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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-02-01, Page 4Honors Well Deserved Most folks in Wingh*m and the sur. :rounding rural community will agree it was a sincere pleasure to scorn that Cen- tennial Medals had been awarded to Mason Robinson of East Wawanosh and to W. T. "Doc°° Cruickshank of Wingharn., Bothof these men are well known and as choices for Centennial honors, none could possibll meet with more widespread approval, We can say without hesitation, too, that these two men would be the first to protest that many other local people con- tributed to the efforts which resulted in their selection for this particular distin- ction. Mason Robinson's devoted work in connection with the East Wawanosh cen- tennial celebration was certainly most im- portant to the success of that venture. "Doc" Cruickshank's radio and, television station also contributed in large measure to the interest which was aroused in Cen- tennial undertaking throughout the entire CKNX listening and viewing area. It was not, however, a case bf Centen- nial efforts only which led to the selection of these two recipients. Unquestionably, the years of unselfish devotion to the best interests of their communities were the deciding factors in the minds of those who submitted the names to the Centennial committee. The fact that both were ac- tively interested* in Centennial events was only an' indication of the long-standing in- terest they have betokened for community betterment. Our congratulations to Mason Robin- son and W. T. Cruickshank. The honors are certainly well deserved. Above The Rabble Last week the Liberals in the province of Quebec voted by a Targe majority to end Canada's acknowledgement of the British Crown and in its place to substitute a pres'irient, elected by vote of the Canadian . Senate and Commons. The resolution was in -no way surprising, coming as it did from one Canadian _province which seeks to cast off, all ties with British heritage. We suspect that many Canadians, per- -haps a. majority of Canadians .would agree with the Quebecois that it is time to end Canada's allegiance to the . British monarchy. There is a ;fairly general feel- ing that Canada is a sovereign nation and should terminateeven verbal homage to a "foreign" monarch, The fact that our nation's population springs from such widely ,separated ethnic origins does in- dicate that there is .so°rne basis for the argument to end the Canadian monarchy. We do believe, nevertheless, that , Ca- nadians would do well to taive some thought to the alternatives.. The Quebec Liberals sugglrst .a president, and we don't have to look very far ' afield to observe a presidential system in action. Presidents of the United States, par- ticularly in recent years, have been vul- nerable not only to heated critics of op- posing politiciai hue, but to the. snide jibes . and cheap jokes of all second-rate entertainers who can gain access to stage or TV- screen. A president's most soul- wrenching decisions are laid wide open to the uninformed comment of critics and clowns alike. It is true that even in Britain the Queen must -occasionally submit toe bit .of facetious comment, buf for the most part royalty is exempted from the crudi- ties to which a president is liable. It is not so much a matter of personal respect for the Queen,as it is a 'deep respect for 4tlie dignity of The office she holds. The monarchy has served Great Britain well: chiefly because the monarchs in recent times have had the goodsense to change with changing times and 'conditions, When Canadians debate amongthem- selves about the merits -or allegiance to a Iritish monarch, they might well ask them- selves how the Queen feels about Canada. It just -might :be that she would be more than happy to have one less sectjon,of her realm to , worry about: Frequent visits to Canada impose a considerable burden Upon a woman whose day-to-day duties leave very little time for familyor friends. 