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HURON COUNTY'S FOREMOST WEEKLY
Established 1848. In its 108th year of publication.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 14th, 1955
CHURCHILL RETIRES
,• Sir Winston Churchill hak stepped down
from •the high post which he held -for a dozen
hiStOrie year and becomes himself a figure
for .:history. It was in May, 1940, that he
became Prime Minister of Great Britain, in
succession to the faltering Chamberlain, but
his career of pre-eminence began a few years
before this when he saw the peril • of Hitler -
ism and, in unhesitating manner warned the
British people against the slothfulness into
which they ''had fallen. When he took the
reins Of power he rallied the nation to defiance
Hitler and through black clays and „Many
nths of disaster he kept high the spirit of
tr,:sde people. In one of 'hisstirring speeches
was this memorable passage:
".Let us brace ourselves to our duties,
and so bear ourselves that, if tile •British
Empire .and. its Commonwealth last for a
thousand years, men will say : • Thi 's was their
finest. hour.' "
Everyone knows how, after halfa decade
of stern struggle, Hitler's armies were crushed
and Hitler miserably perished. •
Though the future historian doubtless vill
dwell upon the war years as the .high point Of
the Churchill career, it will not be forgotten
that the wise old counsellor and warrior was -
foremost in warning the world of the threat
of Russian aggression.
In relinquishing his post last week Sir
Winston. recommended to Her Majesty the
calling to the Prime ministership of Sir An-
thony Eden, who before the war had shared
Churchill's apprehensions of impending dan-
ger and. had resigned from the ChaMberlain
Cabinet as a protest against the. "appeasement"
of. Hitler. Sir Anthony as Foreign Minister
has been Churehill's right-hand man and as
his successor now has opportunity to prove
himself as leader:
It is understood that Sir Winston has
refused a peerage, preferying to be rememl
b€ red as Churehill rather than be disguised hy
some highflown but empty -title,
SOME TAX REDUCTIONS
The Federal budget, presented last week
for the first time by Finance Minister Harris,
has been dealt with at length by the daily
japers, with varying degrees of praise and
criticism. There are sizable but en utioiis re-
ductions in taxation, including personal in-
, come tax cuts that will average 1:3 per (wilt.
for 85 per cent. of the taxpayers. These will
not come into, effect until ,luly 1st.. The, tax
on large ',Orporations; corning into effect im-
mediately, is reduced to 47 per cent. from 49
per cent. The excise levy on new automobiles -
is reduced from 15 per cent to 10 per cent.,
and the excise tax of 10 per cent. on tires and
tubes is taken off entirely.
Total tax reductions are estimated at $148'
inillions.fOr the current year, and $207,millioni
for a full year. ,
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' For the year ending March 31st, 1955,
there is a deficit -the first since the war years
—of4194 millions and Mr.• Harris estimates
Lor " the 'coming fiscal year a deficit of $160
millions.
The. Minister hopes that the lessening' of
the tax levy WU' encourage a general - revival
of business. The moderate reees.ion of recent
montths may be traced almost entirely to the.
poor wheat crop on the prairies last year. With
'good crops throughout the country in„ the
coming season and ,. a resulting • upsurge in
business generally, Govern' menf revenues, may
recover more quickly than is expected. Finan- •
eial experts appear to favor deficit financing
'in such a time as this, but we believe the
people of ,Canada feel more comfortable. when
there is a surplus allowing reduction of the
huge war debt.
With detehce expenditure still taking so
large a proportion of the national income, Mr..
Harris probably- went as far in. cutting taxes
as caution advised. ,
Party organs incline to the party view
-Of the budget ; a neutral view is presented by
The Finatu..ial Post, which say* (in part)
"The budget surprise is that there were tax
cuts at all. The clear implication is that the Finance
Minister believes the national economy can do with
a nudge toward greater activity.
,"Unemploymentis doubtless the dominant, con-
cern. The indices of buSines's activity generally
have looked favorable. But the unemployment
spectre 'continued to hover around.
"Mr. Harris might" have concocted a budget with
an impressive array of public work' plans. He would
thereby have won some cheap and chiefly spurious
popular acclaim. The fact is that public works are
not a very effective nor efficient way of stimulating
the economy or creating employment.
"The budget -maker talked tough on tariffs and
he will have disappointed some by leaving them to
stew in the juice; of their genuine. troubles. His
very real problem here is that a little tariff assis-
tance almost inevitably leads to an avalanche. The
end result of using this device 4 a treatment for
national problems is illusory and for a country so
dependent on selling abroad it could, finally, be
suicidal. Whether the tariff reforms indicated go
far enough in fixing some very glaring anomalies
and antiquities -has -yet to_be seen."
The reference of The Post. to Mr. Harris'
talking ."tough on tariffs" refers, no doubt,
to .his- warning against tariff protection 'As a
6ade weapon. Mr: Harris said:
"If we are to maintain our standard ofliving
and use our resources and skills to best advantage,
we must be prepared to permit other nations to do
the same. Markets everywhere are becoming more
competitive, but as an important --.exporting nation
we must continue to look very carefully at all pro-
posals involving government protection and aid.
