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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1967-05-18, Page 1120th YEAR No, 20 THE GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, MAY18,1967 SINGLE' 'COPIES 12. vpxfaaozmmwaawwmezo,:axgmtw.aazwmv,.:i'Avres,um:*..:,gtmoir:a.,,$.:.:Kn:ooromiom:.1.*.v:;,.,Nwggs,vrsa.u:;.00.ozo.eoaq,ma'Nv,....,',.- Kaaren. • MO.61d. Society J. W. MeLaren of t enmiller Was named president of Iluron- eounty historical seeiety at the anflul',meeting ef the body. in the Winghain te*n. hall Tuesday ev011ing.. He succeeds Mrs. Wil. fred Mach qf Crediton, presid. ent, for, the „past tbree years. Other officers are Brig. Fred Clift Of Hayfield, Vice-president Mrs: Ben Homan, Goderich, 2nd vice-president; Mrs. Otto Popp, Clinton, secretary -treasurer. Merrill C'antelon of Wingham will be public relations officer. Councillors are Ms. L eroy Poth, Bayfield; Mrs. E Metcalf, Bay. field; Mrs. Robert Simpson, Hen. sall; A.Y. McLean, Seaforth; Mrs. Frank ,Fingland, Clinton; Bert Gibbons, ClintonrEphriam kr Snell, Clinton; Mrs. HowardHax. ris Fordwich; Mrs. Ed. Lam. port, Centralia; Mrs. TaitClark, Goderich; Mrs. Ben Homan, God- erich; Mrs. Harry E3all, Clinton;. Mrs. M. Batkin, Clinton; Mrs. Cliff Dunbar, Ethel; Williani Clancy, Goderich. CHAIRMEN, Committee head a are H.L. Sturdy, Goderich, Personnel; Stuart Forbes, Goderich, edit. orial; Mrs. Leroy Poth, Bay. . field, membership; Mrs. Tait Clark, project chairman; Bert Gibbings, finance; Glenn Hays, Goderich, consitutiOnandbylaws: Mrs. W. Mack, historian and ar. chiVist. , Following the election of offic. ere, the gathering heard a re. - mune of the history of the feund. ing of Wingham,. presented by MerriliCantelon. • EXPO A "MUST" • 'Guest` speaker for the evening was TV personality John Strong who gave highlights from several visits te Expo, in the course of Which he declared that no Can. adian with an Opportunity to :attend should miss it. He found from personal experience that Expo need not be as costly as Some pews media have made out, and excellent meals are avail. - able at reasonable rates. In taking ever the reins of office, Mr. McLaren indicatecine would do his aamost to advance the aims of the societY in his term of office. He paid tribute to the vork or Mrs. Mack, whose efforts had in large Part been responsible for the formation and growth of what is now a size. , able organiiation; ' He siated that he wanted real ,. support from his officers and wanted a year of progress. - NEXT PROJECT The first important project of • the society will be the official opening of the new archives room at the, Herm pioneer anuaeum in Goderich June 15 when author ,Harry J. Boyle will be guesz speaker. , Mr. McLaren tentatively out- lined a prdgram in which rep. resentatives of historical societ- ies in Bruce, Lambton and Perth would-be invited, and maximum attendance by the public would be urged. He suggested that as the arch. ives room is of. modest size, the atiditorium at North street United church should be considered for the, event, aside -from the actual ribbon cutting ceremonies at the archives room. He hoped that municipal officers from through. out the region would mike apoint of attending. . SEEK 'PHOTOS Mrs. MacNaughton -and the Hon. Charles Mac.. • Naughton, left, extend Province of Ontario greetings to Princess' Alexandra, on her arrival Saaday at the Toronto International Airport. 'Witb. 'the princeps, at right, is Lieutenant Governor • . Earl Rowe. The. -aaiaa..aw.awai.iaraiaa;: ' Princess will be guest of honour at a number 01 functions in Toronto this week.*Provincial • Treasurer MacNaughton represented Prime Minister John P. Robarts at the airport wel. corning. Expropriation tudied By s. The Signal -Star has the photos Of the three graduate nurses on hand ready for relea:se. How. • ever, before their pictures app.. ,eared, it was decided thattheSig. 