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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-01-18, Page 2- '/ age 2--Wingham AdQi°u11iaC,-Times, Thi"v,alcly, Jan. i1 N. INS Howkk co!tmciFhoids its first meeting in 1968 GORRIF, - Residents of tiot, ick have found that w vile fox population is decreasing, the grountidhog population in. the township is incrcasang ,tarsal= the .groundhog is a amain good fair the fox. About JO fox bounties ihere paid by Howick Township hist year., The bounty system was set up about six .years 'age dur- ing, a rabies scare. . The ,appointments for 1968 .were made at the inaugural Meeting of Howick Council last week and are as follows: Ivan Haskins was appointed relief administrator; RoyStrong. building and trench. inspector; Jack Ferguson: tile -drainage inspector, and Harvey McMich: ael- livestock valuator. -Other appointments are Jack Ferguson„ Saugeen Valley Con; servation Authority; Harold Robinson, Maitland Valley Con- servation Authority; Harold HO- Wingham and District Hospital „board;,, Frank King.. to Wingham fire area; Mel Allan, LiistoWel* ;fire' area. Members of the Fordwich community hall board al=e. An- son Demerling, Mel -Allan. Jack Ferguson, John Winter, Ira Schaefer. Garn King, Stanley Bride. Mrs. William McCann. Members of the Fordwich • community hall board are Ross' MeKague, Jack Ferg'eson. Frank King, Kenneth Dickson, Thomas Inglis. Clark Renwick and Mrs. Harry -Mulvey. Jack Clark, William Maar. Andrew Gibson. Harold Robin- son,. obin- son, Mrs. R. Brown, P. L. Dob- son and Mac Newton were ep- Pointed to the Wroxeter gall board. ,Members ofithe Gorrie hall board are Wilford Ring, Har- old' Robinson. Frank King. Har- ry. a Gowdv, Harry Hastie, Mrs. R. Templeman and Ivan Has- kins. efj ° '.r°nointed to the recreation eouilii ttee are Bruce Robertson, 1!Irir•ry li + ties. Harold Kiel. Wal- ter Reim ick. D. Neilson, R. Mc- Michael, J. Robinson, Mel Allan and Mac Newton. Warren Zurbrigg, Hartwell Strong and Harold Robinson were appointed to the -Pioneer Park eoraimittee. '. rKEI€T The sympathy of the com- ii�u riey is extended to Mr. and ties. Irvin Dicke rt and family in the passing of her lather, Mr. George Klein. • We are sorry to report that Mrs, Harvey Demerltng was taken to Listowel Memorial Hospital -last Monday. She is sir -feting trim a pinched nerve in the back and .has to be kept quiet tor.some time. • I its; Sam Webber is. still a patient at Bruce •County Hospi- tal, Walkerton, but. we are pleased to report that she was able to, sit up in a chair. this .. week. Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Zur- brigg attended the funeral of Mr. Levi Karges at Calvary United Church, 'Listowel, on Saturday. The deceased was an uncle to Mrs. Zurbgg. - GORRIE - Mr. and Mrs. Donald Edgar spent the week -end at Moon Rizer. • INSTALMENT.BUYING: A system of easy payments and difficult collections. Us SHOW You How 4111111111/ Mil "-Keith McLaughlin J phine St., `Phone 357-3472 - W I .N ° G H A M fri9Vn0:4 rr& v II P` -,ti Vona vt116n Its s,v.,,i- ,±ca•, }rim'rm., SEEThEM ALLI. THE LONG ° 22nd 'CANADA FARM & INDUSTRIAL'- o EQUIPMENT:SHO, „ COLISEUM BUILDINGS, EXHIBITION PARK .. ' TORONTO; ONTARIO z JANUARY 24.25.26.27.1968 Get your Free admission ticket from your local or Equipmeflt Deolit . w,lNawanosh sets salaries The 168 inaugural meeting of West Wawanosh Township council was held, at 11 a.m. on Jan. 8th at the home of the clerk. with all members pres- ent. Each member subscribed to the declaration of office. A petition for drainage, re- ceived from Andrew Gaunt' and Robert Aitchison -was accepted by. council and the clerk was instructed, to contact the engin- eer, Douglas Gaansby, of Gams- -by and Mannerow, with regard to undertaking ,the work. A bylaw to name the elected representatives and officers for the- township and set their re- spective. salaries was passed. By reason of this by-law the sa- laries now are Assessor, K.: Scott, $600; Clerk. J. Atermstrong, $900; treasurer, .C.Greer, $525; reeve, $250; councillors, $200; grader 'operator, $1.85 per hour and wingman and casual la- ••• borer, $1.50 per hour: A by-law authorizing the bor- rowing, .if .necessary, of an am- ount up to $70.000 to cover cur- rent expenditures was passed. The road superintendent. H. CulbertM was -given a raise to • - $1.90 per ,-hour, subject to the approval of the Department of Hi rhways. The road- and general pc - counts were passed for payment. oP.P. REPORT BY W. A. STEVENSON SAFETY OFFICER In the year 1966, the 'W Ing- ham Detachment investigated . 227.motor vehicle accidents. In 1967, officers of the detach- ment investigated 249 acci- ' dents. This is an increase of twenty-two accidents.over a 'period of one year. This year, there has,already been four- , teen!laccidents' in our area. ,Let us all makea greatereffort to reduce the. number of accidents in this area. . Following are some 'of the drivers who cause traffic ha- -zards for other motorists arid c' themselves. TEN MOST "UNWANTED DRIVERS" 1. The free wheeling lane changer who swings back and .forth, usually without proper signalsR.. - 2.. The bumper ,chaser,' whq , follows the c at-ahead.ta close- • 3. The driver who slows down in a curve instead of stow. ing• down before he enters it. 4. The driver you' see. in your rear vision rn)°ror who is driving too fast and , is likely to misjudge passing speed and dis- tance. 5. The twilight zone driver who drit s in early darkness. without. lights. 6..' The driver who rides his brakes and creates in the. 'minds of other drivers uncertainty as to what he- intends, ro do„' 7. The signal jumper who spurts from a'•signal as.it starts changing or crashes through as the signal turns red.. 8. •The highbeam headlights 'driver blinds approaching ori- ' vers. • 9. The oncoming high speed ,driver who,' too often, is res- ponsible for head-on collisions. 10.The stop sign juniper who fails to step and look be- fore proceed.ing into the inter- section. . This year, review,your -driv- ing tactics . and don't let your- self fall'inh any of the above, categories.. • ' 'MAKE THIS A..YEAR OF SAFE DRIVING! CAREFULDRIVflIS.1 stop to think when they're behind the wheel. They stay relaxed but alert.. o don't getJeated up over , the other guy's actions. They know that anger can color'their whole driving attitude and make then) a menace to other drivers on the road.. • - CAREFUL BIERS..I. Insure their cars with State 1=arni. They like State Farm's famous low rates -rates so low that one out of two maysave important dollars. And, they like State Farm's "Hometown" claims service too ° -provided by the world's largest network of full. time agents and salaried claims rep- resentatives. Sound like the combi- nation of big savings and bigservice you've been' looking for? Cll tcdy! REUBEN . ' W. 1). "Bill" APPLEBY ....n MAY 357.1679 3574280 STATE FARM"II^iSItURA▪ B'U COMPANIES t.E, Canlidirn Hand Office: Toronto, Octavio. ' P647$ Ry M.. WEDDING: A cereuiOny at which the bide always looks ,cunning tied. d the sroon't, *un DOCTO1fs HURSL :,. RptvG „ vi THEY i Mt.TI.1 er � T, VOA Mo ° aneeff ` ►R. At►11. OF ''fO $- . PRg5cR%PIIOt1NEEDS 1 CATHY DICKSON of No: 1 4-H Club, Lis -- towel; Joan Clarke-, No. 2.Listowel; F,velyn Dickson and Marlene Inglis of Belmore, were winners of county , honours at the Reeve, councillors sworn 4-H Achievement Day staged 'at the 'How - ick Central School, "last Saturday. The girls have completed ,eight projects i`n order to qualify for the awards. F A -T Pix. nu...t....i �1u.. a Morris council makes 1968 appointments at inaugural The oath of office was ad- ministered to Reeve William El- ston and Ross Smith,. James, . Mair, Thomas Miller and Rpb- ert Grasby, councillors, by • Clerk Helen Martin- 'at the inau- gural meeting of Morris coun- cil, Rev. E.' R. Hawkes of the, Bluevale Presbyterian ,Church, conducted a short period of de- votion. In his opening remarks Mr. • Elston' welcomed the two new members to council, Mr. Millet and Mr. Gushy. Salaries were set at $400 lo be received 'by` the reeve --and $300 for each councillor, plus $10.00 for each special meeting; Clerk' Helen Martin, $1650; Treasurer Geo. Michie, $550; -assessor, $1;000. Poundkeepers are Carl John- ston, Clarence Goll, Ross Tu'r- vey,. Mel Mathers, John man, Stan Hopper; ,Clarence :.Yuill, Mervin Pipe, Leonard Rooney,.? William McCutche'oie Salt rear",eRob Bird, Milli Craig. GeoegeaBlake,;;Jgthrt -les bit, Rae Huether; livestock vat- uators, • Herbert Garniss `and ' Ken Taylor; fenceviewcrs, Har- old Procter;• Milo Casemore: Bert HastingseWilfred Warwick, William 'Peacock, aeries ;Bow- man. James Wileon, Bruce Smith, Bruce Richmond, Ken McDonald, .James :Smith, 'lar-•• ence M Cutcheon. Stewart -Procter. as weed in- - spector. will 'receive $1.75 per hour plus .I0c, per- mile; grade erman, James Casemore. e2.00. per hour and John Smith at $1.75 per hour. Wages for la- bor will be '$130 per hour. Tile drainage °inspector, George Michie, and trench inspector, William McArter, at $1.50 per honr and 10c per mile. The following representa- tives were named: Robert, Grasby to ' Maitland Conser- vation Authority; ;James - Mair, Brussels Recreation Comm..' William Elston and Stan Hop- per recommended"to Belerave- Arena 'Board; William Elston and Thomas, Miller to. RNA Fire Area Board; • Ross Smith and James Mair to the' Wi'ag- ham District Fire= Area Board; Robert H. Coultes reeomneend- ed to the Wingham District - , Hospital Board; Walter Short - reed ,recommended to the Seaforth Hospital Board; Wil- liam Elston for one year and L. sere,, Stewart 'Procter, hon -council member for two years to com- plete the term of William Peacock on the Wingham Dis- trict Planning Board. ,The printing contract was given • to :the- Blyth 'Standard ; at 5250. A' borrowing by-law for. $70,000 was passed. Member- ships to the Good Roads As- - sociation and the Ontario As- sociation of Rtiral Municipali- ties Were' paid and Thorne, Gunn, Helliwell & Christenson were 'engaged as auditors. The 'petition for. the exten- sion .. to the Little Drain was sent to James A. Howes,,, O.L.S., for him to make a sur- vey- and report on the Odell- . sion. William Elston was named to look after the ad- ministration of •welfare at ,$1.50 per hour and 10e per mile,, - The general, ile -Thegeneral, accounts and road accounts were passed for payment + e Rev. Roberts addresses Council's inaugural E. East Wawanosh Township council --held its inaugural -meeting on Jan. 8th in the Belgravee cemrn,untty. centre, • witii ; : Reese . Pattison pre- siding -`arid the council mem- bers, Norman Coultes, . Siinon . Hal'lahan, lames . Walsh and Gerald McDowell present. Each signed the oath of office. Rev. Roberts addressed • the • councifi reading: `'a passage- • from the Bible and asked for divine guidance during the year 1968. Reeve Pattison thanked. Mr. Roberts and' also addressed the 'council, thank- ing them for their co-opera- tion in the past year and ask- ing fol their continued co-op- eration during 1968. The following ' membership fees were passed for :pay- ment: pay-ment: $10.00 to the Assoc. of Ontario Mayors and 'Reeves; $1.00 to Ontario Good. Roads, Assoc.; $15.00 t9 Ontario Assoc. of Rural Municipalities. Mr. • Beard, manager of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Wingham spoke briefly: • - Township 'borrowing by-law for 1968 .was ,set at $1-00,000.60.