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• HURON COUNTY'S FORIICYOST WEEKLY
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GEO. L. ELLIS, Editor and , Publisher. •
T1I[IBSDA►Y, FEB. 9th, 1956
FOR INDUSTRIAL GROWTH
Reeve Crockford of Scarboro township,
addressing a•meeting of :civic leaders at Orillia,
gave his audience an outline ofhow his town-
ship got new industry and business, and al-
though-Orillia is not in the same class as the
Toronto suburban township The Orillia News -
Letter gave considerable space to his address.
Goderich is still farther, indu really, from
Scarboro's position, with its proximity to e
large and growing city, but there were some
features of Reeve Orockford's talk that might
usefully be passed on to. our own civic Ieaders.
"Mr. Crockford's main advice in efforts
to obtain industry," said the Orillia paper,
"is to map out available sites, have agree-
ments ready to install water axis' services re-
quired, and have all the facts on the necessary
steps for railway sidings or other require-
ments. Prospective industrial agents like to
take, back full briefs on abundance of labor,
general community attitude toward industry
and attractiveness ofs the community as a
place to live."
If the town should contemplate annex-
ation it should, said the speaker,' have a long.
range plan instead of piecemeal additions, and
it was pointed out that present - legislation
would permit annexation of farm properties
with special tax until the pioperty was sub-
divided, - -
Points that "should be stressed in favor of 1
Goderich are its excellent railway connections
and its position on Lake Huron, giving trans-
portation facilities by both main railways and
by water. I -
Wenote that Fergus, a town considerably
smaller than Goderich, has become industrially;
minded and .has recently purchased 22 acres
of farm land for future industrial sites. All
over Western Ontario towns have become
ambitious for growth ie industry and popul-
ation. Goderich must keep itself well to the
fore in this respect.
THE BLIND ASK UNDERSTANDING
This is White . Cane Week iii Canada,
sponsored by the Canadian National` Institute
for the Blind and the Canadian Council of
the Blind. Mr. E. L. Ross, chairman of the
latter organization, speaking on the theme
"The White Cane Creates- Confidence," says :
"While the offer of a.guiding hand along the
street gives ,confidence to the sightless, the
achievements .of the blind create confidence
.in the sighted," and he told of the numerous
blind men and women. who manage C.ti.LB.
stands and canteens in postoffices, hospitals,
office buildings and factories, and engage
successfully in other occupations. Blind Can-
adians are now accepted as- useful - citizens,
and wherever the Message. of the white cane
is known, even in a strange city, blind persons
may step forward with. security. •
Canadians have few weeks in which they
are not asked to dig into their pockets for
some worthy cause, but White Cane Week is
one' of' People are not asked to
give anything this week except understanding
and a. -helping lmnd.
EDITORIALNOTES ..
On this continent the Southern States and
in Western Europe countries as far south as
the Mediterranean report extreme cold weath-
er unusual in those parts. In Europe- scores
of deaths have resulted and from the States
netales Qf
great distress among the unprepared peopl
and damage to orchard and farm growth.
(We trust the orange crop has come through
safely.) f } While the weatherman «i11 be -dis-
tinctly out of favor itr those southern latitudes, .
we on the shore of Lake Huron feel like giving
him a pat on the back. Since -the blasts of
the early part of -winter the weather here has
been quite pleasant, with, plenty of sunshine
and no very low temperatures. it niay be the
Iull before the storm, :but we are hoping' for
an early spring; -
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The ,Waterloo "Dutchmen" met a humil-
iating defeat in their qurSt' for .the...,.Olympic
hockey title, being outscored by both the Rus-
sian and the United States teams. Canada fur
years has won top honors in this competition,
but this year either the winning teams were
.better than those of previous years frotn their
respective countries, or the "Dutchmen" were
not up to Canadian standard—or perhaps
something, of both. According to -reports f torn
the scene in Italy, the Russians • play a
"'"be'atitiful ;acne and showed decidedly b r
'form than the Canadians... There is ; 1
disappointment among followers of the stiek-
and-puck abort in this country, and a sugges-
tion frequently heard is that in -future an all-
star team representing the ,whole rountryv'bee
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organized for the Olympics. The "i)utch-
men" are champions in their Canadian field,
but nobody claims they include all- of Can-
ada,'s best players. For the future Russia
must be counted on as a strong contender, and
although defeat, in a hockey eompetition is
not a national disgrace Canada Shouild' put its
best effort_ into recovering and maintaining its
supremacy in it.s national winter spdrt..
