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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-02-22, Page 42 They Deserve The Best One of the :most welcome announce- ments in some months was that made at a. special meeting of town council last week, containing the information that a nine - apartment residential block will be erected On Alfred Street for senior citizens' accom- modation. Even more interesting is the. fact that rents will be set according to the tenants' incomes --some as low as $32.00 a month if necessary. The first .apartment block, erected on Edward Street a few'years ago, has proved a great blessing to older people, and there is 'no doubt that the second building will be equally acceptable. Not,only do these apartments provide a ' cosy homes for those .who occupy them, . but experience here has proven that in most cases a good deal of companionship is abuilt-in benefit for the tenants, since they `'automatically find themselves with near neighbors—often old friends. • It m'hst be a sore pull in some cases whenolder, folks have to decided . to leave the houses which have been their homes for many years. Old homes become the repositories of many memories ---the recol- lections of growing children and the hopes and fears of -a lifetime. However, all the sentiment in the world cannot takethe place of the practical comforts of a heated, cheerful apartment, where there „ are no worries about balky furnace and snow - clogged sidewalks. We have a great, deal of sympathy for those younger folks who would like to find better or bigger living quarters, but' we do believe that our senior citizens, those who have lived useful lives, and have contribu- ted so much to the development of our community, have a definitepriority. We hope they. will enjoy their new quarters when they are completed. Here's An Opportunity By the time these words . appear in • print it is possible the problem about which we are concerned will have been solved. We refer to the plea for helpers to assist in a recreation program for the children at, the Golden -Circle School. Ar- rangements .have been made to provide skating and bowling time for the young - Stets, but volunteers are needed to give them • a hand and to teach them how to enjoy these new sports. After the first call for assistance there was absolutely no response. We prefer to believe that it wps simply because there had not been time to re -arrange schedules and plans and so make time for the child- ren:, Certainly the passing years have seen many volunteers helping at the school itself, so it seems likely that the same spirit of consideration and responsibility will prevail in this instance. The Trudeau 'Treatment'? Pierce Elliott Trudeau has made a be- lated but very dramatic entrance on a, stage. already cluttered -with candidates forthe premiership of Canada. From the outset he has presented an interesting alternative to the candidates who. have declared their intentions over the past couple of months. He . combines, in' highly acceptable form, the inheritance of both English -and -French- speaking races., His English, tongue is as , smooth as his French idiom. He is hand Sorno in a thoughtfully careless way 'and he ekes pains to speak like, the ordinaryguy the street. • That he is highly intelligent we have no doubt. That he is the est prospect for leadership of the Liberal `party is another question. : if you have read the text of his public addresses you will not find a ,great: deal that cis new or different. They are fine examples of the old political platitudes =- great,smooth-sounding gobs of words that really don't commit, the speaker to any- thing from which he would be unable to back away at .the crucial moment. Perhaps we misjudge the man, but somehow he seems a, hit too •plausible to merit the top post in a nation which is try- ing to" make up its. mind about its own greatness. Time willtell—but it is to be hoped the revelation doesn't come too "late. Norad Really Wotks Three or fouLyears ago a great many Canadians particularly some oof those in high government office, were all steamed up about the money that we spend to pay for our share of:he' work being carried Out •by the North American Aid Defence Command. Last week's news that five So- viet bombers were intercepted" only 100 Miles east of Newfoundland may give some of the critics pause for thought: This writer was one of the Canadian neWsmen who personally visited the WRAP-headquartersat Colorado Sprin•is%' e few' years'back, and it was abundantly clearthat the Air Defence system was one Which had