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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1969-02-20, Page 9• t t t $0ost -the: ...Corniyal. I I Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week are special days for this community, The occasion 'will be the celebration Of Winghamis first winter carnival, If the weatherman cooperates there will be plenty of fun for everyone—sports a ell kinds to Interest not only young People but their elders as well. The Kinsmen have takenthe lead in organizing this mid -winter celebration but it will require the interest and patronage of the entire community and surrounding district to mike it the success we hope it wilt be. There are several very good reasons for holding a carnival at this time of year. Most important is the fact that it is. Mid- winter' and those of _us •who are not free to leave for warmer climates reach a mental stage by the end of February which _ borders on depression. We are tired of shovelling snow; we feel that spring will never come and little- twinges of arthritis keep reminding us that weare no longer kids. This is exactly the right time to hkive some fun outdoors—to ,help us recall the days when we thought winter was a won- derful season. With an opportunity to let off a little steam and enjoy ourselves, the rest of the winter won't seem nearly es long as it otherwise might. We must bear in mind, however„ that unless the various events during the car- nival are well patronized, the sponsoring club will quite naturally conclude that we don't really want a winter carnivat after all. We will have to turn out in good numbers to give the celebration the 600st it deserves. This would be an excellent time to invite your friends and relatives from the city, or wherever they may be. It will be a good chance for them to visit not only wail you, but to meet other folks they haven't seen for years. The town of Clinton has just concluded a winter carnival that was declared a real smash success. Prime Minister Trudeau has been jiving if up at the winter carnival in Quebec City. If they can do. it -- so can w9. Time to Call a Halt The students who decided to take *mat- ters into their own 'destructive hands -at Sir George Williams University in Mon- trealhave done a masterful job of setting back the cause of student freedom all.over Canada. The moderates among the univer- sity students must be truly frustrated by the irresponsible actions of this small • group. . Angered by what they believed to be ad unfair attitude on the part of the uni- versity toward colored students, the fracas ended with the destruction of some $2' million worth of university property — computers and other equipment which, no doubt, was provided in large part by peo- ple like ourselves through federal grants. Whatever the underlying causes may have been, nothing could excuse the wan- ton . destruction of university property, placed there to provide the latest and best means of educ'atillin- for the very young- sters who smashed it to pieces. •A sizeable group of the dissidents are still in custOdy, held without bail. We can Aqc n9 reason Why they should not receive , 'the wile sort of tail sentenCeswhich .4 "...M.o....4. would be handed out to any other offend- ers guilty of similar disregard for the rights of the public. • These students, of course, are.attempt- ing mob rule, as are all other groups; student or otherwise, who seek to sway the decisions of ruling bodies by the im- pact of savage violence. Admittedly only a small percentage of students are ready to go to such extremes as smashing up computers but every student who par- ticipates in unauthorized walk -outs and Mass demonstrations is breaking the rules by which society has risen from the swamps of ignorance and feudalism.. Yes, of curse intelligent students should have' an opportunity to air their complaints and . offer their suggestions. The drawback is that every effort to relax the firm control of established authority is met with unthinking violence and stu- pidity. The moderates among the student population will have to demonstrate 'a good deal more strongly their revulsion for these radical tactics if they hope to achieve even a portion of the freedom they so eagerly seek. Destroys Confidence Apparently the television series entitled "Wojeck" is scheduled to return to the air before long, In our. opinion the move to revive the show is regrettabll. "Wojeck" was first broadcast at the time when Dr. Morton Schulman, as chief coroner for the city of Toronto was mak-• ing many startling allegations about cor- ruption in both municipal and provincial politics„ and the 'show was certainly -and very obviously attempting to portray Dr. Schulman in the person of the crusading Dr. Wojeck. The fact that Schulman's charges proved largely unfounded makes little difference. • - The constant theme in the series was the deceptiveness and cowardice of pub- lic officials, whom the fearless Wojeck al- ways exposed to the hot glare of public scrutiny. It is our contention that such a pre- , , 4.t•• sentation leaves the impression with many •k;,‘ viewers that government at any level is t basically rotten, and that only a few cour- , ,1," ageous individuals are able to save us all from the depths of corruption. As such, it • does a great disservice to a system of • • government which certainly does have some faults and weaknesses but which, on ,• t, the long and large, serves us very well. There are probably some crooked poli-. 