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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-12-19, Page 1nweinvt IRST SECTION PUBLIC WORKS DEPT. purchase Park Site On Huron The Ontario Department of Public Works has purchased 375 acres of Lake Huron shore- line five miles north of Gode- rich, for a provincial park, Public Works Minister Ray Con- nell announced today. On the Bluewater Highway, the new park will have almost one mile of clear sand beach, Highways Minister Charles S. MacNaughton, who is M.P.P. for Huron, who had promoted the acquisition of the land for several years said he would press for its early development as a provincial park. "This is a choice piece of property with a long history in the Goderich area," Mr. Mac - Naughton said. "The key lakefront piece was formerly a private resort known as Pointe Farms. It has drawn holidayers from all over the United States IC�/SA/1fl—" ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The PedestNm By The Pedestrhue AWARD OMITTED— Last week's listing of awards at the high school commence- ment exercises inadvertently omitted the award for proficien- cy in Grade XIII Physical Sciences, which is donated an. nually by John Pattison. The prize was won this year by Mur- ray Coultes. 0--0--0 WINTER FOR SURE— WAll that blasted bragging we id about the lovely mild fall is now catching up with us. Win- ter moved in with a vengeance the latter part of last week. On Saturday and Sunday it poured down in sufficient quantities to lake driving hazardous and to plug lanes and some back roads. Temperatures fell as low as qero, with highs about 15. 0--0--0 , 8UT WE ARE LUCKY— Although driving conditions in this area have not been the best since the heavy fall of snow, at least we aren't bogged down as they were in Toronto last Thursday night. Evening traffic was so seriously messed up by the slippery snow that thousands upon thousands of motorists on their way home from work waited for as long as three or four hours in their cars while snarl-ups were cleared by police. We talked to one man who was four hours making the trip from Cooksville to Etobi- coke, a distance that would or- dinarily take a few minutes. 0--0--0 BUSY SPOT— Postmaster Gordon Sutcliffe and his staff are up to their ears in work this week as the last of the Christmas rush comes through. It is expected that this week will see the worst of it over. 0-0--0 USE THOSE SEALS— Don't forget to use (and send in your money for) those Christ mas Seals you received not long ago. The continuing work of the T. B. Association is very important to each of us. 0--0--0 FIRST OF MANY— The town carried out the first snow removal from the main drag on Tuesday and Wed- nesday. It's an operation that *gill be repeated many times be- fore spring, we fear. 0--0--0 SHARP REPORTING -- Tuesday evening's Toronto Star was a little off the beam. A„t page picture showed the he vy snow conditions in Wes- tern Ontario towns, and pointed out just how bad things were in Clinton. The picture, however was of the main intersection in Wingham. Lakeshore and Canada since about the tum of the century: "In recent years the old ho- tel was tore down but there re- main roads, trails, woodlots and landscaping that would give the Department of Lands and Forests a good start in develop- ing a fine park,” Mr. MacNaughton added that this brings to Huron im- plementation of the shoreline and land acquisition policy an- nounced in the Throne Speech approximately a year ago. It will provide park facilities to a wide area of south-western On- tario. Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Dec. 19, 1963 Coffee Break For Shoppers, Businessmen The Kinetics will be in the council chamber on Friday to provide shoppers with an op- portunity to get warmed up and rest their feet, They ate sponsoring a "coffee break" and will be in business from 9.30 to 11 a.m., 2.30 to 5 p.m. and 7.30 to 9.30 p.m. Hot coffee will be available and for those who need more sustenance to carry on, home- made doughnuts, muffins and date squares will be on the bill of fare. Take-out orders will also be prepared for the convenience of businessmen and their clerks. Correspondents Please Note Country corespondents and others who have news items for next week's paper are asked to have their material into ourof- fice not later than SATURDAY, DEC. 21st. The Advance - Times has to be printed in time for mailing on Tuesday morning, Dec. 24th, so copy received later than Saturday will be held over. Next week's edition is the annual Christmas Greeting 'number. Those who wish to have personal or business greetings included should contact our office not later than Friday of this week. Paul Bennett Falls from Roof Paul Bennett, seven-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Monty