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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1969-07-24, Page 10 f 0 disc single Copy Not Over • i! shers in new r'v or mankin b Gordon Buchanan, w ho searches Western Ontario for antiques and what he c a 11 s "curiosa" recently came across a beautiful little steeple clock, which he purchased. Ons the face of the dial are printed the 'words, "Thos. Billingsley, Watchmaker, Wingham. The mechanism of the clock was made by the New -Haven Clock Co., New Haven, Con necticut. It is an eight-day movement which strikes the hours and •half-hours. The case is mahogany and in excellent condition. • There is a repair note pen- cilled on the inside of the•door which reads "One spring, Nov. 4, 1884. " Mr. Billingsley• was in busi- ness here more than 100 years ago. Gordon says. the clock is not for sale. eissem NsNNNmsemmNNtNNN..Nassesuam NNNNi"iNNsNN.N./N uNsNNsi"N.NsNNNoNoNN Belmore children attend Vacation Bibie school Vacation Bible School class- es; a joint effort of all Bel. mo re churches, were held in the Belmore 'Arena each morn- ing last week. Four classes. kindergarten, primary. junior, • and . junior high, received' in- struction from. volunteer ers tea-c h andt -- s�gxs e viowaa 'idthe .closing night-program in the commun- ity Centre. Peter Inglis was master.of ceremonies, with Rev. Keith Wettlaufer leading in group singing and the singing of hymns. *David Mawhinney read Scripture, the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and Rev. `Wettlaufer led in prayer and .told the, children a story. Arthur Fitch and Ronnie Nickel were. ushers for the receiving of the offering. The total enrolment of .51 ALONG THE. MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrian THEY'VE DONE IT ! -- The lower pond is .filling up at last. The boards have been placed atop the Lower Wing - ham darn and the unsightly areas of river bottom which . have been exposed for months are being covered by water. It is a welcome sight for those who enjoy the beauties of the Riverside Park.. 0--0--0 BUILDING STARTED -- Footings have been poured and a portion of one foundation wall has been erected at the site of the nine -unit senior citizens' apartment building on Alfred Street. •0--0--0' LONG WAY FROM HOME -- Enjoyed a brief visit with • Stan Hiseler, a former Wing - ham lad, this week. Stan and family are now living in Dubu- que, Iowa, and were on their way to -Muskoka for a holiday. He has the same infectious grin but seems a little'grayer around the top -knot --like all the rest of us. 0--0--0 MOON PICTURES -- If the pictures of the moon landing which we carry in this issue turn out reasonably well, • we suggest that you save them, or better still the entire issue of the paper. They record what is probably the most momentous' event in man's long history; . Quality of the pictures is, of course, hazy,' and at time of. writing we cannot be sure how well they will reproduce on the printed page. In any case, you can tell your grandchildren they are the first moon -surface pic- tures ever taken. i Men have walked upon the moon" The fact is so stagger- ing that it is still hard to be- lieve the evidence of our own eyes and ears, even though • we have been looking forward to the event for the past two or three years. Is it man's greatest achieve- ment? Who can really say, since every one of humankind's great leaps have been import- ant when measured by the age in which they -occurred? All we can say is that the seeming- ly impossible has been accomp- lished and that the gateway to limitless space has been opened. Three American astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edward Aldrin and Michael Collins were blast- ed into space atop a monstrous Saturn 3L rocket from Cape Kennedy on Wednesday morn- ing and late Sunday evening Armstrong and Aldrin.stepped from their moon -landing mod- ule onto the lunar surface. • For countless ages men have gazed upward at the bright orb. In the sky and wondered what its nature was. In some civili- zations the moon was revered as a goddess. Its influence upon earth was always known for its then formed their groups to pre- gravity affected the ocean's tides. From earliest times farmers were guided in planting their crops by the phases of the moon --a belief which has nev- ed . under the direction of their er completely disappeared.. leaders, Mrs. Walter Renwick • . Other celestial bodies .have and Mrs. Leonard Harper, with been important to man, such as • the North. Star .. by which he was able•to navigate his ships, but the very size and brightness of the moon made it something especially influential, in the life of mankind.. Now man knows what the moon feels like. He has shaken the dust of its windless surface from his boots.. He has walked with"a hitherto unknown bounc- ing gate' in its low -gravity en- vironment.. • He has spent .two hours and forty minutes on a planet that has no atmosphere whatsoever. • He has survived exposures to its. frying daytime heat and assured himself that he could do the same ,in its -sub- frigid night. He has seen and named its craters and peaks. FANTASTIC .TRAINING In training for more than two years, the astronauts, were agree- ably surprised to find that ac- tual conditions on the moon . were less demanding of humans than the. preparatory exercises . they had gone through on earth. Moving about in suits which cost thousands of dollars apiece, the two men were able to walk at reasonable speed although on the airless globe they could not . have heard one another's voices without radio communication, . 'standing side by side. sent songs,,. recitations. read- ings and information learned during their week. Fifteen kindergarten children perform- . assistants ;Karen Dickson, Dar-, 1etie Htii1>rfg '"Isnd Lots Darling:: •The primary class Of 17 was instructed by Mr's. Wilfred Jo- hann and Miss Kaye Wood with assistants Evelyn Dickson and Doris Stokes. Junior class, with an enrolment of 12, was taught' by Mrs. ,Harry Helfenstein and Mrs. -George Nickel; with the remainder in -a Junior high class taught by Rev. Wehtlaufer.. The theme of the week's course was " Thei Church ". On two days • of the.,,4eek, ' a special missionary offering • was taken for the education of Tibetan refugee children in India, the total of the children's offering being. ,$21. 