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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-11-27, Page 11v Weil, the 'd..is Oki t0"Th.'Ohl Is, !I'ne the, New Year aiid we wilt, ve to sta gettingu to a slower paces -at least on the pl ialic ,highways" ' • They,Ontai' i overni.m t 11'45. o n a' reduction in, legal spm, :limits, : 'rpt. o4-mile-an.hour 'r-oad$ will. henceforth carry'. `speed limits; the'70mph fsewaYs will be,reduced 'IVO, The new law becomes operative just:as soon4est highway' crews°can eplace the present speed ,licit' igns. h After morethan twa yearsof debate tt uce of seat belts,rn all vehicles.50 'equipp will become mandatory at' ahusry l,' The. only exemptions permitted will be for sCfiall,,, children and for delivery PeOPleMili0 have to pop in and, out of' their °rigs. 'every. 'few: 'minutes. The moaning and groaning Is going tib dreadful, because We have long, since e; vioced, .ourselves that our work load 'will. come turrrbling down aroundrQur ears if we cannotrust from' point X;".to ,,point Y, eta top speed. And' .of course, ,than is' atop d anon sense. Civill at On' (kilt carry, of asus,ual,:,and; after a few months; •we wont' even gives the, slower pate very Much tth light. t• , • Do yo'u recallthat lien' .$5 met)* taws were announced- in : shegip, ited States `'-' couple of years agothere were rlearriots? Truckers went on strike because they, ire,• fused to abide by the new, speed linits, ;In fact there were ,several nasty 'incidents in which the strikers were taking potr,shots at- the twthe few drivers who were still !'operating;You don't hear much aboUt that problemnow,:do you? The lowered speed limits in the* U.S. have proven some very important points, the most vitalof which is a noticeably reduced Have Goodness kn dollars are bein ' Hydro's campaign tion -conscious. We times how we can s resources by patchi ping around doors fluorescent lights ins kind—and of course jackpot if we are sma we should be taking baths. Presumably it to make the showers co The motiv * h e u� e �� ��� g � e�r you afhy and Injury tate from highway is. several thousand Americans ai walking .aroundtoday' who; would have been filling"-oof fins if the higher speed limits had, continued', There ,is a definite s vin o motor fuels, t a.significarit factor our part ofrthe world ,wh'ere we, Mre 'being,forced to sell Ole souls to the OPECot+tltlrie Perhaps the Most in1port0nt benefit of ali'fo ba.derNoif from the' enforcement of a slower,ipace wilt be,ifl the fare of improved mental; 46 4: physical .health: , ,"for'' all. eon cerpled,,MOSf lof the "busy"` people who feel They haveto rush .from: place tol;lace to .keep up With the' well-known ."raf race" are fel rix liar i -with that souring tush.of ga►stri-c ,lakes which ,so.of%en acepanles thein two -.hour. dash t► �`.orQpto of sorne 4other d"estlnatlon, The Mental turmoil.;' .theihort tamper. when traffic tie-up ,areencet ntered—ail are parts of a high..speed psychoiogy.by whlch we have deluded our:SW.0 L for' years. . . , Have' we ;eVer stopped •to calculate h"ow, much lir ef.ve ta'aliysa a i,1 coir m�e.d dash' along the higtwa:y? Put it this way; if you normai;iy, Make the trip to ,Toronto -in two hours, you,have averaged miles per hour. Slow that down to an average ,Of;`54mph and thetrip,wiii ake24 mirlutestonger, A trip to , L" istowel, at the slower speed will take about • three .minute Hnore.., At one�Ptie,athis column scoffed at en- forced useof seat begs, butnow,we take it "back. Seat belts, save' lives and they ' keep people out Of hospital's. Of course we should be using them Only a race of idiots would deny the .proven statistics -rand; since the lives the belts will, save are our own or those most precious to us. why complain? Ws not going to hurt any of us to slow down and. stay 'alive: showered recen#ly? ows how many millions �tf g poured' into; Ontario to make us all conserva- have been told a thousand ave our dwindling energy ng up the weather -strip - and windows: installing, tead of the conventional we can almost win the rt,enough•to know that showers instead : of would also be patriotic Id ones. instead of�hot. I s: i I •b n er I r �� h l � 1 4 � � �. � e, • energy . in all Cts' �iotrms.' • But all that propaganda becomes :nothing • more than empty words when. you ,take a good, look at the really monstrous ways in which electri- cal energy is wasted. As an example, a new stretch of multi -lane highway has just been completed along 401 west of Toronto. The construction area stretches for about ten miles and the improved and widened road- way