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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1966-04-28, Page 2• The Crhd riich Signal -Star, Thursday, April 2.B, 1Kifi ditorials... GRIM FINANCIAL. PICTURE 'Goderich residents are faced with the. ,unsavoury prospect of � pr p _ tax hi e;a dl wing the next LL two , town budgets. We, are on the verge 'of 'a pro- g.>aa .gin of massive expenditures *which can do nothing but increase the bur- den thrust on local taxpayers.. There is little hope of a popula- tion explosion to counteract . the grim financial picture by providing more pockets from which to extract the money. _ Town council had no .other re- course . this year but to raise. both. residential and industrial mill rates to meet soaring expenditures. The projected financial picture for the next two years is even 'gloomier. Two major projects, an addition to the high school and a new sewage treatment plant, were not even ' in- cluded in the 1966 $1,000,000 plus expenditures. They will, however, be major items on the town's budgets during • 1967 and 1968. Unfortunately we find our- selves in the -position where we are • being constantly jostled to provide the most up-to-date service with a population which has stagnated for years. Mayor Frank Walkom and council members have the unenv i- - able task of local politicians of turn- ing Goderich into one of the highest - ..taxed municipalities Canada. _-- . The -tab for -the annual`party"• is growing each year yet the number of people ---asked to chip -in remains the same. Goderich's Industrial Commis- sion provides the one slim chance the town has of hn�' esca ithis eco- nog ici stranglehold. A- breakthrough on, the indus trial .cont would mean relief from the tax burden. ._ Tihe location of one new indus- try here could lessen the strain on our individual purse strings as we struggle along in the name of pro- gress; •(construction costs involved in the . new .high . school wing and sew- age e«-age plant would appear negligible in a city. j Down °Mcn,orys Lane Unfortunately we have only 6,700 residents to foot the hil At no,other time in the history of ` Goderich. has, the small popula- tion created such a mammoth prob- lem for town council as it wrestles with the budget. Even ten years ago town coun- cil was reported to he "alarmed -at its own helplessness" to avoid a drastic increase in" the mill,rate; • At that time, with a slightly lower population, town hal.:officials were faced with' far less }'costs than they are today. Provincial and federal grants have been raised but not suffliently to match the rising costs. of con- struction and maintenance. We are slowly slipping into the "slough of inertia" caused* ky an apparent inability_ to expand.. The time has come once again to repeat our request for council to hire a ,full -tilde industrial commis- sioner. • We cannot allow ourselves to sit . back and watch high-powered sales- men snatch potential industries from our grasp.' The money involved for such an official must only be a mere drop in the bucket in comparison to the potential economic shot in the arm for our community. This is. the era . of wheeler- dealers and the Sooner we wake. up to this fact the sooner we can --do-sortie l *g--abou it. _. We need a full-time industrial commissioner .with a sizeable ex- pelise account. to. literally sell us to prospective 'industries. The name of Goderich should• be made as well known to indus- trialists as the name of the favorite washing powder is to their wives. No longer 'should Goderich natives look down on outsiders. We` shoul d Ybe, prepared to welcome them to thiA community. Y After all we need them to help,b pay our mounting bills so we can have municipal progress without personal poverty. We have been kicked where it hurts ... in our 'pocket books. Let us not sit back and apathetically ''take further financial punishment.'' - LACK OF DIPLOMACY Town council members showed a surprising lack of diplomacy by boosting their personal payments at the same time as they announced a, tax hike. The wage increase itself is justified but the tinging of the act must be faulted. There is considerably • more work in' olved in the town's business than most voters realize. Time• spent at council and com- mittee meetings makes up" only a fraction of the. total hours involved. For these reasons alone the in- crease in payments, was justified. Yet, on the eve cif a major tax increase, .after 'making serious at- tempts to prtme expenditures, coun- cil suddenly feels members should receive more money. • The- amount involved may be peanuts in the total budget, yet one cannot help 'wondering who ' suf.