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Dump Issue SiIl Burning
The Goderichtown cow—Mil has
refused to sign -a. lease that ,would have'
paved the way for a new dump'and rid the
town of the cess pit of a dump that„has
been a source of trouble, for the past 20
year
The action was irresponsible'stupidity
on the part of the men who prof( to be'
working for the•betterment of the town.
Men who also profess to in favrur� of
moving the dump.
Not one legitimate argument put
forward byvany of the dissenting. factions
on council to, justify keeping the rat.
infested eye sore that this town calls a
"disposal site". Not one legitimate
argument was put forward by any of these
"progressive" members of council for
refusing to sign the lease for the new site.
Reaction to the decision by health
and ,municipal officials has been one of
disbelief, It becomes harder to believe
when we cb asider the positions of the
members of co .nci7 who voted against the.
lease, =Reeve H'rry Worsell - chairman of
,ithe4 town's works department - the
epartrnent-rg ponsible for the control of
e , `dum`°” Deputy Reeve Walter.
Shteardown,`chairman of the town's water,
light and pollution for, years; Councillor
Frank -Walkona�- G.oderich representative
'on the Maitland Conservation Authority -
the authority responsible for conserving
the. natural beauty of the Maitland Valley
The -councilhas another responsibility
apart -from the affect.of the town on the
residents. it has a responsibility to the
tourists who come'to the "Prettiest Town
in Canada" and.to the people who are our
neighbours across' the river at Saltford.
The residents thele suffered just ea much
from, fumes and ash as do the residents of
the town, but 'they must also be faced
with the ever present picture of cascading,
walls of garbage that the town sees fit two
throw down the banks across the river.
F iltration and purification of the town's
water supply is done to a great degree by
the use of chemicals. The amount of
chemicals added depends upon the ,
turbidity of the water being purified. With
the' dump pouring gallons of pollutants
into the river at ever rainfall, and the river
feeding the.intake•-of the'fittration plant,
it can easily be seem ..thiC,,,dump is also
adding another burden to the taxpayers
Toad.
It makes no sense either to pay out a
small fortune each year for sewage
treatment to prevent pollution of the lake
and yet continue to allow pollution from
up -river. . 4
To attempt to change the existing
dump into a land fill operation would
•only make the people of the' town face
added expense.. The garbage at the dump
now would have to be buried, To make a,
- the• dump•has been pourring pollutants land fill operation, the garbage would
on the• have to then. be dug'up again - unless the
,offered to people north bank
into the river for years:, and is the view
Councillor ,Reg Jewell = chairman of the
town's,parks committee the committee
responsible fo'r keeping our parks and,
beaches clean, beautiful and usuable;
Councillor Delbert Shewfelt - chairman of
• the town's fire traffic . and safety
committee - the main cause of air
pollution fr,om the durnp(apart from the
smell) has been fires; fires that have
caused h'e, _men - o'f ' the _volunteer fire
department uncounted hours of
unnecessary labour to control, at great
expense to the taxpayers of the town.
The main objections to the lease were:
the cost, $1,000 per - yea.. ..:•fo r 20 year
,without _ownership at_ the end of that
• L- period; possibility of pollution of the
RURAL ROUTE
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of year's for decomposition. There' is no
'fill on the site and to think sufficient
would 'be available from Elgin avenue
storm sewer ,project would be ` like • '
expecting a bath tub of water to raise the Town council pulled a couple of real
level of take.Superer. The garbage would goofs last week. 'The dump we have
also have to be reburied if a••new site were already touched on. The other stroke' of
opened. ,When it is, who' not leave the, 'genious was concerning the Dog Control
town alone , and put ' the garbage Bylaw for the town.
somewhere -else -where fill. exists? -
. For some time efforts have been made
In so many ways the proposed site is to reduce the problem of dogs running at
ideal. But ignoring this, consider that the.
