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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1957-07-04, Page 5UnitSiMiY, FAY gitia 1007 Ducky Muses On Changes In To -day's Young Folks Wallace G. Ducl Orth — better'O &flown as "Duca y" e was in a re- flective mood as he looked out across the rows of empty desks at (With school out for the. summer, - the friendly.' caretaker was think- ing about the hundreds hof young men and women he has seen pass through the halls of learning, dur- i,ag the past 13 years that he nae been with the school. Are today's "rock 'n' roll", teen- tgens much different from the guys and gals of a dozen or more years ago? he was asked. Notomuch, said Ducker, but there rare a few changes. Like, for in- stance, -the fact that the talk is ralleout Presley today instead of Sinatra. "Of course," kids do have mere treed= today," he acknowledged. "They have cans and they have wore matey to spend." / But beyond that, he doesn't think that the young people of to- day are basically different_ from the young mien and women of the past. Versatile Man As recorded in the GDCI year book, just published, Ducky is a versatile man. The book says: ''He rescues lost gymn suits, gymn shorts and ruining shoes for the careless. With various articles (pins, papers, cardboards, etc.) he comes to the aid of the distressed. "He can be found at the school any hour of the day, summer or winter, cleaning, repairing, mow- ing the lawn, shoveling the snow, and doing all necessary odd jobs. As a friend to everyone, he is re- garded with high respect by all the students." When a reporter called at the school yesterday, Ducky was en- gaged in supervising the cleaning up of the gardens at the school. Though school is out, there is lots to be done during the holidays. Five hundred lockers have been TI m GOD RIOU SIGNAL -STAR Salvation Army 'Goderich Corps SUNDAY MEETINGS 11 a.m. Holiness Meeting. 2.30 p.m. Directory Class. 3 p.m. Company Meeting (Sunday School) ,7 p.m. Salvation Meeting. Bright Singing, Testimonies and Gospel messages. EVBRYONE IS WELCOME AT THE ARMY. Lieut. Pauline Howell- -231i Officer in charge. cleaned out, the rooms and walls are to be cleaned and the boilers will be cleaned out among other jobs during the summer. Ducky takes considerable pride in show- ing visitors through the school, and it is evident -he takes pride ie his work. Before joining the school staff, -Ducky was an RCAF flight serg- eant engaged i maintenance work at the Port Albert RAF Station. He was there •atbout five years. He has diodr daughters and three sons himself. Another son, Wil- liam, gave his life at Dieppe dur- ing World War Two. All of his sons were in uniform during the wear. 0 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Boltcu and Mr. and Mrs. Don Kernighan have returned home from a trip to Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. N.' S. • ,McNeil, Kalamazoo, Mick, are .staying et the Bedford Hotel and visiting relatives in the district. SVNDAYSERVICES IN GODERICH CHURCPES Brick House In , Neustadt Was The Birthplace Of Canada's Prime Minister ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH July 7, 3rd Sunday after Trinity. 3.30 a.m. ,HOLY *COMMUNION. 10 a.m. Sunday School and Bible Class. 11 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION. f: 7:te, (Junior Congregation and Nursery) No ,Evening Service during- Summer. REV. KENNETH E. TAYLOR, M.A., D.D., Rector MR. J. F. STEPHENS, M.A., Organist and ,,Choirmaster. Knox Presbyterian Church REV. ROBERT. G. MacMILLAN, Minister MR. W. H. BISHOP, F.R.C.O., A.R.C.M., Director of Praise 11 a.m. MORNING WORSHIP. Guest Preacher: The Very Rev. Prof. P. S. MacKenzie, M.A., Th. D., D.D., Montreal, Quebec. (Nursery and Junior Congregation.) No Evening Service. A friendly Welcome Awaits You COME TO CHURCH THIS SUNDAY. The United Church of Canada North St. Church and Victoria St. Church UNION SERVICES in VICTORIA STREET 10 a.m. The Sunday Schools (separately). 11 a.m. Family Service; Primary -Beginner Congregation.. REV. A. E. EUSTACE, B.A. June 30—July 28. Sermons: 1. "SILENCE", 2. "SHADOWS", '3. "SCARE- CIiOWS", 4. "SUPPOSING", 5. "SUCCESS". Ministry of Music—MR. FRANK BISSETT 10 a.m. BENMILLER CHURCH. 3 p.•m. UNION CHURCH. Yrr. BETHEL PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE ELGIN AVE. AT WATERLOO STREET, SUNDAY -10 a.m. Sunday School. 11 a.m. MORNING WORSHIP. 7.30 p.m. EVANGELISTIC SERVICE. "The Goderich Evangelistic Centre" PASTOR R. J. GREEN GODERICII BAPTIST CHURCH SUN AY, 10 a.m. Sunday School. 