Loading...
The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-10-03, Page 4r 0 . THE ADVAIICFa�TJMES A page of editorial opinion i More information needed The dorm& awn hundreds of people who have given so freely of their time over the years to make the Wingham Midget Hockey Tournament an outstanding success have every reason to be angry. The "grapevine", rather than an official announcement has provided tie Information that the Ontario Minor Hockey Association has cordes . . ad to allow one more tournament to take place here. With no official ruling on the question, It is difficult to separate fad from fiction, but the OMHA apparently IMIevee that the an- nual tournaments In Wfhgham have not -con- formed strictly to OMHA regulations. Sour- est note in the entire debacle is that what- ever decisions were made by OMHA officials were certainly made without hearing a single word of explanation or defence from the local tournament supporters. It Is obviously desirable that an associa- tion should keep an eye on amateur sports at all levels, to ensure that they are Indeed amateur and to proied competitors from unfair competition. But them seems to be an increasing number of Instances In which the governing bodies use their muscle for little better reason than proof of the fact they have the power to interfere. Whatever infringements may or may not have J in connection with the Wingham tournament, the obvious fact Is that hundreds of young hockey players have been afforded a chance to enjoy the game and the competition. When teams continue to come from as far away as the United States to compete it would seem apparent that there is not any great amount of dinatlsfac- tipn with the way the games are handled. �The czars of the OMHA have an obllge- tic n to immediately clarify the situation and the Lure of the midget tournament. After all, the adults who put In the time and money to sponsor the annual event cannot be .. ,.)ed to remain in doubt about what will happen to the tournament in coming years. The burden of truth The Hon. Flora MacDonald's speech True, it is.highly unlikely that the United before the United Nations has been generally Nations can or will even try to heed ler _ . ndem ned as a waste of words by the re- words — but that does not mean that she ut- porters for the big-time media. Ms. Mac- tei those truths in vain. It is bad enough Donald told the UN delegates that there Is that so much evil prevails, and even worse too little regard for human suffering in the that the most powerful nett�nrs on earth world today and that the UN organization is won't do anything about it, the ultimate next to useless if it is powerless to act ambe- wrong lies in the prevalling � ;rude that no half of the millions who have become victims one should ever mention publicly how great - 4 -11 it those who need our help October 3, 1979 New Books in the Library New B04ks PRINCESS OF WALES by DUicie M. Asbdown Since 1801, when the title was created, there have been some 90 Princes of Wales, of whom only eight were married, and of their princesses only six became queen. The autbw traces the lives of these eight very different princesses. Some were reviled for their meddling in politics and their flagrant breaches of royal privilege; others were respected and loved by their family and by the nation. ARTHRITIS by James F. Fries Here is an arthritis book that 44. really works. You have much more control over your arthritis than your ddr!! do. In this n practical Dooit , the author gives you a positive program to defeat arthritis or rheumatism. BE YOUR OWN, CHIMNEY SWEEP by C. Curtis If you have a wood stove or fireplace, you also have a problem — potentially dangerous buildup of creosote. This book shows how to use professional methods and equipment to make of cruelty and oppression. Y we a s* your wood -burning system clean "Relax, we.don't have.. d IAOAg �to w�ory about — we're already broke. " and safe' Another voice is stiIIed The death of The Montreal Star last known of the justice of the pressmen's de - week silences yet another medium of public mends, but they were stiff. The opposition fro Id FAe expression. The Star has been read for 111 paper The Gazette, faced wlfh the same de- Neve. 0 years by the people of Montreal and as it mands, capitulated and was, of course, able erect ,an apartment building on ceases publication only one other English to meet the escalated wage Increases be- OCTOBER I= 0 ,. 