large. ,Council . "solved" the problem last
site has been approved by all necessary week by raising' the tag fees to $4 for
provincial and county health authorities,
males and $20 . for fernales.. That's not
necessary engineering surveys 'hav ' been
_ .typographical_. error, it real�y does say $20
carried4out, water.!_ tables established,. -test~.. , tin,. biiii_
Discriminatioe
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holes drilled and plans drawn up have
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Maitland River and area wells; pendinc been approved. If the men who voted' „weA _seem Councillor Dave tGower put it,_
m to have the start of*
legislation will affect°the types 'of dumb --":0----, a arrest si pin the lease erg truly worried "`�
that May be operated; • the possiblitythat g- signin discrimination herel'
yp ; . A• about " the cost, perhaps they should The employment of a 'man to sell the
fires would still be a problem, consider the cost of carrying out all of,
I h tags door to door with half the four
While e
while his tag is examined and who is going
to get an owner. to confess his dog was
loose when the police arrive and find him
w wagging his tale behind his master's knee:
It reminds pie of a story concerning, a
young lad who carne upon a- group of
people around a truck stuck , under a
bridge. Everyone had suggestions for
getting -the truck free: "Cut off the roof,"
"jack up the bridge", "cut a piece out of
the bridge" etc`.
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'The --young-lad-took -ladtook a quick look at
the situation and said, Why don t you let
the air out of the tires". •
l4 seems everyone was looking at -the
wrong end of the problem. Sb let's look at
4 the right end 'of the problem. The females
there was mut consternation these tests again, even if another suitable - '
Concerning the lease fee; no one suggested site •could.be found: dollar fee as his • pay is supposed to of the species are, apparently, getting the
,trying • to have it lowered. No one
The time of provincial and county health y P g 9e o now e ay gs
. suggested attempting to buy the property.. � y" ar,. This is whytheyare levied such a
are such. high priced pets, they will- get - Ye
snooty and not want tq be seen out with tag fee••Trouble makers, the lot of 'em!
Engineering surveys are not cheap. wa y Perhaps if the aals get t k theyth, attract do at certain times of *the .
overcome the problem' in some magical blame for the dogs running loose 'because
A"i LIER TRAVELL R PELT CODERjC:R
SHOULD RIVAL DETROIT 1N SIZE
By William Colborne
. 1947 t
Old letters , often provide an excellent u.sou fce . Of
Material for descriptions of life in earlier days. A
description of a journey from Goderich to ,Detroit, by the'
steamer "Ruby" in 1852 is containedin a letter written: flit
June of that year by E. H. Marlton, of Goderich. •
- He is rather amazed at the size of Detroit,. and the -
flxst.thing that seems to come to his mind is Why Goderich
shouldn't be that size too.
"Business connected with my son's affairs," - he.
writes, "caused me, last week, to go on board the steamer
Rudy, and, paiy a visit to. Detroit. After a pleasant run 1
"saw, for the first time, the City of Detroit: I had pictured'
it as a small place co repaired to what it is and:the question
naturally arose in my mind, what iso the; cause' of the.
prosperity of .Detroit? But when Isaw. •her fleet Of
magnificent streamers, her gigantic railway depots, at opts,
concluded it must be the peoples' enterprise."
"Goderich should awake," he exclaims, "imitate thea.
',xample set us ;by our neighbors on'the other side build
streamers, 'subscribe with all our means to build a railroad,.'
and make Goderich, with her natural' advantages, her
flourishing „country and healthy climate,, become a second
Detroit.
"L started from Detroit, at 10:00 last 'Saturday;
morning homeward bound. The day was delightful, the-
company on board the Ruby most agreeablexand after the.
many stoppages on the picturesque banks of the river St.<
Clair, to land passengers and receive others, we , reached
Sarnia and Port Huron about 6:00. We left the latter place
at half past six and arrived at the mouth of Goderich
harbour at a little past 10:00. There we were detained half
an hour caused by the want of a small"' light at the end of
the south. pier to guide us in. The council should look into°
this.
1 cannot conclude without remarking that* the
steamer Ruby has proved the fastest boat on the river, her`
average- speed being from 16 to 20 miles • per hour. To
Capt. Ward, her commander, and Mr. Thompson, her clerk,`
and Mr. Tally, her Stewart, in . short tai. all .the officers
• aboard the Ruby, . all praise is..due for the manner with`
.aboard
they endeavour to make the passengers fell at
"home".
