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A riq ht to protest
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public outcry was more than Queens Par
bargained for and as a consequence most of
the threatened hospitals are still Open,
including the 12 bed institution at 'ChesleY.
The growing anger over the casteame tlac lin
has been occasioned by
of
understanding on the part of the mini r simply decide that a cut Of 20 per
hos-
pital beds across the province can be
achieved without serious personal hardship
is naive.
The need for hospital accommodation
differs from place to place, depending on a
variety of factors, the most Important of
which in our own area ,ls{ aion whack ely high
ade
percentage of ople. Another problem arises
up of older plop
from the way in which the ministry has set
out the total population figures to determine
hospital.
the number of beds alloowveedeper answer;
Mere statistics cannot p set by file
the pattern is more accurately flints
number of doctors who admit the quality of
to a given hospital arid,also by alit
treatment facilities at any one hose
What the politicians fail to realize, even
at this late date, is that the residents and
smaller centres are intensely hospitals. . loyal to their community
Hun-
dreds, even thousands have contributed to
the original construction of 'heir hospital
and to its expansion and improvement tfofver
y the years. They are deeply
O an
order which comhso`oumu h oan office
ithat hop tai
t Park dictating
e they can use.
Petitions are being circulated In several
rl* � iron County, asking the ministry
9 f Pato close
. to to reconsider its decision no quos
- --i,t V hospital beds- express its con
-
:)ver
int public's reaht to rs to be an arbitrary
ever what appears
n some cases, an unjust
a are wide open
hP columns on this Pa9� their opinions
,st who wish to exp
closures, a signing
nothod which
e is is name fora
tl than merely 9 n9
Ion. convince
ere is little point in trying
nenistry that its efforts to cut health care
s are ill-advised. Not one among us
Id willingly assume the task of bringing
%rio's health expenditures within
ha an-
able limits. Certainly something
done and it may be that a cutback in
vital beds is one of the answers — to the question
vided a better app
be utilized. province (presum
In those areas of the p elation) we
y near the large centres of pop
derstand there is a surplus of nursing
me beds. If that is the case It may
els be
esumed that some long -stay patients
ca
moved out of costly hospitalin nursing
da -
>n and looked atter adequately
not prevail in
Ames. But that situation does
is area. In fact we know of several other
autres, including the city of London, where
Lirsing home beds are at a pie miu ver
Apparently the ministry
ttle from its experience a few years ag
everalnhospitals attt nasmaler centrede to s. Ou
close Th
r
A page of editorial opinion r�
February 21
INew Books
in the Library I
WORLD'S END by James II
Conaway
This is a thorougltly c on -
temporary novel that will remind
some readers of 'All the King's
Men'. Intricately plotted, it
works on several
l e t as a
family Saga, a POll
and a love story.
DAMARIS bW Jane Sheridan
In the luxurious splendor of
London Regency society,
English
aristocrats and French 1P m'O"
await the outcome of Napo
campaigns while passing their
time in decadent dalliance. The
reckless beauty, Damaris,
Countess of Malfrey, is the toast
of this town, though none know of
her ill -concealed, passionate
liaison with the Marquis
d'Egremont.
A WREATH OF ORCHIDS by
Marjorie Shoebridge brief
Widowed after a
marriage, Venetia Duluth is
invited to return, to her late
husband's family estate in
England. There she is warmly
welcomed by Adam Duluth's
grandmother, but spurned by his
cousin Damien. When it is
discovered that Venetia is
carrying Adam's child, heirs and
assigns scramble to and,
their inheritances.
PAUL ROBESON by the •dkers
Of Freedomways completely
No man has more comp
embodied the dynamics of the
20th century than did Paul
Robeson, both in his enormous
• gifts and in his travails born of
his race and,,philOSOPhY• He was a
U n e scholarship student at Rutgers, a
boirnme junior Phi Beta Kappa,
And so the ball ' valedictorian and holder of 13
most io Weekly varsity letters in four sports. He
wages were, in vention of the Ontar concertgood years when their g con was also a leading
cases, among the highest in the country. Eadie's Presbyterian Church FEBRUARY 1955 Newspapers Association in singer. Yet these ac -
They accepted jobs there knowing that the
FEBRUARY 1937 at the The Red Front Grocery's Toronto. She was presented with complishments came to be
be reduced as the p golfers will be held its annual meeting colorful metal awning suffered a dro's plaque •as overwhelmed during one of the
staff would certainly Wingham g home of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Ontario Hy Newspaper
ject neared completion. It was a risk they pleased to learn that the Alps "Champion Weekly most brutally racist eras of
ted. Golf and Country Club was Gilmour. Rev. F. G. Fowler was certain amount of damage when Correspondent, 1965 . American history.