1944 Mrs. -JH. Lloyd and Mrs. R. L. A three-storey agricultural Shuter Street. Rumor has in - newspaper was available to the Anglophones cause for those months it had no comped- A meeting of the United Church Stewart. Treasurer is Mrs. W. barn, 30 by 50 feet in size, will be in that great city. Badminton Club was held in the Joe McGill of ills .ve has bought that Jacob may who has g tion. purchased the Mills r ... ; , I� , VanWyck. built to the east of the new bought land there, .may wish to Nearly ' 1,000 employees have been cehool room and the club was Wingham District High School, it build an apartment building. north of the Advance -Times d ,,, , � � ,, � ; � 1955 was decided at a al meeting Probably many factors contributed to permanently thrown out of work by the reorganized for the coming year. office, and will transfer his radio Town Council, at its t�h There was no final decision made newspaper, but the most Y business from Beigrave to rim• mom, a motion of the board. Estimated cost will as council was of the inion it the demise of the closure of The Star. Some of them are no J. M. McKay was elected P� opinion immediate one was a .costly months -long doubt wondering whether intone resasonabie president and Miss Jean Christie Wingham, asking the Department .m �_ be p8,000. It will be used for had no power to ..act without a cultural activities at the strike of Pressmen who prevented The Star wage demands might have been preferable vice president. W. H. French is The new officers in charge of :ways to proceed with a plan to >R;� �lsg bY�• to total loss of employment.'' :.. the Salvation Army here are school and for storage of school Ma has been a from appearing on the streets. Little is P oynnent - � r ' • • extend Highway 86 straight implements. >} Miss Mary Boyle has accepted Adjt. A. Howells and Cadet B. across the prairie from the � pointed Controller of Stanley - a position with the Walker Stores- Law who were transferred from binning u. Diagonal Road on Tim Angus, former foreman on Berry Limited of Melton and At the regular m0ntb41y Fort Erie. Lieut. M. Gitsham, the east to Walpole's corner on the public worts department has Wingham. He will be responsible Gett i n out of business meeting of Wingham `fowt4, who has been the officer here, is the west. A separate motion was taken a position with the for the entire accounting func- g Council, a motion was passed r prem cZp 'e„ lave f0ough passed, petitioning the F kum Company tions stet the subsidiary and will S .,.,ri.., also g Those who have coin lamed about the the basic principles of a denrtoeratk that the street committee place i, ; Mrs.'W. �. Qoonetl was elected Department to build a new bridge and will manage the new station assume his duties in Wingham P P ti n- stop sign at the northeast corn .. president of the Ladies' Auxiliary - at the' north end of town to grated by them on Josephine soon: do-nothing months of the Clark govern- rnett to operate any business that can be run of Diagonal Road and Victona to the Wingham General Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Naylor Ment's tenure of office should be silenced, at by the private sector. Nor has big govern- g replace the present McKenzie Street. Y Street. Hospital. Vice presidents ,ase, bridge. and family of the ninth con - least temporarily by the events of last week. meat any startling track em as far as John Merkley and Shirley cession of East Wawanoah moved The government put eight crown corpora- business efficiency is concerned. Although Armstrong were named senior to Whitechurch, to the apartment Ions are to be boy and senior girl champions at owned by Mrs. Albert McQuillin tions on the auction block for those In private .crown _ . .. �, � supposed the Pnbiic,School field day. In- which Keith Collyer vacated enterprise who want to take over. They total) removed from political influence, Y ions are include some pretty big names, such as Can- that, too, is a fallacy. Witness the hasty cep- Tradesman's Cardin Brass, ' Copper and to wd iate champions ,. �`�ss"�s•-.-, �rc4y \. Doug earlier in the season. intment of Bryce Mack as chairman of ' ;o\ireO�P Spry and Sue Nasmith. Dennis The new officers of the adair of Montreal, DeHavilland of Toronto, Po rYY German `" 5.�: :AVE ldorado Nuclear, which mines and refines the board of Air Canada. _ :a4HR7tttseene`a ; - .+�e�*, Callan and Borrie 1 Rebekah Lodge were installed at uranium, as well as PetroCanada. The re- The loss of profits earned by these crown .'ELppq • a 0 ' �: us;s a.i„ ` a were linter crampe�o3 . a special meeting. They are Lola -.: .. :'�'*��S a►e:ari• ", irrs.