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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-05-18, Page 1Atitanct,„ NOt aver Fifteen cent's, SECTION 0 Single Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, May 1$, 1967 Educational system important • to development of Ghana Serving with U.S. Marines Brian. Douglas is wounded in South Viet Nam action Mr. arid Mrs. Vaughan Doug. las received a wire on Thursday informing them that their son, Private First Class Brian Mc- Lean Douglas of the United States Marine Corps was injur- ed on May 9. The telegram said he sus- tained missile wounds to the left leg and right thumb from rifle fire while on operations in the vicinity of Huong Hoa, Re- public of Vietnam. He was re- ceiving treatment at the Third Medical Battalion and his con- stances as does the use of con- tent. His broadcasts are used es- sentially in schools but many people listen to them in their homes. The school year in Ghana is on a schedule for three terms of 12 to 13 weeks each. Broadcast programs are prepar- ed for eight weeks in each term. For the primary schools, comparable to our elementary institutions the programs are Say and Sing", "Let's Speak English" and "Once Upon a Time", a story telling program. Pupils in secondary schools hear sessions on English literature, history, current affairs and geography and the English lan- guage. Ghana is a progressive coun- try with excellent opportuni- ties for education, which is free. There are almost 10,000 elementary schools, over 150 high schools, over 80 teachers' colleges, three universities and over a dozen technical schools. There are also a number of pri- vate institutions. dition and prognosis were un- known at that time. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas were advised that they would receive further information as soon as it was available at headquarters and that his mailing address re- mains the same. Brian went to Okinawa from California on February 21 and left Okinawa for duty in the Philippines on April 13. His parents received a letter from him early this week, written before he was wounded. Ofosu Appiah of Accra, Ghana, has spent the past few weeks in Wingham as an ob- server at CKNX. Mr. Appiah, head of schools radio broadcast ing in his country, is in Canada on a Canadian External Aid Fellowship. Until coming to Wingham three weeks ago he had been in Toronto, at the CBC and Ryer- son since the beginning of Oc- tober. When he leaves here next week he will spend a month each in Belleville, Lethbridge and Swift Current and will re- turn to Ghana in September where his arrival will be eager- ly awaited by his wife and six children, ranging in ages from two years to 20 years. Mr. Appiah is in charge of broadcasting and administra- tion of school programs with a staff of two women and four men in his department. He has visited other countries in Africa and London, England, in con- nection with his work and re- presented Ghana at a schools broadcasting conference in Ja- pan. Howick committee plans July centennial program The gathering took place at a family ,cele- bration at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stew- art Strong of Howick Township. On Wed- nesday, May 17, Mrs, Strong's actual birth- day, open house was held at the home of her son, Roy Strong, in Gorrie,—A-T Pix. FOUR GENERATIONS of the Strong family were on hand Sunday to help Mrs. Frances Strong of Gorrie, celebrate her 95th birth- day. Seen with Mrs. Strong are her son Hartwell, grandson Stewart, and great- grandson Tommy, who is six years old. Essentially an agricultural country she produces 50 per cent of the world's cocoa. Sug- ar cane and tropical fruits and vegetables are grown, mostly for home use rather than export. In the northern part of the coun- try the days are very hot with very dry cold temperatures at night. Mr. Appiah is an Anglican and a lay reader in his country. The church in Ghana has one English bishop; one assistant bishop and three regional bish- ops who are Africans. The oth- er main Christian churches are Methodist, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic. Like most Af- ricans the people of Ghana are deeply religious. Mr. Appiah sees Canada as a great country whose mosaic population has been able to live well with its differences; a country with rich resources yet intact; her agricultural areas well managed by excellent farmers; and as a country with a great future. He has found the people friendly, "but as in any other part of the world there can be good as well as bad, de- pending upon the behaviour of the stranger himself." He has enjoyed his stay in Wingham which reminds him somewhat of his hometown a short distance from Accra, on a hill overlooking the plains and in the distance can be seen the seaport at Accra, one of the finest manmade harbors in the world. Dr. Corrin's resignation