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in the Library
When was the last time we enjoyed a d ?
bright, warm, balmy Easter? That day of
traditionally new hats and spring flowers is
usually cold and wet—but not this year. The
blessing of beautiful weather was particu-
larly welcome, coming as it did, after one of
the roughest winters ir► many years.
The spring of '76 is unusual in many
ways, one which may be looked back upon
from the perspective of later years as a
turning point in our lives. Although few of us
in this locality are suffering any great pain,
most of us are aware that the world we live
in has subtly changed in the past twelve
months. The implications of ever-increasing
prices, the threatened shortages of gasoline
and electricity and massive unemployment
in other parts of our land have left their im-
pact. We're not yet really worried, but we
are conscious of the possibility that our life
style will have to change.
Many of us are beginning to admit that
the free -swinging times we thought we were
enjoying were not so great after all. We were
so bL sy enjoying ourselves that we gave
little tir::: or thought to the basically im-
portant values. Our towns and townships,
our counties, provinces and our nation have
been left in the hands of the few who could
scrape up the interest, for whatever reason,
to take public office. At times they got away
with rank atrocities in the name of demo-
cratic government—because we were so fat
and self-satisfied we couldn't be bothered to
ask them any important questions. At other
times the dedicated ones fought the good
fight for justice and good government—but
we were still too busy with our own affairs to
notice.
The past few months, however, have
changed our own lazy attitudes—perhaps not
a great deal, but enough to start the
pendulum swinging in a new direction. Or-
dinary folks like you and me have begun to
question, to demand answers. A party which
has controlled our province for more than 30
years was elected by the slimmest of mar-
gins; a giant power corporation has been
forced to pause and reconsider because a de-
termined group of citizens refused to sit back
and say nothing; ministers of government
have been badly shaken up by the roar of
protest over cutbacks in health services;
violence and corruption in many forms have
come to public attention as never before.
There could be no point in suggesting
that these wrongs and shortcomings have all
been eliminated in the purifying light of
public scrutiny. They certainly have not. But
the signals are up. The bad weather warn-
ings are out for all the individuals and
organizations which eventually must bear
witness of their stewardship. Public opinion
is not what it used to be. The little guy is once
again flexing his muscles. He is awakening.
If harder times and higher prices are
what it takes to arouse a free people, let's
pay the shot. Our nation has not been a rotten
one—it has been a sleepy one. Perhaps the
finest blessing of this Easter is the rebirth of
conscience and the new dawn of personal re-
sponsibility.
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T"M'5 5IMFLI Too much VIOLENCE ON TN TNE5E DAIS ?
We Afimest Last Detroit by J.
Fuller
This is the true account of what
happened on Oct. 5, 1966 when the
control panel inside the F.nrioyo
Fernii an tem is rwl.wr war De-
troit suddenly registered high
radiation levels, a sign of critical
danger. The alarm sounded, the
shell was automatically sealed
off and the safety devices were
activated, but no one knew
whether the controls would bold
or if they were facing a runaway
atomic meltdown. Should Detroit
thirty miles away, be evacuated?
How long could -the officials wait?
John Fuller takes us on a nuclear
trip that explores the entire
atomic energy question and the
dangers of our present drive to-
wards solving our energy prob-
lems by use of atomic fission.
Lutiapik by Betty Lee
For one memorable year nurse
Dorothy Knight traded her con-
venient urban existence for a life
of isolation in the Arctic. This is
the story of her courage and hu-
mor while she faced the enor-
mous responsibility of caring for
the health of scattered villages; a
journeys by dog -sled; of loneli-
ness, epidemics and blizzards.
She left having earned the name
Lutiapik — the little one who
cares for us.
