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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-10-05, Page 11SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley My college co-ed THESE LITTLE PEOPLE with a lot of candy floss are Steven and Bradley Knight, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Knight of R. R. 2 Brussels, and Brenda and Carla Knight, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Knight of R. R. 2 Brussels, at the Brussels Fair. 1,1 00000 0000000000 MOM 0000000 1.1111 00000 Miff 000000000000 fri(11110 ..... A ...... tAlltt ........ 010 .......... .......... A ttttttt AAA ,,,,, ,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, iintaut AbbancieZitnt Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Oct. 5, 196'7 SECOND SECTION News Items from Old Files AREA TEACH E RS expressed keen interest in the up-grading science course being sponsored by the Department of Educa- tion et the Wingham Public School. Going over some of the course material are Clare Harman of Goderich, Mrs. Paymorid dowdy of Fordwich, and Susan Gower of Goderich. A-T Photo. • W r't f/Ar/Al; r fle4,,'W„ LETTERS TO TiE EDITOR ,w 4, ,wool n- "pis fleity x...:•:=4//dfxkozYie Malcolm "Mac" MacKenzie, proprietor of the Bruce Inn at Kincardine, and one Aof the most active and interested business- ,.men in this area, sat in with the members of the Wingham Business Association and some of their ladies for a dinner meeting last Thursday evening. As the guest speaker he had some interesting remarks for the businessmen. Mac has been one of the keenest mem- bers of the Kincardine Chamber of Com- merce and is naturally a pretty strong booster for that organization, That he knows whereof he speaks is evidenced by the fact that the Kincardine Chamber was the winner of the "gavel of the year" award, symbolic of the most active organ- ization in the C of C group. Goodness knows, the more active peo- ple in this community don't need any more meetings to go to of an evening, but it is becoming evident that there are gaps in the services which our present organizations offer. For example, Kinsmen and Lions, though they accomplish a tremendous amount of good for the community, are fairly tightly tied to "welfare" projects— the promotion of sports of the younger segment of the population, raising funds for TB prevention, crippled children, etc. Included in the many activities and pro- jects undertaken by the Kinsmen is valu- able support for the Boy Scout organiza- tion and they have been keenly and active- ly interested in better recreation and en- tertainment for teenagers. The Royal Canadian Legion, too, has done great things for the community, as have many other organizations. Still there are needs which none of these groups can fill. A case in point was the planning and promotion of centennial celebrations this year. Despite the multiplicity of or- Television viewers were shocked by what they saw of an episode in Preston last week, as the police arrested a woman for the "abduction" of two children. The fact that she had been their foster mother and simply refused to give them up made the abduction charge a bit far-fetched to say the least. There was a harrowing scene on the street in front of the woman's home as her own children ran around screaming at the police and workers from the Waterloo Children's Aid Society. On the surface all this sounds like a 'terrible injustice to the loving foster par- ents who have sought to adopt the two little girls who were boarded in their home. It is all complicated by the fact that the children were of Roman Catholic parentage and the foster parents are Angli- cans. The foster mother claims that they will be separated if taken out for adoption by the Children's Aid Society. In cases of this kind it is very easy to work up a tremendous head of public emotion, and invariably the "dirty bureau- crats" in Children's Aid or the Depart- ment of Welfare are made to look like Though we can hear the screaming be- fore the words are down on paper, we are about to state our belief that public and high school teachers have no business whatsoever discussing politics in the class- room from any partisan standpoint. We know many dedicated teachers who refuse to do so—but we know of some others who freely express their political persua- sion before their students. Teachers are in a unique position as far as young people are concerned. Re- sponsible parents continually inculcate in their children respect for those people from whom they will receive their edu- cation. The kids are taught from the out- set to believe what the teacher says. There- fore it is plain dirty pool for any teacher to take advantage of the situation in order to bring some young converts into their own political camp. The NDP seems to appeal to a fair percentage of teachers, and their partisanship often creeps into class- room discussions. The situation is no dif- Hon. Matthew B. Dymond announced last week that starting with the 1969 model cars, all will have to be equipped with exhaust control devices, The devices for this purpose which have been designed in the States are chiefly for use in warmer climates, but it is believed that the ono year of grace which is provided