The Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-04-20, Page 9REMINISCING
APRIL, 1918
Mr, and WS. Alex Mowbray
of Wingham, have become res,
idents of Whitechurch,, having
moved to Mrs, Quyler's house.
Miss Rush has opened up a
rnilinery store in Wroxeter in
the building formerly occupied
by Miss McDonald,
On April 3rd, a very pleas-
ing event occurred at the par-
sonage, Wingham, when Miss
Verna S. Merkley, second daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Merit-
ley of Belmore, was united in
marriage to Mr. William J.
King. a prosperous young farm-
er of Howick.
Mr. W. F. Connor of Dunn-
ville, is the new accountant at
the Bank of Hamilton. Mr.
Sharpe, who has been teller for
the past few months, has been
transferred to Palmerston.
Taxpayers in the town of Wingham
can look forward to a sharp increase in
the mill rate—exactly how much no one
knows as yet, There is little we can do
but accept the higher taxes with what
good grace we can muster.
Perhaps this is as good a time as any
to recall the fact that the local councils,
during the past several years, have let us
down very gently. When increases in the
mill rate were made they were modest
ones. In fact, the entire process of catch-
ing up with today's costs might have been
a little less painful had the tax increases
been a little higher in previous years—and
thus not quite as stiff this year.
The council has very little choice in
the matter. We can think of no place
where municipal money has been wasted
and the climb in taxation must be blamed
on sharply increased costs of those ser-
vices which each of us demand—educa-
tion, roads, etc,
This is the year of the big jump in
wages. Stiffly increased teachers' salaries
will be one of the contributing factors,
and it is understood that there will be
an increase in the county rate as well.
An added cost will be the town's
share of the new ambulance service which
Town faces higher taxes
is operated by the Wingham and District
Hospital. However, this is not a heavy
per capita burden and was a vitally neces-
sary expenditure when the private ambul-
ance operators found it impossible to con-
tinue.
Taxpayers who start to gnash their
teeth in anticipation of higher costs
should give a little thought to one area
in which they have been granted a real
bargain. A million dollars' worth of new
and improved hospital facilities have been
constructed during the past two years
without one mill being added to the local
tax rate to provide all this additional
health service, The building and reno-
vating program at the hospital has been
completely carried by grants and loans.
The latter will be repaid, not out of de-
benture funds raised by the participating
municipalities, but out of revenue at the
hospital itself.
Everyone is aware that we live in a
period of increasing costs and the muni-
cipal councils are caught in precisely the
same squeeze as the householders. They
would like to get by on the same income
as five or six years ago, but they find it
impossible,
The firemen are right
MAJOR GEORGE CLARKE of Toronto, second left, Salvation
Army speaker at Sunday's centennial crusade service at St.
Andrew's, welcomed Mayor and Mrs. DeWitt Miller to the
service. Mrs. Clarke is on the right and Miss Janie Clarke
stands beside her father.
—Advance-Times Photo.
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Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, April 20, 1967 SECOND SECTION
Thank God
it's over
APRIL 1932
Mr. Thomas Elliott, Scott
St., has purchased the grocery
and boot and shoe business, in-
cluding residential property,
from Geo. A. Machan, of
Blyth. Mr. Elliott's farm of
160 acres in Culross Township,
was exchanged for the property.
Mr. Elliott is now in possession
of the store and Mr. and Mrs.
Machan have taken up resi-
dence on the farm.
The Park Badminton Club,
of Kitchener, held a club tour-
nament recently. Miss Louise
Thompson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. 0. Thompson, made her
presence felt by winning a 1st
prize for Ladies' Singles, a pair
of Badminton shoes for 1st place
in the ladies' doubles.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Farrier
and Garnet and Olive spent
Sunday with their daughter, Miss
Winnifred Farrier of Ripley.
Miss Farrier had held an Art Ex-
hibit, consisting of art drawn by
the first form and one hundred
beautiful pictures from Toronto,
in the high school there on
Thursday and Friday, charging
a small admission fee, made
over $30 with which to purchase
pictures for their school.
APRIL 1942
Sgt. George Fitzpatrick or
the 99th Battery while home on
furlough last week was recalled
to Camp Borden as he had been
transferred to an Anti-Aircraft
Battery.
