Wingham Advance-Times, 1981-11-25, Page 12Wingti
COURT
M+y`,a ' n t.
at,8:00 P
CommitteeR4pott , EIectipn of Qftk r1:::nd
`l creators,
® SPECIAL FOR THE VENIN ,�
"QJestions and Answers on cacti"
with Doyg.o.RathbUn
„
EVERYONE WELCOME'
Refreshments wip be served
ALL
1; ,
4 The }Hingham Advance -Times, November 25, 1981
students learn about
e Can;diah Coasf Guard
Senior students at the
Wingham Public School
were treated to a special
presentation on boating
safety, life jackets and hypo-
thermia by a representative
of the Canadian Coast Guard
last Friday morning.
The program is designed
to, reduce the number of
water and boating -related
fatalities in Canada through
education. Chris Everitt is
touring central Canada this
fall and winter talking to
students about the Coast
Guard' and the importance of
water safety.
The Canadian Coast
Guard, he said, is part of the
Department off Transport. It
is under the jurisdiction of
the federal government and
is not a law enforcement
agency.
The Co'ast Guard is in-
volved in several aspects off
water safety. It conducts
search and rescue missions
24 hours a day, every day of
the year. Coast Guard crews
are prepared to deal with all
manner of water craft and
they patrol both the East and
West coasts as well as the
Great Lakes.
Coastal radio stations
monitor routine frequencies
and pick up distress signals
as well as give out valuable
weather information.
The Coast Guard can
extend, the navigational
'season for, commercial
vessels by breaking ice at
ports like Thunder Bay and
Collingwood. Mr. Everitt
said this helps to keep the
economy going by allowing
goods to be transported in
colder weather.
The Coast Guard also is
instrumental in containing
pollution, such as oil spills,
by vacuuming, skimming
and , using absorbent
materials on the water to
soak up the spill.
Aids to navigation, such as
the maintenance of 'buoys
and lighthouses, are another
function of the Coast Guard,
Mr. Everitt said.
The Canadian Coast Guard
also conducts "courtesy in-
spections" of vessels,' he
added; • The Coast ' Guarder'
• cannot :fine individuals,
because it is not a law en-
forcement agency, but' of-
ficials'can make suggestions
to boaters that they purchase
certain'pieces of equipment.
After . his . introductory
presentation, Mr'. Everitt
showed the students a film
about. water safety entitled
"Coming Back Alive"
When the film was over,
Mr. Everitt demonstrated a,
number of life jackets and
,evaluated the performance
of each.
The first`jaeI et'he showed
the students was the
"keyhole" type, which has
several features that make it
particularly effective. The
jacket comes with reflective
tape which glows in the dark,
and it also has a whistle
attached.
The jacket has kapok
fibres in the lining as stuf-
fing. Mr. Everitt said that
type of fill is usually very
good unless people use the
jackets as seat cushions or
peers. This punctures the
Mt't and lets water run
nti7•the fibres.
There also are foam
jackets on the market which
are more comfortable and
more durable. Most jackets
in the past have been made
of canvas, but now many are
constructed of nylon and are
proving to be quite durable:
He stressed the importance
of buying only those jackets
which are Department of
Transport approved.
Mr. Everitt explained
personal floatation devices
as well. They are light,
comfortable jackets which
are made for infants and
children as well as adults.
Personal floatation
devices are designed for
colder temperatures. They
protect the body's main heat -
loss areas: the. head,, the
neck and the underarms.
Hypothermia as a result of
exposure to extremely frigid
water temperatures takes
many lives each year, Mr.
Everitt said. It is ;par-
ticularly prevalent at this
time of the year and in the
winter with people
snowmobiling ,over frozen
lakes and rivers and ice -
fishing.
'Even the best swimmers
and conditioned athletes are
powerless against extremely
cold water, said Mr, Everitt,
and cited an example of an
Olympic swimmer who was
in the water for only 64
seconds before he became
unconscious.
The students were given a
chance to question ,Mr.
Everitt about the Coast
Guard.
Mike Cullen, a Grade 5
student, asked Mr. Everitt
what was the worst boating
accident he had ever been
involved with.
Mr. Everitt said he was
involved when the lake
freighter, the Edmund Fitz-
gerald, sank in Lake
Superior in the early 19708.
Twenty-nine men lost their
lives in the sinking,
One boy asked Mr. Everitt
how many distress calls the
Coast Guard answers in a
year.
