HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-01-06, Page 4• par 44 vif Advfirnee-Times, Thursday, January 6, 1972
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Two Good Citizens
In a cornmunity like ours hundreds of
dedicated people are serving their fellow
men--MOSt of them in quiet ways that are
never known to the general public. All too
frequently it is only when we lose such
friends that we take time to really think
about their contributions to the good life we
enjoy in unlimited measure.
During the past two weeks Wingham and
its neighboring district have said goodbye to
two people who, in different ways, gave.
generously of themselves without stint or
hesitation.
• Bill Conron wasn't born in Wingham, nor
did he even spend his youth in this commun-
ity. Nevertheless, after he came to our town
he made it his home in every sense of the
word. You have no doubt read the list of tasks
he undertook and carried out with total
dedication. His interests were broad. They
ranged all the way from mtsic, to scouting,
service club and lodge activities, municipal
politics and organized recreation.
Bill didn't -use illness as an excuse for
skipping any of the responsibilities he had
assumed. To his last'moment he Was "Wing -
ham in action".
The se9nd- person we have been• think-
ing about is Mrs. J. -D. Beecroft, who was the
Whitechurchcorrespondent for The . Ad-
vance -Times for many years. It was our
gebd fortune to know her personally for more
than 20 of those years and it will take much
longer than that to erase the memory of the
gallantry with which she faced adversity and,.
illness.
There was seldom a week in which she
failed to phone us with a few suggestions
about stories for the paper, even after her
retirement as an active correspondent. She
was a firm believer in the value of a good
newspaper to its community and for the long
years she reported from .the Whitechurch
area she did so in a spirit of patriotic affec-
tion for the village and district Which were
her home.
Both of these people, Mrs. Beecroft and
Bill Conron, were firm believers in doing
something practical about their convictions.
They will both be missed..
Common Sense is. Needed
.It alwaysseems tragic that the stupidity
of a small minority can do so much damage.
The vast majority of snowmobile operators
are well aware that the accident rate is high
in their particular sport and many of them
have formed clubs, with the sincere intention
of educating snowmobilers in safety prac-
tices. These sensible sportsmen are also
keenly aware and actively concerned about
the reputation for nuisance value which the
snowmobile, has earned.
It seems, however, that there is no end to
the idiocy of the few operators , who are
creating bad publicity for the sport in gen-
eral. We had to spend a few weeks in hospital
recently, during which the first real snowfall
of the season occurred.
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You. can guess the rest. Some person or
persons with snowmobiles whipped back and
forth along Carling Terrace, right in front of
the hospital, not once or twice but up to 15 or
20 times an evening, continuing until mid-
night. Nor were they idling along with any
consideration for the Sick people inside.
They had their• machines wide open—and
just about everybody knows how Much noise
a snowmobile can make when its operator is
really letting it go all out.
-'" We know dozens 'of local snowmobile
owners in this town -and truthfully we can't
think of even one of them who would, beso ut-
terly thoughtless. Obviously we don't know
all of them for there must be at least one who
should take his turn in a -hospital bed instead
of at the throttle of a snowmobile.
Senate Sets a New :Pace
Only- a week or so ago there was quite a
commotion across the country , when the
Canadian Senate gave its assent to a new tax
reform bill with such alacrity that more than
one. public figure spoke in vert. plain terms
about the possibility that our ,nation could
well get along without an Upper Chamber.'
It would seem that the charges levelled
at the senators must have been more keenly
• heeded than: we believed at that time. The
members of; ,the House of Common's sat in
session all through one day and until six
o'clock the following. morning to secure pas- .
..sage of a farmmarketing act—which, by the
way, has been under study and discussion for
22 months.
Totally exhausted .and no doubt ready
for breakfast, the,act was whipped up to the
Senate in the firm belief thaf its assent would.
be fOrthcom ing no later than the afternoon of •
the same day. Alt , that would then be re=
,quired would be the signatureothe gover-
nor -general -and off everybody cduid -go for
Christmas with their families and .a recess
which would probably_ last until rhid-Febru
ary. -
. This time the Senate wasn't to be hur-
ried. Its decision was to hold the legislation
over for further study in January, Which, of
course will demand the recall of the House of
Commons:'when the Senate is ready` to say
yes to the act.
Senator Paul Martin was angry 'in his
denial of carelessness when the tax bill was,
dealt with so swiftly, his. declared reason be-
ing that the Upper House had studied every
phaseof.the bill as it was under debate in the
Commgns. One would assume : that equal
study must have been accorded the farm
marketing act during the 22 months .it was
"thrashed around in the Commons.:
Canada has some very big bills to pay
and there are very few of us who really earn
the money to meet the demands. Perhaps it
is a good time to take a hard look at who gets 1
our dough and how they earn it.