0,1 should run a feature on all graduates from universities, technical colleges, teachers coll. eges, and any other graduate nurses from 'hospitals aswell e one in Kitchener. order , to make this grad. page, as csamplete as pose- ible d to avoid any omIssions ' we: ask that parents and friends knoWing of anyone from this com. munity who has graduated from his 6r her post.secondary educ. ation, notify the Signal -Star of the event so that it can be record- ed here. , , 1 ,,,,, • • Road.Miihap Council an session last Thurs: day dealt with expropriation pro- cedure to' ne, used. for acquiring property borderingthe town's thorOughfare, at the intersection of KIngston and•Vieteria streets.' Legal, aspects o° this business were outlined by Kenneth Hunter, fawn solicitor, who quoted from °Atari° statutes on the .proce.. dure to be used. Expropriation inthis case will be used to ac. quire -property frem the British' American Oil company which is located,. on the northwest corner' formed by the intersection of Kingston and Victoria streets. Town requires property here in order to build right -turn arteries at thiS intersection thus allow. ing. some portion of traffic at this busy intersection to bypass' the traffic lights. IN PATH BA oil ,company's service stet. ion sign and gas pumps are loc- ated in the path of proposed right. turn land at this corner of the in. tersection and town must there.' fore use expropriation proced- ure to acquire this Parcel of land. NO AUTHORITY, Clerk -treasurer S. H. Blake read correspondence from the Ontario Police 'ComrW.ssion re. garding council's brief to com. mission that OPP consider tak. ing over policing of this,minicip. ality. In regard to this matter, it was concluded that 0 atario Pro. vincial Police did not have auth. ority, according to the Province's police act, to take over policing of a municipality exceeding 5,000 population without amendments tothat act. • At present, the OPP are ta.k. ing over the policing of .municip. alities having only a one-man police force, which represents phase one of this operation and are also in the stages 'of taking over the poiicing of towns with from two to five.man 1(01 pol. ice forces which represents phase two of the new OPP poi. icing duties. Councillor Robinson arose on • a point -of privilege to request_ that Reeve Such elaborate more fully on 'the story which app. eared in Thursday's.London Free Press regarding 'location of the Conestpga College _which was to be located in one of four counties, Huron, Perth, Water- loo and Wellington, which com prise area 14 of Western Ontario. Reeve Such, representing "God. erich as one of the 12 man board of governors, rose to explain and relate what transpired atthe meeting of the communal- coll- ege board when they met in the douncil chambers of coanty court, house more than two weeks ago. Method Council No final decision 'was made at that_ meeting, but in the article appearing, in the daily, it was stated that the community coll. Killed Near BLYTH- A'Huron County Oa worker was killed Monday w a county grader backed over him near Auburn.' Dead is Jack Creighton, 65, Of Blyth, a flagman fer the work 'crew rebuilding a road at The Nile, two Miles south of Dun. &cannon. Youth Choir • . ege .was to be built at Doon. a small commanity near Kitchener south of highway 401, in Water. loo county. Coming Here Victoria Street United Church celebrates it eighty.ninth ann- iversary on Sunday May 28th. Special services will be -held at 11 a.m. and t:30 -p.m. The guest speaker will beRev. Maldyn Roberts, returned miss. ionary from the Argentine and yminister of the ,Auburn charge. Speedy Aid Wrong A strange combination of mis. fortune and happy circa:nstanc) befell an elderly Goderich widow during the early morning hours of Friday, May.12. Mrs. E. H. Durnin, wilo lives alone at her reSidence_ on Ham. !ton street, had arisen from ' er bed about 5:00 a. m. stumbled over a stool, tell, and fractured her leg from the fall. However, she was able to reach the phoiie by dragging herself ac. ross the floor; she found the tele. Phone number of the hospital and dialled it: 5248323. Don't think for a minute that ' the episode ended at that point. It's easy enough for anyone to for. get telephone number containing Seven digits and find they've dialled the wrong partY; for -al-17 elderly lady, the, chances of daing this were even greater. Moreover telephone numb'ers. must appear very dim to failing eyesight. Add