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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1960-08-11, Page 11u a Claims Farmers Using. Different Rules In Life Than Are Others (By J. C. Hemingway) /completion," This was directed Recently in the Toronto Globe; particularly toward government and r Mail; -considerable -spate markers ,.and civil servants. On was given to a certain British economist, C. Northcote Parkin- son, expandireg what is known this basis, it follows that the more peoplethere are on.` the job the sooner it doesn'tget us•.l'arlzhAen.s;.Laut..�T,.1.,sW1- r Nista„1, goyerrure{th ee s peop1e tohelpnot,�inishmaY besummed�.in the single sentence, 'Work expands so as it. ete .fill the time available for its Whether this is a true state- ment or not I leave it with yoti to decide.11 I am nat• .adverse to PICTURE TUBE criticism of the government as same of you .may have noticed �n i 1 but _to i:v� xv�n.ryy� ti _ rim j��j � 11 a 1 n �, c o n Yrtdivid=- .ual his due I feel „I must spy that I think the government is INSTALLATIQN not alone in this vveakness. ONE-YEAR WARRANTY The other dad I had an ac- cident. S stubbed my toe on the sidewalk and ripped the sole of anyshoe quite badly. After a speedy retreat to the shoe re- pair shop and while sitting4with 38 EAST ST. JA 4-7612 one shoe on and "one shoe: off, 22tf I listened to the difficulties in CHAPMAN FLOWERS DIAL JA 4-7921 4 -for all occasions Flowers are a gracious tribute, sure to be warmly welcomed and deeply ap- preciated . . . whether it be a lovely floral arrange- ment to cheer a shut-in, a corsage to wear on that important date, or a bou- quet to commemorate that anniversary or birthday.' . ,. Al , . arkes.:YFlai err FLORA bANICA 99 Bruce Street Goderich Landscaping and' Garden Maintenance _ -24tf the shoe business. It seems that this particular shoe repair man ;PENN Y FA l R had purchased a supply of lea- ther about a year ago and just now has ipurchase,d another i' S FESTIVE . . supply..y. Apparently the price was painful. He ,went on to explain that from the tirttea coiw hide until I purchase it back' as sole leather it passes through nine ''sales transactions. Each one provides a profit to., the deal lie oe tld a that b.d m �a h The Hospital Auxiliary held its annual tea and .penny fair, draw on July 27th on the level e• lawn of Mr, and Mrs. Bayl Hill. It was a beautiful. sunny , ` fternoon and the g rounds were er ` -f .41t .1y ti€kt ofA oredt.chau s an y w tried to buy hides locally ant laopn, es, QUT ON A LIMB sell direct to the tanneries but "''' a1C rs. Jack Warren had decor - only sell direct. - 11e could' lied a tea table which was only sell' to a dealer thence the placed on the patio. Mrs. H. hide moved to a- large whole- Rivers, Mrs: J.- Warren, Mrs. C. Saler and 'then to the tannery. g Graham and Mrs K Taylor In purchusing leather he can't ore t u d ea p 41 urt'bits ru ei;�tannery, soy- ,, •. The m'a"�c'l'el;"Cs were �'eeeiv- the leather fellows a similarly' ed by Mrs.'A. A. Nicol, 'Hospital extended road back to the con- Auxiliary president; Miss L. sumer. Parkinson's law could Youngblut, hospital Superin- :apply quite nicely here. tendent, and Mrs. Hill. Aagain in chatting with a A pony ride around the drive - couple of merchants in one of way provided entertainment for our local villages, I found that the youngsters. both were bewailing the factThe Penny Fair 'draw was that they had to keep their made atfive o'clock by iMrs. S. stores open gsve and a half days Prevett. Prizes were distribut- a week plus one evening. They ed to lucky winners present both agrethat much of the and others were pieked up at time they *ere' twiddling their the Denomme Flower Shop. thumbs waiting for suckers (ex- cuse me, I mean customers). Yet, I think both had cottages at the Lakeshore. Would Park- inson's Law apply? In contrast, the farmer w.ho finds that he hasn't enough cat- tle to keep him busy puts in some pigs. If he finds that since using a baler or a harvest- er there is room to spare in his barn arid there is a fair chance that he can pursuade the wife or kids that cleaning eggs is a good pastime he puts in some hens. Then it becomes a pro- blem of crowding accumulation of work into the time available: Parkinson's Law in reverse. ' It seems to me that farmers are ,playing'the game by a.differ- ent Set of rules than the rest afethe..pepulation _ , .