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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-11-16, Page 9help Kim with her Latin, things are right back to nor, mai. And it's difficult to prolong that sinful feeling that you're keeping a mistress when you go to bed with a woman, and there's a great lump of a daughter sleeping on the floor, an air mattress and a sleeping bag, two feet from you. That ail mattress allowed me to deliver one of the last, great puns of my life. I knew this cute gal on our staff had a mattress. We talked about me borrowing it. And the other day, in the staff room, I asked, in loud clear tones, "Miss S . Could we get together on that mattress?" As all heads swung toward us with fascination, I waited to see whether she'd slug me, or laugh. She laughed, So did the others, but some of the old ducks rather nervously, My wife has a nice little apartment, but one weekend in it nearly drove me up the cur- tains. There's no place to hide and read, or look at yourself in the mirror, or cut your toe- nails. Except the bathroom. And you can only stay in there so long. At home, there are all sorts of nooks and crannies for looking at your navel, or pick- ing fluff out of your belly- button, Well, 24 hours of telling her she could pass the year, if she'd stop worrying. That's like telling Niagara it could be a nice little trout stream if it would stop falling. And home, with Kim driv- ing, and me twitching. And col- umn to write and lessons to prepare and Hallowe'en candy to be bought. And that fears- some washing machine still to he tackled. Think VII have a snort and go to the coin laundry. Wroxeter Tuesday of last week Mr. and Mrs. Fraser Haugh attend- ed the funeral of Mr. John Jarritt at Hensall. Mr. G.P. Gibson, Hamilton, spent the week-end with his sisters, Misses Elsie and Marion Gibson. Sunday guests with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ingram were Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Benson, Ripley and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Noble and family of Rothsay. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Spenc- ely of Shelbourne visited Mr. and Mrs. Fraser Haugh on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Dane, Ivan Myra, Laurel and Shauna of Howick Twp. were Sunday visitors with Mrs. W. Weir and Miss Gertrude Bush. Mr. John Hupfer and Miss Hazel Sparling were in Goder- ich on Saturday where they visited Mrs. Angus Carmichael, Mr. and Mrs. James Robertson and Jim. Week-end guests with Mr. and Mrs. Fraser Haugh were Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Noble and family of Maryhill. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Walk- er visited Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Weppler at Chesley over the week-end. problem can be estimated from the fact that more than 200 persons are receiving drugs to prevent break down. This happened in a prosper- ous community where children and parents were well nourished and there were comfortable homes -- the kind of commun- ity where we are inclined to presume that tuberculosis epi'. dernics could not occur, This one should be a warning to us all, THE WINGHAM DISTRICT HIGH School wreath was placed at the Cenotaph by Cadet Newton Richardson during the Re- membrance Day services at the monument on Saturday morning. —Advance-Times Photo. ,, 4 ,,,, 11.11.1.1.1 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,, I ,,,,, .4 ,,,,, .4. ,,,,,,,,, 44.4 I ,,,,, ,,,,,,, 4.1.1.1.1.1.01.01.4.114.1.4.1.1.144 4.401 News Items from Old Files NOVEMBER 1918 Carol Dickson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dickson, of the town plot, was severely LT-- jured by being kicked by a horse Saturday morning. H is mother on entering the stable found him lying unconscious against a stone wall. His a r m was broken in two places and his head was badly bruised. Mr. W. H. Rintoul is build- ing a handso me residence in Palmerston for Mr. Pender, a former resident of Wingham. Mrs. Thomas Manuel receiv- ed word that her son, Sgt. Fred Manuel, had been gassed and wounded. Word has been received that Willie Hinscliffe was wounded on October 9 in the left arm by shrapnel. He is now in Herne Bay Hospital, suffering from pneumonia. Students of the high and pub- lic schools who have had influ- enza, or in whose home the dis- ease has been, will be required to get a doctor's certificate be- fore returning to school. NOVEMBER 1932 Word was received last week that Miss Mary G. King has been awarded the second Carter Scholarship of $60.00, The scholarship was for the highest standing in ten papers in sen- ior matriculation examinations. H. A. Pritchard of Gorrie, at present a student at Knox College in Toronto, will preach. morning and evening at Knox Church in Teeswater and in the afternoon at Belmore Presbyter- ian Church on Sunday. What might be termed t h e first Bunny Hug of the season was held at the home of R. J. Douglas, Belmore. Those who were not particular about the dance attended the debate in the Presbyterian Hall, "Resolv- ed, a car is a benefit." The Bruce County judging team visited the St. Helens area