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THE GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR
(Cibtrirli Otonal-i'tar
_IILTRQN COUNTY'S FOREMOST -WEEKLY .W
Established 1848. In its 109th year of publication.
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'Published by Signal -Star Publishing Limited
Subscription Rates—Canada and Great Britain, $3.00 a year: to United
States, $4,00. Strictly in advance.
Advertising Rates on request Telephone 71.
Authorized as second-class mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa.
Out -of -Town Representative: C.W.N.A. 420 Temple Bldg., Bay and Richmond Sts.. Toronto.
•0ver 3,000—Largest circulation of any newspaper published in Huron County—Over 3,000
Member of. Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Member of Ontario Weekly Newspapers
Association, Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations.
GEO. L. ELLIS, Editor and Publisher.
THURSDAY, APRIL 5th, 19.56
LET'S CELEBRATE IN 1957'
The Signal -Star again reniinds the citizens
of Goderieh that the year 1957 would be a most
opportune time for another old home week. It
was in '57 of the last century that the Buffalo
.and Goderich Railway—now a not insignificant
part of the Canadian National Railways—com-
pleted the line to this town and made Goderieli
an important terminal on Lake Huron.
--- In another year the Square, famous in
the
history of the Huron Tract, will with proper
attention have recovered much of the good
appearance .which has been unavoidably but,
only temporarily lost through the operations
of the builders,,of the new Court House, and it
would, again, as in peat eelebrations, be a fine
centre for much of the program.
Mitch, more could be said in urging for
next year 'the homecoming of Goderich folks
wherever they_mayle, but what we have said
will do as a reminder. H there are objections
of any kind they can be discussed, but if 1957
is to be the big date no time should be lost in
beginning preparations.
THE BEGGAR METROPOLIS
Toronto aldermen charge the Ottawa
Government with reneging 011 a promise to
build a tunnel to the beloved Island. The
matter was brought up in Parliament last week
and it waa revealed that an agreement was
entered into by the Government in 1913, forty-
three years ago, to assist the city in the con-
struction of the proposed tunnel, but NV
rescinded in 1935; nothing having, been heard
of the project for many years. It now recog-
nizes no obligation in the matter.
The Tot -Onto Telegram observes that on
learning of this "there" is a disposition amooz
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some councillors to throw up their hands and
eollapse ili tears,'' and it confesses that "more
and more the -tendency is to lean on Queen's
,Park and Ottawa for support and when aid is
not forthcoming to break down and do no-
thing.Phe Telegram. urges the city to go
,ahead on its own to do ‘vhat is neeessary to
provide easier access to the island. This is
good advice and it would he a relief to the
'people who don't live in Toronto if the big,
boastful, money -mad city would pay its own
1V11 and not put on the beggar's eap so fre-
quently.
THE COMMON PEOPLE SUFFER
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The widow who wanted to sell .her 135 -
acre farm near Oakville for $216,000 hut was
refused permission by the court to part with
the property.at this price has now been granted
leave to sell it for $365,700, retaining three
acres on which the house and barn are situ-
ated. This figures out at a little more than
$2,700 an acre, twenty times its value five years
ago.
This of course is fine for the 'widow and
her family, but it is a sample of what is going
on in the Toronto area in the rise of land, values.
It means that. every person who plans to erect
a home, build a store.or a factory first has to
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hurdle the obstacle of air exeessive price fdr
'the land. In this case the unearned increment
goes toa widow who worked hard with her
husband for_ the money, $19,000„ with which
they bought the property some five years ago.
In other eases it goes to some speeulator or
person of wealth who has done nothing useful
to entitle him to it. The population has grown,
the, municipality has spent the people's taxes
to provide roads and other facilities, but the
speculator takes the profit..
The Legislature could easily provide a
remedy and keep the increase in land values
for the mimieipality,-but "important" people
are opposed to any action ofthe kind.
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Times change. It used to ,hp„anintat to
be told you lived in a one-horse town; before
long you may have to pay money to see a horse.
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April 1st being Sunday, we heard little
here of April fools, but the newspapers tell
of a great gathering of geese at the Miner
bird sanctuary in Essex county.
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Robin Redbreast is a knowing fellow.
bast week when we humans were wondering.
