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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1953-09-03, Page 1106th Year—No. 35 ON THE SQUARE AND ....HERE AND THERE Labor Day is .Monday for adults but for School children- it is ac tually the following day, Tuesday, when the call back to school desks for another term will be sounded. We're back to work after a brief Week's holiday. Made the colossal mistake of going to Detroit where a steady 97 degree temperature caused us to "throw in the sponge" and head back to Goderich after four days of enduring , the heat there last week. By comparison, the lake breeze -bathed temperature of Goderich late last Friday night after arriving from sweltering De- troit, was heavenly. Never so glad to get back to Goderich beforq Realize how lucky one is to live here. When our wrist watch stopped on arrival at Detroit Monday of last week we evert blamed that on the heat. Went to Hudson's Store on Woodward Avenue to check on the cause. We were told the watch needed cleaning. How much? It would cost $6.50, the man said. "$6.50!", we said, quite surprised, then mentioned a considerably lower figure which we ,said we paid to have it cleaned the last time in Goderich. "Why that's the price for cleaning a watch I charged when I left Goderich for Brantford in 1908," said the man. We didn't know the prices back in 1908 so we took him at his word but didn't. leave it for cleaning anyway be- cause it wouldn't be done "for three' weeks" and we didn't want to stay in Detroit for even that number of days and melt away in the sun. The man who waited on us turned out to be a former Gode rich resident, George E. Thurlow, manager of the jewelry repair department at the J. L. Hudson Company. When he learned we were from Goderich he took time out to recall former days at Gode- rich and even went so far as to do u temporary job- on the watch to make it run again—and with no charge for same—because we were from his old home town of Gode- rich. Received a press pass from the Detroit Tigers Baseball Club and had a top notch seat- behind the home plate. Saw New York Yank- ees Tuesday afternoon of last week toy around with -the Tigers in a scoreless series of innings. Then the Yanks turned on the heat in extra innings and mechanically came home in front by a 6-4 score. More interesting than the pre- cision playing ball game to us was the varied collection of spectators and the type of comments • they hurled at the players and umpires. Learning that there was a bene- fit performance for Howard Car- roll, a Detroit Yachtsman visiting Goderich on Saturday and who didn't even know Howard, handed Bert MacDonald three dollars to turn over to the cause. Bert also said a boatload of people came up from Detroit Saturday purposely to attend the benefit performance. It's seven years now since the writer of this column came to Goderich. We recall that one of our first assignments was to 'cover a band tattoo at Agricultural Park. The band tattoo here on August 20 recalled that night seven years ago. Before we came to the Huron County seat from London we were told there were many bootleggers in Goderich. Then, of, course, we associated Goderich with ships bringing in cargoes of stuff to Goderich. The association of these two must have made an imprint on our mind. When we returned to -the Signal -Star office to write up the band tattoo account we wrote that one of the numbers played by a . band was "Inward Cargo. Ac- tually, however, it was the Scot- tish number, "Invercargill" but we put entirely too much "Scotch" into the title. Incidentally, the band .tattoo this year was 'a most creditable one and both Goderich bands did themselves proud. This week the Goderich Summer Figure Skating School said fare- well for tho. season—and we hope it's just for the season—to Gode- rich. We hope they will be back again with us next year, although no definite announcement has been made to this effect as yet. Asking several of the girl skaters how they liked Goderich, tliey replied at first they found it somewhat quiet hut as time went on they grew to like Goderich ver, much. Tfie attendance at the Ice Revues was not as large as had been ex- pcctrd by Mr. Lew Elkin, versatile director of • the school. At Strat- ford last year the figure skating school revues started off with small public attendance but as the season progressed the crowds grew larger, finally ending off with ca- acity houses. The 'same thing happened at Goderich except that the crowds were not capacity ones on the last lap. Such summer. en- tertainment is new to Goderich, however, and it takes tipie for the people to realize how entertaining and