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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-10-31, Page 40 rtit Ost. Objections Are Useful When the towns official plan was pre - seated to a pti4lic meeting recently it met with some objections, chiefly by those Who feared the designation of certain Areas of the community for business put-- P(40S where residences now stand - Far from being stumbling blocks to progress, these citizens were acting in the best ,interests of the community. Certain- ly they were concerned about the future of their town., which is more than can be said for the vast majority of townsfolk who failed to even show up at the meet- ing. The basic purpose of a town -plan is to develop a program of orderly growth which will provide the most convenient and suitable sort of town in future years. In other words; the results of such • plan- ning are for'thewell-being of the people who will Vise here—not for the satisfac- tion of the government of some future day. Sometimes We feel less than optimistic about the future of our community. So few people seem to have any real interest in civic affairs that we wonder what will become of the place_ It is difficult in the. extreme to find enough citizens to fill the variou* boards and committees which are responsible for dealing with public affairs. In fact it has become a real problem to fill out a town council. Unless we can become a little bit more aroused about our own future the swing to centralized government will be acceler- ated and in a few short years all our local problems will fall into the hands of a county board or a district council. We have often heard the outcry about loss s 9f local autonomy, but it never becomes any simpler to get the necessary recruits for the maintenance of our civic bodies. Two important' nomination meetings will be held shortly. The first one, bn November 18, will ,select candidates for the Wingham-East Wawanosh seat on the county school board. At the end of the month nominations will be received for mayor, reeves, councillors and public utili- ties commissioners. In both these in- stances it is tremendously important that the citizens of the community turn out in large numbers to express their wishes about public representation for the next two years, Both Are Confused Ask the average parent what he or she thinks about student riots and sit-ins at highschools " and universities across the country and you will get a rather con- fused response. Few in the middle gen- eration an really understand what is bug- ging the kids—and the youngsters have so far ,made little attempt to enlighten their elders. " Certainly most of the parents feel pretty• badly disappointed that their children have utterly failed to appreciate .the fatj that more—much, much more— has been provided for this generation of students than their parents would ever have dreamed of asking. New- schools and universities have been springing up all over the country. Student loans and scholarships have made higher education possible for untold thousands of compara- tively poor young people who wOuldn't have had any- chance as receritly'ai tilenty Years ago - It would be foolish, however, for par- ents to reach the conclusion that the students are crazy and let it go at that: Their demands, or a least some, of them, areguideposts to the future, signs which we older people should examine with great I concern. - One a the big beefs is the continued use of examinations as a means of testing scholar% knowledge. Many students be- lieve this to be an outmoded and ineffi- ' tient method of establishing -standards, because some scholars are much better equipped to express themselves on paper than are others. One contention is that a prospective employer should set the exalminations, in whatever form he choses, to determine whether the university gradu- ate possesses the required knowledge for the position which' is open. Another problem is the method of teaching—lecture type classroom. instruc- tion, which permits little or no partiapa- Non on the part of the student. Of course student freedom to live, love, drink and/or take drugs was one of the first and more stridently -demanded rights. Such demands were backed by the reasonably logical argornent that at university age students are ibld enough to make their own de- cisions and to accept the consequences of their own actions. Despite the irritation created by a headstrong generation of youngster t who' won't 'be pushed, we would do well to forget o r annoyance and to filter the troth •- of all ithe -Commotion.' We are livi rough one a the most disturbing area