The Wingham Advance-Times, 1968-05-16, Page 3VICO
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The *ring confe ttce for
Region 6 0/the Association for
the Mentally Retarded was held
In the Chesley Public Sehoo/
audirocium on Saturday. „Sev.
erei members of the Wineltain
and District Association *tend*
ed, AU* Students frorn the Win
hatn District 1-ligh School and
tecknow 1110 SchoOl. Over
half of the 200 in attendance
were young people from the
secondary schools in the region.,
guests of the Association,
The speaker in the morning
was Ralph Button of Hamilton,
president of a yonth group in
thisfield in Hamilton. He
spoke -of the need of building
loeiti youth, groups throughout.
the province to help develop
thelnentally retarded by pro. -
viding them with recreation,
sociill'affeirs. arid craft classe$
and helping, in many other ways,
Such as being comp coOncillors.
Be told of the -activities
the group itself, ti.e meetings
and youth conferences which its •
members attend. Mr., Batton is
working,, on provincial involve.,
mento(these groUps..,
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WINGHAM -
Phone 357-1282
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Taft of Walkerton
ative of O. Ar
t on the Ont.,
Conference
held in *stilt Ste. Marie on
May 3rd and 4sh, which aiso
Included the youth interested in
this work.
J.M. Telt, chairman of the ,
Anthoritier for.Retarded chi14-
ten in this region salt an 'out -
lint of the changes in admin»
istution of the schools under
the new county boards,
special speaker for the
afternoon was Dr. $.1. icoeglar,,
stipedritendent of die -Mental
Retardatiop centre, Toronto.
Pr. ,Koeglax is well known for
his untiring-effons in this field.
Ilia message Was directed to the
youth. ttlete84ext being on the
etiology .of mental retardation.
The new slate of officers for
the executive Of Region 4 Assd;-
elation was broeght in: itnttiw-
diate past'president, Clarence
Thompson,_Walketton; prof -
dent, RobertNinthrop', Mount
Forest; Vigo:president. Mrs,
Jack. Rea -vie!? W Jug harm.secte-
EarfNelSOn., Monnt Forest;
and treaSurer, ElwOod Pinkettoh,
"Mamma, did you ever see
cross-eyed,,bear?" "Why, no
Bobby, I never did. Why do you.
ask?" "Well,,In. Sunday School
they sang ahoet 'the consecrate, '
.ed cross-eyl id bear';' °
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frOtIONN*Oter at the ACtileVeMeet .Day program at Heefe-
ick Central 00opf.. From left are ,iean.,AciaMs, Jean Neve, •
ton, Patti Hart, Doreen; Riley, and 'Brenda,..HarriSon. In
the loa'ckgrouend are Mrs. Agnes, Wright, Mrs. Dorothy. Gib-
son, leaders Of .the group, ,and - MissSharOe Carroll, home
economist for Huron County. • .
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..-elpomfrOtio.ns,....•:kils.i--and exhibits are -
part .of -4-11 Achievemeaf Day rn Ho*.ick.
Six girls received provincial
, honors and eleven received
county, honors at Saturday's
Achievement -Day in Howick A
Central School. The event was
the conclusion of the project,
"The Club Girl Entertains" 6
Twelve clubs participated and
over WO club girlS'and guests
attended.
Provincial Honer pins and .
certificates were plesented to
Judy King, Gorrie; Gladys Huth,
R. R. 2, Clifford.; Donna.Staplee
on, R.R. 1, Ethel; Wendy mo-.
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Ewan, R. R. 2, Gorrie; Donna
, MeNurchy, R. R. 1 Listowel; •-°
Marilyn Crawford, R.'R. 1, .
Monkron. These girls have
satisfactorily completed 12
projects. •
Receiving Coenty Honor pins
and certificates for completing'
six projects were Jean Brown,
Gorrie; -Elizabeth Galbraith,
?,R. 1 Gorrie; Beverley Newton,
R.R. 1, Wroxeter; ,Linda Doug-
las, R. R. 1 Clifford; Laura Ing-
lii,-11; R 1, .Clarord; Karen
'lltAi.in,s.FO,rdwielii: Marjorie.
Eadie, R. R. 2"Wingham;
Kieffer, R. R.1 Wingham; Marie
•Baillie, R. R.1 Monktorn Elnor
ROnnenberg, R. R. •1 Monkton
and Linda Douglas, Clifford. -
The presentations were made
by Mrs. Stanley Bride of Ford-
wich.
