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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1969-05-15, Page 9The town council took credy it�b sen, atbl• stand et its last, txleeting onsl nos*, lotion forwarded, from the Township of itfleat. The resolution canedfor e strong protest to the provincial govern- ment over "excessively high" costs of edu- cation under the new county board system. The Wingham council, reasoned that since very few counties, including Huron, have actually set budgets and published mill Altos for educational purpose it is too soon to start protesting. The resolution was filed without further action. Everyone Is living infear of a tre- mendous boost • .in taxes because of the amalgamation of school boards. In fact the minister of education is apparently suffering under the same apprehension or at least is well aware -of the public state of mind, for he , has announced that wherever mill rates are too high the gov- ernment will subsidize in order to provide relief for the taxpayers. The fear of mounting educational tax rates seems to have arisen because of the high level of salaries being paid to the supervising personnel in the county board areas: Certainly $25,000 or $26,000 a year sounds high to a factory worker who eai is making only $5,, but it is not likely that any factory worker would consider themselves capable of handling a school system. Industry 'hes been paying salaries in the upper brackets to highly qualifled executives for a long time, and 'since we don't want anything, less than the best for our youngsters, must be prepared to meet Sometimes we forget that 'everything costs more nowadays. Food, clothing, housing, transportation -- all have sky- rocketed ua the past tell years, end execu- tive salaries have quite naturally followed the same trend. One of the- purposes behind the cen- tralization of school boards' was to in- crease the efficiency of the operation and to eliminate as far as possible, the dupli- cations whichrexisted under the local board system. Just how well the plan will work out in actual practice no one can tell until 'we have a few years of experience behind us. There will, no doubt, be many "bugs" to be ironed out, but we will have to be patient until the system is proven. Cer- - tainly no one can say at this stage that costs are "excessive?' Welcome to Wingham Although we regret the removal of old friends from the business community along main street, it is a pleasure to wel- come the newcomers to our town. Last week Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Walter joined the ranks of the local merchants and we are very sure that . they will be a most welcome addition to Wingham. Although we have not mentioned them specifically, several other business people have settled in Wingham in the past year or two and without exception they have proven to be real assets to the community. Western Ontario towns have seen more changes in the past ten : years than most of them, experienced in, the previous fifty. We can recall shortly after arriving here 18 years ago, one of the old hands.publicly stated that anything good that was ever c• lone in Wingham could be credited to the people who were born here. Although we have the greatest respect for those folks who have never lived any- where else, we think that nothing could be farther from the truth. Invariably when a business man moves in from the "out- side" he brings with him some fresh ideas and a lot of enthusiasm for his new home. We don't want to lose any of the old friends, but we can sure use a lot of new ones too. Sound Planning The plans for a tree -planting program. in town and for beautification of the lawn area in front of the town hall which were presented ' by the , Horticultural Society last week . deserve some mention • here. These people have taken a practical ap- proach to the needs of the town'and coun- cil has very wisely accepted their advice. Since public funds are in .particulaKly.short supply at the present tilde, the 'go-ahead could no be given to the work at the town hall; but that will quite probably come soon. .Dozens of the ,older trees along our streets will have to be removed' during the next few years, and without some con- sistent program of replacement the town would certainly look very bare in a short time. Thirty trees will beplanted this year and the replacements will have .to be continued from year to year. The suggested plan for the front of `the town hall offers some very interesting sug- gestions. • Since the two blue spruce trees had to be, cut' down • a few months ago the place looks pretty bald. The flower beds and shrubbery described by the Horticultural Society would be a vast im- provement. However, the building needs a. fresh coat of paint on the. trim and it would certainly' look'` a' for beftee °'if 'tie" brick' "' could be cleaned. Nothing is a poorer advertisement for a community than a grubby looking town hall. Hundreds of outsiders have occasion inthe course of a year to