since the creation a the world. The . rate of change has so accelerated that the young 'people who, will spend 30 or 40 years longer on this planet than we will, have some right to re -shape the methods employed to equip them for this leap into new ways. The one wholly regrettable sahese 01 student unrest is that the bright young folks who are fast and loud talkers have seized the initiative and are using their new-found power merely for the sake of demonstrating how destructive they can be. The statements of many student lead- ers, across Canada reflect a great deal a arrogance about student power and very little real concern for intelligent change in the Pattern of schools and teaching. Refreshing Message - Newspaper editors gathered in conven- tion at Toronto. a few years ago,. were ad- vised to adopt a critical attitude toward ministers of the Gospel. No less a person- age than Eh% AL C. Forrest, editor of the United Church Observer, told a 'group 'of weekly newspapermen that the Christian ministry needs the critical@ observation of an alert press if it is to succeed in its mission. Or. Forrest, being both Minister and editor, spoke with considerable authority, but it has always been or opinion that he didn't know much about life in a small community. We can well imagine how tong we wiSuld survive if we started tear- ingholes in the role of the local clergy- men. Thus we have refrained from the criticism suggestmi by the good doctor, but !perhaps we can escape with a whole skin if we venture a commendation A couple of weeks ago we heard the first seiraton deivered in the Wingitarn United Church by its new minister, Ree. Barrie Passritore, and some of his words have stuck in our memory. Their good sense Es what makes the rn memorable. Briefly, what Mr. Passmore said was that he felt his mission in Wingham is to proclaim the love of God rather than fear of the Almighty. What a refreshing viewpoint! Time after time wehave listened to the condemnation of sin poured from the pulpits a every denomination into the at- tentive ears of the very people who, by their presence in the church, have already indicated that they are anxious not to transgress. The real big, bad sinners, of course, don't hie themselves out to church on Sunday mornings to hear about their shortcomings. The New Testament doesn't devote muctra space to the consequences of sin. The underlying thenne of the whole mes- sage is the patfence of a Creator .whis will put up with a tot of nonsense and yet continue to love his creatures.. The re- peated references to the fatherhood of God and to mankind as his children is certain- ly meant to explain, in human terms, that Love is the basis of the retationship—not revenge for infringements of His rules. „ THE WINGHAPA ADVANCE - mas Published at Ittingissia.. Ontario, by Wows Brom Limited . bury Wenger. President - ftohert a Went?, itseratary-Talsweiritr Mealier &lift Beltleala et arsalatiss Member Caaadtan Weekly Ifewiesteees Asioeirakin. Aathatioird by the Poet Mee Dieattaiwag siii Soosisd Cases Mail Wad for eaymost toe pietas* la ea* amesesintioe MAW WO; II months. in *dream URA, MS per yr.; trereign rate. MO Aablettishog as ea alasilmittais Living Mu eu As man and his civilzation grow and prosper with no* mechanical inventionS, he is constantly taking over land whkh has been a sanciroary for countless num- ber of birds ad animals for thousands of years. These actions greatly endanger the existence of many species of wildlife. In opening up the country and estab- lishing farms, factories, homes and high- ways, it was necessary to destroy original nature and to replace it by man-made con- ditions. Much of civilization consists of substitution a artificial for natural con- ditions. However, the preservation' a some remnants of wild nature is necessary for a number of reasons. Samples of original nature are necessary for' research. The study of nature has great educational value and is a living museum for wild- life. Also, nature preservation is neces- sary for recreation. In some areas, great varieties of .eni- 0101011.000011410111101.01000110012310010M0011Mill By nen nulls are threatened by man with extinc- , tion. One such area „is the Everglades National Park in Florida. There, because of the need for water in irrigation, water -114 diverted tiod the marshes are up, With this drying u%t. of the kae home of the heron, stork, alli- gator and panther is disappearing. Although there are still vast areas in Canada, especially in the far North, where natural conditions are prevalent, theyare too far 'from .population osntreS to be readily accessible for recreation, research