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ATTENDS CONFERENCE
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ALONG THE MAIN
By Thp Pedestrian
BEATING THE COLD—In the
midst of last week’s heat wave the
citizens of Wingham may have been
cooled off considerably to receive the
.Fall and Winter catalogue of a well-
known mail order house. Or per
haps with the temperature at 90 plus,
the illustrations of long woolies and
parkas only made 'them feel hotter.
With catalogues coming out so far
ahead of the season these days, no
body would know what time of year
it was—if it weren’t for the weather.
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WHERE’S KING BILLY?— The
Glorious Twelfth passed quietly in
Wingham this year, with apparently
only the odd visitor passing through
to be seen in the traditional white
shirt and orange tie.
can remember
drum were to
town on that
many will miss
Some people
when the fife and
be heard all day in
particular day, and
the music.
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BQOTS ‘N’ SADDLES—The other
wise staid Kinsmen of Wingham are
scheduled for a shaking-up next
Tuesday when they undertake to
play a game of baseball with Bel
grave—on donkeyback. The famous
donkey baseball is coming to town,
and as the ad said, anything’s liable
to happen. One thing we’ve often
wondered about donkey baseball is
who supplies the pillows?
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NICE FROGGIE—Official season
for frogs’ legs opened July 1st, and
several local people have been out
after the delicacies. Methods of cap
ture vary though—sticks, stones,
spears and fish hooks. Some people
use a .22 rifle, but according to our
information you need a groundhog
license to shoot frogs, which is rather
confusing.
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MORE- RUSTIC—In spite of the
appeal of Lake Huron and the Tees-
people, including the kids, still seem
to prefer the old swimming hole.
The place at McLean’s sideroad had
so many people in it on Sunday that
the water must have been a foot
higher than usual. Trouble is, if the
present drought keeps up, you’ll only
be able to get your feet wet.
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CURBS NOT NEEDED—They’re
tearing up the curbs on Josephine
Street, between John and Patrick.
Makes it easier to bang your fenders
on the lamp posts, according to
boys in front of the pool hall.
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TO INOUSTRIAL BOARD
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Members of the Huron County
Industrial Promotion Board which
met in Clinton last week named R.
D. Jermyn, of Exeter, as its new
president. Other officials appointed
include, first^vice-president, Mel Crich,
Clinton; second vice-president, R. Y.
Hattin, Clinton; secretary, Miss
Wilma Dinnin, Clinton; treasurer,
Mrs. C. A. Trott, Clinton. R. Y.
Hattin is the retiring president. .
The meeting was arranged with
August 10 set as a tentative date in
Clinton when representatives of the
Various councils throughout the
county will be requested to bring the
board up-to-date on any changes
which should be made on the leaflets
which will be published to promote
industry in the county.
Members felt that ’ in spite of the
province being zoned into areas for
industrial promotion the County
Board sho.uld be strongly organized.
Addressing the group, A. H. Wilford,
Toronto, who is publisher of a Toron
to trade journal, stated that the most
likely industry that Huron County
is expected to acquire is that of farm
produce.
He reported that this week he was
in conference with a representative
of the Netherlands Government and
has invited him to come to Huron
County to make a survey of possible
production of fruit.
He urged the board to spend more
time in art attempt to make the in
dustry which surrounds every muni
cipality in Huron County — agricul
ture — more successful.
NOTICE
Rapp’s
vacation, July 18 to 23 inclusive. F13*
Bakery will be closed for
With which is amalgamated the Gojrrie Vidette and Wroxeter News
WINGIIAM, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1955
RECREATION COUNCIL
A meeting of the Wingham Recrea
tion Council was held last Thursday
night, with W. Ip. Conron, president, in
the chair. Present at the meeting were
Earl Hamilton. William Grover, Mrs.
M. Burrell, Harold Wild, Mrs. Fred
Saint, secretary, Vic Loughlean and
Marlene McKenzie.
Mr. Conron reported that the wad
ing pool fence had been put up and a
sidewalk laid. He also said that new
swings, teeters, and monkey bars had
been installed at the town park and
that swings and a slide had been plac
ed in Hillcrest Park.
