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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-02-14, Page 4ii. 11 DVRACETIES A 1•.av, •:x i {•'S•: •.v. {{.: •:v::ti•S•:•.'S•',tiSf .•:inti•:i1}.,,+,.y,�'a1,'i'i?��S'11'ia'\s�'•�;•'`•?'�ti'';y ?.ati ••' at i :iY:; :.::�. : '1 ':i .}'::•.11. `.ti'ti':''�' ,i•. a . ,i . •'.'\� , i� .',Si':ti :iii i'° �,1i.• E,1t. i i, • L iii .ti•. •:'1:1 . :ti,.t :\:ti•: .S , . � , .ii'S; .i�.•::•: '`::i • i S•''i •S 4 �':i:ti i\'ii\"•aF4 ;,.qiv •{. •:{:: •.\•. .i , ':ti : .'i•:L•. :. .i i..,4 ,i i:i . `.i" .i ...i1i 1i :• •.i .�i: }::.; � •Stiff • '.i• .. a : ti• � ti1i a is Give it a big push Jim Armstrong, a progressive and en- thusiastic Wingham area farmer, has found himself with an equally eager following after his proposal that the 1978 Vernational Plowing Match be held here._:" Jim has land that he believes is highly suitable for the International and fie, 'along with a big delegation of North Huron plow- men, will present their plea in Toronto next Tuesday. The Ontario Plowmen's Associa- tion will be holding its annual meeting at that time and its executive will make the decision about the 1978 site of the big match. Of course groups from several other On- tario counties will also be on hand to argue the merits of their own localities. It is very important, therefore, that the Huron delega- tion should be a Targe and well-informed one. The International was held in Huron in 1966, near Seaforth, and it was brought to this county largely because of the vel y ac- tive leadership of .Gordon McGavin of Wal- ton. Gordon represented Huron on the OPA executive for several years and did a great job. He has Keen succeeded in that position by Jim Armstrong. It takes a span of several years' pre- paration to get ready for the International in any one selected locality but the resultant influx of thousands of plowmen, exhibitors and spectators means a spectacularboost to the community in which it is held. Right now is the time to get behind the proposal to bring the International to the Wingham area. Macdonald makes sense Ten clays ago the Hon. 'Donald Mac- donald, Canada's energy minister, appeared ort a national television network to answer questions thrown at him by three veteran newsmen. His answers not only made sense; they added to the minister's structure as a cool and intelligent administrator. A few days previously Mr. Macdonald returned from Washington, where he had been in conference with his counterpart in the United States, William Simon. Many in this country believed that the Canadian minister would have to suffer a humiliating lecture, if not an outright browbeating, from the oil -hungry Americans because our coun- try has recently applied stiff export duties on Canadian petroleum products on their way to the U.S. market. However, news releases indicate that not only did our representative emerge with dignity—Mr. Simon publicly stated that Canada's protective taxes are understandable under the circumstances. There's no way If you have any sympathy to spare you might spend it on the school board members who are the black dogs in the recent and present Confrontation with secondary 'and separate school teachers.- Last week the Ministry of Education joined forces against the boards When the minister included them with teachers in a scolding about the delays in final Qsettlement pf the disputes. , 41* parents, students `' 8 , 'b - i �e 'ai, putf?I1 p'lsgce a major ''share of the blame for the recent difficulties on school boards. However, it is only 'fair to consider the situation in which board Members have been placed. Along with hospital trustees, they have been handed ultimatums from the On- tario government ministries about the strictly limited increases, they will be al- lowed forthis year's operations. Totally dis- regarding the all but universal trend in salary increases, the very sharp upward leap in the cost of supplies and purchased services, along with spirallirigl'prices for the petroleum products needed for transporta- tion and heat, the, Ontario government simply °says, "You get seven per cent He added that he hoped Canada would not reach for the excessive limits imposed by the Middle East countries, and expressed his strong opposition to those elements in American government who have been threatening retaliation because of Canadian taxes on oil. Mr. Macdonald, in the TV interview, plained the Canadian government's position on the oil question in readily understandable terms which were sensible and re -assuring to