Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-04-10, Page 4'4 CI tit ' MU SIGNAL -STAR, TIi(JRSDAY, APRIL 3.0,.1969 �-a In the right perspective The town has now passed a dog control bylaw and has appointed a control officer. This will help to eleviate the problem the town has had in the past few years with dogs running at large and it is to the credit of the people involved that they.searched SO -,far and: wide for a solution. They " finally adopted a bylaw that has been used. in Guelph for, some time and has proven satisfactory. The control methods will not be for the catching and detention of dogs as the °sole means of control, but only as a last resort when the dogs carries no tag. The usual manner will be to catch a dog that is running loose, identify the owner from the tag and issue a "ticket" that will carry a fine with it. This must be the most sensible - and de'ebnomical - way to control the situation that has been found in Goderich to' date. Pound fees will be kept at a minimum, owners will certainly keep a closer eye ors, their 'pets when they know a fine is involved if they are caught running loose and the idea has proven to be successful. The special committee that brought in the bylaw was headed by councillor Frank Walkom, who • has come across this problem many times in • his years on council: But a problem still does exist and it is one that should be corrected if dog owners are to be kept as happy as the non owners who .are bothered with loose dogs. We refer to licence,fee.s. Coun. Walkom admits he -is open to suggestions with regard to the fees as it was suggested by the town solictor the fee for emales,, as outlined in the bylaw, was too high. The fee as it happens applied to Guelph and not Goderich, but was - just fivedollars more than the $20 af present being levied against owners of females of the species. The fee fora male is $4. The reason fees were instituted in the first place might well be lost in antiquity and ho doubt has something to. do with damage dogs,can do to farm animals. But a fee of $20 is unwarranted and unjust when levied against the owner of a female, simply because it happens to be a female., • The argument is that the females cause most of the trouble by attracting males during the times they are in season. This is not a fault of the female; it is the, fault of the. owner. Dogs are dogs and will be for as long as boys are boys. They will always acted to females so long as,they are aware of the presences of females. 1t is up to the owner of the female to make sure dogs do not become aware of the female presence. They' can do this by not allowing the female to run outside their own home - put her in the car and take her for a ride in the country - or by having quarters for her inside the house during these critical times. In short, fees for females should be no different than for males. If this is to be $4, good, but let it be for both sexes•of the species. Fines should be stiffer for owners who allow females to run loose, especially during heat. If it is agreed it is females that cause the most trouble, then it should be the owners of females who allow their pets to cause this trouble who should pay for it. Don't penalize owners of females just because they prefer a female to a male., And just as one added- thought, it is well known among dog fanciers that dogs - referring to the male of the species - are more likely to roam; ar,e more excitable and are morik'ely to get into fights, than., females and so would appear to be 'a more probable nuisance than females. Perhaps the answer then, is to make all levies, either tags or fines, equal for male or -female, but higher • for owners of females found running at large during heat. ` I n any event, it is not fair to the people who own females - and keep them under control to have to pay 820 for the "privilege" of owning one. , The bylaw for .dog control is.a good one. It would be an equally good piece of work for the members' of the special committee to put the ownership of ' a female ins -the right perspective. A tribute to the late Dr. Goderich was the home town of Dr. P. L. Tye, who died March 31 at Milverton, 60 years after beginning medical practice there. Up to the time of his partial retirement he has served the people in a 200 -square -mile area of -Perth and Waterloo; had travelled 39,600 miles a year in all weather and by varied means af transport --snowshoes, sleighs: railway jiggers, trains and even aircraft --in order to reach emergency cases - when roads were snowbound. On the 50th anniversary of his commencing practice, - Milverton Chamber of Commerce organized a community celebration, at which Dr. Tye, was presented' with a silver service. It •was said then that there were about 5,000 "babies" of ' three• generations in that area, whom he had brought into the world. With all his seven -days -a -week activity as a doctor, he found time for active munieipal service, and was. warden of Perth for a term. Fond of hockey, he used to attend the games of juvenile teams' and look after the 'casualties between periods. At his funeral, April 2, in Christ Church, Milverton, '%he was described by the rector, Rev. R. 0. D. Salmon, as "this community's best friend." Percival L. Tye was born • i n Brantford, $5 years ago. His father; W. a Tye-, was a railway mail. clerk, and in 1891 moved with his family to Goderich. The children attended school here: Elise, Percy, Reg and.Edrie, and Percy went on to the University of Toronto for his medical course, graduating in 1907. By -W. E. ELLIOTT Elise, later Mrs. Thoms, graduated as an artist, taught at the Conservatory of Music_ in Ottawa, and,died in 1952. Edrie is thewife of Robert Carey, and' they live in the former Tye house at Stanley street and Elgirt avenue. Reg, a building contractor in Colborne, died in 1956. Mrs. Tye died in 1944. It is said that Percy Tye chose the medical profession because_ of his admiration for a Goderich physician, believed to have been Dr. J. B. Whitely. After graduation he interned in Ottawa and Buffalo, then began practice at Milverton in partnership with Dr. Fred Farker. In February, 1911, he list his father in a wreck on the itiEfalav-at, d Goderich line of the Grand Trunk, between Paris and Drumbo: Passenger train No. 39, in charge of Conductor T. Ausebrook, • was in head-on collision with a locomotive running light from Stratford to Fort Erie. Killed were William • Daniel Tye and baggageman Peter McFarlan, of Goderich; Engineer R. A. Turner and Fireman J. D. Smith, Stratford, and R: M. Crozier, of Drumho, a passenger. John May, a mail clerk, was severely injured. At an inquest, the crew of the light engine -were . found responsible for the disaster. A window in Si. George's. church, memory of Mr. Tye, was -erected by the mail_ clerks of London division. Dr. Tye is survived by his wife, ,the former Edna Beckett, of Owen Sound; two sons, William Dundalk, and MacDonald, of Winnipeg, and his sister, Mrs. Carey, Goderich. A P.L. Tye third son, John 11., of liays�111e. died last January. Memorial services were held April 1 by the Masons and the Lions Club. A,t . a private service at 11. o'clock Wednesday, the rector read the hymn,"Go Labor on, spend and be spent." • Christ Church was filled for the public se vice on WPrinesday The rector was 'assisted by ,Rt. Rev. H. F. G. Appleyard, Bishop of Georgian Bay, and by a full choir. Mr. Salmon told the congregation he had received many telephone calls. .from persons who declared they had lost in Dr. .-Tye their "hest friend." His was a wonderful personality, the minister said. He had "given us a vision of greatness" in the Script -ural sense that he was "servant of all." Instead of the Scripture reading prescribed for the burial service, the rector made the happy choice of a passage from the Book of Ecclesiasticus' "Honor a physician with the honor due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him, for the Lord hath created him. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head, and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration...J.1e hath given men skill that He might be honored in his marvellous works., Give place to the phys;cin, for the Lord hath created him; let him not go from thee." The congregation sang "God he with you -`til we - meet again. .The bishop 'pronounced • the bendiction, Men of Milverton Legion branch, of which Dr. f'ye was an honorary member, bore out his casket. ESTABLISHED $nit#122nd YEAR 6iibettril 1ar. ' of 70--- The County Town Newspaper of Huron ---Li- PUBLICATION Published at Goderich, Ontario every Thursday morning by Signal -Star Publishing Limited ROBERT G. SHRIER President and Publisher RONALD P. ,V. PRICE Managing Editor EDWARD J. BYRSKI .,.,.�,...�.....w► a r�i`s'Tn-q �"'�i�"d Subscription Rates $6 a Year —,To U.S.A. $7.50 (•n cel • Second class mail registration nut,lber — 07.16 l'/oto By Ron Price THE FIRST BOAT ARRIVES (ulntltnunntnlunnnttttunnunntnttnluttutnnniuntuuunilnunnnnluuumnnnluniuniuutuumunlulnulluuuuniulnlnuluutuulnuulunllulnlnutulnlu Remember When ? ? ? 