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—0-s• The ettibeirTttwn Newspaper of Huron
• Established 1E148,
In its 12th year
•• of publicatio,
THE GODgRICH SIGNALSTAB,
Down Memory's
Lane
• pubjighed by 45 Years Ago - •
theatre, which was to be 'known
as the "Park," a name suggested
by George Jenner, 'projectionist .at
The 1 er Sut.herland theatre on
Westreet.
After an *wie Of 37 yers,
igna1:7tr* '1 • IN Charles mit* paid 4 14it to
Publishing !4' Goderich. He recaled that when
he left Goderich, the trees in the
Limited.
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Circulation --over 3,300. GEO. L. PLUS, Editor and Publisher.
'ITERMSDAY, JUNE 10th, 1959 •
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EDITORIAL NOTES
We are rapidly approaching the season of
emairkter holidays and some are pot,
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• Today, June 18th, is the 147th anniversary
of the date on which United' States declared
*ear on Canada to launch the war, of 1812-14.
• -should be a comfort to taxpaOs to knOW
that tilat particnlar war is.paid f6r by now.
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Nthing has ever occurred in this district
in scores of years to so arouse public feeling
an has the incident at Clinton in which a 12 -
year -old girl was criminally assaulted and then
• _strangled to death. It *as a bitter eontra-
4ietion of a complacent feeling that such a
thing just, " ean't hapkn. here." The sym-
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• pathy of thousands of people .go to the be-
reaved..family.
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Sunday June 21st,174 Father's Pay, 'The
observation of this das.- Was started in 1910 by
Bruce Dodd, of Spkane, Wshing,ton.
_wa.s sel ted...,as_the.appro.,
priate flower' for Father's Day beeause "the
,:finore it is -trampled on the more it grows."
anthoritY in the family is "not what
it usti be .'& Nevertheless, he still enjoys a
itrortger plaee in his family's heart than he,
imagines he does.
• The congregation of St. Paul's Anglin
chureh, Dungannem, is to •be eon -mended for
- the 'finfr--100th. annzoirsa-ry-sei•VieeS. 'held there
last Sunday. Despite the fact that there are
nowonly 12 families in the congregation, the
• preparations ,f6rthe s-erviees and the serviees,,,;
themselves were •worthy of a congregation foue.
times that size. At one time, this church had
more than 50 families, which is a sad reminde4
that the number of people attending Most .rural
churches is considerably smaller than in bygone
years.'
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As Was generally predictd, Premier
.Frost's government wasreturned. to power last
• Thursday with • a siabstaAtial Majority, eVen,
though it was not qiiite as as was the 'ease
in the 1955 elction. Although not everyone
•agreed that the record of the PrOgyessive-
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.Conservatiye government was all that it Should
be—no government's record ever is—there was
nothing on the surface to show that. a change
of government atthis time was advsable. In
the .yiding of Huron, .Charles.MaC,Naughton
was returned to offlee with a majority of 1,698,
.even larger than th 1,164 majority he had in
thela,it by-election. It was one of. the heaviest
votes in years—abont, 77 per cent inning out
to the polls. This was Surprising ii view of
the•.seeming, disinterest in the • campaign dis-
played prior to the election,. .But both Mee -
Naughton and the Liberal eandidate, lIarry
Strang, did, e fa'. amount of personal solieita
- t ion whiiimay have conti•ilitifFUt;"6-ifeFalc17-
to the heavy vote.., Weareconfident -C-ftarles•
,111ael\raughtn wilt do a s'oOd job "for Huron
at Qneen's Par, as he has done itT the 'past
during the limited time he has been thisrid-
ing's representative. Mr. Strang neeenot feel
downhearted. He turned in a mosf ereditable
effort inview of his opposing a candidatewhose
party has iTromised much for this area and
whicdi it Will in due course fufil 13 -
MaQ.NalfZiTt011 a rajorTty fown of
floderieli gave the ProgresSlye-Conservaive
candidate just about half of the entire major-
ity 'he received in the riding, This can be
credited to•MaeNaughton' personal fiopularay
And alo to the promises made by his party
f ging this area a government hospital and,
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a new bridge over the Maitland' River.
Square were no larger then a
walking.' stick. He renewed ac-
quaintances with g few old friends,
including William Sharman, *James
Doyle, Frei* Lawrence and ;Miss
Skimings.'Mr. Hardy's pareils
Were the late ;gr. and *es. Willi
Hardy, 'w;40 were buried in 'llga t-
reed ceetery. ..',•,t. ..
