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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1967-09-07, Page 9REMINISCING SEPTEMBER 1918 Mr. Levi Lett has his new house almost finished and it is a neat residence. It is a red brick cottage with splendid ce, ment foundation and a dainty verandah in front, and is situat0 ed beside his sale stables on Victoria Street. The following are arriong the teachers who have left for their respective schools; Miss Christie Robertson is teaching at School Section. No. 9, Turnber- ry; Miss Mabel Isard in Del- grave school; Miss Olive Rin- tout in No. 5 Morris; Miss Ada McGill at No. 3 Turnberry; Miss Viola Isard in Gorrie; Miss. Annie Williamson is teaching in a school near Regina; Miss Pearl McPherson at Sea forth; Miss Metha McPherson to Wood- stock, Miss Nellie Nicholls to Priceville. The staff of the Wingham Public School, which re-open- ed on Tuesday, Sept, 3 is: Miss M. L. Brock, principal; Miss Annie Barbour, Miss B. H. Reynolds, Miss C. Farquharson; Miss Florence Barber, Mrs. W, Buchanan; Miss Lucy Barber, Miss Perth Butler, kindergarten. SEPTEMBER 1932 Oliver Fells returned Satur- day after a three weeks' tour of the Eastern Provinces, going by way of Kingston, Montreal, Quebec, Gaspe Penninsula, Newcastle and Truro to Halifax. The entire trip on an Ariel motorcycle, covered 3500 miles, and was made at the cost of 37 gal, of gas and 10 quarts of oil. Jack Thynne, who lives near Bluevale, popularly known as "The Kansas Farmer" has re- ceived word from the Canadian National Exhibition authorities that he has been engaged to give his act of old time playing and singing at the Exhibition this year. Messrs. Geo. T. Robertson and W. J. Brown will take ov- er the Robertson Garage on Sept. 1st, with Mr. Robt. Turnbull of Teeswater as the mechanic. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. T. Ro- bertson announce the engage- ment of their daughter, Ger- trude Helen, to William Wheel- an, only son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Currie, all of Wing- ham. The marriage will take place in September. SEPTEMBER 1942 About seventy-five friends and relatives gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Gaunt, on Friday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Eric El- liott, (Jean Currie), who have just returned from a wedding trip. The Public School will com- mence the fall term on Tues- day next, Sept. 8th. The new head of the school is Mr. Stuart Beattie, a native of Londesboro, who came here from the posi- tion of principal of the Flasher- ton school. The other teachers are Miss Agnes Williamson, Miss. Phyllis Johns, Miss V. Mc- Laughlin, Miss Velma Lennox, Miss Norma Coutts, Miss D. Howell, Miss Verne Walker. Mr. J. H. Rogers has pur- chased the Green house on Scott St. It is his intention to re- model this property. There was a large number at the Thames Valley Camp, near London, on Sunday, it being Visitors' dby. Those from here were Mrs. W. B. McCool, Mrs. Geo. Howson, Mrs. Walter Van- Wyck and Ann, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Williams, Mrs. E. S. Lewis, Mrs. Wm. Johnston and Mrs. Howard Fuller. SEPTEMBER 1953 Gladioli in rainbow shades adorned St. James' Lutheran Church in St. Jacobs, for the wedding of Audrey Dara, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. El- don E. VoelZing and Robert Pet- er, son of Mr, and Mrs. Gordon P. Ritter, all of St. Jacobs. Mr. and Mrs. Ritter will reside in Wingham, where Mr. Ritter is on the staff of the Wingham District High School. Harry Merkley, proprietor of the Red Front Grocery, and Bill Young, formerly of Wingham, have purchased the Crown Thea- tre in Harriston, from the for- mer owner, J. Wager, of that town, They take possession of the property on September 14. Mr, Young, who is well known in town and who formerly work* ed for Mr. Merkley, will man- age the theatre under its new owners, WINGHAM'S CENTENNIAL parade saw a large collection of horses and pony riders entered, A few of the children who joined the procession with their steeds are pictured above.—A-T Photo. AtaianctZinve Wingham, Ontario, Thursday, Sept. 7, 1967 SECOND SECTION SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Expo, Cies' magnifique! AVgq1/07Y'AMe4;10;403,4*,-"A-`,,/..,:, LETTERS T° Thl EDITOR vee;V•e!..','.