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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1966-09-08, Page 2The Goderich Signal -Star, Thursday, Sept.. 8, 1966 E dit�riais Grand •nd P Leadership Training' Groan...' tr The annual Labor Day riot in Grand Bend has come'and gone with no credit to anyone and `least of all those who make their living cater- ing to the rioters. In fact most of them could not care less: They will put up their shutters and shuffle off to winter in the balmy south. Ask them who is responsible for the riots. "The police and the press," they will tell you promptly. "The police provoke these kids and the press blows it all up." Grand Bend -is riot tinder. Its Berry -built, narrow, gaudy- main stem, multiple liquor outlets, and thousands of youths seeking the ex citement that Grand B en d's reputation now promises, need only the small .:park that an aimless, law- less element provides. What form 'of leadership is this; breeder of mob violence so . readily followed? Perhaps we -should re-examine our society that is not turning out many leaders, but plenty of excellent followers. When Leaves Lose Their Chlorophyll The landscape of Ontario will soon display the beauty of autumn as the leaves of deciduous trees take on the brilliant hues only nature can provide. Have you every wondered how and why fall leaf coloration occurs? Horticulturists with the -On- tario Department of Agriculture and Food explain that chlorophyll is present in the _leaves as part of the plant food production process. The chlorophyll pigment is domin- ant over others present in the leaves and ,imparts the green color to the foliage, As the days cool and shorten. food production slows down and the amount. of chlorophyll dimin- ishes. The yellow pigments, caro- • tene and xanthophyll, now become apparent and the leaves turn yel- low: Another pigment, anthocyanin, imparts the reds and scarlets to the leaves. ° An accumulation of sugars and tannins in the leaf is required to activate this pigment. As a result,. many of the maples and oaks of Ontario turn red. Weather .plays an important part in the production 'of red color- ing. Warm sunny days followed by cool nights are needed to produce the most brilliant color display. Since fall coloring is dependent on weather conditions, • and fall tem- peratures" vary from year to year, the autumn spectacle will. be more brilliant in some years than others. Emergency Measures Now Meaningless In Huron Huron County Council last week reduced the Emergency Mea- sures Organization in the county to something that is neither fish nor f owl. Huron's EMO is now nothing more than a paper organization and if council's directive on'the matter is followed it will completely cease to b active in any great respect. , The county clerk -treasurer has been appointed acting co-ordinator witha $50-a=month.,, honorarium. Council does not appear to intend this position to be,�active. The acting co-ordinator has been instructed to prepare an o a- erg ney plan for the county attorne - ing to the dictates of y gen ral's office and the require- ments of -the Emergency Measures Act. It is doubtful if this plan will. require anything more than filling in the spaces ---like in primary school exercise books—in Queen's Park's standard emergency plan for allOn-- tario counties. In other words a token effort to keep Huron in good standing as far as Toronto is con- cerned. Whether it is - work not will not matter. , e e n e e n 1 n 1 e n Thus Huron can continue to accept government grants for what is spent on 'emergency measures, without really doing ,anything but • 111 n 21 .Letters Ta TheEditor 1i was interested in your edi- torial, "Fluoridation —. Someth- ing to Consider,"is hardly fair to compare ehierination water. with fluoridation of 'water. Chlorination is for the purpose of purifying the water, of mak- ing it safe to drink. It affects all the people. Consequently municipalities take the resllon- sibxlty of adding. ehlorimte s a purifying me asuU e - Fluoride is . added to the water as a preventative to tooth decay in children; it is medic- ation added to the water. I am opposed to fluoridation for two reasons: (1) It is an extravagant waste- ful way of giving fluoride to children, (2) It is eompuisory mass medi- cation forced on all the peo- ple. (3) Children