visit the clerk's office, and if the premises indicate neglect,' an impression of bad civic spirit is inevitable. The council is aware of the importance of making the building attractive and clean and, it is very 'likely that the . necessary irnproyements will be carried out as soon as the public purse will• stand the expense. More Help for Biafra Canairelief last week expanded the Ca- nadian portion of the joint Church Aid relief airlift into Biafra. Canairelief pur- chased three additional Super Constella- • tion aircraft to join the one already in ser- vice. The organization took this step in response to the increasing need in Biafra. The latest battles 'have riot affected : the airstrip or the airlift but the battles have created 1,000,000 new refugees. The three additional aircraft; and the stock of re - 'placement , parts were purchased from Nordair in Montreal for the sum ' of $350,000. The three aircraft are now being readied for their trip to the island of Sao Tome, the base for the relief operation. The first plane was expected to be ready to leave Montreal Monday, April 28. The second was expected to leave on or before Monday, May 5 and the third by May 12: Additional .all -Canadian crew members • have been recruited to fly and service the aircraft. The original crew of the first Super Constellation will provide the . nu- cleus for the three new crews, most of whom will be on 'leave from Nordair. Capt. J. S. Patterson, who flew the original plane for its first 100 flights, will, pilot the first of the additional aircraft. It is estimated that the cost of oper- ating the expanded airlift for the next three months will be $1.3 million. Can- airelief is immediately launching an ex- panded drive to raise, funds from Canadian individuals, churches, • businesses, or- ganizations and from interested groups in the United States and Europe. Since its formation.? Canairelief has raised $600,000 which was spent to pur- chase. and operate the original aircraft. To date the relief plane, has flown 110 flights into Biafara and has carried in more than 4,000,000 pounds of food and medicine, It is gratifying to know' that ,the ef- forts of Canadians to bring even some measure of hope to the victims of this inter -tribal• war are to be increased and expanded. The horrors of life in Biafra far outshadow all the complicated po- litical .considerations.which. have s� far prevented the. governments of the wealthy nations from doing anything at all to halt the slaughter. ;Certainly the utter in- ability n- ability of modern governmental estab- lishments to agree on a sensible and fair method for ending this war must eventual- ly prove to be one of the most sordid eras in modern history. History for All The Fundy Fisherman, a weekly news- paper in Black's Harbour, N.B., has com- bined with the Charlotte County Historical Society in its efforts "to offset the erosion of unwritten history which is decreasing with the death of each one of our elder citizens." The paper has just completed ,,running a three-part article on the ' once thriving granite industry in the county. Com- munity history is a great field for the amateur writer and nothing is read in the weeklies with greater interest than stories of how it used to be. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE • TIMES Published at Wingham,. Ontario, by Wenger Bros. limited W. Barry Wenger, President • Robert O. Wenger, Secretai y -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Subscription Rate: 1 yr. $6.00; 6 months $3.25, in. advance; USA $7.00 per yr.; Foreign rate $7.00 per yr. Advertising Rates on application Second Class, Mail Registration No. •0021 Return Postage Guaranteed Clark is' seven months old, developing very well. You. can tell from his expression . that he is a happy, alert, responsive baby. He smiles and :rubbles and laughs aloud whenever he is spoken to. He seems to notice everything and everybody. Though he is a biltoo young to crawl, Clark has discovered he can ,get arounk by rolling and he covers gdite a bit- of territory this wily- While he waits to be adopted- Clark is living with a fester family where there are other Children. He loves to watch.lbeir activities so he would probably be happy to have. **hers and sisters in his permanent home. Of English descent, Clark is a long baby, sturdily built and in good health..` Be has blue eyes, scanty blond hair and fair skin. He needs, parents who will welcome him on his own merits without worry over mental illness in his background. To inquire about adopting Clark please write to Today's Child, . Department of Social and Family Services, Parliament Buildings, -oronto 182. For general information about adoption aslc :►our local Children's Aid Society. Isn't tax time fun? With the income tax return usual.