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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1969-05-22, Page 9(. r, .Speckil Wee' ,Next week, from. May 25th to. May 31st, has been officially declared . ""Canade Week" ---seven days set aside for obsei- vances and reflections to emphasize the greatness. .of our own land. Why, you may ask, should it require a special week to remind us of a subject so close to everyone's heart? As a matter of fact it does seem strange that we should need to be reminded of our heritage, but in actual fact every living Canadian does need to be reminded of his good fortune. Although we often complain about the stupidity of politicians and the slowness of the senior governments to meet what we conceive to be our needs—the mere fact that we can and do complain out loud should provide us with ample awareness of the freedom we enjoy.... or complain about. While we are beefing about all the things that are wronghere in Canada we should spare a few thoughts for the sad fate of those people in Czecho-Slovakia who tried to think and speak honestly and openly. Another reason for putting some con- centrated thought on our nation and its future has been provided by a small but , for Canada noisy minority in Quebec and in some other provinces. They would have us, believe that Canada is fit only for con- tempt. It is time for the remaining 99 percent. of Canadians to make some noise about. all the blessings we enjoy, When the chips are down not many of us would willinglyexchange our Canadian, homeland for permanent residence anywhere else, in- cluding the United States. It is no longer stylish to wave the flag and shout about one's patriotism. In some. circles a patriot is generally supposed' to be a little "sick." Nevertheless there are still plenty of patriots around ---'devoted Canadians who believe wholeheartedly in ganada as a home, and as a nation. Perhaps the best way to observe Can- ada Week would be to spend the first three days thinking about where you would • prefer to live if you had the opportunity to forego your Canadian ,citizenship—and the next four . days thinking about positive and practical ways in which to improve the land you live in so that it will •be passed on to a new generation of Can- adians in somewhat better shape than it was when it was handed ` to us. Interesting Sport The car rally which was held here a week ago Sunday„ provided not only an interesting afternoon for those who took part, but is a sensible way to absorb the' interest and enthusiasm of •young drivers. Successful rally competition requires a good • deal of intelligence, as well as a keen interest in piston -powered vehicles. Those of us who have passed the age when we thrilled to the response of a fast . and powerful .car tend to forget the ex- citement which • driving brings to young people. Most of us in the .middle years pulled quite a few risky stunts when we were young and full of beans, but in those days there weren't . as many vehicles on the roads and the accident rate wasn't as staggering as it is ° today. Young people the world over get a / terrific ,kick out of handling cars. The problem is to find a means of letting them, burn up their excess enthusiasm without killing themselves in the process. The car rally is a fine sport, which de- mands-scsmething more than just a heavy foot on the accelerator. The drivers and their navigators have an . opportunity to demonstrate real skill. Another rally is slated for next month and it should prove a most interesting event for those who take part. `Women in The Church The ordination of Anne Wightman as a minister 'of the Presbyterian Church in Canada is an event which should be mark- ed with the closest attention. Because Anne grew up in our neighborhood, be- cause so many of us here know something' of her background and . dedication -- -thy_.. acceptance of the second wamari as e minister of her church is mole than or- dinarily interesting. The word "ecumenical" has been in frequent use for the past few years, but to most Christians• it signifies little more than a rather vague plan to unite some of the denominations, chiefly for economic reasons. A smaller, but more far-sighted section of the church membership realizes that the ecumenical movement means some- thing more. They know that 'the day is fast approaching when prejudices against race and , color will have to be forgotten. They understand that God made. all men, and that He was the artist who chose the colors. The last- and least considered aspect of ecumenism is the place of those people Despite t an be and et, most of eening tree who are nearest and dearest to us—the women. Despite our daily reliance- upon women for the solution to some .of our most complicated problems, somethiog.,out of our savage past tells the men that the female sex cannot be depended upon for „.......the•important jobs. .The place of w:camer: in the church has been the most poi�itecl example of this mental block. in the mind of the male for countless centuries, The United Church has exhibited • a new-found faith .and courage during the past ten years by ordaining 'several women to the ministry. . Now the Presbyterian Church is following the same course., In contrast, the Anglican Synod of Huron voted last week, 170 to 100, against' per- mittir�g