4.-ticians, just as there are crooked doctors and lawyers and farmers and housewives. But we do not believe for one minute . that .they . constitute the common denom- inator in their field. The day of the un- scrupuloUt, time -serving policitian has dis appeared. The Opposition parties have be- come much too keen at ferreting out mis- demeanors for any government officials to take chances. Another show which leaves a. rather disgusting impression deals with a young 'crusader in federal politics, whose in- nocence is forever bringing. him smack up against the wheelers, and dealers who operate behind the scenes in the House of Commons. ' government at any level leaves something to be desired in the way of honesty and openness, dramasvhich brand the whole operation as something smelly are doing less than nothing to rectify the situation. They simply cast a reputation of evil over government as a whole—im- plying that no decent person should as- sociate himself in any way with such a racket; • • If we manage to 'convince the younger people that government is rotten we will effectively .leave the field • open for those who are, in fact, eager for corruption and dishonesty. Government, like persons, .can be smeared, by innunedo—l-the most cowardly of all forms of attack. A Little Inventiveness Needed -if the automobile manufacturers would like ito learn about their public image they * .should send out a regiment of survey . ` specialists at -license plate -time.,, It is quite • -ipossible that the sum total of foul langu- ,•• . •,..ti age burned up in. Canada over changing , ,,, ',from the old plates to the new would fill i •.3': -4' • ;I national library. si ,ti.. , Why, we wbnder, when they can make iti . - ars with electric windows and windshield - , Washers and radios and tape recorders and • ir conditioners—why do they find it so niilpossible to come up with -a built-in re- ' • eptacle for license plated? „.', Every year it's the same story. The nuts --. '...11ind bolts you pat on so carefully last year have rusted into one solid mass of dirty metal. The vice -grips are applied to the stubborn nuts after barking all the knuckles 9n one hand and then with a mighty effort the screwdriver is applied to the head of the bolt—and the slot breaks out. 'Finally you either take the whole mess 'to the service station or you dig out the hacksaw and the cold chisel., All we ask is a flat area in front and back bumpers with a hinged frame which will permit the plate to be set inside and the frame closed tightly around its edge. But perhaps that is asking too much -for people who are all tied up with their new computers. • THE WINGHAM ADVANCE - TIMES Published at Witigham, Ontarfo. by Wenger Bros. Limited W. Barry Wenger, President 4 Robert 0. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer MeMber Audit- Bureau of Circulation Member Canadian Weekly NewaRapers Association. Authorised by the Post Office bepartment as Second Class Mail and for payment of postage in cash Subscription Rate: 1 year $5.00; 6 months, 6216 In advance; um, PAO per yr.; Foreign rate, PAO per yr. Advertising Rates (in application 1,1 GEORGE 'INGLIS, right, was, recently,. pre- sented with the Badge of: Merit, the high- est award a Legion member receive, by the Dominion president, RObert Kohaly, Huilu Q.C., B.A., LL.B. A veteran of World War 1, George is a char)er member of Royal,„ Canadian Legion, Howick Branch 307, which he helped organize in 1940.. w ha • sIt 4 land and T. J. McLean, were • appointed to interview Hon. Leopold McCauley, Provincial Minister of Highways., to urge • 7„that Highway No. 4 between Wingham and Clinton be brought „lip to government standard and khat this work be one this year. • The Toronto Daily Star for the past few Weeks,has been featuring official war pictures the returned soldiers.here got a great kick out of one pic- ture that appeared last week as Harry Towne was right in the front of the picture facing, the camera. "Digger” was practic- ally a boy in those days as the picture was taken -in 1918. The scene portrays Canadian' soldiers on theCambrai road watching: German prisoners being taken to the rear. Harry was a machine - gunner in those days, but is now a Lieutenant in B Company, Huron Regiment. FEBRUARY 1944 .Miss Mary Brophy entertain- ed the girls of the staff of the Bell Telephone. at her home on Thursday evening, February 3rd, in honour of Miss Jun e Burke, wha-ls being transferred to Toronto in the near funire. June was the recipient of a love- ly leather drawstring bag con- taining a sum of money. Mr. and Mrs. John Finlay, near Wroxeter, have received word that their son Sgt. Henry Finlay, is suffering from serious injuries received on.active ser- vice. No word has.been receiv- ed as to how he was injnredi , 1 but it is known he has cuts and abrasions about the head and FEBRUARY 1920 \ Re "Flu" - free use of Klenzio". Liquid antiseptic, as a mouth wash and gargle will lessen the liability of infection. Sold at McKibbon's Drug Store. tronin Grippe Tablets, Brom- ideVtiininV'T4blits-; NYirLaiptif scold Tablets and all the other leading Grippe and Flu Cures at Mitchell's Corner Drug Store. Voluntary