The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-07-15, Page 90
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Creative Activity
The enthusiastic response which was
in evidence last Tuesday when the Cubs
gathered at Carling Terrace for their soap
box derby provides proof of the need for
such activities, Fortunately the Cub lead-
ers are conscious of this fact and already
• plans are under way for a bigger and
better derby next year.
There is a great danger in this age
of ready-made amusements that young-
sters may lose their inventiveness, Though
it is always a bit revoking to hark back
to "the good old days" one cannot over-
look the memories of our own childhood
when we all had some wonderful times --
and very little was supplied for our en-
tertainment. Admittedly some of our
pastimes are no longer recommended,
such as rafts on the river, tree houses
and daylong expeditions to some hidden
• spot in the deep woods, preferably ad-
jacent to a shaded swimming hole.
We encountered more danger, and per-
haps suffered more accidents as a con-
sequence. At the same time we learned
to rely on our own imaginations, to
Wild our own equipment when such was
needed, and to fight our own battles.
The soap box derby takes a boy back
to the need for imagination and crea-
tiveness. The car he constructs means a
great deal more to him than the bicycle
his father bought for him as a matter of
course because all the other boys had one.
As a matter of fact, father himself
got more than a few fringe benefits from
the preparations for the derby, If he
was lucky enough to have his son ask for
some help—and if he was wise enough
to work with his son instead of doing
the whole job for him, he was thus en-
abled to enjoy a few hours which ten
years hence will be among his more pre-
cious memories,
Great Expectations
The change in ownership of the form-
er Berry Door Co., Ltd., as it is taken
over by The Stanley Works has naturally
led to some trepidation throughout the
community. However, fears of any dra-
stic reduction of operations or employ-
• ment here would appear to be entirely
unfounded. On the contrary it is to be
hoped that the firm will now reach for-
ward to even more promising fields.
Berry Door has meant a lot to this
community, not merely because it em-
ployed local people and did business
•
with local suppliers of goods and ser-
vices, but more particularly because it set
out from the beginning to be a part of the
active life of the town and district. The
company's interest in the development of
Wingham sparked a new sense of civic
pride.
Several of the executives of the Berry
firm were well known here, and we are
looking forward to making similar
pleasant acquaintanceships with the per-
sonnel of the new firm.
Come Easy .. Go Easy
When supposedly informed spokesmen
• return repeatedly to the question of larg-
er units of urban government we are all
inclined to accept their word as the final
opinion. We feel that because such men
occupy high office in the land they must,
of necessity, know what they are talking
• about.
Sometimes we wonder just what will
be achieved by all this amalgamation; is
there really such great merit in pouring
all our local interests into one giant
mixing bowl. Costs, for one thing, may
go right out of sight.
Right at the present time the Canadian
Centennial Commission is under consid-
erable criticism because of the manner in
which it is handling the funds so liberally
placed at its disposal. One evidence of
the waste arrived on our own desk last
week. If it is indicative of the general
attitude among Commission employees,
then the criticisms are justified. What
struck our gaze was a large kraft en-
velope measuring 91/2x15 inches. inside
we discovered a single sheet of lightweight
letter paper which carried a story about
a joint conference of religious leaders who
• are making plans for suitable recognition
of Canada's centennial year.
In the first place the "press release"
was not of sufficient interest to merit
space in the paper; in the second place it
was mailed to us in an envelope which,
at the wholesale level costs $13.96 per
thousand and would easily have fitted a
business size envelope at a cost of less
than $4.00. in the third place — and
enough to cap the whole episode—we
found a second such envelope, this one
addressed to a non-existent Wingham
"Gazette."
Sure, the fact that more than $9.00
per thousand was wasted on unnecessar-
ily large envelopes will seem a picayune
criticism of the centennial planners. They
will quite truthfully contend that their
attention is engaged by much larger and
more important problems.
The large envelope is just one sign
of the free -handedness with which public
funds are being poured out by many
government departments and commis-
sions. Taxes are pretty easy to collect
nowadays. it's too long since members
of parliament worried about whether the
bills were too high for the voters. Good
old-fashioned thrift is, more meaningful
today than it ever has been before.
It's high time the Centennial Commis-
sion and others of their kind re -learned
the value of the Canadian dollar—to the
fellows like ourselves who have to cough
up the financial backing for the big,
fancy projects.
Eliminate The Guesswork
Use of computers in Saskatchewan
farming operations is expected to grow
significantly in the next decade as a
• necessary part of farm management, The
Financial Post reports. Farming is no
longer "small business," either in re-
lation to capital investment or manage-
ment skills.
John Leier, a farmer in the Sedley
district, 30 miles south-east of Regina,
this spring became probably the first
private farmer in Saskatchewan to have
his entire farming operations measured
and analyzed by a computer, an NCR 390
in Calgary. He now has confidence in
the future of the computer in farming
• as it rather discomfitingly pinpoints his
mistakes and projects an analysis of his
1,160 acre grain and cattle operation.