accepted Dr. W. A. McKibbon named as chief of medical staff been under the direction of a committee chaired by Stuart Douglas with Mrs. Jack Ferg- uson as secretary. Convener for the variety programs is Harold Robinson of Gorrie; Harold Keil is in charge of the parade and Ken Edgar of Wroxeter is con- vener of the Saturday afternoon events. Mrs. Glenn Johnston is responsible for the planning of the Saturday afternoon lunch and the convener for the inter- faith service on Sunday after- noon is Rev. John Brush of Molesworth and Gorrie. Other conveners and committeemem- bets are Mrs. William Wright, Mrs. Mabel Edgar, Mrs. Mor- ley Johnson, Dick Carson, Nor- man Wade, Miss Minnie Mc- Elwain, Glenn Johnston, Mrs. Harvey Wright, Donald Gra- ham and Jim Robinson. Howick Township's centen- nial committee has been busy planning an interesting week- end filled with events to mark the nation's birthday year. The week-end of July 14, 15,15 has been selected for the celebra- tion. On Friday evening, July 14, there will be a variety concert in the Howick Central Schoolto open the event. Four hundred tickets will be allotted for ad- vance sale. The following day there will be a monster parade at one o'- clock to the Fordwich park, where the highlight of the-day will be the crowning of no less than two centennial queens. The contestants for the crown in the under-25 age group will appear in modern street dress, while those entered in the over- 25 class will wear centennial garb. Prizes totaling $350 will be awarded for a wide range of contests to include a tug-of- war between teams from the north and south areas of the township and races. Other con- tests will be pie eating, bubble gum, shoulder stone, suitcase, fiddling, step dancing, amateur contest, tossing the slipper, horseshoe, nail driving, liars' contest, person corning the greatest distance, oldest resi- dent on the grounds,oldest non- resident on grounds, couple mar- ried longest. At five o'clock all activities will cease for a picnic basket lunch in the park, to be follow- ed at seven by a ball game at the Howick School and another variety concert at the same place. Sunday afternoon has been set aside for a centennial ser- vice at the school. COMMITTEE Planning for the event has Some students from other African countries attend the universities. The university teaching staffs are cosmopoli- tan. The vice-chancellor of Legon, the large university near the capital city of Accra, is a native of Ghana with other members of the staff being Can- adian, English and African. Gold, diamond and bauxite are Ghana's export minerals. He has held his present po- sition since 1960, Prior to that time he had been a school teacher and eventually a school principal with experience rang- ing from junior schools through to teachers' college. In Mr. Appiah's travels he has found that the basics of broadcasting are the same. Con- tent varies according to circum- Committee to review school board's responsibility area Missing girl is returned to home ties for the comfort of patients. She also announced that the spring rummage sale will be held on May 27th. Please Turn to Page Eight WAN. ALONG THE MAIN DRAG By The Pedestrian Lucknow, reported on the trip to Expo made by students from the Lucknow school. He said it had been most successful, the students were extremely well- behaved and not one broke cur- few. The trip was very bene- ficial and quite inexpensive. Expo itself, he said, is fantas- tic with the Great Britain, USSR and USA pavilions of excep- tional interest. He mentioned several other items of interest for anyone going to Expo and said a map produced by an oil company at the Expo site is most useful. ' Sharon Kathleen Payne, 13- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Payne of R. R. 5 Wingham, was found safe and unharmed early Tuesday morn- ing following an absence of 24 hours from her home. Sharon, a student at the East Wawanosh Central School at Belgrave disappeared after leav- ing for school on Monday morn- ing. She did not attend school on Monday. Police said she was noticed by residents of the village of Atwood and reported to police in Listowel. The girl said she had walked from her home to Atwood, a distance of approx- imately 22 miles. A problem in regard to the school's accident insurance was discussed and left with the fi- nance and insurance committee, Mr. Craig reported on a con- vention lie had attended with Mr. Lee which dealt with cafe- teria affairs. that outside work is now in pro- gress. Topsoil was moved onto the grounds preparatory to spreading and seeding for new lawns. The town workmen have laid a new sidewalk along- Carling Terrace in front of the hospital building and have made sure that it is high enough to prevent flooding by water running off the pavement on the roadway. Two flagpoles are on the grounds and ready for erection. Mr. Walker