Sacred Heart Church, Wing-
ham, was the scene of a lovely
wedding, Wednesday morning,
April 8th, when Catharine
Genevive Fitzpatrick was unit-
ed in marriage to Mr. Edward
Rich of Wingham.
Mr. and Mrs. John Purdon,
Whitechurch, celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary of their
marriage on Saturday, with
their family of three sons and
three daughters, all at home
and with other relatives.
Carl McClenaghan started
off to school on Monday at S.S.
No. 10, Kinloss, Arthur Laid-
law to S. S. No. 9 and Margaret
McNeil to S. S. Noir 14.
On Monday Scott Reid left
for Montreal to enter Manning
Pool there. On completion of
a month of training, he will be
posted for instruction in a radio
course, Scott has had consider-
able experience with this type
of work having been on the staff
of CKNX for some time.
SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
Stereoscope '61
depicts 100 years
in Huron County
willing to put half, or even a quarter of
this amount into the firemen's fund the
show could have been continued. In
stead it was nickels and dimes and quar-
ters that found their way into the hat —
from those who gave anything at all.
The local service clubs and other or-
ganizations helped along, but it is under-
standable that they must allocate their
funds over many worthy projects in the
course of the year,
We believe (and we could be wrong)
that the firemen would continue to look
after the fireworks display if they could
be assured of more realistic financial sup-
port. If you would like to see the show
carried on for the sake of the children we
suggest you get in touch with some mem-
ber of the fire brigade and tell him so.
Then be prepared for a worthwhile con-.
tribution,
Last week the Wingham Fire Brigade
announced that no plans are being made
to repeat the displays of fireworks which
have so delighted both old and young
the past two years. Apparently the gen-
eral public, the chief beneficiaries of the
show, have completely missed the point
of the effort—which was to save mothers
and fathers a pile of money and to satisfy
the youngsters' yearning for fireworks
without having them involved in the more
dangerous aspects of the annual blow-off.
It would be hard to assess the aver-
age household's expenditure on firecrack-
ers before the firemen started their dis-
play, Certainly there were many homes
where the outlay was limited, but on the
other hand we know of many more where
as much as $10.00 or $15.00 went into
pyrotechnics every spring.
If these same big spenders had been
Who pays for your paper
And that will be quite
enough of that doggerel, thank
you. But it's all true, and I
hope the longer days, warmer
sun and softer winds have
cheered you up. Even though
that old, cold Receiver-General
is lurking just around the cor-
ner.
One can't help feeling that
the natives' sanity is saved by
the signs of spring, such as
they are. Three .people smiled
at me this week, for no reason.
Today, a fellow motorist, who
would have driven straight at
me, snarling, a month ago,
stopped and waved me through
an intersection, when he had
the right of way.
It's not all roses. There's a
lot of hard hacking ahead to
clean up the estate, which I
didn't quite manage last fall.
The Old Lady has that wild
spring decorating gleam in her
eye. And my daughtter flunked
her Physics exam.
But when I drive past a
black, burbling trout stream,
and long for Opening Day, or
when I see the flags go up at
the golf course, I realize that
there's still a little steam in
the old boiler ,and that spring
has done it again,
tion and handling costs—if that. Once it
also covered the cost of the newsprint, but
that day is long since gone. Advertising
and advertising alone brings the public
the news of the community at a price that
the public can pay.
And there is more to it than that. Peo-
ple buy papers not only to read the news,
they buy them to read the advertisements.
They buy papers because they are a per-
manent record, in black and white. The
paper remembers for you in detail and
specifics. It is a source that can be re-
ferred to, time and time again at your
convenience. What's more, if you feel like
buying a second copy, you can always send
it to Aunt Minnie out in Saskatchewan, so
she can see for herself the important
events in the life of her former home town.
Newspapers and advertising are and
always will be partners in bringing the
public the history of its times. The ad-
vertisements are often as much history as
the news, and historians can often learn
as much, if not more about the life of a
period by studying what the people
bought, how much they paid for it, and
how advertising was planned to attract
their attention.
