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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-07-14, Page 1With which is amalgamated the Gorrie Vidette and Wroxeter News Subscriptions $2.50 per year, 6c.per copy WINGHAM, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, W SIGN HERE, PLEASE ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrian QUICK ACTION—Somebody must read this column, after all. Last week we asked for 22-inch tires to fit a snap-on rim for one of Johnny Brent’s jalopies in the Big Parade. Hardly was the paper out on Wednesday -be fore Bill Brydges, of Morris Township came up with four 22-inchers, snap-on rims, tires and all. Thank you, Mr. Brydges, 0 - 0 - 0 . CATCHES ON QUICK—Walter Charlton, new man in the back shop of the Advance-Times, doesn’t take very long to get the hang of things. Taken out last week to be shown the ropes regarding bass-fishing, he learned the knack so well he was able to. snag a 20-inch, 3% pounder in the same spot three^days later. 0-0-0 GOING, GOING—Last week the boys in the back shop printed 400 more anniversary invitations, and from the look of things#they won’t last very long. There are still a few left for those who need them. If everybody who receives an invitation comes back for the anniversary, there’ll be a good crowd indeed. 0-0-0 FOUND—Pair of bi-focal plastic- ximmed glasses in leather case. Also one lone roller skate. Owners may have same by applying at the Ad vance-Times office. 0-0-0 MAKES IT OFFICIAL—To see that ±he 75th anniversary celebration has been listed in the "Coming Events’’ column of the Ontario Government Services bulletin, along with the Am erican Osteopathic Association Annual •Convention and the 6th Annual Quilt and Rug Fair, Simcoe County. Glad to see that we’re getting official recogni tion. 0-0-0 UNpER THE WIRE—The Grey- Wellington Construction has arrived^ and -is busy tearing up the sidewalk in front of Wingham Motors. They will also put the black top on the east side of Josephine Street, and just in time for the anniversary, too. .0-0-0 DECORATED * YET—Annivers ary decorations for the town will be put up this afternoon, according*, to, re ports. And it is hoped that citizens will start decorating their homes pretty soon. The Kinettes have offer ed prizes for the best-dressed house. Honor Bride-Elect At Shower Miss Anne Fallis and Mis3 Marie Krauter, Listowel, were hostesses at a miscellaneous shower at the form er’s home on Friday evening, in hon our of, Miss Grace Golley, a bride elect of this month. Guests included former pupils and friends from U. S. S. I, Elma and Wallace, where Miss Golley taught school for three years. To Grade No. 86 John Hanna has received word, from the Hon. Geo. H. Doucette that ten ders have been let for grading and cul vert for Highway 86, 5 njiles west of Wingham. VISIT BRANCH 180 Attention - Veterans, Ex-service Men and Women and Dependents. The Canadian Legion Service Bureau Of ficer, Mr. A. M. Forbes, of London, Ontario, will be visiting Branch 180, .Wingham, on July 23rd., from 9.30 a. m., to 11.30 a.m. Anyone wishing information, advice or assistance regarding War Disabil ity Pensions, Treatment, Allowances, etc., is requested to contact the Service Officer, of the local Branch, whose name appears below, to arrange an interview. George Williams, John St., F14b CHANGE IN BANKING HOURS •The banks in Wingham will be open on Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Friday.from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Closed all day Saturday. Effective July 23rd. F14b JOIN THE THRONG For Church in the Open-air at the Handshell in Wingham Park* Subject Sunday at 7.30, "Appointment with Death—How will you face it?” Music: Vocal Solos, Vocal Duets, Accordion Solo. Bring you* shut-in friends and family. Seats and song-sheets provid- vlded. A hearty Welcome to all. F14b Town Clerk W. A. Galbraith and Mayor DeWitt Miller almost got writer’s cramp last week, after appending their personal signatures to 625 of the town’s debentures issued in connection with the building of. the new high school. The debentures were for $1,000 apiece. The job of signing the docu ments took them almost all day.