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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-11-06, Page 13e lr r. .• /. •r !/� rJasad✓r'irr ti r 4 0 f • Hallowe'en wdS; .fit' 060 thre 'th(t 0,C !i — Sion for all kinds Of Orankia4,01011Y Of them anno0n910 seldom aotul,alily destructive, It took a good deal Of p itiencefo locate mieeinQ`, veranda steps, to re-estabileh a tuppied privy or to dlsnnantte a'wagon on barn roof and reassemble It On the ground, With isolated exceptions, however, Halitiwe'en was a time for harmless fund That is no longer the case, In an sage when vandalism has reached new peaks at all seasons of the year, Hallowe'en simply provides all who have a specially destruotiue streak in their nature with an ,additionai ex- cuse to go out and destroy. Nor do they con- fine themselves to the destruction of replace- able articles like windows and tires. The lat- est thing is to desecrate the things which should be sacred to even the stupidest mem- bers of our society. The episode in Mount Forest a week ago Sunday; in which vandals mutilated the let- tering on the town's cenotaph and broke open the repository for the names of the fallen in the monument, set a record in unfeeling ig- norance. Those self-styled daredevils who had the misplaced courage to desecrate the cenotaph apparently are not aware that had it not been for the sacrifice of the men whose names they destroyed, they themselves might now be unpaid slaves.of Hitler's Third Reich. The people who gave their lives and suf- fered the agonies of wounds in two wars must, indeed, reflect upon their sacrifices with (km? bitterness if they .Ora t )klng Own on the country they gave their ll to protect. i t h`i, li h 'thins tc �� a , s� +� � i~h'. � � gip. happen in 'its midst deServe to survive at the, price of decent Mens lives? itis time we tools the necessary' action to Make Hallowe'en, a night'f+or little kids only. in many communities civilian volunteera. have been ,swornin as temporary police of. facers to curtail the Yakda'lsm Which has been rampant in years past.. As is so'ofterr the case when unlimited destructiveness is permitted, .the public.has reacted to Hallow- e'en in almost savage fashion. We are ail familiar with those horror stories of small children being seriously injured by razor blades placed in hand-out, apples: --placed there, no doubt, by people who are ordinarily sensible and law-abiding. As ,always, vio- lence begets hatred and the entire picture is enough to make one's blood curdle. There is nothing sacred about Hallow- e'en. True, its customs are founded an an an- cient practice—the celebration of All Hallows' Eve, the night preceding All Saints' Day, when it was believed that the souls of the departed roamed the world for one night of the year. However, today's youngsters have never even heard of saints, much less the remote possibility that their shades might walk among us. Surely the pagans of antiquity were rarely capable of the idiotic rampage of des- tructiveness into which modern Hallowe'en has descended. The will of a nation Wage and price controls—will they work? That is the pressing . question facing Canadians today. The federal government has at last taken concrete action to curb in- flation so out of control that the future .of every man, woman and child in the country has been under very serious threat. Or- • ganized labor, as represented by the Cana- dian Labor Congress, some teacher groups and numerous other organized bodies of wage earners, have publicly declared they will defy the laws of Canada to seek the wage increases they are demanding. To state the case plainly, we are in a state of declared economic war. The CLC has announced a fund of half a million dol- lars to fight the wage control regulations. In no uncertain words this group of union$ has t will'get Whe said, "We have the �lbii. Wevvll we aemand, never m ind What happens' to the rest of you." The total lack of sound economic rea- soning on the part of labor is what becomes most apparent. The CLC has a membership of over two million --and that is two million Canadian families who would be injured drastically, like the rest of us, by continued inflation. The federal government has already demonstrated its willingness to revise the guidelines where it is found they are unjust. For example, there will be an upward ad- justment in the $600 permissable wage in - ire - forget the Labor unions are certainly not the only offenders in this age of high costs. Take a look at the rip-off which is being perpetrated in the construction of the site for the Olympic Games in Montreal. When the planners first made public the economic details of the pro- ject two or three years ago the estimated cost of the necessary installations was also announced. Frankly that figure has been in- creased so often we have forgotten what it was. We do know, however, that a price placed in the low millions is now expected to run to a possible billion dollars. Precisely the same thing happened