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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1969-12-04, Page 1!rpol!r litsfellmmiialpteoi 1NMt.41.0rni A!liMo.r#A1AM/1i•1!Mikoomitoo ►N1 $0,1000/011k 1110 1111. OOPHk4t 10!1444 ! ON, fir. and Mrs. Ira' Campbell quietly celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary at their home in Belgrave on Monday, December 1. Both are enjoying fairly good health and both are in their 92nd, year, They have lived in the village since build- ing a new home there in 1958. Mr. and Mrs: Campbellare natives of stile area although they spent, many years in the Thessalon district. Mr. Campbell is, the eldest son of the. late James Campbell and Sarah Wilson and the only surviving member of a family of four. His family farmed at. Belfast, near Lucknow, where he was born on the :farm now ' owned byDynes Campbell. When he was about 12 years of age the family took up land in the Thessalon district. The move was made before the rail- way was built. . Mrs. Campbellis the former Gertrude Garniss, daughter Qf 1 the late John Garniss and Annie Coultes. •She was born in Blue - vale where her father was a car- penter.r Within about two years of the time the Campbells mov- ed to Thessalon, the Garniss ,:fay;,ettled ;here. whete'c.4, ..j continued in the carpenw' try trade. Mrs; Campbell is• also the last .surviving ,member of her family in which there weresix children. They were married Decem- ber 1, 1897 by Rev. W. R. Sealy of the Methodist Church. They were nineteen at the time. Gardening has always "been a hobby and they are especially interested in flowers. Mr. Campbell worked for many years in the woods of Northern Ontario. He was fore- man for a lumber company for some time and later was woods manager for. the Spruce Falls Paper Company at Kapuskasing for over 20 years. In the mean- time they had purchased a farm near Lucknow for their sons and a home in-Lucknow for them - 'selves. Mr. Campbell continu- ed'to work .in the north, mak- ing periodic trips• to see his farm ily by plane, and even after retirement. was called in an ad- visory capacity to the Long - Lac development of the Kim- berley -Clark Enterprises: Mr. Campbellcan recall the conditions when •he first started `working in lumber camps. The men were up at 4 a. rn, to get. the horses Harnessed and get out to work. The bunks were only wood -boxes with a few spruce boughs for mattresses and they "threw you a couple of blank- ets". Mx, :.and Mrs. Ca npbeli had fo it Aidtent, hit y�{at ghter, yrs =1 d�a it�.(Ivy)`,Ansley f Thessalon was with them for their anniversary: Their three sons are deceased; Ray died in infancy, Glen 'of Belfast died in 1965. and Floyd 'of R. R; 4, Brus- sels died last year. They have 18 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren._ There was a fame turnout at the townahi . hall in, Bluevale on Wednesday afternoon 'of last. week forthe nomination meet- ing. After all nominations had been received and time had been allowed for qualification's, one major .change was apparent. Reeve Alvin D. Smith, whohad served aa reeve for the pa it nine years, was one of the three nominated for the reeve but chose to qualify as a candi- date for a council seat._ Nominated and qualifying for reeve are Ed E. Walker, a veteran member of council and Ken McMichael who has served as a councillor for the past . two years. Nominated for council and -. filing qualifications were Alvin D; Smith, Harry Mulvey. a former councillor, WilliamDes- tman, member of the present council and We_nde1l Stamper, who has been a council mem - Per for the past two years, Jori son Dunkin and Donald Eadie are newcomers' -to the muniiei..-, .pal field. Also norninated but not**1. ifying awere Ed E. Walken McMichael and Douglas Mc., Pherson. . The election will be held on: Saturday of this week,' Dere,=, ber 6th, with polls open from` ' 9 a.m. td5 p. m. Polling 107 tions are as follows; No. 1, Theodore Saint's 'residence, Lower Wingham; No. 2, Com-' munity Hall, Bluevale; • No. ►, Township Shed, B -Line; •No., 4 Jackson Dunkin's residerice.; ,x ' 'The reeve and councillors .elected 0118,year, will sant one-year. term,, but It its ;ems pected that a by -taw thrill,' be passed during the yeartoswlt over to the•two-year•tevczt order to coincide with eleetiotq for county school board. ' u, M.p....Int.O'mama 0..o j IM.o.IM14N.o.A�1lMI!R�!! In tepOrt t4 WW100uacil; on Monday evening, WillU.am Harris, reresearatiVe, On. the Recreation and ommun► Cent Board, said that an .in- teresting diad cion had taken place at the 1 oatd's last meet.