NEW CANADIANS SET AN EXAMPLE
(Brantford Expositor)
It would be good it some grumbling Canadians
were given a chance to read a booklet prepared by
.the.Itnmigration Department. It is a collection of
"testimonials" by recent immigrants .telling their
- Canadian success stories, invariably the result of
i Lard labor and determination to make 'sacrifices
for the s'ake of early security. In this respect
some immigrants set an example to many native
Canadians.
- -14-A MEN ACE---
' ' (From The Peterborough Examiner). ,
Metropolitan Toronto is growing at three or
four times the rate of most other Ontario places,
-and taking their lifeblood andros ects in doing
P
it. Toronto is getting people by tens of thousands
to pay the taxes, and the industries to provide the
jobs and money. Other cities may hail an increase
of 500 or 1,000 in population as a boom, and they
get out the town band when - a new, industry to
employ 25 people is finally cajoled into coming to
r t„ A new factory for 100. nr 500 people sets up in
y.Toronto without public notice.
Is it useless for the smaller Ontario centres to
kick against this trend? Perhaps it is, but Ontario -
will rue the .day if the process is allowed to con-
tinue. From the points of view of'national defence,
national health- and social welfare, it will be dam-
aging if not dangerous should most of the popula-
tion and industry of Ontario be concentrated in
the Toronto area. And yet the aggrandizement of
Toronto is not only permitted, it is encouragd., by
the Ontario Govern'iient, which should know better.
We have already referred to special subsidies which
Toronto gets (for ` instance, the municipal uncon-
ditional grants are $4 a head in Toronto, $2.50 in. a
small city like Peterborough). We have warned
about the tax grab Toronto is plotting, as indicated
fn its brief to the Gordon commission. It wants all
Ontario tax vcrss,lq,inzild its subways. and arterial
streets and 'to pay for its welfare services.
At the last Dominion -Provincial conference on
fiscal affairs, Premier Frost discussed the ,danger
of taking too much money (by taxation) from the
so-called "have" provinces like Ontario and dis:
tributing it aiming the "have-not" provinces. What-
ever the economic hazards in this, surely, they can-
not be greater than the dangers of the Ontario
Government's opposite role, as regards munici-
palities. It is`'taking from the smaller have-not
cities and towns and giving to the great big Have
of Toronto. Instead not indirectly subsidiiing Tor-
onto industry and its growth of population, the
Ontario Government should be discouraging the
accretion of people and plants in Toronto by direct-
ly subsidizing the establishment of industry outside
_ the Toronto area.
INNER COMPVSJON'
_.w (By Joseph Lister -Rutledge)
The ideal of security is shared
Ivy all humanity. From the begin-
ning of time people have banded
�r in groups to assure them-
'l-----�- .e ogakt hszarda-that -Would
- -=----•-be-too much -for them -alone. Late-
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ly, hof vever,' politicians and -Ores-
mare groups have given security a-
----new and "not too admirable mean,
i `They, •have hade it imply
being looked; after, forgetting the
eomcept a:;,�vaornethi secured by
to nr e.ef!tort. • yin • so doing
they have tamers frorn„•a word its
suggestion of employedpcourage
d t and Weed i .toe andnem,
b�� ��te mean -little
ice► «df„benellta eured by
eho�tts . 00 someone else..
the',O trio Seoondc'
' Taieiiers'e Teders►tion
'rri .'cbdrman', of
t:PYhii 8oe#1,:aadfei t*.
--' y,O�•''0 MN��N stir
of ,Manitoba; and of the University
of -New Brttnswick, spoke a word
that, could stand repeating. He
urged that educators must fight a
growing desire in students' minds
Mr security, 'and give them back
the—gleam of daringand aeeom-
-plishment. -At its best, he said,
security had come to mean • for us
an escape from outside hazards and
interference, while all too often,
At 'had come to suggest merely a
protection for us in our own selfish-
ness and sloth. ."Too often," -Dr.
Triretrhan said, "we. ;are like buoys
-in the i arbbbr, doing nothing, mere-
ly, reflecting. with automatic *recur.
aey,'aidt perfectly obedient to, the
winds and the waver" ,
.; 11 that is the- security we di -
mend, by, what atmblance_of right.