accep the services in charge. The WMS of the a miniature avalanche h snow ,chairman of
fortunate in securing the past year, descended on it from the necedf William HatTis, YOU ASKED FOR IT— guide
Hopefully they are people with the sort nes Fortune above. Harry Merkley may the W Public School to preschool story hours
of Breeker Meyers, assistant pro church' Miss Ag and fender man to knock board, has announced that aP- In order to be successful, a
of skills which will lead them to re-employ- of the Thames Valley Golf Club, P ter- a body
At least they London. Mr. Meyers is one of the with a life membership out the bumps. preschool story hour program
mint without too much delay. province �ficate. royal has been given by the and and well
leading golfers of the p One tender has been received H. C. MacLean was re-elected Department of Education for the . must be well prep
are better off than the tura plant In fKin capable instructor. of the preliminary stages of building an organized. A tremendOce amount
Andrew Malcolm furniture p and a cape now, of for the Stewart Glove Works chairman of the board when the
Rev. Ernest. Hayes, . It is from Joe Clark and inaugural meeting addition at the school• of time is involved in planning
cardine, which had to close its doorswi with
th was appointed by property cash• It is said that a �Ningham' General Hospital ,rbe B Line of Turnberry, Just and searching for topical stories
the company could not comp. „ Durham, was $5� Cousins Of wa was
Bishop C. A. Seagar of Huron to tannery firm is also interested m Board was held. Roy east of No. 4 Highway, and appropriate games, songs,
wages at Douglas Point. the parish of Wingham. Brussels was named vice washed out last Thursday af-
the building. John Strong secretary crafts, etc. This handbook
parish has been vacant since the chairman; ternoon when an ice jam in the eliminates much of this time -
appointment of Rev. F. W. Miss Mary Simpson of the and Irlma Harrison treasurfT• river forced the water over the consuming search.
Schaffter to the parish of St. fourth concession of Culross Using a new approach i i tho road.
needed Jude's, Brantford.
Township has gone to Hamilton problem of getting new industry
The new bridge spanning the to begin hor course as a nurse -In- into town, Mayor R.. E. McKinney
common sense has taken a pet's° tion on
Bayfield River at Clinton was training in ,a hospitaliborse on the
A for traffic on February 5. Forty-three neigh the Brown Brothers factory in
E t d will attempt to
At present there is a great deal of
concern in the lakeshore towns about loss of
jobs at the Bruce Nuclear Power Develop-
ment. The decision to mothball idoubtedly
strutted generating i
create hardship for those who will be laid off,
particularly because many of them
have area.In-
vestedIn
in expensive housing for those
We have the utmost sympathy
who suddenly find themselves out of work.
It's a sickening sensation to start wondering
how to feed the family. However,have the en uneworkm, if they
-
ployed at The est for a reasonable length Of
time, can at least look back on a few very
Some people just never learn! You
would think after nstreetstwo months' accumulation
car
of snow along the town
driver would know that there is only one way
to avoid accidents. Slow down — down to a
crawl at those corners where heaps of
plowed -up snow obscure the driver's vision.
We still have drivers who don't
s o of to
remember that sudden app
brakes means un uncontrolled skid• Snow
surfaces at most corners have been
and polished a
into sheer ice byspinning
approached Open morning the ninth concession of as Wingham an result motorists who have even app Early Sunday attract industry ham byMUSEUM
an intersection with extreme care find their house belonging to Bert Longley Wawanosh gathered at the home to Wingham
out across the path of any on- of Hawick Township was of Mr. and Mrs. John Mason to offering it for sale on the open
cars drifting hone newlyweds and Mrs•
coming vehicle. destroyed by fire. A neighbor ids Mr. market. la last
With many sidewalks impassable the warned Mt Longley,vhis two Alfred Mason. They were Mervyn King,who amTowne MUSINGS
portions of the streets have to be sisters and a neighbor, MIs• presented with a purse of money. yea. with the Wingh has been
travelled p small chil enough Cruikshank,
used by pedestrians, including Simmons, who had barely Miss Mary signed Junior th i3 the Montreal
dren and old people who may not be too fast time to get out of the house in daughter of Mr. and Mrs• Benson
Add the fact that Cruikshank, who enlisted in the Canadiens organisation. He will papers, the Advance and the
at leaping out of your way. supposed to have caused by Women's Royal Naval Service report to Montreal next Sep- Wingham is 100 years old and is was
ears are muffled against the frost so that o will report at Galt timber. A native of Simco., holding a centennial celebration Times.