Commentators for the ex-
hibits were Beth Mendell for
tlelmore I; Elizabeth Massey for
Wroxeter. Jean Smith for Moles-
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•worth and Shirley Ann Raynard
for Ethel, the exhibits being
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Karen Brown for Fordwich arid
Betty. Ann Brown, Gorrie 11,
A Table set for, Two., Mrs, S.
McAllister of Zurich made
comments on the exhibits.
Skits and demonstrations
were judged, and commented on
by Mrs. Joyce AndersOn, Merle
economist for Larribton County.
Taking part as representatives,'
of their clubs were Shirley„Bile
ton, Debbie Zerbfigg, Affretta
Versteeg of Gorrie 1 on flower
arrangements; Anne Harrison
and Agnes Crawiford -of Mon-
crieff on flower. arranging; all
members of Belmore Jflon
packing a week -end bag; Janice
Kieffer, ,Marion Reinhart. De-
lores Ritchie, Gwen Press,
Marian O'Malley and Berna-
date Kieffer of Belmore 11 on
fable manners; Joan Bremper,
Thel-rna Biernes; Barbara, Mc-
Ew an, .Brenda Bremner, Kathryn
Bremner and Gwen Gibson,
Molesworth I, paloking a week-
end bag.
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Certificate i of, achievement
and silver spoons were presented
t� members and leaders who
had merited them through-com;'•
pletidn of the pre,sent project •
and attendance attrairting
school:
Club leaders for the project
,were: Lakelet, Mrs. Henry
Hohnstein and Miss Gladys Huth
thel, Mrs. Geo. Hiemstra and
Mrs. John Brink; Fordwich, Mrs. •
Bruce Agla and Mrs. Scott c lark
larkson; Gorrie I, Mrs. C.
Sparling and Mrs. G. F. Johns-
ton; Gorrie II, Mrs. Russell
,1,1fams and Mrs. Wm, Thornton4
W.roxeter, • Mrs. Wm. Wright
and Mrs. Anderson•Gibson;
Molesworth I, Mrs, Robert
Dremner and Mrs. R.I. Jones;
,glelolesworth II, Mrs.. David
Matheson and Mrs... Mac Smith;
lielmore I. Mrs. Guenther Heim
.and Mrs. D. Mae Adam; Bel -
more II, Mrs. Ken Dickson and
• `Mrs. Geo. Kieffer; Belmore 111,
Mrs-. Maurice Cronin; 'Monet -left ;
° !vast Marilyn Crawford and Miss ;
Linda Smith. • '
car can't
stop on a dime
Engineering :.eniUs ha s
made driving so sy it is
sometimes forgotten that a car
can't stop on a dime. The
time it takes to stop.a tar is
the sein.of the -braking distance
plus reaction -time distance.
° Braking distance is the dis-
tance the car travels after the
brakes are applied. M 10 miles,
about 47 feet; at 60 miles;• 270
feet.
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Reaction -time diStance,
based on human response, is
unpredictable. Theoretically,
the reaction -time begins from
the moment the foot responds
to a signal from the brain to
hit the brake pedal. Under
ideal driving conditions this is
about three-quarterstof a sec-
ond. In that split second, a
car traveling at 25 mph will
have moved.ahead 27 feet.
Reaction -gime. distance Will
vary to the exient to which the'
driver is distracted by core-
versation, car -radio, day-
dreaming, ,low-viSibility. fat- .
ci,goueo..
,i„emotisral upsets or
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Dii7ing with-distradtioris'can'
Mean drieing•to death.
Early days of train snowplow service
produced weird and wonderful tales
Mrs. Tom Burke of Wroxe- ,
ter was going through her scrap-
book recently and found a
couple of articles which made
her think that train travel the
past few years has been a
cinch. •
The first is from the Febru-
ary 22, 1930 edition ofthe
Toronto Star Weekly. The arti-
cle was "Iron Lady of the
Snows", in which was the story
of an engine crew who volun-
teered for snowplow service in
early days. Stuck.in a snow-
drift during a blizzard they
were reduced to a diet Of snow-
balls and ice water by the third
day. That night the foreman,
with a .red epee, hypnotized
jack rabbits Which he slew with
a coal pick. He thereby ac-
quired a taste for raw meat
Which ever after barred him
from restaurants and boarding
houses. He became a lonely
wanderer and finlally pa'ssed out
during a dispute with a bear as
to who 'would be the dinner.
