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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1965-08-26, Page 9i' Kin Have Right idea The Kinsmen are to be commended for the project they have undertaken in leasing the Royal T dance hall. Particu- larly noteworthy is their recognition of the need for a wholesome form of recre- ation for the teen-agers and young people of the community. Present plans call for the operation of the hall on Friday nights for teen dances, The Kinsmen intend to ask the young. folks to form a committee which, it is hoped, will keep the club abreast of the dancers' preferences in music, hours, etc. The whole propect is commendable be- cause the majority of young people want. place to dance where there is enough supervision to prevent the intrusion of the rougher elements. For several years Teen Town, an or- ganization wholly composed of the teen- agers themselves, have been putting on the type of .dances which young people like to attend, Their efforts have gone largely unnoticed by most adults and the teen- agers have faced some rigorous difficul- ties. They have, at times, found it hard to .secure premises In which the dances could be held, and when they did get a dance organized they often had to contend with "gate crashers" of more than doubt- ful manners and sobriety. In spite of these troubles the young- sters have run very creditable dances and have provided a fine calibre of entertain- ment for themselves and their friends. The Kinsmen have accurately foreseen the growing need for adult assistance in the most important segment of our so- ciety. We do hope that they will also be able to run dances for the rest of us, who prefer something a bit more sedate—but time alone will provide the answer. Welcome to Town It is a distinct pleasure to welcome the firm of Dho, Kirkham and Co. to Wing - ham. Since it is inevitable that the man- agement of such long-established firm as Fry & Blackhall must change at some point, we are pleased that the new own- ers are the type of men who are evidently intent upon maintaining the firm in a smaller community rather than moving out to one of the cities. The best wishes of the entire com- munity are extended to Dho, Kirkham and Co. and we hope that their enterprise will prosper and expand. New Hazard on The Roads Every passing week sees an increase in the number of motor accidents, the total of deaths and personal injuries. It is even possible that car drivers are becoming a little more cautious, but the increasing number of vehicles on the roads is multi- plying the opportunities for accidents to happen. With the advent of Tight motor cycles • and small motorized bicycles the accident statistics are in the course of another sharp jump. The older -type, full-sized motorcycle was hazardous enough, but at least it travelled the highways at speeds equal to and some times faster than the prevailing • rate of traffic, The new, light machines are usually incapable of speeds of 60 miles an hour, and so the added hazard of traffic bottlenecks is taking shape. These small vehicles are hard to see in unfavorable light conditions. They are easily obscured by cars in front of or be- hind them. Already the newspapers are carrying frequent accounts of deaths and injuries to motor bike riders. if you own one of these small ma- chines bear in mind that you must be more than ordinarily cautious if you want to stay alive. If you own and drive a car you will have to train yourself to be alert for the bikes. They can crop up in the most unexpected way. A Nice Little Town? r. During the 15 years we have lived in Wingham we have heard dozens of moth- ers and fathers mention the fact that this is a good town in which to raise a family. We know of several businessmen who in- tentionally turned down better opportuni- ties in the cities so they could bring up • their children here. Now we begin to wonder whether the town is such a great place after all. •Only a few evenings ago a girl in our neighborhood arrived home at 9:30, breathless and in a state bordering on + hysteria. She had been followed all the way from town by a carload of young men who cruised along making lewd re- marks and trying to get her into their car. True, they didn't touch the girl or at- tempt any sort of violence, but they did succeed in terrifying a 14 -year-old young- • ster. Nor is this an isolated instance. It occurs all too frequently, even on the well - lighted main street. Then, too, we have one or two of those loathsome creatures—the peeping Toms, whose faces are occasionally seen leering through windows after dark, particularly when there are only girls or women in the house. Though there have been no ser- ious consequences from this sort of nuis- ance so far, the kind of person. who peeps in windows can scarcely be considered mentally reliable. How long will he con- fine his activities to mere peeping? The two sorts of public nuisance we have mentioned are not quite covered by specific laws and it would take a small army of policemen to be in all the places where troubles such as these occur. How- ever, it may well be that the time has come to quietly employ some extra duty police in plain clothes. Decent citizens should not have to put up with this inter- ference. Canada Goes Around The Bend It just could be that this beloved Can- ada of ours has slipped over the last hump and is sliding down the final grade. Old age security, pension plan, hospital insurance, medical insurance and all the other "securities" have been or soon will be provided. Every person with an ounce of brains can get a good job—and if he loses it the rest of us provide him with unemployment insurance. When that runs out he gets relief payments ... and it is no longer stylish to make any slight- • ing remarks about the recipient. If you have read your history you will find it is a familiar story. The strong and virile civilizations all gloried in their early years, when the citizens were proud 4 of their ability to fend for themselves. But their final chapter was always the same. The increasing demand that the state assume their worries and their re- sponsibilities until there was no spine left in the national body. Every increase in welfare handouts in- creases the individual's inability to fend for himself and multiplies the govern - men's opportunities to buy votes with new and greater promises of free hand- outs. The sad fact is that nothing -- but nothing -- is ever free. The price will be paid in one form or another. We wonder whether Canadians will enjoy the paying as much as the receiving. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE • TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert O. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Moalber Audit Bureau of Circulation; Member Canadian Weekly Nevrspapera Aesott+ ation; Member Canadian Community Newspapers ttepresentativea Authorized by the Post Office Department as Second Class Mail and for payment of postage in cash Subeeription Rate: One Year, $4.00; Six Months, $2.25, in advance U.S.A., $15.00 per year; Foreign rate, $5.00 per year Advertising 'tato on .application REMINISCING AUGUST 1915 Mr. Clifford Pugh, teacher of Hamilton, who is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph. Pugh in. Wingham, met with a painful accident while driving his car to Fidgetown with Mrs, F. Linklater, As the car reached Henfryn it refused to act, the steering gear in some way be, corning out of order and the driver losing control, the man chine landed in the ditch.Mrs. Linklater had her knee badly bruised and received other in- juries, while the driver, Mr. Pugh, had his heft arrn broker!. AUGUST 1929 For the Last couple of months, Mr. A.M.Crawford has had workmen making decided changes to his property at Min- nie and John Streets. Some of the main building has been re- moved, a new double garage built at the rear of the lot, a new veranda erected across the front of the house, and the whole painted, Supporting pH-, lars of the veranda are round lake shore stones set with reces sed mortar joints, pyramided from top to bottom, and are decidedly attractive. Round gate pillars at the front and side entrances of similar con- struction give the place quite an imposing appearance. From the front the drive comes under a porte-cochere, the roof of which is also supported by stone pillars of the same stone pat- tern. To remove trees and a hedge, which took years to pro- duce, requires some courage, yet in so doing Mr. Crawford has very greatly added to the beauty of his home, which now resembles a California bunga- low. AUGUST 1940 Mr. Craig Nightingale, of Listowel, has been appointed manager of Dominion Stor e here. He replaces Earl Gray, who has signed up for full time service in the 99th Battery. Mr. Andrew Ferguson who farrns just north of Belgrave, is 82 years of age, and this year operates the binder cutting his own grain. This, we believe, is quite a unique record for a man of his age. His son, Dan, operates the farm with him, but during the harvest season runs a threshing machine, which necessitates his absence, so the father pitches in and does his own harvesting. AUGUST 1951 Wally Haselgrove hit the jackpot when he caught a four and a half pound Brown Trout. The fish measured 22 inches. He isn't talking about the lo- cation of the hole, of course, but it was caught in a stream not far from town. As a reward for all around efficiency in his army cadet training, Sgt. G. A. McIntyre, of Wingham, is having the time of his life at the National Cadet Camp, at Banff, Alta. , in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. Letters to the Editor Dear Sir: The editorial in the July 15, 1965, issue of the Advance - Times concerning the practice of the Centennial Commission in mailing press releases in 94" x 15" kraft envelopes has come to my attention. The implied criticism in the editorial is quite justified and we appreci- ate very much your interest in publishing such a thoughtful editorial. We are revising our prose= Jure in this matter and in fu- ture will be mailing press re- leases in No. 9 standard enve- lopes. Although, as you indi- cate in your editorial, it is not an extraordinary saving, it is significant and a small matter like this is very important to the Centennial Commission and we appreciate being reminded of our responsibility. Yours sincerely, Peter H. Aykroyd, Director, Public Relations and information. NEW GATES COMPLETED—The Riverside Street entrance to the park. The addition Parks Board has recently completed the enhances the entry to the campsite area, erection of new stone gates at the John --Advance-Times Photo, ban' Atalanctifei-nte l�`al Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Aug. 26, 1965 SECOND SECTION SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley The Day Of No Rest There have been fantastic changes in our way of living in the last two or three decades. Schools are bigger and brighter, if not better. The teenagers have taken over popular music and public attention. Television tirelessly hurls verbal and visu- al garbage in our unresisting faces. Murder and rape walk city streets, even in daytime. Not to mention racial strife, the welfare state, frozen foods, in- stant everything, and Japanese motor scooters. It's a long, long way from t h a t simple, cut - and - dried, black -and white society in which most of today's middleagers, caught in a world revolution, were brought up. If our parents and grandpar- ents could be brought back from