tobe maintained at all costs. The vast networl bf radar stations and patrol aircraft which are constantly on the alert for the intrusion of unidentified planes or missiles provides a protective screen of which few in Canada •are even aware. A 24-hour watch is kept onthe huge screen at NORAD headquarters, where every flight, friendly or otherwise, over North America and the' surrounding ocean areas (including the deep Arctic), is under observation. . The flights show up as lighted vectors on the three-storey screen and those which— cannot cannot be identified are permitted only minutes before the continent-widedefence system springs, into action. Demands for identification are made first by radio and if the answers are not satisfactory, inter- ceptor aircraft are soon speeding out for visual checking. In this most recent case the Russian . planes turnel away' when in- tercepted. I' Some Canadians have contended that the presence of nuclear weapons aboard NORAD planes is an invitation to war. The truthis quite the reverse. . Potential ene- mies are well aware that the North Am- erican perimeter could only be breached at the cost of nuclear' retaliation—and so far that knowledge has proven the greatest de- terrent to war. There are some strong arguments for abstention from warfare abroad, on the grounds that North Americans should not interfere in the domestic difficulties of other nations, but there is no 'valid argu- ment for curtailing the effectiveness of NORAD,' a purely def nsive system, and the only one which ans anything at all in this age of sup onic planes and missiles. WeHa,ve It Pretty Soft The other evening as we sato at home, with the furnace puffing out comforting breezes of warm air, despite a blizzard just beyond the window pane, we thought of how completely, we have managed to in- . sulate ourselves 'against the rigors of our Canadian climate. Warm houses, warm cars, warm stores, factories and offices— winter doesn't really mean much any more. In contrast we recalled a tale heard on a fishing, trip in Northern Ontario, about !i man who lived.as few of us could manage to do. He was an . 80 -year-old ,trapper' who had built his cabin as a young man. It was 30 miles to the nearest rail line and 75 to • town. ° One day in deep winter the old man cut his foot while he was chopping wood. All alone at his cabin he realized that he would die from loss of blood or infection if he stayed by his warm fire. So he put on his old fur jacket and bound his snowshoes to his two feet—one good and one soaked in blood—and set out for the rail line. Weeks later his frozen body was found on the ice of a wilderness lake. He had managed 25 Miles on sheer courage before the frost finally put him too rest. The man who told the tale expressed a philosophy completely foreign to south- ° erners. "He was a lucky man. If he'd made it to the railway he might have died in a hospital somewhere." . t FINALIST IN THE ladies' broQmball was the Blyth team seen above. Team members are,\ front row: Donna Govier, Joyce Souch, Joanne Souch; second row: Rose Marie Carter, Wendy Snider, Melanie Sprung, Gail Johnston, Klaske Koopman, Joyce Pickett, Barb Carter, Joyce Feather - lin; back row: Joyce Carter, Evelyn Cald- well, Nancy Lapp, Ruth Doherty, Don • Plunkett, coach: A -T Photo. NewsIternsfromO!dFiIes FEBRUARY 1919• Miss Millie Turner, who for the past couple of -years has been a clerk at King Bros. store, left Saturday for London where • she wilt train as a nurse in Vic- toria Hospital. Mrs. Nicholson has accepted a positionat the King. Store. • Changes of names of post offices in'Canada indicated Canadians do not like to live in places with German names. The latest name changes have been Dusseldorf, Alberta to 'Freedom and- Strassburg Station in Saskatchewan has dropped, the German spelling for the French form of Strasbourg Sta- tion. FEBRUARY 1933. Our village :butcher in Got- ` rie, Charles Black, has rented die property known`'a`s`tlieteecl Block and will move in shortly. Mr. -and Mrs. Ray McIntyre . have taken over the mill in Belmore lately operated by Joseph Kupferschmidt. We hope to find these yng people a . i'c .1 asset to th .. ommunity. Harry McGee nd E.J. Nash are in' London attending Grand Chapter Convocation of Royal Arch Masons, representing Le- banon Chapter. . THE WYN aHAM 'ADVANCE • TIMES Published at Wingham, 'Ontario, by Wenger Bros, Limited W. Barry Wenger, . President - Robert O. Wenger, Sectetary-Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member Canadian. Weekly Newspapers Association. Authorised by.