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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-03-09, Page 4-1 - Pa Wingham Advance-Ti rsclay, arch 9, Action Pays Off (YOUR EASTER BONNET'S TERRIFIC, SUE . SO IS THE GIFT YOU BOUGHT / FOR ME AT DRUG FACTS VA CE'Sa&4447Stote PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST ASA TABS, 500s 99c BRECK SHAMPOO, 6-oz, with BRECK SET, 4-oz,, $1.60 value for $1.00—Now 88c COLGATE DENTAL CREAM, giant, "1/3 more" regular 69c 59c DRISTAN TABLETS, 24s, reg. $1.25 99c ENO FRUIT SALT, reg. $1,29 $1.09 ITALIAN BALM, 4 -oz., reg. 69c 63c PHILLIPS' MILK OF MAGNESIA, 12-oz. regular 89c 79c VANCE'S DRUG STORE, I'M GLAD.— ANDc\ I LOVE THE GIFT YOU BOUGHT THERE FOR ME! IT'S A HAPPY EASTER, DARLING! nee ce911 CP) c in 91 ((kp arid cJ DIAL 357.2170 Emergency: 357.2992 SPECIAL UNITED Lenten Service Under the auspices of the WINGHAM MINISTERIAL to be held in the WINGHAM UNITED CHURCH Wednesday, March 22 at 8:00 p.m. Guest. Speaker: REV, W. CLARE MacDONALD, St. Luke's United Church, Toronto. ,,, ii4,iii,.11$ ,,,, Eli ,,,,,,,,, ii.1141111114111..iliiiii$I11110.11 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Just the other night we had a talk at our Honor Banquet which left me rather perplexed. It was an interesting, at times exciting, address by one of our Captains of Industry. No less than the President of one of our biggest producers of processed foods. A big cheese, one might say, in the vernacu- lar. American owned, needless to say. Perhaps I should explain what the Honor Banquet is. It's an occasion when the students who have obtained 75 per cent. or more the preCious year are honored, along with their par- ents. Again, needless to say, it is dull. There's, nothing much to sayk except :. that tljese. kids :are ,fn the top 25 per cent., which even they can figure out. And, the "banquet” runs more to potato salad, a bottle of milk at each place, and cold cuts, than it does to Falernian wine, Lobster Thermidor and Baked Alaska. But it's a gesture, anyway. The athletes get a banquet, with cups, trophies. letters and heartiness. The kids in drama and music get applause when they perform. Least we can do is honor the bright and indus- trious Trouble is, they don't get a chance to show, at the banquet, how bright and industrious they are. Instead, they get a Guest Speaker. This would be enough to keep me from mak- ing the Honor Roll. And appar- News Items from Old Files ently my daughter feels the same, as she didn't make it this year. Second problem is, the Guest Speaker feels he must inspire the kids. It's a tough audience. A hundred-odd kids, their proud parents, and about 100 teachers and spouses. I know whereof I speak. I was Guest Speaker a couple of years ago. What kind of a talk do you give? Well, this chap, with the best intentions in the world, scared the wits out of the kids. If I'd been on the Honor Roll, 17, in Grade 12, I'd have walked right out of there and started swill- ing booze or gobbling sugar cubes loaded-with LSD. This fellow was an honest, hard-hitting, 105 per cent. capi- talist, and I admired him for it. don't like pussy-footers. But his talk was obviously aimed at a sales convention, with some concessions to the kids. First, he painted a horror picture of the world they would take over: population explo- sion; starvation: it's all yours kids. A few commercials here, about the food company. Then he outlined a frighten. ing a pair of alternatives: pro- duce or you're out. And he ex- plained, with a certain amount of pride, how ruthless an exec- utive like himself has to be, when someone is not up to scratch. (I'm probably being unfair, He is noted as a tough, but fair man). He talked about hitting with a sledgehammer, rather than a feather. He talked about choos- ing goals and pursuing them fiercely. He said that if you got up Monday morning, and hated the thought of going to work, you should switch into some- thing else. He talked about money: giv• ing statistics for annual earn- ings depending on education, from elementary to college de- gree. Teachers perked up a bit here, when he said $11,000 for a university degree, and they av- erage about $7,000. The point is that everything he said was eminently sensible. If you happened to be a sales- man bucking for sales manager or vice-president. But his talk troubled me. Change the terms slightly, and what do you •have? It was against everything I believe, and try to teach. (And don't be surprised if you hear I've been fired!) I don't believe, for example, in efficiency, and having a clean desk, except in a general way, That is, doing your job. I would find it extremely dif- ficult to say: "Baxter, your sales are slipping. You're fired." There's nothing in this world that I hate doing more than going