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BEST. SPEAKERS at the, Wingham Lions,
Club public speaking competition held. at
Danny's Restaurant Inst Wednesday even-
ing were Dorothy Elliott, daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Orwell Elliott of Brussels, and
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Jim Graham,
Graham of G. -
their plaques
chairman of
son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex
Go
their
They are seen receiving
from Lion Lloyd Casemore;
the competition. •
—Advance -Times Photo.
Wingham Team leads 3=1
in series with Shelburne Q
A three -goal barrage ' from
the stick of Doug Neil put the
"180 Sports"over the top Tues-
day night before the biggest'
hometown: crowd of the.; ear as
W inghapn Beef' heft u
Nitiskies 0613. The wfti give
Beards Iodeferr
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on PS. french
Trustees representing seven
.elementary school boards ,in
this area met at the local pub-
lic school last Thursday even-
ing to discuss earlier. proposals
to establish -conversational
French classes in district
schools..
The planahad been proposed
at a meeting last fall which
occurred before the announce -4
trent by provincial educational
authotities.that school boards
will be amalgamated next year
into county boards of education,
After a lerigthy deliberation
on the subject, the representa-
tives from rhe various boards
agreed that all schools should
establish such classes -at the -
same time. ' As a result Of the •
change coming in •the admin- .
istration of the schools, a mo-
tion was passed which stated
that no action be taken by the
present boards, but a strong re-
commendation be passed on to
the new county board., when it
is established, that conversa-
tional French should, be taught
in the elementary schools.
ALONG THE MAIN DRAG
By The Pedestrian
WHO KNOWS?...
Folks who believe.in that
old lion -lamb bit relative to
the weather on the first of
March -must be a bit confused
this year. The lion was roaring
out in the country but towns-
people thought it wasn't a,bad
sort of day. Guess we will
have to wait until'the 31st for
the answer.
THEY'RE BACK--
In
ACK--In spite of all the lions and
lambs, the crows and robins
seem to think spring, is just
around the corner. We've had
';everaI reports about the big
black boys, btlt• only one robin
has been Mentioned so far.
Doesn't really mean much any-
way. Robins that come back
from the south this early just
have to be a little soft 'in the
heed.
them a 3-1 lead in the group
final series.
• .Wingham forced the play
•thrroughout most of the gatrte
and tient tr trailed in the high
` o nig t ;punter. W rngharn
goals were scored by Neil with
three., Skinn with a pair, For:
stet with two and Peacock and
Irwin with one. .
The fifth game of the ser-
ies goes Saturday night in Shel-
burne and a good crowd of
hometown fans would certainly
spur the boys on. If necessary,
the next home game will be
Tuesday night at x:30.
Pins presented
for Tang service
to Iocal-ha�spital
At Friday night's annual
.rnee:ting of the Wingham and
pistrict Hospital Association
everal sta ff,a nd paid mem-
bers were'honored in recogni-
tion of long service to the hos-
pital. •
Miss Merle Wilson, who has •
been a member' of the nursing
staff. for over 25 years, was
presented with a pin and life
membership in the association
by Mr. Cousins, •while vice-
chairman Barry Wenger n
pre-
sented her with a gift from the
boardh., , Mrs. Fielding pinned
a special "corsage" composed
of everything from safety pins
to miniature diapers, indicative
of Miss Wilson's devoted ser-
vice in the newborn ward at
the hospital.
Mrs. Iviorrey was alto the
recipient df a 25 -year phi and
another imaginative corsage,
presented by IvIiss'Hopwood.
.Barry Wenger presented a 20-
dyeai' pin to President R. B. Cou-
sins, who has been a board
member for 21 years.
Willie Vat.derwchide receiv-
ed a 15 -year ,in. Ten-year
pins went to Mrs. • Mary Clark,
H. L. Sherbondy, ,Mrs. Helen
Casemore, Peter. Norman and
'Fred Sawyer. Receiving "5 -
year pins were Mrs. Elinor
Collar, Miss Edna Carr,- Mrs.
Mary -Ellen Redman, Mrs. Dor-
othy Thompson, Mrs. Pansy
Hotchkiss, Mrs. Lebeita Statia,
Mrs. Helen McBurney, Mrs.
Jean Ellacott, Mrs. Clara Har-
rison, Mrs. Donna Ayres.
Board members similarly
honored were J. V Fisch r and
• John Strong (secretary), who
received 15 -year pins; Barry
Wenger, 10 years; Robert Coni-
tes, E; E, Walker and Mrs. 1.
W. English, five years,
Advance-Tirnes-
in
second place .
