The Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-05-11, Page 9highlights, Like how our air
force bombed our troops at
Caen. Like how my squadron
,dive-hombed a German bridge
three days in a row, 60 tons of
bombs, three aircraft lost, And
never knocked a, chip of con-
crete off the thing, though we
did kill a lot of fish in the
river below,
This is known as living hie-
tory and I had to do an encore
the next day with another
grade, A pack of "old sweat"
lies, but they ate it up, It
wasn't in the book.
After school, acted as judge
in speaking contest. Wednes-
day night, final concert of ottl•
sic festival winners, Kim picked
up an armful of silver cups,
which helped ease another raw
rump from three hours on
wooden chair. Thursday night,
Library Board Meeting. Friday
afternoon, presented prizes to
winners in speaking contest.
Friday night, school band eon-
cert, with daughter playing
drums and another hard chair.
Pain in rear slightly eased by
post-concert party which pro-
duced pain in head.
Saturday, Open House at
school. English department
display in my room drew much
attention. Ketchup on floor in-
dicated last scene of Hamlet,
which we did in the fall, and
small pile of ashes on floor
indicated remains of Saint
roan, which we finished last
week. Visitors deeply im-
pressed with new realism in
teaching of English.
Saturday night, fought all
evening with wife and daugh-
ter. Latter wanted to go to
teen dance, despite fact she
had trouble staying awake be-
cause of afternoon and evening
rehearsals all week, To every
one of which I drove her and
picked her up.
Spent all day Sunday look-
ing for receipts to send with
income tax return, one week
late.
Here it is Monday and col-
umn night again. And the lawn
isn't raked. And tomorrow
night I have to play for the
Russian Billiard Championship
of the curling club, which
closed three weeks ago.
And hours to go before I
sleep. And hours to go before I
sleep. Please pass the Rumani-
an Gerovital or whatever.
SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
We Have an Obligation to Help Modern Ponce de Leon difficult to tell the whole story of its
accomplishments,
Were it possible to recount the num-
ber" of times a year that expectant single
mothers are given aid and comfort; that
confused and terrified youngsters at odds
with the law are provided with advice and
assistance, it would lee much easier to
demonstrate the validity of the Salvation
Army's claim upon our support,
The fact is that the Army has, under-
taken to love our fellow-humans for taa,
Its officers are trained to seek out those
who need compassion and understanding,
no matter what their level in our society.
The injunction to care for the fatherless,
the prisoners and the sick is the guiding
principle of Salvation Army workers. They
cannot carry out this commission without
our financial assistance. Let us be gener-
ous to this selfless group of people who
make of Christianity the practical demon-
stration of love and compassion it was
ever intended to be.
before long you will be asked }:),
canvasser at your door to give financial
assistance to the work of the Salvation
Army. The annual Red Shield campaign
provides the chief source of funds With
which the Army carries Out its widely
varied tasks,
Fortunately, in Wingham, there, is little
need to emphasize the importance of Sal-
vation Army responsibilities, for it has Oc-
cupied an honored place in this community
from the early days. Most of us are well
aware of the high quality of service to
mankind which is undertaken quietly and
efficiently by the officers of the Army in
this area,
What many of us do not know are the
details of the actual cases and the untold
number of hours which are spent in al-
leviating misery and loneliness, Because
so many of the cases in which Army per-
sonnel are involved demand privacy and
protection for those in need, it is always
Town Should Have a Clink
PRESENT FOR the evening in honor of
Harold Victor Pym, organist at St. An-
drew's Presbyterian Church since 1939,
were his family, Jack Pym of Kincardine,
and Marion, Mrs. Robert Rae, of London.
—Advance-Times Photo.
ingbant Abbancoeinte
Wingharn, SECOND SECTION Ontario, Thursday, May 11, 1967
News Items from Old Files
Did you read in the papers
recently aboout some drug, de-
veloped by a Rumanian lady
doctor, which keeps you
Young? Apparently it works
wonders, Old Konrad Adenau-
er, who packed it in not long
ago, well into his nineties, was
a regular customer.
Wish I could get my hands
on some of that stuff. In fact,
don't be surprised if you learn
that I'm Off to Rumania this
summer, It's appalling what
they expect us old guys to do
these days,
When I was 30, I knew I
couldn't keep up the pace
much longer, and looked for-
ward to life beginning at 40.
When I hit 40, I found myself
running faster than ever, still
in circles, Now I'm wondering
whether they let you out of
the rat race at 50, or whether
you just keep going until your
run all those other rats into
the ground or fall flat on your
foolish face. Dead.
