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Sur/ely It's Ti
Many mglithi 'ago the Ontario Houffhli
Corporation agreed to ereCta hkick gf
apartments on Alfred Street for sanlor
•citizens Qf this 'community. The agreeMetlt
Was reached after several months. Of ne-
gotiation with tKe local town council 00
.the number and size of the units Which
the building would contain,
Ever since last surnmerMayor DeWitt
Miller has been trying, without suCCaSE
to get some action, Each time he con-
tacts the Corporation he receives assAlr-
ancei that the builders will be op the SAP
"In a couple of weeks."
Everyone concerned with the project
here, ,realizes• that a big corporation like
For Action
OHC is inevitaly bound by a certlin
amount of red. tape and that itttbett take
some time to get all the snarls Qut Wirt)
a new project is promised, but of
many Months, and another heavy \winor
to be faced by the older folks whg 'art
looking forward to the apartments *09M*
to ally unnecessary, „
Even though the corporation dols her
a lot of similar projects to dealWith' 4;
one time, it also has a lot of hi911.110514
help available with which to meet i1s'cOn17
mitments.
The people of Wingharn would certain,
ly,like to see soine concrete action on the
part of the Ontario Housing Corporation: ,
,Credit Where It Is Due
As common as winter snow storms,
are the complaints of those folks who like
to beef about the tardiness of snow re-
moval crews who leave them without at-
tention for several hours after a blizzard.
For our part we would like to state
publicly that we. believe the snow ploW
crews, both local and provincial, have done
a terrific job for us this winter. Admitted-
ly there have 'been times when streets
and highways have been closed to traffic
for .a. few. hours. The wonder of it all is
that these roads haven't been plugged up
for the rest of the winter.
There have been two or three truly
fantastic storms • this year. At times Ole -
snow was corning down a good deal faster
than the available equipment,could push it
away. The plow crews have worked with-
out food and without sleep on several oc-
casions to keep arterial roads open -;----and
frequently, under such hazardous condi-
tions that there was more than a little
danger tq, life and equipment.
The type of snowplow which is used
'at the present time does create some
frustration for home -owners, dye to the
way freshly -opened driveways are prompt-
ly filled in by the big. machines. However,
'no one has come forward with a feasible
pian of snow removal which will clear the
streets and highways without also filling.
In the drives.
. A few Ontario cities are using a new
type of attachment which prevents SOME,
of the nuisance, and it is to be hoped
that it will prove successful enough to
merit common use before long.
In the meantime, let's not forget the
bad old days when 'there were no snow-. - -
plows at all.
A .11Cruirrny” Reaction
Prime Minister Trudeau has disappoint-
ed a lot of Canadians as a' result of his
recent trip to Lohcion and the Common.'"
wealth Prime °Ministers' conference. Mr.
Stanfield, leader of the Opposition, cer-
tainly was .outsp9ken in his criticism of
Mr. Trudeau's brand of representatiOn-
VOr c'Ottrtfayg•5*,,*, " ?PP -
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Much. more 'pointed, however, ,wis the
reaction of; the press, 'hot only in Canada,
at the PM's, .testy outburst to Canadian
hewsmen.
injudicious enough to keep a luncheon
date with a igarrulous female acquaintance
who,.ran Jo the press with her stories
of iinpendinCromance, Mr. Trudeau took
. out his, annoyance on the newsmen who
had quoted his lady friend's words'. He
branded their coverage of this affair, as
"pretty crummy." ,
Mr. Titudeau was very happy to have
a voluable pressenlarging on all' his at!
'tractive characteristics during- an election
campaign as recently as last spring: At
that time he was most interested in all the
glowing stotles Which were written about
his famous "charisma." Suddenly, when
the news stories are not quite so flatter-
ing fie reacts in disappointingly child- .
ish .manner.
• The prime minister is surely not so
naive that he expects his private life to
Continue as his own' secret after tfe-dhas
qaken his place in the seats.o ,-the mighty.:
If So, he should have had a quiet talk wlth
,Queen Elizabeth while he was at the
palace. She (-could tell him a great deal
about the raw exposure to which national
leaders must be subject.
