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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-06-05, Page 4° GQpERIC !TONAL -STAR, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1969 Smoke , or fire Five doctors and scientists from across Canada and the U.S. lit a bright flame of controversy - this week when they questioned what one chest surgeon called a "very dogmatic attitude" that labels cigarettes as a cause of cancer and other diseases.. The House of Commons Standing Committee on Health ' and Welfare, studying the smoking and health question, reacted with some surprise and interest — pro and con --when the experts said their studies did not support accusations that. smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease and such respiratory ailments as bronchitis and emphysema. The main thing these experts were worried about was that the reported causes of these diseases,smoking, had not been based on medical evidence — and must be — and expressed concern that acceptance of unproved anti-smoking theories would slow down and divert objective resech needed to solve these human health problems. That's a very valid point. No doubt there are many research vcrkers who could be diverted from their research by the anti-smoking *theories, because research is based •on following theories through, until they are .roved ,..or disproved. But surely there is nothing wrong with trying to stop young school-age Children from picking up the habit? Let the medical men think what they will, but nobody will agree smoking is beneficial, especially to young lungs. Agriculture's plight A 'real estate firm advertises that it has sold in about three .weeks a total of nine Huron County farm's. It has 12 more on its list, from 55 to 160 acres, most described as with drilled well, stable cleaner, silo, bath, oil furnace and "all_the implements." The houses are either eight or nine rooms. Farms are sold for a great many different reasons, of course, but- it does appear that many of their owners are discontented; feel that operation costs are top high, and that returns are too row for .the labor involved. They read of sharply higher wage scales won by labor unions, in many instances after using the strike weapon. Upon this subject it is appropriate to quote the ' MP for.. Huron. Robert McKinley made a speech inthe,House of Commons upon the subject of "The Condition of Agriculture. The sentences following are from Hansard: "Farmers who make`. a go of it are obliged' to work every hard indeed. They eve te-be-well-t---on—the-Iatest-rnethods, fortunate in marketing and enjoy a lot of luck. It does not matter what farmers produce, be it livestock or wheat, their costs have increased, while prices of their products haveremai,n0 stationary or gone down.. "Farm prices in general have gone down, but the price of prepared feed, of farm implements; gasoline', and all other necessities has almost doubled in the past few years ... It seems that .ever body in this country goes- al I out to gouge the ma r, whose production is the basis of economt prosperity. Some 12,000 farms in Ontario have disappeared since 1961." From that picture turn to one -in the same county but more than e century and a quarter ago. in the 1830s 3 Scots immigrant settled on the bush trail which is now Highway 8: He and .his wife- and five young children lived in a log house more or less heated by a fireplace and lighted by candles. They hadno rural mail delivery, no electricity, radio car television. They had the soil under their feet and sunlight penetrating the bush to a bit of cleared land in crop. This poor sodbuster wrote home about, farming conditions here, and what was the report? Fortunately, the letter was preserved. He told his people he had 18 head of cattle, besides hogs and poultry, 16 acres of cleared land and instalments paid on '80 acres. He wrote: "The industrious of all classes, anxious' to obtain a competency and independence, and for' it willing to endure some fatigue and privation, cannot come out too soon. To the laborer, the change for the better is absolutely certain. When we see -shanties giving way to comfortable dwellings, and the frowning forests yielding acre after acre to be added to the smiling fields, symptoms of prosperity are unmistakable." And he urged his father and brothers to join him in Huron. This man could not have forseen, and would not likely have believed, that his descendants on the land would be sore opprepsed and in great numbers fleeing froin r taskmasters. Farming has changed, in our time, from a way of, life to a „business of many complications and hazards. This makes it difficult for those who would like to continue farming as a , way of life. An elderly farmer, long r,ired but still observant, ,tells us it is still possible, with hard work, to make farming pay, and