Trouble is, there are always
new young rats joining the
marathon, which makes it
rough on us mature rats, even
though we've got our second
wind.
It's not the regular work
week that gets me. No, I come
from hard-working peasant,
puritan stock, and know that
you have to work hard to get
rich and/or to heaven. It's the
other week piled on top of it
that makes me come out an
60-hour loser, red-eyed, surly,
frazzled and fractious.
It's when they expect me to
be, in addition, as a bonus, a
culture vulture, a social butter-
fly, a dedicated community
worker, a fine husband and
father, 'and a general handy-
man, that I rapidly become a
dam' old grump, as my daugh-
ter succinctly puts it.
Last week was a doozer, and
not untypical. Monday,, rush
home, write column, ' then
straight off to music festival.
Sat on hard chair from 7.30 to
11.30 p.m., when daughter
played, Worth it, when she
took highest mark in the festi-
val, but had sore bum all next
day.
Tuesday, taught my own
classes and gave guest lecture.
Grade 10 is "doing" the inva-
sion of Normandy in history,
since I was the only avail•
able living relic of the battle,
was asked to tell them some
this sort is to make the life of the doctor
less arduous, When three or four doctors
are enabled to work co-operatively in the
same centre it is possible to arrange night
Work by turns rather than on a seven-
nights-a-week basis. If they wish to do so
they can share such expenses as office help,
telephone answering service and even some
of the more costly types of equipment.
Ideally such a clinic would be located close
to the hospital, so that the doctors would
waste a minimum of time between the two
buildings.
Some of our readers might logically
protest that such a building is the respon-
sibility of the doctors themselves, since
they would be the chief beneficiaries of
the plan, That is quite true, and in most
places where clinics have been established
the incoming doctors gladly pay rent for
the quarters or agree to purchase the facili-
ties over a period of time. The important
point, however, is that most doctors who
cast a speculative eye upon the town as a
possible place to set up practice, are not
in a position to invest in a building of the
sort we have described. If the building
could be erected our chances of securing
adequate medical services would be vastly
enhanced.
This is a subject which, of course, will
need a great deal of careful study and dis-
cussion, but we firmly believe that a
medical centre of some kind is an absolute
necessity if we are to have good doctors in
our community.
The current search for medical practi-
tioners to look after the needs of the town
of Wingham and its immediate rural dis-
trict has led to some very serious think-
ing about the future and what we may
expect in the way of medical services.
One fact emerges with clarity: The day
has long since passed when young gradu-
ates in the medical field are out looking
for somewhere to hang their shingle. With
the tremendous growth in population in
this province, the total number of young
men studying medicine is far from ade-
quate, and greater majority of those who
are graduating from our medical schools
are headed for various specialties. They
will practice their specialized skills in the
large cities, where they can expect high
remuneration and will not be called upon
to work seven days a week and leave
their beds several times a night at the
beck and call of the patients who make
up the clientele in a country practice.
How, then, can we expect to attract
general practitioners to a town such as
ours?
It is becoming increasingly apparent
that it would be advisable to provide a
medical clinic building. Brussels and its
district are already involved in just such a
plan, as their centennial project. Plans
for a medical clinic in Listowel were an-
nounced last week, and many other Ontario
communities are moving toward the same
objective.
The purpose of a centralized 'clinic of
Mrs. Alan MacKay; Stephen
Richard, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Langridge; Sally Lou,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Elliott.
The resignation of Mr. A.J.
H. MacDonald from the staff of
the Wingham Public School was
accepted by the Public School
Board, at a meeting on Monday
night.
The Centre „Street residence
of the late Mrs, Birtch has been
sold to Rev, W, D. Clark of
Arkona, Ontario, who intends
to make it his home, Rev.
Clark is the father-in-law of
Ross Vogan, who teaches shop-
work at Wingham District High
School.
Marianne McKibbon of
Wingham was the grand prize
winner in the recent public
school poster contest sponsored
by the public relations commit-
tee of the Wingham General
Hospital, Rev. H. L. Parker,
chairman of the committee an-
nounced Last week. The award
was $10.
Miss Doris Armitage, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs.C.B. Armi- •
tage, who has just completed
her course at Toronto Univer-
sity, is spending this week at
her home prior to going to Ni-
agara Falls on Monday to as-
sume a position with the Wel-
land Chemical Company, She
will be in the research and ana-
lytical department.