the average citizen—most of whom have been totally confused by claims and state- ments which seldom have painted any sort of believable picture. Mr. Macdonald was the target of violent verbal attacks •when the energy crisis emerged a few months ago. We have a way of demanding a victim when we find our- selves about to suffer, but Mr. Macdonald deserved more patience and better treat- ment. o win more—and that's it." Obviously when staff associations demandincreases in salary of ten per cent and more, board • members are caught squarely between employees and govern- ment. The easy course for the boards would be to agree wholeheartedly with the em- ployees and go along with whatever they ask—but the money is not there to pay the ' in'creaseS• e -r •`.r:i4!:,i, r ''t,, ... Most"'rhernbers 'of the boards of such public institutions, those that are under tight control by provincial ministries, eventually become convinced that they are little more than scapegoats for higher levels of ad- ministration. Big governments can make themselves look so utterly devoted to the good of the ordinary citizen (voter, that is), but when the time comes for blame to be cast . for unpleasant realities, the board members are right .there to take the brunt of the a whole sad business. . Before you start' bad=mouthing your lo- cal school or hospital board, take a few min- utes to ask yourself' whether you, yourself, are prepared to accept a seat on one of these "autonomous" bodies. Are we cracking up? It is no news to anyone that we are living in restive and even dangerous times. The .Signs are all about us—right in our own homes where so many parents have lost touch with their children and respect for all forms of authority has disappeared. A new age has informed young people that parental control, along. with all the forms `of law and order, can be laughed at and flouted without fear of any meaningful sort of consequence. The violence which came spurting to the surface during, the past 20 years is understandable when it involves the re- pressed children of the black ghettos or the downtrodden victims of a cruel colonial em- pire. Such violence is basically the force of human desire for freedom and self-respect, expressed in the only terms left open. Total savagery in the more privileged sectors of our society is something else a ain. Witness, for example, the shootings a d beatings which resulted from the protest o independent truckers in the United States during the past few weeks. No one can argue the hardship anu loss of revenue which faced these truckers when the price of diesel fuel and even its availabi- lity became so critical ---but the savage methods employed to enforce their work stoppage belonged in the Middle Ages rather than the 20th century. How much thought did these same truckers give to the needs of doc- tors, policemen or ambulance drivers for fair access to fuel supplies? Our civilization reached a very high point by the year 1945—but there is a lot of evidence that since the war dangerous cracks have opened in the structure of in- telligent n- telligent self-government. How long can a decent society 'continue if every dissident group within its framework takes the haw into its. own hands , and indiscriminately murders the innocent to enforce its de- mands? emands? The answer to` this growing chaos is neither simple nor pleasant. Law and order were originally established by cruel means. The authorities of an earlier day used force of the most cruel kind toestablish the control of systematic government. It was rough, but it was effective. The worst feature of such measures is that all too frequently the inno- cent suffer along with the guilty. It has taken mankind 20 or 30 centuries to so reform and refine his self-regulation that the principles of justice were at last re- spected and upheld. Now, it seems, the very people who benefited most from those re- forms are bent on their destruction—which, eventually, means total self-destruction. Assassination, no matter what the rea- son, merits hard and long -remembered con- sequences. There i no doubt that the Ameri- can police forces know, or can. find o h the names of the truckers who have been guilty of lawless acts during this protest. When things are back to normal every possible ef- fort should ite made to make sure that the guilty are brought to trial and punished to the limit of the law. And a fair trial is more than these savages have granted to their own victims. