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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1959-08-06, Page 8bo rew money to get, 'theutselvea„ *sitof the rut usually enol 4,?4$ 'e'lole. KIDS' FUN i ORPENNY QI ERR U SIGN 4 M • TIMRSP-ASY't AINUST14 lam: , SWJWLPQOL BECOMES 'STRE[TS TENDERS Repair To Floor Tenders will be received by the under -signed until 5 p.m., AUGt?ST17;? 1959, for the re- pairing of the floor in the County Registry Office. All details 'and specifications. may be received fromthe un- 'der-signed. n- 'der-►,igned Yd it tender is to be ,sub- mitted in a sealed envelope clearly -marked. John G. Berry, Olerk-Treasurer„ County of Huron; crod -3 Lrnct1oLcANwA'' Bearded ladies; games of skill, The cari continued , thaat and a tunnel of love. These were eveningr Ott tunnel of love In just some of the highlights of this the pool, in Whish you could be year's • Penny Carnival held at Judith Gooderham Playground, last Friday. Premptly at 2 p.m., the play- grotrnd supervisors opened the, gates . to hundreds of youngsters, all armed with pennies. The park itself was given ajestival air by gay streamers, buhting, and color- ed- lights. One of the attractions was a side-show complete with snake - charmers, two midgets, a bearded lady, an electrical man (for which - an extension cord had to be found), and other ,exciting features such as the inevitable magician -cutting -a - lady -i -half. All this could be seen for the reasonable sum of two cents. Games of skill such as dart - throwing, balloon -breaking, snuffing out a candle with a water -gun, and hitting the clown with a ping-pong ball at ten paces, gave _the children a chance to win prizes ranging from keychains and pipe cleaner - men to books and toys of all de- scriptions. These too were cheap at the price of one penny. .. All this activity, of course, can make busy children thirsty, so a booth where one could purchase r • . ot---bagsheF•-aeon tions was 'provided. rowed around the "ancient streets of Venice" by appropriately -dress- ed gondoliers. For tho,,se whose taste ran to- ward the less peaceful, a Horror Rouse was thoughtfully arranged. This consisted of three rooms in the bath -house,, and an authentic skeleton drawn by Paul Gillespie,. as well as dummies dressed to sug- gest several different gory .scenes thrilled and chilled the irnagin» ative audience, all of whom made sure that they got their two cents worth. Fun for those more advanced in years was to be had there too. A bingo game was• in progress throughout the evening for five cents a card, and numerous penny - draws were available as well for those who felt lucky. This entire venture was con- structed,"• planned and performed by children, with the advice and aid of the life -guards, playground supervisors, and other members of the park staff. This year's carnival was bigger and more spec- tacular than in other years. CERTIFI E•D PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS QUALIFY AS A PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT ,Applications fer registration, as students, 1959-1960 season, now being received for a linvrted'-tiiti'e.---" ' Five-year, course. conducted by .,,he ;f3epartn� zit of Extent sion, Universitye' of Toronto, 'plus acceptable practical training in business or public accounting fields of your own ohoice:""""'' Write immediately for further information to ' The Certified Public Accountants Association of Ontario, : Building., 228 Bloor Street West, a Toronto. 5, Ontario. 30-32 TRENCH EXCAVATFQNS (The Trench Excavators' Protection Act, 1954 8 Regulations) Owners.' or Contractors opening any trench must first obtain a permit from the Municipality in which the work is being undertaken. . SECTION 8 - (1) The sides of all trenches exceeding four (4) feet in depth shall be securely shored and timbered ,with good quality material; etc. SECTION 8 • (2) Trenches in solid soil and not exceeding six (6) feet in depth or-• when the sides of the trench -are' sloped 'to,within-four• -(4) feet of the bottom of the trench so that the sloped sides of .the trench do not have more than one (1t) foot vertical rise to each foot of horizontal run, need not be shored as in Sect. 8 (1). Copies of The Trench Excavators Protection Act may be, obtained fom Mr. Roy Meriam ---Trench Inspector ' or from the Town Clerk's Office. ° SECTION 24 Every person who violates any provision of this Act or the regulations is guilty ,of an offence and on summary convic- tion, where a penalty for such offence is .not otherwiseprovided, , is liable to a penalty of not more than $500.00. 30-1 R. MERIAM. TRENCH INSPECTOR. Sporting goods made in Canada in 1957 had a factory Vai>j of $16 million. Some of the, major items $2.7 million; fishing rods and tackle, ,$2.8 million; ice skates, $2.3 million; golf clubs, $1.'7 million; hockey sticks, $1.7 trillion, -4, DO, YOU SUFFER FROM THESE ,.SYMPTOMS OF —HEARING LOSS? D You have difficulty hearing in 'crowded rooms. -E» You:.....have..., .difficulty- under- standing certain words. ❑ You cannot hear well in church or at the movies. ❑ You, have difficulty in 'he'ar- ing over the phone. O You can hear radio or TV only with high volume. ❑ People have to shout or speak ext);a loud to you. You are not DEO if you checked any or all of these symptoms. YOU -MAY HEAR -BE -T -TER THAN YOU THINK A simple five-minute hearing test will give you a 'pretty good indication of your hear- ing loss.. There is no cost or obligation whatsoever to come in, phone or write, for an ap- pointment in our office or in the privacy of your own home. NEW' ULTRA -MIN IATIJ'RE HEARING AIDS NOW AVAIL- ABLE. •So bring* 'your `hearing' Sip -to-"' date now with a FREE hearing.