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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1953-06-25, Page 8PIIGIIIGET 1 TEE GODERICE SIGNAL -STAR Drew Pledges $500 Million Tax Cuts At Guelph Opening Campaign Speech GUELPH—Progressive Consery ative Leader George Drew last Friday night promised Canadian taxpayers that a Conservative ad- ministration at Ottawa would re- duce Federal taxation by "at least" $500,000,000 a year. The Conservative party's 16 - point manifesto follows: 1. Reduction of Federal taxes by $500,000,000 a year without reduc_ ing pensiohs or othetso ial secur- ity payments and without impair- ing the efficiency of the armed services, 2. Introduction of legislation freeing municipal councils, and school boards from sales taxes and excise tax on all purchases of ma- chinery, equipment, instruments and other goods. , Taxation of all Federal properties in municipal- ities on the same basis as that of ordinary municipal taxpayers. 3. A Dominion -Provincial con- ference to be 'held immediately to revise the Whole system of taxa- tion to relieve taxes on Canadian homes and farm lands. Cut Government • Costs 4. _IJrastically cut the cost of Government by ending waste and extravagance, by increasing effic- iency, elhninating duplication and improving accounting methods. In particular, a reorganization of the Defence Department, and imple- mentation of the Currie and Mc - Nab reports. 5. Re-establishment of the true principles of the restoration of the supremacy of Parliament and ln end to secret orders -in -council. Repeal of the Emergency Powers Act. 6. Reform Of the Senate, this to be accomplished by a joint com- mittee of the Senate and the Com- mons with particular emphasis on method of appointment, tenure of office and legislative functions within the Federal system. Anti -Red Legislation 7. Amend the Criminal .Code to make it a punishable offence to engage in Communist or other subversive activities. 8. Restoration and expansion of world markets for agriculture and other primary products. Bold and constructive steps will be taken to break the dollar -pound barrier to regain vital British and Cor-' monwealth trade. 9. Appointment of a national agricultural board to establish fair floor pricesrelated to farm pro- duction costs. 10. Immediate review of all na- tional labor legislation with a view to improving collective bargaining procedure, expediting conciliation of disputes, assuring fair employ- ment practices, providing equal pay for equal work and in general increasing the basis of co-operation between labor, management and Government. Extension Of Unem- ployment Insurance Act to provide benefit payments for unemploy ment due to disabling sickness or accident. • Housing Program 11. Institution. of a housing pro- gram to enable people of low in- comes to buy new homes, this by improving terms and conditions under which houses can be built There's a guaranteed used car waiting. for you at Goderich Motors ready to give you. miles and miles of trouble-free service on that vacation you're Warming. You'll find the prices right! 1952 Pontiac Sedan 1948 Chev Coach MECHANICALLY PERFECT PRICED TO SELL. 1946, Pontiac Sedan SEE THIS ONE. '048 FoKd Sedan ONE OWftER CAR. P -40 1946 Mercury Sedan WORTH THE MONEY. 1941 Pontiac CoacIF READY TO ROLL. 1951 Prefect Sedan 40 MILES TO THE GALLON SPECIAL • Goderich Motors PHONE 83 FORD AND MONARCH SALES AND SERVICE KINGSBRIDGE KINGSBRIDGE, June 24.—Mrs. Deb. Moore and family, of De- troit, spent the week -end visiting I with Mrs. Martha O'Neill and fam- ily. Peter Martin, of Pittsburgh, is here visiting his birthplace. It is • SOUTH STREET 16 years since he was here last. Miss Catherine Kenney and Mrs., Art. Riber, of Detroit, Mich., visit- ed relatives and friends here dur- ing the week. Mr. .and Mrs. Joe Lane and fam- ily, of Seaforth, were here for Father's Day and enjoyed beating at the lake. Rev. Van Vynckt is in London this week on retreat. Dennis Sinnett and a friend from Detroit are visitors here. Agriculture leads in net value .of production in Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan and Alberta; manufacturing is the biggest wealth producer in the seven other provinces.—Quick Canadian Facts, 11411404111•41•••••••••••••••01101* BEAT THE HEAT THIS SUMMER WITH 9 • GEORGE DREW and purchased, by co-operating with provincial and municipal gov- ernments in making serviced land available for building. 12. Introduction of a contrbutary health insurance program, in co- operation with provinces. This program will recognize existing medical insurance plans and pro- vide medical service to Canadians without imposing state medicine. 13. Immediate steps to deal with the freight rate structure in Can- ada. Existing regional statutory rates would be respected. Practical steps would be taken to encourage the use of Canada's own ports for Canadian export and import trade. 