One. Less bastion
Malta is a tiny island in the Mediterran-
ean Sea, sitting midway between Europe and
the coast of Africa. Since the days of the Cru-
sades, and perhaps long before that, this
little piece of land has been of vital import °
ance tb a succession of nations, for it pro-
vided a ready-made gun -mount to threaten
. the passage of shipping through one of the
most strategic waterways in the world.
--°--Great Britain .has controlled the island
for hundreds of years, during many, of which
it has paid the islanders a healthy rent for its
- use as a military base. Now Britain is pulling
out, lock, stork and barrel, because, the .land-
lord wants to quadruplethe rent. Theastonishing part of the whole situation is that
the British say the strategic value of Malta
isn't worth the extra money demanded.
Most of us in our middle years can recall
with vivid intensity the day-to-day news
about the defense of Malta during, the Second
' World War, when. the island was absolutely
essential for Allied access to the north
African theatre of war. 'How many brave
young pilots glimpsed their final beam of
sunlight as they were shot down over the
blue waters of the sea around Malta? How
many . naval ratings and officers and mer-
chant seamen went to their .deathsin the
desperate effort to keep Malta supplied with
food and fuel and ammunition?
Britain's willingness, to withdraw from
the base in Malta demonstrates how little
mostof us know about the changing logistics
of modern military forces.
The pressing question, of course, is who
is to f111 the vacuum created by the British
withdrawal? She- had 3,500 servicemen and
7,000 dependents on that small island and it
is unthinkable that Malta's . economy can
survive independently of some larger nation
which is ready to pay rent and employ its
-working people. Already there is the 'sugges-
tion that the Soviets wl be quite ready to do
business with. the Maltese. One of the most
persistent Soviet dreams has been of a
Mediterranean fleet to offset the naval
power"bf the• British and the Americans. All
.they really needed was a tenable base for
their ships. Well, perhaps they're abort to
get just that.
A Matter of Timing
One of Canada's more prominent prime'
ministers, Mackenzie King, was said to be a
diaster of timing. He instinctively knew
when to make the right moves.
If the arrival of Justin Pierre Trudeau
on Christmas Day is any indication at all,
Mr. King may be about to lose the "best tim-
ing" title to little Justin Pierre's papa.
THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES
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responds to challenge and enjoys achievement. He is considered able
to progress beyond high` ehool' be -has the opportunity.
Now living on a farm, Richard is a healthy boy who loves the
outdoors. He, likes animals, especially his pet goat, for which he
takes all responsibility. His favorite activity is fishing.
Though Richard is sensitive and reserved, he can be spontaneous
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Between.. bites,_ the Apple was .Sweet
Looking back on 1971, I find it . column. going, can't resist the
year's usual mel- smell of printers' ink Arid has got
ane of the good and evil, the back into the scramble of running
contains the
NewsItems fro
JANVAR'V, 1937
John Hartley, newly appointed
school inspector for Vast Huron,
.called on SS 5, Turnberry., the
first school he attended, also
Glenannan, the early part of this
week.' .
Our hockey teams have new
uniforms this .year. The OHA
team will be decked out in blue
sweaters with white stripes; the
Intermediate WOHA entry will
wear green sweaters.with white
stripes aarl -crests. The Junior
team is wearjng black sweaters
with white stripes.
Last week at the Western
Foundry Co., G. Wilbur Tiffin
was presented with a wrist watch
on behalf of the employees at the
Foundry. Wilbur, who has been
employed by the Factory for the
past eight years, resigned to ac-
cept the, position, as accountant
with the J. W. Hannaf Automobile
'Sales.
Mrs. L. C. Young will leave
Thursday to live in Toronto.
At a meeting of the Ontario
Older .Boys' Parliament held in
Toronto last week Ross Howson -
was elected Minister of Camps.
Miss Hazel Wilson was elected
president of the United Church
Young Peoples' Union at their
watch -night service held New
Year's Eve. Other officers were
Wilbur Tiffin, DeWitt Miller and
Miss Yvonne McPherson.
In the first election that the
Township of Morris has had since
1932, Reeve • Cardiff was re-
elected. New council members
.are ,C. Wheeler and Robert Wal-
lace.
The Wingham and District
Ministerial Association elected
Rev. J. R. Greig of Bluevale as its
president to take the place of
Rev. E. C. Smith, recently trans-
ferred to Mount Forest. -
While playing tag in the barn
last week, Howard Walker, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George Walker of
East Wawanosh, fell from the top
beam to the horn floor. His father,
found him lying unconscious.