�.'C .ass �� y Sanderson, Isabel Montgomery, maining four are subsidiaries of the big- corporations will be countered to some :N -C4 .��;; ON .,nwr: les". degree by the taxes which will accrue from :;tom rFo?� o : `� stv rttnr,sot `�� as,t :rp OCTOBER ls$s Ethel Gerrie, Mary Caslick and g : tL . s . -w�. .?� ••�c.cx•u: s� Calvin Burke, well known Anne Henry.There is bound to be a great deal of con- __ the successful operations of these businesses > arcus;; . : -# ,� '1_ ., a,•;r ate coin Hies. with the - �i!6iC,� "' �1 F - �-"'"' - Wingham businessman, is In a change of plans Wingham troversy over the sale of these profi#-maklnII bur ivr>�► Pa Perhaps►- . a. r► government enterprises, but the general spur of. a profit incentive they may even��r' consensus seems to be that the move is a enlarge their operations, create new jobs tot • ...To µP good one. It is, or at least should be against Canadians and increase our exports. Lottery for health The announcement that new sources of • pay their cotton an added fee, universal lottery fund revenues will be diverted to hos;- medkare is a sham. pitals_in the province Is good news. About Federal authorities have recognized the $100 million will be available for capital importance of the problem by appointing health costs over the next three years. former Chief Justice Emmett Hall to preside The additional funds, apparently, will over a study of medicare across the country. not alter the health ministry's stand on cur- One may well be skeptical of the net results tailment of operating costs or Its decision to of such a study,' because the application and cut back on the number of active treatment operation of medicare Is a provincial re - beds in smaller hospitals. Capital expw4- sponsibilify. However, since the federal tures are those which provide additional bed treasury coed. lbutes very substantially to space where needed, as well as money for medicare costs in each province, the provW new equipment. clal health ministries do have a very real However, it is encouraging that some and compelling obligation to lend every as. lottery nr_ nfhft ..,tit M �,���!; :iNane�� fn tin nA41ow al _M�, la 1* services. Hundreds of dedicated health that the Hall Commission will prove as fatty , kers and hospital board members have ous as the LaMarsh study of violence In the long been disillusioned by the ease with media proved to be. which sports organizations and arena boards One facet of health coats which deserves could secure money and the difficulty ex- the keenest of attention is the attitude of , lerwed in persuading government to ease practising Physicians to the use of inslttu- the pressure on curtallmenl of funds for tional care. After all, every patient admitted hospitals. to hospital is accepted on the advice of a doc• P / , of extra funds for has serv- to' and the length of stay is dole nrtined by Ices does not change the fact that this court- the assessment of the patient's recovery by try's attempt at universal medicare hor- the doctor. Every hospital has ifs A a D rendously wgxw ive —. and that its cost Is committee (admissions and discharges), but increasing at an alarming rate. With doctor It is inevltable that some of these com- m more than one . . . opting out of the mill are more conscienflous then oilers. provincial medicare plana ltmust be admit- It must also be borne In mind that If doc- ted that the original concept of m adk e, has fors were forced to. vve 1 to home care and at least partially broke down. As long as house calls for even 90 per cent of their pa- petients M one town or city can get health dents we would need many more doctors to care for the price of thele OHIP prunkx s, cover the ground. It is also obvious that the while .*me In a neighboring canine erns! doctors' kwones would be sharply curfalted. TlllE VVIOWHAM ADVANCE -111M Pabidod at ism. Onewis. b9 Wewtetr lines. Limited Barry Wenger. President ilabort O. Wester. Sec.-Treas. Member Audit Bureau of Ch cttlatimaa A ' Member — Canadian C. N _ Assoc. Oeto b waft r , n j G ,. Aataoc. Subscription $14.00 per year Six months $'7.50 Second Claes NO Retistratim Me. e11121 Retreat lemtagt pmreateSd II Adv. Discount Token in ahimmum t U.03 :.� aTtt�'�'�� '•.1G`E001/3 Fls•�S . Adv. Dbmumt Tanen issued by A. H. Carr in al., br., co. and win. ii- : fLOeJR.FEE0 �;. tOAI-DWOOD.; •sou*s �� g \�raarA►r. ; 400 S� •- 011T. �* ..