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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1977-09-21, Page 1• 4'4 LAND SEA- AiR PACKAGE YOURS Business or pleasure - book nowt FIRST SECTION Lion Arun Ghosh talks about his homeland India's population is now net increase of 1.2 milli month, That's correct, a m This was only one of the amazing and interesting about India given in a speech Lion Arun Ghosh at the Win Lions Club meeting last wee Mr. Ghosh spoke on the guage, marriage customs, gion, industry and way of h his homeland which he visited for a month this sum While studying engineerin England a few years ago, pos about Canada., "the land of portunity", caught the atten of Mr. Ghosh and he arrived in 1967. He came to Wingham years ago and presently wor the Western Foundry. His son and daughter are still visi in India. The total population of Indi 620 million and about 24 guages are spoken. There three main languages in e province; the provincial Ian age, the national langua Hindu, and English. English spoken in the universities colleges. Mr. Ghosh left Toronto ai on a Sunday at 8 p.m., arriving Calcutta on the following Tu day, 11:45 a.m.; actual flyi time about 24 hours. He laugh when he said the temperature Toronto was 94 degrees and in dia about 10 degrees cooler.. He arrived during the mons season, July and August, wh the temperature is normally 80 85 degrees. During May a June, the temperature may 100 or 110 degrees. In December and January, average temperature is about degrees except in the nor which is cooler. In the extrem north there is snow. The three religions in .India Hinduism, Islam and Chrisa ity. Although only .one wife allowed now by law in Indi *-some of the Moslem faith sti take three wives. The marriage ceremony las from three to five days with an number of people invited. It is no uncommon to have 500 or 1,000 a a wedding. Mr: Ghosh said 5,000 came to his wedding. When asked if the lengthened ceremony made for longer mar riages, Mr. Ghosh replied h couldn't be sure, but divorce i rare in India. Although asking fo a dowry is against the law, in th smaller villages where life is en trenched in past ways, it is st' asked for. Village life is very differen from that in the cities as the people are superstitious and live in the past. In a discussion about birth control, Mr. Ghosh said it is more a problem of education than religion. The people in the vil- lages believe if they have eight children it will mean that many more hands on the farm. Modern facilities are found in the cities 'and some have now reached the villages. A television program, via satellite from the t-; States is shown in the villages on = one screen where everyone f, gathers to watch modern farming j methods. The people are too poor to pro- ;, ,vide such mechanization for °I 'themselves, but the government has bought tractors for com- munities that share the use of the • ;;;:equipment. Mr. Ghosh said the caste system still exists in India but is •.`;;;being broken bit by bit. The rich t.°.'• •hre very rich, "you wouldn't be- '; jieve", and the poor are very poor. Mr. Ghosh said every society ,'?Jias a middle class which he be- " Teves may be the worst position. '4,You always have middle class . :intellectuals who get to college, *rho have the education and the 'Ambitions but not the money." Some other facts reported by . Ghosh were the life span of en and women compared to 30 ;pars ago. In 1947 a man's life n was 29 years and 30 years a woman. Now the span is 49 50 years for a man and 51 to 52 ' a woman. r'}'llletirement age in a govern- ent job is 55 years and in pri- te companies 58 years. saAgriculture dominates the job 'prket, about 75 per cent of the illation working in this field. culture accounts for 45 per t of the gross national pro - t. The GNP expected for 1976- lis $91,700 million. �ndustry is also important with :Million tons of steel produced year, 113 million tons of coal at a on a onth. many facto by gham k. lan- reli- fe of had mer. g in ters op- tion here four Its at wife, ting a is late are ach gu- ge, is and rport in es - ng ed in In- 00f1 to nd be the 50 th, e area, .fee is a, 11 is y e s r e >ll and 40 to 50, thousand barrels of offshore oil a day. Gasoline costs approximately $2 a gallon, and everyone drives a small car. Mr. Ghosh told the Lions that their club is active in Calcutta where members work in edu- cation and health areas, which are not subsidized in India as in Canada. The Lions have built health clinics for the poor at no charge. Lions doctors (Jive their time, free of charge to these clinics. In education, the Lions have funded schools for free education. They are also fairly active in the villages, building workshops and libraries for the people. Mr. Ghosh explained part of the reason, besides religion, that no meat is eaten in the country is be- cause of the extreme heat. Most of the people are vegetarians. "A high protein diet is not good in the heat." India produces enough food to feed its immense population, Mr. Ghosh said, but unlike China, the food is not distributed evenly throughout the country. This is one way the caste system makes itself evident. Lion president Archie Hill thanked Mr. Ghosh for the in- formative talk about his home land. In the business portion of the meeting the club discussed selling peanuts to raise money for the Wingham arena. The JCs may be helping them this year, but all proceeds, collected by