pedestrians don't hear your car's approach a defective chimney. some time ago, Mery came to Wingham list this held . 919 An d mark the 40th demhand as a worker still
lued was well
P FEBRUARY 1944 next week for basic training.
and there all the ingredients for a fatality. At the reg venter from the Barrie Fly was
alar meeting of hater, she will go to St. Hyacinth, Alf Lockridg ce then there have served by five blacksmiths an
Wingham Town Council, Quebec, to attend a course in a returned from a birthday.
ohnson moved that wireless telegraphy. holiday in California just in time been many 'Changes in Wingham. two harness shops. The farmers
Councillor J yen j permanent In those days the town bell rang were well to -ked after by the
council pass a bylaw requiring Word was received by Mr. and to given job of peimpMills, two feed
• town be tied during Mrs. Nelson Steuernol of business manager of the WOAA. for curfew at Sao'clock
ed s �i was two chopping lis (none today
• that dogs in to Claire Chamney of Belgrave, a aught. The only P
training Posts were stores and a carriage works.
July and August• As there was no Wroxeter that their son; MacKay pupil of A. E. Cook of Blyth, Josephine. Hitching poit's great seconder for the motion, the Steuernol, was wounded in active year ago. Some, of
o service overseas. received first class
Toronto still o t of objects
homes. The shops 600wyre more stores an
wer in Euro And his matter was dr pP� Grade II Theory
.lied him to po Conservatory Great War was just over and the course, have become redundant
This is the season fdr public speaking P Winston Churchill was no home from such as the harness shops,
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Miss Velma Ballagh of men were coming millinery stores, tailor shops and
contests and there is no doubt that they
in slouch are ^ with words either. His g $elmore and Miss Ethel Ries, overseas. travel was still downtown, express offices. Then
among the most useful of all compe phrases of stubborn will to win set the mood
youngster can take part. Fordwich, students at Teachers' The best way
to re
which a y there is unnecessary for the entire free world. ` /
Lam- L--=-
Iroad
atiOns
that most of us {n adult life know of �� r /� � College, S�asfordcekrat r�t�e were busy w thrpassengerttrains threewjewelry stores three
It may appear service clubs, Perhaps le who have teaching
duplication with SO many n_ several clever and capable peOP public School. coming and going morning, noon bakeries with home delivery and
Legion all spa sit{On e4 merit for the and night. Freight trains were two drug stores. There were e
school boards and Canadian Leg r commune v
coring their own competitions, but in this never achieved any PO t: t� also very busy. The products of peaces i° ouy g►
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
le reason that they are p� with the i% GAA o■■■�� FEBRUARY 1965
_,►.,,ni children are given stop February 19,1979 the factories were shipped out department stores and have,
way a great molly Gators. was raised
oungsters who take part In the eliminate these two teams be- Canada's new flag and supplies for industry and grocery stores. Now we ave if
a chance to take part. They earl Dear Editor: had booked into an
public speaking contests are learning Y at the town hall at noon on goods for the merchants brought three SiOClianceores0reos�m lk
y we
This is t answer to an
n OMHAthsanctioned tournament Monday with Mayor DeWitt
The ability to communicate intelligently lievable story that app. a proclamation in. This merchandise was moved have app ,
and forcefully is one Of the most Important in life that their thoughts can found that your Pape Miller reading P into town from the stations by stores, a catalogue ordereoffi e,
n can acquire. In fact much Gated to an audience. They r last week from an in prior tothedate belnWe .could from the Queen. He was assisted
skills any verso terested fan from Howick. I am these play-offs, the team draymen with horse drawn variety stores and ap
has been made by the men and their tongues won't cleave t0 the roofs of possibly be eliminating by Chief Constable Jim Miller I—P. 1� ,.c +l,e h.,il,iinost now
of our history an audience not sure if he was criticizing p0 L ,a be rnprcaantino the wa ons. Alex Reid iiiCI a„ tut contain
st _�
Ignrned to sway their mouths and they know that It Is possible, and Town Clerk William Ren g
_••- , address Drayton or the wOwn. ina� """"'" "` •`r•-- passenger trains with his horse contain real estate, insurance
Women w,.v sGC4,, they address f�.
rime wick.
rotor alone that pro well-filled auditorium. In his first paragraph he refers WOAdOwns tWould this be giving ng local Kinsmen were joined by draw'^ bus. He also carried all the and other business offices
with their words. Adolf Hitler was a p to "think on yv�� ��• mail from the station to the post In 1919 domestic radio was yet
example. It was his oratory to the tournament as a double p Y the presidents of 16 other district to come. The Bell Telephone Co.