The mat:lefty Of town' councilloes
evidently Ibelieved in the old saY-
ing "better late thae...eievee." Or
at least one wotild judge so from
the way they straggled in one by
one at Oe 'catincil.Meeting Friday
night. But 'by • degrees they got
there and when they ' did, .they
settled down to hard work and
Town Ceunell, a , ed the Greed
d
really did a lot of t lking and 'sot
some results beside`
Trunk Railway to re -plank their
bridge on the Saltford•road. Coun-
cillor Morris( who had passed over
the bridge recetly, inferred that
it was like "the rocky road to
Dublin." . .
Council ipstRicted the Ontario
attorney -general's department' "to
proceed without delay in the prose-
cution of John W. Moyes and those
associated with him in the. mis- •
appropriation of funds entrusted
to them for the 'building, of the
Ontario West Shore Railway from
Goderich to Kincardine." The
money was exhausted while the
railway was 'far from cOmpleted,
and Mr. Xoyes' whereabouts were
unknown.
Reeve Elliott suggested it wopld
be, a good idea to have the CPR' or
.ome.. o tler_ railway..,.complte....-the,
line and operate it.
rWith "Mitch" Hepbiiin. lelding.
the party, the Liberals won their
first provincial election •in Ontario
since 1905. The "landslide" gave
the Liberals 66 seats, 'while the
• Cn,servatives were cut down to 16.
In Huron riding, Liberal James
Ballantyne defeated George . El-
liott, the very' popular Conserv-
ative candidate,' by the unheardsof.
In Huron -Bruce riding, "Charley),'
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Robertson, Lberal, won by a•whop-i.
ping majority of 4,699 ovessFoster •
Moffat, COnservative.
Herb Cranston, who ' drove for
Allison & Hetman, left his 'horse
for a moment in front of O'Brien's
butcher shop 'on West. street. As
he entered the shop, the horse
turned and started., away. Mr.
Cranston \noticed it going and call
ed to it, but the more he\ called
• the- fasterit went.- - Ir! -mment4
or two, it was -rt.th ninen rid- dichi'll.:
stop until it had crashed through
the front window of Harry Mit-
chll's grocery store at the corner
of ,Britannia , and Bayfield
roads.
The window was pretty :'WelI de
molished and the horse was out
some but not seriously. Mr. and
Mrs. Mitchell and some customers
in the store were startled but . no
one was injured. It weseid that
the horse had a bad habit of
walking off when least expected:
15 Years Ago
Rev. A, J. MeKaye, of Victoria
Street ' United ' Church, Goderich,
was being transferred to Stafford
ville in Elgin Connty.
Rev. Lawrence H. Turner was
coming from Crediton to take
charge at Victoria Street Church.
Ray Mulheron, who had been
organist at Norbh Street United
• Churh since last Octobr, resign -
1 ed. He had also been instructor
of music in Goderich schools.
A member of a religious sect
was sentenced at Goderaeh to six
months in jail because he 4ailed to
report for military training.
A fine i0 -passenger power cruis-
er, the property of Tom Sandy,
made a notable addition 'to the
home Ifleet at GOderich.- It was
brought dewn from Penetang
10 Years Ago
The Bond of Trade's tourist in-
formation booth- on the Square
openedfor' the Season with Mrs.
A. ,M. i)/IKinnon In diarge.
A. large new electric sign had
arrived for Goderich's new movie
Cornelius (Con) Spain, of (Herten
stret retired after 42 years of
service with the Canadian National
Railway, s •
At the local bawling club, the,
die .. • , •
annual cempetitien efer the Ifred
1. Craigie Trophy Was won' by
yor George MacEwan and,
Charles Bridgwaer,
bird entered by Clayton Ladd,
THUSDAY, JUNE lOth, Sese
of Auurn, , was the vriiiner when,
Goderich Homing Pigeon Club held.
its fifth rate ef theseason. The
starting point Or the race was
Port Hope, 171 miles away.
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St�ve 91 nut size?.
rom.June 2; to June 30
ASH PRECEir
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Goderich News Stand has just
• the gift that will please him
on Father's Day, June • 21.
Phone 1002. - •
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• You Liberal Part } workers, who
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sorry that I eisUldn't lead you to
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I want to thank each 11Md evety
on -of Oirwho worked so hard
and an tha people who voted for
me or supported me in other ways.
Tho many hundreds of you, who
were kind enough to come out to
the farm, were a great cornfort
• In My hour of defeat. , •
Special thanks to my family, the
executive members of the Liberal
Atiociation, our fine leader Mr.
• John Winfermeyer, and our Young`
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