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THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES
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Doing a good job
A word of thanks to the men who do
the snow plowing In Wingham. In spite
of a very heavy snowfall this year the
town streets have not anti, been kept
open, but compared with severe) other
nearby communities, our streets have
been maintained in much better condi-
Nom
True you may have driven over
some of them when they were not In the
best; of shape, but it does take time to
plow out a whole town after one of these
record snow storms. We do know that
the 'workers have been on the lob In the
middle of the night when most of us
were enjoying a sound sleep.
We've heard a few complaints
about the need for sand at Intersections
where take -offs are difficult because
the surface snow has been 'polished
down to sheer ice. If, however, you are
too unhappy about driving conditions
here you should visit some of the other
towns nearby. Our bet is that you will
return home pretty well satisfied with
the service we get here.
Opportunity to serve
Canada World Youth has launched
lis 1981 campaign with the news that
800 young people Will be participating
In .this year's youth program.
CWY, funded in part by the Can-
adian International Development
Agency, and now in its tenth consecu-
tive year, is looking for workers and
students between the ages of 17 and 20
who are interested In leaarning about
development, and cross-cultural corn-
municatton in both Canada and a -
developing country.
These young Canadians, lolned by
an equal number of young people from
fhe,countries Ih which the program is
established, will spend seven months
'iiVing= and working In vastly different
cultures . and communities. Small
teams of."CWymakers, each with a
Canadian . and\ -en exchange . country
group leader, integrate themselves into
communities,. first. In Canada and then
, W r I ler e1Ft1�i a k Irl k 04;
progr rns•such as agriculture, a., o�er•
salves, environment -conservation;. so-
cial services, small businesses, rec-
reation and community groups. All
costs during the program food,
lodging and transportation, even some
pocket money, • are covered by CWY.
The entire concept of service to
people In less fortunate parts of the
world Is a small, but significant move
toward better understanding between
the peoples of this earth. It Is the sort of.
practical communication which is so
long overdue, providing, as It does, the
personal approach. Young Canadians
who' take part will. return home with
first-hand knowledge of the needs of.
third world people;. and the residents of
those less fortunate lands will learn
that in our.part of the world some of us.
do care about making a. better life for;
our global neighbors.
• The first: program starts in July of
thls year, bei$ deadline for.appfcations
is March 13. Application .forms and
more ntormation are available • at
'Canaida' Einpioyment'Centkes "schools
;and CWY regional offices.
Big fro#her concept
Twenty years ago the idea that
„government: ,would eventually control
every. aspect of our lives seemed more •
than a bit'far-fetched. Big Brother, the
all-pervading control' influence of goy
eminent, was predicted to hold sway
by-, the year 1984 „Apparently some
Cat kidlans belie* that 1881 would •
Make a good ilMe ta. start.
OFofoiwing the, closing of dairy
newspapers In Ottawa and Winnipeg a
rojal commission was `establlshed to
examine the news Industry ;In this
country. The commission Is made up of
three men under the chalrmanship of
Tom Kent, a university professor, Lau-
rent Picard, another professor' and
Borden Spears of The Toronto Star.
Immediate object of the hearings Is to
determine the role of the large news-
paper chains and whether or not, by
mutual agreement, they are closing out
competitive pubtkations.
As the various wltneSseaare heard,
however, the discussions have ranged
far (beyond the immediate problem of
chain ownership. In fact some state
ments have been made which would
Indicate that there are quite a few Can-
adians who have not the faintest clue
about the -role of newspapers In a
democratic society.
Richard •Martin, president of the
Manitoba Federation of Labor sug-
gested that the federal government
launch its own newspaper chain. Other
speakers suggested some form of dir-
ect government involvement with the
press along the lines of the Canadian
Radio -Television and Telecommunica-
tions Commission.
Commissioner Picard (formerly
head of the CBC) had this to say: "I
wonder why ... a newspaper is differ-
ent from a radio station or a TV sta-
tion?"
That, Indeed, Is a good question.