anyone, will -go to the arena fund. Mr. Ghosh was installed as treasurer of the club. The Lions will also be spon- soring a telethon for the cerebral VISITS HOME LAND—After a month's visit in his homeland, India, Lion Arun Ghosh spoke at the last Lions meeting. Lion President Archie Hill talks with Mr. Ghosh following the meeting. Mr. Ghosh told the members that the Lions Club is quite active in India, in areas of health and education. New, rec director starts this week Wingham's new recreation director arrived in town last weekend and has already plunged into the task of fami- liarizing himself with the work- ings of his department. Rennie Alexander will be working with interim director Gary Lisle until the end of the month, at which time he will take over com- pletely. "I'm quite excited about the job," Mr. Alexander said, adding he doesn't plan any major changes until a learns the posi- tion and finds o what the rec de- partment is and has been doing. Among the things he will be looking into, he said, are the cul- tural aspects of recreation — such as arts and crafts `— and possibly more programs for girls. He said he feels the day camp program that was tried this summer is a good idea and will be looking at further development of He likes the fact the recreation committee here is broken down into subcommittees, each of which has it programs to run, and that alot of volunteers are help- ing promote minor sports, he noted. Before coming to Wingham, Mr. Alexander worked for two years in the recreation program in Windsor. He's "had it" with the city, though, he said, and jumped at the chance to come here. Hailing from Dryden, On- tario, he likes fishing, and camp- ing, neither of which was too good around Windsor. He knew this is a beautiful area, he added, as his wife's par- ents have a cottage around ' Goderich, and they have spent some time there. Mr. Alexander studied physical education for three years at Mc- Master University in Hamilton and recreation for two years at the University of Alberta. His wife, Louanna, has the identical portfolio, he said. He is 27 years old and they recently had their first child. Treat eight for injuries during week A Belgrave man was treated for lacerations at Wingham Hospital Sunday following a single car accident. Robert White was apparently driving alone irk his car on East Wawanosh Con- cession 9 when the accident occurred. It is being investigated by the Wingham detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police. Two other Belgrave residents received hospital treatment following an accident along High- way 4 in Morris Township Satur- day night. Barbara J. Black and Audrey Scott were injured when the vehicle driven by Mrs. Black was involved in a collision with one driven by Warren D. Whit- field of RR 3, Blyth. Miss Scott was a passenger in the Black ve- hicle. A single car accident on High- way 86 west of the Turnberry 'lwp. Road junction Saturday afternoon sent four persons to hospital. Richard Conley of Luck - now, the driver of the vehicle, and Donna Lyn Brooks of Hamil- ton, a passenger, were treated and released. Two other pas- sengers, Charles F. Huntington of RR 5, Lucknow, and James Cranston of RR 2, Lucknow, were admitted with lacerations. David Farrish of RR 3, Luck - now, was treated and released from hospital Monday after he was apparently involved in a motorcycle accident in Lucknow Monday afternoon. Wingham, Wednesday, September 21, 1977 India palsy, foundation. It is to be,.held Oct. 1 and 2 with telephones at.thp Western Foundry. After the meeting Lion Llox4 Casemore showed a film pro„j duced by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. It showed how transplants are giving sight to those who never believed they. would see again. Expenses set for committee The Huron -Perth District Health Council Steering Com- mittee spent a total of $2,226.16 for expenses in the 30 months it was operating. Hospital Administrator Nor- man Hayes reported the figure this week. The committee's job was to decide if the two counties wanted a district health council. Final decision was to turn it down. NEW COUNCILLOR George Cousins of Brussels was appointed the new member of the village council last Monday night filling the vacany left when Frank Stretton resigned. :VIVO Listow el, 0n.tari0 291.28 i Cull Toil'Frea 1-000-2454332 Single copy Nat Ayer 80c SCHOOL FAIR—WiIIiam Coultes, president of the Belgrave, Blyth and Brussels School fair, welcomes everyone to the event. To the right of Mr. Coultes are people who took part in the openingceremonies: John Elliott, rep- resentative on the Huron Bd. of Education; Simon Hall- ahan, reeve of East Wawanosh; Murray Gaunt, MPP; John Wingham hospital is not a priority for capital funds Wingham and District Hospital is not in a prime position to re- ceive provincial capital funding for projects this year. Executive Director Norman. Hayes told the,. hospital board a list of prioritie* for funding was made after . a meeting of all Perth and Huron County hospital directors with the area co-ordinator and Wing - ham is fifth on the list. Top of the 'list is the Clinton Hospital which requests $150,000 for improving its emergency facilities. Mr. Hayes reminded the board of a past resolution it made to support the Clinton Hospital in any way to keep it open, short of closing rooms in the Wingham Hospital. The St. Marys hospital is next on the list with a funding request of $750,000 to improve emergency, facilities as well. Mr. Hayes told the board he saw the hospital's facilities and said it definitely needs the money. It was decided to put these two hospitals' requests together and submit them to the Ministry of Health. Mr. Hayes told the board at its Sept. 14 meeting that if these were approved they could move down 'the list of priorities. The Stratford Hospital was placed third with its request fora :speech therapist. The hospital .speech requested $721000 but ft was felt that the need for a speech , „ therapist could be spread to other areas, not close to Stratford. It was decided to raise the re- quest to $25,000 so a therapist could be placed in other hospitals in the two counties. Goderich is fourth, requesting $1;250,000 for renovations and Wingham comes fifth, requesting $1,250,000 for emergency facilities. Exeter and Seaforth hospitals made no requests and Listowel was last, requesting $150,000 for outpatient facilities. The request for the money will be included with requests of all hospitals in Ontario. Twelve members of the hospi- tal staff successfully completed a basic rescue course in which cardiopulmonary techniques were taught by the Red Cross. ,, Vice-chairman Boris Milosevic reported the following staff com- pleted the course: Margaret RECREATION DIRECTOR—Rennie Alexander, Wing - ham's new recreation director, arrived in town on the weekend. He started working with interim director Gary Lisle on Monday. He is quite excited about the job, he said, but doesn't plan any major changes to the department until he learns the position. Campbell, Douglas Switzer, Mary Lee, Keith Carson, Bill Henderson, Rod Hickey, Martin Cretier, . Clarence Ohm, James McWhinney, Robert Hickey, Eric `: C e,ave and Reg O"Hagan. A cash balance of $469,000 was reported for the month ending July 31. Mr. Hayes reported that the active hospital summary compares well with the provin- cial average. Convertor box won't provide extra channels During the past couple of weeks owners of one particular make of television receiver in this com- munity have received direct mail advertising promoting the sale of 35 channel TV convertors for con- nection to television sets served by cable television companies. Country Cable Limited feels ,pbliged to warn subscribers in their coverage areas, Listowel, • Palmerston, Mount Forest, Arthur and Wingham, that the use of a convertor box will not make any additional channels available. for viewing. Extra channels can be provided by a convertor only when such chan- nels are provided by the cable coriepany. The convertor box will, how- ever, provide for remote control of a television receiver for those channel now available. If and when extra channels are available through application of a convertor Country Cable Ltd. will make that information im- mediately available to its sub- scribers. Cochrane, director of education for Huron; William Elston, reeve of Morris and Don Pullen, agricultural representa- tive. Directly behind Mr. Cochrane, but not visible in the picture is Ross Hamilton, CKNX manager who officially, opened the fair. MISS HOWICK FAIR—Twyla Dickson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Dickson of RR 1, Wroxeter, was named Miss Howick Fair queen Saturday night following a competition held at the Howick Community Centre. Miss Dickson was sponsored by the Belmore Cha nber of Commerce and de- feated four other contestants for the title. (Staff Photo) Belmore girl named GORRIE — Twyla Dickson, 18. a grade 13 student at F. E. Madill Secondary School in Wingham, was named Miss Howick Fair Saturday night following a competition at the Howick Com- munity Centre. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Dickson of Belmore, she de- feated four other contestants for the title. Miss Dickson succeeds Kim Baylor of Fordwich, the 1976 Howick Fair Queen. Miss Baylor attended the competition and presented Miss Dickson with her crown and sash. The new queen was sponsored by the Belmore Chamber of Commerce. First runner-up in the com- petition was Norma Fischer who was sponsored by the Gorrie Women's Institute. Other con- testants were Fern Adams, spon- sored by the Howick Lions; Janice Ruttan, sponsored by the Fordwich Women's Institute and Donna Wagler, sponsored by the Fordwich Businessmen's Association. The contestants were judged on their appearance, personality and on a prepared speech. Judges for the event were Mrs. Mac Queen Thompson of RR 4, Listowel and Dr. and Mrs. R. J. Creighton of Walkerton, formerly of Clifford. Miss Dickson will reign over the Howick Fall Fair on Oct. 1 and will be eligible to participate in the Canadian National Exhibi- tion's Sweetheart of the Fair competition in 1978. Two men jailed on theft charges Two Wingham area men were sentenced to jail on a variety of theft charges when they ap- peared before Judge Warren Eh- goetz in Goderich provincial court last Thursday. Kenneth A. McEwen, 20, of RR 2, Wingham, received a total of 18 months in jail and two years pro- bation on charges of stealing a motor vehicle; break, enter and theft; and theft of gasoline. Kenneth G. Snowden, 27, of Wingham was sentenced to a total of 71 months in jail and two years probation for theft of a motor Vehicle, theft of gasoline and impaired driving The auto theft charge related to the stealing of a 1973 Plymouth owned by Paul Rintoul of Wing - ham. The car was taken from his residence on Sept. 4.