HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1973-01-18, Page 4editorial opinion
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ey won't listen
Despite all the warnings which have
been isSi.ted by police and local councils the
snoWrristile nuisance 4;:cmtinyes unabated.
knOWIng that a brainless and uncaring
ntlilOrity are responsible for most of the
problem, it does seem a shame that rigid law
enforcement will curtail the enjoyment of
the Many who use their snow machines with
care and common sense.
Community newspapers in this area
have all been passing along the word that
snowmobiles are likely to be entirely banned
frorri.town Streets, but thosewho cause most
of the nuisance simply don't pay any atten-
tion.
The showmoblie hasiseen a tremendous-
ly successful invention and unquestionably
has made winter an enjoyable season for
Very wide gap
:The increasing cost'of health services in
Pritar10`,1!,:c101te rightly a cause for deep con-
cern. The ever -higher hill for medical care,
however,should not surprise anyone, least of
all the PeOpfe-`,In. the government office who
had:4005S to all the facts and figures before
the present plans were : Introduced. In fact,
all, they -neededVMS a .few minutes' cOnver-.
*lett:wDh afly intelligent resident. of the
Elriffsk isieS-102.0110 out -how fast ' universal
Mitiltare, niti• .away With • the *puitilic
, A , , •
fiurSes. ,
government people have awak-
ened,:iO4:the 'realltiet of health insurance
Costs. The doctors in the province have be-
ton:lea:101On Of rogues; hospital boards and
administrators and the general public are
being told all the details Of their" Own waste -
'fulness and ineffiCien0.
411 well and good.. There is a very evr-
dentneeilto,Orivkfor the best possible use of
medicare dollars—but at times the officials
at 9otefi,* Park or :OPPer.-Yerige Street fail to
give adequate to all the. basiccauses
rsVhidt fle behind:1114- Pro.6,100.1.'
_ 0110400 - Ydiscusaltig, the question
of means by whlch length of patients' stay in
hospital• couldbe shortened, pointed .out that
4_0000 tatite in'aetitlial ler hospital is
thousands of people who always •dreaded the
cold months of the year. However, there are
a lot more people who don't Own snowmo-
biles than those who do. In town and COuntrY-
side alike there is a growing demand that
snow machine operation should be confined
to areas set aside for that purpose.
Our sympathy goes out to all those geed
sportsmen who realize that they cannot ex-
pect to enjoy their fun at someone else's ex-
pense. They are not the drivers who run over
heddes and lawns or hold drag races in the
small hours of the morning down the main
street.
Most police forces are now equipped
with or have snow machines available so
careless operators can logically expect an
increasing number of charges and arrests.
"social" rather than "medical" in some in-
stances. He cited the case of an old man who
had been in hospital for treatment and was
kept there several extra days becaust there
was no other place for him to go.
This particular patient was a man who
had served his community as a responsible
citizen and had provided quite adequately
, for a farrilly while he was younger and more
active. Passing years and ill health had left
him alone, with no relatives to care for him.
When he was medically well enough to leave
the hospital it was found that every nursing
home was filled and for scime reason he was
not admissible as a resident of the county
home for 4he aged.
The man's doctor and the hospital au-
thorities quite rightly agreed that the patient
should not be sent back to his own home if he
could not care for his own needs. Neverthe-
less the hospital got bad marks from provin-
cial authorities for exceeding the "norm" in
regard to length of stay. .
Tight rules formulated to save money
are commendable --provided we are able to
Supply necessary health tare to all who re-
quire it. If,. however, gaps of this tort are
being Overlooked we would be well advised
to' save the pennies in some other field of
government expenditure. -
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•. a shock this week or
-:tak forms begin.to
They won't make the
etYllappy, but they may
accountants and and audi-
.
r,f , past ten or fifteen years govern-
taxper,* have been striving to make
ifldidual tax fiirms.as simple as
pos$16.1e;However, the new Concept in taxa.
tion OS Worked out by Mr. Benson changed
all that. In place of a two-page questionnaire
the taxpayer IS now confronted with a multi -
page document that will, in most cases; re-
quire the assistance of the traditional
"Philadelphia lawyer":
• if you think you have some problems
o fit the, crime
President Nixon wants the death sen-
tence invoked for hijackers. Governor Nel-
son Rockefeller of New York is in favor of life
imprisonment for drug pushers.
