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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1965-05-06, Page 6Police officers across' the country aide handicapped by a code ,of .professional conduct which does not allow them to 11nswer criticism .directly,- Here in,Goderich it is no different. --The • controversial ticketing of _cars does little tct ikmprove the relationshipof police- and residents. To find the. neatly folded slip of paper beneath .their windscreen wiper appears to many to be an act of undue provocation. Normally sedate citizens trudge angrily down to the police station waving tickets. They appear to forget the times when they were glad of police assistance. Of course -.there are times when residents have a legitim- ate "beef" against the depart- ment and they have the right to appeal. to the police commis- sion. **The main core of dissention at the present time here is the ,parking -by-law which was not introduced by council on a sug- -gestioitf the pnlirP And rather because of requests from IocaI. merchants. This seems to have brought a fresh tide of resentment against local police. So to pre- sent the other side of the pic- ture, for a change, we reprint -the following article distributed by the Oakville Police Depart- ment. t3y Patrolman William E. Doug - 'las Did you get a traffic ticket to- day? Maybe it was for some- thing trivial, like going through. a Stop sign; doing 1 hdrty milds per hour in a twenty-five-mile__ zone; twenty miles per hour in an alley; for failing to stop for flashing red signals; for open- ing your ,car door and interfer- Ag,. ^i't'h.,,.0 tabmin;g--Izai ic;:.. for exeess•ive speed while turning a corner. And why •dicj the cop give you that ticket? Maybe you think he has a quota to make, �r he gets a percentage on every ticket he whites, •or he is f prejuditced 'becau's of race, col- or ,or 'creed. Or a dozen other reasons—all but the right one. -Maybe he's trying in his stu- pid, flatfooted way, to keep you alive. Funny, isn't it? He gives. yeu a ticket tokeepyou alive. Boy, that's a hot one!°"What the devil is dangerous about going through a stop sign if there is no' traffic coming? Well, the -a-ns'we+r--yrszothir g except-- that you 'might get into •the habit, and habit is a funny thing. The first time, for instance, you don't quite stop the wheels of your car, You'can see there's no traffic Coining, so you .shift into second and • go- through. The second t'me, you approach. the intersection a little Paster. You have your foot on, the brevak, pedal, don't you? You She's going to igo thr:owgh life can stop. A quick look both with tat horrible reddish scar- wuys; then,. zoouu through you tiesue wider her croese,d 'eyes, go. -e, Easy, and yotr, weren't anti • o sinus. The. driver Oto caughtte was doing twenty miles an hour .But you will, be caught, and in a fifteen -mile zone paid all you'd better -pray to heaven ho pital bills and said in every that on -of fl ti+fl)u.. cis •hge cou1,,CLOat'he w�aa_AWE lth eeld cops ba e y tai before the 1 wa), Ife was sorry.. Weigh that one lax averages does_, and decide if the. cop was right Law Of Averages Ian handing out that ticket. The, lav of averages - isn't f 11 you're a-rr Officer, .how do pretty. 11 ?Marts working against 'you think it .feels when you tell you e .day you go th•rpugh 'a mother her fifteern3 ear-olci tl stop sign without a full son bad a traffic accidlent and top and the driver of a ear that he's down at the morgue? coming along the cross street You -dont tell her that she to slam on his brakes to won't be able to identify him. keep from. hitting you. 'Then You don't tell her an •unthink- the second ear in line, which is ling driver opened his oar door fol'iaiwiing too close, smashes i after parking without looking into the second car because he's I to see if her son was riding doing thirty, miles an hour in down the street toward him on a twenty -five -mile zone „and' his -bike.. You don't tell her doesn't anticipate some bond that the kid could do nothing head slam rnin on his- brakes' but swerve out into the other in front of him. lane of traffic to miss hitting Because of the 'rear -end ;.he door. �maele a gas tank is ruptured. And you leave out the part . about her boy being hit by a Gas spills over the street and coal truck and ha run over by its rear wheels. 