The council praised the efforts of
Mr. Carter and the men of the streets
committee for the work they had done
at the ball park, the horticultural
park and Hillcrest Park. They also
extended a vote of thanks to William
Grover for the work he has done at
the park in procuring top soil, and
spreading and rolling same. Cost of
the work done at the ball park will
be born by the recreation council and
the softball association.
It was decided that all children who
will be eight years of age before the
swimming season is over may go on
the swimming bus to Teeswater, and
that swimming tests will probably be
held the week after the 21st. of Aug
ust. Over a hundred children were
taken by btis to Teeswater the first
day of swimming instructions last
week.
s^-The council appointed Irene Saint
to serve as assistant to Marlene Mc
Kenzie in supervising the wading pool.
Vic Loughjean will conduct sports for
the children on Wednesday afternoon.
A schedule for the sumjner recreation
program will be drawn up and pub
lished every week after the
vacation Bible schools close.
daily
from
Bluevale Music
Students Pass
Si* -.*^The following music students
Bluevale were successful in passing
the summer examinations in Piano,
conducted by the Western Ontario
Conservatory of Music, affiliated with
the Music Teachers' College of the
University of Western Ontario.
Grade VI Sr., pass: Kay Johnston;
Grade V Jr., first class honors:- Carol
Greig; Grade III Jr., honors, Sharon
Montgomery, Anne Peacock; pass
Kathleen Craig.
children can play in the water under the watchful
i' eye of a supervisor. A welcome addition to the pool
A popular place with the small fry these days is the
Wingham Kinsmen wading pool. Children up to eleven „ _ _ _..i. „ _ r.__.
years of age are admitted to the pool, which is under •*'" has been the new fence around it, erected jointly by
the supervision of the' recreation council, and small the Kinsmen Club and the town council. —Staff Photo.A* the Kinsmen Club and the town council. —Staff Photo.
Nearly 200 Wingham Children
Take Part in Summer Program
Wingham’s summer playground pro
gram got off to a good start last
week when the Kinsmen wading pool’
was opened for children under eight
years old, and a get-acquainted prop
gram was held in the town- park,
An average of 75 kiddies every day
are making use of the pool, under
the supervision of Marlene MacKenzie
Lady Golfers
Enjoy Bridge
The ladies’ section of. the Win'gham
Golf Club enjoyed another pleasant
afternoon at the club house last
Thursday. There were seven tables of
bridge. The winners were: 1st., Miss
Ann Henry, New York City; 2nd.,
Mrs. G. Cameron and the travelling
prize, Mrs. Carrie Taylor.
Hostesses for the afternoon were:
Mrs. J. W. McKibbon, Mrs. G. Camer
on, Mrs. C, Roberts, Mrs. R. DuVal:
Mrs. W. Armstrong, Mrs. T. Smalley
and Mrs. H. C. MacLean.
and her assistants, fMiss MacKenzie
reports that the program is going
well, except, for the,matter of towels.
“Please do not send? your best towels
to the wading pool”,- she warns moth
ers, “When you get 75 towels it’s
mighty hard to keep track of them.”
A keen interest in swimming has
been shown by children since the
program at the Teeswater pool was
inaugurated. During the past week
an averoge of 110 - took swimming
lessons. Children 'of ?8 and over are
transported in a^?us belonging to A.
D. Smith, of Bluevale twice weekly,
orUMonday and'”Ftffday morning.^
At Teeswater they are instructed by
George King and his staff. Children
taking swimming lessons are asked
to be on time for the bus, since
cannot take the second bus if
miss
they
they
SERVICE IN GODERICH
the first.
Get-Acquainted Program
Wednesday last the boys
met in the park for a
and
get-
Wingham Traffic Too Much for
Stunt Driver Troup Member
George deBeffre, of , Montreal, a
member of the Hollywood Daredevil
troup of stunt drivers, who has been
driving a car for twenty-seven years
without an accident, found Wingham
traffic was too much for him on Mon
day.