even the office of church warden ship to women. , It would be an interesting experiment if all the women in any given church de- cided to leave' the whole thing to their menfolk—not only the offices of ministry and wardenship, but the raising of funds and care of the buildings as well. It is safe to predict that the church would sbon start falling apart at the seams. Unforgetable Spring e fact that the month of May often is somewhat cold and us respond with joy to the s. and the color of spring lossoms. The month of May, 1940 was one of the ost beautiful we can ever recall. It as unusually warm and the spring very re never seemed more promising. ' In ntrast with this May, however, it was time of heartbreak and fear. Accompanyi s the stark e daily of t rman army a er months oney" war, sporadic air Uld bleed and ng that season of promise horror of the news which e crushing advance of the cross the plains of France. f the inactivity of the when nothing more than a raids indicated that men die, the lightning thrusts s, preparing of the Wermacht . spelled doom and slavery. It may seem strange to a new gen- eration which has never known the horror of war ' that their mothers and fathers `were practically paralyzed with fear—but they had good reason to be terrified. The avowed intent of the Hitler war machine was to utterly destroy the civilizations of those countries which refused to yield. Those were not pleasant memories, but every May in the 29 years which have intervened we think °back to the sheer terror of those times and thank God that we were not called upon to suffer the humiliation and slavery which was the lot of so many millions during the years of the war.' We think, too, of the good friends who met the challenge and denied to Hitler and his hordes the bloody fate they had in store for us: Ready For War of imported cars are s year, reports The Fi- he same time importers elves for the onslaught rnpacts next year. To f the Big Four's midget ngthening dealer net, new models for intro - Canadian sales ing ahead thi cial Post. At t bracing thems etroit's sub -co ce the impact rters are stre W. Barry duction, hiring business management teams to hone their marketing edge, and• digging themselves in where the market is strongest. Canadian registration of imported cars soared 41% in the first three months of 1969 to 22,257 units or 14% of the Ca- nadian market. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited Wenger, President - Robert O. Wengr, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Subscription Rate: onths $3.25, in advance; USA $7.00 per yr.; Foreign rate $7.00 per yr. Advertising Rates .on application it Registration No. -0821 Return Postage Guaranteed Second Class Ma • T BY HE N LEN Johnny is a contented,: heal4 baby, eight months old. Nothing seems to ruffle Ithf ustomary good nature. He needs to be adopted so he* l grow up in a loving permanent home. Johnnrs bitqltground, is Irish, French and Negro and he has very dark eyes, brown curly hair and medium brown skin. He °lis quite responsive and alert, turning his head quickly # thesound of his name. He recognizes familiar faces readily and loves to be held and cuddled. When strafiers are around he be- comes quiet while jtjk surveys 'them for long periods: Young as he is, thisliale fellow has had several moves. Now, like Charlie Brown's friend Linus, he seeks secur- ity in a treasured blanket which he bunches up beside his face before he .can go to sleep. To, inquire about adopting Johnny please write to Today's Child, Depart- ment of Social and -Family Services, Parliament Build- ings, Toronto 182. For general information about adop- tion ask your local Children's Aid Society.. - uslopt A ' long and This is going to be a long, hot summer. And not only for those U.S. cities with their ker- • osene-soaked black ghettoes just waiting for a match to be struck: It's going to be a long;: hot summer for a lot of Canadians. High amonetheir ranks will be parents, policemen and resort operators. • Why? Because the supply of summer jobs for students is far, far below the demand; and there are going to be thou- sands of restless, bored young people looking for excitement. It's a natural for an eruption of tumbles, hassles and vandal- ism which could make the sum- mer a nightmare for 'the al- ready -harried victims listed above. For the last decade, there has been a steadily -growing population of young bums of both sexes.\ Summer -time, warm -weather bums. These are the kids who don't really want a job. They, live from hand to. mouth, sleeping on the beaches, or in the old cars that are part of their scene. They are not necessarily evil or vicious. In fact, most of them aren't. But they're aimless and irre- sponsible and rude and selfish and dirty, and lazy as cats. Cats that aren't house-broken. They're bored, and they're boring. They talk in endless circles about nothing. They even bore , each other. But they're united in one thing -- their contempt for the adult world. ' High on their list of inter ests, which are extremely lim- ited, are sex and drugs. On weekends, they are infiltrated. by the "pushers", many of them amateurs, who arrive. from the cities with their little packages of pot and speed and LSD. • Lurking on the fringe of this bundle of bums is another group °--- the