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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-09-12, Page 4.ti ' A p page of editorial opinion September 12 � Politician or statesman? Canada has a new leader, a man of proven political sagacity, a skillful communicator who is able to engender (enthusiasm for his particular party and cause,. What now remains to be seen is whether or not this same man has the breadth of vision and the necessary In- sight into a complex future to become a statesman of real and lasting stature. if Brian Mulroney Is Indeed the "man of the people" he claims to be: if his grasp of the fundamental needs of ordinary Canadians is sincere, he now has an opportunity to lead this nation to a new age of achievement. His first and most difficult task will lie within the bounds of the party struc- ture which has brought him to power. It will be difficult to select a lean and ef- ficient cabinet from the dozens of newly -elected Conservatives who will be panting for long -dented power. The astonishing success of Conservative candidates In Quebec imposes an obli- gation for strong francophone repre- sentation in cabinet. Likewise the unanimous support of his party in Western Canada must be rewarded suitably. The next few months will be a time of testing — not only testing of the man at the top, but- the Progressive ,Con- servative party itself. The greatest sin- gle weakness of that party has always been Internal; lack of unity and the tendency of disagreement within party ranks. Unless -Mulroney can build and ,maintain a new sense of party discip- line and common purpose the landslide victory at the polls will be short lived. The new government is faced with some great difficulties — and some wonderful opportunities. If we are to reach the heights of national achieve- ment which beckon us forward, all Canadians must recognize that the time has come when we must work to- gether, forgetting sectarian selfish- ness, as an intelligent and cooperative people. Labor and management, French and English, East and West, all must be fired by the vision of a united and vigorous nation working together for the common good of all our parts. Together we can do it Last week the residents of this area, urban and rural received a print- ed appeal on behalf of the Wingham and District Hospital for funds needed to carry forward its current building project. The brochure explains in some detail the needs which will be met by the addition and asks for personal donations to the $400,000 which will have to be provided by the public. Your first reaction may be that the sum is very large - which it is if -it were to be raised within only one or two municipalities. However the folder also contains a map which indicated the large area which is served by the hos- pital. Spread over such a broad terri- tory, the financial needs of the pro- gram should not bear too heavily on any one family. True, there are many calls upon our personal funds these days., Few, if any, appeals have such a direct and personal importance to local people. Probably every person who lives within the area indicated on that map will, at some time, sooner or later, be in dire need of the services the hospital can provide. Your fingers may twitch a bit as you write your cheque for the hos- pital's building fund, but the price you pay will seem insignificant when you or a loved one need the services of a modern, well-equipped place of treat- ment. Our hospital should not be merely "good enough". It must be the best we can provide for ourselves and our fam- ilies. The state -and the nhurch During the campaign preceding the American presidential, election this.• fall,,,{t tsvnutural;that,ithe, candidates . seek every possible plank which -can be added to their platforms. The man who espouses those issues seems to be pop- ular with the voters will undoubtedly garner votes. President Reagan sensed some time ago that the growing popularity of fundamentalist religions could be em- ployed to gain supporters and in his ac- ceptance speech a few weeks ago came out strongly for prayer in the nation's schoolrooms. • As might be expected, his state- ment raised the old question of the dangers of an alliance between church and state. Now the argument runs that those who oppose such •a religious al- liance are. not truly religious people and should be totally condemned. Any person who has even the faint- est concept of history knows that church and state must remain totally separate. Not because there Is any- thing wrong with religion, but for the simple reason that inevitably one form pf religion will dominate all others as the government of the day learns which of the many religious sects Is'rnost pop ulous and most persuasive. • Read for yourself the persecutions which took place in England as Cath- olicand Protestant monarchs succeed- ed one another on the throne. Henry VIII broke with the Church of Rome; his daughter, Mary had hundreds of Protestants burned to death; a second daughter, Elizabeth was not quite so vicious but she certainly gave her Catholic subjects a bad time. The Stu- art monarchs who succeeded her, alternated between Church of Rome and Church of England, with Puritans, Quakers and Presbyterians thrown in for good. measure. In every. case the re- ligious believers who were out of step with the king or queen had to suffer for their various faiths. Government's attitude to religion should follow one path only: guar- anteed freedom for people to worship as they please. Let's keep It that way. Justice gone astray As the investigation into the baby deaths at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children grinds on, month after month, it becomes abundantly clear that the cause of justice in this case has been utterly destroyed. No solid evidence of guilt has been produced, but several of the persons involved have suffered character assassination in the process. Although 'nurse Susan Nelles was cleared by a preliminary hearing months ago, when the presiding judge found there was insufficient evidence to bring her to trial, a Toronto police- man last week openly delcared he still believed her guilty. Another witness