One which we have posed In this
column many times. Why should radio .
and "television be permanently con -
'trolled by politicians who, directly or
indirectly, are bound to influence what
is heard and seen on the alrwaves?
' A government -operated newspaper
chain . . . to provide unbiased . news
coverage? What a laugh! How long
would It 'take to develop a Canadian
Pravda, telling. its readers only what
the government of the day wants the
'comrades to know and leaving out any-
thing that might. look bad for the ruling
party?
So far we have not heard or read
any comments on the subject by
_ Borden Spears, an experienced news
man who should know what freedom of
the press is all about.
It Is reasonably safe to predic that
this royal commission will prove no
more fruitful than the thousands of
others which have mulled over our
problems, at huge•cost, from time Im-
memorial. If chain newspaper owner-
ship Is such a thr"eat to our society it Is a
wonder that a royal commission did not
long ago recommend dismemberment
of the K. C. Irving chain which has
owned every English language news-
paper in New Brunswick for the past 20
or 30' years.
If the people of Ottawa and Winni-
peg. want .a second daily newspaper
some smart businessman will provide
It. If the market Is there, the product
will arrive. How long did it take to sup-
plant The Toronto Telegram with The
Toronto Sun?
A shining promise
President-elect Ronald Reagan has
startled a cynlcal •world with the an-
nouncement that his decisions and
11; fl.m. UU W .A-bl.rof will i= mode TVU0V-
out any eonslderatlon for political con-
sequences, with no thought for the next
eleet1OYL
• Just think, that one over! Imagine
what a' world We would be enabled to
live in if all politicians web abide by
that principle, thinking not of their own -
futures, not of party supporters - but
only about th. wlsest course of action.
\itlhat Reagan has promised Is a return
to the morals of "America's founding
fathers, when a new nation was born In
the belief the justice and human dig-
nity should be the. birthright of a free
people,
Of course we are skeptical about
Mr. Reagan's ability to keep that high-
minded promise. The pressure to fol-
ioed party lines and to obey political
bosses will be enormous. God bless the
man, however, If he gives it an honest
fry.
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JANUARY 1934- •
Fry and Blfickhall have
again this year a display of
chesterfields 'at the Kit-
chener Furniture Show
which opened Monday and -
will last two weeks. Fur-
niture buyers from alt over
Canada attend this show, one
of the finest displays of its
kind in Canada.
Neil McLean has received
the appointment. as foreman
on road construction with the
Department of North
Development andwill leave
this week. for Minden, south
of Algonquin Park. •
y{lingtiam out}ctl
appointed Dr. G H. floss to
the Wingham Nigh School
Board for a term of three
years: He replaces F. R.
Howson who has served for a
term of eight years. ..
The Listowel Banner
remarks that divorce is now
becoming so,common that it
will soon be- just the little
intermission between
honeythoofs l
A further development in
the salt industry in Goderich
is the installation at the -plant
of the Goderich Salt. Com-
pany of a hydraulic; press for
the manufacture of block
salt.
Ewart Whitfield of Gerrie
who, for the past two years,
has been employed as teller
in the Arthur branch of the
Canadian Bank of Com-
merce, has been transferred
to Blyth where he took over
his new duties this week.
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Items from Old Files
JANUARY 1946
When returning from the
New Year's: night dance at
the Royal- T two lbcal girls
were bit by -a car in which
were a group of boys and
girls also returning from the
dance. Pauline Cowan and
Patsy Wild were given flint
aid by Dr. Crawford and
allowed to return home.
The people of the Culross-
Turnberry boundary had the
hydro turned on for the first
,,time last week. When it was
turned on, the power could
be -used from Bill Schiestel's
oil, the east to. Andy . McCor
10001 1ithefflffl.eM.
Milan, .Mir ttati sold..his
farm ,: on the second of
Culross to David King.
