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THURSDAY, AUGUST 26th, :1954
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HURON COUNTY'S 'FOREMOST WEEKLY
Established 1848 ---In its 107th year of publication. C•
Published by Signal -Star Publishing Limited
Subscription Rates—Canada and Great Britain,. $2.50 a year: to'United
States, $3.50. Strictly in advance.
Advertising Rates on request Telephone 71.
Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa.
Out -of -Town Representative: C.W.N.A. 420 Temple Bldg., Bay and Richmond Sts., Toronto.
Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Member of Ontario Division, C.W.N.A., Member
of Audit Bureau of Circulations. Weekly Circulation of over 3,200
GEO. L: ELLIS, Editor and Publisher.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26th, 1954
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TRAVEL RELAXED
AND CAREFREE
CONGRATULATIONS!
The Goderich Trade hair made its first
appearance ori the 'stage last weexk and scored
an unmistakable hit. The Kinsmen are to be
congratulated upon the success of their enter-
prise and the people of town and district upclu.
their support of so desirable an institution.
As an infant, it could not display a full set
of teeth, and it- was not expected to do so.
iCt did give sturdy promise of growth and
with the goodwill demonstrated toward it by
the all-important public we can look ferward
to its being bigger and better with succeeding
-years.
The Trade Fair is heralded as the intended
revival of the Goderich Fall Fair, a venerable
institution that experienced many ups and
do,wns,..and succumbed to a combination of
unfavorable eirc'uInstanees-" some- years ago.
With public support similar to that given the
Trade Fair last week, and with good manage-
ment. the Fall Fair Can again be a useful`
annual event. It was a link between the
town and the 'surrounding rural community,
and certainly Goderich has not too many such
links. To re-establish ,this feature off the old
Fall Fair it will be' necessary to develop that
part' of the show that will command the
interest and co-operation of the men and
women of the farms, and this we believe to
• be the intention of the managers. It may
take some years to achieve the -desired success
along this line, but it will be worth while to
have as an aim one of the best fall fairs in
Western Ontario. With the growing import-
. anee of Goderich as a centre of industry,' and
its situation in the banner agricultural county
of • the. Province, there ..is no reason why the
combination of these two interests, industrial
and agricultural, should not have excellent
results in.,the Fall Fair of the future.
Again, congratulations to the Kinsmen
and all others who contributed to the success'
of the Goderich, Trade Fair, with heartiest
wishes for continued -and.- increasing suaee$s
in this commendable enterprise.
THE' HON. W. E HARRIS
The Trade hair gave opportunity for the
first official ai>•pearance herr of 'the new
Minister. of Finarree for Canada. the Hort,
Walter E. Harris, and it vV Is uu appropr•iiit�
ft aturp of, the first 41) 1 riel> Trade Fair.
Mr, Harris fultill„t'tl advan e notices i15
ail unas5r1Inirig but Capable-1ookiD represent-
ative of the 1''edera•l Government, and in his
a address he 'showed a ,pleasing at:qt aintarll'C
With this cornrnunity, its history and its
standing feattit•e•s; He struck a particularly
happy vein ' when the congratulated Mayor
fluckins• upon' the fact that Goderich was
unique in not asking for any Governme!it
THE O. AND M.
This paper for years has warned its read-
ers against' expecting 'too' much benefit "to
Canada from the St. Lawrence seaway and
particularly against swallowing all i'he Toronto
papers had to say `about' it. Now, however,
that necessary United States co-operation in
the international section of the seaway is
,assured, The Toronto . Globe and Mail turns
upon the Ottawa Government and asserts that
the seaway is a sell-out to the United States.
Why did not the G. and M. 'say so when
it was urging the Government to hurry up and
g-et,,the work started? '.
.The proportion of costs payable by Can-
ada and the States has been published scores
of times,. Did the G. and M. protest? Not
Atntil the -die had been cast and ''the scheme
assured. •
The power end- of the proposition, so dear
expenditure.
Indeed, there is no reasotF why Goderich
.41101ld ask for any special favor. ' Ottawa has •
fbr• years kept a watrhflil eye°••upon one of
this towns majorinterests, the harbor, and
has ivaintained it in a high state of effreiency-
\Vt believe 'Ir, -Harris will 'as Minister of
Finance he' ready, as his predecessors have
been. to provide funds for arty needed im-
'prnvc�ltl , 0 nt ofaeility ,that is an rasset, not
v to this town. hitt 'to Western Ontario
a whole.