said that there has been a continuing problem with low voltage, re- sulting in costly spoilage of x- ray plates. The Public Utili- ties has been working on the problem, which appears to spring from a general uneven voltage in the area. It is ex- pected that the problem will be overcome when Ontario Hydro completes construction work on new lines. MEDICAL STAFF Dr. Corrin reported on the meeting of the medical staff with the doctor from the ac- creditation association who car- ried out the survey on Thursday. He said that special emphasis was placed on the importance of fully investigating the quali- fications and background of any new doctors before they are granted working privileges in the hospital. It is the responsi- bility of the board to make sure that all doctors on the medical staff are competent and skilled in their profession. Mrs. English said that the Ladies' Auxiliary will sponsor the "candy stripers", a group of high school girls who will un- dertake voluntary hospital du. The resignation of Dr. B.N. Corrin as chief of staff of the Wingham and District Hospital was accepted with regret by the board of directors at their meet- ing on Friday evening. The medical staff's recommenda- tion that Dr. W. A. McKibbon succeed Dr. Corrin was accept- ed and passed. R. B. Cousins, chairman, presided for the meeting. Mr. Cousins reported that work is progressing faster than anticipated on the rebuilding of the older of the two elevators in the building and as a conse- quence it appeared possible that the official opening could be held in June. It had previously been decided to delay the cere- mony until September when it was doubtful that the elevator work would be done in time. The chairman will contact a speaker for possible dates the last week in June. ACCREDITATION SURVEY A letter was read from the Ontario Hospital Association pointing out the many merits of smaller hospitals reaching-ac- credited status. Mr. Cousins reported that on Thursday of last week a survey had been carried out in the Wingham and District Hospital, leading to- ward accreditation status. Mrs. Morrey, the hospital's administrator, reported that births were up considerably in the month of April, with a to- tal of 21. There was a daily average of 90 patients for the month. A list of invoices paid was read by Roy Hunter, chairman of the finance committee. Bar- ry Wenger, chairman of the management committee read a list of head nurses in the hospi- tal, their qualifications and length of service. E. E. Walker, chairman of the property committee, said that information had been re- -eeivecl-ort-portable classrooms. A firm at Floradale offered the best deal at $200.00 per month including installation on the site. The board agreed to rent two of the rooms from the firm. They will be used as temporary facilities until the new addi- tion is completed. The principal also said two grade 11 geography classes had been on a field trip in the Col- lingwood area, and while the weather was poor, the trip had been most useful. Mr. Madill stated the school had placed third in the 11-school field meet at Mitchell, the boys teams and the cheerleaders be- ing first in their events. Grade 8 orientation nights were tentatively set for May 24 and May 31. Mr. Mason, principal at As the result of a motion by trustee. Dr. W. A. McKibbon — at the monthly meeting of the Huron-Bruce Distric: High School Board last Thursday, a special committee under the chairmanship of Leslie Fortune was established. The commit- tee was empowered to look in- to the general situation of the board and the operation of the school, and reporr back to the board by the end of the year. Before making the motion Dr. McKibbon said he felt the growth of the school and its am algarnation with the Luck- now area warranted a review of the workings of the board. Ile said some of the things he felt needed looking into were ad- ministration, the problems fac- ed by the custodians with the new building program, school buses, the amount of time the principal is forced to spend on administration, purchasing pro- cedures and the board itself. He went on to say that his sug- gestions were not being made in a critical way but were de- signed to save what may de- velop into future problems. Chairman Ross MacRae re- ported on a meeting held with Department of Education of- ficials regarding the contract for the new addition. He said several grant prob ems had been settled satisfactori.V. Miss Y. McPher.on reported that the Ontario Municipal Board is holding up final ap- proval of the building program until all information it in from the member municipalities. She also read a by-law allow- ing for $1, 000, 000 in borrow- ings for the building program. A letter of resignation from G. L. Scott, a member of the staff who has taken a position at Amherstburg, was accepted. Principal F. E. Madill of the Wingham school