he points to the example of the Hollanders in our midst. (Of the purchasers of the' 12 farms mentioned here at the outset, five by their 'dames are Hollanders.) . The member for Huron believes it. would be better for Canada to keep on the land those, rural- people who wish to stay at -farming as a way of life, .and know how.. -Programs to aid . -them, he says, "would produce stability, social balance, dividends in terms • of health, lower delinquency and reduced welfare in the cities." If so, the .government and parliament had better get busy .with such programs; the list of farm sales lengthen. — (Stratford Beacon Herald). Drowning statistics Statistics rarely are exciting but those we received from the Canadian Red Cross Society recently make rather sad reading. Last year 1,186 Canadians died because of drowning accidents. This is a horrifying number when we know that many of these deaths were `unnecessary — quite unnecessary — because they ,~were caused by carelessness. Lack of adult supervision was responsible for the death of 21.2 children, of which 159 were under 6 years old. Their deaths, could have, been avoided if someone had cared more. As you know, it takes `Very little time for a toddler to drown if he falls face down into a few inches of water and no one is there to pjck him up. Last year, 361 people died in boating accidents, and again, many of these -deaths could have been avoided. The law requires all power boats and sailboats to carry one government -approved life jacket for each passenger on board. But the law can't compel a Person to wear the life jacket when he is in'the boat. Many times it has been reported that a life might have been saved if the person involved in the boating accident had been wearing a life jacket. This is`" Water Safety Week. And this week, as well as year-round, the Red Cross is telling people how to enjoy safe -water activities. Through a broad program ranging from -beginners' swimming courses to instructor training, the• Red Cross teaches the basic rules of safe swimmjg, boating and skating as well as artificial el respiration and simple rescue techniques for emergency situations. What is your life worth to you — or the life of a member of your family? Only you can answer this question. All we ask is that you make sure that no one in your. family becomes a drowning statistic this summer through carelessness. As the Red .Cross puts it so aptly — be water wise! Think! Don't sink! ESTABLISHED122nd YEAR 1848 (niirtrtl g �t�-#x ° of —p--- The County Town Newspaper of Huron --0-- PUBLICATION Published at ,Goderich, Ontario every Thursday morning by Signal -Star Publishing Limited_ ROBERT G. SHIER President and. Publisher RONALD P V. PRICE Managing Editor EDWARD J. 1YRSKI Advertising Sales Subscription Rate Yba -- To U.S.A. $7.50 (in advance) Second class mail registration nui , ober --- 0716 ak Photo By Ron Price NEWBORN FiLLY:- KI NGSBRIDGE ' uuuuuunnunulttiiunnuttnunuunuuutititiuuuuunuuulnuuuntiituumunuulumuuulttulluuututuuli�lluutwuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuWuuuuUnntun Remember When ? ? ? 55 YEARS AGO Official information confirms the announcement that on June 10th Ringling Brothers' circus will give tvyo perf9rmances Stratford. The . Water and Light 'commission will extend its lines to ' iMenesetung park and Ridgewood park (the Attrill estate) in order that people living in these two places may have light for the summer. The buzz of the buzz saw or the rip of the ripper in a very modern and up-to-date planing mill, •situated" at the corner of Nelson street and, Cambria road, known as the Goderich Planing Mill Co., is a pretty fair indication that business is brisk at what is'4, more commonly' known._ as Buchanan's planing • mill. The present .plant with lumber yard covers about one acre of ground and in the yard is piled about 1,000,000 feet of Iu'mber. • During the past three days the Baptist church has been the Mecca for delegates from the Walkerton association of Canadian Baptist churches, which this year held its . annual meeting in Goderich. There • were in the neighborhood of 75 delegates present. Bro. Harry Tichborne, recording ' secretary of. Huron Lodge of Odd Fellows, was,_. presented with a jewel at a big meeting on Monday night, prior to his departure for St: Marys. The presentation was made by Dr. W. F. Clark, • and Bro. Tichborne replied suitably. A" convention of Conservatives in the Centre Huron ,briding was held in the Cardno'si hall, Seaforth, on Thursday afternoon last. There were 91 delegates present and they met to select a candidate to contest the riding at the'Ontario general elections to -be held on` the 29th of June.inst. 25 YEARS AGO "The sixth Victory loan drive has reached the last few hectic days, when every minute and 'every-- dollar count ih the endeavor to reach the objective. 