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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-11-16, Page 1To develop former mill lot FIRST SOD IS TURNED FOR EW HOUSING SUBDIVISION AN AFTER bINNER chat at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Procter of Morris Township, Was on the itinerary of Mr, and Mrs. Ryoko Ishikawa, Japanese Consul, and his Vice Consul when they visited the Belgrave area on Thurs. day, Seen above are Tamotsu Furuta, the Japanese Vice Consul, George Procter, Fulhiko Yashino whO is living with the Procter's while studying Canadian agricultural methods, Mrs. Stewart Procter, Mrs. Ishikawa arid Mrs. George Procter. Later in the evening they attended the program by tile United Church Women when movies of life in Japan were shown. —Advance-Times Photo. As, 0 FIRST SOD FOR THE NEW Sunset Crescent subdivision was turned by William Wald- en and Edward Elliott, developers, on Monday. Looking on are,' Les Reynolds, masonry contractor, and Ron Wingfield, general contractor. Four houses will be built on the 14-lot subdivision which is the former Wingham Sawmill property. Plan which breaks community into five categories reviewed by board titanceff FIRST SECTION Winghate, Ontario. Thursday, Nov. 18, 1967 Single Copy Not Over Fifteen Cents. Over-crowded conditions at the Wingham and District Hos- pital led the directors of that institution to discuss the possi- bility of a further. addition at their November meeting on Friday evening. The meeting was presided. over by Chairman R. B. Cousins. Mrs. I.E. Morrey, hospital administrator, stated that the average number of patients for the month of October was 87 and that on the day of the meeting no less than 111 beds were occupied. It was pointed out that several beds in the hospital are occupied by chron- ically ill patients who could Alh be adequately-cared for in a ‘111, nursing home if such were av- ailable. Mr. Cousins said that he had contacted William Hanly, secretary of Huronview at Clin- ton after he had heard that beds are still vacant in that institution. He said Mr. Hanly had not disclosed how many beds are empty in Huronview. In regard to the admission policy at Huronview, the sec- retary had stated that admis- sions are slow because officials prefer that requests for admis- sion come from members of the family rather than from a doctor or a hospital. PAY ONE-THIRD Mrs. Morrey said that if a Lahti ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrian PRETTY MEAN-- Mrs. Sparling Yeo reports a little episode that could well rate some Winghamite as the meanest person of the year. Mrs. Yeo has been feeding a pair of squirrels for the last twelve months and the two small animals had become quite tame. Recently they disappeared and the other morn- ing the dead body of one of the squirrels was deposited on Mrs. Yeo's doorstep, apparent- ly killed by some person whose stature must surely be even smaller than that of his victim. 0--0--0 GONE SOUTH-- Among townsmen who have left for warmer climes are Mr. and Mrs. W.B. McCool, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Buchanan and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lloyd. WINS QUILT-- The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Royal Canadian Legion had a good turnout for the Remembr- ance Day tea last Friday after- noon at the Oddfellows' Hall. Miss C. lsbister made the draw for the quilt on which tickets had been sold. Lloyd Elliott Was the winner, 0-0-0 NEW FEATURE THIS WEEK-. Starting this week the Ad- vance-Times will carry a Week- ly sports column contributed by "A Fan In The Stands". It will feature local Sports news in general and we think, Make the paper more interesting for sporting enthusiasts: new wing is constructed as an addition to the hospital here one-third of the cost would have to be raised locally, She also said that the Admissions and Discharges Committee of the medical staff has been most co-operative in seeing that patients are not kept in.. hospital longer than necessary. The administrator announc- ed that the Huron County Tu- berculosis Association is send- ing a new resusitator to the hospital here, which will be used for the treatment of pat- ients in Wingham and will be sent out on loan to other coun- ty hospitals when the need -anises...e-ae.atae. Another addition to the hos- pital's facilities is the gift of a hi-fidelity recording unit which has been donated by Wilfred Anderson of Lucknow, a former board member. This unit will feed soft music into the public address system throughout the building. STATISTICS The administrator's statist- ical report for the month showed 211 admission, 188 dis- charges, 11 deaths, 149 opera- tions, 310 outpatients, 375 x- rays, 19 blood transfusions, 4920 laboratory tests, 64 elec- tro-cardiographic examination 70 at cancer clinic, 2 post mortem examinations, 1 cor- oner's report and 185 physio- therapy treatments. Total patient days amounted to 2695 for a daily average of 87. The financial report showed Veterans hold annual dinner at St. Paul's There was an increased at- tendance at this year's Remem-. brance Day banquet held in St. Paul's parish hall Saturday evening. One hundred and twenty persons, veterans and their wives attended the dinner. Head table guests were Eric Winkler, M.P.P. for Grey South and former Conservative Whip in the House of Commons who was guest speaker; Judge R.S. Hetherington and Mrs. Hetherington of Goderich; Ed- ward Bell of Blyth, zone com- mander; Capt. Don Copple and Mrs. Copple of the Salvation Army;• Mayor DeWitt Miller and Mrs. Miller; Mrs. Keith McLaughlin, president of the Ladies' Auxiliary and Mr. McLaughlin. The chairman was Willis Hall, president of Stanch 180 Royal Canadian Le- gion. The mine commander and Judge Hetherington spoke briefly. Mayor Miller introduced Mr. Winkler, a veteran of the RCAF with five years of Service, three