We have just gone through
the most relentless winter I
can remember. Deep snow and
deep cold, day after day,
month after month. I don't
know about you, but it took
more out of me than four
years of World War II did.
But there are signs that the
annual two-day phenomenon
known in this country as
Spring, is almost upon us, and
it is with considerable satisfac-
tion that I look back and sneer
at the blizzard on March 21st,
laughingly known as the First
Day of Spring, and those
15-below temperatures just
before Easter. I've made it
again.
APRIL 1953
Every once in a while, says the Dart-
mouth, N.S. Free Press, somebody who
ought to know better comes up with the
dream of a newspaper without advertising.
The Pictou Advocate recalls in a re-
cent editorial that one of the most sophis-
ticated cities in North America, New York,
had this dream come true. In 1939
Ralph Ingersoll brought out a tabloid
newspaper, PM, that had not a line of ad-
vertising in it. It cost a little more, but
it was worth every penny of it and some
of the best writers in North America
wrote for it.
Realizing that the public do look to
newspapers for information to help them
shop, PM ran an excellent column for
consumers such as would have delighted
the hearts of Consumers Associations ev-
erywhere. It ferreted out bargains, pin-
pointed value, and gave a yardstick against
which to shop. It had a faithful, enchant-
ed following—and it failed, despite heavy
subsidization, to get on its feet,
That was in 1939. Today, to give the
public a paper without advertising would
cost, on a conservative estimate, 50 cents
to one dollar a copy. The few cents the
subscriber pays for a copy of his news-
paper covers little more than the circula-
But you'll hear no com•
plaints from me. In fact, I-feel
so good when I kick off the old
galoshes and hang up the over-
coat for the last time that I
might just burst into song.
Here are the words. It might
go to the tune of "There's a
Tear in My Eye".
There's a hole in my boot,
In my best rubber boot,
But I don't give a hoot
'Cause it's spring.
There's a smell in the air
Like an old she-wolf's lair,
But I don't really care
'Cause it's spring.
There's a squealing of tires,
And the smell of grass fires,
And the poets are liars,
But it's spring.
There are masses of mud,
And my cellar's in flood,
But I know in my blood
That it's spring.
There's romance in the air;
All the boys have long hair,
And the girls have a flair
In the spring.
There are gamboling lambs
And fat Easter hams
And beautiful gams
In the spring.
Like many Canadians, I am
in a state of suicidal depres-
sion by the middle of March.
But those good old signs of
spring catch me just before I
plummet into the pit, and
there I am, forced to give it
another whirl.
The signs of Spring in these
parts are not quite what they
are in some parts of the world,
but they're just as welcome,
No larks sing, but is there
anything sweeter than the first
raucous call of a crow? The
flowers don't exactly come
popping out but those hardy
annuals, the picnic tables, rear
their brave heads through the
snow in the yard.
And there's color every-
where. Brown mud, yellow
grass, green wine bottles on
your front lawn, tossed there
by some poor soul fighting
mid-winter madness. And the
lovely off-white of about three
tons of sand and salt thrown
onto said lawn by the snow-
plow.
Better production a centennial project
The Wingham Towne Play-
ers are sponsoring the Goderich
Little Theatre production of
"Stereoscope '67", a musical
revue written by Jack McLaren
with music by Horace Lapp of
Toronto. The show will be put
on at the Wingham District High
School Auditorium at 8;00 p.m.
on Saturday, April 29. Tickets
are on sale at Harris Stationery
in Wingham and rush tickets
will also be available at the
door.
"Stereoscope '67" consists of
a series of sketches portraying
the last 100 years in the history
of Huron County and presented
in a light, frothy and humorous
way. A new musical number
has been written telling the
story of the building of the Hur-
on Road and will be sung by a
male sextette. Some of the
other numbers are "On the Hust-
ings" showing an election cam-
paign in Goderich in 1840;" The
Quieting Bee" portrays 16 in-
dolent hands and eight busy
tongues; "And Nothing but the
Truth", an operetta telling the
story of a trial in Goderich jail
in 1860. Stereoscope '67 tells
in chronological order the stor-
ies of the coming of the bicycle,
the telephone, the horseless car-
riage, World War I, and the ra-
dio.
