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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-03-07, Page 4Placed in Hotels, School, Hospitals, Prisons , Ps ieieWlmettem Advence.Tilitto • ursday, Witch Still Our Own Hospital Attendance at = last Friday evening's Hospital AssOciation annual meeting would certainly appear to indicate that the eere • eral public has long since surrendered all interest in the Management of that, insti- tution,„ Dr, W. A. McKibbon point -KI out 4pt the meeting thatCteerli lives not a single person present whoias not a staff or board member or a relative of a staff or board member. Blame for the obvious lack ofi public con"cern in hospital affairs -may be laid, in part, right at the door of this newspaper, It is possible that .we have failed in our obligation to continually remind the resi- • dents of this community that -the hospital has not been "sold out" to the government sponsored Hospital Services Commission. It is quite true that the local hospital board has little -Or no- control over such fi- nancial matters as ward rates and. annual budgets. Because the vast majority of On- tario residents pay for their hospital care through insurance premiums to the Ontario Hospital Services scheme, the hospital it - •self receives its operating .finances from OHSC and must therefore -abide by the rul- ingi of the commission where rates are concerned. . By no stretch of the imagination, how- ever, is the local hospital "run" by the Tor - Onto commission. The attitude of person- • nel, adequate staffing for both nursing and • medical care, the provision of nutritious meats, financing of capital expenditures re- quirecl for new equipment — and many more responsibilities are handledby the local board and administrator. Toronto *does not ,concern itself in these very im- portant sectors, other than to demand that adequate standards be maintained. residents of this area, too, should clear- ly understand that the members of the board of directors -are not foisted. upon them- by some obscure higher authority. With the exception of five members who are appointed by the county, the town, the • r. 1.011111.01.00 medical stefrand the Ladies' Auxiliary, the remaining eleven are elected by public choice. It is true that those members whit represent the neighboring municipalities are usually nominated by their township or villege councils, but whenever a change in.representation is desirable it can be ef. fected by a widely -expressed choice to the councils inqu.stion. Four members are elected, for two-year terms from the town of Wingham without any nomination from council and they can •- be changed at will if the public is interest- ed enough to clo so . No other public institution should corn- • Tend the personal attention that the hos- • pital merits. Every one of us either has already spent some time there or can look • forward to doing' so in the future; l4oW well we are treated may depend on how much active concern we are prepared to • demonstrate in the operation of the hos- pital. The only practical way to do so is to •attend the annual meetings, as members of the association, with a voice in its de- . • cisions. From time to time we have heard that the board members want to "hog" their seats and newcomers are not welcome. From personal experience we can tell you • that the majority, of men on the board would be quite happy to have some volun- teers come forward. They receive no re- muneration for their services from either the hospital or the OHSC and they devote &great deal of time to the operation of an institution front which you are as likely to benefit as they are. • Dr. McKibbon suggested at the annual meeting that nextyear the gathering should be held down town, where attendance would be simplified, rather than in the training school at,the hospital. We heartily • agree with anymove which will impress upon the public that hospital business is everybody's business. How Would We React? The people of Great Britain are facing trknotty problem at present. With econo- mic conditions in that country far from en- couragIng and unemployment on the in- crease, the Labor government hasenacted a law which' will limit the Immigration of African Asians to 1500 a year. Obviously ,the act refects the fear that Britain may not be able to support a rapidly -increasing • population. Nevertheless the legislation has -raised A storm' of protest among. a 'people who have always held out vigorously for the equality of man. Canadians and particularly we in On- tario, have good reason to re-thnk our own vaunted broad-mindedness in the terms of Britain's dileinma. It is highly • pOssible that vast numbers of Africa's • Asian population may turn to our own country as a second choice when the first goal is denied them. Will we, with all our • lanctand resources, be any More ready to welcome a, heavy influx of :immigrants Whose living standards and income expec- • tations are considerably below thosewhielt are thought to be minimal here? • If