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ON THE SQV4RE. .0..
AND: ... HERE AND THERE
opi o' the marnin' to ye,
even if ydu have no niore eon-
neetion with the °lad sod than
to be holding a ticket. on the
forthcoming Irish sweepstakes.
,,After a long period of founda-
tion construction work, the super
structure of the new 'Court House
seems to be shooting up rapittly
these days. One can readily vis-
ualize even now what a beautiful
building it will be. Said one
merchant: "It's sure going to make
the stores around the Square look
old fashioned by comparison."
Then there's the definition 4
of a small town: A place
where everybody, knows what
everyone else is doing, but
still reads the local paper to
see ,If they've beaia c41-1S.11t
it.
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With, only 50 purchased so far,
Town Clerk S. H. Blake -is expect-
ing a stampede for 1955 hisycle.
licenses any day now. This year
the license plates are plastic in-
stead of metal.
Visiting the Signal -Star of-
fice on Wednesday and .pur-
chasing a map of Goderich was
a man who said he was with a
finance company: "You mean
loaning moneyto people," we
asked? "Yes," he assured us,
"there's • lots of people who
want to borrow money." But
he was gone before we had a
chance to ask more questions.
Struck us as a bit odd that a
finance company would have,
to have a salesman calling on
people tosee if they wanted to
borrow money. We thought
the flow of traffic the other
way ,would be strong enough
without any solicitalton.
Has your organization ever had
the misfortune to select a date
far some future event" only to
learn too late that another organiz-
ation hadselected the same date
for sone event?' As a result, both
organizations suffered in public
Patronage because most -people
don't attend two different ,affairs'
on the same evening.
This confliction of dates for
' coming events 'has' been the
unnecessary cause of partial
-la failures of some 'events staged
by some organizations. Thare
why the SignekStar is keeping
a Coming Events book "Ts
public service. • It's a free
service and one whichyour
organization can use to advant-
age. Evidence that it will be
popular is seen in the increas-
ing number of people who
phone in to the Signal -Star to
make use of it.
What is it, you ask? Merely
the writing down of all future
events so that a complete record
may beeon hand for reference pure
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' poses. Even though your coming
event may be as far away as; one,
two or more months, phone in to
the Signal -Star NOW the date on,
which it is to be held. - This ,date
will :then • be placed on record.
When others •phone in to inquire
a• whether there is anything going on
• in Goderich as far away as, say
May 2nd, a glance at the Signal.
Star Coming Events book will pro-
vide the answer for the inquirer.
e A confliction 'of dates can
be avoided if organizations
keep the Signal -Star posted—
well in advance—on their com-
ing events. Phone in the date
of your coming event now. -
Or; if you are planning some-
thing, phone in to learn what
other events are already sehe-
duled for the- date you' are.
considering.
"Diary of a School Teacher" is
the subject of a boole'reeently sent
to us from Progress Publishing
Company, Bathurst street, Toronto.
The book was published the middle
of gglik,u ar y . A notation inside
the front cover reads: "For 'review.
Copies of reviews will be appreci-
ated." iThe author is F. Vigdorova.
The book was translated from the
Russian by Rose Prokofieva and
was originally published • by
"Foreign Languages Publishing
House i Moscow, 1954." Contents
appear to be a simple narrative
with a young Russian girl teacher
telling of her • experiences 'in a
Russiari school. Maybe it's -for the,
purposerof disseminating through
the weekly press the story of home,
and school life in Russia theeway
the writer Would wig' other people
to know it.
But we'll forget Russia just
for today — because todaY,
March 17th — belongs to the
Irish kand, 'this colunin extends
to you • . • v.. ,
108th Year—No. 11
GODERICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 17th, 1955
Subscription t NateN" • Single Copies 'lie
Would Discuss
Indigent Form
Willingness to meet with repre-
sentatives of the four other hos-
pitals in the county to discuss a
County Council proposal on an in-
digent patient form was expressed
by Alexandra Marine and General
Hospital Board at its March meet-
ing on Monday night.
The board received a letter from
County Clerk A. H. ErSkine con-
taining a draft of the proposed
form. The County is asking that
indigents be asked to sign the form
on their admittanceeinto hospitals
in the county. „
Signing of the form would allow
the welfare officer or clerk of the
municipality to inspect or have
access to any account held by the
patients in any bank, trust corn -
or other financial institution.
The indigent patients would also
agree not to sell, transfer or dis-
pose of any assets during their'stay
in hospital, except for 'payment of
hospital accounts.
The local board referred the
letter to its executive' committee
and instructed Secretary C. F.
