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G. STUART ROBERTS, right, director of the
education Division of the Ontario Hospital
Association, was guest speaker at the
graduation exercises of the Wingham and
District Hospital held Friday at the St.
Andrew's Presbyterian Church Fellowship
Hall. Seen with Mr. Roberts are Mrs. I.
E. Morrey, hospital administrator, and Dr.
W, A. Crawford, who presented a nursing
award.—A-T Photo,
Clinton,. Ont.
Dear Sir:
No doubt you will already
have received many comments
and complimentary remarks on
your centennial edition, June
29. As an older resident of
East Wawanosh may I add my
sincere thanks and also offer my
thanks to the East Wawanosh
historical committee for the
splendid history book of the
township. It is very interesting
reading and helps to pass many
lonely hours here at the home
when I visit the old stamping
grounds, which I do for long
intervals.
Farms may have new fronts
and strange names, new build-
ings and new roads; but the old
bones of the place are still
there. Three-quarters of a cen-
tury is a long time, long enough
for two generations to take ov-
er so my memories of Wawan-
osh in the 1890 to 1920 period
are memories of different peo-
ple and a different way of life.
But somehow or other, the peo-
ple I remember are more alive
and individual than their succee
SOTS.
There are vital changes in
the landscape of Wawanosh,
where the structures of a new
society are arising out of the
old. I can see now in my
mind's eye that Wawanosh was
a good place to be brought up
in.
It may seem strange that the
old names and places are so
vivid in my memory, I often
wonder if the younger genera-
tion of today will stand the test
of time, as their ancestors did.
Thank you sincerely,
R. Henry *Leishman.
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10 William Morgan Dr.,
Toronto, Ontario.
Dear Sirs:
A copy of your centennial
issue has been forwarded to me
by my brother and as an old
Wingham boy whose birthday
goes back to 1881, I cannot tell
you just how much I was thrill-
ed in scanning its pages. You
are to be congratulated on the
issue.
Yours very truly,
G. E. Buchanan.
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Grande Isle, Vt,,
July 3, 1967,
Gentlemen:
I was especially moved by
the Reminiscences of Mrs, Wil-
liam Kelly in your issue of
June 29, 196?. I want to write
a letter to Mrs. Kelly to tell
her how her memories reflect-
ed my own experience in that
same region, but I have no
knowledge of her address. So
I am asking you to forward the
enclosure to her.
Your issue of June 29 was a
masterpiece of reporting to us
Old ones past the four-score
milepost. Almost evety fam-
ily name she mentioned was
familiar in all the households
of the region wherein I was
born. Your pictures of Wing.'
ham streets were Many ofthem
as I remembered them '15 years
ago.
I beg leave to repeat to' you
my thanks for the zestful bit of
old times when I was bit-by-bit
acquiring what it took to get on
in this over-busy world that is a
bit perplexing to us old ones of
1967.
I never knew or heard of Mrs
Kelly until your Wingham Ad-
vance-Times came in last Fri-
day's mail. That is why my
only approach to her is through
your office, if you will be so
Don't tell me there aren't
any creative writers in Canada.
The country is crawling with
them. More than 100 entries
for the Smileys-to-Expo guest
column have arrived, and
they're still pouring in.
My wife thought all along it
was rather an ill-conceived
project, or as she put it, "a
dumb idea ", and I'm beginning
to agree with her. One of the
chief hitches is that I forgot to
organize some judges. So I'm
it,
So, first of all, I must read
them all, some twice, some
thrice. This is going to absorb
about 100 hours, and the
whole idea in the first place
was that I'd get a holiday.
Something wrong there, some-
where.
Secondly, all those who don't
win, along with their families
and friends, are going to hate
me for life. It's easy enough to
make enemies without deliber-
ately alienating about 2,000
people.
And thirdly, it's costing me
$25. to acquire 100 hours of
work, and 2,000 hostile na-
tives. Sort of silly, isn't it?
However, I dunnit and I'm
glad, The Toronto Telegram
News Service has kicked in an.
other $25 and a lot of people
have had a lot of fun taking a
whack at writing a column.
And I shouldn't complain
about its being work. It's fun.
Especially delightful is the
fantastic, variety of both wri-
ters and subject matter. The
writers are of all sexes and all
ages from 16 to 16. And they
wax eloquent on everything
from pheasants to fannilies,
from taxes to' toenails.
Thanks, too, for the many
Wane and friendly Personal
messages enclosed. It's kind
and thoughtfttl, even though it
won't win a prize. What the
columns have proved to me,
once again, is that there's a
great deal of good hutrior, good
spirit, and good intelligence in
our country.
