HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1969-03-06, Page 94.
,Congratulations are ,certainly in order
for 'the 'Kinsmen who organized, and oper.
ated ‘Wingharn!s, .first Winter carnival. Ap.
Predation should also be extended to the
Firemen, 'Legion,. town council nd
all others who assiSteckinfroking.the
day program such success. •
the carnival was 4 50405s
from the financial •aspect. its most im-
portant purpose, of course, Was not to
raise funds, but rather to provide a means
of promotion,.Dfor the town' end' a mid.
winter, celebration for the residents of this
areo. In these two aspects we believe It
was entirely successful and should indi-
vote without doubt that it can be made
Into an annual affair.
Since the Kinsmen have token the lead,.
it Is to be hoped that they will have plenty
of help when the 1970 carnival rolls
around,
•
Hospital Annual
• The annual meeting of the 'Wingham
and District Hospital Association will be
held on Friday evening of this week. It is
gathering'at which the public is entirely
welcome, whether or not individuals ha
.pen to be members of the ass tat on.
The m,eeting will be held for the last time
in the former nurses' residence building on
Catherine Street, immediately behind the
hospital.
Hospital business is your business.
Your money has provided the several mil-
lion dollars' worth of facilities available
at the institution and the better than half
million dollars annually needed to keep it
in operation. True°, you don't donate dir-
ectly to the cause, but your tax dollars,
through local, county, provincial and fed-
eral governments are the hospital's sole
source of revenue.
Wingham and district are exceptionally
fortunate to have a hospital of this calibre
available in a rural community. One of the
first of the smaller hospitals in Ontario to
expand into a full-scale medical centre, it
continues to improve its facilities each
year. The latest addition to equipment is
being installed at the present time — a
$65,000 Xray unit which will provide the
very latest. diagnostic service.
Since two competent surgeons have
been added to the medical staff many pa-
tients who would otherwise be moved to
London are treated right here in Wingham.
The cancer clinic handles patients from a
wide area of Western Ontario and one of
the more recent services is a regularly
scheduled ophthalmology clinic for pa-
tients with the more serious types of eye
ailments.
Viewed simply as an industry in the .
community the hospital is the largest
single employer of labor, with a payroll
of more than a half -million dollars an-
nually.
The annual meeting of the association
provides an excellent opportunity, for the
ppblic to learn wore about the operation
of the hospital. Since most of us, at one
time or another, require treatment there,
we have or should have a' vital interest
in its progress.
Curiously Submissive
The health of this nation is in serious
danger. Despite unprecedented affluence
and nearly total employment, Canadians
riWctoseeltif. the brink of. ruirilhan at any
time in their history. .
No, we .do not refer to the separatist
problem, nor to painfully higher taxes nor .
tO the threat of Communism. What we
have in mind 'is the'apathy of the average
Canadian citizen toward all things that
pertain to government. We elect the mem-
bers of parliament and.then we take no
further interest in what they do or what
they leave undone.
Take regional governemt as one ex -
.ample. Do you know what regional gov-
ernment really means? . How it may af-
fect our lives?
How' about county boards of educa-
tion? DO you know in what way these
new boards Will improve the school sy-
stem? Have you any notion of how much
more they will cost in terms of tax dol-
lars?.
How many of our readers have ever
questioned either the federal or provincial
government member. we have elected?
Have you written. to your member of
parliament lately about the 'public issues
which concern you?
Most of 'you would reply that the mem-
bers of parliament know what they are
doing. ^ We elected them so it's their job
to handle the decisions.
That, however, is not the way a healthy
democracy works. Unless The citizens re-
main interested and alert, government be-
comes increasingly autocratic and the will
of the people Is apt to be brushed aside
with contempt. .
Remember the last weeks of the Liberal
regime in Ottawa before the Conservative
landslide? A very able Canadian, C. D.
