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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1959-02-19, Page 2P MGE TWIT THE GOPERIGH SIGI3AI,:STAR (u Ivxut tignat,Obtar I o A -t -- The County Town Newspaper .of Hurod --�Q— ' • / In its ;112th yfr of publica{i, Signal -Star Publishing ' 4 a,' 1>► Limited. or THURSDAY, Fes. 19th, 1959 "AMBLING ALONG,. With ' The Ad Man The recent New York newspaper strike cost more than fifty million "Ve +dQ iaM.... etailr rates• 'blew Vvk .r• , woolen's' "'`'$`�'igg bygill'bo'"'" than 7% and •the rest of the -coun- try forged up to a nqw December rebel sales, The impact on the socialhigh lite ofin the communities affected became more than just inconvenience, and began to approach real emergency, In smaller communities the news- paper's role is perhaps less spec- tacular, but no less vital. News- papers are in fact, a public utility, o! andten liketaken anotherfor publigranted.c utilityyYouis never miss the electric light do you, until the power fails! ' In New York the ,doughty ,citizens' gripe about their newspapers even as you and I. It doesn't carry enough sports, not enough women's news, not enough ... it is too much in favor, or not enough in favor Of this and that! Well, that's •o Ial; �xiping that's a11! Chloe .. I Remember the .'popular song of the latetwenties, about the guy wandering through the Sivamp looking for his girl friend yelling "Chloe . . ." Well I heard that song once again the other night. I• was surprised the poor guy hadn't located- Chloe. After all it has been nearly thirty years or more. It's the same with newspapers. For years now I have been looking for the newspaper that was ac- cepted by one and all without question. It exists I fear, only in that imaginative happy hunting ground to which all weary and tired newspapermen, cleansed by enough hell on earth, wilt surely go. .It's A Healthy .Sign: Like the griping soldier, news- 'fORMERDAYSiWNILE � '• •° � paler readers are at their b,est iAREA when gript>i1, (bless their, critical Subscription rates $3.00 a year. o U,S.A., $4.00 (In advance) Authorized as second-class mail, Post Office Departnient, Ottawa. Member of C.W.N.A., O.W.N.A. and A.B.C. Circulation—over„ 3,000. GEO. L. FT;LTS, Editor and Publisher. 4'' THUILSUAY, FEB. 19th., 1959 A SNOWY Mark Twain once said that everybody tallied about the weather but no one seemed to do anything about it. This winter almost eayer_ybody ►ac h e) talking about it and com- oaents haven't been too favorable. But there has been one elan locally who has been doing something about .it—keeping official weather statistics for goverumeut records. Ile, informs the Signal -Star that since last November 22nd a total of seven feet of 61101 has fallen to'date• in the Goderich area. Since 1916 — more than 4U years --- Mr, George Salkeld on the Hayfield Road has, leen keeping.' thee statistics and observing the weather for climatological station reports. Before that tiiue, Mr. lion h hovel, -of Goderich, kept them., . • Mr: Salh l&l','•tiiost cheerful .prediction right—noww is that, by the law of aYt•rages, there will like.ly be much less stto\• next winter. This Spring. \vill arrive later than usual unless, a_re'al'.Warit spell conies snrd,.1h nly- and, if this , should he she, ease, tis.) -ods ean be expected. Snow—tons •ot it—has been the chief • weather'. concerti 1'wally• In ease.you haven't become enthusiastic about the snow we could try and impress you with its beauty by point- • ing out that Jar,ge snowflakes are combinations WINTER of crystal fragments which always have six rays but the designs of which are always different. In fact, of. the billions of snow-, flakes which have fallen in this area alone no two ei then} will cvcr"be--f-eun alike. If you don't believe this, -collect a couple of•tllousand snowflakes, place them on a black -surface and then examine.them under a magnifying glass. 