% Dear Editor: Many, many thanks for the magnificent co-operation given by The Advance-Times during our Wing-Ding Week-end.Your invaluable help did much to in- sure the success of our venture. May we, through you, also thank the many organizations, individuals and places of busi- ness who contributed their time, talent and assistance to this community project? There were so many that we hesitate to name them individually as was done at the Centennial Dance. To you and to them, our grateful appreciation and to those who will organize similar events in the future, goes our assurance that it is a pleasure to work with the people of Wing- ham and the surrounding area. Sincerely, Anna Meyer, Chairman Wingh am' s Wing Ding Week-end, specializing in space-travel equipment. My wife collapsed into a chair on the third floor and ,a number of people thought she was haying a stroke. By sheer good luck, we found our way home, and hur- tled that Oone hour from Expo" in only 21/2 hours, after missing the turn-off to Alex and wandering about the wilds of Eastern Ontario for an hour. Bed at 2 a.m. According to Ontario Depart- ment of Agriculture and Food .statistics, in 1965 Ontario pro- duced 6,896.7 million pounds of milk - about 1000 pounds of milk for every person living in the province. WHITECHURCH Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Simmons and Lonnie of London spent the holiday week-end with her father, Mr. Charles Martin and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Simmons of Wingham. Earl Thompson returned home on Sunday after spending last week at the church camp at Goderich. Mrs. Macintosh of Brussels visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Dave Gibb and family. Fred Tiffin and Walter Moore had the telephone in- stalled in their homes last week, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Walker re- turned home last week after a vacation in the west. From the Imperial Oil Collection We would like to salute the members of the Wingham Centennial Committee who conceived the idea of a Labor Day celebra- tion in town and who, along with a good Irmany helpers, carried out a highly success- ful event. Of course, these planners had the ready co-operation of a surprisingly large and enthusiastic group of citizens, not only from Wingham, but from the sur- rounding communities as well, The parade was one of the larger, if not the largest one we have ever seen here, including the famous 75th Anniversary celebration. When the Labor Day events were first announced we heard a good deal of pes- Though this writer is somewhat past the bloom of early youth, the fleeting years have not yet erased our memories of sum- mer's end. Labor Day was always a bitter- sweet holiday. It was that last fling of freedom before the deadly routine of the classroom closed in upon us for another ten months. We can still recall the sink- ing sensation in the pit of the stomach each time we thought of the return to dis- cipline and duty. Looking back on those days, however, we would certainly be forced to admit now that we were pretty good at self- delusion, for the vast majority of young- sters in our day were really far more con- tented once they had settled down to classes and regular hours. We believe that the children today are not one whit different. They like to convince themselves that school is horrible; that teachers are all loathsome monsters and that the entire educational system was devised for the sole purpose of torturing the younger genera- tion, Children, though, are much like their parents: they won't admit it but they are more contented when their waking The Smith report on taxation in On- tario, which was released last week, and which is likely to have some far-reaching consequences throughout the province, promises some big changes in the methods by which the provincial authorities will raise necessary revenues in future. Cer- tainly it is too early to make any predic- tions about the long-time results of those changes, but already several salient points have become apparent. The first one—and the one which will be most interesting to the broad range of voters (who are likely to go to the polls this fall) is the recommendation that taxes on private property owners should be re- duced, Few home-owners and tenants will fight that suggestion. But inherent in every recommendation for a reduction of taxes at one important level is the fact that they must be raised somewhere else along the line if the government is to stay in business on its present scale of spending. Who, then, is to become the victim of in- creased taxation to maintain the balance? We are fearful that the small businessman may well become the sacrificial Iamb. He. is a pretty handy fellow for this sort of operation, because he does not speak with the united voice of a labor union, nor can he be included in the hapless class of the "have-nots" for whom all the rest of us are working so hard today. The plain facts are that a tremendous number of smaller businesses in this pro- vince are not in any position to assume In a gallant effort to alleviate the ef- fects of unemployment in the area adjacent to Georgian Bay the federal government some months ago instituted what has since become known as the "designated