- lug- Calvin Burke., chairman. of the Planning Board, had .been is attendance and suggested - that plan for the future should include n recreation area which would eventually include the arena, ball wig and asinauy other recreational facilities as moble, He said t the town 411o1114 be on the Bolt*Out for a suitable site for sued a recreate tion complex andthe land should be purohaaed and held for future needs. , . • :Mr, Harris said that the sing• gested plan did Pot call for fines. mediate. action andthat it Might be several years before D !could be c pmpletely cased' out, . ' :int is the sort of program whit° q has` to- be startedwelliu yance. The Planar* Board feels that the present site, of the ball. park should eventually be set. a▪ side for.commerical purposes to conform with the plans al �w ready :submitted .by the town's Planning consultant. Mrliatw :ris said that the=work"of drain - ing rain -in ,the presentpark would be' done year, airs .1 entail a large' exp dd a The }gainless tib' its. prii t new backstops: fencing Elbe ball park, l theystKinglY suggest ►t fencing be erected a ablepests sot. f► change of loran tbu vestment in fenceg be wasted. Former commanding officers and battery commanders gather- ed with o f f i c e ra and senior NCO's of..the Twenty-first Reg- • invent RCA(M) .fora Mess dinner at the ;With hand Armouries On �..�'yrae`Y!?',4k"';#`�4e: fi:tililPrt .a. marked the retirement of Major H. D. Thompson of Lucknow, commander of the -97th Battery, based in Walkerton. Major Thompson has com - pleted 2 5 yearsin military ser- vice, including his years over- seas during World War II, He will be succeeded by Major J. H. Abbott. A couple of weeks ago we initiated a contest. for children 6 to 10 years in which they would write a .story or letter about "My Best Christmas ".. We offered ten prizes of $2.00 to the winners (five girls, five boys) and would you believe • that in two. weeks we haven't• even had enough entries to give away •all the prize•money? Could it be that there has never been anything about their individual Christmases to re- member as "best"? Perhaps youngsters at this age are just too busy to think about it. The contest has been extend- ed to next Thursday. Decem- ber 11, in hope that we will have at least enough entries to collect the prizes. Moms and Dads, how about passing out the paper and pencils with the suggestion that your child might enter? Letters are not judged for spelling,neatness in print- ing or writing --just for thoughts. We particularly chose this age group because from experience we have learned their thoughts on paper are usually quite in- teresting. December 11 is the final deadline. We hope letters pour in this week. manding officet of the' regi -- merit, expressed the apprecia' ;ft, tion and good wishes otAll per" sonneh when he wiled Malor ,< Thampsone‘hap s►tifj ,gtretireme tw -Four forme' regimental' cb mantling officers and four'rm- er battery commanders were present for the dinner. E. D. Bell of ureter `honor- ary lieutenant colonel sof the regiment, presented the Cana- dian Forces Decoration to Cap- tain J. T. Goodall, of Wing - ham. ' Lieut. W. G. Reed of Wingham was presented with theQueen's Commission and ,. WOl R. L. Sinnamon of Wing - ham received his chief',warrant officer's commission. MANY OF THE former COs of the 21st Field Regiment were present for the regiment's mess dinner and, for the presentation of a gift to retiring Maj. H. D. Thqmpson, C.D., of the 97th Battery in Walkerton. Shown are M. R. Oliver,' Cb., . Dr. G. ~Wt,Howson,' P. Ritter, 'C.D., Maj. Thompson, • Hon. ' Lt." Col. E.D., C.D., Judge R. S. Hetherington, M.BE.,. b.:.. --Advance-Tire 'Photo:; Two .young women were treated and released from the Wingham and District Hospital 'on Saturday afternoon follow- ing a car accident. A car driv- en by Miss Ruth McKague, 24,, R. R. 3, Teeswater, was travel- ling on Highway No. 4, along the Bruce County line, when she applied her brakes to avoid striking .a highway service truck the vehicle skidded into the ditch. The driver and her sister, Susan, 16, were brought to the local hospital by their father, Wilbur McKague. The driver suffered a deep laceration to her forehead and shock. Susan had facial