HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1969-04-03, Page 4Advance• Ti uses, Thursday. April 8, 1869
When Hopes erre Renewed
The timeless message of Easter, as far
as Christian people are concerned, is one
of renewed hope, based on a firm belief in
a living Saviour and a continued and per-
fect existence beyond the chilling fact of
the grave.
1 he first Easter, however, coincided
with and gave fresh meaning to pagan
• springtime rites which had been celebrated
for countless millenia 'before the cruci-
fixion of Christ. Mankind, for thousands
of years, had marked the season of spring
and the planting of seed , with ceremonies
which sought to elicit the favour .of the
gods upon human endeavours. As in so
many instances, the important events in
early Christian history werein some meas-
ure understandable to those who had
known other beliefs.
Easter opens the gate to the new year,
much more impressively than does the
first day of .January. It is the'time when,
even in this day of sophistication, we fre-
quently' don new clothing, shake off the -
last thoughts of winter confinement and
look forward with refreshed interest to a
long season of activity and development
after months of semi -hibernation.
Perhaps, like our correspondent of last
week, you will find the application of
Christian belief unpalatable. If so, that is.
your concern, the only remedy for which
would be to stop reading this column. It
happens to be written by a Christian ---
though a faulty one -- and we have no in-
tention of trying to express the meaning of
Easter in any other way.
May the Easter season bring to .you a
renewal of your hopes and a strengthening
of your faith. The man or woman who
stands in no need of these two blessings is
beyond our comprehension.
Live It Up at Belmore
This is the right time of year0..to get
spring in your blood • .. and what more
enjoyable spring tonic could you find than
a powerful "shot" of Belmore maple
syrup?
This coming week -end the Belmore
folks will celebrate their second annual
Maple Syrup Festival. Thought not the
first of its kind in Ontario, it is unique
in its locale. Belmore is not a big place
—in fact it is officially designated as a
"hamlet."
Sometimes hamlets are the very best
of places to discover what remains of a
largely by -gone age of hearty friendliness
and warm hospitality. Thank goodness
there are still a few spots left where so-
phistication is less important than neigh-
borliness. -
Yes, it's true that they will charge you
a small fee for your pancakes and maple
syrup, but we don't thin , anyone is going
to complain. The move n't going into.
any private pockets. Instead it will be
used for repairs and improvements to the'
Belmore arena and -community centre.
In Belmore they don't believe in run-
ning 'to the township council or a govern-
ment agency. They like to solve their own
problems—and provide some old-fashioned.
hospitality at the same time.
See you at Belmorel
Have You Gdot on Opening?
Late Iasi week .this newspaper received
a:' personal letter from Premier John Ro-
berts which pointed out the urgency of
finding employment for students who will
be free for work, during the holiday
months.
There are obvious places for some of
the students, such as summer resort opera-
tions, which cannot keep staffs over the
winter,, but in many businesses and indus-
tries it 'is difficult :indeed to fit in an ex-
tra, and usually inexperienced person. For
one thing, business'itself tends increasingly
to slow upduring the summer months as
owners and managers: take off for -holidays.
However, .thee premier's plea is a valid
one. Thousands .of high school and uni-
versity
ni-
versitny.students are thrown upon the labor
market, many of those in senior category
in real needof gainful employment to see
them through the expenses of the next
year's education.
Though the number of extra jobs avail-
able in the Wingham area may not be
great,we would like to assist in solving
even a small portion of this prioblem.
Therefore we invite students who want
summer work, to place 'their advertise-
ment in this paper free of charge. We
suggest that you list the type of work you,
want (and don't be toofussy), along with
any experience and .qualifications you may
have. It would be a good idea to adver-
tise right now, before all the openings are.
fiI led.
We might point out: to potential em-
ployers, that there",is' more than a mere
work -for -the -dollar aspect tothis plat).
The futurestretches a long way ahead, and
the studentyou hire this; summer might
well become a reliable employee a couple
of years hence. • These young people need
experience a'nd you can offer that to hem.