'body calls the.,- police. We get . . You don't' tell her that, becaus6 she will find it out soon enough, screams .from the people trap- when She goes down to look at the headless corpse. That's night—headless. Ten tons of coal truck over the head does - !and buret, and all the time the n't leave much to pick up. But you don't tell her that. You screams — high, horrible see- can,t. earns that finally die o'ut. Hot-Rodder Men, after. tbe fire depart- Or maybe you're a hol-ro.dder rnent haf—pult calit the flames, and the polic- are picking on we have to take out the black-, you. What dill you do Wrong?. rind remains of the Jones farm Nothing. A little digging ar- sister. We couldn't. get within there's no harm in that. After fifty feet.of the .car until it was all, you areue. you're not going over. But you were within very fast—twenty, maybe thirty fifty feet of that car, remember? You ran thrwigh a Stop sigh. 1The middle car .in the accident 'third car was, going five miles over the limit. What about doing .twenty miles an hour in an a,Pley? The law . says yRou can do fifteen miles in an alley. Why ,Should five miles over the limit? That law was passed back in the horse -and -buggy :,days, when al- ley's were mucfruts, • Today the alleys are paved; you can go twenty-five OT thirty. easily through them. What's the haein? Nobody's in 'them any-. At least that's what one guy thought when he was doing twenty. -throngshe an- alley not long ago. A cute little blonde blue-eyed, Aveyearold girl ran frorn her backyaftt, chasing her ball. Ste..never had a chance. Bat she was lucky; sheedidn't (lie. The door handle on the car hooked her under the left eye, penetrating- in' and up, de-- 4.,roying her -sinuses. and pus- ing her eyes to cross. ,off by the pavement, like a ,pen- cil- a,gains�t an, em,eny vtiheel. Ytt,, 4 I know, you think I'm. just tl•yiny- to scare you, trying' to j•ue,'i.fy myself for paseing out those tickets. You think aacciden+ts like these don't hap - p u„_._tl4_,_paapla.._da t „Lug. Olt"Wdroi) collisions jthAt because onie guy is driving with one arm around his girl and loses control ori a curve,, ()r -that peoQtple dont die from lna. in;t the Steering col- u�mn drivet thrOu+gh their chests, or that they don't get thrown threue. a windshield and end up han;ing on a tWepthorne pole with one of those foot spikes, hooked inqheir Fhraafis? You don't t�hiir»k people die that way? Ask a policeman. And while you re at it, ask him what causes 90 per cent -of the accidents. Hell tell you about the little -things: "Fol'lowting too close.... Failing to signal for turn or stop..... ...Entering an in- tersection wdth_out due caution." The vehicle code is full of them. ;ing his head And if the !re it tweed e t'he 're death sentences. Think about -it. ped in the flaming, middle car. We hear them screaam and watch. them turn pink, then red. We watch their.faces blister'out on a goad dig. You're just mak, hug the tires squeal, nqt,really goi, ss fast It's fun. Well, And the sad part is you don't know, it: You never had to roll one of those cult -down hot rods back on its wheels after it had flipped and slid fonty or filfty et upside down You never had to stare.down at the body of a boy. Whose head, neek and shoulders '.had all. been ground N- Wilfrid P. Cirregory, Q.C.: sident anrci Managing Director of Bribist Mortgage & Trust Company, Sitratard,, has been elected chairman of the Ontario Section, -The Trust Companies A.s.'oclt r Loij of Canada. The an- nual meeting ef- the Association was held at. the Ii''oyal York Ho tc'l. Toronto, on Thursd-ay, April 29th. Other officers Are: Vice-ohair-f -rn a n i, Ne4i<ls- -F.-- Petersen; -pies it: derA, Ster,:;rq, Tut Corpora- t:on,. Toronto; immediate past ' si41ent,_ .l . , .L pre- .ident, Royal Truet Comp- any; TQronta; V.A. Wansbraugth, .der,utty general . manager, Cane 19: rgy Al idOnt the alb a;are l ent; Fel TE r, and -I Bearer. PIPE BAND MEMBERS . WIN KITCHENER AWARDS The Goderich Highland Pipe gand attended the Western On, in. Kitchener on Satufaly, May 1, and although the band didn't enter any of the miniature band events they fared well in in- dividual piping. Trophy winners- in the var- ious classes were: 14 and under solo piping,. 1st, Joe MacDon- and under, 1st Charlie Mac- Donald; 18 and under, 2nd, James Millar; 3rd, Bryan Young. Young; special, girls' open pip- ing, 2nd, Linda YOung; .16 and Pa ig e; open clast3' drumming, 1st, Galin Paige. _The band did not enter in force as the full -drum -section .could not attend dile to pie - vi o commit/II ts ada Permanent Trust CompanW, Toronto; J. M. Robinsion, vice- president, National Trust Com- pany, Toronto. In his address, R. J. Wilson, ,SERVANTS' QUARTERS SORVANTS -- G. MacLeod Ross tin his coluMn, The Blue, Thtimb„ reeently recalled • the pre -Edison years 'When there hung' levery 'kitchen, a series of bells, and in the living Temps' tasseled rapee with which to activate them., 4There are no more servants today," he wrote. As recorded by a former occupant of ond 'of the mansions, "the maids disappeared before the retiring chairman., commented on the' importance of invest- ment to the economic growth of Canada. "Trust com,panies are large inivestors of funds," he said, "and investimenits are the life- blood of economic grovett. 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