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Published at Wingham, OM►tario, by Waiver Bros. Limited Barry Wenger, President Robert O. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member -- Canadian Community Newspapers Assoc: Subscription $10.00 per year. Six months $5.25 Ontario Weekly Newspapers Assoc. To United States $12.50 Second Masa Mail Registration No. 0821 Return postage guaranteed ;a�eof opinion 1N1 MICHELLE RINTOUL portrayed Pinocchio in an unusual routine when parents and friends gathered at the public school Saturday for the baton competition. 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Pethaps the .'following information may be of interest: '1, • The teacher protest of Decmber 18, 1973 was calm by the Ontario Teachers' Fedefon and its five affiliates against measures proposed by Bill 274. All elementary and secondary school teachers are members of OTF. 2. Between 75 and 80 per cent of the 105,000 teachers in the pro- vince took part in the protest, many going to Toronto. 3. Teachers in -areas of dis- pute, and who would have . be- come Subject to the proposed legislation had it been enacted, were, in most cases, advised to remain in the classrooms and to continue negotiations with their school boards. 4, In Huron County, the elementary school teachers de- clined the request of their federa- tions to participate in the protest; the secondary school teachers accepted. 5. 75 per cent of the areas in dispute involved elementary school teachers; 25 per cent secondary. 6. School teachers in Ontario are paid according to academic qualifications, years of teaching experience, and positions of re- sponsibility. Consequently, a young person beginning teaching What's new at Huronview.. The regular group of volun- teers from Bayfield, along with a new member, Mrs. George Heard, and Mrs. Dale of Clinton assisted with Monday afternoon's activities. Marie Flynn of Clin- ton, Mary Taylor, Norman Speir and Jerry- Collins provided the music for the occasion. Two new residents were welcomed to the home, Norman Youngblut of Au- burn and Ross McNee of Dungan- non. There were eight tables of games in play on Wednesday afternoon. Volunteers from the Opti Mrs Club of Vanastra were on hand to help with the wheel- chairs and the games. Mrs. John Henderson of Sea - forth arranged the program for Family Night and also played several piano instrumentals and accompanied her three daugh- ters. Donna and Darlene Hender- son thrilled the audience with their step dance numbers and joined their sister Debbie for vocal trios. Susan Mc Allister played three nutnbers on the ac- cordion with piano instrumental by Janet Drager. Mrs. Orville Dale, a former neighbor of the entertainers, expressed the ap- preciation of the residents for the fine entertainment. following university and teacher training would be paid a compar- able salary .for teaching in an elementary school or a secondary school. It is regrettable that we must, as you state, "make noise" to at- trat t the attention of the public. But, if this is the only effective way to ensure that education in our province does not suffer, then it may be worth it! Yours sincerely, Jack Kopas, Communications Officer, District 45, Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation. Feb. 2, 197.1 Dear Sir: Re poor planning in this week's paper, you say manufacturers -have not made a bath with a safe bottom. Well we have one at Lucknow which also has twin handles on the side. This sounds like what you are looking for. We have not advertised this bath due to the fact we felt Canadians. would not pay such a high ,;price, even though I felt it was the best I have seen. Trouble is the Government seems bound to take money off those who will work and give to those who won't, but you can't blame many of them as they have only seen one " side of the fence. (People running the country, I mean.) I maintain people who find getting out of a bath hard should not have to pay tax and duty on a bath that is made specially for them. Also farmers should not have to pay tax and duty on electric fence wire, pasts and fencers, as this is for food production. I feel if you newspaper editors got together and asked for the support of taxpayers and the unpaid tax collectors you could find some good suggestions on the way this country should be run, and then if the Government didn't do something about it, you could. Postal dept. has done a real good job with the Postpak Service, this we should say about one good Government Dept. It's not ALL unthoughtfully run. Yours truly, A. Green, Langside Distributors. P.S. Keep