HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1965-08-05, Page 1THE GQDER,tO-1 SIGNAL.STAR, THURSDAY, AUG, 5,1965
-.w Art iir'n"s` dt9ii ty.. Balt",far
more than half a century, Dr.
Bert C. Weir, died in. Alex-
andra Hospital Monday, a short
time after he had co apsedt
home.
Dr. Weir, who , wa in id
89th year,._was out dllecting
wood for the Stove hen he
suffered a seizure.
end, .Mark ArtliiiryfOnn&
the stricken doctor a , he ar-
t'.
Weir's grandson, oJ
s Job
visit Dr.
McKay.
The doctor retired f om, prac-
tice 15 years ago an . it was
estimated that during is career
he had ' delivered sone 1,600
,-babies: in the area.--
.._ .:- W.eir"-was.. b.orr4at __K.::.
moka, the son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. John' Weir. 1-e gradu-
ated in medicine from the Uni-
versity of Toronto - in 1903 and
Set up his practice in Auburn in
an office adjoining his Tioine.
He had lived alone in the
summer months since his
daughter, Mrs Duncan McKay
moved to Sault St. Marie two
years ago with her husband
and family. He spent his wi
ter months with his son Join
in London.
Dr. Weir was predeceased by
h ,Huron. County has set a pre-
cedent bey gaining the first re-
` ' k corded conviction under legis-
lation known as_ the Ontario
Pesticides Act..
Calvin Rocher, a Listowel
s p r a y exterminator operator,
became the first victim when
.., _ _ he-was--fined--a---total -of -L$50
DR. B. C. WEIR and costs here last Thursday.
,k The accused pleaded guilty
to charges of operating with -
his wife, the former Pearl out a licence and dropping her -
Johnston. bicide in an unauthorized area.
His birthday was February 14 Rocher was charged after he
and, instead of birthday cards, dumped his load of herbicide
into a Grey Township water
he used to receive valentines hole on June 3.
from many of the men and He drained off five gallons
Kin officials, Pete McCauley, Bill Hanly
,and Maurice Gardiner inspect the pos..ers
heralding the Kinsmen Trade. Fair which .
will be held for the first time in Goderich
on Friday and Saturday.
Signal -Star photo
women he brought into t h e
world.
The family doctor had a large
practice and during the early
days used a horse and buggy
and cutter to forge his way
through deep snowbanks on his
house to house calls.
During his retirement he re-
called many of his experiences
and amazed people by being
able to remember many of the
birthdays of the babies he de-
livered.
Auburn residents recall the
day- in--July,-1945 when =more
than 2,000 people gathered -to
honor the doctor for his 40
years service to the community.
Some 500 of his "babies'" took
part in a march past ceremony,
Dr. Weir was the past master
of the Morning -Star Lodge, A.F.
A.M., Carlow, and he was a
member of the Knox Presby-
terian Church,
He is survived by one son,
John, who lives iii London, and
one, daughter, Mrs. Duncan (Jo-
sephine) MacKay " of Sault St
Marie, and four grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
in Auburn at 2 p.m. today,
Thursday, a n d arrangements
have beer- made by the Arthur
Funeral Horne:
Lloyd Reid, Owen Sound, hicle carelessly in Stanley
vas fined $10 and costs, or two ( Township on July 15. c •
ays in jail, when he appeared! Robert John Ellis,' Exeter,
efore Magistrate Glenn Hays, was fined $30 dna costs, or five c
C at Goderich Thursday, and in a series of thefts round town.
Goderich police believe they
may have discovered the iden-
tities of local juveniles involved
pleaded guilty to committing days in jail, when he pleaded
vagrancy in Goderich on July guilty to driving a motor ve-
p hicle carelessly in Tuckersmith
Dtugald Morris, Goderich, Township on July 2,., Ellis also
was:fibed-$10 and costs, or two
days- hi -jail, when he pleaded
guilty to being intoxicated in
a public place in Goderich on
July 23.
