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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1957-10-03, Page 2There is a mistaken attitude pre- valent among citizens, especially among those who line themselves up with temperance groups. They feel that a repeal of the Canada Temperance Act would immediate- ly bring beer parlors and liquor €,toren. This is not the ease.After the ('..T.A, is voted oat another vote would • have to he taken before establishment of either- would be permitted. Perth is almost alone in remain- ing under that act which was pass- ed back in the 1320's. If parlia- mentarians haven't the Courage to IOSS Otit aunt an antiquated piece Of 1' gislati 'n then the people of this county should have sense cnot'sglt to vote it out. the wages and salaries they draw, and insist cn full value for the money they spend and the taxes they pay. This is a 'policy c c self control, self dependence, and self respect. flation to get- out of control have fou_id that it destroyed . their money completely, and that during the process all the real wealth— the land, buildings, implements of production and raw materials — have fallen into the hands of, •a few shrewd speculators; and the former owners of thosethings, and the workers who produced them, have clothing but worthless paper money that nobody will ac- cept in payment for anything. No honest government would de- liberately embark on a policy .of reckless inflation; but few govern- ments are strcng enough or cour- ageous enough to resist the in- fluences that cause it. And' no government can resist these influ- ences without the support of the just a little more of it, people. The influences that cause infla Inflation'has not gone so far in Canada that it cannot be checked. But in order to check it, the people themselves will have to make up their minds to allow natural economic forces to operate, THE LITTLE INN BAYFIELD WILL REMAIN OPEN WEEK -ENDS IN OCTOBER • DINING ROOM HOURS • SATURDAYS 1 - 2 R.M. AND 6 - 7.30 P.M. (DST) SUNDAYS 1.30 - 2.30 P.M. AND 6 - 7.30 P.M. (DST) FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE BAYFIEI.D 8. -39 c3' PAGE TWO tiIr tgflt=tflX HURON. COUNTY'S FOREMOST WEEKLY Established 1341. In its 110th year of publication Published by Signal -Star Publishing Limited I PIU U ig Subscription Rates --Canada and Strictly PiatQ Britain, in 3. 0 a year: to United 4?- States, �Telephone 71. Advertising Rates o°n request Authorized as second-class mail, Post 0 c Department, Ottawa. Out -of -Town. ''.epresentative: C.W,N.A. 237 Foy Bldg., 34 Front St., W. Toronto. Over 3,000 --Largest circulation of any newspaper published in Huron . County --aver 3,900 mtaria Weekly Member © Canadian Weekly Newapopor Association. Member of ��`Newspapers Association, Member ML. ELL'S$ Editor and Publisher. 6ula4io�n THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3rd, 1957 HOW LONG S. ((ULTIMATELY"° While on summer holiday- motor trips this year, marry people from this district have visited the site of the St. Lawrence Power Project near Cornwall. rrhey were undoubt- edly impressed with the magnitude of the undertaking, which will require- about 10,000 men at the peak of the construction work. We were likewise impressed last Thursday. '1tA,s a member of the executive of the Ontario Weekly Newspapers ,'lsso •iation, it was our happy privilege to be taken on a tour of the project by courtesy, of the 11.E.P.('., and under the guidance of I1.E.P.('.'s genial Director of Information, J. A. Islay. Started in 1934, the project will be generating iL initial power in 19.i ' and by 1960 the conlbiuecl installed THE GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR eapacity will be 1,640,000 kilowatts. This will he share(] equally by the two partners in the 1)r jeet--the Ontario hydro and the Power Authority of the State of New York. We were particularly interested, however, in the St. Lawrence Seaway Project, being undertaken in eoiijuiictiorl with the power project. What will be the effects of the St. Lawrence Staway Project o11; the port of {lode - rich after it is euiilplete(1 in 1960 was the question uppermost in our 1111nil. No specific answer could he obtained from any official source c at lti►matlthoh it was etv''irGoderit