HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-10-12, Page 9SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
Trials and tribulations
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WEE BOBBY WORRALL piped the school's
golf champions around the gym at the
Pep Rally last Wednesday. The boys won
the Huron-Perth Boys' Championship the
week before. Behind Sob are Jim Render-
son on the left, Barrie COnron and `Garry
Bauer. The fourth member of .the team,.
Donny Rae, is hiciden
Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Oct. 12, 1967 SECOND SECTION
News Items from Old Files
HALL EXHIBITS at the Howick Pair at-
traded good crowds on Saturday. Mrs.
William Vandongen, background, and her
children Norma and Jackie were on hand
for the big day.
—Advance-Times Photo.
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LETTERS TO EDITOR
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For the past three or four weeks
Charlie Lee and other local men who are
interested in forming an intermediate
Afthockey team have been trying to round
Wup the necessary people and funds to ice
an entry this season, So far the results
have been quite promising as far as per-
sonnel is concerned—but exactly the re-
verse in the dollars department.
Charlie and the other team organizers
have avoided a door-to-door collection
along the main street, feeling that there
should be enough interest to bring the
donations on a voluntary basis, However,
at last report only one such contribution
had been received, They aren't looking
for great wads of money—just enough to
buy the basic equipment and get the team
away to some early practices.
The fate of intermediate hockey in this
community is a rather sad one, considering
the intense interest with which it was fol-
lowed ten or fifteen years ago, In the
early 50s the arena was packed to the
rafters for every game and the Wingham
fans followed their team all over the pro-
Next Tuesday we go to the polls to cast
our ballots in a provincial election—so
it is high time to give some thought to the
issues at stake and to make up our minds
how we will vote.
Personally, we have our own definite
opinions on the matter, but since this is
a one-newspaper area, we will refrain
from any effort to influence your decision.
With all the publicity which has been
given to the various candidates and parties,
no one should lack direction or motive.
As election campaigns go, this has been
an extremely quiet one. Such is often the
case when prosperity has prevailed for a
long period. There is no more reliable
barometer of general affluence or poverty
than the discontent or lack of it exhibited
at election time. It would appear that the
opposition parties have been finding it ex-
tremely difficult to arouse any real ire
against the long-entrenched Progressive
Conservative government.
So, too,'the campaign has followed tra-
ditional lines as far as promises to the
voters are concerned. Its most distinctive
feature has been the somewhat monoton-
ous repetition of promises to make life
easier for the average man on the street.
gib All parties are telling how much more we
Wwill get and none are explaining how they
can give more and take less from us in
taxes.
We don't suggest that our own candi-
The Carter Royal Commission's;recom-
mendations for a radically restructured
taxation system are so complex that, if
implemented, they could easily become
such a chore and burden for Canadians
as to cause a serious deterioration in tax-
payer morale.
This is the view of Glen E. Cronkwright,
a partner in the firm of Clarkson Gordon
& Company, in a detailed study prepared
for one of the chartered accounting com-
pany's clients on the effects the Carter
proposals would have on individual tax-
payers. The study was published this week
by Commerce Clearing House Canadian
Limited.
The study, after citing the fact that
successful implementation of such far-
reaching changes depends on taxpayer
knowledge and honesty, also stressed that
adoption of the Carter recommendations
could conceivably result in an increase in
non-compliance by taxpayers.
"One cannot help but wonder if the
Commissioners, in the pursuit of their
stated objective, have not recommended a
system which, because of its complexity,
makes attainment of the objective possible
in theory but impossible in practice," the
study states in summation.
The study emphasized that it would be
extremely difficult for the average man to
cope with the requirements envisaged by
Carter, such as keeping proper records and
filling correct tax returns, unless he is able
to become more sophisticated or is in a
position to pay for tax planning advice,
It would be necessary to maintain a
record of the value of all gifts received
from outside the tax unit, such as wedding
gifts, birthday and Christmas gifts, in
order to be able to determine if the value
of the gifts exceeded the allowable ex-
emption. Gifts would apparently include
the free use of property as well as a gift
of the property itself. Therefore the value
of the free use of property such as a
vince when it came time for the finals.
Naturally the players responded to this
type of enthusiastic support and put on
some fantastic hockey demonstrations.
Just exactly what happened to inter-
mediate hockey we can't say, but during
the past few years the best of games were
witnessed by less than the traditional cor-
poral's guard, Perhaps one of the contri-
buting factors is the multiplication of
minor hockey teams, each of which draws
its own group of fans, perhaps at the ex-
pense of the older squad.