1n the exchange of obligations between Canada and the Crown we would guess that Canada has always had much the better of the deal. -- it is not fashionable in . our country to indutge.i%e public criticismof. our Am- ,iencan neighbors. We are much too de- pendent upon their goodwill to permit free expression: of our opinions. There are times when that --very .Closeness fosters shivers of apprehensions _as we -peek out from their broad shadow M the results of American behaviour' in internatioria'I spheres The -who -1e world is holdingits breath because an ' American spy ship was caught in or near North Korean territorial waters last: week and has been taken, captive by the communist -dominated government of that country. Though it may be treason for a North Americanto say so, we can't really blame the North Koreans completely for taking action against, such'an intruder. The saddest part of the whole mess is that it illustrates the lift -mentioned :"credi- bility gap" which exists when American C t• il-• ti�jr.y..dy. S ,t Icy 1].`A forces are' involved in such charges and counter-charges.'The'D:S: Navy says their ship was outside the territorial- limit; the Koreans say the Americans are liars. Unfortunately, in several ' .previous in- stances of a similar nature, events proved that the Americans were not always- the soul of strict honesty: A case in' point was the celebrated U-2 incident, in' 'which an American flyer and hisspy plane were shot down over Soviet territory and the first words" from the American govern- ment were a denial that they had- anything to do with the venture. It was several. days before a reluctant confession was forthcoming. Espionage of all ..kinds is a 'necessary adjunct to national defense, but the first rule is never to -get, caught in the act.. The most recent slip-up has brought us all too close to the brink of a nuclear war. Merno to Business People It goes without saying that we whole-. heartedly agree with the action of Editor Eugene MacDonald of the Glengarry News at Alexandria when -he reprinted the fol- lowing: • "During these first weeks 'of the year , merchants have been busytaking inven- tory arid sizing up the prospects for in- creased sales in the year ahead. We might offer some helpful suggestions, but instead we .reprint some advice which appeared in e Bankers Magazine published in the U.S., and 'which applies particularly to town merchants. "No businessman -in any ;town should allownewspaper published in his com- munity� to go without his name and busi- ness being mentioned somewhere in its columns. This does, not mean that you, should have a whole, half or even= quarter page ads �in each issue of the paper, but the name and business should be men-, tioned if no more thana two-inch spaceis used. "A stranger picking up a newspaper should be' able to tell what business is represented in town by looking at the paper. This is the best possible town ad, vertising. The mare who does not adver- tise his . business does an injustice to him- ' N..N..Niu self and to his town. The -man who in- sists on sharing -the ._business that. comes to town, but who refuses to advertise his own, is not valuable addition to any com- munity. om- munity. The very, life of a town depends on the live, wide-awake and, liberal ad- vertising man." This advice is applicable, not only to merchants but to service. shops, especially in these years' when the town and, area are absorbing new families. The stranger in our midst. may be at .a loss as to the types of service available here or whereto locate a reliable, competent tradesman. ,Scarcely a week goes.by without some newcomer to the area dropping into this office orphoning far information. Among our new subscribers are several right at the present..moment"who will be Moving to our town within the next few months -or those who are taking a quiet look at our community as a prospective home. In many instances their only source of information is the newspaper and if they find it scantily supported by 'the business community they tend to turn their interest to, towns- where there is more evidence of alert community interest and enterprise.- THE .WINGHAM ADVANCE . TIM Published at Wingham, Ontario:, by Wenger Bros. Limited W. Barry Winger. er, President - Robert 0. Wenger,, Secretary -firer 11eeaber Audit Rarer of Circulation Mesrsber Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Authorised by the Poet Office Depattaneat ass Second Claeis Mali and for pennant of postage in Saab a SubeeriptIon Rate: 1 wear *00;; • mantilla. $2.75 in advance; **.A, $1.00 per yr.; Foreign rate.:$7.00 per 4thilitlehte* Rates +ares SMOKE POURS front the, Whitechurch home of the Walter Moore family es Lucknow firemen attempt to quell the flames. Damage was estimated at $2,000: ---ATT Photo. 