li generally agreed illt)enetitfromttthe St. Lawrence Seaway- Project. To us, how- ever, the question is how long is "ultimately y„ THE INDUSTRIAL PICTURE Down Memory's Lane 45 Years Ago The Ontario Hydro -Electric Com- mission reported cni its findings in connection with Qoderich's request for a detailed survey as to the pos- sibilities of power development on the Maitland River. The report indicated that the Maitland de- velopment, tied in with the Niagara - system, would provide power at less cost than if Goderich depended c u either Niagara power or Mait- land power alone. Town Council gave little encour- agement to a suggestion that a cement sidewalk be constructed on Wellesley street from Lighthouse street to Britannia road. It was stated that the public works staff was too busy with sewer work to give any time to sidewalk cui- struction. The stone wok for the new front of the Union Bank had been completed and everything was in readiness for the placing of the glass windows. W. L. Horton was having the stores in his block re- painted on the outside. John Sheardown, who had oper- ated a blacksmith shop at the corner of Victoria and Trafalgar streets for a few years, sold out to George Bradford, formerly of Dun- garalon. Mr. Sheardown moved to his farm in Colborne, where he planned to engage in the chicken - raising industry. Robert Mcllwain, of Nile, was appointed clerk of 'Colborne Totnur- ship . He succeeded F. W. Mc- Donagh, who had moved to Gode- rich. Messrs. Clark and Clayton came from Harrington West to take over the •Carlow general store and post office from Mr. Powell. 25 Years Ago George Drennan's barn cu con- cession 10, Ashfield Township, was destroyed by (flames. Mr. Drennan saved the stock but the season's crop was lost. The new basement of Knox Church was dedicated. The Sun- day School superintendent, C. K. Saunders, presided, and Rev. D. J. Lane offered the prayer of dedica- A, the trails sped tow tugs Toronto from but we are compelled to lou t he situation Cornwall, following our visit to the Vit. Law- strictly on the grounds of cold, practical all ing reuse River projects, we Ilotired considerable lt iti(sc't'im, 011k sensible liio stol (lxlx et '111) new of vacant land facing the liver front between Cornwall and Kingston. What t vast industries u\V1ei1ee Seawa.y,,ttlorr,aas a periodsoftat leof ast t n he St. amours( of possible sites for potential ludas-t e before tries planning to take advantage of the St. overflow ofd industill be lestfronithat therithen crowd ed when Seaway route, w•(t, thought. 'h - would they locate any farther inland eat St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario areas such sites were no doubt available that muc•li h�0P( hV e ale wrongl)in our ()(review ,on the matter y closer to their overseas market we thought, but at the,. moment we can see nothing else having Goderieh's 'oration particularly in a the mind. Grunted, the price of these lots will be but. ,c r -t dreded bv beliefs a fellownweeklys subject high. It seemed only logical that thew P" paper is �(?)l1 she on - the tour, earl Manore, tential industries will conte to G )d�ric�h only 1 ' 1 t_'r } after all available' lana o i the Vit. aw teal( c River is taken up by them and, of course, sites going to Meaford a few years ago. Mr. Manore tion. There was great interest in the i, of ]avec at Sarnia for many' years and was 10111, forthcoming federal 'by-election in k at c I, - • , : • Editor of The Meaford Express. Previous, to , rUR E AY, 9Pd, , 1957 the railway. Mrs. Gray, a member of the public school 'board. and family planned to remain in Gode- rich for a while. Winning the first three :places, girls outclassed the boys in the nuntal arithmetic contest at. Col- borne Township School Fair. The top three were Frances Houston, Jean Scott and Norma Allin. 15 Years Ago Neil MacKay, municipal assessor, announced that the population of , Goderich was 4,922 --an increase of 36 over the 1441 figure. Engineer Murray "Hetherington stated that Goderich South air- drome would be finished in 10 days. The new field was intended to serve as a relief landing strip for Sky Harbor. There was $100$20,000 dam- age when (fames swept through the Cornfield store stort Goderich. The loss was said toe the heaviest since Lee's hardware store was burned in 1936. Bad weather resulted in a very low attendance at Bayfield Fair for the second year in a row. Twenty five carloads of coal, con- signed to the air station at Port Albert, were placed on the sid'n'g at Meneset Station. A fleet of dump trucks came from Toronto to transport the 1,500 tons of coal over ,the 10 -mile route to Port Albert, where the coal was being stock -piled. 