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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1972-04-27, Page 94? q Ir tomers. After a trip from Toronto to Ottawa and oy Air Canada last week we wonder whether the publicly -owned airline is headed For the same fate as CN rail: Air Canada has had a good history of t. irk end satisfactory -service so far --which made 't all the more astonishing to undergo the delays and frustrations we experienced this tale. The airline's flying equipment is • good and we have no complaint about the courtesy of its in-flight personnel. It was at the terminals where we found the going a bit thick. Admonished to be at Toronto Interna= tional at least 3.5 minutes before flight time we did just that. Along with the several hundred other passengers who were lined up to exchange tickets for boarding passes we spent 30 -of the required 35 minutes inching forward in a slow-moving line, pushing a heavy travelling case toward the baggage scale. Every second desk and scale at which Air Canada personnel could have been speeding the flow of passengers on their -way was marked by a big sign which read "Posi- tion Closed". So, apparently, the airline saves money by making all passengers come half an hour early and laying off half its pas- senger service clerks. Air Cci nc.,da CouI.d Suffer cN's. Fate Everybody in this part of the world knows what has happened to Canadian Na- tional Railways passenger services. They are dead and.gone--not merely because they were outmoded by private passenger ve- hicles. A powerful contributing factor in their demise was the very poor service which was provided for the paying cus- With Toronto International located a few miles this side of the city, it is. relatively easy of access for Western Ontario residents. If and when it is moved to Pickering another delay and much inconvenience will be added to trips by air. Witness what p,lappens to an air Traveller when he arrives at Ottawa. The airport it lo- cated, of course, quite a few miles from the city itself, so the passenger bound for down- town has a choice. He can take a regular air- lines bus or limousine and spend the follow- ing 45 or 5Q minutes dawdling along through the byways into town, stopping at four or five hotels on the way --for a fee of about $1.25. Or, on the other hand, if he has an appoint- ment to keep or a. deadline tomeet he can take a cab and the price will be about $5.04. His return ticket to Toronto has already cost him $50, so he can add another 20 per cent, or. $10 for cab fare. The final touch of cheap greediness- -comes greediness•comes when he is wandering around one of the air terminals with a bit of time to•kill and he decides to step out onto •the observation deck to watch the air traffic come and go. At the door to the balcony the already browned - off traveller is stopped by a turnstile and he 'has to dig for ten cents to get through the gate. With that sort of high level salesmanship in mind Air Canada should engage the serv- ices of a sharp business consultant. He might point out that they are missing a few other good bets like selling those little ounce -and - a -half liquor bottles on the planes instead of letting the customers take them home as free souvenirs (after they have paid $1.50 for . a 90 cent drink.) Strikes Are Doomed A few years back union ' leaders and labor department officials beganto refer to labor's "right" to take strike action in order to emphasize and sometimes to enforce de- mands for higher wages or better working conditions. Both were at fault, because there is no. such thing as a right. to strike ---the cor- , rect trike—the.cor- rect word is "privilege" --a privilege granted by the will of the people of Canada, or the citizens of any given province. Strike privilege has unquestionably im- proved the lot of the worker and has changed his status from that of the unquestioning slave he was 70 or 80 years ago. Like ali'other. privileges, however, it can be revoked and the indications at the present time are defi- nitely pointing in that direction. There is a clear reason for changing. t e q ,�L s ,ri • public attitudes toward strike bcfron loath two or three years ago the employer was the target of organized labor. Now, however, the general public has become. the chief victim. Strikes in -the post office staff, airlines tech- nici .ns and controllers, hospital and .public workers—all have been planned and timed to • create the greatest possible inconvenience to the public, apparently in the belief that pub- lic pressure would be brought down on the heads of management. Precisely the op- posite has occurred. Public annoyance has invariably