will allow enough time *for the auto industry to perfect a device ganizations there was not one single body to take responsibility for such a com- munity-wide program, Another such need was under discus- sion at the Thursday night meeting. There is a real desire in the town and surround- ing rural area for a more interesting sort of Christmas parade—something that will truly delight the hearts of the youngsters. The Business Association has tried its best to provide this Yuletide festivity in past years, but the fact of the matter is that the merchants who make up the member- ship of the WBA face their busiest weeks of the year right at the time when the work should be done to organize the par- ade, so help is simply not available, As a result the parade has run steadily down- hill. A Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to building up all aspects of community life, so with a broad spectrum of member- ship, from doctors to factory workers and merchants to farmers it can undertake tasks which no other organization is pre- pared to assume. The decision at the meeting of Thurs- day was to invite a representative from either the Canadian or provincial Chamber to address a meeting of all in the town and surrounding area who might be in- terested. At the moment the intention is simply to learn more about the Chamber and its activities. Wingham did have a Chamber of Com- merce many years ago, but it has not been functioning within the memory of most of our younger people. W. T. Cruickshank has periodically tried to revive interest in the organization, but it always seemed that other projects were more pressing. Perhaps the time has come to get it back into action. girl-eating ogres. Usually there is more to the circumstances than the public knows. We can personally recall some very ugly criticism of the officials who attempt- ed to clear up the dangerous situation which existed for over 100 children under the care of a certain "Mom" White. The Toronto papers worked the situation up to a real tear-jerker, as they told day after day about the cruelty of the bureaucrats who wanted to tear these helpless babes from Mrs. White's loving arms. Little was ever printed about the con- ditions under which those youngsters lived, or the fact that no less than three of them died because facilities and staff were inadequate to care for so many children. We fully agree that if religious re- strictions are the only compelling factors in the Timbrell case at Waterloo, an in- justice has been done—but we would be willing to bet that the Children's Aid So- ciety had some very adequate reasons for putting themselves in the public pillory over this case. ferent or better should the teacher be a militant Liberal or Conservative. Our children need far more extensive knowledge of politics in general. They should have the benefit of a curriculum which trains them for the intelligent use of the ballot when they reach voting age. But the subject should be taught only by teachers who are utterly impartial and- who are able to clarify whatever differ- ences in party and platform may exist. Parents don't squawk much about the injection of some acceptable party's ideology, but can you imagine what it would be if an eager teacher began to pro- mote the doctrines of the Communist party in school classrooms? And just bear in mind that if it is ethical to inject Liberalism, Conservativism or NDPism, it is equally ethical to talk Communism, for the Communist party is a legal one in Canada too. Our schools and our teachers are there for one purpose only—to make our young- sters think, not proselites. which will work satisfactorily in cold weather. It will provide the Province of Ontario with enough time to set up the necessary testing and inspection facilities and staff to enforce the law. Expense will be involved, and no doubt the car owner will have to foot the bill, but with all the attention which has been devoted to respiratory ailments in the past few years, it may be a small price to pay. If you think it's tough trying to get a son or daughter ready for college, cooled out, and set- tled in, you should try it with a wife, who hasn't been there for 20 years. It's an exhausting ex- perience, emotionally and fi- nancially. All the kids want is that you should take all their stuff down, help unload it, press a large sum upon therb, and disappear back to Hicks- ville, so you'll stop embarrass, ing them in front of their new class,mates. With Momma it's not that simple. First comes the tremendous decision itself, comparable to Moses making up his mind to lead the "Child. ren" back to the Promised Land. There are surges of con- fidence, but they are out- weighed by sudden despairs. "My brain is rusty. I'll never make it, They've probably lost my files, There'll be a rule refusing people over 30. The course is most likely a lot harder now. I'll feel like a fool with all those kinds in mini- skirts and eye-shadow." And so on. You patiently point out that: rust can be removed; any half-wit can pass fourth year; universities never lose any- thing, except the letter you wrote them last week; she's more mature and the course will be a snap; she's better- looking now than she was in third year, away