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HURON COUNTY'S FOREMOST WEEKLY
Established , 1848. In its 109th year of publication.
THE GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR
Down Memory's
Lane
Published by Signal -Star Publlshing Limited
subscription Rates—Canada and Great Britain, $3.00 a year: to United U a.
States, $4.00. Strictly in advance.
Advertising Rates on request Telephone 71.
Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa.
Out -of -Town Representative: C.W.N.A. 237 Foy Bldg., 34 Front St., W. Toronto.
Over 3,000—Largest circulation of any newspaper published in Huron County—Over 3,000
Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Associations Member of Ontario Weekly Newspapers
Association, Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations. -
GEO. L. ELLIS, Editor and Publisher.
A doctor says that women- who When the • earth trembles we
constantly diet to gain a shun can blame it partly on the moon,
figura grow melancholy. Who says a scientist. Or on the son,
wants to be reduced to tears? when he's out driving.
THURSDAY, JUNE 7th, 1956
• MORE STEAM PLANTS FOR SECURITY
Communities in Essex County- depending
upstn Hydro for power and light are, like
Goderich, out of luck when there is a failure
in the service. 'I`hey are, in fact, somewhat
farther from the source of Hydro power that
is Goaerich, but they are just aeross the river
from Detroit and when trouble comes they
earl hiteh up with the Detroit system—at least
so long as Detroit has power to spare..
This means, that these communities arts
uneasy about the situation; The An herstburg
Echo, discussing the two recent Hydro black-
outs its Western Ontario, uses the terra
"frightening" and says; "\\' ' do think that
the 1I.E.P.C. shottld stake a full explanation
to-eonttnissions as to tho reason for the
blaekauts, the possibility of further blackouts,
and also tell why the large steam generating
plant at Windsor was not in operation,','
The h:cho advocates the building of other
steant plants throughout Ontario' • to " insure
that some power. at least, 'will be available its
case -of emergency. "We hate to think," says
the Amherst1)urg paper, .`what W'oulti happen
to unit• whole et'onouly if such widespread-
blael:o•ttts eontinue or in ease Of war the
(elt.eetlst011 plalit was Wiped out. Frightening,
to say the least."
A FEW WORDS ABOUT ONE SMALL WORD
This writer was asked the other day
about- a little ward that appeared three times . r
in less than a ►'ulututt in one of the daily papers
in a description of the eourt roost in the new
County Coilrt House here. 'I'hC word as used
was 'dies', referring to the elevated portion.
of .the. roots on Nvhich _the, presiiling Jti l ;o. sits. --
The right waist, of course, is ' dais' ; we fail to
find `bias' in any •of the several dietiunaries
we have' consulted.
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45 Years Ago
In 1911, the population•of Gode-
rich was 4,815, an increase of 185
over the previous year.
Prospects for the re:establisr-
ment of the salt .•industry in Gode-
rich on a large scale loom bright.
Representatives of an English com-
pany have ordered the erection Of
the 'first unit of a new plant for
the purpose of making a test of•the
brine.
West Huron Liberal Association
elected the following officers: pre-
sident, H. J. Morris, of Goderich;
first vice-president, William Bailie,
of Dungannon; second vice-presi-
deht, Joseph Dalton, of Kings-
bridge; third vice, -president, John
Fingland, of Witmer; secretary, W.
If. Robertson, of Goderich; treas-
urer, J. Bell, of Carlow; auditor,
W. J. Paisley, of Clinton.
Dr. W. S. Turnbull was in com-
mand of the 18 members of Sec-
tion C of the 15th Field Ambul-
ance Corps when they left for
Niagara -on -the -Lake, where the art-
nual training camp is being held.
25 Years Ago
Rev. G. W. Butt, pastor of Vic-
toria Street and Union United
Churches, has been transferred to
Gorrie. To complete the exchange,
Rev. F. W. Craik is leaving Gorrie
to take charge of the Victoria
Street and Union Churches.
John Nicholson, of Godericfi, is
forming a local holding company
in connection with the gravel de-
posits between here and Sarnia.