Perhaps they are both right—but .if
there's a matter of choice we would sub-
scribe to the governor's views rather than
those of the -president, If there is any person
society needs less than a drug salesman we
can't imagine who it woultcbe. Hijackers are
odious, but most•of them have proven to be
mentally unbalanced. . . the sort who seek
public drama as an outlet for their mental
illness.
Drug pushers, on the other hand, are
usually of 'sound mind e motivated purely by
the desire for fanteittic profits at the expense
of their victims.
. We do not suggest that kids who are stu-
pid enough to peddle their first few sticks of
marijuana should go to Prison for life but we
do believe that their sentences should be long
and stiff enough to make the drug busi-
ness totally unattractive for ifiose who might
be tempted to follow in their footsteps.
s ,191.1,H ovsa 7e /13
with the fax returns for an individual, thank
your stars you don't own a business or a cor-
poration. Public accountants have been
going to school. every week for several
months just to acquaint themselves with all
the ramifications of the new tax structure as
it relates to business firms. The regulations
under the previous income tax ad were con-
tained in one reasonable -sized volume. Now,
the accountants tell us, they fill three -or four
big, at books.
Democracy, we still contend, is the best
form of government mankind has -yet de-
vised for,the control of his public affairs—
byt it certainly does leave a lot of nooks and
cran4ies for the fellows Who delight in mak-
ing the other fellow's life miserable.
Life imprisonment for the adult peddlers
of heroin and the other "hard" drugs is the
proper sentence for those who are willing to
consign other humans to a lifetime of drug
slavery.
The fight against drug abuse which is,
being waged in every community in the
western world, is being lost for one reason—
lack of information about soUrcesiof supply.
If authorities, teachers and parents had the
power to find out who is selling drugs the
trade could be stamped out in a few months.
Society has become so tolerant that we
all sympathize With the rxtior youngster who
has been "hooked" on .a-cirug habit. the.
sympathy is indeed deserved, but we should
not let it blind us to the fad that the young
drug user is the only reliable source of infor-
-mation about drug sellers. None of the vic-
timt want to squeal onthe salesman, so per-
haps the best approach to the problem would
be compulsory jail sentences. If the addict
realized that he or she would stay in a cell
until the identity of the pusher was revealed
the number of sellers would decline dramati-
cally.
THE WINGHAIVI ADVANCE -TIMES
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Tkriday, January 18
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I, was rather a gloomy Ofid to then lashed tightly together with In the drinking"well
1972, with the death* of scrappy bag string and hinder twine, and Which the plumber *lilt her
Harry Truman and that finer', a gangplank laid' between them. Aunt Eliza fell; *
Canadian, Mike Pearson, and the, In a moment, the pirates *war- We must buy a filter.
eternal shootings among, the mad. Med upon our deck, rolling their ,
Irish, and the earthquake in . eyes gnashing their teeth and 0,1- IWO a /94ell of Li1V
aragua. jog their nolo . And I dhketoazkrny
So let's get off on the right foot And as he relates the ensuing irasTheclustetdentertmeiatQ Pleatugrof°;;:se4young
for the next twelve months with carnage: "I notiqed one gigantic is a necessary part of the hYglene
something a little lighter. fellow brandishing a knotted of older people, and repatil
enough to keep a file of funny or among our fellows'," until Captain .1.18-115° circulati" °I theiti
unusual things that happened Bilge rushed at him and Struck
during the previous year, SO that him flat across the mouth with a °;. a a
den with, the -great munmist in
they have a ready-made column banana skin."
verse. This we'll entitled Song Of
just after New Year. • That's the lunneur of incon-
Theenly fumy or unusual thing gruity. Here's an example of the Ave "Pen Wititt;
around our lace is m fill - hum ur of heartlessness of
Reflections On-ice-Brim/40C
Candy
Is dandy.
