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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1957-03-14, Page 1Spring and the Harbor The sleeping, marine giants in Goderich harbor have started to yawn, Their, long, winter's nap is ending. Soon, the winter stor- age ,fleet ---19 grain boats in all— will be a hive of activity in pre- paration for the opening of the navigation season. .At the beginning of this week, one chief engineer arrived for an early fit -out of the Oalgadoc. It and the Sarniadoc are the two twin- screw, diesel -driven motorail Ps, built ;n Oollingwoad only last year. In the right foreground of the photo at top far right; these two new mtrtoai'ships, with broad white bands around', them, ctin be seen. While the Calgadoc and Sarnia• dot may be t~woeof the first boats ready to bit for the open water, the departure of all of the, boats is determined by ice conditions at the Head of the Lakes. Unless sail- ing is suitable for the grairrboats at the Lakehead, there is little use in the boats heading for there from Goderich. Normal first departure 'time for the season from Goderich ranges from April 5 to 16. Seasoned sail- ors have a feeling that because Easter comes so Late this year Master 'Sunday, April 21) the open- ing of navigation will be late, too. So, button up your overcoat for a while longer. In getting the grain carriers ready for , the season, the after crews (engineers, etc.) arrive first and get up steam. Later, comes the forward creno, consisting of the Captain, mates, cooks, etc. Last year, Most of the after crews arriv- ed at Goderich 'harbor about March 25, while the forward crews stream- ed in around April 1st. About the same schedule will likely follow this year. The complete crew on the larger boats in Goderich harbor runs up % more'than`g0' men To a'bear 'Ind about 16 for the mailer "canal boats." When the crews of all 19 'boats now in Goderich harbor are aboard, it increases the popu- lation of .Goderich harbor—for a time at least—by nearly 575 nen practically a -whole village in itself. Before the 'boats are allowed to leave the;. harbor they must pass a Gove> nment inspection as to the equipment, boilers and hulls. Most of the boiler testing, however, is done in the fall before the crews leave for the winter. The boat undergoes a thorough -check-over so as to be all set for a quick - readying in the'sprinrg. Someone 'remains behind all winter, however; -to keep an eye bn the boats. In fact, there were about 11 shi'ptkeepers ,with the. winter fleet's 19boats during the °past winter. During the pas''t win- ter, the barge Krupp had an un- usual shipkeeper. It was the genial Captain of the boat himself, Capt. "Sam" Brunet, anti with him (Continued on page 6) - . The Winter • Fleet's Long Nap is Ending 110th Year—No. 11 Subdivisions Divided As Election Nears If anyone doubts that a Federal election is just around the corner, they should visit the office on North Street of J. K. Hunter, Returning Officer for the riding of Huron. There, they will find a big stack of enumerators' supplies which arrived in Goderich away back in August, 1956. Polls Too Big ;O On top of that, Returning Officer Hunter informed the Signal -Star that a revision of the polling divis- ions in the electoral riding of Huron has just been completed. The only actual physicalcliange were in the town of , Goderich where polis number 2 and 12 were divide't into No. 2 Last and No. 2 West and also No, 12 East and No. 12 West. Reason for this change is that the original polls had become too large. No. 12 is divided by Eldon street and No. 2 by the Bayfield road. This changemakes a Utak o& 131 polling divisions in Huron in cb-t e arisoi t r -129 --in- 3953: a -----• - Advance Poll There will be an advance poll in the town. of Goderich which will be open to all from the riding of Huron entitled to 'vote at an all= van•ce -poli, said Mr. Bunter. rt will be the only advance poll in the riding and will lee open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. preceding the datef the election, yet to be announced. All the riding of Huron, with the exception of the town of Gode rich, is labelled as rural, said Mr. IPhnter. The town of Goderich is regarded as uriban and, consequent- ly, only those names can be added to the enumerator's list as are de- cided upon by a revising' officer. obcricij' Soon 'Twill Be Spring a •d Opening of Navigation Ignat= GODERICH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 14th, 1957. "Tonight's the night," as the say- ing