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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1966-03-10, Page 9-ft:Itrhtl;t9it SEVERAL TIMES in recent weeks conditions have been ideal for Mother Nature to leave the trees coated with a rime of hoar frost. This group of elms on the prairie just south of town, presented a lovely picture one morning recently. —Advance-Times Photo. btlau Zime Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, March 10, 1966 SECOND SECTION Life can be a real drag, but it has its moments. A couple of them came to me this week to convince me that it's more fun to be alive and suffering than stone cold dead in the cemetery. The other night I took three busloads of students to see a play, "Murder in the Ca- thedral," in a neighboring town, I won't even mention what a nightmare such an ex- cursion is for the man in charge of a hundred-odd live- ly teenagers. We arrived in best clothes and best manners, ready for an evening of culture. The house lights dimmed; the stark set was revealed; the chorus came on with its brooding note of doom and death. You could have heard a feather drop as a thousand youngsters sat enthralled. Suddenly a ripple of sound went through the theatre. The ripple rapidly became a wave, The chorus, in the best show tradition, bravely pressed on, its chant almost lost in the swelling titter. The ghost of the old opera house had taken over. He had assumed the form of a large bat. The noise and lights had frightened him out of his eyrie among the rafters. And he put on a display of aerobatics that stole the show. He swooped and swirled over audience and actors. He flickered through the shad- ows, in ever-descending cir- cles that had all the girls clutching their hair. He peeled off and dive-bombed the chorus, making it duck collectively and frantically floorwards. He disappeared intermit- tently, but, a horn scene-steal- er, was right on cue for his entries. Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, in- toned. "For a little time the hungry hawk will only soar and hover, circling lower ..." And there was Mr. Bat, whistling around the actor's ears. The chorus wailed, "I have heard fluting in the night-time . . have seen scaly wings slanting over." And guess who was fluting around gaily en his scaly wings, right past their noses. All in all, a diverting eve. ning in the theatre. I won't speak for the players, but the kids and the bat loved it. My second reviving experi- ence was not with a bat, but a butterfly. I think that term best describes my 14-year-old. She flits. She can't quite de- cide whether she's going to be a writer, a folk singer, a con- cert pianist or a basketball player. Last Saturday, I took her to the city, to compete in the world's biggest music festival. Competition is rough. Her teacher and her mother had both told her she hadn't a chance, "Because you haven't worked hard enough." She was pretty jittery. Teeth chattering, great ner- vous yawns, four trips to the bathroom in 20 minutes. My heart bled for her. In her first class there were 12 competitors. Guess who was last. It was for students 20 and under. They were all good. Even though I've been to a hundred festivals, and am pretty worldly, my spirits sank, for her sake. The bell clanged. She went on stage. And as I sat, turning purple while holding my breath through a Bach pre- lude and fugue, she played like a tiger. Second place we take. We tottered out of the audi- torium in a daze, leapt into a cab, rushed to meet her Mom, and hurled her words back- in her face. The kid repeated twice dur- ing the afternoon, and we ar- rived home after a 12-hour day and a 200-mile trip, stag- gering with exhaustion but flushed with triumph. Of bats and butterflies, I guess, is the essence of life, BIBLE QUOTATION HAS MODERN APPLICATION Here's a quotation from the Bible (Nahum, 11-4, about 007 13.C.) that has a very modern application, "The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings." The largest room in Carlsbad Caverns has a floor area 01' 14 acres. A4 in Error March 4, 1966. Dear Sir: On page '7 of your March 3rd issue there is a statement which is incorrect; I wish you to pub- lish a correction in your next issue. The statement is made that I "conducted service in the Moir funeral home on Sunday afternoon": this is not so -- Mr. Gallaher was buried on Monday, February 28th. Throughout my ministry I have consistently re- fused to conduct funerals on a Sunday and to date I have never done so. Since this is a firm OMSIP and OHSC Separate Plans TORONTO—Some Ontario residents mistakenly believe they will no longer require Hos- pital Insurance coverage when they enrol in the new Ontario Medical Services Insurance Plan, Health Minister Dr. Mat- thew B. Dymond said today. OMSIP is not a substitute for Hospital Insurance," said the Minister. "It is an additional service that we believe to be the next logical step in meet- ing the health needs of the peo- ple of Ontario." Dr. Dymond disclosed that the Ontario Hospital Services Commission had received some inquiries from residents of On- tario who