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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1969-01-23, Page 9he Question Has Been Answered Last Wednesday the voters irl Wingham left no doubt about majority opinion on. the question of cocktail lounges and dining lounges. Since the law requires not just , a simple majority of 51 percent,- 'but rather demands a 60 percent' majority, any passing vote Isl. conclusive. The . percent- ages here were .41. and 65.9 .percent on the - two questions. Pu'bli'opinion has, undergone some radical changes in the past eight or ten years.. Many. people whoformerly as- sociated alcohol with sin have begun to realize that all such questions must be decided by individual, conte, not by the dictates of law—periicul.arjy by a ..law which has proven itself unenforceable. Whatever the ,reason for 'the.cha.nge in public opinion, the die hasbeen cast in Wingharn. The, acceptability of . liquor lounges .in thiscommunity from n0W on. will depend to a -great extent upon the wisdom and character of those who secure licenses, If the outlet or outlets are operated conscientiously and in an orderly way, the voters will have no reason to regret their decision. The onus sits squarely upon the 'shoulders of those who secure licenses to operate cocktail and dining loung s. People With a Problem On Sunday this writer spent. most of the day in the Wingham Armouries, listen- ing to . the discussion which was in pro- gress between officers and other, ranks of the 21st Regiment. Subject of the full- scale conference was recruiting. As. Lt, Col. R. P. . Ritter explained _the situation, the regiment has places for 300, all ranks. Present membership stands at 165. It's a serious situation. Our tax money is required to keep militia units under training, and unless they are up to strength or nearly so, the ' effectiveness of .the in- vestment is seriously curtailed. f The most 'important question 'before the conference, of course, was how to secure more recruits .and how to retain unit .members for longer periods of' ser- vice. By the end of the day quite . a few useful suggestions had been put -forward and the framework of an active program was laid out. Basic to the entire discussion was the fact that militia training has •a great deal to offer any young man or woman (there are places for both). No longer • arethe sole 'attractions love of country and, a sense of duty. New pay rates, for ex- ample, make it possible for a young man s, 5• to ° �.Jugrnent his income by $250 to $300 a year. In addition, the rapid turnover of personnel makes promotion for the . ambitious recruit a fairly swift process. Gone are the' days when the enlisted man is supposed to be dull and uncom- plaining foot Islogger who will simply do what he is told and' let somebody else do his thinking. The tremendous advance in .technology has gripped ,the armed forces as well as the business world and today's recruit is the keen young man who is cap- able of accepting advanced training and lots of it,. \" Near the top of the recommendations was elimination of boredom—recognition of the fact that if the forces ask for this alert type of ,recruit he must be kept busy and his progress must be maintained. This column does not permit a lengthy explanation of all the reasons why militia training is worth serious consideration. It does suggest, . however, that there is no better method ' in .the world of creating responsible citizens and promising leaders ..than the discipline and training available, in a well-run military.. unit. The 21st Field Regiment has a proud record .i n this regard. Why Find Work :for the .Physically Disabled? The Rehabilitation Foundation for the, Disabled (March of Dimes). it again : Iaunthing an appeal for funds during the month of January in all parts .of ' Ontario except in 28 municipalities where it is a member of the United Appeal. ,The Foun- dation is committed to helping physically disabled adults to -join or to rejoin the community as useful, self -esteemed mem- bers of society. ' It does this primarily by finding suitable work for 'disabled people', by means of psychological assessment and workshops, after which attempts are made to find them jobs in industry or offices.. If