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Volunteers
' The Summer .months are With. us and
before we know it they will have flown by
and we once again will be into the social
'season" so to speak; 'the season when
service clubs, women's clubs, church
_groups and so on become active after a
summer lay off.
It will also be the time of year for the
young people to become involved in their
own activities: Boy Scouts, Cubs, Guides,
Brownies, etc. etc. But this year it may be
a little difficult for any young people in
town to become involved.
. There is no shortage of youngsters who
want to join Cubs and Scouts and Guides
etc. But there is a very serious shortage of
leaders.
'The . Canadian Red Cross Society. has
been faced. with the problem of finding•
volunteers to carry on its work and the
problem • is not confined to any specific
area. The,same applies to many groups.
' In Brantford, several organizations in
heed of volunteers, have come up with an
answer. By joining forces they hope to
reach more people and provide the work
that each individual would find most
rewarding.• -
It's a good step in the right direction,
but once again it probably will bet the few
who were involved in other activities who
do the volunteering.
It'
really
to liv
do
beca
time
proj
o.ne
time for a different approach. If we
want our children and elder people
e full — and'happy lives — we have to
something. Volunteers are lacking
use most -people just don't have the
to commit themselves to a full:;cale
ect.
pny of them are already involved with
project that takes a great deal of time.
,By combining forces, and soliciting the
help of one -day -a -year volunteers, it
would be possible ° to provide all the
leadership needed to keep young folk out,
of trouble and doing something
productive and provide companionship
for the older people of the community.
The service clubs in town have good
memberships. Women's groups are
similarly well attended. The occasional
housewife or after -work father wants to
help but hasn't the time.
If this is true, let's pool our resources;
set up a committee to handle volunteers
and channel them to the areas of need. In
this way the housewife' could help out
with "a Cub pack one day of the week and
another housewife could take over for the
next week and so on. No committment to
do the whole bit for everand a day. Just
one day when you feel like it.
The program for the pack (and it would
apply equally well to any other group or
activity) could be arranged by a central
committee with the "Volunteer of the
Week" carrying out the assigned tasks.
calendar of available dates could be
drawn up with. volunteers calling in the
times they will work. •
Of course the Cubs and Scouts, Gui-des ..
and Brownies are not - the 'only
organizations that need . volu.nteers;•
volunteers are needed in a - host of
activities, and. the benefits are great, not
only to hose° aided, but to the helpers
too.
There are a lot 'of people around who
would like to do something outside.of the
home once in a while. Something should
be started to use them, which in turn will
make 'them feel useful. Do we have a
volunteer?
lure for asthma
It could be that Goderich has inside
the town limits the facilities needed. to
cure asthma: '
St
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Mp
Sidney Katz, riting in the Toronto
ar earlier -this''--?rear explained how
ople from North Arrferica are travelling
Poland jn search of a cure. They expect
find it deep inside a Polish salt mine.
Dr. M. S•kulimowski is operating a salt
mine' clinic near Cracow that promises to
rovide relief for :"asthma sufferers who
ave been unable to find it elsewhere:
Patients at the clinic descend 700 feet
nto a chamber in the abandoned mine.
They spend five to 16 hours each day
there for 24 days.
Dr. Skulirnowski claims the treatment
-has cured 700. of 1,000 patients and the
remainder have gained relief for periods,
from three rn,onths up to eight years.
The effectiveness of the tptslIVnent, is
attributed to the unvarying terriperature,
humidity control and the almost total
absense of dust. At the same time the salt
a
f
.tea
mine air contains more oxygen and
carbon dioxide than surface air.
.Some 800 Hungarian miners have also
,been treated for respiratory ailments in a
4,000 square foot cave near Josvafo deep
in the hills in the northern part of the
country.
In the 'Goderich mine of the Domtar
Chemical Company's Sifto Salt division,
there are • 15 •miles of -tunnels located
about one third of a mile underground.
Many of the tunnels are worked out
and some are 'used for the disposal of
waste from the sorting mill. ' .
Perhaps the possibility of using other
worked out areas for treatment of
`respiratory ailments could be investigated.
If it could be done, and proved successful
Goderich could be faced with a new'era as
a health spa.
In a recent survey of children in the
United States; in the New York city,
Connecticut area, 24 per cent showed
symptoms of asthma. What is. the
percentage in Canada?
