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HURON COUNTY'S , FOREMOST WFFKI1Y
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 20th, 1963
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20th, 1953
EDITORIAL NOTES
That coolness in the August air
reminds us that summer is waning.
* • •
The Doukhobors in British Col-
umbia are at their tricks again
with torch and explosive and de-
fiance of law. A general deporta-
tion of the terrorists would be in
order if any other country would
have them; failing this, they might
be placed on some island off the
coast and left to fend for them-
selves and with their fondness for
destruction destroy one another.
The patience of the B.C. people
must be worn thin in dealing with
them.
• • •
E. B. Jolliffe, Provincial C.C.F.
leader in Ontario since 1942, has
turned in his resignation. The
C.C.F. party has not- been fortun-
ate in this Province, having lost
ground in recent years. Mr. Jollilfe
has found it difficult to find suf-
ficient time for his legal practice
along with the demands of his
Leadership and he has no doubt
been under. financial stress. Some-
one .wiII be found to take his
place, bui the prospects of suc-
cess .dor the party are. hot, for
the present at least at all in
a majority as that accorded the
Prime Minister.
• • •
When • George Hees, member of
the4 last House of ,Commons and
now re-elected, addressed a cam-
paign meeting at Kitchener in be-
half of Elizabeth Jansen, the Con-
servative candidate, he vowed that
if she were not elected he would
eat his shirt. She was not elected,
and Mr. Hees said he would make
good on his wager. Naturally a
big crowd assembled in front of
the city hall at Kitchener to see
him masticate his garment—which
turned out to be a cake baked in
the sis pe of a wrapped -up laundry
shirt. The crowd enjoyed the fun
and helped him to eat the cake.
There have been innumerable
instances of such promises, but this
is the first time, so far as we have
heard, , that it has been fulfilled.
For the future, when a man says
he will "eat his shirt," it will be
taken "in the Hees sense,'; as
signifying an idle expression not
to be taken literally. Better to
say he would "eat his hat," for in
that case it would not be difficult
to get away with a pancake suit-
ably shaped. Mr. Hees' shirt will
go down in political history along
with the Petawawa "horses."
25 Years Ago
A race held at the harbor saw
a boat owned by Harold Young
and piloted by Harry Watson out -
race the Dominion Public Works
boat handled by Beach), Melvor.
The Young boat travelled over a
one -mile course in • ?exactly four
minutes. A cup` for the winner
was offered by Tom Pritchard:
A number of .octogenarians- gath-
ered for a social time and honored
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Black for the
interest they had taken in the
Octogenarian's Club. An ebony
cane was presented to Mr. Black
and a silver tray to Mrs. Black.
Goderich Industrial Fair was de-
signated as the one in this? district
to which the Albert John Harring-
ton Eckhardt prize of a silver tea
service was to be awarded.
20 Years Ago
The home of Russell.Hill, north
of Benmiller, was destroyed by
fire. An alarm was sounded but
the crowd that gathered was help-
less to do anything. The two-
storey frame structure had recent-
ly been papered and redecorated.
Goderich ranked fifth for the
month of July in grain shipped
through the Lake Shippers' As-
sociation, exceeded only by such
export points as Montreal, Buffalo',
Kingston and Port Colborne. - In
addition to receiving shipments
from Western Canada, Goderich
also received large quantities of
American corn from Chicago and
Milwaukee during the . month.
En route on a _geographic field
trip under the auspices of Clark
University, West Massachusetts, a
party of 28 school teachers visited
Goderich. They came here after
a visit to Chicago Fair and to
Canada visited Barrie, Toronto Ex-
hibition and Niagara Falls.
15 Years Ago
Sailors on the freighter Superior
claimed there was a sea monster
on the region Of Duck Islands and
Cove Island, 20 miles off Decatur,
Mich. Twice during the season
they, lost the log line from the
stern of the -ship 'in that district
and claimed that a sea monster
was the culprit.
Two lads from a camp on the
Blue Water Highway a few miles
north of Goderich gave their leader
a few anxious hours one night.
The - boys were thumbing their way
back to camp after an evening in.
town, but the "hitch -hiking wasn't
so good. They walked most of the
way, but couldn't make it to camp,
so curled up in the ditch and went
to sleep. , They were found by
police, who called the camp leader.
Although no commercial fisher-
men were bringing in catches of
any account, river fishermen were
having good luck. Dr. L. M. Mabee
caught a fine mess of six bass, and
"Maurice. McKee was reported to
have caught .a seven -pound
"muskie" in the river.
Letters to the : Editor
Editor, Signal -Star.
Sir,—I have enjoyed every issue
of the Signal -Star away out here
in Okinawa. Just seeing your
friends' names In print seems to
be a treat over here. Please re-
new my subscription.
ANTOINETTE DALTON,
viting. Another monster wheat crop . is ! (On overseas service with
• • • I in prospect for Canada, but it is 1 U,S.A. Air Force).