they are unable to take competitive work, efforts are made to find work they • can do at home. . ' Why is Society in general' and the •Re- habilitation Foundation in particular so concerned about putting -disabled people tow ? , If a persory' hat- to spend. his, life iii a Wheelchair, would he not be happier watching television all day long than trying to compete with , the able- bodied? The answer .is obviously no. There is 'of course a financial reason why disabled people want to earn money, in addition to' any pensionor disability 'allotment they might be getting. But. is that the only reason? Again, the answer is no. "If you're not working, you're not living," is the way Miss Darlene Draper puts it. Darlene is in ,her twenties. She has had arthritis since she was a baby and gets about on metal hips with the help of crutches, but she puts in a good' nine -to - five day ' in an office job provided for her, ,by. the Foundation. "If you had to stay home all day," she says, ''you'd soon be bored to death. It's much more fun to be able to work." ' What Darlene is saying is that she wants to feel she is a "going" member of society ,;- productive, alive, mingling .with ,people,>..cgood 'enough to be paid for her work. ' ,I f you're/not working, you're not I iv- in°g,:' she says. "It's hard to express .it any better than that." Beat Detroit is Their Ai n 0 Overseas car makers plan to crowd several `more strong contenders into the '1969 race for the Canadian car buyer's dollar,' Philip Mathias reports in The Fi- nancial Post. The dozen new models' ex- + pected this year present a fresh challenge to American manufacturers by stepping up competition at many price levels. For the consumer, it widens the choice of styles, engine powers and handling characteris- 0 r 4. tics. For two -char families, more economy models will be available and -the- lowest price that can be paid for a new car will drop in 1969. The Financial Post says that several new models will be on sho' v'.. at Montreal International Auto Salon, Jan. 17-26. The organizers, Industrial and Trade Shows of Canada, a division of Maclean -Hunter Ltd., expect attendance.:of about 250,000' members of the public. THE 'WINGHAM ADVANCE TIMES 'Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Li"nzited • W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert o0. Wenger, Secretary-'T'reasurer Member. Audit Bureau of Circulation Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Authorised by the Post Office Department as Second Class for payment "of postage in cash Subscription Rate: 1 year $5.00; 6 months, $2.75,in advance; USA; $7.00 per yr.; Foreign rate. $7,00 per yr. , r' - Advertising Rates on application • Mail and You know,' the peop have beet' Pink aro the past -20 years ;complaining, 4"Remember .the good' .old: da %. 'when we 140 to have ren winters, with lots of snow? perso ltd n likewho tosays catcit, h. :Aped next hf n, upside down, anyw� our backyard. All you'd ,. would be two feet trying- to aelmaphore "S.O.S." Arid. you - wouldn't . even see that unless he were six feet tall or more., Quite a winter. In our town, you can park the car in front; 'Of the house, and you wouldn' know it was "there,' except, for the radio aerial. Because of the flu, and bad back, • and all those ' Warn- ings about heart attacks, end; bone laziness, I've been hiring; boys to. shovel ,our front and back' sidewalks, about 96 yards of them. (Remember the good • old days, when you offered toy shovel somebody's walk and worked like a little beaver for two hours, knocked at the door when you were finished, ho' ing' for a dime, or maybe even a quarter, •and some gentle,. little old lady would say, "Thank you, little boy", and, give you a cookie?) Things have changed. The kids .now . work for a straight dollar an hour, if you can find one small enough so that be hasn't been corrupted by the snow-shovellers' union. How- ever, it hasn't cost me much yet. I've hired five, and three of them haven't been seen since they started working on the front walk, We'll probably find them in the spring, mil, ing seraphically among the rot- ted otted oak leaves and fallen branches. But one of them, a rosy faced urchin called Jerry, is going ' to go places. He's