Howard was taken to'hospital
where it was learned no bones
were broken although he was
badly shaken up.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jewitt
moved from Morris Township to
their home in Wingham last
week. Mr. and Mrs, Charles
South and f arnily •are moving to
the home which they bought from
Mr. Jewitt. ,
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JANUARY. 1947 •
Fire of unknown origin Friday
afternoon completely destroyed
the two-storey frame house of
Mr. 'arid Mrs. Robert. Laidlaw,
second concession of Kinloss.
Nearly all the contents were
burned also:
Jack Reavie was named vice-
president 0f .the Huron branch of
the Garage Operators Associa-
tion at their annual meeting in
the Brunswick Hotel last week.
Jim Carr is a director.
An assistant officer lo Capt.,
Agar, commanding the `Wingham
Corps of the Salvation f►riny, has
been appointed in the- person of
Lieut. E. Smith who comes to
Wingham from the mountain
corps of the S. A. at Hamilton.
A concert was held in the town
,hall Friday evening as part of the
Winter Sports Festival. Those
participating were soloists Lois
Whitney and Sam Burton, pian-
ists Leslie Mae Wall and Jim Hall
• and violinist Hugh Gage. Harold
Victor Pym was the accom-
panist. ‘4
ccom-
panist..4
Russell T. Bolton of Dublin was
elected president of the Huron
County Federation of Agriculture
at their meeting held in Clinton
last week. Other3fficers include
Charles Coultes of Belgrave and
Gordon Kirkland of Whitechurch.
Mrs., Gordon Elliott and Mit-
chell of Whitechurch motored to
Toronto on Thursday. Mrs. El-
liott will spend a week with
Farmer asking for time 'to pay
wishes collector unhappy day
One of our readers has supplied
us with a -clipping from an old
daily newspaper, the date of
which is not known. The item) was
by special cable.from The Star's
resident London correspondent,
Henry Somerville: `
"London, , April 29—Ashley
Cooper, governor of the Hudson's
Ba .F;Cid , at the .:annual. meeting
yesterday'read thts"�i1+itter- from
Canadian farmer"in repLly to the
request Mfor payment of instal-
ments due on his land.
" `Dear Sir, I got your letter
about. what 1 owe' you. Now be
pachent. I ain't forgot you.
Id Files
friends and Mitchell has secured
work in a garage there.
The marriage of Mary Ferrol
Higgins aud Carman Wesley FaX•
rier took dace in Belgrave
United Church on December 26th.
They will make their home in
New Toronto where Carman has
,been teaching for some time,
Robert Dane of Gorrie, while
driving his load of Christmas
mail from the station to the post
office on Friday evening was Ill
collision with a driven by Del-
bert Clegg. Mr. Dane's horse had
its leg broken and had to be des;J
troyed.
JANUARY, 1958
The Wingham Firemen_made a
fast run to the farm of Cloyne
Higgins, east of Bluevale, on
Tuesday, when a member of the
family noticed smoke coming out
of the barn...They arrived in time
to extinguish • the blaze before
serious damage was done. °
Alex Coulter of Whitechurch
reported a strange case of petty
thieving over . the weekend.
Someone came and pulled the
battery out of each of his trac-
tars, pulled an anvil from its
stand and• took a - big balance
wheel, among other things.
Ruth Michie, Betty Rinn, Barb-
ara Krug, Marie Coultes, Pat Lo-
gan, Lorna Bolt, Lillian Pengelly,
Joyce Armstrong, Janie Beecroft
and Ruth Taylor were among
those who took part in the Bel -
grave CGIT vesper service held
at the Christmas season. Their
leader is Mrs. Ted Fear.
Robert Soloman had the hydro
installed in his farm home near
Whitechurch. The lights were
turned on last Thursday!.
Herbert Fuller and Jack
Henderson left on Sunday after-
noon to spend a few days at the
parent plant of Berry Door' Co.
Ltd. in • Birmingham, Michigan.
Torn Wade of Belgrave has
joined the Provincial Police and
his wife and children joined him
in Woodstock last Monday where
they moved into an apartment.
Cpl. and Mrs. Raymond Bell,
recently returned from Ger-
many, spent Christmas with the
Bell and MacDonald families
here. They are now stationed at
Petawawa-.
