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HURON COUNTY'S FOREMOST WEEKLY
Established 1848. .In its 111th year ,of publication.
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$4:00. 5trict�r-'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 Count) --0•0r
*amber, of Canadia1i Weekly Newspaper , Association. Member of Ontario Weekly
Association, Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation
GEO. L. ELLIS, Editor and Publisher.
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Con the prairies .4)berta is the
ading beef. producing province..
lberta's , 'ca(tie ranching, and
,t acki. dig ..frotp,tries got their
THI/Rii4a744,TNE.1.2thr lea
start because of the need for food
gfor the trach laying crew wi1len
ra414vys were gong *roan
the west.
In the !past five. years salep• of
foreign goods in Canada ,have exp
ceetted the value of Canada's e, -
ports. by $2.5 'billion.
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Newspapers
THURSDAY, JUNE 12th, 1958
THIS IS ONTARIO,IN PART
Furt Henry, Ottawa's tulips, the now
Woodbine atii1 Highland ° games are pictured
in this year's l)mtario booklet fur information
of visitors, along with Niagara Falls, 11amnlito;t •
'botanical gardens 'and the customary It('.\11' •
constable, (rtain• thing, are "musts" and
beyond these the pict'iires relate appropriately
to camping, hunting, fishing', boating and
bat bins. h. ,
2111.uz.i.o.,' ft!1s
au l the photographic work is perhaps the best
yet. _'1'11 ‘01u1e productinii is a credit -to the
Travel and Publicity Department and its
piihlieity division, headed by G. AV, 1logarth.
r; ielerie•h could easily Supply sceptic views-
-3414 r i ��r l 13- *u.in e -ca#'. 4,11.1.15.e ean nut
e'acape nut i,fe that ri central map recognize.,
VIE CAR tICRN(
/B• BROKEN!
the existence of this town only by oiie of the
symbols for „points of historical interest."
if that indicates Huron Museum it is well
deserved, but „as sole signpost to Goderich
may not"attract many tourists. In illustrating
Ontario industries, the booklet ,includes a
Hydro station, smelter and 'nine shaft, so why,
not .one of t'he''new salt plant here in the 1959
bookliq ?
The sc1'etir�ti varies, Of eburse, from year
to year, aiiel" ItoTdoubt ,oe eiie'l
cizee1 again as ' in ,the past. Meantirme,. if
visilurs are attracted by the 'fine 'illustration
tit` Grand Rand bench, and also by the artistic
picture of Kincardine lighthouse, they can
ltai 41 �' a �i�i. coking .a.t
Go -der i.ch..-.-.l et;w=eei>E
the two.'
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STATISTICS- iN AGRICULTURE
Durih Jude each year the Ontario Depart
-ment uf,Agi'iculture• in eo-operation' with the'
Dominion Bureau of Statistics conducts a sur- •
vey of the number ofiiye stock and poultry on
farms and the acreage Sown to various 'Meld
crops.
The sticgess .of , this survey .depends on the
eo-operation of farmers in filling in and return-
ing the c tTestioiznaires: A, widespread response-- -free of eharge to anyone–in- Ontario.;. wli-o. re.-
fronn; ;lI types of farmers it needed in order quests to be placed on the mailing list. It is'
that;.tkistatistics can be"based on a. sufficiently. . In the farmers' own interest to ,have accurate
large t M'niber 'of reports to constitute a rep- statistics . on the agricultural industry and
resentativ.e 'sample of farms throughout On- every- farmer° can help to provide a true picture
tario. of agricultural conditions by' making -certain
The statistics obtained• from this Jtine .to fill in the mailed'questionnaire which.he will
y,
surveprovide the haislsfor.estrniating changes receive on June�lst.
in' -the production of crops, live, stock, poultry' The survey 'has absolutely no connection
and dairy ..products. Reliable ,statistics ,pro- • with taxation. All individual ,forms are kept
ride vital information required •by farm coni- strictly confidential and are used only for the
modity marketing 'boards for carrying on preparation of county and provincial totals.
market price negotiations and for the Govern-
ment's agrleultu'ral 'price support program.