'if winter would ever end he appeared on the
scene ready to locate a site for his suinmer
dwelling, and he is now hopping about as if he
owned the place.
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Three cheers and a tiger. for the Goderich
Midgets fr the title they have won in the
field of hoc ey. The -oungsters may grow up
to win-hOn rs in her fields, but they will.
"rarely have agtter thrill than in winning
this 'Ontario. championship.
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Easter travel was exeeptionally-heavy this
year and Ottawa reports a record nutnlwr of
Pgsport applications for travel_ to foreign
parts by ocean liners am] airplanes. Can-
adians are spending a lot of money in this way
and we suppose it all adds to the culture in
which_our___peeple are_sometimes said to be
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The Elora Express, "exasperated" by 0.1-
taiva's high -taxation, says the ayfrage Can-
adian is "tired of being treated as lin irres-
ponsible child who cannot he trusted to spend
his own money." Every average ('anadian, it
seems, should have a little armed hand of his
own to guard his doorstep, instead of eon-
tribnting towards a national artily to keep the
whole country safe. That is the way it was itt.
the'"good old days" of five or six eenturies
ago.
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"Roy 's. POeni to Be Aired" was the head-
ing of a daily newspaper's artiele about. a
boy's poem that was 10 be put on the air.
The space would have allowed the heading
"To Broadcast Roy's Poem," butHip-to-ditte
Journalism may be adopting the word "aired"
in a new meaning, as the smart newspaper boys
say a meeting was ",chaired" by Mr. So -and -So.
But either of these words doesn't raise the
gorge of a lover of ourianguage as does the
use of "emeed" to indicate that Mr. So -and -So
acted as master of ceremonies. There ought
to be a law to prevent the murdering .of
English.
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'Down Meniory's-
Lane _
45 Years Ago
The June training camp for the
Western Ontario military district
will be held at Goderich next
June. The camp site is to be at
'Attrils'.
The recommendation in favor of
Captain William Robinson for the
appointment of lighthouse keeper
has been accepted by -the 'Marine
Department at Ottawa.
The Ontario West Shore Rail-
way is negotiating with the Bay-
field council to have an extension
of the rail service from Goderich
to Barfield.
A great portion of the Kensing-
ton Furniture Company factory
was destroyed by fire, around 9.30
last night
The captains of the different
vessels which wintered here, am
expected te arrive ,in town next
week.
Mrs. Wm. Green, one of the
oldest residents of Goderich, has
just performed a noteworthy feat
in the sewing line, by making three
patch -work quilts inside of three'
months. Mrs. Green, now 88 years
old is the mother of Mrs. J. P.
Brown and an aunt of Harry
Morris, both of town.
25 Years Ago
The -freighter Farandoc, of ihe
Patterson line was the first boat
of the season to clear the harbor
here. She left light for Colling-
wood Wednesday at 4.30 p.m.
The Winners of the two mam-
moth milk chocolate bars for the
closest guess to the correct weight
of the bars were Bill Ross and
James Johnston.
The premises on East street
vacated some months ago by J. D.
MeAlanus and Son is being fitted
up as a warehouse for the Still -
mans Company.
Two boys braved the cold waters
of the Maitland Wuesday to be the
first in for a swim this year.
-Seven of the best pacers in
Canada have been entered in the
free-for-all stake at-- the -forthcom-
ing race meet. They are: Bud
Grattan, Sid 'Hall, Ramona Grattan,
Alf Abdell, Willis Grattan, Captain
Grattan and Great Heart: -
Campbell Tweedie has complet-
ed the foundation for a soft drink
manufacturing shop on Picton
street.
15 Years Ago
The tanker Windsolite, under
the charge of Captain Dyne, of
Toronto, arrived at 4.30 this after-
noon. This evening at the town
hall Captain Dyne will be present-
ed with the traditional silk' hat,
being the captain of the first vessel
to arrive in port this season.
Thirty G.C.I. students have ask-
ed permission to leave school at
Easter and work on farms for the
summer.
With the CNR line from Clinton
Junction to Wingham *Junction re-
ported as closing April 12, there
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entered by many of the- affected
municipalities against the railway.
Seven of eighteen Avro-Anson
bombers that took off from Port
Albert airport, late last Friday
night on routine training flights,
were forced to make forced land-
ings or seek shelter away from
their base, when a snowstorm blew
in near midnight. All landed safe-
ly and there were ne injuries.