The Joyland, the hydraulic dredge
which he owns, is being brought
to Goderich to undergo extensive
alterations.
Huron County Council endorsed
the action of the warden in ar-
ranging with the Ontario Publicity
Committee , for a homecoming
Week in the county July 1-8.
One hundred and forty delegates
registered for the annual meeting
of the Women's Institutes of West
Iluron in MacKay Hall here. The
president was Mrs. R. Davidson,
of Dungannon.
Mr. Wright, chairman of the
agricultural advisory 'committee of
Huron County Council, advocated
the erection of roadside signs to
advertise the "Happy Homes and
Good Butter" of the county.
15 Years Ago
.Miss Helen Bisset has been en-
gaged as teacher of classics and
ancient history at Goderich Col-
legiate Institute. She fills the posi-
tion left vacant by the resignation
of Miss Park.
Headed by three pipers, No. 1
platoon of the Kent Regiment _par -
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Fowler's book on English usage says the
word is from thy, French 'des.' with the long
•a.' The English have tirade two syllables of
it, 'dais.' with the accent on the first syllable,
pronounced 'day.'
Dictionaries du not always agree on spel-
ling .and pronunciation, but in this case they
all -Seem to -have the -same -- spelling,"' dais;' not
'dies
Which was to be demonstrated, as Euclid
used to say when we went to sehool. ,t
• EDITORIAL NOTES
Reports front the prairie provinces are
that with favorable, weather seeding of wheat
has been -practically completed; and the weath-
er graph published this week indicates a con-
tinuance of warm weather there, while Ontario
is to have more "below normal" temperatures
for the next thirty days'. Canadians every-
%chhere will be_ gtad.to, learn. of _The_ _fine--pru3-__
gets on the' prairies' prairies -and Ontario" fa -rulers .will_
TO yRELlEVE -OVERCROWDED SCHOOLS
.:1 s.1.. c.c.mPi.ns.,
from the West. y..
farm income, per capita income has suffered
little, if at all, in the period under review. In
Canada the census now being taken will
reveal to what extent agriculture in Tris
country follows the United States pattern in
respect to number of fanners, produetion and
income.
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•J. 13. Priestley, who has been visiting Can-
ada, says that this country is ;,ably lacking
in culture and that if' he were a Canadian he
would ask for $100,000,000 for the arts; if he
were younger 11.-tiroui(ls-�evetttt nl.i4-:.tptS,a aaa _
and 'join in the 1ia1t'te litmseTh :10 doi'bt
he would like to get in un some of the hundred
millions, but we believe (_'atiada•..tan get along
very nicely without him. ('onsidered in bulk
—as Mr. Priestley evittently considers it --'this
' country probably has as ruueh "culture," per
capita, as England, but it is Spread out more
evenly among the population, and it is not of
the kind displayed recently by the 1)itke of
Merit and his roistering companions in Enig-
1110d.
Farming in the United Tates is slttl'ering
in much the sante was and in niuch. the Sante
degree as is farming in Canada. Figures ree-
ec'titly released show a markesl deelinc in the
number of 1".S. farmers, from 3,400,000 int 193i)
to 4,800,000 in 1934. Reasons given for the• de-
cline are to great inereast' in inoehanization of
the farms and the produetiolt of crops in
excess of demands, resulting in' depressed
prices. According, to this_ statement, with a
smaller number of farmer; to share the total
OBITUARY
W. J. WATSON
Funeral service will be held to-
morrow for William James Watson,
08, a native of Stanley Township,
who died in Rosetown, Sask.,. on
Sunday, after an illness of six
weeks. The remains will be
brought to Stiles funeral home,
Goderich, where the service will
be conducted at 2 p.nt. by Rev- H.
A. Dickinson, of North Street Unit-
ed t'3inurch. Interment will be in
Baylleld cemetery.
Mr. Watson .the son of John
and Sarah Watson, lived in Stanley
Township for 24 years before going
to Etsk, Sask. Be lived at Fisk
'for 41' years, retiring to D'Arcy,
Sask., three years ago. Unmarried,
he is survived by five sisters and
three brothers. They are: Mrs.
