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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1953-01-29, Page 2P&O S TWO • THE GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR , THURSDAY, JANUAY 29th, 1953 Gobtritil #tglitti-#tar HURON- COUNTY'S FOREMOST NVEEKLY Published by Signal -Star PublIsiiing Llinited esibscription Rates-L-Cauada and Great Britain, $2.50 a year; to United States, $3.50. Strietly in advance. _ 461tvoilloing Rates on request.. . Telephone 71. Authorized as secoud-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Out -of -Town Representative: C.W.N.A., 108 Poter Street, Toronto. Phone Ent 3-6760. Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association.. Weekly CirculatiOu Over 3,000. GEO. L. ELLIS, Editor and Publisher Down Memory s THURSDAY, JANUARY 29th, 1953 EDITORIAL NOTES Bruce are „not to go far from Walkerton, their county seat. For- . Speaking of the calendar, the mosa is a picturesque village be - 24th of May this year is to be observed On the 18th of May. It is said that whatever goes up must come down—but perhaps the County tax rate has not yet reached its full' height. . • * There are threatenings of an- other strike on the railways. Well, there are trucks, buses and auto- mobiles to carry goods and people, to say nothing of transport by air. An apt saying by Adlai Steven- son, Democratic candidate for the Prime Minister St. Laurent has U.S. presidency: "My definition of on several occasions uttered a a free society is a society where solemn warning against the dis- it is'safe to be -unpopular." sipation of Canada's natural. re- * sources. He stresses the duty The "Down Memory's Lane" see- resting upon the present genera- tween, Walkerton and Wingham, with a church high on a hill, a charming amusement resort on the lower level, and somewhere within its bounds an industry for the brewing of Formosa beer. Just which of these features is the at- traction for the Bruce Council we can only surmise. But the plan for the June session of the Bruce men would be like a ses"sion of the Huron Council at Benmiller, except that Benmiller has no brewery. tion of this paper last week re- minded readers of the tug -building industry that was carried on at Goderich ',harbor fifty yearsago. But Goderich has been. keeping up with the times. Instead of the wooden ships of half -a -century ,ago, the Matheson works are nOw turn- ing out all -steel vessels Which go to purchasers at many ports along' the ;Lakes. At Ottawa the Currie report' on the Petawawa military; camp has been sent, after many days of Pailiainentary wrangling, to a com- mittee of the House of Commons. for further investistation. In com- rnittee witnesses will be heard and doubtless further light will be cast on the proceedings dealt with in the reptirt. It is hardly to. be ex- pected that the wrangling will cease, but the public should be better able to judge the right •and wrong of the, matters in dis- tion of Canadians to preserve these Lane SO Years Ago The ice business was in full swing, John Craigie having started storing the cooler- the previous Week and Robert Clark sta ted cutting on the following Monday Gundry Brothers purchased the livery business for so many dec- ades owned and operated by A. M. Polley, whose name had been a household word in that line for nearly half a century. The afternoon shoot of the gun club wps attended by more than the usual winter average of spec- tators, the club having been strengthened by the addition of well-known Goderich Township residents. J. F. Andrews shipped a double - decked car of hogs to Toronto, made up of 164 animals, the price paid being $5.75. Swan and Mun- nings were the largest contrib.ut- ors, the former supplying 11 hogs weighing 2,150 pounds and the latter 10 weighing 2,140 pounds. 