A great deal of research had
to be done in advance because
everything in the show is based
on fact. Of course the fact that
"fact" has been greatly altered
is neither here nor there.
"Stereoscope '67" promises
to be an exciting and lively
event worth looking forward to.
A PAIR A YEAR
On Sunday evening a Hol-
stein cow owned by George Merk-
ley of Wroxeter gave birth to
calves. This is the third set of
twin calves this cow has had in
three years.
It's no wonder a guy,
Even an oldie like I,
Gets a look in his eye
In the spring.
A remarkable thing
That you feel like a king
When you get in the swing
Of the spring.
Mr. and Mrs. Justin A. Will
announce the engagement of
their daughter Mary Caroll Vera
to Mr. Walter Bruce Renwick,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Ren-
wick of Clifford. The wedding
will take place in May.
John Hanna M. L. A, for
Huron-Bruce, was the recipient
of a high honor extended to on-
ly a handful of people in this
province last week, when he re-
ceived a personal invitation,
signed by the Duke of Norfolk,
Earl Marshal of England, to be
present in Westminster Abbey
at the Coronation of Queen
Elizabeth II.
A pleasant evening was spent
on Wednesday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Higgins,
when friends and neighbors
gathered for a social time be-
fore they leave the third line
for their home in Belgrave.
Tenders for the new boiler
room and laundry room build-
ing at the hospital will be let
this Month.
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"If we want a real Centennial project,
one that will lend its bounty to every liv-
ing Canadian, it is for management and
labor to dedicate themselves to working
together to improve the productivity of
industry," said George F. Plummer, presi-
dent of Dunlop of Canada Limited in an
address to .a Barrie Rotary Club luncheon
audience.
Canadian industry lags quite seriously
in world productivity ratings. In many
industries there is a great productivity
gap compared with U.S. companies than
there was ten years ago.
The speaker quoted Economic Council
of Canada ten-year ratings of average na-
tional increases in productivity. They
placed Canada 14th in the world, below
the U.S. and the United Kingdom, and far
below Japan which leads all other coun-
tries. Productivity growth allows wages
and profits to maintain a sustained rise
without any increase in the general price
level. It is productivity growth which de-
termines increases in real income and
therefore in our true standard of living.
This growth must be the internal respon-
sibility of individual company management
and of labor leadership.
In thus placing the onus for real im-
provement in living standards on manage-
ment and labor, the Dunlop president
called on management to accept primary
responsibility for eliminating unnecessary
costs in the manufacturing and marketing
chain in Order to narrow the spread be-
tween costs and consumer prices.
Labor must abandon featherbedding
and jurisdictional disputes which restrict
growth and improvements in manufactur-
ing efficiencies.
This spring 4-H homemak-
ing club members are enjoying
international cuisine Canadian-
ized as they adventure through
the project "A World Of rood in
Canada". The girls have spent
a great deal of time collecting
recipes from different countries
to add to their recipe files
which will be exhibited along
with their record books at the
Achievement Day. The after-
noon program at Achievement
Day will consist of demonstra-
tions, skits, and exhibits on a
variety of centennial topics and
will begin at 1430 p.m, in How-
iek Central School, April 22
and Wingham District High
School on May 13,
Weekly euchre
BBLGRAVE—There were
eight tables in play at the Bel-
grave Community Centre last
Wednesday, with high scores
won by Mrs. Clarence Johnson
and Jesse Wheeler and low
scores, Mrs. Stanley Cook and
Bill Gow. Novelty prizes went
to Mrs. Helen Martin and Har-
old Procter,
Margaret Carter. Highlights of the program
was a coast to coast "Salute to Canada"
With slides and accompanying musical
selection by Major arid Mrs. George Clarke
and Jane of Toronto.
—Advance4iMes Photo.
ENJOYING A HOT cup of tea following
the Senior Citizens' Rally at the Salvation
Army Citadel on Thursday afternoon are
left to right: Mrs. Agnes Wallace, Mrs.
Alex Leaver, Mrs. Ross King, Mrs. Gershom
Johnston, Mrs. Lloyd Hingston and Mrs.
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