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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-12-19, Page 9a4 s it t How Do T1 One enigma which has always puzzled us is the method by which the provincial government decides on' the priorities of its various departments. In some areas of public, service there appears to, be no end to the funds available, while in others every penny has t`be begged on bended knee. This .,situation was brought .,to mind during the past week. Attending the of- ficialopening of the high school we found ourselves agape at the vastness of the ex- penditure which has been made for' the education of our young people. Though we begrudge them no whit of what has been provided, we continue, to be amazed, at the beautiful buildings and the hun- dreds of thousands of .dollars' worth of equipment of the very latest design:. made available for instructional purposes. On Friday evening we attended the hos- pital board meeting and among the letters 'read was one from the Ontario Hospital Services. Commission, which operates dir e ctly at the behest of the Ontario Depart-, ment of Health. The communication pass- ed on the information to the directors and the administrator that an overall cut in • expenditures would have to be effected-- regar'dless of the hospital's budget plans. The letter explained.. that money is a scarce commodity as far as the provincial authorities are concerned and that hos- pitals will simply. have to get along with less. There was no mention of how much. less ----just a flat warning that they can ley Decide expect 0 sharp reduction in funds avail. �� Item in any cost of wages and wry ` effort will d wages to theirwithless .hilp►., means of saving y �threaterted by department. The two weeks ago new code for ndla-half be paid me. Since work r• staff, just. because. pens to be Do- minion the local reared wage bili rri- , the public how of all other de, non-existent. I,n the the sort of situ-_ predicting for years.pay your bills able, Since the largest single hospital's budget is then salaries, it follows that, . have to be. made to hot .Present level or get *long However, that particular money has been seriously another government depar partment of Labour only announced its wonderful workers which, a'rnong other things dei mends. by. law that thn a for those who work overtime. on statutory holidays is considered over- time, and since. sick pati.eats cannot, get along withct a hospital- st one day in the" week hap minion Day or ' Good Pr hospital could face an inc of some $10,000 annually in order to com- ply with the provincial labor legislation. No department of .government has yet been set up to. explain to to meet the. requirements partments at the 'same time, It is obvious that liaison between de- partments is almost meantime; however, government insists on intruding itself further and deeper into the lives of the citizens. It is atior we have been When . you ask someone to for you they' will eventually take over the management of your: business. The Age of Reason This is supposed to be an age of en- lightenment. Human beings are possessed of double the knowledge they had even 20 years ago. Freedom of the mind is our demand and our boast. Sometimes we wonder how much we are accomplishing with . all this freedom to think for - our-, selves. There are two fine examples of . the heights of human reasoning right at the present time. Air Canada and its airline personnel believed they had reached. agreement last week on a wage dispute which would have closed down or seriously curtailed air travel over the Christmas season. Sudden- ly the agreement was off—the public was again threatened with all the inconven- ience of a national transportation strike. Why?' Because management had not under stood that the personnel were to be paid for workwhile they were at their lunch' break. Again, in Paris, after weeks and months of patient effort, the South ,Vietnamese had finally come -to the peace table to talk out their differences with the North Viet- namese. it iboked promising. There ap- peared 'to °'be the possilailityof a break in the dark clouds of war. What brought the whole thing to a standstill? The shape of the table, at which the talks would be held. Some wanted it round; tome square. Others thought .there should be twotables while the rest be- lieved a rectangular table would be more suitable. The shape of a table -while young men withall the promise of life before them suffered and died in the bogs and rice fields of Southeast Asia. Perhaps the`sufn total of ht(man know- ledge has doubled in 20 years but there —.. has been no improvement in man's ability to use common sense. beaching Makes the Difference , The Seaforth Huron Expositor com- ments that county wide school boards, which bring with them increasing cots of education administration and perhaps a more impersonal approach to the prob- lems of the individual student are not the entire answer to the problems facing