•
Carl ' Boven, 17; RR 1 Sea -
forth, pleaded guilty to obtain-
while--under-2). yew's
of age, -in Goderich Township
on .June "25, and was fined $30 village. of Hensall on June 30, charges had been laid 'as yet.
and costs, or five days in jail. in a place other than the resi-
Boven also pleaded guilty Ito dente of the purchaser or
pleaded guilty to failing to re-
port a change of address in utes of , the theft being re-
uckersm.ith Township on July ported the youths were picked
2, and was fined $5 and costs, � up for questioning.
Sergeant Ross Crawford said,
shoitly before press time, that
the _ activities of the youths were
still being investigated but no.
A number of juveniles were
questioned Sunday aftera row-
ing boat had been stolen•from
the harbour. Within 25 min -
or two: days in jail.
David. Martin O'Neil, Hensall,
was fined $25 and costs, or one
month -.in jail, when hepleaded
guilty to having liquor in the
allowing a 14 -year-old boy to donee thereof. Cheap ����
drive a car in Goderich Town- Paul David Doak, 16, of Gode-
ship-on-June--25; =arid- was -fined -rich; was ---fined - 5 -ural- --costs,,--.•--._..._
' or two days in jail, when he ' •
it pleaded guilty to damaging twoi or • Thief
Ronald Morris Link, 27, Lon- guide posts in Colborne Town-
don, was fined $60 and costs, ship on June 5, and failing to' ,
or ten days in -jail, when he report the same, causing dam -
pleaded guilty to driving a age of $35 to the posts and
motor car carelessly in Gode-
rich on July - Link's car was
in •collision with another car at
the intersection of Victoria
Street ancL East Street, causing
about $800 damage.
Morris Link, London, pleaded
guilty to having liquor in Gode-
rich on July 3, in a place other
than the residence of the pur-
s 4 -f d---$25--afld
costs, or one month in jail.
Murray B. Lindsay, London,
vas fined -$44' a d costs, or tent in a place -other than the re
days in jail, whenst--
he pleaded l dence of the purchaser or do -
guilty to driving a motor ve- y nee thereof.
$100 to the car.
William Webb; Goderich, was
fined $ 20 and costs, or one
month to jail, when the pleaded
guilty to having liquor in Gode-
rich on June 2, in a plate other
than the residence of the pur-
chaser or donee thereof.
John R. Coulter, 2L Severn
Bridge, was. fined $35 and costs,
or....c�iao--iuueri.tla.�i.ra.- �.ai->..--� , • •
pleaded guilty to having liquor
in Wingham on June 12, 1965,
Point Farad Provincial Park
was heading for "a -_record holt
day weekend attendance until
the rain came Sunday evening
and all day Monday:'
Even at that, there was a total
of 795 cars there over Seta -
day, Sunday and the Monday
Civic holiday.
There is a total of 106 sites
for camps in the developed area
but more can be accomtodated
in the outer undeveloped fields,
if necessary. Saturday night saw
120 sites in use and on Sunday
night there were 116 sites in
use.
With the steady downpour of
rain on Monday, many 'campers
did like. the fabled Arabs —
folded their_Jents ._Rust stole
silently away, not in the night,
.but in the rain by daylight.
Total number of visitors to
the park since it was opened
during the • middle of May is
now hitting well over the 32,-
000 mark, —
The price of beer appears
to have gone down as far as
one area thief is concern-
ed- ... .
On Sunday morning a Gode-
rich • resident reported the
theft of 16 bottles of, beer
from',hi`s' front porch. The
thief wiih an apparent dis-
play of conscience had left
a $2 bili where the beer had
"He did not quite meet the
price. he would have 'hacl....tgs
pay for it , in the beer store,'"
said Sergeant Ross Crawford.
of herbicide and 1,000 gallons -
of water when his tank truck
got bogged down at the edge
of the water hole. By removing
the additional weight it en-
abled,him to get his vehicle out
of the soft ground.
County health officials have
been forced, to step in and put
a ban on swimming 'at the
water hole which was fre-
quented by local youngsters.
The danger of possible poi-
soning from. the polluted water
Was discovered after a number
of wild ducks, which landed
there, died.
In addition, a 'Grman•Sliep-'
herd dog is under observation
at the Guelph Veterinary Col-
lege suffering from suspected
poisoning as a result of drink-
ing the water.
