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THURSDAY, MARCH 31st, 1955
.Easter rv,2
In the Cross of Christ 1glory,
Towering o'er the wrecks of time;
Ali the light of sacred story
Gathers round its head sublime.
When the woes of life o'ertake me,
Hopes deceive and fears annoy,
Never shall the Cross forsake me;
Lo! it glows with peace and joy.
When the sun of bliss is beaming
Light and love upon my way,
]Froin the Cross the radiance streaming
Adds more lustre to the day.
Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure,
By the. Cross are sanctified;
Peace is there that knows no measure,
Joys that through all, time abide.
In the Cross of Christ I glory,
Towering o'er the wrecks of tittle;
All the light of sacred story •
Gathers round its head sublime.
--John Bowring.
HE SERVED GODERICH WELL
In a brief news despatch in one of .the
Toronto papers it was stated 'that Mr, J. B.
Kelly "died almost unknown" outside his home
tel n..• When a man lives quietly for a quarter-
: century past the retirement age his name roes
riot appear frequently in the public prints, but
JtlIir
Kelly was known and we are sure° is
remembered by many beyond the bounds of
eederieh. He was one of the pioneers of the
Ontario Hydro system and was signally Hon-
ored as such by the official heads • of the
-system some years ago. ..As a mechanical and
electrical engineer he was a genius and in his
day he solved anany a difficult problem in the
service of his town. However, he was not a
publicity-seeker; like other big men, he .was
content. that his deeds should speak for them-
selves.
THE SIGNAL -STAR WAS RIGHT 45,
When The Signal -Star questioned Premier
,'s: statement giving Hon. George. Henry
eteditfor the beginning orf Ontario's modern
ilsihway system and recalled a Meeting''• at
liteaesetung Park in (or about) 1921 at. which
Mr. Drury, then Premier of Ontario, announced
• hi Government's plans for highway construe-.
g t , The Fergus News -Record made the f ol-
vi g comment :
"Of course Premier Frost is wrong and The
lerich Sigii.al-Star is at least mostly right.
WEEK -END
,•- The Financial Post 'returns to the subject
ef Monday holidays when national anniver-
sraries, fall on other days of the ' week;• so that
ire tied business man may enjoy the long
week -ends.
If these long week -ends are so importarin,
irhy not have .one, say, once a. month, whether
' ; ' '',,,Prsary or not, and then
Anybody who knows the history of roads in
Ontario knows that Hort F. C. Biggs, Minister
of Highways in the Drury Government, started
the great program of paved highways. Before
his time in office, only the Lakeshore highway
between Toronto and Hamilton was paved.
By 1923, other roads radiating from those two
cities were paved. When the Drury Govern-
ment was defeated in 1923, a large start had
been , nade toward our present system. Hon.
Geort; Henry- came much later."
HOLIDAYS
celebrate these national days on their proper
` days . as they come along.
Not everybody wants to go off" on a week-
end trip and risk the dangers of , holiday
traffic, and there are many who believe that
national sentiment should be built•up by stay-
ing at home on national anniversaries and
:taking part in appropriate celebrations.
EDITORI., L-14.0 T ES
Ontario is said to have about 673,000
'television sets. Figures are lacking as: to how
sny were working after last s'eek's storms.
vr'he. l3r•itish. newspapers have decided that
Winston Churchill is to' retire in April.
Winstnrl has not said anything about it,
404. . it .must he 00 t.c.l hive your 111001 rnade2 01)
for you on,.so important a matter.•
Experts in the texItile industry- say that
fibey perfected a process which .will spin
yarn so tough 1 hi'it clothes made from it will
hurt a lifetime. " We'll believe that ' rn when
1a►'e wear it," is Vile comment of The Kingston
i'hig-Standard,
44' as , 0
The Kinc.<ardine News reports a brisk
• errand for tourist folders issued by the
.ahamnber of Commerce of that town at the
.inadjan, Sportsmen's Show in Toronto, We
not hear that any tourist literature is being
Bent out by Cloderich.
,lk
The Ontario Legislature i'i expected to
• a nclu•de its session this week and not to meet
argain t rail after an election. Premier .Frost
ii �c�i'keeping his plans a 'secret, but the politically
-wise are hinting that the electors will go to
the palls on soane day in June.