1 tNNINN INItNNIINNI N,NII t111NINt1iNtVNNltIR.I f tINiI I IIs I INi�iNYHIM��N„N�NNNNNI NIiNNt1N,N11NttN,INN. SI?JCAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Mrs well at school There are heartening signs. that a revolution, - bihodless, but sweeping, is taking place in educatio. There ar r. dicationSb that. the oppresse people, have passed the muttering stage, have attacked the Bastille, will 'free the prisoners and in the process over-rttn the Swiss Guards, defenders of the an- cien regime. And” all will ' be wine and, dancing in the I streets. And chaos. ' .v But out of chaos everatttally emerges order. Look what God made out of a heap' of chaos. And out of the chaos of the French Revolution emerged a completely new concept of freedom and equality that had a tremendous impact on the world, • Perhaps the' revolution in ed- ucation will produce a similar freeing of the spirit of man, allowing him to cope with the great and relentless ,pressures of this .age' and those o come. Education' hi this centsur* ,the century of a co oil, man, has been a sailure .hr Ix'. grand scale. ' It'.1 as failed- tirely to .come toegri societyWM& upside down and inside out by two global wars; mass cbmmu-• • nit ation, a treniendox R 4 /�/ spuft- -oft technological adva,ttee anda. close, hard look at traditions., E4ucators, with a few no ble exceptions, have been ti id, shying from anything .that might upset the system. The --public at large has ignored ed- ucation, ` except to bleat about the cost. • As a restilt, educati6n hes been ,da generation behind the times. It has . become a • monks - lith of repression, rigidity and conformity... It has been an de= phant waltzing with a giraffe.; But -fresh winds are .blowing .through the concrete boxes in which young minds are sup- posed to be exhilarated, excit- ed and liberated. And with many another, I cry a lou't', - sincere, "Halleluia!" Go into an elementary school today. You may, be shocked to death. Instead of 'sitting in neat rows, • facing a teacher, and putting up their hands so they can spout some meaning- less • information which has been memorized, you're apt to find the children wandering all' about the room, doing things, MINI, IN4NI11.I141IIN looking up information, actual- iy talking to each other, which, of course, is pure heresy. It looks like anarchy, but it isn't. The teacher is teaching, not just telling. The ' kids are learning, not .being taught. No longer are they little sponges, each in his own compartment. There is ..a flowing of ideas, a" joy in finding out for oneself. Go into a high `school. The is supposed to be read- ing a poem, preferably written at least 100 years ago. Then he is supposed to elicit from the students, with . a series of childish questions which bore the bright ones and are ig- noredby the dumb ones, the meaning of the poem. Then there i s supposed- to be the ;search . for similes and meta- phors. Then he is to put an analysis of the poem on the blackboard, the kids copy ` it down, and everyone is happy. They have "done" a poem. They are being taught the joy of poetry. They are being edu- eatad.• • - o.:Bti't what's this? They're not Ven sitting, Me rows, ,buL;ina ircic�. 'ThC3 erg ill qu the poem, which was written three years ago. They relate it ' their own . lives. ,The discus- sitdrg, may run from hippies to drugs to broken hearts to reli- gion to joy to beauty. They. may still be fighting about it when they leave the classroom. ' Dreadful. Dis-.,-rganised. It's all disgusting and de- generate, abut it's happening. And not just in the classroom. There are Geld strips in geogra- phy. Imagine: Going right out- side where the geography is. A visit to parliament by ,a history, class. Shocking. History should be in books, where it. belongs. A trip to the theatre for an English class.. Sheer deprayity. That Shakespeare can be pret-' ty filthy stuff, if it isn't ,care- fully' censored. • My wife tells me that some of the f professors' at university are actually teaching these days, instead