The Goderich Signal-Star, 1965-02-04, Page 10•
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HE WAS FOREVR
WI* 1114 liStra14.1.1perb 4en,90
Qtr timing, Winston Churchill
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OhoAe to die duringis rather
ttlpir winter.tperthd 'when it was
° possible to attract4he attention
.of .1he entire without
-fe;a7r-tifrW. Ii
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scene from him.
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It was time to go. There is
nothing More pitiable than a
great man reduced to dotage
and senility. He was sparVd
this.
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Despite the avalanche of an-
ecdotes and eulogies and re-
prints of hi,s speeches, 1 don't
think there -We'§ deep Hid -wide-
- _ppread sorrow at his demise.
Certainly, there was none of the
heart -in -throat •grief that ac-
ocompanied the death of Presi-
dent Kennedy.,
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It was more of a nostalgiC
sadness, a 'tense of the loss of
an institution. One can imagine
the English feeling like this
when Queen Victoria died, -after
60 -odd years on the throne.
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Quite a' man was Sir Win-
ston. • And jUst that. Not a
.6,u'perman,, 4).Wa man. • ,
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And fhat was why h6 was
able to 'seize and shake and
straighten the hearts of the free
,world, with ,his courage and
his tears, his defiance and his
prayers, during those days
when Europe, and the world,
were threatened with "a thous-
and years of darkness."
Most of us have several ele-
ments in our character. Chur-
chill wasa kaleidoscope off the'
'colors of life. He was reaction;
oary,and reformer; he was earth -
1_3 ,7 Poet;....41Q„. was.
dreamer and doer; he was sel-
fish:and selfless; he was arro-
gant and humble. lie was Q4rt
Pirate, .Part prophet; at llteu..
perialist and part 4mp. He was
ruthless, but he wept easily.
He was a4bundred other things,
just as contradictory.
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.441 wsps. 19 when. the' "phoney
war"` eifted7ni
legions smashed through Bel-
gium, and life, suddenly became
very real. And I shall never
forget the thrill, the sense of
hope and of resolution, that
surged through us when the
lion's growl rasped oVer the
Atlantic on the airwaves, "We
shall never surrender." It's dif-
ficult to realize that he was 65
then, an agewhen most men
are retiring from life and the
struggle._
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saw the old fire-eater once,
and was almost trampled to
deattulip the 'process. It was
on an airstrip in Normandy, in
the summer of 1944, a few
weeks after the invasion.
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fee were drawn up on parade
in the dust and heat, -officers in°
fiont, other ranks in the rear, Elect. Officers .
and we stood there,- muttering
'Curses, for half an hour. CLINTON--Simon Hallahan,
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Ina NVaVO that a4 Cie On 44
cloSer.v''' ()Ur VQ1eflQt
Of. °Meer pilatt., Was ,a1m0St
Wiped Qat !when itixe rear.ranks:
!slimed thrOngh,' arotnigt and
Over VS', Vo eluSter Within tench-
ing distance of .the, old war-
horse, •
4i =0 c•-•
He talked for five minutes,
earthy vocabulary Caesar em-
ployed when addressing, his leg-
ions. And then he--was-aff, the
incredibly foolish and, gallant
old man.,t hoppjng to another
'have a laok at us and let us
have a look at him.
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And human he was! My fav-
orite story is the one involving
Lady Astor, 'the hard -nosed, -asp -
tongued 'old aristocrat. $he" be-
came enraged, during
meat rw/tith, ChurchiN, and, fired
wttat she thought -was the part-
ing shot, "If you were my hus-'
band,' I'd poison your coffee."
To .which, the great trn.an replied
promptly and politely, "Mad-
ame, if you were any wife, I'd
drink it,.7
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We shall pot see his like
again. ,
Huron Plowmen.
. • * of .Blyth was re-elected • presi-
Stid-thinly a liittle---llw-0-6-eaterLotett-Ofth-rffirbirC6U-KIY-P' c.w-
Isnot plane popped over the, men's -Association at its annual
horizon arill squatted 60 feet meePing here Friday.
in front of us. The pilot climb- Other officers: Vice-presi-
4('d out. We could see his air- dents, Allen Waiper of R.R. 3,
vice -marshal's stripes - and Parkhill, and Fergus Turnbull
grumbled our disgust for all Dashwood:ofR. 1, secretary-
ibras4. Then the back cockpit treasurer, Elston Oerdiff R.R.
'opened and a vast, cherubic 4, Brussels; assistant:secretary-
visage, with a cigar in it, beam- treasurer, Russell Bolton of-R.R.
ed at us. 1, Seaforth.
Mr. Hallahan and Mr. Wal -
per were named .delegates to
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He came out of the thing
like a baby whale coming out th-e annual meeting, of the On:
of a chicken's egg. He stood tario Plowmen's Association in
on the wing, grinning. He stuck Toronto, February 22.
up 'two •fingers in the world-' The 1965 plowing match for
famous- V-sign, but, with -lust-a Huron Cotmty-wilil be held
suggestion of fhe service -man's late September or early Oct°,
naughty gesture ,which looked, ber at Mr. Hallahan's farm.
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Curator Jim sholm smoothes out the first world war nursing
uniform which has become a feature attraction_at_the„Huron_
County Museum. The uniform, shown, ion the manikin, was
worn by Miss Isabel Murray of Quebec Street, Goderich, when
he set sail for England as part of a Volunteer Aid Detachment,
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HOLDBACK PAYMENT ON
WIRING JOBS, FED. TOLD
HOIMESVILLF, —The Gode-
rich Towns:hip Federation of
Agriculture meeting at the
Holmesville school. heard an in-
structive address by Budd
Kuehl, the, Ontario Hydro wir-
ing inspector for the Clinton
area. tie outlined the purpose
'his`
partment.