`To Mkt Tradesman's Card c 19M in al., br., co. and sum. A& Taken — 3 different reYeras seri in 4 different metals i.•�,h,aEwar-, _�A9t)2 eye 903`x:= •' Gen. Merchant's Due Bill. There are six pieces in this aluminum set 1 exffi4I.08 valoes is41- ;r , ';liar •. ' O � O ONO L Searching for trade tokens 11 The following letter was forwarded to The ACdvaooe-Times by Mary Lou Comeoe of the Centennial Book Committee. Dear Mrs. Cameron, I have read with great interest your fine book on Wingham's last hundred years. I am particularly interested in the Wingham merchants who issued trade toffees. Enclosed are rubbings of a few in my Collection. (W. J. Greer Shoes. H. Park Jeweler and Optician, Patterson the Watch Doctor, H. M. Tuditope's Grocery and Crockery Store, A. H. Carr Flour, Feed, Coal and Wood, and D. LaWheed Market Bakery. The tokens were issued in various metab, were about the size M a quarter, and carried advertising makes or offered discounts ranging between one cent and one dollar or free merchandise. Editor's note.) Besides these I have three of the Sunrise Dairy and I have seen those of H. E. Isard A Co. Cheap Cash Store in denominations of one cent to she dollar. Cassels and Carr also issued tokens. There were perhaps many mare Wingfharn met cants who used them and if you enquire around you will likely find e1 1 . These t0lterrs are interesting and, I tbink, well worth , ' . _6, i If you Come I "arN any I would be miner plaseed to hear about them. Keats Palmer 10 We sonford Place Hamilton. Out., LIP 1Na ■ opening his new --store on will -hardtop Angus Street this Josephine Street today as the fall instead of Summit Drive as culmination of several months of had been scheduled. The change very hard wont and over a year came about due to construction Of L.I. _ ..' Encl. problems on Summit Drive. Property owners at the north A presentation was held in end of Shuter Strut have made a Fordwich for newlyweds Mr. and request to town council that the Mrs. Ronald Meaement, the council refuse permission to former Margaret Ann Wilson. Editorial is called isy uni austl critical" Sept. 39, IM The Editor, atonic power millions will die The Advance -Times, becawe won't have the power, use to keep hospitals going. Ontario WinghDear am Ont. Hydro seldom admits there is a Usually when I'm publicly cri- dam' at all yet people like Dr. Potter admit #how& +. • ;!; �,� �.U80 . _�.__ . —�.w......._c. u. siieaee iwt your editorial of Sept. 27 was a little , a catastophe but says that even if we did have an accident and tens too much to suffer without re- Opo'- While calling for more of thousands were kWed, he'd reason it used what must surely still favour nuclear power. be one of the worst cases of My argument simply is that in quite people dxndd be given the true . a'�: gr�in6�thhee rebuttals information so they tisey can make the to my arguments without ever choice. They should also be given giving my arguments. the facts about what they would First let me set the record have to -give up if they didn't want straight that I am neither for or nuclear power, not frightening against the ise of nuclear power. propaganda about people . dying I'm Undecided because I don't in hospitals. If we did ant back on this anyone Yet has given me the true facts about the real dan- power & acedy hospitals would be at the top of the priority gers Of producing power through fiat. nuclear nuke. I tend to discount You called for reason. So do I. many Of the arguments against it But reason comes ftom having because they are fanatical in titch nature. Oo the other ham all the fads to reeaon with not having facts withheld as soma to em m &40teeed by the ability of be the came in what we an told Ontarlo Hydro and the Atomic OerD Control Board to ignore about nuclear pceor and in the case all wgumenb agRIM it. MY of your giving one sidm of an argument without giving both. point in this column was that On- tario Hydro is quick to tell I And it strange too that Mr. VON w about industrial accidents at the seems wddedy ready to take the word of Ontario Hydro Bruce site but when near tragc-dies lb -1i; i as certain truth now though be about ftm on 4Gar a was 000 of the leading critics of short months he d tl "Whhbu"oh�h Sources other than doubted their stateHydra ments MY call simply was to be told . the tnrvth. lyre endear say they had no plans to build a ! plant on the Lkesbore in Huron awn le M allree M Oouhg, Set r we dme't einc�ardY to ahead with iCaitb R,ottlettoe l