25 Years Ago W. T. Pellow took a lease of the British Exchange Hotel for a term of years and made extensive im- provements in the property. , At the annual meeting of the Goderich Industrial Society it was reported that the fair had a total deficit for 1926 and 1927 of , . . resources for corning generations, At the annul meeting of the so that ,those who inhabit this Goderich Trotting and 'Pacing As- sociation it was decided to MCorp - orate the organization into a joint stock company. Notice was sent to both the warden of the county and the clerk on behalf of Mr. Geiger of Hensall, warning against Mr. Higgins being allowed to take his seat at the county council, --the objection being that he was county auditor at the time of his election as Reeve and hence that he could not legally be a member of the council. 15 Years Ago Charles Seager, K.C., former crown attorney of Huron County and one of the last surviving Fen- ian raid veterans, died at London in his 94th year. Dan Rose shot a 69 -pound brush wolf near Lochalsh and the hide' of the beast was tacked to the side of D. A. McLennan's store 'at Lochalsh. - Watchful residents of Goderich were treated to an unusually love- ly and impressive view of the aurora borealis, the northern sky from east to west being illumined with darting, wavering lights of red, green and blue. The heavy task of moving the newspaper press from the base- ment of the Signal -Star office and replacing it with the press from the former Signal office kept a gang of men organized by Randall Marriott busy day and night. country in years to come may HURON PRESBYTERIAL • I have trie material security which a, W.M.S. ANNUAL MEETING they now give, to its people: - Canada's forests are one of these The annual meeting of the Pres - valuable resources regarding which byterian W.M.S. executive of the the Priine Minister's warning islHuron Presbyterial was held Janu- particularly applicable. Those WHO i ary 15 in St. Andrew's Church, have made a Study of our forests Clinton. Mrs. David Ritchie, S�s- have time and again declared that ', forth conducted the devotional I there is serious danger of their period in the morning session. depletion .to such an extent that 1 Mrs. G. Bisset, Goderich, in her the industries dependent upon !okning address, (Welt on the de: them, with other advantages to be Petuience upon the Holy Snir,t. , derived from their preservation, She emphasized the need of more I prayer and said one of the great - may disappear at no very distant . , 1 est weaknesses of the church to- , date. There is no immunity from ,day was fhe lack of prayer by jsuch a disaster, unless our govern- , many of its members. . ling bodies, Federal and Provincial, I The business session was opened 1 fulfill their duty as trustees of with the reading of the Minutes , by the recording setretary, Mrs. .:\. 1 l the public estate. , Taylor, • Goderith. This was fol - One of theworst features of. the 4secretaries .and the reading of .- 1 winter season,' in towns , with eon- , I Miss Ida White, who is in India. - pute. crete sidewalks, is.. the ice which i The treasurer's report was read * * . * gathers on the walks and consti• ' by Mrs. J. B. Russell, Seaforth, and . Prediction .has been fulfilled in tutes a serious danger to pedes- revealed the allocation of $4,100 - the appointment of Fletcher S. trians. One can dress as protection Thomas, M.P.P. for Elgin, as suc- against Cold and wind; the snow .cessor to Col. T. L. Kennedy as plow and the shovel can e'tit Minister of Agriculture for On - lowed by tne reports of the othe * - let- ters from missionaries, including tario. Mr. Thomas held the port- folio Of Public Works .in the Gov- ernment, and to this post William Griesinger of Windsor moves from the Department of Planning and Development, while a newcomer -to the Cabinet, William K. War - render of 'Hamilton, takes over Planning and Development. Among ' all of these Col. Kennedy has been the outstanding figure, and the Provincial Cabinet suffers no slight loss in his retirement * A great irrigation , and power plan for Saskatchewan has been declared infeasible by a Royal through heavy snow (we have had little of that this winter); but I Honorary president, --Mr.