Certainly the newsmen who made a big
thing out of the luncheon story were in
bad taste—but surely not so dangerous
to a successful prime minister that he
should have threatened police investiga-
tion of the reporters' leisure time ac-
tivities.
The prime minister's outburst was
childish. We certainly hope it is not in-
dicative of the reactions we may expect
when his plans for the Dominion of
Canada are not met exactly' according to
his wishes.
What Was the Point?
Sports all over the world and 'hockey
fans here .n Canada must be wondering
why/ithe Canadians were so insistent thitt
the "Russian team fulfill ,its commitment
to play a series in this country.
Judging from the results of all t
Russian -Canadian games up to the wee+
end, they must have been supremely anac-
lous to demonstrate to the world that
Canadians are not sore losers.
. Either we shOuld ice ia Canadian' team
that can offer some.real competition Y) the ,
Russians or we should give up this idea .
that hockey is our "-national game." The.
way things have gone Since the Russian
players arrived it looks a lot more like
the Soviets' national game than ours.
Many reasons have been advanced for
the overpowering superiority of the Rus-
sian team—chiefly that they are, in ,fact,
professional 'players, since they are em-
ployed by the state for .the sole purpose
of maintaining Russian status in interna-
tional sports.
Like we said above, let's do it their
way and show them how to lose some
games or else get out of the running and
acknowledge the Reds as the champs.
They're Going To Dolt
Hooray for the Kinsmen.' They haie
the winter carnival on the. way.., Thank
goodness they have the initiative' to take
up the project and do something with it.
. So far, theKinsmen have not ---%been
able to say a great deal about the details -
of the Program 'for the February events,
because they have not yet been finalized.
The important thing is that the club has
made the decision to go ahead and if we
know anything about the Kinsmen, they
will turn it into an interesting- event.
A proper winter carnival will _need the
co-operation of far, more people than the
roster of the Kinsmen. There will be
dozens of tasks and we would suggest
that every person who has any community .°
, spirit at all should get behind the club
and offer assistance wherever 'it can be
used.
A winter carnival should be an annual
event here. WinghaM is known far and
wide as tht-vriow capital of Ontario and
that's a reputation on which we should
capitalize,.— If thc event is to be continued
from year to year the 1969 carnival will
be in the nature of a trial run. No doubl.
it will lack some of the refinements which
experience will indicate for future years,
but it Should be a lot of fun in any case.
Let's all get behind the KinsMen antl
work for something really successful in
our town.
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THE WINGE-IAM ADVANCE TIMES
Published at Winghame. Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited
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Advertising Betel on application
° Canadians, Unlike .40.1.4
visns, deal commit suicide:
during the long, cold, tdor ,
wioter month's. At least not'
mom than4the usual number.
0180,0 they just
themselves by attending a win-
ter carnival: TMs make; them
feel 5o rotten for the following
week that they're SO glad to be
alive again that they wouldn't.
(Wen contemplate suicide.
I've seen people. age 00
Years during a *inter carnival-
' Don't talk to me about the
Oeteher beer -fest in Mulch, or
carnival of the bulls in
Pamplona, Or the Mardi Gras
In New Orleans. Those things
80 on Or a week, or a month
and there's a lot of indiscrimi: •
natio* kissing, and dancing li
the Streets, and drinking.
We Canadians, hardy lot
that we are, compress the
whole Bacchanalian orgy int d e
Weekend: the winter carnival.
Every self-respecting Cana-
dian town has a winter card-
val of some sort, and if the
government had any brains, it
would deelare a national festi-
val for about the first week in
February.
It would be a great pres-
sure -reliever. No work, all
play. We'd get rid of our win-
ter frustrations, our hatred of .
cold and snow. Wemight look
and feel like skeletons when it,
was over, but we'd be purged
of our hang-ups.
Personally, I'd be willing to
kiss ' practically anybody, and
dance in the .streets should it
be 12 below, and drink al-
most anything -except anti-
freeze, if I had a week's carni-
val to look forward to. and
back on.
