The Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-03-23, Page 1Abtlanict.
ONE SECTION THIS WEgr ifteert 967 Copy
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NAT OVer Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, March 23,
Geo. Gammage is
now manager at
Elliot Lake bank
Deputation from Wingham -presents brief to
board of governors forcommunity college
nesses... therefore its need as
far As human resources are con-
cerned is fairly uniform,
While the basis for college
location presently seems to be
a population of 180,000 to 200,-
000 people ,., it is obvious that
the same rules cannot be appli-
ed to a spread-out rural area,
Should not consideration be
given to geographical area as
well as population density?
Would not the concept of
colleges by population only add
further to the urban sprawl at
the expense of orderly rural
growth?
The experience of University
extension courses would indicate
that a distance over 35 or 40
miles reduces interest in courses
almost to nil. This distance
George Gammage, who has
been the accountant in the Wing-
barn branch of the Toronto-Do-
minion Bank for the past 22
months, has been moved to the
Elliot Lake branch of the same
bank as manager.
Taking his place as account-
ant here is William Lindup of
Shelburne, a married man with
two children.. He will move in-
to the home which will be va-
cated by Mr. Gammage next
week.
While welcoming the new-
comers to Wingham, many
friends in the community sin-
cerely regret the departure of
the Gammage family, George
grew up in Wingham during the
years when his father, Clayton
Gammage was manager of the
bank in which the son served
here.
Town will extend sewer
to serve door factory
This means that the company
will not have to install all the
expensive services until each
lot is sold and the need arises.
OTHER BUSINESS
Calvin Burke also attended
council to discuss a problem re-
lating to property and land titles
on Josephine Street. He said
that property owners between
Victoria St. and Diagonal Road
could not obtain clear deeds to
their land because of legal tech-
nicalities originating many years
ago.
Mr. Burke said he war inter-
ested in building a warehouse
behind his store and would like
to have it connected to his main
building. However, the proper-
ty is divided by a town lane,
which means as things stand he
would have to build a separate
building. He suggested it would
be better to trade land at the
back of his property and move
the lane to the back of the lots
which are involved. He said
he has been assured by other
property owners in the area that
they are in agreement.
Mr. Burke then requested
that council give consideration
to having a judge's plan placed
on the area, which would pro-
vide a means of obtaining clear
title to all the property by the
owners and at the same time
have the necessary legal work
carried out to move the lane to
the rear of the properties.
Council agreed to have the
clerk investigate the idea furth-
er and to find out if money is
still available at county and
provincial levels to assist with
the cost of establishing a judge's
plan. Clerk Renwick said that
money had been set aside for
this purpose by the county in
1960, but it is not known if such
funds are still available.
Mayor DeWitt Miller, along
with Donald Kennedy and Ross
Hamilton of the Wingham Mu-
nicipal Development Board were
in Stratford on Saturday where
they appeared before the reg-
ional board of governors for the
Colleges of Applied Arts and
Technology. Representatives
of several Western Ontario mu-
nicipalities appeared before the
board the same day to present
their reasons for seeking the
establishment of one of the col-
leges in their own communities
Ross Hamilton presented the
following brief on behalf of the
town of Wingham:
We represent a group of in-
terested citizens from the town
of Wingham and the surrounding
area. We wish to make repre-
sentation to the Board of Gov-
ernors concerning the locations
of and the areas served by the
Colleges of Applied Arts &
Technology. Our approach to
this problem has been strength-
ened by the statement made by
the Minister of Education to the
legislature on March 21st 1965
concerning the establishment of
these colleges. It was stressed
many times in this statement
that the stated policy of the
government was to create
"equality of opportunity to all
sections of our population",..
and that the colleges would be
planned to meet the relevent
needs of all adults within a
community, at all socio-eco-
nomic levels, of all kinds of
interests and aptitudes, and at
all stages of educational
achievement.
old daughter of Mrs. Barbara Gibson of
Fordwich, and three-year-old Cathy, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gibson. The
dresses were part of the sewing class dis-
play at the night school open house.
