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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-03-30, Page 9SUGAR AND SPICE lby Bill SO ey Unification: Part Two The Age of Big Demands However, the students don't believe in halfway measures, There is a logical contention that every student graduated from a Canadian uni- versity will contribute to the progress of the nation as a whole and that the ulti- mate benefit to the economy will be such that the taxpayers who are expected to foot the bill will reap some direct rewards. On the other hand, students are being told repeatedly that those who can make it through university can expect to earn at least $40,000 more in their employable years than those who do not have advanced education. Is it so wrong, then, that uni- versity graduates are asked to pay back a small portion of the money the taxpayers have put up to provide them with this extra earning capacity? These same students should think back to the time only a few years ago when a person went to university only if he or his father had enough money to pay 100 per cent of the costs. Surely 1966 and 1967 will long be re- membered as the years of the big grab,. Everybody who has a union or a club or a federation or any sort of organization to back him is demanding that the public pony up with unprecedented wages and privileges. When these demands are made by trade unions no one is particularly surprised for unions exist with the avowed purpose of getting as much as they can for their members. It's a bit different, however, when equally forceful demands are heard from students. The Canadian Students' Union insists that government loans for educa- tion should be changed into outright grants. They contend that it's unfair for students to be forced into debt at the rate of $600 a year to pay for their education. And this in face of the fact that along with the loans the government is already paying a big portion of the cost in outright grants. A Neglected Industry THE MULTIPLE HANDICAP of a speech de- fect, combined with a hearing problem and disease weakened limbs is the burden carried by many hundreds of children to- day. The Ontario Society for Crippled Children, along with help from the local Lions Club, is vitally interested in assisting with treatment for the whole child, An- nual contributions to the Easter Seal Cam- paign make the program possible and only with our generous support can care and treatment be provided for the 16,000 crip- pled youngsters in Ontario. The objec- tive this year is $1,400,000, a larger than ever increase but among so many, a very small sacrifice for a rewarding cause. Give the local appeal every bit of financial support you can afford. AbbanciesEimeo Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, March 30, 1967 SECOND SECTION News Items from Old Files fashioned members of the press thought it odd that the Cobras paid ten per cent, of their salaries, voluntarily, into the Old Soldiers Benevolent Fund, Chairman of the Fund, Joseph J, Garibaldi, By 1987, of course, there were precious few old soldiers left, but they were well treated by the Fund, Two glasses of beer a day, free smokes, roll-your-own, and a sexy movie every Satur day night, whether you wanted it or not, Joe played it cool. He in- vited a couple of waiters from the Nanking restaurant up for a weekend bash. Everybody thought he was flirting with the Chinese. The U.S. State Department called an emergency session. The C.E.A. infiltrated Ottawa, in the guise of civil servants. Of course, nobody recognized them. Each thought they were other civil servants syping on him. Next thing he did was throw up a string of fortresses at Vancouver, Windsor, Brockville and St. Andrews-by-the-Sea. He justified the expense by point- ing out, at a secret meeting of the caucus, that the forts were- made of paper, thus giving a boost to our pulp and paper in- dustry. But the results were drastic. The Americans pulled eight divisions out of Germany and sprinkled them along the 49th parallel, about eight men to the mile. They sent an aircraft carrier up the St. Lawrence Seaway. It got stuck sideways, but the residents of Prescott, Ontario, lost their cool for a few days, with t h o se 19-inchers trained on them. The entire U.S. Air Force was yanked out of South Af- rica, from which they had been napalming the Congolese. The pilots were d e l i g h t e d to be back in spots like Os weg o, N.Y., where a beer was 35 cents instead of a buck, and besides, they wanted a whack at those Canadian Cobras, who were getting more space in Life magazine than they were. Alas, once again we have run out of space, and you must wait until next week's issue to learn how Canada was taken over by a dictator in the only bloodless revolution in history. Well, practically bloodless. Remember where we left off? Twenty years from now. A weak central government, with everybody from the housewife to the U.S. government down on it, A tough, ruthless Uniforce, popularly known as the Ca- na di an Cobras, 100,009 strong, And jut-jawed Joe Gar- ibaldi, former union leader, as Defence Minister. The Honorable Joe vaulted into the House of Commons in a rather unusual fashion. One of his opponents withdrew from the campaign, on health grounds, and set out for a world tour. The other was run down by a truck, just after addressing a meeting in which he had attacked the Honorable Joe. Both incidents occurred three days before the election. Joe won. He moved into