The Coast Guard answers
approximately 4,000 calls for
assistance each year, he
replied, but said that some
people send out a distress
signal for very minor things,
such as being out of gas.
Principal John Mann
thanked Mr. Everitt for his
informative talk and said
there is a definite preven-
tative aspect to water safety.
Wallace Gibson.
dies in Listowel
Wallace Arthur Gibson
passed away November 15 in
his 85th year at Listowel.
Memorial Hospital after a
short illness.
Wallace Gibson was born
at Napanee, Ontario, on July
1$,1897. He spent his youth in
Manitoba; then moved to
Saskatchewan where he met
and married Susan Eliza-
beth D►Areey. They farmed
in Saskatchewan until
moving to Ontario in 1934
wherethey.farmed and in the
fourth concession of Howick
.until retiring to Fordwich.
He was a son of the late John
and Charlotte Gibson.
He is survived by his wife,
Susan; two sons, Harold and
Garfield, botn 'ot Howick
Township; six grandchildren
and two sisters, Lottie of
Estevan, Sask., and Lyla of.
Brandon, Man. He was pre-
deceased by four brothers
NOTICE
If your label reads:
Mr::John Doe
Gen. Del.
Wingham, Ont.
Nov. 5-4-3-2-1
Your subscription
Is Now Due!
Subscription price up to Dec. 1 still $1 6.00
LAST WEEK'S WINNERS
Win a Gift Certificate Equal to your Purchase
(Winner every shopping day)
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
16 - Norah MacDonald, Clinton - $66.00
17 - Eileen Hanna - S15.00
18 - Mary Lamb, Goderich - $64.00
19 - Velma Naylor, Myth $38.00
20 --jenny Hoonaard, Blyth - $22.74
21 - Margaret Anderson, Seaforth - $41.98
Val's Fashion Fare
Blyth 523-4351
OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK CIIARGEX WELCOME
NOTICE
To the Taxpayers of
THE TOWNSHIP
OF MORRIS
Final installment of
1981 taxes
DUE NOV. 30, 1981
N. Michie
Clerk -Treasurer
and one sister.
Funeral service was held
Tuesday, November 17, from
the Gorrie Chapel of M. L.
Watts Funeral Homes. Rev.
T. Fleetham conducted the
service. Interment followed
in Fordwich Cemetery;
Pallbearers were Welling-
ton Hargrave, Carl D'Atcey,
John; Keels, Robert Gibson,
Bert Wylie and Robert
Gibson of Flint, Mich.
Honorary pallbearers were
Spence Brears, Earle Moore
and James Foster.
WOULD YOU LIKE to be served by this unlikely group
of waiters Bill Thomson, Bryan Allan, McDaniel Phillips,
Brian Elmslie and Sandy Thomson of CKNX-TV will be,
part of the serving team at the Feedlot Restaurant in
Kincardine for the second annual fundraising dinner on
Sunday, Dec. 6. All proceeds from the dinner will be
donated to Participation Lodge and will be acknowledg-
ed on the telethon for cerebral palsy to be televised by
CKNX Jan. 16 and 17. The Wingham Optimists again
will be manning the telephones and taking pledges ong�
telethon night.
udan taI:h 19 h 119 h ts
meeting of Institute
BELGRAVE — The
Canadian Industries meeting
of the WI was held in the hall
on Tuesday evening.
The president, Mrs. Ross
Higgins, welcomed everyone
and asked Mrs. John
Anderson, the acting
secretary -treasurer, to read
the minutes of the last meet-
ing, the correspondence and
the financial statement.
• Donations will be sent to
the War Memorial Chil-
dren's Hospital, the Chil-
dren's Aid and the War
Veterans. Mrs. Norman
Coultes gave a report of the
London Area Convention
held in St. Marys on Novem-
ber 5-6. The Roll Call was,
"Name a new, Canadian
Product that you like.
The program convener,
Mrs. Norman Coultes, spoke
on the motto "Think
Canadian, buy Canadian
appreciate your Canadian
way of life," stressing that,
the freedom we enjoy carries
with it many responsibilities.
It is our duty to' make our
country a better place to live
and one way to do this is, to
buy Canadian -made
products in. order to support
our own industries.
Frank King passes
in Palmerston Hosp.
The death occurred in
Palmerston and . District
Hospital , on Monday,
November 16, of. Francis
Stephen (Frank) King of
Clarkvood Estates,
Palmerston. Mr. King was a
former resident of "Gorrie ,
and was in his 85th year.
Left to mourn his passing
are three daughters, Mrs.