High Taxes Not the Only Answer
Once a year a man stands up to speak
before , the House of Commons i Ottawa
—a man who must of necessity he fearless,
a d whose words should create.a great
al more attention than they are usually
accorded by our members of Parliament.
That man is the auditor -general, Maxwell
Henderson.
The auditor -general's office is charged
with the responsibility of making a detail-
ed ' study of government "spending, .and
pointing out the more obvious errors of
judgment. Unfortunately, no' one seems
to pay a great deal of.. attention, for every
year the report lists a string of "floopers,”
any one of which would spell the bitter
end for a board of directors if the money
in question belonged to .a private corpora -
n.
Here are some of the little dandies in-
cluded in this year's report from the audi-
tor -general's department: The CBC paid
$148,000 for unused hotel space during
Expo while corporation employees used
space inother hotels at a cost of about
$40,000.
The defence department spent $7 mil-
lion on the conversion of seven destroyer
escorts before deciding the, whole_ job
would cost $13 .million more than the
estimates'called for...
A Crown -owned foundry at Haley Sta-
tion near Renfrew, built in 1951' for $2,-
700,000
2,700,000 and assessed at $431,000 for
municipal taxes, was sold for $ 165,000 to
a company which received$457,000 in
federal Loans to modernize the plant, and
only half of which is to be repaid in five
years. •
A hospital was informed that due to a
clerical error it had been awarded a con-
structiongrant of $109,000, which • was
paid although the hospital had sought only,
$40,000.
Errors and 'inadequacies in recording
expenditures and revenues were so great in
the accounts of the Northwest Territories
government that no reliable financial state-
ment could be prepared for 1967-68.
Habitat:The' super -modern apartment
building exhibited at Expo, cost $7,472,000
more- than the original contract price,
mostly' for "unidentifiable" reasons. Rev-
enues were recorded so poorly at Expo
that the joint auditors refused to certify
the correctness of $ 101,438,000 out of
total revenues of '$140,984,000. -
For the first time in 20 years, Ca-
nadian taxpayers are beginning to be ser-
iously disturbed about the level of tax-
ation. Times have been so good that most
of us have simply shrugged off every fresh
increase and paid the bill. But now it's
getting too thick. Many of us are no long-
er convinced that the onlysolution to to-
day's dilemma is increased taxes. We
would like to see a thorough investiga-
tion 'of every aspect of government spend-
ing by businessmen who have some prac-
tical concept of efficiency.
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Watch the Two -wheelers
Perhaps you are one of the dozens of
fathers who is currently on the bug -list bf
some young hopeful who wants his first
bike this spring. Every father understands
the urge to get that first set of wheels,
and his youngser's wheedling makes the
old boy hark back to a well -remembered
campaign he carried out when he was
the same age. •
Just remember, however, that when
you were a lad there were only one-quarter
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as many cars on the streets. Today a
youngster should be old enough to know
and obey the traffic rules before he is
turned loose on a vehicle of his own,
If your child is too small to understand.
and react sensibly to the hazards you are
entirely dependent on the unusually high
level. of care required by car drivers. It
will be a sad day when you learn that one
of them wasn't quite fast enough to out-
think a ,little boy on a bicycle.
MARCH 1920
Mr. Peter Hakney *hob"
owned and worked the east
halves of Lola 1 and 2 Come. `-
cion B. Carrick for many rItto
has sold out to Mr, James
ickel of Howick, a reaped
idler. The purchaser ggts,-
session on April lst, and Wi r ,:
Hakney purposes holding in:
auc . ' sale before that date,
after - t ich he will move 1
Belmore,
ivir. William Fields has sold
his butchering business at 1411g-
ham to Mr. Thomas Fields and
Mr. Alf Lockridge. Mr. Lock,
ridge is ahighly respected young
man and has been a residnt„o f
town since childhood. He hits.
been in the employ of Mr,
Fields for some time. We wish
the new firm success.
Wingham people, and partic-
ularly those living in Lower
Wingham have been anxious
about the yearly spring floods
this season because of the great
amount of snow but at time .of
going` to press it appears that
the flood will do no damage.