at the Grange Commission hearings recently de- clared his belief that either Miss Nelles or her supervisor, Phyllis Trayner must have committed the murders. Since the hearings have all been held In public and fully reported ihthe press,. there is no possible way that either of these two women could ever oe tried by. an unbiased jury. Our judicial system is supposed to hold an accused person innocent until proven guilty. This particular case has demonstrated how tragically thls con- cept of untainted fairness can fall. Have you heard it? Last week the well-known enter- tainer, Gordy Tapp, was a guest on the Don -Harron Show which is seen on the CTV network at one o'clock weekdays. Tapp is certainly an accomplished comedian, as his roles In many network shows over many years will attest. Commenting on Tapp's'use of dia- lect in So many forms, Harron asked him how many the entertainer could employ. Tapp said he used several, perhaps a dozen or more. He spoke a few words In several of those and then said that he discovered a hew one a few years ago when he was in the Exeter - Clinton area. Then he came out with some words In a broad country accent, reminiscent of the "hayseed" por- trayals on "Country Hoedown" — the wuf Speak up for dairy Dear Editor, I have been telling my friends what a lovely place Wingham is, that the people are so nice. I have now changed my mind. Only ' Some of the people are nice. With so many dairies having been forced out of business, why is the Wingham Council trying to do the same to the one in town? Is is sour grapes, or just plain cussedness one someone's part? They have been here a number of years and I know they are well -liked. I am sure their taxes are paid on time and a great help to the town. Come on, you people, speak up for the owners of your dairy. When election time comes up again, make sure you put men in office who want your town to prosper and grow; also pick a couple of women who will help to keep them in line. Winnie Taylor RR 1, Wingham Items from Our OId Files SEPTEMBER 1937 As no case of infantile paralysis has developed here, schools in this district will open next Monday, September 13. Schools in town, also in the townships of East Wawanosh, Morris., Turnberry and Howick have been closed as a preventive measure against the spread of the disease. The Huron Presbytery of the United Church of Canada met in Dungannon United Church and endorsed en- thusiastically a resolution to close all beverage rooms in the county of Huron, in order to safeguard the youth of our county. Arrangements are pro- gressing in Fergus forthe largest . crowd' in that } eeii- fury-old village's history. More than 100,000 are ex- pected to attend the 25th annual International Plowing Match from October 12 to 15. • • Rev. William Moore, minister of the Presbyterian Church at Brussels, has accepted a call from the congregation at Puce. and Essex in the Chatham Presbytery. Three Wingham-area girls, Isabel Habkirk, Helen Miller and Aileen Under- wood left for Guelph where they will attend MacDonald Hall. - The Tosyland Construction. Company has been given the contract to resurface Wingham's Josephine Street. It will extend from the bridge at the south end of town to the B line and will take two weeks to complete. exaggerated hick dialect which is sup- posed to be the way an uneducated farmer might talk. One Is left to wonder how many people Tapp actually listened to when he was In our area. After living a life- time in these parts we have yet to hear anyone, educated or other wise, who - speaks the way Gordy says they do. True, most localities at one time used a few phrases or sentences which were unique to theirown neighbor- hoods, but never have we heard the typically backwoods jargon which . Tapp claims is the trademark of our part of the country. Perhaps he has played the hayseed role long he hears what he wants to ear. SEPTEMBER 19.49 The Wingham Lions won the WOAA Pee Wee baseball championship by defeating Clinton 15-13 in the third and final game. H. V. McKenney, C.P.R. agent at Wroxeter, has been transferred to Orillia. Mac, -while a resident of Wroxeter, has taken an active interest in the Howick Lions Club and last spring was elected District Deputy Governor of Zone 16. Rev. James C. Galey, also of the Howick Club, has been appointed to fill the unexpired term. A former resident and teacher of W ingham Public School, Mrs. Marion Inglis McPhail of Goderich,has arranged for an annual presentation of a gold Medal. to the pupil in' Wingham Public School receiving the highest standing on the year's work, The medal will' be known as the Marion Inglis Medal. . Farquhar R. Oliver, leader of the Ontario Liberal Party since May ,1947, announced last week that he will step down from the leadership. A convention to choose a successor will likely be held in the spring. Mr. and Mrs. John A. McEwen of Brucefield Wish to announce the engagement . of their only daughter, Margaret Lillian, to Russell Zurbrigg, only son of Mrs. Zurbrigg and the late Ezra Zurbrigg, Wingham. The marriage will take place October 1. Miss Eleanore Carson of Gorrie left last week for Toronto where she has been engaged on the Public School teaching staff. SEPTEMBER 1960 After taking less than a day to tear down the Bert Armstrong service station on Josephine Street and another day or so to clean up the rubble, workmen have the hole dug and are working on the foundation of the new building. The Wingham General Hospital has announced that in future no more than two visitors will be allowed to see any one patient at a time. This rule prevails in most other hospitals in Ontario and is laid down in the in- terests o. f the patients themselves. • . F110 Jane Burke:were installed as presidents at a joint meeting of the local Kinsmen and Kinette Clubs. Respective vice •, presidents are Cal Burke and Doreen McCart- er; treasurers are Murray Gerrie and Mary Williams. • Misses Marykae Newman, Ruth Fryfogle and Sylvia Alexander of Wingham commenced their duties this week at Teachers' College in London. Miss Merle Gowdy is attending Teachers' College in Stratford, Miss Patricia Deyell•in Toronto. Bluevale School re -opened • last week