to that ,handicap the confusion in her maid caused by the pain she was enduring and it's no sur. prtse that Mrs. Durnin dialled the wrong number; 524.8424. But was it. a wrong number? The voice wnich answered at the opposite end of the line didn't say, "Sorry, wrong number", when ,M rs. Durnin asked for help. By sortie strange, 'happy, or even mtra.caloustoincidence, she had dialled the, number,of a vet. aran driver and firstaid member of tile towa's St. John am'Al- ancesdorps. The St. John member lin. mediately got her address a,nd r'esponded promptly to the elder. ly wiclew's plight°. He phoned God. erich police 'headquarters and,a canstable was swiftly dispa.t. ched to her home. After alerting •.: ' Auburn ()Orating the grader was Gor. don Miller, of Auburn. • - Mr. Creighton Was dead on arr. ival at Alexandra Marine and Gen. eral Hospital, Goderich. His body was later ,crnoved to Stratford General Hospital for an'autopsy. It had not been dedided if an in. quest will be held. County Engineer J.W. Britneil, ° Goderich, said the accident oce- urred as Mr. Creighten, flagg. ing traffic on the road construct ion site, stepped back into the path of the grader. Just a year ago, fire destroy. ea a servide station in Blyth width M.'. Creighton had operated ' fitinany years. His subject for the morning wor- ship service will be. "The Future Greater Than the Past". The Huron cotinty centennial youth choir will Present several numbers during • the eve:nug service, one of which will he the sacred number en'.itled "Alleluia". 'at" • •1, Platie have been completed for the official opening of the new $812,277 .wing at Alexandra Mar. ine and General hospital here May 28 at 2:20 p.m.' when two provincial- cabinet ministers and - many other guests will be ea hand. Hon. M.B. Dy mead' M , D. , min. ister of health, wilr be guest speaker" for the event, and will be introduced by Hon. C.S. Mac= Naughton, MPP for Heron and provinciaktreasurer. • It isl 1:.nried that chairs will be set out on the parking lot in front of the ,hospital to accorn. modate what is expected to be a large crowd of visitors from God. erich and -many outside points as well. In the event of badweather, the ceremonies will be conducted in the education building of North Street United church. Chair man of the 'hospital board J. A. Schaefer will be chairman for the ceremonies And will call on Dr. GF. Mills, Mayor of Goderich for -greetings from the town, and Warden Dpnald Mac. Goderich Men At Convention His Worship the mayor, Dr. G. F. Mills, and deputy -reeve, Harry Worsell represented God. erich at the Centennial convention, of the 'Ontario mayors and reeves association held Monday, Tues. day and Wednesday of this week at N..agara-on.the -Lake. PreJohn Robarts, who off. icially opened the event, was accompanied by muhicipal affairs m inister Spooner, provincial tre.asurer, Charles MacNaugh. ton; R.S.K; Welch, provincial sec. tetary and minister of citizen.. ship and education Davis.. Delegates numbering upwards Of 600 registered for the con- vention and promotedMrs. Marie Curtis, secretary of the assoc. • nition, to remark that it was the largest turnout she had seen in 20 years. The association was formed in 1.943 and now counts' 650 municipalities ts rntmbers. • But Still Right the hospital staff and notifying a doctor, an ambulance., station. ed at the Goderich hospital, was dispatched to the sc.me of the accident. • By this time, a.town constable had arrived and had forced a ea,' into Mrs. Durnin's resid- ence, kept locked at night. She was qiickly but care. fully placed on a stretcher arid removed. from `.he house. Min. ,'OE'S later she was receivingpro. per medical attention at the Alex. andra and Marine hospital. The doctor who answered the hospital's early mornink, call for his' services reporteA that the 82 - year -old lady was much improved and recovering fro•rn her pre. dawn ordeal. • . •.