to work Monday morning. The only goal I have ever pur- sued fiercely is my wife, when I fell for her. And she's been pursuing me fiercely' ever since. There's room for people like us, friend. Today I received the supreme accolade. Another teacher who uses my room told me the girls of 10L (and they are no Einsteins) said: "Mr. Smiley looks nice. But he sure has an untidy desk," I rest con- tent. MARCH 1919 Miss Jean Van Norman and Miss Bertha Blackhall graduated from the Central Business Col- lege at the end of February and took a creditable grading in all subjects considering the fact that they were only five and a half months in attendance and wrote respectively 48 and 56 net words per minute on the type- writer in accordance with the International Rules, Two of Wingham's popular young people were united in marriage at Toronto recently, when Miss Rachael Rintoul, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Ab. Rintoul became the bride of Aviator Harold Ross, only son of Mr, and Mrs. A. J. Ross, MARCH 1932 Mr. nos, Field has sold his fine brick residence on Patrick Street to Mr. I. W. ilushfield. Four years from now, a little boy who was born in Wingham, on Monday, February 29th, to Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Weliwood, will be able to hold his first birthday party. Not for four years will he have any real claim to birthday presents. Belrnore was the scene of a serious fire on Monday morning when the store and residence of Mr, George 'Herd was complete ly destroyed, With this issue, The Ad- vance-Times is published under new ownership and partially new management, The new owners ate no strangers to the majority of our readers. Mr. W, W, Armstrong, son-in-law of the former proprietor, the late W. Logan Craig, has been a resi- dent of the town since last Aug- ust, and is not entirely new to newspaper work, his father be- ing a former publisher of the Peterboro Review. Mr. W. B. McCool, a Wingham boy, com- menced his newspaper work in this office 19 years ago, the pa- per at that time being publish- ed by Mr. George Spotton, and during the two years' illness of the late proprietor, had com- plete charge of the office. MARCH 1942 The graduation exercises at Jarvis bombing and gunnery school on Saturday afternoon were of special interest to Wingham as J. Leslie Adair re- ceived his wings, also the rank of sergeant. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Adair were pres- ent at the graduation and Leslie returned home with them to spend a fourteen day furlough, The Wingham Red Cross is again indebted to the Laidlaw Fur Farm for the gift of a silver fox upon which tickets will be sold. Last year, Mr. and Mrs. Laidlaw gave a fox scarf, but this year they are donating a dressed skin of silver fox, to, gether with $5.00 cash towards the making of it into a cape, scarf or collar, A wedding of interest in this community was solemnized at the United Church parsonage at Caledon, when Miss Connie Thompson, daughter of Mr.and Mrs, Stephen TboinpsOn of Calk edori, became the bride of Mr, Stanley Arthur Moore, thitd son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Moore of Kinloss. MARCH 1953 One of the hits Of the Wing- ham District High School con- cert was the Bathing Belles of the Gay Nineties. The girls were Joan Loughlean, Sandra Smith, Frances Merkley, Pat- sy Carmichael, Betty Newman, Mary Hotchkiss, Sally Slosser and Lois Walker. Mr. Lawrence E. Hiseler announces the engagement of his daughter, Joan Christine, to William Thomas Armstrong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Arm- strong of West Wawanosh. The marriage will take place the middle of March. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Fraser of the 3rd line of Morris enter- tained in honor of Mrs. Fraser's father's birthday on Wednesday, February 18. Robert Shaw, 90, was born on the 2nd line of Morris on the farm where his nephew, Alex Shaw now resides Mr. Shaw's entire life has been spent in this locality. Seventeen hunters turned out for a rabbit drive last Wednes- day which netted the party six rabbits. Local men on the drive were; Jack Lewis, Frank Caskanette, Terry Nethery, Jim Henderson, Tenant Henderson, Bert Riley and Art Furness, A husband and wife had an argument, but the wife finally agreed that she'd meet him half way: She would admit she was right if he would admit he was wrong. THE 32 VOICE chorale of the London Col- lege of Bible and Missions will present a ministry of sacred song at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church on Friday, March 10,, at 8:00 p.m. Director W. Larry Dicker- son is a graduate of Bob Jones University, The chorale's sixteen-number repertoire in- cludes "Jesus Shall Reign Where'ere the Sun," E. Thiman; "When I Survey the Won- drous