Horseback Honeymoon by Doro-
thy Ballard
It certainly wasn't the best way
News • to cross the country in 1907. Feed
was scarce and accommodations
Items from0' es for both riders and horses few
Home, sweet home!and far between but Ella and
Quincy Scott, newly -married
APRIL 1929 president. Wesley Joynt of Luck- the sale of his delivery agency to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Reever and didn't mind. On a snowy morning
Yes, home should be sweet. When that that needs paint, wallpaper and new plumb- W. H. Bell of Brussels has been now is vice-presjdent. William Elliott. Gord will take a family moved from the Wroxeter in May they set out for Seattle,
little ditty was penned, two or three genera- ing, on which you can spend every spare notified that he has been appoint- Two local lads have enlisted in position with Jack Reavie of Rea- area last week and are now resid- Washington, two thousand miles
tions ago, the writer was, no doubt, thinking dime for 20 years and still have nothing. ed postmaster of the Brussels a tank battalion at London. They vie Motor Sales. ing at Walkerton. away. Their chronicle of dangers,
with considerable longing of a spacious The alternative for city dwellers is even post office, succeeding the late F. are Hugh Bell and Pat Fitzpat- Mervin Craig of • the Bluevale Mrs. D. Pannebecker was ap- mishaps and elation is also the
farmhouse, nestled on the side of a gentle worse. The parents who can't afford a sepa- S. Scott who died about five years rickarea has moved to the farm pointed the new librarian at St. story of their discovery of each
hill, in.which he could recall the presence of rate house on its own .lot can rent a $250 a ago. Dr. Bell is a lifelong resident Harold I. Weir, son of Mr. and which he recently purchased Helens, succeeding Miss Isobel other.
his mother and father, seven brothers and month apartment and watch their kids of Brussels and a returned sold- Mrs. D. L. Weir of Howick, has from Charles Bosman on the sec- Miller who has held.this position
sisters, as well as Grandma Martin and Aunt trying to play on a patch of grass 13 floors be- ier. Walter Scott has been acting been appointed to the position of and line of Morris. for the past 26 years. Miss Miller
Effie. Neither the grown-ups 'nor the kids low. These great apartment blocks are fast postmaster since the death of Mr. assistant superintendent of agen- Rural people notice again how was elected -,president, succeed- FBI by Sanford J. Ungar
ever worried much about money. True becoming the slums of the 70s, reminiscent Scott,. des for London Life. quickly the town councils in these ing Miss W. D. Rutherford who This is an inquiry into one of the
enough, there wasn't much of
An interesting feature of the A new Artillery Brigade, is districts announced the so-called resigned. best known and most controver-
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nthe other hand little cash was ever tors' Cave dwellings. it around, but of nothing more wholesome than our antes• regular meeting of the Philaletha being organized in this district, daylight saving time changes. The annual meeting of the sial law enforcement and intelli-
e Bible Class of the United -Church with headquarters at Wingham. P
needed.- am. ronounvPti opposition from Howick Federation of A gricul
Bence ..agencies in the world.
The big old house was built from timber
A recent government proposal suggests was a shower bouquet of hand This brigade will be known as the Farm Forum groups seems prat- Lure, was or
held in Fdwich. Jack After two years of research,
cut on the land and sawed for a few cents a • one answer to the high price of housing kerchiefs presented to Miss Hazel 21st Field Brigade, RCA, and will tically useless. There can be little Ferguson was named president, which included information from
would be smaller lots—crowd the homes Petts who is leaving shortly for comprise four Batteries, Wing- co-operation while this attitude with Lyle Murray vice-president judges, agents, the chief of the
hundred at the local sawmill; the bricks more closely together, because land has be- London. ham, Listowel, Walkerton and persists. and Warren Zurbrigg secretary. FBI and in one case a criminal
came from the nearby brickyard and the come so expensive. Station 10 BP invites you to Kincardine -Port Elgin. Close to one hundred dollars The East Waw•anosh School who doubles as an FBI inform -
labor was probably supplied, nearly free, by • tune in for the oldtime concert The enresents a mixture of
a bunch of tpe'neigagement is announced was raised from a supper held in Board recently sold the No. 8 ant, Ungar boors. Fuel for the big fur- Isn't there something tragically ironic in g p
g g this whole mess. omagine! In Canada, Thursday night. The program of J. M. Bernice Day of Gorrie to the Wroxeter United Church. The school to Wilfred Walker and No. history and contemporary journ-
nace in the basement came from the woodlot g 1 will consist of barn dance tunes Clarence Wallace Sparling, only amount has been set aside as the 11, Sheill's School, to Reg Scholtz alism.
at the back of the farm and there was a where we have open space in uncompre- and a new artist, Singin' Jack son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey beginning of a fund for remodel- of Auburn.The little red school
mountain of food on the table for every meal, hended abundance, counted in hundreds of Towne and his banjo of Detroit, Sparling, also of Gorrie. ling the roof of the manse. houses of the land will soon be
including breakfast. thousands of square miles—we jam our- will be presented. Walter Nichols of Chesley has 0-0-0 forgotten.