9 10 Years Ago About 2,000 people attended the Dungannon k,Fall Fair, which was favored with fine weather. Al- though the building bought from the Port Albert airport had been moved to" the fair grounds, it was not ready for use yet. Eliminating Strathroy, Goderich Lions Midgets earned -the right to move into the Ontario Baseball Association final against the winner of the Collingwood-Fort Erie series. It was the 'firs time a Goderich team had reached the Q,BA 'finals. Attempting to take off between the piers, a seaplane” was caught by the wind, crashed against one of the piers and turned upside down. Two men, Who were from Detroit, climbed out safely and the badly damaged aircraft was lifted out of the water with the aid of a crane. Persons attend:rig the OGI field meet at Agricultural Park were showered With 1eaflelts ,drapped from a plane.'"rhe laafiets were printed for Ron Skelton and Eric Holmes„ who were campaigning, for offices in Teen Town. K. D. Croft announced that he hard purchased the business form- erly known as Smith Cleaning and Pressing. in the 'rapidly expanding in4dustrial alias metropolitan Toronto and Hamilton. Indeed, aetively interested in The Blue Water .High- - it is pointed out that industries with overseas tier ai�iat�i'otiiar]rticlin�. Goderichd the welfare f (,He�itoo, uni- markrts will even locate in. the Kitchener ar(1 rea,s with their diversified Iabor sup- was- of the opinion that it would he a decade bene - transported Guelph a goodsor more before Goderich would feel any ply, and their manufactured will be . trans orted by truck to Hamilton or 'Toronto fieri] re.sults�f io11that tthe Se hopet. Lawrence wrong p for loading on boats there bound for overseas. W11 ` our predictions and would welcome most It is not our intention to minimize the I potentialities of Goderich as an ocean port heartily any-eonerete evidence to the contrary. WHAT WE HAVE! With any likely industrial expansion for G}oderich some years away yet, despite the promise;§ from :come sources to the contrary, maybe we should capitalize its the;, meantime on what advantages woe al ready have. Nature has endowed us with something that. scores of inland Centres in Ontario wuiild give brans thousands of dollars to possess. Ilave you ever noticed what people say When yu11 meet_ themanywhere in Ontario or beyond and tell them that you are frolm-lloderi(h' ']'heir very first reaction is to say t4haf Goderich is a beauti- ful town and such 0 lovely spot to visit in the summer. That semis .10 hr the general Haan- ner in whieh (toderiolr is classified. Maybe it's abut time we did something to fully capitalize on that long established impression? May ��u,e\shortl�l ]trail( on what we now- shave? . we should establish sort of Russian five-year' plans on an extende(] program to make our town more inviting to holiday visit- ors and tntirists? Maybe we have something right at our doorstep that we have too long taken for granted and overlooked? • Maybe we better start working on etdarg- ing and glorifying, our beaches to get larger finaneial return from greater numbers of holiday visitors ? It euuld 110 that the time is near when the C.P.R., will no longer need its roundhouse and tracks right beside the beach at the harbor. With the pipe lines carrying Suitt Item Aerial Oil nil from Western Canada direetly to Ontario, it is tiduceivable t hat Iut- will, in the none -too -distant future, no longer need its big gasoline storage tanks South Huron. The Conservative candidate was Louis Rader, a farmer r,Iid warder( of Huron County. The Liberal stand- ard-bearer was- William Golding, a mechanic and ex -mayor of Sea - forth'. '''The by-electicu was neces- sary because of the death of Thomas McMillan, a Liberal MP. D. D. Gray, operator and ticket seller at the 'OPR station, moved to St. Thorhas to another position with Inflation Another Form Of Taxation (The Rural Scene) Inflation is taxiation. 