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THESE BOYS SELL SPACE-Centre above, is Hogs Hamilton, of the Wingham Hinsipen auh, who is
chairman of booth sales for the lorthewning Trade- Fair, to lie ,Indd tz the arena dune 0, 0 and 1. Mem-
beis of bis committee are Cy Robinson, left, and Bill Motitgornery, right,--Photo by Bill Connell,
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BWEVALE--The f 1
members .of the Bluevale Women's
Institute Rug Mshing Project ex-
hibited their rugs at the Wingham
District High School when Sum-
Mary DRY was 'ohmerved on .Satur-
day: Mrs, ,Tos, Horton and Mm,
Stanley Darling were leaders in
the protect.
• Mrs, W. d, Peacock, Mrs, Fiero-
Mg Johnston, Mrs, ,Tos. Horton,
Mrs, Stanley Darling, Mrs, Harry
Elliott, Ws. D, Smith, Mrs. Mex
Corrigan, Mrs, J V, :Fischer,
Sparling Johnston, Mrs. Carl.
Mrs, Scott McLennan,
Juek Thompson, Mrs. M. Mb-
Farlane,
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"SUFFERING
. The nature of our profession de-
mands that we arrive at the fires in
this district as soon as possible after
the firemen themselVeS, and so we
have seen almost every aspect of the
shOcking loss and tragedy which so
Often results, This is particularly
true of farm fires, where barns and
the ,livestock housed in them are
prey t flanies.
•a petson is at all fond of ani-
mals the screams -of agony from a
stable filled With - stock are truly
sickening, There is seldom any-
thing 'that ;anyone 'can do, for Fif the
animals are- trapped human lives
cannot 'be ,risked in -a,"vain 'effort to
free then-L '''
7n many, fires. however, some of
the aniMals•are freed .and dozen of
times' we have seen these pathetic
creatures wandering around a barn-
yard, hopelessly burned 'and doom-
ed to death within armafter of hours.
'The 'sight " their- Suffetilig is al-
most more than-we : can bear, and
we have often jlonged for the privi-
lege (and we use that word with
forethought) of being able to put
them beyond the grip of their unen-
durable agony.
This is' a situation which proper-
ly belongs within -the field of the
Ontario Humane Society, but it is
one which that organization seems
to have overlooked. It is our con-
tention that the fire truck should be
equipped with a reliable revolver
and one of the firemen should be
empowered to get the permission of
the farm owner to shoot all hopeless-
ly burned-stock at once.
No doubt the fact that a fanner
is suffering tremendous financial
loss during one of these major fires
.thrOWS the plight of his helpless
'livestock out of proper focus, but re-
gardless of the loss the callous dis-
regard of the suffering animals is, an
attitude which belongs in Alie pre-
Christian era' rather than in an age
Which has risen to 'new heights of .
sympathy and understanding for
any type of physical suffering,
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ResPorlse to the campaign in
itiated by this newspaper, for the
provision of water safety equipment
has =been, even better than we antici-
pated. It is not unusual for volun-
tary campaigns here to receive little
or no attention for the first two
Weeks and then suddenly come to
life. However, in this-case a worth-
while sum has already been received
and we have had many phone calls
to tell us of •other contributions
which are on their way. You will
also note that a donation has been
received from a former resident, who
no longer lives in Wingham.
Strangely enough, the first re-
action came from persons who have
no children to be endangered by the
unprotected areas at the two dams,
They'dare apparently worried about
the fate of the other fellow's child,
and it is a most commendable atti-
tude.
It is 'the intention of The Ad-
vance-Times to seek personnel for a
corninittee of interested citizens to
adniinister -the funds gathered in
this campaign sO that the decision
ahOut what equipment is needed and
where it is placed will -rest- in the
hands of a group rather than any
indiVidual: •
We ,are• nOt :attempting to tell
anyone whether he shoUld or should
not share /in this project. We are
simply 'pointing out, in the most
forceful terms, that there isklistinct
and immediate danger; that ,we are
indeed fortunate that there have not
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.been more drownings , and that
there are ways to Minimize the
,danger to a considerable degree,
Please don't waste your breath
on the argument that children can
always climb • fences; or that they
will seek out the -danger spots no
matter what we do, It 'would be
equally sensible to reason that there
is no point in having a fire truck in,
town because .in some- eases the
truck can't get to afire fast enough
to save building. In an society
which has a properly developed pub-
lic conscience, the .only course of
action is to provide every possible
'protection where . danger exists—
and this is particularly true where
the lives of our children are at stake.