•
Mr. Harris ti sit he 'heartily we'leorne.cd. on
further visits to this community, visits which
we }rope will not be too infrequent.
TURNS ITS COAT
to the heart of Toronto, required the assent,
and co-operation of the United States Govern-
ment. This was well known to the G. and M.
when it was talking about. the tremendous
expansion in Ontario .this additional zoer•
would mean—and Toronto takes an estimated
90 per cent. of the new industries in Ontario.
Why does the G. and M. now complain
because the U.S. proposes to make use of the
power facilities on its own side of ,the river,
as it has a right to do?
If Ottawa has "sold • out" to her big
neighbor, who is responsible? The Globe and
Mail along with ,other Toronto interests that
boast of the city of 2,000,000 that Toronto is
to become because of the seaway.
'Is it of any use to say once morethat the
people of Ontario should,do their own -thinking.
and :pay' less, attention. to what the ,'Toronto
papers say?
CONGRESS BANS COMMUNIS' PARTY
The United States Congress has passed,
almost unanimously, a bill to outlaw the Com-
munist- -party. Only two members of the
-House of Representatives waited in the negative,
One of thesera Republican from North Dakota',
said he believed iii freedom of speech and
was opposed to ,"any form of tyranny over
the mind of man,— The other, a New York
Democrat, claimed that "putting any group
but of business int this way is.basically wrong
in principle it is the -way a Fasei,st would
use, the totalitarian waw."
Probably the furore raised by the Mc-
Carthy ariti.,Communist hunt., and the fact that
elections, to House and senate are less than
three months away, influenced many of the
legislators in voting as they did. In the
circumstances, the two nonconformists gave'
a striking exhibition of courage.
Outside Congress, opinions in opposition
to the Congressional action were heard. J.
Edgar Hoover, the F.f3I.' chief, warned that
it would drive the Communist, movement
irndergronnd and,, make it more .difficult to
seo ure conviction of Red lawbreakers. Similar
views are held by n any members of the bar
and the bench.. President. Eisenhower is be-
lieved to disapprove the bill and his action
is awaited with interest, though his veto
at•ainat so overwhelming a Congressional
majority would he ,ineffective.
EDITORIAL NOTES
Those who have been wanting "some real
warm weather" before summer ended have
got their _wish this week.
41' as as a1'
rhe offices of the Sha.kespear•ian Festival
•at Stratford were 'raided 'over the week -end
'and $11,000 in' -dash and cheques taken. This
is rather'too Large a loss to be passed over
with.ethe Shakespearian philosophy that "who
steals my purse steals trash." The police
have been called in.
:dx'.
Before long we m•a,V have the answer to
the old conundrum: What ha.ppens when the
irresisti'b1,e,force meets the i'm-m'ovahle ohje•ct ?
Red China nays that' it will enforce its demand
for the ou=sting of. . the Nationalists, from
Formosa and the addition of theisland to
Chinese Communist territory.. The United
States declares that it will use its forces to
prevent any such thing.
•art ao •
Winghalrn is well pleased with its 75th
anniver dry eelehration:. Not only did the
ito:Wnspeopre and their vi tars have ."a good
t r~rt'e dr X� °t e eelebratiou, s t when expenses
and reeeipto were Counted up it wa4 found
there WAS a baavcie of 0.181:6 -to the good
After a .loan of $2,500 frotm. ,the Town Connell
had bee ro x F . The. *mgt nionep nia•kers,
ort of The Winghmn
vanot,,'tices held in the
NEWS OEM
ITALIAN MOUNTAIN
CLIMBERS SCALE
SECOND HIGHEST
PEAK
orf'na, which brought -in ,V,200.
as a1 ' ai e.
Referring' to the action of einploy▪ 'eets uf.
the LS. Studebaker, Corporation in accepting
a vitt in wages so that the company should he
able to tweet competition, arid applying this
to the eirimnistancesin which not' a few Can-
adian comp:anie,,, are finding their products
priced out of the market, The (-o'11ingwood
Enterprise -Bulletin observes:
Both labor and -industry must have some social
conscience in seeking a solution to°this vital prob-
lem. If they persist• in' spiralling costs ,and profits
upward they will only "cut their own 'throats" and
at the same: time drag Our entire economy-• into a
depression or recession; or whatever one- wants to
call a period of rising unemployment and falling
purchasing power. .