Dave ' Murray, who
recently returned (rem
overseas, has accepted :a
position with the hydro at
Hamilton: • •
New Books
in the Library
MUNICH: THE PRICE
OF PEACE By, Telfor
Taylor
Written by Telford Taylor,
retired brigadier general,
lawyer and historian — who
is perhaps best known as
chief -U.S. prosecutor at the
Nuremberg trials — this is
the most comprehensive
study ever made of the
origins of World War II.
THE OLD GIRL by Joshua
Gadding
Los Angeles, city of angels
and eccentrics, meets its
match in Cissie Samuels, an
81 years young, who is en-
dowed with a full quota of the
goodness that masks itself in
eccentricity. To the ''amuse-
"ment of friends and family,
she proves there is a lot of
life in her yet as she makes
her irresistible way to the
altar for the third time.
WEEKEND by Tania
Groesinger ` and. Andrew
Neiderman
It all starts as a typical
July 4th weekend at the,
Congress, the internationally
famous Catskill resort hotel.
Thousands of vacationers
their pockets filled with
cash, begin to arrive from
the city. While they congre-
gate in the hotel, a time
bornb is slowly ticking: an
outbreak of cholera so
terrible that the greatest
holiday of the year quickly
becomes a deadly night-
mare.
The warm' 'weather over
the weekend had some things
all mixed up. Mrs. George
Currie of East Wawanosh
picked a nice ;bouquet of
pansies.
Bluevale "Presbyterian
Church has issued a call to
4 Rev. Leland C. Jorgenson of
Dalhousie, New Brueswick.
Mrs. W. J. Greer has sold
her house on the corner of
Patrick and Frances Streets
to Harold. Smythe of RR 1,
Greenock.
JANUARY 1957
The Town of Wingham
't ' a m e;:er of tt
e att oleo
rdi ` to the
annual report
!�, ng Po
read by Police Chief T. W.
Platt at the meeting of town. •
council. There were no
crimes of a serious nature in
1956 and'evenl the number of
minor offences• was less than
in the previous year.
' Slim Boucher and his
Golden Prairie Cowboys
started a 14 -day engagement
et the Brown Derby in
Toronto this week. Slim tells
us that an engagement at
Las Vegas, Nevada, may be
in the offing.
Mrs. L. W. Kukurudza.left
on Friday from Melton to
join her husband who is
stationed at Marville,
France.
At the Wroxeter United
Church two • gifts were
dedicated'' by W. J. V.
Buchanan. A communion.
tette:: jeasi4iiitiented in
elate Meand
me0 �f'1ii a
Mrs. Richard J. Rann by=
their family, Atkin Rann and
Mrs:; W. A. Spence; both of
Brussels. Four collection
plates were a' gift from Dr.
H. H. Hetherington, brother
of Mrs. Stan Gallaher; and
Mrs., Hetherington of
Brampton.
Miss Esther Harding of,
•Fordwich left last week for
London where she has taken
a position as nurse's aide in
Parkwood Hospital.
Gail Shaw, Stewart
McGill, Elizabeth McKinney
and Donald Murray were,
elected main officers of the
Young People's Society of St.
Andrew's Presbyterian
Church.
JANUARY 1967
•
By John P.attlson
Robert Currie was the first
resident of this part of Huron
County. He was born in
Kircudbright in the south: of
Scotland in 1829. Coming to
Canada with three of his
brothers at the age of 20, he
settled first in Guelph Town-
ship, where . he remained
until 1853. At that time
Robert and two of his
brothers came to this area
and bought land from the
Crown in Wawanosh at $2 per
acre. They • returned to
Guelph Twp: until the next
year, when they came back
to Wawanosh to settle per-
manently. At that time the
country was a dense forest
with no other nearby set-
tlers.
:He Had to work hard to
clear the land and a log
house was built in 1654. It
was replaced with a large
stone house in 1873 as there
was an abundance of stones
and rocks on the' farm that
had to be cleared. The barn
and implement shed were
built in 1870 and still stand.