their eternal rest for a quick look at our world, they would probably go straight into deep shock. They might be able to cope with most of the items above, but there is one thing that would send them right around the bend: -- the change in our observance of Sunday. When I was a kid, Sunday, aside from its religious aspects, was a day of rest, literally. There was nothing else to do. For the average family, it was church in the morning, home for a big noon dinner, flake out for a nap for the adults, gloomy poking around house or back- yard for the kids, supper, and early to bed. No swimming, no fishing, not even a game of catch. Peace and quiet, however resented by the young. Only variation in this was the descent of a horde of dull rela- tives. Everyone then sat around in Sunday best, in parlor or on porch, and gassed interminably about Counsin Elwood's bad back or Aunt Arlene's asthma. I grew up thinking that Sun- day was just a day on which you couldn't do anything worth- while. My attitude toward the Sabbath was that the sooner it was over, the better. But even then, though I was too young to notice, the rot had set in. Some of the wilder ele- ments in the community began smashing the Calvinistic gloom. here and there, a fancily would not only go fot a drive on Sun- day, but smuggle swimming suits and a picnic lunch along. Before you knew it, the odd family was secretly listening to Jett( Benny on the radio, after supper. The virus spread like wildfire. By the time I achieved man- hood, the grand old traditional Sunday was crumbling rapidly. The more reckless among the young fellows began hanging around the Chinese restaurant or going for walks with girls. Some of the pure anarchists among them started playing tennis and fishing and all sorts of unspeakable things. From there, of course, it was only a step to wearing sports clothes and smoking and having a beer on Sunday. Drugstores and restaurants began staying open, to cope with this new wave of wantonness. Sunday sports got one toe in the door, then kicked it wide open. Sun- day movies moved in. The beaches set up midway rides. The transistor radio was invent- ed, along with the drive-in. And you know, too, what's happened to the peace and quiet of our old childhood Sunday. Sports cars bellow, lawnmowers snarl. Traffic whines on high- ways, children whine at beach- es. Transistors blare Beatles - beat. Power boats drum and throb. The air is sweet with the pock of golf balls ricocheting off trees, and water-skiers ricochet- ing off the heads of swimmers. Beer cans clang on asphalt. Couples wrangle on gin and ton- ic. Even the birds have to shout louder to hear each other. And all that, Dads, is why your old man went back from a rest to work on Monday, while you go back to work for a rest. DEATH SCENT Young wild animals, petted by humans, are often abandon- ed by their mothers, frightened away by the smell of man. The helpless young are left to die. COURSE ON MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT AT U OF W An evening course for peo- ple interested in municipal gov- ernment will be held this fall at the University of Waterloo, in co-operation with the Depart- ment of University Extension. Designed for the average citizen who wants to know more about the operations of a local council, it has been organized by a group of local citizens headed by Mrs. H. J. Schneider of R.R. 1, Preston. Elected and appointed officials of sever- al Waterloo County municipali- ties are on the committee. Among the speakers are Charlotte Whitton, former may- or of Ottawa, and W. H. Pal- mer, deputy minister of muni- cipal affairs. The course, one of the few to be held in Ontario, hasbeen endorsed and supported by may- ors and the warden of Waterloo County. Topics include municipal financing, schools, planning what a council can and can not do, city manager and boards of control, regional government and the role of the citizen. The course starts September 29 and will be held each Wed- nesday evening until November 1'7. Each session will last two hours and will include a ques- tion and discussion period. "There is a growing interest in local civic affairs," said Mrs. Schneider in announcing the course. "We think this course will fill a long. -felt need and help the voter learn more about how his local council, planning board or school hoard operates. "It will help people who may be considering running for pub- lic office in the coming Decem- ber elections, as well as prove useful to those who already hold office, She said the course will not deal with specific local issues but is designed to show how any council operates, how it works with the provincial government and other agencies, boards and commissions, and how local government is changing. A panel of local people will dis- cuss the citizen's role at the final session. Dates of each meeting, with speakers and their topics areas follows: Sept. 29, How it Started, W. Palmer, Deputy Minister, Department of Municipal Af- fairs, Toronto. Oct. 6, What Local Govern- ment does (doesn't), Miss Char- lotte Whitton, Ottawa, Oct. 13, Where the Money Comes From, John Pickard, De- puty Treasurer, Toronto. Oct. 20, The School Sys- tem, J. Bascom St. John, Dept. of Education, Toronto. Oct. 21, How Local Govern- ment Operates, Royden Coulter, city manager, Windsor; R. G. Given, city manager, Sarnia; R. Cooper, city clerk, Muni- cipal Offices, London; James Darrah, city clerk, Kitchener. Nov. 3, Planning, Macklin L. Hancock, President, Project Planning Associates Ltd., Tor- onto. Nov. 10, Regional or Coun- ty Government, Allan Reuter, MPP South Waterloo, Preston. Nov, 17, How Can We im- prove Local Governments, Pan- el of leading local citizens,— Moderator: James M. Main, Department of Municipal Af- fairs.