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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1966-06-30, Page 2The Goderieh Signal -Star, '1Thurwday, JaanQ 30, 1946 itorials .. . • Identification and. Minor Charges In Bruce County court in Walk- having beer in their possession'out- erton Magistrate 0. C. McClevis side their. dwellings or drinking has. suggested that police should not under age it certainly does not make be required to identify a motorist sense. guilty of making unnecessary noise. • Would Magistrate M c C 1 e v i s The magistrate fined a youth suggest that identification should $25 and suspended him from driving not be necessary in this case?,,Prob- for 80 days_ for screeching his car ably not. tires in Teeswater.• Convicting a person of criminal. Explaining that an officer must negligence without positive identi- now identify a driver or chase hien fication on a serious charge is too down, Magistrate McClevis torsi- much opposed to , all concepts *of mented, "I don't see why an officer justice to' be considered. - should endanger his ,life, the life of What the magistrate seems to the pursued, and that of others." be asking is whether high speed The magistrate is entirely cor- chase police, to catch minor s b� ' of- rect in suggesting that there is, no fenders is justified when the risk of reason why lives should he en-, life and injury are omnipresent and dangered in a chase involve the vehicles involved are lethal wea- nothing more than a charge of mak- Pons - However, unnecessary noise.. As a former policeman it was However, his submission that the identification of a driver should probably difficult for Magistrate not be required is too dangerous to McClevis to reconcile this viewpoint contemplate. _ with the thought that someone who , In central Ontario it was re- has broken the law might escape. ported recently that the conviction - What the magistrate has pro- of a driver on a charge of criminal pounded is that the owner of a negligence resulted from a 36 -mile vehicle would become responsible chase by police. for its operation even if he was not Evidence showed that the driv- driving it at. the time of the - corn- mission of an offence. Instead of er s female companion -threebeer river thea olice n_tif_ in the d 1?..ee -bottles-frarn_ the -back of �-the-fiee�ing _.idE y g - the during the chase, strik- would merely obtain the. licence ing a police car. She was also con- number acid consult registration victed of criminal negligence. There was no -indication of why • Such an approach to enforce - police were attempting to stop the ment of the laws governing the op - couple's car. eration of motor• vehicles would If they were running because cover a multitude of sins, but it the feared the minor charges of would.not be justice. Y • American -Canadian traffic interchange is. expected to reach a record high this weekend and officials at border crossing spots, like Niagara's Rainbow Bridge, are bracing them- selves for the rush on both sides of the border.. With Can- ada's Dominion Day falling on a 'Friday and the United States July 4 holiday on the following Monday, the roads will be. filled to capacity by cars, many of them towing boats and trailers, and by the increasingly popular lightweight motor- cycles. To get through the weekend safely, to show a little extra courtesy, not only to our out-of,the-province visitors but to all other drivers'on'the road. For safety's sake, the Ontario department of tr.ansport'has the following suggestions: plan the trip ahead of time' allowing plenty of time to reach the destination with frequent nest stops along the Wain .•.. make sure vision lsnrt- restricted by'luggage, boats or trailers .. . and, a special word of,'warning to motorcyclists .it's nit easy for a motorist to see you and, even when he does see you, it's a common- error 1"o misjudge the distance of a smaller object. CENTENNIAL CALLING Beautiful For '67 Mrs. • Walter Rathburn And sharing brings up sozne- By your centennial commit- Goderich, our .little- .world of titins Goderich look tee felt' they must do. WW were being selfish thinking only of. wanting the best for us. But we are giving up a pro- ject we dearly wanted, so that hundreds might- enjoy some fine entertainment neat year. We have given it up to a" town " with "better facilities" and we are jealous and hint. Why can't we have better facilities? We need an auditorium so badly, which will hold more than 600 or 700 persons, one with a stage and decent �acousti.cs. The only large building, at present, is the arena, and the acoustics there are terrible. So, we will be real neighborly next year, and enjoy the,fine acconf- moclations they have to offer and keep working toward better things for our own town. Per- haps if we work those smiles overtime, something wonderful might happen. Let's work at it! MARATHA. wonderful? Elverybne f see is really working towards a beautiful town for '67. I wish we could ',tidy the, whole viYorid up and make it a better place in which to live. It is up to us to keep working on it, since we have hundreds of schools filled with f'ilture politicians, lawyers, doctors and nurses. Their teachers are work- ing on the 3 R's but we have to teach them how to get along with people, - no matter what color or creed, We can teach them how to be neighborly, kind and most of all, respectful. • This is a word which seems to be forgotten, these days. We must have respect for law and order, our elders and our fel- low men or we will have no self-respect. Since we have to set an example for our Children, we will find we are much hap- pier with our ovvn everyday living. It is a rvicious circle, and this isgood! own. Memory's 55 Years Ago -1911 One of the' most brilliant events in the history of Gode- rich was the banquet tendered to the officers gf the military camp by the municipality on Tuesday evening. The spacious dining room of Hotel Sunset was handsomely decorated for the -occasion with a profusion of flags and.