An addition to Goderich's busi-
ness community is R..G. Emerson,
Phm. B., who has purchased the
drug business of the late E. R.
Wigle. Mr. Emerson, although still
a young man, •conducted a drug
business in Windsor for 11 years.
10 Years Ago
Mayor D. D. Mooney will head a
delegation to go to Ottawa to seek
Probably the best collection ofphoto-
graphs of loeal scenes in the earlier days of
Goderico was that to be seen in the dental
*studio of the late Dr. AIabee. It contained
many pictures which it would be difficult to
find elSew'here. The collection should he -eare•
fully preserved and we are glad to know that
plans aro being made to give it such care.
.tiodet•ieli of eourse has changed a great deal in
the eourse of a eentury and it should be of
great interest to residents of 100 years hence
to see what the Square .and other parts of the
town looked like hack"in the last half of the
lf)th eentury.
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Who remembers the. lora] millinery open-
ings (if fifty years ago? Mrs. Eedy of tit.
Marys (10"(5, and writes about them in The
Journal -Argus, as follows:
Soon the preparatimis for the Opening of Spring
will be done, and that, delightful season will be
ushered in. Not many years ago it was considered
inevitable that there be spring millinery openings,
and every store that sold women's hats had an
announcement in the paper some weeks before the
event, and all the women and girls reserved that
date to spend hours visiting these stores to look at
and try on the new creations,—and perhaps btW one.
For days and weeks before that, the employees
worked night and day making up and trimming the
hats, having ab -sorbed the illustrations in magazines,
or having visited the wholesale establishments to
see the styles. What has happened to all this?
The truth of the matter is that few people wear hats
in the warm seasons, and the wholesales just send
out ready-made ones of several varieties from
Which one cati be chosen if needed for formal occa-
sions, or smart women can screw up a knot of silk
or ribbon and stick a flower on it that will serve the
purpose . . . for the beginning of spring.
DUNGANNON ,
Agricultural Soeloty,--The Dun-
ganntow Agricultural Society held
- their annual meeting on (March 29
with 'a largo, attendance. Harvey
CalbertiTacted" as chairman and' the
'.1•7:"--t•-'-`--------icalowkrig--.1ofileers--Were-s- -elected:
Preakient, J. Sherwood; first
- • • Tice-crestdent, Mel Matson; • see-
-on& fiesPpresiden4-, Ralph- Godfrey;
director3,1401SeBentiett,„Rega.Me.;
• ..;:eiree, Harvey PAltoti,-1.1amey
• -bert, Mar' Iteed:-'11elsini- Culbert,
Earotd .Adams, ,,Chester Flnnlgan
and .11.6Ss;Eedy;',,F,tersilitiatedireetorS,
'',(Bertnett;.'14,1Viti;Kekr; Airrold
Saiinderic,GendOnl.:
-1`.4X,ulbe Jr.),
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Bill Culbert, John Finnigan,
George Errington, Harold Culbert,
Stanley McGratten, Allan Dickson,
Donald McKenzie, Allan. Petrie,
Grant Chisholm, Bill-Caesar;"\vm.
Stewart (jr.), Ross Henry, Arnold
Stothers, Ronald Alton, Harvey
-Mole, JimErrington and. Merle
Kerr; auditors, William Stewart
and K. K. Dawson. Honorary 'pre-
sidents serving- for a .-two -year -term
ore: ,Elden Culbert. Lome Durnin,
Gordon Stewart, Howard Sproule
arid -Omar BroOks. The president,
Omar Brooks, spoke on what had
been accomplished, In. -the past
;year: a nets judges' stand had boon
built at the cost,of ;70200 land
--ttaidefabie num had been ipent
on Abe improveMent of the track.
:dlniOn stria held Alsn the build-
ing of a -,barn but' it was left over
until -next meeting.—T. M. Durnin,
secretary -treasurer.