edu- cation today. What ins needed, according to an auth- ority, is greater attention to the capacity which individual teachers have for teach- ing. Lloyd Dennis, co-chairman of an Ontario government corrmittee on . the aims and objectives of education which delivered its report earlier this summer,' said a class of 80 students with a good - teacher is more fortunate than two, classes of 40 taught by incompetents. Mr. Dennis was speaking to a group of school trustees 'and administrators as part of a nine-month tour promoting the report issued by the committee he ,co- chaired with Mr. Justice Emmett Hall. The report recommends abolition of .formal subjects, grades, homework, exam- inations and marks. Pointing out that while education has solved the problem of preparing students for specific jobs, Mr. Dennie said it .has not found a way ,tb condition individuals to face the demands of modern society. Perhaps the deformalization of educa- tion is one of the answers. Certainly there is no doubt of the importance of the teacher and of the responsibility which the department of education has in weed- ing out the incompetents. Serving The Smaller Man One agency of the Federal government which appears to be successful in assist- ing the lower levels of business enterprise s the Industrial Development Bank. In is 1968 fiscal year the Bank approved 2, - loans for as total amount of $120.2 illion to businesses in Canada. In its 4 -year history TDB's loans have totalled early $1,100 million to businesses in al- ost every type of activity. The bank, president, Louis Rasminsky, inted out in his annual report that 46% f the loans in 1968 were for amounts of GUEST EDITORIAL an or Beast? '$25,000 or less and over 9) % were for $100,00 or less. The average size of loan was $48,000. He said the relatively small average size of loan and the large propor- tion of loans under $100,000 reflects the needs of small business for term .financing and the special attention give _by IDB to propose small and ediuri sized enterprises throug ut ountry. At the close of its 1968 fiscal year IDB had loans outstanding or in the course of disbursement in the amount of $426.1 mil- lion to over 9,500 business enterprises. By Brenda Harrison, Howick Contrat chool Soft, cuddly, furry, bodies with those , brown, baby, eyes and they look at ul1 You with club in hand, and knife side, ready to attempt to crush his skull skin him while he is still alive. Your Ife plunges into him. His body jerks h a spasm of kpain. Then you leave his ains to rot and decay away. This inhuman killing of the baby seals has to stop if at all possible. If not we must enforce laws that insist on human killing of baby seals. Think, which one of you would rather see, a person buying klseal-skin coat and .expensive muk-luks or a soft, warm, cuddly, furry, baby seal with big, brown eyes sunbathing itself on an ice -berg in the St. Lawrence. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Sant, Limited W. starry Wenger, President Robert O. %wi er, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of CireUletloa Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Authorised by the Port Office Department ea Beoond Claw Man and for payment of Postage in oath Subscription Rate: 1 yelstr $5;90; a months, $2.70 in advance; TSA, $7.04 per yr.; loorell rata, ' `.OD ger yr. Advertising Rates en •006etlln Pic. gyres from The err Mr 4.11Cie Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Dec. 19, 1968. SECOND SECTION dub you . can loin a irkt n billkilng -. You? Do you emvoefc with sheer, bilrerning love of ieur fellow man as youdo your. shop;? Are your eyes saesming with glee es you look at your Christmas card list, What? It isn't? You don't? Metre act? with you,wt's the mat- ter anyway?? Have e row dear -to -door tool slaging group for C#uristam, Eve? Rave yen: > ter a funk' of eight, est Welfare, tet share year Christmas dinner? You haven't? You say you. grunt and bunt ane: sweat and CUM. u You. stagger through the stores? Your eye are Thin- fling with pure hatred :ea you list? over . your Chistmas card • Welcome to the group.We're growing with increasinrapid - ty- One of these years, we'll .hive a iaiority, and Will rite up with one qty shout: "Christmas? Bah! Humbug!'' And if the current., that creature one sees these daysOn television, shakes back a his long, curly locks, opens his made-up mouth and starts war- bling, "God .blessus, every- one," he'll probably,get it right between the eyes with one of those east -iron Christmas, tree standsthat never work. But we mustn't carp. The great day will arve. when Christmas is torn out of the grasp of the hucksters and .re- ' turned to the people. After all, Christmas .is a time of • good cheer. Even though much of it comes out of: a crock. And . after all, 'tis ;'a season to be jolly And most of us ' are . Jolly .well sick of the whole business by the time the sacred day .itself' arrives. One of the foundingmem- bers of ACSA, the Anti -Christ- mas-Spirit-A .ssociatjon, - w as King Wenceslaus, 'The "good" was tacked :on by . the court minstrel ;on the explicit'orders of. Wenceslaus himself, who was tryingto improve his. ism- age for the history books. He looked out one night and shuddered within his ermine robes. The snow lay round about, deep 'and . _crisp and even. A great night for skiers and snow -mobile friends. But Wenceslaus was neither; and. he had the gout. He saw i a poor rnan.gaihering fuel, though the frost Was cruel: And,what he actually said was, "Get that lousy bum off my property. He's stealing Christmas trees." au_aleitend, Wit bent, prominent of SA Wes bless Nelms. flikena reellY hated Cltriati- ice, because he_ always had a !notched. . troe.up.,And wj wife invariably said "It's crooked dear. it's over." • - • �So he vete a saes I dy of the whole stare • Chris mush. 11. east Ids. self ' as Sebe, a Jolly orld gent, but one who didn't bet»- lieve in Sonata Clercs„ Bob Cratchit, • age's ss ti -liter- ate clerk, was :stem free the petty.,cash so that ;could get bombed on 'Chi. Zvi and X0. and 'rt'ateh his40112. "MAY Tim,, the one with the limp, ploy hit ukelele and Aug for pennies at the `Slap And Tickle, a sordid Louden pub.• • In the original version, kind- ly old Mrs Sc s get it, Bob,,. gave him as .Chris gam, and added,, real that he was. "brut the fuzee be around for your on Boxing 'Dap." Il ckenle, edittsr,:however, a . graming„ :flint -hearted skinflint„ knew :his 'rettosiiis readers would never atm such:realism He made the see ,thor re -write the story i� the sloppily sentlmeutah "A .peas, Carol, which. bas; anir { ated all ACSA' members treat that day' to thiol : Dickens got, hit l evenge.4 Re, re -wrote' thew chuacter e . Scrooge as a caricature .0f hie editor. Then he hit the pouch-; bowl, the. editor:and the .read.• He as bitter.Hes disappe ,d after New Year's. They • found him dragging a Yule: log,: soaked ;hi kerosene, aceto. the basement . of his ' publishers', Platt Just .a • couple of. examples out of thousands .to :show. YOU ' that you .are net alone. tom ACSA: No aaemberabip,•fee, , no• annual` meeetk g. ;Nothing .re.; quired except aR restninding "HUMBUG!» when° :the tsigaaal goes out. ■ ■V` • • ■�./si 1 i !l 1 . T V X1.1 �' Miss Cora Gannett received a newspaper clipping froM her sister in Vancouver, a feature story on "The pioneering Well - woods". The late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wellwood and their fam- ily were .pictured in a photo-' graph taken many years.. ago, Mr. Wellwood was a native of Wingham and his wife came from Brussels. The article, written by .Vida Wellwood, .fo ,- lows:. . "When Elia Sophrona Mories promised to love, honor and obey Robert Goodson Wellwood, January 6, 1875, in Brussels, Ontario, she declared herself to 'Go West' with her man. "A daughter, ' Laura Mary, was born November 24, 1876, at Nanaimo, B, C. , where the young couple had . temporarily` settled. Pioneering was diffi- cult, for mothers and wee bab- ies, and little Laura Mary died the following March. Three sons, Georg_ a Addison, born September 21, 1879, at Bur-, rard Inlet; Wilmot Bryant, Ap- ril 11, pril11, 1883, in Wingham, On- tario, and Roy Mories, June 23, 1891, at Neill{ Westminster, B.C.. are still B. C. residents, with. George living in Vancouver, the latter two.loyal Victorians. "Robert Wellwood was the second lighthouse keeper at Point Atkinson in 1879 when his first son, George Addison, was born. ` The first keeper, Edwin Woodward, had moved east in 1876 and Robert and Sophrona had taken over the lonely life at the light. One of then had to stay at the light at all times, and as there was no road and no power boats it was a case of row with the tide, the return trip to Gastown taking a good eight hours. "The nursing home where George was born was a log house near where the harbor board office sits now. Gastown was destroyed in the great fire of 1886, Vancouver was incor- porated in April, 1896, but George has the distinction of being the oldest living white person born in Gastown. "Sophrona and baby George ,returned to the light on . board �e Etta White., a steam tug. The tug burned slabs of wood from the mill to where she tow- ed logs. While at Point Atkin- n, Robert had a cow, and ':: hen he brought her . to be milk- ed, deer would. come along and ant to stay. He had a vege- t ale garden, and had to build high fence to keep them out. The lamps in the light were of it set in'reflectors, and re - o lved, operated by, ' a chain with a weight on it like a grand- father clock. You wound it op e a clock, too, only with a ank, not a key. "When George was nine . months. old Robert and Sophro- n went to.the Naas River to - x up and manage a cannery. e Indians could speak no English, and the Wellwoods no. Chinook, but they went about • 80 miles' inland up the Naas 'where the nearest neighbors were all Indians. George was the only white baby in that part ofthe north. • "The Indians would come and get him and keep him til