Leier has already revamped much of
his farm financial and operational struc-
•
ture on the basis of his own computer
data. For instance, the data told Leier
he can have a solid self-sustaining unit if
he adds 160 acres of pasture, which would
mean no increase in the size of the herd
but a better -quality herd; adds 320 acres
for growing grain; and switches 100 acres
from grain to hay for fodder. Expand-
ing grain acreage by purchasing more
land would bring his high depreciation
costs into line.
All of which is rather significant since
in this instance the computer has stacked
itself up against some of the basic prob-
lems of human existence.
There was a day when it was thought
only an experienced farmer who was
wise in the ways of the weather and the
secrets of livestock and field crop cul-
ture could answer such questions about
production and farm economics. How
times have changed!
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THE SUMMER PLAYGROUND program is well under way
with three groups meeting at the Riverside Park every
day. This group was engaged in a game of football
and had a pile of fun on Monday afternoon.
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Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, July 15, 1965
SECOND SECTION
REMINISCING
JULY 1915
Miss Farrel of Teeswater,
has been appointed organist of
St. Paul's Church and will enter
upon her duties on Sunday,
July 18th.
Through the efforts of J. G.
Stewart, Real Estate Agent,
Messrs. Grey, Young and Spar -
ling have disposed of their salt
business in town to Mr. A.
Young. Mr. Young conducted a
hardware store here for some
years and is well known as an
honest and capable business
man. The cause of the selling
of the salt works is due to the
illness of Mr. Spading, owner
and manager.
Mr. Foster Ferguson, who
has been engaged as Principal
of the Wingham Business Col-
lege, has arrived in town and
will move his family here at
an early date. The College
will re -open for the Fall Term
on the last Monday in August.
Miss Gretta Kennedy, who
has been attending the National
Students Y. W.C.A. convention
at Elgin House, Muskoka, for
the last two weeks, returned
home Tuesday evening. Nearly
300 delegates were present
from different colleges and Un-
iversities in the United States
and Canada.
One of the pioneers of Wing -
ham in the person of Archibald
Fisher passed away at his home
in Paisley, on Monday, July 5.
Deceased was a brother of the
late Peter Fisher, who died at
the Post Office here about a
year ago, and was a partner
with him in the milling busi-
ness here over forty years ago.
He was in his 79th year and
was an honest and upright old
gentleman, whose word was as
. good as his note.
JULY 1929
Mr. Gus Boyle, the well-
known garageman of Walkerton
has joined the ranks of the
benedicts by taking on to him-
self a wife in the person of
Miss Edith Rush, a popular
young lady of Wingham, where
she has conducted a millinery
establishment for some years,
the marriage taking place at
the R.C. church, St. Augustine
on Monday of last week, at 9
o'clock.
The following is the list of
successful candidates for the
entrance examinations at the
different centres.
WINGHAM
Jack Beninger, John Cruick-
shank, Eva Dickson, Reta For-
syth, Herbert Fuller (h), Jean
Gamest, Dorothy Goll, Earl
Gray, George Henderson, C.
Hetherington, Fred Howson,
Helen Hunt, Elmer McLeod(h),
M, Mason, V. Mowbray, H.
Mundell, D. Nicholson, Mil-
dred Phippen, Albert Rintoul,
Harold Roth, Andrew. Scott, B.
Small, E. Small, G. Stnith, W.
B. Stephenson, D. Stewart, t.
Thompson, James Weir, G;
Wheeler, J. Wheeler.
WROXETER
L. Chamberlain, G. Dane,
V. Durst, A. Gibson, G. Harris,
L. Harris, L. Higgins, S. Hig-
gins, E. Kirton, G, MacTavish,
J. McLeod, E. Montgomery, R.
Paulin (h), M. Simmons, L.
Waller (h), G. Wright.
FORDWICH
B. Armstrong, J. Downey, J.
Ferguson, M. Gray, A. Kennedy,
P. Litt, M. Clean, M. Sander-
son, B. Witmer, .F. Wright, J.
Wright,
JULY 1940
Miss Verne Walker has been
engaged as teacher by the Pu-
blic School board at Hickson.
Her duties will commence at
the beginning of the fall term.
The principal of the school is
a Turnberry product, Don For-
tune.
Intercessory services, on be-
half of victory and world peace
and harmony, are being held
in St. Paul's Church each week
in July from Monday to Friday
from 5 to 5.20 p.m. These
services are conducted by the
religious leaders of Wingham,
and the public is invited and
urged to join these to necessary
intercessions.
As a part of their regular
training the 99th Wingham
Field Battery, under the direc-
tion of Major George Howson
and Capt. R. S. Hetherington,
held tactical exercises north of
Wingham on Sunday. This por-
tion of the training is designed
to assist the battery in their op-
erations when they go for their
summer training at Pettawawa.