mounted against the unions. Th,is column has been saying, and re- peating for at least ten years, that strikes are as outmoded and unacceptable as war. They are too costly for a nation which its striving to hold its place in world markets and to. attain a high standard °of living at home. We have always contended that if the law forces any and every citizen to trust his life or his freedom to a properlyyconstituted court,'surely proper courts can be .entrusted with dealing justly as far as his wages and hours of work are concerned. Last week Premier` Robert Bourassa's government legislated 200,000 public em- ployees back to their jobs under a law which will deny the right* - to strike for at least two years. 9 . Ex -premier John Robarts has joined his opinion to that of U.S. labor leader .George Meany in saying quite plainly that the strike is outdated as a means of enforcing labor de- mands.. Joe Gower, who led the British coal miners in a recent strike which had the na- tion on• its knees, agrees that strikes should be only used as a Fast resort when everything else fails. • Sorry: Can't Agree Provincial 'Treasurer Darcy McKeo.ugh, speaking at the presentation of the Phase One report in the Lake Erie region last week, • made the statement that "hobby" farmers who buy small tracts of land in rural areas pose a greater threat to the agricultural future of the area than does urban sprawl.. We cannot agree with the treasurer. It is true that the typical hobby farmer doesn't contribute substantially to the agricultural' earning.s of any given area, but it it a fact that when he is finally tired of his hobby, the land is still there, readyto accept the seed and tillage of a real farmer who will produce • food. The hobbyist usually does no perma- nent damage to the land he owns, but urban sprawl removes good land from the realm of food production for all time to• come.' Black- top and concrete foundations replace topsoil and cover crops -the land on which our chil- dren and grandchildren may depend for food is permanently lost to. mankind. In any case, why all the worry•about the "hobby" farmer right now? The enactment of more and more. laws to -set„ up markefing plans, which, in fact, place a limit on the pro- duction of regular farms so that higher prices can' be maintained, would indicate that shortage of farm land is the last thing we need to worry about. Apparently we have too much right .now. Lanes NeedMoney, Too This is a poor year to mention it, but our, towncouncil should include the maintenance of the lanes behind stores.iri its street budget. . We say a poor year, because reduced or w limited grants and subsidies are prevalent, especially where the province is Concerned. Most of the lanes to which we refer are in deplorable condition. Full of great pot -holes, starved for gravel and seldom touched by grader or snow plow, these access routes are also in sad need of proper drainage. As a homeowner 'or tenant, and thus either directly or indirectly a taxpayer, you may wonder why your money should be e, spent in the commercial area of the town. There is a sound reason. The lanes are kept open despite the fact that they are located on property owned by the proprietors of the commercial buildings • along the main street. These same property owners pay taxes on the land taken up by the service lanes. Because they have been kept open for so many years, most of the lanes are no longer available as sites for building ex- pansion, despite the fact that in ,many ,in- • 0' stances they leave an "island" of 'unusable land at the rear of the lots. By providing the land for the service lanes the property owner contributes in no small way to alleviation of a parking prob- lem along the main street itself=parking not only of private vehicles, but elimination of a large percentageof the nuisance value of de- livery trucks stopped' along the main artery. There is further justification for the re- quest that the lanes be brought up to a pass- able standard. Every businessman in town pays a special business tax which is not as- sessed against residential property. Pre sumably this. extra tax is meant to provide funds for the maintenance of just such extra services as access lanes—in . addition, of course, to more vigilant policing 'and night watch services than required for the homes in the community. Whether or not this year's publit works - budget will stand the strain of some expendi- ture on the access lanes, we do not know. However, the' longer it is delayed the more. costly it will become in the long run. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Published at Wingham, Ontario, by Wenger Bros. Limited. Barry Wenger, President - • Robert 0. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian and Ontarior Wet kly Newspaper Associations. Subscription Rate; Subscription $10.00 a year, $5.25 for six months, in United. States $1250 in advance.! Second Class Mail Registration No .0821 Return Postage Guaranteed The Pict Against. Our Sch.00ii. Teachers are being larbbbd from all quarters theme .diirtf poor things. As a speck", they are practically herrnles$. .t then is not that one of the:UMW table laws, of our society? Attack the harmless, and tread• -Wanly with the powerful and the less. According to their critics, all they are interested in is trmoe money. This, of course, is 401,t*1. of plumbers, policemen, &eters and dentists, lawyers and even Indian chiefs, garbagemen a ld garage operators. Sure they're interested in more money, at_least enough to keepp.p with the galloping cost -of -living index. But it's a lie that money Well they are interested in. The grit majority is interested chief y n doing well what they are SUP' posed to do—educate our chil- dren. And I can't blame them when they get a little sore at the con- stant, usually ignorant heckling of people who don't know what it's all about. Nor can I help feel- ing a certain kinship when some e of the more militant young teach- ers start talking about strikes and such. A garbageman can go *on strike, a teacher can't. The logic eludes me. The whole business bothers Me very little, personally. A man who has been through a war and,a decade as a weekly 'newspaper editor has developed a pretty tough skin. But there is something a little sinister in the growing influence of politicians on education, for purely political reasons. And I feel a tremour of alarm when I see a few se -called responsible daily newspapers frothing at the mouth when the simple word "teachers" emerges. I am grinding no axe. In fact, I don't even have a hatchet for chopping kindling. I'lost it. But it appears to me that a few Machia- vellian characters have put their pointed heads together and de- cided to destroy, deliberately, our educational system. The system, when you and I went through jt, dad, was far from perfect. But it needed re- formation, not defamation. It re- quired healing medicine, not mad, massive surgery. The first political step toward chaos occurred when many of the local school boards throughout Canada lost their autonomy. The Boards were made up of men and women who would bust a gut, literally, to get the best possible education for their own, local kids. It was far from perfect, but it worked. Then the provincial govern- ments decided this was archaic. Of course it was. So is the Bible. So is democracy. So isthe con- ceiving of children. Next step. In Ontario, for ex- ample, county school ' boards were formed. Administrators were appointed who knew noth- ing of strictly local conditions. In many cases, not all, theschool boards became mere rubber stamps for the administrators. The latter, in turn, work hand in glove with the provincial Depart- ment of Ed. It, in turn, is respon- sible to the party in power. A nice little ring -a -round. So who is run- ning what? When this was first proposed, I prophesied the result increased costs.; decreased efficiency. And I take back not a word of it.. Ask any teacher. Then tle government, with pious rectitude, after a period of spending untold millions on edu- cation, and almost suggesting that everyone who makes it in Grade I should graduate from university, takes a sidelong look at the ta)cpayers, and decides to play Jack the Giant .Killer. Via spending ceilings on education. There don't seem to be any spending ceilings on health and welfare. But out of one side of its mouth, through its tame Department of Ed., government says, "Let's have "mote innovative, daring, relevant courses for our stu- dents." Out of the other side it says, "Sorry, we can't afford that.,.. or that... or that.," Something stinks? .To me it does. Oh, well, let's raise the taxes on booze and smokes and build some more highways and airports. Let's raise tuition fees and cut down on government scholar- ships and maybe the universities won't be so crowded. And let's get out the whips and show those ungrateful teachers where they belong -back in the cages. News Items from Old Files APRIL 1937 Rev. Dr. George P. Duncan of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stratford, was Monday night at Sarnia elected modera for of the Presbyterian Synod of, IHanlilton qndLondon, . t,block. . �st week Robert •Spottoned on a farmer near Goderich and had a peculiar experience..The farmer's goat spied its reflection in the side of the car and before bear. The animal refused