14. Immediate review of all legis- lation affecting the civil service so that all except casual' employees will become permanent employees, with assurance of work, promotion by merit. Working hours, pay and advneement will be placed on a basis comparable with that offered in industry and commerce. National Resources 15. Establishment of a national policy for the development and promotion of Canada's natural re- sources for bentfit of all Canadians. This would include a national development program that wauld include the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project, the Saskatche- wan River Power and • Irrigation Project, hydro electric power plans. in the Maritimes and similar pro- jects of national importance else- where. This too would include a policy of decentralization of in- dustry to spread the opportunities for work and advancement as wide- ly as possible throughout Canada. 16. Full support pledge, in the realm of foreign affairs, to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and other organizations establish- ed under the United Nations. The Conservative parts, believes Can- ada has a vital role to play as a member of the Commonwealth gnd as a friendly neighbor of the United States. The party approves the Colombo Plan and believes its principles should be extended as widely, as possible. NEWS OF AUBURN AUBURN, June 24.—Mrs. Ber- nice Monck, of Arva, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ed. Davies and Mr. Davies. Misses Mildred 'Scott, R.N., Mitchell, and Grace Scott, of Kit- chener, spent the week -end with their brother, Ken, and Mrs. Scott. MPS. James Bonthron of Hensel] was a week -end visitor with Mr. and Mrs. F. Q. McIlVeen. Mrs, Thomas Johnston under- went a tonsillestomy operation in Goderieb' hospital last Thursday. The annstal memorial service will be held at Ball's cemetery next The very finest quality goes into the making r)i of Bisset's ice cream. Ask for it at your 'neighborhood dealer's. - Everything Tastes Better With Bisset's Butter Try It and Be Convinced Bisset Bros. Saltford Heights Creamery aresesesesiesesse•••••••et You, too, can produce Quality Pork 'at Minimum Cost Pig or sow . . it's the well de- veloped, well finished and well marketed product that brings you top market prices. So start your young pigs right away on Blatchfgrd's Pig Starter - • for quick, efficient growth. High in antibiotics and 'rich in essential vitamins' it's extremely Pit(gtable for Young pugs. Keepyour sows, toa, in perfect condition with Blatchford's SciNk Ration. Make sure of p large litter of large, well-developed pigs at birth. The biggest at birth are biggest when weaned and can be marketedfor greatest profit. Coll in and get FREE booklet "Hog Grower's Guide". learn about the iSlotkhford way to bigger hog prdats. ...........__s_ Sunday, June 28, at 7.30 p.m. The service will be arranged by the Presbyterian Church .and. Mr. J. Brown Milne will give the address. Fred Scott, of California, is vim,- ing Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Davies. The pupils of the Auburn school with their teacher, Miss Marion McIver, motored to Goderich last Thursday and visited the Museum, the Salt Block and other places Of interest. „Anniversary Services. ---,Success- ful anniversary and re -opening services were held in Knox Pres- byterian Church last Sunday, when the guest speaker was Rev. J. R. McDonald', B.A., of Ripley. He preached two impressive sermons. Mr. J. Brown Milne was in charge of both services.. At the morning service prayer was' offered by Rev C. C. Washington of the United Church. The choir, with 'Mrs. J. Houston at the organ, rendered an anthem. The guest soloist was Mrs. James Bonthron, of Hensall. At the evening service the choir rendered an anthem and , Mrs. Bonthron sang two solos. The church was decorated with baskets of flowers. Women's Institute.—Mrs. Wes. Bradnock presided for the June meeting of tire Women's Institute '*Mrs, in the Forester's Hall. The 'meeting opened with singing, with Mrs. R. J. Phillips at the piano. 4orrespondence included a Thank You note letter regarding Canada Day and Institute holiday at Guelph, July 6 to 14. Mrs. R. J. Phillips gave a talk. A report of the district annual meeting held recently in Dungannon was given by -Mrs. W. J. Craig, Mrs. Albert Campbell and Mrs. Fred Ross. An instrumental Kilo was given by Mrs. Frank Nesbit. Mrs. Ed. Davies contributed a reading and Mrs. Gordon R. Taylor gave an accordian number. Mrs. Archie Robinson gave a report of the conference at Guelph. Lunch was served by the hostesses, Mrs. 