HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1953-05-14, Page 2THE GODERICE SIGNAL -STAR
THURSDAY, MAY Mk 1
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HURON COUNTY'S FOREMOST WEEKLY
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Outu l Town Representative:- C'.Vti'.N,A,, ,, s •
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St*, Toronto,
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Weekly Circulation Over 3,000,
GEO, L. ELLIS, Editor and Pi/blither.
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JLSl)AY, MAY 14th, 19.5;3
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A REVOLUTION IN better health cure for the disabled,
AGRICULTURE and bette=r facilities anti services
to help doctors' diagnose their
We all know that great progrc •s patients.' illncs,nes,, The; rnuncy
itan been m=ule in the science isf , will be placed at the disposal of
agriculture, and an address given ; the Provinces for aiintirtistratton;
by Dr Clifford Hardin, head of tics Coupled with substantial grarttss
Michigan Farm Experimental Sta. already tuaude for tuberculosis et/ti-
tian reveals Chow in tetany ways ; trot, for the aid of crippled child -
recent progress will resvolutienize sett, for cancer research, for hon -
taunting practigias and in turn will ( vital construction and other health
affect human. economy, measures, the Federal Government
Said lir. Hardin: "ll your rem' Iss doing ax much as can be reason,
urs of how things were dune mt ably •expected ,in existing circurn•
the farm then back no further stances, Whe=n defence t.�xpendi•
than to the turn of the century, i tures show a nubntuntial decrease
you have seen more progress .n it will be time enough to consider
agriculture than occurred. in all what further can be; donee,
the yearn from this birth of Christ'
tap to the beginning of the ;u)(la EDITORIAL NOTES
century." here are some of the; ,
things mentioned by 1)r, Hardin, The Canadian Congress of Labor
Land is yielding touc=h more per 3ug444!st.. threw, Canaria accept s,ter•
acre. We are feeding twice the ling for wheat and other Camelia!'
number of Peoples we fed in 190) exports to the United Kingdom,
off just' about the name number; tilde Souder if the ('_C.1.. could
of acres. This is title , to the .rapid- persuade Labor to accept sterling
1y expanding use of special retail.' about 60 cents to she dollars.
for wages,
&esii' to meet ) pecitic needs, to
the plant breeder for developing
retrains of much greater productiv-
ity, to the plant physiologists, and
to entymologists. And to about
1.5 per cent. of the total acreage
released for human use because
so longer needed to feed horses
and mules.
Hybrid corn is an example of
;the .work of the Plant breeder.
More than 99 per cent. of the corn
grown- in the Middle Weld- is
hybrid, a change of the past twenty
years.' "And they have a lot more
such tricks up their sleeves,"
The plant physiologist is having
a field day with chemicals and
sprays that set hlossorns, protect
theist against frost, and produc<s
such things as 'tomatoes three
weeks earlier than before. He
can keep onions and sugar beets
and potatoes froth sprouting in
storage. He can spray a yard of
mixed, grass and dandelions and
kilt the dandelions and not hurt
the grass. "And he, doesn't know
why it works the way it does."
They even have the prospect of
a treatment that will arrest the
growth of grass at lawn mower
height -and keep it sip -cam the
length of the seaison,
Bugs and plant diseases are on
the run. Fruit won't drop until
tekecl
p addition to payments for housing,
In the livestock world, artificial food,'clothing, rata=.---'t'heresarr►--mtt= ~ --
breedirig iassilready accounting for lions of families that are not take('
one-sixth of dairy herd reproduc• (to any such amount. Persons of
tion. One herd bull-' at the colleite wealth pay tens and hundreds of I
is already poppy to, 20,00(1 calves l thousands 01 dollars in income tax)
and many bulls laser, 10,000 calf - ls,ne, -and these large payments !
records, The Use Of proven sires' reduce the amount (eollectcd from
ei already stepping up the milk, others, 11 those responsible,. for
-production of state herds to an' the brochure had stated that the
.all-tirno high. total mentioned meant an AVER.
If you remeniher the hard work AGE of,$300 for every nein, wornait
of curing for caws in your boy• and child, no objection could be
hood, you will find it still hard,
but just the slime ,you would have
25 per. cent. less physical work
to do. And thousands of dairy -
s T men_,rlxm't' even know hew to milk
at cow by hand.