It would break the bony, ri-
gid back of winter. We'd just
be climbing back into our ruts
about Valentine's Day, and
there would be spring, right
around the corner.
Two years ago, as a centen-
nial project, our school had a
Frosty Frolic. It was beautiful.
There was no organization at
all, which is the secret of a
good time. One bright, white
February day, we marched
down to the park, teachers and
students in step for once, be-
hind an impromptu band, and
had a -hell of a time. Ski-doo
tug -o -wars, and teachers
Ifl ovet-powcred.,br-nrha-at
ids and having their faces
well washed in snow. For at
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least a month iter that, we
dn't hate each other.
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1 went in the snow -shoe race
and finished 21st. Went in a
g -o -war and was dragged 40
,,,Tards through the snow by
exuberant, yelping students.
Three years ago, son Hugh,
laden with school work and
,,spusie, and not doing too well
in either, begged to be allowed
49 go to the Quebec whiter
carnival. He was only 17.
' ',After the usual soul -search -
ng, n, ishaesdtegrin, g,we and hpimredgicot,ionnes
'Vas entranced. All those Que-
hecois dancing in the streets,
being merry, loving one anoth-'
„er. He came home, went to
work, pulled up his marks by
percent and pased his per-
; former's music exam. Therapy.
Now Kim has1 been invited to
•• 'a winter carnival, at a uniirersi-
4y, by the Jail -bird I mentioned
..",recently. Should she go?
She's 18, or near enough.
tn another country, she'd be
::omarried, with at least one kid.
11•1 Canada, she's just a baby,
#fith years of education ahead
. "Of her before she could even
‘,haibni.kesof marriage, let alone
„ It will all sort out, but I
,think the winter carnival is a
-„great institution. When it's all
',Over, there arehusbands look -
ng for wives and vice versa.
here are people • who have
one through, the ice in a Ski-
,doo saved their lives only
a hasty application of toddy.
'Ao the tummy.
1. The winter carnival has
•,40teething for everybody. For
the kids, there is the excite -
anent and the colour and the
chance of being run over by a
Snowmobile. For the swinging
set, - there are wild' rides
through the woods, and the
.parties, and the breaking'of
•hones on the Ski hill. For the
Middle-aged, there is curling
and companionship and re-
iMerilbering- the good old days
ihefore those noisy damned
..snowmobiles were invented.
iiing live the winter can*
But let's spread it out a
little. Forty-eight hours of kiSs-
jng. and dancing arid drinhing
thgs even-a.sturdr-cimadiarr
Ao:hlaknees. See you a,t. the
carnival.
1969 Timeny is chosen ,
The Ontario Society for -
Crippled Children proudly an-
nounces the appointment of •
eleven -year-old Ian Walmsley
of Oshawa, as "Timmy" for
'1669.. !.
Like seventeen of .his prede-
cessors, Ian will make his first
public appearance at theSporrs
Writers and Sportscasters an-
nual Sports Celebrities Dinner
.on Tuesday, January 28th at
the' Royal York Hotel. •
Because of .Muscular Dystro-
\phy, Ian is confined a great
deal a the time to a wheel- -
chair but looks forward to every
Opportunity of swimming in the
pool at the Simcoe Hall Crip-•
pled Children's School and
Treatment Centre, in Oshawa.
His favourite subject is science.
Saturday night is hockey
night in the Walmsley's home
with Ian _"front and centre" '
cheering on his favourite team
the "C'anadiens". Unlike most
• youngsters his age,. Ian is par.
tial to defencemen with, J. C.
Tremblay and Bobby Orr at the .
top of his list.
Master Walmsle.y is the ,
twenty-third Timmy to be se-
lected to represent the thou-
sands of Crippled Children in
Ontario. His aim will be to
encourage the public to support
the 1969 Easter Seal Campaign'f
largest financial objective' ,
ever --$2,255,000.
.How do you look at life?
With your fingers, your nose
and your ears --or with your
eyes? There is no substitute
for sight. So, -guard your eyes.
Don't let neglect or careless -
nets rob you of the chance to
view•life for yourself. It's well
worth seeing.
