HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1967-06-29, Page 1120th YEAR— No. 26 THE GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY; JUNE '29,1967
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Graduation exercises for 30 members of a psychiatric .nursing course at
the Ontario Hospital, Goderich, were held Wednesday, afternoon, June 21,
in the hospital auditorium. •The graduating aides and attendants were
photographed with O.H. `inembers prior to the event. They 'are, front row
left to right:', 'Mrs. 3. •Hallam; Mrs. M. Thomas; Miss J. Stover;- Miss
N. Roberts, former directress of nursing; A. Costello, chief attendant;
Mrs. M. Cole, acting directress) of nursing; Mrs: J. Stringer, instructress
Engineer Goes .Back
To Drawing :Board
It was "back to the drawing
board" for M.'S. Stevens, dep.
ailment of transport acting dir.
ector of the traffic engineering
branch, who appeared before
town council Thursday evening
to discuss proposals for mod-
'
ifications to the Hamilton, Nei -
son and Victoria street inter.
sections. ,
The official appeared at re-
quest of council • in order to
learn the reasons behind re-
fusal of council to adopt a pro.
posal pre§ented by the depart-
ment earlier this ,year.
Having heard .first hand the
special requirements for safety
of children crossing to Judith
Gooderham memorial park to
swim =during the summer znon•
ths, - . Mr. Stevens asked if he
could submit a new design which
would take into account the spec.
ial requirements of the town.
Late Mail -
Cancelled
Effective July 1st Clinton and
Goderich HS -154 'mail service
leaving at 7.15 • daily except
Sunday, IS CANCELLED. This
means that, the last daily dis.
patch of mail from the Goderich
post office will be at 6.00 p.m.
daily, except Sunday...
There will be no mail ser.
vice on Saturday, July 1st. The
post office will be closed. Full
post office service will be pro.
vided on Monday.
•
This was agreed upon, plans
tobe made available at an
early date.
CST RISE -
On motion•• of councillors
Schaefer and Robinson, coon.
, cil approved "iii principle" the
proposal of Ontario housing con!,
poration .to build semi-detached
housing, here instead of'detached
units as . approved-: ,,,earlier.
_ Rising costs made it impos.
sible to build detached units
within • the original estimates,
a letter stated. __Council will
exercise veto powers if semi.
detached designs are not sat.
isfactory.
On request from the office
(continued -on page 8)
N� Meeting
On Strikes
At press time on Wednesday
A. P. Boutilier manager ofSifto
Salt evaporator plant, made the
following statement • to The
Signal -Star. "The Company
regrets that,the meeting sche.
doled with the-1CM today did
not materialize as the union
negotiating committee failed to
-attend."
Pickets representing the 34
strikers were still on 'duty at
the evaporator ' plant of S ifto
Salt Company Wednesday after=)
noon. It was reported last
week that the 'company had ag.
reed to. a meeting at 10 a.m.
Wednesday.
of nursing; Mrs. ,J. Mallough; .Mrs. M..Mair; Miss D. Vincent; Second
row., left to right: J. Kovacs; Mrs.. V. McDonald; Mrs. D. Pagon; Miss
D. Hudson; Mrs: W. MOWh.inney• _Mr's. M. Mack;. Mrs. J. Romig; Miss
S. Clark; Miss A., Falkiner; Mrs. J. Simpson; W. Bowers, Third row,
left to right: G. Chambers; - P. Dixon; P. Quinn; D. Swan;' D. Ball; P.
=_Gahwiler;_ R, Worsell; R. Steep; R. Hallam; E. Scruton. (Photo courtesy
R. J. Nephew)
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Looks as though Rev. G. G. Russell could have made good use
of a ladder here while' unveiling the plaque during dedication
ceremonies for :ti,, new addition, to the Huron county pioneer
museum, officia y, known as the Huron.county historical society
-archives room. Looking on at right, ' is the honorary curator
'of the museum, J.. H. Neill. (Eventually a ladder was used to
unveil the bronze plaque) Members °of Huron. county •couni6il
attended the unveiling in a body, Wednesday, June 21.(Staff Photo)
councillors
On The Road
By R. S. Atkey •
The 87 members of Hurpn
County Council and officials did
considerable travelling during
their two-day June Session in
the county buildings Goderich,
Wednesday and Thursday last.
