Wingham Advance-Times, 1978-12-28, Page 411
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a reminder Of how
our own community_
has reached into all
' pl living has risen very
~wry — _ _but, spite conditions which
have made life wetly amislerayble in scale cif
the.largercentresanG the remote areas of
the maritime% we have been fortunate_ A
few may to WOW' swat, but unemploy-
ment is not as yet a major problem. l: sawn for
those who do not have jobs conditions are a
• far cry from the desperation which ac-.
conpanied The great depression of the
thirties
Tougher tirnes are never enjoyable, but
�e
experience of learning to live happily
without some of the ;luxuries to which we
have become accustomed will not prove
fatal. Judging by the rnerry ringing; ,of the
its main etree urine the
1R, there are still many
.itetto feel the touch of real
want.
in Wing) m the corning year will be a
busy lane as we mdse final al ;pr°eparations for
The celebration of our town's mitt 'birthday_
f course a great many people have already
been tip lo their eyebrows in centennial ac-
tiv-rties, but with the dawn of the anniversary
year airnost every family in the community
will be making its own preparations_ It
should be a great year for the merchants
who sell paint as householders freshers up
their properties_ Lawns and gardens will be
in for extra attention and, hopefully„. busi-
carryirsg out plans to
as attractive as pos-
ness owners will
snake the main st
sibie.
The pride which we exhibit in the
appearance of our town and the warmth of
the hospitality which we can extend to our
homecoming visitors will be the true mark sof
our appreciation for those who were the
pioneers of the town of Wingharn.
Vdhy exempt school buaes?
The day after The big ice storm last week
a school bus returning children to their
des in the Oaitarea slipped off the road
and 'landed •on its side in the ditch.
Per'funate y me of the children were hurt,
illthinigh they had a miserable wait in The
pouring ,rain, chilled by the winter wind.
buses are certainly not irrarrnune ID
rcidentand the consequences can be tragic.
As we mentioned a few manfhs ago we
fail to s •., :tz " why the useof seat belts is
buses. Not onty are
by Taws a senior of-
ficial
ffi a iai aitf of transportation and
ca amtimacabons ,. a enfly stated that be
wou1.4. tnitelyr ;,: Otte ,pt to 'snake them
His oaa was not explained.
When the bus _ , Galt turned over the
children frorn the --_ on the high side tum-
bled clown atop across 'trig aisle. tt
was a miracle :;1Auslu were no hooker
bones. Seat bells ;sera ttid have kept the ya ung-
safelystieri s •'' n place urrn1 an
resiide:ltd be Organized.
-Shicetitie itairealatry icb.minifies
• The apprilarimerif of former LflOetal
cabinet rninaaster eryae MackaseY as
chair-
man of ,Air oda is more tion a lit
ad ing, e a The poff ical
inti ce and peg which has
marked government m li►":5 a far too
s ie. ifackasey,did .a gs o Jab .as a senior
!member of ;gimme. nit but his career has
all the halimarkstofith i opportunism.
Tilts man left e l scene to jump
tiblD 'tel party mi res Chiebec and
on' ' a 'fit in The National Assembly,
Obtaiouely in The hope of climbing his way to
ere provincial leadership. When that 'hope
failedmaterialize he igned from
Otedhec pOliticsand :jumped back to Ottawa,
he crowded !rah a good Liberal taxa-
' dale
aaatdi-
dale •S :or his party in the riding of Ottawa
Centre_ When he was soundly defeated in the
by-election his Patron, Mr_ Trudeau reward-
ed
.rewar d -ed him with the chairmanship of Air Canaria,
a crown corporafrrne
These/me thing has happened in Ontario,
Inhere Premier Davis recently appointed a
close buddy and repTesenialivc of a;staunch
Old Conservative family as Chairman of n-
larin Hydro_
driver and passengers to be secured by seat
belts in ether vehicles, most children are
fully accustomed to fa leuing the belts when
they are travelling in their parents' vehicles_
Then off they go to school in a lig, lumbering
bus and the safety reales can be flouted.
Somehow it just doesn't make sense.