Bennett, was playing with oth- er children on the roof of the store last Monday when he slip- ped and fell about twenty-five feet. He was taken to the hos- pital for examination and re- mained there overnight. Fortunately, there were no injuries but he did receive a good shaking up and shock. LOCAL CHEESE ENTRY WINS FIVE AWARDS Gay -Lea cheese again won five awards at the Royal Winter Fair. Out of five entries, five awards were picked up by the Gay -Lea Cheese entry. All the Gay -Lea cheese is made at the Blyth Cheese fac- tory. This is very stiff com- petition and congratulations go to the cheesemaker, Hugh Cle- land. BILL HENDERSON FULL CORPORAL Acting Cpl. Wm. Hender- son has successfully completed his junior N.C.O.'s course and is now a full corporal. The six weeks' course was held at RCR Headquarters in London. He is stationed at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. Bill Walden Came Home Yesterday Friends of Bill Walden will be happy to learn that he has returned from St. Joseph's Hos- pital, London, where he has been confined since last July 24th as the result of a car acci- dent, BiII was returning home from London when he was forced into a bridge abutment just north of Lucan, by an oncoming vehicle. In the resulting crash he suffer- ed a fractured pelvis and sev- ere cuts to the knee and neck. His progress has been slow and he has been in and out of trac- tion several times. However, he is now able to walk with a cane. His good wife, Doris, has been travelling down to see him four times a week since he was hurt and as we figure it, she must have driven about 13,000 miles in the course of the last 24 weeks. Bad Weather for Country Fire Call The Wingham Fire Brigade made a run to the home of Wil- liam Irwin on the 10th Con- cession of East Wawanosh about 11.00 p.m. on Monday eve- ning, when a chimney in the home took fire. The firemen reported no trouble with the fire. It burned itself out with no damage to the home, but the call made a nasa, ty run for the truck, as their tracks out were filled in by the near blizzard conditions that prevailed, during the hour the truck was at the farm home. WDHS Board Held Final 1963 Meeting Meeting at the Wingham Dis- trict istrict High School on Thursday evening the board held its final meeting of the year and finish- ed off business for 1963. In a brief outline of the fin- ancial position secretary -trea- surer, Miss Yvonne McPherson said that the final grant pay- ments were $4,233.43 less than had been anticipated. However, there were several factors which were not as yet settled with the Department of Education, which could bring this amount up. She stated that it appear- ed that the year would end with a small balance. Leslie Fortune reported to the board that the insurance committee had two meetings and was in the process of mak- ing a study of the insurance pro- gram. He felt another com- mittee meeting would be re- quired before the end of the year. Two representatives of Kyles and Kyles, architects for the Single Copy Not Over Ten Cents. CUBS MOVE UP—Two Tads from the local Cub Pack, Paul Gardner and Len Johnston, centre, moved up to Boy Scouts last Wednesday evening when they were invested into Scouting. With the boys are Scout leaders Crawford Doug- las and Fred Steinmetz, left and right, and centre Cub lead- ers Mrs. Donald Lloyd, Murray Fridenburg and Mrs. Rob- ert Ahara. —Advance -Times Photo. Repair Job Needed at Howson Dam May ' un as High as $25,000.00 A special meeting of Wing - ham Town Council was conven- ed last Thursday to deal with the Department df7 Highways re- port on the necessary repairs to the Howson Dam. Burns Ross, consulting engin- eer, was present and estimated the repairs would cost approx- imately $7,000,00 per span or about $25,000,00 to make the new addition, were on hand and brought the board up to date on the building program. They said it appeared that all areas of the new wing would be ready for use at the first of the year. Three of the new class- rooms would be in use by this week. The board also heard a re- port from Mr. Kyles on meth- ods of overcoming excessive heat in the old wing with a southern or eastern exposure. Tentative prices had been se- cured on metal awnings for eight classrooms. A letter of thanks from Julia Cruikshank for the Board's Scholarship was read. Principal Frank Madill said that attendance in November had averaged 799 pupils or 97.74'per cent of the enrol- ment. He also suggested that the board should start to lay plans for the official opening of the new vocational wing. This was left over until the January meeting. Dr, W. A. McKibbon mov- ed a vote of thanks for the ex- cellent cornmencement pro- gram which had been organiz- ed by the principal and staff. repairs recommended