drink approximate- ly one-tenth . of one percent of the 'water pumped daily. They would therefore use one- tenth of one percent of the fluoride- used daily. Suppose we. put one hundred dollars worth of fluoride in the water. The children would use one-tenth of one percent of this which is sten cents worth. Nin- ety-nine dollars and ninety cents worth would be 'wasted. To sell one handieVTalait' worth so .that the ,children may receive 'tem, Bents worth ti is tt very super -salesmanship achieve• meat. Secondly T am opposed to fluoridation because it 'is com- pulsory mass medication of our tdrinking water. It is not 100% effective, the best reports given claim about 66% effective, many reports are below that figure. It "is only .effective while the teeth are being formed 'up till about twelve, years of age. Tooth decay is not caused by the• waterwe drink. Tooth _de- cay is caused by poor dental hygiene and the eating of too much surgery, starchy foods. Tooth decay is not a contag- eons disease, it is not a subject about which municipalities should be concerned: It is a 10 post at Expo67?, Just Follow Pictures Does a suitcase with a -ques- tion mark above it mean any- thing to you? Or a coat hanger? .Or even a bandaged hand?_ These are only three of the 24 symbols . that have been adopted to get• essential mes- sages across to the multi-lingual millions of visitors who will be coming to Expo 67. Expo has created i:s own sign language to surmount the langu- age barrier. To ,accomplish this the accompanying pictographs have been 'created. How many can you identify? For the ah- swers see -below. , Expo 67's site will be a "veri- table labyrinth of pavilions, avenues, paths, parks, bridges, tunnels, and towers. Since .vis it - ors from ,all over the world will be at the more than 1,000 -acre site, Expo has made a.' special effort to avoid written mes- sages. Without these pictograms the polyglot crowds could. be- come lost, confused,. uncom-- for'table, and even hungry. The pictograms were creat%d especially for Expo by. Paul Arthur and Associates Ltd. graphic designers of Toronto. They will appear mainly in signs on doors, screened in black and, when applicable, red on white adhesive backed by four -inch vinyl squares. Where the nature of the mes- sage makes the use of these pic- tograms impossible, the two of- ficial languages of Expo, French and English, will be used. Expo will also use color to code areas to facilitate visitors finding their way about. Purple will identify the Cite du Havre area; green Ile Sainte -Helene; and yellow Ile Notre -Dame. The amusement area located in La Ronde will be designated by a bright orange. Blue will identify altogether, which'the committee had originally recommended. Meanwhile the equipment, ordered stored .by council,- will continue to depreciate annually until the point where the county will not have to make the refund. This scheme was suggested to the county EMO committee in a letter from the department of the attorney -general, "as an alternative to the`°drastic step of disbanding the Organization." Thus we have department of government, the main function of which is maintenance of the laws of the province and the nation; advis- ing a county government how to practise something near fraud. For can it be disputed that if the county accepts money from the senior governments to ,operate emergency pleasures, and does not do so, it is accepting money under 4 a1se pretences? Admittedly retences- Admittedly the attorney -gen- eral's department suggested that the equipment might be stor by a new co-ordinator date. Why, when there was - clear • indication _ that the county wanted to abandon EMO if it could do so without financial embarrassment? Expo properties and services such as telephone and informa- tion booths, trains, and -boats. The uniforms of Expo personnel will be predominately blue. The pictograms signify the` following: Direction' -.- 1. Entrance, 2. Exit; F'rohibi-tion- .