caa,wi.141110 sak.benelita'for which
other med have dreamed d and dared
tind4uretredt what straining
of -411e can we` hope for:
a progie-ss that can come only
through the discovery of an inner
compulsion that makes demands
on ourselves that go beyond plod-
ding, day-by•day accomplishments
to add to the t tal,_of available_
human benefits? That is,the grow-
ing secffrity that has nothing to
do with the meaner 'connotation
now placed on the word — an
escape from personal responsibil-
ity—the shucking off of the obliga-
tion to return a little more than
we_rive--a denial that man was
created for other purposes than an
easy, pleasant and untroubled pro
grecs ,from cradle.,to grave. 'Secur-
ity, wihdut effort, is a word with%
out to bning, for no man and
.system cast• make secure a world
that wants only that. The old
order still stands—in.. tile -._sweat
of a man's fact mil ate eat bra
bread. On; yY.'•le- **ening' can fret
hop* to iteititri..‘th-1-4etireity,that
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THE .GODERIOH SIGNAL -STAR
THE OLD HOME TOWN-Ma�`■"RBt STANIA
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Down. Memory's
Lane
45 Years Ago
Goderich is shocked by the
death of three excellent citizens;
William D. Tye; Peter McFarlane;
John W. Whitelow, in the terrible
wreck of the Buffalo and Goderich
Grand Trunk Railway, Saturday
night, near Paris, Ontario.
Alderman Walter E. Kelly who
with Mrs. Kelly is basking in the
Florida sunshine, is sending •home
mementoes of his trip. One re-
ceived by the editor of- the Signal
is 'bunch of alligators which -may
be see any day at this office.
They y'on't bite—they are on 'a
postcard.
A petition was presented by Rev.
George E. Ross and ten others,
requesting the council to petition
Letter to the Editor
R.R. No. 1,
Sebringville, Ontario,
February 2nd, 1956.
Editor, Signal -Star.
Sir,—I noticed a recent press
article on hogs and how 4,136 hogs
broke the hog market last week to
$23.00. I wonder what would hap-
pen if 10,000 hogs backed up unto
the Ontario...public market in Tor-
onto some week, or at any other
point in Ontario, for tete hog co-op.
to sell. It is likely that would
crack the ,floor. This is what Mr.
McInnes has been advocating in a
pipe -dream idea he has over -a
= irectkm---progr-ase. his �p
for all hogs to -go to assembly
points by compulsion; which could
can 40,000 hogs a week would be
looking for •a home.
I am afraid it would be a night-
mare .because assembly points are
only equipped to take are of
limited runs on certain days; be-
yond that, the market would be
forever under pressure and the
price - of 'hogs -and tnovetnent of
hogs would not function in a norm-
al way. The .farmers could be the
goats .if ' they had - to 'stand the
shrink losses as they might ap•
pear,particularly when hogs are
sold on a dressed weight basis.
•, It seems usual for the hog co-op.
to
sell about 2,000 or 3,000 hogs
a week, to the people who depend
on the Toronto public, yards for
their supply of hogs., t. The part
played beyond this is a hocus
pocus arrangement that cuts in
and mesmor>,zes the 'public. This
is covered up by propaganda that
.is,. misleading in character.
Yours truly,
TILEQDORJ PARKER.
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LEEBURN
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the Government to give municipal-
ities the power to refuse the grant-
ing of pool room' licenses.
25 Years Ago
- Margaret McLean of the Gode-
rich Collegiate Institute -'has won
the senior girls' oratory champion-
ship at the W.O.S.S.A. contests at
Stratford.
A two-year-old Holstein heifer,
Edna Colantha Hartog, bred and
owned by W. H. Clutton, of Gode-
rich, has just finished a y�,arly
record of 12,073 pound erui milk,
containing 573 pounds of -butter.
Total income for Knox Church
last year amounted to a total of
$12,909.
The Elevator . Company -is start-
ing( to cut out the grain vessels
which, have wintered here, from
the ice, preparatory to unloading.
The broadcast from the Vatican
by His Holiness the Pope, Thurs-
day morning was heard quite well
by many In Goderich.
15 Years Ago
Announcement of the appoint-
ment of Mr. Nelson Hill to the
positions of Local Registrar of the
Supreme Court, County' and Sur-
rogate Court Clerk, and Sheriff of
Huron County was made from
Queen's Park, Toronto, last week.
George E. Buchanan, K.C., a dis-
tinguished ex -student of Goderich
Collegiate .Institute, and for many
years a successful lawyer at Sud-
bury, died to Sudbury, Thursday.
J. F. Gillespie is heading a cam-
paign for the sale of war savings
es $---statrlps---in----t -is
town.
-Mr. T. Manjuris is heading the
.Greek War Relief Fund. Total
received to date is $429.16. _
10 Years Ago '
The Empire Service Club held
its Final meeting in MacKay Hall
Thursday evening, after a success-
ful and commendable record of ser-
viUe during the war years.
H. M. Ford is Chairman of the
Collegiate Institute Board 'for the
'coming year.
LEEBURN, Feb. 6.—.Miss Judy
Murphy, represen S.S. No. -9 *in
the spelling rn Goderich.
Leeburn W.M.S.-The January
meeting of the Leeburn -W.M.S.
was held at the home d'f Mrs..