refreshing it is. By next seas- !summer pitt on an excellent exhibit• (Continued on page 4) of 'duo skating - GODEitIC$ ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd, 193 GRAIN MARKET GLUT SLOW Mrs. N. Clairmont Wins "Good -Will" Contest Amassing . a stupendous number of votes -4,611,550 to be exact— Mrs. Norman Clairmont won the Goderich "Good -Will" Shopping Club Contest athich ended at noon on Saturday, August 22. Mr. 1R. L. Taylor, of Galt, who conducted the contest through the medium of the Signal -Star, commented that of the 40 towns in Ontario and Quebec where he has put on the same kind of a contest in past. years no other centre has ever had a winner with such a eom- manding lead over the other con- testants. As winner, Mrs. Clairmont re- reived a new television set from Wilf Reinhart Electric and Tele- vision. "Just a month before the contest ever started," said Mrs. Clairmont to the Signal -Star, "my husband and I were talking of how nice it would be to have a television set but we felt it would be beyond our 'means for at least the next ten years." Asked how it felt to be the winner, Mrs. Clairmont said, "It's marvellous. We were so surprised at such' a. landslide. Although, I live in town I found the rural people by the hundreds helped me: I found votes turned in for me from Lticknow, Hensall, Auburn, Dungannon, Colborne Township and ever so • many rural centres. I even received votes from as far away as Kitchener and Ottawa. "On • Saturday night ever . so many people stopped me on the Square — people whom I never even knew—and congratulated me. It sure has been like a great tonic for both me and my. husband, Nor• man, to win. "A contgot. like this sure opens your eyes on how kind people can be. In addition to those, who brought me many votes there were many people who brought me small _ numbers of votes but it wasn't just the coupons that people whom 1 never knew before brought in but the fine feeling their gestures brought to me." Mrs: Harold Doak,. South street, rolled up" a substantial total of 1,645,700 votes' to place second. She also turned in the largest number of new Signal -Star sub- scriptions, 37' in all. Final Standing Final standing of the ten prize winners was: • No. of votes 1. Mrs" Norman Clairmont (Prize from Willf-Rein- hart) 4,611,550 2. Mrs. Harold Doak (Prize from Blackstone's r Furniture) 1,645,700 3. Clara" Wilson (Prize from Shore Ap- pliances) 1,542,950 4. Mrs. Joe *Nevin (Prize from E. Brecken- ridge) 1,356,700 5. Mrs. N. Warnock (Prize from Reg. Bell) 1,314,150 6. Dianne McConnell (Prize from Filsing- er's) 1,280,600 7. Earl Raithby (Prize from The Music Shop) 1,133,925 8. Alma Chisholm (Prize from Lodge Fur- niture) 1,104,525 9. Mrs. Reg. •Williamson (Prize fromthe Fashign Shoppe) - 1,062,300 10. Mrs. Leroy Taylor (Prize from J. G. Hen- derson) - 1,019,825 Some of the other contestants who did not finish in the prize- winning group were: 11. Mrs. Ralph Jewell 938,250 12. Mrs. George Hutchins, 875,675 13. Robert Prouse 810,475 14. Agnes' Chisholm 674,350 15. Mrs. Wm. Mitchell . 396,775 16. Mrs. G. Stewart ' 321,775 The votes turned in by the var- ious contestants during the cam- paign represented purchases from the club merchants or payment of accounts to a total value of about $250,000' or a quarter of a. million dollars. • Unique Floral Clock Is Strange Invention Maybe Rube Goldberg thought he was the only one who could think up weird inventions, but J. H. Neill, curator of the Huron County Museum in Goderich, could give Rube a run for his money. Mr- Golllberg, who is famous for his drawings of inventions featur- ing little animals running on tread- mills, sliding , doors and various• -other contraptions,.might learn a few new tricks if he had a look at the floral clock Mr. Neill has in operation on the lawn of the museum. • He.. doesn't rely on little animals to keep the clock going, but Mr. Neill has used parts from various machines -- and the clock keeps perfect time. The floral clock project was started about five years ago- while Mr. Neill was living at Gorrie. In his spare -time he worked away at the mechanism, attached it to an electric motor" and adjusted the works until it kept time. Metal Flower Pots. When he came to Goderich as curator of the Museum, Mr. Neill brought. the clock with him and decided he'd install it on the lawn of the historic centre. • Over the past three years, he has made metal flower pots in the shape of numerals and this year he got the clock in operation once again and planted the flowers around the face of the timepiece. But it's the mechanism of the machine that astounds visitors. An electric motor is about the only orthodox