of just talking at you. Where will it all end? The iron hand has been - removed. and one of these day,s we're going to be faced with a gener- a;:on of kids who like school so much they'll have to be kicked out at 16. Seal campaign indicates public re -awakening to TB The use of Christmas Seals which .provides funds for the. control of tuberculosis and oth- er important respiratory dis- ° eases, produced record reven- • ues in .Ontario this year. An interim report by the Ontario Tuberculosis Association shows contributions exceeding $l, 309;- e0.06, almost $110,000 higher than the 1966 Christmas Seal Campaign. In Huron returns to date, a total of $13.500, has been re- ceivedand contributions con- tinue to come -in officials said. ' Seventeen of the 47 pro- vincial district volunteer organ. izations which are co-ordinated, by the Ontario Tuberculosis Association, achieved more than 100 percent of last year's result, the highest being Grey county district at 113% of the 1966 total.. York,.'wliich in- clude+ ,Metropolitan Toronto, was" 107*n with more than 155, 600 individual contributions. p "The result of the 1967, Christmas Seal campaign, ' while not yet complete, re- flects a reawakening of public awareness of Tg at tlfe nu fiber • one infectious disease = - in spite of drugs and selective use of vaccines," said Dr. L.W.C. Sturgeon, president 'for ,Ont - ado. "The problem of tuber- ; • culosis is one of constant need for control in Ontario where 6,000,000 lack immunity to the disease and at least 20 per- cent of the population carries the tuberculosis gerrri. +featly 1,500 active cases of tubercu- losis were found in Ontario last year and the incidence of the disease is especially high in the urban areas," he said. "The concern of the Ontario Tuber- culosis Association with respir- atory diseases, other than tuber culosis is both broad based and growing," said. Dr. Sturgeon. "It stems from the high percen- tage of lung and chest abnor- malties found in the course of tuberculosis case findings. We have been particularly succe ful in Beteeting heart oda& tions and cancerous /lungs, which are immediately referred to the family doctor. Emphy- sema, bronchitis and asthma ate three other diseases with which the Association is in - News Items From FEBRUARY,191,9 A reception Was held et Ute borne Qf Wag sem pompr can of Donnybrook to welcome her son, lance Corps rel` rnest Thorppson who arrived borne January 29,' Lieut. `Phomas 14AtLOU1 arC> rived home from overseas last week and is visiting at his horse in Pleasant Valley. Torsi was an employee of Pringle's Glove Works before he enlisted. FEBRUARY 1933 Eleecher "Speck" Meyers who last year was the Pro at the Alps Golf Club has accept- ed a position at the Sarnia Golf Club this season. Specials this week at .the Dominion Static: Sliced pine- . apple 100 tin; Aylmer pork and beans, 2 tins 130; Campbell's soup, 3 tins 230; Kellogg's corn '.flakes, 3 for 260;° pink salmon, tall tins, 120; good quality peas, 100 tin. - Field Day Championships were presented by F.R. Howson at the commencement Friday night. Those who received the awards were Miirray Rae, senior boys; John Weston, -junior boys;. Grace Ireland, senior girls;" .Muriel Ross, junior girls, Much merriment was caus- ed by the Old Time Orchestra at the commencement on Fri- day night. 'The orchestra was composed of Tena, Reid, Ella Rae, Carl McKay; George Ter- vit, N. Blatchford; 'G. Carter, Herb. Fuller and- G. Bracken use FEBRUARY 1943 7- - Mrs. George Allen had an unfortunate accident Saturday evening when she fell near Mur- ray Johnson's garage on main "street, fracturing her left hip. 