HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-07-04, Page 44 Thuisdsy, July 4, 1
Na Need to Resign
With the art`ivalof the first of July°
the first true summer weather of the
iron `tire is .a great tendency of the
business people in, the inland communities
of Western .Ontario tc settle back and re-
eign,themselves to the summer doldrums.
Manya of them seem to think that all <the
business will move to the lake and resort
towns until August 31 and there is no
Skit in trying to do anything, more than
Allthis might have been so a few
yS rs back, . but any businessman • who
thinks that is still the case is suffering
from expensive delusions.. Indeed the
stufnmer vacation period' offers opportuni-
ties ;'for extra business which, simply do
hot exist at any other season r f the., year.
For the past few years we have travel-
kW to the south-east, corner of Georgian
Bay several times each summer tc enjoy
our favorite sport, which happens to be
bating. We' have observed carefully the
comparativeliveliness of the many towns
through which we travel -rand have some
interesting notes on the subject.
r # ' All sorts of communities, from vineries-
-
to large,, towns, which are situated much
farther from the vacation lands than
Wingharn, do a ' thriving trade with the
.tourists and vacationers who stop to shop
in these communities.
The important factor is certainly not
proximity to the water—rather it is the
attitude of the local business people and
their eagerness . 'to be of service to out -
Of -town customers `AAs an example, we
mopped on Monday morning to buy gaso-
line ,. at a service station in Alliston -- a
town which is miles and miles from the
Vacation areas. Alliston is . not a particu-
larly large town, but the man from whom
we made our purchase had no intention of
letting that factor have any bearing on his
success. •hlis premises were immaculate,
he was courteous and helpful, Perhaps he
doesn't know it yet, but he got himself
a regular customer and made a friend for
his.. community. This sort of treatment
brings. people back.
Alliston is only one of several towns'
web have found pleasant places to stop.
Oh the other hand there are several places
along the same route which we avoid like
the plague `because we have met with a
surly or careless attitude on previous
:stops,
Alt of ,this is not to accuse our local
business people of being hostile to the tra-
velling, ppublic. Most of them are friendly
folks'' wlo will bend over backwards to
please their own customers. But -a little
extra care and courtesy are needed where
visitors are concerned. They 'don't know
ourb idiosincracies and moods.They are
meeting us for the first time and if we
aren't careful, it will be , the last.
The streams of ' cars which poured
through or past the town at the week -end
were occupied in- about 94% of casesby
folks. from the cities and inland towns
who make this same trip several tames a
summer, Many of them are. cottage own-
ers on the Lake Huron shore. They have.
many opportunities to shop in Wing�ia,m
ons their way to and from the lake. u'4?
This is the season of the year for alert-
ness in business – not relaxation. Our
business people and their clerks are, in
fact, the welcoming committee for the en-
tire- community.
Time for Uniformity
Those who use Ontario highways with of speed to the type of road he is travel -
reasonable frequency 'must be as trustee- ling, It's .rat rude shock to.,be ordered to
tog! as, we are ,with the enigrha presented the shoulder of the road.by a police cruis.
by the varying speed regulations. When er and inforined by the officer that you.
the top speed. was raised to. 60 miles an have been exceeding the speed 'Unit when
hour some ,,higlways were left at the,form- you have been maintaining, a careful 60
sir 50 -mile limit. Presumably it .was ,be-, all the way along. .
cause s 50 'm.p.h. was a safe speed limit: 1‘-- The constant need to check roadside
on,roads which for one reason or anoth- . signs for speed IiMits is, in many cases •
illf were not in shal3e for higher speeds, a neediest' waste of the .careful driver's
Now, years la er, we still have 50- . attention, which should be concentrated
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where hilts have been cut down and curves those rules which are pointless and un- ,
reasonable only breed a sense of con-
tempt. No respectable citizen objects to
obeying sensible laws -- and everyone of
Widened..for traffic protection.