Pollution possibilities would exist at the
new site. The provincial health authorities that it is doubtful. if they would consent Whyblame dogs for beingdogs? The
say the possibilities are remote, but the boys• With no gals around, the theory, g g
to go through the whole rigamarole again problem is not with the dogs, but with the
nevertheless should be considered. Theyafter they have approved a site already. •
suggested periodic checks by the health presumably, is that the boys will stay owners who allow them to run loose. So
1 will gladly give any • space in fhe:•-
department officials is valuable enough
'department of the county and gave .way
home too. ° don't levy a heavy fee on the little old
Signal -Star to these men if they can come . The dog tag seller will advise police of lady with .the female Chihuahua, levy a_
THAT
S;. LIFE!
By.G. MacLeod Ross
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-QUO.T-ES --FROM -REGENT WEEK'S 4, --:vil
"The price of effectiveness in foreign policy is eternal
'vigilance to the changes restlessly at work in world
`politics." ..
.. Prof.--Northledge,
London School of Economics
'"The assumption seems o be that anyone can teach
and all' will be well if every lassroom has a live body in
it, who carr go through the motions of teaching."
• A. S. Nease
•University ,of Toronto
College of Education
`.`We are approaching the limit of what government .,.
alone can do The lesson of past agony is that without
the people we can do nothing; . with the people we can do
everything The Great Society failed because people
were:°•not realizing that they must match the
-administration's actions with similar'' changes in their own
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attitudes." - .
t sto anverything it t ever occurred
up with any logical . arguments for
It seems ludicrous then to refuse to sign dogs` running loose. The police will place whacking great fine at those who allow
,_ retaining the existing dump - which they appropriate char .esu `So d good! B
cannot, they all agree it should be moved - who is going to tell Towser to "Hold it -
or
or for not movg,�to t e approve site.
the lease on these grounds and yet allow e g Sounds But
their dogs to run loose and pay a dog
known source of pollution to continue tc h d catcher with it.
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'Legislationwill control the types of
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�hsnot taken action
to- close it before\\
T--he----operating;-cost--o any- new--srte- -� - ----
would be high. The operat`on of a new
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\ ��icien`t f(II woulde as\ron rnical an �. �
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.yet these men \who object` ' o paying e
Richard M. Nixon
A ,TALE OF TWO LIBRARIES ' " ' •
A few weeks ago wer'°''reprtYdnced in this column a
paragraph from Pierre "Tr'udeau's book: "Two Innocents . in
.Red China". It recounted a joke played -by ,Trudeau and his
Vristrfc ni ^n,\ �acquan e r✓h r x atb�°� \e f �*ono s.he \ ask• -for eau's bok�� �on
s. , hich the lite hrian ,insiste \ woorld have w
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been ‘ianslated into Chinese, but which, to his everlasting
legislation the province will step in, put a, $20,000 for a lease.re willing to consider
new dump in operation and send the bill such a moue. - •• r
to the town for the'full costs - includinc I have said nothing much about the ONE YEAR AGO , .- safely in the United Kingdom.
"' would bet' my boots the danger-- that .exists with the presence of Further word is to cope by
interest. And•, �.,, w �.. .; .,.,_ ... E "Bill" Elliott of y4
•mterst, would come to considerably more' i • a W• -letter: rats at the exrsting dump. But this, above Arthur Street, recently became
than $1000. per year. This can easily be . all, else, should convince these . men to the sixth Goderich resident to
seen when we consider the interest at make a move now, before spring, when receive :,the Canada Centennial
the young rats an,l older rats alike will Medal from Secretary of State
provincially built water filtration plant really start to show. These disease infested Judy La Marsh in honour of
from ,which weget our ,drinking water. "valuable service to the nation"•
g pests , have already begun to migrate to Mr. Elliott, a journalist for many_
$40,000 per year! :-It's a staggering sum areas of ,the town awe from the °
y dum p• years, is author of three h,
especially when vie know • the cost of They breed almost as much as the flys and still writes ox .,4,1-1,11
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present being charged on the cost of the
aP j nlM `" i l 1. w• .. ureal n'd t# etre' s i f -rA° e .ra r is—tufr. area
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$40,000 in interest a one! and they aITE. An employee of; a newspapers.