or4ducatiors. Therefore, the government must set aside reserves and parkland in the more southern parts of Canada. For- ests are being destroyed at such an in- creasingly rapid rate right here in Ontario, that wildlife of any kind willsoon be non-existent unless positive action is taken now. News from the Old Files OCTOBER 1919 Rueben tdorgan'who has recently returned from overseas is acting as relieving teller in the Bank of Hamilton. Mr. , Morgan is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Morgan of town. The many Wirigham friends of Capt. E. S. Copeland will be pleased to see, that he has had a nice ieoguirice from his class of one hundred and fifty returned men. at the Univer- sity in Toronto which he is at- tending. He having been un- animously elected president out of that number. The object of the arganiz* ation being to ar- range 'for Literary evenings. social fn �s, and.athletic Friends and neighbors. to the number of 75, assembled at the home of W. H. and Mrs,. Ferguson Monday niglu of It week to do them hcaor previous to their. departure so Toronto„ RiChard Procter. , took the; chair and called the gathering to order and with the host and hostess seated at his riga, pro- ceeded with his remarks which were brief and well diceen. He expressed the since.re regret and loss to the community and the loss to S. S. No. 5 through Mr. Fezguscit's removal. In the 28 years of his residence he had never been absent from an an- nual school meeting and his name each rat went en the an- nual report either as secretary of the meeting cc A.udjtor. A number of neighbours ga- thered at Murray Wilson's home on the Ilth con. of Tumberry on Friday evening, Oct. 24th. The occasion was to welcome home a few of the boys, who have recently retrened from Flanders, and to in sdnie small manner at least show them i' attheir services were appreciated by e folks at home. ' Mr. Alex Red's many friends will be glad to team si at he has decided to remain a resident of Wingham, he having accepted the agency for the Cockshutt Farm Implements. OCTOBER 1933 • On Sunday afternoon Ralph Saint was riding his bicycle down the hill on LecpoldSrreet toward John St.. when he fell off and ta ke his left c.11ar bcce. Three ocal gunmen had a very successful afternoospf shoortng on Saturday afarnoon. Scotty Rem, H. Sherbonely and Best Porter rEncrered up near Locharsh and were successful in bagging 9, jack rabbW. Cc* Firiday evening last an eniayable time was spent at ths: home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCortnfck, Calms Township. when the Frienchhip anb hetd a masquerade dance. The pritis were Dirlal by Mrs. Gib Marshall and Miss Nettie Case- , =ore, who were dresed as a darky couple, and Mrs. Jack Barctuill and Mr. Gib Marshatl dressed as an aged cacole. Pork s las-sage K#ni.;g2culle-, ReaSS Pak t2 E; Rolled cf Beef 14# E; Shoutder Roast of Beef 1.01# to ties. Reid & Cc. se. cults me.Kettin fsr Tottnto on Sunday where he has r.ecured a petition with the trelted Mug Co, OCWBER 1943 In commotion with the Vic- tory Loan campaign a province - wide quiz contest is being held. The winners locally were: Jim Hall for grades 7, 8. 9; Mary Crawford for grades 4. 5. 8; H'elen Machan for grades 1. 2. 3. Eadi of these students will receive a prize of $1. 00 in War Savings Stamps from the Huron County Council. At the morning service at Wingham United Church on Sunday five infants were bap- tized by the miniiter. Rev. W. A. Beecroft. They were:James wiliiarii Mug, sco of Mr. and Mrs. Percy King; Eleanor Dor- een Goy, &signer of Mr. and Mrs. Rennie Goy; Douglas Fred- erick Davidson, sal of Mr. and. Mrs. Gordon Davidson; .Betty Wins' e Vint, daughter of Mr. and Mrs., Arnold_ Tints. kettli Earlby Wapale, ;011 IZei W. and 1.Mn- James walPoles- Miss' Ruth Hamilton has ac- cepted the position as Junior Supervisor a the Mother Craft Hospital, Toronto. Anniversary services will be , held in Wingham United Church on Sunday next, October 3Ist. The gest speaker will -be the Rev. Sidney Davison of Leam- ington, a former pastor of the church. it was eleven years since Mr. Davison was thinister here. • OCTOBER 1954 About 50 volunteer's from the Liam. Kinsmen and Legion ce- ganizations in town braved the elements on Friday night to col- lect -a total of $1.104. 