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THE GODER1CH SIGNAL -STAR
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HURON COUNTY'S. FOREMOST WEEKLY
Published by Signal -Star PubiL blug Limited
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Weekly (+ircolatiou Over 3,000.
(:EO. L. ELLIS, Editor and Publisher
THURSDAY, MARCH 5th, 1953 ' _—
QITIES TO GET THE PLUMS i misfortune quietly, no doubt thank
ful they were spared the loss of
For no good reason that can be ' lives and homes suffered farther
' discerned; the Ontario Govern- � south and resolving to recoup their
invent has set up a system or grants ' material losses by their own
from the Provincial treasury that efforts.
establishes a discrimination among'
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comtmitie$, on the basis of popul- i •
Canadian editors are advised
ation. The City of Toronto is to i that their writings are lacking in
receive $4 per head of its great ' humor. True enough; but is there
sufficient appreciation of editorial
humor to warrant more of it?
Sometimes a bit of humor is mis-
understood by a 'reader who is
deficient in that sense which is
supposed to be so desirable, and
population; smaller cities a smaller
amount per head (for instance,
London $2.75); still ,smaller muni-
cipalities still less, some towns to
receive as little as $1 60 per head
and townships $1.50.
It will be said that the cities trouble for the editor ensues. We
have larger problems to be met 'speak with experience. Perhaps
than the smaller municipalities;it would be as well, for a while,
but a concentration of people I for editors to label their humor,
means a concentration of wealth or depend upon those "jokes" that Woodham.
upon which to levy in ' meeting ! pass current in newspaperdom, 11liMr. andlton Hooper r of of Elwin Taylor,
those problems. The resident of a until the reading•public is gradual -
township with poor land and other ; ly educated ' to recognize humor . Norma
i on Thursday' and dadie with Mr. and Mrt-
s.
conditions which barely support'when it sees it. . Marvin hursdw'eh.
a sparse population i.s considered I Mr. and Mrs. Norman MCDowel l
worthy of less aid than the mem-i It is understood that plans for and Mr. William McDowell attend-
ber of a -community which pos- � Coronation Day in Goderich are ed the 40th wedding anniversary
of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Stackhouse
sea` es such advantages as to draw I in progress. A horse race meet is of, Brucefield on Wednesday. ` Mr.
a large population I already set for the afternoon,` but William McDowell remained for a
Apologists for the system will I this cannot be considered, an ade- few days' visit.
point to the grants handed out quite • expression of the sentiment' +la Mr. and ,Mrs. and Eric oulas CaSunday
from the "Provincial coffers and appropriate to the day, there with Mrs. Annie •visited -o • at the
will ask the small communities should be something more. A I home of Mr. and Mrs. John Daerr
to be thankful that they, in some mass meeting of citizens, prefer- of Auburn_
cases at least, are to receive more ably in the morning, is suggested, Mr. Ronald Taylor was a London
than before, but t previous in- and this might be held in the visitor on Friday.
justice does not justify a still 1 arena as a common meeting place ' Mr. and Mrs. Norman McDowell
and Gerald visited on Friday with
gel iter injustice. Through its 1 for all. 4 suitable program, not Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins of Goderich.
agreement with the Federal.- Gov- too long, could be, arranged, with A tended number
he from this viiw ityodt-
ernment the PartaVince has a greater a speaker or two, and appropriate
rich on Thursday and Friday
revenue than ever. before, and itI music. nights;
Down Memory's
Lane
50 Years Ago I
Crows were seen every day this
week. Is it a sign of spring''
The Town Hall big room was
being used for. net making oper-
ations by the fishermen.
The wind' or change in temper-
ature catised a partial colapse of
the smoke stack at the Star Flour
Mill.
The masons started work on the
foundation for the north wing of
the Organ Company's building and
if the stone supply keeps up, the
bricklayers will soon be at work.
25 Years Ago
Mr. C. C. Lee was in Montreal
attending the meeting of hotel men
at which the Dominion of Canada
Hotel Association was organized.
At the regular meeting of the
Water and Light Commission the
blue prints of the layout of the
WESTFIELD
WESTFIELD, March 4.—Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Taylor and Ronald visit-
ed on..Thursday with Mr. and Mrs.
Listen to:
"MONEY JIN-GLES"'
CKNX -. 11.55 a.m.
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new pumping equipment was pre-
sented and the engineer was ord-
ered to have the preliminary work
proceeded with.
For the third time in the four
years in which there had been
competitions for' the Martin Knight
Fraternal Society Carpet Bowling
League Shield, a team from the
Hurop Lodge No. 62 I.O.O.F. had
woh the shield.