11 ea.ni. The Ordinance of The L•,•rd's Supper. (Junior Congregation and Nursery). 7 p.m. e,"Has the Bible all the answers?" Tuesday --8 p.m.—Bible Study and Prayer Hour. Daily vacation Bible School—Monday, July 8 to PrJ,iday, July 12. Cloys and girls 6-10 yea Classes 1.30 to 4 p.m. (W. Dingwall in The Telegram) NEUSTADT.—For 67 years there has been nothing to distinguish the two-storey, yellow sandstone brick house' on lot 7, Barbara street w., from dozens of others in this sleepy, little village of 500 persons. Now, suddenly, it is the focal point of villagers' interest for it represents the most exciting event —that has. happened :u Neustadt since the turn of the century—it has become the birthplace of Can- ada's Prime Minister. Through the years, tenants and owners have moved in and out. Among them was a family named Diefenbaker. William T. Diefete .baker was the new' schoolteacher: at Normandy Township school. He rented the property from 1894 to 1899. On September 18, 4895; a :,year after the Diefenbakers moved into No. 7 Barbara street w., they had a son. He was named John. When John was four years old, the family moved away. Nobody took any particular notice Gaud since then four families have lived in the house. - . . • ,But, on 3rrne IO -this' year, the little boy who had been born in the house 02 years before, was elected Prime Minister of Canada. The old'timers Say that the house and town have not changed in all that time. There were 500 resi- dents then. There are 500 today. Mrs. Lillian Losch and her daughter, Leota, are living in the hoiise today and it looks just as immaculate and new as the des it ,was built. "But, it is a cold house," says Miss Losch. "As you can see, we -still heat it with two caal stoves. We burned five tons of coal last Winter." " Barbara street is. a tar -surfaced street with four houses on the same side as lot 7 and five on the other ,side. Local Legal Firm Has New .Member &a!nitbedy slew has been added to the Goderich legal firm of Don- nelly & r` (ma dly. The new face belongs to Frank Callaghan a •1 ii' graduate of Os- goode Hall, who is now associated with Prank Donnelly and Jim Don- nelly, ;n the practice of law here. l%1 ried, N ', Callaghan hAs a AO, Francis, r, who is less than three weeks old. His wife and new son 'will join hint here `as soon as living quarters ean be found. Mrs. Callaghan was a staff member of The Rural Co.,t , ' atom, a news- paper published . dr farm families, until recently. Mr. Callaghan's home is in Tor- onto and he obtained his B.A. and .1!B. degreees at University of Toronto before completing his training with two years at Osgoode Hall. 0 0 o FALL MEETING ,OF,., W.A. SET FOR NILE UNITED CHURCH An executive meeting of Huron Presbytery of the Woman's Asso- ciation of the United Church was held in Ontario Street United Chtirch, Clinton. Mrs. George Mc- Taggart, of Brussels, presided. Mrs. W. C. Higgins conducted a short devotional period. A report was given on the furnishings of McKinnon House, the new United Church residence at the University of Western On- tario. It is expected it will be ready for occupancy this fall. The fall semi-annual is to be held in Nile United Church early in November. An interesting pro- gram is being arranged for this meeting. The house, surrounded by shrubs and fiowers, stands about e50 feet from the road. On the beautifully kept lawn stand two hard maple trees, an elm and a pine, all nearly twice as high as the two-storey house. A concrete stoop with steps lead- ing to the frcat door is obscured by a row of small spruce trees. Entering the front door, there is a very small hall, no bigger than a vestibule. To the right is the livinvg room, nine by 12 feet. On the left is the kitchen, the largest room in the house. Directly ahead as you come in 'the door is the narrow stairway leading to the seccu`d floor, 'which divides the kitchen from the living room and a .1bedroom downstairs. At the back, ' off the .kitchen, is a summer kitchen, an'd behind this a woodshed. The water- putne, stands outside the summer kitchen door. Upstairs there are three bed- rooms—one large one on the right ate you stand at the top and two on the left. A railing borders the stairwell in the long, narrow hall. It was'in the main kitchen that Jphn Diefenbaker sat whet r,'he revisited his birthpleee, 'thine Gi‘ accompanied by Mrs. Harry Dun- sieman, 74, who acted 'as a baby sitter a to himA when still a child herself. Mrs. Dunneman says that "John sat