our • jobs are threatened or our pay rates face • serious competition will we be as devoutly opposed to discrimination as we say the Americans or -South Africans should be? • Perhaps we will open our doors and our hearts to a needy people — and then again we.rnay turn out to be just as sel-e-, fish asthe next fellow with a problem of this kind, Loophole in Democracy • In our new, 29th century sophistication we are prone to scoff in a superior sort of way at all the by -ply involved in ership ,race within one of our ma :r po- litial parties. • It is true that some of the antics are patentle childish, but. the pur- • Pse of the game is deadlyseriousAnd we should realize the full consequence of a wrong choice in' national leadert. We have assttred, for so many years, • that we are protected by the umbrella of democracy, but nothing really ill can befall • us. It is time we realized that clernikracy . • can assume many faceand some of them • are rnost unpleasant. The well-oiled ma • chinery of democracy can be made the obedient servant Of a strong-willed leader which is fine as long as that leader tht? decisions most of us want. Free - dom of choice -takes on another aspect, • however, when a de Gaulle seizes the helm. • The world has had time -to give full con sideration to the iron grip of the General on a government which boasted the great- est freedom of choice to be fond in the western world. Then there is President Johnston. you may agree with him or condemn him, but one fact is obvious—his • will has beenfittily imposed' upon the American nation and the world diming a period of tremendous international stress.. If his decisions have been mad ones our children will pay their costs for• many decades to come. • Individuals are still of number one consequence in the guidance of national destinies. It is to be hoped° that we in Canada can select wisely. Cbser Contact Is Needed • Many schools throughout the province open their doors within the next few days as they invite parents and the general public to visit the hails of learning during • Educalian Week. For several years past we have witnessed this event and it never fails to suggest an unfiiled opportunity for im- •prving the climate of euation. • The job of educating a child is certain- • ly the io3t respionsibiDity of the home and the schoci. The parents' task is no less ins- pertant than that of the teacher—and yet the perent is expected to carry cut his part of the job with no guidance from the school staff. We do not suggest a home and school club of the typewhich launches into social functions and money -raising campaigns. We do contend that some sort of organiza- tion or schedule of organized meetings should be formed through which parents and teachers could coperate t‘to provide mutual assistance in ,the very important work to which both are supposed to be dedicated. lacrassalawsralfrastestivssa. • THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Pulatialsed at Wirighaast„ Ontario. by %ester Bret Limited w. semi 'Weave Presidest Moen Of Wetsger. Stttoy-Treasurer 3itetaber Audit Bereft tot Clitielation • Member Canedisia Weekly 24evrapapers Asociatin. A?thoriatel by the Poet ()thee Dreartairiat USems& Mau Mail and ter poliettot Pewitlite ht ell#12 • Setwiettption Rate: yet 4 4215,i's adraieee; *MSyr yr e Foreign rateetee per yr. MverthiseeZia ****1•140 AR. MANNINGHAM, •villain of "Angel • Street," was easily swayed by the atten tions of ,Nancy, the 19 -year-old maid. Mr. Manningham was played by Don Lloyd and Nancy by Judi Smatl The solemn police- • man was portrayed by Brian Nordlund; and all appeared in the Victorian melo- drama produced at the town hall last week by the Towne Players. —Advance -Times Photo. • • _MARCH 1919 • Robert Currie of East Wawa - nosh has purchased Billie Burks residence on Centre Street and. will inoveld town this sumrner. W.I. Currie iias purchased the fit*. • • GeorgeMilner has purchased Pender's house On Cather- ine Street, now Occupied by f.• A. Anderson. Miss Cloa kley s dwelling near the Roman Catholic -Church has been sold to Mrs. George Tiffin of Langside who will &love to town in the near future. -Harold Showers of Turn Township was themanwho got the lucky ticketout of die clothes of the man thrown from, the roof of Hanna & Co.s store on Saturday. Weunder- stand that Auctioneer Bennett got the overalls. MARCH 1933 Rev. E. Hayes, rector of St. Paul's Church. was operated on in Durham Hospital for append- • icitis and was brought home by ambulancelast Thursday. It will be some three weeks before. he will be able to resume his duties aSteetOri • .013 atltp:Aay, ,Mtirek*: rrattkiitlx);•Rizpsot:.6tto.:. United States was sworn into office. Probably nopresidentl ever took office at a more criti- cal tine,• A quiet wedding was solemn- ized at the United Church par- sonage, in Belmore on March 1 when Jean Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mr. tlector Mc- Lean of Cuirass Township, was united in the holy bonds of rnatrirnony to Hairy