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which, b law, must be published so form. That is the way it is presented to them. �® .. ��°
repp'� y � "r " Even those familiar with
the voters can learn how their money is The accountants who do the auditing shouldC:::}
? level a method of translating their techni- Begiii's rise to power may be
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Iwo� g quite tinprepaied for his great
Mom's auditors' report, publishedgifts as a writer. Written In cool,
in this An obvious omission from that report parse prose, his book is a
peeper last week: general government, was the auditor's comments on the state of powerful, urgent and profoutdiy
's finances. The averstaxpayer? k':
1134,035; transportation services, 1251,371; the town9e :; •.,• t. :� moving document. It is the ac -
environmental services, 181,860 (an item would be interested in the opinion of the ac ? :> count of prime h inistm Begin's
P y y countants who examined the town's financial ?'.>:°
which went u b 147,•101 over last year); incarceration is a aeries of Ssviet
transportation services, 1727,991. performance. prisons and Ida eventual release
and arrival in'' Israel to become
the leader of his country,
DAVID AT OLIVET by Wallace
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The Porter Commission, which has
devoted thousands of hours and tons of
report papers to Ontario's needs, both
present and future, for electrical energy, has
finally
come out with Its last words on the
subject. Ontario Hydro has been told to
"hold it". No more power lines or generating
facilities, at least for the present.
The farmers who have been fighting
power corridors are delighted; Hydro plan-
ners are distressed. Chairman 0
r TayIo f the
Ontario Hydro Power Commission says the
stop work order is going to cripple his cor-
poration's future obligations. The voting and
paying public, of course, has not forgotten
the disclosures of a couple of months back
which revealed the fact that Hydro already
has more generating capacity than it can
fully use —despite its advertising campaign
aimed at conservation of electrical energy.
Who to believe? At the moment all we
can do is go along with the side that has the
most clout. After placing the entire matter in
the hands of a royal commission and
spending many millions of dollars on endless
;;;:; Retreating high on the slopes of
ed ,:: Mount Olivet David king of
"'4 v:< Israel and Juda'lt, looks down on
Jerusalem, the city of his dream
hearings, government would look very
foolish if the Porter report was to go unheed-
ed. If, by chance, Hydro officials are right
and we wake up some cold morning in the
winter of'85 with frozen feet we will not have
any fond memories of Dr. Porter and his
commissioners But that's where stand in
this hot summer of '79.
Public opinion will generally agree with
the limit which the report would place on
Hydro expansion. Hydro rates have risen
sharply and with good reason. Fuel for
thermal generating plants has been bounced
upward in cost at the same rate as gasoline
for our cars. Nuclear generators use less
costly fuel but their capital cost for con-
struction is staggering. Add to those self-evi-
dent facts the further one that over the years
Hydro has been less than openly com-
municative about its projects and their cost
and you have a typical case of public mis-
trust.
The wisdom or folly of the Porter Com-
mission's decision may not be known for
quite a few years to come. Perhaps our chil-
dren will be the final jurors.
Power shifts to the west
The Joe Clark administration got off the
ground with the appointment of cabinet min-
isters two weeks ago and Clark's selection
has cast a new pattern for Canadian govern-
ment policy.
Obviously hard-pressed to find adequate
cabinet representation from Quebec, where
he had so little support in the election, he
has, nevertheless moved in a couple of sen-
ators to fill the gaps. The,big chance, how-
ever is in the broad representation in the
cabinet from the Canadian West. Mr. Tru-
deau's most evident shortcoming was his
lack of rapport with the West, repaired be-
latedly by the recommendation of Ed
Schreyer for the governor-general's post.
But he insulted western farmers with his
remark a couple of years back that he wasn't
going to sell their wheat. He ignored the
wealthy and powerful oil interests in
Saskatchewan and Alberta and seemed to
forget that there was a province beyond the
Rockies.
The Clark cabinet, with several able
men from the West, provides a more bal-
anced representation across the nation and,
hopefully, will be the first of several prac-
tical moves toward welding Canada into a
vigorous new country.