—Staff photo. John Harina Kept Busy With Bowlers, Orangemen, Bacing Isabella Fells Wed At Fort Erie A quiet wedding was solemnized at the Manse, Highland Avenue, Fort Erie, on Friday, July 2nd., -when Miss Isabella Elizabeth Fells, was united in marriage to Mr. James Ernest Dailey of Shanty Bay. Rev. R, M. Ransom officiated at the ceremony. The bride was lovely in a suit dress of frost blue Miyako silk honan, beaut ifully ornamented with self applique and she wore white accessories. She wore a corsage of white carnations and red roses. Mrs. Charles Secord, of Cultus, as matron of honour, wore a pink nylon dress with white accessories and a corsage of white carnations. Mr. Ross Dailey, of Everett, brother of the groom, acted as best man. Following the ceremony a reception was held in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian iiall, Bertie St., with the ladies of the Women’s Association catering. The out of town guests were from Barrie, Smooth Rock Falls, Cultus, London, Walton, Ripley and Alliston. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. pailey will make their home near Edgar, Ontario. AWARD CONW FOR TWO MORRIS BRIDGES A contract for two new bridges; in in Morris Township was awarded to the VanCamp Construcution Company of Belgrave, by the Morris Council,, at. a special meeting of council last week. The two bridges are situated on the 7th line of Morris and the Centre side road, between the 7th and 8th con cessions. Work on the new bridges is expected to start around July 15th. From Field to Anti-Tank and Back Again - -Local Reserve Unit Never Knows What’s Coming Next! Members of Wingham’s 99t.h Battery of the 21st/ Anti-Tank Regiment may be pardoned if they’re a bit puzzled this week. Or perhaps by now they’re getting “used to it,” like the fellow who used to sing the plaintive song during the war. The local unit has been many things since its first'inception,'way back in the early history of the town. Origin ally an infantry unit back in the days of the Fenian Raids, the battery has peen so many changes over its mili tary career as to be practically unre cognizable. Except for the fact that there have always been Wingham men serving in it as long as there has been a military unit here of any de scription. The latest change in a long history of changes Was made last week when word came from Ottawa that the 21st Anti-Tank Regiment would henceforth be known as the 21st Field Regiment. And the funny thing about it is the fact that it really isn’t a change at kll. To get the whole thing straight you have to go back to the early days of John W. Hanna, M.P.P. has been a busy man during the past couple of weeks. Last week he was enter taining members of a British bowling team in Toronto, as part of a tour of Canada they are making this month. Some of the British bowlers are members of the team which bowled against Mr. Hanna and, Alex Craw ford during their tour of England in 1932, and Mr. Hanna had the pleasure of meeting some of them again at the Coronation last year. The bowlers presented Mr. Hanna with a key to- Ireland and Scotland, trimmed with plaid and green ribbons. Among the 28 members on the team axe P. Tr Watson,, linen manufacturer, from Belfast, Ireland, who is team captain, Stewart Brown, Manager, and Ivan Neill, minister of labor in the Northern Ireland government. The team will end up their tour at the British Empire Games;. in Vancouver. Mr. Hanna, spent the I2th of July at Kincardine, speaking to assembled Orangemen there on behalf of the Ontario Racing Commission. ' Previously Mr. Hanna had spent a week at Ashbury Park, NY.r where the national convention of U.S. Rac ing Commissions was being held. Brigadier McKee of the Royal Winter Fair and Mr. Hanna were delegated to represent the: Ontario Racing. Com mission there. Representatives from many coun tries; weife in attendance; and Mr. Hanna presented a. cup for the futur ity there. Get Your Streamers; And Pennants Now! Members of the Business. Associa* tion who have not yet picked up their streamers and pennants, for Dollar Day, are asked to call in at. the Advance-Times office and. get them as soon as possible. the last wan At that, time the 99th Battery, which was then a part of the 19th Field Regiment, was using the good old-faShioned 25-pounder, a field piece which was used in the first war to good effect and survived to prove its usefulness in the second. The Bat tery was part of ua regiment which used the 25-pounder "as is’—hauled by tractors in the traditional manner. Came the days of mechanization and these same 25-pounders were mounted on Ram tank chassis for added manouevribility. The Regiment became one of the few equipped with "Priests” as the mounted guns were called, and distinguished itself in France in the use of these self-pro pelled guns. After the war was over the reserve unit of the 99th Battery was equipped with these same mounted 25-pounders, and the 21st was known as a field regiment. w Shortly afterwards someone in Ot tawa changed their thinking and the regiment suddenly