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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1953-07-16, Page 1106th Year—No. 29 ObtncI gn GODERICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 16th, 19534,0 � Copies seBUILDING UNDERWAY`IP �ucir� L PLA Crowd of 8,000 Sees Orangemen In `Glorious 12th' Parade, Here ai= tar • Orangemen from near and far, over 8,000 of them, jammed the streets at Goderich for the cele- bration of the Battle of the Boyne —"The Glorious Twelfth" --on Sat- urday, with over 1,000 participat- ing in the big parade which was so long it circled the Square twice. From about 10 o'clock in the morning you could hear the fifes and drums growing in intensity until parade time at 2. pan. And the music continued until late evening. Headed by Goderich Girls' Trum- pet Band, the parade formed up at Agricultural Park and moved off via Britannia road and South street. And right at the front of the ,parade was "King Billy" on his white horse, with Huron County Marshal Ken Betties of Winthrop, playing the part of the monarch. Colorful Sight Thousands of citizens and visit- ors crowded every inch of space around the Square to get a glimpse of the big parade as it passed by. The lodge members and the vari ous bands, both large and small made a colorful- sight. Severa times as the various lodges passed by, the crowd ,gave forth with cheers and clapping. Five women's LOBA groups par tieipated in the parade besides about 30 men's groups. The ladies were from, Morning Star Lodge Fordwich, Agnes Watson Memorial Lodge, Woodham, Grace A. Riley Lady Ester, Grand . Valley, Lottie Thornton Lodge, Gorrie and Lady Anne Lodge, Mitchell. - Clinton presented the largest lodge on parade and was awarded the prize for its showing. Other prize winners were: Best dressed LOBA or LTB, Gorrie; largest LO BA, Clintgg, best dressed lodge, Amberley; -best LOBA or LTB ban- ner, Fordwich; best LOL banner, Winthrop; lodge coming the great- est distance, Newbridge. Prize for the 'oldest Orangeman on parade went to 91 -year-old Wil- liamMurray, of Seaforth, who stepped along to the lively music just as spryly as the younger people. Addresses Heard After the "walk" had finished and the bands and lodges had all gathered in Court House Park, the main addresses got underway. Civic greetings were brought to the Orangemen by Mayor J. E. Huckins, who was introduced by the chairman, Anson Coleman, County Master.' Mayor Huckins congratulated the various lodges for the excellent parade and complimented the Gode- rich lodge for having arranged .a gathering which . would, attract suchsz-large-cro'wdsto-the"'thWit ` One of the main speakers was Rt. Wor. Bro. W. John Moore, Past Grand Master, of Toronto, who re- presented the Grand Lodge of Ontario. Bringing greetings from the Grand Lodge, Mr. Moore said that this was a day "when all good Orangemen should be happy;" He reminded his audience that the LOL had been formed to preserve civil and religious liberties. He noted also that the lodge, as a British organization, was not happy with Canada's immigration policy. In 1951, he claimed, about 35,000 people from Britain came to Canada, while about 149,000 came from Continental 'Europe- "The faa- t.ure of Canada," he said, "depends on keeping her British and Pro- High Standards Rev. A. Glen Eagle, of Clinton, spoke to the gathering reminding Orangemen to remain loyal to the high standards of their lodge. He stressed also that Orangemen must remain faithful to good govern- ment and support Protestantism Also speaking briefly were Bro. , L. E. Cardiff, M.P. for North Huron. 1 and Rev. G. W. II:Medley, of Tor- onto, and formerly of Goderich. Lodges and bands that marched in the order that they appeared _ in the parade were: Goderich Girls' Trumpet Band, Bethel, Amberley, Ripley, Kiitlosa, Kincardine, Maple Grove, Lucknow, Clinton Bannock- burn' Pipe Band; Logan, Landes - born, Auburn, Blyth, Riverston, Gorrie, Newbridge, Brussels Legion Pipe Band, Brussels, Belgrave, Ethel, Wingham, Woodham Flute Band, Woodham, Bluevale, Green- way, Bayfield, Varna, Morning Star Lodge of, Fordwich, Huron Lodge of Clinton, Murphy Lodge of Clinton, Seaforth, Winthrop, Lucknow Pipe Band, Goderich and, Dungannon. Winners Winners of the band and Fife and drum contests were: best band, Woodhull Flute Band, first; Clinton Band, second; best fifer, Ird Rap- son, best drummer, Emerson Hesk • Londesboro; best lady drummer, Gladys Collins, of Seaforth, accom- panied by her father, William Col- lins, playing the fife. Big sports event of the day was the playing of two softball games between two girls' teams, Stratford Police Kadettes and Goderich Dodgers. The visitors beat the Dodgers 4-1 in the afternoon en- t counter, but the locals came back strongly on the evening to take a the Kadettes 8-1. ALL SMOKE, NO DAMAGE AT COURT HOUSE FIRE 'Did someone say something about a new Court House? It almost looked as if they would have to build one here Tuesday night, as smoke pour- ed from ' the building when Mrs. Mabel Gray, stenographer for the Crown Attorney, open- ed the door. Firemen were hastily sum- moned hnd found that the door of the furnace, in which some paper had been burning, had come open sending smoke bil- lowing up into the building. No damage was caused but it was some time before the old structure was aired out. Groups Talk On Proposed `Rec' Council Further steps toward formation of a recreation council in Goderich were' taken Tuesday night at a meeting between the arena coin - mission and the town council, but actual formation of .the. council was not made. The two bodies had met last Thursday evening to discuss the proposal, but decided to postpone the meeting until this week. Present at Tuesday's meeting were Tim Leishman and" Robert Secord, both of London, of the recreation division of the depart- ment of education. Outlining the purpose of the meeting, Mayor J. E. Huckins noted that it was the