� ,o - Pope John XXIII was a serg- eant in the erg-eant-in..the _Italian _afJny _Medical 'Corps during World War • I. Later he was promoted to Lieu- tenant and became a chaplain ' (WITH BILL SMILEY). Mpst of us who are taking the special summer crash course for ladglioskAi*rasStio9.621f144A2_� are finding it `pretty ' strong meat. it's especially invigorat- ing nvigorating for refugees from other fields, like myself, whose peak of intellectual exercise in the past decade or so, has been working out a crossword puzzle, or watching the late, late movie. * Thus, we have former insur- ?rnce salesmen laboring over Latin. We have men who were CONSUMERS' SPENDING HIiS NEW HIGH IN HURON COUNTY omprehensive' figures on spending in Huroh County came The uoderich Signal -Stat, percent above the Canadians average. Most economists view them -ear with optimism. They feel that good times are ahead, al- b si e s a tivi in uron Cau_. -, tQ though they no longer see a l i u n s ct ty, H. n $59,838.0(}0 in time. Year,. ,tops. o th ty, just released, shone that the ping the $521101,000 of 1958. to 'in the- ha'tllgt , em, They point to the fact tha�ploy[nent is year 19'59 was a good one local- The amount was considerably 'at a high level, that incomes keep rising in most areas and ..M that the demand fo? goods con.„ { J „{3 t,a;es sarong :'''Exeter Advocate. y, c g vl e the rate of spendinper faanily was above average. Whatever economic lesss, had been sustain- ed during the general recession of 1958 was wiped alkay com- pletely. h. ,4,l�l, .. e. n e zt . o f Credit °fr'rriS1� 'elven to eon. vealed 'me Sales a a ement sfident consuming public, which copyrighted "Survey Buying {Power," covering all went 'right ahead with its buy - parts of ganada' and the United :ng, convinbed 'that the setback States. would be of short duration. They shirt that consumer What made it 'possible was the fact that their .earnings were (Ihigh. The survey shows that net glitter of teaching, on the first for locally, after deduction train, as soon asyou come out for taxes; amounted to $68,53�i,- of shock." And to the girls: 000, as against a 1958.total of "Never mind, Mum. ` I'll bet $50,7!15,000• in the retail business anguished you're a darn good cook, any- It was'equivalent to $4,479 over algebra We have married way." per household, an arithmetic more than was to have been exl e d ori the basis n t .o la- ci•e s s # u p p p, t r . �, local relall` usiness should have am'6urted to only .3189 percent of the Canadian, volume A.c-tu- ally,, howey�er, , it reached '.3705 percent. Most lines .of business shared iMrs. Frank Curry was in eharge...of a table of small ar-women who have learned noth- ex- ticles for sale and Danish pastry,! cnptshow to erunea lotlof push - the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ras. Morke, florist. ,Mrs. E. Pridham was tea con- vener and Mrs. E. Davis, Miss Beatrice Lauder and Mrs. J. Kin- kead were in, charge -of the penny fair, The teachings of John Wes- ley, 18th century Church of England clergyman aed reform - button kitchen m,achinery, aghast over -the geography of Africa. 4 * But every second week, the pressure of study is relieved. As a special treat, we are allow- ed to play a game. At one time it was known as Daniel in the Lions' Den. Later, it turned up as The Spanish In uisition. Now er, resulted in the establish-' it is simply called Practice meet of Methodism. Although! Teaching. the Methodists finally separated from -the ' C hunch- off England; Wesley himself never did. A. week off this can shorten your life by ten years: Which SELL IT THRU THE WwNiADs • carefree and comfortable ... in : a home heated -by You'll feel a wonderful difference in a homy automatically heated by Natural Gas. No matter how cold and windy the weather, you have warm, fresh, moisture -corrected air circu- lating,gcntly through every room. just set the thermostat .. . fasT Na"i"itilrGa§ keeps the-temperature.='ii � t mt ;ktant.,ii d. aut.oma"tically I A Natural Gas heating system is so quiet you'll forget it's there . and with no moving parts in ,the heating unit, it stays -whisper-quiet through years of service. Nothing beats the controlled, automatic, instant heat of Natural marc and.. taacc.,.Canadi.an..ivanies arc. being servei---byyCat}acla s -most-rrtoderrp.fuel _ . NaturaLGas. CLEAN! Clean-j)urning Natural Gas leaves ECONOMICAL! Gas is nature's thriftiest fuel. DEPENDABLE! Bad weather never affects furl rib stain or oily film on walls, drapes. or High efficiency Gas furnaces are compact deliveries. Natural Gas is pipOd to your furniture. Everything .in your house stays and space saving ... cost less to buy and furnace automatically. It's ready whenever . cleaner and brighter Tenger. , maintain, cut repair costs•to a minimum. you need it. See your HEATII1G CONTRACTOR or) UNION 35 