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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-03-04, Page 9• Should We Broaden Our Scope? It appears that ratepayers on the north side of the river are not likely to approve the proposed sewage scheme for that section of the town. The rea- son is obvious. It is too expensive for the individual property owner, Most of them own not only a normal lot, but long frontages of vacant land as well. The cost per foot for installation is not excessive, and would probably be ac- • ceptable to most of those involved if they were dealing with Tots of normal size, Such being the case, we are of the opinion that council should give serious consid- eration to subsidizing the sewage plan in order to assure its implementation. There are several good reasons. • We know some will argue that every- one else in town has paid for latteral sewage lines without help. We believe, however, that this problem warrants special attention. This particular area is one of the few sections of Wingham in which good build- ing Tots are available. If the community is to grow and develop, then an adequate sewage installation is one method of pro- moting such growth. Serviced lots will enhance the value of the property and will unqut.3tionably foster building in the • area, with its resultant increase in assess- ment and tax income for the town. Health is another reason for consid- ering the problem. No one can argue the fact that proper sewage collection is a better form of sanitation than the exist - ant septic tanks. As to the cost, if the project is sub- sidized the town will eventually get a return on the outlay. We believe rate- payers in the area will approve the scheme if they are asked to pay a front- age levy based on an average sized lot, with the remainder financed by the town. As time goes on, the municipality can • then collect a fee on the vacant frontage as lot sales are made. How much will it cost the remainder of the community? The present situation requires an expenditure of $84,000 for the installation. Of this, $16,000 is chargeable to the general assessment for trunk lines, The remaining $68,000 would be charged to the property owners in the area and spread over an assessment base of about $225,000. With carrying charges over a period of 20 years this amounts to an annual payment of close to $50,Q0 for the average ratepayer in the area. If, on the other hand, each of the 53 property owners is faced with a frontage assessment of 82.5 feet, which is the av- erage, some $24,000 of the total expendi- ture would be charged to the owners. The town then would have to cover the re- maining $44,000. Provided this amount is financed through the Ontario Water Resources Commission, over a 30 year period, as was done for the disposal system, it means amortized annual pay- ments of $2,900 including the 5%% carrying charges. This financing amounts to slightly Tess than one mill on the town's assessment base of $3,000,000. We think the community should ac- cept this measure as a method of pro- motion growth in the community, as well as from the health aspect, particularly when the investment can be returned over a period of time. This proposal will, no doubt, meet with opposition, but it will come as usual from a voluable minority, who are in op- position to any progressive move if it means even a fraction of a mill increase. There may be valid objections to the plan, but we think it is worth serious study by town authorities. Worthy of Support • Giving assistance in time of disaster or emergency is a traditional obligation of the Red Cross. We expect the Red Cross to be on the job no matter where or when disaster strikes, and no matter how large or how small the disaster. The Red Cross is geared for emergency action and its help normally consists of pro- viding food, shelter, clothing, medical treatment and care for all victims. In addition, it's the task of the Red Cross to register all disaster victims so that rela- tives enquiring after their health and wel- fare may receive accurate information. ▪ Major disasters are relatively few in Canada. We are fortunate that we live in a zone comparatively free of hurri- canes, floods, monsoons, earthquakes and the like. But every year in Canada, over 2,000 families are burned out of their • homes. This means that the Red Cross must be in a position to provide emer- gency assistance for some 13,000 men, women and children who are left without a roof over their heads and with no more than the clothes they've got on. In these cases, the Red Cross arranges for emer- gency accommodation, food and clothing until such time as the victims can avail themselves of the services of governmen- tal welfare services. The Red Cross spends more than $200,000 to provide this kind of assistance for Canadian dis- aster victims every year. March is Red Cross Month in Canada. When you support your Red Cross, you help to provide the emergency assistance that is given to victims of all kinds of disasters at home and abroad. Be gen- erous with your donation. Museum Needs More Space Potential exhibits available to Huron • County Pioneer Museum are being lost for lack of room, and many offered now will never again be obtainable, Curator James Chisholm reports. "It is hard to walk away from them," he said in urging upon County Council the provision for more space. His predecessor, Mr. Neill, who gave many years of devoted service to the museum, had already called at- tention to the need, and Mr. Chisholm pressed the matter at January session of county council. The proposal is for an addition 80 feet by 60 feet, costing something like • $12,000. The curator hopes to see it built this year, so that reception of new ar- ticles may be no longer