Cows can now be brought into
bull milk production without first
producing calves. " Pigs ted on
synthetic Milk from birth are big-
ger than - their litter mates left
with the mother ' until weaning
time.
- "In short," Dr. Hardin con-
cluded, "the biological revolution
may well bo called greater than
the industrial revolution, or the
atomic revolution we are present•
ly exploring."
Somehow this reminds otic of
the old story about the clergyman
who complimented the old colored
man on his garden. "You and
God have certainly done well,
. haven't youl"
"Yes 'sir, Parson, but you should
have seen this here place when
God had it just_ to himself with.
out me to help Ilim!"
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Down Memory's
Lane
30. Years Apo
About 2'$ Collegiate student,;
marchted to the. back, ut
the harbor for sate practice at
short rane,C1) with miniature cart-
ridge* etude specially" for such
practic=es, The distances fired at
were 18 and 25 yards and the prise.
ttce was the surto 'as it would have
been at longer distances with regu-
lar ammunition,
The old ticket office, at the sta-
tion-- w
ta-tion-v vas cut in two and it was in-
tended to Weave the sections and
use, there for sumnwr -cottages,
The county jall was almost free
of tenants, all winter visitors hav-
ing left for their numrner tours.
Hire destroyed the lealorth Mill-
ing Company's warehouse mid
elevator. Firemen succeeded in
saving tfi a retain brick firth, but
machinery was damaged consider-
ably.
25 Years Gull.
*Westminster Gulld of Knox
Church took their play, "'fake My
Advice," to Auburn and played
before ;1,101 house in the Forest-
erts' Hall, "his was the first time
that an entertainment was given
in ttw hall since the installation
Of hydro, •
Goelericb Fall -Fair Board de.
chisel to hold a three.dayy fair on
September 17, 18 and 10. The
dates set were, later than in former
years, •
Plans were being made for a
meeting to force a quoit and horse-
shoe club. Many inert had signal-
led their desire to help revive the
see
Mayor Lampert of 'Toronto stave
gauws since u ►lumber of tlw sur-
rounding centres had Started -10
pl.•ay. It wase proposed to form. a
club in Guderich and arrange a
schedule between - the vurwtis
Wards of the town,
13 Years Ago •
Large shipments ut 'corn from
Chicago were keeping the Godertch
elevator and both railways busy.
The turn was being trans erted by
rail to Montreal and uebec.• Final
destination of the shipments Was
unknown, but it wars believed the
corn was going to Great Britain
as a precautionary measure again•
sit a punsiblcl war blockade.
Approximately 200 Boy Scouts
of Huron district were ``preparing
fur a big rally in Goderich on
May 24 at Agricultural Park. After
an inspection and a parade around
The Square, an afternoon of garner
and contests was scheduled.
Mollasses, boiling, thick and
gooey, created a sticky tress at
the Big Mill when the heating byte
tem, inadvertently left on, caused
the liquid to boil out of a huge
OBITUARY
MKS, WALTEK E, LATIMER
Funeral service was held yester-
day for Mrs, Walter E.,Latimer, the
former Leah Durand, who died at
her bona in Hamilton un Sunday.
interment wase .made his -hayfield
Cemetery, Mrs, Latimer is sur-
vived by tar husband, and two
daughters, Mrs, Hugh Lumsden of
i.Iamilte,n
and Mrr3, Kenneth Ran-
kin, of North Bay.
MRS. MABI:"l. JI=NKINS
Mrs, Moban Jerikina, 6(J, who died
last 'Thursday in, Clinton Hospital,
Ihail heed in Clinton all her life.
ter husband, George Jenkins, died
tour years Aga,.
She warn an active number of
Wesley -Willis United Church, and
of lturonte Rebekah Lodge. luring
her 2() years merribersbip in the
lodge she hard been a noble grand
and pant district deputy.
'!There are no sure ving relatives,
Services were conducted at the
Ball"'and Dutch funeral tome, Sat-
urday at 2 p.m. (DST), by the Rev,
C, Wilson, and interment resole Im
Clintun cemetery.