son of Mr. and Mrs. HenrY Merkley of Wroxeter. • • Miss Hazel Brandon of Mit- •' chell has been granted a three months' leave of absence from ..ithe United Church, where she plays the organ, to undergo an operation in Toronto. Her SiS- astatesattaraWvassavisiramosasmatmovelosemanawas ..... aastautasasesti raatouvrt ... ..... satire Id Files ter, 4vIrs. W.G. M. Riid is at • present inToronto while Miss • Brandon is a patient in Toronto General Hospital. MARCH 143 •• Charles E. Smith is intprov- iris fr6triliii' fall off kliidder last Week. Foritinately, no boneswere broken. • Miss Elaine Walsh has com- pleted her business course and has accepted a position with Powerlite Devices in Toronto. Jimmie Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Hall, slipped • and fell on his way to school on Monday morning and broke the large bone in his right wrist. •George Hall and James Chit - tick were admitted to the Cub • Pack on Monday night and were presented with their badges. Neil Carr reported to the • R.C.A.F. at Manning Pool, Brandon, -man., on February 26 as a mechanic. He was ac- companied as far as Toronto. WDH.S. Guest Editorial • "Black Is Black " acial prejudice is a major ,problem in the United States today. Because of the dis- tance involved, it is safe for any citizen in this area to scorn the people of America for their treatment of the Negroes. Daily, peo- ple say I dont see any difference but the skin colouring," but their minds quickly change when the problem becomes a per sonal one. Everyone is prejudiced against someone, orsomething, so he may as well admit it. The little boy on the corner has no father. He does not know that his mother. was never married, but is content to dream of the daddy he never saw, or ever will see. But someone will tell him,..someone who cannot be Content to see that the "wild girl" has changed, to see that she loves her little son, and has r sen above her past for his sake. The new boy in Cass is not "in." He comes from a large 'farrly and cannot af- ford to buy the latest cicthing", but he- tries to make up frthis by being friendly and cocperative. But sor.one- will tell him that he is different aeci remind him that some people judgel others by outside. ap- pearances. Jobs are plentiful in a lima!' factory, but when a Mat4 a former eteolflic, eppHes for a jcb there is suddenly a scarcity of available positions. The employer will tel him that -He is not suoted tei the ith." in effect the employer is terneg the man that By Jane Campbell, '12A the determination, and willpower just shown in his fight with the bottle is still drowned by his past. Chances are that this • man will decide that he might just as well return to drinking. But no, the employer • is not prejudiced at ialli The neighbors have just adopted a little boy. He has cute little blue eyes and a winning smile that used to draw smiles and laughter. Now he is met with a sullen stare and rude questions. "But you don't know • anything abut his parents. •I'd watch out if 1 were you." He does not know any other parents than those who love and, want him now, and he need never know that he has been adopted. But there will always be an on- looker who feels it is his rt'duty" to tell • everyone in sight the background of the little boy. One person's big mouth could wreck the family relationship, an j the little boys security. We dont need to torry about the Ne,g' roes in U:S.A. until we learn to judge the peeple around us as equal. So what if a girl has made a mistake, if a man has had an alcoholic problem, or if a child can- nt expiain his past? There is a future to look forward to and it could be a happy one. It is up to you to do your part to wipe out prejudice against anyone, any- wher. So the next tint6 you say, "I're not preudiced„" leek at yaur feet. Make sure they are cn the grond, and not in your meethl SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley e ' • Tsilove is to hate • fete the most moneittvue leaults, the most cutting atei vitiotts remarks. If Ire thirrestl titles, They will cherish each ether in • sckness; af well u in health, in poverty as well u in walth. Iclhoins onkr escowpthat thatbrelitiltalt Wa snowing and the wind is howl• iknngowsu, toitahewhyouseu Lae/try in . ' the city iand I'M lonely at home There's nobody there te tell her that there *rein any ghosts, that the kids will prob• . evidence,betlsY itier nd and ooppthatOlsdh eell? at e hall alt of a good-looking • girl when she And there's nobody here to tell wine that I'm clever, despite' My. stupidity in OM areas. that I'm a good' husband arid father, despitemy lalses, and • that my column -is reedable, if 14 only leave out .the, vulgar'. tie•Ssh.es So 'lonely in the -city that she can scarely wait to get • home on weekends so we can •fight a normal life, And I'm so lonely at home that I can hard ly wait to hear the cheerful ubpabtbillee tchuartt Aonrsm. ally drives me •She Misses my coot, my rea sonability, in). refusal to panic Arid I miss her passion, her irrationality, her