lost its 25-£ound- ors, Was issued with the famous 17- “SALUTE TO WINGHAM” TICKETS AVAILABLE Tickets for the Canadian Broadcast ing Corporation's "Salute to Wing ham’’ program, which will be broad cast from the Town Hall on Sunday morning, August 1st, at 9.45, are now available at the Advance-Times office, station CKNX and McKibbon’s Drug Store. Those wishing to see the broadcast actually taking place in the Town Hall, are urged to secure tickets as soon as possible, in order to assure adequate accommodations. TOM RAFFERTY WILL JOIN KITCHENER TV Tom Rafferty, who for the past eight years has been .an announcer on the staff of station CKNX, has accept ed a position with station CKCO-TV, Kitchener, and will assume his new duties around the first of August. He will join Don Hildebrand, another for mer member of CKNX, and will work as sports announcer on the Kitchener television station. ( Tom will be no stranger to Kitchen er. Born in, Waterloo, he received his education there and in Kitchener, and started his radio career with station CKCR, Kichener. Following hitches with radio stations in North Bay and Kirkland Lake, he came to Wingham in 1945, leaving to go. to Moncton and returning to. Wigham in 1948. For the past two years he has been sports announcer on CKNX, succeed ing Tory Gregg, who filled the job for several years. Mrs. Rafferty and their two sons will be leaving'for Kitchener as soon as accommodation can be found for them. Already Placing Orders For A=T Special Edition The Advance-Time^ ’Historical edi tion, which will be the biggest paper ever printed in Wingham, will be is sued on July 28th, the week of the 75th anniversary celebrations;. The historical edition itself will amount to 36 pages- plus the regular edition, of the paper. Already 32 pages of the special, is sue have been printed', and; the staff of the back shop- will be running, off the balance next week. The regular edition will be printed the week of issue. A great deal of interest has , been, shown in the historical edition and’, a numher of requests; have come, into the office for extra copies. About 4,000 copies; will be printed, almost twice- the usual number. Piersons- who; wish to have copies, saved for- them may. phone or write to the- Advance- Times office and1 order their- copies- in. advance. All who are on the.- regular.- subscription list will receive the his torical'. edition with their week’s; paper:. Extra copies; will be 25c- each.. New Encyclopaedia At Public Library The Public Library Board has re cently installed the latest set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and. this is available to the public for reference during library hours. pounders, and had its name changed to the 21st. Anti-Tank Regiment. Everybody in the unit was told to for get the 25-pounder and learn to handle the anti-tank gun. Which they did. However, they had hardly got used to the new weapon before the whole regiment was changed back to field artillery. Away wont the 17-pounders and back came the 25-pounders. Offic ially, however, the regiment was still known as the 21st. Anti-Tank Regi ment, although they haven’t Seen an anti-tank weapon for some consider able time now. Last week's change has brought them up to date. Now they’re a field regiment with field guns Unless some body in Ottawa takes another notion. The only hitch is that, although the latest change was announcued in the press, as yet no word of it has come through regimental headquarters. And unless it does, sceptics in the Battery are expecting to walk into the Arm ouries some Monday night and find the anti-tank tank guns are back again. Traffic Problems Loom as Big Parade On Civic Holiday Grows Even Bigger HELP WANTED Men wanted to help control traf fic during the 75th anniversary parade on Monday, August 2nd. No experience necessary but must be even-tempered and willing to work. Ticket sellers wanted to”sell’and take tickets for the anniversary celebrations. Good opportunity to help your community put the an niversary across. Wanted—50 men to wear cos tumes ip big parade. Opportunity for advancement to front of par ade if suitable. Costumes and make-up supplied to right persons. Apply Johnny Brent, CKNX, Phone 158. Carpenters, joiners, hammer- and-saw men wanted to assist pro perty committee for anniversary celebrations. Apply Bill Harris, CKNX, Phone 158. .Wanted—two beat-up oak bar rels, about three feet high and twenty inches across. Phone John ny Brent, 158. Tickets Now on Sale For “Our Town” Tickets for the play "Our Town”, to be produced on Friday, July 30th and Monday, August 2nd, have been placed on sale this