'red East, Mrs. Harold Gross, Mrs. L. Archambault, Mrs. Frank Nesbit ano Mrs. Carl Mills. Blatchforda Pig Starter AND Blatelfordi Sour Ration - SOLD Pfrimmer„ Bros. UNMILLIR • REBEKAH LODGE Goderich Rebekah Lodge No. 89 held its last regular meeting till September with the Noble Grand. Mrs. E. Harris, in the chair for the business session. A social hour was enjoyed afterward with 'sick's/ prizes going to Mrs. K. Bell, Mrs. G. Feagan and Mrs. W. Car- rutlwa. A special meeting is to be craned for the purpose of hear- ing the reports from Grand Lodge in Toronto attended by Mrs. W. Bannister and Mrs. F. Fritzley — • The pulp and patter industry uses one third of all electric power generated in Canada and the in- dustry has been responsible for the growth of hydro facilities in Csinada.-9pick Canadian Facts. THURSDAY, JUNE 25th, 1953 County and District Lucknow reports a heavy in- festation of tent caterpillars. Rev. H. A. Kellerman, D.D., a prominent clergyman of the Evan- gelical Church, who died at Kitch- ener on Sunday after a prolonged illness, was a native of Dashwood, in this county. He was 67 years of age. A car belonging to Dr. J. A. Ad- dison, Clinton, was found aband- oned on the side of a ditch on No. 8 highway west of Clinton. Apparently it had smashed into a mailbox in front of James Turner's farm. Damage is estimated at A celebration was held at Blyth in honor of the 25th anniversary of the ordination of Rev. W. J. Phelan of Woodstock, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Phelan of Blyth. After solemn high mass at St. Michael's Church, dinner was served at the Clinton hotel, where Father Phelan was presented with a chalice, accompanied by an ad- dress. In the afternoon a recep- tion was held at the home of Father Phelan's parents. more than $300. A group of Hullett Township farmers, numbering 76, proceeded to East Wawanosh on Tuesday of last week and put in the day help- ing the farmers df the latter town- ship whse property had suffered damage in the recent storm. The work party was organized by the Hullett Federation of Agriculture. $15,000 Loss in Barn Fire - Lightning struck the barn of Raymond Nott, 2nd concession of Tuckersmith, in last week's violent thunderstorm and started a tire that caused a $15,000 loss. Be- sides the barn structure, which was burned to the ground, the loss included eighteen young cattle, ten pigs, . 1,000 bushels of grain, twenty tons of hay, and some implements. Two teen-age daugh- ters who were milking in the barn at the time, managed to get seven- teen cattle out. In Contact with Live Hydro Wire Cecil Rowe, of Exeter, is lucky to be alive. While inspecting ‚a fence on the grass farm of Stewart Triebner, Hay Township, he came in contact with a live Hydro wire and was unable to free himself. .There were four others in the party and one of them, wearing, rubber soled footwear, cut the wire with a pair of pliers and freed Rowe. The live wire had been -stretched across the farm to keep the animals from straying, but instead of. the usual electric wire fencing it was connected to the Hydro wire. More Reminders of the Michigan tornado People in South Huron are still firming souvenirs of the recent big blow at Flint, Mich. A Tucker. smith farmer while plowing found a receipt for $12 made out by a furniture company at Flint. A page front h Flint telephone direc- tory was found by another Tucker - smith man. A cancelled cheque for $25 front the ravaged city was found in McKillop Township, and in Stanley Township cancelled cheques, snapshots, a church pro- gram and other papers made a shower on a Stanley Township farm. These are onsy a few of • the pieces of paper found at Places in the county 100 miles or more and across the lake from Flint. Churches of Three Denominations Benefit The late Milton Alexander Hastie, a lifelong resident of Howick Tpwnship, who died De- cember 1952, left in his will, bequest totalling $6,000 for : churches and hospitals. The fol- lowing are the bequests which have en received: Gorrie United $500; Gorrie Presbyterian $500; Gorrie Anglican 1Church, $500; Wroxeter United IChurch, $500; Salvation Army, $500; Wingham General Hospital, $1,000; Toronto Sick Children's Hospital, $1,000; Hospital for Blind, Brantford, $1,000; Byron Sanitor- ium, London, $500. ASK BUILDING PERMIT FOR SCHOOL ALTERATION •' Building permits issued by Town Clerk. S. H. Blake during the first half of June amounted to $56,700. The permits were referred to the fire committee for consideration. One of the permits was for alter- ations to St. Peter's Separate School. The Clerk said that the permit was for alterations to pro- vide for another classroom, at an estimated cost of $1,500. THECatVert SPORTS COLUMN &met 7e494404$ It was seventeen years ago this week— the exact date was June 22, 1936—that Joe Louis became champion heavyweight boxer of the world, by knocking out James J. Braddock in eight rounds at Chicago. The loser thus became the fourth former world's title-holder who fell before the dynamite exploding in the fists of the 'Brown Bomber. Before that, Primo Xarnera, Max Baer and Jack Sharkey all had been toppled by the dead -pan Negro. It's silly, in the writing game, to deal