Robert (Isabel) Featherston
of OriJllia, Mrs. (Dr.)
Wendell (Lorene) Gott,
Toronto, and Mrs. Graham
(Marion) Telehus, RR 1,
Gorrie; three sons, Glen of
Peterborough, Ross of
Stratford and John,
Strathroy; 17 grandchildren
and several great grand-
children. Also surviving are
a sister and a brother, Mrs.
Clara. Colmer, Toronto, and
Ernest King, Windsor. He
was predeceased by his wife,
the formerCora Coles. (May,
1973), and two brothers,
Harvey and Wilfred.
The late Frank King rested
at the Gorrie Chapel of M. L.
Watts Funeral Homes where
complete funeral and
committal service was
conducted Thursday at two
o'clock by Canon Orranee
Laramie. Interment
followed in Gorrie Cemetery.
Mrs. Mungo MacFarlane
dies after long illness
After a long struggle with
illness, Mrs. Mungo Mac-
Farlane passed away
Sunday, November 15, at her
home, RR 1, Bluevale. She
was in her 66th year.
The former Laura
Margaret Raynard, Mrs.
MacFarlane was
predeceased by her parents;
one sister, Hazel; and two.
brothers, John and
Sylvester. Her husband,
Mungo, died March 16, 1979:
She is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. Clifford
(Joan) Brewer of Milton;
one son, Murray, Bluevale;
six grandchildren; one
brother, Cecil of Ethel; and
'one sister, Mrs. Walter
(Doris) MacFarlane of
Listowel.
Mrs. MacFarlane rested at
the Brussels Chapel of M. L.
Watts Funeral Homes where
service was conducted by
Robert Perry at two o'clock
on Wednesday, November
18. Interment followed in
Mount Pleasant Cemetery,
Ethel.
Pallbearers were Bill,
Tom and Joe Raynard, Ron
MacFarlane, Bill Mac-
Pherson and Cecil Clarke.
Floral tributes were carried
by Jim MacFarlane and
Harvey Clarke.
Jr. WI members demonstrate crafts
HOWICK — The Nov-
ember of the Howick Junior
Women's Institute was held
Thursday in the library of
Howick Central School.
Marg Greig attended a
provincial executive
meeting and reported what
had happened there. Plans
are under way for the
provincial convention to be
held in Owen Sound on
October 16 and 17 of next
year.
The Junior Institute cook-
books are selling quickly and
members were reminded
that a cookbook would make
a good stocking stuffer.
Joyce Lock ie showed
Christmas ornanients made
from egg shells. The eggs
are decorated with wax or
covered with sparkles and
trimmed with fancy lace.
Myrna Penny and Darlene
Harding distributed supplies
and the ladies made beaded
Christmas candles under
their leadership.
The next meeting of the
Howick Junior Women's
institute will be in the form
of a Christmas dinner at the
Wroxeter Community hall or
December 10.
•
Mrs. Coultes introduced
• Mrs. Gordon McBurney, who
spoke about the Sudan in
Africa, where her son Hugh
spent three months last
winter flying a helicopter.
The Sudan is seven degrees.,
north of the equator, and one
of the poorest arid most
primitive countries of
Africa.
The natives have great
health problems caused by
poor sanitation and the
scarcity of good water. Mrs.
McBurney showed slides of
the people and the country-
side, including the mud huts
inwhich the natives live and
the camps where the heli-
copter crew stayed.
Mrs. Coultes thanked Mrs.
McBurney for sharing the
pictures with everyone.
The meeting closed by
singing the Women's
Institute Grace and "The
Queen," following which
lunch was served by Mrs.
John Anderson and Mrs.
Ross Higgins.
Mrs. Don Fischer
dies in 32nd year
Months of suffering ended
Thursday evening,
November 19, at the
Wingham and District
Hospital when Mrs. Don
Fischer entered into rest in
her 32nd year.
Mrs. Fischer was the
former.Barbara Linda
Johnstn and leaves to
mourn her passing her
husband, Don, ' of RR 3,
Brussels; one daughter,
Tracey; her parents, Hugh
and Melinda Johnston of
Walton; and her parents-in-
law, Charles and Laura
Fischer of- Brussels. She is
also survived by two 'sisters,
Mrs. Roy (Irene) Neill of
Oakville and Mrs. Keith
(Shirley) Clark of Bornholm,
and two brothers, Allan,
Kitchener, and Larry,
Auburn. She was
predeceased by cane sister,
Joyce Collyer, 'and one
brother, Walter.