1t is a tax ' on .money. No matter how much or haw little money you have, or in Goderieh's harbor beach area. The remov- where you keep it, inflation will (ad it and take toll of it. al of these two holdings in the harbor area It is not an ordinary tax levied tunic open the way for a beautifully laid -out i and collected by the taxing author- . and enlarged beach and park area on the wat- erfront. (aoderich loses out on tourist patron- age because, it hasn't an attraetive enough beach. The time could come, too, when the Sandy property on the north side of the Mait- land River could he transformed into a public ities, but an insidious treacherous thing that sneaks up on us in the guise of prosperity and full em- ployment. Nor is it a tax that you can pay Ind be done with, for its operation is continuous. It eats away the value of your money, and continues heaeh and tourist motel area. IN hat a differ- to do so as long , as you have once such rhangrs would make to Goderich as money. - Whether you have it in cash, or in the bank; or invested an attractive holiday spot to visit! Certainly, the whole idea could he -wrong! And impossible! But it seems worth while to give thr matter serious consideration and planning for the future. Let's work with ad- vantages w -e have. Some day industries will bye coming to Goderieh in appreciable numbers -hut only when they are ready to do so and overflow- front the crowded industrial ,areas in that part of Ontario to the south of us. That time, in our belief, is further away than some people are inclined to think it is. Right now, why not work On the pot.entiali}fes we have as an atfraetive holiday spot. We will be that mueh better off when the industries finally do locate in our midst. A BULWARK OF DEMOCRACY Branch 109, Canadian Legion, diode ieh, was well represented by a whole bus 1o.d of its members when -a zone Legion rally was held at Lion's Head recently. In ease anyone thinks Legion activities are lessening, it is interesting to note, that the aforementioned rally was the largest 'and best ever held in the zone. The outstanding Legion rally resulted in "the following editorial eomment by the editor of The Wiarton--1icho; who is himself a veteran of World War IT and was a P.O-W.: ° "If the prayers and hopes •of veterans. as well as anyone else, are answered, the Legion, by it: very nature, will die a natural death, as the,old seildiers fade away. But in its present in insurance policies or annuities, or mortgages or bonds, inflation will sap its value. The only way to escape its rav- ages is to get rid of your money as fast as' you get it, for in times of inflation money Ls worth more to- day than it will be tomorrow, and the longer you keep it the less it will be worth. :n such times the wise man invests his money in useful goods or property or in stocks that represent the ownership of things of real value, mot of money values. • Countries that have allowed in - (condition, it is more than a fine body of Hien, who have (served their country. It is one of the bulwarks of democracy in Canada. "First purpose of the Legion is to°assure a fair deal' for veterans and their dependents. But it has gone far beyond this, in its work. The Legion branch in -every eommunity is a potent force, working along with serviee clubs and other public -minded organizations for the good of all. "VWe hope the day eomes when the Legion will be only a memory. That Will mean wars have ceased to oeeur. Rut until that time, the eomradeship and service of the men who fought, oppression, and now fight for a better life, are among the most valuable factors in our society." L.ELGIN ffo717. RIDEAU CLUB CONFEDEI WN "THE QUEEN IN OTTAWA' CBC TV and Radio locations BE ;1' °,-1 •sem IEPARn/ff ARRIVAL •• .• • ®, UPLANDS °° to N 1 •�.. a \\ • r at :1.7.1**1 j t Satu 5,y t d Wednesday, J1 • R/peAU Tuesday Twenty-five television cameras and 27 radio pickups will be used in bringing the pageantry of the royal visit to Ottawa into millions ' f homes across Canada. This sketch map of Ottawa shows the routes the royal party will follow on each day, points of interest, and the positions at which CBC cameras and commentators will be located. - willing to pay in taxes; and to spend an unproductive projects which consume wealth but do not create it. Such projects' are: fam- ily allowances Lnd old age pensions to people who don't need them, national 'health and hospital plans regardless of ,.cost, and nvaking credit available for the building of houses to be rented at un- economic rents. 