—Advance-Times Photo,
A BIG HIT in the fashion show at the
"Open House" held Thursday at the Ho-
wick Central Public School was the ap-
pearance of Mrs. Harold Gibson of Ford-
wich, accompanied by her daughter, two-
year-old Eleanor; Ann Gibson, four-year-
Present service pins to
county highways employees
NO INCOMING MAIL
ON GOOD FRIDAY
There will be no wicket ser-
vice nor delivery of mail on
rural routes on Good Friday but
the lock box lobby will be open
from 5 p.m, to 7 p.m. while
mail is being prepared for des-
patch at '7 p.m. and there will
be a street letter box collection
at 5:30 p.m.
No mail will arrive from
other offices on Good Friday.
On Easter Monday full postal
service will be provided.
County Roads Committee
Chairman Delbert Geiger and
the county engineer, J. W.Brit-
nell, officiated for the presenta-
tion of long service pins to em-
ployees of that department at
the Monday session of County
council in Goderich. Nine
county highways employees
were honored during the presen-
Linda Wilson
wins class
at Seaforth
This presentation is, there-
fore, designed to point up the
needs of the community ... and
to suggest how, in our opinion,
the "Community College" could
best apply the basic principles
of Bill 153 to this area. The
area we will be discussing is
made up of major portions of
the counties of Huron, Bruce,
Grey, Perth and Wellington.
This area has a common major
industry... Agriculture...many
small industries and small busi-
Rev. Joe Baker
leaving area
On Thursday night of last
week a group of friends from
South Huron Youth for Christ in
Clinton gathered at the borne of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Collar, to
honor Rev. Joe Baker.
"Joe", as he is known, has
worked among teenagers in this
district since the fall of 1955
and his many friends regret his
leaving the area in April. His
immediate plans are with Cru-
sade Evangelism, with whom he
will travel to the west coast and
up into Alaska. He expects to
spend the summer months at
Camp Pinnacle in New York
State.
Crokinole was played during
the evening and a delicious
lunch was served. A gift of
money was presented to Mr.
Baker.
tation. Their years of service
to the county added up to 283
ye ars.
The nine employees were
called to the dais and . ^ch in
turn was presented wi. ,:s gift
by the two officials, after which
Warden Donald McKenzie con-
gratulated the men on their
long and faithful service. Later
in the day they were guests of
the County of Huron along with
members of the council, at a
luncheon at the Maitland Golf
and Country Club.
Those honored, with the
years of service are: John Snell,
Jan. 1, 1927, 40 years; William
Wright, Mar. 1,1929, 38 years;
Fred Sears, Mar. 1, 1930, 37
years; Robert McCabe, April 1,
1934, 33 years; Frank Reilly,
May 1, 1938, 29 years; Bert
Craig, Dec. 1, 1940, 26 years;
Ken Morris, May 1, 1940, 27
years.
factor alone would eliminate
all of this area from taking ad-
vantage of the formation of c*
lege in the Kitchener-Stratford-
London area. Add to this the
fact that most of this area ex-
periences an average winter
snowfall of over 100 inches ...
and you have further reduced
the distance a potential pupil
could reasonably commute.
The present necessity to go
beyond the local area to re-
ceive a more sophisticated edu-
cation beyond the secondary
school level is putting a severe
drain on the skilled labour pool
in the area. Unless this drain is
plugged by the addition of local
facilities such as the "Commun-
ity College" would offer ...
this area will only continue to
wither and die.
The fact that young people
would be able to receive tech-
nical training in a vocation,
without leaving the community
would mean drat a higher per-
centage of them would be avail-
able for local employment both
during training and after gradu-
ation and that the standard of
tradesmen available for indus-
try, business and agriculture
would be appreciably increased.