Terence Hunter. There was •a good 1
attendance of members and visit-
ors. Mrs. Tait Clark was leader
of the worship .service, -ScriptUre
reading was led by Mrs.., la liner
Hunter and prayer by `Mrs. W.
Sallows. Several ,encouraging re-
ports were - given on the year's
work. Mrs. J. McBride -and- Miss
H. Clark displayed quilt tops they
are donating to the WaM.S. _Mrs.
Rising also is working on a crib
quilt. Miss Claris read a •chapter
from the study book. Lunch was
served by the hostess, assisted' -by
MrssElmer Hunters The February
meeting will be held at the home
of Mrs. J. Horton one week later
(Feb. 22nd). This is to leave the
ladies free to take in the "Tailored,
Slip Cover" course at ,Carlow Hall
next week.
Presentation. -- Mr. and Mrs.
Terence HOnter were host and
hostess last Wednesday evening
when about forty neightsers gath-
ered to honor Mr. and Mrs. "Ted
Horton on f.hgic recent marriage.
The - event was spent playing
cards and afta1. a bounteous lunch,
Mr. Hunter read an adrens and
the young couple were resented
with a- chair and oven asserole.
The groom replied,. fittingly and
' thanked the -
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UNION
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UNION, Feb. 6. — On Tuesday
evening, January 31, the neighbors
and friends of .Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Falconer gathered at their home
on the occasiort of their 25th wed-
ding anniversary. During the
evening• progressive euchre was
a ed 'with the ,high prizes going
to Roy Wilson and Harvey Fuller.
Mr. and Mrs. Falconer were the
recipients of many lovelygifts of
silverware. Davin 'Iii r, Mr.
Gordon Orr proposed the toast to
the brick. - "For. they • are 'Jolly
Good Feliows" bought the evening
to at eloee. .
Because Goderi
virtually an isla
Council has d
area as an
Township iF
Huron County
ided -.to use that
rimental ground
for controll ng the warble 'fly. '
The housing shortage in Gode-
rich has not been eased by the
closing down of Port Albert and
Sky • Harbor air stations. The num-
ber
umber of servicemen returning to this
town has offset the reduction in
the number of-fanillies living here
and formerly ....employed by the
Stations. The Legion has asked
public assistance in finding homes
for.the veterans.
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BY
UPPER CANADA BIBLE SOCIETY
The "Letters to Editors” column
of weekly newspapers often offer
interesting sidelights on life in
rural communities. Problems of
recent fetter moren a MuSkoka -Weekly
sented.
revealed the difficulty of securing
a Bible in out-of-the-way places.
This difficulty is experienced, even
today around • the world.
To help solve this problem hand-
to-hand distribution of the Scrip-
tures by 1,000 "Colporteurs"
throughout the world - is under-
taken by the British and Foreign
•,Bible Society of which the Upper
Canada Bible Society is the. local,
auxiliary.
The purpose of the Society is
to place a Bible - without note or
comment, within reach , of every-
one, at a price he can pay, Mid
in his own language. This purpose
has been adhered to throughout its
150 years of Christian service to
almost all denominations.
From home to - home, where
Bibles are not readily available,
"Colporteurs" call carrying the
Book of Books. • Thus people who
need it and desire It may secure
it.
Most editions are sold at, or
below, cost price and all mission-
ary translations are heavily sub-
sidized. -
Canada has required „the Bible
in over 100 different languages.
Ontario in over 45. Colporteurs
can provide it in most of these
languages.
Four "Colporteurs" Enrique
Bazan in Bolivia, Raul Campos in
Ecuador, P6 Tun _in Burma and
HURSDAiY. FEB. nth, .l960
Philip Wambua in Kenya, are
forted by funds raised tiro
'Stamp Corner,' a department
the Bible Blouse, . LondgeL *any
hundreds of pounds are provided
each year - through the sale of
used stamps sent in from -around
the *Wild. '-
One girls' school, "Bromley
High," recently. contributed . 400,-
000 stamps to their department for
colportage work.
Suggested readings for the week:
Sunday,' Psalms 95:1-11; Monday,
Psalms •-.115:1-18; Tuesday, Jere-
miah 1:4-19; Wednesday, Jonah
1:1-17; Thursday, J 2:1-10;
Friday. Jonah 3a:1-10; Saturday,
Jonah 4:1-11.
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Qanadiaii labor income con-
tinues to increase. The ._,Ltugust
1954 .total of $1,014,000,000 topped
July earning by $4,000,000 and
last year's August b' $20,000,000.
Of 405,122 births in Canada in,
the mast recent year of record,
4,5$7_were twins and 39 were trip-
lets. -
There -were more births in 1953
than , in any, other year in Can-
adian history. _ •
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