The entries vary in Many
other Ways. Sotrie are quietly
humorous. Others are sardonic
or Ironic: Some are dead Seri,
ottg, some angry, some passicirt•
ate. (Not that way, Mum).
Some were written on ordi-
nary ruled paper, while the
breakfast dishes rotted in the
sink. Others were immaculate-
ly typed, submitted flat in man-
uscript form, wtih return enve-
lope enclosed. Some writers
want a pen name used, others
want their names in big, bold
type.
They come from office work-
ers, farm wives, students and
grandmothers. Some people
submitted as many as three
columns. Some are ungrammat-
ical and hilarious. Others use
impeccable English, but are
dull, Some are religious, others
ribald.
One gentleman writes amus-
ingly of his two pheasants,
named John and Lester, be-
cause he didn't think they'd be
around long. Jim Kerr of Red
Deer vents his dislike of teach-'
ers in no uncertain way, A
former student of mine (Hi
there, Mary Graham) tells
what a character her grandpa
is. One entry consists of his
first letter home from a lad
serving in Viet Nam.
And they come from all over
the country, which makes this
thing a real centennial kick.
Put them all together and
you'd have a book, It would be
raggedy and uneven, but inter-
esting, and would present a
pretty good idea of what Can-
ada and Canadians are really
like.
Tremble is, so many of the
columns ate so good that I'm
in aquandary, ri g htg up to my
navel. I started to make two
piles; the good ones and the
rejects, The pile of rejects is
two inches high, the other one
two feet.
Perhaps the sensible thing to
do would be to write a guest
column myself, under a pseu•
donym, submit it to me, and
declare it the winner. It
wouldn't be cricket, but it
would save a lot of agonizing
over that final decision. Not to
mention 50 bucks,
Don't worry, chaps. I'll find
a solution, Perhaps What I do
with My Ckatn papers. 'take an
armful to the top of the stairs
and hurl them. The otie that
lands On the highest step gets
top Mark. Bear with me While
I peruSe. Hope to announce the
Winner next Week.
kind. I feel as if I ought to
know you all, through my be-
loved cousins, Ivan and Mary
Wightman, present owners of
the old Wightman farm, lot 34,
concession 7, East Wawanosh,
settled by my Grandpa Henry
Wightman in 1865, 102 years
ago.
Sincerely yours,
Gordon E. Wightman,
Please Turn to Page Three.
After a service of 45 years
and four months as postmaster
at Marnoch, Mr. Porterfield has
resigned and the post office is
now closed and the residents of
the district must now get their
mail elsewhere. -- Wingham
Advance 1907.
WPM' , Afelf'4NM74rZ,M,WXe
LETTERS TO TE EDITOR
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REV. H. W. HAMILTON, Dip. Th., Rector.
Organist: MRS. GORDON DAVIDSON.
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From July 2nd to 30th, inclusive, combined Angli-
can and United Church services will be held at the
Wingham United Church. From August 6th to Sep-
tember 3rd, inclusive, the combined services will be
held at St. Paul's Anglican Church,
Happy and safe summer holiday to everyone. Don't
forget, God never takes holidays and He will be look-
ing for you at Church each Sunday you are away from
your home Church.
THE WINGHAM
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THANK YOU
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OTHERS 'WHO CO-OPERATED TO
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The shortage of medical doctors which
has prevailed In Wingham for the past six
weeks serves to emphasize a condition
which exists in many of the smaller com-
munities in both Canada and the United
States, General practitioners are as scarce
as the proverbial hen's teeth — and the
figures disclosed by the nation's medical
schools are far from reassuring about any
immediate improvement.
Hon. Charles MacNaughton made a
statement in his recent address at the hos-
pital opening which clarifies one side of
the shortage. He said that with our in-
creasing population in Ontario we need 50
new doctors every hundred days—or a new
doctor every second day of every year. And
that figure may well prove too low if our
population's rate of increase accelerates.
At the same time we need 18 dentists and
130 nurses in a 100-day period,
In the face of such startling statistics
it is obvious that a new approach to the
entire subject of health care is required.
At the present time only one medical
graduate in ten (perhaps less) plans to,
enter and remain in the field of general
practice. The very high monetary rewards
and the opportunity for regular hours of
work are attracting over 90 percent of the
emerging doctors into specialized practice.