The court was. told Thurs-
day that Rocher had not known
the water hole was used for
swimming as there was no
equipment, such as, diving
boards, located there. "
Rocher had taken an exam-
ination needed to receive a
spraying liegece but did not
have a licence which is given
out to` the successful candi-
date who provides proof of in-
surance.
County Health Unit officials
are maintaining surveillance on
the pond through . a process of
. "The pond will be re -opened
for swimming when no harm-
ful residual is found in our
tests," said Huron Veterinarian
' Dr. T. R. Maga-T.'
90th Birthday
Celebrated
Mr: John Flick celebrated his
90th birthday at the home of,
his daughter and son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. William E. Young, 168
Cameron St., on Sunday, July
4th.
Itis immediate family, and
grn'rtrhritdr ;' "'ani -
children, were present for the
occasion '
Out of town guests included
his brother, Mr. Leslie Flick
and family, of London; also
friends from Ayton. A sister,
Mrs. Leah Shetler, of Santa
Monica, California, who is 96,
was not present.
ospitalized wit}�i _Meat in-
jury, The Signal -Star's regu-
lar linotype operator, Austin
Purdy, has been off duty for
the past two week -s and may
get be another three weeks
before he will be able to re-
turn to work.
• Due to this, The Signal -
Star went' to press later than
usual last week, ° For three
ays of ° this week; Lou Poin-
'toin, London Free Press lino -
type operator on holidays,
kindly consented to help out.
However, he will be going on
a s n er is issue—O
The ,Signal -Star is, out. Con-
seeuently, The Signal - . Star
will be - seeking a linotype
,operator to help relieve the
pressure , for another three
weeks. If any of our readers
knows of an available lino -
type operator, they might di-
rect them to The Signal -Star.
Attractive 45 -year-old mother .complete disregard for the sen -
of three, Mrs. Margaret Clark, sibilities of several people."
stood trembling with emotion Referring to the child born
in court here Thursday as she during the first marriage, Mr,
was jailed for bigamy.. Cochrane said: "This girl has
Tears rolled down the cheeks had to spend many years of her
of the former ship's cook as life living a lie because of Mrs.
she was sentenced to three Clark."
weeks for...haying.._ .heen "mar- the crown attorney said - he
ried" four times and divorced had been "stunned" as, details
only once in -the past 20 years. of Mrs. C'iwrlr's'trips to the altar
A shapely brunette, Mrs were unfolded in court.
Clark, her rianie from the sec- Mrs. Clark was born Marga-
ond legitimate marriage, was lena Mary Leitch November 21,
also placed on probation for two 1920, the fourth child of Wil-
yeais by Huron County Court. liam Leitch a Glencoe farmer.
Magistrate Glenn Hays or- On, jciarch 30, •1940 she mar-
$esed the accused to provide a rigid '21 -year-old London litho -
50Q surety bond to keep the grapher,
peace' during the probationary
period.
Passing, sentence he said:
"The whole social structure of
our society would be in jeo-
pardy• if this sort of thing was
to become prevalent."
He added: "You have brought
tragedy and unhappiness _ to
other people by your irregular
marriages over the past 20
years.
Between sobs Mrs. Clark said
she only wanted the oppor-
tunity to marry the man she
went . through a form of mar-
riage with in December of 1960.
Ato that: time, she.. "mararied'
David Martin Courtney, a .sea-
man, and they have a three-
year-old daughter Kelly. Mr.
Courtney is at present away
with his ship and probably will
not learn of the events until he
returns to the couple's Luek-
now home. •
Wants to Marry Courtney
"I want to marry Martin as
soon as this is all over," said
Mrs. Clark. "All I . want now is
to give Kelly and Martin a de-
cent chance.
Ms. Clark told the court that
for a ,number of years she had
been blackmailed by "somebody
who knows the past."
She said "I have been forced
into doing a • lot of things by
this pbrson, - and I _ have had to
pay -money- out,"_ --_._.. --
OPP officers arrested Mrs.