- fered cutbacks to meet council's wage demands. " •• By its action, council has placed itself in the position of the house- wife who carefully . budgets the 'housekeeping only. to splurge part of the savings on a new hat. PURGE- IN THE CBC (The Montreal Star)' '• The latest outburst of CBC management — the purge conducted against the producers and - staff of the TV program "This Hour Has Seven Days" — is typical of the faults described (1) in the Glassco Commission, (2) the President's Study Group, and (3) the Fowler Committee . report. A sterile man- agen'lent is completely out of touch with its creative staff. General Manager Walker's .,hit- ter• complaint that the "Seven Days." people are "disloyal" to the CBC is tr Established 1848 f'15'," YearsAgo1 91 1 ,} Petitions for sanitary sowers on Br vee street between Vic- terla and North streets, on Keays street between 'Britannia road and Blake street, and en Bruce street between 'Nat street and Waterloo,' street were received by tewn council and referred to the public works committee- Jos. —Da—Willer was the 'pur- chaser of ' the Yule property, .corner : Of Caiii'bria,;-,.goad and Park' street at' an auetien sale. Qfeers'of the Goderich Rural Telephcaie Company, reported Plat 1wo .01 .chair- pales in,<Col- borne Township had been tern out by'indals. .A4 uteetingi was 'called in the local YMCA with,, the purpose of forming a town football. league. ° St: COMP'S ,Day was. celebrat- ed in;,Goderich by�,the hoisting the `flag outside 'the Bank . of Corn'inerce. . rt°' was "announced that the lion. A, R G. MacKay, was to ad- dress .a pwulie meetingihere. °Goder ich Horticultural Socie- ty distributed 7,700' bulbs and plants 'among its metiers. The Kensington• furniture fac- tory resumed operations here. The departure of -the steamer J. A. Me,Kee marked the end 'of the winter fleet for° the sea- son. 15 Years,,Ago--1951. After years of- trying to gain permission from the CNR to cross its tracks with a proposed read on the -.north side of the harbbr, town council decided to apply some pressure for ,action. .4t' was agr eeu that unless the CNR acted promptly the town should take the matter to the court of arbitration. Goderich Commission was reported to have shown a net profit of $21,354 during 1950. The Torontb Globe and , Maii re- ported • the ` RCS'' planned an $800,000 -"building program for the town of Goderich: An offic- ial at the Clinton camp could not confirm the story and went as•.=as-:wto.say:,: ``Thisp art of the country is a dead loss be- cause of too many days of ad- verse flying, weather here. E -Cardiff-was honored at the 25th anniversary of the North Huron Plowmen's Associ- ation in tile Hotel' Clinton. John Fisher, Toronto CBC per- sonality, said Canadians were too cautious,when'he addressed a ` muting of the Knox Church Men's Club. ' McKenzie, principal of Presby" terian College, Montreal, return- ed to his home .church at Ash- field as guest speaker. Ina recent election of bench- ers of the Law Society of Upper Canada, R. C. ' Hays, K.C., was elected ffgr the fourth time to become a life member. 