was badly needed to accommodate heavy traffic. However, despite this Much - talked -of energy crisis the entire route has been lined with tall concrete lighting stan- dards, not only on the median between the east and west lanes,' but along both outer verges as. well. The outside poles are topped Extremely to by single lighting fixtures: and the ones on the median carry double fixtures. ! , The new lighted highway extends fo west of No. 10 Highway and .No.. 10, as welt, is lighted in the same way for several miles north and south. And, of course, that is only ,one section of the highway system .which is similarly illuminated. Many motorists find these overhead" lights totally useless as far as driving safety is concerned. In fact, the overhead lights at times create a confusing gare which, under son -i circumstances, can be a hazard. Why, ui► r . i t • i '' Kort - e d n e_ s rae 5 v� n •e .h._ r ....e. � yu�.V g " ages sfiouul i ausan fights he R installed (each of them on a pole which costs several hundred,' dollars to illuminate a given stretch of highway? Somehow motor- ists can be expected to navigate all the other tens of thousands of -miles of Catario's high- ways with the aid of their own cars' head- lights. Admittedly.. Hydro- did not order the in- stallation of the highway: lights, but it would seem obvious that Hydro- should be pro- testing their use if the message about energy conservation is really sincere. It would be in- teresting to know whether the general con- tractor for the road job takes a bath or a shower. ose talk Although the vast majority of Cana- dians—at least those in our part of the coun- try—are solidly behind the government in its decision to adhere to its original offer in the postal strike, people in high plates have been coming out with some patently foolish state- ments. Prime Minister Trudeau stated pub- licly last week that Canada can get along "indefinitely" without the post office. Perhaps the remark was intended as a further warning to striking CUPW members, but it is patently untrue. Canada cannot get along without a postal service. Perhaps we. can set up plans to replace the present sys- tem with one that is more dependable—but there is no way this country can continue myth longer without a functioning method of Guns and societ We hope the royal commission on vio- lence in the media gets an earful when they sit in Wingham on December 3, says the Sea - forth Huron Expositor. Now that the Ontario government is going after violence in the communications industry and violence in hockey, maybe they'll get around to trying to control vio- lence in real life. We'll like to see it made harder to buy guns in our province and we'd like to see licensing or registering of those who own them now. Stricter gun rules won't do much to dis- arm criminals—they'll get guns legally or otherwise. But it will help to prevent y transferring mail across the nation. Postmaster -general Bryce Mackasey's frequently -repeated boast that he is prepared to wait the union out till Easter if necessary, is equally fatuous. After five weeks without mail service the crippling ef- fects of the,strike are being felt everywhere. It is fine to operate on the concept that the strikers will get hungry enough to go back to work eventually, but the'22,000 postal workers constitute only a small fragment of the total number of persons and businesses who suffer from the strike. Not only must this disruption be halted, by whatever means necessary, but from here on in there has to be a better way to resolve such disputes. tragedies like the high school shootings in Brampton and Ottawa. Disturbed people shouldn't have guns. It's as simple as that. Without a gun a temporarily crazed person can beat or knife someone, but they can't kill or wound a whole group at one fell swoop as happened in the high school "massacres". Control of TV violence can discourage the impression that an atmosphere of may- hem and injury is acceptable, even enter- aining. Though the inquiry is supposed to focus on the communications industry, those who talk to the commission will probably focus on TV violence. THE WINGHAM ADV ANCE -TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by W Barry Wenger, President Robert enger Bros. Limited U. 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 $15.50 Return postage guaranteed NOVEMBER 1928 ' The Teeswater lime,/ Pia , closed down `last 'week aid th plant -will be dismantled ,„ Management states that the high freigh, rates made it 1irxipossib1e 'toy,' carry on profitably. Mrs. W: J. Royce last week so her home on Minnie Street to D Geddes. Mrs. Boyce inten going to Paris to liver x t ori. An unwax an gd rumor.. has;-., bee, ineIr.cu1a i i ;.vs Part Me 1Q >.