Whatever the reason, Wingham has
been and still is far too good a hockey
town to let intermediate competition
wither on the vine. We have a lot of first
class players here, the product of years of
minor hockey training when these same
boys were just learning to play the game.
Intermediate hockey has been definitely
out for a few seasons. It's time to get it
rolling once again. Call Charlie Lee and
offer a few dollars to get the team away
to a flying start this year,
dates in this constituency are guilty of a
deliberate campaign to soft-soap the pub-
lic, for campaign policy is of necessity laid
down by party headquarters, Neverthe-
less it would have been refreshing to hear
one of the leaders come out with an un-
cluttered statement about the expensive
need for more and better accommodation
for retarded children; less costly housing
for old people or a better break for im-
poverished widows.
There might even have been a few
extra votes for the man who stated flat-
ly that if the golden promises are to be
implemented taxes will go up by a pre-
dictable percentage. If the sales tax is
likely to be lifted to six percent, wouldn't
it be nice to plan for it in advance, as one
example.
There is a great tendency in times of
universal prosperity for the voters to find
themselves too busy to cast their ballots.
Perhaps they reason that it doesn't matter
a great deal who represents us. Such,
however, is not the case. There have been
times when we in Ontario and in Canada
have found ourselves with bad govern-
ments and always for the same reason —
when we, the voters, were too uncaring
to give our representatives cause to re-
member that we are still the bosses. Don't
let that happen in 1967. Government is
still vitally important, so let's not throw
away what we have.
parent's home, car or summer cottage
would have to be reported.
Detailed records would have to be kept
of the earnings of each dependent child
for casual work such as lawn cutting and
delivery of newspapers for inclusion in tax
returns after the $500 deductible allowable
for the family.
Serious financial problems could arise
which would effectively hinder a depend-
ent from inheriting a family business. For
example, a businessman passing the family
business on to his son on his death would
encounter a tak on any gain in the value
of the business over his cost basis and the
son would face a tax on the full value of
the business.
The Carter recommendation to tax a
family as a unit would require constant
and careful planning in order to gain maxi-
mum tax advantage, said the study. Such
planning would include the most advan-
tageous date for a wedding, when a mem-
ber of the unit should leave the family
unit, who should own the family home,
who should own the life insurance on the
parents and what is the most appropriate
type of 'will to have.
The Carter report is not, of course, law
as yet—and if enough taxpaying Canadians
register their objections it may never be-
come law. However, it is one of those
positive influences on government leaders
which are liable to shape decisions in the
future. Horrified objections to the recom-
mendations of the Carter report have been
pouring in over our desk for weeks. It
certainly is the general consensus of quali-
fied opinion that the recommendations
are pretty fantastic. To sum it up, the
average Canadian taxpayer would probably
become the world's most accomplished
tax-evader if the report became law.
Perhaps Mr. Carter has never heard
about the time-honored rule that no law is
of any worth if it is unenforceable.
There's an ()la superstition
that things, good or bad, run in
Sequences of three, I'm in-
clined to respect it.
During the war, casualties
on my squadron always seemed
to follow the pattern. We'd
lose a pilot today, perhaps two
the next clay, then none for a
week, Then three more.
It happened to me. One day I
was shot to ribbons by flak,
Had to land at 140 miles an
hour. No flaps, no brakes-
Fortunately, I remembered a
movie. Jammed on throttle,
jumped on the rudder, and
groundlooped just short of a
nasty ditch.
Two days later, I had a bomb
hang-up, and had to land with
a 500-lb. bomb, fused and
ready to go, dangling from my
left wing. That was the
smoothest landing ever made
in World War II, The only
thing that was a bit disconcert-
ing was that the control tower
made me land, not on the land-
ing strip, but on the grass be-
side it, so that I wouldn't ruin
their runway when I blew up.
The very next day I was
shot down.
This business of things hap-
pening in threes is still going
on. Monday the furnace goes
on the blink. Tuesday, your
wife gets ugly about the gar-
bage or something. Wednes-
day, some jerk creases your
car in the parking lot.
Even the good things come
in threes. And that's what hap-
pened to me this week. Three
delightful opportunities for
the weekend, and I can take in
only one of them. Sickening.
First of all, I ,signed up to
help supervise a trip to Expo
from our school. This in itself
should prove a fairly hairy ex-
perience. Can't you see me
marching up and down the
halls of a monastery in the
middle of the • night, in my
pyjamas and raincoat, trying to
prevent boys from being boys,
and girls from being girls?
I'd just committed myself to
this when old Australian bud-
dy, "Dutch," phoned to remind
me that this was the weekend
of that ancient and honorable
Editor, Advance-Times,
Dear Sir:
We would like to express our
sincere appreciation to The Ad-
vance-Times and the Wingham
merchants who participated in
the "See Expo on Us" contest.