Ottawa with several beetle-browed cohorts, A modest flat? Not on your life. He took over an entire floor of the Chateau Laurier, There he lived quietly, with nothing to distinguish him from the average MP except the constant flow of cham- pagne, call girls, and guests. He was lavish with the press, and they liked it. He was always good for a story, because he had guts, color, and good whisky, an unusual com- bination in a member of the House. But the majority of his guests were sleek-headed men who grow fat and sleep o'nights. Industrialists with a new gimmick, a r m a m e n t- makers with a new toy, politi. cians with a new angle, and all the other flies who gather around honey. The Honorable Joe was the n a t u r a l choice for Defence Minister, Slack-jawed Lester Gordon, Prime Minister, last of Canada's Rhodes scholars, felt in a vague sort of way that the Cabinet needed new blood. With in two years he had quadrupled the defence depart- ment's slice of the national pie. That made it 85 per cent. of the taxes, but nobody kicked, because, even though there hadn't been a new post office, bridge or breakwater built in sever al years, everybody was proud of the Cobra s, the world's finest fighting force. And only a few old- enough to modernize the methods by which it is made and put the maple pro- ducts industry back into the profit picture. In some larger sugar bushes the owners have invested in plastic piping which is strung from the evaporator to the outlying parts of the woods, thus eliminating much of the time-consuming work involved in gathering the sap. What would happen if someone with enough capital and initiative were to con- tract for the purchase of sap from the farmers, to be picked up in tank trucks and brought to a centrally located evapor- ating plant? Marketing methods could be improved, too. Rather than selling the syrup in one-gallon metal cans it could be bottled, attractively labelled and sold in somewhat smaller quantities to a much larger market than the one immediately available in the nearest town. The price would settle at a fairly high figure, no doubt. Something like the above operation must be carried out in Quebec and Ver- mont. We often see their maple products on the shelves of the food stores. Per- haps we are dreaming when we suggest such an industry. Most farmers who read this item will quite probably mutter some- thing about not teaching our elders. Nevertheless, we just hate to see a useful and possibly profitable industry dying out if there is any way to save it, Whitechurch News Perhaps you noticed a story in the daily press last week which told how a thriving maple syrup industry has been developed in one Ontario community. It was in- teresting to note that the evaporators are fired with gas, rather than by wood fuel in the woods. For the past 20 years the local syrup industry has been steadily declining, de- spite a high price for the product. Most farmers say that their sugar bushes no longer provide enough fuel for the annual boiling of sap. Fuel supplies in some cases have been supplemented by the use of old car and truck tires. In some instances farmers have bought up old railway ties and similar cheap timber to fire the sap pans. Most of them, however, say that de- spite the rising price of maple syrup, the total amount produced in any one season is not sufficient to merit the work involved —and we can believe them. Maple syrup is one product that has never been successfully copied in the chemical laboratories or by the giant food manufacturers. It is one of those deli- cacies where only the real thing is worth buying—and there is still a big demand for good syrup. We have been asked several times this year about sources of supply in this area. Since the product is in such demand it seems a pity that no one is enterprising S Church, Oshawa, has accepted a call to Wesley-United Church, Toronto. Last week Mr. Fred Johnson received a painful flesh wound at the base of the thumb of tee right hand. He was working on the joiner at Brown Bros. & Co. at the time of the accident. Medical attention was neces- sary to close the wound. MARCH 1942 A Real Nuisance Through the long, quiet months of the winter most of us have forgotten the sound of motorbikes. With the advent of better weather and dry road surfaces they are out again and that high-pitched, irritating whine is beginning to fill the air once more. We have nothing against young people on motorcycles. In fact we must admit to having possessed one of those machines ourselves away back when. What we do object to is the tone of their exhaust sy- stems. Somehow, most of the bikes seem to be tuned to the exact note which can waken a person out of a sound sleep or interrupt a telephone conversation. MARCH 1918 Mr. L. S. Beninger of the Wingham Creamery has a pet coon which is as playful as a kitten. Mr. Beninger has had it for about six months and the little fellow certainly could not be more contented were he liv- ing among his wild friends of the forest. Mr. E. J. Mitchell is now in charge of the drug business which he recently purchased from Mr. J. J. David. Mr. Mit- chell has over 26 years experi- ence in the drug business and will no doubt run an up-to-date drug store. The Wingham Creamery churns every morning 700 to 1,- 000 lbs. of butter. Monday, March 18th, was the heaviest day so far, when 1,728 lbs. of butter were made. Mr. Jas. G. Stewart reports the sale of two lots on Cather- ine St. owned by Mr. Chas. J. Rintoul to Mr. Harry McGee. The electric lights at Blyth are shut off at 11 o'clock every evening. MARCH 1953 At a service of baptism held in Wingham United Church on Sunday morning, Dr. W. A. Beecroft christened the follow- ing children: Dianne Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- ford Caslick; Lorna Patricia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Parkinson and James Cedril, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cedril Moffat. Part of the goodly percent- age of local talent representing Wingham in the "Spice on Ice" show last Friday and Saturday were Sandra Strong, Penny Ger- rie, Judy Lunn and Marilyn Chamney. Some of the group who appeared in "Sleighride" were Dale Thomson, Jean Froome, Jean Gurney, Ruth Hen- derson, Gale Lavigne and Mar- ion Farrier. Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Mc- Leod, of Ripley, announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Frances to Mr. Graham Llewlyn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cook, Belgrave. The wedding will take place the lat- ter part of March. Spring Vacation Wingham U.C.W. and. Chal- mers Presbyterian groups are in- vited guests. Mr. Richard Liebrock of Windsor visited on Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Dick Moore, Mr. Moore and family. Mrs. Dorothy Leshley of Hamilton visited on the week- end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ross. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Thomp- son, Dennis, Lori and Lisa were Sunday visitors with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Wright of Clifford. Mr. and Mrs. George Wal- ker, accompanied by Miss Lila Humphrey of St. Helens visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cranston of Ashfield and with his mother, Mrs. Cranston. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stock- hill, Harold, Kenneth, Shane and' Connie of South Porcupine are spending Easter week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Morrison. Word was received on Wed- nesday last week, by cable, by Mr. Thomas Wheeler that his son, Pilot Officer George Wheel- er had arrived in England. George recently spent a 14-day furlough at his home here after successful completion of his RCAF courses. He graduated as a Sgt. but while on leave here, just prior to proceeding over- seas, received word of his pro- motion to Pilot Officer. Motorists are reminded that after April 1st, they will not be able to drive their cars unless they are in possession of their gas rationing book. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Browne have received word that their son Harry, has reached England. Congratulations to Douglas Hoffman, son of Capt. R. W. Hoffman, overseas and Mrs. Hoffman of town, who was awarded the best student schol- arship for the third year class at the O.A.C., Guelph. This award is given by the O.A.C. class of 1905 to the student of the third year whom a commit- tee, composed of the President of the College and members of the 1905 class on the college staff selects as the best all round student. MARCH 1932 The storms of the past week have piled up the snow on the Blyth road. Monday night the Wingham-London Bus reached Blyth and put up for the night there as the road from Blyth to Belgrave was drifted badly. Joe Guest was a representa- tive of Wingham L.O.L. 794 at a meeting of Grand Orange Lodge of the Orange Order at London last week. Allan Patti- son was also there, representing the County Lodge. Rev. C. E. Cragg, former minister of the United Church here, and for the last four years minister of King Street United ..Ill i i...,,.iiiiiii b 1.11 i 111 iiiiii I iiiiiii illoil11.11ii iiiii ii ionli11110111.1 iiii ii I iiiii 1110 i i oo oo oo 000 N,00000 Editor's Mailbox We've just been on the best trip of the entire year—the one we always take in our living room with a pile of road maps. This is the time of year to do it. Just get out all the maps you can find. Forget all about the cost of travelling or the high price of over-night accommodations. Just open up one of those maps and take off for the wild blue yonder. You don't have to give a thought to the heavy traffic. Your shoulders won't ache from holding the steering wheel—and if you are a bit sneaky about the thing you won't have to listen to your wife's advice about how to handle the car. The Ontario Department of Highways More and more cars have seat belts, but the difficulty is to get people to fasten them every time the car is entered. How- ever, a correspondent informs the Ontario Safety' League that he always fastens his has just released a fine new map of the northern section of the province. That's a good one to start on. With it you can take a beautiful trip to the fishing country up above Lake Superior. You will find your- self away up on the Batchawana River in no time at all. Without any effort you have the canoe in the water and the big ones are hitting the lure every time you flip it over the side. Boy, this is the life! Sure, it's only dreaming, but we can guarantee you one thing. When you fi- nally do get away on your holidays four or five months from now you won't have half the fun you dreamed up while you pored over the map. seat belt twice: The first time when he is seated, and the second time after he has unbuckled and got his keys out of his pocket. Dear Sir: As chairman of the Munici- pal Development Board and a vitally interested citizen, it is encouraging to see the enthusi- asm being generated in support