True, the flats and prairie axe
covered but the recent cold
weather has frozen up the ground
and snow so that the floods have
abated. The snow is about half
gone and we believe the cause
for,anxiety is now well over.
Wingham has a good sized lake
for at least part of each season.
This week Mr.. John Becking
delivered the first poles which
have been ordered by the Hydro
Commission for their system in
Teeswater. Some of the present
poles in use on our local system
may be used, but a great many
more will be needed for the erec-
tion of the power line corning
into Teeswater and for the com-
pletion of the line to Wingham.
Mr. Joseph Pugh has purch-
ased the double cement house
on Frances Street from Mr. Jenk-
ins of Regina. The sale wat.
made through J. G. Stewart,.
real estate dealer. • Mr. Thos:
Deans has purchased Fred Fori--
er's house on Shuter Street. Mr,
R. D. Bloomfield is moving in.
the house until recently occu-
pied by Mr. J. W. Hanna on
John St. and Mr. and Mrs. Han-
na are moving into their new
quarters over the store. Mr. J:,
A. Currie will move into the
house about to be vacated by
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Mr. '1,41111., and Mr.'
Thornton MQVC41.111t0 the house
now *coupled by We Gurria
Mr. Hugh Took la now ern '
fortably ,se ed in, *new hOrtte
recently purchased from Mr.
Thornton. Mr, Jack Mason has
sold his residence. on Frances
St. to Mr. R. E. Jackson of
near Bluevale.
MARCH 1934
Thursday vast week, Mr,r,
Thomas Fells shipped the house-
hold effects and motor car of
Mr. C. P. Smith m Cadboro
Bay, Victoria, B. C. , where Mr.
Smith has purchased a fine
home. • The citizens of Wing-
ham and vicinity regret that
Mr, and Mrs. Smith and fam-
ily are not returning to live
here.
Ever since Jimmy Murray's
rink won the Challenge Cup
from Kincardine the curlers
from the lakeshore town have •
been itching to get the old mug
back home. They tried once
about two weeks ago and failed,
and, last Saturday again played
twos games here in the hope of
lifting the cup, but again were
.defeated. The rinks were as
follows: Kincardine: D. A.
Sutherland, George McGaw,
Earl Avery, W. P. Spero, skip.
Wingham; J. Carr Sr. , J. A.
Currie, J. Murray, D. Rae.,
skip.
At .the •Sunday morning
Church service of the United
Church, Miss B. Reynelds, for-
mer organist of the church, was
presented with a purse of mon-
ey from the congregation in ap-
preciationof her long end'faith-
ful service to the church. ;
. In a card received last week
from Mr. C. P. Smith from -
Cadboro Bay, Victoria, B. C.
he stated that they had, a very
mild winter and that the spring
flowers .are now in bloom out
there. •
On Monday morninglast
week, Mr. W. H. Haney slip-
ped' on the bottom step as he
was coming out of'the: U.F.O. ,
and sprained his right ankle.. ,He
thought little . of the accident,
and went• to. Kippen and Sea
forth with Roger. Oke on,the
U.F. 0, truck,`, but, before he
returned(,, etas: unable to walk. '
He warconfined tolls bed for
a. week and at present! is around
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Aboutour board meeting
I don't suppose many of you
know what it's like to be a
director of a company . an
the surface, it looks great.
Some big operators, like
Robert Winters or General
Lostafew, are directors in half
a dozen companies, and it
doesn't seem to bother them.
They go to directors' meetings,
vote the way they're supposed
to, and. pick up their annual
directo'r's fee, anywhere from
$1,000 to $5,000, depending•
on who they are and how much
prestige .is attached to the
name.
- By some legal fluke, I am
still a director of the company
in which I started a brilliant
newspaper career, en about
twenty-eight cents. The rest
was cash money, borrowed
from relatives, insurance poli-
cies and everything else short
of 'armed robbery and selling
my wife.
But I guess I'm, nobody and
the prestige attached to my
name is somewhere below zero.
