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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-05-04, Page 9-SECONP' acTtot4 Wingharn Thursday, May •4., 1907, The Ladies are in Action. SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Remember the battles ? at the end of the present church year, July 1st. The following local students are to be congratulated on graduating at Queen's Univer- sity, Kingston; Master of Arts, William James Henderson,B. A., Physics and Mathematics; Nor- man Muir, English and History, Bachelor of Arts (Honors); Geor- gina Bower, Bachelor of Arts; Alto Flora Yvonne MacPherson, Bachelor of Arts; William Gor- don McDowell, Brussels, Bach- elor of Arts; Henry Walsingham G. Little, Teeswater, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineer- ing; Jean Scobie, Wilton Grove, formerly of Belgrave and White- church, Medal in Mathematics. A pretty wedding was solem- nized at Teeswater Presbyterian manse on April 2'7, when Eva Isabel Stokes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Stokes, How- ick, was united in marriage to Hugh Fraser Haugh, Turnberry. Rev. Dr. Forbes officiated. This edition, of The Advance-Times carries a letter from some of the Grade XII students at the Wingham District High School which is well worth reading. Apparently a grbup of the students got themselves into a discussion about the shortcomings of the community and the result was the letter to the paper which points out the hazards inherent in a com- plete lack of traffic signals on our streets. Twenty-four young people signed the let- ter. We believe that the attitude of thought- ful attention to conditions in their home town is a most promising sign in these students. No community has much of a future before it unles's a fair proportion of its citizens are capable of becoming seriously concerned with its shortcomings. One of the more rewarding aspects of op- We would like to express our thanks to two separate groups of people whose thoughtfulness lightened our work load last week, Our photographer set out on two engagements in one evening, one in Blyth and the other in Wroxeter. He was re- signed to the usual endless delays before he would be permitted to get his work done and get home to bed—but he was treated to a pleasant surprise. In both instances persons who were apprpciative of the fact that the newspaper was taking the trouble to cover the events stepped to the fore and promptly made all the necessary arrangements and our man was on his way in no time. We have mentioned several times pre- When the mothers of the community learned that the firemen would be forced to drop the annual fireworks display through lack Of financial support it didn't take them long to get into action, Mrs, Ross Gordon was on the phone to us last week and immediately organized a c011eC- tion of her own. With the help of a couple of neighbours she covered the Boland- Catherine- Summit Drive section and they came back with $109.00. The Kinettes stepped to the front and with the aid of the Rebekahs will under- A Sample of Responsible Citizenship Happy Retirement Harold A Sincere Thank You erating a small town newspaper is the opportunity we can afford for the public expression of comment such as this, Though the educators are supposed to be the experts on what our young people should learn during their school years, we have always believed that too little time is devoted to the subject of civics, Even though a young mind may be loaded with facts and figures in many specialized fields, the sum total of knowledge is of little benefit to mankind unless the pos- sessor of such facts is a well-balanced in- dividual, fully aware of his or her respon- sibility to the other members of the society in which we live. Keep at it kids. Even though you have to sit down under a tree somewhere, ham- mer out your ideas and make sure the most intelligent thought prevails. take to organize a canvass throughout the rest of the town, At least One of the service clubs has indicated help will be forthcoming from its treasury, The big question now is getting the explosives here On time for the big blow at Riverside Park. If you are asked to donate, be a little extra generous. The ladies who collect and the firemen who organize the show are going to save you quite a few dollars Which would otherwise have been required to keep your own kids happy. viously that endless hours can be and usually are wasted in our efforts to get pictures at public events. In spite of a fair fund of patience we are bound to become a wee bit "put off" of such oc- casions. The man with the camera is usu- ally a person who has put in a full day's work by the supper hour and is out in the evening not merely to get something to fill our pages, but equally as as a goodwill ges•• ture which will provide publicity for some organization in the area. It is certainly appreciated when we encounter understanding and co-operation. MR. AND MRS. HERB FULLER were pre- sented with an engraved silver tray follow- ing the Sunday morning service at St. Paul's Anglican Church. The Fullers have been staunch supporters of the church and News Items from Old Files will be living in Lions Head where he pur- chased a hardware business. The