A 21 -year-old Goderich motor-
ist, Elmer Francis Cormier, ad-
mitted in court last week that
he had no car insurance, when
he was involved in a spectacu-
lar $4,000 collision.
Cormier, who, was convicted
recently on a charge of im-
paired driving following the
road accident, said he had paid
$250 to an insurance company
but only had a receipt to show
Duncan . Forbes in a for it.
ceremony at the Salvation Magistrate Glenn Hays gave
Army hostel in London. Cormier the benefit of the
' False i
,I formaton
n ( doubt on a technical pont and
At that time Mrs. Clark com- dismissed the charge....•••
mitt' one ,of a number of The magistrate agreed to dis-
wed forijn filling discrepan-missal as police testimony had •
cies ich surrounded all four not stated that Cormier was
ceremonies. She gave her fa -asked to produce his insurance.
titer's name as Charles Kotch
"You have enough financial
and gave his birthplace' as Lon trouble as it is at the present
don, Ontario, although in fact he time," Magistrate Hays told
came from Aberdeen, Scotland. Cormier.
• T�vo years later, claiming she 1'he accident took -place _-ort
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was the widow Forbes, she went June 27 when Cormier, trav-
through a bogus ceremony in elling south on Highway 21,
sideswiped a car as he'crossed
the bridge.
Cormier's car then struck
A wallet containing $400 in
cash was turned over to -Gode-
rich police within minutes of
its owner having left it in a
telephone booth Tuesday after`
noon. °
Jack Caesar of Wingham dis-
covered the wallet• in the booth
and handed it over to Constable
Roy Venn for safe- keeping.
The purse was the property
of Mrs. J. Fromer, . a tourist
'Leine • in
used the phone at the corner
of East Street and the Square
to call Toronto -to- find oiit _the
condition' of her sick son.•
In her anxiety she left the
wallet behind •--i-rr-e,the booth.
Thirty minutes alter she went.
back for it and, found it was
missing, Mr. Caeser had already
turned it over to police.
Windsor, Ontario, with divor-
cee Charles Garfield Cotey, a
39 -year-old packer. The service
took place in the United Church
of Canada. another vehicle and careened
Shortly after this she appar- across the road .and into the
side wall of an elderly wi-
dow's home on Victoria Street.
The accused had purchased
the 1958 model car only hours
before the accident. He had
signed a conditional sales con -
upon her second legal wedding tract earlier in the week but
when she married Richard did not take delivery of the
Royce Clark, an Anglican di vehicle until the day before
vorcee in a Baptist Church in the pile-up.
London.
At this time she gave her Insurance agent, Peter S.
name as Marjorie May Leitch, MacEwan told the court that
divorcee, and her occupation as he had warned Cormier not to
a cashier. She was then 27 years `drive the vehicle until his pol-
old. icy had been assigned.
Spinster .Claim...__ —lie phoned me on the Sat=""
Tan years later on December urday morning that he took
Clark on the bigamy charges 29, 1960, Mrs. Clark went delivery of the car .and I told
acting on a tip-off from an un- through a ceremony in Ashfield
identified source. ' Township with Dayid Martin him I could not provide him
Crown attorney William: Coch- Courtney. with liability risk," said Mr.
rang demanded a jail term on Both Mr. Courtney and Mrs. M_ aacEwan. _ �_�
--tyro--•-charges----of---'biga`rnss--their—listed.-- their---•home--�-ati7 ire added: "In no way lir t
"Here we have four marriages dresses as Welland, Ontario.
1 give him the impression he
and the benefit of only one This time Mrs. Clark listed was covered.
divorce. By this she showed • a self as Marjorie Clark, spinster, Cormier, who because of a,
and gave her occupation as previous record had to get in.
1 ship's cook.
For the past five years the surance clearance rough On-
couple had lived in the Gode- tario Assigned Risk, thhad agreed
rich area and Mrs. Clark gave to pay $376 for $35,000 public
birth to their. -:daughter Kelly liability and public damage
three years ago. poverage'
"If you really feel that' I funderstoed that' when an
ently decided she had better
get rid of her "dead" hus-
band. She proceeded to obtain
a divorce from Duncan Forbes
which left her free as her sec-
ond wedding was invalid.