of which were Spent in prisoner of war camps in Ger- many,. Mr. Winkler was thank ed by John Strong, After the dinner a social evening was spent at the Legion Horrie, Board increases school insurance The regular meeting of the Public School Board held on Monday evening was confined mostly to routine affairs cover- ing the normal business of the month. One item of major impor- tance, however, was a review of the insurance coverage on the contents of the school, which resulted from a complete inventory of every item in the building. The contents had been insured for $37,000 and this protection was increased to $60, 000. The building is insured for $595,000. Principal Stewart Beattie reported that enrolment stood at 462 students. Board chairman William Harris said that late in January another meeting of area school boards will be held in Wingham for further discussions on pro- posals to include oral French in the curriculum for Grades 7 and 8. the hospital running over the budget for the first ten months of the year. Mrs. Morrey said that the situation is accounted for by the over-crowded con- dition at the hospital and also said that she has been in con- tact with OHSC officials about the situation. Chairman Roy Hunter of the finance committee reviewed expenditures in the various de- partments. Reporting for the manage- ment committee Barry Wenger Please Turn to Page Eight Enrollment in vocational courses up An analysis of enrollment at the Wingham District High School was presented to the board last Thursday evening by Principal F.E. Madill, and it showed some interesting trends. Of the 1,028 students enrol- led some 69.6 per cent are taking vocational courses, a figure up from 67.3 per cent last year. Included in this per- centage factor are the students taking four-year courses and this group amounted to 47 per cent of enrollment. On a grade basis 72.3 per cent are taking vocational courses in Grade 9; 85.0 per cent in Grade 10; 77,8 per cent in Grade 11 and 58.5 per cent of the Grade 12 students. Some 47 students are enrolled in the diversified occupations courses in Grades 9 and 10. According to the principal the figures are near the provin- cial standard. This year '72 students are taking Grade 13 subjects. On Monday morning Wil- liam Walden and Edward El- liott turned the first sod of their new Sunset Crescent subdivi- sion. The 14-lot property has been known as the sawmill lot for many years. It is situated just north of the CNR right-of- way and faces on Shuter Street. Planning by the developers has been underway for the best part of a year. At the last meeting of town council final approvals from various govern- ment agencies were read and necessary motions by council gave the final go-ahead for corr struction. Kinsmen name coaches It was "Beef Night" at the Kinsmen meeting on Tuesday and the beef didn't refer to the food, but rather to the corn- , plaints of the members on the way the club is being run. The executive heard the complaints and dealt with those they felt justified. Reprots were given on the Grey Cup Draw by Kin Keith McClure who said all tickets were in the hands of the mem- bers and urged a real sales effort early in the season. Kin Ellwood Irwin said that plans for the Kinsmen Radio Auction, to he held early in December, were on schedule and persons who received let- ters recently regarding contri- butions to the auction would soon have a Kinsmen call on them. The club appointed Kin Gary Templeman and Kin Ken Henry to coach the Kins- men sponsored minor hockey club. This year the club will sponsor the bantams with a $125 budgets for ice time, $20 for entry fees and all other expenses are to be authorized only by the two men appointed. Manufacturers of building products on trade mission C.D. LZoyd, Lloyd-Truax Ltd., was one of sixteen Ont- ario manufacturers of building products and accessories to leave Toronto last Friday to seek new export sales in the United Kingdom. Members of Ontario's 92nd trade mission, sponsored by the Department of Economics and Development's trade and in- dustry branch, will display their their products at the Ontario stand in the international build- ing exhibition at London's Olympia, Nov. 15 to 29. The businessmen will also visit other U.K. centres in their quest for new export markets. Immediate development will be the construction of four homes on the property, which will be in the $20, 000 price range. Ronald Wingfield has the contract to build the brick veneer houses and Les Reynolds has the masonry contract. Ground clearing got underway on Monday and foundations The Wingham and District Planning Board, under the chairmanship of Calvin Burke, met on Monday evening to re- view a set of revised plans which will provide the basis of the community's "official plan". The Planning Board met several weeks ago with its con- sultant, Norman Pearson of Burlington, to go over his tent- ative suggestions and the plans looked over this week incorpor- ated changes made at that time. will be poured in the near fu- ture. It is expected the new homes will be ready for occu- pancy by spring. According to the builders the homes are architect design- ed and will be co-ordinated in style and color. The four oil-heated homes will be complete in all details Major point was the land- use plan which will form the basis of a zoning by-law if eventually accepted by the town council. The land-use plan breaks the community down into five categories; re- sidential, open space and con- servation, central area uses, service functions and highway commercial and industrial. The board agreed, for the most part, with the designatiors alloted by the planner but there was discussion in regard to when sold, including such things as storm windows, broad- loom carpeting, modern kitchen cabinets, ceramic tile bath- rooms and will be decorated under the supervision of a Lon- don interior