5i ?a gagging mere ,reeeeiv ed at the Goderieh Elevator within one week. Dungannon Agricultural So clety announced plans for a stage show to be• held at the local agricultural hall. Wilfred Peachey received a leg injury at the Purity Flour MW. ' 10 Years Ago -1956 The contract for landscaping Court House Park, at a east of $4,475, was awarded to Charles ii_ay of Zurich at a senting of town council. Alarmed by its own helpless- ness to avoid a record eight 'mill increase in the tax rate, council appealed to the provincial and federal governments for financ- ial aid. Mayor J. E. ' Huckins said the only relief • for the fawn's tax burden lay in a plan to attract new industries ,here, Five Ships delivered a total of 958,000 bushels of grain to Gederich Elevator and Transit Company. Work was started on an under- ground• line to provide better long-distance telephone service between Goderich and London. The plan -involved the eventual removal of hundreds of < tele- phone, poles. Ashfield township school area board announced it would close .three rural schools. One Year "Ago -1965 Department of Municipal Af- fairs' officials in Toronto refus- ed to accept the budget set by town council because of an in-‘ complete .auditor's report. The Salvation •Army launched its annual Red 'Shield campaign with the target set at $4,400. Janes McKenzie, a former world highland -dancing champ- ion from Scotland, thrilled local youngsters with `a display in 'the Knox "Presbyterian Church hall. More than 150 , attended' the annual inter -club banquet at the Legion hall with' Mayor Frank Walkom reviewing the• services of the four clubs involved. Dr. A. C. Forrest, editor of the United • Church .Observer, was the guest speaker at the 133rd anniversary service held " The Right Reverend F. Scott .at North Street, United Chun eh. Dear Ann Landers: Is it pos- sible that a. person can brin on the hiccups, in order to get 9ut of a elm. that is boring him? My boy friend does not like concerts, the opera, lec- tures or sad movies. Also,. he does note care very much for aur minister. Whenever he must sit through something', that does not interest, him he gets the hiccups and excuses him- self. . J notice that he never gets the hiccups when he is watching „Batman or a cowboy movie. Also, he never gets the hiccups during a poker game or a foot- ball game or when he is at the. something. that needs more defini- tion than it has got. If disloyalty means nothing more than that all reasonable con-. tact'between the producers and the isolatedv management in ,Ottawa has been lost, the fault does nbt necessarily lie with the program- ming people. Management, it may well be, does not know what it is all about. The Prime Minister and his colleagues now .have ,a golden op- portunit to move in. •• P 11Slih ;Year ' of (tibrirh 3txt�-' Publication --p-- The County Town N.wspaper of Huron --1:-- Published at Goderich, Ontario every Thursday morning by Signal -Star Publishing Limited ROBERT G. SHRIEK M. E. C. COWLEY President and Publisher Managing Editor S. F. HILLS, Plant Supt. Member of C.W.N.A., O.W.N.A. and A.B.C. 4- - a Subscription Rates -- $4 a year. To U.S.A., $5 (In Advance) rt. E 1r' A. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept., Ottawa and for Payment of Postage in Cash. c aces. He insists that it is not pos- sible to bring on the hiccups but I am suspicious. Please give me the facts. Also any suggestions you might have to out -fox him.---BAM BOOZLED. Dear. Bam: The hiccups can .be brought on at will, but not everyone can .do it. It's a rare talent—like wiggling your ears. Carry a paper, bag in your purse. When Foxy starts to hic, hand him the paper bag and ask him to breathe in it for a few minutes. If he won't try ,it, your suspicions are well -founds ed! - :s: Dear Ann Landers: After 14 years:. of what°,I thought was a wonderful marriage I found out that my husband was having an affair. T 'was angry, hurt and humiliated. . I discussed the situation with fr/.'ands and they all agreed that Stanley was a rat and I should divorce him. I went to a law- yer and started proceedings. 