to be frightened away and it was a case of fight or run for McNall. He. wisely chose the latter. Five persons have tried, and • failed, during the last few days, . Mrs. Wallis Warfield mpson's final divorce decree aridtprevent her marriage to the Duke of Windsor. MAY 1947 the goat was driven off it had in- flicted several dinges to. thedoor of the car and scratched the paint job. / ' The annual meeting of John Street Baptist Church was held last week. Elected deacons were George Pocock, John Kelly and Albert Horne; trustees are A. Cosens, H. Mundy and John Kelly; H. Collar is treasurer and organist is Mrs. George C. Hanna. At the noon hour on Wednesday last week a -sheet of galvanized iron flew off the hydro'building, floated onto the street and crashed into Frank Edgar's car. The hood of the car wasscratch- ed and a hole was punctured in the windshield.. Last week in a room• at the Masonic Hall a Bible stated to be, more than 100 years old was found. The name inside the Bible is John Whitehead.. • ` At a special council 'meting held Friday it was decided tolpur- chase a fire truck, W. H. Gurney was elected vice president of the Bruce Softball League at its meeting in Hanover last week. Howard Agnew of Lucknow was elected a' member of the Executive. Walter VanWyck was ap pointed to the Hospital Board as representative of Town Council. While working on the railway west of Lucknow, Ro,iert McNall was confronted by a big ,black howcoste? Over fifty persons left their names with Sam Burton, Direc- tor of Recreation, following the play "Laughing Gas" in the Town Hall, signifying their interest in a new Drama Club which is to be organized on May 5th. Sgt. Major Lackie visited Wingham High School last Thurs- day to conduct examinations for the Signallers of the Cadet Corps. Cadet Stanley Hiseler passed the . test in Morse code at six words per minute. Cadets John Armi- tage, Joseph Burns, Norman Dickinson, James Hall, Robert Lever and Ralph .Seddon quali- fied at 12 words per minute. At a special meeting of Town „Council, the tax rate for the year was set at 55 mills, an increase of five• mills over last year. Newly elected officers of the Senior A Softball. Club are Vic Loughlean and Horace Aitchison. Manager of the team is M. Bader. George Thomson, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Thomson of Bluevale, a member of the graduating class at•Western Uni-, versity this year, was awarded the Reuben Wills Leonard Schol- arship to Toronto University for next year. Three new members, Dr. George W. Howson, Miller Davis and Sam Burton; were welcomed to the Lions Club. John Hanna paid tribute to several business- men who had recently retired from business: A. M. Crawford, Thos. Fells, Geo. Williams, Geo. "NOW COME YOU WON'T PAY HE rue QUARTER «q w 'rata g46E1'/iv6 MY Hoar,/ s/1(17? „ Olver, Miss Graham, J.• A. Haugh, Harry Browne, Fred Car- ter, R. Galbraith, H. Campbell and J. A: Wilson. ' Members of the Wingham United Church choir presented their organist A. W. Anderton,. prior, to his retirement, Mr. An- derton has been choir leader and organist for six years. ' Cloyne Michael of Gorrie has started work on the new building which he is going to erect in that village, south of .the M. D. Irvin Funeral Home. The building will be used for cold storage and locker service. APRIL 1958 'lwhe rifle team of the 99th bat- tery, RCA, Winghath, competed in three winter shoots with the DCRA and ended up in the second division and in the prize money in each shoot. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Ca.ntelon have 'been awaiting word on the condition of their five-year-old daughter Patricia. The child suffered a serious eye injury last Friday when the point of 'a pair of scissors pierced the lid and the eyeball. She was rushed to Victoria Hospital, Lon- don, where she underwent sur- gery. The specialist and the child's parents are hopeful that the sight will be saved. USS 11, East Wawanosh and Hullett won the shield for unison chorus. (small schools) with 86 marks at the- Hullett Township Festival held at Londesboro. Teacher is Mrs. Myrtle Yungblut of Blyth' and music supervisor is Mrs. Elaine"'McDowell of RR 7, Lucknow. Vera Sharpe, a student at the Wingham District High School, was selected by the QUeens of 64• other Ontario schools as their choice for outstanding honors when the girls and their chaper- ones visited London last week as guests of the London Free Press. John W. Hanna, MPP, has noti- fied the Wingham General Hospi- tal of, a special rehabilitation grant amounting to $18,200 which will be paid to the local institu- tion. Murray Stainton was named president of the Kinsmen Club of Wingham. Vice presidents ore Jim Currie and Fred Temple- man ; secretary is Harvey Fisher and treasurer is Ivan Gardner. L. C. Bryce has been appointed local agent of the Formosa Mutual Fire Insurance Company and will service the area former- ly in charge. of the late Percy J. King. At the annual banquet of the North Huron Association of Wo- men Teachers, Miss Phyllis Johns presented a Federation pin to Miss Vera McLaughlin who is retiring at the end of June. Murray' Campbell, son of Mrs. James Campbell of Minnie Street, has joined the Navy and left for Cornwallis, N.S. to begin his training. TODAYS. cru • / /rr• ,';"rid .