• Kenzie of Huron for greetings from the county. BOARD AND GUE.STS In the course of the epening ceremonies, •Mr. Schaefer wil). introduce mempers of the board and guests, after which Mr. Macs Natighton will introduce the guest speaker Dr. Dymond. J. liaKinkea.d, chairman of the building committee will speak, after which the presentation of the keyoto the -mew. wing. will be tendered by Gard GammageofW. A. McDougall Limited, the gen. eral contractors to Dan Dunlop, representing the firm of ,arch. itects Dunlop, Wardell, Matsui and Atkin. It will in turn be pre- Popular Barber Ends Half -Century Career V .„ ONEOF. THE LAST By W. E. Elliott • There will be some new faces in the chairs of Goderich barber shops soon; James W. Reid, trim- ming hair • this long time at -76 Hamilton street, is quitting the ,,business after 53 years., Not that the current fad of Centennial beards has discouraged him; he just decided to call it a day, and maybe go fishing and catch up with some work around the house. He lives at 115 Bruce. "End of this month, maybe before," is the way it stands, rerarding retirer&.3 it. Jim hasn't decided where he'll get his hair cut. "I'll try different shops," he said. "Sorn@• barbers got their haircuts in m.! shop, pou know." • WILL MISS IT . -, A barber' shop so long estab. liShed is a great place for old friends to meet .and exchange news. Sorne men have been pat. roisof dim Reid for 50 years. CUSTOMERS He knows he is goin'g to miss Mrs. Waiter Rathb,urn betterknownatoSignal Star readers as Martha, author of the regular "Centennial-- Calling" column, has been adjudged winner of the' first Sheaffer Pen Expo award and right now is-enjOying a visit to E,xpa, tran'sportation and sleeper provided as part of the award. Here Mrs. Rathburn 0 -receives a Sheaffer "PFM" model pen, im- printed "Canada Centennial 1667.1967" from • Eric Smith, representing the pen company. This is the first of 20 such awards to be made in the weeks to come for outstanding • Centennial projects. Dan Murphy is chairman of the selection committee. (Staff photo) all that. • "It will sure be strange," he • said, "not to be walking down to the shop each day." ' Within his barbering career there has taken place the devel. opment of the -safety razor and the do -it -yourself -shave. In barber technique* the changes have nbt . been 'great. Advent of the eleat• ric clipper was a milestone. "At first;" Mr. Reid -recalls, "thee- were on a trolley, with a separate motor. *hen that was done . away- with and we Just plug- ged in, I traded thy,trolley and clippers• to Clyde ,Gedhill, of Benmiller, for a blanket. It was understood that he wasn't to cut any'hair." Jirri Reid started barbering on the' opposite side of Hamilton street, at the ,corner of St. And. rew's Street where Reg. McGee' and Sons' garage is ,now. Hair. cuts were 25 cents, shaves 15. In a small frame -building there, •, Marshall Johnston had his law office, W=dter Kelly was proprie.. tor of an agency for horseless carriages, and John Robertson displayed cemetery memorials. Alex Powell had the barber shop • which for years had been Ed. Munro's, and Jim Reid started with him. He moved to the pre. sent locatioa in 1930.. Hamilton street has changed - greatly since Jim Reid startedto work tare about June 1, 1914„‘ Except for one year out at the West Coast he stayed with the street for 83 years. Most busin. ess places then catered to the farmers; Hamilton -street was the natural destination of people driv. Ing in from Colborne and Ashfield particular. From these and oth4r" townships they came in wag. 1::ons or buggies, sleighs or cut. ters, with hay and wood for the .public Market behind the library, with dairy butter, . eggs; fruit, fresh.killed hogs in winter, maple syrup in Spring. Reid spoke of these things, a few words at a time as he work- ed, arid as he did • so the paved street outside, and 'its rows of parked cars, seemed to melt from sight and one saw across the way the harness shop of A. J. Paltridge and heard the ham. mers clang in 'Sam and Wren -.Sheardown's blacksmith shop. There was Tommy WaYrener's bakery and Alex. Cooper's 'feed and grainwarehouse, Horace F is. her's harness shop and. for many, years until he sold out in 1946. -Gavin Green's Old Curiosity Shop, One could almost hear the hiss of water in the "ii,vhite dust as George Beacongs teamhaul "ed one • of D. K. Strachan's water. carts, and the -clunk ofbighooves as Joe Fisher led a Clyde or