But
Icquickei.
'then„Orcourse, there's the eft -
gam, axery brief *tilt ObaerV411.
tion. Its Minter:WO OsCarWilde,
whO came tO a bad end in itiOre
Some columnIsts are smart towel, and Striking right and left .
he from Hillaire 144,-
itled On His Books •
When tam dead, I hope it may
be said: *
His sin* Were scarlet, but hia
hook! were read,
way's. than ono. BOt An' sample
H bout couple from t
Y ng nY3 9
tem. I just took a look at it, 18 which a master was Harry Gra- Isn't that a nice example of the
inches high all over my desk, ham. Try writing some of your
picked up my typewriter MO 'own.
think that I shall never see
A billboard lovelsras a tree. •
Indeed, unless the billboards
fall, ,
I'll never see a tree at all.
, That's typically American in
theme and content, but here's a
little couplet, of his that I.% sym-
bolic and universal:
If you hear the scretun Of a
panther
Don't anther.
moved to the dining-roons table The ice upon our pond's so *hi
There's nobody here but us
‘• That poor Mamma has fallen in
crumbs.
Whereby I decided to
along some things that 1 const
amusing, with the IRO' that y
, We cannot reach her from the
Until the surface freezes mor.
will -too. They're nOt original, and AUU li me, my heart graws weary
are culled from the centuries, waiting—
Here's Stephen Lome*, de. Besies, dI want to have some
scribing an encounter- with a skating.
pirate ship: "The two ships were
brought side by side. They were . Another of hist was:
. , :• •
PO, as well as saying -in two lines
something abtait the MOalitrOali
Pride 'of the writer? *
Here's another by
called, simply, Epitaph' On
Wife:
Here lies my Wife,.
Here
HallehOeet
.1*
In this form. I* 'this 124044
• clever, or clever!'" .simple.
The bottle of perfume that WI!
- Ile sent _
h!ghlY• disPleathig to
Her thank* *moo cold
They quarreled, I'm' told
Through, that silly scent Willie
sent 140hcent.
,
'the fine art of satire:bas failen
,Mto lethargy these days, except
ps *Ong political cartoOn-
where it, is often merely
=04 rather than"witty. But the
Roman satirist, NOW, wrote *
verse that is just as modern as it
was :2.000 years .ago.
e golden liair i`abulla .wears -
'Is hers. Who can deny it?
She swears 'tis hers, and true
she wears
:For. I ,Old see her by it..
I can't resist one more Ogden Then there is the linierret.
Nash, and if you haven't read Some of the funniest (and feuleSt)
him, buy a copy, This is called verses in the language are found
44a00 "".
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.eWs_.1.terns. 'fro
• JANUARY 1926
Wingham's Reeve, J. Walton
McKibbon, was chosen Warden of
Huron County out or it large field
of camlidates. • -
W. J. Moffatt was elected
,president of the Teeswater
Agricultural Society, Other- of-
'ficersdare A. H. McIriague "and
Robert Ireland, vice presklentp;
and IC MoKe.nzie, secretary-
tre V.T9E- tit ;ka_n_i.,—)*
urse Felan and Nurse
frij Hogg duated as -n
hmfiefto.
at exercises held in theWig1&th
Town Hall.
Mrs. (Dr.) Fox is the -newly-
elected Worthy Matron of Huron
Chapter No. 86, Order of the Eas-
ter. Star. .
The fire alarm br4iight out the
brigade In a hurry on Saturday
afternoon when they had a call to
the house of 011ie Hayden, Vic-
toria Street. The fire was caused
by a chimney, but was extin-
guished,without the aid of water.
Dudley Holmes, Mrs. George
Spotton,' N. L. Fry and Mrs. W.
