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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1955-09-29, Page 4next year. Merupers are • . amelguk$ ways and mean's to pur- obase a $1,0013 inbOard Motor boat 110 use in the show and for prac- • , *wag. The club has $400 in the rareasnry now but needs $600 more '40,purchase the boat. Plans are being made to hold a dance on th.e Friday evening before Thanks- liffmling to raise money. FOR SALE 1946 DODGE Special Deluxe Club Coupe in first class condition. Motor runs like new. 54,000 actual mileage, Mew battery and signal Bights. An brakes just relined. Practically new tires. Owner leaving town. [PHONE 648J ART WATERS, ,OHABRION OF LIONS CLUB, GOLFERS Lion Art Waters forgot all about overdrafts for a day on Wednesday of last week and put his attention on avoiding overdrives to win the Lions Club's annual golf tourna- ment with a low gross of 48. As evidence that the win was no fluke, his record revealed that he also won the Canadian Legion tournament the previous week -end. About 25” Lions took part in the tournament. Lion Howard Heath placed second in the competition with a score ;of 52. Lion Eddie Jessop was the capable member in charge of arrangements for the day. Other winners were: Hidden hole, Malcolm M.athers; door prize, Mery Stephens; most honest golf- er, Don Aberhart. OBITUARY WILBERT GIBSON BLYTHE Wilbert Gibson Bylthe, of Var- "ney, ,Ontario, father of Lorne Blythe, of Goderich, died at Dur- ham 'Metnorial Hospital, on Sep- teinber 6, at the age of 67. 1 -le was a well-known farmer in the Varney district. Interment was in Maplewood cemetery. public of the grave -danger of touching the fence. In the desperate:light to save the lake trout, desperate methods have /•been necessary. Theereaeally, the electrical barrier'Should turn back all valuable fish before they re- ceived enoughof a shock to kill them. Most fish are tufted back, but unfortunately some are killed. This defect in the method is gradu- ally being corrected. However, if the lake trout are to be saved there is not enough time to per- fect the method before applying it. People. who see dead fish in the stream below these electrical bar- riers are often, pertighed and right- ly so. The destruction of useful fish definitely calls for an explan- ation. The public is therefore ad- vised that the scientists respons- ible analyse the situation as fol- lows: I. Reports of the number of game fish killed by .the barriers are 'greatly exaggerated—most of the fish killed. are suckers which are ,n0t only 'of little value, but are also. suspected of being the primary meads by Which lamprey reach the areas where tile' lake trout can be attacked. 2. The choice is either a. few game fish -killed now or complete destruction of lake trout within a. 'few years. 3. There is every probability that the lamprey, if rallowed to in- crease unchecked, would within a few Years be causing many times the casualties .among stream -dwell- ing game ifish that the electrical barriers now cause. 4. The totail number of game, fish that are likely to be killed by the barriers is an insignificant part of the number of those species in the Lake.Superior watershed. 5. The species to which damage would be deplored most, namely rainbow trout, is not native to this area. lit is here onrlymbeeauSe 'ef man's intervention. Inc the highly unlikely event that lamprey con- trol were to appreciably decrease the stock of rainbow trout they could, therefore, obviouslybe quickly restored. .. Incidentally, rainbow trout headed upstream, to- wards their spawning grounds are trapped below the danger area and released above it. 6. On these grounds the- de- struction of useful fish at lamprey barriers, although ,admittedly de- plorable, is considered justified. . 0 Husband: "Maybe we can figure out what the problem is." Wife: "I already know what the preblem is. It's having too much month left over at the end of the money." • -TIIT FQR-4TAT - Cohen and �1S wife...had been. dining_ out. When he was handed his bill, Cohen scrutinized it close- ly and said to the manager: "1 say, you've charged us for the dessert. We never touched it."' ' "But," explained the manager, regardless of whether you touched it or .not, it was there for you." "There you are," remarked Cohen,as he handed over the - money in payment of the bill. The manager counted the ,,rnoney and discovered that it was $1,p0 short. Upon being informed Of the deficit, Cohen replied: "That, Was for kissing my wife.' "Absurd," said the Manager, "I did not kiss your wife." "Dot's your own fault," conclud- ed Cohen, as he walked out. "She vas dere, vasn't she?" • TL • EXETER ARENA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 12 REGULAR GAMES FOR $50 EACH 3 SPECIAL GAMES'FOR $150 EACH . 1 SPECIAL FOR 1955 CHEVROLET COAC ADMISSION $1.00 Extra and Special Cards 25c, 5 for $1.00—Car Special $1.00, 6 for $5.00. GAMES START AT 9 p.m. SHARP. DOORS OPEN AT 7.30. SPONSORED BY EXETER „LEGION AND LIONS PROCEEDS IN AID OF SCOUT HOUSE If you go about -it properly this fall, as soon as the snow goes next spring your property will burst into the grandest, most colorful bloom you could imagine. Barbara and Sidney Karsh of Ottawa are making sure of spring floral beauty by 'following some basic •rules. They selected the best Dutch bulbs (firm, smooth, large), set them out on the ground in the pattern they want the flowers to appear in, then planted each bulb five to six inches deep. Soil is well drained but not fast -drying, and located in full sunlight. When the bulbs are all in the ground, they are labelled for varieties, and, if the ground is dry, thoroughly watered. Growing flowers from bulbs is one of the simplest, most rewarding of all horticultural pursuits. (Photo by Malak, Ottawa.) Latest Scientific Methods Are Used In Attempt To Control Sea Lamprey A grim struggle against the de- predations of the murderous sea ' lamprey is *being' carried out by scientists of the , Ontario Depart- ment of Lands and FOrests, the fed- eral