the CN station as rail or bus is the only cure for city traffic. It has to come. BIUevaIe Two PUC vehicles inay,soon be radio disapatched* H tite cam* mission: dee s that the Pur- chase uschase of between ,loo and $2,,550 worth of =radio equipment is worth the expense. The matter came up at last week's PUC meeting when Superintendent Ken Saxton in- formed the Commission members that be had received three unit coatings from General Electric in reply to his request for informa- tion. The coats include a base sta- tion, worth $850, and the cost of two mobile sender receiver sets to be placed in PUC vehicles. Three different mobile unit models were listed. The first units would cost $1,250 and have a range of about 15 miles, the second units would have a 20 mile range and two sending -receiving Mr. and Mrs. Allan Nicholson, Mary Anne and Steven were guests at the wedding of Mrs. Nicholson's brother, Don Merrick, to Pat McDougall, at Knox Presbyterian Church, Oak- ville, last Saturday. Al was an usher at the ceremony. frequencies etaCOit of 00400 and the third model wOuldalso have a 3omile range but would, have four signal bands And cent 01,700. , Mr. Saxton said the ridgy would be .vet useful now that the Wingham -PUC does ., work In Teeswater, Lucknow and Blyth. Commission member Rod Wiraith wondered out loud if the com- mission should get prices from. other companies that ram - facture such units before decid- ing which to buy. The com- mission members all agreed on that point and the matter will be explored further. The OPP in Kincardine and Goderich both use units similar to the ones proposed for the PUC. The commission was informed, in the superintendent's report, that a new pick up truck had been purchased from Crawford r�Y' 'Motors•. Prices 'had been Sub- ' mined by Bridge Motors and Cluj* Gosll% C as well ' as toy Crawford. Motors. The super'iptenderlt read the commission a letter from. Ontario • Hydro asking for supper of their position . in the current cen- traversy� over, proposed power line routes. • Hydro offered • in- formation to any commission member who might be attending a public meeting at which the question could po>aibly come up, so that the PUC representative would ' have some background from which to speak. • Supt. Saxton told, the members that Wingham 'PVC workers made a water pump connection in a water main in Blyth, installed some new lights in Teeswater and installed a Hydro service in Lucknow. News Items from Old Files The Royal Family is being guarded closely because auth- orities fear saboteurs might at- tempt to strike at them next in a three -week-old terroristic camp- aign. Extra guards were placed about Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle and every person entering the grounds had to prey sent credentials to high Scotland' Yard officials. Mat Johnston went into the fur business with a vengeance when he dug 15 skunks out of one hole, W. L. Kress and T. W. Platt have been commissioned as second lieutenants in the local battery, the 99th Field Battery, RCA. Last week hydro was turned on along Currie's sideroad, East Wawanosh, as far as the 10th and east along the 10th to Cecil Coultes' farm.- In the spring the line will be extended west along the 19th as far,as Herson Irwin's. F. W. Spry was presented by Rehoboam Lodge, Toronto, with a', set of Grand Lodge Regalia, Past Grand Pursuivant. Canada's nation war mem- orial, tobe unveiled by the King in Ottawa in May, cost $284,573. The setting will cost $605,000. more. ' The marriage of Miss Marg- aret Davey of Wroxeter to Mr. Kenneth Edgar, Wroxeter, was ;solemnized at the Rectory, Gor- rie,,on February 4. J. S. Procter was elected presi- dent of the Belgrave School Fair at the board's annual • meeting. Mrs. C. H. Wade is vice-president and Mrs. C. W. Scott is secretary - treasurer. 0=0--0 FEBRUARY 1848 Margarine made its first ap- pearance on grocers' shelves here and retailed at 45 cents a pound: Many sales were believed to be the results of curiosity and the opinions in the products were varied. The repairing and remodelling of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church is now in progress. At the congregational annual meeting, the Board of Managers was auth- orized to proceed with the ' pur- chase of new seats for the church. The total estimated expense is $25,000. A meeting ,of members of the Wingham Curing Club is being held tonight, to discuss the instal- lation of artificial ice. Dr. W. A. McKibbon was elect- ed president of the Wingham branch -of the Red Cross