The Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-04-18, Page 9•
A Time TO Begin Again
In many ways .the firstwarm days of
spring betoken the commencement of an-
other year more surely then :does the first
day of January. - In e land whichis held
fast in the grip of frost and snow from
late November to the end of,March there
is little sense of activity or' advancement
during the winter months. The coming of
spring, however, brings an opportunity to
do ° something practical about the plans
which have been in the formative °stages
all winter,
The farmer gets onto the land with
fertilizer and seed, intent on gettingbetter.
crops from his acres this year; the towns-
man grooms' his (awns and flowerbeds
and looks fora paint brush that is still
usable so he can brighten up his sur-
roindings: a i
These spring enterprises are private
ones... However, they are of' tremendous
value to the community. as a whole, for
their results provide the evidence that a •
town or a, township is inhabited by °indus-
• trious peoples 'There is another phase of
spring activity which must, not be over-
looked— those responsibilities which lie
in the public sector. Parks, streets and
business places must receive the same
prideful attention that is lavished 'on pri-
vate property.
It is only within. recent years that we
have begun to realize the very practical
value such public improvements bear. In-
deed, the progressiveness of an entire corn-
munity may often be° judged on the evi-
dence�provided by well -tended beauty
spots and recreation areas:
;Of course the first importance of parks
-end v+ el l -kept streets is to 'the citizens of
the .communitthemselves—just as a tidy
home is the joy of the family which:ac.
cupies a private house. But an attractive
town has great significance to the outsider
who ;nay be on the Book -out for a suitable U
location for a business or an industry.
We da not agree that the effort to
attract new _business enterprise to our
town is a hopeless one. It is true that
there are some drawbacks for the indus-
trialist who considers locating his plant in
a small community—but there are many
advantages to offset them. Perhaps the
most important of these is the availability,
of labor. The metropolitan areas have be-
come so congested that, despite concen-
trations of workers, it is -becoming in-
creasingly expensive to hire the city lab-
orer. One,„factor alone, the delays created
by traffic -choked streets, have shortened
the useful working day of the city office
and ,factory .worker to an uneconomic
degree..
We talked a few months ago .with a
man who was shouting for factory sites
and found that one of the important con-
siderations s the availability of parks
and recreation areas, good hospitals and
schools. in other words, the employer js
searching for. places in which his workers
and their families will be content.
Wingham offers ,these "extras" in full
measure. What we urgently need now is
more housing for those who could be
employed if another industry came t�
towel.
It's No Handout
Duringthe
past week the Ontaric'�
government formally announced its inten-
tion to make . available to the citizens of
the province very sizeable reductions. in
the taxes they pay ori their homes. The
savings, which are expected to range from
$45 to $65 per year, are supposed to be
passed on to tenahts in the form of re-
ducttons in rent: a
Knowing' that 'the tax -reduction move
originated in the office of the provincial
treasurer, and . also knowing., that the
tre a i `r
asu er
Charles es hA
ac augliton, is inti=
mately familiar, with the problems faced
by the average Ontario citizen, there is no
doubt that: full marks should be awarded
for legislation which will make the lotof
the lower-income family a bit easier.
However, we do believe that . the full
implie:ation of the legislation,. should be
clearly understood.
The Ontario government must raise
sufficient money every year to 'meet a .
multitude of needs—needs which are in-
creasing by' leaps and: bounds. The spiral-
ling expense of a welfare state must be
met by the beneficiaries—the tax payers.
For every million dollars ,handed out in
property tax reductions, another million
must be raised from some other source.
That source is quite likely to be the
business„ segment of the provincial econo-
my. In fact, the province has, for several
years past, provided tax credit on private
property at the expense of business and
commerce. The mill rate is about 10 points
higher on a downtown store or a manu-
facturing property than it is on • a home
in this community. ,
One of, the main sources of provincial
revenue is corporation tax levied on in-
corporated businesses. It seems inevitable
that the demands upon business will be
increased to meet the rising costs and to
make up• for the millions which will be
represented by the cut-back in home own-
ers' taxes.