'The bulletin compiled at noon today showed" Huron county over $750,000 behind; but receipts later in the day improved the situation considerably. According to present indications, the summer tourist business will be particularly good this year. Mr. C. C. Lee, proprietor of Hotel Sunset, states that' he already has large bookings. Opening date for the Sunset this year is June 24. THAT'S LIF By G. MacLeod Ross PROPAGANDA. Dean Acheson defines propaganda as: "That branch of the art of ving your friends, without s interesting to note that Pushtu, ch does not lend itself to modern Tying which consists in very nears quite deceiving your enemies." I the language of the Pathan, w expressions, has coined a word Tor `propaganda' which translated literally tfleans: Lying, just lying. O CANADA! While in the Carolinas, a man from Long Island N.Y. spoke' with rne. He said: "By ,the way who was' your Prime 'Minister before Trudeau?' Let me see. It was ,Dubcek wasn't it?" EDUCATION. Schools did a better job of teaching when wayward boys were straightened °up by being bent over. Nowadays the only time you can_ strike a child is iti self defence. INCOME TAXES. •Income .Tax service firms are beginning to operate curbside "Taxmobiles", capable ofi. handling 40 harassed taxpayers a day. Soon the banks will resurface and operate "lendmobiles" to help you pay your 'taxes. BI-LINGUALISM. In Canada some have to learn to speak French and some to speak English, but in the States it is'English which is getting out of hand. A Texas pastor lives in what he calls his "Pastorium." "Remedy" is proper for the process of helping a child with reading difficulties, i.e. "remedial reading." Now they talk about the "remediation of a problem." TOIL FOR TAXES. In 1969 it will fake Americans two hours and 34 minutes of an eight-hour day to meet their tax liabilities. -This is eight minutes more than last year. If Canada kept any records we might be able to snake, a comparison, A TASTE OF POTUS: POTUS stands for President of the United States. The Wall Street Journal carried an article on the Perquisites of POTUS and on the difference in taste between Nixon and Johnson. The former likes coffee;', the latteir soda pop. Johnston required 37 buttons on his desk to press. Nixon manages with six. Even the shower nozzles in the White House lid to be changed from one which squirted in all directions to an ordinary genteel nozzle. Plumbers please note. 10 YEARS AGO The blood donor clinic 'held at. Goderich .on Tuesday is believed ta_have set. _up_a_record. . for Ontario. Of the 560 cards_, filled out as a result of the canvass, 440 persons presented themselves at the clinic on Tuesday held in the basement of ..North Street United Church. • "The Spirit of Huron" will make its final trip this week=end. " A crowd of up to 3,000 .people is expected to • watch :Saturday as The Spirit — a retired, 90 -ton steam locomotive bought from 'the CPR is hauled along Trafalgar street to Huron County Pioneer Museum. On behalf of the Snug, Harbor Committee, Mrs: O. Filsinger asked Town Council Friday for permission to place a building,_ which would be headquarters for visiting yachtsmen, on the area adjoining Snug Harbor. An efficiency award winner for Western ' Ontario two years ago, placing' high last year, too, the GDCI Cadet Corps at their annual inspection on Friday afternoon again were complimented for thein .display. Two . anglers from London dropped into the Signal -Star office 'Wednesday afternoon to let us know the perch" run at Goderich had started. They were Oney Ramey and Reg Winser and showed some 75 perch they had caught between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Most of them were quite large, some weighing a pound: ONE YEAR AGO Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield "dropped in " on Huron County uron History Corner. THE FOUNDING OF SEAFORTH Part II • Meanwhile, one Andrew Steen had squatted on the south end of Lot 26, Con. I, Mckillop, built a houseand made a clearing. It is possible that another •squatter opened an inn on Lot 11 fora time about 1845 A tavern is marked on Ma map used by the Canada Company in an advertisement, but does not appear on a Targe map of th@ Huron Districtpublished in 1846. In October, 1850 George Spading bought Lot 25, Con. 1, Mckillop Township. Sparling may have only been looking for a farm at that time, but rumors of the proposed Buffalo, Brantford and Goderich Railway gave him a different idea. Besides the road from Egmondville had been extended north of the Huron Road and was gravelled at about this time. In March, 1863, Christopher Sparling, merchant of Harpurhey, bought Lot 11, Con. 1 in Tuckersmith and in August sold a two -acre strip in the other lots south of the Huron Road. Christopher Sparling sold an acre in the south-east corner of Lot 11 to