selves into a sliver of landalong southern
Those great big homes, whether in town g our A number of women interested been engaged by the Huron Mot- APRIL t9t;2 The Howick Township School
or country, were the solid base from which a border and the price of tiny lots runs up and in the work of the Temperance ors, commencing his new duties Area Board proposes the building
up until our young families can scarcely af- Union met in the Baptist Wingham Council reached an
vigorous and self-reliant population emerg- p 'st Church. on Monday. important decision at its April of a central school for the town-
ed—young men and women who knew that ford to live. What in heaven's name is wrong Winners of the Messengers con- Charles McKibbon has enlisted ship, to be built somewhere near LAKELET II
with our collective heads7 test received prizes resented b with the Royal Canadian Air meeting when it gave tentative. Highway 87, as near the centre of LAKELET—The fourth meet -
hard work was a part of the good life and who p p y y approval to a set of sketch plans g p possible. in of the Lakelet II Club was
didn't expect handouts from anybody. Their With tens of thousands of sparkling lakes Miss Verna McLaughlin and Miss Force and is now at Manning the township as School g
children, in turn, learned those values of spread across the face of the land, where the Kathleen Pringle. Girls' winners Pool, Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. fora new front at the local arena. buildings now in use will be sold held at the home of Mrs. Jack
The plans were presented by J.
strength and independence, but somewhere air is clean and the water is pure, we must were Margartet Finley, Jean McKibbon now have two sons in and the proceeds of the sale used Wright April 12 at 7:30. The
Roy Adair, reeve and chairman meeting opened with the 4-H
along the way they began to let them slip. build our houses cheek -by -jowl with our un- Copeland, Olive Tiffin, Caroline the service of their country, Dr. for the purchase of the school site g Pe
Wellwood, Irene McInnes and Iva W. A. McKibbon being a captain of the arena commission. While and to aid in the purchase of pledge. Roll call was "Show a
A home is, or should be, something more known neighbors or pile our families bun- g p no definite figure was available.
than a place to hang your hat or gobble our dreds of feet u into the polluted atmosphere Kelly. For the boys, it was Harold in the 24th Field Ambulance at equipment or to reduce the mill design idea for free choice ar-
g y p p p Dixon, Roland Hutton, Leonard Val Cartier. the reeve thought the structure rate. title"..Discussion was on the use
lunch. n should si the well -spring of love, ti the city. What is wrong with the imaging James, Rex McInnes, Lister Provincial Secretary Harry would cost some There between Miss Pat Harris of Teachers' for the twisted chain stitch and
trust and responsibility. Today, 'however, tions of government and industry that they Shiell and John Patterson. Nixon said that the use of perm- $30,000 and $35,0(x1. College. Stratford, was the stu ideas brought to the meeting by
home is more frequently a 40 -year yoke of ,have never found a way to open new settle- The hydro street lights made anent motor markers in Ontario Mr. and Mrs. Parrish :Moffat dent teacher last. week at SS No. .the club members. The leaders
debt which hangs around the necks of both ments, fresh centres of commerce, where their first appearance in the vil- was practicable, due to the large and Gordon moved to Wingham 8 Howick, where Miss Jean demonstrated couching cross
mother and father throughout their working working people could live like human beings lage of Wroxeter on Saturday turnover of cars each year. His last week from near Teesw'ater. Sparking is the teacher. stitch and couching outline stitch,
years. Decent living accommodation in a instead of like pigs in a crowded pen? night and are a wonderful im- remarks followed a su They are living in the duplex as well as designing the free
We who s g ggestion Hiss Fat Bennett, bride -elect, g ng
town like ours is now price -tagged at $40,000 pend our lives in the less- provement to the town. that the province effect a saving formerly occupied by Sid Thomp- watt honored at a shower held at choice. The meeting closed with
and up; in the city the starting figure is crowded towns of rural Ontario rarely Three young men from Wing- -of steel for war purposes. son, known as the Field home the home of Mrs. Earl Heywood. the 4-H motto.