teenie-boppers. These are not kids they are children —, who are just be• ginning to make the scene. who find it fascinating, and who want to try anything thst's going. In the cities, same thing,- ex - cert that it's shopping plazas and nubile parks ,snd the? streets, instead of the beaches Well, add to this parasitic swarm all the kids who pant- ed. and needed, jobs this sum - W Ingham, Ontario. ThUrsday. Kay 224 *9O News Items From MAY 1920 Messrs. C. D. Benninger of Ayton and George Olver of town have purchased the butcher shop from T. Drummond jid Son , and will take possession on'Mon- day next. These gentlemen are both experienced in t h e business and Mr. Olver's many friends will be pleased to hear he will be back to the old stand, where he served the public for years. Three dogs were discovered attacking two calves belonging • to Mr. George Finley one day recently and Provincial Officer Phippen was at once notified and hurried to the pasture with his gun. Before he arrived the calves were badly worried and torn and were standing in the river where the y had run for safety. On Sunday the do gs were again at their favorite sport and did considerable dam- age to Mr. Benson Cruikshank's cattle and to Mr. T. T. Field's cattle. A couple of cattle ran madly into a bam and one broke her homs off when she hit the building. Mr. Hendry of Toronto, is the new operator at the G. T. R. station. hot summer • mer, angry, frustrated, and you can see what's coming. I hope - I'm wrong, but two and two still make four. Permissive parents, an infla- tionary : society in which even young people need money; give masses of them nothing to do but look for kicks all summer, and the old crystal .ball looks pretty muddy. When •I was a teenager (said the boring middle-aged man), summer jobs were even' scar- cer. He who nabbed one was deeply envied. My first job, at 17, was working on ' a Great Lakes steamer, 12 hours a day, seven days a week, $1 a day. And every other kid in town thought I'd hit a bonanza. Boy who couldn't find a job played baseball and swam about eight hours a day. Girls did whatever girls do, giggled probably, and swam and picked berries. Today's jobless youth barely muster enough energy to have a swim: In the day -time, that is At night, they flower into some sort of life and go to bed at dawn .And wake up. Bored. There are a couple of Villains in the piece, of course. One is industry; the other govern- ment. Industry could absorb twice as many students as it does, at comparatively little cast. Industry is the first to whine' about the "products". it gets, but does little to help produce a first-class product. One or two future employees of 'high calibre from a summer group would easily repay the cost. And it would be good public relations on which in- dustry spends 'thousands, most- ly on whiskey. Governments could, and should, plan work projects to absorb most of the surplus stu- dents. They'd get it all back in taxes shortly. But if they sit on their behinds and allow a ge- neration of bitter, lazy, alienat- ed bums to sprout, it will cost them plenty in the end. (That's quite a sentence, but no puns intended. Behinds, bums, and end, indeed.) Hope your kid has a summer job. Better still, hope you're not a parent or a policema;ti. A cynic claims that the main difference between fish and fishermen is that the fish lie in schools and the fishermen lie in droves. MAY 1934 Mr. W. Joseph Henderson was much surprised on Friday morning to find that'one ofhis sows had given birth to a litter of 18 little pigs. In the course of a day or two three of them died but the remaining l5 are fine and healthy. Eighteen pigs in one litter would appear to be a record. Mr. Bert McLean has accept- ed a position with the Red Front - Grocery. He started to work on Monday. The following Ontario Agri- cultural College students were successful in their examinations: Carman G. Coutts, third year; Allison Currie and Robert Weir, second year. - Mr. Can. Gillies, of St. Thomas, has accepted a posi- tion with Mr. *; -J: Walker. Mr.: Gillies has had considerable ex- , perience in the furniture and undertaking business and is a licensed embalmer. He com- menced his duties here on Mon- day. Rev.. Ernest Hayes, who has been the popular Rector of St. Paul's Anglican Church bete for the past two ybars and two months, will leave Wingham. on May 23rd, and will sail from Montreal on Sunday, May 2 7th on tiie S. S. Montcalm for ling - land. During his leave of ab• sence Mr. Hayes win be at his home, Mackelesfield, Cheshire County. It will be good news to the citizens of Wingham and dis- trict to know that Mr. Herbert Campbell, manager of the 10- cal Hydro system, is not leav- ing town. Herb has been most active in mos.t of all local activities and would be greatly missed had he left town. Mr, Campbell had an offer to be manager of the Galt Utilities Commission but decided not tO accept this position. MAY1944 A very peculiar car accident happened Tuesday afternoon on John Street. Oscar Hodgins, who, resides north of Lucknow, made the turn to go back of the Hydro Shop. By mistake he turned into the garage. He dis- covered his error and backed up. The car went backwards over the curb on the south side of the street and went over the bank coming to rest against the ' raise of ground at the cenotaph. The team of horses that were at Hutchison's blacksmith shop were used to draw the car back onto the road. The car was not damaged. The grass was mark- ed some and the water pipe bent. It might easily have been a bad accident. A.B. Hopper, R. C. A. F. , son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hop- per has successfully passed his exams at St. Thomas and is now stationed at Calgary, Alta. The Canada Packers Plant here will shortly undergo exten- sive alterations. The company has purchased the property of Angus ,McKinnon,'sou�ii of the present mill, and it is under- stood that an addition will be erected as soon as plans are completed. Congratulations to Miss Nor- ma Coutts, daughter of .Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Coutts, who suc- cessfully passed the Bachelor of Arts examinations, at;,ther:,i'1,Aim: - - versity of Western Ontario, Lon- don. Miss Coutts resigned from the local Public School staff last year to complete her Uni- versity course. Messrs. John Hanna, M. P. P., Mayor Fred Davidson, Re ev e J. J. Evans, and Commissioner A. J. Walker, • were in Toronto .. Monday and Tuesday attending 'the conference for the purpose of discussing procedure for co- ordinating and guiding the Pro - S vincial Program of Plate and I)eve'lopmont* They Wi alto visit ,fie. Parlia t - Ings in connection with matters pertaining to the town, -MAY 1955 Angle parking on the ems; side of loSepbTne Street seems to be worsting out all right- cept for one thing, Police def Bert Platt reported. Secy when you get a Cad uatcrpttrk- ed in front of one of the lamp posts which jut out into the street, the ,Overhang is Some" - thing terrific. Bert suggests a sign "For Austin Only". The following building pe mits were passed by council at a special meeting on A.pri120th,. Robin Campbell, Maple Street cement block store and work, ' room, one storey, 28x 40, pitch - roof, Connected with inainstote. Robert Mowbray, rebelling and modernizat1on�of dwelling on Carling Street. H. P. Car- . . michael. John Street, reined* ling rooms at rear of house ;dor clothes closet and den, brick construction. Dr. A,. W, kwln, Patrick Street, remodelling of- fice in house. Mrs. Frank Sturdy, Victoria Street, re- building verandah. Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, building church on Centre Street. Experienced thieves, who evidently knew their business. broke into the building of Crus` sett Motors, on Josephine Street north; on Monday night ,maldng ' off with an undetermined amount of cash. The robbers gained entrance to the building through a window in the offices, using a pinch bar which had been previously stolen from the CPR tool shed. They broke in iso the safe by manipulat, ng the dial, but forced the• nne cash box which was locked.. lata; yesterday afternoon Lorne: Mer Donald, manager of the garage, still didn't know what the lOss• , - es • were. He was awaiting ars- rival of a. fingerprint expert 'from. � Mount Forest to cheek the safe for prints; jtbefore b tins ,he'able W1ou 'bow-MI:!c Fm.7R'}n4wx'..., ey' was taken, The _robbery evidently occurred sometime Monday night or early Tuesday morning. fd SOULFUL ROMEO --Anybody in this town who thinks our present mayor, DeWitt Mill& has no heart should take a fCod look at this .picture. Mind you, this was taken a ew years back, but it is quite evident that he could throw himself into his work even at that time. The Juliette up there in the tower was at that time Peg Fuller, She is now the wife of Councillor John Bateson and we do hope that this glimpse into the past will not precipi- tate any personality clashes at the council table. d Historical vehicle licence plates Effective immediately li- cence plates will be issued in Ontario in respect of historic motor ;vehicles for an annual fee of $10. Historic vehicles are at least thirty years old and must be substantially unchanged or unmodified from the original manufacturer's product. Com- mercial .motor vehicles do not qualify. Historic motor vehicles can only be operated on a highway for the purposes of exhibition, tours or similar functions organ - izedby properly constituted au- tomobile clubs, or for the pur- pose gif parades, repair, testing or demonstration for sale. The plates are marked to identify the class of vehicle and •to indicate limited highway use. They are issued only at the. Queen's Park office of the O- tario Department of Transport in Toronto and are similar to standard plates (white lettering on blue background) with a red stripe on each side carrying the words "Historic Vehicle" in white letters. Lakelet Mr. and Mrs. James Inglis and Jim and Miss Barbara Inglis visited on Saturday with Mr. and Mts. Vernon Inglis at .To- ronto. Carol Anne Hohnstein, an x-ray technician student at St. Joseph's Hospital'' London, spent the week -end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hohnstein. Mr. and Mrs. Redmond Mac- Donald and family visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Hen- ry Hohnstein. - Mrs. Emerson Ferguson at- tended the Synod of the Diocese of Huron at the University of Waterloo, on Monday and Tues- day. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Hick - ling and family, Mr. and Mrs. Greg Hickling and Miss Wendy King, all of Toronto, spent the week -end with Mr. and Mrs. Norman Harper.