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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-07-13, Page 4VAAcuTImES ..�'ti: „tom , �'ti i; '\\\" ti+,i'�••'4v. 'itis', i \;.;ti,��yi "�`;�; + 'K}�i.; '� i S`'ii. V 4 ... �i���.•�i`'����.`.�•�. '4 1t�\ ���•.i•`.1±i\1 ��\•..�1�� '.k .. i.�l ��... 1.v..iiJ� Pollution's where you find it The pile of cardboard cartons in the basement was assuming a dangerous alti- tude. Despite a natural inclination to, the contrary we decided it was time for at least a partial housecleaning of that potion of the house which is supposed to be male responsi- bility. So—we pushed some of the boxes out the cellar window and dragged them off to the spot behind the garage where the trash has been burned for the past 20 years or so. Just as the first thin wisps of smoke mounted ,,into the summer air the little woman arrived on the scene. Always one •to observe even the finest niceties of the law, she screamed in panic, "You can't do that!" Quite logically . (or so we believed) we pointed out that she was too late. If it was, in- deed true, that we couldn't burn the boxes she had better call the fire department. Naturally the heat of the argument soon reached a higher temperature than the heat of the bonfire. Just where, we wanted to know, should we burn up those cartons if not in the back yard? How about chopping them up and burning them in the fireplace inside the house? As it turned out that was the answer. It is, in fact, contrary to provincial air pollu- tion regulations to clutter up the atmosphere with smoke from. a bonfire in the open—but it is still quite legal to move the junk inside the house, touch .a match to the stuff and let the smoke out through a chimney into the. self- same atmosphere. If you happen to, possess a fireplace, a stove, or an older -type furnace you can burn anything you please—soft coal, oily rags, old tires, firewood whatever you have around the place. Present pollution regulations, hastily thrown together by officials who were out to set some sort of record for their sense of re- sponsibility to the voting public, have emerged as a collection of rules which is, to say the least, inconsistent, and in some cases downright idiotic. The intent is fine: we can- not continue to soil the air we breathe, but -the mad rush for instant remedies hasn't left much roomy for intelligent balances, program. It's most evident resultas been the appointment of an officious collection of petty inspectors who can seldom agree even among themselves, on the most effective methods of combatting the threat of air pol- lution. The internal combustiop engine is sup- posed to be the master villain in the entire air pollution tragedy—so the owners of new vehiclesthave to pay a higher initial price for cars with emission controls. When they take their cars out on the road they have to settle for reduced mileage from a gallon of gaso- I ine—a fault nowadays blamed on the emis- sion controls by the car manufacturers. But - out on those same highways are hundreds of big diesel trucks belting out smoke like coal - burning steam boats. As usual the right hand of government is in dire need of some acquaintanceship with that nervously twitching paw on the left. A pcige of editorial opinion T h i..,} '•:};::• `:i•'. i•':i.5ii iliki.•'s^"'i:,."�i i, h� :;`¢ VS.tii�.��. S,0). The Year for his NonMoveI Don't hold your breath waiting for its publication, but this is the suminer I'm going to write a book. It's the tenth summer in a row that I've been going to write a book, but this year will be differ- ent. It's the year in which I'M not ging to write a novel. Other summers 4 didn't• get around to writing a play, or an expose of the educational -system, or series of pungent essays, or an attack on marriage. This year it's the novel. That doesn't leave too much, does it? Maybe I'll write a "slim" volume of verse. Any dame fool can write poetry these days. The secret is to avoid capital letters and punctuation, make your lines all different lengths, toss in a little erotic imagery, and make the end result a visceral experience which nobody under- stands. Here, just to show youat I mean. If you don't get areal charge out of it, a profound emo- tional experience, that is, and haven't a clue what it's about, you're a connoisseur of modern, poetry. Oh, one other thing: no rhyme please. We'll just call it Strangely unconcerned The latest issue. of Maclean's Magazine contains a story that -set a good many Cana- dians well back on their heels. A former non- commissioned officer with many years of service in the Royal Canadian Mounted Po- lice declared in bold print that the Mounties are not all heroes. He painted a.picture of an autocratic force, geared not to the protection of all that is finest in our fair land, but prin- cipally to blind adherence to a set of out- dated regulations. He accused the men in red of everything from a quota conviction sys- tem to manhandling their prisoners. No intelligent reader would take this one writer's word as the truth without hearing the other side of the story. It is inevitable that in,an age when all the old standards are Kbeiing questioned, someone would take a, • swing at the alf-but-sacresV image of the federal