We spent Friday and Saturday in
Montreal and enjoyed every
minute of our stay.
As winners of the lucky draw
we left by bus on Thursday for
London, changing at that point
for the Montreal run and arriv-
ed in the city early Friday. We
were fascinated by the sights
and exhibits at Expo and thor-
oughly enjoyed a tour of the
city the following day.
This trip was a wonderful
holiday and we do appreciate
the fact that the entire outing
was provided by the storekeep-
ers and the newspaper.
Willie and Donna
VanderWoude.
bash known as the Canadian
Fighter Pilots' reunion. Same
place, Montreal. And he bad
booked me on a flight to and
from the flesh-pots of that fair
city.
I was sorely tempted to with-
draw from the kiddies' excur-
sion, go to the wing-ding, and
take two weeks to get over it,
as usual. But my wife said,
"You're not going. You always
come home looking like a
skeleton," And that was that.
'Resigned, and feeling quite
noble, I was packing my stuff
for the Expo trip, and patting
myself on the back for doing
my duty, rather than my pleas-
ure, when number three came
up. An invitation to be a judge
in a beauty contest on Satur-
day.
This is one I've been waiting
for for years. I've judged essay
contests, public speaking con-
tests, apple pie contests at the
fall fair, and for three years
have been a judge for the Lea-
cock Award for humor.
But I've never had a chance
to just sit there and gawp at
those cute kids, leering inside
and pretending I chose the
winner because of her talent,
rather than the way she parts
her chest.
All I can say is, "Shucks!"
And all I need now is for Mike
Pearson to call up and say I've
-been appointed to the Senate,
provided I can be there Satur-
day morning to be sworn in.
Oh, I haven't given up en-
tirely. I could go with the kids
to Expo, slide over to the fight-
er pilots' party, skip the bus
ride home and catch a plane to
the beauty contest.
But I think they'd probably-
bury me the next day. On the
other hand, that might not be
a bad idea. I'm not long for
this world anyway. Not unless
my wife cools it out a bit about
going to college,
Last Friday night she came
home all fired up about her
course. At 4 a.m. Saturday, I
was reading the part of Socra-
tes in Plato's Dialogues. And
had to rise at seven to get Kim
to her bus for music lesson,
BIRTHDAY PARTY
LAKELET—Mr. and Mrs.
Robert McComb recently held a
birthday party for his father,
Abe McComb of Teviotdale,
who was 78. Those present
were the elderly gentleman's
two daughters and families, Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Doerr and fam-
ily and Mrs. Wm. Gamble and
Norman, all of Walkerton.
A cowboy with nothing to do
ambled into the local black-
smith shop and picked up a
horseshoe without realizing that
it had just come from the forge.
Instantly, he dropped the hot
shoe, shoved his seared hand
into his pocket and tried to ap-
pear nonchalant.
"Kinda hot, wasn't it?" sak-
ed the blacksmith.
"Nope," replied the cow-
poke, "just don't take me long
to look at a horseshoe."
and Mrs. Robert Forbes, of Bel-
grave, both in the best 4ofhealth,
celebrated their golden wed-
ding anniversary, in the form of
a dinner at high noon, follow-
ed by an informal reception.
Miss Janet Allan left on Wed-
nesday to resume her duties as
Asst. Dean of Women, Queen's
University at Kingston, after
spending her vacation with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Allan, Wroxeter.
OCTOBER 1942
Dr. A. D. McMurchy, of
North Bay, arrived in town last
week to assist in the practice of
Dr. W. A. Crawford. The two
doctors will occupy the enlarg-
ed offices at the rear of Dr.
Crawford's house on Centre
Street.
Building permits to the val-
ue of $1,650 were passed at the
regular council meeting on
Monday night. Permits issued
were as follows: Ronald Van-
Camp, Maple Street, garage
and breezeway; J. W. Bushfield,
Josephine Street, store front; El-
Met Wilkinson, Josephine Street,
store front; E. S. Lewis, Fran-
ces Street, decorative sign.
Dr. G. F. Mills, Oshawa,
has leased the property of Dr.
R. B. Palmer in the village of
Wroxeter and plans to begin
practice on or about December
Thanksgiving visitors with
Mr. and Mrs. Robt. H. McKin-
non were Mr. and Mrs. John K.
MacTavish and family of Brant-
ford for the week-end and Mr.
and Mrs. H. Spence McKinnon
and family, Niagara Falls on
Thanksgiving Day. Visitors
during the week were Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. McKinnon, Toron-
to.