Because I don't get any direc-
tor's fees, And I don't sit
around an oval table with a lot
of other directors, with the
• agars and Sharpened pencils
and the notepads and the
dickering over whether we
should sell 5,000 shares to
Amalgamated or . buy up 20,-
000
0;000 shares of Moose Factory
Refineries.
Our director's meeting usual-
ly takes place in the back shop
(the printing area) of a weekly
newspaper. I don't even rate a
cigar, let. alone a sharpened.
pencil, and I find myself open
sting as labor-management ar-
bitrator, father confessor and
den mother.
Somehow, I'd rather have it
that way. The only time I
• smoke a cigar is when someone
has a baby. And our problems
are more human. They're
things like, "How are we going
to keep the frazmatogal 'work-
ing on the linotype machine?"
Or, "The trout are scarcer than
hen's teeth this spring."
Sounds simple. But you've
no idea how difficult its is
being A director in your old
home town. The trouble is, al•
most everybody is a director.
They're all unpaid, like me,
but they have a stake in the
paper.
Maybe it's only the fact that
their . son graduated, or their
daughter is not going to, re-
form school, after all, but they
know how the paper should be
run', and they are not loath to
say so.
There are the directors who •
buy a five -dollar advertisement
twice a year, °..but expect the
paper to carry two pictures
(flattering) and a two -column
account of their daughter's
wedding, for free.
And there are the directors
who scream with outrage when •
you report, in all honesty, that
they've spent two weeks in
Florida or California or Mexi-
co. They don't want their cus-
tomers to think they're making
that kind of money. And, of
course, they'd be equally fu-
rious if you hadn't mentioned
it. ,
And there are the directors
who are fanatics about the.
WCTIJ or, the Fall Fair com-
mittee, who expect seven col-
umns to be devoted to • their
work, and spend four dollars
for an ad, or go to the appeal -
lion to get their' printing done.
And here and there, about as '
numerous • as the White -Footed
Beagle -Breasted Thorny Pink
Owl; there are' the directors
who say, "You're .putting out a
good paper; keep it up." These
you try to stuff, mount and put
up in front of the building. But
they often object. •
But it's worth it, to revisit
the old town. This week, I met
-an old buddy with two broken
ribs, in considerable pain. He
cracked one rib in a ,fall, and I
was too polite to ask how he
did it. Got it all strapped up by
the doc.
His wife sleeps on the inside
Of ,the bed, next the wall. She
had togo to the bathroom.
"1 know," I said, "she put
her 'elbow in your ribs, climb-
ing over you." Ile replied,
grunting with agony: "Elbow
be , damned. She put., both
hands, backed by her 138
pounds, on My ribs. I had one
cracked rib. Now I have two
broken ones."
Exactly why we need direc°
tors. If he'd had a Director in
charge. of Climbing Out of Bed
When Volt Have to Go to the
Bathroom; he would not be in
that shape today.
e:!machos, '
many Merida here, will w
him a speedy recovery.
Arrived t UAW*.f adlcs'
Epg SOO. Cots.. ;Prete.
Ste,. Mouses and Pullovers.
Silk Crepes,, Prints, Broadcloth,
Plata and Printed Sparva Cloth
iu best colors.. silk Hose,
Gloves, Corsets and New Easter
Neckwear,
MARCH 1944
Mr. and Mrs. Al Orvis re-
ceived a card from Flt, Sgt.
Charles E. Pauphimwho is a
prisoner of war in Germany say-
ing he wished to be remember-
ed to all thefolks of Wingham.
We surely are pleased to pass
this . message along. Charlie
was a member of the staff of
Canada Packers here for some
time.
Mr. and Mrs. J,. }Jerson Ir-
win, 10th concession of Ea s t
Wawanosh, received' a wire on
Saturday from their son, Flight
Lieutenant Richard Irwin, that
he has arrived back .from over-
seas and was in Ottawa. On
Sunday they received a tele-
phone message that he would
arrive home soon. Dick arrived
in England last June and then
was sent to Iceland where he
was on coastal patrol duty until
December when he went back
to England. His arrival back in
Canada was a pleasant surprise
for his relatives and friends.
