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THURSDAY, MAY 14th, 1959
A MOVE THAT REFLECTED FORESIGHT
What started out as a mere joke aright
-wen evtually he -a hit of wiad.oni.. We have
in mind "The Spirit of Iiurou"---the 90 -ton
Q.R.it. steam locomotive, which has been man-
ipulated over back streets from .the railway
tracks- to the Huron' County Muse'um',durin;,
the past few days. There, it will rest so that
generations yet unborn alight look at the
'puffing iron monster which one,e drew pas-
senger coaches over the railways all which
their forefathers travelled.
When it was announced by the C.P.R„
that it was their intention to retire to the
graveyard the old , aforementioned locomotive
and replace it w•i 'i a diesel, there were jests
ihkh went the round of • railwaymen, and
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others. "Aw, put it in the museum," they
quipped. This jesting corns nt finally drew
considered thought and event ally -plans were
made to just do this. +
And so _ L ron County Museulri has a
stearal railway 'locomotive. a are confident
no other such museum in Canada has one.
We think it was a great piece of foresight on
'the 'part of those responsible for the move.
Some 25 or 50 years from now there will be
people who will be thankful that it was done.
And among those people will be young men
and women who never, in their lifetime saw a
stearal railway locomotive in action. In fact,
in only a few years from, right now they will
.10'"a strange sight. How much more so will
this be the ease several decades from now.
PORT ALBERT CHURCH'S . CENTENARY
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013. Sunday, May 17, Christ "Churh, Port''
Albert, will mark 'a c'eutury of service to its
area. A fitting celebration is to be' carried
Out to mark the historic event:
First services held by this congregation
100 years ago were held in private houlos, and
.log school houses. The minister who served
the "'then missionary district, which included
t,
Port Albert, was :Rev.- R. 4. Roberts: ,He was
incumbent of Ashfield, Colborne- and. the Wa-
wanosh townships in the Count? of Huron."
His appointment, in 1859 was by the late Rt.
Rev. Benjamin C'r.onyn, Bishop, of Huron;
whose first visit to Yort Albert was three
years later, in 1862..:
In 1874,. a Union church wasbuilt ate Port,
Albert in whieh both Anglieans and µPresby-
terians worshipped. By 1890, the' A.nglieans
had their own church built which was offi'ciai-
ly opened on March 26 of that year with the
,.first rector being `Rev. J. Carrie. Seven years•
later the church was consecrated by Rt. Rev.
N.C. S. Baldwin, than Bishop of Huron. In
1910, Christ Church, with St. Palo's at Dun-
gannon, became a self-supporting parish with
the rectory at Dungannon. In 1932, Christ
45 Years Ago ''.
The residence pf Rev. McRae,
whleh waa built 47 years ago, yeas
being 'torn dawn to make room
`for an up-to-date priest's house in
connection with the par4sh 'of St.
Peter's. It was...estimated that, the
new residence would cost about
,000.
The music -loving population of
Goderich. gathered in the Victoria
opera house to listen to David
Duggan, the celebrated Scottish
tenor who came here froin Detroit
to give a concert.
Dungannon merchants .announce'
ed that their stores would be
closed every Wednesday afternoon
and evening throughout the sum
mer.
The Benmiller Methodist Church
reported a membership of 173, an
increase of 1,1 over the previous
year. .
Repeated efforts had been made
to find the. steamers Carruthers
and MVMeGean, Which went down in
the terrible gale' of November;
1913. Charles Naftel believed that
the remains of these boats were
lying on a sandbar near Naftel's
Point, but explorations had so far
failed to confirm this.
25 Years Ago
As a result of a meeting of
about 35 Goderich merchants, .• it
was decided to ask the . citizens to
petition the Provincial Liquor
Board to establish a liquor store
hare. It was stated that the Can-
ada Temperance Apt was no bar to
th'e''establishment of a store here.
Legal opinion had been secured to
the effect that the CTA was
longer operative since the passing
Church combined with St. Paul's, Dungannon,
St. Peter's, Lucknow and' St. Paul's. Ripley,
1I1 a lour -point charge.
Christ Church has had a long and proud
history. For a small 'church, it is an excep-
tionally, active one and,,,,,its present minister,•
Rev. II. L. Jennings, its wardens, Ralph Foster
'and' Harold Adams,,,and the, entire congrega-
- tion- -are to-fie---c-omnreiin1ed-__for - thea mariner in
whieh they plai`1 ' to observe the centennial.
° A social everting is planned for Saturday
at 8 p.m., when present and former members
Of ...the parish will gather. On Sunday at 11
a.m., the guest preacher will be Rev. L. J. Pat-
terson, of .N.ew St. Paul's, Woodstock. At
this time various memorials presented
to the church will be dedicated. At the,
7.30. p.m. service, there will be a civic service
,when the preacher will be Rev. Janes A. 'Wet,
ton, of St. Michael's and All .Angels Church,
Toronto:
Christ Church will undoubtedly be ex-
tending a hearty w.e.lcome to these services,
not. only -to former numbers, but also to the
members of all denominations both in the dis-
trict and at a -#distance. •
of the Ontario Liquor Control Act.
The Graham Bros. were getting
good catches of fish. They brought
in over 300 pounds on Tuesday,
'and these ' flab were bigger and
better specimens, especially the
trout.
There just wasn't any fishing off
the breakwater. The water was
still very dirt from clay, deposit-
ed by stream up the lakeshore.
al. Whitehead, of Teeswater, mirr
aculously escaped with only minor
injuries when his truck was struck
by a string/ of box cars being
shunted along the tracks at • the
harbor in Goderich. The accident
happened on the MR tracks be-
tween the office building and the
'first storage unit of the Goderieh
Elevator & Transit Co.