Howe, who had served his nation well
during the war years, forgot. about the
will of the people and his:colleagues were
afraid to remind him. We came very close
•to dictatorship before we wakened up and
defeated his party;,,
Right at the present -time the federal
gOvernment is completing, plans .to .place
all communications, from the- delivery of
your mail to the cdnstruction of an earth -
orbiting satellite the hands of one de-
partment; under the direction of another
very able businessman, Mr. Kierans. How
many Canadians have ever paused to con-
sider -the danger of permitting any govern-
ment complete control of radio and tele-
vision? •Would you protest if government
sought to license and, control all the news-
papers in Canada?
• We do not suggest here that public
responsibilities are being Mishandled. •But
you and I really don't know, do we? We
take so little interest that dur,goVernments
could sell us to Red China and we would
never know the difference.
Our apathy is strikingly apparent to
those who visit. Canada from other
countries. Americans can scarcely believe
our lack of interest in politics and the,,
affairs of the nation. Most Europeans are
much more deeply engrossed in public
affairs than we are. :Can you imagine a
Canadian burning himself to death in
front of the war memorial in Ottawa be-
cause the Americans were trying to curtail
our freedoms?
Perhaps we're just too fat and happy.
Maybe things have been so good for the '
last 20 years that we can't be bothered to
worry about what happens to our-'Comfri-
try. Certainly we, can recall 'that interest
in government was a good deal keener dur-
ing the stark .years of the depression than
it is today. •
Canada is a great nation. Thousands of
our young men believed that statement
so thoroughly that they willingly went to
the far corners of the earth to back their
beliefs with their lives. They must be won-
dering 'now whether the price .was too
high, if we who are left just can't be
bothered.
Keep the Uproar in Perspective
Rumors and the really. hot "inside"
stories on what Ottawa will. or will nbt do.
dn the tax front, The Financial Post. com-
ments, are mounting in. frequency as every
day brings Canada's major tax overhaul
closer to the taxpayees pocketbook and
his aspirations to financial security. ,And,
in this interregnum between old tax rules
and new tax rules, any rumor about the
possible scale and timing of a capital gains
tax gets the widest audience and, unfortun-
• ately, the greatest credence.
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LET'S NOT COMPLAIN -AA have had
few dandy snow storms . this winter but
Mrs. Gordon Gannett has,provided.us with
proof that things are not as bad as they
were in 1947. This pictureof the business
section of main street was taken on March
10 of that year and appeared in The Ad-
vance -Times. Mrs:: Gannett was a Member
of the A -T staff at the time.
Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, March 6, 1969 SECOND SECTION
News
FEBRUARY .1920
ems from Old Files
Mr, Norman Butcher a well -'known Wingham young man,
who has been teller in the Bank
of Hamilton at Listowel, has :
been transferred to a simillar
position in the branch at Sim..
coe.
• Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Well -
wood returned td their home in
Elm Creek, Man., on Wednes-
day afternoon after spending the,
past six weeks at the home of "
the former's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Wellwood, Centre
Street and other friends In the
vicinity.
Mr. Wilfred Reid of East'
Wawanosh, brought a,load of
wood to town on Saturday and
gave -the -proceeds of the sale
the Armenian Fund. Mr. R.
Stone purchased it for. $13. 00.
Mr. T. R. Bennett was to have
auctioned but missed atrain
and did not arrive in ,Wingham
until late Saturday night.
Mr. A. Buttery Sr. , has re-
ceived his 14-15 Star for valiant
service rendered his country in
the great -war -during 1914 and
1915. It is a beautiful medal
and the owners of them have
good reason to be proud. Mr.
Buttery is the father of a Couple
of sons who also did their bit in
the war. All of the Wingham
men Who served overseas in the
first year of the war will re-
ceive a 14-15 Star. Among
those who are entitled to this
medal are Frank Wylie, Fred
Groves, William Hayles and E.
S. Copeland. The parents and
next of kin of soldiers'who gave
their lives will also receive a
medal.