goes, and in this case tonight Ls the one on which Finance Min- ister Walter Harris will teI1 us in the board's new about our financial shackles for IIbudget. Actual the corning year. He will present i cost of instruction last year was the budget. $86,070. --o tar Subscription , u s• °as s.aoSCOO Single Copies ,70 KEEP. OPEN FRIDAY NIGHTS IS ELISION OF MERCHANTS Plan Effective April 5 GDCI Mill Rate Now 9 ----TA---tax -rate- of-- nine- mills; ---ono, mill higher than -last year, was set Eby Goderich District Collegiate In- stitute Board \Monday night. The new mill rate will bring the board $98,409.53 to help oper- ate the school. Goderich taxpayers, who were asked to contribute $43.731 to the sc'hool's upkeep last year, will have to dig deeper- this time. __ The .ane mill increase means $5,520 in terms Of -1 -mu -taxes: --father -muni ipa ities served by GDCI will be asked to increase their contributions pro- portionately. In Jaddition to the amounts col- lected from the municipalities, tke school will receive $101.,236 fn ,provincial grants and more than $2,000 from miscellaneous sources. Cost of instruction, estimated„at $99,000, is the largest 'singlet efit This person Court Judge by him. BREAK-INS ARE SOLVED is usually the County THEN ALONG COME MORE or someone appointed POSSIBILITY OF "BLACKLISTING" Clrl_ Stormy GDCI Board Meet Results In Resignation A $5,500 disagreement .over GDCI teachers' salaries has been followed by the resignation of one Board member and warnings that Goderich may be "blacklisted." Following a stormy meeting of the GDCI Board last week, H. M. Ford, a member of the board for the past 15 years, handed in his resignation. He was dile of the trustees on the "losing" side when the board voted 6-3 to withdraw its previous offer of salary adjustments amount ing to $5,500 a year for certain members of the teaching staff. When the board met here again Monday night, the trustees voted 5-4 against a motion to change the board's stand agaip and re -offer the $5,500 special exPerienee al- lowances. After the Monday night vote, R. 11 Munro, .of West Wawaeosth Township, chairman of the staff relations committee, said he felt obliged to resign from the com- mittee since its recommendations had not been followed by the board. After he received a unanimous vote of confidence from fellow trestees, he agreed to continue as head of the committee. { Next Step As a result of the majority's de- cision to withhold the special ad- justments for individual teachers, kap/pears the case will now be brought to the attention of the Ontario Trustees' Council. That will be the teachers' course of action, as indicated at the meet- ing by S. G. B. Robinson, of Tor- onto, general secretary of the On- tario Secondary School Teachers' Federation. He is representing GDCI teachers in negotiations with the board here. He described the board's decisk ion to withdraw its original offer of adjustments as "incomprehens- ible." Many of the teachers are not personally affected by the question of adjustments. All members of the present staff wilt receive salary increases of $700 each next Sep- tember if they temain on the staff. This increase of $700 each came about as a result of the board's recent decision to raise minimum and maximum salaries. The salary range for nonspecial- ists, formerly $3,400-$6,000, has been changed to $3,800 ,minimum Ord $6,800 maximum. The range for specialists will be $4,000-$7,000 in future. Regular Increases After they join the staff, teach ers will receive annual, increases of $300 until they reach the maxi- mum level. The above mentioned increases in m rinimum and' maximum sal- aries were contained in the board's original offer, and the board has not altered those figures since. "I feel the schedule is as high (Continued on page 7) tip cyhe goes" Is the theme song at Alestandr'a Marine and General Hospital, those days as the new wing g rapidly rises. While the structure is listed as costing appfaimately $424,000, its total value, Ineltading furnishings of all kinds will rum into the half million -dolihr mark. Offers to furnish rooms are coming in.: from various soijeea and more are looked for and tie ded. S.S. Photo by ILII. • Recent break-ins at Goderich Public Library, the old collegiate building and Sky Harbor appear to have been solved. Indications are that juveniles are responsible, say police. Still under investigation are three week -end break-ins in which small amounts of cash and cigar- ettes were taken from local service stations. The places entered were the Bluewater service station, Duckworth's and Currey's. These thefts do not appear to be con- nected with the other oases, say police. About $50 in cash was stolen when someone broke into the local library early this year. Vandals recently entered the old collegiate building, upsetting flower pats and strewing chip soap over the desks and floor. Provincial Police here have locat- ed the rifles stolen some time ago from Air Cadet quarters at Sky Harbor. 