The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-12-12, Page 131
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A page of editorial opinion
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December 12
Thanks to Junior Citizens
MUSEUMr u17 -:f A';T1NG f0XX/ 0W7- TELL rh/E GOOD GUYS Y5.1 MVSIGS
Once again Wingham should say thanks makes It necessary to prepare most of the
to the Junior Citizens for taking on the re- floats indoors and garages or barns with / By Jobs W. Paufass
sponsibility of organizing the Santa Claus enough free '� Processing of wool was one
parade 9 space are not too easy to come
_ � � Wingham's early industries.
by. i Fishers completed their
These young people continue to provide There was a good crowd on hand for the L '
a flee example of the community spirit J wOOlm mill in 1865 driven by
tY sP parade On Saturday and the snow squallsto - waterpower. At the peak of theirwhich we elders are supposed to have and so which were threatened delayed their arrival ; t v- *�
�." + ' •�� 4 "t t s11CCeai the mill was burnt in 1675
often fall to demonstrate. The annual Christ- long enough to let the kiddies see the parade Seng �� their
mas parade Is one of the more difficult as- itself and Santa In person. � min.'The
` grist mill was rebugt bigger and
slgnments, coming as It does at a time when Out thanks to the Junior Cs for their con- ' �� ' � ��. � � woolen mill was
so many of the expected participants are ex- tinued Interest and their boundless enthusl `. .`.: .>Y "� +s`rf' , t '} `1;f7 ATFrep'
tremel bus The - mills by a carding burn mill. There
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re
Y Y possibility of bad weather asm.
replaced min in IM
and not
t, 't {j %' , t� In 1675 Jots IV40M and his WO
William built a woolen mill on tate
¢� ;, r `� i 1�l .� •s north side of Alfred Street about
Who sgottroady: _ �, ,•: ,: ..r , : K Sbu-
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;,;�::� • .y. ;,,:„ _: .�. .X ;;�,y�,'!� �• ,� > > > E , ., x �.�-. half -w y between Jane and
the tett Streets. It was a two store.,
�i* r:" '• 1 rs. �•::i(C`� �4 ,'�:%-'h;l:"f�.�+ I �""•c7
::tt X <,;:: Y;4• frame building, with a separate
A recent poll of Canadian voters indl- of sponsorship funding has been far out- �r f J ye house. The father,
boiler a� d
" Mfr '''°' Olin lived on lot 4 across the
canes that confidence In the Progressive weighed b ••�..." "'"�� ' "���'
'
Conservative federal government has ell g Y sponsorships from private reef ♦� lived street from Y7G m�. His amt ii
P- sources, despite the undertaking that federal Maple and SouterQ{.���
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ped to less than 50 per cent of the electorate. none would be provided '•�a: .r . <L `f,,.. ✓�., :. • % Vis.,, c�,'�, .�'z ,. � � „ .ra. .,�„,: on lot 5
on a on
Ab Y p dad one-on-one S ,. c Vis. x; h�, .:: :. Y r• f;,t;.:�.a ` ;� k William sem,
Absence of clear-cut goals and the paps to basis. r }� p} .� rw m.-`= t,h,a�; iY �,, ;<:y=: Inglis ed on the
their achievement, have obviousl ac*;,� rY k '� '� ax;ti:F.�y�k_ '�Yr. Wingham council for man
osis Y
y counted Then there is the confusing government ' `� ''�” }"''
for some of the present lack of confidence. stance on eversupplies."``'° s ""�' ""'` ' '*°:" • '' Years, including the first one.