„ check and inspection of our modern new aids in every style from eyeglass to new be - .hind -the -ear. Ask for FREE ' booklet`' -NAT- URALLY . YOU CAN HEAR AGAIN.. ACOUSTICON , You Golden Circle of Sound WMA• IRWIN, 225 N. Front St., Sarnia. Di 4-8708. 29-2 rte sten aur fingertips� The first aid kit and insurance -both - have important roles_to play in the event of accidents. Each year, the companies writing accident and sickness insurance In Canada pay out more than ninety, million dollars (not including auto- mobile accident costs) to policy - 'holders -- a mighty bulwark against unusual finaticial strain. Art. CANAQA FEDERATION` It is far better, -though, to prevent accidents and mishaps, rather than to deal with -the treatment of their ser- ious—and often tragic --after-effects. That is why insurance companies are constantly seeking way9 CO stem Canada's mounting accident`toll. Safety pays dividends ... saves lives, helps to lower your insurance "costs. Be'Careful. ALL CANADA INSURANCE FEDERATION on belief/ of more than 900 comppeeting companies writing, Pim; Automobile and Casu Yty Insurance. OUT ON A LIMB (WITH BILL 5M11.EY) `This week I'm going, to do some- thing I have long meant 'to do. I'm going to. say thanks, formally and sincerely, to all those people who have dropped in at' the office, or written notes, to tell me they appreciate Sugar and Spice (run under `'the heading of "Out on a Limb" in Ther' Signal -Star). . •I'm doing it thus, publicly, be- cause 1 do its so. _badly ln..prixate, Some old gal from Kalamazoo, Mich., on the way to her summer cottage, will stop in to pay her subscription. She'll. peer around, spot me and holler: "Yds) the fella writes that Sugar and ' Salt (or Salt and Pepper, or Sand and Gravel)?" Uneasily, 1 mutter "yup." She slaps her leg and says: "1 sure get a. kick outs. that. 1 laughed fit to cry over that one you wrote about the cat, back there in April, or was it November?" * * * nUlx_..vt 1 have never written a column about a cat. We've never had a cat, and 1 don''t like cats: She probably ,means the one I wrote about the dog, back in January. But what's the use of going into all that., 1 just Say heartily "glad you.tiked it, nice to see you again," andrush •into 'the back shop, pre- tending I'm sorely needed there: * * * Then there'sthe fellow who comes in, a perfect stranger; boll's at me coyly and says: -"If 1 wrote things like that about my wife, she'd kill me." With a fixed smile, 1 .quip, just as coyly: "Sorifetimes she'd like to," and hate myself for saying it. It's . not true. She might like to change my profile a bit, or smash me a couple of times right over the head, but she doesn't want to kill ire. 'a At least not very often. I think perhaps today -was an..exception. . She'd been at me ever since June ! to- -get---the; furnace pipes -down. L When they're not taken down, they leak a „ peculiar, gummy" brown substance. Well, I've been trying to plan around to it, but we have miles of furnace pipes, and it takes a lot of planning around to. *. * * •This week, she and the weather- man turned on the heat simultan- eously. So on the hottest day of the summer, I'm bullied into taking down the bleeding furnace pipes in my noon hour. By the time I'd got well into it, we weren't on speaking terms, She was sulking in the bedroom like ,Achilles in his tent, and 1 was, cussing in the bathroom like noth ing yqu ever heard. The blasted pipes were all stuck together from the heat or something. * * * .finally, I got two of the reluct- ant 'joints moving. 1 dot a four - foot length onto my shoulder and was easing down off the chair I was standing on, when one end of the pipe bumped the top of a cup- board, tipping the other end to- ward ,the floor. Into the sink, bath- tub and 'toilet, onto the towels, washcloths and bathmat, .cascaded about four pounds of fine black soot. ° * * *. Swearing fearfully, „ I dashed down the back stairs,' strewing soot behind me like a smoke screen, and outside, I`afell over the dog, so help me. „ By this time I Was in a tearing rage. I went back up, grabbed another hunk of pipe, gave it a wrench, and a ten -foot length collapsed in the middle of the back hall, the' -soot landing everywhere but on the newspapers I had spread. * * * Throwing everything to the wind, 1 tore down the rest of the pipes, threw them into the back yard, swept -up • two large cartons full, of soot, and stomped out, leaving, as.,1 learned later, a track of coal -black footprints across the kitchen floor. * * * • By six o'clock, I had cooled down enough to be scared, and when I got home I found that my instinct had been infallible. To cut.a long story short, I' scrubSed' floors and woodwork until midnight, most of it hands -and -knees stuff. .Then I had to start, writing my column, which has to be , done by tomorrow morning, DID YOU EVER Dear Friends -- r-youx country? That is what I am going to try to do' now. Some. "o# you will disagree violently, some of you may agree mildly and ;some may even have pleasant recoiled tions of -a wonderful country. A ,few things stand out very plainly about