Colborne S CO1y1PA STY dF CANADA, LIMITED , Goderich Phone JA 4-8317 D. D. MacMILLAN LUMBY REFRIGERATION WORSELL PROS. * GODERICH PLUMBING AND HEATING BRECKENRIDGE HARDWARE PLUMBING and HEATING PINDER PLUMBING GODERICH ELECTRIC NEAR, & ,HOFFMEYER is a little hard on us middle- aged.types who are already wor- ried . about being.. able to hang orf' unt12 +we gets the. strper'anntr_ ^tion, some 30 years hence. A! on `the course YOu Can Benefit fiudd-enly crumpled the other friend of mine day. .We rushed him to the emergency department of the General Hospital., • s:* 8 They gave him about 37 tests of various' kinds. They asked him a lot of questions. He kept throwing up and complaining of pain. Finally they told him (rather vaguely that he had a virus, gave him a prescription for some expensive- medicine, and told him to go to bed for * • * iaFrived at by dividing total `in - Experienced teachers do a lot come by number of households. to cheer you up, though. One The relative standing of com- munities with respect to pur- fellow was telling me the other chasing ability and business ac - day that it'snot so bad, once tivityis shown through "indexes you get started. In the next breath, he casually informed me ,indices of sales production," 'hat three' teachers of his ac -which take into account such quaintance are now happily cut factors as population and retail ting out, paper dolls or making sales. like Napoleon, on The . permanent The index rating for Huron basis. ,County is given as 116, or 16 One good thing about it. PETERSON'S Those of us who make the grade! will be steady, dependable teach- Concrete Products r-s..Never' again-vwili we •think. the grass on the other side of at rear of on - the fence is greener or more y St. David Street. succulent than the burdock we are chomping. • a few days. • I could have saved everybody a lot of time . and trouble. I knew what the "virus" was. My friend had to practice -teach mathematics the,next rlay__Last time he studied - mathematics was a few. years after the • first. 'World War. Or maybe the Boer War. Anyway, he's lurking hap- pily in sped, clutching the little, note from the doctor which ex- cuses him from practice -teach; ing this, week. * 8 There is a hilarious logic to the practice -teaching . sessions. If you're going to be teaching Commercial in September, your first practice -teaching assign- ment will be a lesson in Grade 1 f=re•nch... tf,youu-are -reaching. nothing ,but - English this fall, you are likely to be tossed in front of a class in \ Grade .• 11 I Geography, which you last stud- ied about the time Mussolini FINANCIALLY IN CANADA'S 'FUTURE GROWTH BY INVESTING IN Mutual Funds Phone J. Allaire, district manager, at JA 4-76.71. KING MERRITT CO. LTD. CANADA COMPLETE -. SERVICING OF LAWNS, GARDENS AND SHRUBS GOOD TOP SOIL SOLD' Also Sod Cutting and Laying; Power Rolling for Lawns. IVAN'S NURSERY' Top of Dunlop Hill Phone' 3A-• 4:7171. 28tf was shouting from a balcony. * This Clonal -it of suspense adds a great deal to the game, giving it a distinct flavor of that old parlor pastime, Russian Roul- ette. ,It has one of two results. Either it' liffiSireT the student - teacher with unwarranted self- confidence, or it marks him for, life. So you get OP 'there in front of' the class, lesson notes flutter- ing hysterically in your hand, sweat running down your spine. A strange, trembling voice tells the class to turn to page ele- venty-seven. You open yourt mouth again to begin teaching,i and your mind goes stark;star- ing blank. The studen ts* observe you with the bold intcre:-,t of sharks about to d 'ind whale. Your fellow student-teac ers 'watch with aching ' sympathy. Your critic teacher eyes you with a fine blend of impatience and disgust. All you need is a?hair in one hand and a whip n the other, and you'd feel like -an apprentrce lion -tamer on his first trip inside the big 'cage. As you 'go through the lesson with all the enthusiasm and spontaneity of a zombie, your inner mind churns: "What am Year I doing here? I never wanted to be a teacher anyway. They talked me into it. Who can possibly stand teenagers all day? l'il go mad. 1 want to go home to Mom and the kids. Help!" 0-h, I tell you, it makes yotir heart bleed, to see some poor devil, who used to be the con- fident president of the Rotary! Club back home, standing there,' craven, gray, perspiring. It al- most makes the tears start when you see some girl, (happily mar- ried for nine years, who had worked her way up to Distriet PreSident of the Women's In- stitute in the home town, up °there with her knees knOcking, mouth twitching. 