It is a fact that these richly
agricultural counties must con-
tinue to accept more responsi-
bility each year for the feeding
of Southern Ontario's rapidly in-
creasing urban population.
The technological advances
in Agriculture are just as dra-
matic as in many other busi-
nesses ... and certainly over
the next few years it will be in-
creasingly more important that
the young farmer have an easily
available college at which he
can augment his practical
knowledge of Agriculture. Ele-
vating Agriculture to the status
it deserves in relation to other
industry will do a great deal to
increase productivity as well as
interest in farming as a profes-
sion and especially if training
is available without the costs
and problems involved in leav-
ing the area.
The need for university train-
ed personnel in this area seems
to be lessening as more comp-
anies shift their head office and
sales operations to urban areas.
The trend has been established
for the expansion of production
facilities in our area thus
increasing the demand for skill-
ed people trained beyond the
secondary school level, but
without university qualifica-
tions. Industries presently in
the area are finding it impossi-
ble to obtain this type of skilled
person and are therefore
faced with the problem of un-
dertaking costly training pro-
grams for their own personnel.
All of this adds one more dis-
couragement to the expansion
of existing industry or the set-
tlement of new industry in the
area.
Up to now, we've talked
about the need for the type of
Please Turn to Page Nine
At a special meeting of coun-
cil on Thursday evening of last
week, council agreed to extend
a sewer line on Bristol Terrace
to serve the Lloyd-Truax north
plant.
Donald Lloyd and Stan Orien
attended the meeting represent-
ing the company and the coun-
cil was assisted in its delibera-
tions by consulting engineer
Burns Ross of Goderich.
The engineer estimated the
cost of extending the line and
the necessary manholes at near-
ly $5, 000. A lateral which will
be constructed by Lloyd-Truax
was estimated at $1, 500.
The discussion centred aroma
the problem of financing and
what property owners are in-
'volved. The decision to pro-
ceed with the work finally came
when the Lloyd-Truax represen-
tatives offered to contribute $1;
000 towards the cost which will
have to be carried by the town.
BERRY SUB-DIVISION
At the same meeting coun-
cil approved a request from the
Stanley-Berry Door Co. to enter
into an agreement regarding a
sub-division owned by the firm
in the north east section of the
community.
The agreement became nec-
essary when the Department of
Municipal Affairs called on the
sub-divider to complete ar-
rangements to have a plan for
the area registered. In order to
have the plan registered, the
council is required to give writ-
ten approval. In the past, be-
fore this approval was given,
council demanded that services
be installed. However, the sub-
divider requested council to ac-
cept a legal agreement to the
effect that before lots are sold
services will be guaranteed.
CORRECTION
One of the Knights of Colum-
bus pictured in last week's pa-
per was identified as Joe Nes-
bitt. This was an error and
should have read Joe Nestman,
Colleen Carson, Cheryl Lynn
win Howick speaking trials
W. J. Nevery is
secretary-areas.
of Toronto firm 5 and 6 were Danny Newton,
speaking on "Animals of Afri-
ca"; Patti Hart, whose subject
"My Home Town - Wroxeter",
won for her second place; Linda
Langendoen, who spoke on
"Canada"; and Colleen Carson,
who was the winner of the How-
ick Lions' Junior Trophy, with
her subject "Howick Township's
First Settler, John Carter".
In the senior class the con-
testants were from Grades '7 and
8, and were Linda Robinson,
who spoke on "Canada"; MI-
Dho, Kirkham & Company,
management consultants, of
Toronto, owners of the Fry &
Blackball furniture firm in Wing-
ham, has named W. J. Nevery
as secretary-treasurer of the
parent company.
Mr. Nevery is the manager
of the Fry & Blackhall business
and has resided in Wingham
since last summer. He will
continue as manager of the
Wingham plant.