Mr. Kuehl recornrn_ended that
home owners should use elec-
tricad ..appliances which carry
the Canadian (C.A.S.) stain Of
approval., In order that elec-
trical contractors-. be
made more efficient in their
work, Mr. Kuehlsuggested that
anyone ,having an electrical
wiring job° being done should
pay only 50 per 'cent of the
cost at° the beginning .of the
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job to the !contractors and the
balance _after an,inspection of
the work had been made.
Mrs. jack Merrill gave a re -
pout on the,,annual oonvention
of the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture which she attended,
as a Goderich Township dele-
oaie. "
Mr. Alex MacGregor, presi
dent of the Huron Federation
of Ariculture, presented a re-
port on- !current financial 'diffi-
culties- of ,FAME. The meet-
ing decided in favor of support-
ing the Huron Federation of
Agriculture's plan to contribute
$1,000 at this time towards' fin
an. che•FAIVEE. Several mem'hers of the Hohnesville
Loeal—
Farmers' Union—were present
to !parficipate in the discussion
on FAME. .
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A fornier Port Xigin 1)9/lice.
04M.. Who ikaakect Out of the
Htiren,,C:OltutY 'court theme a
free man Fntdak Atter ta:eing. a.
criminal,. 'chargeonskiering
rejoining
Karl MraYile MaioNaughton
arinounted 416. after
-d4eided iby
Gpderich lawyer, James `Don-
nelly, „Q.Cori a 'charge of
breaking and entry and thetft.
A Ig -man jury took lila 45
minutes to 'find the former
.polite..offieer not gt,.1.11t7 es, the'
'two-day trial ended 1.ate Friday
lrelativeoutside !the ;ocourt
(arotAs0:11°
,1i°e:Was 'Naar' atttlated by
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acNaughton said; "I
may rejoin the force but I,
want a little timeto think ,about
it. -I've had enough' of police'
dealings for a little while"
MacNaughton was charged
last September with breaking
and entering a trailer at the
'Turnbull Grove summer re.serf
near ran., en anestealing
a radio, heater, clock and toast-
er. •
The charge wa§ laid as a
result of a complaint by another
ex -Port Elghi officer, Constable
George :Taggart, who was the -
main witness for the. KOSeell-
tien.
Judge .4.11. S. Hetherington, in
this :charge to the .jury °FridaY,
saId (the case 'centred round
'Identification of stolen goods
nd a statement fromCenstarbrO
Taggart. -:T rib1iWi
defexiseileounsel had qhown, the-
re were „considerable differences.
in the identificatiens'of the still-.
en goods made by the witnesses'
for the Crown.,
faulty identification 4`
Earlier ani the day (NIT. Don-
nelly had accused Constable
311 GlaSsford, the OPP 'investi-
gator from Exeter, of t&inte, a
fatdby identification procedure.
Under . cross • examination,
Genstable Glasstford admitted
the word -"similar" had been
written next to articles which
appeared on catalogue pages
uSeein identification.
grown Attorney W. G. Coeh-
rate„had---linked- -testimony,
from •eanliier witnesses who
lidd seen the goods before they
were stolen with a statement
made by Taggart in which he
said the -articles. were in the
,IVIacNaughton home.
Constable Glassford admitted
he, had shown one picture of a
radio, to a witness on 'three oc-
casions ,While attempting identi-
ficatio4.
Said I. Donnelly: ,0'Surely
you in‘t see that. when, it is
finally Identified the people e
only; idezvtying Something they
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"Yes sir,1 can see that," re-
plied COnstable Glassford.
Referring to 'the main
noes for the crown, ex -Constable
GeO,rge Taggart, the judge ask-
ed the jury to ° consider. the
"unusual circuanstances" of the
evidence. •
Ease Of Crime
'In his ,evidenee Taggart told
the jury a 'how MacNaughton
had constantly talked about the
ease of crime. for a local police-
man.
He claimed the accused - had
discussed this with him 7on 21
3eparwte occasions. On one
occasion, -it was said, MaaNaugh-
ton went so far as to show
OPP circular. ori stolen goods
and say he was responsible for
some of the articles.
In addition Taggart said that
while he was cooking toast in
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iVlacNaughton's kitchen the ac -
MO 'Ping NvAir *germ r.
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how Olt t,Avc) iwca.1Qnsi
failed to' '44'4 1-19 anY
as the atm,* of their Oa
The stolen, good, lhave
been, recovered,.
Cam*weittOit oboe fr,4
ton: "Thew Is' aof.o„'d d
evidence doeb not
here."
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London Man
Jailed
-The-elder-oa-pair vtf'
throthr, thaliged°' (with;
break-in, 4was jailed
days by Huron County
trate Glenn Hays, Thursday,
nederitk Witiliaii g
London, was jailed- after
pleaded guilty AO three obt
a break and entry:
Eggert was charged jo'
with his foster brthe,
erick Robeat Metz', of Green
Metz 'had. 'pleaded guilty ,t4
charges at an earlier hea
and ashewas said to have
led into trouble by the
man, was given a two-yer
pended sentnce. „
The )changes covered Jr
ins at a- house and schoal
Hay Township, end a su
home - in Stephen • T
owned by an ,American busi
man. Articles stolen inclu
wire, a steam kettle and a ra
Police said the majority -
the stolen items have been
covered. _
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