back. Thus bolstered, she sends off the application. Nothing hap- pens. Fear and frustration mount. So father has to write a letter in his inimitable style, with force and firmness. Straight back comes the good word. This is the real crisis. She can't believe it! She's accepted. It's no longer castles in Spain. And the real panic begins. "It's ridiculous. I can't leave you and Kim alone. You'll burn the house down. You'll forget to put out the garbage. You'll die of malnutrition. We can't afford it. You can't get along without me." And so on. This, of course, is rank cowardice. She simply is afraid to get her feet wet in the big, cold world from which, like all Dear Barry, I want to take this opportun- ity to thank you and your staff for the wonderful cooperation I received from the paper while I was Cubrnaster and also as Scoutmaster. It is only with the help of people like yourself that such work is made a little easier. As you probably know by now, I have resigned from the 0.P.P. and am going to the University of Waterloo as shift supervisor on security. If you or any of the staff are down that way, be sure and look me up. Respectfully, Murry Fridenburg. Sir: At Thanksgiving we tradi- tionally take inventory of the good things of life. Among these, this October 1961, no resources are more beneficial, more effective, more striking than the achievements of medi- cal science. Diphtheria, smallpox, ty- phoid, cholera and the worst types of infantile paralysis — a host of infectious diseases -- have been virtually eradicated. Other killers such as cancer, diabetes, tuberculosis, pneu- monia and malfunction of in- ternal organs have yielded, or are in the process of yielding, to the wizardry of chemistry, surgery and new refinements of treatment. Only a few deadly maladies remain; muscular dystrophy per- haps the chief unsolved disease among them. Today some 10,- 000 to 12,000 of our fellow Canadians are its victims, most of them children for whom the disease is nearly always fatal. Muscular dystrophy may strike at any time, in any fam- ily, any region. It is nonin- fectious, caused by neither bac- teria nor virus. Its cause is un- known, its cure non-existent. The Muscular Dystrophy As-, sociatiori of Canada sponsors a large number of muscle and genetic research projects in- volving the leading universities and medical research centres of Canada. These projects are slowly but steadily closing in on this last, historic killer. MD- AC's- program of research, Its housewives, she has been shel- tered all these years by guess who. So she goes to visit her mother for three days, as a sort of trial run. Comes home and is a bit dashed to find the house still standing, garbage out on schedule, lawn cut, kitchen tidy and Kim and I living like Oriental potentates, She had to save face and go through with it, but not before trying one more gambit. It was impossible financially. There was no way we could manage it, Father points out that, with judicious borrowing, we can keep one of the family going to college. Since Hugh is no long- er there, and in fact has a splendid job laying carpets, it might as well be she. This produces half a day's tears of mingled rage and grief over Hugh's quitting. It also produces a guilt com- plex, She vows that nobody has ever lived as cheaply at college as she will. She's going to pig it in a grubby little room. All she needs is a sleeping-bag, card table, hot-plate and elec- tric kettle. She'll walk miles to save carfare, hitch-hike home on week-ends. Rah! Have you tried to rent a cheap little room lately? Fa- ther took mother to the city, and while she registered at the college, poured an ale and pored over the classified ads. Best he could find was a room, share bath and kitchen, at $20 a week. It wasn't bad, But there was a stumbling-block, as usual. The other inmates were col- lege girls, and the landlady had an iron rule that no men, except her own husband were allowed inside the front door, She was inflexible, So was I. I'd planned to pad down with the old lady the odd weekend, saving the price of a hotel room. To cut a long story to rib- bons, the shabby little room first suggested has grown into an apartment, furnished. And I wouldn't tell my closest friend, let alone my banker, what the rent is. clinics, and its patient services are financed through contribu- tions from an enlightened and generous public anxious to see one of the last great medical crusades achieve its goal. As we recall our blessings in the form of health safeguards protecting us and our families this Thanksgiving, let us pray that when next year's Thanks- giving rolls around we shall pos- sess another medical shield -- one against muscular dystrophy. Yours very truly, J. J. Evans, President. BELMORE Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Find- latter and son of Hamilton spent the week-end with Mr. John Doig and Miss Nellie Doig, of Carrick Township. has enlisted in the Royal Can- adian Navy. Mr. William Austin of Teeswater, has purchased the residence of Pte. William John- ston on Frances Street. Mr. and Mrs. Austin will move to Wingham shortly. The Wallpaper Shop which has been conducted here for some years by Elmer Wilkinson is now being operated under