? mic disaster just as surely as did the market crash of 1929. All the contributing factors for un- controlled inflation are with us today. Most important of all is the inescapable fact that our economy has boomed to the point where we have run out of an ade- quate supply of workers to fill the orders which so many businesses have piled up. With the knowledge that labor is in short supply the less conscientious type of workmen begin to demand more money for less work of an ever poorer quality. Already the construction indus- try (and many others) are facing a situ- ation in which bosses simply dare not demand high quality workmanship. We have personally heard one contractor state that there is nothing he can do about poor quality workmanship. He says it's a matter of putting up with in- ferior production or lose the men entirely, This situation is one which bodes no good for the future of the country. Per- haps none of us like the sound of the word, but what we need right now is a sharp three-month depression to bring the working world back to a sense of reality and purpose. Be There? mobile associations, there were 1530 per- sons killed on Canadian roads and 44,600 injured in 97,600 reportable accidents, which is the highest in history. Traffic specialists advise cruising at normal speed rather than trying to keep up to the posted limit as there are many variables which enter into the operation of a car at high speeds which are absent at 50 miles an hour. Speed itself is not the killer, The prime danger is in driving at variance with existing traffic conditions. Be courteous to our American guests and hear in mind that many of them are operating their vehicles in unfamiliar ter- ritory. Make allowances for temporary indecisions in their driving habits. .4 3 fi ti I er 4 • c6 4 The Proof Is in the Paying e of Inflation THE WINGHAM 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 Rate; 1 year, $5.00; 6 months, $2,75 in advance; U.S.A., $7.00 per yr,; Foreign rate, $7.00 per yr, Advertising Rates on application.