presen- tation, on behalf of the congregation, was made by church wardens Terry Nethery and Norman Deyell—A-T Photo, There's nothing like a good, old-fashioned family fight on Saturday night, to relieve the built-up tensions of the week, clear the air, and get everybody squared around for a quiet Sun- day. For centuries, this was a tra- dition in many families. But, like eo many of our other fine old customs, this one has been virtually destroyed by tele- vision, Don't get me wrong. I don't mean the kind of thing in which the brutal, drunken hus- band lurches home, beats up his wife and kids, robs the sugar bowl and piggy banks of their pennies, and staggers back to the pub and Pearl. This happened, of course. And still does. But I mean the ordinary family fight. The fa- ther, a decent working man, has gone up-town Saturday afternoon, with his $1.e0 allowance, He's bought a pack of fags and had three or four beers. He's mildly merry, His wife has done the week's shopping, She has lugged four bulging bags of grub a block to the car, She has slaved to pre- pare a good supper. The baby is crying, just for the hell of it. The teenage daughter is whining about going to a dance with a known hoodlum. The I2-year-old son is still out fishing, it's almost dark and he's probably drowned. And her feet hurt. And the dinner is ruined. Because the old man is late. Twenty minutes late, already. Well, there's a dust-up. Pa comes in with a happy smile and the old lady peels the hide right off him. The boy comes in grinning, with two speckled trout, and gets a cuff on the ear. The daughter whines on and is sent to her room. The baby, no slouch at the game, yells like a banshee, to get some attention. And it's all over, like a sum- mer storm. Pa is ashamed for cuffing the kid, Ma is ashamed for blasting Pa. The boy gets doubles on dessert. Ma and Pa plead with the girl to go out with the hood, who really isn't a hood, after all. The baby gets a bottle right in the mouth and shuts up. The kid cleans his fish. Ma does the dishes dreamily. Pa goes out and roots around the rosebush. Sis flies out, at the MAY 1942 MAY 1918 Mr. Jesse Button has sold out his interest in the Chevrolet business to Mr. L. Kennedy.Mr. Button will devote his entire at- tention to the Hill and Button music store. The fall wheat crop is a com- plete failure this year, at least as far as this district is concern- ed, and some farmers are plow- ing up the greater part of it. Mr. J. A. Morton is having a new front put in the store un- til recently used as a laundry. It will be a credit to the main street when completed. Mr. A. E. Runstedler has accepted a position in Toronto and will move there in the near future. Mrs, Runstedler is con- ducting a clearing sale of mil- linery prior to her departure. She proposes opening up a mil- linery parlors in the city. Rev. D. Perrie is attending the Presbyterian Synod which is being held in the First Presby- terian Church, London. Dr. Deans left this week for London where he has taken a commission in the Dental Corps. hoot of a horn, Baby burps and smiles in his sleep, That's the way it was, net too long ago. But television has wrecked it, Nowadays, in. stead of taking out our aggres- sions on each other, we huddle before the Great Soporific on Saturday nights, dinner bal- anced on our knees. We pour all our aggressions into a stiff body-check or a saloon brawl in a Western, As a result, the fine old family fight on a Saturday night has degenerated into a querulous quibble about who's going to get up and fetch a beer during the commercial. However, I am glad to say, although the family fight is dying, it is not quite extinct. The other day I read, with growing fascination, of a Christmas Eve squabble that has to rank with one of the great ones, It took place last Dec. 24th, and the legal after- math is now in progress. As the newspaper reported it, this young fellow admitted he drank between 30 and 40 bottles of beer during the day. That is some beer drinker. You try putting down about four gallons of beer the day before Christmas, or any other day, and I guarantee you'll have a belly the shape, and a nose the hue, of S. Claus him- self. Not to mention the beers coming out your ears, It gets better. The Champ, as we shall call him, had an argument with his brother, who threw him out of the house. Imagine the glug and undaunted, The Champ climbed a tree. Maybe he thought it was a pear tree and he was a part- ridge. Who knows. Anyway, brother stepped outside with a shot-gun, He claimed he fired a shot in the air, not knowing The Champ was up a tree. But several pellets entered the latter's anatomy. The champ testified that he couldn't remember swinging his mother-in-law around by her hair, although he did ad• mit having a fight with her. It sounds like a swinging party. I'm just as glad I wasn't there, but it proves that the family fight still has a little steam in it, even though it is disappearing from our way of Iife. Other local officers are Lieuts. J. R. M. Spittal, Richard Ro- berts and James McKague. Many of the non-commissioned officers of the battery are also from Wingham. On Friday May 1st the new speed law, 40 miles an hour went into effect and it is illegal to exceed this limit. The only