85 for the °Mad° Hunicane.Relief Fund. Details of the canvass were looked after by Frank Madill. Jack Gorbutt, and Jack Walker. Jack Waller was in charge of organizing the canvass and Floyd Blakely acted as secre- tary. Judge T. M. Costello, 74. of Goderich, and County Judge for Huron, died enroute to the b.espital on Filday, ,following a car -truck crash near Bothwell at the Junction of highways 2 and 79. The Huron -Bruin Progressive Conservative 4W--":arion held a meeting last Tuesday in the council chambers to choose an executive fat the forthcoming elections. which are expected next spring. Hasorary presi- dent J. W. Hanna, M. P. P. ; president, Knowlson Huestan, Genie; 1st. vice-president. Lloyd Jasper. Mildmay; 2nd. vice-president, David Carruth- ers, Kinloss; Sectetary, J. 11. Crawford., Wingham. Presets at the anniversary �1ebratiiis of the Wingiam bran of the Women's Insti- tute held last Wednesday in town hall were Mrs. D. S. cNaughton, Wroxeter, board director. F. W.I. O.; Mts., J. F. Unidater, of Kincardine, a charter member Of the Institute; Mk. .Vr; T. Mitaughlin. pres- Ideal:and Mts. butrult Phillips. Dungamson, district president. Weeldy euchre • BELGRAVE"--The weekly, euchre was held in Belgrave Community rooms with ten ta- bles in play. The winners were: hrei lady. mi. James Cadres; novelty lady, Mrs. Clarence Jolmscn; low lady. Mrs. Well - wood; high man, Mts. Olive Walker (playing as, a rkrrelty man, John Adams; low man, Mrs. Jean Moore (playing as a man). Hi -C meeting BELGRAVE--The Belgrare and Calvin -Brick Hi -C held their meeting on Sunday even- ing in die basement a the United Church with, twenty pres- ent. Murray Gaunt, M.P.P.. was guest spealer. Audrey Cashes had dsarge of the warship service and hmch was served by Mary Gushy and Mae fakti Taylor. SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill th, 1 wrote of my - air *tit SoP- mod to hit the spot, ran *Oil doubled, from two to feet ktters. I, even re- etivett detimetion of love from a WY who shall he SIM - IOW Bet October is another mat- ter. I think we Canadians love. it in a differentway, this most glorious mOtith of the year. It's the month when we wake ors come alive, feel the blood toursins through Our harden int arteries. It's * skittering experience for $1111144kale trait another emustry 'to visit Csauldi la 'Oct- ober. They are ised to a chiusge ia the Ira Their leaves tern pallid litmus said yellows. But wisest they see; a vista of woods and water on a 'golden Cana. dials October day, they are lit- enlly strickea tomato& We *pc "Pretty ain't it?" An Irishman might,say in awe, •• "Dear God, Himself has dumped a rainbow, all but the blue, into your woods., And the blue He has flung, entirely, into your water." But the vast, mad artist's palette, thrown acrossthe country, is only part of the October scene and mood. There's a quickening of the spirit that infects everyone. Fall fairs, those stubborn rel. ics of a pioneer day, add their special flavor. Parades • and pumpkin pies, hot dogs and horse races, and the warm, yel- low wine Of a Canadian Octo- ber day, are unforgettable. Hunters go into their special trance in this month. They crouch in duck blinds, they crawl through fences, they curse their misses. (And some times their missuses, who 'can't see the point of it all.) Golfers go goofy in October, desperately trying to get in the last few rounds, losing balls by the dozen among the fallen leaves, and praying for one more good weekend. Sailing enthusiasts snatch every chance to get out in that perfect weather the month so often provides: "nice breeze, warm sun, water so blue it makes your heart leap. And so cold it makes your hands ache. October is ecstasy for the sport fan. World Series, pre hockey, and football, at , its height. He can sit4titring at the machMe until he nears sen- ility and to be spoon-fed, Great month for the student. He has got through that mud- dle of September, and can now settle down to the serious busi- ness of falling in love, falling behind in his work, and falling into deep water, in that order. And then, there's the burn- ing of the leaves, a ,ritual which shouldbe on the Cana- dian coat of antis, There's a tremendous .satisfaction in scooping up a bushel basket of dry leaves, piling them on the Uwe on a dusky October eve, and seeing the orange and yel- low flames spear skyward, searing the telephone wires. Everyyear, I feel a pang of pity for the apartmentdweller, with no leaves to burn. He's like a. kid who never gets a firecracker of his own to set off on the 24th of May. And when does the city- ' dweller ever get the sheer, hu- rl:Ma satisfaction of seeing a Sprightly north-westbreeze pick all the leaves off his lawn and deposit them accur- 'ately on the lawn of • , *gh. bor, who hates leaves - - s - p a t"/A-4 4 • _ Pi' s. i*e barporiol Oil Call. 