Chapman to advise ,the County
Clerk that the board would send
delegates to a meeting of repre-
sentatives of the five hospitals in
the county.
37 Chronics
Miss Hilda Smith, hospital super-
intendent, told the board that the
hospital now had 3'7 chronic , pot-
ietts, which is excessive in propor-
tion to the number of beds at the
'hospital.
The' board decided to hold, an
annual revision of salaries at the
May meeting.
An executive cominittee recom-
mendation was adapted that priv-
ate duty nurses would be permitted
to perform duties at the hospital.
in any capacity, provided they con-
form to regulations as laid down
'for the hospital staff for nursing
practice, including throat swabs.
The committee also recommend-
ed and the board agreed that in
the event of an emergency, sue as
an outbreak of communicable dis-
eases, the Director of Huron Coun-
ty Health' Services woulel be re-
quested to establish a ruling for
the hospital and advise the board
'of the ruling.
R. C. Hays, chairman'ef the plan-
ning corrunittee, reported that
plans for the new wing had been
submitted by the architect to the
Department of Health but no word
had been received from the de-
partment.
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WALTER HENRY
one of Gederich's oldest aeSidents,
who will celebrate his 97th birth -
'day On Wednesdays March 23. An
active motorcyclist up until about
10 years ago, Mr. Henry is. well-
known in Goderich. He is still in
fairly good health, although he has
been a patient in Alexandra Marine
and General Hospital for almost a
year. ,
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Deficit Seen'
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'Rather than get a rebate from
the Ontario. Hydro -Electric Power
Commission this °year, Goderich
Public Utilities will . have to pay
off close to a $2,000 deficit.
Elmer Weaver, manager of the
local PIJC, . said this week that
from the IIEPC- giving the adjust- ' .
notification had been received ' Colorful Bargain Days Here
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merit for the cost of power sup-,
plied to Goderich in 1954. ' ', , .
According to the notification, ' ' By Merchants, 'April 28-30
Part of the large attendance Of Goderich merchants at a meeting in
'the council chambers of the Town Hall on Monday evening is shown
above. A Goderich Retail Merchants' Association—the first in many
Years—was 'formed and a subsequent meeting is to be held in the near
future. Annual membership , fee was set at five dollars. Among
questions discussed were Saturday night closing, holding of Goderich
!BargainDays, having a. central,credit bureau,, etc. , Enthusiastic inter-
est on the part of the merchants indicates an. aggressive and co-opera-
tive merchants' association for Goderich in the immediate future to
'cope with the changing times'. (Signal Star Photo by Henry)
power bought from the HEPC cost
the local commission $147,240.40.
Payments to the HEPC during the
year totalled $145,297.32 leaving a
balance of '$1,943.08 to be paid.
Added to the balance was four per
cent interest, $14.48 leaving a net
deficit of $1,057.56 to be paid to
the HEPC by the ,Goderich PU,C.
Two weeks ago, when Hydro
General Manager A. W. Manby an-
nounced in Toronto that about 300
of the 336 municipalities which buy
power from the ISEPC would re-
ceive rebates on 1954 operations,
Mr. Weaver. expressed doubt that
Goderich would be one of the ones
on the receiving end.
• He .said at that time that Gode-
rich would have to pay its share
of the rebuilding of a high tens-
ion line from Seaforth to Goderich.
In additiori, he •noted that the local
PUC was still paying off its share
of the hydro conversion from 25
When the last three days. of
April roll around—that is April
28, 29 and 30, Goderich merchants
will, be staging "bargain days."
This was decided upon at a -meet-
ing of the newly organized Gode-
rich Retail Merchants' Association
Monday evening.
•. Remember the old "dollar days"
'cif pre-war times? The days com-
ing up are first cousins to those
, "dollar days" and the bargains of-
fered will be worth coming 'a long
distance to get. There is almost
. a. month and a -half between now
and the bargain days in . which
time the merchants,will be laying
, in a store of very extra buys for
the very special occasion.
Thousands of special issues of
the Signal -Star will be printed and
distributed ,to a widespread see-
tibn of Western and central parts
of Huron County, on the week of
the event., ,These special issues
will carry outstanding offerings of
Goderich merchants for the special
eaccasion. Watch for them. You'll
save plenty on these buys and you
can assure your friends at a dis-
tance that the buys will be worth
corning many miles to get.
Gaily decoratedipennants will
adorn the windows -of those Mer-
chants taking part in the event
and having a message in the spec-
ial issue to be phialished the latter
part or April. ,
Former Huron County Clerk,
to 60 cycle power Registrar J. M. Roberts Dies
Await Estimates
To Set Mill Rate
Town Council tomorrow night
will likely set a date for a special
meeting to consider estimates for
this year, Town Clerk -Treasurer
S. H. Blake said yesterday.
' Only group which has not sent
council its estimates is Goderich
District Collegiate Institute Board.