55 YEARS AGO - \larch .most assured') came, in like a lion. \cat• only the• shores of Lake Huron but the whole of Ontario was swept by. a terrific gale which was said to he the most disastrous to property since the terrible gale, (if November ninth when 1,8 vessels and :over 250 sailors went down to watery grates. In l'urury o the wind• graduals) rose until- it 'reached the proportion of a hurricane and at times it i, said attained a velocity ;Of 70 tames an hour. 25 YEARS AGO News of the decision of the :lir Defence •1epartnient 6f the Federal Government 'to close No: 12 Elemental.); Flying Training School at Sky Harbor was received late on Monday last and has been the- cause of considerable concern among the .business men of the ,,town and citizens generally:° A return brought down in the Ilouse of Commonslast week revealed that seven ships, of Paterson Steamships Ltd., Port THAT'S LIFE! By G. MacLeod Ross ...t£,' ;re ENGLISH SPOKEN•.HERE"- in all • the profuse commentary on the achievement of the - American astronauts no one has pointed outthat the first live words_ uttered within the confines of the 'loon were in English, the obscure and in some respects uncouth dialect of the inhabitants of two insignificant islands on.,thc fringe of a great continental land mass. How this has come about is a matter for profound consideration, if not;wond€ mellt George Schwartz A NIGHTMARE PLANET "A landscape of huge flat boulders which curl up and float away into space.. -pools of salty water -filled irregularly from underground springs..: -forests_ of keratinous tree trunks from whose roots a fatty ooze ,seeps up to the surface...a temperature in the high nineties." What ,is it? It is ati,,mites view. of human skin as ,described by microbiologist, Mary J. Marples, and on which thrive microscopic bacteria, yeasts and fungi. And there is one animal; the follicle mite, a wormlike animal which can crawl down into a hair follicle. There is the fungus which results in athlete's foot and the bacterium which lives in the nose and can cause, boils and -pimples. The number of micro-organisma ori a typical patch of human skin varies widely between "the desert of the forearm, the cool woods of the scalp and the tropical forest of the armpit." Here, in thislast, in the" case of .the adult male', the combined population can rise to 21/2 million per square centimetre, or about the same as the micro -organic population of.a patch of good garden soil. Arthur, have been ..sunk by enemy action and four others have been lost during the war period. • The return said' that six other Paterson ships were acquired by the Munitions. Department for •-the United States War Shipping Administration at a total cost of $1,122,211. 'These were • the Farrando'c. Ganandoc, Lachinedoc, Soreldoc, Wellandoc and Coteaudoc. TEN YEARS AGO �_ • .t Huron History. Corner ° SKY CLOUDED WHEN PIGEONS MADE LAST MIGRATION By Gavin Hamilton Green How many people alive today remember the last migration or flight of -the wild pigeon that left the shores of Lake Huron never to return. Their last flight was in the fall of 1877 and When they passed over the boundary line at Sheppardton about 7 h o'clock in the evening as it began to get dark we rushed out of doors to see what caused ,sudden darkness and the humming noise made by the wings, of the pigeons. We could not see the sky for the'pigeons going south and they 'flew so low we could hit diem with sticks. Father rushed out with his old Indian chief shot gun, but for some reason 1p the chief's hammer refused to crack the percussion cap. was sent into the house for a hammer and father hit the cap with the hammer but the -gun backfired as a result of. which father got a piece of the cap in his cheek where he carried it for the rest of his life. But a number of pigeons were brought down with the part of the charge. 116 Father and I knocked down with sticks pigeons enough to fill a bushel basket after the gun refused to crack the caps. As near. as I can remember the, pigeons were about one hour passing over our home. Some persons estimated there were millions of pigeons in that last migration. After the flight there was just a few straggling pigeons k to be seen, but w expected to see them return the next spring to their old rookeries or hatching grounds, but they never returned. These hatching rookeries were in cedar groves on Con, 12 of Ashfield there was a rookery to which people from Goderich, Port Albert, Dungannon and surrounding villages went and slaughtered the birds by the 4 hundreds when they were nesting, there being no game laws to protect the wild pigeons or their fledglings. There ' were other hatching grounds in the counties of Huron and Bruce but the major rookery was in the Greenoch swamp. I remember, when a' boy, father went hunting wild • pigeons with my brother, David, and - carrying the bag. Shooting stopped when the bag got heavy' for David and I to carry. The pigeons. were quite tame and eas' to hunt and shoot as they flew dead to trees or .fences, easily seen. Seldom did they Tight on green trees in the bush. I have often seen the wild, pigeons on hikes, in flocks thatwould darken the skies like a thunder cloud. When they• made . their last passenger flight from the shores of Lake Huron they