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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-05-23, Page 94 lour Ours To Enjoy -- And Preserve Right at the present time a great deal of work is in progress on the parks in this district. In Wingham the new change house at the swimming area is being read- ied for the season and a broad sweep of the river bank southwest of that build- ing has been contoured and will be seed- ed. The Turnberry park has been clean- ed up and will offer its popular attrac- tions for the public. The same prepar- ations are being made at the Morris park. Within the past few years the general public,' municipal councifs and their committees have learned the extremely high value of these recreation spots. Each of them is used to the full during the warm weather. They are particularly valuable to young people, since they pro- vide ideal recreation of the type approved by every parent. The one fly in the ointment, how- ever, is the age-old problem of vandalism. So far there hasn't been too much damage at the Wingham park, but the two rural spots have suffered at the hands of small groups of persons who seem bent on destroying the facilities which their friends and elders have work- ed so hard to provide. The answer to the problem is a thorny one, for typical vandals are a cowardly lot. They do their dirty work in the blackest hours of the night. Nevertheless no effort should be spared to put a stop, once and for all, to this destructiveness. Perhaps the surest results would be obtained if more parents insisted that their children place a higher value on other people's property. All too many children seem to be totally unaware that it is a cardinal crime to molest or inter- fere with other persons' belongings. It is a lesson which should be taught from earliest childhood. As for those vandals who are too old to train, would it not be worth the ef- fort to wait up for them occasionally and see that they reap the reward they deserve? Catastrophe For Quebec The current wave of terrorism which has gripped Montreal and Quebec City is likely to have the most costly conse- quences for the aspirations of those French Canadians who have been hoping and working for a new deal in their relations with the rest of the country. Death, personal injury and extensive property damage, coupled with the cumulative fears of thousands of innocent people are bound to result in an atmos- phere of stiffening opposition to what- ever concession might be made to Quebec cultural interests. Whether French Canadians believe it or not, there has never been, in our time, the conscious opposition to the ambitions of French-speaking oeople on the part of , the English-speaking people in the other provinces. Even so, once we were made aware of the inferiority complex which was hugging Quebecers, most of us were prepared to take whatever steps might be necessary to guarantee to all Canadians the freedom and benefits of our nation. Since the bombings, however, sympathy is wearing thin. It must be added, too, that the sup- port of non-violent French Canadians is being jeopardized. Realistic though the threat may be, the entire idea of Quebec as a separate state is just about the height of folly — not only for the rest of Canada, but primar- ily for Quebec itself. It isn't a sensible idea from the economic standpoint. A few weeks ago we advocated the introduction of French language courses in Ontario public schools. We still maintain that it is a necessary step, but the same might well be advocated for Quebec schools. It is time French Canada put more emphasis on its knowledge of English, both the language and the people. The trouble does not lie in the fact that Quebec needs separation from the rest of Canada now; it is simply that Quebec should have joined the Canadian cultural federation two hundred years ago. Costs Will Be High Directors of the Wingham and District Hospital learned recently that building costs for an addition to that institution are likely to be pretty steep. Authori- ties from the Ontario Hospital Services Commission, the body which would make the controlling recommendations, pointed out that approval of any extensive addi- tion to the number of beds would be highly likely. The Wingham Hospital's greatest need is for removal of the original wing which now presents a serious fire hazard, not only to its own occupants, but to the newer sections of the hospital as well. If additional space is to be added, it will have to be used chiefly for service areas such as operating rooms, obstetric- al rooms, recovery rooms, x-ray, etc. These services are still contained in the original portion of the building and can- not be brought up to fully modern standards in their present quarters. The financial hitch arises in the fact that the major grants for hospital con- struction are based on bed space. Grants for service areas are paid only by the Ontario government at the rate of $2,000 for every 3,000 square feet of floor space —and then only for therapeutic and di- agnostic departments (nothing for ad- ministration, office space, etc). The fed- eral government grants are available only for bed space, and even the County of Huron grant allotment is based on a per -bed basis. Those who have seen the hospital over -crowded or who have been forced to wait for a bed for a non -emergency operation, may wonder how the Toronto officials arrive at the decision that the Wingham Hospital has enough beds. The formula is carefully worked out on a province -wide basis. The population of the area is determined and then the dis- charge records are also taken into ac- count and allowance is made for the use of