As long as this marked preference exists
there is little hope of adequate care for
the family as a whole—and the system re-
futes the very basic principles which doc-
tors are supposed to hold dear. Their avow-
ed purpose is the prevention of physical
ailments, The "specialists", of course, are
not trained to prevent the development
of disease, but rather to give specialized
The town council will ask the Depart-
ment of Highways for another survey to de-
termine whether or not the movement of
vehicles on the main street indicates the
need for traffic lights. Similar surveys
have been carried out several times pre-
viously. They are not worth a hoot.
As a means of determining whether or
not some sort of traffic control is needed,
we would suggest that the minister of high-
ways Moye into town for a month, along
with hit -Wife and children:- (if .,he is so
blessed). Perhaps in that event the cold
figures of vehicles per hour would have less
significance than a small child's chances
of getting across the street on the way to
and from school.
The subject of traffic lights has always
been neatly thrown back into the local lap
The sorrow caused by the drowning of
two youngsters at Emmerton Beach recent-
ly must be all the more bitter because it
was needless. The accident occurred when
a small child either drifted from shore or
fell from a tiny plastic boat. Such craft,
along with air mattresses and inner tubes
should be completely banned from bathing
areas.
We have often noticed these small boats
in front of big stores and realized how
attractive they must be to children. It is
The ever-present problem of the public
washroom was raised at council last week
when it was pointed out that the renovated
rest rooms beneath the bandstand in the
town park were a disgusting mess even
at the time of the public worship service
on July 1st.
There is no easy solution to this sort
of public filthiness. Why people who re-
spect and care for their own homes al-
A recent' editorial in Life magazine
served to remind us of the conveniently
short memory which characterizes Ameri-
can thinking where matters of world policy
Are concerned. The article suggested that
the protracted distussiOns in the United
Nations about a Middle East settlement are
perhaps doing more harm than good. There
was also a thinly veiled thought that it
might have been better to let the Israelis
finish the job and clean up. On the Arabs.
treatment for those ailments which other
doctors have been unable to prevent.
There are rumors, though faint ones,
that the Department of Health may be mov-
ing toward some changes in the rules
which govern medical practice, What they
will be remains 'to be seen, and it is a
foregone conclusion that such changes
will be made sV)wly,
For many years the Ontario College of
Physicians and Surgeons, an organization
made up of doctors, has policed the cre-
dentials and recommended on the licensing
of medical practitioners in this province,
and their efforts have resulted in a very
high standard of medical service, How-
ever, in the light of the critical shortage
which now exists it is evident that new
and more flexible methods of examination
are needed. There is no suggestion here
that any standards should be lowered, but
only that examinations be made available
much more readily to those foreign doc-
tors who are interested in practicing in
this province. At the present time a Bri-
tish doctor, for instance, must pull up all
his roots in the Old Country, make an ex-
pensive move to Canada and within two
years pass his Canadian Council exams.
Few of them- are prepared to take the
risk, even though they may be graduates
of better medical schools than most of
those we have in Canada.
Wingham is now fairly well assured of
doctors to serve the community, but the
past few weeks have been an anxious per-
iod—and it is to the credit of our people
here that there has been no sign of the
panic which characterized other Ontario
towns in similar circumstances.
when the department gives the go-ahead,
but specifies the type of lights required and
tells the town to pay for them.
Why should the cost of traffic lights
rest with the municipality? Our main
street is a provincial highway and much
of the traffic it carries is merely on its way
to some other point. Not one whit of the
vehicle licensing fees or the provincial
tax on gasoline falls into the town coffers.
Traffic, lights are not a matter of pres-
tige or luxury. They are not intended to
speed the flow of business or increase
local revenue. They are for one purpose
only—to protect human lives. We see no
reason to value lives in Toronto, or Strat-
ford or Walkerton at a higher rate than
those in Wingham.
not hard to imagine the wheedling of a
youngster who is going to the family cot-
tage and imagines himself with his own
small boat.
The hazard which is presented as a
youngster floats away before the wind
is one which every parent should be able
to recognize. The fact that such toys are
to be used only when competent adults
are close by means little when the tempt-
ation presents itself.
ways befoul a public facility is beyond
understanding, but it always happens. If
such facilities are to be provided for the
public there simply has to be adequate
caretaking to keep them clean. It is cost-
ly; it is aggravating, but there is no al-
ternative.
If the washrooms cannot be kept clean
they would be better closed entirely,
Surely these American writers must
have overlooked the events in Suez just
over ten years ago when Israel, Britain
and France attempted to use force to es-
tablish order in the very same area. How
promptly the holier-than-thou Ametican
government brought down its full weight
on hapless Britain for daring to take ac-
tiori withoutprior consultation with Wash-
ington.
How times do change!
Of Course We Need Traffic Signals
Needless Tragedy
Sanitation Comes First
What a Short Memory
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