In the early days he sold
thousands of feet of hemlock
logs, delivered to the 111111 at
$2 per thousand. y -
Mr. Currie was told that he
went too far north when he
purchased Lots 39 and 40 on
Con. 14 of Wawanosh, but Lot
40 was next to the Wingham
townsite and he felt that it
would notbe long before he
would see a prosperous town
and farming community.
Three years after he arrived
the government _Of Upper
Canada surveyorlaid out
the °acres which had
been set°aside for the Wing -
ham Town Plot. When Peter
Fisher arrived at Wingham
after walking from Guelph in
1859 id look for a Water
power privilege, it ' Was
Robert Cui'i'le who acted as
his guide and showed him the
possibilities el the Maitland.
The next year till FI
built a dam to power the
mills they erected in Lower
Wingham.
Mr. Currie was first
elected 'a councillor of
Wawanosh in January, 1857
and served three years in
that position. In 1860-61 he
was deputy reeve and reeve
in 1864-5-6. In 1867 the town-
ship was divided into East
and West Wawanosh and
Currie was elected the first
reeve of East Wawanosh.
From 1877 until 1886 he
served as reeve or deputy
reeve and for many years he
was a justice of the peace.
In 1859, when he was first
on the council, the gravel
road between Morris and
Wawanosh Was built. The
road was completed to the
prairie south of Wingham
where it was stopped be-
- cause it was feared it would
be too costly to build it,over
the river and' all the low land.
The 'engineer in charge re-
commended that the road go
east on the first line of
Morris and then up the side -
road to Junctionville and
west to Wingham. Currie
drafted a plan to have the
road go west around the bend
iii. the river and then meet
Victoria St. At Arthur St.
Reeve Holmes of Wawanosh
fought for Currie's plan. De-
feated on this point, they
continued to fight to have the.
road go straight into Wing -
ham. This was finally done
at a great cost. The year be-
fore, the gravel road had
been built west to Ashfield
past the Currie farm and the
first bridge was built at Zet-
Mr. Currie travelled quite
extensively. He was back to
his old home in Scotland in
1876 and again in 1 r.: 1.. He
went to Western Canada on
four occasions, going
through to the coast three
times. He retired, to , Wing-
tuuu in 1902, where be died in
1010.
Drillers working on a farm
owned by Elmer Foran on
the eighth concession of West
Wawanosh Township, two
miles south-west of St.
Helens, struck natural gas a
short time ago and may have
touched off a search for gas
and oil that could be of major
importance to this area.
William Harris, who has
served as chairman of the
Public School board :.for the
past two years, was
unanimously re-elected to
that post at the board's
inaugural meeting.- Murray
Gerrie was re-elected vice
chairman.
Rev. Bruce Penny of
Burford will conduct his first
service as pastor of
Wingham Baptist Church on
Sunday.
The Bishop of the Diocese
of Huron has announced the
appointment of Rev. Her-
schel Witgar Hamilton as
rector of St. Paul's Anglican
Church, Wingham. He comes
from a two-point charge at
Sarnia add Camlachie.
,,At the January meeting of
the Women's Missionary .
Society of St. Andrew's
Presbyterian Church, a Life
Membership certificate -was
presented . by Miss Hannah
Wilson to Mrs. Horace
' Aitchison, a valued member
' - of the society.
Miss Margaret Ann
Nicholson received her cap
as a nurse-ii'i-training at
ceremonies in. Stratford
General Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Underwood moved from
Russell Chapman's apart-
rt'ient in Whitechurch, to the
town. of Goderich where Mr.
Underwood' has secured
employment.
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Dear Pa*.
Blii,otuId a
caw rage �►l, to
the' fact teat` Brookhaven
Nursing • Horse has been
accredited, by the Catdi
tattoo, an indepitat,ACendent'body
with membership includes
the Canadian Iloepital, ,elm
sociaatioe, theCtinlidlea Med-
!cal Association„,Tha Royal
College of_ Physi is .and
Surgeons of Canada, the Col
lege of ,Physicians ,Sur-
geons
um
geons of , , the
Canadian Nurses' Asseata-
tion.