� p nr.v sometime that action ' fild beeps or :were about to be taken against farmers . for hauling .produce from their homes to market or mill, in passenger ears. 'George Spotton, M.P., took up the matter with the :,provincial authorities who informed him that there is not the slightest ground for. that impression. A farmer has the right to use his passenger car for any purpose connected with his business, so long as his car is not used for hire or is not changed in shape so as to make it a truck. At Wellesley, 168 horseshoe enthusiasts contested in a tourna- ment and when the smoke had cleared away, Charles Elliott of Wingham came out as single champion, with Ed Small in fourth place. Robert McGee has disposed of his property on Victoria Street to be used for Father McHugh. Mr. McGee has purchased a farm just this side of Blyth. There will be no election in Wingham this year,' the whole slate being elected by acclama- tion. Thomas Fells is mayor, J. W. McKibbon reeve. Councillors are C. R. Wilkinson, H. B. Elliott, Amos Tipling, David Watson, James McGillivray and Henry Diment. Wingham will get a new salt block as soon as conditions are favorable for building. The new concern will have a daily output of 100 tons and will provide employment for some 30 or 40 hands. The Hydro Commission is staking out Wroxeter streets in preparation for erecting the poles to wire the village. ' 040 NOVEMBER 1940 There was no excitement at the town nomination meeting Mon- day evening. The attendance was the smallest in many years as all offices were filled by acclama- tion. J. H. Crawford enters his third term as mayor and R. S. Hetherington is reeve. Elected to council were Murray Johnson, J. J. Evans, Elmer Wilkinson, Frank. Sturdy, R. H. Lloyd and Walter VanWyck. F. J. Mooney has purchased the Cameron Estate property in Turnberry. Jack "Ace" Bateson, who has been attending the Galt Aircraft School, was called to London for active 'service with the Royal Canadian Air Force and is now stationed at Manning Pool, Toronto. Reeve Raymond Redmond of East Wawanosh has thrown his hat into the ring for the warden - ship of Huron County for 1941. At the annual county meeting very 1 ye to. watch weight. of the United Farmers' =:Clubs'. held at Ripley, Charles Coultes of Belgrave was elected district president. Two local boys joined the staff of the DominionBank.. 'Elgin Loney, son of Rev. and Mrs. E. M. Loney, went to Toronto and is on the staff of the St. Clair and Vaughan Road Branch: Norman son of Mr. and;,Mrs, i1 orman i P. Q'tune: f a of the local r 0 o ft 'which. cls f z«�a °� xi t'h he swill be transferred to Toronto. Roland Grain was re-elected reeve of Turnberry Township by acclamation at the nomination meeting held in that area. Returned to council were Flem- ing Black, Richard Wilton, Harold Moffatt, James Brecken- ridge, Roy Porter and William Austin. The annual meeting of Gorrie L.O.B.A. was held with Evelyn Dane named Worthy Matron, Other officers are Mrs. ‘E. Car- son, Mrs. George King, Mrs. Anson Thornton, Mrs, Norman Wade and Mrs. H. V. Holmes. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Graham (Velma Higgins). were guests of honor when 'about 160 relatives and friends gathered at their home near Fordwich and pre- sented them with gifts in honor of their recent marriage. 0-0-0 NOVEMBER 1951 W. W. Gurney was elected to the mayorality by acclamation at the local nomination `meeting. Mayor Gurney had announced his retirement last week but a great deal of pressure was brought to bear by his supporters and friends to stand again for another term and so he felt 'obliged to accept. T. P. O'Malley and Sons of Cul- ross Township did well with their Red Poll_ cattle at the Royal WinterFair held recently ; in Toronto. One of their two -year- olds took the Reserve Grand Championship as well as first in its class. Other animals in the O'Malley herd won four seconds, two thirds and a fourth. In one of the most one-sided elections in Ontario's history, the Progressive Conservatives swept the field Thursday of last week. The PCs, and their leader, Premier Frost, gained 79 seats. In Wingham, John W. Hanna received over 78 per cent of the votes cast at the polls. Mrs. David Hutcheson of Wing - ham has purchased the Ross Ladies' Wear store in Teeswater, taking possession on Thursday of last Week. George R. Phippen, formerly of Wingham, has been transferred from the Kirkland Lake branch of the Bank of Commerce to the Minden branch. Mr. and Mrs. Bower Farrish, Itenni and Jimmie, have moved to the aorrie home which they re- cently purchased from the late Alex Edgar estate. J. D. Beecroft and Orval McGowan were nominated to compete for the office of Reeve in East Wawanosh, NOVEMBER 1961 Mit.' Victo.;r�`•'Ehperson was elected presjdent of the" Women's Missionary Society of Chalmers Presbyterian £hurch, White- church, replacing Mrs. Johnston. Conn who resigned because of ill - hem Vice-presidents are .Mrs. Derwyn Hill and Ws.