64. • Following closing prayer by Rev. Wettlaufer, parents and friends viewed crafts .made by the children. Miss Evelyn Dickson was the pianist for the evening. Girl Word . Joan Rath, 14, Grand Bend, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Rath, was admitted to the Wingham and District Hospital • on Saturday. She was treated for concussion and skull injuries, The girl was injured when she fell from a horse. Her con- dition vias satisfactory. Presentation A presentation was held in the Bluevale hall for Mr. and Mrs. George Brewer on July 11. Everyone enjoyed dancing to Tiffin's orchestra. MelAn Craig read the ad- dress, expressing the best wish- es of their many friends and neighbors and Wilfred Warwick presented a gift of money. George made a suitable re- ply on behalf of Ruby and him- self in which he thanked their friends for the enjoyable even- ing and all those who helped in any way. HOLIDAY CLOSING The Advancrr-l'im'a Office and .Plant will b! cloud Aug. 4 to Aug. 16 inclusive Their footwear left print' 00 the million -year-old dust of the moon's surface which. aclent say, will still be there a miler cion years from now, sinceth* will never be any wind to eraSe them. The complete success of the moon landing is the result of and a tribute to the greatest single concerted effort humans have ever made. Every pied,,. of equipment was planned and tested in minutest detail. The computers, which have made:' the whole space program pose Bible, governed the factors of angle, acceleration and . drift -so accurately that the moon ship; landed, after its 238,000 in/e• voyage only 30 seconds late. And that 30 seconds was an al- lowable time, granted the fl#ers. to select the best landing area when they were about to touch down. It would be hard to assess y; the magnitude of the moon landing's importance in com- parison with other and previous achievements of mankind..Aih Area musicians win medals at Toronto festival' Duane Currie, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joon i.. Currie, at- tended . a music festival at the liokt,15y tyrants:. ..;, ,. have been relative to the, age in which they were made. As one example. It was a great moment in man's. history When he overcame his animal fearof fire and tamed it for the warm- ing of his body and the cooking of his food. The discovery •of the wheel which•led to ,most of our present-day technology and the invention' of the printing _ press, which fathered the spread of knowledge to the common man—all these have -been of tremendous importance. i SHIPCOLU MBIA The command module in which Michael Collins kept watch for the returning moon men was named "Columbia", no doubt by persons who could not refrain from a comparison between the epic voyage of Christopher Columbus and this first leap of discovery to a new planet. Certainly Columbus had to face greater difficulties in financing and - panning his expedition and he must have been a' man of at least equal courage, for he had no corn - puters to guide his tiny vessels to an unknown land. . Nevertheless, the discovery • of the Americas by Columbus did open an _entirely new phase • of development to the civiliza- tions of Westem Europe and eventually provided the oppor- tunity for previously unknown Social and political freedom in lands which were not contrglled Royal Ted; Hotel, Torontii, from Wednesday to Saturday of last week and carie home with two medals. (With Fred Meier, song of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Meier of Bel- grave, el-grave, he won first prize in ac- cordion duet, each receiving a medal and blue ribbon. Duane won a medal and -red ribbon for second prize in accordion solo, senior division, and Fred won third prize for his solo. Evelyn Bieman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bieman,' and Beth Scott, .daughter of Mr: and Mrs. Ken Scott, all of R. R. 1, Belgrave, placed second in accordion duet. Evelyn was second in intermediate_solo and Beth was second in senior solo. They also brought home medals. Ralph Hoba of Blyth won first prize' in junior divisions for accordion solo and Cossar McBride was first in his solo • class. These young people also played in a mixed band of 60 guitars and accordions, made up of Clinton and W Ingham area musicians which won the first prize trophy. The band of 20 . accordions from the same area was second in the class for ac- cordion bands. NEW HORIZONS Proper assessment of the future which has been opened to man by the moon landing is irripossible., It may take the next 100 years to reveal all that. has been granted to us and our children. Immediate benefits, how- ever, will be felt through the employment of a package of scientific instruments left on the mpon's face by, the astro- nauts. The scientists tell us that fresh knowledge not only of the moon but of our own earth will be available through these instruments. One of the items left behind is a laser reflector whichwill be used, by means of alight ray from earth, to measure the amount bywhich the surface of the earth moves about on its molten centre. All this is a bit too much for the ordinary mind to grasp. Per- haps the most significant fact of all is that now our limited human intelligence isat least trying to understand something. far more complex than it ever attempted before. THE AMERICAN FLAG was planted an the moon's surface by the two astronauts on Sunday night. The flag is the rectangular white spot at right centre and immedi- ately to the right of the flag is Neil Arm- strong. Buzz Aldrin is barely distill... able near the legof the lunar rriule left, Since there is no wind on thea ,01 the flag was hung from a frame to .$144 in a "fly" position. FIRST CALL TO' THE MOON—Before the two astronauts had been on the moon very, long they received a telephone ,call from American President Richard Nixon. This split photo shows the president at left holding the telephone and the spacemen on either side of. the American flag on the moon's surface as they received the call through the interplanetary radio beam. THE GHOSTLY FIGURE of one of the astronauts is seer in ,the foreground after their moon landing on Sunday night, The American flag shows at the right and the vertical structure of the moon landing module at left. FIRST OF ITS KIND—Take a good look at this picture. The quality leaves something to be desired, but considering that the photo is the landscape of the moon, taken on Sunday evening, by a camera placed by Astronaut Neil Armstrong, it is worth saving. The pock -marked surface extends only about three miles to the horizon, " much. closer than would be the case on earth.