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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1957-03-07, Page 2•,t f:‘" 1,4 ,•to:40 r ' +4, 0 ; • r \4, ; 4.,Pt ; •1, 4 de' it.,+•04+`, „ A1 • • THE GODEItICH SIGNAL -TAR'. s _ SIFT° SALT EMPLOYEES ENJOY A SOCIAL EVENING A social "evening was enjoyed by the entployees of Stifto Salt Limited at 'MacKay Hall on Friday evening. The party was arranged by the executive of the Employees Coun- cil. Daiiciog was enjoyed tothe orchestra ed George Monk and his Melody Mixers. Winners at cards were Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Reis 11E.- 5abrric1i 'igna1$'tar . HURON COUNTY'S FOREMOST WEEKLY • • Established 1848. In its 1I0th year of publication. Published by Sigual-Star Publishing Limited • • . ItB . Subscription Rates—Canada and Great Britain, $3,00 a year: to United '',i, _7,0 States, $4.00. Strictly lin advance. . C. $./ ... is Advertising Rates o- request Telephone 71. Authorizpi as second-class mail, Post Office Department. Ottawa Put -of -Town Representative: C.W,N.A. 2.37 Foy Bldg., 34 Front St., %V. Toronto. Over 3,000—Largest circulation of any newspaper published in Huron County—Over 3,000 Member of Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Member of Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association, Member of Audit 'Bureau of Circulation GEO. L. ELLIS, Editor and Publi her. THURSDAY, MARCH 7th, 1957 • "EGG-ZACTLY Canadian housewives whO are worried about food costs will have no reason to he grateful to Agrivulture Minister Gardiner, who has announced that .the Agricultural Prieto, Support Board is buying up large quautities of eggs to keep the prices up. This means that the Government is now bidding vompetitively with the housewife to prevent her from getting any bargains egg. Mr. Gardiner hasn't said what -he proposes to do with the Govern- ment's egg horde, Maybe they'll go to house- wives in Germany or some suelt place to whom V WHAZZIS?" . - and Mrs. Phyllis Ryan and Tony ,Hartman. Novelty dances were won by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mabe, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Ryan and Mrs. Bob Hoy and Alec Boa. A draw was made for a three- piece carving set. and was won by Mrs. Hugh McCrostie. o - For reiults—try a classified ad ..in the Signal -Star. ••• TIRXISTAAT, MARCH 7tb, 19= PERSONAL NTION Mr. and Mrs. D. YiNtlfp, !fed and Kathy, were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. Lawrence and Mr. aud Mrs. Wilson and Mary, Huron road. • Mr. and Mrs. James Skeoch, ac. companied by Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Erskine, loft Sunday on It trip to Florida. the Agrieultural Prices Support Board will. sell its surplus stock of eggs at bargain prices. And now there comes along a news item from Ottawa which says that more than 3,500,; oou doz.en eggs ---or their equivalent in pm-ices- scji eggs—have been imported into Canada in l'reVell months. They come here front United States, l'idand. llong Kong, the United King- dom, Alaska and the Netherlands. Just what have those foreign hens got that_Ottawa thinks Canadian hens haven't ? Or, trhat kind of a round-robin game is this anyway? OUR NEIGHBOR'S PLIGHT Our heart got., out to the editor of The KUteardine News who says, -There's a certaiu monotony about lite n a small _town, where the pattern followed ear in and rear out hears a marked reseiiiblance to the one which has prevailed over a long period. - To a certain etent. there is a great deal of truth in. this,4 ft* you should have anv doubt about it, we invite you to look IIN'Or tiles 01 our newspapers for the past ten years. As you compare the newspapers in any one month to those of the eorresponding month of the previous year or years you will find an astounding similarity ill the news. With -the exception of new naints and the exact dates of the happenings there is a surprising round ()f sepetitions. At the beginning of the year it is a series of annual meetings of chureh organ- izations. Then -there are the winter storms and hockey games. Comes Spring and the happenings connected with it. School exam- inations and waterfront aetivities. Summer family reunion picnics. Then, fall and the opening of schools. Next, fall fairs, municipal elections and Christmas coneert$ and shopping. FinnlIT-the end of 'the year andthen we're ofT On -anAliiii,7.yea- Of -about -the -same -things; - Von mightl _attrpriaed..linAV, you. ;can le.11., pretty well the general pattern of news for the coming •month by looking up .what ,happened v.. t. • LEND A NAND TO THE WORLD'S BEST INTERNATIpNALISTS . • EXAMPLE r." Down Memory's Lane • the sanie mouth a year ago. But editor liteLeml of 'rhe Kioeardihe Netts had ,omethillf2; specific itt 111111d. Ile said partieular events took place in partiettlar towns cath year for which those towns were partieularly noted. Ile listed the towns and events. (loderieli. for example, was mentioned for its 'Kinsmen Club 'Pradts Fair. I -le pleaded that some Nervi -e club in liineartline might establish soil' annual event there by which Kineardine might bevome 'better known. We sinverely hope a service (dub there will take up the eliallenge. Mayhe hincar(Itne might. eome up with something like the Stratford Shakespearean Festival but with some distinetive Scottish flavor to it. But it Must be remembered that the Shakespearean Festival was not built up in one day. And the Kincardine event should in some way be eonneeted with its best naturad. at t ribute—the waterfront. • That any help, "Mae"? If so, please for - "ward., cheque by, return mail. Wel pass it on to some service club.here as an inventive prize for some of its enterprising members to come up with an 'idea to raise funds, for the service elubs_are. finding it -tough-these days to invent -money -raising ideas 0. re AJ.1,...4 epl eted .elub tre-acuri-Wall- know n - ones used in the past just don't seem to Catch the eon's as they once did. EDITORIAL NOTES Easter Canes quite late this year with Easter Sunday on April 21st. 13y that time there won't be ice in the arenas of many towns from which will come pee wee hockey teams to take part in Young Canada Week here. •PO . • Soon it will be Spring—for youths with "thoughts of love." Later comes the season for fathers. Fathers, of course, are what give flaughters away to other men who aren't good enough for them.. . . so they can have grand- children that are smarter than anyllody's. * • * * * It you think national puldieations and leading daily newspapers do tiot regard weekly ,newspapers as important media in whielz to get •their messages avross to weekly nevesnani,r readers yon should ser the pile of releases on our desk at this moment. They tll tell of interesting ,artieles that are to appear in the aforementioned.national publieations and daily neyirspa pet's 40011. If a weekly 110 S pap..r used all •,f tit -'so -news releases- sent f0 ille111 Itt any one week they would 10 --up' mn. than half a page. *, Any day now the annual Spring. break-up in the Maitland River and Lake Huron will lie giving the town water supply its familiar murky appearaflee. Our sedimentation ba-sio • just w'on't be 'able- to leave behind the sedi-: meat before the water comes pouring through our kitchen taps. We only hope that hygienic old ...lady won't be visiting in Goderich until the water clears.up in appearance. You know, the one who indignantly protested on seeing our town water_in...ber glass, "This water is positively putraseent and before I will drink it there must be a lInronalysis." . . Froin the tenor of the remarks made by Finanee Minister Walter Ilarris at the Liberal nomination meeting Friday at. Clinton we wouldn't conot to() heavily on any great re- diletion in taxation *when -his budget comes down this month. Teue,„the past• two years have !Well healthy (-4UrpillSeS 1)111it seems there i. a slight matter or some $11,000,000,000 iri public debt quit 'has to he eased otI over the y,,a4•5J?t.ft11the t a x payer, a hreathingidspell. Biggest animal expeinlitnre by far in the name of national 414(.11(.0. The DEW line in the north keeps our taxes con- tinually (Ifie. We only hope that. after the billions of dollars that will be spent on it. it will not turn out to be as useless as was the "impregnable" Maginot Line in 1.11,811r. Ilow- , ever. pubfic financing these days is no fun, even for those who draft. the spending of public 1110111 LIGHT VERSUS HEAVY BIRDS .. Changes in poultry farming in Canada are _bringing a reduction . in the nuniber of small farm flocks and the appearance of large com- mercial flocks. This is accompan- iie by decreasing profit margins making the poultryman ever more 0011.9CioUs of . prodUction costs. 'These changes have brought about a reappraisal by egg producers of breeds end crosses. says T.- M. McIntyre, Senior ,Poultryman, Ex- perimental Farm, Nappan, N.S. The heavy, dual-purpose breeds' and crosses'which have been popu• lar. among poultrymen for many years now appear to be losing favor to light breeds and crosses. There are two reasons for this: 41) The price of fowl has been low in recent years, thus reducing the meat value of the carcass; f Light„ birds require less 'feed for maintenance and •hence, when cog:paced my' the basis of equal egg production, produce eggs more #oenomieally than 'heavy birds. A tatripOund blrd'PrOdueing 200 eggs per year consumes about 78 pounds ieed,vfhile a six -pound bird Tilling at the same rate consumes *tut 98 pounds of iced. On this basis the light bird produces one ifeeen,eggs,,,on 4.7 pounds of feed, 'Vie* the' lieaVy bird requires 5.9 tetinds ot feed.for one dozen eggs. This represent% a saving of about cite dollar per bird per year fqr thio lIght blrds.r • SinceIttany heavy breeds are p6pulat*,' have good growth; live= *Witt, and, Production rceords; site part -a, prodneers. to switch -other breeds': But' low loWl .,gsticeehave,,dcerdaSed. the -intOthe '&b.thfthis''SOttree,31:eirridbasizing tha r.1,,,!..'