Is violence the only tool that twenty
million Negroes of the United States have
to gain equal rights'?
When Martin Luther King was assassin,
ated violence flared up in many American
cities such as Washington, Baltimore, Chl-
cago and Kansas City. After all the smok
had cleared the damage was found to be
in the millions of dollars. What does the
average American Negro want?
He wants a 'nice home, not a ghetto;
more jobs, not unemployment; better edu-
cation facilities and no prejudice. Many
Americans forgetjhat a Negro is a nor -
By Peffir Ma
mai human being, and therefore he shoutd
be treated as one. Any person who is
not accepted socially and who is 40$10.
ered an outcast will show his vengeance
in a strange way. The Negro's met1W.14
violence, looting and burning,
The immediate stei? to solve.this,prob-
lem is through social acceptance *40
IA better known as non,prejudicena*s.
Wpen this step is taken and sUcCe4/11Y
completed then :the other problems Of
housing, labour and education can be
solved. Maybe the next generatton„ wjtl
live,,in peace and harmony. .
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Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Jan. 30, 1969'
SECOND SECTION ,
New s items from Old
JANUARY 1920
Mr. P. J. Cantelon who has
been visiting with his brother,
R. J., the past few months, has
returned to Vancouver, B. C.
Miss Velma Johnson, who is'
a graduate of the Central Busi-
ness. College here, has been •
placed as stenographer in an
office in Toronto..
Mr. Gordon Young, who for
the past few weeks has been a
patient in the Toronto IsolatiOn.
Hospital suffering .from.dipther-
ia is convalesing at his home
here.
We are pleased to report ,
that Mr. Horace Buttery, who
was in Swiss Cottage Hospital,
Galt, suffering from diptheria
was able to return to College
on Monday.
Mr. L. Kennedy is opening
UP'thoW raturrarid'ufgdat 1.11 -
the Holmes.Block' opposite to
Currie's Livery St,ables for the
display of new 'Overland cars.
This will got be used as a gar-
age. .
On Friday morning about
8.30 the fire alarm was rung '
,for a fire that started in Mr. L.
Kennedy's bathroom where an •
oil stove explOcled. It looked •
for a while as thdugh things
would be serious arid, in fact,
they were bad enough for the
fire destroyed a suit of clothes,
a couple qf pairs of boots, curt-
ains and in fact everything in
the room. Mr. Kennedy suc-
ceeded in putting out the blaze
before the firemen arrived, but
.not before his hands, eyebrows
and hair were badly scorched.
MI. Kennedy estitnated his loss,
at about $200.
JANUARY 1934
Mr. E. S. Copeland of the
Fry & Blackhall firm reports
that the spirit of optimism.was
much to the fore at the Kitch-
ener Furniture Show. The lo-
cal firm beoked more orders
'Pictures from The Past
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than theyrpreviously had done
at this show, for the last few
years, and the general feeling •
of the dealers was that better
'things were ahead for the furn
iture industry.
Miss Ella Rae of Macclenald
Institute, 'Guelph, spent the
week-endMrs.ro.
wit her parents, Mr.
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Miss Agnes Scott of the Bell
Telephone Staff attended the
,Bell Telephone conference in
SuatfOrd last week.
Miss Jean Currie returned to
Ottawa ,early this week, where
she will resume her duties on
the Members' Stenographerre ,
staff of the House of Commons
for the ensuing session of Par-
liament. ,
After many year of faithful
service as organist etf dieVniteiL:
resigned this position. Pri Sun-
day morning Mr. A. H. Mus-
grove paid tribute to Miss Rey-
nolds for her devotion to 'duty,
and the splendid service she .
had rendered the church. Miss.
Tena Reid, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. .Alex Reid, has been ap-
pointed organist and will com-
mence her.duties next Sunday.
JANUARY 1944
While hunting in Kinloss
Township Dick McQuillan and
'Bill Kennedy of•Lucknow,. came'
_apon a pair of wolves. They
were successful in shooting one
of the animals.
Miss Eileen Dark, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Dark was
one of the class that received'
their caps at Victoria Hospital,
London, last week.