proposal of town council to set up the . arena com- mission as the new recreation council and have the arena man- ager as recreation director. "In several communities through- out the province," the mayor said., "the' arena manager is also recrea- tion director." Mr. Leishman pointed out that the recreation director could have a full -tune secretary to assist him with his duties. He said he felt he duties of a recreation director would be to organize groups, and ssist in their administration and would not necessarily mean that he director would have to take n active part in every activity. Objection Chief objection to .the appoin ent of arena manager as recr Iioiiic "irecfor came frail the chair an of the arena • commission eorge G. MacEwan •who said h idn't think the.one man shoult w "DROWSY ELECTION" a A recent issue of the New York ._ Times dealing with Canada's fed- eral election referred to it as a m see so well from so far! ' m G d hh fo fr w w ti re be an an ou Po fa 0 wa Se Go wi on mi da ex cis t a Tt Taken a few weeks ago, this scene is now "ehanged and will change even more so in the weeks that lie ahead. The house and barn of Nelson Crich at the end of the Ianeway in the ic- ture have -been razed to make way for the, new plant of W. -A.--Sheaffer Co:, of -{'antic p The row of trees at right remain to make a beautiful entranc_•e to the newplant, groundsIrl Ltd. of which will be attractively landscaped, the Signal -Star photo by Henry Home Building On Rapid Increase; IssuePermjts For 55 Homes So Far With construction of 55 ne dwellings either completed o started since the beginning of th year, home-building in Goderi appears to ne headed for .a liigh not reached for many years, and perhaps a record high - Only comparable period in re- cent years as far as house con- struction is concerned was when 75 wartime houses were built here in 1947-48. Over $1,000,000? And with construction of the new Sheaffer Pen ,Company plant scheduled to be completed this .year at a cost of " about $500,000 town officials are confident the value of building. in Goderich will well surpass the $1,000,000 mark this year. A look back through the files E- at Town Hall shows that seven ca" years ago, in 1946,-,-the-town-suet a total of 224" . building permits, only 15 of which were for con- e' struction of dwellings. The re- mai• nder were almost all for alter - yr • r s , TOWN NEGOTIATING FOR i AT THE WATERFRONT 1 25 MORE NEW HOUSES c What, No Esk!rnos Herd A Chicago couple visiting the Huron County Museum this week were disappointedly surprised to learn that Goderich was so civilized and not "away up in Canada" as they had expected, to find. They had felt that Eskimos, Indians and big bush country would not be very far away from Goderich_ Obviously, the summer visitors from the "Windy City" were not aware that Goderich was founded in 1827, even before Chicago was founded. They inquired about which road to take to get to "the big bush country" and when they were told the Northern Ontario bush cotintry was about 1,000 miles north they stated they thought it was near Goderich. Next, they wanted to see the Indians in their war paint but were told Indians lived on reservations and dressed just the same as anybody else today making it difficult to distinguish them, except for` their facial features and darker complexions. With these two "hopes" exploded, they next asked if the Eskimos were nearby and were told that even after reach- ing the end 'of the, railway line in far Northern Canada they would have to travel beyond that to find settlements of Eskimos. Yes, Goderieh will have to import Eskimos, Indians in full war dress and "big bush country" to cater to some of our visitors. ave the two duties. "He'd be in of water all the time," commented bIr.' MacEwan. Mr. Leishman and Mr. Secord, in- rmed the meeting that grants om the Department of Education ould be forthcoming if activities ere carried out under a recrea- on commission. He said the same creation activities now held could carried out under a commission d that the same service clubs d volunteer workers could carry t their work. Councillor Ken Pennington inted' out that recreation was irly well taken care of by several rganizations, but that the activity s not bound together. At the close of the meeting, lir. cord said he would be back in derich later this week to confer th the Mayor and Town Clerk the recreation council proposal. Term of office of the arena com- ssion was to have ended yester- y for the year, but it will be tended until such time as de - ion is made on the proposal., f)nngantion L.O.L. No. 324 was we'll -represented in the parade and celebration 'marking 1)av in Goderich on 'Saturday. - The big day attracted a ero«c(l of more than g t1 8,000 and there were over 1,000 lodge members participating in the parade. 'Dungannon members shown above are, left to right, kneeling, Harold Culbert, (lcorge Errington and Arnold Alton. Standing Cliff Hackett, Chester Hackett, Russell Alton, Walter Dickson, Lloyd Craig, Tom H. Colbert., Trim Hallam, Tom Culbert, Benson Firrnigan, Gordon Finnigan, Leonard Good and Nelson Culbert. - ---Signal-Star., Photo by Henry. .a ations and repairs. In 1949, the town issued 151 permits with value of the projects estimated at $385,956. But a major item in, this year was the permit for construction of the new Public School, valved at "$270,000•-- well over half the total value of all per- mits•in the year. Big Projects Number of 'permits in 1950 went up to 192, deereased to $181,441. Thh n,vine 1951, the town experienced a great jump .in construction value to $852,755 with 126 permits issued. But $520,000 of this was for the new collegiate and $210,000 for the new Knox Presbyterian Church. Once again in 1952, there were 121 permits issued but` the value was only $161,000. Up to the end of last month, Shipping was fairly heavy at the watk rfront during the past week with five boats arriving. ;