Linda Wilson, the 13-year-
old Brussels girl who won a tro-
phy in the Legion-sponsored
public speaking contest in Wing-
ham a couple of weeks ago, is
still in the running. In the
Wingham competition she was
judged first place winner in the
senior elementary school class
and was awarded the McKibbon
Trophy.
On Saturday she competed in
the Legion's Zone C-1 compe-
tition at Seaforth and again
emerged at the top of her divis-
ion. The zone takes in the area
from the lake shore east to Sea-
forth and from Exeter in the
south to Kincardine in the north.
Linda will compete in the
district finals at Clinton on Ap-
ril 15th., Other winners at the
Sea forth event were; junior ele-
mentary, Karen Rigier, Sea-
forth; junior secondary, Alastair
Pirie and senior secondary, Ar-
leata Pollock, both of Goderich..
Linda Wilson also took part
in the inter-county speaking
competition at Breslau last Tues.
day, and was the second-place
winner. This competition is
sponsored by the Ontario Trust-
ees' and Ratepayers' Associa-
tion.
Winner of the Breslau event
was Connie Rutherfotd, a Grade
8 student from Guelph.
OWEN KING GETS
BRIDGE CONTRACT
The contract for constructing
the Jamestown Bridge at lot 27.1
Concession 1-2, Morris Town4.
ship was awarded to Owen King
Limited, Walkerton for the sum
of $72,973.98 by Morris Town-
ship Council in special session
on March 20.
Five tenders were received.
Centennial
calendar Accountant retires
after long service Tuesday, April 11 Centen-,
nial pageant "Canada's 'first
Lady",, Salvation Army Cita ,
del at 3 p.m. Mrs. Anna
Meyer, hostess.
Thursday. April 18 "Over 60
Rally" for senior citizens,
the Salvation Artily Citadel
at a p.m. A salute to Can-
ada featuring travelogues,
Music and slides from every
province.
NOTEt bates for centennial
events should' be reported to
John Latigridge at CKNk. to
be !deluded in this column.
FIVE GENERATIONS
This five generation picture was taken when members
of the family visited with Mts. Mabel Stapleton in hospital.
Mrs. Stapleton, great-gteat-grandmOther of Brett Michael
Carrieton sits beside her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Jamieson
of Whitechurth, great.grandmother, Standing are the
beby's grandfather, Ross Jamieson of Wingham, arid the
mother, Mrs, Brian Cameron, the former Mary Lou
Jetehiscin.
Gorrie and Alma
tie int. series
at three each
Hockey teams from Gorrie
and Alma are locked In a hard-
fought tie position following a
game in Elora on Monday night.
They are battling (Or the WOAA
intermediate b championship.
Thete was a big crowd in the
Wingham Arena on Saturday
night for the fifth game of the
series when Gorrie trimmed
their opponents 10-2. in the re-
turn match at Elora On Monday
evening the Alai& squad tetters-
ed the trend and tied things up
all over again with a final count
Of 7.8.
The deciding game in this
fed-hot series will be played in
'Wingham o#t Thurtday evening
Of this week.
chael Grainger, who also spoke
on "Canada", which won him
second place; Glenis Gibson,
speaking on the subject of
"Trees"; and Cheryl Lynn. who
captured the Howick Lions' Sen-
ior Trophy with her topic of
"Centennial Canada".
Cheryl was also the overall
winner, and as Such will have
het name engraved on the How-
ick Lions' plaque in the Howick
Central School. This plaque
was presented to her by last
year's winner Ruth Neable,
whose father, Lion Howard Nea-
ble, presented the trophies and
plaques to the contestants.
Shall plaques were given to
each contestant taking part.
The judges, Stuart Collyer,
public school principal at Luck-
now,• Elwood Hall, member of
the Lucknow High. School staff,
and Don Ross, Manager of the
Bank of Montreal hi LtIcknOw
were introduced by Linn Ken
Edgar, and the cites apprecia‘
tion was expressed to them by
Lion Stan Bride.,
WROXETER--Monday eve-
ning was Ladies' Night at the
Howick Lions' Club, when they
held their banquet in the Ford-
wich United Church schoolroom.