�••,., .. �' j?. /r/ f / fr !� T ., r. fi. , ,,,,,T.,....,..,::4:(,<'%i%:!,:-:',/..,-,..',4%. ''.•;,-,,,,,' • ''',?...:,'?>:' r ttt rr �`, r., I' • • mfr • of ' it P i Jr, 'c'//./•; • OA' ••'fes%. r%,r¢ jY y - ' . /?• .� Orr _ 6 ,• err' ,; /'''� '� 4,%#''3;/s;.j•��; f jr,, rlrrr x s! j/i.'//r r •�,%i r / .r' • rf / -,p!!r > r ,fi / / r•'" / rr /%' /r/••},'i Irl r //• .. ,// /r,.' _; i l r l//f !r% r r ' ;`ry / 'ti �� .• //r; rt:si r • / r /. f r r/ rE r 9 r ! r rj�{/r' ,/. . 'Jj,y/ _!/ ifr/,rr�•G/'% •fes ! /S'•;/ //. _ ,rl 4! IA'ES TIIE OUTDOORS Grant, with an engaging cowlick keeping his blonde hair from going where he %tants it. has just had his ninth birthday. Ile's a most likeable lad, small and slim with blue eyes and fair skin— freckled in the summer. 1Iis background is Anglo-Saxon. (:rant is a real outdoor bo,. Ile loves camping and is fond of sports. especially hockey and baseball. Ile is a great collector, e . interested in all the creatures a. boy can -find in woods or fields, , in streams and under stones. Toads. crayfish, mire — anything • • small and pick -up -able is likely to find a. place in Grant's • pockets. . .• (:rant is popular with his schoolmates a• nd makes friends • - readily with adults. Ile is in Grade four where 'he has some problems with reading, but has no behaviour probleths and is %Tell regarded by his teacher. , . 1n even-tempered boy, (;rant is responsive to encouragement ' and praise. Ile has patience and can tolerate losing. Grant needs relaxed, loving parents who will want to give him • much attention and stimulation in a home where there will -not be academic pressures. He should be the youngest in the family. • To inquire about adopting Grant, please write ,to Today's • Child, Box 888, Station •K, Toronto. For general adoption in- formation, ask your Children's Aid- Society. H -e a iith :for All... . . .. . , • UNDERWATER BREATHING. MA$KS Surgical mask are-standit'd costumes in operating rooms. But scuba gear may be the next style. At Indiana University Hospital in Indianapolis, operating room personnel wear surgical masks 'connected to respirator systems that function like scuba masks. Air is supplied, while exhaled carbon dioxide is directed away from the operating area. A gentle breeze of sterile air is blown con- stantly over the patient. .In the real underwater world, a scuba diver straps to his body the equipment that supplies his air and removes the carbon dioxide he exhales. The air he breathes, underwater as well as out of the water, is one-fifth oxygen and four-fifths nitrogen. But nitrogen becomes narcotic to divers after a depth of about 40 ,yards. At deeper.levels, divers have to car- ry expensive helium instead of nitrogen. Scientists ate looking for ways to, increase man's ability ' to breathe underwater without masks. At the University. of Mar- seilles in France, Dr. Jacques Chouteau kept two goats alive for a'° full day in a pressure chamber simulating conditions 300 yards and rwA}Q of he' experiment :was' fiat a " inder filled with a gas called po• tassiuni superoxide kept recon- • • vetting just the right amount of oxygen in . the chamber. The goats, incidentally, thrived on their daily ration of one cigarette, which : they ate with obvious pleasure.. One day man can live under the sea if he canfigure out how to breathe just the right' combina- tion of gases. , In the meani'iihe, to find out more about the many problems of breathing above water, contact your local tuberculosis and res- piratory disease association. It really is a matter of .life and , breath. Drivers are reminded .y the • Ontario Safety League that the amber caution sign doesn't ,say, e "C'mon, hurry up and you can get through!' It does say, "You've got time to clear the .in- tersection if you're in it; < but watch for impatient drivers and pedestrians waiting to jump in from your right ! " • • • ��,; :. -' PETER GOODALL, member of the Police Maple Leafs of the Novice House League, is fitted with the jacket 'provided by the police by associate coach Bob Wittig. —Staff Photo. , MJ