lacerations and shock Prov. Const. W. R. Bell in- vestigated. The town's position in re- gard to maintenance of Diagon- al Road and Victoria Streets during the wintermonths came tinder discussion at M o n d• a y night's council meeting. Since the two streets in question are still under construction acid will not be turned over to the town until completion in the spring, it was generally felt that the maintenance would be the re- • sponsibility of the Department of Highways in the interval. However, Clerk William Ren- wick was asked to write the de- partment for clarification. It was decided to ask per - mission to change the location of stop signs at the intersection - of Victoria and Diagonal Road, so that Victoria could be made a through street. This action will be taken as soon as the town has control of the streets, so it seemed reasonable to make the change now. Archie McKinnon was elec- ted to the reeveship of Culross Township in voting on Monday of this week. Mr. McKinnon, a former reeve of the township, polled 284 votes. His only opt ponent, Clair Grant, polled 256. Elected to township council were David Ireland, 309; 8111 Zettel, 305; Bruce Keith, 287 and Gerald Baptist, 279. Leon- ard Bannerman, the fifth candi- date, was defeated with 262 votes. Bruce Keith is a newcomer to the municipal council, Ire- land, Zettel and Bannerman having served previously. always presented a traffic haz- ard. Cars coming down t h e Victoria Street hill in winter driving conditions often find ft impossible to stop at Diagonal: The plan would be to place the stop signs on Diagonal Road so that traffic on Victoria would be free to go straight through in either direction. M. JO -ANN KING, Reg.N., daughter of . Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. King of R. R. 2 Teeswater, has successfully passed the Registered Nurses' examinations. Jo -Ann receiv- ed her training at St. Jos- eph's Hospital in London and is now attending the Univer- sity of Windsor. Mayor DeWitt Miller inform- ed Monday evening's meeting of the town council that a rep- resentative of the Ontario Hous- ing Corporation was in town during the past week and has agreed to separated sites forthe geared -to -income housing units The corporation has approv- ed the construction of five two- family units in Wingham, and considerable controversy arose when the contractor sought to secure land for all five units in the Sunset Crescent sub -divi- sion. Property owners in the area petitioned the council to prevent sale of lots for this pur- pose since they purchased their land under the conditions of a by-law which specifies only single family dwellings in that sub -division. The mayor "said that other lots in town had been inspected and several were located, which would be large enough. for the homes if they are split up. It now remains for the contractor to negotiate purchase of the lots he would like to use forthe project. Two locations have been verbally approved for the 16 - unit senior citizens' apartments which are a part of the housing scheme. In both cases land will have to be purchased from present owners. Council discussed at some length the situation which ex- ist: in the present sub -divisions -open for development. Coun- cillor John Bateson pointed out that single family building reg- ulatlons now prevail in three Sub -divisions, In the case of Keith Black, 47, of R. R. 2, Lucknow, was admitted to the Wingham and District Hospital on Saturday evening following a motor vehicle accident in the Walkerton district. He had re- ceived initial attention at the Walkerton Hospital. After ex- amination in Wingham he was transferred to St. Joseph's Hos- pital, London. Prov. Const. C. Ricker in- vestigated. new divisions being opened the divider is required to state in: his plans how many single units and how many multiple units he plans to erect. Mr. Bateson said that this is a foolish regu- lation for a community this size, where changing conditions make it impossible to predict what the demand will be a few years hence. Such housing plans can be altered in later years, but a , tremendous amount of red tape and delay is involved. The regulations, of course, are not set up by the town, but by the provincial authority. Reeve Jack Alexander said he thought encouragement. should be given' to any person who would be willing to estab- lish a properly -managed trailer park tri town. He spoke