last week. They visited the farms of F. G. Todd, Andrew Gaunt, James Forster and James Lyons. Last Monday night attempts were made to steal gasoline at the Ingham Service Station and from the Royal Service Station operated by Homuth and Ben- nett. The locks on the pumps were broken but no gasoline was taken because the handles h a d been removed from the pumps, NOVEMBER /942 Miss Mary Pattison had the misfortune to fracture her ankle on Saturday afternoon when she was returning to work after her lunch period. She was proceed- ing from her home on John St. and had reached the hedge at the cenotaph when she fell on the slippery walk, Word has been received that Mac Groves has arrived over- seas. Mac is with the Provost Corps. Mr. and Mrs. Allan Pattison received a cable last week that their son, Sgt, Henry Pattison of the Signals, had arrived ov- erseas. Last week's issue of the Mon- treal Star Weekly c o nt ained a poem, "Reverie of a Soldier" which was written by Mrs. A. R. DuVal of town. On Saturday Mrs. DuVal received a card from a lady in New Brunswick, congratulating her on her fine verse. Miss Lenora Higgins, Reg. N.„ is attending an extension course at the University School of Nur- sing, Toronto, prior to taking her position as assistant superin- tendent of the obstetrical de- partment, Victoria Hospital, London, NOVEMBER 1953 Finishing touches are being put on the new infants' and children's wear store to be known as Fairyland for the op- ening tomorrow. The new busi- ness will occupy the premises formerly used by Pattison Ra- dio & Electric. It will be oper- ated by Mrs. Harold Swatridge, Monday evening was a busy one at the armouries, unpack- and collecting bodies. WO2 Wilf Seddon had the gun crews 41111.01.. VETERANS FROM TWO WARS, town councillors, Cobs and Scouts formed that parade that marched to the Cenotaph on Saturday, They are shown as they lined up at the monument. The Lucknow *Pipe Band led the pa ade.--A:r Photo, doing maintenance with Bdr. Borden Jenkins as his right hand man. When lunch was passed our Bornbadika; Jenkin's hand was seen coming out of the gun barrel to take a sandwich. The only way to get him away from a gun is to load it and blast him away. A new music shop arYl record bar is to be opened in the base- ment store of the Brunswick Ho- tel by Mrs, Barbara Hildebrand. Word was received by Mr. and Mrs. Wilf Seddon that their son, Pte, Jim Seddon had ar- rived in Korea. Teddy Wormworth, I2-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Wormworth was admitted t o hospital on Saturday night with a broken leg and shock after he was in collision with a car. The offer of Mesa Petroleum Company to supply natural gas to the town of Wing- ham is an interesting one, and should be pureed by local authorities. Natural gas is utility service which has met with reaee acceptance in many of the communi- ties around us, The offer to Wingham is even more interesting since gas supplied from wells no farther away than West Wawanosh would flow through the pipe- line, We hold no particular brief for natural gas. In fact we have never made a study of the cost of gas as a fuel, compared with electricity or oil. All we do know is that it has become one of the basic energy sources in most modern communities and it seems logical that it would meet with ready ac- ceptance here, Some of our industries are anxious to secure an economical supply of gas as an aid to their operations. One suggestion from the petroleum company was that the local public utili- ties commission might install the neces- Following a recent accident at the Legion Home corner we have taken the trouble to pay close attention to the VISI- BILITY FACTOR at other intersections in the town and we believe that there is con- siderable room for improvement, At many corners parking is permitted too close to the intersection; at other places hedges and similar obstructions obscure the view of drivers who approach these potential danger points. When accidents result from obstructed Some residents of this community may be astounded to learn that the board of directors of the Wingham and District Hospital is already discussing another building program. After all, the latest ad- dition was officially opened only in June of this year—at a cost of almost a mil- lion dollars. Two or three salient facts may not be properly understood. The most recent building program at the hospital did not add materially to that institution's bed capacity. The chief aim of the project was to remove the old and inefficient section of the hospital building and to replace it with new areas in which such essential services as operating room, obstetrical quarters, X-ray, pharmacy and laboratory could be properly accommodated. An- other feature was the provision of ade- quate emergency or out-patients' facilities. The worth of this section alone has been proven time and again during the past few months. On Friday of last week there were 111 beds occupied in the Wingham and Dis- trict Hospital—which is five more than the building is supposed to contain. The av- erage for the past month has been 87 patients and even at this level the build- ing