- H. - when, after a thaw, the return of 1 Dunlop, Goderich; past president, freezing weather glazes the walks Mrs. G. Bisset, ,Goderich; president, with ice, a trip down town to the Mrs. D. Glenn Campbell, Seaforth; postoffice or for shopping purposes presents a real danger. There seems to be no remedy for it, and the pedestrian must slither along in constant fear of a fall and per-. chance a broken leg or arm. cording secretary, Miss B. Camp - Elderly people envy the young- bell,- Seaforth. sters, to whom a fall is just a Y.W. and C.G.I.T. secretary, Mrs. laughing matter, and are thankful ll. -J. Lan, Clinton; Children's when they reach their destination, secreta y, r.. . N. , E, , r • M T4 N astman, • had been exceeded, and sent $4,238.48 to the general fund. The installation of officers was • conducted by Mrs. D. .1. Lane, of Clinton. Officers of -the HurOn Presbyterial elected are as follows: 4 Obituary MRS. SARAH SYMONDS The funeral was held on Wed- nesday at St. Thomas of Mrs. Sarah J. Symonds, mother of C. Bruce Symonds of Goderich, who died at Western Hospital, Toronto, Sunday after taking suddenly ill while visiting with her daughter, Mrs. C. Tohnie, Torento. Her depth followed a fall in which she suffered a fractured hip. After being admitted to hosiptal she de- veloped a heart condition to which her death was attributed. Mrs. Symonds went to St. Thomas with her husband and family from Oril- lia 35 years ago and had resided there since that time. Mr Symonds Is an editor with the St. Thomas Times -Journal. A son, Ernest C., died several years ago. MISS FLORENCE ELIZABETH LEWTAS Miss Florence Elizabeth Lewtas, 64, sister of Mrs. Joseph Moody, passed away last Thursday morn- ing. Born in Qu'Appelle, Sask- atchewan, she was a daughter of the late William Lewtas and Maria Bramwell. She resided in the west before coming to Goderich where she lived for seven years. She was a member of North Street United Church and is survived by two brothers, W. H: Lewtas, 18 Manitoba, and G. E. Lewtas, Tor- onto; and one sister, Mrs. Moody of Goderich. The Rev. 11. A. Dickinson, of North Street United Church con- ducted the funeral service at the Lodge „funeral home on Friday. The pallbearers were: Thomas Taylor, Herbert Moody, H. It. Dowie and Harry Thompson. 1Burial took place in Maitland cemetery. 4 (Ruth) Mrs. Lorne O'Connell of Toronto; one brother, William Roberts of Meaford; and two sisters, „Wks. Charles Hallett and Mrs. Frank 011iver, both of Tor- o n t oh. e. . T funeral service was held at the Lodge funeral home on Wed- nesday afternoon conducted by the Rev:, D. W. Williams, of Victoria Street United Church. Interment. took pla in Maitland cemetery. trs.FRANK . PO LL Funeral services for Frank Henry Powell, 82; Clinton, who died on Monday night of last week at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Roy .Tyndall, Goderich Township,. were held last Thursday after- noon at the Ball and Mutch fun- eral home, Clinton. The Rev. A. Glen Eagle of Ontario Street Un- ited Church, Clinton, officiated. In- terment was in Clinton cemetery. Born in Russell near Ottawa, a son of the late Francis Powell and Martha Burroughs, he lived at Mount Forest for a number of years before moving to the Clinton district about 55 years ago. He was a member of Ontario Street United Church. His wife, the former Elizabeth Elliott, died six years ago. He is survived by one son, Francis, Goderich Township; four. daugh- ters, Mrs. Clarence Potter and Mrs. Roy Tyndall, both of Goderich Township; Mrs. Elliott Layton, Brucefield; Mrs. Gordon Cudmore, Clinton; one brother, John Powell, Webbwood; two sisters, Mrs. Susan Nadeau, Vancouver; 22 grandchild- ren and. 20 great-grandchildren. MRS. C. LANGLLLE HEADS 97ILLING WORKERS CLASS The Willing •Workers' Class of Victoria Street United Church met Wednesday evening Of last week at the home of Mrs. C. Langille. Three ne* members joined the group. Mrs. Jack Williams led the devotional portion of the meeting. The Scripture lesson was read by Mrs. Audrey Smith. Readings were given by Mrs. A. Linfield, Mrs. M. Fisher and Mrs. Williams. The . treasurer's report showed that 1952 had been a very success- ful year financially. Plans were made for a plastic demonstration in .February and teachers were ap- pointed. for the same month for HARRY*GEORGE ROBERTS A former resident of Goderich, Harry. George Roberts, died on Sunday night at his home in Barrie after a two months' illness. A native of Peneta-nguishene, he was employed as a C.P.R. engineer, and had lived in Port McNicol, Midland, Goderich, Kingston