The search for iron in the k not regarded as an unmixed b1eo-
ing. Many millions of bushels of Editor,.Signal-Star.
I have seen upper school results
the 1952 crop remain in storage from numerous towns in Western
f
and with another half -billion ` Ontario and have been comparing
bushels corning on many of the i them with the results at the Gode-
Western growers will not have 0-ich District Collegiate Institute.
As far as 1 can see, with the
anywhere to put it. The market, exception of a few students at the
too, is likely to sag under the Goderich Collegiate -who did ex-
ceptionally well, the average of
the results at Goderich is below
the average of some twelve other
towns in Western Ontario. I
thought this might be of interest
in general.
. A PARENT.
-county of Norfolk - has been aban-
doned. The options on farm lands
taken by a steel company have
left ,a tidy sum of money with the
landowners, and they still have
their farms unspoiled by the grimy
pits that would have disfigured
the landscape if mining had been weight of huge production not only
undertaken. Green fields, shady iii Canada but in the United
woods and clear, bright streams States. From this distance it looks
are not a bad substitute for money, as if the wheat -growers of the
and the people of Norfolk are. per- West should make an effort to bal-
haps. not very sorry that the steel ance their production with their
company's gangs have departed
and left them their beautiful
county.
• • • •
The service vote, heavily in
favor of Mr. McLean in the_ Huron
contest, would have been very
useful to him if the northern part
of the county had not voted so
strongly in favor of Mr. Cardiff.
Mr. McLean is still young and
may look forward to future op-
portunities in the field of politics,
or may find employment for un-
doubted abilities in some other.
direction. He may feel that Gode-
rich has not shown any -great de-;
gree of gratitude for his services.
at Ottawa in behalf of this town,
but politics is proverbially an un-
certain - game and sometimes its.
uncertainties take, disconcerting
shapes.
• • •
ft is easy to draw a parallel
between the August =.10th Feder:11
election and the last Provincial
general election. In each case
the leader of the Opposition party
spoiled his prospects by, making
too many promises. If Mr. Drew
had committed his party to a tax
reduction of $250 millions, instead
of $500 millions, and : had not
promised new expenditures that
would have cancell1Cd the quarter -
billion reduction, he might have
convinced many more voters than
he did.- But, like Walter Thomson
in the Provincial contest, he kept
adding morel and more to ,his list
of promises until the electors be-
'c'ame mistrustful and concluded
that, after -all, a pound of per-
formance is worth a ton of
promises and gave their votes to
the Government. That is the way
it looks to us, anyway.
• •
▪ The national treasury will have
some offset to the expense of the
general election. from the great
**umber of candidates' deposits
Chat have been forfeited. Alt the
100 Labor -Progressive (Commun-
ist) candidates lost their deposits,
as did over 100 C.C.F. losers and
about 100 Conservatives, In Que-
bec especially there were a great
number of candidates who did hot
poll one-half as many votes as
the member -elect and who thus
forfeited their deposit of $280. 1n
Quebec Easst, for instance, Prime
Minister St. Laurent had four op-
ponents ----Conservative, Anti-Com-
munist, Independent and Labor-
It'ogressive—ad had a majority
of ,some 20,000 over the combined
'rote of the four. .This meant four
deposits forfeited, and there were
ether similar cases In the Pro-
vince, though none with so large
storage facilities. This is a matter
for the wheat -growers themselves
to undertake. Adyice from any
other source of a cut in production
would not be welcomed, but star'
age capacity could be increased
on farms and • in elevators, and
some inevitable wastage of good
grain could be prevented. The Editor, Signal -Star.
world is still hungry . for wheat,
the Government is striving might-
ily to find markets for it, there
should be provision against lean
years perhaps, still to come, and
if there is still a surplus that can-
not be sold it might be • given
away. -
• • •
Editor, Signal -Star. •
Sir,—Enclosed find money order
for year's subscription to the Sig-
nal -Star. We were born in Gode-
rich and we like very much to
have the Goderichh news. Thank-
ing you. 'aMr
ROBERT MacKAY,
Southampton, Ont.
Sir,—My wife and I have,a little
problem. We have been' giving
the Signal -Star to an uncle, a form-
er contractor in your district, who
now lives with us. I think he
reads every line of your town and'
district items but naturally has
been especially happy over items
about new homes and other, new
I buildings. -Apparently he has. for-
.gotten
or-.gotten the names of many of the
people until he sees that they are
building something.- Lately he
complains that no names or streets
are mentioned of those building,
and he is very unhappy about it.
He says it is the best "boost" news
in your paper,. and if you could
see him showing items to old
cronies, you would appreciate bet-
ter what .1 mean.. If you can look
after this matter we will appreci-
ate it.
Editor, Signal -Star.
Sir,—The Township of Stamford
is going to have the official open-
ing -of the Federal -Provincial Rent-
al Housing Project on September
3, 1953. We understand that a
similar project was opened in your
town on May 19th, 1953.