in superlatives. Joe Louis may not have been the greatest heavyweight champion that the ring ever has known. Anybody that says he was runs himself right into a lot of argument from the supporters of Tunney, Dempsey, Johnson, Jeffries, Fitzsimmons and Corbett. Or all the way back to those who think the ring never has seen the equal of John L. Sullivan. Butthere was this much about Joe Louis. The ring never knew a champion who had more enthusiasm for his job. Maybe it wasn't in his face, because he was strictly a dead -pan fighter. But it was in his work, in his quick knockout victories. He had the Dempsey flair, and the Dempsey controlled savagery for that! Louis took only a round to dispose of opponents like Max Schmeling and John Henry Lewis, and after that anybody might think that Joe would ease up a little when he came up with a soft touch. But there were no soft touches in Joe's book. They were all fighters'trying to knock his brains out if they could. So he walked into them and knocked them all out. This observer saw Louis when he was, possibly, at his peak, a slight in 1935 when he made Max Baer quit in four rounds. Louis was that night a fighter to strike fear to the heart of any opponent, even before he raised a glove. Because he was so coldly, so utterly indifferent to his opponent. Louis was first -in the ring that night. He dropped into his chair, and looked up at a plane that was circling above the stadium. Baer entered the ring, glanced toward his opponent. But Louis didn't take his eyes from the plane. Without expression, he Watched the circling lights above. Baer, a former world's champion, wasn't accustomet to being -treated like this. He was plainly disturbed and nervous. For he was confronting a sphinx, an unknown quantity that seemed to exude a cold, lethal threat. He was being ignored. And from that moment, before a blow was struck, before the impassive and sombre Louis had moved from his corn'er, Baer was,a beaten man. The fight itself was merely a matter of efficiently conducted routine. . I saw Louis again. Louis at•the end of the trail, Louis in his thirties, fighting a young, clever Ezzard Charles, a Louis whose reflexes had faded, whose fists no longer carried lightning. In his prime, Louis would have knocked out Charles in a few rounds. But this was a Louis stumbling against the barrier of athletic age, whose fists weren't fast enough to do what his brain commanded, a Louis at trail's end. Tour comments and suggestions for tith'cohmen wEb. w•koased by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yong* St, Toronto. Calvert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO AMINIMMIIIMMI11111, Bell Service Meets the Challenge of the Tornado through • SARNIa •worst night... , Truly there are times when no price can measure the value of your telephone service — ready when you want it rnost. Such a time came to Sarnia on May 2Ist when the tornado ripped through the downtown area. That night, Bell equipment'— the telephone building itself — built to stand up in emergencies, came through one of the toughest tests. An emergency power unit kept building and equip- ment alive. Dial mechanism, properly housed, re- mained undamaged. Light from the Bell — shown above streaming through the building's shattered .doorway --was for hours the only electric light in downtown Sarnia. It became e beacon that told of service working for nearly all of Sarnia's 12,000' customers. Less thao 12001elephones were put out of action and bylhe end of the next day all but a few of these were back in service—thanks to telephone men from Sarnia, WindSor and Chatham. Outside wires suffered little damage because they were either under- ground out of harm's way or overhead in rear -lane areas, safer from falling trees. When the tornado hit, window glass, dust and debris blasted into the room where operators were working at the long distance and information switchboards. Some of the girls were cut by the flying glass; all were ordered to another floor where it was safer. Even before they- were asked to go back, Marna Levan (left above) and Pearl Roberts (right) returned on their own to their switchbOards. Chief Operator Alice Ed- wards (shown here directing an off-duty volunteer to her • post at the switchboard) found all but those more seriously cut anxious to go back to their switchboards, and when the room was made safe by 'Plant men, they did. In addition, girls off duty came in without being called, and rendered flist aid, gathered food, cooked meals, andrefused to leave until they Wife no longer' required. One girl from Quebec on vacation in Sarnia Came in to help. As one newspaper columnist wrote, "the Bell opera- tors were the heroines of the Sarnia disaster". Toronto Telegram hole THE MORNING AFTER --- buil4ing stench as a symbol of continuing telephone service. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA 11