¥3. "No fire, 4. Don't touch, 5. Electricity, 6. No admission, 7. No standing, 8. No sitting, 9. Anti -littering; ed and used ata future Examine also the action of, county council's EMO committee. It met Aug. 5y prepared its report and recommendation. personal responsibility. If .pen. pie want fluoride for their, chili. ren there.. is nothing to stop them from obtaining t in tablet form. " There. is no necessity of fiore- ing all' the people 'to drink meed.., icated water' undeh the prete,t of helping preyent tooth decay in children. Clarence Boyle, Aim. B. Toronto. Sir: I should like to commend the West Wawanosh trustees or the men who erected the find monu- ment to the early pioneers -of this district. Since I was critical of.. the 'broken monuments and torn up cemetery in that spot last year, I feel' it'tpnly fair to con- gratulate them now on righting a wrong, and hope 'that others may follow their example. I $ave taken a picture of the monu- ment to send to the grand- daughter of Joseph Chapman, who lives inpkla'homa City. I'm sure she will be pleased: Marion D. Papenhagen, Defiance, Ohio. n• Rotary's. Hat Song urgent information and service —10.. Telephone, 11. Hospital, 12. First aid, 13. Lost -Found, 14. Handicapped; Room Identifica- tion -1S..' Women's WC, 16. Men's WC, 17. Restaurant, 18. .Coffee Shop (refreshments).; Transportation -19. Bus Station, 20. Marina, 21. Ferry Dock; Other.Services-22. Locker, 23. Cloakroom, 24. Delivery (en- trance). Down Memory's Lane 55 Years Ago— 1911 The opening.meeting of the reciprocity cam+i' p'gn in West Huron was held at Benmiller on Friday evening. The speakers were M. G. Cameron, and recip- rocity candidate, T �h o m as McMillan. William Hill _occu- pied the chair and invited; any- one representing 'the Opposition to come, to the platform and arrange for a place on the pro- gram, but there was no response. The board of directors of the Goderich Industrial Exhibition are busy these• days arranging to make this year's show the best on record. Among the number of sideshows secured for the Midway is the daring making the plan and plying an act- The same day it notified the co- ing co-ordinator to look after cor- ,ordinator, a three-year employee respondence. The only actual expen- of the county, that his services were diture, on which grants would apply, terminated as of that date. it would be expected, would be the Here then, is a `committee of acting co-ordinator's salary and pos- council' usurping the power of sibly some. office supplies, council. Or can a committee fire a These arrangements are design- department head? ed tcs save the county- from having ' This is not in defence of EMO. to refund $4,000 • to $6,000 to the There hiay be valid reasons why it provincial and federal governments will not work in Huron. for grants spent on equipment for EMO came in 1962. Its partial' EMO in Huron since 1962. exit in 1966 has not cast county The county would have had to government in the most honorable make the refund if it had quit EMO light - PORT ALBERT PORT ALBERT.—Visitors for the weekend with Mrs. Dave Martin aid family were Mr. and Mrs. Don Bowden, Larry and Randy, and Mr. and Mrs: Bob Bowden, Linda and Barbara, all of London. Ron Fritzley of Burford visit- ed with Mr. -and Mrs. Elton Draper over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Al Meader and Ronnie of Detroit visited with Mr. and Mrs. Archie Grenier over the weekend. Arnold Mea der, who had been visiting with them for the summer, returned home with his parents ' 19th Year of Established Rte. Goberirb Publication =.p---• The County Town Newspaper of Huron —0— Published at Goderich, Ontario every Thursday morning by Signal -Star Publishing Limited ROBERT G. SHRLER ' R. W. KEARNS Presid'ent and Publisher Managing Editol S. F. HILLS, Plant Supt. 1 r Member of C.W.N.A., o.W.N.A. and A.B.C. ♦r !' 1 n f O Subscription Rates $5 a Year ---To U.S.A. $6 (in advance) • M u o Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post 0 ii ce Dept., Otwa and for Paytnent of Postage in Cash. Rally Date October 3 Goderich W.I. met in Hall, Sept. 1. . Corresondence dealt fith giv- ing W.I. rally date October 3, at Auburn, 9.23 p.m. Delegates appointed were'lirs. Capt. R. Wambold, Mrs. Horton Talmay. The W.I.. voted $10 to aid re- cently formed W.I. Northwest Territories. Bobby Leach, who made the trip ocer Niagara Falls in a bar- rel recently. Shortly before noon, last Sat- urday lightning struck the frame stable df F. E. Bingham's place, at the south-west corner of ,fhe town. The 'brigade made a quick run to the • nearest hydrant but, unfortunately, they did not have enough hose on the wagon to reach -the blaze. The loss is covered by insurance., MacKay . 