The following pupils of A.
W. Anderson were successful in
their mid -winter examination;
Toronto Conservatory of Music;
J. Hall, honors, grade 8 piano;
A. L. Thompson, ist class hon-
ors sand M. L. Porteous, honors,
grade 2, Theory. Congratula-
tions.
Mr. Harold Garlick, who
was manager of the W a l k e r
• Store for a number of years and
who went to Kincardine about
five years ago, has resigned his
position as manager of the Sted-
man Store in the Lakeshore
town to assume the position of
assistant manager of theValk-
erton office of the Unemploy-
ment Insurance and Selective
Service Commission. '
Archie Jones.; who resides
on -the B Line, Tumberry, has a
hen that is making a great ef-
fort to increase population. On
Saturday it laid an egg that
measured 9 inches around one
aw andigv3/4 inchesithe.othe,r.,
lengtll,was 'al/8 inches; - and.
the weight was 6 ounces. Mr.
and Mrs. Allen Ransay, 1st line
of -Morris, have a flock of hy-
brid rock leghorn that are do-
ing their best as well. Wehave
.eight eggs in our office that
weigh 26 ounces and they aver-
. age 3 1/4 inches in length and
six inches around the largest
part. All the eggs this flock
produces are not this size but
• many, are. '
MARCH 1955
The Wingham and District
Council of Churches met at the
home of Rev. and Mrs.. Alex
Nimmo, Wingham, on Mon-
day, March 7, 1955. The
meeting' opened with a brief
devotional period conducted by
Rev. E. W. Todd. With the
Rev. J. Pollock in the chair,
the meeting adopted the min-
utes as read by Rev. D. J. Mac-
Rae.. Following the business
period, the speaker, ' Dr: Ber-
nard Corrin, was introduced by
Rev. Alex Nimni ,
The Wingham Kinsmen Club,
the Howick Junior Farmers of
Wroxeter and the Wingham
Community Players are now
preparing their entries for a
one -act festival to be held 'in
Wingham Town Hall at the end
of this month. The Kinsmen's
entry is the famous drama "The
Monkey's Paw," which is being
directed by Mrs. John Lang -
ridge and Jim Currie. In the
cast are Barbara Edwards, Jack
McKnight, Al Williams, Bfll.
Connell and Jim Currie. The
Howick Junior Farmers are enter-
ing the play, a comedy called
"Hanging Uncle Henry". This
play is directed by Mrs. Tom ,
Vittie and the actors are, Aud-
rey O'Krafka•, Ron McMichael,
Phyllis McMichael and John
Stafford. The Wingham Com-
munity Players are rehearsing
"Joint Owners in Spain" which
is directed by Mary Louise Flach
andthe players are Mrs. Guy,
Mrs. JI,In Henry, Mrs. Fred
Saint and Mrs. Miles Overend.
A decision to serve a hot
meal in the cafeteria of the new'
Wingham District High School
„was made at the regular meet-
ing of the high school board
last Wednesday afternoon. Mem-
bers of the board decided that
after September 1st of this year
a hot meal would be served at
a cost of 35¢ per meal.
Here is Brian, :ahnost a year old, whorii,needs a
mother and. father. While he waits to be adopted he b..
living in a foster home with six children°;► he is
accustomed to a lot of attention. He would do 'well In a I
family where there would be -brothers and sisters to' play 1.
with him. Brian's solemn look is because he didn't know
the .photographer. With. familiar people he is happy and
good-natured. Of French. and German backgrouf d, Brian 1
is a large -boned, sturdy boy with big blue eyes, thick i
wavy auburn hair, fair skin and rosy. cheeks. Ile is alert
and inquisitive, obviously understanding everything s21d"l
to him. There is mental illness in his mother's family
and asthma in his background, but - the . baby himself is
in excellent health. He needs parents who will not be
concerned 'over this .medical history or about limited
information on his father. To inquire about .adopthiga
Brian please write to Today's Child, • Department of Social
and Family Services, Parliament Buildings, 'Toronto 5.