They went by bus to London on
Wednesday to pay a visit to
the University oi' ,Western Onts
ario, and they again drove' to
Zurich on Thursday to -have
luncheon and visit the , Blue
Water rest home..
In the meantime, t'heY held
a morning session on Wednes-
day, and morning and afternoon
sessions on Thursday. Sand-
wiched in between the Wednes•
' day session and the trip to Lon.
don, was, the formal unveiling
. ceremony of the . plaque on the'
new Centennial of Confederation
wing of Huron county museum
in Goderich. And 'then in the
closing minutes' of the Thurs-
day afternoon session, the coun-
cillors discussed a proposed
trip by' members of Council
;to Expo '67 for four full days;
September 25-6.27.28.
When Warden Donald M cK en.
zie, Ashfield, asked for a show
of hands, six or seven m. tu-
bers stated that they would riot
be going on the trip, either
through a previous visit to Expo,
or other reasons. The Warden
pointed out to the members
that they would be expected to
"pay for your own meals" while
on the junket.
(continued -on page 2)
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For Bus
Businessmen around the cir.
cular central business section.
of Goderich, known as The
Square, are 'aecorating their
premises with, a combined total
of 130.0 yards of gaily colored
bunting.
The , red -white -blue cotton
fabric is draped from nearly
every block of stores in the
eight blocks oibuildings formed
by the eight streets radiating
from the circularstreet sur-
rounding the court -house park.
Fred Salter, president of the
Goderich businessmen's ass.
ociation, introduced the idea at
a meeting of the GBA several,
weeks ago. At that time, eight
representatives of the associa.
tion were chosen to cassvass the
merchants along each block of
buildings• to solicit their order
for the bunting; The result, in
-some blocks, is a solid band
Orangemen_
Parade To
Anglican Church.
•
"Not since the sixteenth cen.,
tury has there been a greater
need for a revival. of the is.
sues of the Reformation," Les.
lie H. Saunders, Toronto, said
in a sermon in St. George's
church Sunday. He cited free:
dom of conscience, liberty and
democracy, "the open Bible
and the right to read it an
open road „to the throne of
grace. --The Bible and the Re.
formation were linked together.
Without the Reformation there
would have been no Bible in
England; if no Biblether ewould
have been no Reformation."
Morning service was Attend-
ed by -Members of Victoria.
Loyal O ranvge Lodge No. 182,
Goderich, and visitors from
other lodges in 'South Huron,
including • some members of a•
ladies' lodge. Senior officers -
in the • march from the lodge
hall included Oliver Jacques,
Hensall, grand master of ,the
Royal Black Knights, Ontario
W est, and.Frank Falconer, Clin-
ton, county master of South
Huron Orange Lodge, accom.
panied by most of his officers.
Notwithstanding a threat of rain
- in fact, a light shower before
church time - there was an
excellent turnout.
The parade Was expertly mar-
shalled by Percy Blundell, a
past master of Victoria, lodge,
and was led by the fife and
drum band of Murphy L.O.L.
710, Clinton. The Canadian flag
and .Union Jack were borne by
Charles Ruffell and J. James
Morris, past wasters--of-182-,
and placed in the chancel aur.
ing the service.
The rector, Rev. .G.. G. Rus.
sell, welcomed the lodge mem-
bers and especially Mr. Saun.
ders, "well-known to many as
a former mayor of Toronto and
a long-time spokesman for the
ideal's and principles of the
Orange Order." Mr. Saunders
at present is head of the Order,
as .President of the Imperial
Grand •Orange Council of the
World. He is still active in
municipal affairs as a council
(continued on page 2)
of bunting extending from one
corner of The 'Square to the
next.