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The Fergus News:Record has jollied the
list of Ontario weeklies that have paed the.
century mark. However, the paper that Was`
first published on August 19th, 1854, was not
"11.14,3e News -Record, but The Fergus Freeholder,
Which sifter two changes in name assumed
its present title. That so many papers, in
Ontario are now reaching a venerable age
points to the fact that the pioneer stage—in
the 1 -ower part of the Province at least—has
now passed into history. But where else has
there .been such a transformation in little
more 'than a century as has occurred in Ovid
Ontario -,–fiord the track'le.ss wilderness to an
a'dvan'ced state of development in the arts.
and practices of 'civilization?
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YOU TAKE THE HIGH ROAD AND - I'LL TAKE THE LOW ROAD
IDown Memory's
Lane
40- Yep Ago-- ...r
The biggest boat to have come
into Goderich harbor for some
time, the steamer Martin Mullen,
425 feet long with -'23 hatches, ar-
rived with 235,000 bushels of
wheat. After unloading 170,000
bushels at the Big Mill, it cleared
for Port Colborne with 65,000
bushels.
J. W. Duncan, assistant superin-
tendent at Goderich for the Pru-
dential Life Assurance Co. for some
time,. had been transferred to St.
Marys. His successor here was J.
M. Stewart, 'sof Stratford, a Gode-
rich old boy,,
Members of the Rebekah Lodge
and their friends heldtheir annual
picnic • at Point Farre, with over
100 present., The band of the 33rd
Regiment provided musical `crit'er-
tainment.
25 Years Ago
Norman Lever, Provincial High-
way officer, of Clinton, was, found
seriously injured beneath his
motorcycle at Drysdale. It was
believed he struck loose gravel,
when his machine turned over.
First unit of the Western Flour
Mill Company's new boiler plant
had been bricked in and the coal
bunker was under construction.
Another unit was to be erected to
take the place of old boilers being
discarded. Stoking was ' to be
automatic when the new boilers.
were put in use.
Extensive alterations were being
made to Steel's 5 cents to $1 store
on the Square. Greater floor space`
was to have been provided with the
removal leadinge•,from the. first to
the second • floor.
The tugs Manistique and Smith
and dredge Isobel, of the 'C. S.
Boone Dredging and• Construction
CoMpany arrived in Goderich to
start on a project of deepening the
harbor basin.
"DO IT YOURSELF"
By Joseph Lister Rutledge
A magazine recently featured the
"do-it-yourself" trend. True, it
called the trend it was describing
"The New Billion -Dollar Hobby."
That hardly seemed to give the
figures presented the importance,
i to which they were entitled for,
"h0bb1 -crr-.°`.trend," they presented
a situation wortfiy of serious notice.
Let „us repdat a few of these
figures. "Last year," the article
said, "11 million .ainateur carpent-
ers worked on 500 million sq. ft.
of plywood with 25 million power
tools, burned enough electricity to
light a city the: size of Jacksonville,.
Fla.; for a year." That sounds
impressive, but no more so than
other figures: 75 per cent of all
the paint used in the U.S. was slap -
peed on by amateur decorators,
60 per cent of all the wallpaper
'bought and 50 per cent of the
asphalt tile laid was also used by
unprofessional hands.
The -magazine, article focussed on
the "hobby" angle. That's a mat-
ter of interest, but there are other
angles. The useful outlet -for en-
ergies that might, be less well em-
- 15 Years Ago
Warden Turner, Deputy Reeve
Brown and Councillor Huckins in-
spected the school for aircraft
mechanics and the technical school
at Galt, eaacompanying a group of
`rpunicipal and business represent-
atives from Stratford.
Goderich Lions juveniles elimin-
ated Exeter Juveniles in the semi-
finals of the Huron -Perth baseball
league, winning by an 8-6 margin,
but .lost out in the first game of the
finals to Clinton by a score of 6.5.
Town Council passed a by-law for
the licensing of taxicabs.. The
by -lane provided that licenses were
to be issued only to persons 21
yearn of age and over who owned
the car for which the license was
required. Annual fee was $25 for
one vehicle and $5. for each ad-
ditional vehicle. -
10 Years Ago
A welcome, drop in temperature,
some rain and a fresh north-north-
west breeze brought a' prolonged
heat wave to an end and relief to
sweltering citizens. At one stage
of the heat wave the mercury hit
a sizzling 97 degrees.- Lawns
flowers,. pasture and' late crops suf-
fered from the drought and it was
feared •the bean crop yield in
south Huron would • be cut in two. '
At the close of a Service at the
Free Methodist Church in Gode-
rich, members and friends present-
ed a purse of money to the pastor,
Rev. G. W. Freeman, who was
leaving to accpet a charge at
Tillsonlburg.
