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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1981-02-11, Page 4$tk • »VAACE T1 ••• •••• , "Ott ...title tit .1,11t. •••• ••• •••, •••• ••••••••••b•sisi THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Published at Wingham. Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited Barry Wenger, President Robert -0 Wenger, Sec -Treas Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member — Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc. Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc Six months 69.50 Return postage guaranteed Subscription 616.00 per year SeconctClass Mail Registration No. 0821 Rail service must stay The discovery that a major, local in- dustry Is being threatened by the pro- posed abandonment of rail freight ser vice to this area is bad news indeed for Wingham. A town this sire simply can't afford to lose another employer. Not only has the. Lloyd door factory, now owned by Premium Forest Pro- ducts, been part of the town for most of its history, it also provides more than 100 badly -needed jobs. If they were lost, as they might be should the rail service be withdrawn, the effect on the economic and social life of the com- munity would be severe. More families would be forced to move away in - search of an income; more young peo- ple , would be left jobless; local merchants would lose business — the vicious cycle continues. Company representatives are under- standably upset -by proposals to elimin- ate or significantly cut back transport- ation services. When the factory expan- sion here was planned,' some 25 years ago, the existence of the Canadian Pac- ific rail line to bring Western lumber directly to the plant door was an im- portant consideration. Since then the plant has weathered a number of lean years and now, on the basis of success- ful development of an export market, offers the possibility of additional jobs in the future. A proposal by CP and Canadian Nat- ional railways to ship lumber only as far as the Josephine Street depot in Wingham -- or possibly to Blyth -- has been declared unacceptable. The com- pany calculates the additional costs in- volved would make operation of the plant unprofitable. We cannot blame the railroads too much for. Wanting to cut their own losses, -but neither can we afford to pay the price this move would exact. It is quite true that having two rail lines running into town today is an unneces- sary luxury. The' CN track Is seldom ,t4 used, and if one line Is to be abandoned it makes sense It should be that one. Unfortunately the railroads, for rea- sons of their own, are more disposed to abandon the CP track, which serves the Lloyd factory and which may In future be called on to service the new Wingham feed mill. Railways can obtain a subsidy for op- eration of unprofitable lines, so keeping a fine open would not impose unbear- able hardship. In addition, when the Canadian Pacific company was estab- lished it was given large and very luc- rative grants of land and mineral rights, In return for promising to prt3- vide transportation services. Today, when the company's oil and other oper- ations are yielding 'substantial profits, It might be well to remind it of that pro- mise. A pledge from a representative of the Ontario government that It will not permit changes which would force the Lloyd plant to close, while reassuring, is no guarantee 'of a happy ending. For one thing the province does not have the final say in the matter; for another, the government has since been dissolv- ed and policies may change. The rail- roads have in the past, with their meth- odical elimination of passenger ser- vice, shown a marked ablility to get their own way despite public opposi- tion. - It is time we all took a careful look at what lies ahead for transportation in this country. It Is a mistake to assume that rail travel is an anachronism in the jet age. With rocketing costs and dwindling supplies of fuel, there is good reason to believe our future may again ride the rails. North American rail- roads have been shackled too long by an outlook which rejects innovations and has allowed tracks and equipment to decay. It is time to take a page from the Europeans and Japanese and get our trains rolling again. Faithful service Though he wilt probably blush at our suggestion, it is our sincere belief that Murray Gaunt has been a model repre- sentative of the people. who elected him to the Ontario legislature for nearly 20 years. Many of us are all too familiar with the type of politician who is a great hand -shaker at election time and then disappears from view for the next four years. Murray Gaunt was not one of these. He was always as close as the telephone to his constituents, regard- less of their political affiliation. When he was asked to help with some problem or other he could .be relied upon to do his best. He was that great est of all public representatives — an honest and sincere politician. Elected in the first place because he was a likeable young man, he contin- ually added to his reputation by hard work and sincerity of purpose. The time he was permitted to spend with his young family must have been limited Indeed, between the long months spent at Queen's Park and the multitude of chores he looked after when he was at home in Wingham. Murray says he wants to enjoy a long holiday and then pursue an occupation which will, at long last, leave him some time with his family. He has earned