BUNTING APLENTY
Off The Square business.
places and industries were can.
vassed also in order that each
member of the town's business
and industry • , community . has Y.
a chance to participate.* the.
town's Centennial decoration
theme. It was reported that
one member of the association,
a car dealer on South 'street,
ordered over 300 yards of .the
decorative cotton material.
About.. 60 yards of the mat.
erial, are required to decorate
the average.sized staore acade
hen ,orderswer inti;
bunting was ordered through a
—%al, al, goods 'merchant who
obtained it froinaTorontofirm; •
-thus enabling the Goderichmer.
chants to obtain the' material
• at cost.
COLQR FAST?
Somemembers' of the. local
business_
association were ap.
prehensive 'that the. material
would not be color fast and ,
'that' ' with the first rainfall, the
(continueu on page S)'
Stores Ctosed
Qn r Saturday
George � ,P -arsons, ---general
manager of Goderich Elevator . M1 -
and Transit Company since1964, • At a special meeting of the
was elected president of the . executive of the Goderich Bus.
company at the annual meeting inessmen's Association called
held here recently. Kenneth to discuss Dominion. Day dos. , .
Hubley, a former resident of ing, it was decided that order
Goderich, . now of Toronto, to have uniformity in store
succeeds Mr. Parsons as hours and to observe Dominion
• secretary of the company. Mr. Day as a dagr of celebration, the
Parsons started with the. com. suggestion in last week's issue
pany in 1946. .His father,. the of the Signal�Star be upheld.
late ' G. Lionel Parsons was It is, therefore, the- sugges.
80 years;, with the company, . tion of the Goderich Business.
starting . in 1898,' becoming men's Association that retail
president in J929 until 1948 stores close Saturday, July lst
when he became chairman of ,and open Monday, July 3rd,
the board. He ` died in '1951. reports Fred Salter, secretary
(Photo by Nephew) ' of the association.
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First,Dominion Day in G�derich
W'tivejy One Writer Says
Canada's first Dominion Day '
^'was celebrated noisily in God-
erich, and practically cleared
out for the day the population
of "The Hollow" (Benmiller).
John Elliott, B.A., a native of
Colborne who attended No. 3
'school and later became tea-
cher or principal in, many Ont.
ario shcools,wrote in 1927
some remil1i1s`',� ces for theSig•
nal. •
"It Was not my good for.
tune," he wrote,' "to see the
sights in Goderich on Monday,
July 1, 1867. I was a school.,
boy at Benmiller at thtime
° and not considered old enough
to go. We .did not fully under.
stand the significance of what
was taking place. There would
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be, we were told, new maps
in school and there would be
no Canada West, but we would
have to write Ontari6 `instead.
"Our teacher, Mr. Moles.
worth, his wife and children,
were all -off to town. Trust
the • Crimean" War veteran•for'
being likely to be where''there
was a sin'ell of powder. John
Stewart, the gardenerhad a
.-big crop of strawberries that
year. , These were in great
demand, and the boys of . the
village were pressed into ser.
vice on July 1st as pickers.
I was not counted big enough
for' that, so had time '.to note
what was 'going on.
"The Hollow" and surrotitid• . '
-ing country wits.cleared out for
Mrs. Wilmer Harry of Colborne was en hai'id to display Old
household items after the official opening of the Allenpioneer
Home Sunday evening. (Staff Photo)
Lil.rcry
Athering " libouf 200 Witnessed cerernonies la whie.h.Jack
im g o
Maclaren, Behrf1er, president of 'Huron oounty - historical
society officially -declared the house ripen to public view. 1.0
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Arnold Allen, . grandson of the original builder of the pioneer
home, is seen with Reeve Wukner Hardy, and Jack MacLa.ren Atmosphere ill the Alien .home, reinahla' authen ie, lith, ,+rte •
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Seabrook and Mrs. L, Sn der. furnished by many 'Volunteers. 'See betas refit lit t is .