WISDOM
Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.
-- Laurence Sterne
Laziness 'grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains.
Sir Matthew Hale
The books which help you most" are those .which make you think the most.
—Theodore .Parker
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Remember When ? ? ?
55 YEARS AGO
On the 31st of May the C.P.R
will put into force a new time
table here, which will ,be a
source of comfort and.
convenience to the people
travelling both ways between
here and Toronto. Under the
new time table the fastest service
the C.P.R. "'has ever into
effect will be instituted and the
trip will be made in 4''2. hours.
The work of extending the
breakwater is being carried on
rapidly. Four pontoons have
been sunk , alreadyand the'
superstructure will be put "Sip in
°a short time.
Bishop Williams, of London,
administered confirmation to a
class of 37 in St. George's
church last night. There were 19
males and 18 females.
On Saturday night last the
Menesetung canoe clubgave
another of its enjoyable dances
in the Masonic hall. The floor
and the music as supplied by
Stewart's orchestra was- as good
as usual and a pleasant time was
spent. The dance broke up a few
minutes before midnight.
It was fortunate that the
Weather turned out so bright.
quite early on :lioriday morning
last, as it enabled all the local
lawn bowlers to indulge in their
favorite game and to play a
tournament which had been
previously arranged. Shortly
after 10 o'clock the sun came
out and shone in its strength` all
day and soon after the bowling
green was alive With enthusiastic
25 YEARS AGO
Entries received for the civic
holiday race meet indicate_ one,
of the.. best events in the history
of harness racing in Goderich.
Nearly six hundred children
of the- Goderie ,_ ` .elic schools,
with a large - umber of adults,
assembled in • u House Park
on Tuesday afternoon for a'
program of speeches and
patriotic music in observance of
Empire Day.
Taking advantage of the quiet
of the early Sunday morning, a
deer visited the town and made
its way leisurely through gardens
in the vicinity of Victoria street
United church. The last seen of
it the' deer was ambling its way
down•Victoria street.
Good home -makers and
experts in machine and other
shop work, in the making, on
Saturday _.,"afternoon gave a
splended exhibition of the "work
which is being carried on in the
home economics and shopwork
departments of the Goderich.
Collegiate Institute.
W. A. Culbert and Sons,
Dungannon, on Tuesday shipped
by express to a rancher, Roger
- Gillis, at Del Rio, Texas, a
none -month-old bull weighing
850 lbs.
C.N.R. ° Investigator Frank
Foster and Chief Constable'A. C.
Ross have been busy
investigating the theft of sash,
doors and lumber from Canadian
National _,box cars in Goderich.
10 YEARS AGO
bowlers. Town Council, which earlier
THAT'S. LIFE!
By G. MacLeod Ross
T. f NEW CORPORATION F3ULES
Amendments to the Corporations Act requiring public financial
statements fronrprivate companies with assets or gross revenue over
three million. are all very well. But it would be much more to the
interest of taxpayers if Boards of Education and of Hospitals were
required to disclose THEIR finances annually. For how much longer
are they to be permitted to hide their extravagances behind a
bushel?
THE RIGHT TO VOTE
The Indonesians have declared that the Papuans of West New
Gui•pea are far too backward to rate balloting on the one man,one
vote formula. This poses a bit of a squirm for the United Nations,
because what *Indonesia has proclaimed without any untoward.,
criticism; no sanctions; is very close to what Rhodesia ,has said for
some years now. However, Rhodesia permits the vote to anyone
with education and property, which recalls the immortal words.of
Ben Frankl;i.h: "To require property of voters leads us into this
dilemma. I own a jackass. I can vote. 'The jackass dies; I cannot vote.
Therefore the vote represents not me but my jackass."
A .FOUR -PUN STORY.
A scientist claimed to have discovered a method to make dol/Shins
live forever. He received a grant from the government, of course, to
conduct his experiments at a laboratory by the seaside. This location'
gave him easy access to the dolphins and also to the food which he
claimed would cause them to live forever: nnewly hatched sea gulls.
But as he was hauling a load of baby sea gulls to his laboratory, j e
came upon An old lion from the State zoological garden, sprawling
across the road., Since the lion refused to move, he Passed over it
with his truck. Later the was arrested The charge: Transporting
young gulls across a state lion for immortal purposes. Giles Wagner.