right on the job. If there's a gentle snow falling, and there's about an inch of it, and it's seven o'clock on a Sunday morning,. he phones to see if I want hint. If it's, snowing as if there *as a big hole in , the sky, and; blowing like . a banshee, and drifting deep, you couldn't get hold • of that kid if you got the whole police force looking for him. Much the same happens with the chap who plows the drive war If there's three,'inches'' of light snow, he's right there -,`if there's eight inches of heavy snow, I'll swear he just goes home and sits by the fire. And whichever, he has an unerring instinct for cleaning the drive- way just three' minutes before the ' town' snowplow . comes along and fills it in again. - It's sort of fun driving , in this stuff, though. It brings out the Cossack in the mildest of motorists. First,; you eye the pileof snow at the 'mouth of your . driveway. Looks fairly light and only two ' feet deep. You get the old crock going, usually, start slowly , back- wards, out of the garage, then give it the gun and try to buck through the drift on sheer, raw courage and plain stupidity; Sometimes you even make it. Sometimes there's a foot' of iron ice under that surface of fluffy stuff. But it's the 'near- est modern equivalent to a cav- alry charge that I know, except that you're going backwards. What gives it a little extra spice is, that, because of the huge banks, you, can't see ' a thing in either direction as you hit that enenfy line. The other day, I nearly tallied two snow- mobiles that were whizzing past. And the • next day, an oil truck would have got me, ex - w 1 old days' cept that this was one- +af the times I didn't break through the drift. You can't beat the modern methods of snow removal,. though. They used to lug it away in, trucks and dump it in some patch of wasteland. To- day, instead of trucks, we have the snow ower. And in the spring, when the snow is all gone, you go out with first a shovel, then a rake. and finally a stiff broom, and remove about four carloads of salt and sand from ' what, used to be your nice, green lawn. It's our own fault, of course. People used to put the beasts up on blocks in November. To- day, it's not only vital, but a matter of pride, to keep the car in action, even though we drive only three blocks to work. We're caught on the horns of our own dilemma, and it's painful, but it certainly keeps us on our toes, when winter decides that there's a lot ofife in the old boy yet, and pro- ceeds to prove it. eteeit4 to Ederol Dear Friends: The blind people in your area and the CNIB wish to ex -- press their appreciation for your participation in the 1968 An- nual Appeal for funds. - to the.. contributors who gave so generously' - to the volunteers who gaveso freely of their time and efforts in making' this campaign possible' - to all the news media who did such an excellent job in publicizingthe work of CNIB - You can ' all be assured that the,moniesraised will be used to provide the services so vital to the blind people in your area. The service program of CNIB is ever expanding and improv- ing. CNIB is now entering its sec- ond 50 years of service and the remarkable growth during the first 50 'years can be 'maintained, and expanded with the,contin ued, support and interest -of' everyone in your, community and' in every other community throughout this great nation of ours. Sincerely, Jack Clements Dist. Field Sec. Dear. Sir: For the past two years the Wingharn Public School Board has made the new auditorium in the school available to the Cub; Scouts and. Venturers for their meetings, .three nights each week. Oil behalf of the boys, leaders and the group commit- tee, I would like to take this opportunity ' to thank the ' board for its co-operation at all dines. We have been fortunate in . having a school board broad- minded enough to make full '- use of these extellent facilities, at the school and are confident that we will enjoy the same co- operation with the new county board. D. Pollock, Chairman, Group Committee'. btalleCtA7 Wingham, &ntario, Thursday, Jan. 23, 1969 .News Items from (id- FT JANUARY 1920 Mr. W. F, VanStone has closed the deal for ;a large tract of valuable timber, near Iron Bridge, Algoma. Itis