of the "Norwich Plan" for Wing- hurl. For any community to progress Or in actual fact sur- ViVe, positive action like this must be generated from within the community itself. The growth history of Other centres which have used this plan indicates its value to the entire community as well as to the individual businessmen con- Christmas Seal Campaign ended in February A total of $12, 627.55 was received in the 1966 Christmas Seal Campaign which ended in February, E. C. Boswell told a meeting of the Huron County TB Association at Clinton. He said postmasters in the county had received a letter expressing the "thanks" of the Association for co-operation and helpfulness during their busy season. Mrs. Anne Follis in present- ing the Education report said two films on smoking had been obtained for use in schools as well as 300 pamphlets on the Common Cold and Air Pollu- tion. Other requests for book- lets and pamphlets had been ful- filled. The secretary, Mrs. Beryl Davidson reported that 74 chest clinic x -rays had been reported since the last meeting. Mrs. Davidson added some financial assistance had been given a Sanatorium patient's family. Dr. Floris E. King, Ph. D. in Public Health, will be the guest speaker at the annual dint ner meeting to be held this year in Exeter. Dr. King is program and nursing consultant, the Can- adiari Tuberculosis Association, George A. Watt, Blyth, presid- ed. cerned. Even if the known facts of improved business sales are not considered, the improved appearance of the community Would indicate to all a positive united approach to necessary to our survival and growth, It would put us well ahead of oth. er centres of like size and would provide excellent and much needed ammunition to all of us attempting to attract new busi- ness and irichistry .to Wingham. Yours very truly, Municipal Development Board D. P. Kennedy, Chairman. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited. W, Barry Wenger, President - Robett 0. Wenger, Secretary-Treasurer Member Audit Buteau of Circulation Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Autheritied by the Post Office Department as Second Clete Mail and for payment of postage in cash. Subscription Bate: 1 year, 0.00; Moritha, 0.75 in advance; U.S.A., 0.00 per yr.; Foreign rate, $7.00 pet $,r. Advertising Rates on application, Misses Burnadette and Pat- ricia King and their father,J.C. King of Toronto spent the week- end with Mr. and Mrs, Walter Arscott and girls. On the re- turn trip Sunday evening to Tor- onto they were accompanied by Mrs. Walter Arscott, Valerie and Andrea King to spend the Easter vacation with them and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Simpson and his mother, Mrs. William Simpson of Lucknow attended the 25th wedding anniversary on Saturday of Mr. and Mrs. James Wilson of London, formerly of this village. There were around 35 guests in attendance. This community extends congratula- tions to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson on this happy occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Don Dirstein of Toronto spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russel Gaunt. Mn, Gordon Moffat of Otta- wa visited with Mr. Donald Gaunt and Mr. and Mrs. Russel Gaunt on Monday. Mr. Don Cassidy returned to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wal- ter Arscott on Friday after spending the winter with rela- tives in London and Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Scholtz, Karen, Leesa and Ken- ton of Goderich were Sunday visitors with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Schnitz. On Monday Mr. Dan Cassidy received word that his brother, Mr. Jerome Cassidy, a barber at Cargill, had died of a heart attack. This community ex- tends sincere sympathy to him in the loss of his brother. Mr. David Beecroft of Tor- onto and Miss Jane Beecroft of London are spending the Easter vacation at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Beecroft.. Mr, and Mrs. Kenneth Laid- law of London were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Le- roy Laidlaw and family. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bartman of Palmerston were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Weber and family, The U.C.W. will hold its taster Thankoffering meeting in the church on April 5 at 2.80. Rev. Mr. Roberts of Auburn will be guest speaker and show slides With a commentary on Argen., ring. Members of Bluevale and Receive members on Palm Sunday The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was observed at Wing- ham United Church on Palm Sunday with a large congrega- tion present. The minister, Rev, C. M. Jardine chose as the communion meditation, "Christ Liveth in Me" for the text in Galations 2:20. The following were received as new members on profession of faith; Bernard Beard, Timo- thy Beard, Brenda Bone, Deb- orah Gibson, Nancy Guest, Jean Irwin, Jeanette McDonald, Margaret McLaughlin, Vicki Rosenhagen and Sandra Tiffin. New members received by cer- tificate of transfer from other churches were Mr. and Mrs. Mel Cramm, Cpl. C. R. and Mrs. Croskill and Mr. Henry Wheeler. The choir under direction of Miss Iva M, Smith sang the beautiful spiritual, arranged by Burleigh, "Were You There?". During the service J. M. Kn.+ pas, R. E. Tapp, H. Frances R, Noble and M. Streich were admitted as new elders into the Session. M. Sewers who was away on vacation, was ordained as an elder oil the previous Sun, day along with Mr. Prance.