government and governments of the United States and various ,individual states. Latest scientific methods, includ- ing manual ,and electric fences or weirs, supersonic death rays and other methods have been called into play in streams flowing into Lake Superior, where only recently the lamprey appeared and threat- ened commercial lake trout fishing. "It looks as if Lake Superior has been subject to the heaviest attack of the lamprey, heavier than in Lake Huron," said Dr. W. J. K. Harkness, Chief of the Division of Fish and Wildlife of the Ontario Department of Larids and Forests. Most worrisome possibility en- countered by the scientists is that the lamprey may spawn onegravel shoals out in the lake, where form- erly it was believed that the pre- dato -s spawned only in streams. e sea lamprey, a marine hitch- hilfer, is native to salt water. For years it was held back from the Great Lakes by the barrier of Niagara Falls. With the opening of the Welland Canal, however, it is believed the fish attached itself to the bottom of vessels and moved into the lakes. A few years ago it Made its appearance in Lake Superior—where the main fishing industry centres on lake trout. But the lamprey also attacks and kills- whitefish, suckers and siscoes. The adult sea lamprey feeds on the blood and flesh of fish, attach- ing itself to the fish's body with a suction -cup mouth and rasping a hole 'through the body covering. Although they seem to attack any. fish that is large enough, 're- gardless of species, lake trout seem to . be more effected than other species. In Lake Michigan and in most of Lake Huron, (the exception is a part of Georgian Bay to which the lamprey area just now pene- trating), lake trout have become practically extinct and there is every indicatidn that the sea lam- prey is wholly responsible. This is probably because sea lamprey prefer lake trout 'to other species. Rather it is probably the result of the lake trout's 'Preference for rocky shoals, which are likely also the favorite place where lamprey lurk when waiting for their prey, according to District Forester A. J. Herridge of Sault Ste, Marie. Sea lantrey spawn in streams during the spring. • Males and fe- males pair off and "build a "nest" from the gravel of Yhe stream bed in which they spawn. The young hateliin about two weeks, are car- ried downStream, and finally settle to the 'bottom in backwaters where they burrow into the silt. Young lampreys do not look nor aot like adults, and they are called am- niOecetes. They can move around but generally they stay. partly buried, and feed on a variety of • stuff brought to them by the cur- rent. After four or five years of this life, during which they gradu- ally grow to about five inches long, -they change into- adult lampreys and begih preying on fish. After a year or a year and a !half on a fish blood diet, which greatly ac- celerates their growth, they spawn in a stream, then die. "The -sea lamprey has' not yet caused sudrobvious inroads in the trout stock of Lake Superior as it has in Lakes Huron and Michigan," says 'Mr". Ilerridge. "However, there is every reason to believe that, unless the lamprey on be greatly reduced in number 'soon, the trout of Lake Superior will become only a memory by about 1960." Through joint arrangements be- tween the Province of Ontario and the Dominion .of Canada, Canadian scientists are co-operating with scientists from the United States in an attempt to 'control sea lam-; prey in Lake Superior. The pro- cedureds to prevent lampreys from spawning by keeping them from ascending all spawning streams. All concerned realize that this may nct work and that it is actually a dollar gamble. • But it is a web/while gamble—the value of the fish to be saved is many trines the cost of the proposed efforts • to save them. • Various types of b'arriers to lam- preys are being used in this at -i tempt. One of the most -common sis a •type which uses electricity. to 'tall the lampreys or to drive them away. It is the tYpe whieh people are Moistlikely to notke because of the high fence erected around the whole installatiOn' to keep people from getting close enough to get a fatal eleetric shock. Signs on these instataations warn the Adequate wiring in your home assures convenient, economical electrical living at its best. If you are planning to build a ,neir home, have your local Hydro or your Electrical Contractor, explain why it is to your advantage to have sufficient circuits, switches and convenience outlets in order to derive the full benefit from today's many electrical aids to living. Too often the unsatisfactory operation offelectrical appliances is due to imuktquate wiring. Many older homes, and some newly built homes, are 'not wired to efficiently operate more • than a few electrical appliances. Specify 'Red Se 'al" wiring to the standard of The Electric Service Leap* of Ontario, a non-profit - Organization maintained to asst you with wiring problems. See yotir local itYdro Manager, or send for the Frtgle,13001CLET, "Facts About Electrical Wiring or Your florae." oto tjt: League of Oikt*tri4 earltoti Street, 'RED SEAL.' ADEQUATE WIRING This Red Seal on the service box is your assurance of an Adequately Wired home. JACKPOT of $45,00 for full house in 515 calls. If not won on Saturday, value of jackpot and also number of calls will be raised each week until it is won. Every winnek-gets A TURKEY. 4 SPECIALS—Share the Wealth JACK147 WILL BE PLAYED FOR 4 TIMES Ja"?kpot — 25c or 5 for $1.00 Regular extra cards 25c OOR PRIZE -45, $3, $2. Doors open at 7.45 p.m. list Game Starts at 8.30 p.m. For those who desire our assistance, whether in their own church, at their home or in our chapel, we provide complete '•'''',Ixperienced service at time of need. They are assured that no detaill contributing' to a reverent and beautiful service will be forgotten and that no matter what they pew, the same persona!, sYmpathetic attention will be given. Floyd M. Lo ge formerly. 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