energy A week ago he N p ,. j v x �•r � , y y � ,�; r r; The machinery was driven
� by a
As one example, R. E. (Bob) McKinley, prime minister warned the nation that fuel 7:r (k ` `* '' 40 horsepower steam In
' } -? • p..� i' engine
member of parliament for Huron -Bruce re -supplies might be In dangerously shorts ,: the beginning the buildings were
fr .:... w 3. {' �!F. ��.'.i b 4 9 .?4Y.t . f. r,..- 'i �. . t, tG
cantly spoke with pride about Canada's role ply this winter. Within hours of the PM's
1 «ti light y gas that was generated
on providing a haven for refugees. Address- warning the federal energy board announced , �`` ;3 ` ' ., x`l:t on the
<_x,/ k e ?t, ,x`y `1"''`., ,t' °� _♦ 3 t Premises. ID October 16e6
ing the Parliamentary Association Confer- that a huge increase in natural gas exports 'rix`'"f�swr; R°�-°°�`:i• rpt 3s,° hgbeand Co. had I.eggo Ireland
ence In New Zealand, he referred to the Can-
would be authorized for shipment to the install a complete electrical
adian government's commitment to accept United States. ' y- `� -Y' 4' - f
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50,000 refugees from Southeast Asia. It must system, mel a dynamo'
g Back -tracking on pre-election promises 1' wx «ir -<�` s< (driven by the steam engine),
ilii,
have been unsettling for him to learn, only a is not icuo surprising. The PCs are .not the "� `' rx +� �'a "k �. o �B � eight lamps on a trial
few days after his >''': :. °` `r�"ie
Y s speech, that his govern -
basis. people to fall t X s"": t.f ur °'� was so sue
P P Into such a trap. Contra- ,� ,fit, ,,..�1:, ,r . • ?s .� F� basis. It easeful it be-
g'
„ . w �:ar.J:; "a::,,, F'r r> _...: �i>? came permanent. In line with
meat had announced its decision to withdraw dictions in policy months after the election is "' `f
from the field of refugee 'sponsorship. Only a a different matter. Canadians are confused their up-to-date th*n1ri steam
portion of the 50,000 quota of Boat People had —and it seems that their leaders are equally pipes were installed to heat the
reached Canada and the government's share mixed up. mill. Later that year the boiler
gave out and the mill was. closed
. until another one was ins ed
By 1886 b»siness was so good,
new • ' • chased in
United States to
ettersr
Example of co-operation �b� th40 output. A nes a�_
` f was built eat, two stories ►1.�
Huron with all possible speed. all anyone down here does is go feel embarrassed last summer to house it.
The lady mayor of Mississauga ,appear- spbnded by making available to the eme.r- Wrong Place for We have farmers looking over up and shoot off the moose we are during our centennial For a very short time following
ed on Front Page Chall�nae last wc�+k and �pr+�� co-ora'��a_-- .. eat'' «"ei this the firm was known by the
the com—nnunicanons ol..-. s fences to see a without doubt more than a little celebrations when friends name ,• trong", and
described In some detail the excellent or- outlets which were vital to the prevention of n'1�o 111@@tl ng neighbor doesn't build a house for part of the problem ! wanted to see the park and floral for some reason i seems to be the
ganization which was set up within hours to panic. "' Dad in the corner. It just seems an insatiable fountain dedicated in his honour. name by which it is remembered.
meet the emergency situation created by a All too Offen to cases of unusual or unex- Dear Editor. ' We hear endless griping about ambition exists here to manage What a deplorable display,
'Regarding planning boards, foreign ownership from people the affairs of others, whether especially when the Wingham By 1890 thenewspaper ads of the
tank car derailment in her city. petted crisis the press people are treated as Pro y mB West Huron Woolen Mill stated
She spoke with feeling and sincerl onlyone more nuisance to be dealt with b conservation authorities, moose who will, on accomplishment of invited or not (and I have had a Horticultural Society had that it was o y Inglis d
about the co-operation and efficiency of authorities. Offen "news blackouts" are day planning, 'What is next on the their aims, likely about face and taste of this uninvited intrusion). volunteered to keep the site operated b
police and firemen and the way in which the clared until the emergency has passed and agenda? complain that we are bypassed I feel that this meeting should beautiful and was, in essence, CO with William Inglre►manager-
quarter million evacuees had faced incon spokesmen.have time tq r We have planning boards that by foreign investment. not be taking place in the south at told to "forget it". One might The mill was in Ai running order
p opera statements intend to override our legal land Now we are going to sit down, , but should be. taken to those well and they would give special it-
venlence,and hardship with Iittle•complalnt, which will portray officialdom In the best paraphrase a famous. - tendon to -custom all its
She made a special int of the fine g tore right to `sole' and only use mor stand h and tell Northern whose livelihood depends on it. remark by the late Sir Wins6on branches They had in stock, �
sP� Po per- light to the public: forever'. Ontario what to do about its Let me ask one more. question. Churchill: "Some honour, some
forrrtance of he news media and the as- We have conservation moose. If we had a better record Is there anyone in Huron County sight!" cls Feeds flannels blankets
sistance which press, radio and television Mississauga's intelligent approach to shee' s and s
authorities which appear bent on of wildlife management here I who would like it if Northern were from�o�N� Y� �
people had rendered in the emergency. The the need for public information is, to say the flushing the Maitland into- Lake could in part understand it! Since Ontario told you that you could It is possible that some of our y Pure wool.