In order that we may have some
idea of the program that,took .place
at your , ceremony it would be ap-
preciated very much if you would
send us a copy df your paper where
the story was included.
Yours very truly,
A. C. HUGGINS,
Stamford Township Clerk.
Political leaders should get
away from Ottawa more frequently
and let the people see and hear
them. It may be said . that the
radio now takes the place of public
meetings, but 'this is not con-
firmed by results. If anything
like a large proportion of electors
listened to radio talks on national
issues there would not be the
widespread ignorance of, and in
many cases complete indifference
to, public issues that any - political
worker knows to exist. We have
had the radio now for a good many
years, but there is not a general
acquaintance with national affairs
as there was a generation or two
ago. One thing that has con-
tributed to this lack of interest
is that most towns and cities now
have only one newspaper, instead
if two as in earlier days which
argued back and forth and stimu-
lated discussion on public affairs
among their readers. To over-
come these existing conditions; at.
least in some degree, platform
appearances by political leaders
between election campaigns wou:A
bring to the people an acquaint-
ance with public personages and
a knowledge of public affairs
which are` now in great degree
lacking.
BANTAMS WIN FINALS;
DOWN ST. MARYS 26-11
QUICK CANADIAN QUIZ
1. Who spends more, travellers
from other countries in Canada
or Canadians travelling out of
the country?
2. Average weekly factory wage
$20.14 in 1939. - What is it to-
day?
'3: Ottawa's spending this year will
be what proportion of its spend-
ing in wartime peak year of
1943-44?
4. Alberta's river systems ultimate-
ly reach saltwater where?
5. What prairie province now earns
more from manufactures than
from agriculture?
ANSWERS: 5. Manitoba. 3.
More than 90 per cent. 1. Can-
adian abroad, since 1951. 2. $56.05
Yours,
WM. S. BOYCF .
London, Ont.
Editor's Note: We will be happy
to oblige in the future:
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STRATFORD
at February 1, 1953. 4. In the
Gulf of - Mexico, Hudson Bay, the
Arctic Ocean.
(Material supplied by the editors
of Quick Canadid'n Facts, the hand-
book of facts about Canada.)
Backgammon the modern
adaptation of one of the most an-
cient of all games, dating back
as far as 3000 B.C., according to
the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAN SENTENCED
David McHardy, 26, Goderich,
on Wednesday of last week was
sentenced in Windsor six months
definite and six mont s indefinite
in reformatory when a was found
guilty of uttering a forged cheque.
-Magistrate Angus W. MacMillan
staid MdHardy had -a. record :of
several offences dating back to
1943...
Beevers Auto
Supply
Goderich Phone 295
Godericli bantams, scored 16 runs
in a first inning hitting spree in
St: Marys Monday night to win
26-1.1 and capture the WOAA .Ban-
tam Baseball finals. The locals
won the first contest of the hest -of -
three series and a game here last
Thursday night ended in a 5-5 tic.
Three St. •Marys pitchers were
required to, put out the fire in
the -first inning ,nos 21 Goderich
players came,, up to bat. Mc-
Carthy, Pringle and' Noble did Ow
hurling for St. Marys with -Leslie
and Hearn doit g the receiving.
Wall, pitched for. Goderich with.
Walzak behind) the plate.
Goderich • IQ 1 3 033--28 23 4
St. Marys ..,..... 010 055-11 8 5
LABOR DAY
CELEBRATION
SEPTEMBER 7, 1953
10.30 A.M. — CALITHUMPIAN PARADE, CLOWNS, BANDS,
PIPERS, FLOATS.
Industrialists are urged to enter their floats.
Valuable prizes offered.
11.00 A.M. SPEECHES FROM BANDSTAND COURTHOUSE
PARK.
Take a break...
Relax with a Coke
It takes only moments to pause
for a Coke. Pays off in big
dividends, too—for things get
done when you work refreshed.
11:30 A.M. — CHILDREN'S RACES COURTHOUSE PARK. -
Free ice cream for the kids._ Fun galore.
1.30 P.M. — PROGRAM BY GODERICH RACING ASSOCIA-
TION, AGRICULTURAL .PARK. - Y
8.30 P.M.
10.00 P.M.
— IIASEBALL GAME, AGRICULTURAL PARK.
Goderich Dodgers vs. Stratford Police Cadets.
— DRAW FOR PRIZES TO TAKE PLACE AFTER
BALL GAME.
Also special draw for ad book. prize donated by
Filsinger's. Ladies' or gent's Bulova wrist watch.
All `organized workers are asked to take part in the Church
'Parade on Sunday morning, September 6, at 10.30 o'clock.
Parade to form on - the Square for march to Victoria Street
church. Also the .Calithumpian Parade to form at Victoria
Park, 10 a.m. -on September 7.
Sponsored by -
GODERICH TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL
in conjunction with
GQDERICH RACING 'ASSOCIATION
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