'When Stanley heard from my lawyer he begged nide, for an- other chance. He made me see that divorce was not the answer and that we really belonged to- gether. Our children . were, so happy when they heard the di- vorce was off' that they wept. Now I realize that -the people I thought were my friends were really trouble makers. I am also mad at the lawyer. He is a money -hungry devil interested Only, in a fee. • Not once did he suggest reconsiliation. Our marriage is stronger now than ever, but I shudder to think of what my "friends" and a rotten lawyer tried to do to me, Please warn others not to • fall into ill,- same trap:—FAITH- FUL READER. Dear Reade;-: That's right, Lady — blame your friends, blame the lawyer, blame every- body but yourself. If you've been reading this column faithfully, as "your sig- nature suggests, You should have known. better. I've pub- lished dozens o_ f letters from sor- dowing wives who-. blabbed .to "frien`ds"' and- ranto- lawyers, and insisted on amputation when a bandage might have done the job. I'm printing your letter in the hope that others will learn from YOU what you failed to learn from others. * - * • Confidential to What's In A Name?: There might be plenty of trouble in the name you are using since it doesn't belong to you. I agree it has a nice ring to it, but the ring that you need is one you can put on your finger. Messages From, The Word intellectual and emotional straight. Do you mean that we can accept an idea logic- ally, but not -realm► believe in it? Yes. Theologians have al- ways taught that God is a Spirit without body, parts or passions. • They have put forward. evidences.- never proofs,__ always "evidences" --or the existence of God. .Still this is , all logic and intellect which is fine .so long as science and cglture remain fairly static. As soon as the whole founda- tion begins to shake; as in astronomy, 4 space travel, the racial struggle, the Communist revolution and so on, then we find that a logical assertion ,. is only skin deep. It has no heart! I have heard it said recent- ly• that we Christiangr are losing our nerve. Does this 'mean that pur Iogical foundation has collapsed lnd we haven't the faith to rebuild . it? Maybe it would be more correct to say that the Church hasn't had 'a deeply, rooted faith for a long time. We have been living on the interest {►f our •forefathers' invest- ment, in faith. I think you 'have analysed the problem quite well. That's why I think we must be very careful in dour criti- cisms of the "God is dead" theologians. They are try- ing, as I said, to be brut- ally honest about their own Feelings. If we just go 'on the defensive, we may suc- ceed only in kidding our- selves into thinking that if we ignore the problem, it will go away. But doesn't it say some- where in the Bible that we have to believe even tho- ugh we dull understand? Ohe of the Resurrection sayings is: "Blessed—are theywho have not seen and . =et have----beReved: We cannot see the relationship these days between • "the faith once delivered" and our modern -Wobld-view. Of course it isn't the first time in history that Christians }rave had to hang on by a very thin rope. - Do you think 'we can hang on? ,. -. Yes, but not if we get too excited. You mustn't shout too much if you have to hang on to a precarious position. What we chiefly need is quiet courage and • By -Rev. G. G. Russell, St. George's Anglican Church GOOD TALK (ietween a Parish Priest and a Faithful' Parishioner) P.P. I hear that God is dead. P.P. Oh, 1 think he is still very much alive-- F.P. Why would 0a- Christian theologian propound such a theory? _ R.P. I think it is an attempt to be brutally honest with one's own feelings, We Are so very "science -centred" Joday.. r; has suddenly be= come apparent that we can- • not put either God or hea- ven into the ,physical uni- verse. F.P. Didn't people know that long time ago? P.P. _;hey knew Lein'tellectually, but it had not made an emotional irlipaet on them. Till the invention of the atom bomb we didn't know -how far .we had gene. Sud-: denly we are overwhelmed with the,, knowledge that we have lost our bearings. F.P. I don't see why man is so, much more "lost" than ever before. h,P. For one thing; astronom- ers are now looking at light which left its source ten billion years ago. ,titan and the earth are pretty tiny in the vastness of space and time. For another thing, blot of . our sociol- ogical and cultural struc- tures have crumbled. The world is a maze of ideol- ')gieal confusions. We prize our British and Europe n heritage; but now we ha&e to fit in Oriental and Af- rican, (not to mention Com- munist) ideas into our total picture of life. Let's face -the fact that up untila few years ago we didn't really feel. that colored people had_a.ny.,h..gher goals --in- life than to be `hewers of wood and drawers, of water." Oh, we would argue for them intellectually and 'say that we are all equal in the sight of 'God; but the emo- tional impact had not hit me get this bit about ,y us. FSP. 