Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-07-25, Page 4!'i • • Threat or promise? The abrupt announcement last week by Ontario flydrothat consideration of a site in -the Crich Area for a nuclear power plant POSeS sone anew factors on the power -versus - land dilemma. Hydro made it known a few months ago• that the power corporation was giving seri- ous planning attention to the construction of . a new nuclear generating station in the gen- ,Oral area of Goderich. Rightly or wrongly many in the southern part of the county came to the conclusion that Zurich would be the village closest to the 'new development and the problems inherent with expansion in that community have been underdiscussion. In its most recent announcement Hydro has stated that a series of public meetings planned' fbr the Huron area, to hear comment and answer questions, has been cancelled. However, public reaction to the proposal is cited as the reason for deferment of ,the power project. Opposition to the new generator, of course, is expressed chiefly by the farmers of the area because more land would be needed for high tension power transmission lines. Although Hydro may indeed be acting in totally sympathetic understanding of the farmers' objections, there is now a wide- spread feeling that the abrupt statement of no further action is tantamount to telling the youngsters "you've been bad, so we won't go to the movies." The question in many minds is whether or not an argument with Hydro means they just take their business else- where. - This newspaper is not opposed to Hydro on general principles. We recognize the re- sponsibility the corporation bears to provide this province with adequate supplies of energy and that to do so some adjustments must be made by those people in whose areas the power developments take place. We definitely have insisted that the farmers who have fought Hydro over the various power line routes are totally within their rights to do so. The entire debate is a healthy sign that democracy is not dying. There is, of course, a clear-cut conflict of interest, not only between Hydro and the farmers in the area, but an unspoken one be- tween farmers and townspeople in Huron who have tried for years to attract more in- dustry to a section of the province which could use the employment opportunities of industrial growth, The town''dwellers lack a cohesive organization to voice their opinions, comparable to the Federation of Agriculture and its sub -committee on power lines. As is so often the case, the entire ques- tion has its pros and cons—it is a phase of de- velopment which requires study, discussion, intelligent concern on both sides and the foresight to make plans for the future with care. To give the farm group their full due, they have not opposed the construction -of power corridors—they have simply insisted on their right to an opinion about routes which would cause the least loss of valuable farm lands. Apparently Hydro is not pre- pared to enter into discussion about a new generating station. The threat is clear that they will go elsewhere. Ridiculous legislation Perhaps it is no coincidence that a few days after our Mount Forest paper carried an editorial about the no -advertising rule applied to the Lucknow centennial, an in- spector from the L L BO dropped in to our of- fice to stress the responsibility of the pub- lisher in regard to .advertisements for events under special liquor Licenses. This gentleman pointed out that the newspaper publisher is required to delete any words in an advertisement which would let the public know a liquor license has been granted.. That would 'include the word "re- freshments", or such phrases as "admit- tance restricted to those under 18 Just how t publ usher is expected to". w, e'; `e ,. } t., Junction under i special f i' lei,,,, g'atly permitted the sale of of 'ic tib er. ages at any time, we wouldn't know. Along with our responsibility to see that no advertisement transgresses the laws which forbid discrimination on the basis of senor race or age, the publisher has become a full-fledged provincial inspector—without the salary. ' How long will our province retain these archaic laws in regard to the sale of liquor and beer? The basis of the silly differences from place to place lies in the fact'that only some areas of the province are "wet",'while the rest are still "dry" and will remain so until the residents vote for a . change of status. So it becomes an offense to advertise the fact that one connmunity is holding a centennial celebration (because a special license has been granted). Obviously, if the\ regulations are so strict, radio and television stations should be prohibited from permitting their broadcast 4006 reach audiences in the same ef'the people of Lucknow and the rbbnciirirarea cannot be told about the town's birthday, simply because there will be booze for sate, think how they are being polluted by songs like "Coming home to our beer" and "Alt the way down, boys, all the way down". How blasted ridiculous can we get? Back to the jungle When the pioneers of this continent were still in constant danger of attack from unci- vilized and warlike Indian tribes, the great fear in all minds was -not that the able-bodied men might be killed in the fighting, but the general abhorrence of the suffering