Ethel Mosso'', Varna; Mrs.' Ada
Dewar Bayfield; Sadie, Mrs. -Elmer
Sheardown, (toderich; Nellie, Mrs.
Paul Cleave, Bayfield; Isobel, Mrs.
Ronnie Gill4rd, Union; Robert J.
Watson,- Slntaiuta, Sask.; Fred
Watson, Bayfield, and John Wat-
son,., Goderich Townnhiii.
Pallbearers for the funeral will
be Elmer Sheardown, Watson
Shoardewn and Carll Houston, all
of 1 Goderich; John Watson, Bay-
• field; Rennie-.Gillard, Union, and
• Logan Cleave, Stanley. Township.
PERSONAL MENTION
M•r.'and Mrs. 'Wm. Ritchie, Sir.
and Mrs. Wm. Leeson; Mrs. L. Lee-
. son, 'Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd Ritchie;
of Toberm , •and; Mr. and Mrs. .7.
'MatWlck,,and .Mildred attended the
wedding „of . their 'nephew, Max
•.tkeson, .:.#•u ./lath, Moorrisonea•tt.N
intitii,(trace:'i:Llnitet•'Church,4'1 r
Dolt 'eu SaturdayiJune 2. Guests
;were.present'!. from Owen.: "Bound;
6toltlttv1lle':,:Toronto, .Detlmitr; Bdf-
f, o and.Maditoulln island ; i:, k„
ailed into-Godetvclt as mart' of a
1 plan to stimulate recruiting.
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GN1ie.I, student; was chosen winner •111N
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There may be some good reason why the On- among 51 entries received from I '
tario Department of Education does not lengthen Huron, Bruce and Wellington
the period during which our schools are used in the Counties in a forestry contest.
course of a year, but, so. far, we haven't been made•The tug N. Ellen M., under Capt.
Meneray, brought two million trout
aware of it. fry from the Southampton fish
One of the greatest burdens on municipal tax- hatchery, depositing part off Point
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payers is the capital cost involved in the building Olark and the balance oAfter being around this
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of new schools to accommodate_ our increasing 29 years. te:itig'{ a;: It has
school population. Yet, . the school buildings which been sold to Amherstburg inter -
we already have are closed during a substantial ests, says a reliable report.
portion of the year. . 10 Years Ago
The Signal -Star announced that
The idea of having pupils attend classes from A. P. Wilkes had retired after 40
say, eight o'clock each morning until noon, or from years in the newspaper business,
the last 11 of them in Goderich•
one o'clock in the afternoon until five o'clock, the I George L. Ellis, of London, has ac -
year round, suggests that it might be possible to quired an interest in the company.
double the pupil capacity of every school in, the
province. The- idea, has already been suggested
for our universities.
At present, the average pupil probably attends
school on an average of about 850 to 900 hours in a
year, allowing for the time lost for Easter, Christmas
and summer vacations, plus other holidays here and
there throughout the term. By attending classes
only four hours per day, but doing it the year round,
except for a couple of weeks for holidays during
the year (and with Saturdays off) a; pupil could
average about 1,000 hours per year.
We do not suggest that teachers should be
expected in woik both shifts every day, all year,
but it seems reasonable to suggest that schools
might be expected to serve two groups of pupils
every day instead of one, thus doubling the potential
of our present buildings.
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years vt►�th Canadian Army Public
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A good number of citi4ens turn-
ed out to greet the S.S, South
American, which docked with 456
passengers from Cleveland, De-
troit and Akron. The Lucknow
Pipe Band was on hand for the
occasion.
Despite fears of violence, there
was no trouble when the S.S. A. A.
Hudson brought a cargo of grain
here in defiance of the seamen's
strike.
The town treasurer received a
cheque for $837.09 from the On-
tario Liquor Control Board, this
being 20 per cent of hotel author-
ity fees for the past year. Since
the Canada Temperance Act is now
in effect, this is the last payment
to •be.xeceived by the town.
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