that right and our gratitude for a diffi- cult job well done. Settle out of court Expropriation Is not the way to solve Turnberry Township's, dispute with a landowner over property required for replacement of the Eadie Bridge. The case is not a ciearcut black and white; both sides have reasons for feeling as they do, and the best thing would be for them to sit down together and make a determined effort to find a mutually acceptable solution. ne township council obviously is eager to proceed with replacement of the outdated bridge as quickly as possi- ble. The project has been planned for some time and councli,is not eager for any delays which would add to the con- struction cost. On the other hand, it is dear that dr. Baird has gone to considerable trouble over a number of years to develop his nearby house and property, and it is quite understandable that he does not want to see his work go down the drain. Whether the project as planned would in fact dry up his pond or force him to remove a row of maple trees has not been determined, but he has good rea- sons for arguing that It might. His con- cerns are reasonable and deserve con- sideration. One question which should be asked about the whole project is whether half a million dollars is a reasonable price to- pay for replacement of a sideroad bridge which serves a limited area and carries little traffic. Not that local farmers don't deserve the convenience of being able to cross the river at that spot, but Is it necessary to make the crossing at 50 miles per hour? To argue that designing the bridge for a lower speed limit would make it a death trap Is ridiculous. We can't see why anyone needs to travel a sideroad at 50 mph, and In practice traffic can easily be slowed down by leaving the road a bit rough on the approaches to the bridge. This overdesigning of structures — building a Cadillac when we really need a Jeep or a pickup truck — has plagued us far too long. Schools, hos- pitals and most public edifices too often are designed to feed an architect's van- ity or fill his pocket, rather than to pro- vide economical and serviceable build- ings, a practice condoned and preserv- ed by ministry officials who follow the book Instead of common sense. It is one of many ways we have been living over our heads, -and it will end when governments go once too often to the well and find it dry. At the rate we are going, that day may not be too far distant. to• .pr(Poi,:: ....".. 4S. es, *.S, • IA.., • ,';;;0'..4.`••,$'••• ; *"'" $.1 ' ' • • on 1'1," ...fit08,•A40.043i-;:;..:!4;:i0;iii.!M 't.•.:••••40:$:44•••••••titt•••":”.;:,:i.iti'i.14. • • • • • 41$ • -;;;1•••$;--„i•',.; ;k: ••• • .t.A'f•1 $$$.$$$$$'1... • 1, A 717-77i7177—' dA/69V ti&elP Phlr eVE,c1p/E,LippLE Items from Old Files FEBRUARY 1934 At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, a delegation headed by Mayor Hanna was formed to in- terview the provincial Minister of Highways to urge that Highway •4 between Wingham and Clinton br brought up to government 'standards. They ale will request that this higlirway be kept open during the winter. The High School • cern-. mencement. exercises were held at the town hall. Scholarship winners, were , Isabel McKinnon, June Buchanan, Jean Webster, Milian Moore, Tom, Wilson and John CeMpbell.'Winners . of Field Day .awards were Jim Thompson, , John Preston, Gerald Edmonds, Audrey McMichael, Hazel Armstrong and Isabel Habkirk. ":" • ThomasWheeler of Wingham was named County. Master of .North Huron Loyal Orange Lodge at a meeting held . in Wingham Orange Hall . The storms of last week put a slop to motor traffic with practically no traffic by . car from Monday of last week to Monday of this week Baby Shirley. Temple, at four the youngest star of a new movie,. appeared in , ,..court to have her long-term contract approved by a Superior Court Judge. ,Contractors on No. 9 High- way, near Orangeville, have become discouraged hiring farmers' teams which are not satisfactory. Most of the horses have been laid off and replaced by mules. Fire destroyed the: oeautiful stone farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sanderson,' near Gorrie, after the stove pipes caught fire and fell on a bed. The snowstorm was so had the fire could not be seen end having no phone, they %here unableto summon help. • „FEBRUARY 1946 Miss Grace Louise Parker, daughter of Dr. .F. A. and Mrs. Parker. was -successful iii passing ,her Canadian Medical Technology examinations at Hamilton with first class henors. Miss Parker is presently • the --technician . at" Norfolk (;eneral Hospital at Simcoe. George Coulter purchased the residence of Duncan Kennedy, corner of Patrick and Shuter Streets, last week. 