in a chair right where I used to sit and reek him in his cradle." Since the Prime Minister was only four when the Diefenbakers moved from Neustadt, he didn't remember anything about, the house, Mrs. Dunneman says. He thought he remembered the red door on the carriage shed which stands about, 30 ,feet;, the house. Although the door isn't red today, it shows signs of once having been that color. "I'm sure proud of John today," boasts Mrs. Dunnemeti. FAIR PRICES (The Rural Scene) • In all the discussions on the problem of assuring to the farmers a fair share of the national income, the participants seem to be agreed that the solution is to be found in the policies advocated by the farm organizations, and that if these organizations could have their policies put into effect the problem would `be. solved. - No one,. so • far as we know, has raised the question o4. ttie extent to which the present troubles of agriculture are due to those very *policies. The farm drgenitaations have been concentrating on keeping farm prices ahead of steadily rising costs, have even gone so far as to ask for government subsidies to help toward that end; but have. paid little attention to the causes. of the rising costs. Surely our own experience should have taught us that the benefits of price increases are quickly. overtaken • by higher costs, and, if persisted in will inevitably lead to lass of markets. The best market we have for our dairy products is the Canadian market. But the arbitrary price on which our dairy men are •in- sisting, are steadily undermining that market by driving increasing numbers of butter users bo cheaper substitute products. The arbitrary prices we have been asking for our wheat have forced our former customers to turn elsewhere for cheaper foods, and to buy as little from us as they can do with. Our farmers have been badly misled by a propaganda which tells them that the producers of other things set the prices they will accept for their products and the consumers have no cheiee but to pay them. Such is not the case. All producers have to sell their products at prices the consumers will pay; and it is just too bad for any producer who can't or won't sell at those priees. The true value of any article of commerce is the price at which it will sell. The (rest marketing system is the one that most arcurately in- dicates what prices the consumers FOR FARMERS will pay, and broadcasts that in- formation to the world. Farmers who produce staple pro- ducts did have sura a marketing system. It did not enable them to dictate the prices they would ac- cept, but it did keep them inform- ed of the true value of their pro- ducts; and they could always tell whether or . not they we're 'getting ,that vtalue. That system of marketing was undermined by a false propaganda which persuaded the farmers (1) that themarkets were controlled by sinister interests, and (2) that the farmers themselves could ac- quire such control if they would combine their forces to do so. The farmers fell .for that :pb- lraganda and used their collective influence to have the free market abolished. The result is the mess they are in today. In wrestling with, any problem, the first thing to do is to reeognize the factors that are beyond our control and leave them aldne. Then we can concentrate on the factors we might be able to in- fluence, In marketing farm 'peeducts, the thing we are least able to control is the prices the consumers will pay for our products: That is the thing we should leave alone, while we direct all our efforts to bring- ing all our production into line with the prices we can get. Canadian farriers are not suffer- ine( from low prices today ---'hut from high costs. Everything. they buy is priced away out of line with the prices they receive for their products. The logical thing for them to do is rto concentrate on reducing their costs. The farm organizations are mak- ing a grave mistake in eont:intaing bo pursue the mirage of high prices and controlled markets, while the everincreasing wage demands u, organizr'l labor, and the ever • creasing expentlititres rf got' r• ments are ab`orbine all the bere fits of mndern technolatecal pto , geese and making it impossible for farmers or anyone else to reduce their costs. n n n LA(' Clarence 'FIos, n•f St Jfubert, Quebee spent the p:4. two weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs Clarence Hoy, PortAlbert. RAt ,r1Vt 1 week -end in the Fenelion Falls Bis, ews o DUa`3G/ 1` NON, . Judy 2. lipliatri —Popp Wedding. — T2ngannan