decorating special- ist. The property will be servic- ed with a street running east some sections of the plan, and a few suggestions for further changes which will be made before a final plan is presented to the public. Generally, the community has been zoned for the use to which it is currently being put, with a few exceptions such as some industrial plants which would revert to a residential area if at any time there is a change of use. One point of concern is the fact that no lands within the confines of the municipality are open for industrial use, other than those being used for that purpose at the present time. Alvin Smith of Turnberry and Henry Pattison of East Wa- wanosh who represent their townships on the planning board were on hand and took a close look at the consultant's sug- gestion for a mile-wide zone surrounding Wingham, to be designated for agricultural use. The designation, if approved by the townships, would mean control by the rural municipal- ities of growth on the verges of Wingham. The rural councils will be asked by the planning board to give the matter their attention, When all local decisions have been made and final re- visions completed, the plans will be sent to the various in- terested government agencies for scrutiny. End result will be an official plan that will control the future growth of the community. The plan will be subject to revision as the need arises but changes will require consideration by the planning board and coun- cil, and in some eases approval from provincial government departments. from Shuter Street which will widen out to make a crescent at its eastern limit. The deve- lopers intend to put up a brick entrance gate at Shuter Street. Street lighting will be of the lamp-post variety. It is pos- sible that all hydro will be underground although this mat- ter has not been settled. The homes will be served with a six-inch water main and a fire hydrant. Regulations demand a two per cent set-aside of land for park use and this has been established on the south side of the property and will be screened with a tree planting. The homes are N.H.A. and C.M.H.C. approved. The developers said that this is the first stage of the development but lots in the subdivision will be for sale to anyone interested in building his own home. When completely built up the increased assessment at the present rate should provide an increase in tax revenues to the town of about $5, 000 annually, the developers said. Architect attends C.R.C.S.S. meeting The November meeting of the Combined Roman Catholic Separate School board was held recently with J.D. Kyles of the Hamilton architects firm of Kyles, Kyles and Garrett in attendance. The meeting dis- cussed the proposed addition to the school and Mr. Kyles was instructed to prepare prelimin- ary drawings. The drawings are expected back to the board in the near future when further decisions will be made in accordance with Department of Education regulations.' Large crowd attends annual cenotaph service With Wingham places of business closed until one o'clock Saturday a good crowd of veterans and citizens was on hand for the Remembrance Day service at the cenotaph in the morning. A good turnout of veterans led the parade, headed by the Lucknow Pipe Band, from the Armouries down the main street, east on Victoria Street and north to the cenotaph on Diagonal Road. Willis Hall, President of Branch 180 Royal Canadian Legion was master of ceremon- ies. He called on Rev. Bruce Penny of the Wingham Baptist Church to lead in prayer. Mayor DeWitt Miller wel- comed everyone to the service and said it was not only a day of remembrance but a day of dedication. Dedication to the high principles for which the fallen had died and for the cause of peace in our time. He said Canadians have known peace for 22 years and he hoped it would continue as the country moves into its second century. He was of the opinion that Canada could give leader- ship toward world peace. Wreaths were placed at the Monument by the Wingham Council, Business Association, Salvation Army, public school, Masonic Lodge, Branch 180 of the Legion, Rebekah Lodge, the IOOF, Order of Foresters, Scouts and Cubs, Separate School, Lions, Kinsmen and Kinette Clubs, 99th Battery, Orange Lodge, Catholic Wom- en's League, Province of Ont- ario and the Women's Auxil- iary of the Legion. The list of the fallen was read by Legion chaplain DeWitt Miller, and Captain Donald Copple of the Salvation Army led in prayers. Music for the service was provided by the Wingham Corps of the Salvation Army. Minor Hockey in Wingham? No,that question mark is not a typographical er- ror! Minor hockey seems to be at a low ebb at the present time. Two meetings have been called by the recreation hockey association. However, neither! meeting produced enough people to elect officers to run the affairs of the association. The town has seen fit to hire a director of recrea- tion whose job it is to manage the arena also. If the job is to be done properly there is much co-or- dination and co-operation of groups and leaders to make the programmes successful. Without these two catalysts there will be many disappointed people. Canadian boys don their skates, and uniforms and with stick in hand head for arenas all over this fair land. One person cannot run all the minor hockey. The recreation director cannot run the entire league by himself. We need interested parents and/or old- er boys to coach, manage and referee our minor hockey. Without these leaders there will be many disappointed young boys in Wingham. Does your boy want to play hockey? Are you helping? Please call the recreation office to tell the director, Jim Ward, how you can help. The story that you have not the time is not entirely true. Do you take the time? The number to call is 357-3550. Hospital at full capacity Board sees possible need for increased bed space