in the De- partment report. The report stated that a sec- ond row of piling `should be driv- en outside the old piling and the space between the two rows fill- ed illed with concrete and this tied back into the apron of the dam. It also recommended that heavy stone be placed against the downstream face of the piling to prevent further scouring ac- tion by the water. Department of Highways sub- sidy for the work was discussed and it was felt that the depart- ment would likely pay 80°Jo of the cost as the dam is actually the foundation for the bridge which it supports. However the department had not made any commitment. On motion of Councillor Buchanan and Reeve Adair it was decided to appoint Deputy - Reeve Kerr and Mr, Ross as a committee to contact the De- partment of Highways to obtain necessary approval for subsidy and to ask if tenders should be called or a contractor hired to work on an hourly basis. At the final council meeting on Monday night the deputy reeve reported that the Depart- ment of Highways has given permission to obtain a contrac- tor and that both Mowbray Con- struction and the Gibson Con- struction Co. of Wingham have been approached and have agreed to work together on the project. The firms are current- ly attempting to obtain the nec- essary piling for the work. He said the subsidy will be a mini- mum of fifty per cent and could run as high as 80 per cern. The project must be com- pleted before spring as the en- gineer's report indicated that if the necessary repairs were not made it would be highly likely that the structure would col- lapse during the spring run off. The council also decided to make application to have the project done as Winter Works Program which pays a percen- tage of the labour cost involv- ed. At the special meeting Councillor Cruickshank said that a representative of the De- partment of Transport had in- spected the W. B. Cruikshank airstrip and according to the re- port received considerable work' will have to be done before it will qualify for licensing. In view of this letter, Mayor Hetherington suggested that the grant agreed upon at a previous meeting should be increased to Hospital Board Discusses Broad Insurance Program The regular meeting of the board of directors of the Wing - ham and District Hospital was PROCLAMATION At the request of a number of citizens I hereby PROCLAIM Thursday, Dec. 26, 1963 BOXING DAY A s a Public Civic Holiday FOR THE TOWN OF WINGHAM and 1 hereby call upon all good citizens to observe the same. R. S. HETHERINGTON, Mayor. held on Friday evening, when a lengthy discussion of insurance coverage took place. Board chairman R, B. Cousins presid- ed. An insurance representative was present at the meeting to go over the various coverages which might be advisable for the hospital and he supplied premium figures. The board discussed the plan in some de- tail and left the matter with a committee which was set up a few weeks ago for study of the insurance program. The com- mittee will bring its recommen- dations to the board at a later date. The administrator, Mrs, I. Morrey, brought in her statisti- cal report for the month of Nov- ember. There were 212 ad- missions, 22 births, 53 opera, - Please turn to Page Two. 8700.00 annually and that a lease renting certain facilities at the airstrip to the Town of Wingham be drawn up. Coun- cil concurred with the sugges- tion. Like to Sing? Join Harmony Men for Carols The Harmony Men are spon- soring community carol singing on Monday evening, which all interested persons, men or wo- men, are invited to join. They will gather at the town hall at 7,30. Song sheets will be provided. Carols will be sung downtown and outside Wingham Hospital. Hot chocolate may be pur- chased at the town hall follow- ing the singing. Why not bundle up on Mon- day night and join the Harmony Men in this real old-fashioned carolling? Be at the hall at 7.30 sharp. Shoppers Who Won Weekly Prizes There were three fortunate shoppers in the weekly draw sponsored by the Wingham Bus- iness Association on Monday morning. Mrs. Hans Schipper of Minnie St., was the winner of $50 and $25.00 each went to Mrs. Hugh Gilmour of R. R. 2, Wingham and to Mrs. Alex Smith of the same address. Next Monday morning the final draw will be made and the prize at that time will be the jackpot of $300. It's just waiting for some fortunate shopper, Draw tickets arc given free with purchases in the Wingham stores co-operating in the plan. Eacli of these stores displays a yellow and green sign on its front windows, announcing that "Santa's Lucky Bucks" are a part of Christmas shopping at- tractions in that place of bus- iness. All the tickets which have been put in since the opening of the promotion a few weeks ago will be in the giant drum for Monday's draw,