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We have received a second
letter from R. E. McKinney, .
this one written while Mr. and
Mrs. McKinney were enjoying
the luxury of the Royal Hawai-
ian Hotel. The letter reads as
follows: _.
Pleasures and problems of
travel are, to say the least,
strenubus 'at times. On t h e
flight from Hiroshima to Osaka,
Japan, the ticket clerk in the
rush removed two little sheets
froth Muriel's book of tickets.
One happened to cover Pan
American flight Tokyo to Hon-
olulu. After some. excitement -
and, a cable to Toronto we got
a duplicate. Anywhere but hi
Japan might have been easier.
A day and night in I,iroshi-
ma. Seeing the damage of one
bomb -the twisted steel and
museum full of articles and
pictures of things and people
make you a little sick. Popula-
tion before the bomb, 450.000;
. after the bomb, 160,000; today
the population is 5`50, 000.
Then to Osaka and by taxi to
the site for EXpo 70. From the . .
new tower you see much of the
construction, buildings, thru-
ways, etc. , but 0 Boy, much
remains to be done.
Then the new Tokyo Tokaido
Super Express train, Osaka to
Tokyo, the fastest train in the
world. Up to 140 -miles per , ,
hour, many tunnels and bridges
with only two stops in nearly
400 miles. Extremely comfort-
able with large airplane seats.
Tokyo is a lovely, busy large
city. We decided to change
from Pan American flight to
American President Lines via
President Wilson boat. It meant
four extra days its Tokyo while
we waited for the boat to sail.
We had to move to the Gin-
za Tokyo Hotel. Glad we did.
It was wonderful and downtown.
We toured around the city and
went to the largest theatre mus-
ic hall. By some help we got
two tickets, third row 'froth the
stage, with a large area disap-
pearing into the floor, etc. It
was a magnificent show. I
can prove it. The) master of
ceremonies looked at me and
motioned would I .come up on
the platform. 1 said sure and
he announced in Japanese and
English that I was from Toronto,
Canada. I got the best aud-
ience response of the evening,
aitld he.put a nice seat on the
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platform and brought the twci
leading ladies, beautihil geisha
girls. They.stood beside me
and flint my armsaround them
and they gave me a, picture.;
The boat trip from Yokal4L-
ma port to Uonolulu ova's de -4
lightful, wonderful accommi-
dation, lovely weather and a
new experience for me. Turned
our watches ahead onei hour
every night but one and found
our week's sail was eight days,
not seven:. We had two Than -
days, March 20, as we crossed
the International Date Line.
Circling the world :from west to
east w,e advance our watches
24 hours. • It is confusing at
times. The only moving thiiig
we saw'on the Pacific in the
eight days was a boat away off
the night before we reached
Honolulu.
We saw the,islandstajout h
a. irh. , lights up the nioul rain
about 6.30 a. in. Small bats '
came out with the 'pilpt,;t'ten
customs.and health inspect rs--
much fanfare as the ship ,a Tired
We were met as usual''in;each
city and port by a travel 4ent
and taken to our hotel, ,in. •this °
case the Royal Hawaiian itiriti
the private road into the Ijbtel
lined with palm trees, shrl}bi
and flowers, which were really
magnificent. We found die!,
beach, dining facilities and
surroundings beyond our expec-
tations (and that also includes
the costs of the services.
We took a boat trip .for half
a day to ,Pearl' Harbour and real-
ly the damage the Japs did to.
U.S. Navy December 7, 1941,
was unbelievable. To see the
masts, etc: , of these great
U.S.A. Navy ships sticking up
out of the water where they
sank in the harbour after being
hit by hundreds of bombs from
the Jap fighter planes coming
in from the Jap Navy anchored
200 miles out in the ocean with-
out being detected by the WS.
planes, there is no doubt this
war was not far from being the
last. People say the fury of ;the
bombardment was beyond com-
prehension and a complete suc-
cess from the Japanese stand,.
point. Only the A bomb saved
us.
We now fly to the island of
Maui where we expect to. stay
until early April --then Canad-
fan Pacific Airways home.
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