The effects of the higher costs resulting from
artificial assistance in one form or another would
have to be borne by the Canadian consumer, in the
form ,of higher taxes and higher prices and, 'even
more important, by the Canadian producer for
export in the form of lost markets overseas and
lot employment here."
EDITORIAL NOTES
• ``Those xvlio would give essential ,
liberty to- purchase a little temporary safety
deserve neither liherty nor safety."—Benja-
min Franklin.
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School teachers are meeting in the parlia-
ment of education at Toronto this week, and
while they are away the pupils are ----well, here'
in Gederich the 'boys are playing hoekey.
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• , The Town Council is keeping the mnni-
eipal tax rate at 57 millh. Samples of the 19;r25
rates (in mills) id other towns are: St. Marys
54.7, Walkerton 52, Kincardine 56, Learning -ton
t8 Paris 54, , Mitchell 50' Wallaceburo• 71,
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VPetrolia 82, Durhani (ouch) 92.
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Judging from'the thermometer one might
think we had slipped a few weeks into the
m4Yry mouth of May, but, April's reluctant.
tears may yet come to bring„us back to reality.
Out on the farniS one sees some cattle in the
' fields, but the pasture:looks poor.
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The tobacco -growers of Southern Ontario
are reported to be' disgruntled because "no-
thing was done for them" in the Hartii bud.
l'here is something in tile saying' that
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efforts of tnedical wizards, and each such con-
quest. lengthens the average ,life term. If
man s inental and spiritual deVeloPmeut keeps
pace witli his .physical constithtion, to what
may future generations rise!
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The Syrviving Dionne'Quints—now merely
a quartette—are approAching. their 2:1st birth-
day,, ,and after the coming 28th of May each
Nvill be the possessor of a sum in the neigh:
lwrhood of- $200,000. It could hardly be said
tliat they were horn with silver spoons in
their mouths, but it is through accident of
birth' that they are now among the wealthiest
young, ladies in the land. Dr. Dafoe, 'who
brought them through the first critical period
of their lives, probably never dreamed. of the.
fortulie that -awaited them. This wealth came
to ' them through motion picture contracts,
newspaper, newsreel and calendar pictures,
and such things, and no doubt shrewd invest-.
ment. The story of their lives will be one. of
the classies 'of Canadian folklore.
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In the House of 'Commons -on April' 6th
. Health Minister Martin, in reply to a question
as to the rtmounts available under the hospital ,
construation grant for various types of hospital
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45 Years Ago
A representative of the Inland
Lines Limited was in Goderich in -
vestigating the possibility •of bust-
ness for his company here. It was
felt likely that the firm would give
Goderich a regular service of pack-
age freight steamers with two calls
a week westbound. On eastbound
trips, these boats would carry
grain, a good deal of which -would
come to Goderieh.
A proposal_ for the establishing
pf a county sanitarium for con-
5umptives in Huron was being con-
sidored by a committee of county
muncil. One site being consider-
Ki was the A. P. McLean property
an the Huron road a short distance
from Goderich. Several other pro-
perties were being considered and
the' comniittee had decided to make
a tour of each one of them.
Parks and cemetery committee
A -Town Council, in conjunction
with the Horticultural Society, was
planning to hold a clean-up day.
Citizens were requested to rake
their lawns and boulevards, gath-
ering . the rakings into a heap at
the roadside so town teams could
remove them. '
25 Years Ago •
Sanitary Inspector F. G. Weir
reported to the Goderich Board of
Health that in checking 115 houses
in town he had found 55 cases of
mumps. Only 38 of the cases, he
said, had been reported in the
usual manner. The secretary in-
formed the meeting that since the
first of February, 80 houses had
been quarantined' for mumps.
, At a well -attended meeting in
MacKay Hall, Goderieh business.
men decided to form a Retail
Merchants' Association. 3 corn,.
mittee was appointed to -bring in
a slate of officers. One matter
under discussion was whether to
continue the Wednesday half holi-
day during the summer months.,
A fall of snow and backward
spring weather added to the maple
syrup .season at Auburn. Frank
Raithby had made 200 gallons:
15 -Years Ago , .
Members of Skip MacDonald's
Electrics, finalists in the Maitland
Hockey League, held a banquet at
a local restaurant. '\,Speech -making
was 'held at a minhyium, as none
of the players claimed any orator-
ical qualificationS.
Rev. Austin L. Budge, of Hamil-
ton, well-known in Goderich and
Huron County, was honored by his
alma mater, Knox College, Tor-
onto, with the Degree of Doctor of
Divinity at a convocation. He
had spear his early year's in this
county and was teacher in S.S. 3,
Colborne, for three years before
attending college and entering the.:
ministry of the Presbyterian
Church. . , ,
Over 100 miles of township roads
in East and West Wawanosh Town-
ships were cleared of, snow and
many people who had not been
farther than the barn for weeks
were liberated. County Engineer'
T. R. Patterson said he had receiv-
ed calls for plows from nearly
every township in the county. He
expected' the total cost of snow-
plowing for the winter would
amount to about,.$20,000.
10 Years:Ago
More than 1,000,000 bushels of
grain had arrived at Goderich since
the start of the shipping season.