exception to this is allowed ar- my, navy or air force men or officials, and it has to be of- ficial business. Messrs. W. S. Hall and. H. F. McGee attended an instruc- tional meeting of Royal Arch Masons in Listowel, Monday evening. MAY 1953 The business of Donald Rae & Son, which for many years has been located on Josephine Street, has been sold to Mr. J. P. Alexander, of London, who will take possession on May 18th. Plans of the partners, Ron and Murray Rae, have not yet been decided but it is ex- pected that Ron will be going to Arizona to live in the near fu- ture, appreciation of music from Harold Victor. Listeners throughout the CKNX broadcast area have long been familiar with his ren- dition of beloved hymns each morning. He's not talking much about his plans for the future, but we all hope that they include a good many years of happy re- tirement in our midst. Good wishes are extended to Harold Victor Pym, who played his last service on Sunday as organist of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, After 28 years at the church organ he has certainly earned his retirement and the congratulations of a host of friends go with him. As a music teacher, hundreds of young people have gained their knowledge and = ee. „ e••• „ee. „eve e,..epeeeeeeeeee ',Itelek.".- • e Afeeeke, 'ereieeesfeeeegeaer Word has been received here that the 99th Battery, RCA, which has been stationed at Camp Borden, will this week take up camp near Brandon, Manitoba. Major R. S. Heth- erington is officer commanding the battery and Capt. Elmer D. Bell is second in command. MAY 1932 No Need For Panic TR EDITOR Rev. L. H. Currie, B.A., of Toronto has accepted the invi- tation of Wingham United Church to become their pastor, yry.p.“11111•4411 Though the news that as yet there are no doctors lined up to succeed the two who will leave town at the end of the month is seriously disturbing, there is no cause for serious alarm as yet. The departure of any well-known doc- tor from a community, of course, is a serious thing, regardless of who is to suc- ceed him, There are few professional re- lationships in which more trust and dependence are involved than that of the doctor and his patient. Once a person has learned to rely upon another human for his life, the bond is not easily broken. However, both Dr. Corrin and Dr. Klahsen have committed themselves to other fields of service within the medical profession and it is too late for them to change their plans. The problem of secur- ing replacement doctors has been the sub- ject of intensive effort, not only by Drs. Corrin and Klahsen, but by several in- dividuals in town and the assistance of highly-placed officials has also been sought, so it is hoped that better news will be forthcoming shortly. One of the serious difficulties in this Teenagers concerned about traffic hazards in Wingham A'ag#44$00:ZnA., you demand that traffic lights be installed where you want them. Why not give it a try? Concerned Motorist. 0-0-0 Diane Casemore, writer of the above letter, Wingham District High School and sup- ported by the students of grade twelve commercial class who are also concerned motorists as follows: Jim Robertson, Barb Detzler, Anita Weishar, Dian- ne Grove, Mary Ahara, Evelyn Ortlieb, Mary Ann Borho, Fran Benninger, Beverley Ballagh, Linda Mann, Verna Hunter, Hel- en Johnstone, Rene Manjin, Ruth Mathers, Ruth McLennan, Joyce Walker, Dianne Elston, Elaine Snell, Barbara Eskritt, Janette Johnston, Leone Cham- bers, Barb Ferguson, Barb Hen- Wingham and surrounding area; these are the facts about your town and its hazardous driving conditions. What are you going to do about it? Pass it off as another letter of complaint? Wait until something very ser- ious happens such as death, be- cause of no traffic lights? Yes, the other guy was to blame, You're always such a good driv- er, aren't you? Ninety-nine per cent of the people in Wingham who drive or who have children who drive or even have children who walk on the cross-walks, which can barely be distinguished, should be concerned about these facts and should act forcefully and fast, that is if they value the lives of their loved ones or their own lives. We are the younger genera- tion speaking for ourselves and future generations. We may be rebelling; but, all there is now is talk about what should be done and no action. I'm guilty of this talk myself, but now I'M going to take action. This is my first step; giving you the facts, letting you think about it for a while, then taking more action with or without the citi- zens' of Wingham support. I'm only seventeen and I probably won't go very far,, but at least I'm trying. What are you do- ing about it? I want Wingham to be a safe place to drive in and a safe place to cross a street, don't you? Come on! Save a life! It might be your own. Write some letters of complaint to the newe• paper or the town council. Get a few people thinking. You are the taxpayers in Wingham. You can get the money in someway. Why don't you do something in- stead of sitting back, watching accidents happen arid people getting hurt or even killed?Life is a rough road; we can make it smoother driving, though, if ry. Dear Editor: During a recent discussion in our English class at Wingham District