week, and will be avail able from the. Advance-Times- office, station CKNX, and members- of the cast of the play. The tickets may be exchanged at McKibbons for reserved seat tickets on July 24th: or there after. Tickets will be 50c, reserved seats, 10c extra. Members of the girls’' softball team will canvass the town during the week' with tickets,, and persons inter ested are urged to1 procure as many as they will need for their- visitors when purchasing them. s Private sale of tickets has already been, brisk, and it is; expected; that, the- cast wiTI be playing to a "full house” on. both) Friday and' Monday evenings. Not Supersonic E/nough? Soap Box Derby lashed Oat For Lack of Sufficient Entries ROOM fOII FEW MORE There is- still’ room, for- a- few- more entries^ in. the log-sawing contest Johnny Brent, announced! this- week; Two men on a team, are needed and the prize will' be $25. Entry forms should1 be filled' out this; week; Bob Carbert, at CKNX, is- the man- to.) see. The contest committee would' also- like to see a. few more entries from town for the- square dance compe tition. The amateur- contest could' stand one or two more entries, but the baby contest is full up,, as is. the fiddlers contest. Children who would like to enter the children’s parade are urged to start work decorating their bicycles, tricycles,, doll buggies and pets. Worth- while» prizes will be offered by the anniversary committee, as well as by Dr. Ballard’s, who are sponsoring the Mutt Show. Ladies Hold Mixed Bowling Tournament The ladies of the Wingham Lawn Club held a mixed bowling tourna ment on Monday night with 27 rinks playing. The winners were Mr. and Mrs. El wood Webster, Wingham, with 3 wins and a plus of 19; Mr. Bissett and Mrs. McLeod, of Goderich, with 3 wins and a plus of 16, aggregate of 49; Mr. Price and Mrs. Westbrooke, of Goder ich, with 3 wins and a plus of 16, ag gregate of 40; Mr. and Mrs. Harris, Goderich, with 2 wins and a plus of 13, aggregate of 32; Mr. and Mrs. Draper, of Clinton, with 2 wins and a plus of 13, aggregate of 30. The special one game’winner prize went to Mr. Jack Porter and Mrs. Donahue of Teeswater, with 1 win and a plus of 8, aggregate 16. At the end of the second game the Wingham ladies served coffee and sandwiches. Fearing that Wingham’s Calathumpian Parade might stretch out as far as Belgrave if it were lined up on No. 4 Highway south of town, parade officials have decided to change the route of the parade. Instead of lining up on No. 4, as previously planned, the parade will assemble on Minnie Street, down Scott Street and north on Josephine Street as far as Victoria, _ Chairman Johnny Brent is hoping to squeeze all the floats in the par ade into this space, starting at Minnie and Alfred Streets, but if this fails, he will still be able to run them along Alfred Street and back down Leo pold Street, if necessary. The change was made to facilitate the traffic handling on No. 4 High- ----------------------------------------------- way, and to reduce the number of Banks to Close on Saturday, Remain Open Later ?Fri|i ay The two banks in Wingham will be closed all day Saturday, starting on July 24th, and will remain open from 4.30 to 6.00 p.m., Friday afternoon for the convenience of their custom ers. The new banking hours will confirm to the practice inaugurated two years ago in the larger cities across Can ada. In 1952 banks in Toronto began closing on Saturdays, and the new closing hours were gradually extended through the larger cities in Canada and down through the smaller cen tres. The- few branches which still remain, open on Saturday are expect ed to adopt the new system in the near future; Banks in Listowel started the new hours last Saturday, Walkerton will be following suit and Goderch banks have been closng on Saturday for some’ time. Although the new hours mean an opening, time of only one-half hour less than usual, they will enable the staff to work a 5-day week, as is. the practice in the cities. According to bank officials the new set-up has worked well in the larger cities, where very little business was conducted on Saturday mornings, under the old hours. The. late after noon hours on Friday are expected to take care of most of the business which would normally be conducted on Saturday morning. Perhaps soap box; vehicles are too slow in this jet-propelled age. Or per haps, with all the activities going, on these days, kids just, dbnft, have- the 'time. Whatever- the reason-,, the 75ith. anni versary celebration’s Soap. Box; derby has gone by the board. Johnny Brent says he just didn’t get. enough: entries- to: make the