- the Post Office Department, u Second Class Mail and for payment of postage' in truth Subscription Plate: 1 year $6.00: $ months, $2.76 In advance: SA. $7.00 per yr.; Foreign rate. $7.00 per Advertisi'nF'Ratet„on application yr.'s FEBRUARY 1943 Changes in the gasoline ra- tion: limiting non essential drivers to 120 gallons a year and imposing sharp new restric- tions on commercial vehicles - were announced in the -House of Commons by Munitions Mini-` .ster Howe. Miss Catherine Currie is suffering from frost bite on her legs and will not be able to carry on her work at the ,Brown Factory for some time. On' Monday morning with the temp- erature hovering around,30 be- low she left her home on the 12th concession of East W awan- osh about 6 o'clock to walk to work. She did not realize her legs were frozen until she start- ed working in the heat. It was found by Dr. Crawford that her. legs were frozen from the knees to theankles. Pt. Harry Newell, who joined the army in December, is now stationed at Na„nairno, B.C. FEBRUARY 19-54 Three new members, R.H. Lloyd, Elwood Armitage and Arthur Gibson were welcomed to the hospital board meeting on.Friday night. H. C. Mac- -Lean was elected president and Roy Cousins_ vice-president for the coming year. Benefit dance for fire victims WHITECHURCH- - On Friday evening friends and neighbours of Mr: and Mrs. Bruce Thomp- son gathered in Whitechurch . Community Memorial Hall and • enjoyed a dance to music fur- nished by Tiffin's Orchestra. At lunch time Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were called to the platform and Harvey Craig, 'on behalf of the gathering.,,, ex- pressed regret for their loss' when the upstairs of their home was gutted by fire theweek be- fore Christmas. He presented them with a gift of money. Mr. and Mri. Thompson thanked everyone for remem- bering them in this way. Dear Editor: Most adults recognize that education is a process that con- tinues throughout life. Many forms of educational up -grading are now available but informa- . tion on types of programme may seem difficult to obtain. Often a student will enroll in a costly,• heavily advertised scheme while a •much cheaper one supported by public funds is overlooked. A private corres- pondence course is being heave ily promoted as an easy and in- expensive way. to get a high ' school dipldma. A graduate cif this: private school must still pass final examinations set at his local high school before the provincial diploma may be granted. A superior series of high school correspondence courses, marked by highly qualified teachers.,. is offered FREE by the Ontario Department ot- Fduca- tion'to adults who wish to gain a high school diploma. , Before enrolling in .any sys- tem of adult education a pros- pective adult student should consult a guidance counsellor at his local high school. Yours very truly, Dan Webster, R.. R.1. Teeswater. W Ingham, Ontario, February 20, 1968. Dear Sir: • : Rather than add two exper- ienced men to the P.U.C. would it not be better to add about four rto the Council? With their new ideas the Couneil could spend snore money and raise our taxes still more. ,When three men on the Toronto Hydro Commission can serve 21'7,365 customers, surely three men can serve 1,112 customers in our country, town. 'Yours truly, John W. Pattison.' The first Teen Town dance started with a sleighride party in the country followed by a hard -time dance in the council chamber in January. Last week a Valentine's dance was held at the high school when Jim. Lock - ridge and Marilyn Timm won the illirnination dance and the spot dance prize 'was won by Bev. Brooks and Shirley Ashton. On Monday morning W.A. Gibson of Fordw.ich picked some lovely pansies from the flower •bed at the side of his house. SUCAR AND SPIC by Bill Smiley Dr. Smiley's rem dy Well, the old 'flu dug,, so or mething equally virulenti' hit me on the weekend. This col- umn comes to you via gobsof abrin, hot toddies and sheer wilhpower. Sunday moralisg, I woke up feeling like a mackerel. Not just out sof the sea, fresh and thquivering. No. One of those at have been gutted, pack- aged, frozen and then cooked over a bot fire and re -frozen and re -cooked. - M My wife had several theo- ries, as usual. First, I had a hangover, plainand simple. There's no such thing, but I reminded her that 'we'd .spent the previous evening quietly watching television and fig ht- ing as usual. Prof p carne when she of�fered me 'hair of the dog and I recoiled. in horror. Next, she decided I was going through the change of life, with those hot and cold flushes. I pointed out that