Cross," arr. R. Ringwald; "0 Sacred Head Now Wounded," F. Christiansen, Lon- don College of Bible and Missions, London, is an interdenominational Bible College offering degrees in Theology, Missions, Christian Education and Music. Charles Congram of Wingham, Norman and Merv. McKinney of Teeswater, are students at the college. "(11111 0000000000000000000 111111111Y,11 tttttt $1 00000000000000 111111 00000000 $1 $1 $ 0000000000000 1111,1(111 111 11 1 .1 1 1„,1 ..1,,.,.,.1 ....,1 ,11 .,,,1 ,1111.1 ,1 1,.1.1111111111 111111111(11111111111114 11111111111 11111111 11 SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley I rest content If you lost your keys would it be worth 1,10. cents to have them safely returned to you? The way to protect your keys is to attach a little War AmpsKey Tag to them, Then if they should get lost, 'chances are the War Amps Key Tag Service will find them, and return them safely to you., 11111.1.1111111.1.111.11.1.011111, PLAN NOW to attend the East Wawanosh CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AUGUST 5.6-7 BELTONE HEARING AID SERVICE CENTRE FRIDAY, MARCH 10 1:00 P.M. TO 3:00 P.M. VANCE'S DRUG STORE WINGHAM PHONE FOR FREE HOME APPOINTMENT Service to all Makes of Hearing Aids E. R. BEDE HEARING AID SERVICE 88 QUEEN STREET SOUTH KITCHENER fit. 1= atil5 eburcb (ANGLICAN) Min (Oa in REV. H. W. HAMILTON, Din, Th., Rector, Organist: MRS. GORDON DAVIDSON. PASSION SUNDAY — MARCH 12 9:30 a.m.morning prayeCr haunrdchsSeermheoonl 11:00 a.m. MIDWEEK SERVICE — MARCH 15 Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. ,,,,, ...._—_Lenten Service ANNOUNCEMENTS Tues., Mar. 14, 7:30 p.m.—Church School Executive, Parish Hall. Wed., Mar. 15, 8:15 p.m.—Board of Management, Parish Hall, ,, 171,,11,, ii Yli111 Y11 Y.1Yilf Ili Y'Y.fYilYlllll,t. Too Much Must It is time for officials of the govern- ment, says The Leamington Post and News, to be less demanding and more polite to- ward the customers. The customers in this case are the peo- ple who have to pay personal income taxes, or who have to remit regularly sums of money for other people, There it too much of the demand and not enough of the request in all their communications concerning the payment of money to the Receiver General of Canada. Even the phrase "you are required" would sound better than the word "must." After all, payments made to Ottawa are made to servants of the people, not masters. If everyone in Canada refused to pay taxes, it could be that the Receiver General and all persons under him would have to seek their sustenance by holding a tin cup at the business corners of Canada, .4i1D1101..1.1fOtil.1110. iittiii vultims.t tit t oo1Y111H Ivo' itio i e Iin OHO i I itIAA141 .0100 • oliAliiiliAMma oil ffilsolii.A01,irtig”ii1thitAlitteitroWilit THE WINGHAM AbVANCE TIMES Ptiblished at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Eros. Limited. W. Batry Wenger, President - Robert 0, Wenger, Secretary-treasurer Member Audit tureau of Circulation Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Authorized by the Post Office Departtrierit as Second Clasa Mail arid for payment of postage in dash. Subscription' Rate: yeat, UM': 0 months, S2.15 in advance; 15.S.A.. $t.00 per yr.:: Vordigri rate, $7,00 per yr. Advertising Hates on application. As we have mentioned previously in this column, one of the most worthwhile Centennial projects of which we have heard so far is the Brussels-Morris-Grey Medical-Dental Centre plan, Expressing the needs of several villages and townships, this project exemplifies the merit of translating wishful thinking into positive action. Last year, when the first public meet- ing was held and the ambitious project to build a modern medical-dental centre was outlined, we heard a lot of pessimistic comment about the folly of the scheme. According to the sages the project was foredoomed to failure, A great deal of money would be spent, they warned, for no useful purpose. They thought the vil- The Advance-Times would like to ex- tend congratulations to the young lady who won the A-T trophy for public speaking in the Legion-sponsored contest on Saturday, as well as to all the other winners not only in that competition but in the several held recently. The number of public speaking con- tests has increased by leaps and bounds during the past five years, to the point that we sometimes fear the young contestants are liable to become bored with the whole idea. It is certainly to be hoped that interest does survive at its present high level for the ability to express oneself logically and lucidly on the platform is a tremendously valuable capability. We have all seen grown men, able and alert in their own professions or busi- nesses, who became confused and tongue- tied when asked for a few simple words Parents