It is an obvious over -simplification to
hark back to the old cry of "soak the
rich." In the first place thousands of small
businesses are now incorporated, though
they are far from rich. Many of their own-
ers make a good deal less than. school
teachers, doctors and lawyers.
In the'second place, it is a delusion to
believe that .there -is' actually a saving for
the average taxpayer if the burden falls
on the business community. The business-
-man- has no alternative but -to raise his
prices to meet the higher tax demands
soothe average home ownermill eventually f
be saddled with the tax saving out of,,his
ownp ocket. •
The skeptic . may contend that the
greedy business man is going to grab for
his usual high profits at the expense of the
consumer. It should be remembered, how-
ever, that the owner of a business is sub-
ject to taxes at every level of income. If
his firm is personally owned he must pay
federal income tax, municipal taxes on his
property at a considerably higher rate
than the home owner, as well as an extra
muriicipal levy called "business tax." If
he owns a limited company, he pays per-
sonal income tax on his salary; the two
municipal taxes, federal income tax and
provincialcorporation tax _ as well as
footing the bill.for all the time-consuming`
book •work involved in collecting and re-
mitting taxes for two senior governments.
Some of our readers may think we are
obsessed with. the plight of the small
businessman and they are right. The
backbone Of our nation's economy is the
solid I framework of small, independent
businesses which have, up to the present,
provided a climate of free and competi-,
tive enterprise. Thus the average Canadian
consumer has been afforded the opportun-
ity for selective buying 'at competitive
prices.
Under the pressure of rising costs,
including ever higher taxes, small busi-
nesses are disappearing by the thousand
ever year. Not all of them 'go into bank-
ruptcy. Indeed, the vast majority of them
are being absorbed by the big corpora-
tions. It wil l be a sad day for Ontario
and for Canada when the last of the little
men . 'has disappeared.
1Go Fly A Kite
It would°be interesting' to know how
many youngsters are getting ready for the
kite contest which was announced a couple
of weeks ago by Rec. Director Jim Ward.
The big fly -in will be held tater this month
and it should bring some . interesting
entries.
The modern trend to supervised recre-
ation 'has provided some` wonderful op-
portunities for ,youngsters, but we must
make sure that supervision does not
supplant initiative. and inventiveness. it
was for this very reason that Jim initi*
ated the contest—as a means of inviting
the participation of those youngsters who
can do things with their hands and need
some form of individual expression. •
A good lite is no toy. It is a piece of
fine craftsmanship which requires patience
in its construction and skill in its op-
eration. Every boy who has ever succeeded
in getting a kite into the air on a breezy
day in spring has experienced a sense of
achievement which • stays with him
throughout his life.
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A BAKING SALE and other sieelights.made
the. Belmore syrup festival of real interest
Saturday. Mrs. Ernie Harris, ° Mrs. Gordon
Wright and: Mrs. Wilfred .Johann..pitched.
in to help at the -bake table.
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1 Wingham, Ontario, Thurday, April 18, 1968
o SECOND SECTION
News Items from Old Files
•APRIL, 1919
• Miss Margaret Henderson,.
John Street, had the' misfortune
to break a. blood vessel in her
nose while washing. clothes. She.
was preparing to move to the
farm with her brother, W. Jos.
Henderson, but the -accident
necessitated her remaining in
town for a.couple 'of weeks
longer as she'is weak from the
loss of blood.
County council at its January
sleeting approved a committee.
. to take up the question of a
county memorial hospital and
report* in June. The Clinton
News -Record makes the "follow-
ing proposal: "There ate
ready three hospitals in the
county, at Goderich, ,W ingham,
and Clinton. If one large hos-
pital was'established it might
be considered necessary to
maintain also one or two of the
smaller ones and thecost to the
county might be much increas-
ed without perhaRs adding to
the efficiency of -the work being
done. If e: ach. of the present •
hospitals were made memorial
hospitals and a larger yearly
grant given by the county per-
haps the best interest of the
people -would be served."
Miss Gertie Cruikshank of
Kincardine. High School staff is
spending the Easter holidays at
her home in Lower Wingham.
Miss Florence Deacon of
Stratford Normal is spending
the Easter holidays with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Dea-
con of East Wawanosh.