restricted, and the 7,000 articles on display may be properly classified and exhibited. He underlines the educational value of the • institution and points out that in approv- ing the projected addition council will be building for many years to come. Reeve A. D: Smith, of Turnberry, chairman of last year's property com- • mittee, declared the museum "one of the finest, and one of the largest, in Ontario." It was toured in 1964 by 21,692 persons, drawing visitors from surprising dis- tances. The number of bus loads of students on sponsored bus trips is most impressive. it may not be generally known that admission fees cover maintenance costs of the museum, and there is a provincial grant, so that it is not a charge, finan- cially, upon the county and its member municipalities. Mr. Chisholm makes out a good case for the desired addition, and the need must be well known to at least three of the six members of the property committee, who served thereon last year: Deputy Reeve E. Hayter, Stanley, this year's chairman; Reeve Ivan Haskins, Howick, a former chairman, and Reeve Stewart Procter, of Morris. It is reason- able to expect favorable consideration also from Reeve Reg, Jewell, Goderich; Reeve Nelson Cardno, Seaforth, and Reeve Thomas Leiper, Hullett.—Goderich Signal Star: THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert O. Wenger, Secretary-Treasuret Member Audit Bureau of Circulation; Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Associ- ation; Member Canadian Cornnttinity Newspapers Representatives Authorized by the Post Office Department as Second ClaSs Mail and for payment of postage in cash SUbseription Rate: One Year, $4.06; Six Months, $2.25, in advance U.S.A., $5.00 per year; Foreign rate, $5.00 per year Advertising Rates on application REMINISCING MARCH 1915 Mr, John Ritchie last week took his regular Real Estate and Insurance trip to Lucknow, Dun- gannon, Myth, etc," Miss Annie Deyell, a gradu- ate stenographer of the Wing - ham Business College, has tak- en a position in the Parliament, Toronto. Miss McCall of Toronto is a visitor at Mr. S, Vanstone's and her solos at the Methodist Church the last two Sundays were greatly appreciated. Mr. Eddy Hocken, who play- ed inside home for London La- crosse Team last year, is in town and will play with the Wingham team this year, Mr. and Mrs, A, H. Thornbeck of Shoal Lake, Manitoba left for their home last Saturday ac- companied by Miss Norma Fox - ton, who is gone to visit her sister Mrs. Wm. Cassells. On Tuesday evening, prior to a happy event on Wednesday, Mr, Geo. Jacques was tendered a banquet at Miller's Restaurant by about thirty young men of town and presented with a beau- tiful oak rocker. MARCH 1929 At a meeting of the Toronto Presbytery on Tuesday, Rev. David Perrie, D.D. , of Wing - ham, was, for the second time, nominated for the moderator - ship of the general assembly, his being the only name to come up in presbytery. Miss Eleanor McLean of Teeswater spent the week -end at her home, here. Mrs. McKibbon, Miss Adams and Miss Isabell Fox are spend- ing a few days this week in Toronto. At the recent Grand Lodge of Royal Arch Masons in King- ston, Ex -Comp. Hugh Hill of Goderich, was elected District Superintendent, while Ex. Comp. Alex. W. Reid of Wing - ham was honored by being ap- pointed one of the Grand Stew- ards. In the hope of starting a movement toward the purchase of an X -Ray machine for the Wingham Hospital, the Wo- men's Auxiliary have made a handsome quilted bed -spread and are selling tickets at 25¢ each, the proceeds to be laid away for the above-mentioned purpose. Anyone wishing to assist may secure tickets at McKay's restaurant or McKib- bon's drug store. MARCH 1940 Premier Mitchell Hepburn announced that the showing of the news film, "Canada at War;. had been banned in Ontario un- til after the Dominion general election on March 26. It will be released March 29th. The matter of the appoint- ing of a nightwatchman was brought up by Mayor Crawford, and on motion of Couns. Evans and VanWyck, Gordon Deyell, who has been acting for the past month, was appointed, he to be allowed the usual uniform al- lowances. Carl Casernorc, local car- rier boy for the Globe and Mail, attended the annual meeting of that firms' carriers in Toronto on Saturday. The boys were en- tertained at a banquet, Hal Peterson and his brother will shortly open a store in the old Advance -Times location next to the Hell Telephone off- ice. We understand that they intend to do plumbing and tin- smithing, also carry electrical lines. They may have other lines also. At present the build- ing is being prepared for occu- pation. The firemen had a call to Jim 13reen's, Francis St., late Saturday evening to stop a chimney fire. Little or no dam- age resulted. Mr. Charles Dauphin, who has been on the staff of Canada Packers Limited, here, for the past year and three months,has been transferred to the corn- pany's branch at Clinton. Char- lie , during his stay here, has become well acquainted in the district and his friends will wish him the best of luck. He was a popular member of the Battery here, Mr, D, ti, I lick, 1 THIS WAS THE SIDEWALK on Diagonal Road after town men had opened it up for pedestrians on Saturday afternoon. It look - ed more like a canal with the big banks towering a good 10 feet. —Advance -Times Photo. ingbain Abtancoeinuti Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Mar. 4, 1965 SECOND SECTION of Toronto, formerly of Cen- tralia, has joined the staffhere in Charlie's place. MARCH 1951 Jimmie Carter, eight-year- old son of William Carter, con. 3, East Wawanosh, and the late Mrs. Carter, had his left hand badly injured Saturday after- noon when it came in contact with a circular saw, which was being used to cut wood