Charles Currie, son. of Mr. and
Mrs. George T. Currie of RR 5,
Please wait.. When I ..have the Wingiam, phoned home on Fri- _
money I pay you. If this ,was day from' San Diego, California,
judgment day and yo was no and extended his greetings to all
more prepared to meet your z here. Mr. Currie left on ,Monday
Maker than ram to meet your morning for Capri t9.°.form a .
account, you sure would have to • creamery businesslorythe :Acme
go to hell:;jr`usting.you will agree: Dairy of Toronto.
to do this! 1 am, yours truly',"
"That; .said Mr. Cooper, sums /
tersely and tragically the posi- PIan course
tion of many a farmer today."
.�.....� for beef men
sweet and bitter, the laily worm . a weekly, after a letter swearingr,"/
{y.. ..,.# ''r r' ` : f ff/} j ��
within the' luscious apple. .. . that he was going .to take it easy r. ///.../e. r/////1//�..%/// /
An old• friend, Don McCuaig .of and spend. the winter in Spain.
Renfrew, won the ,,Best News- Take it easy, George. Oromocto
paper .award among Canada's - is a long way • ' 1 m Majorca. But
weeklies, I've thought for several ,good luck, Lord .Thomson of the ' . .,,,y),7,/w.,-.6,
n ti/w, 'r// l � �-i�/ 1 /)/
years that he had the best weekly Maritimes: •
in the country (sorry about that fid,
all you other chaps who turn out 1 f ' d f r
wf ' a dedr
got around to telling him. .,cited Catholic nun, and one of the
On the other side of the fence,. I most vibrant, cheery personale- ..
read. an editorial in the Bowman- ties one 'Could meet, is seriously
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LETTERS TO� EDITOR
' the bitter: New that a
. � December 24;1971
first-class weeklies), but'never close rren. o my e s, -
ville Statesman an old estab- 111 Young in age and spirit she
lished many times winner of resists my firm conviction that
prizes, written from his hospital • God does not "see the little spar -
bed by another old friend, John row fall." Bless her...
James.. This shook me a bit. Here's , a buoyant letter from
Haven't seen Don McCuaig for my Uncle Ivan, who has suffered
some years, but we have an old the° tragic loss of a brilliant son, •
pact.He was inrthe army and one and the death of his wife ,in a
day was being slightly harassed stupid Gar accident, is 79, and is
by Hun .88's, a fearsome gun, if off to Florida, and . thinksI he'll
'ever there was. A flight 'of Ty,-.., .._dr.
ive this time.
phoons came over and silenced And just • before Christmas,
the Jerry guns. -We met at a friends of ours lost a little six -
newspaper. convention and he year-old angel of a girl, who was
promised me he'd buy me the. pitilessly smashed to rags in a
biggest and best dinner I could stupid, unnecessary car accident
eat every time we got together, on her way home from school.
because I'd been a Typhoon pilot. And so it goes: the bitter and
Andmhe still sends an annual in- the sweet, the good and bad', the
vitation to come trout' fishing in joyous and the tragic: Life; and.
the Ottawa Valley, the natal it's the only one we have.
place of many great men, like us. =
Last time I saw John James, he I don't want to spoil a mood, .or
and two gigantic sons were whal- appear frivolous, but we had the
,ing golf balls 'at ,9 weeklies' whole thing distilled in our
tournament, while 'I puddled Christmas vacation with two
along with my usual slices, hooks cats.
and various blunders of the links. We have a at, neutered lady
Get ,well,, John, and hit them a called Pip, bequeathed to us by
mile. Kim when she left home.
Here's a clipping and note from Well, Pip has established the
Tommy Lee, former weekly fact that she is queen of her own
editor and nowrPR man with domain. She chases everything
Royal Trust. He, too, was a -pilot. from squirrels to butterflies to
The clipping is about the big air- spiders out „of her backyard in,
crew reunion in Winnipeg and the summer, and deigns to spend the
note chides me for. not hobnob- winter eating and sleeping.
bing with the mob.•I wanted to go, Home from college comes Kim,
Tommy, but my.wife wouldn't let
me. She didn't want me shipped sneaking in a box with air -holes,
home in a casket. the rauchiest, randiest young
And here's a note from Walter • tomcat ,you've ever laid eyes on.
Koyanagi of the Taber, Alta., For .the first few days, Pip tried
Times, giving me hell for using to lay down the law as to whom
the term "Japs" in a column'. He the house belonged to. The pre -
claims that the word "Jap" 'is 'Christmas air was rent with
derogatory and objectionable. To howls and screams as they
me, it's just an abbreviation " He clashed. I'd put one in the cellar,
also doubts 11 1 would call a Ger- the other in the back johnnie.
man or Italian other than such in Finally, fat old Pip got too
public print. See above, Walter. i pooped to participate. After a few
wouldn't give a diddle if some days, they decided to co -exist,
body called Canadians "Cans". and now spend their time chasing
In fact, it might- be suitable. each other up the drapes and over
Many of us have the, figure and the upholstery.
the mental resilience of a can. Maybe there's a message here,
Here's a huge newspaper from somewhere. The good and the
Oromocto, N.B., ire which I learn bad, the bitter and the sweet, are
that a dear old `friend, George part of life, and one'can-either ac -
Cadogan who actually got^ this sept it or run away from it.