Congratulations to John L.
Campbell, son of Mr. W. J.
Campbell of Turnberry, who on
Saturday graduated as an ob-
server at the Royal Canadian
Air Force No. '7 Bombing and
Gunnery School at Paulson,
Manitoba.
MAY 1918
Mr. Milas McMillan pur-
chased the Munro property on
Centre Street.
Mr. Ed. Nash has purchased
the Canadian Express and G.N.
W. Telegraph business from Mr.
W. J. Greer, Mr. Nash will
open up for business in the store
recently vacated by Chas.
Knechtel. Mr. Greer has con-
ducted the express and tele-
graph service in connection
with his boot and shoe business
for the past few years but finds
that he must give all his atten-
tion to the latter.
Mr. C. P. Edwards has dis-
posed of his property on Minnie
St. to Mr. John Galbraith.
BY KATHERINE FEAR W.D.HS. NEWS Slightly Less Inevitable
Enigma of the
Yorkville type
MAY 1953
The following children were
baptized at St. Paul's Anglican
Church on Sunday by Rev. H.L.
Parker; Barbara Lynne, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Lois Dauphin; Brian
George, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Norman Deyell; Gary Kevin and
Brad Laurie, sons of Mr. and
Instead they continue to cry out against the
actions of their government, and their
cries will have far-reaching influence on
the politicians who will seek office in the
next election.
The greatest tragedy of war has always
been that the decisions to sacrifice human
life have lain with a very few powerful
leaders. If a nation was actually under
attack there was little room to doubt the
necessity of fighting. On the other hand,
someone always has to be the aggressor
and an outspoken electorate, demanding
peace where no war is needed, will do
much to discourage the wanton abandon-
ment of reason and logic in times of stress.
Perhaps in some future time mankind
will no longer be the victim of its own
poor or lazy choices in the field' of na-
tional leadership.
Whatever your opinion of those who
express opposition to the American war
in Viet Nam, one thing has become ap-
parent: human beings in the large mass
are making war slightly less inevitable.
For the first time in human history the av-
erage man and woman is having something
to say about whether or not his sons and
his savings are to be thrown into the jaws
of destruction.
We do not contend that the opponents
of the Viet war are right. The compli-
cations of international politics are so
involved that only those close to the un-
told secrets of powerful governments are
in a position to judge whether or not the
war is justified—and even the experts are
divided. What we do contend is that the
protests of thousands of Americans are
not being treated as high treason; the ob-
jectors are not being rushed off to prison.
Another Golden Goose Is Dead
The International Typographical Union
won a decision recently by which the New
York Daily News signed for a 20% in-
crease in wages over the next three years.
Though the Daily News is still in business
the wage increase has already had its side
effects.
Suffering from the costly results of a
140-day strike, the New York World Jour-
nal Tribune management realized that such
an increase in costs would be fatal in its
own case, and it has ceased publication,
The hundreds of employees of the Journal
Tribune will not only lose the benefits
of increased wages — they will lose the
benefits of any kind of wages at all.
So they will 'find work on other
papers? Don't bet on it. New York now
has three daily papers. Only a few years
ago it had 38.
Business problems mounting
Operating even a small simple business ness operator each week. The small busi-
tOday has become a major operation that neasman often feels that his greatest chore
is resulting in the greatest number of is collecting for the government agencies.
bankruptcies in our history.
Unfortunately there seems no end to
The battle to meet increased costs of the number of chores being imposed on
operation, to keep abreast of the constant small businesses, while the increase in
new items and the steady demands by costs and prices, too, seem endless,
governments for more reports, more ser-
vices and more collections are beyond the Great ideas come into the world as
s
scope of many of the smaller businesses, gently as doves. Perhaps if we listen at-
tentively we shall hear, amid the uproar The paper work clone in even a small
business place for the government's of empires and nations, a faint flutter o
for many hours of work from each busi-
government'sgovernment'saecount wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope.
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MAY 1932
The annual graduation of
nurses of the Training School of
Victoria Hospital, London, took
place last Friday night in Con-
vocation Hall at the University
of Western Ontario, when 48
young women took the Florence
Nightingale Pledge and receiv-
ed their diplomas. These exer-
cises were of particular interest
locally as Miss Alba Lillian
Hopper was a member of the
graduating class and received
her diploma as graduate nurse.
Dr. Dorothy Snell has been
appointed first interne at the
Wat Memorial Children's Hospi-
tal, London, for the coming
year. Dr. Snell is a daughter
of Rev, and Mrs, H. W. Snell,
formerly of Wingham.