Scotland—rodks;'Lochs, food kind hospitality Rocks!, They were everywhere -- mountains, 'hills, headlands, out- crops, islands, stone fences --and walls, buildings, monuments and memorials. , There were gray lime- stone and gray granite, red sand-, stone and a lovely soft rose colored sandstone, 'and always slate or stone roofs. Some 'of the walls were just dry,.stione 'construction f=itted and piled up years and years ago and crossing the hills and valleys as :far as you could See. In the north, many were thin slabs standing -upright for all the world like grave stones side by side. We even saw mounds which seem- ed to be these thin layers in piles. I cannot begin to tell you Of all the wonderful . views but a few stand out—One from a high .hill top, near Dryburgh; one called Scot's view; the Sleeping Warrior of Arron; vistas everywhere on Loch Lomond and all the Lochs; the beautiful Tweed Valley, and moors. :. But the moors deserve a para- aptr-of ey...._we bare and wild 'and desolate but grand too. The purple heather. (not true heather, `I am told) forms a gorgeous springy carpet . under- foot and a mass of color in the sunshine. There were hills, 'moun- `tains, lochs, ,,rivers'" and waterfalls just everywhere: And believe it or not, there were electric pylons taking giant „strides across "the in- fertile and. Scotland has every kind of farm you can imagie—from:.. the dairy farms to garden and small fruit farms to unfenced sheep pastures. We saw sheep of every size and color—white, black, mixed, yellow and orange. That puzzled me until I learned it ,was •the sheep dip colored the wool of the lambs. And speaking of sheep, can any- thing ' look funnier than at -partly - grown lamb waggling its whole back end so it gets a meal from its mother? We saw many shaggy brown highland cattle, but `we saw many, many mnre ,Lyr-shires,--Short- horns, Friesions and even Here - * * * It is now 3.0 of that tomorrow morning. Do you know what I've been doing for the last 30 minutes? Well, it was like this. 1. went to the refrigerator to gef a slug of orange `juice.' It was in one of 'those big, plastice' containers, and• it was full. 1 picked it up in one hand, it slipped, hit the, floor, and the top flew off. •And I've been n)opping up three quarts of orange juice since 3'-8'tu,'-1B7eentikeen 360t and juice, the joint -smells like a • filly • by- Pittsburgh out of Florida. * There's no moral to all this. I just wanted to let you know that writing this column is not always all beer and skittles. Sometimes it's all soot and orange juice. And that's why your. kind words about it are appreciated, and I do thank you. Some people think that the eas lest way to make a mountain out of a• molehill is to add a little dirt. 4014110 SELL ITTNkUTHE ROY THE MOVER LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE Furniture fully insured. Free estimates. Phone 1139 any time. (Out of town calls collect) 22tf w Scotland are stone, from the Immo?-. lest crofters cottage, to the largest castle; from the smallest Presby- terian church to, the magnificent ruins of Melrose Abbey. There are very few 'ancient churches compared with England and Wales. Nearly all seemed to be post -re- formation. Then those unsentimental Scots! Poor, unhappy Mary Stuart 18 everywhere though' she was be - 'headed how many years ago! Burns and' Scott run her a close second in the hearts of the peotple. Two of the largest memorials in the whole country are of those two writers. ,They :even have a dog cemetery at the castle. And of course the War Memorial is one of the finest in the world.. They remembered the messenger pigeons and the mice used to detect poison gas,as well as . every branch of service and civilian organizations. But then the Scots have always been warlike. The Wild Picts and Scots fought the Romans, the Danes, the Nornians and 'the Eng- lish. When there were' no outside -enemies, they could always fight a neighboring clan. There- were Covenanter wars and wars for tie succession. ' But in spite of ill the old war- like tendencies, the people we en- countered were most kind and hos- pitable to ,ta.,:_Ganadian-wayfarers. and we were given the best in whatever home we stayed—the best lodging and the best food and such kindly interest and go'olt' lvishes. •The „, weather. turned a smiling face' on us most of the time, though we did see`''mist and rain and wind. However, ' the roads were good. I cannot remember more than a few unpaved miles, even on - the • narrow moorland roads or mountain passes. Another thing that impressed me was the way - rural •electrification is spread- ing. There is a most- interesting project, underway in the north, taking the peat from the moors, a using it for fuel to make sf�am power to convert into elec- tricity. And ,incidentally, uncover- ing fertile farming soil under the peat. w It's a brau land, auld Scotia!" Sincerely, The Country Mouse. Wakefield, - July 24, 1959. NOTICE RE r� t .. tjrip ip ..,, yr, Farmers axe urged to harvest timothy carefully. Straight combining is not recommended Unlos0 the crop is thoroughly cured. Newly harvested timothy seed has a high moisture content and unless .properly dritd before processing will heat and become musty. Swathing of the crop prior to combining or thresh- ing pre -shocked timothy will result in the seed tieing. sufficiently sound and dry for proper processing. 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