Estimates have been received from
the Public School Board, and the
Separate School . Board usually
adopts the mill rate.
Estimates have been received
also from the Maitland Cemetery
Board and the Pablicee, Library
Board.
Mr. Blake, said it was not pos-
sible to predict, whether council
would be able to maintain the
Same rate as the past three years
—57 mills.
Salary Schedule Increased
For Public School Teachers
Increases Of $200 per year in
the salary schedule of Goderich
Public School teachers was granted
by the Public School Board at its
regular meeting last week.
The increases will be effective
September 1 'and until the maxi-
mpm salary is' reached,
$10,000 Boost
Estimates for this year approved
by the board show a request for a
town levy of $ ,000—an increase
of ,$10,000 over last year's levy:
• School Trustee Don Aberhart,
chairman ,of the board's school
management committee, told the
board that the Committee had met
With the teacher -board relations
committee to discuss teachers sal-
aries.
The teacher -board committee re-
quested the meeting alter the
board had decided at its February
meeting to grant an annual iliac-
noent of $100 effective September
1. Members Of the staff told ',the
board they were not satisfied with
that decision.
..' At the _february meeting -alio,
the board increased the maximum
salary from. $2,900 to $3,200. NO
change was made in the minimum
salary of $2,100. Teachers had
requested it be increased to $2,400,
They also had asked for a $200
• increase effective in January of
p 1010.0 ,inerease op-
•thidat)(111 and
Theboard granted increases of ferred-ta the schoo management
attig-000000 • Per,,-37tat effe4tive September omit/matte ,
1, in the salaries of Principal' H.
M. Shackleton and Assistant Prin-
CiPal M.' H. Stephens.
The estinfastes show that the
board this year is budgeting for
receipts- and expenditures totalling
$122,549.
Largest 'ReCbipt
The town levy df $86,000 would
be the largest single receipt, based
on an assessment of $6,226,404.
,Other receipts include provincial
grants of $31,000 and other rev-
enue totalling $200. Balance on
hand at the completion of opera-
tions last year was $5,340.
Largest • single expenditure will
be $73,700 for teachers' salaries,
including the increase for the last
four months of this year and $3,200
for accumulative sick leave plan.
Plant operation and maintenance
is expected to cost $19,200. De-
beInture payments are slated to
amount to $21,641.
/Another decision d made by the
board at last week's Meeting* Was
that teachers who,have completed
40 years of teaching or have reach-
ed the age of 65 as of September 1
would be notified that their ser -
Vices` would terminate June 30.
The board#,was prepared to discuss
with thein the manner in which
they,Wighed to "draw their -accumu-
lative sick leave benefits.
Four applications were received.
from prospective teachers and re -
Huron County Registrar of Deeds
for the past -nine years, a former
County Clerk, and a leader ie" the
establishing of Sky Harbor airport,
J. M. Roberts died suddenly in
Alexandra Marine "and General
Hospital on Tuesday night follow-
ing a seizure. He was 63.
Born in Dungannon, John Mac-
Donald Roberts was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Roberts.
, A veteran Of both world wars,
he saw active service as an officer
with an 'artillery, unit of the CEF
in France during the first pasrt ef
the --Fieste-Weelel---War, later trans?
ferring tri the Royal Flying Corps.
In the Second World War, he en-
listed in 1940 and served at Lon-
don and other points, being dis-
charged at the end of the war
with the rank of Wing Commander.
. Honored By King
For his war service, Mr. Roberts
was made a Member of the British
Empire by the late King George
VI in the Christina§ list of 1945.,
A ,flying enthusiast, he played a
'leading role in the establishment
and maintenance of Sky Harbor
airport and was the mainspring in
efforts which succeeded in con-
vincing the Government to estab-
lish a base at the airport to teach
pilots under the 'Empire training
scheme.
Following the First World War
he served with the Union Bank in
Eastern Canada and Eastern On-
tario.
POLt'iner Clerk
He served as County Clerk from •
1934 to 1940 and was named Cqu,n-
ty Registrar of Deeds in December,
1945, assuming the position in
January, 1946.
He was a member of St. George's
Anglican Church.
Besides his wife, he is survived
by one son, Flying. Officer James
Roberts, of Moose Jaw, Sask., at
present in Goderich; and one
sister, Miss Edith Roberts, of Gorle-
rich.