'All finished? There, we told you go! .But people who know their snow- flakes have known this fact for many years. And it's trete for all over the world. Even in Greenland and the Arctic regions where .red snow and green snow have been known to fall! These flakes are ,colored by tiny living things in the sIlOw. There are trillions of people -in the world who — fortunately or unfortunately — never have seen snow s.inee"it never falls on more than a third of the world's surface. If only the ever inerc',iing number of people from this area who winter holiday in Florida could cook 'up a pac•t.! If .oaly- th.es: cod)d arrangF so.nie Ileal whereby- Florida and Huron County could exchangri snow for grapefruit for say the months of January and February only! Oh, well, you wouldn't want Florida's oppressive heat' and nasty little flies during their ,sum- mer Months, would yoti? 4.- I. 1t%i: ,r1,re • "CWAYI WHAT RIGHT HAVE You TO KNOW • 140W WE MANAGE YOUR lit•USIHE.5 " HURON COUNTY'S RESPONSIBILITY Goderich is •' unmindful of ' its founder" ' said Dr. 't1. N. MacFarlane in ..'The Telegrams • on .Saturday. The statement appeared in his review 'ot' the book,, "Tiger" Dunlop. About uue-.iluart-er.of . his coltunu-lung re- view seethed' rather ituusual iii 't hat -was de- voted to deplurini the fact that Dunlop's cairn is being ig;riored''by Gi derich.'The usual . procedure is to Vt view- the book's contents. Ilbir'eVei•, ire must admit • that, there is solve truth in Dr: MauFarlane's statements even thut.,4glt he has failed to place- the blame -' - where it properly belongs. ,, • Said l.)r, MacFarlane; "On a steep'"""" ridge overlooking the Maitland' 1(iver and the town of Goderich is a 'cairn of sorts to the memory of brothers William and Ru- bert Dunlop and the latter's wife, Louisa. Access. to this, tenth iu diffieullt and the whole. surrounding area.- overgrown and unkenpt earbvi he remains orThe -'once " proud Gairbraid, the 'Dunlop home 'and • most romantic •household of L'.Pper Canada. now being used as a Barn. -Neglected and forgotten, the noble houselike the Dun- lop,"has 'been allowed to slip gradually into oblivion. "Far below in, modern splendor lies' the w_hee1. that is (:+oderieh, unmindful of , its founder and grandee I)r, William "Tiger Dunlop. Perhaps the folk down 'there are seeretly unhappy with their;_.. "wheel'' and choose deliberately to ignore the architect. (Rumor has it that Galt wan to have •had,'`the wheel'';' that Goderich somehow <got it by 'mistake). "Be that as it may, 'ager Dunlop with vision and determination gave this town to Canada and`said,it is that -such a one is not. without hon'r>r save in his own (.otintt'y and amongst his own people. " `'13e it forever known that William Dunlop was a great hero. Possessed of an immense vigor of mind and body, he was a • veritable behemoth of a pian, towering over the early Canadian se'ene like a colossus. He- wa •a inagnifieation fit' ,the essential qualities of the early settler. Rugged and honest, he --was endowed 'a, well with t he key>n r 1 et e''�fie)W..of a .. ichf` -And' ola,_t•he• ' mighty- drives; of -an enthusiast. This )pati` lived a host of lives. The •Signal -Star, only a few weeks ago, expressed the, hope i►i these 1•olunu s that"Huron County Council would eventually take steps to glamorize ,the area about 'Dunlop's tomb when they 're-routed highway is built in 1960• The respouribility'to do this lies with' Huron County Council--- arr(l not with (ralerieh, as has been sttgg'ested by 'Dr. MacFarlane. Ap- parently be is uuawere of the faet that the rand on which the Dunlop cairn is located was pureliased by I?trron County sora- 16 Yeats t'•» ago.-and therefore, lies within the jurisdiction of County ('ouneil—not Goderich. Before that t ilne,d it was private property. Presumably built soon after Dunlop's death .in 1648 ,.the cairn naturally- would ae- • .tcriora•te since that' t-itne However., as—late—as 'about five years ago Herb Neill, Huron County Museum curator did renovation work around it en the. request'of the •County Coulieil. Sunk- en stones' '.were. .raised,; .the . letter.in.g. ole. _.the.. cairn made more legible and an approach made .up 'a .steep hill to the cairn. Other work has been done on it.in bygone years. -- Some 22 years ago Mr.' Harry McCreath, on his own time and at his ,owit expense, had a forge "Dunlop"' sign• made on the side of the hill atop which the cairn rests. It was made of whitewashed bricks with each of the letters ten feet high. " . 