is over-crowded for regulations demand that a certain percentage of beds should usually be empty to allow for an emer- gency of any sort. What is to be done about the situation? A new wing, to add more beds, would probably cost another million dollars — Recently The Toronto Star carried a story datelined in New York which throws a good deal of light on the reasons for some of our personal financial troubles. Although the statistics apply to residents of the United States it is likely that the figures for Canada would show a remarkable resemblance. The article says: "The rush to buy now and pay later piled up debts averag- ing $6,840 for every man, woman and child in the United States last year. This year it is running even higher. "The only thing increasing faster than personal debt is personal bankruptcy. It has tripled in the last ten years." The article proceeds to enumerate the ways in which the time-payment spender is being taken "into camp" by the astute credit manager who offers interest on deferred payments at a soothing 1 Y2% per month—which is, of course, a stag- gering 18% in a year. When a buyer is dealing with some of the large corporations he faces an exercise in patience to get across the point that he wants to pay cash for his purchase. The fact is that the credit division of the com- pany may be more profitable than the sales department. The worrisome part of the whole credit-buying situation is that it has long since created the very conditions which led to the Great Depression of the Dirty Thirties. When one segment of this ex- tended-credit shelf breaks off it is liable td bring down an avalanehe of bankrupt- sary pit-elle network within the town and ceirge of the distribution and sale of ‘ural gas, Whether or not this plan would he financially sound remains to be seen. However, this offer brings to light a mental attitude in regard to public utili- ties commissions which may now be out of date, Most people assume that the only purpose of a publicly-elected PUC is to handle the distribution and sale of hydro- electric energy—chiefly because that has been the main function of such bodies for so long. Their only other activity here has been looking after the supply of water. it should be pointed out, however, that a public utilities commission is elect- ed to administer whatever utilities are de- manded by the public. The PUC is not a sales group for Hydro alone. Ontario Hydro has provided excellent service to the people of this province for many years, but like any other corporation with an unopposed franchise, it could stand some healthy competition. visibility it becomes obvious that some ac- tion should be taken to remove the hazards. Signs should be posted far enough back from these hidden corners to warn motorists against parking their cars in the prohibited areas. In some cases shrubs should be removed—and the police should be asked to vigorously enforce the parking regulations, and this time a big piece of that amount would have to be provided right out of the pockets of the people in the area served by the hospital. In fact one-third of the total cost would have to be raised There is, however, one alternative which could alleviate the shortage of hos- pital beds; development of an adequate nursing home in or near Wingham to care for those chronically ill patients who are at present occupying beds in the hospital but who are not in need of expert medical attention on an hour-to-hour basis. At the present time there is simply not enough nursing home accommodation in this area to look after all those who need bed care. The latest addition to the county home at Clinton contains a completely modern bed-care wing, but admissions at Huron- view are kept to a low monthly level and as a consequence quite a few of the beds there are empty. Just why such an admis- sion policy should be maintained in the face of over-crowded hospital and inade- quate nursing home facilities we cannot tell you. Perhaps our reeves and deputy reeves might get the answer for us. We have entered a new age in which the costs of medical and hospital care have sky-rocketed. We are facing some stag- gering bills if all the needs of the com- munity are to be met. We should make the best possible use of less costly facili- ties whenever possible. cies which could spell ruin for the entire economy. Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp last week warned the Commons that tax in- creases are in store for Canadians. He didn't specify who would be asked to take on the extra load, but the assumption is that every one of us will feel the bite through increases in personal income tax. His reason was that the economic struc- ture is in such shaky condition that higher taxes must be levied to stabilize the situ- ation. There is good reason to doubt the validity of his plan. Spiralling inflation is one of the evidences of our insecure fi- nancial structure and certainly higher taxes are the most direct and positive method of increasing inflation, After all—if the price of milk goes up you can tell the kids to drink a little less—but there is no way of economizing on taxes. Higher taxes