MUS. ANNE G. MacMILLAN
Mrs. Anne G. MacMillan, mother
of Rev, lt, G. MacMlllun, minister
of Knox Presbyterisn Church, died
Friday in Alexandra Marine and
General Hospital, Her husband
lfugh MacMillan, died rseverel
Years ago. •
Mrs. MacMillan, who arrived in
Stratford from Perth, Scotland, itt
storage tank. the molasses rolled 1923, lived in that city until my-
down
novdown a gradual slope, across they int; to Sarnia and later to Montreal,
railway tracks and poured into She crone to Goderieh trine months
the harbor before the damage was ago,
di*covered and the heat turned Besides her son, she Is survived
off, "s - . by rine brother, .John G. Wilson,
A . joint deputation from the. of Stratford, and one sinter, Ws,
'town Council and Board of Trade J. A, Walker, of Montreal,
left (Soderich -to meet with - the Funeral services were conduct -ed
Minister of highways at 'Toronto Monday at Stratford in St, An-
and lay before him a request that d• rew's Presbyterian Church, con•
the work of paving the Blue Water ducted by Rev, F. J. Barr. - inter•
Highway be hastened to cornple• merit was made in Avondale came.
tion, - tery. '
sh=ip MARY MPTCHELL
LEEBURN ALEX 'CLARK ACCEPTS Mrs. Marx L, Mitchell, who died
— NEW' POSITiON AT ARVA Friday in lexandra Hospital, bad
an address a few nights ago at 14,4S'an was'
I Pr BURN 'May 12,—mrs, ,loe If, Alex Clark, teacher of music lived all her life in Goderich Town.
orillie and; according to The News- burn sssM.S. when thev
hostess to the Lee- at Goderich District Collegiate In- ship, near Hayfield. Iler husband,
met. for :dame _and organist and choir- Alexander Mitchell,, died 28 years
Letter, tited benefits that, ha ad, their April meeting. There was master at North Street United ages
would accrue to Orillia from the a good attendance and Mrs, Wm, Church, has accepted the position • She was a member of Christ
.projected deeper St. Lawrence Sea- Sallows was leader of the worship
service. A letter of thanks was
Way. it will meats he said, "that to be sent. to Mr. -Frank Rising,
raw materials- brought in will lisivei thanking Leeburn ehurch for pay.
to be processed and manufactured ,i'lg balance of the allocation due
into finished goods," ' As' one of '1 the ' _Uniti:d Church Training
;School in Toronto, Members were
the Main objects , 01 the deeper i asked to bring artilces for the
waterway as to transport Labrador , bale for Korea to the May meeting,
ore to, the steel mills of ohio, it Mrs. Bert Bogie read 'two chapters
ni quite evident that Tittonto's i from the study book, Members
Mayor was talking homethie when wth(,•,re asked to have an item frem
Missionary Monthly for roll
lie_ asked his hearers to talkie!! i call for May meeting, which will
that this would be of benefit to ', be held at the home of Mrs. Jarvis
orillia, Contrary• to his stale; McBride, Carlow. At the con.
, elusion of the meeting Mrs,- Jos.
ment, Canadian ore is to be ' Harrower was 'presented with a
brought NI United States Mills .for ' gift of towek from the Society lo
the benefit saucily of united states • acknowledgment of' her time and
industries. , , talent with wide) she was SO
generous while in our athirst. Lunch
• ;'was served by the hostess assisted
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In a brochfire issued by the ,b,y her daughter, Mrs, Don
directors of the,Canadian Weekly ,Straughan.
Newspapert Asso-ciation it is stated
that Canadian expenditure of 41,4
billion dollars "Is over $300 fot•
every Canadian—man, woman and
child." This, of eourse, is not true
The statement would mean that
every family of four (nian, wife
and two, children) would be pay.
ing $1200 in Federal taxes, in
MORE FOR HEALTH
Federal tumors will be
pleased to_ see that Hon. Paul
Martin is keeping his feets on the
ground In the matter of a health
insurance plan for Cenada.
the House of Commons last week,
stating that such a program would
taken; but in order to make, as they
thought, an impressive argument
they started ell With a ridiculous
statement. The C.W.N.A. directors
were presenting views on GO.Y.Cril•
ment radio and television policy.