'It shouldn't * * * l' don't worry about the stud- ent teachers who rare just out of eolleg•e. They're almost as cocky as the teenagers them- selves. WS the older types, on 'the come -back trail; sporting the wounds of the years bravely, who 'wring your, heart. You feel like saying: "There, filet* old bo . I promise we'll send you bac home, to the good old bor ng job. vOu' left for the Manufacturing - Reinforced Sidewalk Slabs toiorea Patio : n oc .s Window Sills (Cement & marble) Chimney Tops, etc. ' Phone JA 4-9591 - (After 6 p.m. -JA 4-9971) 28tf s00000000000oo000eo00e • Jowett's - Grove BAYFIELD . , Beautiful Picnic Grounds Covered Tables Swings Good \Vater Ball Park Ponies - Swimming Refreshment Booth r ,o DANCING Every: Fri. Night from 9:34• p,m. to 1.00 a.m. STEW and His COLLEGIANS --.- Door Prize - llall'Avaibable for ' Receptions and Private Parties Thursday, Aug. filth, 1960 711 NEW CUNTON Group Captain J.'Ga' Mathie. son, MBE, C D, 44, of Vdneouv`er, has been AppOnted oMeer coin manding the RO' Station at G1irlton. He succeeds "'Group, Captain K. C... Camerons- ..MEE ._ CD, 48, of Winnipeg, 'w ho las been appointed, senior - tpleeon niunications 'officer at ,Air tDe- fence Ooxnmand Headquarters, 'fiita .-temQ�. c:'T"he win ake Place some time in , HEATHER, BEAUTY'. SALON' 1,a17; �,. ..._ . LIGHTHOUSE STREET OFFERS YOU THE TOPS IN BEAUTY CARE 3 GRADUATE OPERATORS 1 • TO SERVE YOU Harry Colclough Len Pounder 4 1 „ " Elizabeth 'Holton FOR APPOINTMENTS CALL JA 4-7461. EVENING APPOINTMENTS -LEN and ELIZABETH -25 :k::•....r: For Reservations: Call HU 2-7064, HU 2-7551 e1tL-9.9r3-- -21t1 oeo®0ss•s000ssep000miC Notice of By -Law TAKE NOTICE that By-LaW Numbered 'One of 196C/ - of the -Board of Trustees of The Roman:Catholic Separate School for.the Town of Goderich, was passed on the 27th AND TAKE FURTHER .NOTICE that the said By -Law was passed for the purpote of borrowing moneys to pro- vide for erecting, equipping and furnishing ,a three room school. AND TAKE FURTHER e'h1OTICE that the arnount of Money to be borrowed for theprovisions aforesaid, is the sum of tighty Thousand ($80,000.00) Dollars to be secured by' fifteem year debentures of the said Board dated the 15th day of July; 1960, and that the said sum of Eighty Thousand ($80,000.00) Dollars to be borrowed pursuant to the said By -Law; the interest thereon and the said Debentures.shall be and are by the said BY -Law made a charge upon the said school house' pre_pelty .end all the upon all separate schOol rates of the said Board until the said Debentures and each_ and every of them together with interest thereon shall have been fully paid and AND TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the said Deben- tures will bear interest at the rate of six and one-half per Cent (616%) per annum from the date thereof and shall be repayable in acebrdance with the folloWing schedule of payments. SCHEDULf OF PAYMENTS 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 Principal Inferest Total $3,000 • $3,000 $4,000 • $4,000 $4,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 $6,000 $6,000 $7,000 $7,000 $8,000 $8,000 $5,200 $4,810 $4,550 $4,290 $4,030 $3,380 $3,055 $2,730 $2,340 $1,950 $1,495 $1,040 $ 520 $8,005 $8,810 $8,550 $8,290 $9,030 $8,380 $8.055 $8,730 $8,340 $8,950 $8,495 $9,040 $8,520 AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that the said By -Law Numbered is on file at the Office orthe Secretary -Treasurer of the said Board, Goderich, Ontario, and may be exarnin. ed between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and fiv'e o'clock in the afternoon, Mondays to Fridays, inclu- sive. DATED at Goderich, Ontario, this eth day of June, 1960. .THE BOARD OF TRUStEES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC SEPARATE SCHOOL FOR THE TOWN OF GODER1CH. -30-32 Yesterday tea in Singapore; tonight an es- presso in Rome:.. Allen . Kirby and- his homburg ,,Romer... sight in the inter- tional business world. Asa buyer for to department store he depends on bank Travellers' Cheques to carry his expense money worry free. • Mike -,Moran travels too. He pushes a big Diesel freight across the land. For his holi- days - - - you guessed it ... he and his family are 'taking a trans -Canada rail trip in streamlined comfort, with money saved specially for it. AcrosS Canada, around the 1/4orld, The Canadian ,,Bank of Commerce is always bus_y_helping pleasure or busimess _hound_ to the needs of busy,. eager Cariadians. call its your.oankers DOGS ARE NOT PERMITTED TO RUN AT LARGE DURING THE PORIOD OF MAY 1 to SEPT. 30 All Persohs Violating the By -Law Will Be- Prosecuted. GODERICH POLICE