left many .without their pigeon pie which they deserved 'for the slaughtering of the birds in their rookeries when ,hatching their young. I'he Maitland Golf Club has - placed its. price tag on that portion of the golf course sought by the Ontario Department of Highways for the purpose of building a new bridge over the Maitland River. The government is expected to have its answer to the asked -for price within a week or ten days, according -to- Mr: Frank Donnelly. ONE YEAR AGO AN EYE FOR SAFETY • It •used to he claimed that the explosixes industry had a better safety record than the garment makers and there is no reason to doubt the claim today, for safety discipline is; en'f'orced by a special and separate branch of the former industry. 1 he time lost in incTU trial" accidenfis has-beeia given as five times that. lost in strikes, .while' the death rate' in homes is as high as the highway casualties. The nuclear industry has the best safety reekrd. The mining. industry' does not have a bad record and it improves. The aircraft industry is -afer than other forms of transportation. But the industry causing II... gravest concern is that.of construction, and the reason: Because 01 the large number of private enterprise firms which lack any means of intercommunication. Add the fact that no overall -body is concerned. Perhaps the question which deserves most research is: "How do you get through the complacency of the average individual?"THow do you imbue him with the degree of self-discipline needed to avoid accident? When- you see a pupil in a marked training car wandering - all over the road, you wonder to what extent the teacher rams home the need for pupil -consciousness of other road users. It is not enough to know how to handle the mechanical aspects of a car; the accelerator, the steering . wheel, the brake. Yes the brake! One is bound to ask: i)o local teachers ever mention the brake? It would seem that insti!ling the necesjty for keeping to the right of the road, come what may, is quite beyond the.ability of our teachers. How to get under the skin of the pupil its the Number Orte•ghestion. Apparently it has been done in one industry. The most successful poster, which means the one which has really affected the attitudes of workers, was put out by the British Safety Council. It depicts in q �°us, colqu uvPr well fnr�itcti ►rl_, s<i 3.f n i><lt_tkte '(tut_ 3.ptkte only in a pair of safety glasses. The caption, which has saved so • many eyes in the metal- working and welding industries and has inculcated the discipline of wearing glasses reads:"...but I al, ayi; wear my eye protection." �' Part-time town resident and former Goderich Sifto great Paul Henderson, who figured in a six -man Detroit -Toronto hockey swap, announced Monday, says he is "really looking forward'.' to playing with the -Toronto Maple Leafs. Goderich residents are a little slow moving into the "dog days" - this year, according to assessor and tax collector E. H. Jessop. Mr.' Jessop reports that only 83 dog tags have been purchased this year, with aria estimated 3.00 still to come. The deadline was last, Friday, • FINE MEMORIAL RECALLS TRAGEDY ON GRE -AT LAKES 32 YEARS AGO . Each • year • countless families make a pilgrimage to •a - most unique memorial in Goderich cemetery. They include the families who had some member of their family lost.. the Great Lakes disaster of November. 1913, and whose body was never recovered. Any who remember that storm and had relatives on the lakes will still shudder to think of that tragic Sunday November 9, 1913. A fierce storm and a 60 -mile -an -hour gale whipped the lakes into a maelstrom. It was the worsts' storm in the history of navigation on the Great Lakes. The ship that remained in harbor on that day was indeed lucky. -• Two hundred and thirty-five men lost their lives when .14 staunch ships went down to Davy Jones' locker. Eight ships lost in the 1913 disaster still lie buried in the sandy bed of Lake Huron. Down with them went 178re, seamen. Some bodies floated to shore, 27 in the district around Goderich, but the vast, majority never were found. Five of the bodies found at Goderich were unidentified,. and a public service was held for them at Knox Church in Goderich.-Public-funds raised the memorial" which -stands --- guarding the graves of the unidentified seamen with its "AK MEMORIAL TO THE UNIDENTIFIED SEAM.EN WHOSE LIVES WERE LOST IN'THE GREAT LAKES DISASTER OF. NOVEMBER 9TH, 1913," y The strange 'part, of it all was the fact all the ships apparently went down at the same time. Men from ' different ships washed up at -widely separated points oft Continued 'on Page 5 ROUND - T-BONE — .PORTERHOUSE FRESH — EITHER HALF (Guaranteed Tender) ROASTING HAMS Ib. 59` MADE FRESH DAILY 4 _. AUSAGES :b. LAKE HURON