Yes, some of .you will argue that 50
miles ap„hour is fast enbugh for anybody.,
That is, not the point. Sixty miles an hour us is disgusted when the laws are un -
is -the prevailing 'speedlimit on the vait.-)! reasonable. It's high 'time the Depart -
majority of improved highways, and 'the - rnent of Highways Sorted out it speed limit
car driver. tends to condition his, sense jig -saw puzzle.
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Whgri To:Be .P.i•oltid? •
The enigma of the modern youth on
his. shiny, motorcycle riding aroynd with
hit gang and looking for trouble; the
'peaceful but. ludicrous hippies -- in fact
the whole picture of a multitude of young
people •seeking their v.aried outlets for
- rebellion against all that they face, is dif-
fkulf to understand.
Some of today's writers,. who claim an
unusual understanding of the hip genera-
tion have tried o explain that the kids
ere seeking •honesty and truth or some-
thing like that. We don't really believe
the writers know any more of the answers
than do the kids themselves. I
One explanation is that ti -ley rebel'
,ivairist` the• Materialism of the age in
which we live. Yet most of them are
quite addicted to the material thingi of
r their own choke, like new motor bikesror
sport cars. Others claim that the horror
of uncontrolled nuclear threats leads the
young people to scream out their rebellion
et the ,older generation's. carelessness of
human suffering. Why, then, turn to long
hair and wild clothes? Are they likely
to be very effective against atomic radi-
Again it is said that it's all a rebellion
against war. But this form of rebellion
only adds to the, social upheaval -from
which many wars have sprung.
We 'firmly believe that this generation
of youngsters is just a'S sound and reliable
as any other the world has -seen. The
big disturbance probably comes from un-
precedented economic pciWer. Seldom
have young people had soi much money
to spend; so much independence from the
hard authority of working six long days
in every week.
We should be extremely happy that our
children don't have to start slaving as
soon as they are out of school, but them
is no denying the fact that with an over-
abundance of free time on their hands
and a considerable amount of money tO
spend, these kids are getting themselves
into some pretty sticky jams.
e What happens, 'We wonder, 20 years
hence, when these reOellious ones are try-
ing to be parents to a new generation of
rebels? Will their guidelines be' so much
better than ours or will their contempt
for authority have produced a new gen-
eration of unhappy and undisciplined
kids?
Enlist Dealers to Push Gas
Fuel industry officials across Canada,
W. L back reports in The Financial Post,
have their eye on an interesting experiment
In nature! gas merketing going on in the
• sharply competitive Montreal energy
Markiit. back says Quebec Natural Gas
•
Corp, is welding local plumbing and
heating contractors and, appliance dealers
into a. unique and effective sales force.
The experiments is paying off with record
installations this year.
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ews items from Old hies
JUNE 1919"
On Friday afternoon of last -
week the fine large barn of
Robert Ashton, just west of the%
Corrie sideroad was destroyed
by fire together with all his ims.•!
ness and some calves and a,,pig.-.•
It is supposed the fire started,
from a windmill. which had be.; `:
come oVerbeated as it had been '
running for a considerable .,'"
lime, Mr. Ashton being unable'
to get it out of gear.
Mr. Arthur Newans who
•returned to town and takes his
place this week ori the Advance
staff.
Mr. Vance Sanderson, son -
son, •and Basil and Theodore ••
Mundy, sons- of -Mr. arid Md.:
H. Mundy., have 'recently xe-ri
Guelph, was solemnized "
June 25 when sbe became the
bride Of Arthur Hicks. 'also of
A pretty but quiet wedding
was, solemnized last Wednesday
afternoon when Agnes J.• Ear/,
daughtefotiMr. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Earl, •Clearview Farm, was -
united in marriage to G. Aroold
Halliday, son of Mr. and Mrs.
D. Halliday cif Howick..
A pretty wedding waS quietly
solemnized at St. Matthew'S -
Church, Hamilton, when Rev.