The body will rest at the Lodge
funeral home until Friday when
the funeral service will becon-
ducted in St. 6-eorgets Church by
Rev. 'Dr. IC. 1. Tayllbr. Interment
will take place in Maitland ,ceme-
tery.
SWALLOWS GLASS
Vicki Needham, two-year-old
daughter of Mr. and . Mrs.
Robert , Needham, Britannia
441, swallowed the eye from
her teddy oar oh Tuesday:
ntislied to„Alexandra hospital,
.s1i •wa then taken to,,vhr,
, .monoti• pildrereVIroVAtali
London, Lor medical attentiOui
• J. M. ROBERTS
Registrar of Deeds for Huron
Cou,ntY, who died Tuesday night.
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Boat In Ice;
Men Marooned
A fishing boat with three
Goderich men on board was
stuck in the ice off Bluewater
Beach late yesterday afternoon
and indications were that re-
scuers would not he able to
reach them until this morning.
On the boat are -Mack Mac-
Donald, the owner; his son,
Norman, and Clayton Weston,
all of Goderich.
Bert MacDonald, brother or
Mack, said two of the men
had attempted to walk ashore
on the ice, buteturned back -to
the boat. • He said that they
had no food on the boat, al-
though they had heat. At-
tempts were being made to
drop food supplies from a
plane.
The men were laying nets
when a change in wind caused
the ice to jam around the boat.
Another fisherman, Ab Leon-
ard, was closer to Goderich
and managed to reach port in
his boat.
One of Bert MacDonald's
boats started to the rescue,
but got only as far as the
breakwalls before the heavy
ice forced them to come beck
into the harbor.
Course Is Planned
For Huron Scouts
Goderich will be host to more
than 30 Boy Scouts on March 25
and 26 when a Junior Leaders
Training Course for Bronze Arrow-
head awards will be held at Knox
Church
Goderieh Scoutmaster Glen
Lodge said that Boy Scouts are ex-
pected to attend from Goderich,,L
Ailsa Craig, Seaforth, BIyth, Ex-
eter, Lucan, Clinton and Centralia
RCAF Stations and Clinton
The course will open at 7 p.m.
Friday a.nd Close at 5 p.m. on
Saturday.
Included in the program will be'
demonstrations en the Scout Law,
signalling, 'Court of Honor, knot-
ting, mapping and ramping.
Heading the course will be As-
sistant District Commissioner Stan
Carroll, Centralia RCAF. On Sat-
urday afternoon ap address will
be given by Huron District Com-
missioner L. G. Winter, Clinton.
Later this year, an outdoor camp
will be held when Boy Scouts will
have the opportunity to win their
Silver Arrowheads.
Survey' is: PIarin�dRe
Saturday :Night Ci�sin
• More than 35 Goderich merchants crowded intwarthe
council chambers at the Town Hall on Monday evening and
after discussing a number of current retailing problems, they
, voted unanimously to form a Goderich Retail Merchants'
Association ----the first of its kind here in many years. The
new organization will deal with those problems which the
Goderich Board of Trade (non-existent for the past seven
years) dealt with, as well as new ones created by the changing.
times. •
Officers Appointed
Chairman of the new organiz-
ation is- Bill Wilson, proprietor of
Tots and Teens Shop, while Edgar
Pridham, of Pridham's Men's Wear,
is secretary and A. Waters, new
manager of the Canadian Bank of
Commerce, is :treasurer. The ex-
ecutive board is composed of:
George Schaefer, Frank Skelton,
Bryan Ainslie, John Marriott and
Ernie Breckenridge.
First item up for discussion was
the matter of whether to close the
stores on Saturday nights and, re-
main ,open on Friday nights in-
stead, such as is being done in
many Ontario municipalities to-
day, After considerable discus-
sion, a committee was appointed to
"find out definitely and not to
guess what other towns are doing
re Saturday night closing." Con-
tact will -be made by the committee
with numerous towns such as
Lucknow, Seaforth, Hensel', Clin-
ton, Blyth, Wingham, Kincardine,
Exeter, etc., and „the following
towns which have adopted Satur-
day night store closing for some
time now — Collingwood, Mitchell
and St. Marys.
This committee — composed of..
Frank Hibbert, Edgar Pridbam,
Bill Wilson and Bryan
to report back to another general
meeting to be held in the near
future.
Straw Vote _Favors.
In order to get the opinion of
those present as to how they feel
about Saturday night closing, a
straw Vote, was taken with the re-
sult that twcathirds` of them voted
in favor of Saturday night closing.
It was pointed out' that this was
no official decision whatever but
merely a means'of determining how
those merchants present felt about
it.