'Within the course of the next week or so -the ,ti on County-J::iistorlc' Commit te'e-is sehect uled to meet. "One of its, responsibilities is Dunlop's cairn. It will undoubtedly review matters at 'that time. This- committee is com--. posed off°: Deputy- Reeve H. McMichael, ' •of Howiek; County Warden William R. Jewitt, of Hullett ; Deputy Reeve H. Taylor, of Stan- ley; Deputy Reeve Ed. Gill, of Stephen; Reeve" D. Beuerrnan, of . McKillop;' Mr. .Harry, Me_ (.'reath, of Goderich. • - Last year there were, in addition to Harry McCreath, two other non-eount'y councillors r,n the County Historic Committee Charles Asquith,. of Auburn, and George Jefferson, of Clinton. They have since been `replaced by`' county eouncillors. - Since the Dunlop cairn is atop a high knoll, i,olateil on 'one side 'b'y the railway and a steep slope;.oli the other side, it is,•at 'present l►raetir•all'y inaccessible to the average person. Only a mountain„ climber. or adventuresome .,boli, would care to -make the effort' to get there. \nen the new highway is built, it will likely lass by it in such a manner that a spur road could be built from the hishw'ay' Over to the site of the cairn. It is to'be sincerely hoped this will he, clone and'the County- Historic com- mittee should keep' the Ontario Department of Highways of •the neeessity to. this; Than rill he the time to do a complete job on renovating the entire area about the cairn. Possibly an impressive canopy roan he built over the cairn to protect ,it from the ravages of time and weather. Indeed, a whole program of glamorizing theeairn and land- , si:aping the area around it could he done. By that lime. it should be as eessihle by ears, And this will mean visits to it' not only by thousands of -tourists bet also By many HIuron County • residents who know far too little about the man who founded the very area in which the.' today live and which was made possibly by his leadership• • own Memory's Lane.. 45 Years Ago The 183 pupils at Goderich Col- legiate Institute weretaught by J. P..Htime (principal), Dr. H. I. Strang, A. M. Robertson, Miss M. K. Clifford, Miss Hodge and Miss L Du.rnin. The school was found- ed about 1841 and the building was erected in 1844. Goderich Citizens" League For Moral Reform was the name chosen for the organization of local tem- perance workers who ' had been •Instrument -al en passing the Canada Tem- erance Act - here. The new Masonic Temple, built on West street at a cost of $30,000, was formally opened with a re- ception held by Maitland Lodge,A,F & A.M.. 'Worshipful Master Dr.. e. C:. Hunter•'•presided: ' '._ Chairman Jahn Galt presented. Goderich Public Library+' Beard with. ,a. portrait of his grandfather, John Galt, the well-known novelist and writer, who founded Goderich in 1828. The Township of Colborne had no mail delivery routes but there was a movement on foot to serve the southern pax t of the township. It was thought' that this would probably do away''-evith the post -office-at 4Benmiller _ 25 Years Ago • ' " "Goderich on the Huron Riviera" they called it. While the, mercury dipped to 29 below at Stratford' and. 40 below at Clinton, it was comparatively warm in Goderich-- enly 23 below. The best ice harvest in years was .being taken from Goderich harbor this week. ,Graham Bros. were. , storing . jituidred's • of tons, while C. -C-. •Lee was putting some ' now. We are having a cold winter scrap and wanted one .re•ee Wilmot Haacke, �f Goderich Township, was elected a vice-pre- sident of the Western Ontario Pro- gressive Conservative Association at'the convention held in London. 