The Ontario Department of Agriculture. pro-
vides .an extensive statistical service the year
round by issuing a Monthly Crop Report, a
Monthly Dairy 'Report, a ,Seasonal •"Monthly
Fruit and Vegeta:ble'Report and a eoniprehen-
sive Annual Statistics Report which are mailed
LOOKING INTO
The national director of the Conservative
party, Allister Grosart, was recently reported
setting out to tour, the handful of ridings the
Diefenbaker Government slid .not sweep. It
was',.erplained that he planned, to conduct a
THE , "SWEEP"
P.C., was re-elected in .Grey -Bruce by 5,598,
but two traditionally Liberal centres, Carrick
and Mildmay, gave •Stevenson majorities, and
£olrr Walkerton 'polls also stood by him.
Far more significant is the 'fact 'that of
the 780 polling divisions of these six ridings
„political ,post mortem. As the troops used tb all -had some ballots marked for the Liberal
say, what does he want—jam,on it? candidates, and these totalled 36,808. What
•- There were three principal areas ---New-. one correspondent -calls "islands of Liberal-
fowidTafid, N"orthiei•h Obt"arib–a ifiie--Ot•taw'a ism' were in fact merely peaks on a plateau.
There is a "core" of Liberals, as, of Conserva-
tives, `noi-easily moved to vote otherwise. H.
it were not so, there woul e little meaning
to our party system. Th4. hard core is rela-
tively smaller nowadays, because of the grow-
ing ratio of new 'C.anadians,but,• it has to be
reckSi,r clJohwith. A. Macdonald
one
used to say he
pried most the support of those who, stood
by him when he was wrong. When he. resign-
ed over the Pacific scandalryancl, the 1874 elec-
tion gave 'the • Liberalsa:a' sweeping- victory,
there were 22 ()n'taro ridings that stood by the
Conservative chief. Horace Horton increased
his majority in Centre. Huron, but douhtlesi'
t here were Tory strdngholds here that held
fast. The electoral groups that marched, pro--
te5tir)g. at the rear of the procession in 1874
fount. themselves, in the National Polley sweep
of 1878, at its head. history •sornetimes r'e-
•peats.
district ---in which the "electors dug in their
heels and resisted the Diefen°baker sweep. But
there were smaller holdouts, equally interest-
ing, including Camp Borden and other military
centres that voted with the civil service at the
capital:
Greenock townsiiVin Brune gave Liberal
oaajorities at three polls, and one was tied.
in Wellington -'Huron, where Howe, P.C,, had
5,552 maj•grity,. five polls stood out for Me.Le1-
Ian. No municipality in Huron went•'Lib.eral,,
but two polls • in Hibbert, including Dublin,
remained Liberal. 'Hay township, where 602
electors 'cancelled out the votes of other 602,
showed, the effects of the sweep inasmuch as
in the former South Huron jt used to' give
• Liberal majorities of 400. to 700.
In Perth,.almost unanimous for Monteith,
there were dissenters• at single poly; in Ellice
and -Milverton, and in Elgin there were Liberal
polls in Dnnwieh and Malahide...1�'iukler,
:. ,w,_,_..0. 0. P, E,.R I C -IT S SALTY FUTURE
Excavation work is scheduled to '„coni- capital behind the company• However, the
mence this week for the construction of .per- company ,cased its efforts when nnderground
manent buildings to the value of approximately' water became too great a difficulty 'with which
$2,000,000 at- the rocl • salt mine here. By ,this to cope. Today; however, ntidern mining
Game next year, it: is .stated, the °buildings and methods can overcome these water difficulties. ,
all will be finished and 'everything ready for The Cementation Company does this by
e'' 1 cenielit -rnt-op-e. ren-rrrgs--which con --
Once the rock,salt .mine goes into produc- tact the fissures containing the water. This is
Con here 'next summer, Goderich's, total out; done over a wide area surrounding the main
-put of salt, both evaporated and rock salt,7 mining shaft, thug sealing off the water from
will hit a n.ew all-time high, What of, the reaching it and ,interfering w itli F, siriking.�a
future? Tt is distinctly. `v-ithiu the realm' of •shaft down to the salt bed.
possilffity 'that' the combined_ production of 'Presence of too --much underground water
the two different types of salt here cool's •.hampering'the work df sinking, a shaft' was
eventually make 'Goderich the salt, mining', given as the inain reason "why The Manhattan.