United Church, decorated witia ferns, orange blosstgag rad pink roses made a pretty setting by the altar and open Bible at high non on Saturday for the marriage of Lillian Pearl, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Popp, Dungan- non, and John. :;rian, son of l41. and il1rs. John Hallam, Goderich. ;Rev. Geo. D. Watt, Pastor, tzer- fCormed the ceremony. The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a becoming floor -length' dress of Swiss embroidered eyelet organdy. over taffeta, ,finger-tip veil held by hat of daisies. The dress featured lilypoint sleeves and high scalloped neckline forming a "V" at back. She carried a white leather Bile topped with white roses and streamers. The matron of honor was the bride's sister, Mrs. Alvin McGee, of Goderich. Miss Maureen Hallam, of Goderich,, sister of the groom, was bridesmaid and junior bridesmaid was Linda Cole, of Victoria, B.C., cousin of the bride. The attendants were dressed similarly in white Swise embroidered organdy over deep pink taffeta, cocktail length, fea- turing wide p_n-nk sash and tails. They carried baskets of shasta mums and pink tinted mums. The groomsman was Mr. Verne Nichol- son, Guelph, and ushers were the bride's brother, Murray Popp, and the groom's brother, Stuart Hallam. Miss Barbara Wilson played the wedding music and Miss Elizabeth Pentland, soloist, sang "The Wed- ding Prayer" and 'O Perfect Love." The reception luneheon in the Sun- day School rooms was catered to by the Woman's Association. The bride's mother wore grey figured miracle crepe with grey and white accessories, and gardenia corsage. ungannon a ; Miss SRudra Williams is The groan =alter assLLted wear- ir brownituured sheath :wwtk! white ace f, rie a o? Ionia cor- sage. 1 r GRtl�Nta were present front London, Toronto, Gueipla, St. Cath- arines, Victoria, B.C., J itehener, Port ',Huron, & ivaeardine, Zephyr, rantford, Woodstock. For a trap to Manitoulin lsldad, the bride wore pink printed sheath with pink threeivarter length sleeved .linen duster, white and black aeceszirries, and a cot age of cwh to .ruse$. Upon their return, they will reside at Waterdown. Miss Jen Smythe a brattier, Lawru.aaee, of Toronto, spent the week -end with their uncle, Brown Smythe. o—o-----o .F� HOLMESVI LLE HO$,MESVTT,T.E, July 1. — Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Corran and Helen have returned home from a trip to Algonquin Park. They were accompanied on' the trip by their son, Victor, who will be stationed for the summer at, Pembroke as a forest ranger with the Depart- ment of Lands ana Forests. Mr. Charlie Wilson has returned to his home from London, where he was a patient in Victoria Hos- pital. . The sympathy of the community goes to the family of the late Mr. Wm. McClinchev. Mr. Frank McCullough has re- turned to his home from Clinton Public Hospital where he was a patient for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cudmore and son, of Hamilton, were week- end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cudmore, - Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams, and Sandra, spent the holiday staying an for the muter and wdi be employed at Cedar Villa ',odi,e, Fenelon kill , l ra, Q, 1., McCullough, of Indian lipid, tho guest et her con and daughter in-law, >l r. and Mrs, Fred McCullough. Mrs. Frank Yeo, and the Misse Helen Potter, Marl/ Helen .Yell, awl Frataces McCuUough, ore 445-, sisetin with the teaching at the laible school at Wesley Wl li l United Claureb. mi. and Mrs. W. ,Bruce Priteln and family, of London, spentthe holiday week -end with Mr. Prittlb.- aril's parents, Mr. and Mrs, Ta Rdward Pritchard, ;l,,Vanilla road. Missg Pato Silverthorno and Patsy Crawford, of Belmont, are guests with the former' s grand- mother, Mrs. Jennie McAratteln, Essex street. Mr. and Wm. Walter 'Hunt, Eliza - bah, Carol and Mark, of Hamilton; Mrs. Alice McLean Patricia and Elizabeth, of London, were recent. guests with Mrs. W. J. McLean, Saltrford. - i •••s1EHN•i1.N*NNNuM Lakeview Casino GRAND BEND Dancing. Nightly is entley-Gardiner Orchestra. •••••••••••••••••••••••• c. one tells another and over town "NOTHING DOES IT LIKE Q CLASSIFIED AD -IN THE SIGNAL -STAR" No Other Medium. Serving Goderich and Immediate District Can Place Your Message Before SOMANY PEOPLE at SO LITTLE C • ST. 0 Figure It Out FOrYourseif and See the Truth ehind This St�tement. That's why clanail'iOd aids are CASH A'! S to ilaz paid for w] to they are nod or by fiattirday of tho week of pn bliaa,tion. 4