inflicted on women and children. All that was long ago and the atrocities were perpetrated by a people who were struggling against invaders i, the only way they knew. What sort of savages have survived into the 20th century? The kind that have slain and injured thousands of totally innocent by- standers in the name of freedom for the Trish. Their latest act of courage was to ek- plode a bomb in the Tower of London, killing and chopping up dozens of people, more than half of whom were children.. None of them were in any way involved in the Irish dispute ... in fact most of those killed and injured were from Germany. _ ' The British public has been loud in its demand for the return of the death penalty for those convicted of such acts of violence -- a return to harsh laws which civilization had hoped to be no longer necessary. Meeting violence with more violence is not the course of intelligent self-government, but it may be that the savages who can maim little children and old folks' indiscriminately can understand no other language. The pro- cess of trial and proof of guilt should be more assiduous than ever, but laws and penalties which would strike fear into' potential terrorists may be the only way of putting an end to the senseless slaughter—not only in Ireland but in other parts of the world as well. Babies in small bottles The announcement a few days ago that there are several children alive and appa- rently doing well in Eurojlle who were con- ceived in laboratory test tuibes will -probably be responded to by wails of shock and pro- test. Even the doctors who are aware of the "experiment" are not willing to say much about what they know. Naturally there are soi`rpe frightening implications for the human race. Active imaginations will at once conjure up thoughts of Frankenstein and other man-made horrors in human form. No doubt the successful laboratory con- ceptions which were transplanted to loving mothers, do hold the possibility of some mind -shaking changes in the human race, but it is doubtful that the.. scientists who achieved this "break through" were intent on anything other than a better understand- ing of the function of the cells of the human body, which is central to any broad scale treatment of cancer, as an example. Like so many of the achievemes of science, these discoveries have unknown po- tential for both good and evil. It seems to be one of the Creator's immutable laws that those benefits which have been accorded to the human race can hurt us if we abuse them —or help us if we employ them with. restraint and respect. The first man who used a fire to cook his meat no doubt got his fingers burned many times before he enjoyed his first broiled mastodon steak. Alcohol and drugs have saved countless lives, as well as wreck- ing countless homes. • THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wsnger 'Bros. Limited Barry Wenger, President Robert 0. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member --- Canadian Community Newspapers Assoc. Ontario Weekly Newspapers Assoc. Subscription $10.00 per year. Six months $5.25 To United States $12.50 Seeded Clash Mail Registration No. 0e21 Return postage guaranteed v A pale of editoria 0 inion: News JULY 1927 The following pupils success- fully passed the recent piano examinations held in Wingham: elementary, Nettie Casemore; introductory, June Buchanan, Ida Kelley, Anna Chittick. They are pupils of Miss Ruby J. Dick- son, Wingham. An impressive service was held in Chalmers Presbyterian Church, -Whitechurch, when Angus MacKay was designated a missionary by the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Mr. MacKay has lived in. Whitechurch all his life. He will leave for India in early September. ' Bruce Edgar has gone to To- ronto, where he has Msec, ed a posits n i o ., i P Congratulations are due Miss Winifred Farrier of St. Helens for successin obtaining a first class certificate at Normal School, and in addition an Ele- mentary Art certificate at the Ontario College of Art. The Exorcist? Items from 01d Files JULY 1939 The local Lions Club has erected splendid appearing signs at each entrance to the town. The name Wingham is across the top with the Lions' crest below, Reeve Raymond Redmond of East Wawanosh returned on Tuesday from a two weeks' visit to the. World's Fair, New York. They say "meet me at the foun- tain" is being superceded by "meet me at the flag -pole" at the Canadian National Exhibition. Small wonder, because the flag- pole is 187 feet high - incidentally, it is made from a single Stick of Douglas fir - and simply couldn't be missed. How . How tin ,ie � a flies . Day 1 i Msy st q4 li'o iW# - complete without. a piano; seethed- yesterday- it seemed that the Canadian National. Exhibition catalogue was.nothing but ads for talking machines; now it looks like tomorrow will bring televi- sion for you and me. Television is TODAY'S CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN A quiet, diffident boy, Marty, almost eight, needs love and re- assurance. Unhappy experiences, before he came into the care of the Children's Aid Society have left him without confidence in himself. He should blossom in the k warm, encouraging at- mosphere of a family which he knows is his very own. Marty is Anglo-Saxon in descent, good-looking and slightly built with lovely brown