What is less encouraging about the Clark
It's up to the do
Dr. J. Allyn Taylor of London, speaking
for the medical association in, his com-
munity, has stated that we should institute a
"user fee" as a method of controlling health
care costs. He believes every patient except
the elderly and the poverty stricken, should
be required to lay out some of his or her own
money for each visit to the doctor or the hos-
pital. The doctor believes that such a fee
would act as a deterrent to present over-
usuage of expensive services and facilities.
Neither physicians nor the health
ministry seem prepared to accept the
obvious fact that patients do not admit
themselves to hospital. Neither do they have
any part in the decision as to how long they
will stay in hospital. Those decisions are in
the hands of doctors and doctors only. Only
one person can deter you from using a
'hospital bed and that is the doctor — and the
great majority of us would a heck of a lot
rather stay out of hospital, given our own
choice. '
Similarly with visits to the doctor's of-
fice. Although there may be a few silly hypo-
chondriacs in our midst, people who go to the
program so far is his insistence on moving
the Canadian embassy in Israel to Jeru-
salem. Already several Canadian companies
are facing cancellation of contracts with the
Arab world because of Clark's decision. One
firm has an 185 million order for generators;
Bell Canada has a million and a half dollar
contract to modernize an Arab communica-
tions system. In total many millions of dol-
lars and many Canadian jobs are at stake.
Surely, with so much to lose Mr. Clark
must have a very strong reason for
persisting with the embassy move, but so far
he has not said what that reason is.
A second and disturbing decision is to
get government out of the oil business by
selling its shares in Petrocan. Normally we
agree wholeheartedly with the theory that
government should not invade the private
business sector, but the oil business is some-
thing else again. We believe, like many other
Canadians, that the people, through parlia-
ment, should indeed have some measure of
control over what is rapidly becoming a
bucaneer's paradise.
However, we have given Mr. Clark and
his party the green light. The ball is in their
court and it is up to them to show us what
they can do for this promising but tempor-
arily ailing nation.
and the city of promise, about to
be captured by rebel troops led
by his son Absalom.
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News Items ro Ol�. Files
JUNE 19:12
drove the flames away from the
Mrs. Newans, assisted by
Four local girls were, suc-
barn.
Norman after hours, has painted
cessful in graduating as nurses
At the regular meeting of
the walls of the Belmore Com -
this past week. Miss Gladys
Wingham Lodge AF and AM, No.
munity Hall.
Robertson received her diploma
286, J. McMichael was elected
The directors of the South
from the Wellesley Hospital and
Worshipful Master. Other of-
Bruce Rural Telephone Company
the three others, Miss Grace M.
ficers include George Fowler, T.
met in Mildmay and made
Mitchell, Helen Pocock and
A. Currie, J. W: McKibbon and G.
arrangements to purchase a new
Evabell P. Rintoul, were
L. Baker.
switchboard for the Mildmay
members of the graduation class
Charlie Mason, former
central office.
at Grace Hospital.
manager of the Dominion Store
JUNE 1944
The home of Herbert Taylor, at
here and in Chesley, has been
Two townships in this com-
Zetland, was completely destroyr,,;pppointed
manager •, of the
munity, Turnberry and Howick,
ed by fire Monday evening. Mr.-
minion Store on WharneIiff
at their June council meetings,,
and mrs. Taylor were visiting
Road, London.
adopted the Township` School
across the road when a step -son
Miss Gladys Ireland, teacher
Area plan. This means that the
of Mr. Taylor noticed smoke
at the Jtihction School, was re-
schools of each of these town -
coming from the rafters near the
engaged by the school board
ships will be administered by a
chimney. Fortunately, the wind
without reduction in salary.
school area board. These are the
first two townships in North
Huron to adopt this plan which
will go into effect the first of 1945.