Mr. deBeffre^was coming into town
on the Whitechurch road to make ar
rangements for a show the troup is
to put on in Wingham this month,
when a farmer allegedly made a left
turn on the highway in front of him
just as he was about to pass. Accord
ing to Mr. deBeffre, even a stunt
driver couldn’t do much to avoid an
accident.
In the resulting collision Mr.
deBeffre suffered a lacerated knee,
chest injuries and shock, and was
taken to Wingham General Hospital
•for treatment, where his condition
yesterday was described as satisfac
tory. Approximately $300 damage was
done to the white and blue car in
which he was riding. Provincial Con
stable Charles Salter investigated.
Other Accidents
A number of other accidents, mostly
of a minor nature, were treated at
the hospital during the week.
Mrs. Fred Cook, Belgrave, had her
foot X-rayed at the hospital, after
stepping on a knitting needle. The
needle broke into small pieces and at
first it was thought that a fragment
might be lodged in her foot. She was
allowed to go home after X-rays
showed no fragments there.
Paul Tiffin, 6-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. W. Tiffin, Wingham, frac
tured his left wrist on Thursday,
allowed home after regaining con
sciousness.
Douglas Ewing, 6-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Del Ewing, Wingham,
of
in-
re-
had been taken
19, of
injuries
R.R. 1,
to his
bumped
he was
dislocated his right elbow on Sun-
when he fell from a neighbours slide.
He was confined to the hospital
overnight, after the fracture was re
duced, under anaesthetic and a cast
applied.
On Friday, Alex MacDonald,
Teeswater, fell off a ladder and
jured his left shoulder. He was
leased after X-rays
and a sling applied.
Stewart Coupland,
Wroxeter, received
spine and chest when he was
by a truck into a scraper
driving and thrown against the steer
ing wheel, while working for the Kerr
Construction Company on the roads.
He was allowed home after X-rays
had been taken at the hospital.
Justin Will, of R.R. 1, Wroxeter, re
ceived a concussion on Saturday
morning when he was kicked by a
cow as it was giving birth to twin
calves. He was removed to hospital
where X-rays were taken, and was
day when he fell off his bicycle. The
dislocation^was reduced under ether
and a cast applied at the hospital. His
condition yesterday was described as
good.
Edward Stiles, 16, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Stiles, Brussels, receiv
ed injuries to his shoulder and chest,
fractured ribs and brush burns when
a wagon wheel'ran over his shoulder
and chest. He was apparently taking
the wagon out of the barn without
horses when he tripped and the wagon
got away from him.
William Burchill 16%-month-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Burchill, was
knocked down by a car in front of
his house and received minor leg
injuries. He was allowed home after
treatment.
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On
girls
acquainted program, the first step in
a summer program which will be
continued after vacation Bible schools
are over. A temperature of 95 degrees
slowed down the pace a little, but a
game of baseball was played and a
scavenger hunt wound up the pro
ceedings.
Friday was a busy day. Swimming
took place in the morning and in the
afternoon films were shown to the
children in the arena. Frank Madill,
of the high school staff, showed the
pictures, and the plan is to show
films every week.
As vacation Bible school is being
held in two local churches, a full
recreation program has not been
planned. Further details on activities
will be found in the newspaper and
the town bulletin board.
Plans for Next Week
The following activities are plan
ned for the week of July 18th: Mon
day morning, children 4 to 8, wading
pool; Monday afternoon, children 8
to 11; Tuesday morning, swimming;
Tuesday afternoon, children 8 to 11,
wading pool; Wednesday morning,
boys’ soccer and field games; Wed
nesday afternoon, films for everyone;
Thursday morning, children 4 to 8,
wading pool; Thursday afternoon, to
bo announced; Friday morning, swim
ming; Friday afternoon to be an
nounced.
The seventh annual interdenomina
tional Junior Farmer Church service
will be held on Sunday, July 24th, at
8 p.m. in the new Knox Presbyterian
Church, at Goderich. All Junior Farm
ers, their parents and friends are en
couraged to attend this annual service.
The address will be given by Rev.