believed they were entitled to hospitalization bene- fits under OMSIP. They in- quired about cancelling their Hospital Insurance coverage. "The two plans should not be confused with one another," said the Minister. The Ontario Hospital Servi- ces Commission makes avail- able to all residents of the pro- vince insurance covering the costs of standard hospital ward care. But it does not cover the cost of your physicians' services provided in hospitals. The Ontario Medical Servi- ces Insurance Plan which, for most persons, will come into force on July 1, makes avail- able to Ontario residents insur- ance covering the cost of prac- tically all doctors' services wherever they are provided. But it does not cover the cost of hospitalization. point of policy with me, I look for your correction of the state- ment. Thank you. Yours truly, R. M. Sweeney, Minister. 0--0--0 We are sorry if our error has created an awkward situation for Mr. Sweeney. The paragraph should have read: "Rev. R. M. Sweeney con- ducted service at the Moir fun- eral home on Monday afternoon. Interment was in Wroxeter Cemetery." -- The Editor. 0-0-0 Wingham, Ont. The Editor: In the name of progress, and for the sake of change, some very peculiar plans are some- times advanced. In this cata- gory I would place the propos- als to remove the flower pots from the main street and the plan to sacrifice the beautiful blue spruce trees from the front of the town hall. The flower pots have for many years added something unique to, our, main street and I have often heard visitors com- ment most favourably on their rich beauty in the height of summer. If the cost of looking after these does actually reach $100.00 per month, surely for the short summer season this is not too expensive. What other public money is spent on beauti- fying the main street? As for the blue spruce trees, I would hope that a profession- al opinion was sought before these trees are touched. If the trees are not considered dan- gerous, what other possible reason could be given to ',aye them removed. I think the idea af display- ing flags is fine, and I hope that this can he done without eliminating the flower pots. did notice however in the oress report, that die Busities 'osoci- ation proposed to fly five dif- ferent tsoes of flags and this led me to wonder it Starr and Stripes ceald possibly lie I can only. visualize ”eop- er flags: the CoilaJ:ar, she Ontario, the 1 ttion Jadi:aid possibly the old Red Asig!l. There is nothing Lonte s.- clear as the flying of a ""Sign flag in an obvioli,-; :ittettirt To ca; to tourist dollars and believe most Atneticans would and Co resent tins self. :sincere 1.)., Norm. 7‘..,t ie o Bats And Butterflies In the Editor's Mail It was with sincere regret that many Canadians heard that Studebaker cars will no longer be manufactured. Once fam- ous as a high quality automobile, Stude- baker has faced declining sales for several years. In December of 1963 Studebaker ceas- ed all car manufacturing operations at its main plant in South Bend, Indiana, and transferred to Hamilton, Ontario. The company says that sales have reached such a point that the losses could no longer be borne. It is regrettable that Canada's only independent car industry has failed. It is also regrettable that the automotive business must be still further restricted to the hands of the "big three"—General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, We have nothing against the cars they manufacture, nor the management of the firms them- selves, but the trend to centralized control of big business is not a particularly healthy one for the economy generally, or for the people who make their living in the auto industry. The very name of Studebaker takes people of middle and older years away back in the history of the car business. Studebaker emerged at a time when there were dozens—even hundreds of car mak- ers. Remember the Fisher, the Hupmo- Mankind is pretty slow in his develop- ment in some fields. Since the end of World War Two and the proven destruc- tiveness of the nuclear bomb, men of all nations except a very few have recognized that our differences must be settled by negotiation, no matter how long it takes nor how much patience is involved. War is simply too costly for the human race to withstand. Not so with organized labor, however. On the silliest of excuses the labor bosses order a strike and both workmen and businessmen are launched into the stag- gering costs of non-production. It's high time that the Canadian gov- ernment stopped worrying about votes and got down to the urgent business of creating an entirely new atmosphere in which to deal with labor disputes. Time after time we read about labor's "right to strike." That is an outworn phrase if ever there was one. No person, nor group of persons should have the right to take action which is so costly to the general public. If the only consequence of a strike was the loss entailed for the workmen and their employer it might be a different Last week the merchants of the town of Hanover decided that their stores will remain closed all day Monday of