Andrew McKearnan, who may have been keeping an inn there (he is *not Galled "innkeeper" at this time), but certainly soon opened a store and began to be called "merchant. Some time in 1$55 George Sparling had his first survey of village lots laid out in the southerly part of Lot 25 and'in November, 1855 sold- a quarter acre farther east to James Beattie, blacksmith. On January 30, 1856, George Sparling obtained a release from mortgage for five acres, intended for his second village survey. It was not until February 23, 1856 that Christopher Sparling made an agreement of sale of the remaining 97 -acres of,Lot 11 with' Hewitt Bernard, Henry R. A. Boyes and James Patton,. all of Barrie. • Bernard and Patton belonged to the law fir of Ardagh,'Bernard and Patton, and Boyes was -a merchant. Five days later the sale was confirmed by a deed to Bernard, George Lefroy and James Patton. Lefroy is described as "of lnnisfil Township," but in later deeds as "of Barrie." The gentlemen from Barrie were simply. speculators. It is said that James Patton was responsible for obtaining a station for Seaforth from the Buffalo, Brantford and Lake Huron Railway, whicht6ad replaced the earlier company. Certainly the syndicate sold land for the station to the B.B. & L.A. for a modest price and when. Seaforth Post. Office was opened in December; 1859, Adam Patton was the first postmaster. However, it appears that the Pattons did not 'choose the. name "Seaforth," for George Sparling's surveys "for the village of Seaforth' are mentioned in the release referred to above; date 4 January 30, 1856. After some complicated transactions between the members of the -Barrie syndicate, control of Lot 11 came into the hands of James Patton, who did not hold it .long. There are few indications of subdivision in this area before 1860 and the, chief layout is known as the "Jarvis Survey" from •a later owner. Meanwhile, in .1856-59 George Sparling made a number of sales of village lots: Seaforth was growing in the 50's but chiefly around the 0. A 4 crossroads. An account of Seaforth in 1863-4 calls -it "a rapidly progressing village." "Its principal trade consists in the buying and forwarding of wheat, which is carried on extensively.- In 1862 the grain shippedin January and February, was 101,069 bushels." However, the list of businesses shows that Seaforth had a fair number of trades and small industries, in addition to the various stores, hotel and so forth. The writer remark's that "Unfortunately for the village, part of the lands a on: which it -is situated/.. have been, and, are. still -in trustn.,for "minors, 4 which considerably retarded its progress, which, notwithstanding has been astonishing." This may refer either to Lot 10, Con. 1, Tuckersmith, which had been bought from the Hon_ George J. Goodhue in 1854 in trust for the children of George Gouinlock of Harpurhey, or to the fact that a chancery suit was still pending to determine the rights of he widow and daughters of Andrew Steen to the south half of Lbt 2, Con. 1, Mckillop. The suit of Goodhue v. Steen was settled in 1866. It had not entirely stopped development, for Mrs. Steen and her elder daughter 'Mrs. 'Sparling, had leased an area to James Beattie who afterwards bought the whole 50 acres. They had even released a lot to the Wesleyan Methodist Congr'egatio► for a, church ih 1863. The Gouinlock surveys -were subsequent to 1860. Seaforth grew fairly quickly during the 1860's. Shipments of grain increased to nearly a' million bushels a year and the village acquired new industries. Seaforth was incorporated as a village in 1868 and became a town in 1875. It was discovered that there were deposits of salt under the village and in the 1870's these began to be exploited on a considerable scale. The town has never been large, but has maintained its position as a centre for the surrounding area, outdistancing its older rivals, Egmondville and Harpurh'ey. Thursday afternoon for television and radio taping and an . evening public rally at Wingham. . Mervin Witter, 28, of ,Kingston, Jamaica, has joined the Goderich Police Department as a constable. Goderich is one of thirty-nine Ontario communities honoured by the Canadian' Highway Safety Council for notable safety -records in 1967, the Ontario Safety League reports. Construction is underway at Conklin Lumber Company, Limited, Bayfield Road, of the new "customer service area," a 60 by 80 foot building being constructed on the site of a Timber -storage building destroyed by fire last year. Students of ' the driver education courses conducted at Goderich District Collegiate' Institute took their driver's tests last Wednesday. AINSLIE'S FRONT — CUT FREE — TENDER (INCLUDES 15'- 17 STEAKS) TR'S OF BEEF SAVE 30c LB. L Ib. IN PORI( CHO PS A9 LEAN ROME -CURED — SLICED BACON SWEET PICKLED COTTAGE. ROLLS 41. .b. 694 Ib, V