Mr. and Mrs, T. M. Durnin hhd
as their guests over the holiday
the former's sisters and their
families: Dr. and Mrs. 11. R. Hall,
Miss L. E. Durnin, rs. C. A.
ilkrhitabr. GodMerich; Helen
and Jean Whitely, of Torontos.Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Whitely and family
and Mr. and Mrs. G. Whitely and
Briffit
Mr. and Mrs. Bbb Purdon and
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Purdon, of
Whitechurch, were +Monday visit
ors with Mrs. Irvine Henry._
Mr. and Mrs, Otto l'opp, LIlilan
and Murray, and Mrs. R. MciCentif
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Alvin _McGee, of Goderich, on Fri -
'day Isat. -
OBITUARY
narnor Improvements which were
held up here during the war.
The.first ship of the winter fleet
to leave Goderich was the Algon-
quin which cleared here early
Tuesday morning for_ Thorold to
load paper for ChIcago. Captain
Carson was on the bridge.
• Goderich Juvenile "B" team lost
out 14-6 in the final round of the
Ontario -championship to Barrie
Tuesday night.
Goderich fishermen have been
laying their nets near hayfield this
season, with varying results. The
MacKay brothers had the biggest
haul of the season when they
caught 5,000 pounds of perch on
Monday.
D. M. O'Brien has purchased the
block at the corner of East street
*and the Square, from the P. T.
Dean estate.
Delivery of the first two now
1946 deluxe Fords was made by
Goderich 'Motors to Art Doak and
Irwin Bell, both veterans of World
War II.
Thieves broke :nto the Royal
Bowling Alley Tuesday night, steal-
ing a quantity of cigarets.
Anticipating a "dry spell," cus-
tomers flocked to the local bever-
age rooms in numbers and with a
capacity large enough to exhaust
the supply of liquids, on Thursday
night, two days before the "shut
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Old." The liquor bill has been
given its third and final reading
and has 'been passed by the On-
tario House.
The Bible Today
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'-The 'rdaY hi.s -abiiie-lit-the- far.
East when a Hindu says to a
Muslim, "My brother It is your
CigiAlan duty to do that." Such
a :.declaration comes largely
through the influence of the Bible
in the Urdu, or Hindustani lang-
uage.
The strength of the new. way
of life this book introduced into
India is seen also in the way
Christians there were trusted by
both Muslims and Hindus when
the British withdrew and these two
peoples ipassed through a self-im-
posed reign of terror.
It was during this period of
transition that Christians painted
white crosses on their doors and
gave refuge to both Muslims and
Hindus and both governments used
Christians widely in refugee
camps.
'Bibles, Bibles, more Bibles" is
the demand everywhere in these
countries today. "We cannot keep
enough Bibles in stock," complain-
ed an official of the Bible Society
of India, Pakistan and Ceylon re-
cently. The British and -Foreign
Bible Society responded with a
gift of 91 tons of Bible paper
from London.
The name "Urdu" comes from
the time 500 years ago when the
Muslim invaders swarmed over the
Northern mountains of India'. They
set up a King's Palace in Delhi.
The King's soldiers camped close
about the palace walls. As they
mingled -with the native peoples in
the market place they learned their
Hindustani language. 'However,
'with it they mixed many of their
own Arabic and Persian words.
"Urdu" was the "camp language"
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THURSDAY, APRIL 5th/ 1956
w ernellted. The scrip
t used
Junior Farmers- .
Is Peralan.
By 1809, four years after he
arrived tn India as a chaplain,
Henry- Martyzi. had translated_ the
entire new Testament into Urdu
His little committee of Indian
ad-
visors often worked four days over
two chapters. The translation was
so nearly perfect that it has been
compared to Tyndale's and Cover -
dale's work in the translation of
the Bible into English.
Suggested readings for the weekt
Sunday, John 20:1-18; Monday,
Jahn 20:19-31; Tuesday, John 21:
1-25; Wednesday, Heb. 2:1-18;
Thursday, Heb. 3:1-19; Friday, Ileb.
4:1-16; Saturday, Heb. 6:1-20.
RED CROSS HOPING FOR
OVER $2,000 IN FUNDS
Returns are incomplete but
Goderich residents have so far
contributed more than $1,400 to
the annual Red Cross campaign
for funds. Campaign officials, who
are still waiting fpr returns from
six local industries, are hopeful
that total donations will pass the
$2,000 mark.
This year's canvass has been
directed by members of the Ladies'
Auxiliary to 'Branch 109 of the
Canadian Legton.