-capital of Canada,taking i ",..--"”"
.' tug over the:lead liositiou, ,halt Mini�.:C,`ompany gave up its efforts to mine
now held, by the plants on the outskirts of rock salt here in 1877. Another reason given
Windsor, Qntarid. for stopping mining efforts/in 1877 was a rumor
It was known as,farlack as 1861 or 1,863 down' the years (not necessarily correct)
" that rock salt existed in -this area. At a meet- 4 he late H. Y. Attrill closed operations n
ing of The Institute of ‘Mining Eninee'rs dawin for fear that it might effect future :alt mining
February,, 1877, Professor T. S. Hunt gave an iii the United States. At one time there_.,were
aeeorint of -borings rn'ade at Goderich. In that as many as 14 different salt wells at Goderich.
e ,x th , ,first deep deposit ,of rock salt on the z t lll,1.npth' r'reason'gwewasn, as that the United
Noi' hf imeriean continent was proved at (Toile- :totes put up a hfgh tariftAn salt• to make'
rich. This, field, according' to the Professor shipment of it froin Canada^. to the 'United
flunt report,^wwai1 `Through the energy of the 'States a losing proposition financially.
late H. Y. Attrill, proprietor of the property But whatever the reason °was for closing
called "The Oaks.' " The property referred down attempts to mine rock salt herein the
to is now known, of eourse, as the Tont" Sandy past, it will certainly not be the ease again,
property at `the Mouth of the Maitland Rivers. if for no other reason, Canada• alone has a
Attempts to inine this roeic salt at Gode- market for all the •salt that ,will be produeed
rich were under way in 1877. The work wa,s\ at (ioderieh. Millions of dollars b''in in -
no doubt so named because of United States promoters of it had any fears, for the future•
AL NOT-ES
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Down Memory, s
Lane
45 Years Ago Party, addressed ,. `•T`Ltons ;Club
luncheon meeting in the church
hall of North Street United Church:
Mrs. Frank Curry was chosen
president of the. ladies' group •of
Maitland' Golf Club at the group's,
18th annual meeting. •
, 10 Years' Ago;
Thomas Pryde, Progressive •Con-
• servative .Mtn for Huron, detained•
his seat by -defeating Frank Fing=
Jana, Liberal candidate, by a mar-
gin of, 108 votes. John W. Hanna,
Progressive Conservative •MPP .for
Huron -Bruce, won re-election for
the third time by defeating Hugh
Hill,, Liberal candidate.. Mr.
Hanna's big margin of ,2,007 in the
1945 election was cut down 'to 255.
' The largest Northern Pike caught
at ,,Goderich in 'the memory of
veteran fishermen was landed from
the back channel near 'the mouth
of the Maitland River at 9' p.m. on
Tuesday., 1t measured 38 inches in
length, and weighed 131/2. pounds.
The• lucky angler was Bill Waugh,
of ~the Bell Telephone staff;
E. J. l5ridham was appointed -to
he-Coderiefi� I?ublic-•-4�ilir-aiy--Boar-d'--
to succeed D. M. Johnston.
When tine- •S:S... Superior- -docked
atGoderich Elevator, she was
picketed by members of the' Can-
adian Seamen's Union. About 20
Ontario Provincial Police officers
also arrived, just 'in case' there
"should be any threat of violence.
Most, 'members. ,ef . the, crew ,walked,
off their jobs sometime later, and
the vessel left port with her officers
and a few remaining crew mem-
bers. ,
A former Goderich resident, W.
G. Coutts, of Big Stone Gap,
Virginia, unfolded a town develop-
ment scheme at' a public meeting
in the Town Hall here. Apparent-
ly no particular action was .taken
as a result of the meeting.
Miss : Griffiths, superintendent of
Alexandra Hospital since its open-
ing seven years ago, submitted her
resignation:
Jailer. Griffin reported to Huron
County ' Council that thejail in
Goderich had only two prisoners --
one: a vagrant and the other
charged with murder.
Mrs. . ] dw;rds' property on the
Mill road, east of Goderich, was
sold to Milton Lowden, of Hamil-
ton. It was announced' that the
371/4 -acre farm would he planted
with fruit trees by the new owner.
There were 250 passengers on
board when 4the ,, steamer . Grey-
hound arrived here on its 1.5th an-
nual• trip from Detroit, to Goderich.