closer to $70,000. If you haven't got the realize how fortunate we are. The blessings ham, coming from the north, pre- 0-0--0
scratch for that kind of mortgage you can of warm homes and spacious lawns are sumably Walkerton or Formosa, APRIL 1952ul�
look for a cheapy—some run-down property beyond price. had some trouble with their car Monday was a red letter night A. v
lights in Teeswater and stopped to be long remembered by all .►'tA.
in front of the Vendome Hotel. No Loyal members of the local Mait-
sooner had they left the car, when land Lodge of Oddfellows On this
somebody had a hunch that there occasion a general meeting.was Y� •'•
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might be a wet cargo aboard. The held for the purpose of presenting 11
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owners said there were three cas- to a well known and highly es- 4. en
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es of beer missing when they re- teemed citizen, Albert Bell. a '
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turned to the car. This is the third handsome medal betokening the
time that beer has disappeared in completion of his 50 years as a
There's an odd twist here that area. Those who tote liquor member the Order.
through Teeswater should know Congratulations
lations to Chief Con-
better than to stop and leave their stable Bill Irwin who won the title
Oft times this column is too serious. For neck - and so on.
wet goods unprotected. of the baldest man in Wingham at
a change of pace, think about this: have you -The one exception we can think of is Miss Jannie Howe of Wroxeter the Lions and Kinsmen's Ladies'
ever realized that in our English language Wroxeter --and, by golly, we might be is attending the Convention of I,i Night. He had stiff competition
every word which starts with the letters getting ourselves into trouble with that one. brary Boards' in Toronto this from Omar Haselgrove. Hal E s
"wr" means something that is twisted, bent Just to clear the air let us declare that we week. MacLean, Bill Galbraith and +P
or unsmooth? have no knowledge of anyone or anything Roy McGee of Whitechurch some other shiny types. X
For example, wrangle, wrap, wreathe, twisty about that place or its people. Let's held an exceptionally good sale Merrill Cantelon spotted a ia.m
wreck, wrench, wrest, wrestle, wriggle, just suppose that the Wroxeter in England, His seed oats went at $1.04 a white robin in Bluevale across
wring, wrinkle, write, writhe, wrought, or wherever, after which the Ontario village bushel. from McKinnon's service station I'
wrong, wrath, wry. Each of these words car- was named, was located on a bend in the - n -- n This is the second vear that it has
ries the connotation of twisting or bending, Oxeter River. At least that explanation APRIL 1941 been seen there.
such as wrought iron, a bending joint, a would get us out of the wreck of friendship, H. C. MacLean of Wingham has J. W. Fianna, MPP for Huron -
wrist; wrestlers twisted into human knots; save a lengthy wrangle about a wry question twen named census commis- Bruce, has announced that a Dis-
wrong, a twisting of the rigid standards of and deliver us from the wrath of a wreason sioner in Huron -North for the 1941 trict Welfare Office will pe es- '
right; wrench; a twisting tool; a wry able and wright thinking people. census. The new census will gath- tablished here in Wingham it
er important information ori will cover the counties of Bruce•
housing conditions which will he Huron and Perth
of use in post-war reconstruction Thieves broke into the office of
THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES plans. the British American Oil Com-
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A substantial loss was sustain pany sometime Monday night. E ,-
Published al Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited - ed by Frank Donnelly, well- jimmied open a safe and made off
known barrister of Goderich, with over $500 in cash This is the +i
Barry Wenger, President Robert O. Wenger. Secretary Treasurer a- when a barn on a farm owned by first major crime in Wingham in
him on the second concession of a long period.
Member Audit Bureau of Circulations West Wawanosh was hurned to Art Martin, social studies
Member — Canadian Community Newspapers Assoc. Ontario Weekly Newspapers Assoc. the ground. teacher at Wingham District
The annual meeting of the High School, has accepted a staff MRS. JOHN LANGENDOEN of Fordwich with her children Wendy, Sharon, Brian and
Huron Fruit Growers' Associa- position with Oshawa High Francisca admire art work done by students of Howick Central School last Tuesday
Subscription (10.00 per year. Six months 15.25 . To United States $20.00 tion was held in Clinton, with R School.
evening during its Open House. The art work was one Of many displays available for
Second Class Mail Registration No 0821 Return postage guaranteed .f. McLaughlin of Brussels narned Gordon Leggatt has announced public viewing during the evening.
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