High School, we were debating the matter of where stop lights should be placed on the main street of Wingham. The conclusion was reached by the class that we should leave the facts of this event in the minds of the citizens in Wing- ham and surrounding districts. Some students quote that, "traffic lights are a demand at the intersection of Diagonal Road, John Street, and Jose- phine Street where, at present, there are only three stop signs, nearly invisible cross-walks, and where very shortly some- one is going to be killed if traf- fic lights are not immediately installed. That someone could be you!" Other students do not deny that the facts their friends have pointed out to them are very substantial; however, they feel that this intersection is not the most critical position in Wing- ham for traffic lights. Their argument is that "traffic lights are desperately needed at the intersection of Diagonal Road and Victoria Street at which there have been many acci- dents causing serious injuries. Going east along Victoria Street there is no stop sign, no yield sign, no cross-walk anywhere, and if some 'jerk' is coming along Diagonal Road at approx.- imately fifty miles per hour, which very frequently happens, then,you haven't got a chance as a pedestrian or as the driver of another ear because there is no yield sign to obey. Sure, you know you're supposed to yield. You've lived in Wing-, heti long enough to know that by now. But what about the new-corners to Wingham? Are they supposed to know every thing? Ladies and gentlemen of If you drive, no blinkers! search is the demand of the College of Physicians and Surgeons that incoming doctors must pass an examination before practising in Ontario. Laudable as this regulation may be, since it is a guarantee of adequate qualifications, it is becoming apparent that the rule should be relaxed where graduates of well-known and repu- table British schools of medicine are con- cerned. British doctors all too frequently refuse to give up their practices in the U.K., make an expensive move across the ocean, and then face the possibility of failing to meet Ontario requirements, It is undersood that some effort to ease the transition of British doctors is contemplated at present. The public is just a wee bit dubious about the motives which prompt such stiff regulations, High standards they agree with, but one can- not dismiss the possibility that the rules were made in a day when it was desirable to limit competition. In the meantime the search goes on— and we hope to have some news of new doctors shortly. Education is Big Business It is to be hoped that the next genera- tion turns out well, for the preseht gen- eration of taxpayers are certainly putting up a wad of money to get the young peo- ple off to a good start in life. With an educational plant which has already cost several million dollars, the Wingham Dig- trict High School will now be supplement- ed by an addition which will cost nearly three million dollars more. And that isn't all, by any means, The operating budget for the coming year adds up to nearly a million. After the Luck- now students have been brought to Wing- ham enrolment will rise from the neigh- borhood of one thousand to a figure ap- proaching 1,500, so we can expect the operating costs to escalate proportionately, No one is complaining, as long as the youngsters get the sort of training which will fit them to cope with problems that are likely to be bigger than any their parents have known. But one thing is cer- tain, the public is going to expect a very high grade of education. THE SK RL OF the bagpipes and swing of the kilt stirred the blood of many a Scot at the Blyth Agricultural SO, diety Variety concert as Kerry and Avon Toll performed their dance number in fine style, Held at the Blyth Public School auditorium the program featured 25 numbers with performers from Morris, East Wewanosh and West Wawa- nosh Townships, as well as Myth. The dancing Toll Sisters are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Toll of teat Wawanosh.—A-T Photo. THE WINC,I-IAM ADVANCE j TIMES Vithilisheti at Wifighiiiti, Ontario, by Wenger tires. Waited. VV, Barry Wenger,. President Robert 6, Wenger, Seeretareoetteteitter Ifertiber Audit Bureau of Circulation Mettibet dithaditiet Weekly Netiviseatteis AitiOdiatien, Atit.hritited by the Peet Wilde Department as Second dins Mail and for Payment of peatiae in cash. Stibieriptien Atte:. 1 year; 45.1)0; d Menthe, $2.16 in itdvaritel. D,S.A.. $1;06 per ye.; Foreign rite, $1,tio pee ye. Atitrettliiitt 'Wet oft The wrong kind of eyeglass frames can increase your than- ces of having a car accident, says eye specialist H. P. R. Smith, M.D., consultant to Britain's Ministry of Transport« In a recent article in the Bridal Medical Journal he showed that some modern frames interfere seriously with ovev-the,shoul- der vision. Fancy sunglasses and heavy,- framed "executive" glasses with wide sideepieces obstruct the driver's vision when he turns his head to see if it is safe to pass or change lanes, Frames with a elawlike downward projection of the lends mount are also danger,. eels. bt, smith approves of driV- ing glasses with narrow lens mounts and thin side pieces at- titehed at the top of the mount,