Please note, however, that we are
only too glad to have smaller dona.-:
tions as well as thelarger 0145,
have already come in. For every
4 dollar contributed by the public' the
generous and -aponymons sponsor of
the Water Safety Fund, will add
dollar of his own,' until his .'$500
'mark is reached, I1et us take advan-
tage of this generosity while it is
available, in a spirit of thankfulness
that we do have citizens who -are So
keenly aware of our responsibilities.
CENTRE OF INTEREST
One of the • very best results
-of. the construction ' of Commun-
ity centres in. the smaller places
throughout this district has. been the
focus afforded to civic pride. 'We
could mention. many hamlet's. and
small villages where beautification
of public propeiiy was' unheard :of
a few years ago. In almost , every
instance, where a community centre
has been erected, one will ,now see
the evidence of a new spirit of pride
in the appearanCe thebuilding and
its surroundings, Often this zeal for
improvement extends Jar beyond ,the
'confines of the community centre it-
self' and the entite Nirill:be
shined up and beautified.
In last week's paper we noticed
that the Nomen's Institute at Bel-
more has a plan under way ;to plant
flowers and shrubs around the
arena. This move is but, one .:More
example of the co-operation which
has been developed in centres where
it had little or no place, to go, before
the arena became a reality and a
focal point for civic pride.
A- LITTLE EARLY?
Once again firecraekersare pop-
ping off all over the plac4. If We
recall correctly the town:. conncil
passed a by-law i'cotipleof years
ago which was intended it pro-
hibit the sale and Use btfiAcrackers
-until One -week before'VIqay 24th
holiday.
Kids' stuff, you say? Not worth
getting worked up about? We're
not so sure about that. The way we
hear it one of the rush calls for the
fire brigade last week was to quell a
blaze started by a firecracker.
There is an excellent reason for
the existence of the by-law. If you
doubt it, then you have forgotten
all about the rash of newspaper
accounts, each year at this time, of
youngsters seriously injured as a
result of their interest ,in junior
grade explosives. Fire loss attribut-
ed to firecrackers reaches ,a stagger-
ing total annually.
If we have a by-law, why don't
we stand by it?
AN ACTIVE GROUP-
The "Wingham Sportsmen's
Association is going great guns
these clays. 'Members are keenly in-
terested in the meetings, with atten-
dance running as high as 45, Plans
flare well formulated for the improve-
cent of the land which was pur-
chased last year in TurnherrY; ad
jacent to Lower Wingham.
The latest announcement con-
cerns a dance at the Royal T on the
night of the first of May, when
there will be hundreds of fishermen
in the 'area, The Sportsmen hope to
rake some money at this dance to
further their work.
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SAFETYAMPAIGN
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A second letter dealt With at the
council meeting was from Canadian Keith, Nicholson, Allan Campbell. 'Pacific Hailw,ay offering the
town, for the sum of one dollar, the•
land &innerly occupied by the
CPA's right,of-way from the
bridge across the Maitland River
to Patrick Street. The town had
previously been in contact with the
noway, requesting title to the
land, including the present station
and freight 'Sheri buildings, the
'mayor's reply' to the railway cora.,
pany's letter follows:
Real Estate riellarth1011 t, eanitdian Pacific Hallway Co.,
Toronto, •Ontarie,
Dear Sir:
At the April 7th meeting of the
Wingham Town Council a com-
munication was read from the De-
partment of Highways relative to
the maintenance of what is termed
the. "connecting link". This piece
of road . is, in reality Josephine
Street in the town, which-is norm-
ally considered a continuation of
No. 4 Highway,
Up. to the present the, Depart-
Ment has been responsible for, only
the center 22 feet of the thorough-
fare, as far as maintenance is con-
cerned. The letter to conncil sug-
gested that the Department would
be willing to take over the respon-
sibility for the entire 48 foot width
of the street and it was under-
stood by the mayor that if the
town workmen and equipment were
used a grant of 75% would be forth-
Coining from the province.