Robert G. MacMillan, minister at
Knox Presbyterian Church. Mr. W. H.
Bishop, F.R.C.O., D.R.C.M., will be
organist for the service and will lead
the thirty-six voice Junior Farmer
choir. Junior Farmer members taking
part in the service will include Lois
Jones, president Huron County Jun
ior Institute; Arnold Alton, president.
Huron County Junior Farmers; Cath
erine Campbell, vice-president, Junior
Institute; Helen Johnston, Huron
County director; and Lloyd Holland,
second vice-president, Huron County
Junior Farmers.
Along with the Junior Farmer choir,
music will be provided by Miss Doris
Johnston and her marimba and the
Tuckersmith Junior Farmer Quartette
including George Turner, Gordon
Johns, Stanley Johns and Bert
Pepper. Junior Farmer members are
asked to see that this service is an
nounced at their local churches prev
ious to the service, July 24th.
Any Junior Farmer or Junior In
stitute member wishing to have ex
perience in choir work are asked to
contact the president of their club
immediately. A choir practice will be
held at the Knox Presbyterian Church,
Goderich, on Friday, July 22nd., at
8.30 p.m. Each club is asked to have
at least three boys and three girls as
members of the choir.
. —Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Allen and Mr.
and Mrs. John Allen, of Toronto,
spent the week-end with Dr. and Mrs.
Geo. H. Ross.
Start Paving
Highway No. 86
Work on the paving of Highway 86
from Wingham to Lucknow was start
ed on Friday by the Stirling Con
struction Company, of Windsor, When
completed the work will mean a paved
highway stretching from Wingham to
Amberley.
The work of grading, fencing and
building culverts on Highway 86 be
tween Bluevale and Molesworth, is
also jinder way.
—Mr, and Mrs. Harder English and
two sons, of Weston, visited with Mr.
and Mrs. Del Ewing, Carling Terrace.
2nd Lieut D. V. Goodridge
who has been appointed in command
of the Wingham Corps Of the Salva
tion Army. A native of Toronto,
Lieut. Goodridge is a graduate of the
•Salvation Army Training College, and
has worked in Thorold and Welland
before coming to Wingham.
“Order in council authorizing Wing
ham television received today a letter
of authority to follow. G. W. Brown,
Controller of Tele-Communication,”
The telegram bearing these words, re
ceived at CKNX on Monday meant
the end of three months of waiting
and the beginning of a new era of
television in Wingham. For although
the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora
tion had already approved the ap
plication of CKNX for a television
station back in April, the official ap
proval of the Federal Cabinet had
not been given and until it was, very
little could be done on the proposed
new television set-up. For the past
three months the staff of CKNX has
been waiting patiently for just such a
telegram.
ON SCHOOL READING
Miss Agnes Williamson attended the
first Canadian conference on reading,
which was held ip Convocation Hall,
-University of Toronto, from July 4 to
July 8. This is the first such confer
ence held in Canada. It was sponsored
by the Federation of Women Teachers’
Associations of Ontario, and attracted
eleven hundred public school teachers.
The conference was planned to assist
teachers, educationists and parents to
find the answers to reading problems.
Recognized authorities, both Cana
dian and American, in the field of
reading, were in charge of stimulating
and thought-p r o v o k i n g sessions.
Among the subjects receiving atten
tion were the place of reading in the
elementary curriculum, developmental
reading problems, retarded readers,
skills of the reading program, phonics
in the reading program, teaching new
Canadians to read, developing inde
pendence in reading,, teaching of
pc ci try, choral speaking, and teaching
reading to the gifted child.
LOCAL JUVENILES
GOING GREAT GUNS
The Wingham Juvenile softball
team continued their winning streak
last week, racking up their 13th
straight win out of as many starts
on Monday, when they defeated Bel
grave 4-2, in one of the closest games
of the season. Excitement reached a
fever pitch in the 9th inning when
Belgrave loaded the bases with only
one out, but was unable to tie up the
game, both runners being tagged at
home plate. Batteries were: Wingham,
Lockridge, Hodgkinson; Belgrave,
Welwood and Irwin.