of the excellent accommodations which are now available in oth- er communities and expressed the belief that Wingham is be- hind the times in not having trailer sites available. As a result of the O. H. C. approval of separated sites for the town houses a motion to re- scind the single family by-law covering Sunset Crescent was withdrawn. The mover and seconder agreed there was no further need for their. motion. At Monday night's meeting of the Wingham town council, presided over by Mayor DeWitt Miller, a letter was read from the local Kinsmen Club, asking definite information about whether or not the land occu- pied by the wading -pool on Jo- sephine Street would be ed requir- ed for other purposes. . There was some discussion a couple of months ago about the possibility of using that sec- tion of the town park as a site for a senior citizens' apartment building. However, since that time the Planning Board has prevailed upon council to lo - 'Cate the apartments elsewhere, since the main street 1 o t is prime commercial landand may be needed for this purpose in future years. The Kinsmen's letter stated that it would cost about $6,000 to move the wading pool to the swimming pool area, whereas an expenditure of about $1500 for chiorinator and circulator will enable the wading pool to be reopened `on its present lo- cation. Council agreedthat the Kinn men needno longer consider moving to a new location. The sanitation equipment is now re- quired by provincial health ' regulations. Howick letter assures purchase of firetruck Clerk William Renwick re- ported to Monday's town coun- cil meeting that a letter has been received from the Town- ship of Howick, agreeing to share in the purchase of a new fire truck to serve. the Wingham Rural Fire District. Fire equipment stationed in Wingham and operated by the Wingham Fire Department is jointly owned by the town and the four surrounding townships, Howick, Tumberry, Monis and East Wawanosh. At a meeting a few weeks ago the • fire chief, David Crothers, presented a brie( outlining the condition of the present equipment and point, ing out the need for anew pumper unit if dependable pro- tection is to be available at all times. Verbal agreement was received from all but Howick. However, further consideration has resulted in unanimous ap- proval. The new truck is expected to cost in the neighborhood of $27.000, split on a pro rated basis among the five Munici- palities. Wingham's share is 230/0. Several months will be required for delivery of the equipment after the -order is placed. A question was asked about the disposition of the old truck and. Reeve Jack Alexander said that since it has little trade-in value' the district meeting had agreed that it should be kept in operation as a stand-by unit for those occasions when the No.1 machine is out of town. It could .also be used as a back- up unit in cases of extreme hazard out of town. A second letter was receiVed, from Rogers Cable Televisic Limited, stating that they have had to withdraw their applica- • tion for cable TV in Wingham and therefore will not be putsu- ing their request for use of land bordering the town's streets. • COUNTY PLANNING The Huron County Planning Board requested by letter that decisions . made by the local planning authority here be corn` municated'to the county, board so that their work might be co- ordinated. The county board • also requested that any projects ' which are encountering unirsual delay in Toronto might be ex- • pedited by assistance froth the county. The mayor said that such a delay is at present creating a problem with the proposed Fred Moore sub -division. A letter from W. B. Cruik- shank requested the grant of $500 which has been paid to as- sist in maintenance of the air- port on his property. He point- ed out that the field is now get - ring considerable business traf- fic as well as its use for pleas- ure flying and instruction. Mr. Cruikshank's letter saidqhat some runway lighting will be required next year. Council expressed general approval of support for the air- port, but left the motion on grant to the January meeting. Councillor G. W. •Crick- shank reported that he will meet shortly with members of the po- lice force to reach agreement on the employment contract for 1970. John Bateson. chairman of the public works committee said that it appeared his de- partment would run somewhat" Please Turn to Page Eight.