E. W. White united in marriage
Gladys Mildred, only daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bow-
man to Mr. Frederick A. John-
ston.of London, son of William
and the late Mrs. Johnston of
Winghatn. Mr. Johnston con-
ducted a clothes cleaning and
pressing establishment here a
feW years ago.
.IUNE 1933
Glenfteid Farms, die 'name
of Mr. and Mrs. David. Currie,'
was the scene of a happy event
on June 14 wheritheir daughter.
Ethel May. became the bride
of Earl Russell Gaunt, son of'
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gaunt of
On Wednesday, June 14, at
the home of the officiating
clergyman, Rev. Francis B. Al-
lan of Teeswater, the marriage
of Miss Annie A., daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh, MacDonald
Machan of town, son of Mr. An-
drew Machan of Monkton was
solemnized. The bride, a
graduate of Wingham General
Hospital, is well known here as
is, the groom, who is a popular
merchant of town. .
Officers Of the Salvation
Army, Adjutant E, Creenhaugh
and -Lieutenant Silver, utho
have labored amongst, us for the
past 19 months, are being trans-
ferred to take charge of the
work at Duedas.
W. E. Brawley, popular
C.P.R. station agent for the
past seven years, has been
transferted to Grand Valley.
The popularity contest for
boys and girls held at Williams
Restaurant closed Saturday
night. The winners were,
girls, first, Edna Templeman,
a dell; second, Anne VanWyck,
roller skates. Boys, first, Ron-
ald Brown, a wagon; second,
Donald Adams, ball and bat.
JUNE 0.43
The "'Wifigham High. School .
. BOard hat -engaged Miss Edna
'Steen of Enibro as a memher of
die high, school staff. She is re•
placing Miss Elsie Gordon who
has accepted a position asli.;
brarian in the London Techni-
cal SchoOl. Miss K. Wallace
rey''Boe of TOronto is taking her
place.
of Wingham announce the en-
gagement of their elder daugh- '
ter, Margaret, to- 1/Cp1..John
Cruickshank of London, spn of '
Nits. and the late Mr. James
Cruickshank of Wingham. the
marriage.to take place in July.
Sgt. stewart,Russell, son of .
own is, arteeding an officers' .
rairxing:gbh* at Three 'Rivets,
t. caffiiiiiiis are' fnsiiiufing a'
ed. And have 'selected for the
nosh boy..k Stanley Elliott,'
,ziri of,Mr. 'and Mrs. John Elliott
,bf East Wavniriosh.• Mr. Elliott
has been principal of Alexandra
pohool at St. Catharines for a
year but will retain his posi-
tion as executive principal rof , -
*die school while Attending his
!. Mr.- and Mrs. Gordon Hall of
Sluevale announce the engage -
Ment of their eldest daughter,
Marjorie Kathleen, to. Harvey
•Eart Grovq, eldest son of Mr.
Earl. Groves of Winghani, the
'wedding to. take place early in
JUNE 1954
Among those singing the old
lefrain, 'No more Pencils, no
more books.7 is Bob Ferguson,
,:erstwhile ,thentor at the local
igh .sch00.1. -Seib will be leav-
ing tOwn next month to take s •
job with the Canadian Broad-
casting Corporation where he
will be wbrking on the school
• 'Barbara gaunt, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Gaunt of
Selgrave, has passed her second
,year in Honours Englith and
French•with first dais honors' at
Western University, London.
She waS awarded theiHuron
County 'Scholarship.
There was a bit of excite- *
ment avtike Red Front corner on
Friday when someone turned in
a fire alarm, bringing tbe fire
departMent to g very small
blaze. Apparently a Holmdale
Creamery truck driven by Bill
Elliott had stopped at the cor-
ner and the driver smelled
smoke. He got out to investi-
gate and fotind the tarpaulin
had caught tire in scime way.