Nashare the newly -elected of-
ficers of the Wingham 'Horti-
cultural Society.
Miss Gertie Bridge has left Bel -
grave and gone to Detroit where
she has taken a position.
C. G. Campbell was elected
president of the Turnberry Agri-
cultural Society at its annual
meeting. Vice presidents are G.
N. Underwood and J. A. Brandon.
Mr. and -Mrs. John Tripp Sr. of
Wingham left last week for their
new home in Detroit.
JANUARY 1938
• Rev. E. 0. Gallaher, neWly-ap-
pointed rector of St. Paul's
Church, arrived in town today
and will preach his first sermon
here next Sunday.
Miss Lenora Higgins left this
week to enter Victoria Hospital at
London as a nurse -in -training.
Mr. S. pall was elected presi-
dent of the Wingham Horticul-
tural Society. Other officers are
Mrs. 11. Angus, Mrs. (Dr.) Ross,
Mrs. E. J. Nash and W. A. Gal -
While working in Wilson's bush
- at Whitechurch on Monday morn-
ing J. Wesley Leggatt was hit on
the head by a dead limb that fell
from a tree and suffered a severe
scalp wound. He was taken to Dr.
Connell's office where -the wound
was dressed-
-Children are being warned to
be On, 'the lookout while walking
alone - ;#4- the. Townships
field Colborne since
0 hai�
n ci,ulated by seire.ral- tee
en% son of Mr. and Mrs.
Geo eit of Wroxeter, who
for the past number of years has
been employed in a London bank,
has been moved to Gananoque.
JANUARY um
The annual meeting of the
Wingham General Hospital
Association was held last week
and members were told that 1947
was a record year with over
mob° hospital days. It was ten
years ago, 1937, that the Hospital
Association took over . the
management of our hospital. The
membersagreed that more must
be done to meet this expanding
service; last Friday there were
Forrri committee
to attract doctor
• CLIFFORD—A nine -member
committee has been established
in•Clifford to investigate the pos-
sibility of building a $40,000 clinic
to attract a doctor.
The committee was set up after
townspeople heard a talk by Dr.
W. J. Copeman from the ministry
of health. Dr. Copeman outlined
the ministry program for provid-
- ing doctors in underserviced
areas.
The village of 600 people has
beenwithout a doctor for a year
since Dr. R. J. Creighton moved
to the Bruce County Hospital at
Walkerton.
The nearest doctor is 10 miles
away in 'Harriston.
"ft:MO
"How come you Doili- WAAfr HEAle
711E NeW wokb r LEARNED rODAY?"
Many Canadians 'tend to take
life very seriously. I hope these
saolplestainety per cent of which
were taken from schoottext4s, will
,help dispel!, that 'preoccupation.
So: *ether your 'troubles are
kids, or parents, or old people, or
Unrequited love, remember, you
have only one life. And this Is it.
'62 patients and the present ac-
\commodation is meant for 50. A"
nurses' residence is also urgently
needed. Anuises' training school
cannot be established until an
adequate nurses' residence is
available.
H. P. Carmichael purchased
the clothing store business of M.
Bader and will take possession
the first of February. Mr. Car-
michael has operated. the North'
End Grocery* Mr. Bader Plana to
'00,10 --to Ti ntO.Wheie :lie.'
J0'0.11184 er in the'photo-
graphic importing business.
Hugh Berry, Reeve of the
Township of Usborne, was elect-
ed Warden of Huron County at the
opening session of County Council
at Goderich.
- A new shed has been erecteil
town to accommodate the farm-
ers while shopping in toWn. There
is no charge for the stabling of
horses and the shed is open at all
times. The project was sponsored
by the Retail Merchants' As-
sociation.
Kenneth Cameron has received
word of his appointment to the
position of postmaster in Luck -
now. For the past few months Mr.
Cameron has been employed with
Slathers Beverages of Wingham.