reported Achievement Day held in Wingham No serious damage in farm home fire ENTERTAIN LADIES Eighty-four Kinsmen and guests attended the Wingham club's annual Ladies' Night held Saturday at the Blue Barn in Lis- towel. Dancing was to the mu- sic of Bill Templeman and his orchestra. A brief business meeting was held during the evening. Sharon Carroll of Clinton. home economist fox Huron County was in charge of 4-H Achievement Day at the high school here on Saturday for the project "A World of Food in Canada". Demonstrations, skits and exhibits were part of the pro- gram in which ten clubs took part. Mrs. Gordon McPherson, R. R. 5 Lucknow, received a leaders' certificate for 15 years of service. Provincial honors went to Ruth Mathers, R.R. 2 Bluevale and Rina Jouwsma, R. R. 2 Wingham. County honors were awarded to Sandra Procter, R. R. 5 Brus- sels; Helen Courtney, R. R. 2 Lucknow; Lexie McWhinney, R.R. 1 Port Albert; Mrs. Den- na Bauer, Brussels; Doris fain- foul, R.R. 2 Lucknow; Loree Campbell, R. R. 1 Lucknow and Dorothy Taylor, R. R. 2 Luck- now. TOPS AT CLINTON-- Bill Hotchkiss, local ace bowler, has gone farther afield and picked up honors at CEB Clinton's ten game marathon. Bill won a watch for his high pinfall. Another Wingham bowler, Ken Saxton, won a fish- ing pole for leading the tourna- ment in one game. 0-0-0 HOSTILE HOUSEWIVES-- Most of the housewives in town have experienced tinted laundry as a result of rusty wa- ter in the past. Sometimes it's not too tragic -- the kids un- derwear or play clothes. But when it comes to your best ta- ble linen or a daughter's trous- seau linen prior to the big day in her life it's no joke. Ad- mittedly, warnings are announc- ed on radio but not everyone hears them. It has been sug- gested that perhaps household- ers could receive slips in the mail prior to hydrant flushings -- which seems like a sensible idea. 0-4-0 CLEAN-UP CONTINUES-- The sandblasters who clean- ed the face of the Meyer Block and the doctors' office building on Josephine Street were back in town last week working on the brick structure which houses Hayes Family Clothing. Ac- cording to Jack, who is chair- man of the main street restora- tion committee, the firm has several other jobs to complete in town. 0--0--0 ON THE SICK LIST-- Monty Bennett has been miss- ed from the main drag for sev- eral days and we have learned that lie was taken to hospital Monday night with pneumonia, following a bout with bronchitis and asthma, better not lie around too long, Monty. 0--0--0 EVEN AT EXPO-- We have been hearing a lot about the large crowds at Expo and it would seem reasonable that you could wander around for days without seeing anyone you know, so it was rather a surprise for Bud Cruickshank to meet the Cal Burke and Ace Bateson families when he was down last week. Correction Our apologies to east Wa- wanosh Council, and Alex Mc. Burney, acting clerk, in partic. ular for a glaring error in the headlines of last week's council report which stated Mrs, W. Thompson would be interview- ed for "clerk-treasurer position", It should have read clerk-tax collector, The story itself stat- ed "applications for clerk-tax collector were received" but we did make an error in the head- ing, The Lucknow fire brigade was called to the farm home of Jack Morrison, about two miles north of Whitechurch on Tues- day afternoon of last week when fire broke out in the stove pipes. A neighbour, Charlie Tiffin and his wife were returning home from town when they noticed the flames and gave the alarm. The fire, extinguished by Mr, Morrison by throwing salt on it, was out on the ar- rival of firemen. " According to Mr. Morrison there was no serious damage. of R.: R. 1 Port Albert; Dorothy Taylor of R. R. 2 Lucknow; seated: Lorie Campbell of R. R. 1 Lucknow; Helen Courtney of R. R. Lucknow, end Sandra Porter of R. R. 5 Brussels. —A-T Photo. COUNTY HONOR pins and certificates were awarded to seven young ladies at last Saturday's 4-H Achievement Day, who have completed six projects. Standing are Doris Rintoul of R. R. 2 Lucknow; Mrs, Donna Bauer of Brussels; Lexie McWhiriney GRADUATES Miss Linda Coultes, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Coultes of Beigrave, who has been attending Waterloo Lutli. eras University for the past three years has successfully passed the examinations and will graduate next Monday with her Bachelor Of Arts degree. She; will attend Althonse Col- lege of Education in London next year. No mail , on Monday There will be no wicket ser- vice nor deltivery of mail on rural routes on Monday. the Victoria Day holiday. Stamps May be purchased at the stamp Vending machine. The lock box lobby will be open from 5 to 7 p.m, while mail is being prepared for the seven o'clock despatch and a collection will be made from street letter boxes at 5,30 psis, No mail will arrive from other offices on the holiday.