'Last week, Frank and • Robert Hopperpurchased the 'R40. T. Dancing Pavilion just north of the town. limits. They have also purchased some additional land adjoining the pavilion and intend building a number of tourist cabins. They also hope to . add a modern service station. Albert Nethery received. the appointment of assessor for the Township of Morris. The_ Ontario Plowmen's Association, at its annual meeting in Toronto, an- nounced that the first post- war International Plowing Match will be held in Huron County. The site will be Port Albert . airport •near Goderich. A new world's record was established when a Stouff ville farmer paid $51,000. in American currency for a Hereford bull at an Oklahoma auction. Brussels is to have 'a fall fair 'this year, The fair was discontinued during the war years but the newly elected board of directors has decided to have a fair again, this fall. FEBRUARY 1957 Joe Kerr Construction,. local' contracting $ firm, was honored, at the Good Roads convention in Toronto, where it ' was awarded • First Honorable. Mention in the H. C. •Routly Memorial Awards. Thelocal .firm was selected as having the best safety • record in the- ovince during the past year. Byron Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alton Adania; is making plans for an in- teresting trip this summer, when he will -be one of three Scouts in this area at the World Jamboree in England. Many farMers who sell Creationism vs. evolution: . . . another point of view Dear Editor, As possibly one of the leading proponentsof creationisin in this area, and a fundamentalist, may I take the opportunity to clarify our position on the much - publicized issue of creationism versus evolution. There is a movement today desirous of having creationism taught along with evolution in our tax - supported government schools. We at Wingham Baptist Church have founded our own school because we believe, among other things, that, creationism should be the only view taught as the origin of the universe. The Bible leaves no room for any other source of life on this planet. We hold the Bible to be inspired, infallible, inerrant, the final authority for all things, and on what- ever subject it may speak it is absolutely accurate, We do not base our con- victions on the many loop- holes of evolution, and there are many, but on the Word of. God alone. There are many scientists who totally reject evolution and embrace creationism. However should all scientists embrace evolution and totally reject creationism, that would not changelthe truth of what God has said in His Word as tar as we are concerned. • • Wehaveheard the many arguments of the evolutionists. These arguments have beentaught as fact to our children in the government4unded in- stitutions, supported by our- selves against our con- victions and the authority of the Word of God, for much too long. We have been much too patient, and although we have founded our own school, as long as our tax monies support that- which oppepaokseonwe our convictions and the Bible ehesshuablljeccotutinue to s Creationists have, by liberals, been likened in their condpct unto Hitler in his extermination of the Jews and Comnivaist Russia's silencing of dissidents. No honest person could ever equate a creationist with these. The Bibleis-primarily a Jewish hook. Jesus Christ was a Jew, Creationists are not Jew haters. Communism is atheistic huinanism and embraces evolution. In actuality, cominuniam is the incestuous child Of eVolution. • Charles Darwin's 'Trans- mutation of Species' has been rejected today by many evolutionists. He admitted, "There might be two or three millions of species on earth, sufficient field, one might think, for observation, but it may be said today that in spite of all the efforts or trained observers, not one change of species is on record," (Darwin's Life and Letters, Vol. 3, page 25) He rote again, "T suppose that the eye with all its initnitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberrations, could have been. formed by natural selection' seems, I frankly confess, absurd in the highest degree." We surely agree with Mr. Darwin on that point. Many evolutionists do not make known to their students the foregoing lits written by an outstanding evolutionist. Many creationists have chosen to base their teaching upon something much more substantial and correctly feel that something more substantial needs to be taught in our places of learning. Ross Smith Wingham Baptist Church $ ; • eggs must have been sur- prised last week when they received 27 cents a dozen for extra large.As and 30 cents a gc roaz delfaorrg e theAs. Tnhexe tie alr oswone the stabilizing of the price for government buying . of Grade A eggs. G. W. Montgomery, agricultural representative for Huron County -since 1951, has resigned his positionand will become agricultural agent in Ontario with the Canadian National Rail- NOYs• mr. and Mrs: Parker Campbell of Winghara an- nounce the engagement of their daughter, Louise Dorothy, to Gordon C. Welwood of • Wingham. The wedding will take place early in March. At a meeting of MOrriS' Township Council, the members agreed that a bridge of rigid frame con- struction would be built on the third concession. Four teachers ' from Stratford Teachers' College were practice teaching at Gorrie, last week. Beverley Ashton of Lucknow and Eleanor Sikh of Bluevale were in, the senior . room; Carla Krug, Belgrave, and Miss Mayhem, Wingham, were in the junior room. • FEBRUARY 1967 . As the result of a housing survey made by the Ontario Housing Corporation, Wing - ham Town CounCH passed a resolution requesting the - Corporation to build a six - unit apartment -type dwell- ing for senior citizens. Brian McLean Douglas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan Douglas of town, will -leave Camp Pendleton, California, for Okinawa on February 21. Brian joined the United States Marines on Sep- tember 19. ' At the annual meeting of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, it was ; announced that Harold Victor Pym has resigned after serving as organist for the past 28 years. After discussing the problem for some time, Wingham Town Council decided to back a recom- mendation by G. W. Cruickshank that a two-way radio system be installed for