Theoretically, eatery .child on .a school
bus is supposed to be in his seat, but anyone
who hasever fn'llowed one of these vehicles
along the h'iglay knows this rule is often
disobeyed. We have all seen buses in which
the kids, particularly those ip thereat', were
milling about in great style_ Obviously there
are some bus drivers who are better dis-
cipl"inar'ians than Others, but in only -ase it
roust be more than difficult to eley in rig-
orous ..command of thirty boisterous children
and .keep a bus on The goad at the same -time_
One would suppose that bus drivers would
welcome seat belts and their mandatory use_
Statistics haveproven daAbt #tat
the eiseof seat belts saves lives. "lyr% ouid
the youngest and most vidnerable of our
-travelling public be ignored?
ifseither of These men had partici ar
skills or experience to recommend them for
these highly paid posts it might bQ different,
but Bryce lifiackatey doesn't t na a:any more
about running an 1irline than your- neigh.-
borte dog knows aut. scathe tarring. it is
dt ubtful that laugh Marauien is any :better
infirrssaed about electrical . energy_ And in
bath cases the fact that the men were poli-
tisal,appdirntments will keep ihe presence of
big government hanging peerthe operations
di the arprarafions like an unseen umbrella_
The,entire intentand. .purpose Pia 'crown
tan purafion iso provide a service devoid 01
p09ilit d influence in The interests of ef-
ficiency
fficienccy and tab security. You can bet -that no.
AirCanada employee is going to admit that
he notes +Coarserva€rve and Ontario Hydro
people will have to be pretty clanouthed
,about any Liberal synteell;aies They possess.
c) :With the last Office headed for crown
corporation status and With Giles Lamon-
tagne- as pestmester-general perhaps it
would be best for ail the mailmen to polish up
on Their "bon Ours'" and "mend heau-
cn* of Arab reasoning
A morning news analysis program on
:national television last week had ,as its get
the ambassador ern the Arca =unity :of
Kuwait of Canada and The Shred Staten The
interview would have been laughable had its
sdbj been so deadly seriiotas.
Staked w !li nrst he agreed Ilam the
shatitly increased price Of t#ii is creating orecedented infatiaan in,'thie western world,
the friendly Arab hotly .itenied that -such was
the ease_ `3heotly reason for inflation in the
tinned Stales, , he avowed, was simply bad
aianagernentof domestic affairs in the west.
The inIerview took place the morning
after annatmbe r ent by The OPEC countries
that l prices would be raised by' 143 per
cent aver the next year, because The
can ,dollar has been so devalued by .in -
that
in -
that more 01 Those dollars must be
paid liar a beatrel of said_ The argrardent that
the higher price of tail would grate more
inflation, aneven loafer value on the dollar
and a continuing series of oil price increases
lett the guest unarfeel . It was, tie said in so
many words, just our tough luck.
in a way one cannot entirely blame the
Arabs for getting as much as they can. Their
spokesman pointed out that virtually every-
thing purchased by the Arab world has to be
imported from the European and American
nations. And, of course, The price orf these
imports has vaulter) with inflations.
In fact The Arabs are easier to under-
stand than the Albertans, We fail to see why
the price of Canadian oil roust advance
whenever imported tail goes up. One would
think Ilan this would be an opportunity to
fuel our own energy needs with fower priced
domestic oil and Thus build badly needed
foreign credits. But then who among us was
ever able to understand the workings of ars
econom isf's rn haft
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Winhav Advance -Vries
Dear F.rlitur,
3 am a former managing editor
of The United Church Observer
and eolurnist on The !Globe and
Mail of Toronto. 1 :arts doing
researeb rivaling with the arrival
in Canada oris •of orphan
rhiith en from Britain in the early
years :of the 390as_ I woii d be
pito hear, by letter, from
peo throughout Canada MI'
\ cue to This coo 1 ry through the
yours organizations such as
Bernardo Homes., Macpherson
Homes, the Fairbrida?e Society
and .so . or-
fwould a_pprheiste letters from
parsons who worker; for any of
these organizations, or others
like them, or in whose homes any
of the children were brought up.