his in- tention to erect a• sawmill next summer on the property. There will' be nearly twenty million . feet of limber in the tract. Mr. C. G. VanStone and Mt. J: S. Dobbie are in partnership with Mr. , VanStone in the deal. Q Prof. R. T. and 'Mrs. Cowell were the recipients of a,beauti- ful dinner set, the gift of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Choir of which Mr. Cowell is, director. Prof. Cowell who is lso leader ofthe-Harriston Citizens Band was presented with a' silver, mounted ebony baton from that organization. _. Mr: James' Hamilton, Who has been a resident of Wingham practically all of his life. mov- ed his household affects to Osh- awa On Friday and left for his new home on Monday to be fol.,- lowed ol.=lowed by Mrs. Hamilton and daughter, Miss 011ie, in a ' few days. Prior to his departure,, Mr. Hamilton was presented with a gold -headed umbrella by St. Andrew's Presbyterian Sunday School. He had been Secretary -Treasurer of the . school for 'a numberof years. A very happy event took place at the home of Mr. - and Mrs. Joseph Pugh, Patrick St. on New Years, in the form of a reunion of all their family who had not been together for 14 years. The' family are 'Ches- ter and Mrs. Pugh of London, Clifford, Mrs. Pugh and fain- ily of Hamilton, Fred, Mrs. Pugh and two daughters of To- ronto, who have just returned from Vernon, B.C.. where they have lived,for 10 years, alsomPaul, -Mrs. Pugh and little son,' Joe, of Wingham. Mr. Armstrong., who for some years conducted a blacksmith shop at Londesboro, has -punch- .S. Guest Editorial A wise man once said: faith, hope, charity; and the greatest of these is charity. Today the three are: poverty, hunger, despair; and the greatest of these is despair. • In India, on a sidewalk, a baby is 'born. Up to the mature age of 20, he is nourish- ed by the garbage.on the street and hand- outs from uncaring passersby. During the ,next 15 years he has to fight to hold his square of sidewalk, to fight for scraps to ease his hunger pains, to fight to im- prove the -hopes of his son 'born on that same pavement. Then he dies. Politics, the arms race, economies and the affairs of state mean nothing. Only4 poverty and hunger. The Western world, full of faith and hope, must act swiftly to exercise its charity. , e Hunger Cry Grows Louder By Luke Muilwyk When millions become filled with des- pais, a leader can easily lead them into a revolt. Six percent of the people in some 'parts ' of Latin America still control '90 percent of the wealth and seeds of revolt are, always sprouting. In Asia, seeds of revlt litter the sidewalk and only a lead- er is required to rouse the desperate to War. In many of the underdeveloped countries the cries of the hungry are grow- ing louder. A ,To curb the threat of world-wide hunger --- a far greater threat than nuclear war — the Western 'world • must mobilize all its capital and skill. Private Canadian citizens.. must ,express concern. All of us must offer to those poor people faith, and hope, through charity. ased Mr. William Holmes' shop at Wingham and willmove to ' town in the near future. Joseph Latronico has purch- ased a farm on the sixth con. of Turnberry from John Bush. Mr. Bush will move to Wroxeter, . where he has purchased a house. 'Peter Icing of Bluevale has pur- chased Mr. Albert Jackson's. farm near Bluevale station: Mr.. Ernest Jackson .has sgld the, Dr. Kennedy farm to John Kett.* JANUARY • 1934 Mr. Weir Elliott has been appointed choir leader of the United Church at Teeswater. In securing Mr. Elliott the. Teeswater Church is indeed fortunate as he has had great _ . experience iti. ch ler and ohotal • work. For severa yeaars,`" ii was soloist at Knox Church; Welland, and for several years choir leader at Drummond Bill, Presbyterian, Church,' Ni • - agara Falls, Ontario. Faced with possible expul- sion from the league title, a desperate' bunch of green -clad warriors turned in a much- nee d - ed 2-1 victory over the Oilers. Wally Gurney's two goals shoved the. Welders right back :with a bang into the thick of the league race. Jack 'McMich- ael'saboys also took a much- needed game from 'the outluck- ed Ancients by the same 2-1 score. Rev. Kenneth MacI.ean's yard has been the scene of great