FEBRUARY 1934
.The Holy Name Society held
a Euchre and Dance in the Sa-
cred Heart parish hall on Mon-
day evening. There was a
good attendance: The prizes
were won by Mr. Clifford Ma-
chan and Miss Leddy.
The boiler at St. Andrew's
Presbyterian Church has been
giving trouble for some time
and the Board were ready to in-
stall a new one, but before this
could be done the old boiler
gave out completely last Fri-
day, and it was necessary to
hold the church services in the
Council Chamber.
Miss Tena Reid was inStrat-
ford on Friday where she tried
a Conservatory of Music Exam-
ination in New Grade History.
. The cold spell of last week
is believed to be a record for
this district with early Friday
morning having the lowest tempP.
erature. Forty-four below zero
was reported here on Friday
morning while some places
nearby report even lower temp-
eratures; Lucknow 53 below;
Gorrie 52 below, Walkerton 51
below. Early Thursday morn-,
ing it was 35 below here and
the continued cold kept the
plumbers blisy thawing pipes
from early morning until late
at night. In fact they had ex-
tra help and then could not cope
with the work.
Another picture of a local
man has ttimed up in a Canadi-
an Official War Photograph,
this time the scene is on the
Lens -Arras Road and shows E. S.
Copeland; of town, and Jack
Tait, of Toronto, helping a •
wounded soldier along the road
to a dressing station. The pic-
ture was published recently in
the Toronto Telegram.
Dr. J. R. Lockhart, of Ed-
rnundston, N. B. , has decided
to locate in. Wingham. He is
at present in town at the home
-of his mother-in-law, Mrs. J. J.
Elliott, Victoria Street, and
will shortly open office, the
location of which has not yet
been determined.
Easter Sunday this year falls
on April 1st, which is also' All
Fbors Day. This has happened
only four times in the past 100
years and will occur again only
twice in the 20th century,
We are pleased to reportthat•
't4iss Agnes McLean, who un-
derVent an operation in the
Wingham General Hospital last
Wednesday, is making a splen-
did recovery.
'FEBRUARY 1944, •
Miss Mary Cruikshank, daugh,
ter of Ur. and Mrs. Benson
• Cruikshank, who enlisted In the
Women's Royal Naval Service
some time ago, will report at
Galt on Thursday next week,
March 2nd, for her basic train-
ing. After that she will go to
St. Hyacinth, Que. , to attend
a course in wireless telegraphy.
• Mr. J. Frank Gillespie, man-
ager of the Goderich branch of
,the Canadian Bank of Corn -
!tierce, -is being transferred to
a similar position at Sarnia.
Frank is well known here as he
. spent his bbyhood days in Wing -
ham. and commenced his bank-
ing. Career here. The present
manager of the Sarnia branch
is MI. L. R. Blackwood, who
* went from Wingham to Sarnia.
Frank's friends here will be
very pleased that he is progress,
ing so favourably in his bank-
ing career.
Friends here of R. M„ (Mac)
Habkirk, will beverypleased
that he has been promoted to
the rank of Flying Officer. Mac,
prior to his enlistment', was on
the local staff of the Canadian
Bank of Commerce. He spent
his school days here -attending
both the public and highschools.
He graduated at Si. John, Que. ,
as a bomt2ardier and received
his commission. After a furth-
er course at rands he went over-
seas in -July last year. Accord-
ing to reports 'Mac is seeing
plenty of action.
Among those who returned
from overseas last week was
Sgt. Harry Cooper. Mrs. Coop-
er, the former, Dorothy Pollock,
is a da'ughter of the Rev. John
Pollock, formerly of W hi te -
church, and after her husband
left for overseas resided for
awhile on Frances Street here.
She now resides in Toronto.
Mrs. Chamney h6as received
word that her husband, Pte.