area" plan. Under this scheme those industries which established in the designated area were able to secure grants of up to one- third of their capital expenditures from Ottawa—whether their financial position indicated need or not. Even those indus- tries which were already established in that section benefited from similarly gen- erous allowances for expansion and the purchase of new equipment. Apparently the scheme worked, for a few weeks ago a delegation arrived in the Owen Sound area from a desolated sec- tion 9f Newfoundland because they had 1114•44 simistic talk around the main street about time being too short, etc. The results, however, would seem to indicate that when people are pushed for time they really do a better job. Blessed by good weather, the events right through from the water show on Sunday afternoon to the dance in the arena on Monday evening were all supported by healthy crowds. They were a definite in- dication that the public is still eager to support those community efforts which have the backing and co-operation of a sizeable and enthusiastic group of planners. hours are largely filled with tasks to be completed and duties to be done. Few of us, whether young or older, are capable of spending endless days in nothing but those pursuits which give us pleasure. The free- dom soon begins to pall and tempers be- come ragged, Boredom sets in and soon the gold of summer sunshine dulls down to nothing more than the unpleasant glare of a hot day, This particular inability of the average human to amuse himself for any great length of time may pose a grave problem for mankind in the foreseeable future. With ever increasing productivity civilized man, in the Western world at least, is able to afford more and more leisure time. How well will man behave when he has achieved his next goal—a 30-hour work- ing week? What, precisely, will he do with all his spare time? Admittedly, some people of above-aver- age intelligence and broad interests may use the leisure hours to great advantage, but we would predict that a surprising number will become grumpy and ill-satis- fied with their lot, Something to think about, is it not? added burdens of taxation. Already they are loaded down with several extra mills in every community so that the province may point out its beneficence to the home owners. In addition, the small business man, who is usually short-staffed when it comes to office help, is acting as tax col- lector and insurance agent for several gov- ernment departments—all under threat of penalties should he fail to do their book- keeping on time and send in their money by the prescribed date. When governments at any level an- nounce that one of their new schemes will be financed, even in part, by payments on the part of the employer of labor, they are fooling the public. It is a hoax of the first magnitude. No small employer or busi- ness man can afford to absorb 50% of the cost of his employees' pension plan, or half of his workers' unemployment insur- ance. The smaller businessman doesn't make that much more than the people who work for him. He has no alternative but to pass on the added costs in fhe form of higher prices to his customers. Otherwise he would not be able to continue in business. We hope that the Smith report will actually bring about some badly-needed re- forms in the provincial tax structure—but any suggestion that it will take the load from the shoulders of the downtrodden worker leaves us more than a bit sus- picious. learned that the labor pool in the Georgian Bay towns was exhausted. Many businessmen and municipal lead- ers in the other "undesignated" areas of Western Ontario sought to have the bene- fits of the scheme applied over a much broader slice of the province. Still others thought the whole scheme was ill-advised. Without exception there was wonderment that the Georgian Bay area was considered so highly eligible when its economy was so closely parallel with many other parts of Western Ontario. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the case, it seems fairly plain now that the inducements should be shifted to some other section where there is an existing need for more industry and more employ- ment. Well, I scarcely know where to start. Expo 67 is surely the greatest display of human in- genuity, imagination and or- ganization that has ever been assembled on the face of the earth. It's absolutely magnifi- cent in almost every respect. All you need to enjoy the big fair thoroughly is about three weeks, $3,000 and a pair of legs made of steel springs. We did it in three clays, on $150, with legs that rapidly turned to putty, if it is possible for putty to ache like a bad tooth, We took off right after church last Sunday. As usual, "right-after-church" gradually turned into 3 