interest this last few days as three girls, Eleanor Du>tning, his niece; Mary E. McKibbon and Phyllis Turner built a man and lady and a dog out of snow. By the size of these snow peo- pie they must belong to n race of super People as they are. very tail and heavily built. Round. Steak 15¢ lb. ; Rolled • Roast 14¢ lb. , Shoulder Roast 10¢-120 lb. ; Fresh Side Pork in piece 14¢ ib. Thos. Field & Co. JANUARY 1944 The January meeting of the Marion Williamson Girls' Aux= iliary of The Presbyterian • Church, was held at the home of Mrs. S. Bateson. Mrs. K. MacLean installed the following officers for 1944: Leaders, Mrs. W. W. Gurney, Mrs. S. Bate- son. President; Ruth Gannett. 1st Vice -President, Helen Carr. 2nd. Vice -President, Ruth Brad- burn. Secretary, Lorna Dunbar. Treasurer, Grace Coulter. Pi- anist, Elizabeth Hare. Promo- tion certificates from the flap- •py Gleaners Mission Band were presented to Jean Adair, Gwen- dolyn MacLean Pansy Champ- ion, Gwendolyn Blatchford, Lois Ctuickshank, Constance Fryfogle, and Margaret Mac- Donald by Miss F. Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Orin De long, Southampton, Ont.. wish to announce the engagement of their daughter Wenonah. to Mr: Norman Porter Elliott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex M. Elliott of Wingham, Ont. The mar- riage will take place early in February. John Lane, son Of Mr. and. Mrs. George Lane, near Wrox- eter, underwent an emergency' operation for the removal of his appendix, in Wingham Gen- eral Hospital 14 Mrs. Edward Rich underwent an emergency operation in St. ' Mary's Hospital, ..Kitchener, on. Friday for the re . oval of her appendix. Her. ', other, Mrs. M. Fitzpatri - nt the week- f end with her and i- ports 'her making a satisfactory recover)., Congratulations to Jack Day, son of Mr. and Mrs., 'George Day, 9th Line Of Turnberry, who successfully qualified as an air gunner at Summerside, P.E.; and has received his wings. At Monday night's meeting of the Wingham Cub Pack, 4 cubs were invested, halting completed their six weeps • course of training. The treat Cubs are Bob -,Wilson, Isilutta Gerrie, Gerald Gerrie, ail i', neth Saxton. Thg rnesti r+. F conducted by Roti• . ghee assisted by dill. Mr. Herb Wightraii of Van- couver, spent the week -end • with Ivir. and Mrs.' John W. Hanna. It is 38, years since Mr., ,Wightman left Winghaxn. and at -that time he was with Hanna & Co. His last visithere was 18 years ago.His son. dio Officer Gordon Wightran Visited here a short time' ago at which time' he addressed the Lions Club. • JANUARY 1955. We see that Jimmy Bain. star, defenceman on the Mid- gets and/or Juveniles has been elected mayor of Wingham. Of Teen Town Wingham, that is, Other officers are Sandra Smith,. reeve; Betty Henry, secretary - treasurer; James Newman, Jim Campbell and Bill Rintoul; councillors•, and Marion Chit - tick, Gail Colvin and Gwen . Brown, girl councillors. Now , to get the mill rate down. On Saturday afternoon fire- men Were called to chimney fires at the homes of Mrs. Peter MacLeod, on Minnie Street and William Reid, on Catherine Street..A ..high wind was thought to has caused the fires, but little damage was done. Op Sunday night flames destroyed a workshop and a garage owned „ by Graham Cook, at Marnoch. A ' car, tools, and equipment were lost in the blaze. Lion Gord Buchanan, who was a visitor to California last month, told of the interesting' highlights of the trip at the regular meeting of the Lions Club on Friday night. Speak- ing informally, Gord mention- ed the parade of roses, which precedes the Rose,.•Bowl game at Los Angeles, as one of the most, impressive sights he had " ever seen: A guest of Earl Hall, a former Wingham'boy, he had. a ringside seat for the parade which he watched from the roof of the Hall's jewelry store in downtown L. A, There were 'more than -60 floats in the' par- ade, none of which cost less than $5, 000, with others cost- ing as much as $25,000. These floats were covered with masses of flowers, including blooms flown from Honolulu. More than a million spectators turn- ed out to see the parade and the crowd was so large that many took their places -at the curb the previous mid -night in order to be sure of a good vantage point.