Society. Vice-presidents are Rev. Alex TODiY!S CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN Ten -year-old Ross is a slight, healthy boy with dark eyes, light brown hair, fair skin and a shy, appealing smile. Friendly•and outgoing, Ross seems to be on good terms with everyone he meets. He gets on well with other children and adults warm to him at once. He is a co-operative child, eager to please. Interest and curiosity mean that Ross enjoys all new ex- periences. He has only once been camping in a tent and he loved it — as he loves any kind of adventure that he sen share with friends. Ross is in -Grade Four, a year behind what might be expected at age 10. Though not a scholar, he does not need special education and will continue in regular classes. Soccer and skating are this lad's favorite sports. He enjoys drawing and has lately developed a passion for' playing monopoly. Ross likes to sing. His choice for music to listen to is rock and in reading it is animal stories. Vie looks for gatbe shows and Westerns on television. Ross needs a home where the atmosphere is stimulating without pressure. There should not be many other children so that the parents will have much time to devote to•him. He could be the youngest child or a .big brother to one or twosmall ones. To inquire about adopting Ross, please write to Today's Child, Ministry of Community and Social Services, Box 888, Station K, Toronto M4P 2H2. For general adoption information, please contact your local Children's Aid Society. HE LIKES A + VENTURE Nimmo and Mrs. R. H. Lloyd; treasurer is . Miss Norma Dins - ley; secretary is 'Miss Kathleen Pringle. Better telephone service for Wingham will result from the conversion of the exchange here to common battery' operation - next June, W. G:.Hamiltooi, 'Bell Telephone manager, announced this week. After the change, Wingham telephone users will no longer turn a crank to • call the operator or to 'ring off' After a call is completed. An important item of business on the agenda at the `Kinsmen meeting was thediscussion of the formation of a Kinette Club in Wingham. It was decided that formation,of such a group should be left to some future date, until the Kinsmen Club itself has achieved a • complete member- ship. 'Stewart A. Scott? representa- tive for the Montreal Life Incur-- -.ance Company for Wingham.and District, was awarded the , Love Trophy at a meeting h$ld•in Hanover.. This ,trophy is pre- sented to the representative ob- taining the largest volume of IV - sued business in the agency. 0-0-0 FEBRUARY, 1960 This week a new class of 17 stu- dents entered training at the Wingham .General Hospital. They will take the Nursing Assistants' course. Almost two years of training culminated in graduation cerem- onies last month for F.Q. R. E. Murray, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Murray, Minnie Street. F.O. Murray was one of 13 students from Canada, Denmark and Nor-, way to receive •his pilot's wings. A box containing 'nine doors was shipped to Pakistan this past week from C. Lloyd and Sons Limited, Wingham. The order was secured from the Canadian Commercial Corporation and is being supplied for the Warsak Hydro -Electric Power Project as part of Canada's contribution to the Columbo Programme. R. Gibson was named to the board of the Wingham General Hospital, as representative for Howick Township. He replaces Ivan Haskins. . In appreciation of their many years of untiring service to the success of the- Belgrave Fair, Stewart Procter, J. F. McCallum and C. R. Coultes were named honorary directors of the fair .board. The opening of Marg's Book and Stationery Store in the Mc - Ribbon Block marks another pro- gressive step in the business life of Wingham. John McKibbon, who operates a pharmacy two doors to the south of the new es- tablishment, has stocked the re- novated premises with a wide variety qt lines, in both the book and the stationery fields. The new business will be managed by Miss Margaret MacLean. Wilmer Harcourt, Glenn Schei- fele, Reginald Collar and Merrill Cantelon were elected to the Dea- con Board of the Wingham Bap- tist Church at its annual meeting. --Mrs. Whitney Grose is visit- ing', with her daughter, Miss Debbie Grose, Toronto and also ..with her sister, Mrs. Molly Hurl- but, who is a patient in Humber Memorial Hospital, Toronto. Mrs. Hurlbut was admitted to hospital after receiving a broken hip and arm when she fell on ice Saturday night, Feb. 2. Surgery was performed on Sunday morn- ing when a plate and pin were in- serted. 4