APRIL 1933
Work will commence on,the
building of Curries School in.
East Wawanosh. Contract for'
the erection of the new school
was let to W. H. Rantoul, local
contractor. The old school
which was burned will'be re-
placed by an all brick structure
' Mills Memorial Hall which
was purchased last year by the
Wingham Lodge A.F. &A. M.
will be ready for occupancy
this week. The work of chang-
ing the old church building so
that it will be one of the finest
Masonic Halls in Ontario has
been going on all.winter.
The Allen, DuVai Fox Warm
has donated a silver fox scarf
to the Chamber of Commerce
and proceeds from a raffle on
the beautiful fur piece will be
used for the 3t -ray Fund at the
local hospital.
While shopping in Wingham r.
Mrs. Agnes Earls of Wroxeter
fell on the stairs of one of the
stores and fractured her hip.
She will, be conft.ned to hospital
for some time.
APRIL 1943
Mr. and Mrs. William M.
Reid received a cable last week
that their son Scott had arrived
overseas.
On August 7 last year Flt.
Sgt. Charles Dauphin was re-
ported missing and later a pris-
oner of war. Word has now
been received that Charles is a
prisoner in Italy, In a letter to
his mother he said prisoners re•
ceive a Red Cross parcel every
other week.and added, Keep
those parcels rolling."
On Good Friday evening the
roof of the frame garage. back
of McKikbon's Drug Store took
fire from a bonfire. On Satur-
day afternoon the brigade had
calls to grass fires near the Red-
mond home at the end of Carl-
ing Terrace and at the back of
Miss Clow's on Centre Street.
On Monday they extinguished a
grass fire between A. Rintoul's
home and the flax mill back of
the CPR station.
Sheldon Bakerbegan work
thisweek in Hanover where he
has secured a job as a butcher.
His place on Tervit's milk
route is being filled by Alvin
Stacey.
'APRIL 1954.
Edward Garniss of R.R. 4
Wingham was treated in the
hospital on Monday after being
bitten by a pig while •attending
the animal on his farm.
Five teachers have announc
ed their intentions of leaving
the teaching staff of Wingham "•
Public School. Miss Mildred
Wagner and Miss Bernice Craw-
ford both of Dobbinton and Miss
Lois Fell of Staffa •.are leaving
to get married. Jim Shynkar
will go into the ministry and
Miss Grace Golley will accept
a position in a school. near Tor-
onto. Miss Frances Walker of
Wingham, Miss Norma-Sher-
wood
orma-Sher-wood of Goderich and Miss
Mary MacMillan of Ripley have
been engaged.
Herson Irwin. George Mc-
Gee, Ken Mason, Nelson Dow,
Alex Robertson, Jack Shiell,
Sydney Thompson, lies Wight»
Goad McB.urne-..Cr f
=t�nr y, Craig
Shiell; leek McBurney, Frank
Thompson and Calvin Ashley
pitched in to help P.M. Shiell
of East Wawanosh following the
death of his son, Wilford Shiell
who was killed a week ago, in
a car accident. They cultivated
and seeded 20 acres of farmland
in one day.
CHILDREN'S . AID SOC. WEEK
Children left alone
• A Children's Aid Society
worker's telephone rang shortly
after 10 p.m.
In the hall of her apartment,
a woman had smelled smoke.
Going into the apartment next
door, she found three children,
all under nine, trying to put out
a fire which had begun with a
burned pot. 'A baby was sleep-
ing in a buggy in the front
roots. There was no one look-
ing after any of the children.
After getting the smoking pot
outside and clearing out the
smoke, the neighbour telephony-
ed the C. A, S.
The Children's Aid Society...-,:
worker went to look after -the
children and wait until the
parents came home. She wash-
ed the children, fed them and
put them to bed. The mother
did not return until two in the
morning. The father never re-
turned. For Months after that,
a social worker from the C.A. S.
worked with the mother, meet-
ing her once a week, until she
was able to solve some of her
most pressing problems; over-
coming the depressed feelings
that made her escape from the
children to have a "little fun"
even though she couldn't afford
a baby sitter; helping her to
decide whether to make ar-
rangements for the children's
care so that she could get a job
herself; dealing with the prob-
lem behaviour of the middle
child.