‘ following were appoint- ' ed to act on various boards and committees: Belgrave • Community Centre Board, Nor - Man Coultes, Gerald McDow- e11, Hugh. Bair; Auburn Hall Board Gerald McDowell; Wingham District FireCom- mitt°e, Roy Pattison. ',Norman --Coulter: $'lytfr District Fire Committee, James Waist), Sim- pn Hallahen; . Wingham and District Planning' Board. Roy Pattison-; Blyth- Union Ceme tert' Board, James Walsh; Si- mon Hallahan;" Ease and West,' Wawanosh Township Park, -116yn Pattison, : Norman 'Coultes,, • ,Geeelel McDowell; Hospital Board, Howard Walker; town- ship repfesentatives for the Maitland Valley . Conservation° Authority for 1968, Mason. Ro- binson. Salaries were set as fol- lows: Allan -:McBurney, $2.00 per hour snow plowing and $1.80 per hour standard' wage; second operator, '$1.70 per hour and helper .to receive $1.40 per .hour; clrk's salary $125.00 per month.' Delegates .attending the On- tario Assoc. of_ Rural. Munici- palities . convention expenses, $55.00; delegates to Ontario ' Good, Roads convention, $55.00 plus registration for attending • the two day convention. The salary off -the reeve is to remain at $300' -per year, and the ` salary of the - councillors to. remain .,at $200 per year. Special meetings called, by the reeve, $7.00' per meeting . and $5.00 per meeting for .the Planning Board and-. Wingham District and Blyth fire commit- - tee meetings. . _ The salary of the township assessor, Ken McDougall, will remain at $600 per' year. Road accounts in the amount of $1,811.64 and general ac- co>itnts of $1,529.41 were pass- ed for payment. f9 Chesley farmerspeaks on future of the federation of Agriculture of meeting LAKELET--The 27th annual meeting of the Howick Federa- tion of Agriculture was held_. in the Howick Central School last' Thursday evening. The president Stelea'rt Doug- las, chaired the meeting and welcomed the audience, He - reported reported that some work was done in the township on °a sur- vey towards a beef marketing plan. There were also some co'mpleints regarding the warble fly spray and some farmers are going to a systematic control. Pr. blems in agriculture are vete complex. Elmer Harding gave theeliog Producers report. The Huron County 4-H Swine Club sale will be held at Clinton in the - spring. The quality of the gilts in the sale is good and he an- nounced that the Huron County Hog Producers annual meeting will be held Februarjr Jack Stafford introduced the ' guest speaker,, Jim Jadk.lin of Chesley who is a member of the Board of Governors of the Ontario Federation of Agricul- ture. 1-ie'chose for his address , "The Future of the Federation of Agriculture" .' 'He said that he has had updrtunities to work in industry but decided to be a farmer. At present he operates 400 acres an d•produces hogs and beef. This is a lot of work but Men in other "fields have to work too, he said, to be successful. • Agriculture arid government _will have to work out a two price system for farm products to compete in world food prices. , industry has a two price system. He- spoke of the countries of India and China '-whereeople are starving and Yrs > in. nee ,;, r, 4 fichip x ibt ui liclesi an every child' then it wane the job of agriculture tohelp feed those who age hungry. . • He asked the question, 'Whet about controlled prod duction?"' Softie say, this takes away our freedorn but we don't want to go„broke. ,"We must be able to produce as the domes- tic requi ements are needed. Milk producers are in a type of controlled production at the present time with a quota sys- tem corn ig iito-effect., • The Ontario Federation of