the police department. Lou Palmer has'agreed to look after the base station, Mrs. Jack Wickstead was installed as president of' the Bluevale United Church Women. Other officers in- clude Mrs. J. V. Fischer, Mrs. Walter Willits, Mrs, Lloyd Warwick and Mrs. James Johnston. Alvin D. Smith, reeve of Turnberry Township, was re-elected chairman of the Maitland Valley Con- servation Authority at the organization's annual meeting held in Brussels. Larry Taylor left last week for Marquette where he will attend Northern Michigan University, majoring in geography. . Mtn Pettl#011 As woll as having disastrous floods, Winghaut also suffered, trent MAW- wkodstoas- V'ortahatoly flO one was hurt yerthadly in these disasters. On an April mottling in 1893; a stem_ struck without warning. Part of the east wall of the public school -was blown out, but all the children were remov,ed safely with no panic, al- though some were injured by falling lath, plaster and bricks. The tower and soine off the east wall of the Catholic Church collapsed. (The spire was never re- placed), Both chimneys were blown off the Con- gregational Church, as well as pillars on the south side of the Presbyterian Church. On Good Friday in 1913, Wingham and district received a full share of the equinoctial gales which swept the whole continent. The storm was at its peak between noon and 2 pm. The large mounting shop,at the Western Foundry was com- pletely destroyed. Walker and Clegg also suffered a heavy loss. The gale loosened the large roof on the fourth storey off the factory. The roof was lifted off and the brick wall demolished. The large brick chimney went over and the bricks went through the roof of the boiler and engine room. The boiler was not damaged but the engine was. Mr. Clegg had a new roof on by Sunday morn- ing, saving the machtnery ' and stock front the heavy rains that came on Monday morning. • The roof and nearly all the brickwork on the front of Bennett's planing mill were destroyed. All the toof was carried off the Wingham Evaporator building at the south end- of Josephine, The front of A. Nichol's black- smith shop was blown flat. The hose tower at the fireball 7was blown over. No person 'could 'plate a true estimate on the amount of damage done. One of the worst hurri- canes 'to strike this area occurred on Saturday night Nov. 29, 1919. The winds were' estimated to be 60 miles an hour. The rain was blown ;ahead of it in sheets that penetrated buildings that were thought to be waterproof. Half of the roof of the Union Factory was lifted off and came &turn on the corner of the new skating, rink that was nearing • oil:0001m. When the fac- tory roof hit, it knocked the arched arena roof loOseand the • wind tore it to shreds. The 4ebrle..,ftOM 'thetwo buildings blocked Victoria St. and Diagonal Road. The corrugated ivon froi the arena roof was him* for blocks. One piece of it went through the roof on the house Of Dr. Feat': The brick wall of the .factory fell out and crumbled;fo the ; ground leaving the benches . and Machines out in the ePep at the mere), of theelements;; The Agricultural Society's big show building*as blown Own. It was st.' total wreck, as were the cattle • sheds. Some of the roof was removed from the Salt Block. The Grand Trunk engine house and the wheel- - -house at the power plant in Lower Winghattr, lost their roofs too. The Western Foundry lost most of , its windows. The chimney of the Gurney Glove. Works. (Kent Block) was toppled,..landing on the roof of the Morton Block, and crashed through to the apartment .below. Trees were uprooted, win- dows smashed, and electric light, telephone and tele- graph lines.. took a real beating. The Union Factory was rebuilt and the roofs re- placed, but the Wardsman rink was left in ruins for years. New Books • in the Library MY OWN BRAND by Jack Horner • Straight from the hip, here are the personalities; the issues, the quarrels and the • intrigues that have been the fascination of Canadian politics these last 20 years. It is Jack Horner's own brand of memoir, fast -paced, hard? hitting and _often very Wit '-- a rough, tough book fro a rough, lough -:-an ttertiely, astute man. ' EMPRESS by Sylvia; Wallace • Mary Anna Callahan has come a long way from her New ' England . childhood When, as an orphaned waif, she was left in the care of an unfeeling aunt and - uncle. Extraordinary events brought her from an- un- happy home in Boston to Hollyvv,Ood, where she be- came a famous actress, and thence to'her royal throne as Empress Marianna of Bahrait. TODAY'S CHILI) BY HELEN ALLEN Jop, The two small Indian sisters seen here are Vvaitin to be adopted by a faintly who want two daughters. Mary Lou is four and Sally is 20 months old. The children are healthy and active but each has a medical history possible parents should know about. Mary Lou is recovering from a mild case of Reyes Syndrome, a liver condition which affects children under 15. Sally is a fetal alcohol syndrome child which means her development is below average. She is expected to be at best a slow learner. Mary Lou, however, is average in a bTi Ihi teyy. are lovable, happy children, both easy to live with. They must be adopted together, because each of them is very important to the other. To inquire about adopting Mary Lou and Sally, please write to Today's Child, Ministry of Community and Social Services, Box ; : :, Station K, Toronto, Ontario, M4P 2112: In your letter tell something of your present family and your way of life.