` eight 1 off at the safe Y minutes before midnight on the Last day, and my wife, who figured out mine, nea'r'ing nor- mal a couple of weeks. later, I think I have cooled out enough to pay a deep-felt, and deeply - deserved, tribute. • Oh, not to her. As I told her, from 'a • safe distance, "Any dummy can do that." I didn't really mean it. It was only. in retaliation for her applying to me the epithet "stupid." twelve times during one Sunday after- noon when I was helping her.' We got a different total on every column of figures. Patiently; I pointed out to her that women didn't have the panache to .deal with in- come tax forms. ' They want everything to come out even, just as they do when wallpap- ering. Men would much rather grin fiendishly and say, "Let's see what the computer can do with that." Finally, in disgust, I left it to her. She's so ridiculously honest that I probably won't even be fined this year, as is the custom. But that takes a lot of the fun and excitement out of it. There's no joy in doing . your income tax form pnless you think you've gotten away with something. No, the tribute I want to pay is to a modern writer. He's anonymous, or I'd trumpet his name from the housetops. He's the chap who produces that - annual best-seller called Ti General Tax Guide. Don't let the title fool you. That's just a front for one of the most baf- fling mystery stories of the year. It's wildly unfair that his publishers, a stodgy old •firm called Department of National Revenue, with headquarters in Taxation, Canada, do not give this author the glory and pub- licity which is his due. Not since, Nicolo 1'Iiachiavel- li wrote The Prince, back in CURTAILED MAIL SERVICE There will be no wicket , - service or rural delivery at the post office on Monday, Mail from street letter boxes will be collected at the usual time and while there will be no incom- ing mail, there will be a des- patch of mail at g; 30 p. m. the sixteenth century, has such ab brilliantly, . diabolically clever piece of prose been produced. And this guy does it every year. The 1968- edition of this work ran to only thirty pages, but it was a little masterpiece. It had the usual combination of complication, suspense, mys- tery, irony and horror. While it smacks of Machiavelli there are undertones of Edgar Alien Poe./ Mind you, it's not for the average, reader, who likes a plot with beginning, middle and end. This is for the more sophisticated reader, who likes jumping backwards, •forwards and sideways in an effort to keep up with the subtle, invo- luted mind of the writer. Nor is .it a thrilling encoun- ter for the fellow working for a salary, paid by cheque, with all deductions at source. But for the citizen. who has more than one source of income, the book's combination of back - tracing, leap -frogging, equivo- cation and gobbledegook are . sheer delight. My wife enjoys this sort of thing. In fact, .her favourite indoor sport is reading aloud to me excerpts which prove 'that I am going to wind up in • the penitentiary for life. if I ignore Item 36 of this gem, which the author, with typical irony, calls a Guide. With a ,guide like this, who needs a compass. It's all there, perfectly .clear. For instance, she was delighted to find that, because we live in one of the •ten provinces of Canada, .we get something: an "Abatement for Provincial Taxes." This can amount to 28 percent. Just like money in the bank. Pretty darn decent oMlle federal gov- ernment. It is actually called a • "reduction." Of course, you don't get this .reduction if you live in the Yukon. You have to pay the whole shot. Pretty' darn mean of the federal government. And, of course, if you do live in one of the provinces, your "reduction" is added back somewhere, and you pay the whole shot, anyway. But this is just one of the charming, illog- ical little peccadilloes that make this book a "must" for anyone. Anyone, that is, who is beim; skinned alive by a trapper who° smiles and smiles while your pelt is being removed. 's Items from MAY 1920 Mr. John rCantes'on has mov- ed into the house fiorrnerly oc- cupied by Mr. Wallace Frank- um. Mr. and Mrs. GeorgeWright and family moved to town on Saturday. Mr. Wright is t h e new bandmaster. Mr, and Mrs. J. H. Finley have moved into die Homuth property in the town plot which they recently piurchased. Mr$. Habkirk has moved to town from McKillop Township and Will reside with her son, Mr. O. Habkirk, Leopold Street Mr. and Mrs. T.- J. Baker have moved to town from Bel - more. Mr. Baker has accepted. . a position with Mr. J. A. Mc- Lean and will for the present reside in one of Mr. McLean's houses: next to Mr. 'Fixter. Mr. W. F. VanStone has sold his house on Scott Street, known as the Hicks property to -Roy Barrett. One of the graduates of Queens University who is men- tioned in. the daily press is go- ing to India as a Missionary is Miss Isabel MacDougall o f Wingham. MAY 1934 The Teeswater road was the scene of a car accident on Mon- day when an Essex coup driven by Dave Eadie, Glenannon, ran into W. Hupfer's coup. It appears that Mr. Eadie was ap- proaching the Teeswater road at Porter's corner and did not notice the other car approach- ing and -ran into it. Nobody was hurt in the accident and both cars proceeded into town under their own power. Mr. Hupfer's car had the motor sup- pory broken and the other car had its fenders bent. Mr. T. A. Currie has purch- ased the Roe Property on the, corner of Patrick -and C en t r e Streets, from Dr. J. R. Lock- hart.