On Friday Florence Harris,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy
Harris, held a party with some
of her chums and by means of
the sale of candy, raised over
$1.00 for the Red Cross. The
children of town are taking this
war business in a very practical
way.
On Thursday of last week the
ladies of the Walkerton Golf
Club held an inter -club meet
with players from Fergus, Wing -
ham and Walkerton taking part.
Attending from here were:Mrs.
H. Campbell, Mrs. J. H. Craw-
ford and Mrs. A. R. DuVal, Mrs.
DuVal won the prize for the
low gross.
JULY 1951
Harvey Bride, younger son
of Mr,Carman Bride, and a re-
cent graduate in modern lang-
uages and literature of Univer-
sity College, Toronto, will
leave for France in September;
where he will teach English in
a high school there. Attending
the graduation exercises in
Toronto were: Mr. and Mts.
Mac McIntosh of Brussels, Miss
Margaret Spence and Miss
Marion Doig, Fordwich.
Word was received by the
Public School Board last week
that the Department of Educa-
SUCAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
We're Cool Toward Heat
Year after year, we moan
about the bitter winter, or
dreary fall, or the backward
spring . . until July and Au-
gust, when we take the rare -felt
heat as a personal affront, and
whine increasingly.
Along about the first part of
July, we usually get a little
whiff of that hot weather we've
been looking forward to since
Christmas. Nothing torrid. Just
a little breath of warmth that a
native of the tropics would sneer
at. So what do we do? Do we
cast off our long -handled under-
wear and burn it in the s.reets?
Do we have a big welcome par-
ty for genial old Sol?
Not we. We totter around
complaining even more bitterly
than we did all winter. We adopt
a harassed air. If we live in the
city, we dash from one tomb-
like air-conditioned building to
another, inevitably catching a
wicked summer cold in the pro-
cess. We greet each other with
anguished groans and that old
folk -saying, "Hot nuff fer yuh?"
Some idiots try to fight fire
with firewater. With remarkable
ease they convince themselves
that a long cool one is the only
way to beat the heat. Which is
about as effective as trying to
put out a small blaze by pouring
tion has given approval to the
plans for a $90,000.00 addi-
tion to the local school build-
ing.
A medal is being donated
yearly from the estate of the
late Mrs. Sterling McPhail of
Goderich. Mrs. McPhail (nee
Marion Inglis), was a former
teacher at the Wingham Public
School. The medal is to be
known as the Marion Inglis
Medal. It was won this year by
Doreen Machan.
Arrangements have been
completed by the Wingham
Lions Club, in co-operation
with the Public School Board,
to run a bus to the Teeswater
Lions Swimming Pool each
Tuesday and Thursday after-
noons.
The presentation to Tommy
Jardin, former pitcher of the
Wingham softball team, which
was to have been held in con-
nection with a game at the
park here on Friday night, was
postponed when it was found
that the visiting team would
not be able to play in Wing-
ham that night. The presenta-
tion will be held at a later
date.
gasoline on it.
Others have an even more sil-
ly solution, Their idea of getting
away from the heat is to hit the
highway, drive for four hours in
extreme discomfort to a beach
where they lie baking with simi-
lar sweaty citizenry, before re-
tiring to sleep in a cabin like a
steam bath,
Most of the preceding re-
marks have to do with the male
population, poor devils, I must
admit that women and children
stand up to the heat better. Big
reason, of course, is their attire,
or lack of it.
Small fry have less clothing
on them in -this weather than
there is in the handkerchief
their old man totes around in his
hip pocket. Women, whose name
is vanity, are interested in ac-
quiring a tan, so expose every
possible inch and ounce to the
dazed gaze of the men. Women's
summer garments are a delight
to the eye, and the ultimate in
common sense. Maybe that's
why ladies don't sweat, but just
perspire.
Not so the men. Unless they're
on their holidays, they face the
heat with a surly lack of com-
promise that would be admira-
ble, were it not stupid. Most of
them wear the same clothes in
summer as in winter, except for
an overcoat. The odd one will
take off his jacket. A few
sneakily remove their ties, And
the wild individual will roll up
his shirt -sleeves when it hits a
hundred.
But that's about as far as
they'll go. The vast majority of
men wear wool socks, heavy
leather shoes, long trousers of
wool or flannel, and the same
shirts they wear in January.
One more thing that makes a
man miserable in the heat is the
amount of junk he has to carry
in his pantspockets. In cool
weather he can spread it around
in jacket and overcoat pockets.
But when he has only trousers
pockets in which to carry cigar -
e t t e s, lighter, handkerchief,
coins, car keys, pen, notebook,
pipe and tobacco, golf tees, sink-
ers and about 50 other essenti-
als, he looks about the shape of
an old tree, Covered with fun-
gus.
Hot weather is not for men.
They should all be given about
six weeks off in the summer,
while the scantily clad women
and kids keep things going. The
men won't be happy until they
sniff the first nip of fall in the
air, and can start grumbling
about the cold, and what it costs
to heat the place.