10 Years Ago Nearly 40 men were rushing re- construction of about 300 feet of wharf at the Goderich Elevator and Transit -Co. plant. , It, was announced that Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Buck, of Windsor, would assume management of the Park House 'in Goderich. Ernest -Lee, 'a 3-oderith ' native practising law in Toronto, was ap- pointed, a .King's Counsel. Some 30 trapshooters were on hand . at Sky Harbor Wednesday, afternoon for the first shoat unser. the auspices M Maitland Fish 'and Game Conservation Association. Those who made the leading scores were: William'' Kyle, of . Ki.ppen; Jack Gilbert, of Goderich Town- ship, and Knyvet Naftel, Harvey Baxter and Frank Jeffrey, all of town. - • In Ontario intermediate "C"basketball' play;;, Goderich Ghosts dropped two straight games to the powerful' Ridgetown quintet,' • (By Jennie (Ryan) McGratten) 'Seventy years ago the road north '1 of Nile used 'to be called the "Gravel Road". There was an old black -covered 'stage .with a door at the back and high seat up in front, which carried the mail from Lucknow to Goderich. The driver's name was Bob Mullen. He lived the other side ofBelfast and drove the . .stage for years. One thought an it quite honor to ,get a ride up on that front seat. To get your mail you had to go to Nile or Dunga_ n - nen (and , to post it, too); and if you wanted a ride to Goderich you had to be at the road at 8 a.m. .That road was called the "Gravel EDITORIA17: Congratulations to the ,Goderieh Pubfic ered the top of the snow in many fields. Many • tion. We hope any future agreeMents will be Leaf Wardens in oronto and also. some Mad - •reached in the same manner. .ison Square. Gardens and still have room to • Ineptne tax'deadline can be seen over the horiOn now. Huge defence expenditures seem to remain a sacred eow at Oftawa. • Oh well, it'a-.a comfort to kilo*. fiat ways fo-ught in the 11th and 12th centuries are paid for. Maybe Worlit 4Var III ean be rim on cash instead tions for some can, at the same time, speed np for others. Last. Saturdi morning the Ile . had on „Ma slUtteft '60 was making the imitida like' a *MAO dervish. On Shroxiay Letters to Edit° Editor, Signal -Star. EncloSed find the iiim of three quilting bee or sewin carpet rags, The boys would be r invited for the evening and we had -.a lot of games ready. The time always went too quickly for we had to be home reasonably early. Now from Nile .nbrth up the Gravel Road was first the Wab. Jackman term. He was called after the Township, I think, and there were nine in the family. Next was Chas. Girvin's (better known is. "Squire Girv.in"), who always drove a nice team of hackneys for his top bliggy. Then up'ecross in Ash- field was Hugh Girvin, arid he was a cattle and horse buyer. He drove a little roan-, he called "Rosie", in an open buggy. He was crippled and they ,had five children. Ruth (Mrs. Anderson) lives in Lucknow and Anson in Saskatoon. Next north was Dick Ryan who used to work for Bob Finnigan, and walked away up there every Monday morn- ing. remember that he said he had a lot of those old-time zig-zag (rail) fences to build. Across the road in Wawanosh again was the Jim Girvin Farm and there used to be one ef the largest willow trees I ever saw beside the road gate. I think they were the first dollars for a year s, subscription to the Goderich Signal -Star. I still enjoy reading about my friends of 50 years ago, although I do trot see many names knoW away for the, Sunset -Hotel. It was expected that at least 2,000 tons would.' be harvested. Installation of a..new water main was shelved indefinitely by Town' Council. Not everyone was happy with this 'decision. The Goderich . Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Star explained: "The present main Mr. George Ellis, , is a 10 -inch pipe which was laid The Signal -Star. • ' niore than 30 years ago. At that .Dear George: , time, methods in use- were not I am enclosing cheque for $3.25 efficient as those developed in t for renewal of subscription to intervening period. All joints be- SignaleStar. Send the paper to the tween pipe lengths were sealed above. address for next three with lead packed into the sieeVe. months. I hear you are having a In. the meantime, more powerful real cold winter. We are basking pumps have been installed whi in 780 degree temperatures here, • are capable of generating a force swiMming in the ocean every day Sufficient to blow, the lead out of and just watching the crowds go these joints when, in emergency, by. full power is ttirned on:" Sincerely, • All members were present with FRANK SAUNDERS. their consorts `when the Marine Edit ' N t '0 ' f the e da s Club held a dance on February 16. Frank, Canada is going tO 'annex At one bell, cards :were started, 20 Florida for its eleveuth ,PKO-virlge tihles in all, and MisS` Hoey 611 because there are so Many Care the last,streteh hauled everything adians doWn there now. aback and beat out Miss Bluet. Mrs. T. Kneeshaw and •Mrs. Cook w,ere abreast when Mrs. Knee- shaw's Main sheet carried away and she was awarded khe consol- ation. . , Fred Robinson; being to but very little snow so far. 'Yours truly, SAM TREBLE, Watrous, Sask: 209 North Atlantic Blvd., off his sheets and. captured first place for ,the crews, Fdr last place, Mr, Vines and Colin Murray were abreast when Vines' • jip-top .sail blew, so he got the booby ,prize. 15 Years 'Ago Plans were being made to form a committee in Gode.rich" to assist in rehabilitation of_members ,of Ithe anned services. The ToWn of Goderich adverbs - eel: "Have your money earn - five percent. • Prepay your Town of .Goderich 1944 taXes now. For Par- ticulars, apply to tax collector." to-Fl/Lt. Donald MacKay„ son. of Mr. and Mrs. John MacKay, / of Kintail, and Fl/Lt. H. F. Kerrigan, Fleming,' of Ridgewood ;Park, -Richard H.. Morrish, writing from 'Chicago, recalled the 'days of4the Fenian invasion scare. When, an unacheduled vessel was spotted north of Sarnia, wotd spread that -a boatload of Fenians *as heading "I cart see My untie Richard Jewell, with gun on his shoulder, leading mei), with ns, reyolv.emor Pito hordes were still pOuting into. the. trown, it was discovered that the boat was a metchant.vesset,Purstt- belligerent of. the crowd were dia. tippointed, they had tome,* ia Dr., D. Dymond., Ontario's Minister of Health; was reeently quoted its saying he would Ite asking for, a speeding up 'of construction. plens hir the Hospital for Retarded ,Childrin to ,be built south of Goderieb+6 He is said to ..,4tave 'stated he planned to get the Huron County project started- withont unnecessary delity. The.unemploy4 aftnehair ,construction super- intendents itt the ,Ciodevich 'area don't seem very,' optimistic Abottt-',0aft-Fushing of con - the ft Otrinal delay in the building ,of a sirnil- Re liosatiti in Kent County. However, we. be- fieve the work will proceed na Sp'eedily , PoN.Riblc hocitlise of the need for it. Mett are altetttly -at 'Work cleating •the .site, DONNYBROOK DONNYBROOK, Feb. 16. — The of the president, Mrs, Chas. Jeffer- son, with am attendance ,of 12; Mrs. James Ledely presided for the W.M.S. meeting. Mrs. H. Woods read the Scripture lesson. MrS. Donald Jefferson read a prayer. Mrs. Wes. Jefferson gave a reading. Mrs. ,R. Chatnney read an article on Christian Stewardship; also some.verses entitled "Why so fear- ful." Mrs. Sam Thompson -read part of the chapter on Canada from the study book. Mrs. H.. Jef- fertdn sang "The Beautiful Gardeo, of Prayer.' Minutes of the Janu- read. One tfiank-You• note 'vox read. Plans were made for a bale - to he serit to' Northern Ontario in Or near future. , Mrs. Chas. Jefferson presided for the W.A. meeting which followed. Mrs. S. Chamney gave a reading "A Friend." Lunch was served by the ,hostess assisted by Mrs. Ed- ward Robinson and Mrs. G. Naylor. Owing to the icy conditions of the roads;' the church Service at Donnybrook was cancelled on Sun- daMrs, E. It Doerr and soni'' Brian, y. .o Niagara Falls, were recent visit - and other members -of the fainilY. iMr.,.and Mrs. H. Jefferson and John Jefferson and family t Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Chaumey ' and girle *ere Sunday. visitors with her