The examinations to complete
an eight-week signalling course,
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under instructor C. M.S. Locke of
London, were held here on
MUSINGSSunday. Members of the 99th
Battery who tried the
examination were W. N. Deyell,
D. Schatte, W. H. Templeman, S.
Oliver Gilchrist was a Scot- This became known as the J. Walker and J. E. Bailey.
sman and was born in the village Union Factory. It was sold to the June 14 will be a momentous
of Mey. When Mr. Gilchrist left Canada Furniture Manufac- day in the history of Huron
Scotland he went to Buffalo turers in 1901. At the time it was County when His Excellency, the
where he finished his education, taken over by CFM, 150 men Earl of Athlone, Governor -
later going to Grand Rapids. It were employed. Gradually the General of Canada, and Her
was at the latter place he learned number decreased and within a Royal Highness Princess Alice
the furniture trade with Berkie period of a few years the factory will be present at the second
tion.
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and Gay.
was practically closed down.
annual field day and picnic
for a deterrent fee should spend a couple of
About 1880 he came to
Mr. Gilchrist was married to
sponsored by the Huron
emergency department at the average conn-
Wingham and was employed by
the former Catherine McKinnon,
Federation of Agriculture,
young farmer with a bleeding foot or a ten-
Thomas Bell Furniture as
a tailoress who has employed by
JUNE 1955
We agree that some changes are neces-
foreman. In 1886 he and three
J. J. Homuth. Mrs. Gilchrist
John W. Hanna, sitting
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others formed what was known
remembered well the days when
member in Huron -Bruce for the
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as Gilchrist, Green and Company
cattle were allowed to roam the
past 12 years, will again seek re -
doctors in preventive medicine rather than
and erected a factory on the
streets of Wingham. One evening
election at the polls tomorrow.
doctor because they need a sympathetic ear.
corner of Diagonal Road and
when she was returning to her
Contesting the riding for the
Most of us are either too busy or too coward-
Victoria Street.
home on Scott Street, she fell
Liberal party for the third time is
ly to go to the doctor unless driven by very
They commenced operations in
over a cow lying in the centre of
Hugh Hill, Colborne Township
real pain or worry about our physical condi-
1886 with seven employees. By
the thoroughfare.
farmer.
tion.
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1889 the staff had increased to 70
The people who believe in the necessity
people and they were working
for a deterrent fee should spend a couple of
overtime. The factory was
mornings in the waiting room of the
equipped with a 75 -horsepower
boiler and a 50 -horsepower
emergency department at the average conn-
try hospital. It's pretty difficult to -deter a
engine.
The firm manufactured
young farmer with a bleeding foot or a ten-
bedroom furniture, sideboards,
year-old with a broken arm.
tables and other furniture of good
We agree that some changes are neces-
sturdy quality and low price,
sary if health care costs are to be kept within
designed to meet the needs of
our ability to pay. But closing hospitals and
settlers moving to western
telling 10 per cent of the sick people to stay
Canada
home is not the answer. The only solution lies
In an advertisement in the
in a long-range plan to educate young
Wingham Times of November,
doctors in preventive medicine rather than
1890. Gilchrist. Green and
concentrating them totally on treatment of
Company stated that they wanted
disease. If the new generation of Canadians
to•buy two million board feet of
could be persuaded to pay more attention to
logs for their factory. The prices
nutrition and exercise; to cut down on smok.
offered ranged from six dollars to
Ing and drinking and drive their cars with
$7.50 per thousand feet if the logs
common sense health care cost would look
were over 13 feet long a premium
after itself.
of 50 cents extra would he paid
They would buy elm. maple.
black h b
s asswoo , hlrch and
beech. They had opened a retail
department to sell furniture at a
+ A THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES 'close' price for cash or trade.
Published at Wingham. Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited Positively no credit would begiven.
Walter Green later became
:: • Barry Wenger, President Robert O. Wenger, Sec.-Treas. interested in the generation of
Member Audit Bureau of Circulations electricity and withdrew fromGilchrist, Green and Company A
fire razed the factory in 1891 A
Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. joint stock company was formed
with the addition of Charles
Subscription $14.00 per year Six months $7.50 Reading and the present brick
, building was constructed on the
Second Claes Mail Regbttratim No. IM Return postage guaranteed site.