Agriculture has discussed one )ver -ail farm Organization. p It has been difficult to get our voice across when there are two groups, he said. A com- mittee of sixteen men has been appointed to ser up ways for a new farm organization. Jack Ferguson, thanked the speaker. ;Ross Smith vice-president of tht Huron County Federation in - * lined. the meeting of -the 'Rural Line program over CKNX tele- vision on Sunday at 2 p.m., starting January -21. The president of the ltiiron County Fedetation, Elmer Hun - ter, spoke on community leges. Huron asked the Cones- togo College to put on a course on computers. • The Federation was asked to send an interested - person to this course. Bob Henry, a member of the -Federation Insurance Com- mittee reported that C.1. A. no., has over 8,000 policies in • lturorr •.County and the commit-.. tee -is prepared to deal with any insurance problems in:the ^co}in- ty. . • Reeve Harold Robinson stated that the warble 'fly petition was in favour of spraying and if farmers don't want it it will have to be voted out: -Eltter Hunter conducted the election of officers. Jack Stiff- e ford Was elected president and' Scott Clarkson .vice-president. Concession directors will be the same as last year. Lakelet Women's Institute served lunch after the close of the meeting. ° e a 916. and .teo.cl i tt t1, L,.. C -Z8 tCt' DIAL 357.2170 Emergency:. 357 -2992 - Please note the following important announcement! Last week the Wingham Business / ssociati1n announced Monday closing, for all stores -this has no bearing on the "health' professions." The hospital will be open and the doctors will be continuing with their regular calls and office. hours. Serving a radius of well over 20 miles in this area, VANCE'S DRUG STORE has become _a well recognized member orthe health professions, because of - its valued stria of emergency medieat on,,� . This continu- ous demand for_medication dictates that 'VANCE'S DRUG STORE cannot and will not be closed on Mondays. ,You can expect the ' same prompt prescription service on Mondays in the future as you have been receiving. Rely on- VANCE'S DRUG STORE in Wingham for the best in drugs and prescription service, - ^ ° SUPER SPECIAL, -BAYER, ASPIR1N, .-100s, reg. 91c ...... 67c BROMOSELTZER, reg. $1.09 ......:.. 09c EX -LAX, 36s, reg. 89c 69c GELUSIL TABLETS, lOOs, -$2.25 .... $1.69 GILLETTE S.S.S. BLADES, 1,0s, reg.. $1.45 LISTERINE, 14.oz., reg. $1.19 °MODESS, 12s, 'SPECIAL ° '2/91c $1.17 93c VANPRESCR/PT/ON DRUGGIST ..r 1lLN d , �nM 9CL1 r.� ohnsn REPAIRED AND REWOUND , • A complete stock •of motors from an eighth ,to five h.p. model. .• y . Phone 11 'R 12 FORD W ICH, Ont. AUTHORIZED SALES & ' SERVICE DEPOT' ' Wagner Leland, Franklin N9eowtf SONE: QUESTION FOR HOG RAISERS Herb Watson • ' - • Here ere some quest• ions and answers for. you men who raise hogs. FIRST .QUESTION: How moth EXTRA weight vat . ing can be expected by feeding •SHUR-GAIN Creep Feed - - NSWER: You tan expect to have six extra pounds per pig; or about 21 percent of the pig's overall weight at six weeks by getting it started' on Creep Feed by the tenth day after farrowing: SECOND QUESTION: How much- Creep Feed is recoririmended? ' ANSWER: About five pounds of SHUR;GAIN'Creep Feed per pig starting after ten days. Hoge' make their biggest and most profitable gains at this ea y stage in their 'growth. You get your 'pigs off to a h Ith , and vigorous start, which Is 'likely to continue "trio . , through to market. You'11be well repaid for the `modest coot cif feeding SHUR-GAIN Creep Feed at this time. SPECIAL UNTIL FEBRUARY 3, 1968 BUS' ONE TON of. StIUR-GAIN 18% PIG STARTER No. 10 .and 'get 1' BAG FREE SHUR-GAIN 18%® Pig Stater No. 10 Per tong ' - - $100.00 hid Mk* Ingham Feed: Mill. DIAL. 3574060 4- a