15 Years Ago
Town Council agreed to guar-
antee Alexandra Hospital an ad-
ditional grant of $3,300 to help
meet expenses of the current year
if necessary.
Two Goderich Collegiate Insti-
tute teachers resigned. They were
Miss Marjorie 4ckerman, teacher
in English and - history, and Miss
W. Nettleton of the commercial
department.
There was much conjecture in
.Goderich as to the future of Sky
Harbor, which was to be abandoned
as a n Commonwealth air training
station on July 14.
E. H. Hill, manager of the Na-
tional Selective Service office in.
Goderich, reported a serious short-
age of labor in this area.
Two miilidn trout fry from the
Point Edward fish hatchery were
deposited in Lake Huron off Gode-
, ,„.
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341 South Oak Park Ave.,
Oak Park, I11.
Editor, Signal -Star.
Dear Sir:
On Saturday night, March 28th,
and Monday, 30th, I attendbd the
Young Canada hockey games and
spent all day and evening watching
the games. 4t was well worth my
rich.
10 Years Ago
The removal of 28 Anson rive
planes from Port Albert to Sky
Harbor marked the last. of " the
many. dozens of airplanes which
had been stored in the hangars
at Port -Albert since the end of
World War H. Of the four hangars
at Port Albert, one 'had been dis-
mantled already and' the remaining
three had' been sold and were
awaiting as similar fate,
Q .Emerson arid 3. A. Snider,
representing the Recreation Coun-
cil, presented Town Council with
a proposition for the engagement
of a lifeguard at the harbor beach.
Council promised to consider mak-
ing a grant to help defray .the
cast.'
The county property and good
roads . committees locked over "Sev-
eral sites with the idea of select-
ing one for the establishment of a
county museum to house the Neill
collection and other exhibits,
Stedman's moved into the prem-
ises .formerly occupied by the
Venus Restaurant 'on the Square.
The firm of Wilson & Drennan was
moving into the store`'vacated by
Stedman's.
A small, eager group of people
gathered in the store of Cornish
Electric Saturday night to see and
•hear the first television set in
Goderich. The program came
from station WXYZ in Detroit.
trip from , Chicago to see those lads
ay aw til. w 11..
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Sig;nal;S�tai' or a -number ol•` years
of the splendid work the Goderich
Lions Club are doing for the boys
of Canada. The one thing ' I was
impressed with was the promptness
of starting the games.
Enclosed is a • picture of the
Goderieh hockey team which I
took in their dressing room, also a
picture of the Goderich Signal
office.
a�n�
W%rJY
Week; also to the members of the
Lions Club. Best wishes.
Sincerely,
G. McVINON.
Editor's Note: Thanks for the
pictures.
An adverti$ement, in the Signal,,
Star, brings quick results.
"A Gas Water Heater
saves you money ...
gives you more Hot.
Water in less time"
says,
BERT W'ORSELL
GODERhOH,
PLUMBER DEALER.
"You never run out of hot
'water when you have a Gas'
Water Heater. It heats water so fast (4 times faster than any
other system) Alia you always have a eoestarnt supply of phot
water. And it costs you less to buy ... less to 'operate."
See 'modern Gas Water Heaters at Worsell's Hardware, The Square.
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UN I O N �� COM PAN`Yl�
.OF CANADA,LI11¢1T)ED
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OFFER!.
Hire, nom the • record, are a few
of the c mmon sense views Charlie
MacNaughton is expressing forcefully
on behalf of Huron:
ON AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY —
• 'May 1 point out, Mr. Speaker, to you
and the hon. members of this House
that; .in my opinion, a -unique oppor-
tunity exists in Huron for ,industry to
avail itself of the" enterprise and aTitify
of our farmers ..." Hansard, Page 486
ON ORGANIZED LABOR —
"The tactics of the irresponsible seg-
ments 'of labour must. be checked .. .
" the sfeadily inct'easing patterns of
strilces and the subsequent higher cost
of labour,• have been the principal fac-
tor contributing. to the mounting costs
of consumer goods and the inflationary
tendencies that threaten our economy
. Another serious aspect of This
whole situation.. . is that there are
many branches ofour society (particu-
larly those on fixed incomes and pen-
sioners) Who do not possess the counter-
part of the strike weapon with which
to retaliate." —Hansard, Page 489
ON DAYLIGHT TIME —
PLUS these
COId Meat For
1•
Regular Table
1 pierced T Spoon I
able $ I
.1 9, 1:mportani,8Shallreaspo°hspoOn9 8 Coffee sons
RETAIL
Serving ,Pieces L$18.,sVALUE
"I do believe this- eov't should con-
sider every possible means of providing
for uniform change dates -on a province
wide basis. The haphazard manner in
'which this ,matter is now being handled
results not only in pure confusion., but,
in' scores of instances, extreme incon-
venience 'and, in fact, hardship."
--Hansard,.Page 1,l36
ON NEW CANADIANS —
"Of recent years, our . population has
been swelled by -people, of other lands,
to all of whom we extend a ti aditional
Huron welcome. The customs and tra-
ditions of their native countries have
already enriched us and a,,,,gqe�w typical-
ly Canadian culture emerget." •
—Hansard, Page 485
ON BUYING CANADIAN —
"I • urge the government to institute, as
soon as possible, a policy which would
require all departments of gov't, all
agencies and institutions under the
,`direction ,of ;gov't or who are receiving. .
grains from fire ' goV'f, to WV "`peke
Preference to goods of Canadian menu -
facture." —=Hansard, Page 488
RE-ELECT
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Charlie
:acN&ght�n
Speaks for Huron
-Inside-and-outside-the egislaiure,—
Charlie MacNaughtons voice has
been effective in promoting the
interests in Huron Riding . .
Let him continue to fight for you.
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