'e Juveniles hue been found responsible in this case also. The telephone plays an im- portant part in gathering Auburn news, says Mrs. Wes. Bradnock, alert correspondent for The Signal -Star. Here, she is seen looking happily at the honorable mention certificate recently presented to her by the Ontario Weekly News- papers Association in recogni- tion of her outstanding work as a rural correspondent for The Signal -Star. Mrs. Bradnock sometimes encounters delays in contact- ing news sources by telephone as speedily as required due to the fact that there are as many as 20 households using the same party line. All Auburn news has to be in the hands of Mrs. Bradnock before nine o'clock each Tuesday morning in order to be pub- lished in the Signal -Star of that week. That portion of the Signal -Star in which the Auburn news appears is print- ed on Wednesday morning after being set on the linotype Tuesday morning. ON WAY TO DAUGHTERS RECEPTION People like to see their names in the news columns, Mrs. Rradnock finds, but many make little effort to pass along news to the correspondent. As a result, the correspondent has to do fast and continual dig - .ging for news each week. Some .organization,: ignore the right of the ncW'papers to select and print only those por- tions of the organizations' "news reports" which .the newspaper regards as suffic- iently newsworthy. Space available in the newspaper that week is also a factor that has to be considered. Little news items of unusual interest—oddities in the news such as reported each Sunday at 10 a.m. over CBL, on Don Fairbairn's Neighborly News program—are needed in the Auburn news budget. If you have a good news sense anti run across any such news items, phone them in to Mrs. Bradnock. 'Maybe. too. you know of some district activity that is deserving of praise, or vice versa. Phone it in. Now. Inquest Set For Crash Which Claimed 2 Lives An inquest into an accident thatstruck 'broadside by the other Linington Funeralclaimed the lives of two district } auto, which had been proceeding) Funeral service for Mrs. Lining - west, said police. Both cars were ton was conducted byRev. S. E. wrecked. Godfrey Funeral ' Moote in the Stiles funeral home Funeral service for Mrs. God- on Monday at 1.30 p.m.. inter- frey was conducted by Rev. George ment was in Maitland cemetery. ' Watt in the Stiles funeral home at The former Margaret Lorena 3 p.rn. on Monday. Interment was Hardy, she was the daughter of William Hardy, of Dungannon, and the late klrs. Hardy. Born in Col- borne Township, she attended women is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, April 6, in Seaforth Town. Hall. Mrs. Ralph Godfrey, 53, of RR 3, Auburn, died in a two -car col- lision on highway 8, foikr miles east of Clinton, at about g.30 p.m. last Friday night. Mrs. Morley Linington, 36, of Saltford, a pas- senger in the same car, died short- ly after admittance to Clinton Pubs• school there. She was an adherent lie Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Edlow Campsall. of Victoria Street United Chureh Mrs. Godfrey's husband, Ralph, She attended high school in Belle- in Goderich. 57 was talsen to hospital with ville and later taught school at Survivors, besides her husband serious lacerations and bruises Mountain GroVe. About 15 years and her father; include five child - about this head. ago, Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey took up ren, Morley Grant, a paratrooper Also injured were three persons farming on the second concession with the RCIIME at Soest, Ger- many; Marlene Gladys Mrs. now- sard Godfrey; and Charlotte, San- dra and Gerald, all at home. There are two grandchildren. Mrs. Lin• ington aIso leaves three brothers, William Hardy, of St. Augustine; Clarence, of Carlow, and Donald, of Port Albert; and three sisters, Dorothy, Mrs. Les Sanders; -glee, Mrs. Marshall Boll, and Meaner, Mrs. Mervyn 'Holden, all of Gude- rich. Pallbearers for Mrs. Linift';ton's funeral were Keith IIcardy and Tiny Risedy, both of St. Augustine; Les Sanders Memo Iiolclen and -Gor- don Stewart, all of Goderich, ant! tlriaiid Bere, of Y:R. 3, Auburn. in Dungannon cemetery. Born at Dead Creek, Ont., near Bancroft she was the former Ila Ernestine Campsall, daughter of riding in the other car, which was driven by Ray Dill, of RR 1, Se-- bFingville. Passengers in his car were Brunel' Kipfer, of RR 1,. Sebringville, and Agnes Carter, of Sebringville. Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey and Mrs. Linington had been-iraveIling to- ward Seaforth to attend a reception in honer of the Godf`i ys' daugh- ter, ,Ruth,. �wflo was married re cent1gj to David Livingstone. Provincial Constables D. Trumb- ley and, P. J. Henderson, of Gode- rich detaehrnent, investigated the tragedy. Meeks at the scene indicated that the Godfyey vehicle had been l Orland Bere, all of RR 3, Auburn. of West Wawanosh. A member of Nile United Church, PMrs. Godfrey had belonged 4o the choir and was a member pf the Sunbeam Club. Surviving, lksides her husband, are two sons, Horiard, now at hone, and John Wilfred,*of Winni- peg; two daughters, Olive, Mrs. Clifford Sproule, and Gail,. Mrs. David Livingstone, of RR 2, Sea - forth; and four sisters, three bro- thers and seven grandchildren. Pallbearers for Mrs. cGodfrey's func'r t -'*rare Howard Sproule, Jiar- vey Sproule, David Seroui'e, Cheri, es Melee, Graham tleNee and 0 w • i • i Ili w ■ ■ — • r Close 6 P.M. Sat�rdav• s When nearly 30 Goderich merchants met at the Town Hall Tuesday evening all but two of them were unanimous in their opinion to keep their stores open Fridays until 9 p.m., and close Saturdays at 6 p.m.,' from April 5 on. Ing addition to -those-present, numerous other -merchantsleft word with -too., Would fall in line withthe. plan. Merchants Listed A list of those merchants who will adopt the Friday night open and Saturday night closing com- mencing -with the first Friday in April is to be found • in an adver- tisement elsewhere 1-ri this issue of the Signal -Star. It was pointed out that the butcher shops, some grocery stores and some other stores would con- tinue Saturday nights open but the meeting felt that a sufficient major- ity of merchants had expressed themselves in favor of the new plan to put it into effect. It was al -o, stated that with the passing 0f time the general trend would inevitably bring about an almost complete Friday night opening and Saturday night closing procedure. A review of what stores were. doing in numerous other centres in the district revealed a swing to the Friday night open and Satur- day night closing. "Things are changing and changing fast," said one merchant commenting on changing shopping habits of cu.s- tomers. When the banks decided to close all day ,Saturday it was wondered how they could possibly operate that way, one merchant said, but things have apparently worked out satisfactorily for 'them. Can't Suitt Everyone No matter what was done it would be impossible to adopt any one plan that would please every- one, said another merchant, and NEW P.O.? Government building inspec- tors were in Goderich yester- day looking over the Goderich Post Office in an effort to de- ,,,termine whether the present building should be revamped or a new no built. Both Tillsonburg and anger- sold Are to get door-to-door mail delivery some time this year. Both have postal revenues in the neighborhood of the re- quired $50,.000 a year to get this service. It is understood that the Goderich Pe.st Office revenue amounts to about $45.000 a year which means it is approaching the door-to- door delivery status. the one we are adopting seems to be in line with the times. Chairman of, the meeting vias William Wilson. The meeting de- rided to do considerable publicity to acquaint the public with the new store hours for Goderich. Ap- pointed to act on a pith ity com- mittee were a group of our men. A treasury fund is being set up to look after advertising and other expenses for the merchants. Each merchant is ta''bontribute five dol lars to the fund and Art Waters, manager of the Canadian Bank off' Commerce, was appointed to re- ceive the contributions and to look after the funds. "O'UCIH!", says Dianne lbeit mend, grade seven ,,Ilup l at St. Peter's Separate Sc!400l as she 'gets 11j' i: (atid final, for o' while) rae>rtllt $of the prevetar. lien of poliox>t yelitis. Oho is a dc1t1 Iatei.' <}.i Mrw. and. N x.s. John Ii o nioaad, 'i .. 0, Gid .r' up. .. of God'oriela Ptt! ie anti Separate uz:::/ rt-piR needles on 'await* of last' R"3oor by. 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