15 Years Ago
Last night was the coldest on
record this winter., the temperature,
dropping to four below zero.
For years there has been the
talk of finding oil in this district
and a syndicate headed by W. L.
Forest of town, has decided to find
out whether there is anything in
it or not. Tracts of land in Gode-
rich and Hullett Townships have
been taken under lease and the
farm of Howard Trewartha, north
of Clinton on the Hullett-Goderich
Township boundary is to be the
scene of the first drilling opera-
tions.
Goderich should not e
should not be used for the build- lagging in expression of fealty to Mrs. Arthur Spiegelberg visited
ing up of the cities on the excuse l our young Queen. ' , 1 on Tuesday with her sister,
Mrs.
* a * ( Stanley Abel of St. Thomas, and
of a small handout to the rural her aunt, Mrs. W. P. Crozier of
districts. Too often the smaller I According to an official weather � London. •
municipalities have been put off
with the scrubs of the orchard
while the larger and wealthier
On Sunday afternoon the fire
brigade answered the first call of
the year when a chimney fire
threatened the home of George
Monk, Regent street. The house
was filled with smoke as a strong
wind fanned the blazing chimney,
but no damage was done by the
fire.
communities carried away the big
forecaster our winter climate has
I warmed up between three and
four degrees since 1900 and is
now on a par with the climate of
Mrs. Stevens of Auburn Spent a
few days with her daughter, Mrs.
Kenneth Campbell.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cox visit-
ed on Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs.
and luscious plums Washington, D.C.,. fifty years ago. I Ernest Patterson of Goderich.
This should not be a political If the trend continues Ontario may ( Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wightman and
party issue. The representatives be growing oranges by the year
of the rural districts should unite 2000 and our summer resorts will
in determination to upset a system be up ..in the Hudson Bay district.
which would establish such a gross Tho scientific explanation of the vii .
discrimination change that is going on is that Mr. Donald Campbell visited on
--------- • the Arctic ice cap, is gradually Sunday, with Mr. and Nits. Stanley
— -- Abel of St. .Thomas. Mrs Camp -
melting, which. suggests that if bell and -. Donelda returned home
all that ice melts there may again with him after spending a couple
be something like the flood that of days with- Mrs. Abel.
Noah rode out, However, there Mr. and Mrs. Bill Patterson of
Auburn visited on Wednesday
need be no rush for a while yet with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cox.
Mrs. A. E. Johnston is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Howard Camp-
bell, after spending the winter
Norman .visited on Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Pharis Mathers of
Lucknow. Miss Hattie Gallagher
returned home with them for a
's't
A. GOOD Q'IDDANCE
The Red Dean o.t ('anterbury
began a planners series of ad-
dresses in. Canada with a meeting
in London, but a hostile,. crowd;
including a considerable number
of Western_ University students,
made so much, noise that the Dean
was unable to deliver his address.
For this the notse•rttakers, and
particularly . the ,tudents, have
been .:evetely, rebuked in letters
to the press—and otherwise. This
column, while adhering to the
principle of freedom of speech,
finds no reason t.) ;otn in these. make bulbs that will last two or of Goderich.
rebukes. The Dean hasbeen re three times as long as most bulbs Mrs. Emerson Rodger visited
pucliated in his own country and now offered for sale on the North with Miss Chris. McClinton of
by his own church, unless he is American market. It is also said Goderich on Thursday.
to rebuild the ark.
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This column commented recent with her daughter, Mrs. John Free
recent-
ly upon the poor quality of some man of Brantford.
electric light bulbs. On this 'sub- Mr. A. E. Cook of Blyth spent
-ject The Brockville Recorder and Sunday with Mrs. Fred Cook.
Tithes says: "It is common know- Mr. and Mrs. Fart Wightman and
ledge that engineers and scientists Nor man attended the 40th wedding
g anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Wes -
employed by makers of electric ley Stackhouse of Brucefield.
light bulbs know now, and have Mr. and Mrs. Arthur -Spiegelberg
known for some years, how to and Allan visited on Thursday with
Mrs. Thomas Bamford• and Elaine
grossly ignorant he knows -that itis
view;. regarding Soviet Russia are
repugnant to the great mass of -
Canadians and that his attempts
that the new long -lashing light '`Good heavens! Who gave ' you
bulb is not forthcoming simply that black eye?"
because the makers, by common ' "A bridegroom—for kissing the
agreement, wish to maintain a bride after the ceremony."
to paint the cruel, Godless enemies continuinmarket for the present "But surely he didn't object to
type of bulb." If this be true, that ancient custom?"