•• • On,,$aturday afternoon a few of the. young men from town were. out•in Henderson's bush in quest of game, Their efforts' were amply regarded for they shot a large fish hawk which had a wingspread of 4 feet 10 inches, Mr. Hawk was in the act, df debouring `a.six inch fish he had. just captured when the • ...M.M.MMN......M...M.....s boys spied him and so interest- ed was he in his mal that the bo had no tToUble getting real clog which made him an easy target four their guns. Mrs. Catherine Young, Min- nie Street, Wingham, will be at home o her 98th birthday, h aY, Thursday, May 3rd, to her rel•, atives. from 3 p. m. to 7 p. m. and to all neighbors andfriends •from 7.30 to9'p.m. MAY 1944 Mr, 1*. Brooks has purchased the house on Minnie Street, formerly owned by the late Mrs. Margaret Wilson. ' Mr.. Mickey Carlton of King- ston, has joined the staff of C.KNX. Prior to coming here he was with the. Kingston radio station. We welcome Mr, and Mrs. Carlton and two girls to Wingham. They are residing in the Mitis residence on John Street. ,The Wingham Silver Fox Ranch (A. R. DuVal and H. Al- len) have'purchased the Jack Weir farm just north of the town Harold Finlay lives there at present. When Mr. and Mrs. Allen were bride_ and groom ''over fifty years ago this w as their home. Miss Agatha Coultes, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coultes of Wawanosh has been appointed to'Gypsumville, Man- itoba by the Dominion Board, Wornen's Missionary Society of the United Church in Cana - t da. This announcement was made by the president, Mrs. Frank J. Day, when six new missionaries were appointed to their respective fields of serv- ice. Dr. J. H. Cody, president of the University of Toronto, hai announced that James G. Workman, instructor in Mathe- matics in University of Toron- to Schools is leaving the teach- ing profession. ' Mr. Workman a teacher at Wingham High School when it first opened and taught herefor four years .prior to going to University of Toron- to Schools in 1911. He collab- orated in writing `text books in general mathematics and ge- ometry, which are used in On- tario schools. G. McClure of Wingham is one of the 396 Bell Telephone e mp lo ye e s who have been . •r •: •,. •. xrr r •: r . is :• •, •; :: • .. r .. r ?+• } ::;.� ..? f r.f: �:: .;'y�%��rf��ii�+.•i:fh%:;i%/i,%;r.. r��:?:.;�Yl,•fi:r{.•X{.?}r +� f.:�� ff?� :,,,,.�}/ff+rfl,•rf',?i:r{.� {; f�f{rx'r.•; 4; ;:�.•rlr.? :vr'i'f.:•:. r. y LETfl.RST EDITOR 'fr'i4::�+r rrlr: iri :r,r • y is ...?:r f ,,. f��%:�i�r{/!+�lri�fi'�:':fi+�%::?fr: lr/, �'+:f'l •+}� 'l !� i;+:.}?rf,'lrf. ?: rr��rr��!%rr.�i7f,.,rf�ri�/ :+/!•,ri{f:Sr+}%,1,•:, :..f :f✓r ••! .lff i•r, !%%?;f f{l,.l 1+•%rrr%r;/?.,, •;,r. f?:'•r::�V•/. ry.,...f•. f•/llrr�r'rri r//.•:J/':�,./.; �/�f .%{/,+ .,,:.� .rr�f� >;: �r'!/{. r r. ;%!; f}rr?, t::ir.l�:: .fi :•rr�,f.,{••.. �•rfYh, rl.,.; r�r'fh r� r.+f+rr'f•�r.•{l�rl.•%::f.;r?.:r.:�f:..::�fv.. f:.//?.!}:f r.•....fr,..• Dear Editor: Is it any wonder that young people cry out, walk out, drop • out or protest in some other way? One of the qualities com- mon to all human beings is a desire, yea rather a need for .recognition. Let's fulfill the need andthus stop the demand. To illustrate my point let me glance briefly at two recent happenings at the F. E. Madill Sebondary School. First, last winter on a cold blustery day .our students held a half-day walk -out. „The mass media in Western Ontario, radio, T. V. and daily newspapers, gave the event great coverage. • In actu- al fact the students didn't real- ly know what they were protest- ing, Or what they hoped to ac- complish by their demonstra- • tion. The media used the words: protest ., walkout "march". and "demonstration" with em- phasis, 'suggesting that students were at best misled ' and justifi- ably angry, or at worst; un- thinking, stupid, and ignorant. Little attention was paid to the inclemency of the weather, the orderliness of the march, or the harmlessness of several hundred students 'walking around the block., Second, this spring these same students wrote, edited, performed, directed and pro- duced an excellent musical comedy, "Some Funny Things Happened on the Way to Grad- uation". rad-uation". On the late n i g h t news do T. V. no mention was made of either the excellence of the production or even of the fact of its happening. Morning news on radio didn't mention it either. Nor did an examination of any daily papers produce any different result. Frankly, I • don't mind admitting that per- sonally I was very much pleased and surprised by the whole pro- duction. There were minor flaws to be sure, but the young people have cause for pride in th it work. The author, along sj'ith her enthusiastic, talented and well -rehearsed company, demonstrated forcibly