„,.'isitessiti eeoliVinieTe488 -pit• '1k,t,t4ttietfOrt. • Present trona ,,mdicate tbsot !tprefrt, from the laying, floek trust' „conte largelt;irom ',egg •/)ro- co, • ' ; . ,•- , ; ,,,,, • -• • .7,•)••••2•1r, - duction and poultrymen are look- ing to the light breeds and crosses with their lower maintenance re- quirements for more economical egg production Snow on the ground? No nice .green chives? Substitute one tea- sp9on pure onicn juice ,for one tablespoon chives. They're flavor cousins! EXCEPTIONAL SPARE- TIME OPPORTUNITY KEEP PRESENT , JOB ' WRITTEN GUARANTEE OF INCOME 45 Years Ago and W. F. Saunders were re-elected In regard to the Goderich power , to the board. question, Hon. Adam Beck advised In Goderich court, ,the long - Council to mark time until the standing charges against a Blyth provincial commission finished tak- woollen mill operator, of permit- ing readings on the Maitland River ting industrial waste and animal in the spring. matter to enter a - stream, were In the advertising columns of adjourned for three months. The Signal, a house and lot on The employees of Western Can - Elgin avenue were offered for sale ada Flour Mills established a re- for,$1,000. cord for the •county 'when 'they The British Exchange Hotel was turned in Victory Loan applications .ttttalling 470 percent of their ob- ective. 10 Years Ago Members of • the former boys' band were added to the Blue Water Band. J. E. Huckins, bandmaster, expected there would be a turnout of 45 bandsmen for the first public appearance- of the reorganized band. R. 11. Cornish and Frank Skelton were president and vice-president respectively of tho newly formed Kinsmen Club. • Goderich Public School Board granted salary increases of $200 to each teacher. and principal on the staff. Orr's dairy, which had fbeen founded 15- years earlier by "the late J. R. Orr, /was sold to Clyde" Mock, of Stayner. About 150 Lions Glub members sold 'by E. 'R. Swartz to J. Brown, of Windsur. , • Henry T. Thomson, of South- ampton, purchased the Male Leaf Grocery on Hamilton street from J. H. McClinton, who then bought W. •Hern's boot and shoe store on the east side of the Square. Mr. Iferh then purchased the grocery business of H. R. Long on the Square at Hamilton street. More meetings were- held by representatives of the municipal- ities interested in' the guaranteeing of the Ontario West Shore Railway bonds. Construction was at a Standstill and the outlook was not encouraging. 25 Years Ago Herbert Cranston escaped with scratches when the main drive shaft of his car dropped to the pavement, causing the vehicle' to turn over several times. The ac- and guests attended a farowell cident happened near Laithwaite's tu-m-ort the -Huron road. Apparently there had been some -eomplftints --bout- comments- cemi ta in ed in the latest issue of the GCI Review. In an item published in the Goderich Star, J. P. Hume and W. Sutherland disclaimed any intention of anyone at the school offending any organizations or in- dividuals in the community. Wesley Walker, at Goderich, re- turned from a 10 -day, 4,000 -mile motor trip to the oil fields in the southern- U.S. He and two score others from this district were in- terested in properties down- there. During the trip, tMr. Walker sip- ped •Paraguay tea with Governor "Alfalfa Bill'." Murray in Okla- homa City: Hugh Hill, of Colborne Town- ship, was elected president of North Huron Liberal Association. At a special meeting of the Goderich Collegiate Institute Board, it was decided to cut teach- ers' salaries by five percent. 15 Years Ago A Victory Loan concert was pre- sented in Taylor's Corner School by the pupils of Goderich Town - 'ship school sections 1, 2 and 6. Inspector E. C. Beacom was chair- man for the evening. A dog drinking bowl was attach- ed to the horse fountain in the park opposite East street. This announcement was contained in a report presented at the annual meeting of the Children's Aid So- ciety by Miss Ann Wurtele, con- vener of the humane work com- mittee. Thomas Sandy and James Don- aldson were added to the board of managers at the annual con- gregational meeting of Knox Pres- byterian Church. Robert Bisset - - 110000000000111000,000001111•01 dinner for W. J. Hodg6, former _Club president -and7diStriet-deplity governor. After 10 years in Gale. ichr-Mr.---1-rodge-had-tecepted-a" tranSfer to the Bell ' Telephone Company office in Toronto. A TYPICAL employee of a well-established Canadian industry is a married man with two or three children. Be has an income of about $305 per month. (In Stelco _the average is 394 per month). He owns his home, and the mortgage, if any, is being paid off steadily. He has an automobile and his home is equipped with almost every kind of convenience, As a father, this typical free, independent and self- respecting Canadian industrial employee is anxious to see his children do well, be honest, grow up as good citizens. And the father believes in setting a good ex- ample in his home, in his neighborhood and in his job. 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