"Na—but it was two years after
the makers -should be brought to I_t.he ceremony.".
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of democratic civilization as
worthy- .-of-_:the .__ admiration _of__the
people of this country are re-
garded as an insult to intelligence
and loyalty., To ptit it bluntly,
his projected pro -Russian campaign
in Canada was an impertinence,
aud_his receptiur.--at' London was. _- -
what= .his impertinence invited and THEN AND NOW
deserved. (The Toronto Telegram)
From London the Dean went to The chairman of Kincardine har-
bor development commission, a
former Conservative M.P. for
Bruce and candidate in 1949, had
occasion recently to confer. !NW!,
thePublic Works Minister in Ot-
tawa. 'The appointment was ar-
ranged by the present M.P., a
Liberal, and Kincardine News
heaps praise upon him for broad-
mindedness. "Some members," it
says, "would have put every ob-
stacle in the way." Surely the
News is off the beam here. Mem-
bers, however sponsored in a cam-
paign, .are elected to serve all their
constituents, regardless of party,
and usually proclaim intent to do
so. In any case, they -are general-
ly on friendly terms personally
with opposing candidates.
Comes to hand at the moment
a "50 years ago" item about a
Goderich deputation to the Public
Works Minister of a Liberal gov-
ernment. It was arranged by
Mayor Lewis, a Conservative, and
the members included Wm. Proud -
foot, later Liberal M.P.P.; Major
Joseph Beck, former Conservative
candidate; Dan McGillicuddy, Lib-
eral editor, and others of politics
similarly varied.
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BEAN REMOVED
Four-year-old Carmen Fielder of
Port Albert had a bean removed
from his car at Alexandra Hos-
pital on Monday. The child was
filaying with the bean and shoved '
it in his ear.
An advertisement In the Signal -
task just as sharply as are manu- '
facturers or dealers who make
common price agreements. The
public interest should be pro-
tected.
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Piloting airiraft has become a tradition in the Crosby family.
Here 'PCA -Capt. .lack Crosby-, who has been flying for many
years,' pins pilot's wings on 'his son .lack at a wings 'parade at
Dorval recently. Mrs. Crosby, Who is looking on, says that of
her three other children, her oldest daughter and her other
son want to- become pilots too. The Crosbys are the first father -
son team to be cc►nneeted with the operational side of the airline.
Their home is in \Vestminster,'B.(., and they flew ,up to Montreal
especially for the ceremony.
Motor vehicles are the greatest
cause of accidental death.
Toronto, where precautions were
taken against a similar disturbance,
and realizing, or being advised,
that he was not to expect a wel-
come in ihis country, he returned
to England without snaking any
further addresses. For his absence,
from Canada in the future we
shall have to thank the 'students
and others at Lonaoa who spoiled
his meeting there
EDITORIAL NOTES
Ex President Truman is to re-
ceive $600,000 fair his memoirs,
to Ivo published in Life magazine
two yosirs hence They should
. make a tale well worth reading,
for the+ Truman terra at Washing -
Aon covered one of the most
momentous period; the world's
history.
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Although little or nothing was
said about it at the time, it seemas
that. the storm which caused so
much distress and damage in Eng-
land and the Netherlands also hit
Scotland with grdat force. Fish -
big boats were. tossed up on the
land; great quantities of fishing
gear were ruined, and thousands
of -acres of forest growth were
devastated with loss in tile millions
of 'pounds The Scots took their' gar brings results.
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Sat., March 7
JACKPOT -of $37.00 for full house in 57 calls.
U 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.
Counter Sales
Check Books
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Nurse Poses for
Painting Group
• "Looking into Pictures" is the
name of a collection of paintings
from the Toronto Art Gallery and
the Toledo Musuem of Art, on
exhibition at the Art Centre next
Sunday. include nclude "Portrait of Medici'
by Bronzino: "Portrait of a Man"
by Franz Halls: "Family at Din-
ner" by Le Nain: "The Elevation
of the Cross" by Rubens: "Rest
on the Flight to Egypt" by Van
Orley: "Father and Son" by Bruin:
"Harvest Wagon" by Gainsbor-
ough: "Holy Family" by Guardi:
and, "A Landscape" by Monet.
Three aerial views of French
towns, will show the town plan-
ning of Versailles, and of Toronto.
Mrs. Diggon and Mrs. J. W. Wal-
lace will give ten-minute talks on
"The history of the period in
which Rubens and Franz Halls
were famous;" and the "Lives and
works of the two artists" respec-
tively.
During the week a nurse will
pose for the painting group on
Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Art Centre is closing at the
end of March when an open house
will be held.
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