parents, Mr. -and Mrs. Vtritt. Webster, St. Miens. • ones in those parts to have a hay- fork. We used to go there to see the bundles going up andwe thought it a great. sight. Now Grannie Ryan lived across the road in a little house, and w len she died they moved the house �up little hearts), about the delivery of the paper, the editorial opinions, the name that was omitted from .the curling club dance committee,• the name that was not omitted from the traffic court news, and so on, and on, newspapers expect it! Your local editor,,, ,l,,am sure tries and put it on the hack .of the 'one to maintain a .tooty grin in the . that is still there.1 well remember face of brickbats. Ile knows there that day for there- were a lot of is &Wale of the frustrated journal - things piled up on. a 'table outside ist in every subscriber: Believe of the house they were moving. I me the words that gO, "now whet I got hold of some matches and ' yaur newspaper, should do' is ; .'." started a bOn-fire in the corner of i are heard to echb often in the the barn -yard and the first thing ' hallowed halls of the fourth estate. misunderstand!, Newspaper out. I hid behind the 'pump-house!,1cism, and advice, they feel at home On up across the road in Wawanosh j l'Y..iit;!? it. . The day 'the subscribers was Robert Kirk's and I remeniber will worry! that' they,, had one of these old, Ever Stop To Think: fashioned, churns on -which•the -dog SupPose you- discovered- toinor- kept climbing all the time (but got row that your local newspaper ' nowhere!) Next, across the' road in would no longer be printed. The Ashfield, was Jake ,Ryan's. I well • benefits accepted each week by you recall when that barn was built. ; as routine, would quickly become There must have been two or three; apparent. No district news, no hundred at that raising, The women church notices the old timer laid set the tables on the front fawn to rest .withbut the usual tribute and were kePt buSy keeping them in "print,. the new born. arrivals, •full. Sam Treleaven slipped off the who are they? what's the price beam they were.hoisting but caught of 'hamburger at the local butcher something and did not go all the nsheoxpt?wweheakt?'s wrolhaaytintgnaottwhaenrat oavdise; way down. It,..was an awful scare. and had Jnoreeruna;ways than any. YOU hold in your hands, discover one on that road. Well, I am to there the real heartbeat. of your the second concession now so I town, and your cormaneity, Ad- 'vertising? Why advertising is only n look a long.. way back,' a friendly letter from 'your local and such a short way ahead—just merchant ' telling you 141- at goods ,like a train coming round •that bend in The track. So keep your eyes open, for 'yew will be a long time dead , QUICK CANADIAN QUIZ 4'1. In " wh at year did Alcoek and Brown fly from Nevvfoundland to 2. What proportion of births in Canada take place in hospital? 3. How many housing units were started in Canada in 1958? .4: In 1948 it cost $6,400 to buy ' tools and plant to create one new job in Canadian manufacturing. What is today's figure? 5. What species are the largest trees that grow in Canada? ANSWERS: 5. The Douglas Fir, grows ,,rnostly in southern B.C., sometimes reaches 300 feet. 3. 163,000, about 25,000 .mere than in the previous record year, 1955. 1. In 1919. 4. About $12,000. 2. Nine otit of ten. fit today. -After justabirik what time and effort he *Otild Jteed to Sit down and write to,i,oeryone of postage altone 'CoSti• Sure there's advertising in -your news- paper, and you'd complain if there So Keep On Griping: . Write that letter to the editor. After all yob are a subsoriber are you not? Of course you are;' and you can bet the newspaper values every last one of you. You don't, always HAVE to agree with the editor, or he with you. If they missed junior's name out of _the last junior hoCkey game lineup, call up the editor, bawl him out, he'll love it! The important thing is that the newspaper is THERE and that it is FOR your comMUnity. 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