piece of machinery. From the motor the machine works through a cream separator which is connected to the rear end of a Model T Ford. "The remainder of the gears," says Mr. Neill, "are made of parts of bicycles, sbwing machines and windmills." In operation from 9 a.m..to 9 p•m. each day, the unique clock has attracted hundreds of visitors to. the museum. "Some of the people from .town are using it to set their watches," he says. "They stop their cars at the curb, dash across the Iawn and 'check the clock several times each day." Next year Mr. Neill plans to put a different design of ' flowers and intends to keep working at the clock until he gets the most at- tractive flowers possible. YOUTH INJURED -A Goderich youth was taken -to Alexandra Marine and General Hospital for X-rays Tuesday to determine if any serious injury' had been caused in an accident in which he— was involved Monday. - The youth, William Kirkey, driving a bicycle, collided at the intersec- tion of Victoria street and Huron road with a car driven by Arnold Hodges, of Port Albert. No charges were laid. Constable A. Summers of the town detachment, Ontario Provincial Police, investigated. MoreThan $1,200 ileilized At Benefit Skating Show Citizens of Goderich and vicinity opened up their hearts and their pocketbooks last Saturday night as over 2,000 at the final skating show in Goderich Memorial Arena contributed more than $1,200 as a benefit for Howard Carroll, popular Goderich man who was injured recently in an accident at the harbor. For several days prior to the skating performance, workers had been out selling tickets and gather- ing money for the big benefit night. The total amount raised was the result of the huge ticket sale and collections made at the arena dur- ing the show. The " performance •culiliinated nine weeks of training by over 80 students who attended the summer figure skating school operated by Mr. and - Mrs. Lewis Elkin, of Buf- falo. And the show was one of the best seen at the local ice. palace during, the summer. One of the highlights was the skating of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Rushka, of Indianapolis. �he two skaters, who were instruc ors during the r Kirali Skates. Ede Kirali, the popular skater who scored such a hit a few weeks ago in a solo performance, was on hand once again and put on a dis- play of fancy skating which gave an indication of why he ranks so high among the world's skaters. Young Elaine Richards, of Osh- awa, skated in her comedy "Grand- ma" role once again and -• proved to be a crowd-pleaser. The Goderich Chordsmen were on hand to provide the music while Mrs. Donald Rivers provided fine accompaniment at the Hammond Organ. 'The benefit night was made pos- sible through the generous co-op- eration of Mr. and Mrs. Elkin and Officials of the Goderich Summer Figure Skating School. ' Among the men who worked hard to make the night a success were J. H. Kinkead, E. E. Cranston, Harold Bettger and Guy Emerson. Special thanks was extended by officials in charge of the event to the many people wv�hit turned out for the show and who bought tick- ets and who contributed to the collections. • , SHIPPIN0 G � The television set, first prize in the Goderich "Good -Will" Shopping Club Contest, is already in operation at the home of Mrs.'Norman Clairmont, Hamilton Street, the winner: Seen from left to right are: Wilf Reinhart, from whom the television set was purchased; Mr. Clairmont; Mrs. Clairmont. The win of Mrs. Clairmont seemed to be a particularly popular one. —Signal -Star photo by Henry Town Council Makes Plans For New Sewer To Lake Actin0g quickly to get a "new sewer built from No. 8 Highway to Lake Huror}, Goderich Town Council has made plans to have the job done by contract and to get the work underway as soon as possible. Last week,, two meetings were held with ratepayers in the ser - tion which' was; recently annexed by the town. ' At one of the town council meet- ings, the council authorized B. M. Ross, town engineer, J. K. Hunter, town solicitor and Mayor J. E. Iluckins to interview the property owners in the new area to make arrangements for acquiring the land where the sewer is proposed to be laid: Council --also hopes td-iajr-a new 100 -foot roadway in the same area as the sewer, but plans for that are still in the formulation stage. Meahlvhile, plans and specifica- tions for the proposed sewer and roadway are being prepared by Mr. Ross, and it is expected that fur- ther discussion on the matter will come up at the regular meeting ‘of town council on Friday night. Council recently authorized ouilding of a sewer from the site Local Officerof the new Sheaffer plant to the CNR tracks along the' south side of Highway No. 8. For the pre- sent, plans call for this sewer to connect to„.gn existing sewer at the tracks, but it will connect to the proposed new sewer to • the lake when it is built. Estimated cost of the new sewer is $50,000. SGT. C. S. ANDERSON Scholarship To Local Girl An outstanding student at Gode- rich District Collegiate Institute, Marilyn V. Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Turner, Mon- treal street, has beets, awarded the James C. Taylor Memorial Scholar- ship, it was announced Tuesday. Miss Turner, • who has led her classes and has been awarded scholarships each year in her studies -at the collegiate, this year captured nine firsts and one sec- ond in her provincial upper school examinations. The scholarship, - which is for $300 in cash for' faur -years or a possible total value of $1,164 is for high standing in Science and French.. This_ -marks the first time that the award has •been made to a student at the local high school and the first time in a number of years that g, provincial scholarshp has- come to the school:The memorial scholarship is for study at Victoria College at .the University of Toronto. , Total Of Visitors Hits 6,000 Mark Hoping to boost the total number of visitors to Huron County Mus-eum this year, Curator J. H. Neillhad his expectations realized `on Monday when the 6,000th visitor was recorded.The distinction went to Paul Cottrell of Port 'Elgin. Mr. Neill, who has been adding to the collection of relics at the museum during the past year, has been welcoming hundreds of visit -ors each week. When the season opened this year, he expressed the hope that visitors might surpass the 6,006 mark. The figure represents the larg-est number of peofde to tour the museum in its three years. of oper-tion, and is 126 above the total t set -last year. Is Promoted Promotion of Cpl. C. N. Ander- SURE WE WANT THEM! It is an established fact that absolutely no other news items in a weekly newspaper are read with greater interest by the majority of readers than are tie personal mention items. . It is impossible for the Signal -Star to phone every home every week to get the names of. visitors or learn of the out-of-town trips of resi- dents. But please be assured we are most anxious to get them and we will be most pleased to have you phone in this information. Do it now. Phone 71. - Ray King. Manager Of Crediton Bank AppointmentofRay King, ac- countant with the Bank of Mon- treal in Goderich for the past seven years, to the post of manager at the bank branch in Crediton was announced o_ n .Monday. Mr. King, who expects to take up his new duties about September 15, came here in 1946 from Exeter, where he had also served with the Bank of Montreal. While in Goderich, he has been active in the Lions Club and was named treasurer for the 1953-54 term ONLY ONE BRAT ARI 'E IN PORT DURING WEE 0 , _.Hoping to surpass or' of least equal the record in grain ship- ments set .last year, Goderich Ele- vator levator and Transit Company had its hopes dimmed during the past. Don Jolley, popular leader of the week as lack of export movement slowed down shipments practically Goderich Girls' Trumpet Band, has to a standstill. taken over the bandmaster duties During the past week only one of the Blue Water Band. following boat has .arrived, Y e William 93,000 the retirement of Al. Close. Daniels on Monday, with Mr. Jolley, who came to Gods bushels of flax. Y Elevator officials said that at rich, about a year and one-half ago present grain movements were the from London, has built the girls' "deadest they have been in the band up considerably in the past middle of the shipping season" year and hopes to enlarge the band for a number of years. the said that figures for July shipments, for instance, showed that quantity of grain masted in and out of the port was consider- ably below last year's figure. Several grain' boats have been laid off, some of them placed in drydock for repairs. '• Exports Lower Little export wheat has been Don Jolley Named New Bandmaster further in t e near future. Plans include increasing the membership of the band to 50 and, the bandmaster is at present seek- ing new talent for the musical ag- gregation. He also hopes to add a color party of girls to the outfit. Mr. Jolley said he also hopes to build up the Blue Water Band and is seeking clarinet and saxo- phone players for the reed section. moving out of Goderich with the Before coming to Goderich, Mr. result that only about 25 railroad Jolley played in the London Police cars have been loaded daily for Boys Band and in the London Tech shipments to New England, where - Concert Band. The