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Free colorful recipe folders showing many exciting new ways to serve Canada choice canned .fruit at home and for social events, are available with the film. Make arrangements now for early showing. Call or write: R. Ford Ralph, managing director, Ontario Tender Fruit Institute, The Queensway, To- ronto 15, Ontario. • Phone 251-1371 T. PRYDE .& SON -- Memorials • Finest Stone and Experienced Viiorkraanship Frank iv crlwainD{SENTT REPRESENTAT{VE 5244861 or 200 Gibbons St. ' -- 624-9465 5,011 SAVE 16c L8: CHICKEN LEGS CUT FREE TO YOUR OWN -SPECIFICATIONS .. FRONT L.B. BEEF QUARTERS IA 47c CENTRE CUT'. LOIN: PORK'CHOPS LB. 79c CAUGHT DAILY —. BAYFIELD . FRESH WHITE 'FISH - OPEN WED. AFTERNOON — THURS. - FRI. 'TIL 9 P.M. FEATURING Home Dressed Inspected Mets, 524-8S5i C`} James iRichardson & Sons Ltd. "Serving The lied Dealer of Western Ontario" . QHPNE '5244$388,, GODERICH ; . r� F T. G CHURL May 1 ---. Easter 3 0 30 a.m.--Holy Communion 11:Oi1ba.m.—Holy Communion. (Nursery for Pre -School Chlldr•n) Sunday School at 10.and 11 Sermon: L.S.D. vs. Christian Ecstasy" 5:00 p.m.—Service withdrawn. 7:00 p.m:—The. Laying -on -of -hands. (com- monly called Confihnetion) will be ad- ministered by the Rt. Rev.- H. F: Apple- ,. yard, Bishop of Georgian Bay. Reception after in parish hall: Rector: REV. G. G. RUSSELL, BA., B.D.- Mr, B. Kempster, Organist and Choirmaster THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA North Street United Church SUNDAY, MAY 1st 10:00 a.m. Senior Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Kindergarten — Primary Dept. 11:00 a.m, Morning Worship WELCOME The Rev. J. Donald MacDonald, B.Sc., B.D.--Minister 'Mr. Lance Reed, organist and Choir Director Knox Presbyterian Church THE `REV. G. LOCKHART ROYAL, B.A., Minister William Cameron, Director of Praise SUNDAY, MAY, 1st. 10:00 a:m. Church School .._19:1 aan: Bible Oiass -11:00 'a.m. .Divine Worship "Go ... Enquire ... Concerning ... The Book" LAYMEN'S SERVICE (Nursery and Junior Congregation) 7:30 p.m. Young ,People's Society ENTER* TO WORSHIP , - DEPART,.TO SERVE, THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Victoria Sfreet United Church 11:00 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship It "Our Money and the Church" 1:30 p.m. Benmiller: Church and Sunday School REV_ HUGH C. WILSON, Minister MRS. J. SNIDER, Organist FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH (Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec Montreal" "Street Near The Square 10:00, a.m. — Sunday School 11:00 a.m.—Morning Worship 7:00 p.m.—Evening Worship Everyone Welcome Minister:'REV. HENRY de VRIES, Phone 524-8792 FREE METHODIST CHURCH Corner Victoria and Park Streets 9:50 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Worship Service. O. 7:00 p.m. Evangelistic ,Servide Rev, R. L. Gordon, of Clarksburg, Ont., in charge Wed., 7.30 p.m. — Prayer Meeting avid Bible Study. THE SALVATION- ARMY CAPTAIN and MRS. ROY WO?ABOLD 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Family Worship 7:00 p.m. Salvation Meeting EVERYONE WELCOME ,Bethel Pentecostal' Tabernacle Corner of Elgin and Waterloo Sts. REV. ROBERT CLARK, Pastor SUNDAY, MAY 1st - 10:00 a.m. Sunday School Classes for all ages. 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship 7:30 p.m. Evangelistic Service Fri. 8:00 p.m. — Young People's Service Each Sunday, 5:30 p.m. Hear Jack West over station C-N,L-O, St. Thomas CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH BAYFIELD ROAD AT BLAKE STREET SUNDAY, MAY lst SUNDAY SERVICES 10:00 a.m. Sunday School ' ---- . Ride the Bus.-- 524-7622 11:00 a.mo•MORNING SERVICE 7:30 p.m. EVENING SERVICE Wed., 7:30 p,m. Romans verse by verse. Pastor: REV. T. LESLIE HOBBINS, B.A. "A Warm Welcome To All" 4