Many Ontario.weekly news-
paper publishers and their ives,
will -be attending the an, 1
Ontario Weekly Newspapers
Convention to be held this year
at the Park Motor Hotel,' Nia•
-
gara -Falls,
Delegates�will be welcomed
on Thursday evening by A . Y.
McLean. Mr. Mclean is pub-
lisher of the Sea forth 'Huron Ex-
positor
x=positor and president of the as-
sociation. There will be speak-
ers ort all aspects of weekly__
newspaper publishing during the
business sessions.
Robert 'Stanfield, leader pf
the opposition, .will be the
speaker_at the banquet on Fri-
day
riday evening. • -
There, was keen competition
amongst all. newspapers, parti-
cularly for the general -excel-
lence and photographic awards.
In general excellence •for
towns under 3500 population
the Wingham Advance -Times
placed second with the Exeter
• Times -Advocate as the winning
paper. The New Hamburg In-
dependent was third.
• The Exeter paper also won
theprize for typographical ex-
cellence and was third for best
editorial page. •
Elected to board
at .meeting of
hosDital assoc.
Dr. W.A. McKibbon pre-
sided for the election of board
members at the annual meet-
ing of the Wingham and District
Hospital Association last Friday
night.
Only one new member will
sit for the coming year. -Mrs.
A.H. McTavish of Teeswater
replaces Mrs. J.W. English as
the appointed representative of
the Ladies' Auxiliary. -
Other appointees returned _
were J. V., Fiseher, who repre-
sents the County - of Huron; De-
Witt Miller, Town of Wingham,
Dr. W.A. McKibbon, chief of
the medical staff and Dr. P.J.
Leahy, president of the Medi-
cal Association.
Nominated by the neighbor'
ins municipalities and elected
by acclamation at the meeting _
were the following: Teeswater
and Culross, Carman Thomp-
son; Howick, Harold Robinson;
Brussels, R. B. Cousins; Morris,
Robert Coultes; Blyth andcEast
Wawanosh, Howard Walker;
Lucknow, Kinloss and West
Wawanosh, Wa.11ace Conn;
Turnberry, E.E.. Walker.
Barry Wenger and LT,. Good-
all each ria ve a year to serve as
elected representatives of the
Town of Wingham, Roy Hunter
and Alton Adams were elected
to serve two-year terms.
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As a° foillow-ziip'to a peti-
tion a delegation of ratepayers
from Albert Street iaat. arrived •
at eouaeil on Monday evening
to deitnand that c-otinell force
Walden Brothers Transport to
move out of town.
The petition protested
„against plans by the ,transport
firs i.to enlarge its buildings, , .
stating that use of the property.
as a transport depot detracts
from the va Yue. of the land held
OnIyby.iaw
is needed to
increase PUC
M the end of Monday
night's council meeting Coun-
cillor William Walden asked
Clerk Renwick whether any •
further information had been
obtained regarding an increase-,
in P.U.C. membership' from
three to five members.
The clerk said that he
looked into the matter andall
that is needed to increase the
size of the commission is a
council by-law and the mem=
'bership could then be enlarged
at the next election.
• At the February meeting
it was not. clear whether or not •
the 'change would have to come
before the ratepayers, but ap-
parently such is not the case.
The, suggested change in
Commission membership •met
with disapproval by P.U.C.
Chairman John Pattison, who
wrote to this newspaper voicing,
the opinion that a three -mem",
ber commission is sufficient.
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Lions, guests hear
young speakers
Dorothy, Elliott of Brus els
and Jim Graham of Gorrie, -
students At Wingham District
High School, won top places
in the public speaking contest
sponsored by the - W ingha rn
Lions Club last Wednesday ev-
ening at Danny"s Restaurant.
Lions, their wives and -guests
were welcomed to the meeting
by the president, Fred McGee, .
Rev.. G. L. Fish said grace. A ""
short business .session was held
when the president called a
meeting.foFthe directors for
March 4. The meeting was to
discuss the street mall, planned
for later in the year. ' - "
The proceedings were turned
over to Lloyd Casemore, chair-
man of the public speaking
contest. He outlined the rules
to the contestants. Lion Case -
.more said the Lions sponsor the
largest public speaking' contest
in Canada, both in English and '
French. The finals will be helc
this year at Arnprior where a '
scholarship will be awarded to •
the winner,
It was also explained that
more contestants had been ex-
pected but that the change in .
mid-term holidays this year hac
disrupted the timing and nc t all
who had entered were able to
attend, because of examina-
tions.