There was also the tale of
Speedy, the brakeman who
was going north one night on
the Mactier Subdivision of the
CPR. Near Bala the engineer
stopped the train for some rea-
son and sounded the code stgnal
which.sent Speedy hurrying to
the backof the train and down
the track to put up,stop signals
for the following Vancouver
Express. He was making good
progress along the track when
he fell over an object. "It's a
bear," he yelled as the object
grunted. In the gloom he
could barely discern the outline
of the beast which was then be-
tween him and the train. He,
set an unofficial rerntfor the
mile as he ran teerneit the pas-
senger train, which he boarded.
As the Express neared Bala it
met the animal Which turned
out to be bacon on the hoof.
A notorious stretch west of
Orangeville on the Bruce Divi-
sion of the CPR was known to
railroad men as thetruit Belt,
The Plains of Abraham and
'Siberia. Officially it was the
Teeswater Subdivision. Veter-
an railwaymen declared, "No
engineer is ever the same- again
after a 'trip up there in Blosson
Tirrie. No official will speak
to anybody after the train
leaves Fraxa."
Sunbeam Hardy related a
trip he had on the Teeswater,
with a freight train. when he
got back to Toronto it took
his wife and half a, dozen neigh-
bours four days to get him out
olbed. He claimed there was
-something about the air up
there that worked on a manlike
chloroform.
He left Toronto the day be-
fore Christmas. From Orange-,
vale on the trip was plagued
by blizzard and mechanical
problems. The train crew had
hot bologna for Christmas din-
ner. When they eventually re-
turned to Toronto his wife took
him for a stranger.
A feature story in the July 17
edition of The Star Weekly,
The Impossible Railroad, was
the construction project from
Seven Islands in the SC.' Law-
rence, winding up to the re-
mote mining town of Knob
Lake, 400 miles south of the
Arctic Circe in the barren
bwoarstei
wastes the Quebec -Labrador
d
• On July 31 of that year trains
were scheduled to begin rolling
south to Seven Islands, ,carrying
rich iron ore to feed the steel
mills of Canada and the United
states. One of the engineers
oil the run was Jack Campbell
who had the feed mill in Gor-
rie from 1948 to March, 1953.
He was picturedstanding by his
cab.
Until 20 years earlier the
Knoh. Lake region was a blank
spot on the map where scatter-
ed hands of Indians trapped.
Few white men went.in and
ellen fewer came out. Winter
there is nine months of the year
with temperatures ranging to
SO degrees below zero.
• Work began in June 1950.
. t
Thirty-six campeten rni1e
s
apart were established along the
route. - Fourteen airstrips were
hacked out of the rock and . •
muskeg and planes flew.in men
and machines around the clock,
as many as 120 landings in a
single day on one strip. By the
,end of the first 18 months only
12 miles of steel were laid.
There were many miraculous
escapes and 25 men died in
accidents. Over 20,000 men
worked on the project but there
were riever more than 6,000 at
one time.
Entertains for
granddaughter
BELGRAVE,-A cup ind
saucer shower was held for Miss
Sandri Dunbar of Stratford at
the home of her.grandmother,
Mrs. Joe Dunbar, on Saturday
evening. Guests were cousins
of the bride-to-be.
• Games and contests were
enjoyed. Lunch was served by
the hostess assisted by Mrs.
Norman 'Cbok and Mrs. Allan
Dunbar, aunts of Miss Dunbar,
Nancy Elliott to
wed on Saturday
A shower was held in the
Oddfellows' Hall Friday even-
ing when neighbours, relatives,
friends, hospital nurses and
other staff members gathered to
present Miss Nancy Elliott,
Reg. N., with gifts prior to her
marriage this coming Saturday.
The bride-elect'S char was
decorated with pink and white
streamers, bells and balloons.
The girls from the hospital
held contests and a dainty
lunch was served at the close.