police. Perhaps the man who made the "disclosures" has a long-standing beef— or perhaps, on the other hand, his «accusa- tions are true. The amazing consequence of the entire affair- is the attitude of Hon. Jean-Pierre Goyer, the minister responsible for the RCMP before Parliament. Interviewed on television, about his thoughts and response to the'story, he casually admitted that he was not deeply concerned—and believe it or not, said he had not read all of the article in ques- tion. The accusations contained in the maga- zine story were of a very serious nature. If they, are untrue, even in part, the minister would do well to be explicit in his denials. If, on the other hand, any of the charges are true, he has a problem of the first magnitude on his hands. Any police organization contains the seeds of totalitarianism. The nature of police work is such that the public cannot demand total knowledge of all its operations. The necessary right to keep their own secrets tends to develop into a stance before the pub- , Tic which Ienies the ta)spayers n r,rlght,to ,, question police ac y,ities. One has only to read the facts of the` shocking ,power of the FBI to realize what can happen to an effec tive police force and its director. Perhaps the Mounties are as pure as the driven snovli--but despite all their glamor and rigid manliness they are employees of the people of Canada—not their masters. As such their records must be open to the legal- ly constituted representatives of the people. Mr. Goyer had better look into all the nooks and crannies. Running out of room A fe,v years back the holiday season for most Canadians started on the first of July and concluded on. Labor Day. The family holidays were strictly ,planned to coincide with the weeks during,,which the youngsters were out of school. Because business was so meagre before and after those dates resort owners and Iakeshore businesses simply did not open .up until the crowd was at their doors. All that has changed. - Improvements in transportation and roads, the'introduction of trailers and camp- ing vehicles, plus the diversification of holi- days and the numerous "long weekends" have lengthened the travel season to include many more weeks in both spring and fall. As a consequence holidayers are jamming every access route in the province. The parks and camp grounds are filled to capa- city and have to turn away hundreds of ve- hicles each weekend. The shores of the Great Lakes and all of thermore attractive inland lakes are so pack- ed with seekers after sunlight and fresh air that city -like traffic jams have developed. More and more families are giving up the ef- fort and are turning to other areas for re- laxation. The only recreation areas left are the undeveloped verges of the many beautiful rivers which thread their way across On- tario—the Maitland, the Saugeen, the Sauble. . Those of us who have spent most of our lives in the communities situated on these rivers take them for granted. We don't think of them as particularly attractive—but thousands of city people do. At every point where camping areas have been opened along these rivers, visitors are coming in in- creasing. numbers. Any summer weekend sees carloads of city people patiently fishing in the rivers and streams. Any sort of community planning, whether at the municipal or the county level, which fails to allow for recreational develop- ment along the river valleys will be missing the point. The fresh air seekers will continue to come in ever larger numbers. If we do not make plans to provide access and .basic fa- cilities for these people we will be inundated by a disorderly invasion, rather than looking after a segment of the population which has a full right to enjoy these benefits which we take, for granted. . The park system in the' Town of Wing - ham is certainly 'one of the finest examples of how much can be done to make the best use of a natural „waterway. The Town of Mount Forest has made a promising start and a few years hence may well be proud of the contribution it has made to the needs of a growing population. ' Canadians, like the people of Finland, go a bit berserk in the summer. Any country that is locked in the grip of ice and snow for fivesor six,months of the year has an uncon- trollable urge to get out in the open when warmweather comes. The advent of the snowmobile has relieved the pressure for some Canadians, but their numbers are pro- portionately small. For every family which can afford the luxury of a snow machine, there are hundreds who already own cars and want to use them come summer. Our one contention here is that we should be sharply conscious. of the need for recrea- tion areas along our rivers. Rural muni- cipalities will probably balk at the expendi- ture of funds t improve river areas, but properly planned and managed, those poten- tial recreation spots could' prove a great fi- nancial boon in years to come. WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited. Barry Wenger,- President - Robert O. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associations. Subscription Rate: Subscription $10.00 a year, $5.25 for six mouths, in United States $1250 in advance. Second Class Mail Registration No .0821 Return Postage Guaranteed Poem yesterday in the supermarket a fat lady or maybe she wasn't really a lady ran over my foot not really ran but walked I guess it was her buggy - laden with a quarter -ton of cat food and - orange juice and tide and glide and wax and snacks and four cases of non- returnable bottles and twelve pounds of pallid meat two bags of spuds 16 cans of chunky soup that ran over my foot <(not., the 'sou .: driving my' seed wart into my metatarsal I wept not ,because it hurt like hell but for lovable fat ladies and unlovable super- markets and because I couldn't do _. a thing. Now don't tell me that's not a poem. It was a vivid personal ex- perience which I attempted to convey to the 'reader.. It's got everything. There's sex in it; a secret yearn for fat ladies; the word metatarsal. There's plenty of concrete images: There's sym- bolism: how about seed wart? A fertility symbol if I ever saw one. There's masochism, social criti- cism and a deep personal sense of frustration. It's what I would call universal in its appeal. ' .They won't all be so deep and' h�wco.w.? bitter, of course. There'll be the hearty bucolic touch: The garde} ain't hued The lawn, ain't mowed But I'll be blowed" If she's going to goad Me into doing any of them. Then there'll be the fragile, tender little• lyric that makes real poetry lovers just wriggle and al- most turn themselves inside out. Something like: love myself more than anyone but you sorry baby but maybe it's not even true. Sorry about that rhyme, • but sometimes it just comes so auto- matic -like you can't hold it back. And of course there'll be some dramatic narrative stuff. I'm working on a sort of epic called The Day I Shot the Black Squirrel Bill Smiley Thinking It was .a Black Bear. But it still needs a little polishing in the last twelve cantos. Maybe you think this is just ad- vance publicity for my book. But I guarantee there'll be something for everyone, though some of it will be pretty strong stuff, and you may have to hide it from your' teenage kids. [was thinking par- ticularly of a couple: Down By the Old Gravel Pit, and Let Me Call You Meathead. But there's also some stuff coming up that is really haunting. One is entitled simply "Puke". It is based on a great storm on the Great Lakes when I, as junior porter, did great things with a mop after people were sea -sick. It's been haunting me ever since, anyway. So, there's adelectable fore- taste of my summer project. I can - hardly wait to get started. Except that I have a golf date, then I'm going swimming, then there's a barbecue, and somehow after a day like that, the Muse and I are both ready for the sack. What's new at Huronview? Fourteen residents from Huronview, along with 80 senior citizens from Goderich attended the Octogenarian Club picnic on Wednesday afternoon. The picnic was held in the Anglican Church parish hall and is sponsored by* the Goderich Kinsmen Club. , The afternoon's activities in- cluded a musical program by several individuals and the Goderich Psychiatric Rhythm Band led by Gordon Harrison. Following the luncheon, each member was presented with a gift. A great deal of credit is due to the Goderich Kinsmen for this very worthwhile social service work. As a result of the cancellation 'of the band concert bathe Clinton Legion Band, the Family Night program was held in the audi- torium. The variety program featuring the Henderson family was a real treat for everyone. with vocal solos, duets, trios, quartets and dance • numbers by Donna, Darlene, Debbie and Diane. Norman Speir and Jerry Col- lins, accompanied by • Mrs. Hen- derson, added to the evening's enjoyment with several 'musical numbers. Mrs. Orville Dale thanked the entertainers• on be- half of the residents.. You'll always stay young if you live honestly, eat :slowly, sleep, sufficiently, work industriously, worship faithfully -and lie about your age. LOVES HIS BIKE David is nine. An engaging -looking boy with brown eyes. brown hair and medium complexion. His background is Anglo- Sa xon. This youngster's health is good but he is small for his age, which is beginning to worry him. Circumstances in his life have contributed to or lack of self-confidence, and the recent discovery that he has a perceptual handicap seemed to be an added ,blow. However. a corrective program is being raecommende& whl h should help David in handling his school work and thus help his self-esteem. David enjoys riding his bike and he loves working. with his hands. In this area he feels competent and he tackles mechanical things with enthusiasm. He is fascinated by anything to do with aircraft,— small engine model planes: real planes in the sky and•on the ground. He has never seen a large airport and is looking forward to a promised visit to a really big one where he can ,watch' the jets. - Basically, David is a friendly, trusting, affectionateild, curious and interested in things and with a good sense of -Minor. He needs a family who will love him for himself and value him. Tor his many assets. Warm, mature, understanding parents will find him a rewarding On. David would probably be best as the younglest or the only child. • ,To inquire about adopting David; 'please write `"to'toaay's, Child,Bob 888, Station