in- evitably mean demands for higher profits and higher wages. We believe Mr. Sharp's proposal would have made a great deal more sense had it lowered the boom on credit buying in many of those areas of the economy where purchases can be classed as non-essential. Canadians are one jump ahead of Am- ericans where credit buying is concerned. Legislation has at least been passed in this country demanding that simple details and essential information about the cost of credit must be supplied with every con- tract for deferred payments. However, it is amazing how few purchasers are cap- able of understanding even the bask facts of an interest-bearing payment plan when they are spelled out for them. SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley A day with Smiley Life do go on. Always the same, and always different, Bits and pieces make up the patchwork quilt that covers our nakedness. And bits and pieces of a typical weekend will make up this column. I'm no richer or poorer, sadder or happier, wis er or otherwiser. Just a week older, with a few more patches. Some red, some black, some yellow. Making a motley. Kim was badly shaken when a friend of hers, a 16-year-old girl, was killed an hour after she was talking to her. The child's neck was broken. The boy driving didn't ha,. ,uis li- cense, had little ex, fence, hit an icy patch, and ,,. cope. One young life snuffed, Pointlessly, uselessly. This is hard to take when you're young; and my daughter took it hard. And it's pretty hard for an ordinary muddle- headed man to explain that God is too busy to go running around preventing every auto accident and catching every lit- tle sparrow that falls, regard. less of the old hymn. Nearly cracked up myself on Saturday. Burling happily along the highway when we ran smack into a stretch of wet snow, with no warning, Every- body on the brakes. Thought I was going to mount a Volks- wagen in front of me. Decided to go around him, rather than Over. Took a beautiful four- skid sashay, during which two other cars passed me, one on each side. Heart stopped thudding af- ter I'd passed two cars in the ditch. Turned to Kim, who's learning to drive, and said coolly, "Did you notice that technique for getting out of a skid? Just turn the wheel into the skid." She gave me a long, hard look that she has learned from her mother, and snorted, which she has also learned from the same source. We were on our way to spend the weekend with the Old Lady, at her pad in the city. What a peculiar feeling to enter a strange apartment building, go up an elevator, walk along a hall, knock on a strange door, and have your own wife answer! It seems al. most indecent or something, as though you had a kept woman. But three o't four hours lat- er, after you've got down to fighting over finances, apolo- gizing because you haven't got the storm windows on yet, and promising that you're going to lic health nurses, on a routine check up, found that eleven children who had been negative to the test when it was done before were now positive -- which showed contact with someone spreading TB germs. The whole school was im- mediately tuberculin tested again, and all those who were positive to the test had a chest X-ray. There were some very frightened parents when they found how many had to go to sanatorium, Still, there was one thing for which to be thankful -- they bad been found, If it hadn't been for the routine tuberculin testing there is no telling how long it might have been before their disease was discovered. Naturally, a great many other boys and girls had been infect- ed. So had some of the teach- ers, and people such as the hairdresser who saw a great deal of the, girls. Because of the regular tuberculin testing the health department knew who had been infected recently., Some idea of the size of the Natural Gas Could Be an Asset Visibility Obstructed More Beds Are Needed Will We Ever Get Out of Debt? 111.4.410 ,,,,, 11114 lllllll 44411110.0114111111414.1 lllllllll I lllll I llllllll 440114.111 lllllll 0 lllll llllllllllllllllllllllllll lllll , a burning issue As a taxpayer, what would he your reaction if someone proposed burning down a 16- roomed consolidated school? It sounds, wild, but last year a group of Canadian taxpayers seriously advocated just that. The suggestion was made be- cause 32 of the children in their school developed tuber- culosis. That is enough to frighten any sensible community. in fact, it would be a very ir- responsible community if it were not frightened. And when the parents recovered from the first shock they were very wise about it. The first thing they did was learn more about tuberculosis. Like a great many other com- munities in Canada the people had thought TB was pretty well controlled. Quite a lot of people had felt, for example, that really, it didn't matter whether one went to the tuber- culin-testing surveys or not. It was a routine tuberculin survey, carried on by the health department, which alerted them to the danger. The pub- THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited. W. Barry Wenger, President - kobert 0. 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