musical back- ground as .the usual figure is - about 100 carloads for this time of year. Elevators were reported jammed to the top at Montreal and Fort William and in Western Canada where bumper wheat crops are being,, harvested. Officials in Ottawa say the grain storage glut problem is a "formid- able" one but they believe that the difficulties can be surmounted. in joining the twa bands contactlerate in the fall. They predicted that export sales, him at the Music Shop.In comparison with this year's especially for wheat, would accel- Frank Saunders gained with these two or- ganizations has. proven profitable for the' work he has been doing locally: - Mr. Jolley led the girls' bandto success recently at Toronto when they won first place in their class and at Waterloo Where they placed high. He asks that anyone interested figure of only one boat coming into port in 'd week, figures for last Named -Manager yeriarved showed inGoderich thatdurifourng ba weoatsek ar- in the same period. Appointment of Frank W. Saund- ers as business manager of. Alex andra Marine and General Hos pital was announced last week by the board of governors of the institution. Mr. Saunders, who started his new duties on Tuesday, succeeds Mrs. D. D. Mooney, who resigned recently to move to Toronto after serving for about a year and one• half. - A native of Goderich, Mr. Saund- ers was manager of the Goderich Organ Company up until about a year ago. ' The board also announced that the hospital has received an auto clave, the gift of the Atkinson Charitible Foundation, of Toronto. , The machine is used in steriliza- tion of dressings and instruments and is valued at more than $5,000. Larger Enrolment Seen Big Program On Labor Day Lions Club Names Two New Officers Two new officers have been nam- ed- by the Lions Club of Goderich as • the result of two executive members being transferred out of town. E. A. Garland, operator at the Canadian National Railways, has been named secretary to succeed C. Bruce Symonds, who has been transferred to Lindsay as manager of the Bell Telephone Company there. William Hay was named treas- urer on Monday, succeeding Ray King, who has been transferred to Crediton to serve as manager of the Bank of Montreal brallth there. cnoos un i uesaay County detachment. of the Ontario or son, officer in charge of the Huron Provincial Police, to the rank of sergeant was announced last Fri• - day. An increase in enrolment at -all Sgt. Anderson came to Goderich Goderich schools in indicated in a in November,- 1950, ,from Strat- survey made this week by the ford, where he had been stationed Signal Star, • for 15 years. Prior to his service Last year, on opening day, there in Stratford he had served at were more than 1,200 boys and Walkerton and Islington. He is a girls registered at local schools, native of Barrie, and present indications are that Other members of the county detachment in Goderich are Cpl. this figure will be increased.A. R. Scott, principal of Goderich If: Sayeau, Constables Doug Whit- District Collegiate Institute said field, D, I, Trumbley, C. J. Parkin- that at the present time all signs son, J. L. Finegan, H. Highton, point to a larger enroiment at that Constable Morley Groves who is at school on opening day next Tues - present on the town detachment, day. .. will move to the county detach - more day,"he said, I. hear of meant on September 8. Constable more pupils who wil be attending Robert Sims, who has been on loan the collegiate—some of them from to the town detachment from the families recently moved into town." county detachment for the summer He added that the registration in months, will remain with the Grade nine would likely be high: farce. there were fipprox- town Girls' Band Scores Hit Fresh from the success scored at the Goderich Band Tattoo, the Goderich Girls' Trumpet Bapd was special guest last Friday night at a big tattoo held by the Milverton Red Seal Band in Milverton. The Goderich group was an out- standing feature of the lengthy street parade and also gave two performances in front of the grand- stand, demonstrating their skill in precision marching and musician- ship. Participating in the evening of martial music were the Chesley Band, the Tavistock Band, the Mount Forest Band, the Listowel Boys and Girls Band, the Goderich Girls' Trumpet Band and the Mil- verton Rod Seal Band. The Goderich band, led by Band- master Don Jolley, received en- thusiastic applause from the large audience, especially for the rendi tion of "Alouette." CAR BLAZE Fire in the interior of a ear on Elizabeth street .got firemen out of bed early Monday' morning. The blaze destroyed the upholstery and severely damaged