and Barrie. He was a member of the United Church, of the Masonic Lodge, and Mocha Temple of Shriners at London. Surviving be- sides his wife, forrnerly Margaret Belfry, are: one son, John, of Sarnia; two daughters (Ardytlie) 'Mrs. Walter Westbrook, Goderich; Brig. Jean Victor* Allard, who has been named to com- mand the 25th Canadi,an In- fantry Brigade Graup,in Korea first vice-president, Mrs. D. Sin- clair,_ Exeter; .second vice-presi- dent, I‘Iiss A. Toll, Blyth; third vice-president, Mrs. J. F. Scott, Seaforth: fourth vice-president, Mrs. J. Fox, Hensall; treasurer, Mrs, J. B. Russell; Seaforth; re- ta or 1, ome P , . with limbs intact and dignity un- Ross, Auburn; literature and -lib- impaired. We remember readinc; rary secretary, Mrs. A. Taylor, _ once that Southerners can spot a Goderich; supply secretary, Mrs. - Commission because of its cost, Northerner, at any time of the J. Robins, Goderich; welcome and estimated now at $250,000,000, in year, by his (or her) walk. 11_'' , welfIare seef retaryembershi, ,Mrs. • W. were - stead Good, l N. b • ; - stead of the $100,000.000 formerly visitor from the North, so it W'S_ !tau, Mrs, H. Walker, Hensall; Glad estimated. In the face of these ' said, had not the carefree, grace- I Tidings Iecretary, Mrs. II. Strang, figures of increased costs, The Hensall; press secretary, Mrs. J: W Financial Times of Montreal asks what is to be thought of the, estimated figures for the St. Lawrence seaway Scheme which have remained. almost unchanged , over many years. If the seaway =cost was to be $800 millions ten ful carriage of the people of. the South who had never had to tread slippery paths. Whether there is anything in this we do not know - but anyway we shall be glad' to Hammocks are becoming a thing welcome spring without cane or of the past in the Royal Canadian Navy. As new warships are con - crutch. istructed and older ships Modified • - I and refitted, , folding steel bunks THE TWO-YEAR PROPOSAL are being installed in mesdecks. (Orillia News -Letter), Thompson, Seaforth; student secre- tary, Mrs. W. R. Sillery, Exeter; historian, Mrs. A. Taylor, Goderich, COUNTY COMMISSIONER FOR INDUSTRY MOOTED INGO EGIONTIJALL QODERIQB Sat., Jan. 31 JACKPOT of $32.00 for full house in 62 cals. If not won on Saturday, value of jackpot and also number of calls will be raised each week until it is won. 17 GAMES $1.00 $5.00 CASH PRIZE 4 SPECIALS—Share the Wealth Doors open at 8.30 p.m. 1st game starts at 9.00 p.m. the newly formed Nursery Class of the church. The following officers have been elected for this year: Honorary president:. Mrs. Neil • McKinnon: president, Mrs. Cecil Langille; lst vice-president, Mrs. Earl Craig; 2nd vite-president, Mrs. Audrey- Smith; secretary, Mrs. Don Bissett; cor- responding secretary, Mrs. George Currell; treasurer, Mrs. Vern Smith; leader, Mrs: Jack Williams. The meeting closed with the benediction after which Mrs. Lan- gille and Mrs. W. Moore served r refreshments. ,41111.0" OF THINGS TO COME The inefficient farmer will be hard pressed in the near future, but. the good farmer will find "a real place in the sun," Dr. George D. Scarseth, of Lafayette, Indianna, told the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association meeting at Toronto Thursday last. said the next 25 years may °see one _producer on the land to ten or more- off the land. About 40 members of the Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Association attended the Ontario convention. GERRARD'S THE STRATFORD FUR CO. ----The-suggested appointment- of an industrial commissioner for Huron County received support at county council last,. week. Deputy - Reeve Joe Allaire of Goderich in- troduced the subject of the coun- ty's industrial expansion which had been discussed at an industrial promotion conference in Wingham, sponsored by, the Department of Planning and Development. Reeve R. E. McKinney of Wing- harri said he felt this was the time for the. development, of •i1 county scheme. lie said . an in- dustrial commissioner for the I county would cost a minimum of ' $10,000, • He suggested that full use „of the Department of Planning and Development be made, through its representative at LoO- don. -The