' • The following is the text of the
council's reply to the Department:
Mr. L. D. Barrett,
District Engineer, ."
Department of I-Tighwaya,
Stratford, Ontario.
Dear Mr, Barrett:
Your proposition has been con-
siCtetred by the Council at our
meeting April 7th, • .•
'You did not cover the point of
the increased width of the high‘
way from 22' to 48' in your letter. • - 'Our intention -would be to do the
work• ourselves and ''opply for the
75% grant. •-*
"We' would, 'however, 'like to ask
before you turn this over to us,
that you fix up this portion of the
road, because;it needs repairs and
nothing has been clone this. year to
repair winter damage, We bad
hoped the department would have
put surface coat on the main
street, No. 4 Highway portion
about'•four or five blocks.
-As I explained to you we do
'really feel that we are not getting
a fair break from the County. of
Huron by any means, when you
realike we paid $28,713 74 to the
County lett year, a big portion of
which was for county roads, but
we haven't one toot of county road
in our town.
The irony of -the situation is that
Wingham taxpayers are paying for
the main street of Seaforth and
also 'other towns in the County of
Huron and not getting one cent in
return. ,u any wonder that we
feel we are, not being fairly treat-
ed and that we should' try to get
separated from the county, We
think the provincial government
should insist we get more favor-
able 'treatment from the county,
Palling 'this are we not entitled to
some special 'consideration in our,
costs from the. provincial stand-
point.
We feel the Head Office Depart,
merit should approVe of your ex-
tending art odd extra co-operation
to our town tinder the eirelim-
stances, Perhaps one favor would"
be to surface our four or five.
bloeka of No, 4 Highway, our main
street, before turning it over to
us 'to take bare of,
Sincerely,
R. E, McKinney, Mayor:
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the council have been adviSed
of Yolte suggestion to donate the
old Rico hod from, the 'dfottioltted
bridge to Patrick 8treet,
1 itrit sorry to my we were very
Mat tiltal.PPOinttld as we had hop,
ed td get. one of the old fwitafteo
;that liiiight be tited up for e elith
teens, tor area Seeuts, Cubs, nte,
HoWeVet, Since the land 'you
Town Replies to Letters
Re Highway, Railway
- An impressive service was con-:
'ducted by Rev. R. A, Brook, when:
fourteen young people were re-;
ceived into membership, These are
members of a communicant's class
'who have been 'studying for sCv
eral 'Weeks under Mr. 'Brook's
leadership.
FOURTEEN 'MEMBERS
RECEIVED BY' CHURCH
BLUEVALB—The. 'sacrament of
the Lord's Supper was observed
the United Church on Sunday!
morning.
The \members are; 'Kathleen ;the bride donned a beige suit with
Craig, Mary Craig, Joan McFar-, apple green and tan accessories
lane, Mary Fischer Shirley John-c and a corsage Of yellow roses Mr
ston, Anne Peacock, Susan Sellers," and Mrs,
Wingham.
will reside in
Rose Mary NicholsOn, Nancy Tay-,
lor, 'Sharon aidntioniery, Hob
Hetherington, Murray McLennan,'
from your conversation •with me
they might expect something
the way of a building to .be fixed
up for a Club House.
This matter was discussed at a,
large meeting in the auditorium of
the high school at a banquet a tew
days ago, and Said I was waiting;
to hear from you. • There is a great
deal of good will involved in this
matter from adults and parents,
'but particularly, all the boys and
girls from miles arowid town.
Could you not reconsider this
matter.
Sincerely,
R. E. • McKinney, Mayor.
MANY DONATIONS. Mt
-TIMMY FESTIVAL
tilkEVALE—Vhe „following 'save
donations toward prises 'for the
TurnherrY Musk, Febttvai "
leek Vhornpson, oauerteet set-
woe, Oileiqdel. Ntotiates stote,
gietvetel ;Lino** 'Coate,
valel 'd/oftman't Store,Olttevade;
bluevale Creamery; 4Ward T.