- Donald (toss; secretary, Mrs: H. D. McDonald; treasurer, Mrs. D. Craig.' ..k . ghlhert -He ham's new mayor, elected by acclamation at Friday's nomina- tion m.eeting. Elected to council by Scclamation were D. C. Nasmith, G. W. Buchanan, J. W. Callan, Alan Williams, Len Crawford and G. W. Cruick- shank. At the morning service in St. Paul's Anglican Church, the rector, Rev. C. F. Johnson, ay, • • dedicated' ',new oak rails at the chancel steps, the gift. of Misses.. Bezdetta.: and, Harriet _ . Cracken,. f is- 'Excellency, John • topher Cody, Bishop°or the tic, Diocese of I40ndon,< and dedirated .0e new Heart -School here onSunday! The:. new"sehool will house 52 Students• this year .r• Mrs. Florence District '8 -of the, Order of Eastern. Star, marking her elec- tion to the office of District Deputy Grand Matron. Reeve of Hawick Township, Arthur Gibson,; retired after 12 years, nine, of which he was on; county council. Candidatesfor the office, to be filled at a Deem- ber 4 election, are Ivan Haskins and Harvey. McMichael. 1ODAY CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN., Keith is a handsome 12 -year-old with reddish -blonde hair, blue eyes, fair skin and rosy cheeks — French Canadian in descent. He is considered above average in ability and he has many talents and interests. School is not among them, however, and he is repeating grade seven this year. He could do much better with more motivation because when Keith is really interested in something no effort is too great. Healthy and active. Keith is a good athlete who plays baseball and is an accomplished figure skater. Among his hobbies are ceramics and woodworking. Cooking is a major interest and he has won prizes for bread and cakes at fall fairs. Keith is not shy and can be a most interesting talker. He'd rather be with adults than children. He needs parents with much warmth and patience and he should be the only child. or certainly the youngest. in his adoption home. To inquire about adopting Keith. 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 about your present family and your way of life. For 'general adoption ' information. consult your local Children's Aid Society. HE WINS PRIZES iS e+ have rale'^ onfamous fa u market and the pr po down the market and the of hall, to replace'botl with r od i buildings which' polarized' citizens. The story f. the #iglu save the market is that of many medium-sized cities trying to remain vital in these years of Uri ban crisis. NOVEMBER 1-24 By Joe Smulevitz Fine fall weather- was ex. perienced through Thursday as daytine temperatures reached the middle teens, well above. normal for this time of year. Polar air had swept into the region by Friday producing clouds, snowflurries, and tem- peratures below normal for the remainder of the period. High pressure off the mid-At- lantic remained stationary. Be- hind the stagnant high, warm air spread north into the region. Fog was prevalent during the early morning hours. The fog was caused by moist surface air los- ing its heat through outward radiation on the clear nights. The high pressure system that provided the mild weather re- ceded eastward. Arctic air that had been hovering to the north advanced into southern Ontario. The arrival of the colder air trig- gered rain showers on Thursday night. An intense low pressure system weakened as it moved across the Great Lakes. As the low ad- vanced eastward a northwesterly flow of cold air developed, pro- ducing snow flurries in southern Ontario. Snow flurries occurred mainly on the upland slopes facing Lake Huron when cold air saturated and warmed in its pas- sage over the water ascended on the colder highlands. The arctic air kept its grip on the area through Monday. Little day to day change in tempera- tures and sky conditions were observed: The extended outlook indicates that temperatures will remain below normal through Thursday. A warming trend is expected by the weekend. Although periods of light snow seem likely through Thursday, no significant ac- cumulation is anticipated.