K, Toronto: For general. adoPtibh in- formation, write your Children's Aid Society. News items from our old files July 1937 The pupils of 'SS 12, Howick, met a t .the schoolhouse to honor Miss Agnes Louttit of Wingham, their teacher for the past three years:. Miss Louttit has resigned. Kenneth Rintoul has accepted a' position on the local staff of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. The Wingham-Wiarton rink, Ed Nash,. M. McNeil, E. Reckin, Rev. J. Pollock, won, from the South African bowlers 24-15 at Owen Sound. The South Africans won the match 138401. - Dr. G. Stonehouse of Belgrave was successful in passing his medical council examinations at London recently. c. Mrs. A, Forbes was badly burned by flaming wax on Wed- nesday. A dish of wax was on the stove and became overheated and broke out in flames.. Some of the wax spilled on Mrs. Forbes' arm and leg, causing burns.. She - is now progressing favorably. The pupils of SS 3, Culross, met to bid farewell to their teacher, Miss Dorothy Ginn. Dr. and Mrs. Redmond have received word that their daugh- ter, Mildred, has been successful in securing a Bachelor of Arts de- gree at Cambridge University, England. About noon on Monday, a large "Ho6V a7wE wey pAtiT MAW /1TE&4Ss W/Mt'oW$ LvCE 7iIEy USED 7b 2 swarm of bees took possession of the main street in Brussels. Traf- fic was halted for some time until the bees swarmed to a bash at the library and were captured. Miss Dorothy Aitken who .has taught school for four years near Blyth, has accepted a school near Moorefield. Orville Drummond will come from Toronto to be the new prin- cipal of the Brussels Continuation School. Other members of the staff will be Martin Murray who comes from London and .Miss Grace Calder. July 1947 Frank Madill and Stewart Beattie were in Windsor last week where they attended the Lions Convention for District A. The appointment of Dudley E. Holmes, Crown Attorney for Huron, as Kings Counsel,. was an- nounced by Attorney General Leslie Blackwell last week. Congratulations to Eleanor Wightman of SS 11, East Wawa - nosh, who won the Laidlaw Fur Farm scholarship for entrance. Her teacher is Norman Higgins-:,, The concrete pavement on Vic- toria Street from Josephine West to the bridge, part of Highway 86, which has been in poor condition since winter, was resurfaced last week by the Department of High- ways. The long-awaited floodlights at the ball park are installed and will be put into action Thursday evening of this week. The cost of installing the lights is borne by the Wingham Lions Club.. Mr and Mrs. John Crandall are again in possession of their cot- tage on Edward Street ' and friends are welcoming them back to town. Kenneth Jackson, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Jackson of town, was successful in passing his first year at Toronto University. Frank Edgar of town has a dahlia that got its dates mixed and bloomed the last of June. This is very early for dahlias. Mrs. Balfour arrived in Wing- ham from Paisley, Scotland, and is with her son-in-law and daugh- ter, Mr. and Mrs. George Hen- derson, Diagonal Road. Norman Wade of Gorrie has re- ceived the appointment of Com- missioner for taking of affidavits in the County of Huron from the Lieut. Governor of Ontario. ti • A 4 July 1958 • Rev. T. Garnet Husser was in- ducted . as minister of the Wing - ham United Church at special services held Thursday evening. The service was -in charge of Rev. 'Karl Krug of Belgrave. Highlighting the list of visiting stars at Frontier Days later this month, is Gordie Tapp, well- known to television viewers as alb star of the "Country Hoedown" show. With him will be the Han- sen Sisters, violinists.. A poem entitled "Canadian Prayer", which expressed the hopes and aspirations of Cana- •dians everywhere, was used .. to close the CBC national network radio program "Assignment" on Dominion Day. The poem was written by Mrs. A; R. DuVal of* Wingham, at the invitation of the CBC. ,A. M. Crawford was honored at a special gathering of the local Masons who presented him with a 50 -year Past Master's jewel last week. About 23 young men are train- ing at the Wingham Armouries this summer as part of a seven - week Student Militia trainiri program sponsored by the 99th Battery. The course is under the direction of Major J. A. Jackson, assisted by Capt. R. P. Ritter, Sgt. -Major Stan Hastings, Sgt. W. Elliott and Bdr. R. Meyer. Pte. W. K. Henderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Henderson, who has been at RCAMC School, has been transfered to Campo Petawawa where he is with the 4th Field Ambulance Corps. The Fordwich Feed Mill, which has been awned and - operated by Ken Graham, and Anson Ruttan,. will now be under new manage- ment. Mr. Ruttan has`bought Mr. Graham's share and is now the sole owner. Belgrave girls Ruth Procter and lea Pengelly have received word that they have successfully. passed their second year course at Stratford Teachers' College. Miss Procter will teach at SS 6, Morris and Miss Pengally at the Moncrieff School. Tom Burke of Wroxeter has just erected a new building which will house 36,000 broilers at one time. With the production from two other buildings his broiler, crop will run to over 70,000 birds t1r year.