eyes. blonde wavy hair, fair skin and a dimple in his chin. He is in good health. A slight speech defect is gradually improving without therapy. He is not difficult to understand. Going into Grade two, Marty is at least average in ability. He tries hard to do his best in whatever he attenipts. Pleasant, polite, well behaved, Marty is talkative when with people he knows. He enjoys attention but does not seek it. Like most small boys, Marty plays a lot with cars and trucks. He takes them apart and since he has a good deal of manual dexterity and understands how many things work, he also puts them together again. Marty loves to help his foster father fix things around the house. He is fond Of skating and likes the water though he hasn't yet learned to swim. Lovable young Marty needs a home where he will be the only child or the youngest by several years and wherethe mother and father will want to spend a great deal of time with their son. To inquire about adopting Marty, please write to Today's Child, Ministry of COmmunity and Social Services, Box 888, Station K, Toronto M4P 2112. For general adoption information, please contact your local Children's Aid Society. HE'S PLEASANT* POLITE going to be publicly demon- strated at the Canadian National Exhibition. ' The Daily Mirror of London re- ported there is talk among members of Parliament that Sir Neville Henderson, British ambassador to Berlin, is very shortly to establish contact with Chancellor Hitler and to find out just what his terms are for world peace. Tom Wilson of Whitechurch hap been engaged as principal of the St. Helens School. . Mrs. Joseph Kennedy, wife of the American ambassador to London, and' her daughter Eunice were; presentell, with oth r an and d dxa na ' n wom� in Buckingham alace at a f tion held by Their Majesties King George -and Queen Elizabeth. Richard Welwood of Caledon has been hired by the trustees of S.S. No. 3, Culross, ,to teach for next year-; Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mowbray and family of Bluevale moved their household effectsthis week to Luclnnow. • 0-0-0 JULY 1949 Fred C. Fuller was appointed a Grand Standard Bearer at the sessions of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Ontario at Toronto. The appointment was made by the Grand Master. Ripening grain, in itself is hav- ing the effect of retarding the progress made by the army worm invasion of Huron County. R. Gordon Bennett, agricultural representative for Huron, reported that if the grain is green, the danger of attack is still there. Attacks by army worms in fields of oats and barley are still being reported. Mildred and Evelyn Cook, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George Cook of Belgrave, were successful in passing their re- spective examinations in Grade I Theory and Grade IV piano, at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. The Mutual Life Co. of Canada has released its honor list, recog- nizing Michael McPhail of Wing - ham for outstanding service to his community in the club year recently "closed. He has qualified as a member of the company's senior production group, the Quarter Million Club. The board of overseas missions of the United Church of Canada, has announced that Rev. John C. Thompson of Toronto, who has served with the Missionary and Maintenance department of the church for the past four years, has been appointed for evangelis- tic work in Trinidad. Rev. Thompson is married to the former Tena Reid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Reid, Edward Street. A tool and repair shop at St. Helens was destroyed by fire early last week. The building, 63 years old, was one of the land- marks of the district. The repair business has been operated in it for the past ten years by Alex Purvis. Miss Mildred McClenaghan of Whitechurch has taken a position in the offices of Dr. Connell and Dr. Corrin. SacredBart .Church, Wing - ham, was a scene of a pretty wedding en Dorothy Mae Carter daughter of Mrs. Simon Donaldson, Teeswater, married Micha'l John Willie of l inghatn, JULY 1960 Ken Doig of Byron was top golf- er in , the annual Wingham Golf Club tourney last week when he came in with a 66 to set a new course record. He was presented with his prize by Matt Boyd, tour- ney captain. , John McKibbon and company are hard at workin the lot behind the McDonald Block, where sheds have been torn down and cement is being poured tomake an attractive new parking lot for shoppers. Four employees of the C. Lloyd and Son plant, as well as two of the same firm's hydraulic "Loadmobiles" have been busy .am. `,iteao , icni q� fir. � �r�`;�. ' *" McKenzie : bridge. Men and machines were unloading a dona- tion of timbers which Lloyds have donated to the development of the new park area. They will be used to form a retaining wall along the river bank from the boat dock near the dam to the highway bridge.. JJ25, 00.,1.0,#000 974 AI**iI0*•U0**##1► M*M4*�M.�!�rai�tlRA��11!