'The first furrow—the western homesteader breaking ground, reaching' the virgin prairie be. the end of the railway line by a canvas,covered wagon or °prairie - schooner" whit- h he slept in if the weather was bad or the ground swampy. At otter times. he slept in ri tent. His first chore on reaching Ms kr cation was to bresk smooth goo* to plant crop trits tahlhhed his ownershiplfr set up a pole at the edge of Iiis 41,4 Crala, L I plot. tied a cloth to it. directed ,his plow to it, and drove a par- allel furrow beside the fast one. back to the startin' g point. Not until his plowine and seeding was finished did he begin to built a permanent shelter. The prairie pioneer in sense ways had att easier life then Use first settlers in *Wine alit- ada. Ift did not hart to carve his fares out of Virgin forest, er carry his gain to the mill on hit Ilia /Weir rugged, winding " trails. Efe could haul it to the nearest elevator by wagon amass open land. But his home was often Many miles from his nearest neighbors. The !omell. nem was bad in sumer and almost unendurable in winter: some of the early settlers tare up and pulled out But tiy immigration to Canada had swelled to nearly one third of a per year, and most ot them re settling on the prairies. • ways tryEa raked? the Th. set lit& fruits lcaptaishat, 01* *NON sit that go reams so **tidy, are gime. Asa ye* *the thriogis the orchard eintigry, trees dreeplat with red, east you pick isp * hushel of .opiee, • and you kite, tusil the Woe spurts right over your shoal - der. Food for the gools. Prow* e4 the teeth are *et rids*. And there's just enough sad- ness, as October nears its end, and days shorten, and tre40 bare, and gloomy November puts his .elanuny nose ' over your shoulder, to heighten alt the joys of this roost remark able month, and make it Oros - thing that is distinetly Cana- dian and distinctly you. his lawn 92nd birth day BELGRAVE- -Miss Rebecca Hill of Huronview, celebrated her 92nd birthday on Sunday at the home 'of*. and Mrs. Hugh Ittnn and .101111, Oth- er visitors were Mrs. Elvey Rack. Joanne and Jeniffer of Monkton, Mr. and Ma. Keith Rock andlanette, Mrs. 143lie -Hudie and Harold of Walton. Pedestrian protection program Too often an accident report includes a sentenceto the. effect:, 'The dtiVerwis blinded by the lights of an oncoming car, and did not see the chit- dren untait was too late." In Ontario each year some 400 pedestrians are killed, and '7,000 injured. About half of all the pedestrian death's occur at night, even though there are comparatively few people afoot after dark. After study of p,e, t,lestrian protection programmes in o ationcie ojher countries, the 'Llsig,rttlicided to concentr e on a programme to increase t; the nighttirnevisibility of pe- destrians. special efforts will be made to apply this protec- tion to children, and elderly people. The method toed is to per- suade pedestrians to carry the Ontario Safety League "Reftec- lo-Tag" specially deVeloped for this campaign. By means of a string and a safety phi The tag is fastened inside a pocket � purse. During the day it re- mains out of sight. After dark it is pulled outtaild allowed to dangle as the wearer w alks along. It incteases his or her visibility, alniost magically. , The tag is coated with a re- markable material, It has the property of being "retrosres ' flective". That meaiis that, whichever way the tag is facing, it reflects light straight back, in a narrow cone?. to the source of light. ' Thus, a driver, sitting be- hind his headlights,sees abril- liant sparkle of light from a Reflecto-Tag, hundreds of feet beyond the point where the pe- destrian ceases to be visible. But the tag is not particularly noticeable to another pedestrian unless his eye happens to be in the strai t line between the tag and some source of light. To addeve this extraordin- ary retro -reflective effect, the tag is coated with literally thousands of perfectly spheric -al glass beads much too small to be seen individually without a microscope. , COMMUNITY ACTION The League appeah tocom- munity- minded groups to sup- port this pedestrian protection programme by distributin senior citizens. as a public isleer:itce.o-Tag: to children andAsr . Wide scale use of thetags Would undoubtedly save lives. The value of the programme has been proved in sever al European countries. For ex- ample, In Sweden, two years after the programme was adopts ed pedestrian deaths decreased 26.2 per cent, pedestrian in- juries decreased 21 per cent. Sakty councils, service clubs, chambers of commerce, parents groups, industtles; elected officials and itther coin - Inanity groups are invited to stipport this campaign. Putt r ulars will he supplied by The Ontario safety League. 208 King Street West, Torronto,„ 4