A moonlight ekcursion: from Ggde
rich was patronized by over 1,200
Terms.
25 Years Ago
Local public school teachers
were re-engaged for the next year
at the sane salaries as before.,
• Bob Carswell, catcher of the
Grand Bend softball team, sustain-
ed a broken jaw and the, loss of
several teeth when a runner crash-
ed 'into hire at the home plate dur-
ing a game at Victoria Park. Gode-
rich won. 13-12. =
Goderich Salt Co. asked for a
10 -year extension of an arrange-
ment whereby it received special
tax concessions and enjoyedfree
power up to 12 horsepower. Pre-
sident Wurtele stated that the -re-
building of the open -pan building,
90 by 320 feet, at a cost of `$20,000,
was contingent on the agreement
being extended. The company em-
ployed 84 workers.
Tenders were called for, con-
°struction of a 30 -stall horse stable
at Agricultural Park
When one Western Ontario high
school advertised six vacancies on
the teaching staff, there were .over
400 applications for the positions.
15 Years Ago ' .
J. Gordon iHenderSon, photo-
grapher, purchased the book, china
and fancy goods business which
had been carried on for 17 years
by A. L. Cole on4he north side df
the Square. The 'business Mr,
Henderson had, purchased was ori'e
of the oldest in Goderich, having
been founded by the late T.
Moorhouse-
The S.S. William Schupp, which
had . been sailing in salt water for
two years,, was now back on the
Great Lakes.
Town Council voted $25.0 to 'the
.Greek War Relief Fund.
Hon. John Bracken, new leader
of the Progressive Conservative
Our congratulations to James"johnston,
as istant to the president of The Stratford
eh.conn}1eratd,, on being „awarded his Phl.7't at
the Spring convocation of Indiana. Unintersity.
Jjita'g this,, on Canadian death taxes,. showed
how the government takes those, "who'are are in
- tthe.rn m 1ng'.t for' the tast:big ride,
411,
QUICK CANADIAN QUIZ
1. Where is the highest waterfall _
in Canadar
2. Why does the law require that
federal and p'r'ovincial govern-
ments must call an election' at
least every,. five years?
3. Which is Canada's highest
building?•
4. In net value of production,-agri-
culture is the leading industry
r in which provinces?
5. Of Canada's 186 radio stations,
• how many are government own-
ed?
ANSWERS: 5. Of the 186 sta-
tions, 22 are government-owned
and 166 pr ately-owned. 3..,1
` Head office ohe Canadian Bank
of Commerce, 'in Toronto, 476
feet aboV'e street'level. 1. Tak-,'
akkaw Falls on the. Daly Glacier'
in Northern B.C., 1,650 feet
high. 4. Agriculture is , the
..__leading ind i4 ry an ,P.E.ILSask
and Alta.; manufacturing is now
leading industry in the other
seven provinces. 2. To ensure
, that no government may con-
tinue itself in office indefinitely.
Advertising is a public servant—
used in the public interest.
THE BAFFLES By MahoneyJ
PIO YOU HAVE A NICE
WAY SHOPPING, PEAR?
�od Ad.vice .,,
To Girls
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Planning Their Weddin
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The Signal -Star has -sold scores o wedding
invitations, announcements, personalized
Wedding napkins, ' cake boxes, etc., in the
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past few'
-years to, . gins. in the Goderich
district who have been married.
See the Signal -Star's supply
of these items and YOU'LL
LEARN WHY so many ,off
them have • been sold by
The • Signal -Star..
HELP YOUR
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PRNTING VI
ANNUAL
GODERICH
CAMPAIGN
FORTHEFED CROSS
OUSE TO HOUSE CANVA!S
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This is the season when parents start won-
dering if final school examinations aren't
harder on them than they are on_thea•r children
writing the. exams,
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Woses are wed; wiolets are blue-;
Wain on the -woof weminds me .of you:
Dwip' ' dwip - dwip.
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GentrousIy,
The local, campaign is "b`eing spo fsored
by the Ahme'ek Chapter of `-the
Each household will receive illustration'
newest methods of life saving and first aid:
NOTh: Gatch beds, wheel chairs and, crutches are available free
of charge from the Red Cross 16'aii'cupboard, Contact Mrs, Fra,nk
Murry for informlatiorn re aatne,-
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