Wingliarin: " McDougall
44'060% tower TIffin's
lmperlal 'Oil, Whiiiharn1 Alexander
HArdware,
Heivet l times
her ,Corriphity, wnignanq Stain-
to'n?s Hardware, Witighihr; How-
lsoti.'t Peed, 'WtneriMil uoword
poet,: Vietebite4 !Witerhiett
these posts' or hirerequipinent to do
go and not plug up our river where
we intend to develop.'boating. This,
of course, will also include -the old.
abutment In the centre' of the
river, We want everything remoV-
ed down to river bOttoin and:this
may 'require a' ceffer-darn, ,
Had you carried out Ye-
queiit to deed us Your abandoned
track area ' and ' buildings (even
Without the -Old -station which you
are ,now using-for living quarters)
0th' Council would, • I ,feel, have •
felt favorably inclined , to accept
your offer,. . ;,•,;
I must repeat your suggestion is
a great. 'disappointment to our
Council and all the children of 'the
area .who,haye, .been hoping to get'
a Club House to be fixed up. They
have• been inquiring' frenuently
whether or not I-had beard from
you, because rightly or wrongly I length dress of. French' illusion
had told their leaders, that I felt 1 and rose point lace over, satin,
fashioned with a tiered skirt- and.
matching, lace
,
jacket with lily-
point sleeves. Her chapel-length
veil of nylon tulle illusion was
caught to a crown : of tiny seed
pearls Witli• lace inserts. 'She car-
rrioesi de a white crested with red
roses.
have large cranes that; could d o ,and Mrs. Jos. Marshall and
this very easily,- you can lift en.: daughters, at Listowel, visited with
gines, so' You should be able to lift Mr..and -Mrs. -A, D. Smith on, Sun-
day;.
suggest deeding to us does not in-
clude any such -buildings we' now
feel that we have to investigate
this matter from's tax. angle,
We feel as Our. Compaby have
removed the tracks, the adjoining
properties would now be taxed as
ordinary properties and as such
the town should receive Consider-
able tax revenue and the assessor
will be advised to re-assesss each
portion on local tax basis.
Also we feel that your Company
should remove 'the obstructionshY
pulling out 'the piles and supports
for the old .,bridge and 'that you
should have .done so When remov-
ing the • tracks. Your Company
BLUEVALE
Mr. and Mrs, Harvey Messer of
Toronto, spent the week-end at
their summer home here.
Mrs. Roward 1:31ack of Toronto,
is visiting at the home of Mr. and
Mrs, Elmer Sellers,
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Craig mot-
ored to London on •Sunday.
Mrs. Edward Johnston has re-
turned to her home after spending
the winter at Lambeth,' She was,
accompanied by her daughter, Mrs,
Mabel Harris, and grandson, Barrie
'iarris;
Mr. William Perry,' of Waterloo
College conducted the service in
the Presbyterian Church on. Sun-
day. •:
t Rev. W, X. McClure of Moles-
• worth will have charge of the
communion service• in the church
on, April 27th,
Miss Judy 1VreDowell, of West-
field, the flower girl f was attired
in a dress of sin-Ishii-1'e yellow cry,
Vtalette with overskirt of yellow
not. She carried a 'basket of as-
sorted mums and roses.
Mrs. Jack Hunt, Dorchester,
cousin of the groom, 'was the solo-
1st and sang "The Lord's' Prayer"
and "0, Perfect Loye".
Following the -ceremony a recep-
tion was held in the Church parlor,
Por their (Wedding trip to various
Ontario points and Rocheater, N.Y,
The bridesmaid; Miss Joan Bry-
dges; of • Lo.ndon; wore pastel
blue ballerina-length. gown of lace
and net over taffeta with Matching
lace bolero and she carried a bou-
quet of yellow Mums,
Groomsman was Mr, Harold Tay-
lor, of. Wingham, brother of the
groom, and the ushers were -Mr,'
Donald Taylor,' brother of the
groom:and Mr. Don Stevenson, of
Thorridale, friend of the bride. •
Taylor-Thornton
Vows• at London
At Colborne Street United
Church, London, on Saturday,
'April 12th, at 4 p.m., Mildred Edna
Thornton, daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. D, Thornton, of.
Guelph, became the bride of Mur-
ray Alexander Taylor,' son of kr:
and Mrs. ' Chestei.: Taylor: of St.";
Helens: Rev, Taylor 4ifficiat-
ed.
'The bride, who wa's given 'ill
marriage by her. uncle, Mr. A. J,
Thornton, of Rochester; N.Y.,was
charmingly gowned in a floor-
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