each week rather than on Wednesday after- noons. Surely they must have more retail trade than they want in Hanover. A five-day week for retail outlets was understandable during the war years when there was only a limited amount of mer- chandise available, but in this day and age we believe it is a very foolish move. Despite the fact that we are in the middle of our most prosperous period, merchants in the smaller communities had better recognize the fact that competition is keener than it ever was before. Trans- portation has improved. The cities have been brought much closer with better cars and roads. And city stores are prepared to stay This is the best time of the year to take your summer vacation. With a little sniff of spring in the air everybody who likes to travel at all begins to dream about where he will go in the summer. Out come the road maps; some thought may be given to the condition of the car and whether or not it would be smart to deal it this spring and so have a new one in time for the holidays. This trip planning is a grand occupa- tion. You can sit comfortably in your warm living room and dream your way through the Rockies and down to the West bile, Maxwell, Gray Dort, McLaughlin, Cord, Marmon, Pierce-Arrow? Some of those machines were beautiful. How about the Stutz Bearcat? Now there was a car! In those days car mak- ers let their imaginations wander when they were designing a new vehicle. The last thing they wanted was a car that look- ed anything like the one made by the competition. Many of them had dis- tinguishing features in their design which always identified that paritcular make even though there were frequent model changes. For example, Pierce-Arrow was distinc- tive because the headlamps were built right into the front fenders in a day when all other cars carried their head- lights as separate units on a bar which crossed in front of the radiator. Packard had a neat little crease on either side of the engine hood. In the early days it was a definite flattening out of the hood line. Later, as body designs became smoother and sleeker, the distinguishing mark became merely a suggestion of its early self, but it was still there. Present day cars are the end product of a thousand and one radical changes which have come and gone over the years. Studebaker survived a long time and it will be missed. thing, but a strike such as the current Teamsters dispute with the transport companies is costing thousands of other businesses and taxpayers untold sums of money every day. It is a strange thing that we all ac- knowledge the place of our courts in most disputes. Even when a man's life is at stake, we agree that the only fair thing to do is hear all the evidence and permit a jury of the man's peers to decide wheth- er he shall live or die. It is the same in financial disputes. Such disagreements are regularly taken to the courts of law and the disputants must abide by the de- cision of judge and/or jury. But not so with a labor argument. The labor organizations are so much beyond the rules by which the rest of us must live that they are permitted to disrupt the business of a whole province or even na- tion while their leaders put on a display of force. The day will come when strike action will be as completely outmoded as a duel with broadswords. Civilization cannot afford this savage method of settling disputes. open day and night to attract some extra business. The Monday holiday may be grand for the merchants who want to have a long week-end at the lake, but they certainly add to the complications of the housewife who has to look after the family shopping —and who, incidentally, puts the bread and butter in the merchant's mouth: After all, Monday comes right after Sun- day, and if it just so happens that there were unexpected guests on the week-end Tuesday morning could be much too late to replenish supplies. Everyone recognizes that storekeepers and their staff must have some time off, but merchants should recognize that not one of their customers is bound by any sort of contract to deal with them. Coast. Or you can mentally check your fishing gear and picture all the beautiful streams and lakes in which to wet a line. With a map on your knee you can tick off mileages, camping spots and picnic sites to your heart's content. Enjoy yourself, because by the time summer rolls around you will find your car in the middle of a distracting stream of traffic, the kids bawling at you and every camp site for 100 miles occupied before you get there. March is a wonderful time of year for your summer vacation. 4 4 4 Last of the Smaller Ones We Need Labor Courts Just Throw It Away Time for A Trip THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited. W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert 0. Wenger, Secretary-Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Authorized by the Post Office Department as Second Class Mail and for payment of postage in cash, Subscription Rate: 1 year, $5.00; 6 months, $2.75 in advance; U.S.A., $7.00 per yr.; Foreign rate, $7.00 per yr. Advertising Rates on application.