her abil- ity to move an audience rapidly between laughter and tears. No news headlines! Most teachers and parents, I believe, are aware of the value of a word of .p r a is e. for a job well done. When the'mass media begin totbe more human and less sensational, then per- haps the dropouts won't have a reason to protest, and that will end the glamour of dropping - out. A pat on the back .from the adult world may even elim- inate the need for the ad minis- tration of a firmer one, lower down, to all but the lunatic fringe of the world of youth. More than ninety per cent of our young people deserve at least some recognition. Yours sincerely, C. R. Morrison English Dept.. Head 217 Shuter St. W Ingham, Ont. Advance -Times Wingham, Ont. Dear Editor: Of all the foolishness that is printed in news papers the "Bill Smiley Column" is pure hog- wash. To waste so much space with meaningless nonsense is pure robbery to your readers. Mr. Smiley is a scavenger. No matter how good or ho w honest an effort others would make the S mileys'of this world would reduce them to their lev- el.. And Mr. S rniley's level is that of mouthing rubbish. This guy can't even make a sincere statement of fact. He sits on the fence and second guesses others. Yours very truly, '5. P. Orien awarded safe driving button for 1943 by the Otrio Safety League, Tile aw,is cOnsist of buttons inscribed with ;the num. ber of yearsof safe riving and, afe d. certiificatec, signed by. U.G., Fester manage; ger of the league and C, Walfo0d, the co'anra, weetern division plant sater- tendent: I+ r;, McCi.ure's battoa was for one ye arss safe Mr:. W. Clark has .ased the building, now occupied by Mr, H. T. Thomsen's Feed Store. He will move hisplutnb- ing business into this new iota- . tion about the end of then:10114 The building he is vacating will be occupied by the ral Hydro after alteration have been .completed.. We mer. stand that Mr. ornan. w transfer his business tp another location. MAY 1955 The building which format.- ' • ly fiftyyears housed the high school students of Wingham and District was turned. over to W, T. Cruickshank for use as a • television station, at a special meeting of the town council on • Friday night. The building was sold to Mr. Cruickshank for one dollar, The high school• board had•originally offered thebuiid- ing to the town for use as a pub-' lie school building or television station upon the payment o f $1. 00. Under the agreement the town will be oblfged'.to pave John and Victoria °Streets, east of Carlingb'TerraCe, ,lead- ing to the new high school„ • Mrs. Margaret° Faisher, the ' first white girl to be liOrn in Wingham, celebrated' her 94th birthday at 'her .home. an Paisley last week. Mrs, Fisher, who , makes her home with"her sister, is in good health. A 'daughter of the late Mr. and Mts. Archi- bald Fisher, she wasborn- on- the soutkbank of ;the Maitland, immediately acresss Ihe•Lowear Town bridge, ' where Allen 'F. Walker now resides. Her father • came to Wingham in.1860 from St. 'Marys joining his brotheii - Peter in buiilding a grist mill, moolllet tt.mill. Shingle arktsaW mut Ib Lower Tbwn. Mil. Fish- er• was born in 1861. Murray Styles, a former resident of Brussels,, hastaken over duties of manager in the meat department of the IGA store in W i ng h a m. He suc- ceeds Lloyd Smith who' resign- ed his position there on Satur- to Mr. Stylescomes Satur- day. M . Wingham front Clintofi, where he has been employed with the IGA organization for the past three months. He was previ• - ' ously with the IGA store in Georgetown, and has been in the company's employ for the ' past six years. " W. Miller Davis, 'hist prin- cipal of the Lebanon Chapter, attended Grand Chapter.,held at the King Edward Hotel, To- ronto , last Wednesday and Thursday. Dr. K. M. MacLen- nan and Dave Murray were al- so present. Thomas Burke of Wroxeter was elected grand superintendent of Huron district at the convention. Rev. J. L. Coyle, of the Wingham Baptist Church, who has been granted a four-month leave of absence, left this week in preparation for the Muskoka Baptist Conference, which will be' held this°summer at Mary Lake, Muskoka. Mr:. Coyle will assume the position of dilector of the conference. Howick fair will be held Oct. 3, 4 GORRIE- -The directors of the Howick Agricultural Society met Thursday evening, May 1, in the Gorrie Orange Hall. Reports of the O. A.A.S. convention held in Toronto in February were given by Mrs. Glenn Johnston and Glenn Mc- Michael. This was the largest convention held since its found- ing about 70 years ago. T he delegates brought many ideas to be incorporated in our ideal Howick Fair which will be held October 3 and 4 in Gorrie park. Judges were picked for all departments and R. Strong, R. 'McMichael, H. Winkle and S. Clarkson Were named the, spec- ial prize committee for this year. Anyone wishing to enter any of the four Field Crop Compe- titions being sponsored in com, mixed grain and barley may contact any of the committee or the secretary before June 1.