John , Crawford, Jim French,
John Lancaster and Shirley
Lockridge are competing for the\
title of Mayor of Wingham's Teen
Town. Nominated for Reeve are
George Hall, Audrey Henry and
Iris Newell. Elections are to be
held later' this week:
JANUAR V 1959
Mrs. Ted Gauley was elected
president of the Legion Ladies'
Auxiliary at its annual meeting.
Other officers are Mrs. R. Case -
more, Mrs. George Brooks, Mrs.
S. Forsyth, Mrs. Ted English and
Mrs'. L. Dawson. - -
CKNX Television, Channel 8,
has increased its power. They are
now operating at 180,000 watts;
representing a five -time increase
in signal strength.
\\ •
John W. Hanna, MPP, has an-
nounced that Barry Wenger, pub-
lisher of The Advance-Thnes, will
be a member of the provincial
committee which is shortly to
undertake a detailed study of all
children's institutions in Ontario.
The study is to be made at the re-
quest of the Minister of Welfare,
WIGS—A FIRE HAZARD
If you have a wig, fall or hair
piece, Consulters' Association. of
Canada warns that the wig set-
ting or holding sprays in aerosol
cans are highly flanimable be-
cause of their ethyl alcohol con-
tent. The wig is at its most
hazardous when the hairpiece
has beeR freshly sprayed and is
still wet, regardless of the type of
wig. Allow sprays 10 minutes to
dry. Repeated application of a
spray, Without periodic removal
of the accumulation by washing
or shampooing, increases the
burning hazard of any hairpiece,
particularly a human hair wig.
CAC headquarters is located at
100 Gloucester Street, Ottawa,
Hoa Louis P. Cecile.
George Joynt of LuCknow was
elected Warden of the County of
Bruce on the first ballot as the
January session, of that; council
opened.
Neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Art
Parkinson gathered at the -home
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack 13atesim to
hold a farewell party. Mr. an
Mrs. Parkinson.will, leave Wings,' ,
ham at the end lot the 'thigh for
it* tr.:14
their new home ,in Port Elgin.
At a special meeting of Wing -
ham Town Council, it Was de-
cided to accept the tender of
Crawford Motors for a new police
cruiser for the municipality.
Kinloss folks thought old times
had descended on them again last
week when the roads remained
unplowed and the mailman just
made his rounds once during the
Week•
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Be(oferreddi'll picture arrived his sociiil worker reported
that this toddler has a most appealing smile. As you see, she
didn't exaggerate
Anglo-Saxon in descent, he 'has very dark eyes, brown hair
and fair skin• : '
Freddy is nearly two but he is so small he looks much younger.
Though he was a full-term baby be weighed only four -and -a --hilt ,
pounds when he WaS born and itseems that he will continue to be
a little fellow• ,
• Freddy has Plerre-Ribin Syndrome, which usually means the
person affected has a'small mouth, cleft palate and .receding
chin. There is no outward sign of his problem and his palate is
' now diagnoied as "soft" rather than "cleft". He will not need
corrective surgery but may later require speech :surgery and
orthodontic work.
Freddy has progressed from requiring all food put through a
blender to being able.to eat a fairly normal diet as long as foods
are mashed with ifOrk. He has a' good appetite and he sleeps
Soundly. ;•
Freddy Walks well and talks. a good deal. His vocabulary is
limited, as you would expect, but he tries to repeat eterything
said to him.
This happy, friendly 'boyAeams on everybody paying any
attention to him. Ile is affeetiOnate,, energetic and very deter-
mined.
The syndrome in Freddy's medical history occasionally
means a child is retarded. This laddie is not, but he will likely be
a slow learner.
Lovable Freddy needs a family who will welcome a lively
affectionate small boy and who will be committed to helping him
later with speech therapy.
To inquire about adopting Freddy, please write to Today's
Child, Box 888, Station K. Toronto M4P 2H2. For general
adoption informationplease contact your local Children's Aid
Society.
LIR SC6ONTRYILIFE