Whether the views expressed
would heve the approval sof the
membership„ of the Association
may be questioned—but that is
another story,
PORT ALBERT CHURCH
PLANS SPECIAL SERVICE
Following completion of a re-
decoration program which luis
been carried out during the past
two years, service .nest Sunday
in Christ Church, Port Albert, will
be a combined one of realedic,a•
tion and of Rogation -Tide to bless
the seed that has been sown and
is So be sown.
Last Sunday, the congregation
held the first service In the church
auditorium in about a month,
While redecoration was being done,
services have been- held in the
The service, to be held at 3.45
p.m , will recognize the efforts of
the' front ehtrance, construction
of a centre aisle, and redecoratien
of the auditorium.
The day will also !mirk the 04th
anniversary of the first Church of
England service in the port Albert
district and the 64th anniversary
of the oMcial opening -of the
church
Rev. L. Jennings will be as.
- out $600,000,000, he Raid that the of the Church of the Messiah,
, people of Canada would not' ap, Kincardine.' A buffet luncheon,.
I will be served following the ser.
-proVe such an expenditurtt on top
of present heavy expenditures for vice.
At the same time the '.Mitilster
tannotinced new health • grants
Mounting" to, $42,000,000 to be
monad .ol;rer flveL years. These
igranta.are to provide„ better health
are for. mothers and children; and health education at Q1100104.
DEGREE
will receive the degree of Bachelor
of Arts at convocation exercises et
Queen's University, Kingston, en
Saturday. Ile la also among tne
gradtmtes of the school of phycical
of --ninsic director at Medway High Church, Hayfield, s
School in Arva, near London, and Surviving are one brother, Wil ---
WILLIAM A. ROSS
will 'continence 'his new duties in 1 liam J, Elliott, and one sister, Miss The death of William A. Ross
Septer,nber, a raises islliott,, both of Goderich occurred suddenly lust ThOrstiay
Mr. Clark, who came to Goderich !Township, - .
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Donald McKenzie, Walter Wallace, the age of nine with his parents
Samuel Westlake, Alfred Warriner and started working on lake boats
and James Young. when 16 years di age. He later
lived ie Michigan, bet retained
five years -ago fthrn Brantford, has; Resting at the Lodge funeral rbilt, Mich., after an ill.
Vande
been organist for the Don Wright , home here, where services were ness'of two years, Born at Claw
Chorus in London since early this; conducted Monday,- at 10,30 a.,m,, met, Michs 1601, he was a son
year, and will continue in that by Revs Carew .lones, and inter- el the, late Mr. and Mrs, Charles
capacity, His . wife, the former nicht made in Hayfield ceinetery, itoss, of Goderich. •
Joan Scott, will also sing with the Pallbearers were. John Wayne, Mr. Ross came to Goderich
SUCCESSFUL. DANCE
A large attendance and an excel.
lent evening of entertainment was ,
enjoyed at the spring fantasy of I
Beta Sigma Phi at the Goderich
Pavilion Friday night,' Dance con."
vener was Mrs, Betty Westbrook, ,
President of the organization is;
Kay Holmes who expressed thanks ,
for the fine attendance.. Decors!
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property in Goderich, Ile was
here_ last fall on a visit. -
Surviving are hi$ widow, the
former' Marjorie Campbell, of
'Vanderbilt, Mich,, whom he mar-
ried in 1040; two 'sisters, Mrs.
Floyd Smith, of Detroit and' Mrs,
Elizabeth Penningten, of London;
mul three brotheeli,-. Dave and
George, of 'Detroit, and Fred, of
Winnipeg. A brother, Charles and
a sister, Margaret Ellen, pre.
deceased him.
-FUtlerhl tiCeViCCS were held at
Vanderbilt after which the remains
were taken to Goderich for a ser-
vice on ,Saturday at, the E. E.
Cranston funeral home, Rev. 11. A.
Dickinson., of North Street United
Church, officiating. Interment was
made in Maitland cemetery, Rela.
tives from Detroit . attended the
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