dferby worthwhile. In fact he only got. two, with- two. more prospects; and! that would, hardly be enough to take the three prizes offered in- the event. So, he reluctantly but firmly closed up- the whole thing. However; there is one bright spot in the- picture, Johnny says. Kids, who, would have entered the derby on Saturday morning will have a better chance to get their bicycles decorated up for the Children’s Parade on Saturday afternoon. So will the kids who would have been on hand to watch the Derby. And that might make for a bigger and better Children’s Parade. Dollar Saving Days Open Thursday of Next Week TO CONDUCT CLASS IN LIFE SAVING Bev Brooks will be conducting a class in life saving instruction, under the auspices of the Royal Life Saving Society during the next few weeks. Theory for the class will be taught in Wingham, and the practical end of the course will be conducted at the pool in Teeswater. Anyone interested in registering in the class should contact either Bev Brooks or Bob Lewis, at the Pro vincial Police bffice in the town hall. —Miss Catherine Keating is in Tor onto for five week taking a special course in music at Harbourd Colleg iate. I men necessary to control traffic dur- ling the parade. It will also free the highway for traffic until the parade gets under way. Floats will report at the west gate of the town park, or at the corner of Minnie and Alfred Streets, and will be assigned their position by the par ade master or his assistants. Float owners are urged to have their floats at the assembly point by 12.15 sharp, in order that the necessary placing of floats in the parade may be made. Traffic into town will be detoured at 1.05 in order for the procession to get under way. Traffic into Wingham from any of the four directions will be re-routed around the town while the parade is on, and detour signs are now being printed to mark the routes. Police Chief Bert Platt is rounding, up extra men from the Provincial Po lice, and is hoping to secure a de tachment of traffic police from the Provost Corps of the Reserve Army in London. Additional men from town will assist with the traffic. Townspeople are asked to stay away from the assembly point of the pro cession near the town park as much as possible, in order to avoid compli cating the problem of getting the parade under way. They are also' asked to come downtown on foot rather than drive. Too many cars parked in the downtown area might cause a traffic jam which would be impossible to sort out. Present expectations are that there will be about 70 floats. -Chairman Johnny Brent is contacting owners of such this week, and he reports that only one so far has backed down on the promise to enter a float in the parade. Besides the many floats from Wingham, it is expected that several will be present from such out-of-town, places as Brussels and Auburn. • Johnny says that although he is sworn to secrecy regarding the floats he has been amazed by the amount of work put on them, and which have been entered, can assure the people that many of them will be extremely novel and worth seeing. Names of the people entering floats will be published next week. BREAKS LIGAMENTS IN FALL FROM SCAFFOLD Ken Baker, of Diagonal Road, sus tained painful injuries; on; Monday morning when- a scaffold broke as he- was repairing the cornice of a house in town, and- he fell 12' feet into a. hole below. He was-- admitted' t.o Wlngham Gen eral' Hospital', where he was found to have broken ligaments in- hi's knee. He is being- kept there several days for observation, and it is expected that a cast will be applied to the leg when, the full extent of his injuries is dis covered-. Carl Johnston, R 2,, Bluevale, was admitted to the hospital on Saturday after amputating his. thumb at the first joint when he caught it in a hay baler. Although he will be confined to tlje hospital for a few days his con dition is described as good. Wingham’s Dollar Days, the annual bargain event of the season, will be coming to town next week. Members of the Business Associa tion and merchants in town have been planning the event for weeks, and next Thursday, Friday and Saturday will see almost every store in town with bargains galore for every member of the family. Next week’s issue of the Advance* Times will feature many advertise ments of stores which are participat ing in this promotion, and it will pay you even more than ever to read the advertising columns of the newspaper. Shop at your Wingham merchants next week, and save dollars on Dollar Days. CLOSING NOTICE Rapp’s Bakery will be closed for vacation July 19 to July 28th inclusive. F14*