This is a significant honor
awarded to this nursing
home and its hard-working
staff. An accredited nursing
Mottle is one which has gone
beyond ' the minimum
standards in allareas of
operation, not an easily
accomplished feat when`one
considers the economic
iri8
established in
DearEditor,
I am writing concerning a
new organization established
in the Wingham area. 'I am
referring to the Huron -Bruce
chapter of the Bikers' Rights
Organization (BRO).
We are a group of
responsible motorcyclists of
all ages dedicated to
responsible . motorcycle
legislation. Because we ride
motorcycles, we have fallen
into the stereotyping that all
bikers are bad news. BRO
came about as a result of
this, and also a' sudden in-
crease in motorcycle
restrictions.
These restrictions include
mandatory helmet laws,
high insurance rates for
bikes when they are ob-
viously much more
economical than auto-
mobiles; may insurance
companies only offer one-
year policies for
motorcycles when they OM
only be ridden about ; six
months . of the year:' The
majority of banks and
finance companies charge
an extra interest rate per-
centage point for motorcycle
loans, which causes these
loans to be more expensive.
On top of this, a married
man and his wife cannot go
on a weekend holiday on
their motorcycle to our local
and provincial parks_ such as
Benmiller, . Point Farms
• e
quality tare available.
This nursing home now
join other nursing,lones in
Ontario which have achieved
accreditation4,, Their reel -
dente are tRof `wt/
came through
established by the -Canadian
COBrioll en lapliplykl Medea.
Home
Association, is actively en-
enuraging all nursing homes
to secure accreditation. We
are:proud of those"nursing
homes which have achieved
this goal and feel tT. w
community should1i-
formed of their,ac
ment, n
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J.K.
Executive
Cnadi= Nuri
grate
area
Provincial Pai'lt; tit> t
Pinery ProvffeiaT'>`d tk
because motorcycles" are
outlawed in these par
In this day of rlsln f Uel
costs and the failing
economy, why should these
restrictions be placed on
motorcycles and . motor-
cyclists when they are less
`expensive to operate „ and
maintain?
BRO offers benefits to the
public, such as donating
blood on blood runs and
donating toys to needy child-
ren as part of the annual
Salvation Army Christmas'
drive. We would like to thank
the , Madill Mirror for
mentioning our efforts in the
recent blood donor clinic
held at the Armouries in
Wingham.
Whenever two or more
motorcyclists get together
for a ride they are faced with
continuous unnecessa
harassment brought on
'the 'outlaw'., name we hlaeu
been' branded with. ,A
common phrase among
Motorcyclists is, `When we
do right no one remembers,
and -When we do wrong no
one forgets.'
Anyone interested in more
information or sharing your
views with us, please con-
tact: BRO Huron -Bruce, Box
1371, Wingham, Ontario NOG
2W0. •
Pete De Boer
BRO Huron -Bruce
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TODAY'S CHILD
BY HELEN ALLEN
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Mickey
is a very bright, alert fellow of nine months who
is progressing well despite a variety of problems. Some of
them are correctable, and some are not.
One side of his face is somewhat paralyzed,. giving him
an unusual one-sided 'smile. It does not interfere .with
eating, though, and he has an excellent appetite.
The thumb and fingers on his left handure abnormally
shaped, especially the fingers which are very short.
However the hand is functional and he has a really strong
grip. He did have severe club fe�et out they have been
successfully treated with casts and now special boots.
Besides being bright, Mickey is determined, a good
quality for a boy with handicaps to overcome. He is. a
happy fellow and very lovable. This baby will bring'joy'to
parents who will appreciate his rsonality, encourage
his abilities and help him deal with whatever difficulties
he may have.
To.. inquire about adopting Mickey, please write, to
Today's Child, Ministry of Community and Social Ser-
vices Box 888, Station K, Toronto, Ontario, M4P 2112; tri
your letter tell something of your present family and your
way of life.
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