On Thursday last the Juveniles
scored a shut-out on Bluevale to the
tune of 12-0, when
threw a two-hitter,
kinson behind the
was the pitcher for
On Saturday the
Stone School 17-6.
Wingham, Lancaster and Hodgkin
son; Stone School, Jim Thompson,
Bob Higgins and Nethery.
The official approval of
inet was the signal fpr a
activity around CKNX. K.
holm, representative of RCA Victor
Company, Ltd., was in town yester
day, and the formal signing of an
agreement between CKNX and the
RCA Victor for the major portion of
the material necessary for installing a
television station was signed by Mr.
Chisholm and W. T. “Doc” Cruick-
shank yesterday afternoon. A repre
sentative of the company left last
night for Camden, N.J., to arrange
for the shipment of television equip
ment to Wingham, and it is expected
that the material will arrive here
around the second week in August.
Some Work Already Done
Some of the work in preparation
for the installation of TV equipment
has been already done at the old
Wingham High School building. Most
of the carpentry work there has been
completed and is ready for installa
tions. Technical work on the actual
television equipment will be done by
the RCA Victor Company.
Work on the television tower in the
south corner of Carrick Township is
expected to start next month. Because
of the shortage of steel, original plans
for the tubular wave stack have been
changed, and instead of a 600-foot
tubular stack, as originally planned,
the tower will be made of steel lattice
work with a 50-foot tubular stack
mounted on top. Overall height of the
tower will be 650 feet which, on an
elevation of 1150 feet will result in a
tower approximately 1,800 feet above
sea level—one of the highest in the
province. A
The tower will be linked to the stud
io in the old high school building by
a micro-wave link, and another micro
wave link will connect Wingham with
the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora
tion, for network purposes, through
one of the neighboring television
stations, possibly Kitchener. Until
this micro-waye link is built,., net- v
work programs will be carried by
means of a system similar to movie
film.
Asked when Wingham TV can be
expected to make its debut. "Doc”
Cruickshank looked like the man
about to answer the $64 question.
“Sometime before Christmas,” was
about as far as he wanted to com
mit himself. “But with a bit of luck
we might make it by the middle of
November.”
YOUNG HIKE RIDER
HAS NARROW ESCAPE
Keith Lancaster
with Ken Hodg-
plate. Don Gray
Bluevale.
locals swamped
Batteries were
—Mr. and Mrs. Archie Williamson
and their son, Harold, of Toronto,
spent the week-end at the William
son home.
VJoseph Vanstone, 7-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Vanstone, of town,
had a narrow escape from serious in
jury last Thursday, when he was
struck by a truck while riding his
bicycle on Josephine Street.
The child was riding along the edge
of the road when he suddenly turned
in front of a truck owned by Norman
Rintoul.
He was knocked down by the truck
and received a cut over his left eye,
and other minor cuts and bruises. He
was taken to Wingham General Hos
pital, where he was treated and al
lowed to go home.
The accident was investigated by
Town Constable Gordon Deyell and
Provincial Constable Charles Salter.
87-Year=Old Falls
From Cherry Tree,
Fractures Hip
John T. Scott, 87-year-oId East
Wawanosh resident, fractured his
right hip on Friday, when he fell from
a cherry tree, while picking the fruit
at his home with no one around to
help him, he had to crawl to the
house and lay for an hour On the floor
before neighbors noticed his plight
He was taken to the Wingham
General Hospital, where his hip Will
be pinned. His condition yesterday
was described as fair.
Wingham’s Dollar Saving Days, the
annual bargain event of the summer
season, will be coming to town next
week.
Members of the Business Associa
tion and the merchants of town have
been planning the event for Weeks,
and next Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday will see almost every store in
town with a host of bargains for
every member of the family.
Next week’s issue of the Advance-
Times will be larger than usual, and
will feature many advertisements of
stores which are participating in this
promotion. It will pay you even more
than ever to read the advertising
columns of the newspaper next week.
By shopping at your Wingham mer
chants next week you can save dollars
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