a decade ago with the construction of the National Centre tor the Arts in Ottawa—as .1 as in countless projects all over the and--Mirabel airport near Montreal being rhe latest and most outstanding example. To accept the excuse that the costs of public projects can double and triple and A quadruple while they are in process, of con- struction would be childish. When such giant schemes are in the planning stage the crease limit at the lower end of the wage scale. There will be increased limits on per- sons working at less than $3.50 per hour and adjustment will be made in permissable in- creases in dividend payments by -corpora- tions. The latter adjustment is not intended to fatten the incomes of the wealthy, but rather has been permitted in recognition that dividend income is vital to many retired persons. There is little doubt that unorganized Canadians are supporting the guidelines, most of them with the philosophy that some- thing had to be done and the guidelines, though far from perfect, are better than the continwed drift toward economic catas- trophe. There is also nearly -unanimous backing for the postmaster -general's firm stand against the demands of the inside 11 r r i posts wo ke s, desp to the incoiivertience and monetary kisses which the nMlon is suf- fering. The fact that organized labor in Canada managed to place our nation in the world's top position as far as days' work lost through strikes is concerned, and that wage settle- ments in Canada were just about double ' those negotiated in the United States, adds up to a miserable public image for Canadian unions. Continued defiance of the welfare of the rest of the nation's workers will probably mark the lowest ebb in public support for those who are swinging the big stick. cost �/..1/ r/l�ffrfs;f raf Yr a+?lSr ri rF .•rr r it r iff rs'4. rr 1 /ir sl � P'f //r'4' ...,. ,•r, � rs r .r,.A.�'es.srr��i_if /.rrlA4.rr •..''r rrrl highest paid experts in the world are em- ployed to figure all the angles. These wizards might conceivably underestimate inflation by -10 or even 15 per cent, but none of them are so totally uninformed as to be out by 100, 200 or as much as 400 per cent. They know their jobs better than that. What is probably far more likely is that public acceptance and approval for these monster spending sprees is easier to sell if the price is quoted low—very, very low. Then, after a few hundred millions of our money have been poured in it's too late to cry "Halt!". So the taxpayer gets sucked in for another two or three hundred million. If you want something to think about, take note that the architect who designed the Montreal Olympic site will receive at least 528 million for his services—or a great deal more than that if the price escalates further, which it surely will. And he isn't even a Canadian. He will take his 528 million plus home to France. Growth with preservation Senior landscape architecture students at the University of Guelph are trying to find ways to make growth and preservation more compatible in two Ontario towns. Nine students in the senior landscape design course in the School of Landscape Arthitecture have been closely examining Port Hope and Paisley in an attempt to come up with plans to help the towns to find ways to meet the pressures of growth while still preserving as much as possible of their pres- ent character. Although Paisley, with about 1,000 population, doesn't have the same development pressures as Port Hope, the community is concerned about what type of development should be allowed and where it should take place. The Paisley study went beyond the limits of the usual official plan by examining such aspects of the community as ecosys- tems and soils to determine what natural constraints exists for growth. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Llmit d 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 Second Class Mail Registration No. 0821 Ontario Weekly Newspapers Assoc. To United States $12.50 Return postage guaranteed "We passed our stop 32 blocks back but Canon's determined to get - our money's worth." • OCTOBER 1928 Wingham Fall Fair scored its greatest success in many years with a record crowd and a won- derful display of exhibits:: The entry list totalled 2054, with the largest in ladies' work, 555. Miss Livingstone won the prize for the best collection of ladies' work and Mrs. Thomas Kew had, the beat collection of house plants. Marion Mitchell and Mae Coulter took the honors 41 the girls' class rot displaying the - best homeni** baking - Mrs. John Gibbons was elected president at the 22nd - annual meeting of the Women's Auxili- ary to the Wingham General Hospital. Vice-presidents are Mrs. W. J. Henderson, Mrs. Richard Vanstone and Mrs. George Hanna; secretary is Mrs. Angus MacDonald and treasurer is Mrs. McK. Smith. Arnold Edgar has his new Wroxeter garage painted orange trimmed with blue, the standard colors of the Dominion Tire Com- pany. Cecil McNeil, who has spent the summer months with Black Brothers, Bluevale, moved his family to the village of Belmore. Miss Annie Scott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Scott of Bel - grave, was one of the graduating class of Sarnia General Hospital. The exercises took place .in Sarnia. