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'