This is only one example of
the many ways your C. A. S.
works to build family strength,
to keep children in their own
homes.
The week of April 21=27th
is Children's Aid Week through-
out Ontario, with the endorse -
tion of the Minister of Social
and Family Services.
Your Children'f Aid Society
of Huron County will be holding
Open House on Wednesday,
. April 24th from 2-5 p.m. and
1.9 p. m. You are welcome to
drop in and see their new of.
flees at 181 Victoria Street,
■U
North, Goderich, ( thebig
stone house) on Highway 21 at
the northern entrance to Goder-
ich and get information n Ser-
vice to Families, Servic 'e
to
Unmarried Parents, Ado tion
and Foster Homes.
Please be aware of c ildren's
' needs all year round. Be alert
to the neglected child i your
own community, and -rep
ort it
to your C.A.S. . If you'reable,
think about opening you own
home the year round for foster
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Oh,tofiy
We used to have a stiperati-
tion in my air .force days about
things happening in . three's.
Everything would go along
well for a week or two, tit*
the roof would fall. in. Wed
lose three pilots in one day.
Or one pilot would have
three extremely hairy experai-
nc
ees in a row: 'a bail-out; a
crash-landing, a fire.
It peugh so
Malt hapyou'beganned tetoften believeenoin it,
In war..tirue superstitions tend.
to become principles. It hap.
paned to me, One day I was hit
by everything but the kitchen
sink and came home with 32
holes in my, aircraft, iincludin g
one about, 18 inches in diame.
ter, and just two feet from my
seat. 1 had to land without
flaps' and brakes. Nothing much
left except.a'chewed•up°piece of
metal, almost useless and a
*hite-faced pilot, almost equal-
ly
ly useless'. u
Next day, one of my bombs
developed a hang.up,and I had
to land with the 'thing, • detonat-
ed and' ready to blow, dangling
under my left wing. This didn't
improve my maple much, ei-
ther.
People 'started avoiding me.
The third day I was shot down
and taken prisoner Met Paddy
Byrne . of Dublin, one of the
few survivors of my squadron,
in a .London subway station
after the war, and he told 'Me
the boys were running a pool
on when.I'd get it.
But that was in the old days,
when men were men, and boys
were terrified. At least I was.
However tete- war was peaceful
compared to present days. Now,
things don't come in three's,
but in sixes and' sevens. .
Same pattern. Things- : go
along OK for a while and then
1.the gods clobber you with ev-
ervthing they have.
The other night, for exam-
ple, Kim and I were preparing
for one of our exotic dinners,,
It . was a peaceful, • domestic
scene. She was playing the
piano. sI was right on top of the
dinner. The rainbow trout.
were crisping nicely, the baked
potatoes were baked, and I was
just giving the canned corn
that extra little stir that makes
it so delicious, when the door-
bell rang.
a our neighbor. o
ltw sh r. Th e
h
On the' left,' Where the bans -
robbers were caught last year.
It was about 30 degrees out-
side, andhis internal tempera-
ture was around 212. He.
wanted to use the phone. He
was about to kill the man on
the other side of his house
because he was needling him.
He phoned his Mom `asking her
to come .and stop him. t •
It's rather difficult to avoid
hearing this sort of thing when
you are- five feet away, .poking
the potatoes and flipping the
fish. Anyway, two hours and a
couple of beers later,,, I hadn't
had my dinner, but my .neigh-
„bor had and he was cooled out
enough to go' home to bed. -
Well, that's the way things
went all week. Next morning I
almost murdered myself, put-
ting out the garbage. The cans
are in a little stoop, with a lid
over it made of two -by lours. I
pushed back the lid and start-'
ed to' wrestle out one can,
which was frozen to the bot-
tom, when the damn lid fell,
clunked me on the forehead
almost• knocking me senseless.
Dripping blood, I staggered off
to work. .