�tlN*•R! Croton, Ont., UI The Editor: y 15,1974. tween tills Win, 1 lived . in W m and becaterme embroiled in the argument con- cerning the morality of abortion, An article in the July 4 Ad- VittlettliMe0 tolKhed me, with the somewhat contradictory . emotions of chagrin and sadness.., The 'story reported an Alliance for Life conference in Toronto at- tended by some Wingham resi- dents, Now, to digress ... For several years, I worked in a hospital crisis clinic and in an indepen- dent youth clinic. My job was counselling.,,kds with drug prob- lems. However, drug problems are usually entwined* with a multitude of other social, econo- mic and psychological problems. One of these problems was (and continues to be) unwanted preg- nancy. Naturally, I became in- terested in the question of abor- tion and birth control as it im- pinged on the life of adolescents. I decided .that abortion was often a necessary procedure for the overall health of the mother (who in my work experience was often 16 years old or less). I accept'the fact of abortion until effective birth control programs can be established. Then abortion, ex- cept in extraordinary cases, will 0 no longer be necessary. All of which brings me back to the purpose of this letter. If you read the July 4 article, please note how inflammatory it is. It speaks of the unborn who are "mercilessly attacked" and mentions, "workshops on demon- stratio� and counter -demon- strations". -I'm One of those das- tardly persons who is "merci- lessly attacking" unborn humans, I guess. However, my belief is that circumstances alter cases and that moral systems are subject to change. To risk being simplistic,,moral systems change as a result of changing social, economic and historical- pres- sures. It's a saddening and embitter-, ing experience to discover that x •icontemplate r ti1, � demon( !le : rust ° d counter- e o ``' U' present and' defen their beliefs. I'm as guilty of this line of contemplation as anyone. Frankly, I am always intimi- dated by calls to the barricades. Can we not resolve our dif- ferences in some less provocative way? 0 b Judith McKibbon New books in the library Dodson, Fitzhugh, "HOW TO FATHER" . "Fathers are the most neglect- ed men in America today," so states Dr. Fitzhugh Dodson who brought the verb 'to parent' into the English language. Almost all the books on child rearing (in- cluding his own book HOW TO PARENT) are written from the viewpoint of the mother. It's high time someone wrote such a book from the father's point of view. „That's why he wrote HOW TO FATHER. 4 Here is the first complete guide designed primarily to help fath- ers fulfill their unique and vitally important role on today's parent- ing team. But divorced and single fathers are not neglected; there is a special section dealing with their specific problems arid needs. Mothers, too, will find this book valuable, fbr it covers all stages of child development from birth to age 21. Peale, Dr. Norman Vincent, YOU CAN IF YOU THINK YOU CAN Dr. Peale has a message for to- day that will prove as helpful and inspiring to readers as his earlier books. His book brings together the dramatic, heartwarming stories of how men and women - in all walks of life - transformed their lives and careers by de- veloping Dr. Peale's philosophy of positive thinking. In greater depth and detail than ever before, it shows you • the "perception principle": how to discover your true self ... that vital knowledge of inner power that gives you security and carries you over every obstacle, and fills your mind with peace and content- ment. Banning, Margaret Culkin, THE WILL OP MAGDA TOWNSEND Not until she realized that twenty-eight years had passed since she drew her will did Magda Townsend look back seri- ously at the course of her life. Still productive, blessed with good health, busy with her three homes, the impulse to retrosec- tion that overtakes moat people well before they reach their eighties had not really come upon her. Her lawyer. , her agent and old friend, her children, whose inde- pendence, as always; she never threatened, her dear and varied grandchildren, whose values and life styles were so different from her own, found in her the same enduring constancy. She spent time with them with today's eyes. ' And then she rewrote her will. The authenticity and reada- bility that have always charac- terized Margaret Culkin Ban- ning's books are here enhanced by a special wisdom. Plaidy, , 'Jean, THE WIDOW OF WINDSOR The fourth and final volume in the Queen Victoria series. Albert was dead and the' Queen, stricken with grief, prepared to spend the rest of her life mourning. Her government and her family sought to bring her out of seclu- sion but she was determined to remain the Widow of Windsor. The years which followed were some of the .most momentous in British history, some of the Queen's Ministers the most famous. There was the great Palmerston who managed. to keep a mocking ascendancy over her; Mr. Gladstone, Grand Old Man and People's William, who was no favourite of the Queen, unlike the witty Disraeli, who charmed her completely. Power plant committee to remain active The subcommittee charged with making recommendations to the Huron Power Plant Com- mittee reports that they are pleased by the announcement by Ontario Hydro to suspend the plans to bud a nuclear generat- ing station in Huron County. However, iz he light that it is only a suspension, it recommends further that all 18 participating organizations continue with fact- finding about the effects a power plant of any type will have on Huron County. The sub -commit- tee heels that if and when the sus- pension is lifted ell pertinent facts should, be readily available. --11111110