,...GrAham Chamney, is now in
Italy. He is with the same unit
as Capt. (Dr.) A. W. Irwin,
urho has been in the forees in
that section of the front since .
the Canadians went there first.
Last week Ross Gray, who re-
sides two and a hall miles east
of Bluevale, was drawing wood
from tlfe back field when he
sighted a herd of deer coming
out of the bush:. Being only )
about 40 rods from them he
counted theni and there were
seventeen in the herd.
The first.soldier, who en-
listed 'here, to receive his com-
mission Overseas, was Gentle-
man Cadet C. A. Baskerville,
grandson of C. R. Wilkinson of
town. For the past few months
he has been attending Sand -
burst Military College in Eng-
land and last Week graduated
with the rank of Lieut.
Last week Mr. George E.
. Northwood,' who has.been mana-
ger of the Canadian Bank of
Commercebranch here since
December 1939 received notice
of his transfer as manager to the
Dunnville branch of the bank.This is a splendid appointment
and Mr.' NorthWOodls to. be
congratulated. •The'new man-
ager here will be Mr. R. R. Hob -
den, who comes from the'Ot-'
, tawa and Cannon Street, Ham-
ilton, branch. Mr. Holaden is a
married man with five children,
one Son who is entering the na-
vy and four other children of
school age.
FEBRUARY 1955
The Red Front Grocery's *
colorful metal awning suffered
a certain amount of damage on
Tuesday. ,when a miniature ava-
lanche of snow descended on it .
from the roof above. It looks
as if Harry Merkley may have
to get a body and fender man •
to knock out the bumps.
Harvey Mann, 6 -year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Mann,
R. R. 4, Wingham, suffered head
lacerations and A fractured up-
per left leg on Wednesday, when
he was struck by a car on his
Way from school. He was ad-
mitted to the hospital where his
condition was described as satis-
factory yesterday,
On Thursday, 15 -year -,old
Robert McDougall, of Lowe r' :41
Wingham, 'fell off a step.ladder
and injured his elbow; He was
released from the hospital when
an x-ray did not reveal"a frac-
ture.
Mervyn King, who played .
last year with the Wingham
Towne Hailers, Junior "B" team
Prelude to Spring
uPbluilldiatY111111 hdet, UriMul"siletfeehlie:
about this time of yen to woke
from work before darr
begins to restore one's
faith in the scientists' claim
'mtiloatvesthien eoarbrthit about the estun!
Or is it the other way 'round?
For about three months, SAY
winter, join the flat -Earth
Society, and' agree with practi-
cally anybody that the sun is a
legend, a figment of last sum-
merTimagination.
Don't know why I'm in such
a jolly mood today. Perhaps it
Is that we've had three straight
days of sunshine. Freeze the
brains of a brass money, but
Spring is on its way. I can
tell. The snowbank pOshed up '
beside my garage has dwindled
from 22 feet to 16. And two
teachers smiled at each other
in the staff room this week.
It's not au& a bad old world
after all. Nobody has axed a
computer or lynched a univer-
sity president this week — yet.
My daughter passed two tests
in school. I got the garbage out
without cursing once.
My wife and daughter have
stopped fighting (they gang up
on me, instead). My bursitis is
practically neutral. The income
tax deadline is nearly a whole
month away. I found the toe
'rubber that's been migsing for
a week. What more could a
man want?
The muffler hasn't fallen off
my car. I haven't had a tooth-
ache for six months. I almost
made a crucial curling shot the
other night. What more could
life offer?
My son is making his mark
in the world — of dining.
rooms. Some nights he makes
as much as $35. And some
nights $5. And he's making
something else; noises, vague
but audible, about going back
to school. • '
My • daughter came home
from school today smiling, in-
stead of scowling. Her mother
*shed her Wats PO.
int at, as she In. "The
door," poker -24w. 'Things We
definitelY en the UPaWing
around be.