cities are drawing away labor from under our noses, Ile said, maintaining that labor wss a community's greatest asset. "If industry were established here, the workers would be retained here. Future .industrial expansion is go, ing to be in rural areas," I feel. Reeve J. Graham of Goderich supported. the proposal for a coun- ty -wide endeavor for Huron's in- dustrial expansion and Warden Al- vin iKerslake, reeve of Hensall, years ago, would it not be within agreed: reason to estimate it, under pre- sent conditions, at not 'less than $2,000 millions? Before Work on the seaway is actually begun, the Federal Government should let the taxpayers -know within some hundreds of millions what it is going to cost. * * Following the recent announce- ment of a purchase by Britain of five million pounds Of Canadian cheese ,comes the news of an in tended million -dollar order for Canadian bacon the first such purchase by Britain since 1950. Further it is stated that arrange.- ments are being made for the marketing of a large quantity of Canadian wheat in the -Oid Country. These announcements are encouraging, both because of the re -Opened market for d'anadian producers and because they are signs of a lifting of the atmosphere of austerity in which the -British people have lived for years. As British buying from Canada tie - pends to a consfderaisle xtent upon the siSe ot4 the market in this country for British goods, the motto tot Canadians should be: Buy British, whenever you can. "Bruce Council- to Hold June . Session in Formosa." This news- paper headline must have struck some readers with bewilderment. What would the, Bruce Council hive to do with that island on the Chinese coast that has been so nittch in the public eye of recent *ears? But the county fathers of Suggegtion has been made that Orillia should consider extending council terms to two years. This question was submitted to a vote of the people about a decade ago and was soundly defeated. It has also been defeated repeatedl-,- in Torontcr. Main reason seems to be that ratepayers prefer an annual accounting from all their 'council. members. The suggestiorf that a split systeril be followed with half of the members standing each year hasn't made the -idea any more popular. It has been argued the I split system assures experience in council but most ratepayers feel when they go to the polls they would like to pass judgment on the entire council, not a few., Rather than change the election system for council to the plan followed bY power Cerrithission, public In- terest would be better served if the election procedure for 'power commissioners was changed so that 'all faced the electorate at the same time. The split system ,doesn't encourage public interOst in, civic administration. - IN CO-OPERATION WITH GERRARD'S OF GODERICH PRESENTS AN OUTSTANDING A man wanted to buy a riding horse for his wife and was trying one out. Noticing that the horse required a firm hand and constant watching, he asked doubtfully: "Do you think this is a suitable horse for a, woman?" The owner of the- horse was a tolerable man, .so he answered carefully, "Well, f thirik a woman could handle the horse — but 1 wouldn't wSrit to he the husband of the woman who could do it." The operations of life insurance companies operating .in Canada. are strictly supervised, and regultited by the federal department of in- surance and the department of insurance of all ten provinces. COLLECTIO at greatly reduced 'prices , NE WEEK ONLY G JAN. 30 to FEB. 7 A Choose from our stock or- have your FUR COAT made toyour individual measure. YEAR of PROGRESS P9 Capital & Reserves Trade-in Your Old Fur Coat 1947 $ 1,525,820.00 1951 2,300,547.00 1952 2,600,957.00 Deposits 1947 $ 15,593,573.00 1951 20,567,874.00 1952,— 2'2,050,195.00 Assets in the Hands of the Company 1947 $ 51,869,431.90 1951 72,179,49.00 1952 80,736,741.00 New appointments as Executor and Trustee under wills substantially increased during.1952. GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA Repaifs and re- styling done by experts. No repair 66 ,large, or too small. Montreal • Toronto • Ottawa • Windsor' Niagara Falls • Sudbury,' Calgary . Vancouver Goderich GERRARD'S GERRARD'S,