`flowers .artistically arranged. Those in charge of the arraalgen en,ts for the coronation of King George V and Queen nary, his wife, made the event one of more than medieval splendour. The cere- monies in the famous West- minster Abbey were presided over by -the Archbishop of Can- terbury, chief. prelate of the Church of England, assisted by many archbishops and bishops. Persons of royal rank from many great nations were among the official guests, and all` the foreign governments, h• as well as the British dominions over- seas, were represented officially. The naval display at the Solent on Saturday night was the greatest, the world- has ever seen. The furious driving on the Square by automobiles and other vehicles has.been taken up by the authorities. 15 Years Ago -1951 Rev. L. Crawford returns to his. old home church with pressive services on Sunday in commemoration of the 117th an- niversary of the founding' of the - Keep Six Honest Serving Men Complaints have been received should be remembered.. New arrivals that this newspaper has not been should be given similar considera- reporting enough items of personal tion. in rest. ,Some organizations do an out- not the little,ubiquitous standing job in keeping the public is q . detail the comings and informed of changes in personnel. iems.that g goings of the citizens of toyvn and Others have made„only a .half-heart- coitritry on the 'weekend that are' ed attempt at public relations. deemed missing. - In some cases where a public The lea is guilty. In an effort relations staff . is charged with re - to create a newspaper with a differ- leasing news. or personnel changes, ent tone, a weekly newspaper with it concentrates on top manage - a touch of the city atmosphere, the ment, and middle management goes Anglican Church in Goderieh. basic concept of news has occasion- unnoted. William Cranston, president, on behalf of the company at a meeting of subscribers at the parish hall,, Dungannon, last Thursday evening. A special effort is being made this year to make the Dominion day parade bigger and better than +in some years past. Direct - invitations are being,..ent out by ro- clerk S, H . Blake to tun cpro- spective spective participants _ -in the Parade,' particularly those, who might be expected to enter floats. Rev. C. W. Cope deliiered his final 'message to the con- gregation -of North Street United Church on Sunday evening. T11e thirty-second annual con- vention' of the Ontario As- sociation of Managers of Homes for the Aged opened here on Monday morning 'in the Sunset IJotel with delegates present from all parts of the province. 10 Years Ago -1956 Nearly all elementary school pupils in the county have now received their second injection of the Salk polio vaccine, .it was announced today by Dr. R. M. Aldis. ' Veiled in official secrecy -since last fall, vast beds of high grade crystal rock salt, deep under- ground along Goderich's water- front have been struck. Expert diamond. drillers from Northern Ontario and Quebec are drill- ing at various points to- depths up to 1,900 feet in order that the- extent of these valuable beds might be more fully charted. Close to, 500 pupils, most of them from Western Ontario rural Schools; -'have toured Gode- rich so far this year. Willingness to sell the Gode- ally been overlooked. Often, because they are young- rich Rural Telephone Co. sys- Names make news is a- tired old er, these are the individuals who be- tem provided "a fair .ps-ice” was adage: It has stood test of time, and come most active in the community. offered for it was expressed by only the metropolitan journals— Bank accountants, for. example, 'and this does not include the fore- most daily -in—Western n ario -- have have been able to ignore it. .. Efforts will be continued ;to give this community the most -widely interesting newspaper possible, but the days do not have enough°hours to collect 'the small items that fall into the category of making - news through names. ' Almost weekly some individual in the community is moving to an- other town, changing jobs, receiving a promotion or winning a' prize. The !Signal -!Star is happy to . print news of this nature, but it cannot print what it does know. The" public -must assist in bringing such information to the attention of the editor. In most case a briefly -worded - news release can be . prepared that will give sufficient information to tell the . story. In a town the size of Goderich, a closely -knit community, the activi� ties of most individuals, who are truly active, are matters of common knowledge. But when such a person leaves a community his contributions to it usually are pegged as the treasurer of a C lei one -service ---dub fro the rothe time theyarrive until they. leave. 