With the aid of Frank Cas,kan-
Atte he pulled the tarp from the
truck before any darnage was ,
done to the vehicle. The fire
truck arrived to find Frank
pouring a pail of w ater 'Otter the
srribuldering tarpaulin.'
flarOld Dennis caught 161b.
.2 Os, carp in the Maitland Riv-
er ricarthe bridge by the etc -
OW light plant LOwer Wing -
/wile It Measured' 30 inches
and fell to a WWI oil small
trout bOoko
attileie of the town, has been
appointed lifeguard. at the HOW
son MM.
Blyth and.Mary Frances Currie
of Winghain were appointed
assistant recreational directors
for the summer recreation pro-
gram at a meeting of the Rec.-
reatibn Council last week.
They will beunder the direc-
ductieg the six -weeks course.
The ,Wingharn Kinette Club
met at the home of Mrs. -John .
Gwen Brown and Ruth.Fry to
superviie the Kinsmen Wading
Willing Workers
hold meeting
IATROXETER-'- The Willing
Workers met on June 18 with
Mr's. Margarei Adatns and 'Mrs.
Ken Bennett is leaders. Mrs.
information on the church.
Mrs. Bennett conducted the
business in the absence of Mrs.
yilliam McLean, who is in
hospftal. Arrangements were
made to supply lunch at the
general meeting of the U.C. W. .
in August. Mrs. Bennett gave
an interesting reading, "The
The ladies quilted and a Pot
luck supper was served,
Betty (who has been served
with a wing of chicken):
"Mother, can't I haVe another
bit? This is nothing but
The limbs of life
This ix being written before
the national election. Ite4
there's nothing more exhilarat-
ing than going out Olt a limb.
It begins when you're VerY
little, when you eat a worm to
see if he'll really stay alive
inside you, or pick UP A 0144. to
sceOeverWedll'ewthiteht.WAtts.11 uP
Later, it might be climbing
out on a long, shaky tree limb
over a deep' pool, when you
can't swim. Or it might be
caught up in a tree, shirt
stuffed with apple!, while the
voice of Get/. Sehovan,thun-
Y4:1'14314 ytheerliettalenddr4 541101k:1re
tar out of yez and the police%
.put ye; away ter life."
. Or it Might be caught in the
'act of swiping corn and -racing
through backyards and over
fences, with the cobielfeliPing
and your heart thumpin4 and
tshkey.shotgun g_oing off into the
Or it might be, about age
•12w smoking butts with the
hoboes in the "jungle" beside
the railway tracks, and having
a drunk with a gallon of wine
come up and start terrifying
you with all sorts Of obsceni-
. ties You don't understand.
Or it might be, about 14 and
spotted like a hyena with pim-
ples, haying te ask a girl to a
party,,, -knowing that you are
the niost repulsive., awkward
booby in town. This is a rotten
limb to be out on.
It could be saying, "Don't
you say that abont my moth-
er!" to the bully of, your' age
and sailing into him, yourself
outweighed 20 pounds., but
your_fists and feet and teeth
going like a windmill. •
Or it could be a swimmingly
exhilarating moment, like the
day when I was ,in high school
and kissed my French teacher
up in an apple tree. She was a
spinster and six years older
than I, but if I recall, it was a
swooning experience and I
lihmitibk. we b:th :wound uP hang-
ing by our knees from the
' These are some of the limbs
I've been out on. LOts cf other
limbs. You've had fours; round
limbs, crooked liinbs, 'rotten
• limbs, smooth ones, brittle
limbs„sturdy ones. We have all
gone Mit on a limb.
don't kiitiw the
ence, or you Just don't care.
that matters.
Even at '20 I Was climbing
but ,on a limb, trying desper-
ately to make the grade as a
fighter pilot; sweating blood so
_that I could climb out on the
fragile wing, of fp Spitfire and
be killed. What an irony!
Those who didn't make it were
-broken-hearted. .