of the younger boys in the community owe a word of appreciation to Ken Foxton and Brian Cameron for their willingness to fill the opening in Boy Scout leadership here. For the past few months there seemed to be many indica- tions,-that Scouting was in danger of fall- ing by the wayside.for dack of leadership. The young men who have offered their services, along with the other Cub and Venture leaders, are responsible for a An article by C. J. Harris which we read recently, points up an important facet of economic life in this country, and one which touches every person in the land. The article reads: A small printer in an Ontario city was commenting the other day about the rising cost of his product because of the taxes he has to collect from his customers. Most of the regular buy- ers who have called to complain about higher prices for a repeat order are sur- prised when he points out how much sales taxes increase the bill, even though the calculation is plainly stated on the invoice. When he tacks on the federal and provin- cial sales taxes, plus the tax on the tax, the bill goes up by 17.6 percent. The same point was brought up in the brief of the Winnipeg Chamber of Com- merce to the touring Senate-Commons sele- committee on consumer prices. It was a recommendation of the Winnipeg body that Canadians should be told how much they are paying in direct and indirect taxes, and that there should be a study in depth to determine how much is syph- oned off by tax gatherers on the route from producer to consumer. "For each dollar that a company pays out to its shareholders or retains for future lage was too email to attract any doctors or dentists. Events have proven that the crepe-hang- ers were wrong. At this present stage, be- fore construction has even been started on the new building, letters of inquiry have been received from several doctors whose interest has been aroused by the progres- sive spirit of the community. The dental association has indicated its willingness to designate the town as a bursary point, thereby assuring the community of the services of a young graduate dentist. Remember that old tale in the public school reader, moral of which was that Providence helps those who help them- selves? Apparently there is a good deal of truth in that admonition, before an audience, These youngsters who compete in the speaking contests are never likely to face such an embarrassing mo- ment, for they gain assurance and com- posure early in life. As our civilization moves onward into ever-broadening fields of knowledge and enterprise, one of our greatest needs is the ability for concise communication with one another. The days are just about gone when any man can live on his own little island and not worry about getting his thoughts across to his fellows. The English language is one of the most useful tongues ever spoken by man. That is not merely an opinion. English is reaching a point of common usage all over Europe and in many countries of the Far East. It behooves us, then, to develop its usage by our own children to the finest possible degree. program which has far-reaching values, not only to the boys under their guiding hands, but to every person in the com- munity. If you have watched the progress of Scouting in Wingham over the past ten years you will realize that the Movement has been responsible for turning out some very fine young men. The erainingethey, received in Scouting has had an effect on their characters which makes nearly every one of these young people a credit to their leaders, their parents and their town. development," the brief stated, "it pays out $1.04 to the government in corporation tax. This happens at each step along the way, processor, manufacturer, whole- saler, retailer, so that on any given ar- ticle the government's share of any profit is several times that of any company. This is for one tax alone and there are many at each level of government and at each step along the way from producer to consumer of which the consumer is only vaguely aware, if, indeed, he is aware at all." One recent speaker has said: "Reading the committee's interim report makes it clear that what may have appeared to be a beautifully simple solution (blaming rising food prices on advertising and pack- aging costs) did not stand up to scrutiny. The nature of rising prices, for instance. Even before the latest increase in federal sales tax the Economic Council of Canada stated that indirect taxes 'may have con- ceivably accounted for somewhere in the vicinity of a quarter of the over-all increase • in prices in Canada over the past few years.' "This remarkable conclusion has been received in silence. If it has been received at all." Congratulations to the Winners Welcome to the New Leaders Received in Silence