15 Years Ago -1951 Large prowds, ideal weather - and a full program- on Monday marked-the'celebration of Labor. Day sponsored by the Goderich Trades and Labor Council and 'thea Goderich Trotting Associ- ation,. • Present plans are ti) put in ice at the Memorial Arent about the' first week in November. The Board of Trade's tourist inforraration booth on the Square closes for the season on Satur- day. More -'inquiries have been, reported -this year Than last year, but the nuM�ber ,of tourists stay- ing overt at_ cabins and tourist Dohres - is reported to be less; Goderich Rotary which is sel- ling official International Plow-. ing Match hats, has parodied a British pitchman's song to suit the hat sale: (To the tune of I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.) I've got a lovely bunch of Flow - men's hats, See them all a standing in a row, Big ones, small ones, all as big' as.your head, Just, give me three bucks, and -that ain't much, That's what the Rotarians said. Oh I've got a lovely bunch .of Plowmen's hats, Every one we sell will make us rich, For Rotary's retarded .kids, We'll sell them as . you dib, Singing Mister won't you buy a Plowman's Hat Singing ,Mister won't a Plowman's Hat Singing Mister won't a;Plowman's Hat Mister `won't you buy, Mister. won't you buy, Singing, Mister won't you buy a Plowman's Hat. One evening I was there, At the Plowmen's Fair. There were many Rotarians there, • - Shouting out their ware—OH —etc. and the public and separate Schools. , Representatives of four coun- ties met in Wingham to organ- ize a united opposition against CNR plans to cancel rail mail service in the area after Sept- ember 30. - - one Year Ago -1965 The luxurious. streamlined Mainland Manor Nursing Home was described as "indicative of social changes" When It was officially opened Tuesday. Goderich Industrial Commis- sion will meet with a federal government official Monday to discuss "unfair' competition" from designated areas. Stewart �C. Serverson, .a department of industry' representative, , will here to listen to local "beefs." Goderich officials re- quested a hearing after learn- ing the foss of potential in- dustry. Goderich has been placed on the itinerary this year of a trav- elling art exhibit which is spon- sored by the Art Institute of bntario. Paul Bennett, . B.A., M.Ed., institute direc- tor, will show the collection' of valuable paintings in «the Vic- toria School auditorium. Invitation to Blyth W.I. Oct. 6 was accepted. Volunteers for hospital mending, to get' to- gether third Tuseday of the month, are urgently. needed. Mrs. James Bisset gave a pap- er on the Historical roll eail, comparinglife to 100 years ago to our present way of life. Mrs. Chas. Young gave curent events with reference to W.I. conven- tion in N.W.T. (their first). • A comedy skit was enjoyed, presented- by Mrs. J. B. Mills, Mrs. H. Johnstone, Mrs. H. Dodd, Mrs. F. K. Wilkinson. Mrs. Worn - bold and Mrs J. Kernighan. GODERICH MINOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION MEETING FOR 1966-67 SEASON Thursday, Sept. 8 Branch 109^ Legion nail --3rd Floor All Interested in Helping Minor Hockey Please Attend 10. Years Ago --1956 George James, the man who has had the Inst word at nearly every court session held in Gode- rich in the last 35 years, is re- tiring. The court crier, who has long been one of the most pop- ular figures around the Square, is giving up for health reasons. When Goderich schools re - Opened Tuesday, 1,423 pupils enrolled. This was an increase of 35 over last year's opening day registration at the Collegiate you buy you buy Verse: LATE BLIGHT PROTECTION Continue the fungicide spray schedule on potatoes and tomo-. toes to protect against late blight, 'advises Professor C. B. Kelly, department of botany, Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph. Patoto plants sproutiing from cull piles or from potatoes in storage are potential sources of windblown spores responsible for the in- fection. The hot, dry season in most - parts of the province hah un- doubtedly been ,a help to pre- duncers, as no late blight has been reported so far this sum- mer. However, with' cool Aug- ust nights and recent rains; it might still make an appearance. T. 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