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A good-sized item for snowplowing will
tkb arno;nrg the expenditures of many munici-
gallities this year. In some towns—and cities,
goo, "we believe --=the roads and sidewalks are
' eleared so promptly and well as they are
sisrao erieh, ..but it is a service for which the
e t ze s tat "'willing to pay:
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ft e s.'to, he risky even to guess at the
r two .,days... abead;,.,but at time of writ-
. ook • as its -the Mar`rh lion has at last
and after a` couple, of lusty 'roars to
e rhrs ;de, titre has left °the rrerm .ining'
the,,.none• to the entI. i.** of the
if h' I t the thresh old, surly, e
te' i8v s sipi4ng in ettrikest. But we
w
e date
'much speculation' as to its Econtents. It is not
an election year . for the . Federal House, so
there w'il•1 be no handouts like those announced
.in the Legislature. It will be' Mr. Harris'
first effort in charge of finance and, it may be
expected to give some indication of his. way
of thinking on the subjeet of rational econ-
omics. •
Canada's Minister of ;Justice is not super
stitiou,s. In the House of, Commons a few
days a •o it was announeee1 that the. revised
('riniin{tl Code, upon Ivhieh Mr. Garson had
spew '0 great depl of time and thought, would
eorne into MINA 00'the first day of April. Mr.
Fulton, a rnenrller from Jiritish,Columhia,,sug-
gestell making the`ef•fective day either Mareh
31 or April 2, "in order to avoid what otfler's
might say wits an inifortuiiate coincidence with
April 1." Mr. Garson replied briefly that the
day would not be changed. And if anybody
thinks that Canada's Criminal Code is an
April lst joke he would better not run up
against it.
A debate on unemployment has been run-
ning in the Ottawa House for weeks. It is not
Continuous performance, 'but is adjourned
from day to day as other matters demand
attention. It had been running, off and on,
.for several days, and quite a number of mem-
hers had sharpened their tongues on it3 when
Donald Fleming, P.C..memiber for one of the
Toronto seats, took his turn at it. He said
that as the debate had been running for some
time, he did not pretend that he could. "intro,
duee new ,considerations rtito. 1t." However;
Ohe went on far more' than five double -column
pages of Hansard (which we. did not read)
and left the srbjeet, almost exhausted, to the
attention of other Members.. This was about
ten day's ago pad we .believe .the end is not
yet, though by this title :only the bare " bones
can be. left. previous;: sessions it—was
elase race Itiet^sweeti; Mr 4010 -nine' and Mr.'
Icnowies (: 1'.) 011~ 'hirii'peg 'as to which
was the moat. verbose of the 206 members ciff.
the Oomm +ns. ,, ' ' e " 111th ° �,
peg' addeniaiE�e� 3s stil,�"
in the woo, t see arts to have gi'v tp the
-lt
race, ;lea e ooh ' tie slid iOted
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INSPECTION
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Down Memory's
Late
45 Years Ago
Plans were being made to start
construction of telephone lines to
Auburn, Dungannon, ` Benmiller,
„Kintail and other points. Rural
telephones. had been extended
quite rapidly throughout Huron
County and the townships of Col-
borne, Ashfield and Wawanosh
were almost the last to be effec-
tively served.
A vicious dog and an angry man
were principals in a police court
case in Goderich. The dog, it was
said, had been made • i-ll-rtempered
by the teasing of mischievous boys,
and on one occasion the man in
the court case had been bitten by
the animal when passing the own-
er's house. He returned with a
revolver to finish off the dog, but
the owner's daughter,, shielded the
animal. The man was hailed into
court charged with unlawful use
of a 'firearm. The ,4nagistrate set-
tled the case by confiscating the
revolver.
Work had been started on the
redecorating of St. Peter's Church,
which had been damaged by fire.
It was expected the work would
take about two months to com-
plete. The 'organ, badly damaged
by 'heat, was being replaced.
25 Years Ago
The 13th, or adjusting, bill from
the Hydro -Electric • Power Commis-
sion had been received by Gode-
rich Water and Light Commission
and showed that ;hydro operation
in Goderich in 1929 had a surplus
of $1,391.49. The previous year
there had been a deficit of
$2,512.26.
Two rare steel engravings were
' "':-play in Gaderich. One show-
ed the coronation of Queen Vic-
toria and the other showed Gen.
Lord Cardigan leading the Light
Brigade against Russian forces.
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Town Council set estimatedre-
ceipts and expenditures for 1930
at $181,338.73. The tax• rate was
made up as follows: Collegiate,
61/2 mills, Public School, 9 mills;
,Separate School, 10 mills; General,'
331/g mills.
15 Years Ago
L. E. Cardiff was elected North
Huron representative in the House
of Commons in his first bid for
Parliamentary honors., defeating
the Liberal candidate, 'R.; J. Death -
man. .