determina- tion to panic. • She misses my casual atti tude toward money and bills. And I miss her furious inalat ence that the budget hould be kept in order. • And I guess, that's what this column is all: about; Youchaps • who answered "Yes" to all the euestions in the quiz that be• it might take another look at old Myrtle and cbtmt your • blessings, even' if there are only a coupleofthem. Try it without the' old Girl • for four or 'five months. To- • morrow, for example, I have to shovel the front and back side• walks; get breakfast land put • out the garbage, before even start the day's worklin the good old days, Id leave ,all that to oAndb Mum:rotther, am I getting • sick ofthose frozen chicken MEN D OU HATE TOUR WIPE? Does she talk all the time -about Her Reittives? Does she Nag about Nothing? Is she a • Miserly Spendthrift? Is she Too Hard on the Kids or Toe Easy on the Kids? Is she always wanting to Talk Things Out? Does she ig noe. your Sterling, Qualities end pick constantly on your eight or ten Little *Weakness es? LA -DIVA! DO YOV HATE • YOUR IIVSBAND? Does he • talk all the time about Golf and Curling? Does he Grumble about Trivialities? Is he a Mis erly Spendthrift? Is he Too. Easy on the: Kids or Tao Hard • on Them? Does he always want' to avoid Tajking Things Out? Does he lnore-your Charm, • Intelligence arid Warmth and 'pick on inconsequentials like that watermelon that has re placed your little, fiat tuinmy of forMer days? • Sorry. but this isn't an. ad- • vertisement. If it were, there'd be • a coupon to sencl in,and we'd. 'get everYbpdY Squared, around in no time. It's merely • a questionnaire. But it the answerto the first question, in each case, is, "Sometimes", and the anwer. to all the others is an unqali fie,ringing,"Yes!", you're an honest man or woman, and a • perfectly normalone, with a good, average marriage gojpg for you. • If your answer is, "No!", there's no point in reading far- ther, because you're a liar or •you should be in heaven and not reading. this ,tripe at all. • I knowthat I hate my wife sometimes, deeply and bitterly, • and, I know that she hates me sometimes with the same ad 'verbs. But c' est la guerre, and if you don't think marriage it a guerre, either You aren't mar- ried or you aren't bilingual. On. the other hand, there's a shoulder -to -shoulder solidarity In the average marriage that makes up for practically every - tiling. A man and woman who fight constantly, verbally and even physically, will turn like a "pair of cobras and hiss and spit at someone Who criticizes either of them. They will forgive each other '-epies! • by Mrs. Carr. • • • Sgt. Neil Williamson of the 99th Battery (A.F.), a' forrner member -of the Advance -Times saff, is at present taking a course in Kingston. • .-Gordon Davidson and Harry • Spry of the Wanirne Prices' and Trade Board, Toronto, were guests at the Lions Club lunch- eon on Friday at the Queens. Lion Bill Connell was at the piano. Lion Otto Gallagher sang a solo and numbers were Sung by a sextette of Lionslack McKibbon. Wilbur Tiffin, Harry Gibson, Ron Rae, Fred • Spry and Otto Gallagher. Gord • Davidson played the accordion and led in the singing of The Man on the Flying Trapeze. All members managed to go through the motions of the song but Bill Galbraith, who fell off. MARCH 1954 The oret 2-po=er field piece iettiret seee,2e,ell appeared in fee= cif the. arms:zees has cf seclatiot. arieteg rawmpe..-7;11? as to httw it go: thr.CIIITLI lass Wednes- day the gut had teen rotting ij the field betind tte old ar- moutes itt Ktncartlittea relic of when the armouries was in use there. Word was received from ermy H.Q. in London that the piece was to be recov- ered and brought to Wingham. Roads were blocked, wires down and communications snarled up in this district on Moteday and Tuesday as one of the heax iest sleet storms in the memory of the community swept western Ontario On morale y Mike McPhail was talking trilkiThhener when com- plications set-iri on elle tele- phone wires:- one Minute he was talking to his partyin Kit- chenerand the next he was lis- tening to a CBC broadcast. Somewhere along the way he was tuned into a radio trans- rnission line. • Bob Rowsell of Weston achy, ed in town last week to take over the managership of the Wingham branch of the Beaver Lumber Company. Mr. Rowsell replaces Bill King who served as manager here for the past four months. Mr. King left Sunday totake over theBeavern • Lumberyards at Woodstock. HAMILTON OPTOMETRIST ,Josephine Street •WINGHAM FOR APPOINTMENT Phone, 357.1361 (4) DEDICATE GIDEON BIBLES AS A CONTINUING MEMORIAL • May be donated through your local funeral director St. Paul's Churt (ANGLICAN) • W INGHAM— REV. 11. W. HAMILTON, Dip. Th., Rector. Organist: MRS. GORDON DAVIDSON. wwinneowao0Www..woorii SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT — MARCH 10 11:00 aien. Morning Prayer, &onion and •'Church School 700 pm • Service of Healing ANNOUNCEMENT Wednesday, March 14th, 7:00 p.m: Mid -Week Holy •Communion