Mr. Colin Fingland was the
guest speaker in the Bluevale
United Church on Sunday, in
the absence of Mr. Michael
Ross, student minister. A trio
was sung by Miss Ruth &lathers,
Miss Elizabeth Goldthorpe and
Miss Margaret Craig.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Elliott
of St. Catharines, visited his
brother, Raymond Elliott. and
Mrs. Elliott last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Grif-
fiths, of Guelph, were Thanks-
giving visitors with Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Bosman.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Willits
and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Garniss
visited on Saturday with Mr,
and Mrs. Ken Laidlaw in Lon-
don.
Week-end visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Ross Mann and family
were Bob Bitton, of Chatham,
Mr. and Mrs. John Mann, of
Goderieh, and Miss Sharon
Strong, of Seaforth. Miss Strong,
sang a solo in Knox Presbyterian
Church on Sunday with Miss
Connie Mann accompanyingher,
1st.
Empress Avenue United
Church, London, was' the scene
of a pretty autumn ,wedding on
Monday, when Ella LOVise,'
daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. H.
Hawthorne, of London,' became
the bride of Mr.. Murray Cam-
eron Stainton, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Percy Stainton, of .Wing-
ham.
OCTOBER 1953
At the morning service in St.
Andrew's Presbyterian Chtirch.
a very impressive portion'of the
proceedings was the baptism of
four infant boys by izev.'Ken-
neth MacLean, minister' of the
church. Those baptized were
James Walton McKibbon, soriof
Mr. and Mrs. John P. MeKib7
bon; lames Robert Angus,' son of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Angus, Jr.;
Gordon Robert llaternan,',Son of
Mr. and Mrs, Harry Bateman;
Donald James Murray, son of
Mr. and Mrs. David Murray,
The Briscoe Street Baptist
Church parsonage, London, was
the setting for a quiet wedding
when Rev. H. C. Slade united
in marriage Agnes Ingles. Pat-
terson, youngest daughter ofthe
late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pat-
terson, West Wawanosh and Mer
rill Cecil Cantelon, eldest son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Caine-'
Ion, Wingham..
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Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hawkes.
of Waterloo, and Miss Lois
Hawkes, of Kingston, spent the
Thanksgiving week-end with
their parents, Rey. and Mrs.
E. R. Hawkes.
Mrs. James Coad and Donald
of Hanna, Alta., visited last
week with Mr, and Mrs. Bert
Garniss and family.
Mr. and Mrs. George MC- .
Culla and children, of 'Breslau,.
spent the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. A. p. Smith.
Mrs. Bruce Webb and fam-
ily, of Painswick, and Mr. and
Mrs. Claire Hoffman and boys,
of Exeter, were Thanksgiving
visitors with Mr. and Mrs. C. B.
Hoffman.
Mr. and ,Mrs. A. Vienneau
and children visited in Win-
hair on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Burton of
Toronto, visited Harvey •Messer
for the holiday.
Visitors on Sunday with Mrs.
W. J. Johnston were Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Watson of Fergnit Mr.
and Mrs. Dan Tiffin and ioyce
of Teeswater and Mrs. Whitney
Stewart of Winghern.
Sunday School Teacher:
"What lesson dO we learn frOrri
the story of Jonah and the
whale/.
NIP: "People make Whales •
sick."
OCTOBER 1918
At the annual meeting of the
Girls' Athletic Association the
following officers were elected:
President, Rose Weiler; sec. -
Treas. , Gertrude Deans; basket
ball convener, Mae Bone; ten-
nis convener, Victoria Patter-
son; archery convener, Rea Cur-
rie. Form representatives:
Form V, Anna Nicholson; Form
IV, Myrtle Bennett; Form III,
Doris Fells; Form II, Catherine
Adams, Form .1, Laura Macon.
Mr. J. A. McLean and fam-
ily have received official no-
tice that Lieut. Hal. McLean of
the 52nd ban, is in a French
hospital suffering from gas pois-
oning. In a recent letter he
stated he was the only officer
in his battalion who was not
wounded or killed.
Great excitement prevailed
in town on Sunday afternoon
when a message was received
announcing the unconditional
surrender of Turkey.
OCTOBER 1932
A rink composed of A. Wil-
son, C. P. Smith, Hal Mac-
Lean and D. Rae, made a very
creditable showing at the Snow-
bird Bowling Tournament, held
in Woodstock last Wednesday.
They placed sixth out of an
entry of 68 rinks.
Mr. and Mrs. George Allen
announce the engagement of
their daughter, Viola May, to
Mr. Bertram D. Porter, of Wing-
ham, the marriage to take
place the latter part of October.
On Monday of last week, Mr.
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