'Her husband, Chief 'Allen, Wad been on the sick list and ihe was on her return from the doc- tor's office to secure medicine when she had the fall. Jack Madigan, a formes. Witighamite who now lives at. Oceandale, Ohio, informs us he lives 34 miles frons Tilla- mook Lighthouse, a picture of which appeared in Scott; s• Scrap Book in our paper recently. Mrs. George Hotchkiss, two sons ani daughter moved here frorit Aylmer on Friday>, Mr. Hotchkiss is manager of the Dominion Stora. Theft, are re . iding .in ' Ciar1 ; ►prtirt�rneet, on Maple Street. In renewing his.paper last week Albert Steen of Craik, Sask., told us it was 54 below .'zert,the day he wrote. Early Saturday afternoon the roof of the Charles R. Coul- tes barn, the former Dr. Ford barn on Patrick Street, collap- sed frdirthe -weight of snow. • There was much shovelling off of roofs around town after this roof went down. Miss Doris Dells who is . - leaving on the 18th of this month to report in the Wrens was presented with a gold ring with a ,navy crest at the home of Mrs.. W. L. Kress on Wednes- day. . The Cub Pack -held an in- vestiture on Monday when Cub - master E.O. Gallagher invested Glen Foxton, Raymond , Merkley, Laverne Newman and John Crawford. FEBRUARY 1954 A history of Huron County, to he published in booklet from has been undertaken by Prof. James E. Scott of Seaforth and will be underwritten by Huron County Council, it was decided at the January session. A writ- er and lecturer at the University of Western Ontario, Prof. Scott reminded council that Huron REC. ASSOC. EUCHRE BLU'EVALE--The fortnight- ly euchre of the�Bluevale Re- creational Association was held in the community hall on Thurs- day evening when 15 tables were in play,.. Prize winners were high lady, Mrs. Andy Adams; high man, Mrs. Harry Adatns, play- ing as a man; draw, Mrs. Chu- te- Sewers. The committee in charge was Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Timm, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Ortlieb and Mt. and Mrs. Goodon.lioss. volved," he said. "While generally coticerne ed with airpollution as it re- later to respiratory diseases, we are specifically concerned with what we call "personal air pollution", that is the det- rimental effects of cigarette smoking—in relation to cancer of the lung and other respira- tory ailtents, " Dri Sturgeon said. was the original county of the ' Canada Company. Three, his' tortes of Bruce County have alp ready been written while Huron has net had otic. G. A. Sohatte, whofor many, years has made a hobby of S reP airi$ surd rebuilding violins. i a he has dfscuvel-" ed the'secret of the famous • Stradivatious violin, a secret that has eluded violin makers ever since the celebrated ,rafts' man, Antonio Stradivarious first made his in Cremona. It- aly ever 250 ,years ago. J. N. Perdue, a former W,inghain boy, .has been named manager of the Canadian Na- tional Exhibition agricultural, and livestock department. James Wylie of Wroxeter was injured on Highway 87, between. Gorrie and WJoxeter Saturday night when his.car col- lided with a vehicle driven by Thomas W. Pritchard during a heavy snowstorm. Wylie was admitted to hospital suffering from a fractured skull, injuries to the chest, pelvis, right artn, ranneswesessitmtesm eammenhI11IINSHN,NNNt g 1 t. 1.1(41 cuts. and shock. The shiver of the other vehicle .offered Minor cuts and beillais Don, niblebtarsd., swum. er at station CKNX byes otitn1 ed°a position as news aline iiu t , on'the new TV station, PC,KCO' TV in Kitchener. , The new station will be sending oft test patterns around the middle of the month and isexpected to go on the air full tittle February 28. Miller Pavia of the,Holtaii* 'dale Creamery who wits slat in the dark watching tevistan ° last week wasrudely distu*bed . when,the fire chief ,and air Mut) of neighbors burst ink, fire ex- tingu sher at the reaady. ' Sonde® one bad seen smoke corning out of the building. °lt turned out there was no fir4. The smoke was cotmngfrom the town dump behind the cream, ery. Ron Murray, wto has been employed at the Dominion Bank forthe past year and a half, -'-has been transferred to Windsor. NNN� CljurtJi Ingham REV. H. W. HAMILTON, Dip. Th., Rector. Organist: MRS. GORDON DAVIDSON. A FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER E`i'IPHANY FEB. 4th 11:00 a.m. Holy Communion, Sermon- and e Church School ANNOUNCEMENT Senior and Junior Altar Guild Tea and display of Altar Furnishings to be held in the Parish Hall on February 14th, 3:00-5:00 p.m. • If you are not associated with any other Church, you are cordially invited to worship . with us. pI,HmU.NINR-. • NNI/NNNNIINp/NIN.t/NNINNNiNNtItNNNi 1 1 NN...I, � T Before Thefts appen Insure with sig Eft We can't stop the .thief, but our PersorT1 Property Insur-; ance. prevents financial loss. Insure.at low rates ... with us. W. B. 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