Each contestant gave a five=
to -seven minute prepared add-
ress, and an impromptu speech.
Miss Elliott, winner in the
girls' division, a grade 11 stu-
dent, spoke on courage. Her
impromptu subject was "A Good
Citizen". The runner-up, Judy
Chandler, spoke on"Canada' s
Image" and "Citizenship".
" Student Power" was the
topic of Jim Graham's prepared
',Speech and "Color Discrimina-
tion" for the impromptu. He is•
in Grade 13. Lewis Beyer of
Bluevale was the runner-up.
His topic was" TTT ng,r" , with
"Automobile Safhty" as the im-
prom tu.
The ran setup in the con-
test ate also students at Wing -
ham District High School and
all are coached by Mrs. G. W'.
Tiffin of the English department
Judges were Mrs. Anna Mey-'
er, Ross Hamilton and Rev. G.
Fish.
by citizens in the area and that
he noise of the trueks creates
nuisance. The petition sug-
gested
ug'gcstcd that the`•firm should be
moved .out to the country.
Frank Seddon was named
spokesman by the delegation,
but before leaving almost all
of the sev'an'or eight 'ratepayers
had been heard from and at .
times the arguments became
rather heated, .
Mrs. Seddon spoke up to
amooli
say that the biggest problem at
their home is the noise ftoin
• ttie trucks. The Seddon property
abets the Walder propetty., She
said at 4.00 aam. big trucks
are started and this Wakes up
everyone in the neigltboriiood.
In summer, site said. the rs:-
sidents in the area cannot keep
. their windows open due to dust.
NO BY-LAW
Mayor A4iller pointed out
to the delegation that: council
is in no position to take any ac-
tion since the town docs not
have a zoning by-law,
Mr, Seddon wanted to !trim,
how it was the provincial police
buii°ding was not built urt Shu -
ter street after a 'delegation op-
posed the idea,. The Mayor ,ex•-
Wined council had no gray to
stop the building being erected,,
but. the police ai thorities-thern-
selves changedlre choice of a
site for the building.
Principal receives
Centennial Medal
F.E. Madill, principal of
'', Wrigham District High
WSchool, 1.aa s the recipient of the
Centennial Medal last Saturday. -
Though no specific -citation
accompanied the award, it is
evident that Mr. Madill's out- •
standing services in the field of
education have been recognize-
ed.
ecognize-
ed. The congratulations of the.
community are extended to Mr.
Madill,,
C.R.C.S.S. board to
receive drawings
- At the February meeting- of
the Combined Roman Catholic
Separate School Board it was
learned that working drawings
for the proposed additional
classroom and general purpose
room should be in the hands of
the, board by the end of the
month.
Oscar Kieffer and Keith
Montgomery were appointed to
attend a meeting at the Clinton
High School in regard to salary
schedules for teachers. Mrs.
Rea Morrison and the school's
principal were to attend a meet-
ing at Wingham Public School
when further discussion would
take place on the teaching of
French in elementary schools.
Officers were elected at -the
January meeting when Oscar
<ieffer was named chairman;
Keith Montgomery, . vice -chair -
'man; Mrs. Stephen Majka, sec-
retary=treasurer; and Mrs. Rea
Morrison, attendance .officer.
Elected as trustees were Os-
car Kieffer, Keith Montgomery,
Jerry McGlynn, Mrs. Rea Morri-
son, William Kinahan and Ray-
mond Schmidt.
At that meeting it was dec-
ided to purchase a filing cabi-
net for the -secretary -treasurer
and to hold meetings the seconds
Monday of each month.
The board also approved the
request of the principal that .he
board cover half the Fost of
two'one-hour skating periods at
the local arena 'and a bowling
party for•the senior .students.
The purchase of a used mat-
tress to be used in gymnastics
was approved.
„,The two winners took part in
the regional speak -off at Mount
Forest on Friday' night and
again walked off with the
prizes. They now advance to
the district contest which will
be held in Alliston.
Town hall. irees
will be replaced
Council dealt with a Horti-
cultural Society proposal to re -
,move the two spruce trees at
the town .hall, in a very caut-
ious manner on Monday night.
Counoillors•haive long memor-
ies, and in this case they were
recalling the controversy which
flared up a couple of years ago
-when someone •suggested the -
two trees be cut down.
• A• report from the/ local
Horticultural Society stated that
the trees are diseased and are
becoming dangerous. The' So-
ciety offered to have them.re-
'moved and to' take on the job
of seeing that a replacement
planting is made. This appar -
,eptly could beflower beds or
,new trees, 'depending on the
desire of council. -
After considerable discus-
sion on thesubjects council.
members were fairly well
agreed that the trees have be-
come unsuitable for the loca-
tion and a motion carried to
accept the Society's offer;
New editorial
page feature
starts this week
Readers of th&Advance-.
