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Another opportunity Iost
Since the Lower Town dam was ruptured several years ago
nothing concrete has been done to repair the damage or replace
the beautiful pond which for years graced our park frontage. Yes,
studies have been discussed, but no one in the seats of power has
really been interested enough to insist on action.
Meanwhile the site is growing up with weeds, and worse, young
trees.
This summer a golden opportunity presented itself. Hundreds of
slabs of sidewalk concrete and numberless loads of fill have been
carted away from the John Street reconstruction project and
disposed of elsewhere. How simple it would have been to truck the
material to the nearby dam and use it to fill the gaping hole. True,
that fill would not have prevented leakage as the pond began to fill,.
but would it really have been very difficult or expensive to complete
the work once the materials were right there on the spot?
Admittedly the town council is facing many expensive public
works projects and the demand for services in a community such
as ours cannot be ignored. However, restoration of the pond can-
not be delayed much longer. It will soon be 'too fate to restore its
natural beauty.
S:ounc.s very trivit....
Labor unrest has again reached crisis proportions in Poland, and
once again we are witnessing the unbelievable courage of Polish
workers who are determined to oppose the power of a government
thrust upon them by the Soviet Union.
The Poles have very sound reasons for striking, because, among
other injustices, they must protest inflation which has seen the
price of food escalate many times over in the past few years.
Troops were called out to quell -the unrest, and many have been
arrested during the past few weeks. However, Lek Walesa, the
courageous founder of Solidarity, the national trade union, has met
and talked with government leaders.
The strikers are going back to work and the crisis appears to
have passed.
How very different here in Canada. The strike of thousands of
Canada Post white collar workers and technicians was all but settl-
ed when talks broke down at the last moment because the union in-
sisted on the right to a paid 30 -minute lunch break!
The suffering of these poor Canadian workers is almost beyond
belief, is it not?
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The growth of democracy
In this relatively early age of world-wide communications people,
for the first time, are granted the opportunity of learning about and
understanding; at least to some degree, how people in other parts
of the world have learned to govern themselves. Quite naturally
- Russians believe their system is the best; the British can rightfully
lay claim to . an older and well -tested system; the Americans, of
course, think it is sheer heresy to criticize the form of government
they have espoused.
Truth of the matter is that those forms of government which have
existed for several centuries have, in many cases, failed to change
with changing times.
Take the case of the Americans. Their constitution, which was
drawn up more than -two centuries ago and remains the holy of
holies to citizens of the United States, is n°ow in some ways out of
date. When that document was written the underlying purpose was
to set up a form of government which would never permit the
presence of a monarch who might exercise dictatorial powers like
those of the King .of England against whom they had sucdessfully
rebelled.
However, their system and its writers could not conceive of a
government that did not have a king -like figure.
Thus they decreed that their presidents should have separate
powers from those of their elected representatives:
So American presidents in this vastly different age can still get
away with: (can -Contra incidents, despite the opposition of the very
men and women who have been elected to speak for the people.
As the Americans are discovering right now, it is ,ttfficplt to find
the sort of leaders who really merit the ir9nrnense trust which must
be placed in a new president.
SEPTEMBER 1941
Definite orders were received at
Military Headquarters No. 1,
London, for the mobilization of the
Wingham 99th Battery. The battery
will form part of an artilleryregi-
ment composed of -the 99th of :town,
the 63rd of Guelph and the 55th of
London. The 99th will return to
Wingham today and recruiting will
take place to bring the battery up to
strength. Major R. S. Hetherington
is hopeful that most of the members
of the battery will sign on for active
service.
So far only, one case of infantile
paralysis has developed here. Mrs.
Ronald Rae 'has suffered a mild
attack which affected her arm but
she is making a splendid recovery.
Kincardine district has seven cases
of polio and schools there did not
open on Tuesday.
At a meeting of the congregations
of Whitechurch, Langside and
Calvin, a unanimous call was
extended to Rev. A. H. Wilson of
Eden Mills. Rev. John Polleck has
been minister there but resigned due,:
to ill health.
Albert Rintoul has enlisted in the
RCAF and is at present at Manning
Pool, Toronto.
Miss Winnifred Douglas, RegeN:,
who was recently appointed super-
intendent of the Wingham General
Hospital, reported for duty this
week.
SEPTEMBER 1954
The community was shocked to
hear of a tragic accident involving
two well-known and well -liked young
men of the F t6wn. John Campbell
Hanna, . 21.- jrea r -old only son of ,Mr.
and Min. W. Fianna, was killed
and his friend, Stewart Nimi io, son
of Rey. and Mrs. Alex ,Nimrno, was
critically injured When their ear
crashed into an oil truck near
Gravenhurst.
Mel Lavigne, formerly of Wing -
ham, who left here last year to go to
Honey Harbour, has opened a dance
pavilion on the highway just outside
the resort and has been doing well.
On his opening night over 800 were
on hand.
Edmund R. Blake, a former public
relations officer in the Royal 'Cana-
dian Air Force, has taken the posi-
tion of sports announcer at CKNX.
He succeeds Tom Rafferty who has
gone to CKCO-TV in Kitchener.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Wright of
Bluevale wish to - announce the
engagement of their, daughter,
Marie Elizabeth, to Harris
McMichael Campbell, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Graham Campbell, Blue-
vale. The marriage will take place
early inptember.
L. M. "Pete" INedd, who for the
past five and a half years has served
as accountant with the Canadian
Bank of Commerce, has received
notification that he will be trans-
ferred to St. Catharines to be
manager of a new branch there.
SEPTEMBER 1964
Nine new teachers have been en-
gaged by Wingham District High
School. D. J. Churchill _will teach
commercial; L. E. Huebner, boys'
occupations; W. J. Hunter,
mathematics; Miss J. Krisfalusi,
English and girls' physical
education; Mrs. E. Lockridge, girls
occupations; A. E. Locky drafting;
Miss . A. McOrmond, . English and
French D. C. Stuckey, history and
boys' physical education and, B.
Taylor, science and English.
Miss Helen Haines, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hain , left by
REAP plane for Germany where she
will teach children of the armed
forces near Dusseldorf. The position
is for two yam.
Elwin Moore, who graduated from
Wingham District High School this
year with an Ontario Scholarship,
was the winner of the annual
Editorial Award offered by London
Free Press Printing Company. The
son of Mr. and Mrs. Millan Moore of
RR 5, Lucknow, Elwin will enter
first-year journalism in a general
arts program.
SEPTEMBER 1974
Wingham had some visitors on the
weekend when about 35 members of
the Windsor -based Lobos motor-
cycle club passed . through town on
their way to and from Port Elgin.
Wingham Police Chief Jim Miller
said members of his force kept the
motorcyclists under. surveillance
during their short stay in town, just
in case the group might have tried to
live up to the poor reputation that
preceded them.
Fire struck the home of Chris
Gosling on Bristol Terrace and
Wingham firemen rushed to the
scene Investigators have blamed
children playing with matches for
the fire which partially destroyed
the home of the car dealer. The
Goslings were out of tower when the
fire broke out,
Marilyn Irwin of Sarnia, formerly
of Wingham and daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ellwood Irwin, has success-
fully completed her Grade XIII with
a 93 'per cent average, winning
several scholarships. Marilyn will
enter McMaster- University, Hamil-
ton, in September -to begin study for
her H.Sc.N. degree.
Twenty-six'. ,j5 and 16 -year-olds'.
from seven area communities parti-
cipated in ekomirtions for a Red
Cross leaders' course at the
Wingharn ° pool. Three from
Wingham were successful: Brian
Reid, Ansley Currie and Ellen Reid.