5. Pressure car governments to interfere 'with the natural correc- tives that would keep the country's economy in balance if they were allowed to do so. .i Examples of this kind of interference are: the arbitrary fixing of prices, freight rates, and interest rates; banusing prices az order to keep unprofit- able industries in operation; arbi- trarily directing investments into unprofitable channels; and inter- ference with the operation of the free market. All these :i (fluences can be traced back to the people themselves and to the irresponsible leadership they follow. The great difficulty in combating. inflation is that the people like it, and are unwilling to deny themselves the pleasure of deny themselves the pleasure of spending their licomes before they earn them, assume responsibility for their own welfare instead of casting all their burdens on the government, give full value for tic n are: 1. The propensity of people to live beyond their means when easy credit is available. ,2. Popular approval of everything that stimulates business and in- creases employment. 3. Pressure on industry to in- crease wages without any corres- ponding increase in production. 4. Pr•ef:sure on governments to spend more than the people are TRAIN SERVICE CHANGE Effective October 27th, 1957, the following trains will be cancelled between Stratford and Goderich. Train No. 37, departing 'Stratford 9.45 p.m., daily except Sunday, and in reverse direction Train No. 28 departing Goderich 5.40 a.m., daily except Sunday, will be cancelled. Canadian National Railways People Of Perth County Should Vote Out C.T.A. (, Th1e Listowel Banner) S0i. 'e. eeks ago there appeared a report in, this paper that the Chamber 'snnTi nel<ce proposed endiaa delegates to a meeting Ig ealicilr+„o eorvider whether or not telt; choiikl (be taken to aboIisfln the -dada 'c fl er°3llce Act in rani i Con ntty. SO far no further 'l5ore1 has tcca reCeltncl. This ,:conks regrettable for at-. tempting nT to gosh n. fit n liquor si.ttintiona ,ty that o' ;piece and. out- flatcl law is tryiwl to ietritrol litaF1- 4311 htc lbtx,.iy:S with a lain cls. Ne lititiT.P tit not, the + amnia 411,ett'!t?fi'F"i)zc('' Act ct1CI? (' vflt' 3 I1r0- Alit p41.tp4rc1'" .'5 'ft'ltif'11 1f1 ((Chute but certainly there Ls no place for it these days. Biggest supporters in a move to vote out the act would be the police de artm$enta both local and Weir eir efforts in trying to enforce respect in drinking habits and in keeping teen-agers away from alcohol are completely hampered by C.T.A. regulations. Under this act no persons may be arrested for drinking in public places regardless of whether the conoti >,ption occurs on a boulevard in tot or a sideroad. Officers are also 'IFtai er1eo3 to itiltet'fers<', C*,�14lt yrnung peopkk,,bocause there is no age restriction. Unwise adult may ,civd bear or liquor to l.uv- et,tiIc i without rri"ki t{; lw :;:,Hoot. Cabaret Dancing FEATURING JUIIETTE with_ MART KENNY and his Western Gentlemen. 'da Friday, (�ctober 4 at 9 p.m. SEAFORTH ARENA Admission $1.50 Each — Children, under 12, 50,0 Tables Reserved for Advance Ticketholders Only. Secure Advance Tickets at— BAL -TWIN HARDWARE — PHONE 61 'SEAFORTH. MOTORS _ -.., PHONE 541 SOoncored by Soaforth Athletic Association • i1 THEY PAY NO TAXES A "OORPORATION TAX" is NOT a tax on the corporation, but is, rather, a tax on the customers who buy the goods. or services it produces. Taxes are a cost of doing business. They must be included in the price structure along with wage, and the cost of raw materials and supplies. An INCREASE in corporation taxes, or in any other taxes, is an increase in costs which must ultimately be reflected in prices. Hence, a DECREASE in corporation or other taxes would ease the upward pressure on costs and prices. • THE STEEL COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED MONTREAL 6AUAIa000E HAMILTON BRANTFOR© TORONTO