on his father's farm. The boy was rushed to Clinton hospital where it was found necessary to ampu- tate the first three fingers at the second joint. Fire which broke out in the offices of Drs. Connell and Corrin on Sunday evening, cre- ated considerable damage be- fore it was controlled. Dr. Connell, who had been in the office only a few minutes pre- viously, noticed smoke from an unlighted fireplace in his apartment above the office. When he reached the ground floor he found the lower part of the building filled with smoke and portions of the of- fice in flames. The fire de- partment arrived on the scene scarcely two minutes after the alarm was turned in. The fire was quenched without delay, but not before smoke, flames and water had damaged the premises to the extent of more than $500.00. Crawford Motors, situated on the corner of Patrick and Josephine Sts., will be offici- ally opened on Saturday of this week. The business is own- ed by Len Crawford, who, with his wife and family of three sons and one daughter, moved here from Goderich last Sept- ember. The building, a new one, is modern in design, of cement block construction, which will be stuccoed. The south portion is taken up by the show room and parts depart- ment. The repair department in the north end of the build- ing contains the latest of auto- motive equipment. A public meeting of the Belgrave Community Centre presided over by Abner Nethery, chairman of the Belgrave Com- munity Athletic Association was held Friday afternoon in the recreation room of the Bel - grave Community Centre. At the meeting the building and park were officially turned over to the community and the Building Committee disbanded. A person is young only once, and when he looks back from old age, the "once" secn1IS to have been a deplorably short period, SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley They Could Have Asked Me! That aging enfant terrible, Pierre Berton, has churned out another book. With the encour- agement of the Anglican church, he took what was supposed to be a long, hard look at contempora- ry Christianity. According to the critical re- views, the result, entitled The Comfortable Pew, turned out to be a short, soft look. For years I have envied Ber- ton for a number of reasons: his facility with words; his TV in- terviews with gorgeous dolls; his colossal gall; his big, fat income. Every time the big fuzz - dome scores another coup, I get the green sickness. But this is different. My jeal- ousy is complicated by sheer hurt. If the Anglicans wanted somebody to write a book about them, why did they turn to a back -slid Anglican like Berton, when they had a front -slid An- glican, me, available. Like most converted Angli- cans, I was hauled, kicking and struggling, into the fold, on sex- ual grounds. My wife was an Anglican. At first, she used to shame me into accompanying her to church a couple of times a year. Then the outfit fastened its ten- tacles to the kids and first thing I knew I was going to Bible Class pageants and Sunday School picnics. The pressure increased. "Wouldn't it be lovely," she spe- culated with that phoney wistful- ness that makes you want to run for the nearest exit, "if you could be confirmed at the same time as your little son?" I dug in my heels. I refused to join in the general confession, because I could hear my mother, with her solid Methodist back- ground, groaning in her grave every time we came to that bit about believing in the holy Catholic c h u r c h. I wouldn't kneel, but just sort of crunched down, like my Ulster Presbyter- ian father. To cut a long conflict short, I was confirmed at the same time as my son. And frankly, I must admit that once the last rug was pulled from under my feet, I've enjoyed every minute of it. Now I can mumble the gener- al Confession and the creed with the best of them. And I take a certain childish pride in kneel- ing, straight-backed, through the long communion service, when all about me — other peo- ple my age are groaning and reverting sneakily to a squat, a crouch, or a mere bending of the head. Sometimes my family has to lift me back into the pew and massage my knees so that I can come up for the next hymn, but it's worth it. One thing 1 like about the An- glicans; they keep you busy. None of this stuff of sitting there dreaming for an hour while a preacher wanders through the dark forests of his own interpre- tations. They have you popping up and down like a jack-in-the- pulpit, on your knees praying, on your feet singing, or on your seat getting your wind back. Another thing I like about An- glican services is the prayers. I don't think I could ever go back to those interminable, home- made prayers in which the preacher acts as though God had nothing better to do on a busy Sunday morning than lis- ten to him displaying his elo- quence and endurance. At least, in the Anglican ritual, you can craftily flip over the page and be reassured that there are only two more paragraphs of the thing. Last, and I hesitate to say this, 1 like being an Anglican be- cause of the snob in me. Angli- cans, if pressed (up against a wall with a knife at their throats), will admit that some other faiths have certain merits. But underneath, they know that a good Anglican is a couple of jumps nearer heaven than a good R.C. or Methodist or Bap- tist or Presbyterian. In this way, they are exactly like good R.C.'s, Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians. But it's heartening to those who lack confidence. I told you they picked the wrong fellow to write that book. Bond Draw The Wingham Lions Club monthly $100.00 bond draw was held Friday night at the Lyceum Theatre. The winner was Mrs. M. S. Beaford, 159 Eglinton Ave. W., Toronto. The next draw will be made on March 26th.