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MU SIGNAL -STAR, TIi(JRSDAY, APRIL 3.0,.1969
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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