It was stated that since the
banks closed on Saturdays the day
was not the business day it once
was. Mr. "Nip" Whetstone who
recently returned from a ,conven-
tion of Canadian Tire Corporation
associate dealers reported that of ,
160 dealers of that organization
throughout Ontario only eight of
them still remained open on Sat-
urday nights.
Mr. Frank Hibbert pointed but
that considerable effort and ex-
pense had been expended an the
past ineme.king Goderich a tourist
town. Closing on Saturday nights
would affect tdurist trade, he be-
lieved. Mr. "Mel", Culbert and
George Filsinger shared this view-
point.
' Mrs. Frank Reid and Mr. and
Mrs. Eric Johnstone attended the
Higrdressers'. Convention at the
Royal York Hotel, Toronto, this
week,,
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Second item up for discuealon
was the holding of Goderich. Bar-
gain days with the dateeleatative-
ly set for April 28, 29 and SO.
These would be in -the nature of
the dollar days of pre-war times.
The meeting voted in favor of
staging these days in which the •
merchants would offer unusually
outstanding bargains for a period
of three days.
-"Independent retail stores must
keep a closer check on their charge
accounts if they want to stay in
business," said one merchant a
the subject of the establishment
of a credit bureau was discussed.
One merchant told of a budget
system employed by many stores
now and which he felt would' be
one day widely used in Goderich.
The system calls for a charge to
be allowed for 30 days after whiela
it goes on a budget system with
definite interest added after the
30 day period. Mr. Dan O'Brien,
who stated he believed he had
been in business in Goderieh long-
er than any other merchant still
actively at work in the business,
told of a system once used effec-
tively by Goderieh merchants,
Each 'merchant gave ta a cent%)
source the names of their cu(sunn-
ers from whom it was difficult te,
collect an account. After a per-
son's name an X was placed -for
every acconntsheehad with valleys
merchants which the maerchanis
found difficult to .collect. In this
way, the irresponsible credit seek-
er was checked. Other ideas On
credit were also offered and it was
generally agreed that the time had
come when steps should be taken
to check up on irresponsible credit
seekers.
Annual Fee
An initial fee of $5 per year has
been set for Me.mbership in the
Goderich Retail Merchants' Associ-
ation and this will be collectedin
the near future from the various
members.
Some dismission took place as to
the lack of uniformity in store dos
ing hours on certain holidays: It
was 'decided to leave this matter
over for discussion at the next
meeting.
Mr. "Cec" Hoffman, who was
chairman of the meeting, spoke 'ail
two- businesses being operated
from homes in Goderich which
came under the category of „meet
order businesses and he also re-
'ferred to house to house caravan-
ing. Another merchant spoke of
door to door peddling of food by
an out-of-town man who, he be
lieved, held no license to do so,
These and other,practices are slot
ed for investigation by the newly
formed Retail :Vferchante Associ-
ation,
Detroiter Urges Memorial
Fund Honoring Miss Sharman
A Detroit lady, who was a pupil
of the late Miss Isabel Sharman
46 years ago, ,has started a Mem-
orial Fund to provide eventually
for some need in Goderich's pro-
posed tiewijpspital.
Violet Mrtin, 14682 mayfield,
Detroit, recently wrote a rette'r to
Mr. Cockburn Hays, who turned it
overto the Alexandra Marine' and
General Hospital --board meeting
Monday night. The letter read es
foTiows
Suggests Contribution
'May I make a suggestion? In
the Signal -Star of February 17, It.
read the article about the nee4
for a new hospital in Goderieh
heartily agree it IS needed) am
the passing of Isabel Sharmap,
'May I suggest that each pupil
Miss Sharman's, down through the
Years, contribute one dollar each
to a Melnorial Fund—to be used
somewhere In the new hospital
Miss Sharman taught me some 46
year ago, so 1 enclose the .firea
dollar in her memory. May yoir
soon have the hospital you -need ”
The Signal -Star takes pleasure
in reproducing the letter above
and heartily joins in the suggs-
tion that all former pupils of Misr
Sharman each donate one dollar
to provide some sort ,of memorial
for the well-known teacher in the
proposed new hospital. The hos-
pital board has informed the Sig
nal -Star that all such donations
Can be forwarded to Mr. W. V.
Saunders, business manager of the
hospital, who will set" up a Mem-
oriai Ptind for the late Miss Shar.,
an. •
If everi former pupil 0! Miss,
'Sharman hem: van one,„ dollar -the •
gum -4001d run into well over
$1,500. .'-•Iclowever, many former,
pupils of the' teacher lire; now
living In all . parts of the wrid
and may neva 'hear of the,:/0
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