James McGill, who founded Mc-
Gill University with bequests of
money and land, started his busi-
neas career in Canada as a fur
trader.
Elect Officers
Officers of Huron Junfor Farm-
ers Association elected •Thursday
at the annual meeting itt Clintan
Collegiate:
President—Zarl McSpadden, Sea -
forth; vice-presidents, Boyd Taylor,
Walton, Stewart Broadfoot, • Clin-
ton; secretary — Larry Wheatley,
Dublin; treasurer, Art Bolton; as-
aistant Ag. -Rep.; provincial direc-
tor, Miss Helen Johnston, Brussels.
Directors—Laverne Godkin, Wal-
ton; Wm. Strong, Dublin; David
Dinsmore, Gorrie; James Robinson,
Fthiciwir.1; Lame Hackett;- Frank
Alton, Lucknow; Bert Pepper, Sga-
forth; Berne McKinley, Zurich;
John .Pym, Exeter; Andy Dougall,
Exeter; Donald Dow, Wingham;
James Bowman, Brussels.
Presentation of the Junior Farm-
ers' trophy was made by assistant
Ag. Rep. Arthur Bolton to the
Junior Farmers Club of Sealorta
It was accepted by Larry Wheatley
and Catherine Campbell.
Miss Catherine Campbell, Sea -
forth, was elected as the new presi-
dent of the Junior Institute.
Over 150 members of the Junior
Farmers and Junior Institutes at-
tended the annual meeting.
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At the end of 1954 there were
3,541 productive gas wells in Can-
ada, of which 3,211 were in On-
tario, 280 in Alberta, 39 In New
Brunswick and 12 in Saskatchewan.
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April 8th -22nd -Nightly at 7.45 p.m.
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SPEAKER :—Rev. --Leighton 'Foie', of North Carolina-L(brother-in-law of Dr. Billy Graham).
MUSIC:—Rev; Wesley Aarum, of, Buffalo, Director;
Mr. Homer James, of Ottawa, Soloist;
Mass Choir from City .Churches.
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'STRATFORD, ONT.
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MRS. HAROLD CASSIDY
The funeral service for Mrs.
Harold Cassidy, of Walkerton, was
held from St. *Anne's Roman Cath
one Church, Riversdale, with Rev.
Father J. Jordon officiating. Burial
was made in St. Anne's Parish
cemetery on 'March 26.
She was the former Beth Robin-
son, of Kincardine. Surviving be-
sides her husband are one son,
Gordon, two' daughters, Chcryle
and Lynne, all at. home, her mo-
ther, Mrs. W. llern, of Goderich,
three siEters, Mrs. Clarence Cas-
sidy and Mrs. Wilfred
both of Walkerton, .Mrs. Jerome
Moore; of Kincardine -and lour
brothers, Douglas and Harold Rob-
inson, of Kincardine, Cameron
Robinson, of Barrie, and Robert,
of Vancouver. Mr. and 'Mrs. W.
lfern and Mr. and Mns. Grant Mac-
Phee attended the funeral.
MRS. J.. II. REID ,
The death occurred of Mrs. J. II.
Reid at her home 'at libnga,nnon
on Wednesday, March 28. She was
in her 73rd year. The funeral
service was helsLati2he McLennan
and -MacKenzie -funeral chapel in
Lucknow on Fridii at 2.30 p.m.
Rev. Wallace McClean and Rev. J.
Jennings officiated. Interment was
in Dungannon cemetery.
Mrs. Reid was the former Char-
lotte Ann Errington, daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. David Erring-
ton. She was a faithful member
of the Presbyterian . Church and
the W.M.S.
Her husband died 31- years ago.
She is surviVbd by four sons and
four daughters: 'Gordon and Stew-
art, of Ashfield Township; James.
of Port Elgin; Robert, of Lucknow;
,M1V. Cliff Murray, Mrs. Albert
Taylor and Mrs. John Finnigan,
all of West Wawanosh Township.
and Mrs. 'Mel. Stewart, -of Aahfleld
Township. There are 14 grand-
chitdren and two great -grand
children.
The pallbearers were six neph-
ews: Victor Errington, Roy Erring-
ton, IfoWard Morriett, Robert Mc-
Allister, John Park and Harvey
Reid. 'MO flower bearers were
grandchildren.
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