my breasts hadn't grown, and that I wasn't growing any more hair on " head, face or Legs, which have. always been like an • Airedale's. She was discom- bobulated. Finally, she proclaimed it was food poisoning, because Kim and I are always thawing fish and stuff and then re- freezing it, for some reason. Obviously I'd had _bad fish. Turned out we'd had steak, all ffesh. Couldn't convince her that I might have the 'flu, which has been knocking people on their keisters for weeks at a time around here, all winter. That's because I never get sick. Or rather, .I'm half -sick all the time, but never take a day off. When 1 do,, about every three years, she panics and starts demanding, to know where the insurance policies are. I never' have a clue, so I. just groan and say, "Leemee- lone!" Which increases her anxiety problems, which are al- ready Grade A. Whatever it was, I take back all my public and private utter- ances about people who've had. the 'flu this winter. In public, "Pampering yourself. Take some whiskey and an aspirin." Or, to myself, "What a 'slacker. Do anything for a few days/off work." I' didn't have a headache. I wasn't sick at the stomach, 1 didn't. have .a sore throat or the snuffles or the sneezes. But I haven't felt like that time Oc- tober, - 1944, when five burly Germans set about me with fists, boots and riile"butts, for sbme1 trifling crime Which f can't even recall. And I took the same mope this time that I did that time. I read, That time, after they cooled off, the Germans brought me a epupia'of ` hooks. ra But I lay there, in a boxcar, on a siding in the. Utz'echt. ata tion -yard in Holland, and read Upton Sinclair. Since f .was a dangerous criminal, my wrist . . were wired together, as were my ankles. There were no handcuffs, It took some physi- cal manoeuvring, and x could see out of only one eYer 'but I read. And the pain floated away. About the third night; the Feldwebel in charge actually brought me a tion of poisonous coffee and we 'talked, in a gar- ble of ' English, • German, French. We had only the most rudimentary idea of what the other chap was talking about, but it bucked me up. 1 think he felt better, too. It was about the same last. weekend. I read. I could read for only about ten mi5hutesat a shot, without half -fainting: But amidst the fever and the cups of coffee proffered by my per- sonal, local Feldwebel,. I re- read "The Last Enemy" by Ri- chard Hillary, and the new "And Now , Here's Max", by Max Ferguson, CBC and free- lance radio comedian. . Hillary was a young English- man, Oxford, upper-class, ego- tistical, self-centred, who- real- ized through his .own suffering (he was shot down and, terribly burned) man's inhumanity to man, the universality of suffer- ing. It was his only book. He was killed "later in, °a night - fighter: It took me back into a world of training and night - flying and Spitfires that Was like re -living an epoch. Ferguson's book . is con- sciously funny, but it is funny. And both writer's are .. indivi- dualists who offer. 'some hope to all the rest of us,,.,ho ,fear • we are being ground between the upper and nether mill- stones of the twentieth centu- ry. Get the 'flu. Read. Simple. .pN1,,+,1n N in,.N Travel notesby J. H. Currie January 27 was the last night Jim Currie spent .in Japan' and the following letter was written from the Kyoto Inter- national Hotel. Tomorrow we fly to Korea if the situation --Americans . and North Koreansdoesn't explode. Last night I ray down to -rest before dinner after the day's tour and fell asleep till 2 a, m., Missed dinner -and no letter about yesterday. We took a bus to station and • a train at 9 a.m. for. Isi. There we visited the Amadai Shrine. It is called the grand -shrine built in the 6th century B.C. It is rebuilt- .every 25 years. It is second only to the Kashiko- dima Shrine. Both are dedicat- ed to Shintoism. Froin Isi we went by bus to Mikimoto Island. Had to cross to island on ferry, a 10 minute run. Mikimoto Island is the home of cultured pearls. Kokichi Mikimoto invented the method of cultivating pearls Previously divers brought them up from the sea. It took him from 1893 to 1903 to perfect a way to cultivate pearis.of right size and color. All pearls are now -procured from cultured oy- sters. They inject the nucleous composed of a grain of sand ;and a.chemical to acs a's an irri- tant . . and centre around which the pearl is formed inside the • oyster. , The oysters are arranged in steel meshed baskets and sus= pended in the water from floats. They grow faster 'in fresh water but the sea water produces