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Aitcheson and family moved last week to ' the house owned by Ed Johnston on the first line of Morris. Will Abram has bought the AitCheson property. OCTOBER 1940 Elections for the November Public School Students' Council resulted in Jean Town and Bill Lee being elected to represent Grade VIII; Dawna Walker and Donald Schatte, Grade VII; Helen Sturdy, Grade VI and Bud- dy Wild, Grade V. Miss Leila Leggatt of the Bell Telephone staff, attended a con- ference in London and was made chief operator of the local office. The Williams Restaurant is un- dergoing extensive alterations and remodelling and will be one of the most up-to-date in this dis- trict. A soda fountain practically the full length Of the store is being installed. W. B. McCool has purchased the residence of the late Addie Hutchison on Centre Street. The first touch of winter was experienced in Wingham and dis- trict when snow flurries fell and the temperature dropped to 26 degrees. Mac Groves left on Monday for London where he has joined with the No. 11 Provost Company, CASF. J. H. Crawford, Mrs. D. B. Porter, Mrs. Don Nasmith and Ken Somers were elected officers• of the Wingham Bridge Club. The rummage sale held by the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Wing - ham General Hospital in the council chambers gcnc attended by such a large crowd that at times the door had to be closed so those present could be waited on. Items from Old : Fil Over $207 was realized during the day. OCTOBER 1951 Miss Leslie Mae Wall was one of the procession of scholar- ship -winning students in Convo- cation Hall at the University of Toronto last week. Miss Wall Won the Joseph Wesley McCallum Scholarship and also the Ann Howe Reeve prize. i?S When the big doorsr*t the Ann- -ours, swung open Saturday liftefnonn, one of the largest crowds of bargain -hunters in the experience of the Hospital Aux- iliary Ladies swarmed into the hall. Proceeds from the sale total $852.51 and will be used to purchase inside furnishings for the hospital. Wingham Town Council, at the suggestion of Mayor Gurney, de - cided to form a police committee which it was felt is necessary here. The mayor is automatically head of the committee as the chief magistrate and Reeve " Johnson and Councillor` Car- michael were selected to fill the other two vacancies. Mrs. Raymond Henning won a dutch oven at the Ploughing Match at Woodstock. It was pre- sented to her by Imperial Oil Ltd., Stratford. 0-0-0 OCTOBER 1961 Douglas Sloane, district engin- eer for the Kitchener and Owen Sound districts of Bell Telephone sof Canada, as guest speaker at the Wingham Lions Club, stated that Wingham and district would have dial telephones in operation by the latter part of 1962. TODAY'S CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN -.John is a hansome 11 -year-old with blonde curly hair. blue eyes and fair skin. His background is French and Anglo-Saxon. In excellent health. he is active and athletic. Some unsettled years affected both John's school work and his behavior. Lately he has been living in a residential treatment centre whergroup therapy has been of enormous help. Though John is still 'behind. his work and his ability to concentrate have improved and it is felt he has the potential to do better still. He is quick and alert, especially when something really interests him. Sports -minded John is especially keen on swimming and baseball. He mixes well with children and enjoys adult company but can entertain himself. It will be good if there are brothers and/or sisters in John's adopting family — but not many. He needs a mother and father who can give him a lot of their time as well as their love. To inquire about adopting John. please write to Today's Child. Ministry of Community and Social Services. Box 888. Station K. Toronto M4P 2H2. In your letter please tell something of your present family and your way of life. For general adoption information. consult your local Children's Aid Society. ♦S �rM4: 414 Five students of the Wingham District High School, accon'ip- anied by Miss Munro, competed in the WOSSA `B' Track and Field Meet in London. Judith McKilo- bon placed first in the senid.i` girls' 100 -yard heat, and ,cam€ • Down by Gordon .;Sinelair third in the final. Douglas Camp-: These outspoken, entertaining bell placed third in the boys' memoirs describe Sinclair's`' 100 -yard heat. The senior girls' early years on �nthe' Toronto' . Star' relay team, Judith McKibbon,g with Nlorle Galla , me t Jean Jones, June Wright : and Calla Hemingway . d.N ���k. Betty Dallimore, l ►ce+d SixtiX iola�. ,: r �` a . � fit - [i```of/vams: Parish in- stalled Ephriam r h was stalled as Noble Grand of the Ma- jestic Rebekah Lodge. Other of- ficers