•M3' matting address is 303 St.
Lawrence St,: Whitby, Ontario,
LIN tl2. All letters will be
gratefully received and
acknowledged.
. Kenneth Bagnell
SINGLE BELLS --Youngsters in Mrs_ Robertson's afternoon Kindergarten class received
loud applause for their zesty performance ofthe 'Jingle delis Dance' during the ;1ngherfn
Public School Christmas assernbty Dec. 22.
TUE MVMME I J t OD by
Martha
'The author's impressive
commander history a hate
knowledge of the teal; com-
bine
m-
bfne in this eonxpelli t ,, un-
forgettable saga pf a firt4 f 3'
of the stage. The Savage,
sweeps across finite Cantsir eo and
two a ntinentli; lusty Eneand,
Renaissance Florence„ heOeged
New ��,y York, riddled .. .
Revolutionary War intrigue, A.
glittering, tinsel -bright
Hollywood at the height sof the
film craze..
TETE COUNTRY COUSIN by
Louis Auchiineloss
The world is old guard New
York society in the mid 36, and
an Impoverished Amy Hunt has
come to live in hes wealthy
cousin Dolly Chadbourne's
household as a paid companion_
Largely ignored . by !lolly's
snobbish circle, Amy is free to
imagine herself the heroine of a
Victorian novel, a creature of
romance and fire behind her
demure mask, refusing to accept
the role of dependant relative
SIERRA SIERRA by John Jose
Mark Lewis, a former Marine
fighter pilot in Vietnam, finds
himself challenged to fly a
pressurized sailplane from
Mount Olympus in the state of
Washington ID Yuma, Arizona.
His attempt to set simultaneous
world distance and altitude
records forms the backbone of
this compelling novel.
GOLD FOIL by Rupert Peed_
Rea•
It is early in the 1.988s. The w
world's central hankers, meg
behind closed doors in Basle,
agree that only a return to some
sort of gold standard can restore
sanity to the inflationary policies
of the Western democracies.
Unknown to' them, a similar
meeting is taking place iri the
Kremlin -as Russia's gold
supplies slowly dwindle her
leaders a wondering bow they
will finance their purchases of
grain and other . vital com='
modifies from the West
a.:
d FOR THE CHI DRIE'N
THE BATTLE OF BUBBLE
£a - ,L ant: by Phiippa
Pearce
THE GHOST a WINERS by
Flis.J erh Hare
St. John Art,: se reminds
you never to lea\ t usmeooe who
is unconscioue alone or, lying on
his back. He should be turned on
his side with head tilted
slightly backwar ,. He should be
kept sheltered and warm tape
someone goes for help so be can
be moved safely.
TODAY'S CHILD
BY HELEN ALLEN
,Peter is a handsome, healthy, lively fellow, just turned
three. He is fun to be with and he wants and needs a great
deal of attention because he is active and impulsive.
Peter has been slow in developing, especially in speech.
He talks now, but dais vocabulary is limited. He will
benefit from speech therapy. Tests indicate that he will
probably be a slow learner.
Peter loves energetic play, especially outdoors. He can,
however, enjoy a quiet time with a picture book or
listening to a story — as long as it's not too long.
Parents with energy and patience to go along with
much love are needed for Peter. It will be good if there
are teenagers in his adopting family.
To inquire about adopting Peter, please write to
Today's Child, Ministry of Community and Social Ser-
vice, Box 888, Station K, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2H2. In
your letter tell something of your present family and your
way of life.
Robert 0 Wenger. Sec -Tress
Member — Canadian `conurnmity Nes per ASSOC Ontario Weekly TrPewbpaliel Assort
Stibacriptionaltanper year
SeountiClassIdsill tiaass No_ atant
Sias months t?.50
Ret Fa postage guaranteed
GINGERBREAD D 4DUSE—These costumed characters acted out the wonders of living in
a gingerbread house while the rest 0f Mrs. Arthur's Grade 3 class same along during the
Christmas assembly at Wingham Public .School.
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