'To getsomethinginto the paper, put it on paper and bring it .in to the newspa#er office. Worried about how to doait? Refine l her : "I kept six honest' serving men-- They en— They taught me all I knew— Their names were What and Where and When-, r • And How and Why and. Who." Calendar Trick. This is another weekend' for wise Goderich residents to stay at home, and let everybody. else in North America risk his life. A trick of the calendar will cause record traffic. Friday is Dominion Day. Monday is' the July 4 holiday of the- United States. It is a moot point whether lives would be saved if both holidays were the same day, or whether traffic volumes will be spread thinner by having them two days apart. • ._ tar 119th Year oaf Established C C tibrrtr� gt al - +.r Publiea�tian� 1848 , ' —0— The County Town Newspaper of Huron ---®-- Published at Goderieh, Ontario every Thursday Morning by Signal -Star Publishing Limited ROBERT G. SHRIER R. W. , KEARNS President and Ptablisher Managing Editor S. F. ! DLLS, Plant Supt. Member of C.W.N.A., O.W.N.A. and A.B.C, II 0 Subscription—Rates $s ar Year—To U.S.A. - $6 lin' advance) Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept., Ottawa and for Payment of Postage in Cash. s sot. Lane Huron County has found that Mothering 667,500 trees has its problems. Insect infestation has become so acute that foresters resorted to aircraft to spray the, county forest tracts. north of Goderich. Entrie's are up, prize money up and 'everything points to an outstanding treat for Fasts at racingenthusiasts harness . 'Agrreulturat Park" on Dominion Day. So far 45 horses have been entered. + Letters To the Sir: Last week's announcement by Dr. Allis that the Goderieh pub- lic bathing beach isheavily contaminated by sewage and should be closed, simply under- lines the incredible folly with which we have handled our •na- `tural resources. Instead° of passing on to our children a heritage of clean air, water, and large (areas of public lic parks and beaches, we appear;:_ • eoftservationwise•r•.• to. -have .made every mistake it is possible to make. If, by any chance, we happen to have over- looked a mistake, it could only have been.,,,,by mistake. Unclogging sewage from his snorkel, a bather on our public beach must feel a little bitter as he . looks to the north and sees the mile or so of wide sand and comparatively clean water usually deserted, and all of it "Private." Nor can we blame the mother, who has just found her toddler topping off his .sand castle with a piece of washed-up toilet paper, from feeling like- wise. What the sewage -soaked Geode - rich bather 'sees to the north is a relic of the feudal system, a 20th Century Royal Preserve, owned and controlled by ` one family. For good measure, they also control both banks of the mouth of the Maitland River, the sand and gravel beneath. Rather than tease this Sacred Cow, Goderich ,townfathers do nothing. On the Colborne side, behind the air. port, 'a public right-of-way exists by which the Great Unwashed might possibly infiltrate the northern edge of this sanctuary. This right-of- way is impassable, and Col- borne Township Council seem determined, for some , reason, that it stay this way. South of the town. in Goderich TownshiQ, a ero'un nfo?'tagers- were - reeentl;• allowed, for a short• while. to take over and close public access to the 1 Year. Ago ---.1965 The Honourable Harry Hays, federal minister of agriculture has accepted an invitation to open the 1965 International Plowing Match on Wednesday, October 13th, at 2 pm. The match is 'being held this year from October 13th to • 15th at the Massey Ferguson Farm, York County, M.iliken, Ontario. Goderich town council was the victim of a four-hour verbal bombardment when the contro- versial two: -hour parking bylaw as aired in ' ceurt last wek. Toronto financier . Ha r r y Knight has offered the town more than $15,000 to pay for urgent repairs needed at the pool he donated to Goderich. The, pool which was built in 1950 inmemory of Mr: Knight's granddaughter,•was drained this week after serious leaks were discovered in the structure. Goderieh Kinsmen have locat- ed an ace drawing card for their' Aiugust Hobby Fair in the form of a one-third scale model of the project Mercury Spacecraft loaned from;. National Aeronau- tics and. Space Administration Deparfii iiT in Washington. Edif�r + beach. Anyone not -in this as -are always complaining I there is nothing for g or ladies to do during the mer, we would like to comments, sociation, who wanted to read the beach, was to pay a yearly fee. "They pay a lot of taxes— they should have some special consideration," argued the form- er reeve. 'Andther cottager, further south, was • allowed to build in the middle of a public right-of-way, thereby, blocking the only beach access for miles. And so goes the long, sad tale of -• greed.. _and blundering, We- stasid in our own garbage and filth and dream of conquering the moon. We proudly sunlmon 400 h.p. to get to the corner store, yet foul our watering holes in a manner that would put any self-respecting old sow to shame. But enough in this vein, ere ,I. nrk my ulcers and blood pressure, and the haying season barely upon us. - -- • - J. C. Hindmarsh, R. R. 2, Goderich. Messages" From The Word THE GODE.RICH .MINISTERIAL -ASSOCIATION By Rev. J. A. Veldhuis do all the graveyards go? . . •Dungannon United Church The answer my friend is going with the wind :.. 