C. A. Robertson, Liberal Member
of the Ontario Legislature for
Huron -Bruce, died -,at his home in
Colborne Township after several
years of failing health. He had
served as Reeve and councillor in
Colborne Township and had been
Warden of Huron ,County in 1925,
having been first elected to the
Legislature the following year.
Goderichites eiperienced the
'snowiest, stormiest, coldest Easter
week -end in several years. Except
for railway transportation, the
town was practically isolated from
the outside world. Automobiles
were of little use, as plowed roads
filled in almost as rapidly as they
were plowed_ out. Cars were
abandoned oaf roads all' over the
district. No. 21 HighWay was
blocked Borth and south from
Goderich and •kliere was only single
track passage on No. 8 Highway
from Goderich to Stratford.
10 Years Ago
T. G.- Jones, of Fart William,
had been engaged as organist and
choirmaster of Knox Presbyterian
Church.
The Imperial Oil 'tanker Simcoe-
lite, from Sarnia, was the first ship
to arrive in Goderich .harbor in
1945, coming into port on March
28, the same date on which. the
shipping season was opened in the
allpaper
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ril 1 to 30
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ft1O EXCHANGES OR REFUNDS.
'1'HB SQUARE
previous year. Harbormaster Nor -
roan McKay presented Capt. D.
Milne with a traditional silk hat.
Organization Of the eighth vic-
-+tory loan campaign was well-under-
way.
ellunderway. Rev, W. A. Beecroft, Wing -
ham, was general chairman.
Unofficial figures, based on 1941
age -group ratios, indicated that
under the Family Allowances Act
there would be a monthly dis-
tribution among Huron -County
families of $67,816.
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„ BRIDGE SCORES
At the weekly Duplicate Bridge
played on Monday night, the win-
ners were; Mr. and Mrs. F. Noble,.
72' points; Mrs. A. A. Nicol and
'Mrs. F. Saunders, 68 points; .Mrs.
T. Donnelly and `Mrs. J. D. Mc-
Leod, 64 points; Mrs. G. Paterson
and Mxs. C. A. Reid, 63 points.
Letter to the Editor
9703 Balfour,
Detroit, Mich.
Editor; Signal -Star.
Sir,—Enclosed .find payment for
our Signal-Star.,We don't want to
mass one copy. That's our Friday
treat. We are very proud of our
Kingsbridge correspondent. We
get the news of our old friends.
1 don't think anyone realizes• how
much it means to tis away ifrom.
.the old home to read the news
from there. Just the names means
so much. Say "Hello" to Mr.
Robertson for us.
Sincerely,
MRS. NICK PERRY.
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TR'UBgA,Y, Maw NA MO
PERSONAL KE.
Mr. and Mrs. Gbas."eekow
spent the week -end With Mr. and
Mrs. M. C. firocklebank, at Inger
soll. Their grandson, el?en3ii , re-
turned with them for a week's
visit.
'Miss Sandra Salkeld, niece of
Mr. and Mrs. B. M. BComata and a
freshman at Greenbrier College,
Lewisburg, West Virginia, is spend-
ing spring vacation with ,a. class-
mate Miss Nary Jane Pitzer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.. ('W. T.
Pitzer, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mar. Lloyd Wilson, St. George's
Crescent, who has been living in
Goderich for over three years as
district distributor "for' Burns'.
Packing Company has • been ap-
pointed to the Barrie district and
will leave for his new 'post in sev,
eral weeks' time. He is being re-
placed in Goderich 'by D. McTag-
gart, who has been stationed at.
Hamilton.
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:QUICK CANADIAN QUIZ ,
1. How many head are in the bA.tf-
falo herd at Wood' Buffalo Park,
world's largest remaining herd
of bison?
2. Since the end of World War Two
have Canadians built 150,000 new
homes, 350,000'or 750,000?
3..D•oes Ottawa have a larger an-
nual revenue from import duties
or from sales and excise 'taxes
levied on .Canadian -made manu-
factured good
4. Which is Canada's most norther-
ly city?
5. Including pensions, salaries,
wages and welfare allowances,
what proportion of Canada's 15
million people regularly receive
money from the federal govern-
ment?
ANSWERS: 5. About one person'
in four. 3. Revenue from sales -
and excise taxes is about double
annual revenue from import
duties. 1., 15,000. 4. Prince Rup-
ert, B.C. 2.. 750,000,. accommoda-
tion for about. 3,000,000 persons.
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