Percheron . stallion to the 'Col- , borne Hotel stables. These burnt, ed about 1019.20, Mr. Reid re:" calls. T,hey extended through the block to Newgate street. None pf these places remaine and few of - the people.' but Horftee Fisher, 90, is stillwith us, in a narsing home. sented 40 Leo Walaaic,`, tr4Fted• lioWing the cUttAng Of We 41:4 - bon ceremeny, tne"cledicationva be in charge 'of Copt, R, bold of tne Salvation Arany" God. , erich, and Rev,. R. MOYnallan" St; Joseph's Roman • Cathelie Our, Gederidh.. On termiiNnaSPti :nCrilorthNe ceremOn, les, the public will be free to inspect the building. On the • greund fleaer all rooms will be open for, inspection, including emergency room, X.ray, kitchen,' • cafeteria, central supply,hospit, al auxiliary room, morgue and phajr;111;thaecyfirst floor, lobby, admin. is'tration offices board ,room, physiotherapy, melical records, retiring room and Electors? lporunivagtse, raoopmrivaant:arwoaorrn,dwsuelmt b; open -for inspection. , RESERVED The second floor is reserved for patients only, and visitors are asked not to enter.any room te which the • door is closed. Most residents will recall the big financial zampaigaltere year that went well over the lop. There has been no increase in municipal taxes due to the con. struction of the new wing. Total 'cost of the addition includingfur• nishings was $812,87'7. Of .this amount $278,466 will come from federal and provincial :govern. ments. $92,000 •from. Huron county; '$190,000 as a loan from Ontario hospital services com. • mission; the hospital has onhand • $143,197. ThiS left $109,214 or14% of the total to be raisedeac public ' subscription. •.This amount was • oversubscribed by donor s in God. grich and district .aaal 'from' former residents:" K. of C. Need More Help For Project A canvass of Goderich failed to, raise sufficient money to fin. mice the Knights or Col ambus' fireworks,display which they have planned to stage on the evening of Monday, May.22,. the Victoria day holiday. • After tabulating the results of their canvass, the.Knights bawd that they were still two hind. . red dollars short of. their thous. and -dollar objective, a minimum amount ftecessary to provide im. pressive fire -works- display, for Goderich citizens., ° • It must be remembered that visitors to the colorful fireworks exhibit on the evening 'of Monday,, May 22, will not be charged ad• mission to the Agricultural park where the event Is to occur. The Knights of Columbus have gone to considerable work planning a thrilring- fireaworks display to ' appropriately mark our Centen. nial Victoria 'day celebrations, They have net embarked on this project merely ,as a profit•mak. • ing scheme but rather to give the people of this community, young and old, a chance to Wit. ness a "really big show" with a „ fareworks spectacle, the trada., ional custom forCanadians tolet off some seldom -expressed ex. uberance. In order 'to make up a deficit. that is now facing them, if they proceedalaith -their plans, the K of C's Xte again appealing to Goderich citizens for financial support. - • In order to simplify the pro. "cedure for making donations to them, this Goderich service club has left collection boxes at sew • eral business. places throughout town: Anyone- willing to support a Victoria day fireworks spect•• acular and theitccompa.nyingpro. gram which features an exhibit. ion soccer match as well at band music by the Goderich high school's Viking ,band, is aslced to leave his donation at any Of ' these business places. The names and location of thosa places will appear in an advertisement app.- earing elsewhere in the Signal,. Star James W.Reid was born atSea• forth, known to sone as "Little Scotland." World War 1 began soon after he came to Hamilton street, but he was not accepted for active service. In tile later 'war, his isen Bill was cOmmissi ioned as a lieutenant, joined the Royal Canadian Regiment inItaly and was with it through' the Hells and operation. A second 80n, Robert, is in the Air Force. The " Ikeids have one daughter, Ruth, Mrs. William Kitk, of, LOndon. Mrs Reid is the former- Sarah Baines. They are parishiOnersOt St. deorge,s, Anglian chtirch, 4 qtr t•if'