p.m. Drove 150 miles. Stayed with sister- in-law. Long time no see. Big palaver until 3 a.m. Bogged another 200 through the heat to Alexan- dria, near Montreal, where old buddy, The Man from Glengar- ry, generous, joyous Gene Mac- donald, had offered, free, two motel rooms for as long as we wanted. Swift tour of ancient, interesting town, drink at golf club, dinner at the Macdon- aids'. Same story: long- time-no-see, etc. Overflowing hospitality, even to tall, dark and handsome 16-year-old son Neil to entertain our Kim. Es- timated departure time: 10 p.m. Actual departing time: 2.30 a.m. Up bright and early and off at the crack of noon, Fortu- nately, as Gene had promised, it was only an hour's drive from Expo. Became biggest joke of trip, He obviously meant by jet, or straight across-country. My car goes better on highways. "Just follow the Expo signs," it said, We did. We completely surrounded the city of Montreal and wound up in a parking lot which was a 30-minute ferry ride from Expo. The regular lots are five to ten minutes from the grounds. The ferry cost $1.50 a person. The other lots pro- vide a free bus. The ferry dumped us at the wrong end of Expo, just, ten miles from where we wanted to he. At 3.30 p.m. we were at Expo. Never mind, we finally picked up my press pass. The press building was a little bit of heaven: air-conditioned; food and drink reasonable. Slightly revived, and just about the time I had thought we'd be heading for home, we started out to "do" Expo. As always with our family, there were no plans, no organi- zation. We went into the first building we saw. It was the International Broadcasting Building, Fascinating, perhaps, for an engineer. For us, it was slightly less absorbing than a visit to the local library. The fighting began here. Kim is at the age when she abhors being dragged around by her parents, Her first pro- posal was, "Let's split arid meet somewhere." Would you turn look ythir 16-year-old chick in a crowd of 300,000, in an area the size of A large city, when none of us had a, clue about how to get back to the ferry? So we sulked our way through the telephone build- ing. It's a dandy show. And it was here that I first discovered that my press pass made Alad- din's Lamp look like an old candle butt. (I just took it out and kissed it as I write.) See, there are these 7,000 people lined up, about four abreast, for a quarter-mile. With a press pass, you walk to the head of the line, flash the pass, and your party is admit- ted at the "reserved" entrance, immediately, along with people in wheel-chairs, and comas and other conditions. The first time we did it, we felt like real skunks. I expect- ed the enraged types in the line-up to scream and rave or threaten to tear us to pieces. Nothing happened. The second time, I felt like Chai les de Gaulle. After that, I lost all compunction for the standees, and began looking for pavi- lions with the longest line-ups. for the sheer pleasure of gate-crashing. Such is man. Russian pavilion next. Beau- tiful line-up. Pavilion was rath- er like a vast department store Battle of Lake Erie, 1813, By 1813, the second year of the American invasion of Canada, attention was focussed on the Great Lakes. In 1812 the invader had been beaten back and by the beginning of 1813 no British territory was in the hands of the Americans. Now the Americans real- ized that by gaining control of the lakes they could prevent supplies from reaching the British forces. The Americans fitted out their ships well and sent nine of them, under Captain Oliver Perry, against Captain Robert Bar- clay, a Trafalgar veteran, and his six Bri- tish ships on Lake Erie. For two hours the battle raged until every one of Barclay's ships had been disabled arid he was forced to surrender. On Lake Ontario naval encounters were light, but the Americans dispatched fourteen vessels and two thousand men from Sackett's Harbor, the American naval headquarters on Lake Ontario, to York where they took over the town and burned the provincial buildings. While this was going on the British naval forces had an opportunity to capture the lightly defended Sackett's Harbor, but failed. The 'British suffered another severe de. feat when they attempted to secure com- mand of Lake Champlain in 1814. There again the superior American naval force routed the British ships. • Congratulations to The Planners Busy and Happy Not all Roses Time For A Move THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros, Limited, W. Barry Wenger, President - Robert 0, Wenger, Secretary-Treasurer Wernher Audit Bureau of Circulation Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Authorized by the Post Office Department as Second Class Mall and for payment of postage in cash. 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