Mr. Barry ,Wenger,
Editor,
Wingham Advance Times,
Wingham, Ontario
Dear Mr. Editor:
I would greatly appreciate
knowing any decendants of John
Boyd, era about 1820 to 1830, who '
married either Nancy or Eliza-
beth Ballagh, in or about the turn
of the century. Nancy Ballagh
was born August 1st, ,1824 and
Elizabeth Ballagh was born June
4th, 1820. I am hoping through
your newspaper that certain of
your readers may know of the -
Boyd family and where the -
cemetery plot is in which these
people were buried. We are cer-
tain, that John Boyd married one
of the above named women, but
are uncertain to which one it was.
In order to trace the family tree
for the name . Ballagh, we have
discovered the above information
and if any of your readers have
information pertinent to this
search, I would greatly appreci-
ate them wriiing-n a at the below
address.
Old family Bibles, pictures,
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etc.',, would be very helpful and I
am told that a direct.decendant of
John Boyd, a Miss or Mrs. Reba
Boyd, lives in Wingham. As I
have been unable to contact this
lady, if she reads this column,
would she'pleasecontact me and
I will. go from there.
The John Ballagh family ar-
rived in Canada about 1850 and ,
there were some ten children. in
it. The eldest was Elizabeth and
'the youngest' was Hamilton Bal-
lagh, who was my. great-grand-
father.
We have been able to search
two sections of the family history,
but are trying to locate informa-
tionon other members of the
family who came over at or about
1850. It is obilious the decendants
of these people must live around
this area and it is for this reason
Mr. Editor, I am writing, you.
I trust"that you will print this in
your newspaper and perhaps we '
will have some success in finding
the connection between the. Boyd
and the Ballagh family.
Sincerely yours,
Dr. R. G. Ballagh
732 -10th Street
Hanover, Ontario
"limW COMP YOGI 4L%t/o eS� A/4 VE 716" SEDAID
7 LAST WORD .. wi rm MOA./
at Centrali6
Feed prices haven't come
down. It still costs much to put on
a pound of gain. -Cattle coming in
sure cost a lot more. We spent
more treating cattle this year.
These are some typical com-
ments wherever two beef feeders
get together this winter... Although
the long-term outlook for beef is
bright and present prices are
• high; there; are still some prob-
lems which need correcting.
A two-day short course for beef
. ',feedlot operators, designed to
analyze and explore some alter-
native solutions to 'these prob-
lems, - is planned for Tuesday,
January 25 and Wednesday, Jan-
uary 26. The course will be held at
Centralia College of Agricultural
Technology, Huron Park, where
sessions will run from 9:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. each day. An evening
• banquet will be held on January.
' 25 with C. A. Gracey, secretary -
manager, Canadian Cattlemen's
Association, Toronto, as, the guest
speaker.
Tuesday course speakers and
their topics are as follows: Ralph
McCartney, beef specialist,
Guelph, (Making the best use of
your cattle buying dollar); Ross -
and Carl Turnbull, Grand -tend,
(Raising your own calves) ;
Graeme Hedley, OBIA Toronto,
(Transit insurance for cattle); -
Clare •Ruffel,. Richardson;
Securities., London, (How beef
futures work) ; pr. P. Lauten-
slager, OVC, Guelph, (Con-
trolling beef cattle parasites); G.
Hedley (Using hormones and
antibiotics) .
On Wednesday, topics dis-.
Cussed will be: feeding high
prices calves, (JOhn Forsyth,
Beef Specialist, London, and
Doug Jamieson, Centralia Col-
lege) ; interpreting and using
records on the beef farm, (Bruce
McCorquodale, Prov. Canfarm
director and Don McKercher,
Dublin. --:farmer) ; • 'comparing
housing i�yystems for finishing
cattle, (flank Beliman, Ag. En-
gitreer, Walkerton); feed and
manure handling systems, (Jack
Underwood, Ag. Engineer, Cen-
tralia College); managing the
feedlot system, ($rock t'ilkey,
Gowanstown) .
Enrolment is limited to the first
50 applicants iterested farmers
are advised to file their applica-
tion immediately with their
county agricultural representa-
tive
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