knockout, this means all teams these teams a fair chance at fair clubs to mark the 45th an- office.
must be beaten twice to be elimi- plThes is the first year that a win- of the Kinsmen Some people were still Pum served the town but many did not
^steed, therefore it was not only niversary in water with wooden pumps have a phone. The North Huron
to be found by this movement and the 16th an- ping
Drayton that took care of Howick ner is going niversary of the local club. from their own dug wells, even Telephone Co., based in
cos t of eating g but also the winners of the tournamentco-operation from everyone though most were using town Wingham, served the e method of
High tournament namely Ripley who little co ape Represented at the meeting were water. In 1919 not all had eh 24 area. The app
l be a clubs from Cfiesley, Clinton, tricit in their homes, although 24 sending messages long distances
et a little tired of the price of food within one year hurts the defeated Howick Saturday after- itteremethod than in hie Past. Collengwood, Durham, Goderich, Y
You know, we g average Canadian wage-earner sharply. noon. Warren Jack Kincardine, hour service had been available was still by
downtown
It was nice of last week's writer Drayton F i e s h e r t o n , since 1412. Hydro arrived in railways
ministers of agriculture telling us that we Food isn't the only thing we haveUlabuy,
ity son to inform the readers that Listowel, Markdale, Mount
are so lucky to tie able to buy our food for so it isn't going to win you any POP Wi ham the next year, 1920. ' telegraph offices to serve the
that they're a three games in Forest, Walkerton and port Town sewers did not cover all the public.
little. Both Whelan and Newman have voiced tests to tell sensible people Howick played Wingham Advance -Times Ligin ears ago there were
their boredom with Canadian consumers bunch of cry babies. Try living on our pay five hours, the first at 8 a.m. and Dear Editor, town and not all the people who Sixty y g
who growl about the price of food. in cheques for six months and then tell us how the third at 3 p.m., five hours" He The Jr. Citizens' dance-a-thon Bernard Bailey, formerly o� could use them did. There was no many industries that are not here
For in
there was a
Well, let us tell you two well m you feel. also failed to mention that Dray is over and was a good success. Kingston where he was employed garbage collection, but a man today• a
isters that an increase of 19 per cent in the y ton and Ripley had to play three The girls and boys that par- at a hospital for a number of �,as employed fulltime with his salt block Vo with glove
ories, flax
games as well with Drayton anon of the horse and wagon to keep the tannery,
ticipated fulfilled their promise years, has joined his son, Renes outhouses cleaned out. mill, sawmill, knitting factory,
playing games two and three to match the money pledged. My Bailey, in the opiet
back to back, not bad for a team planing mill, creamery and more
daughter arrived home tired but Sunrise Dairy• at the Western Education was supplied by P g
THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES that was suppose to get a ''bye". happy (and a couple of blisters). The paint shop Pu blec and high schools and two than one furniture factory.
Is this what happens when you Her happiness was short-lived, as Foundry was cOmpletielY gutted days business colleges. The Central However now Wingham probably
A Published at Wingham. Ontario, by Wenger Bros. 1,imited j y H opening her purse she by fire on Saturday. Business College was on the third employs more le capita
adjust the schedule to suit our P Y
Robert O. Wenger, Sec. -Tress. self? discovered her money had been were said to have saved the floor of the MacDonald Block and `then any town in Huron County*
er president We were not adjusting the stolen. adjoining steel room. Lolls was the SpOtton College was on the This reflects to a large degree the
:: • Barry Weng schedule to suit ourselves, but second floor of the Meyer Block. changes in industry throughOut
Member Audit Bureau of Circulations perhaps the next time someone estimated at between f20, and forces
trying to do everything possible would look afteC the girls' purses 125,(100. Three chartered banks served Ontario and the economiceats to
•tario WcekiY Newspaper Assoc. to accommodate all teams n as they can't very well dance for Mrs. Dustan Beecroft, who was the town: the Dominion, Com behind them. May the Y
• News r AssocAx ndent for merle and Hamilton. The news come treat Wingham all well as
Member - Canadian Community Pape eluding Tiverton and Mildmay, 12 hours holding onto them. Whitechurch correspondent
Mrs. Mary Wallace this paper for more than 40 years, was recorded by two weekly have tilose of the peat.
Six months $7.50 because we alsobelieve chcome,ac- glingtiam was honored at the annual
Subscription $14.00 per year ter and sportsmanship
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