That weekend I was caught
tri .ti.. Ouse
9
•
once more
in one of those last-kick-of-win-
ter
ast-1tick of win-
ter storms and died a thousand
. deaths, creeping . through win
and snow and drifts. a foer-
and-a-half-hour trip, that anor
,wally takes two hours.
Had a fight with my .da gkv
ter, which She won leyVY/f0
having an operation. My Vis.:
are screaming. The backlard,
because we didn't get tke
leaves raked ,last f*11, legs
like, Hiroshima. . Ten' • per,
want anise to .have a cononstttee,
meeting about soothing, 'We WOO '
a ,cleud-burst and
full oi'
.water. lm
.bulbs in the house are bri
out and you need a 1s' to
replace most of these. .I nearly
cut city entire upper' lip off
when 1 slipped on soap Alec
shaving. And I. -haven't pal- or
even thought about' my h
tax.
oI wonder whether they take
old guys • back into the
force, where 'things' ,only hap,
Pen -in three's. , A r.
Fa m ar names
in old paper
Don Adams brought an old
copy of the Toronto Mail and
.Empire into the A -T office :this
week. used as packing behind
a mirror, the paper was dated
'April l5, 1896, seventy-two,
years .ago,,
Redpath sugar was ,one of the
products advertised in the paper,
manufactured by the Canada
Sugar Refining Co...Another
advertisement was for Salada •
Tea. A.E. Ames & Co. was
listed "as. :a member of the -Tor-
onto Stock' exchange.
Eggs were sho`wnin the mar-
ket reports, at 12¢ per dozen.
Zone commander
visits auxiliary
FORDWICH—The Ladies'
Auxiliary to Howie~. Legion,
Pianeh 331 met in the Le ion.
rooms with Mrs.'rack Clarke in
the chair. Plans were complet-
ed to entertain the Wingham
branch and auxiliar}l_on Friday.
night, April 19th.
Plans were also discussed for
the zone rally to be held in
Hensall on May 15th; Two new
members were installedby the
zone commander, Mrs. Evelyn
Carroll of doderich.. She also
presented a past president's "
badge to 'Mrs.. George Hamilton.
The mystery prize was won by
Mrs. Wm. Austin. donated by
Mrs. Jim :Vittie. Two specials
were won by Mrs. Carl Ettinger
and Mrs. George "Hamilton.
The zone commander said
there are now 22,608 belonging
to the Legion Ladies' Auxiliary.
She warned members not to
adopt the " I don't care attitude"
or interest in the organization
will soon be lost. Service is
not for self, Mrs. Carroll said.
Carroll was presented
with a gift by Mrs. Jack Clarke
and a social hour was•spent over
the tea cups.
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VI/.D.H.S. Guest Editorial
Nationhood
Must Be Deserved
By Mitchell De Zeeuw 12A
Wake up, so-called world nations, ap-
preciate a true nation worthy of all that
means greatness; support her in her times
of crisis; comfort her in her times of
sorrow and stand by her in her times of
need. What are we, who' participate as
Spectators only and watch the United
States of America play the game which
shall, as a consequence, see a free demo-
cratic Canada or another Communist
satellite states?
We are quick to condemn the Ameri-
can policy in Vietnam, although we really
do not know what issues are at stake.
Communism is challenging the free world
to a domination contest, but are we not
included in this so-called free society?
Whether or not we like it the United
States of America is doing its share and
ours of the fighting. We huddle within
our boundaries, while our civil service
and government spend valuable hours and
weeks bickering like a bunch of school
children over very trivial matters.
It has been brought to my ,attention
that, in times when men grew long .hair
and dressed in fancy boots and lace, let-
ting someone else do their fighting meant
formal dishonour.
If this very day we.suffered an attack
from m the Communist aggressors in Russia
or China, to whom would we turn for aid?
The crumbling British Empire could not
succeed, which leaves only one alternative:
America. If America adopted our policy
of non'inyolvement then where would we
be?
The country of Canada should stand
up for what is right and good. This be.
ing done, no matter what rood she takes;
or what policies she decides upon, as long
as she knows to the best of her ability,
that it is what she should do, then silo
shall be counted as a true world Nation.