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