the partnership of Wilkinson and Mathers. OCTOBER 1953 Cec Walpole is busy these days putting a new front on Har- ry Angus' store on Josephine Street. Sign on the doors says "Business as Usual" but we doubt if it's quite that, with the whole front off the building. A sec- ond front will soon be started in the store formerly occupied by Pattison Electric, and now leas- ed by Mr. and Mrs. Hap Swat- ridge. Percy Clark was in Toronto for three days last week attend- ing a school conducted by the Boiler and Radiator Institute there, and received a diploma after successfully completing the course on hot water and steam heating. Gorrie resident has old papers Herbert Charles of Gorrie loaned us sonic old papers, the oldest being the June 28, 1893 edition of the Montreal Weekly Witness. The feature news story was the sinking of the Brit- ish battleship H.M.S. Victoria off Tripoli when a sister ship, the Camperdown rammed into her. The Victoria had a comple- ment of 600 men and over 400 went down with the ship. In- cluded among those who lost their lives when the flagship sunk was Vice-Admiral Sir George Tyron. The September 14, 1899 edition of the Fordwich Record announced that Strome and Ad- air were getting material on the ground for the erection of the new bridge on Concession 6, at the Hamilton lime kiln. The paper stated that the bridge was badly needed since the old one was in very poor shape and par- ticularly dangerous to those driving a horse of a nervous na- ture. In the Fordwich Markets wheat was listed at 660 per bushel, barley at 34 and oats at 23. And what housewife today would nor snatch at these *- gains: eggs 120 per dozen; but- ter, 160 per lb.; lard, 100; dried apples, .4¢; potatoes, 400 bus., and if she had any use for tallow, 40 lb, With the exception of the Lakelet personals, the only news on the front page was the obituary and life history of one of the township's pioneers, Pet- er Hepinstall, who took upland in 1866 and later lived its Fad-, with; OCTOBER 1918 The first snow of the season fell on September 26th this year. Just a reminder of the good old winter time. Mr. J. W. Ratz, Fordwich, has disposed of his hardware business to Messrs. Jamieson & Patterson. Mr. J. G. Gillespie'sthresh- ing outfit while working at Mr. Thos. H, Moore's on Saturday last threshed 100 bushels of oats in fifteen minutes and 360 bush- els in an hour. This is a record that is certainly hard to beat. Mr. Andrew Taylor whopur- chased the Queen's Hotel from Mrs. Swans, has leased it to Mr. John Martin, a well to do farmer of West Wawanosh. Mr. Martin is an experienced hotel- man, having conducted an up- to-date hotel at Cobalt for a number of years. Mr, W. Jos. Henderson re- ports that his sale was a splen- did one. Owing to the fine day and the good work done by the clerks, also to the ability of James Taylor, the auctioneer, the sale exceeded $9,500. The cows sold from $90 to $180. OCTOBER 1932 A very pretty wedding was solemnized in Toronto on Wed- nesday, September 28, when Miss Ruth Margaret, daughter of Mrs. Victoria Wendorf of Han- over, became the bride of Mr. Carl Lott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lott, of Whitechurch. The ceremony was perfOrmed by Rev. John F. Halliday, pastor of Faith Baptist Church. After the honeymoon trip the happy cou- ple will reside in Toronto. The officers of the United Church. Badminton Club for the corning year are: President, J. M. McKay; vice-president, Miss Jean Christie; secretary- treasurer, W. H. French; tour- nament committee, Jack Ma- son, Mrs. G. W. Howson, Rae Thompson; entertainment com- mittee, Mrs. H. W, Colborne, Mrs. 0. Thompson, Mrs. J. Mason, Mrs. E. Wilkinson and Mabel Johnston. The Continuation School held their Field Day in the park on Thursday. The champion- ships were won as follows: Jun- ior girls, Olive Dungey; senior girls, Marjorie Paulin; junior boys, Wesley Newton; senior boys, Stewart Higgins. OCTOBER 1942 Mrs. Henry Ross has receiv- ed word that her son Harold, has arrived overseas, He is the third of this family to be serv- ing in England as his father and brother Henry, are there also. Several more of the young men of town have enlisted in some branch of the service. Jack Orvis, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Orvis, has joined the army; Wilbert Hogg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hogg, is now connected with the mechanical transport; Russel Zurbrigg has joined the RCAF and will re- port at Galt, October '7 th to take an 18 week's course. One of the young men, Ken Pollard, Per hops the Time Has Come Wait Till the Facts Are Clear Keep Politics Out of School Law to Control Exhaust Fumes ,NIff11111ii aa iii1iiitifililiflii11 a oo1411111111 000 oo 000 00000000000000 0000 000 ,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,, ,, , .... . ... . itioltitiliii ... tilimmtt 00000 tjifi 000 iii11111 000 I 111,1 i111if 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 C.anadian Weekly Newspapers Assoelation. Authorized by the Post Office Department as Second Class Mail and for payment of postage in cash. Subscription Rate; 1 year, 0.00; 6 Months, $2.76 In advance; U.S.A., $7,00 per yr.; Foreign rate, $1.00 per yr. Advertising Rates on application.