The evening unit of the U.C.
W. catered. Lions, their la-
dies, and guests, including pu-
pils from the Howick Central
SchOol who were taking part in
the Howick Lions' Public Speak-
ing Competition, their parents
and teachers, and others num-
bering in all about 65 attended.
President George Timm pre- .
sided and Rev. Parrot said grace.
Head table guests were introduc-
ed by the president, followed by
the club's roll call and intro-
duction of members' guests.
Bruce Robertson, principal of
Howick Central School, intro-
duced the teachers and the par-
ent of the contestants.
The toast to the Queen was
followed by the toast to the la-
dies by Lion Jim Alcorn. Mrs.
Alex. Graham responded.
A Short business period was
held during which a motion was
passed to provide glasses for
three children in the commun-
ity. The club will be responsi-
ble for conducting a bingo at
the Ontario Hospital at Getter-
id:, April 5th, A complete
sellout of tickets for the Lions'
Ball being held in the Wroxeter
Conununity Hall, March 31 was
reported.
The speaking competition
arranged by Lions Wray Cooper
and 'George Joiner, foliciwed,
and the audience was indeed
privileged to hear these students
Junior contestants from Grades
R. J. "Rube" Harrison, who
has served as accountant at the
local branch of the Canadian
Imperial bank of Commerce for
several years, retired on Wed-
nesday of this week. Mr. Hat,
tiSori has served the bank for the
past 40 years. Mr. and Mrs.
Harrison plan to Make their
home in Wingham.
succeeding Rube- as account,
ant is John Wild!) of Booklin.
Ont., who arrived in town last
week.
ALONG THE MAIN DRAG
By The Pedestrian
STAY WHERE YOU ARE--
All Wingham and district
folks who are lucky enough to
be safely and warmly ensconced
in Florida would do well to stay
right where they are for at least
another couple of weeks. The s weather here is anything but
nice — what with a heavy fall
of wet snow on Monday night
that brought forth hazardous
driving signals from the OPP,
The blinding storm last Friday
had roads tied up in several
places and spawned a flock of
nasty accidents.
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OPEN FRIDAY NIGHTS--
Shoppers should note that
stores in Wingham have return-
ed to open Friday evenings fol-
lowing their mid-winter clos-
ing. However, this week is an
exception. With the Good Fri-
day holiday stores will be open
Thursday evening, March 23rd
until 10 o'clock. After this
week it will be back to the open
Friday nights.
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BUSY PEOPLE--
There's a group of particu-
larly busy folks in East Wawan-
osh who are rounding up the
final details for a comprehen-
sive printed history of their
township. The gathering of ma-
terial for the book has been a
tremendous task and has seen
the burning of quite a few gal-
lons of midnight oil.
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WHO HIT WHOM?--
Recently the A-T received a
phone call from a mother who
took us to task for stating that a
member of her family was in
collision with a car. It was her
belief that the newspaper had
implied a fault on the part of
the injured pedestrian. At the
risk of sounding a bit silly at
times, we purposely use the
words "in collision With" be-
cause no responsibility is impli-
ed at all. The words simply
mean that two objects met. We
do So to avoid any legal impli,
cations which might be constru-
ed from a more detailed des-
cription of such an accident.
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HE'S POISON--
Barry. Fry, long--tithe fan of
the Chidago Blackhawks and
dubbed by many as "The Mut..
loon Curse:; since they are de,-
feated every time he attends a
game, Was sure the Hawks
would win Saturday night and
Made another trip to Toronto,
only to see the Hawks lose 94.
When he arrived bathe he was
greeted by a big sign on his
dear, " Welcome, Muldoon Ba‘
by". It has been suggested that
Punch 'attack would be grate4
ful if' Barry would travel with
the Leafs since they always win
When he is there.
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