the hospital by non-residents of the geographical area in which the hospital is located. Our own reaction to the OHSC of- ficials' report was that they were making every effort to be fair and open-minded about Wingham's hospital problems. They realize we are facing a knotty problem here and voiced their willingness to do everything possible to aid in its solution. What many residents of rural areas fail to realize is that though the Ontario Hospital Services Commission does con- trol many aspects of hospital operation, it does not build hospitals, nor pay the full costs when we decide we need them. At the best, when full per -bed grants are available, about 60 percent of the capital cost must be raised locally. Dangerous Driving Doctors at the University of Missouri School of Medicine have figured out that the average person blinks 25 times a minute, and that each blink averages two-tenths of a second. From this the doctors have calculated that if you drive for 10 hours at 40 miles an hour, you drive 33 miles with your eyes closed. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert O. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulation; Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Associ- ation; Member Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Authorised by the Post Office Department as Second Class Mail and for payment of postage in cash Subscription Rate: One Year, $4.00; Six Months, $2.25, In advance U.B.A., $5.00 per year; Foreign rate, $5.00 per year Advertising Rates on application PANSIES BY THE THOUSAND — Mrs. Thomas Fells of Patrick Street is seen at one of her pansy beds which are now in full bloom. She has a spectacular dis- play of the lovely blooms which would actually number in the thousands. Mrs. Fells is quite proud of the showing and said she has been growing pansies for about 10 years.—A-T Photo. ncieffZintt Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, May 23, 1963 SECOND SECTION 0111!luuu!uum!uu!u@umuuum111W ,;'!!�19III!I!1111111!Illlillllllllmlllllmlllllllln�IIIInIlItl11111111111!I!CIIIIIIIIIIIOIIIII!(III!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIu91111111Itlllll!` SUGA ane yr _ 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111 SPICE _ EilldlillllllilIIIIIII„..:;, alllllllll1111llmp!ppBy Bill Smiley!!!II!I!!III!!II!!!!I!f Well, it's peen' another busy, busy week, hasn't it? It's bad enough most of the time, but spring is pitiless in her demands on us. Finally, I picked up the cat and hurled her out the back door. I felt just like the Rus- sian parents in those old stories who, chased by wolves, threw their children out of the sleigh, one by one, in the hope of slowing down the pur- suers so that the others could get to safety. Anyway, there'll be no more of that cacophony of cat -calls around our place. In an effort to save my sanity, I went trout fishing. I nearly destroyed the scatter- ed remnants of my wits in the rediscovery that speckled trout fishing is the most awk- ward, inconvenient, difficult and infuriating sport in the world. My wife, and most women, consider trout fishing as the most ridiculous form of rec- reation that exists. They are right. You stagger through swamps. You slip off wet logs into ice -water. You trip over roots. You lose a hundred hooks. You battle insects. Your line is perpetually tang- led around twigs, leaves, or your left ear. You puff, pers- pire, profane. You eat lunch with hands generously spread with an equal mixture of worm -guts and fish -guts. If you are tremendously suc- cessful, you b r i n g home enough fish to provide a din- ner for a midget with an ulcer. * * * Why do men do it? There are several reasons. First, there are no women, children or cats on fishing streams. There are no telephones or doorbells jangling their nerve - rattling summons. It is life stripped down to elementals. There are just you and those stupid trout. It's you or them. And nine times out of 10, it's you. Don't feel sorry for the trout. They're pretty, with their colored spots, but no- body ever sees them except other trout, who promptly try to eat thein. And don't feel that they haven't a chance against the cruel angler. Sending a sedentary civilian against the brook trout is like sending a hippopotamus out to catch monkeys with a but- terfly net. The real reason I go trout fishing at least once a year is that it's a ritual of spring that purges the soul of those simmerings which have built up during the winter. After a long day on a rugged trout stream, even civilization looks pretty good. She fills a pot with boiling adrenalin, throws in a hand- ful of humans, just out of the deepfreeze, adds a carrot of new hope, an onion of energy, and a garlic bud of renewed promise. She sprinkles it with a dash of color and a whiff of scent. She tosses in a soup- con of sunshine and stirs vigorously with a ladle of old memories until the whole thing is bubbling and gurg- ling. What she comes up with, for people of all ages, is a heady brew — experience, the essence of life. It came to our family in three doses this week. My son took a lesson in econo- mics, my daughter took the cat to the hospital, and I took a dozen nice speckled trout. We suffered and enjoyed in about equal proportions. * * * Hugh discovered the ele- mentary thesis that dames are murder on the money. He took a girl to the high school prom. Tickets, cor- sage, and the inevitable post - dance snack cost him what he would spend on himself in about two months. I hoped the lesson would register, and that he'd give up women for life. But he is human, and as all such, perverse. All it did was make him want to get a high -paying job for the sum- mer, so