nursing' in homes, soups and other nourishments • are sOlicited by the Ladies' Aux- iliary to the Wingham General Hospital during the present ep- idemic. Anyone wishing to, contribute will kindly leave their names with Miss Mathews; at the Wingham General Hospi- tal. Phone 114. Wingham and vicinity are witnessing a vial amount of sickness . The majority of the locaymedical men diagnose. the 4.idi.e..mic as the old fashion- ed la grippe, although there are a few cases Of genuine in- fluenza and some of pneumonia. Possibly never before were so many sick in bed at one tithe, as is the case now, and the worst cases appear to be in the country and neighbouring vil-7 lages. Dr. Stewart, M.H.O. has ordered schools, colleges, pic- ture house, churches, public li- brary, opera house closed and . all meetings cancelled until • further notice. This step was taken in Order to guard against the spreading Of influenza or grippe which is present in this vicinity at present. He further requests parents to keep their children at home for a time. Mr. D. Wilson, Manager Of the T. Eaton Company; Winni- m, spent a day last week with Alderman J. J. Cunningham and purchased a nu mb er of 'stoves and ranges from Western Foundry. Mr. Wilson was very much -taken with Wingham and we cannot see why he shouldn't' be, for his wife is a former Wingham girl and many friends will fondly remember her as 'Dot' Johnston. • FEBRUARY 1934 , Ontario, Thursday, ,Feb. 20, 1969 SECOND SECTION ms from Old Files Isard's Sale Prices are money savers. Factory cotton 36 inch wide 100; Fine Bleached Cotton, yd. wide 150; Flannelette, yard wide, 150; Chintz and Cretonne, yd. wide, •i$0; Mackinaw flan- nel, yard wide, 2E4; New Prints, on sale at 150 and 190; Large 2 lb. Roll Batting 490; Grey Blank- ets, large; part wool V. 50; Women's Crepe Dresses to clear $1.00, and many more Money - Saving Values await you at this Winter Sale. At a meeting of the Chamber ofCornmerde held Tuesday evening in the Council Cham- bers, Mayor J. W. Hanna,Reev e F. L. Davidson, E. S. Cope- . • otherwise shaken .up. We have just received word that Private Arthur Stokes,. son of Mr. William Stokes, has been wounded. He was serving with the Royal Canadian Regt. in Italy. Arthur's parents are at present residing in Toronto. ' Wingham Town Council had one of the longest sessions on Monday night that it has had in years. A deputation of forty citizens were present and they presented five resolutions from this group. • Mr.. Frank R. How- son,the spokesman. for the dep- utation, said the delegation represented the Anglican, Bap- tist, Presbyterian, Roman Cath- olic, and United Churches, the Salvation Army, The, Mission, teachers of the High and Public Schools and the W. C. T. U. He said that.the deputation was present as Juvenile delinquency had become a problem in this town as Well ais in, other towns. He said that this group had pass- ed several resolutions to be pre- sented to council and called upon Rev. John Lucas, the form- er secretary, to read them. Mr. W. T. Cruickshank and son Bud were in Toronto on Tuesday looking after the broad- cast of Plowmen's Association convention which was carried over CKNX on Tuesday after- noon. There are at least two citi- zens of Wingham that have no fear of the coal shortage. They are Mr. David Murray and Dr. George Howson. The reason is that they have.installed sawdust burners to heat their homes and Dave has one in his shop also. L reuraaty is sadness February! I find you very Hairy, Not to mention Contrary, Weather-wise. Driving is *gluey In February. One mustibn wary Even more than in January. Milk in bottles From the dairy a Freezes on the porch In February, And it's not A. very merry Business Cleaning up the ruddy mess when the bottle cracks and the milk leaks all over the Refrigidairy. • Sorry; chaps, but I've been c nducting poetry -writing classes this week. And at the same time wading through drift, trying to get my •car started in the good old sub- zero, battling my way through 40 -mile -per -hour blizzards, and helping bury an old mate. • Not conducive to a lyric col- umn about the longest -shortest month in the year? Right. a As you can see from the above, the poetry classes have been going very badly. Imagine having a teacher who writes such garbage trying to breathe Life, Imagination, Experience into your creative poetic soul. R's enough to turna kid off poetry for life. Normally, February • is a month in which nobody in his right mind can be found north of the 49th parallel. Unless he hasn't the money to ' escape. That's why there are so many of us lurching through snow- - banks, noses dripping, eyes watering, coughs racking. We're either out ,of our minds, or poor: And in many cases, both. • And if we're not out of our • skulls when the .1nonth begins, we're ready for the straitjack et and total sedation by the 28th. Thank the gods it's not Leap Year. All I needed this year, to • garnish my February complex, was to help bury an old mate. He wasn't old in years, and he wasn't a life -Wig MAW; but I'll miss him. Our paths crossed and re -crossed since FEBRUARY 1955 A well-known landmark on • No. 86 highway' west of the Zetland bridge, the old Zetland stone school was dismantled this weekby ,the Peel Construc- tion Company, who have the contract for removing it from the