A busy season for the grain trade
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'of the Great Lakes was in prospect
and it was expected. that Goderieh
would get its share—of 460,004.000
bushels which were to be brodight
down from the lakehead. •
Purity Flour Mills . Company,
planning an enlargement of salt
production of its plant here,. asked
Town Council for permission to
sink a new well on. town property
along the face of the,- hill below
Harbor Park, The company asked
that the WWI/ lease 1,000 feet of
this land at a nominal rental.
Town Council also, received four
tenders for -'garbage collection, 'all
of them higher than cotincil's esti-
mated cost. Decision was made to
ask the lowest tenderer to recon
sider and if possible submit
figure which council .might.accept.
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JUNE ELECTION? ,
(LiStowel Banner) 0
If all signs point to spring these
days, there are also signs pointing
toward something -else-an early
provincial election, possibly in
June. Several weeks ago the
stream .of material from various
government departm,ents noticably
increased in volume, even from the
usual flood. Next came the an
nouneement of "unconditional','
grants to all Ontario municipal
ities, and then„arrives brochures,
leaflets, articles ,and what. have
youL--all on the functions and ac-
complishments 'of the tenants of
the Parliament buildings in Tor
onto. About all that is lacking
now is the announcement Of the
date, all of which will be received
by Mr. and Mrs. Citizen with their
usual indifference.
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be helping yourself by doing so,
co-operative, Jarman- owned and
serving thousands of farmers. -
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The Federiil cottitruction grant,
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' 1. $1,500 per bed for mental, tuberculosis,
The ,Hon. 0..D. Hovie ;off to Australia chronic and• convalescent, beds ;
and New Zealand on -on of his tiips'ito.dkum 2. $1,000 per, bed 'for active, treatment
Otliada. Mdefittigible 'beds,
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eftiiitsi4Steip eunida in'the foreground _3. $ bed' for nurses' beds;
4. $1,000' for each 300 square feet of floor
to be eftorts Attlis7COnitrY—'s foreign trade space devoted fa theme services that. provide
46410 ,iii -recent years. diagnostic and treatnient "-service's to Tout -
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be- 'bon- • 5. $1,006 for each 300 square feet of ac-
QUr,..ges.'''-that curet cepfable floor are* devoted to training fabilities
devoted. 'for besith and slOspital personnel. , • •
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Letter
- ' April eth, 1955.
Editor, Signal -Star. " • r
Sir,-;-,A4ter a very' busy Session
the Legislature prorogued on
March 31st. We feel that. -much
was accomplished, particularly in
looking to the immer,Iiite future;
Among the most important 4110;1S-
ures approved by the House was
the Unconditional_,- extra' rants
being made avedlable to each
Municipality. .
jt would seem, that, an election
might be •held S0011 and I will let
my name stand' for erid,orseraent. of
the citizens of Hiiren-Bruce. 'The
Government *of. Premier „Leslie
sive 011.0. 'Human
lettermen all our people b
certainr-under- the, 'leadership of
Frot • ,
You :SU be pleased 40 know
ihat•-•.4 .1n4 #ood health .and
anxious2 to &mime serving the
,fine people of theriding of Huron-
Bruce:7'. •
With kindest regards, .
Youlis sincerely, " •
'4, • JOHN W. HANNA, ,Ma.P.,
`•• Huronaruce. '
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LE, EBURN, April 12.—Miss Joan
*Clark. and friend; ' Miss". Arlene
gook, of ViTingham'hospital, visited
the former's parenta, Mr. and Mrs.
Tat't 'Clark, two 'days -last week.
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Mr.' and Mrs. Bert Lakeman, of
Toronto, visited over .the Easter
weekend with the latter'a mins ,
les. :Andrew Bogie, and Mr: e.
.Mr, and: Mrs. Tait Clark observed
their 25th wedding anniversary
last Thursday.'
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• Judge (to prisoner aged sixty):
"The sentence is thirty -yearfopent
in penal. servitude." • .
Prisoner (in tears): 'Wour, tionor,
I shall not live long enough to
serve the sentence."
Judge (id kindly- tone): "Don't
worry, do what you can..
Abraham Lincoln was itoted as
a '' wrestler in his youht and was
beaten in two matches by ,alellow
volunteer in the Black Hawk War,
Sac •Thdian uprising. of 1882.
HOUSE TO HOUSE
CANVASS
Monday, April 18
GIVC.1
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• GODERICH AND DISTRICT BRANCH
BARGAIN COACH FARES
GOOD GOING
TUES. & WED. April* 19th -20th_
tETURN LIMIT -7 DAYS
Between GODERICH
and
STRATFORD
KITOHENER -
TORONTO' -
Bargain Fares
and
MONTREAL
OTTAWA -
Return Fare YOU SAVE
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also apply' between TORONTO
Return Fare o YOU SAVE
$12.90 $8.1,5
9.55 6.00
Also between points listed ,and INTERMEDIATE
Stations with proportionate savings.
* Children under 5 travel free -5 and under 12,
half -fare.
Regular 150 lb. baggage allowance
Watch for Bargain Coach Fares in effect
May 17th and lath.
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