the interior of he car owned by William G.' Camp- bell. Last year, imately 400 pupils started studies at the collegiate in September. Goderich Public School, which last year had 714 pupils on regis- tration day, a figure which increas- ed before the end of r the term, this r. yea. expects more pupils than it had last September. H. M. Shackleton, principal of the public school, said that there were 100 kiddies registered for kindergarten so far, and that mare were expected on Tuesday. Last year there were 109 youngsters in kindergarten on opening day. St. Joseph's Convent is also ex- pecting ah influx of new students to increase its enrolment figure. Last year there were 108 registered at the Separate School. This year, according to officials, there will be approximately 116. - EDITORIAL A-, RISING TO THE OCCASION "I don't know what I've ever •done to deserve this. Goclerich is a pretty nice place to live in after all." So said Howard Carroll to his wife after she told him more than $i,200 hadbeen raised as proceeds from an ice revue at the arena Saturday night for his benefit. ,In his bed at Victoria Hospital, London, Howard fought to hold back tears of emotion which flooded hisremaining eye, the other eye having been removed as a result of serious injuries sustained in a mishap at Goderich harbor a few weeks ago. Official reports reveal Howard is now progressing favorably although the severe injuries he received might well have been fatal. He •will , return home soon for a short 'period of convalescence, after . which he will again go back to hospital for further treatment. The capacity crowd which attended the benefit per- formance at the arena was touching evidence of the goodness of heart of the people of Goderich and district. True,' the hot weather and the fact that it was the last ice revue of the season helped to swell the crowd. But the fact remains that by far the larger number of people were there because they had a genuine desire to express sympathy in a• tangible way. Scores of others purchased tickets but, for various reasons, were unable to.. attend. It was truly a magnificent -gesture: Howard Carroll gave unstintingly of his time and effort to train the Squirts' hockey team last winter. Obviously, he never - fully realized the extent -of the "appreciation for his efforts on the youngsters' behalf felt by the parents and relatives_ of these young boys and also by a host of other admirers. This appruciatioirbroke out •into full bloom When these people learned of Howard's unfortunate` mishap. A movement was started which gathered spiced and spread out into various channels to finally end with a resounding benefit performance. - it was a real credit to the people' of Gikt4rich and" district. It's Labor Day,,celebration time again, and Goderich is looking for- ward to one of the biggest cele- brations as thousands of visitors are expected to swell the popula- tion of the town. Once again, the big -morning event will be the calithumpian parade, featuring bands, floats, de. corated vehicles and, clowns. • The parade will form • up. at Judith Gooderham Memorial, Play- ground at 10 a.m. and will move off headed by the Goderich Girls' Trumpet Band, the Blue Water Band and the Mount Forest Pipe Band. The marchers, floats and others in the parade will move around the Square and a large crowd is ex- pected to be on hand to witness the colorful event. There will be prizes for the best floaandts cars,dfarmers''eentries and best fancy dress. Children's Races Following the parade there will be a few speeches at the Court r. House - Park bandstand, and then the excitement will start for the younger folk with the races sche- duled to get underway after the ee'ohes. For horse racing fans, the main part of the day will be the h'arness racing at Agricultural Park, with some of Western Ontario's finest horses scheduled to go to the wire. Post time is 1.30 p.m. Programs will be sold during the flay containing the harness racing entries and a pencil. William An- derson will' direct a group of wo- men in the selling of -the programs and a portion of the -money raised will go to the Cancer Polio and Tuberculosis fund of the Rebekah and Oddfellow's Lodges, In the evening, there ,will be a softball game with the, Goderich Dodgers going against' a " Ladies' team from Stratford, the Police Kadettes under the Iights at Agri - .cultural Parjc at 8 p,m. Winding --up, the big'day Will be the draw for 'prizes following the softball game. - ,approximate. time ,- of the draw .s'.10 p,m; Celebration ' 'Labor Da year is .bein ° y s the GodericTrades' ,ioiritl�'• hy:, ' dand Labor. Council and the Goderich Trotting Association,