Rev. Charles Swan of
J. E. Taylor was
in 77th year
'John Everett Taylor of
Maitland Manor Nursing
Home died, Thursday,
November 12 in' his 77th
year.
Mr. Taylor was born in
West Wawanosh in 11905 and
was the son of the late Rob-
ert and Mary (McClinton)
Taylor.
He attended USS No. .6
East Wawanosh School and
Goderich Collegiate In-
stitute.
On June 1, 1931 he married
Verna Rutledge of West
Wawanosh. They farmed in
East Wawanosh and Hullett
Townships before retiring to
Blyth in 1975.
He was a member of the
Auburn Knox United Church
and the Blyth United Church.
The late Mr. Taylor, was
predeceased by his wife in
1976.
He is survived by two
daughters; Mrs. Clint
(Joyce) Gunter of Shining
Tree, Ontario; and • Mrs.
Cecil (Lois) Hallam of Men-
eset, Goderieh; two grand-
sons, Gary ProUse of Clinton
and John Prouse, of God-
erich; two sisters, Mrs.
Pearl Rollinson, Toronto,
and Phyllis, Mrs. Emerson
Rodger, RR 2, Auburn.
Funeral services were
held at Tasker Funeral
Home in Blyth on Saturday,
November 14' at 2 p.m. The
Rev. Cecil Wittich officiated.
Pallbearers were Bill and
Keith Rodger of Auburn,
Gary and Clare Rodger of
Goderieh, Bob Walker of
Owen Sound and Bill Helesic
of Goderich, all nephews of
Mr. Taylor. •
Grandsons Gary and John
Prouse were flower bearers.
interment was in Maitland
Cemetery, Goderieh.
Walton conducted funeral
service at the Brussels
Chapel of M. L. Watts
Funeral Homes on Sunday at
two o'clock. She was borne to
her final resting place in
Brussels Cemetery by John
Perrie, Gordon and Ross
Mitchell, Bob. Tyerman, Tom
Stev'ensdti Abd Murray.
Blake. Floral tributes were
carried to the grave by Floyd
Hilts and Don Perrie.
Parks Board
commended
for work
A few weeks ago it was
reported the trustees of the
Village of Wroxeter had put
forth a considerable effort in
beautifying the river area in
Wroxeter through the pur-
chase of the former Gustav
Brink estate.
The trustees did put a lot of
work into the project;
however they got a lot of
assistance from the
Wroxeter Parks Board.
Under the chairmanship of
Gary Chambers, the
Wroxeter Parks , Board
provided both money for the
purchase of the 26 acres of
land in the vicinity' of the
Maitland River and muscle
to transform the scrub land
into an attractive setting.
"It was a joint effort and
the Wroxeter Parks Board is
to be commended -Tor their
part in the project," Howick
Township Clerk Wesley Ball
reports.
R. W. Bell
OPTOMETRIST
Goditrich
. The Square 524-7661
AU-ToM011iE.
INSURANCE
Here's a sample of our auto-,
mobile rates for persons be-
tween age 25.65 years. Com-
pare them with your present
rates.
$500,000- Bodiiy injury and
property damage
$25.000—Accident benefits
$250—Collision deductible
$25—Comprehensive
deductible.
6 month premium
for most vehicles
"No Application. Membership
or Policy Fee Required"
VEHICLE VEARS
1981 - 1980 1979, 1978 1977
$132. $132 $121. $121. $112.
ABOVE PREMIUM BASED ON:
1. No accidents or not more than 2 minor
traffic violations in 3 years.'
2 Driving to work 10 miles or Tess,
3. Married person between 25 and -65
4. We also provide further discounts for pleasure
use, 2cars and farmers received a further
discount,
5. Other rates by phone:
6. Young drivers and high risk drivers welcomed.
McMAS ER AGENCIES E
Home — Business _: Auto — Form — Fire
327 Josephine St.
Winghalvi - 3 712 '7
After Hourg.3S'7-14$3
A buck
is still
a buck . ..
in anyone's
books.
And you can save that buck
if you renew your subscription
before Dec. 1
(Goo for renewing one-year subscriptions only)
As of December 1, 1981, a one year subscription to
The Wingham Advance -Times will rise from $16
to $17 per year. By renewing now you can save that
extra dollar! Still a savings of $10 a year over news-
stand prices.
The Wingham Advance -Times
P.O. Box 390, 192 Josephine St., Winghani NOG 2W0
j 5 zi ud�n .?r,r
91'