. The possibility-'-of--fires? We have fire
now, plenty of Ith'erh. Why refuse to move was bitten.'last fall. What are these men on
'tra -another area whereoifwould be much council waiting for? Children to be bitter
easier t ontrof u.r• i g• and ere-er-e ' y o rid- e ow o `4iFiis
company to ated ndrt far from the dump
thi-ngs that must be bu rned?
Why wait for legislation and for the
province to move in and clean up .our
doorstep for us and face the disgrace of
such an action. It wouldn't paint a very
"pretty" image of the town.
.menace other than by a controlled closing
of the dump. It's - an , ,expensive
proposition, but a very necessary evil. The
sooner these men -realize this and face up
to their responsibilities- the -better 'it: will
be for the town.
iSTArhISHED ti __ it4 _ lignati.eptar. 122:nd f YEAR.
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• -70,7. The County Town Newspaper of Huron 7-0— p U B L 1 A T I O N
Published at. Goderich, Ontario every Thursday morning- -by
Signal -Star Publishing Limited
ROBERT G. SHRIER -
President and Publisher
RONALD P. V. PRICE
ming Editor • ,
v sir p' on a es 5' a eaY�"""'r"'�'�'i i n a . vance
EDWARD J.'BYRSKI
' Advertising Sales
10 YEARS AGO
A laymen's service o
at 4 p,m. in Knox Presbyterian
'Church when,Norman ,
Thompson, sales anager of
Joh"'nson Wax Company,
Lmited;. .of . Brantford, will
deliver the address: The seMce
will .be conducted by William
Asher, assisted by Gordon
Walter and William Rosa. •
A total of 1,613 turned out
to vote on the Town Hall -Post
Office • by-law on Wednesday -
592 more voters than at the
municipal election on December
8 when the voters totalled
1,021. Voting for the bx-law
were 1,013 and -"against it were
548,„giving a majority of 583 for
the "yes” vote.
50 YEARS AGO
As is well known, conditions
this season have been
• unfavourable-' to the Fur trade.
The phenomenally mild Weather
• of October, ..November and
December told. in the sales, and
•
Fur, stocks are. heavy today.
opportunity, the kind of an
opportunity that comes but
once in aJong_time. You Aow
the character of the Furs we
carry. Onl b st ualities find a
ace in our s ocks•very a le e
is backed unreservedly with our
qualified guarantee. They are
QUALITY furs 'we off&r you at
January Sale Prices, and January
Sale Prices mien an undoubted
saving of money for all who take
advantage of them. There are
Mink, Persian Lamb, Alaska
Sable, Western Sable, Russian
��ia i chi , O r e V Lamb, Fox,
Marmor, in fact almost every
wanted fur, in big, generous
assortments still here for you td
pick and choose from.
BEDFORD SHAVING
-PARLOR --The hest equipped
and most up-to-date shop in
town. First-class barbers only
employed. This shop will Itand
the government sanitary
inspection. Outside work done
on teofat. Razors, . and shears
put in, first-class shape. W. G.
LtTMBy
Dr. G. C. Albright, D.C., a
graduate of Ross College, Forte,
Wayne, Indiana, has opened an
office next to the Canadian
-Bank of Corriverce and he will
be at •his office as stated in his
advertisement.
chagrin, he failed to find, because it had never been=
translated. c,
Now . we have tit° for " tat, for our ,Washington
correspondent, while in New York, went into the Libr>lire
de France in the Rockefeller Plaza and asked for ' ANY
book, in French, by Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Here too the
librarian was overcome with chagrin; being --quite unable,.; to... 't1
produce even orae book by We "sorcerer".
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Authorized as Second Class,:Mail by the Post- Office Department,
Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Cash
25 YEARS AGO
Tuesday evening received the
welcome news, by telegram from
Ottawa, that her on, Warrant;
Officer Albert Gamey, trussing
for several months, had arribed
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