mayor said that one of the first decisions was least, refreshing. The news media are, in not hold, say, a deer season in councillors are young enough, or Their Products were cheap for
to set up a news headquarters and to provide most cases, just as interested in good order Huron County? Wouldn't you be too new to town, to have ever had cash or could be exchanged for
the news people with. full and complete and public safety as elected officials. The saying, `Look here. We live here, the Privilege of knowing this man wool. Customers from a distance
information at every stage of the operation. only difference Ices in the belief that full dis- know what the deer population is who, in his humble and could have their "rolls" home
The mayor said that there were no secrets closure is always preferable to secretive- and will handle our own business, unasstuning way, did so much for with them the same day. Inglis A
from the press and in turn the media re- ness, and secrets inevitably breed suspicion. thank you'? his community. They, and Co. had an output of 2oo,000 yards
I am not thinking that anyone is Perhaps the whole council might °f material per year with a staff
going to forbid' them to do any- do well in reading the inscription . of forty people. The mill con -
thing, to ate until 1892. On
New
thing, but •rather that it is none of on the plaque erected in the °Pe'
•• New Books our business, and if we are so centre of the floral fountain in the June 25,' 1892 the firm made an
Education' I s for t concerned about the moose park. The last paragraph reads: assignment in favour of J. A.
ever e — t r population then I am sure we can "This site, established by the Morton, a Wingham lawyer.
—_- 1 n the Library l y help by staying home for a year People of Wingham, is dedicated In 1890 the Chapman Tannery
.7 or two. to his exemplary conduct as a on Victoria St, also wanted to buy -
Bob Roth, -in his "perspective" column. information is being constantly brought for- Mrs. Ener Hill citizen and a humanist." wool, not to manufacture, but to
in the Glengarry News says, whatever one ward. EVERYTHING IN THE on its knees in reluctant thship to the United States. A duty
may think of the federal commission into It would be a mistake, however, to labor Is it Possible at our council of two cents a pound was to be put
fel educational leave and productivity, the under the assumption WINDOW by Shirley Faessler obeisance to the Versailles •
Pa p ty, mption that only those work- bet against the bac Editorial raptured might i adopting. an attitude, on to the Americans. As a result
group must be lven raise for r g background of Treaty. When a man named
9 P given p recognizing ing in fields related to science and tech- • increasingly prevalent in customers were urged to bring in
that formal education should not be the ex- nol need to u Toronto's Jewish community of an offer
makes Stachel citizens feelings government today, of giving the their wool at once to receive the
ogY upgrade their skills. It is im- the 1930s is this memorable story an offer he can't refuse, Stachel 9 people not necessarily what they best price. In later years, T. A.
elusive preserve of the young. portant that we not forget the social sciences of a free -spirited young woman accepts a key position in the Dear Sir, want or ask for but what it, as a Mills and, George E. King,
The comnilssion, funded by Labor Can- and the skills we should all possess In that who yearns to escape the poverty construction of Der Fuhrer's In res
ada, notes that "a major problem of adult II- discipline. ponce to your editorial governing body, decides the general merchants offered to buy
of her childhood. Ardent and full Luftwaffe and the chance to fly regarding the contentious issue people should have?
literacy is being largely ignored by public Our political and economic structures of contradictory emotions, againwool for cash or trade in their
again. wool the possible disposal of Cruick- Let us think on these things. stores for up to 50,000 pounds a
:gainst
uthoritles." and social institutions are becoming In- Sophie Glicksman longs for a new LAST ACT by Jane Aiken shank Memorial Park, let me be Scott C. Reid year.
The group recommends a campaign creasingly intricate. As a result, people are world anti thinks she has found it Hodge one to respond with a resounding adult illiteracy and also suggests feeling further removed from the institutions when she elopes with blond, Six months, says the doctor, "Hear, Hear!". I feel you have,
that "professionals and other skilled people that were designed to serve them. This, In handsome Billy James, a Gentile perhaps a year. The sentence of in your remarks, very precisely What's
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should be expected to keep their skills turn, breeds frustration and apathy. swimming instructor. death gives Anne Paget a strange and adequately ; y o : � the
up-to-date and should have the means to do Courses on government, economics and THE BLOOD ORDER. by Jack sense of freedom. She will forget feelings of most of the citizens of
$o." sociology should be deemed just as import- D. Hunter her disastrous marriage, her our town.