Now, don't get me wrong
I'm no Pollyanna. I know that
though God's In His heaven,
even on weekends, all's wrong
viith the world. X 4:110W that
there. are little black 4004 no
bigger than the Rocky Wm -
tains, on the horizon.
There are Black Pan-
thers, and the Yellow Menace_ •
and brown Verrill/a, and WIUT4
gorillas, and Pink elephants,
and blue singers, and reds un-
der a great many beds.
There are broken homes and
broken marriages and broken
garterbelts. Practically everX-
body you meet over the age of
eight months is either emotion-
ally disturbed or senile.
We have explosions in the
population, the stock markets
and the furnaces of the nation.Taxes and insurance and even
the important t,hingsr. like
bread and milk, keep going up.
(It won't be long before Most
of us are living on bread -11114-
milk, Considering the price of
meat.)
_ _
1' Cars are not being,. as !reit
made as tin cans. The n00, -re-
turnable bottle is our biggest
threat since • the bU001110
plague, The Man -in -the -Moon
has lost his Image and Mr.
Trudeau is following fast.
Tomorrow there will be
blizzard. And the day after, t
muffler and tall -pipe will fall
off my ear. My piles will re-
act:brenate.. 111 lose both- tee-
ruBut today I don't care.
yellow sun is kissing the white
snow, and the .latter, overcome
by passion, is melting. That is
all I know and all I need' to;
knoiwt.. To hell with all the rest
of
I'm in such a state of eupho-
ria, I think I,eould even go out
:and have a whale of a time'
,with a girl called Morita. If I
knew one.
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If your narriefelTalrld“ or 20 wa$ named "Davie, 'Si
"Susan you possess Ontario's
most currently popular given ,
name, reports Robert Welch,
Ontario's Registrar General and
Provincial Secretary. As pre-
fixed double names, Joseph,
Mary and Marieare the 'most
-popular.
,Perhaps not sincethakes-
peare first posed the question:
'/What's in a name?" has so
much information been accum-
ulated on‘Christian.or given
names by means Of data pro-
cessing.' The. tabulation of
giyen names was a by-product
of indexing birth records by the
office of the registrar general,
whose business it is to record
all births, marriages and deaths
in the province.
The tabulation concerned
names given Ontario's 153,320
children'born in the province in
1964. Of the 75, 881 boys born
In that year, one out of every
has been signed with the Mont-
real Canadians organization, it
was announced last week. He
will report to Montreal nex t
• September. A native of Sim-
coe, Mery came to Wingham
last winter from fhe Barrie Fly-
ers. He was a familiar figure
around town, staying over in
the summer months and playing
ball with the Mildrnay team.
- He assisted at various times with
recreation work in town.
was the name chosen fort 653
girls out of a total of 74,466.
bdin-that year, making the
mine the most popular chosen
for baby girls, or for one of
every 45 girls.
The ten p9st popular names ,
chosen for Mys were. -
John, Rdbert, Michael, James,
Paul, M k, Richard, William
andKevi.
• Baby girls were given the,
following names in order of
popularity: Susan, Sandra,
Lisa, Linda, Deborah, Patricia,
Karen, Catherine,' Christine,
and Donna., '
One interesting highlight of
the tabulation was the many
given names that reflect the in-
creasing number of Ontario new
comers from European countries
especially the Latin countries,*
and other nations. Many chil-
-dren's names from these count-
ries are prefixed with the given "
names Joseph, Mary or Marie,
77 for Joseph, and "M" for
Mary or Marie.
The remaining 25 most pop-
ular names for boys were Brian,
Steven, Stephen, Daniel, Peter
Christopher,' Jeffrey, Timothy,
Kenneth,' Ronald, Donald,
Thomas, Douglas, Scott and
Gregory; girls, Brenda, Eliza-
beth, Kimberly, Barbara, Nan-
cy, Heather, Kelly, Wendy. .
Cheryl, Sharon, Jennifer, •Lori,
Jacquelin, -Laura and Carol.
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