with an attendance of 41 and Mrs. James -Johnston in charge. Begin- ners were Brian Hall, Ricky King, Douglas Stone and Clifford Hetherington. Two new oil furnaces and two washrooms have been SunRise Dairyon good terms with its neighbors Dear Editor, I believe a false im- pression has been made re: Letter of Intent in last week's paper. The - owner of SunRise Dairy has a good relation- ship with the neighbors on. Centre Street and Josephine Street and has a signed petition by these neighbors stating that they wish SunRise Dairy to remain at the same location. Renus Bailey, the owner of SunRise Dairy, is a law- abiding citizen with no criminal record and would at Problems solved at gQnealogical workshop Dear Editor, Genealogy is becoming more and more popular of late and during the past few years the number of people searching for their origitls has grown tremendously and it has been with pleasure that I have noted letters to the editor in your paper from people seeking help in locating "lost" families. Many of your readers are well aware of the increasing "addiction" to searching for one's roots, but there are so many places to Search, so many things to look for. The Huron County branch of the Ontario Genealogic?) Society is holding its fifth annual genealogical work- shop on Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Canadian Legion Hall in Goderich. Lectures by guest speakers will cover a variety of topics of interest and benefit to all. There will also be sales and display tables and, of course, anyone with problems is .welcome to quiz our members, a number of whom have been doing genealogical research for 40 - ,odd years and have a lot of answers. So bring your problems along. Anyone wishing more information may contact me at 524-2870 (evenings) or Ruth Ann Chapman at 524- 21',72 .Thank. vou. Carole Robinson Goderich installed in the Gorrie United Church basement. SEPTEMBER 1970 Firestone Stores officially opens its new store in Wingham this morning. Located ' in the former McClure Motors building on Josephine Street South, the store will handle a complete line of home and auto sup- plies. Two Belmore-area men were successful in the Bruce County Plowing Match held at the Doug Simpson farm. Ronnie McGlynn won first prize in his class, the special for best crown and the special for best finish in this -class. T-. P. O'Malley also won. first in his class, firstier :best crown and first foe -best finish. • As school began for Whitechurch students, little Kendra Purdon, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Purdon, and Karen Beecroft, daughter bf Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Beecroft, started. on the long trail to Brookside School in Ashfield by bus. The Wingham 'unit of the. any time help any person in the town of Wingham or any other town to the bestof his ability. It is not his intention to cause any problem for anybody, the only desire is to operate his business .and improve his plant. A processing dairy has been at the same location since 1935, so the original planners were well aware of this fact. It would be unlikely that Patty White or anybody else would find a processing dairy anyplace due to the fact the large corporate giants control nearly all dairies in Ontario. We'personally feel that as no citizen has complained to us about these problems that the planning committee has suggested, something is wrong. We therefore wish to convey our only interest is to run our •'business, which is difficult enough in the present economic times. We have had only congratulations and best wishes from the citizens of Wingham in our endeavour to compete in the Toronto market. Wingham Canadian Cancer Society elected Jack Alexander president ata meeting in the council chamber. DeWitt Miller is vice president, Mrs. D. B. Porter treasurer and Miss Myrtle Deans secre- tary. Miss Judy Reid, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Reid, enrolled at the Victoria Hospital School of Nursing, London, for the class of 1973. Miss Mary Ellen Walsh of Belgrave left on Monday to attend Stratford Teachers' College. PRESS QQUNCIL .The Adva0eTimps is a member cif fhb OlMariox Press Council which will consider written com- plaints about the publica- tion of news, opinions and advertising. If a com- plaint can't be resolved with the newspaper, it should be sent to the On- tario Press Council, .151 Slater St., Suite 708, Ot- tawa, Ont. K1 P 5H3. TODAY'S CHILD BY JUDITH ADAMS That gorgeous smile is very much part of Jacques' happy tem-' perament. He's eight years old and though he hasn't had the hap- piest childhood, his dif- ficult early years haven't impaired his optimism. Jacques needs a lot of extra love and attention. He also needs a definite routine and firm limits. Most of all, he needs parents who believe iii him and value him. It would be best if they are French-speaking, as Jacques first lan- guage is French. Jacques is small for his eight years, with a rather delicate phy- sique, but he's in excel- lent health. He usually wears glasses,and needs them for impaired vision. They don't spoil those good looks in the least, but Jacques thought he'd rather be photographed without them. Jacques likes being outdoors, and is fond of drawing and playing with lego blocks when he's inside. He enjoys children's books and cartoons on TV. At school he is in a regua- lar grade 1 class, and making progress, but his concentration is poor and he has some difficulty in the devel- opment of language. It's likely he will need some special help at school, but it is difficult to know how big a pari his feelings of rejection and his anxiety about his life are playing in his delays. Insecurity certainly affects his behaviour for while he's a lovable, friendly boy when he feels safe, he can become agitated and aggressive in an unfamiliar situation. If you think yours may be the family that can welcome Jacques and help him put down roots, please write to Today's Child, Ministry of Community and Social Services, Box 888, Station K, Toronto. Describe your present family and your way of life as fully as possible, and include your tele- phone number. 1984 Canada Wide heatufe Service(ir ii erl '