Times will be interested in a
new editorial page feature
which appears for the first time
in this issue,
• The._feature, 'which will
continue for several weeks, -
will consist,of one editorial
each week, written by a Grade
12 student at the Wingham Dist-
rict High School. The opinions
expressed wila•be those of the
students, printed without altera-
tion or comment by this news-
paper. •
The high school editorial
feature has been 'made avail-
able
vail-
able through the co-operation
of Mrs. G.W. Tiffin, 'English
teacher at the school. Some
weeks ago the editor of this
paper was' invited to address -a
Grade 12 English class on the
subject of editorial writing, at
which time he challenged the
stuients to express their opinions
in the Advance -Times. The
editorials were judged by the
students themselves and the
top ten will be rhe first to ap-
peal. •
We believe that this sampl-
ing of young people's opinions
is a worthwhile undertaking in
•a world where emphasis on
youth and young ideas grows •
more important day by day.
Certainly we are going to be
deeply interested in what the
students have to say -- and we
believe you will be too.
BABIES BAPTIZED
• Three babies were baptiz-
ed in St. Andrew's Presbyterian
-Church on Sunday: Nancy Diane
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Nixon; Brett Norman, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce MacDonald;
and Thomas Craig, son of Mr.
and Mrs. "Jatines A. Smith of
Lambeth.
--Mr. and Mrs. Ross Jam-
ieson and Mr. and Mrs. Art
Edgar Jr. motored to Detroit on
Saturday where they attended
the 50th°wedding anniversary
of Mr. and Mrs. O W . T, Fyfe of
Pontiac.'
Funds for pool
urgently:needed
ri
The finance committee of
the Wingham District centen-
nial Pool .acknowledges with
thanks the donation of $200,00
from Carling . Breweries, through
their area representative Johnny
Brent,
With Spring coming and-
the pool nearing completion -
more funds are urgently needed..
It is hoped that those who did
not contribute in 1967 will not
feel left out, especially the
new citizens in the community.
Please send contributions to
Wingham District 'Centennial
Pool, Box 472, Wingham cif
call Mrs.' Al. Haferrnehl 357-
3832 or Mrs. Roger West•357-
2263.
Donations -of any size will
be gratefully accepted.
zor Walden what soxt,of.tatt,l i::: r
the firm intended to '..... c: -. Mr.
Walden ;staid Mai the: i:::
tended to erect :t ,u ; sad fakir
extcitsion to their garage, add
that all trailers will -. be •:stor •d
on property the' firm owns on
the 11 dine, .
In answer' to soniv cc�tit .
• thetas by the delegation, Niro
Walden said, ."Yoe hey tlie. •
w=arctiottse°,.acid I'll gladiy move
"out of town."'
Mayor Miller said tite •proh-
dcin :corns to be between the
elegation and Mr Walden and
that it certainly wasn't coon»
cil's place to ask a. businiess to
move out of town, One of the
delegates coxnonented,..'r J don't
think anyone should he able to.
devalue another person', pro
perty .
Councillor Cruickshank
interjected, '1 .don't 'think cour
cil can do ,anything about it."
Councillor :Bateson, .after
some difficulty in making hitn-
self heard, said, ,""These people
should know that'when the town.
is zoned, this area will be zone...
ed as commercial-. `
Mayor Miller asked,. "How
much have you.got tied up in
that property, ' Mr. Walden?"`
Councillor Walder replied
'that.
the firm has $7.3, 00,0 invested'
in the property,. and must use it
to the best advantage,. fie corn} °
rnented;that the -co"mpany• •
would sell it for $50,•000 if
there was a buyer. 'Mr. Seddon..
said the firm shouldn't have •
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LINDA WILSON, last year's senior elementary provincial
winner in the Legion public speaking contest, has won the
first two competitions on her way to the same honors
in the junior secondary division this year. • She was the
winner at the branch competition here two weeks ago
a.nd.at the zone competition in Brussels on Saturday. Right
is Arleata Pollock of Goderich, who was Saturday's win-
ner in the senior secondary class.—Photo by ( Strong.
MARY ANNE RACKLEY of Kincardine, was junior elemen-
tary winner of the Zone C1 royal Canadian Legion public
speaking finals in Brussels on Saturday. Joan Elliott, right,
of BruSsols, won the senior elementary Blass. ---Strong Pisa
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