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TODAY'S CHILD
BY HELEN ALLEN
At two -and -a -half, Georgie is becoming a happier,
more relaxed child day by day. He was born with an eye
problem which cannot be corrected by surgery and which
results in limited vision. His development has been
considerably below average too, so for much of his short
life he was an unhappy, timid and clinging little boy.
In his foster home and in a special school, Georgie is
learning to be independent, feeding himself, and getting
used to mixing with new people. It is hard to tell how
much he can see, but he can obviously see his food, and he
picks up his toys and quite small articles.
Once a quiet little fellow, Georgie is now quite talkative
with a few recognizable words. Although it was thought
that he might be retarded his teacher feels earlier tests
under -rated him, so new tests are planned. This dear
little boy needs a mother and father who can give him
much love, can help him cope with his sight problem and
will not worry about his slow development.
To inquire about adopting Georgle, please write to
Todays's Child, Ministry of Community and Social Ser-
vices Box 888, Station K, Toronto, Ontario. M4P 2H2. In
your letter tell something of your present family and your
wily of life.
For general adoption information contact your local
Children's Aid Society.
Miss Elizabeth Bell, daughter
of Mrs. Matt Bell and the late Mr.
Bell, was among the 19 young
women who graduated as
registered nurses at the Stratford
General Hospital School of
Nursing graduation exercises.
She plans to take a post graduate
course at the University of
Western Ontario in the fall...
The changing face of Josephine
Street will be changing again.
Hardware store owner Percy
Stainton pas 'started work on a.
new store front for the south half
of his premises. John Pattison
has plans for 'a second storey on
his store.
The pupils of SS No. 11, Turn -
berry, held their field day. Junior
champions were Thelma Ste.
Marie and Elgin Sleightholm;
intermediates, Karen Potter and
Hugh MacDonald; seniors, Mae
Daw and Jack Hotchkiss.
Leland Vance of Toronto has
purchased the drug business of
the late K. G. Kerr. He will take
possession on June 11.
The United Church congrega-
tion of Wroxeter, at a meeting
following the morning service,
unanimously accepted the plans
made to join with Gorrie United
Church with one minister serving
both churches. The congregation
of Salem United Church, Wrox-
eter North, will close its church.
Miss Marion Elizabeth Irwin,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. W.
Irwin, received the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Nursing at
the convocation of the University
of Western Ontario.
JUNE 1965
The two outside panels of a
stained glass window at St.
Paul's Anglican Church were
dedicated by Rt. Rev; H. F.
Appleyard on Sunday morning.
Both were gifts of Miss Dorothe -
Comber.
J. H. Crawford, Q.C., has
announced that two young men
have become associated with.him
in his law practice here. Norman
A. Shepherd is a graduate of
Aberdeen University, Scotland,
and Alan R. Mill graduated from
the University of Western On-
tario.
Cadet Major David Wenger of
the Wingham District High
School Cadet Corps, has been
selected as one of the 12 Western
Ontario cadets for exchange with
the British West Indies. He will
go to Barbados. To qualify for the
trip the cadets must have their
Master Cadet Gold Star for which
David passed his examinations
this year.
The Wroxeter Public School
building, which was constructed
in 1954 at a cost of nearly $40,000,
has been purchased by the
Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority. The structure will be
used for administrative offices
and a workshop. Purchase price
was $8,500.
Members of the local Lions
Club assembled at the new
washroom building in the
Riverside Park for the official
opening of the structure. The
Lions donated $5,000 for the
project which covered half the
cost.
Miss Nadine Cooke, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Cooke,
Gorrie, graduated as a nurse
from Kitchener -Waterloo
Hospital.
J. Russell White of Belgrave
was among 36 pharmacists
honored for 50 years' continuous
service to the public at a dinner
in Toronto.
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