bet- ter color, so most are kept in the sea or bay. Pearls come in 13 colors, baroque, black, pink, big pink, green pink, gold, green, cream, blue, silver, drop gold, gold ., green, and red (grown in fresh waters). Production is 100 tons a year and there are 700 pearl people in the business. Miki- moto had sole right to his secret formula until 1923 when his copyright expired. Many are now culturing pearls from oys- ters for the pearl trade. When they dived for pearls, the divers were women. The men tended the rafts they dived from. Women still dive but not for pearls. They range in age from young girls to '70 years old. dive as deep as 40' into the water and stay down as long • as 21 minutes. What they . bring up they drop into a float- ing basket. It is called Ama diving found only in the Miki- moto area. They wear special costumes, all white, to dis- courage the sharks. They lives ' longer than the other Japanese. We rode the ferry back to the bus stop and piled in to drive to Toba. We passed Hill Hic (weather seeing hill). Population of. Toba is 32, - 000, a university city. Tuition ,is $150 to $500. Only top stu- dents are accepted. From Toba, a train took us to Kyoto. The railway runs down a valley and up the side . of the mount. The Japanese, through time, have built .up little patches of ground to grow rice. The patches are uneven, some higher some lower and all are small with no plan of size or shape --.a sort of crazy quilt effect. There are no fences or stones but they ,have little nar- row "ditches between to run the irrigation'water to' the rice. It takes a great ;amount of water to grow rice. In Kyoto we occupy the Kyoto International Hotel. The room is fair and I slept too well After a breakfast of orange juice, poiridge (yes porridge) toast and coffee on the tour accounty we took off by bus to -explore the city. Visited an- other Shinto Shrine, the "Gold- en-; covered with gold. The . original was burned in 1950 but was rebuilt with ankeacact repli- ca in 1955. I've had enough viewing of shrines. There are 398 in Kyoto, and I 11 take their word for it. We had a Japanese dinner • in a restaurant. The center of the table held, a dish partly fill - rd with hearing water. Brought the ingredients in a dish to put ' in the water to cook. When, the contents came to the sure ,face they were cooked. The re- sult was tasty soup. It was comprised, of seaweed, noodles,. crayfish and other stuff, 1 can't classify. A side dish of crayfish rooked in butter,eaten with :hop sticks, A little bowl and ladle for the soup and green tea in bowie without handles, i Managed the mushrooms and zrayf ish with the chopsticks,and used the ladle for the rest. It cost 1000 yen. All good except the bean curd.. It's not my dish. We had to_ find our way back o the hotel. Went, past 'the corner we should have turned. Retraced our `steps and met a couple of boys on tour who had a map. Got going 'in the right direction. On the walk 'cattle to a shop with a striped revolve' ing _ball, a barber shop. Good! Better get hair cuts while we can:- Best hair cut I ever had and only 400 yen. ($1.12). First a warm towel, then clip- pers. etc., then lady attendant tobk over,. put on "unjeul" combed the hair, -styled it plus a due amount of, fussing. Tonight we had dinner down- stairs. ' Were entertained .by .a '•or show. Two beautiful Japanese dressed"in colorful - kimono costurgnes with .volum- inous sleeves and wearing fancy headdresses. They danced in slow tempo but very gracefully. • It was quite a 'contrast to the • furious pace of the Mexican and „Spanish dancers -at. San Francisco, and a lot more cov- ering. Another girl did A solo. For the finale the" first two re- turned with two others to dance The Four Seasons". Gunrunner heads ,. back to enter Irish museum The Irish want their old gun -running ship. the Clyde Valley, back so they can turn her into an historical museum piece. The one-time Irish freighter is tied up in the har- bor of Sydney, N.S. During World 1, the Clyde • Valley vas used to carry ,guns to Ireland and the Ulster volun- teers, who were opposed to Britain making all of 'Ireland free troin the United Kingdom. While the ship was -being used in these gun -running operations for Northern Ireland, Britain seized her and sold her to ,G -an- adian interests. In 1966 she ran aground off Newfoundland and was later taken to Sydney. Recently, the Irish staged a fund-raising campaign to enable the ship to be returned to Ireland. Canadian marine Inspectors checked over the. Clyde Valley to see 'what re- pairs are needed before she can sail home,