roadside. Removal of the building was made necessary for rcia&widening operations. A ten-minute parking limit in front of the post office and the. town hall was approved by council at its regular meeting on Monday night. / A by-law covering the motion will bepre- pared and passed at a later date. In a discussion of main street problems, Councilor Earl Ham- ilton pointed out that a good deal of congestion resulted from people double parking in front of the post office and slipping in. to get their mail. This also applied in front of the totb hall; he said, sometimes reiulting in double parking on both sides of the street at the same time. He suggested that a ten-minute parking limit between the •two driveways both of .the town hall and the post office, would al- leviate this condition. A' S.S. Guest Editorial Let's Not Stand Up . , We need bleachers! Yes, bleachers around the 'football field at F. E. Madill Secondary School. Sinc ingham has been engaged in football •ur si den s have flocked out to the eld - tofwatcF our team in action.' Not nly I a e we , ad to endure the cold wind of an October after- noon but we also have had to stand for an hour .or more or "cviihstand the embarrass- ment of dirty trousers from sitting on the ground. Although bleachers would not help the problem of the .cold wind, it pwloeausldantr". ake watching ° the game more Bleachers around the field 'would also By John Jacques help to solve the problem of poor viibiIi- t. With the increasing number of students enrolled at the school it is be, coming harder and harder to see the game. With the tier arrangement of bleachers everyone Would be able to see the game not just those who manage to get a posi- tion next to the field. Students sitting on bleachers would give more support because they would be more comfortabfe. Consequently -there would be more victorkes. for the Mustangs. Let's ask our sudents' councils of the future to build bleachers to help to bring continuing fame to• -the Wingham Mustangs. we both made the ridiculous decision to become teficherS, about nine years -ago. During ow teacher•training summer courses, surreWmea by hot -eyed, panting yotith, just out of university and imp, py in the knowledge that the world was theirs for the ask- ing, we sort of drifted together. in a mutual -defence pact of gentle cynicism, I'd been through a warand a period of carving a living out of a pretty tough roast of a world. He'd been tbrough a terrible accident, broken nec1. and the works, years of pain, filled convalescence. We'd both emerged, battle -scarred but . banners still flying, from a decade or so of marriage and children. We weren't exactly student militants, but we shared is hearty scorn for and a quiet amusement at the establith-* ment, the keen types, the push- ers, the scramblers, the spar. rows trying to make like ea- gles. So we grivitated: and the friendship, sporadic and cas- ual, lasted. After Some years we wound up in the same town; teaching in the same school. We golfed' together quite lot because is'e enjoyed the pace. It. was, leisurely, goodna• tured, and we both 'practised. one-upmanship WIthont, sem ple. You- know the loud scratch of a match at the top of the other's backsWingy the coughing fit when the other was making a delicate putt; the gazing into the sky when the other hit a .,grounder ; the gently raised eyebrow when, the other missed the,ball cont. pletely and almost broke his back in the process. And we kept .a fairly good eye on the yardarm. If'the sun was over it, we marked the occasion in be usual manner.. And many a late summer sifter - noon, we sat under' the oaks and discussed, without ran- cour, the foibles and foflies of the world, while our wives hnd the squirrels chattered in the background. I'll miss the Old Boy. Aistd se - much for February: • FDD confirms pottery hazO OTTAWA— Dangerous amounts of lead were extracted from the glaze ofsome impart4 Japanese pottery in recent tests. in the Ottawa laboratories of . the Food and Drug Directorate. . • Similar tests on two popular Canadian brands of glazed pot- ttry showed a far slower andleach- oinga. dmuch smaller amounts fle The Japanese pottery is high- ly glazed dishware, holly green in colour with decorative clust- ers of red berries. Each exam- ined piece bears the mark "ESD Japan Hand Painted" in black lettering on the bottom and a removable sticky label entitled "An Enterprise Exclnsive, To- ronto, Canada"'.. "The lead in the glaze of this pottery could dissolve into liquids or other foods and cause poisoning, " said Dr. R A. Chap' man, FDD Director General. "Mils leaching is hastened if acidic foods are used such as citrus fruit juices, soft drinks and pickles. Foods consumed from these utensils over a per- iod of several months, or stored in them for some/time, may build up high concentrations of lead in the blood and urine, particularly in children or per- sons of small body weigh", " Dr. Chapman recomffended that this kind of glazed dish - ware not be used for storing fopds, especially acidic foods, even in a refrigerator. because of the danger of lead poisoning relative to the leaching. Dr. Chapman emphasized that the pottery involved should not bc confused with chinaware. YOUR HEART FUND FIGHTS HEART ATTACK STROKE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE INBORN HEART DEFECTS 11