And then there's the limb of
Marriage. Most males will
climb out on the first limb thai
is endowed with long ,eye—
lashes or trim ankles or a, big
bust. Even though they know
it's a very green one, or a very
brittle one, ont they go..
I was lucky. The limb 1
climbed out on was firm but
green but not brittle.
And I damn soon disecreered
that when you. climbed out on
that particuler limb, you clidtd
and an iron -bound alibi.
However, whet I _started out
to say that,' 111 WO
older, we climb out on shorter
and shorter, safer and safer
limbs, until WO are left
clutching the treestrunk, even
though we're only' two feet off
the ground.
The old lirribs (or the Yeunit
limbs) creaked arid Waled
and cracked 'and dipped. They
are replaced by the limbs Of
safety and conformity- and se-
curity and enough life
And' the _Sfid Part IS that
these are Mira limbs. We Want
our children to climb out ono
the trunk and no higner PIP
two feet from the $rOUnd.
While they want to climb, en
the swinging limbs that will
sail them to the skies Or break
and let them fall.
All this, of course; is a
preamble to the fact that Pm
still willing to go out on a
limb. If somehodY will fetch a
step -ladder to help me . get
started up the tree. / Tepeat,
this is written before the na-
tional election,
There's going to be.* lend -
slide. It may be.in Quebec or
Ontario, but it's more likely to
'happen in the Rockies.
M. DIANE DAVIDSON
,pauOiter of Mrs. perift Doi*
-ford, formerly of Wingham,
pital School of Nursing,. Lon-
don. Miss Davidson received
her early education at Lis- ,
towel rand- Wingharn and
graduated from Central: Sec-
ondary School, Stratford. She
will be on staff at. Victoria
Hospital.
"Mike,, I wish 1 knew where'
I was goin' to die. I'd give a
$1,000 to knoW the place where
I'm going to die." " Well Pat,
what good would it do. if yet
"Shure I'd never go near the
place."
W.D.H.,S. Guest Editorial
Those Who Are
Led Astray
Juvenile delinquency Can be defined as
the neglect or failure of a youth in his
duty. Why do 'these young boys and
girls turn to illegal actions for refuge?
The answer could probably be summed up
in a few words — adult example, corn-
munity influence and broken or disor-
ganized homes.
• Adult example is very important in
the growing up of a child. When a par-
ent disobeys a law which he has strictly
taught his son or daughter to obey, the
child becomes confused and does not
know what the right way is. He will fol-
low his parent's fault.
if a person is brought up in a good
community he will likely turn out to be
a good citizen. In just the opposite case
chances are he would be greaty influen-
ced. In a large Canadian city where the
family life was disorganized and there was
not much social control there were thirty-
seven percent of the children juvenile
delinquents from the egos ten to sixteen.
They were brought before the courts in
one six-month period. In just the opposite
case the juvenile delinquency rate. was
quite' low. At a conference. it was stated -
that although the delinquency rates were
slightly higher among the poor, economic
factors were •not primarily responsible.
It was clearly indicated that the type of
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community in which the family lives is
the significant factor.
Personally, I think the home life is the
key factor in the whole subjea. When
parents are separated or clivorced the child
loses 'faith in his parents and seeks help
from a different source which could be
bad. Women have now started working
outside the home more so that they. mu
care for their children 'and work too.
Some can do this quite efficiently but
others simply cannot. The children be-
come neglected and this leads to worse
things such as delinquency.
What can be done to help these young
people? A good way to start would be
to sit down and explain why the things
he or she is doing are wrong; Another
way is to get rid of slums. and destroy
disintegrated communities and build gOod
homes. For recreation decent pieces shOuld
be built.
The only way an individual Is made
better is by acquiring new behaviout pat-
terns and by substituting new incentives
for old incentives which made him go
wrong. It is important that society be
willing to listen to the voice of the youth;
that they he included in thti affairs of the
city in some way. Youths are sometimes
wr3ng hut are quite often right.