Among the many gifts re-
ceived were a large picture,
tea kettle, toaster, clothes
hamper, bathroom scales and
mat set, towels and pillow -
cases.
tqa , 1.04:
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ary of a agabond
i ii14-20
By Dorothy Barker
The tali, heavily seemed
cluster of bloom in the little
white lotus howl iould riever
suspect how delectable it look-
ed as a small.brown bulb, or
how its tender first ShOPXS made
my inbutir water with the mem-
ory of chives in.spring w he n,
they first push through the gra-
pally thawing earth,
I have had other such drool-
ing memories as tyiy train has
sped along its right•of-way dut-
4ng my vagabonding. At such
les I have Seen the plantain
a.4 milkweed that flourish in
the poor soil beside the tracks
or bulrushes in swampy areas,.
Then I have remembered the
good thins my mother used to
concoctlidiii these weeds and
other woodland growth.
, One spring chore 1 ne, v e r
hilly relished was WCIdligAarl-
, &lions. These, - my mother
bontended, were better in salad.
than endive. They were our
spring tonic, lesssagging, she
would say, than the sulphur
and molasses:treatnient she had.
been subjected to every spring
of her young life. I have a
sneaking notion she Was trying'
to recapture her own girlhood
spent abroad -among' Europeans, •
who readily'admit they are ad-
dicted to dandelions both in
salad and as wine. 1
I never rgealized there were
.other families aware of the po-
tential ola faun pasture, a -
railway right-of-way, or a
tiiioket to provide our daily
quotientof vitarriins without
charge. But one morning re-
cently my phone rang and my •
neighbor, who -is an excellent
cook, said she had been given
anew cook book for her.birth-
day.
She was excited oi:rcr the
prospects of any number Of re-
cipes contained in "Wild Kerns
in Brandy", authored by Sylvia
Boorman. Only damper to her
enthusism was the fact that
' there was two feet of snow in
our swamp, ..which is a bonanza
, of weed growth in' the ' summer,
and the thermometer outside
my window wasn't fooling when
it registered five degrees below
zero.
You Should know'iny neigh-
bor! She never lets a. tittle
thing like snow or weather
stand_in the way of her cull -
nary inspirations. She was in
a creative mood and couldn't
wait for spring. So she called
'for me in a station wagon puff-
ing great clouds' of exhaust
fumes in protest against the
weather. In less time than it
is taking me to type this col-
umfri we had purchased a
bunch of violets at the green-
house and were given yester-
day's roses for free, Soon we.
were back in her. kitchen with
the new cookbook propped be-
fore us.
, We stearned'up the windows
with 4 brew of sugar and water
flavored,with rosewater she,
made from the recipe contain-
ed in her gift volane. Candy
-
trig the violets was MOW tedi-. 0
OUS to ale tia.4ta to my. gourmet
friend, for I had the job Qf
skimming theca out of the syrup'
and placing them individpany
on wa,* paper, where thq (;)i;j11
crystallized,and were ready to
grace the chiffon cake she had
iced earlier for a luncheon'cles,
sert;.
L shudder to think of the
fate in store for the milk -Weed
pods that coneto fruition be-
side our driveway every fili.
for her new ieeipe states these
pods are 'the most delieiOus
vegetable you have ever eaten::
She has five kids; igend,er if
they Will be of the Same opin,
ion, or turn upinheir stall sna
moses and offer to willingly eat
their spinach.;
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Play present.
at (mit meeting
BELGRAve-.-The Evenksz
Unit ef the Belgrave
held its May meeting in the
Sunday school rooms of the
Church with Mrs. Sam Pletch
as hostess.
Mrs. •Cliff Logan conducted
the devotions, ,assisted by
Stan Hopper and, Mrs. WI/Barn
Coultes..
The mission study was pre-
sented in the form of a play.
"The Name", which took place
Delhi, India. ' Members
taking part were. Mrs. Murray
Scott, Mr.$0 LauraJohnston.
. Lloyd 'Friethir. Mts. JaCk,
Taylor and "stirs. James Coultes.
•
Questions and discussion. follow-
ed.
Members of the Unit made
four, home and 43 hospital
visits for the past month... Ar -
tides for the June bale can be
left at the eitatich.
A'banqiiet for the Federa-
tion of Watnefi Teacher's will be
catered to on May 276 at .6:16,
p.m., in the basement PI the
church..., Mts. 'John Roberts' led
in the Bihivstudf andluhch
was served by Miss Annie Cook
and her assistants..
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