that he could do it again, and more often. I think the dance took more out of his mother than it did out of him. At any rate, she was more tired when he left for the dance than he was when he got home. This, I understand, is par for the course. On Monday, my wife made One Moment Please By Rev. Donald Sinclair Wingham, Ontario THE RESPONSE OF FAITH Ezekiel Ch. 37.3 — And He said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answe ed, 0 Lord God, Thou knowest. ” Thou knowest!" -- what a pillow for the heart to repose upon! "Thou knowestl" -- what few but comprehensive words to sum up and express the heart's difficulties and per- plexities and trials. " Thou knowest I" -- what an inexpress- ibly sweet resting place in the midst of life's tumultuous heav- ings; in the midst of a sea that knows no calm; in the midst of a scene in which tossings to and fro are the hourly history! What an answer they contain for every heart that can find no words to express its big emotions; for a heart whose sorrows are too deep for lan- guage to find its way to God! Oh, that they were ever upper- most in the soul, as the res- ponse to every difficulty in our path! They are God's answer to everything we cannot fathom God's answer for our heart to rest upon, and our lips to utter, when every way is hedged up so that we cannot pass. "0 Lord God, thou knowest! Rest here believer, Lean thy soul on these words. Repose calmly on the bosom of thy God, and carry them with thee into every scene of life. "0 Lord God, Thou knowest." Amid the trials that I meet, Amid the thorns that pierce my feet, One thought remains supremely sweet — Thou thinkest Lord, of me! one of those lightning deci- sions for which she is famous. After two years of coping with kittens, she snatched the phone, called the vet, plunk- ed the cat in Kim's arms and pushed both of them out the door. When I got home, she was wearing that smug air of decision which Caesar displayed the day he crossed the Rubicon. Or was it the Delaware? And I don't blame her. We had spent a hideous week -end. Piper the cat was that way again. A huge white tom prowled and howled in the back -yard. A gigantic black tom yowled and scowled about the front door. Our dog raced from one to the other, yapping ferociously. They just sneered at him and re- treated not an inch. This went on for hours. NEMINISCINC MAY 1926 There passed peacefully away at her home on Patrick St, , one of the oldest and Most highly respected residents in the person of Esther Virtue, relict of the late Robt. Breen, in her 93rd year. A former resident of Wing - ham, passed away at his horse in Alliston on May 21st, in the person of Roland Beattie. Deceased was in his 65th year and was born in Tuckersmith, near Seaforth. In company with his brother, Robert, he conducted a livery and bus business in Wingham for about fourteen years. For the past twenty years he has conducted a large coal and wood business in Alliston. Mrs. A, E. Lloyd has return- ed home from Edmonton, Alta. where she was called by the death of her only brother, William H. Dixon, who died in the Royal Alexander Hospital, Edmonton, April 21, 1926. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon resided in Wingham for a number of year4 going West in 1908. 0--0--0 MAY 1938 Mr. H. T. Thomson has purchased the chopping mill at the south end of Josephine Street from Mr. Russell Walker. He took possession last week. Mr. Carman Hetherington was successful in passing his second year at the Ontario Veterinary College, at Guelph, with honors. He is at present spending a few days with his brother at Ridgetown. Mrs. W. H. Connolly, Diagonal Rd., fell down the steps at the home of her sister, Mrs. Harry Town, on Friday and splintered the bone in her elbow. The injured arm was placed in a cast and is improv - mg nicely. The death of a former Wing- hamite, William Spence Currie, occurred at his late residence, 302 West Tiffin Street, Fos- toria Ohio, on Monday. Mr. Currie was in his 52nd year and had been seriously ill since the end of February. Mr. C. R. Yeoman, who has been teller of the local branch of the Dominion Bank, has been promoted to the ac- countants department of the Kitchener branch. Mr. Yeo- man takes over his new posi- tion on May 16th. 0--0--0 MAY 1948 Mr. Bill Galbraith received word of his success in passing his final exams in Chemical Engineering at Toronto Univer sity last week. Bill has joined the technical staff of the B.F. Goodrich Rubber Co., at Kitchener. Miss Nina M. Robb, Van- couver, B.C. , was renewing old friends in town and was a guest with Mrs. C. J. Taylor. BOX 390 Advance- Times, Wingham, Ont. Dear Sir, Although Canadians have rendered military service in both peace and war under more than a thousand varieties of unit badges, no comprehensive history of these insignia has ever been published. The writer is now attempt- ing to assemble material for a reference book on this aspect of Canadiana. Any assistance your readers cou.d give would be appreciated. Material sought includes helmet, cap, collar and should- er badges; buttons; enamelled brooches and pins; unit com- memorative medals and tro- phies photos and pictures il- lustrating these devices; letter- heads, envelopes, programs, and Christmas cards with unit crests and markings; books and articles on unit histories; and information concerning designs, the reasons for selection, and nicknames and anecdotes as- sociated with them. Of special interest would be information from jewellers and others who at one time engaged in local manufacture of these items. Canadian Expeditionary Force and earlier Militia mater ials are required particularly. Yours truly, G. Hiseler,