At one time formal or academic educa- ant as courses In computer technology. It is early in 1925 and the Vater- husband's car -crash death with Having had the honour of Huronv* ie7
tion was considered something that took land's most glittering native son his unknown mistress, and ac- participating in the dedication of •
place from age 5 to 18. A select number of and national idol, Bruno Stachel, ce'pt the challenging invitation to this site to the memory of W. T. On Saturday morning the provided the musical en=
people went beyond that and took a few more is wallowing in a morass of join the production of 'Doc' Cruickshank in 1971 I have Huronview choir held a Practice tertainment of Old Tyme Music
years of post -secondary educationAfter this alcohol and sexual soirees. With Beethoven's last opera, felt particularly distressed to ung the direction of Frank on Monday afternoon.
you went out Into the work force. Rad.,i o network no planes to fly and no missions 'Regulus', to be staged in think that such an outstanding Bissett. The
to accomplish, he reflects the Lissenburg, a tiny, Central citizen could be forgotten in eight ceramic class is hard at
Today, Kowever, many people are be- impotence of a crippled German Eur g Cecil Skinner Norman r work ceramics on tate
Innis to realize that education is — or PP y European principality. short years. I could not hel but
ginning a success P and Mrs. Elsie Henderson Christmas theme for the various
should be — an ongoing process. And while It areas in the home. •
Is true that a type of education is obtained in Last Wednesday's London Free Press The vide° machine had another
the working world in the form of practical carried a feature story on the police radio invitation out and this time we
>�r comp
le- fence, this should be seen as a con le - network which serves the urban municipal -were invited to join the IODE
y
ment, not a substitute to academic training. ladies for a love) potluck supper
Ides In Huron County and provided ex. TO DAYIFS CHILD and gift exchange. We were that
Strides in technology and science have angles of the ways in which the network aids happy to show various tapes of
been dramatic since World War II and be- policemen on the job. past programs we have in our
cause of the rising rate of discoveries, an Establishment of the, network created BY HELEN ALLEN collection.
education obtained, ten, or even five years considerable controversy when It was still .,1 The Over 90 Club met in the
ago can be hopelessly out of date today. under discussion and those believed in Its auditorium on Wednesday af-
Naturally, the issue of outdated educa- merits had to be both patient and persistent. ternoon and the Huronview choir
Ion can be more pronounced In some fields One of the strongest advocates of the was in attendance to add support
than others. Computer design, for example, system was Wingham Councillor Bill Harris. to the afternoon music, under the
changes Imost yearly, which means Indivi- It is a tribute to his foresight that after a Like many children who are slow developers,direction Mr. Bissett. The choir
duat�the field must be continual) u old Sheila has surprised ever 8 year- a
Y P- year of operation the radio network has been rp everybody. Born with Down's sang couple of Christmas
grading their knowledge to remain competi- accepted as a valuable tool In the preserve- Syndrome a condition that certainly has made her carols. Cecil Skinner sang,
five. Medicine Is another area where new tion of law and order. Progress slow mentally and physically, Sheila is so bright `There Is Something About That
and articulate she makes you feel she wasn't meant to Name'. Nelson Lear sang the
have any limitations. :' solo, 'Have Thine Own W
This likeable little girl is in the upper range of intelli Lord' Cecil Skinner and Norman
genee for children with Down's Syndrome and performs Spear teamed up together and
THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES well in a school for retarded children, taking part in �'' played a violin duet, ac -
discussions and speaking in logical, coherent sentences. compaltied by Mr. Bissett at the
Published at 1ti'ingham. Ontario, by Wenger Bros, Limited Sheila is very active and energetic and particularly likes.;
gymnastic exercises. She also enjoys music and coloring piano.
in her quieter moment-... Mrs. Prouty held Bible study
. - e Barry Wenger, President Robert O. Wenger, Sec.-Treas. Sheila Is in good physical health and is almost never on Thursday Afteinoon and in the
sick. She wears glasses all the time. Sheila should have a family night, we were
ptember Audit Bureau of Circulations family who can be both warm and firm, and who can see a fortunate . evening at ff have the Wesley
beyond her limitations and encourage her in her very real Willis Charon choir in concert.
Member --Canadian Community Newspaper Assoc Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. achievements. Huronview would like to
To inquire about adopting Sheila, please write to w
Today's Child, Ministry of Community and Social Ser- welcome Samuel Stewart Me -
vice, Box RSB Station K, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2142. In Barney from Wingham and Miss
Second Class Mail Registration Nn tm2t your letter tell something of your present family and your � { , �« Lilia M. Cartwright front Hullott
g Return postage guaranteed way of life. ,y'
s ♦ t Township.
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