A quiet Catholic wedding of
much interest was solemnized
in the Sacred Heart Church,
Wingham, on April 25, at 9
a.m. The bride, Delphine
Marie Fitzpatrick, R. N. ,second
daughter of Edward Fitzpatrick
and the late Mrs. Fitzpatrick,
of town, was united in mar-
riage by the Rev. Father Mc-
Hugh, of Wingham, to James
Lachlan Bell, only son of Alex-
ander Lachlan Bell and the late
Mrs. Bell, formerly of Strat-
ford.
They have left their homes,
their families, and many of
their friends to try their luck in
the "big city". They want to
prove that they can live with-
out the shelter and protection
of home, that they can "get
along" by themselves, Hamlet
showed that he was capable of
very independent and deliber-
ate action several times during
the final few scenes of the play
His boarding of the pirate ship,
whether planned by him or ac-
cidental, indicated his strength
both of body and mind and his
capability for deliberate ac-
tion. Another example of this
is his fight with Laertes at Oph-
elia's grave.
Hamlet made his identity
quite clear in the grave yard
when he shouted "This is I,
Hamlet the Danee -- using the
rough title and thus disputing
Claudius's claim to the throne
of Denmark. Here again there
is a comparison between Ham-
let and the "Yorkville types".
They, too,are trying to establish
an identity for themselves
which will distinguish them
from all other people,
Although Hamlet was just a
character in a Shakespearean
drama, his fascinating and en-
igrnatic self was accepted by
the Elizabethan Englishmen and
has been recognized for over
tutee hundred years. Perhaps,
like Hamlet, the people who
live in the Toronto suburb of
Yorkville will alto be accepted
by the society in which they
live and be recognized as peo-
ple with a purpose by all of
Canada.
MAY 1942
Miss Margaret Elomuth has
accepted a position on time of-
fice staff of CBL Toronto, as
secretary to Harry 1. Boyle,
Farm News Commentator. She
took her secretarial course at
Wingham High School.
John W, Pattison has enlisted
as a radio mechanic with the
RCAF and will report for duty
on May 29,
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The outsider's impression of
the people who "hang out" at
Yorkville is one of a group of
"crazy kids" who apparently
have nothing better to do than
to picket the American embassy
in protest of the war in Viet
Nam. This may be partly true.
Maybe some of them have noth-
ing better to do than to protest
against the war in Viet Nam.
However, many of them are
there because they know "some-
thing is rotten in the state of
Denmark" and many other
places in the world as well. The
trouble is that although they
know that something is wrong,
they do not know what to do
about it. Picketing the embas-
sies is the one way they can get
other people to realize that all
is not right. Then perhaps
someone will be able to take
action to correct this.
In a way the "Yorkvillers"
are like Hamlet. He knew
something was wrong in 1iiS
country and he wanted to do
something about it. Tile only
difference here is that Hamlet
not only knew that "the time is
out of joint", he knew exactly
what it was. He also knew
that all he had to do was to kill
Claudius and his problem would
be solved. However, he was
held back in his promise to
"Swoop to my (his) revenge" by
the fear that lie would be pun-
ished in the after-life,
Some of the Yorkvillers prob•
ably left home for Toronto be-
cause the conditions at home
were too much for them to bear,
So it was with Hamlet, He had
been away at school in Witten-
berg. Ile wanted to leave Den-
mark again and return to life at
Sdlibol; not to touch because lie
wanted to go on with his educe.,
tion, but he wanted to' leave
behind the shame and guilt that
lie felt In the Danish court after
Ii mother's "o'erhasty mar-
riage",
Many of the young people
arc said 'to be "asserting their
independence" at Yorkville,
COSTUMES OP 1867 were the order of the day in the
decorations for the graduation dante at the WIngharn
District High School last Friday, This pair of mannequins
and the centennial birthday cake Were the work of the
decorating committee. A•T Photo,
heavier the gravitational pull.
You could ask oil companies
for the location of such places
if they weren't so busy hunting
for oil. They use instruments
called gravity -meters to find
Arid record areas with minute
differences in gravity to help
them discover likely locations
of oilfields,
Mr OF tHE LAND'
Overweight? just Move
somewhere else. At some
places on the earth's surface
you weigh less than at others;
you just have to find the right
places, it all depends on the
depth and density of the rock
formations underfoot, The
closer and denser the rock, the