0 when will they ever learn?" . "All flesh is like grass." This "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like.. the flower of the grass. The grass withers, ,and the flower falls, but the Word of the Lord abides for- ever." I Peter .I: 424, 25. ' Bedause of leaving the Dun- gannon charge, this is as a con- sequence also my last medita- tion for the Signal -Star, and with the text of my farewell sermon I extentt'hereby stay very best wishes . and God's blessing to the staff and the readers of this paper. A centenarian was recently asked on a TV program, "What is life?" And pointing to the two doors in his room he re- plied, "It is like Q, coming into the room by this door and leav- ing it by the other." How simple and how true. Life is a coming and a going. And, the going is already .implied in the coming, for it is as stated in the Seririce of 'Burial, "In the midst of -life we are in death.". That is the first and the radical truth of the text as expressed in an old hymn, "Nothing Temaineth, nothing remaineth." Man's life fresh as the green grass and beautiful like the flower is only brief. And se is all that we see and cherish, the world itself and all that is in it being "stored up for fire." Man is a mere thing and he does not know how hope- less lie is, not -because he is not aware of it but because he is afraid of realism. Yet folk songs throughout the ages have sung of it to this very day. "Where do all the flowers go? Where means of course that all that is physical is but temporal. But it implies also why this is so, for the word "flesh" does not just mean our physical body. The original does not use the medical word "soma" but the theological "sari" 'which means `"sinful flesh," man in his sin, the ianspiritual 'which is opposed to God and . His will, the carnal and the worldly. And not only is this grass, this "flesh" soon cut off and turned to destruc- tion, the text says in the Greek actually that "thessteadfast love of man is like the flower.which falls, in other words, the very best and beautiful in life comes under this devastating judge ment. How sad and how terrible a truth ! -! ! 'Tihe wages of sin is depth. Surely the people is grass. Here is the Good News of for- giveness, peace, and life ever- lasting. It is the World full of promises which are Yes and Amen, (positive and sure. It is the Word- that brings light in all our darkness, even in the darkness of sirs and death, fhb Word that commands, Retuht unto God and live!, that invites, "Come unto Me and .be saved!". the Word that warns that the sinner, the .uneon `erted shall die, but that also dames with great assurance and'+hope," He who believes in Me has ever- lasting life!" Here IS the an= swer to all men's hopelessness. that iris sum - hear Bill Kolkman, Manager, Goderieh:' Director Appointed E..StanleyABeacock of London has been appointed first region- al director of the Midwestern Regiona' Library Cooperative. Hewill start his duties on Oc- tober 1. Since 1961,.Mr. Beacock has been :assistant director of London Public Library and Art Museum. Previous to that, he'worked with Counly libraries in Ohio jin,the United Sates and in Lambton County. • the Midwestern Regional Lib irary was organized nearly two years ago to help improve lib- rary service in the. four coun- ties of Waterloo, Wellington, Perth • ar.d Huron. It • will set up services that most smaller libraries in- the region are un- able to provide to their bor- rowers. Mr. Beacock will --offer advice to an;,: library seeking help. Willi�:m Templin, of Fergus, the chairman of the regional board, grid a number of ap- plications were received, includ- ing several from the United States. Sir: We would like to d.well on softball. Why is it that, in a town like Goderieh with a popu- lation of over 6,000 that there 'are not enough girls or ladies interested in playing softball? We have been trying to get a team of 15 girls or ladies now for a month and a half to two months: Are tihe people in Goderich not interested enough to send or take their girls or ladies out to the ball diamond? Since the people not Goderieh Peter has been called . the Apostle of hope. The chapter from which the text comes is full of life, hope, and joy, It is a great Bymn 'of Praise to God for His great salvation in -Jesus Christ. Weare told • that prac- ticallv all the chapter contains one long sentence without any stops. The Writer • is "Bubbling over" of the Good News. This chapter is often read at the Ser; vice of Burial, but it is nbt just a word to perk us up a bit when we are in sorrow, it ds • a sybrd for every day, both in life and in death, •or in the swords of the Heidelberg Cathechistn, here is our only comfort in life and in death. And comfort means "with strength" from the Latin "con fortis." It means,great en- cthiragement. But to have tour= age, hope, assurance in death it is necessary that we make it ours in life. Please read in the Chapter also that .although this is only the reward of faith in Christ who redeems with His own precious blood,, not with .perishable things as silver and geld, yet at the same time it places a great demand on the Christian believer, viz, tQ be- lieve the Word of God and to obey the truth and to love the (brethren sincerely. it is through faithifi the Saviour Jesus Christ and inobedience to His Lord- ship in all, of life, that Christ- ians may at last stand before.bhe judgment sea of God without fear and fully share in the ,joys of ttiat' Itingdotiir which shall !have no -end. X11 flesh is like grass . but the Word of the Lord abides forever, T. PRYDE - & SON _.., Memorials - Finest Stone and Experienced Workmanship Frank -Mc l lwam-- RXi lSE'SENTZiWE " • 5247861 or 200 Gibbons St. 524-9465 50tf 400 MEAT £PECIALS GRADE 0'$-10 1.13: AVG. 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