April 8 19501, saw her ent€ r
conducted free for contractors strongly about your daughter insurance company accepted a
and construction workers' by the , and her father you still have a were covered," Cor
Construction Safety Association chance to prove it now," said cheque ou niirr told Magistrate Hays.
of Ontario. is to be held 3t the Magistrate lia;:s. -�
Hall, Goderich, Following Mrs, "Clark's court
Canadian Legion
on Wednesday, .August 25. and spokesman said the allegation PERSONAL.
Thursday, August 26, each of of blackmail would be inves �'ry � d ,lid 11.`�'._. I, l,, in
•
them. commencing at 7:30 p.m. ted, .._ ..__ _.. _�
The, courses.. aye endorsed by his is. e first . time we and family. Jimmie, Pa'i ela .:nd
the contractor '--of .Ontario for heard anything about this when Richard, of Det.oit. \vsitcd at
use in the. construction incite* i -t came out in .court," said the 1ho home of Mi -s, A. L. Cole,
ries of Ontario. The courses official. 'Elgin Avenue, the past v.eek.
teach dccident, injury and He added: "We will investt-. Mi•s T t; Coley.. port Dover,
fa-
tality prevention through pro gate the matter to see if. NA.e is cisitint; her sister, 11r•s. •:1. •I..
can substantiate Mrs, Clark's `,ole, Elvin Ave
tective 'safety practices. ' claim," '
a , co rianet Ori" Vii" ' -C &tertri ' --'OP'f
Daughter Jan is alsq a model railway en-
thusiast. at the ,home of Alan Craig at 6,
Blake street, _. glue, 'wth . father's help, She
dnspeets part of the lay -out which Mr.
Craig will ex :ibitat the
Sa�tur 11 en Ihabby'
Fahr . an la ridgy and
News has been received of a
further claimant to the $6,000,-
000 inheritance which 65 -year -
ofd Goderich widow, Mrs. Eva
Gaynor, hopes to contest.
'The Signal -Star bps received
a letter from Sarnia, Ontario,
written by Mrs. Irene Stewart,
.227 North Forsythe street.
In the letter Mrs. Stewart
makes the' third known claim to
the inheritance which is part
of an .estate left by the widow
of a U.S. farm implements czar
six years ago;
Details of the possible for-
tuncleaked out when a repre-
sentative of International Trac-
ers of America asked town
clerk Sherman Blake to search
for records of a wedding which
took -place bere116 years ago.
Church records were not
available for that period but an
account of the wedding was
found in the files of the Huron
Signal, in the Signal -Star office.
It reads: "February 5, at
Goderich, by Rev. John Wil-
liams, James Harkett Esq. of
Caledonia to Miss Lucy Gaynor,
second oldest daughter of the
late Edward Gaynor, Esq. 'of
Tipperary, Ireland."
Writing to• YThc Signal -Star,
Mrs. Stewart said in part: "My
maiden na:ne is Gaynor. My
father, , Patrick Gaynor, and
grandfather, William Gaynor,
were both born in Tipperary,
near Wexford. My father and
grandfather 'came to Isucknow
when my father was ten years
old. He married Isabel McPar-
ron, I think, in Goderich al-
though ,I am not sure of that."
A Goderich search revealed
that only one Gaynor family
was known to have ever lived
in the area. Mrs. Eva Gaynor
and her children are the de-
scendents of the Gaynors of
West Wawanosh who are known
to have emigrated from Tipper-
ary, Ireland, early in the 19th
century.
-_Within days of Mrs. Eva Gay-
nor announcing she would lay
claim to the fortune, news of
another claimant was received
from an authoritative source in
Toronto.
The source said that a mys-
tery city woman said she could
show rgenealogical to substan-
tiate her claim to the money'
In Goderich the Gaynor fam-
ily has hired counsel to repre-
sent them in their claim to the
inheritance.
More than 400 senior citizens from the Lake Huron zone the Goderich Collegiate. The Goderich club acted as host
attended their annual pienio which was held this year in to the 19 other clubs in the zone alt last week's event.