he howled for lunch. So- p - rona would feed him and put m to sleep, but his friends were back for him as soon as th T e: Atkin - !on, e w a vo like cr Sophro- na fx Th un hi e his rest was up. He was the "belate white papoose. " He came home smelling of wood smoke, but otherwise all right. "The couple returned, to Wingham, Ontario where in 1883 the second son, Wilmot, was born. Wilmot and his wife, Nellie, live inretirement on Cochrane Street in Victoria. He says the family moved back to New Westminster where his younger brother, Roy, was born in 1891, then to Nanaimo where four years were spent at the In- dian mission, partly under su- pervision of the Methodist • - Church and partly the Depart- ment of Indian Affairs. Their next' move was to Victoria where' they finished out their days. 'Wilmot attended Normal School in Vancouver and taught in the interior at Coldstream ' and on Vancouver Islandlat N in. oldstream, before he began 08. The June, 1966, Inter- 19 hen Victoria's Empress Hotel as the newest place to dine; d a favorite week -end ren- an orge Dark. " In the gas depart - eat Wilmot sat on a high stool d a sloping desk laboriously eking out bills by hand; add - d sometimes ended kis days oaks were unheard of, .the e; with only a few feminine cretazies in their high button "Wilmot retired in 1948. He all$, visiting Point Atkinson lighthouse in the ompany of c . "Young Roy ,started school in Nanaimo, then on to Boys Cen,-• tral School in Victoria, - and old Victoria High School. He at- tended Tri-State College of En- gineering, Angola, Indiana. "He says: ' During the time the;family lived in Nanaimo, the second time round when I was present, they were connect- ed with the old Wallace Street Methodist Church. Roy worked for a time in the power depart- ment of the B. C. Electric in Victoria, and worked at the old Tod Inlet- cement plant were Butchart Gardens are now. I "Roy says: I was five years in the electric power depart- ment of the Granby Mine and Smelter at Anyox, B.C. ; two years at Britannia Beach, and 18 years at Trail, partly with West Kootenay Power and Light,' and partly self-employed. I returned to Victoria in 1942 and was employed in the elec- trical department at Yarrows until retirement in 1956. Roy lives in beautiful View Royal. "To return to the oldest living white person born in Gastown: George began his career with the CPR in 1899 his 40 years of service with the B.C. Electric in Victoria in cstates these were the days 9� w w an devous was the Japanese Tea . Garden lin the B. C. Electric's m an m. ressing thPteIlv�elopeS, too, by delivering them. Coffee b business scene mostly maseu- lin se shoes. rec his Moiler and brother George 1889. " S.S. Guest, Editorial The Finest Tribute to Dr. King By AA de Vos The most fitting tribute being paid dur- ing the national riots and mourning for Dr. Martin • Luther King was given by the "Small informal groups" in more than a dozen U.S. cities who have been forrning together to try to establishpeace in the Country. But these small.' groups must become large groups and their ideas transformed into reality if the U. S. Is to emerge from its present disaster a better and healthier nation. For example, in Chicago, on the Negro side, rival street gangs arranged a truce ',so that their three thousand members could work together to calm and bring help to riot stricken .areas. Action like this Is much more valuable than words. And on the white side praise must go t men like Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York who with. his "urban task • force" walked through slum areas, talking to resi- dents, encouraging them to stop this violence. Mayor Lindsay has walked' along these areas in times of greatest trouble. His courage should be an example to all of North America including this sometimes smug country of ours. There is no need for smugness any- where. The unreasonableness of this world will have to be replaced by reason. This is part of what Mr. Trudeau had in mind when he called for a society which would place "logic over passion. starting as an engine wiper out of Kamloops, went firing in 1900, was promoted in 1905 to engineer. The family spent two years at Rogers Pass .about 1915 until it closed. George took the last working engine out of Rogers Pass and assisted the first train through Connaught Tunnel when it opened. "1 was eng n er on the head- end of one of the royal trains hi. 1939 when the King and Queen came through, he recalls; "When I retired my home waas in Kamloops, but now I live in Vancouver, " he said. "We have a nice house at 1971 West 37th Avenue, with some trees and about 50 rose bushes which in the simmer are very lovely. My wife is boss gardener. I am an engineer on the wheelbarrow now. " N 11111 YI1 /1 66 • . OO mitenowswiwosetwom MRS. J. B. SIMPSON At the official opening of the high school addition., Barb Wkite and B&' nie Willie acrd as guides when visit- ors toured the F. , Madill Secondary School after the apen&ng ceremony.