include Mrs. H. Reming- ton, Mis Agnes Williamson, Miss Mae Williamson, Mrs. W. Ken- nedy and Mrs. D. Montgomery. The ladies of the Wingham Golf Club held a pot luck supperio end their 1961 season. Mayor R. E. McKinney presented his trophy to Mrs. Norman Elliott who had the lowest net score in the 18 -hole competition. She also won the nine -hole handicap match play a well as the 18 -hole no-handica l event: Mrs. D. C. Nasmith was elected president of the club. TO TM Dear 'Sir: twisb totalrethis to expresslny Junior Citizen* of Wo ham delivering tbeNov on -Wheels" schedules drivers who are involved 'tet this program, The effort of tib young people was greatly :ap predated during the Pmt. postal strike. Singer [argaret • Maw wioshamet Belgisavel Ontatriot.. 1E0. tt '..28,1975, Dear Sir: I should like to comm ;yon far the timely editorial' "Both Smoke and Fire" in the Iasi isStle of the Advance -Times. Two months ago I moved from the Hamilton area to the pollution of that ; industrial, -e'ity' and find myself facing, other hazards. As a "cheMicalallerg c".1 suffer from smoke n tionrb as an "organic gardener" I : appalled by the waste involVect,1 burning leaves when; ; :fortn the basis of a ,alar ` to"enrich the garden`soil; that the soilhere is ver „ is that sufficient iustdcatt the waste ' by burning :o humus material? Could this smoke hazard not be eliminated manner to the sat action 99 concerned? it would deli i improve our environment (MissYourssincerely ) Lillian R. Potter \ .Library :nye Will Gordon Sinclair Please .S Dorothy ,and Ivan Howatt of Belgrave won second place in the dairy judging competition at the 4-H Inter -Club competition's ' in Guelph. They were in comp- etition with 79 teams from all over Ontario. Anniversary services were held at St. Helens Church when a pulpit fall and table runner were dedicated. The pulpit fall was presented by the W.A. and the table runner by William Robb in memory of his wife.- Rev. Strapp officiated at the dedication cere- mony. Diane Deyell was elefte4. president of the Deanery PA_ which met in Brussels. Wayne King of Gorrie, Linda Temple- man of Wingham and Kenneth Pollard of Brussels are the other officers. revery adiea• Oittla- ai ` from MacKenzie King on, as well - 4is Hitler, Gandhiand the Duke of Windsor and others that , Sinclair hiss talked to.. His candid opinions everyone make high, flying reading. Go d Is Nota Fish Inspector by W. D. Valgardson Tihese 10 stories, are set in :the Interlake triangle of Manitoba, but the themes of love and ;death and loyalty are both primitive and universal. Valgardson, win- ner of ` the President's medal and other awards is . a master at delinea ting the iron frame within which r nen and women live out their li , 'es. Without 1 Feathers by Woody Alien This is the second collection of comic wri lting by Woody Allen. In addition t() his usual group of New Yorker m agazine stories there are uproar Mous pieces from other sources an !d two one -act plays, God and D eath. Jessa my Court by Anne Maybury Rachel Fleming goes to Jes- samyn Court'. impersonating her friend Steph..anie. In this way Rachel ho pes to find the key to Stephanie's co dlapse from what appears to be Lt paralyzing emo- tional exile �rience. However once in the Dorset atn 'osphere with its strains of witchcr -aft and mystery Rachel has troubile holding on to her own ide ntity avid maintaining a cool head . KEEN ON SPORTS OCT. 28-NOV. 3 By Joe Smulevitz The period began with the con- tinuation of a strong southwest r- ly flow of mild air. The clot wise circulation around the large high pressure area to the east pushed the mild air' into the region. Temperature ranged. between 16 and 18C. Cold polar air affected the weather for most of the week. A large high pressure area consist- ing of cold air surged down over southern Ontario. The coldest temperatures of the fall oc- curred. baytime highs reached only 5C. Snowflurries were re- ported in Mount Forest and Sarnia. A warming trend was indicated by Friday whets the cold arctic high advanced to a position east of the region. The effect was to turn our winds around to the south followed by ,the formation of a warm front. The warm frontal surface formed along the trailing slope of the cold polar air as the warmer air rose over the colder air. The warmer air ex- panded and cooled causi ng pre- cipitation. The rain fell t, hrough the frontal surface into colc lQr but above -freezing air beneath . The colder air became saturate(1 and low stratus clouds and fog de- veloped. A moist, southwesterly floe ' of air that became established on Saturday kept its hold on G he region for Monday. Mild ten 1- peratures that were prevalen t over the weekend continued' along with mainly overcast skies. The extended outlook indicates frontal systems moving rapidl y and frequently through the area, resulting in considerable sk y cover and continuous wide- spread showers. Temperatures will remain above normal. . A return of cooler weather is' likel y for the weekend.