Demand ,for labor on Huron
County farms was apparently
slackening off, with most of the
crop in, and threshing in full
swing. At the Selective Service
office, on West street, more than
40 farmhands had made, .applica-
tion to go West on harvest ex-
cursions.
ADS ARE NEWS
(Wingham Advance -Times)
One of the aspects of local ad-
vertising which we think has been
overlooked this modern day, is the
fact that advertisements are news.
And if written in the proper way,
they can be as interesting as news.
In the old days when a merchant
received a new stock of goods, the
first thing he did was to place an
ad in the local paper informing his
customers of the fact. It was a
matter of' common courtesy" to the
customers, and otherwise, he rea-
soned, how would they know that
he had the goods for sale? Custom-
ers, conversely, watched the ads
carefully to ,see what was new in
their local- stores. Most merchants
in those days ran a 'weekly ad' just
to keep their customers informed,
and those who did not were re-
garded, and quite rightly, -as poor
merchandisers, who were not very
likely to succeed.
Although times have etffnged,
it's still a good idea to keep the
news angle in mind when writing.
an ad. If you have something new
or novel , or of particularly good
value, it's news that:your customers
will want to hear. And news that
you can convey easily, quieklYtand
cheaply through the medium of
your Local newspaper,
At the time of the 1951 census
there were 6,587 .Eskimos living in
the Northwest -Territories, 1,789 in
Quebec and 847 in Labrador.
ployed; the relief -offered from one'
of the worst aspects of the stupid
belief that a man becomes useless
on passing an age deadline and
must be retired with nothing to
do; or the new employment offered
by• the production of hundreds of
millions of dollars worth of tools ,
for amateur workers. All this is
on the credit side.
But it isn't all credit, not from
the angle of the organized worker
at least. After all, 400 million gal-
lons of paint splashed on by en-
thusiastic amateurs—to say noth-1
ing of 150 million rolls of wall-
paper and 500 million square feet
of plywood and all the asphalt tile
used by similarly non-professional
workers—isn't a laughing matter.l
It represents from 50 to 75 per
cent of the total of such commod-
ities used in the United States last
year. So that percentage of the
potential business of the workers
who employ' these materials in
earning a ° living was ";lost to `them.
There is nothing you can do
about hobbies, of course. People
have a . right to them. But who.
makes a real hobby of paper hang-
ing, or house painting? The truth
EXIUITI'ON.
AUGUST 27;•TO SEPTEMBER 11
FARE AND ONE-HALF
FO0. THE
ROUND TRIP
Good going Thurs., August 26 to
Saturday, September 11, inclusive.
Return limit September 1`5:
Full information from any agent r
1
of the matter is ;that very few
people would paper or paint their
own homes from preference, if they
could get it done by experts at a
price that they felt was reasonable.
This whole hobby business might
suggest that the worker is slowly
pricing himself out of his own
market by.rdemanding too much for
doing too little. It doesn't suggest
that the work isn't there. It isn't
there, at the price. • So the paper
hanger too has to find a hobby to
fill 'more unemployed time. So he
buys a power saw and some ply-
wood
lywood and gets to work fixing up
the ' attic. "Do it. Yourself" has
a lot of angles. •
Teacher --"What have the . vari-
ous expeditions to the North Pole
accomplished?"
Jimmy—"Nothin' 'cept to ma
the geography lessons harder."
ak&it
real meal. ..
just serve Ica
Steaks, chops, spare ribs, glorified by charcoal
dishes seasoned to perfection .•.. and ice-cold Coca-Cola—
Ah, there's a meal! The frosty goodness of Coke
points up the taste of food.
WARNING: Better have plenty of everything good g,
including Coke! Handy cartons make it so easy.
LAKEVIEW CASINO
GRAND BEND
DANCING ` EVERY NIGHT!
Monday thro',, Friday 9.30 to T2.30
Saturdays 9 to 12
sivik Neil McKay's
All-Star Orchestra
ONLY TWO MORE WEEKS TO ENJOY THts
OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRA
(Midnite Dance Labor Day Weekend)"
SUNDAY 'EVE =CONCERT • AUGUST 29th
THE LISTOWEL BRASS BAND
HEAR THIS FAMOUS BANDI
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GODERICH BOTT LNG WORKS
Phone 489
' "Coke" iso reght.eied trade marts
Goderich
inrlir& fedeiii rates'
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