' Mr: G. W. (Bill) Burgman,
.son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
13urgman of town, lias.along
with many others of his class
at the Royal Dental College,
enlisted in His Majesty's Forces.
Bill will complete his yearto
graduation and then will be on
full army time in the Dental
Corps.
Motorists are rerninded not
to remove thefr, 1934 license
plates from their ca e when they
purchase their new licenses for
1944. The 1943 plates are to "
remain, and stickers will be is-
sued on payment of the 1944
license fee. There are to. be
placed on the lower left-hand
corner of the windshield. By
adopting the sticker system over
two hundred tons of metal will
be saved for war industry as
well as a great deal of labour.
Mrs. Hugh Sinnatnon receiv-
ed word this week that her soh,
L/Cpl. Glenn Sienainon, spent
Christmas in a hospital overseas
suffering from a "severe 'cut on
his head 'which he/received in
a motorcycle accident. It re-
quired 14 stitches to close the
wound.
JANUARY 1955
Two minor hockey accidents
Were treated,at the Wingharn
General Hospital last week. On
Wednesday, Peter Nasmith, 13,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Na -
smith was -treated for a fractured
right thumb, injured while play-
ing,hockey. On Friday, Doug-
las Murray, 17, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Murray fractured
a bone in his left hand while
playing hockey. A cast was ap-
plied at the hospital.
A new 4-H Forestry deb has
.been formed Jai conjunction
with the Winghath Distrlct.",,,O,Eh
5chool. Officers in thR at.f,tif ot;"
ganization ,are. presidentp,1440
Eadie; vice-president.
tin; secretary -treasurer, 6,,.e?rge •
4. -.Procter.. The club has A
bership of 31. Joh g Jaekreirp of,
thDeeVariiesgh, Sddish,tr°i°c1;stfoarfeSf ant terftp".111II'I
Stratford, are leaders. Meet1T!
ings are held at the higlic41001,,•:,
during the noon hour per444.',
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Library .boae,
added 701 n'
volumes in:.6
It was evident W dtt
ihat Huron Coutity,'. 0444 „,
4kuh1ia4thrat
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ieneed a yeak of-deoisIcittatinakw.--
ing tinder 'presider from die ' , • -
county's librarian, MissCarolyn
Croke. • v ,
Miss Croke made .referr40-e'
to this fact in her report
which she said she had 'in the -
beginning "a different attftUde
than the board" about how a 11!.
brary should function. A city.
girl, Miss Croke claimed the
rural orientated library board 111
Huron had worked well with her
with both parties giving and
taking to complete the neces-
sary groundwork to set up atop -
notch public library service for
the county. "The new board,"
observed Miss Croke, "has a
hard act to follow,"
Figures show that 288.306
books were circulated in.-,the32
library outlets during 1968, an
increase of 51,087 over 1967. .
Book purchases were up, too,
with 701 new volumes added to
.the book stock.
Miss Croke advised the book
stock now totalling 91, 708 -could
drop during 1969 because there
are so many out -dated and -
damaged books in the county
which must be destroyed or re-
placed. "The collection of
books for adult reading is the
worst I've seen in a long time."
stated Miss Croke.
During 1968 the county li-
brary board turned back to the
municipalities the librarybuild-
ings it had acquired &mins the
first months of operation. It
was discovered that it was in-
convenient to maintain the li-
brary facilities from a central -
office, so libraries are now be-
ing rented from the variouS mu-
nicipalities with each town
completing the necessary re-
pairs„ etc., to their own build-.
ings.
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Salaries for library staff
throughout the ciininty will total
about $57,%350 in 1969 a report
by Chairman Frank McFadden,
Bayfield, estimated.
Said Mr. McFadden, "It
would be a big help if munici-
pal representatives to county
councilwould accept the new
and forget the old.. " He added
there had been improvement in
the county's library system but
because these improvements
were not readily visible and
tangible, it was difficult for
some persons to measure the
vast difference.
George MqcutcheOn has
been reappointed as the repre-
sentative on the 'Midwestern
Regional tibrary System Board
for 1969.
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