Isle of Palms.
SALTFORD A BUSY
PLACE IN EARLY DAYS -
(By A. S. Garrett in
London Free Press)
Trave(l,�ers going n th ., ards from Goderich, via the Blue Water
Highway,ross the aitlan River and pass through ttr 'village of
Saltford, now pract'cally a sub•, rb of the Huron ,county town.
• In its heyday, altford was quite a thriving place, and proud of
the fact chat as any as s en salt wells were operating in , its '
vicinity.
, The place appears to have originally been called Slabtown,
although a chronicler of the late 1870 period wrote: ,
Maitlandville is the village which used to be called Gairbraid and
lies across the river from Goderich. There are a number of stores,
several defunct salt works, the usual number of taverns, and the
postoffice of Saltford•at this place, besides a population of about
250, and a fine school and Church. A very fine wooden,bridge built
oh stone piers spans the Maitland at this point." '
This wooden bridge is claimed to have. been built by the old
Gravel Road Company that once controlled the thoroughfare from
Goderich to Lucknow, there being as many as six toll gates between
these towns. It replaced an earlier wooden bridge put up by the
Canada Land Company. The present metal structure wasterected
about 1883.
The toll gate nearest •to Saltford stood at the foot of Dunlop's
Hill and was kept by Richard Postlethwaite. The toll rate was:
Double team of horses or oxen., 10c. One way, return same day, 15c.;
single, 5c.; man on horseback,' 1 penny (2c.); foot passengers,
funerals and weddings free."
OLD TIME INDUSTRIES.
Besides the salt wells, there was Savage's brickyard, two tanneries'
(Kilkpatrick's and Beck's), two general stores (Stanburyps and Mrs.
Lasham's), Mclntyre's blacksmith shop, Buchanan's shoe
• establishment, Gallagher's harness shop, Schultz's cigar manufactory,
the tailor shop, lime kiln, etc. Alexander (Sandy) Donaldson was the
carpenter and Mr Henderson, the weaver. .
David L•awson's sawmill was on the creekV,at the foot of the hill.
-There were two hotels' (Martin's and Lasman's), both with driving
sheds and»dance halls overhead, a school house and a temperance
hall.
Writing of the oldtime Saltford, G. H. Green, of Goderich,
mentions Henry Wells' brewery and 'hopyard, viz. -"Wells' brewery in
those days did a flourishing trade. You could buy a keg of beer there
for' $1.00, a pailful for 25c. and if you visited the brewery you could
get all you could drink for nothing, as there was always a barrel on
tap with a tin cup and a 'Help Yourself' invitation above it."
THE HARRY McCREATH HOME
Not long, ago, the writer visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
_ Harry McCreath, overlooking the Maitland River at Saltford. The
McCreath residence is a modernized pioneer dwelling, complete with
hydro and hardwood floors.
Near -by are -many quaint and, unusual objects that have attracted
innumberable tourists. One of them is an overshot water wheel
operated by a stream of water from a never -failing spring. '
The house was moved from Hulleti township, in 1932, by Mr.
McCreath, a veteran of World War I. It had been owned, there by an
old-timer named Stalker. His daughter Mrs. Anna McGee, who died
an octogenarian in 1943, 'said she was born and married in this old
dwelling, built by her father's uncle.'
We might add that Mr. McCreath moved the entire building, a log
at a time, using a car and trailer, each stick of timber being
numbered and marked for rebuilding.
Just forty feet from the McCreath home is where, salt was first
discovered in Huron county, in 1866, by Samuel Platt, who had
been drilling for oil but struck salt instead at a depth of 960 feet.
The salt obtained here is claimed to have been the -first made from
brine in North America.
Former'Ed's Note. - This interesting article on Saltford is astray in
the matter of the original name of the village. Old documents name
it as Bridge End Place; later it was known as Maitlandville, and later
again this was changed to Saltford — no doubt in recognition of the
industry which sprang up after the discovery of extensive salt
deposits in 1866. Garbraid was a different -place- altogether. It was up
the hill at the corner of what is now the Frank Linklater farm:
"Slabtown" was merely a nickname.
set aside $2,000 for ,. band
purposes this year, decided
Friday to`allocate $1,000 to the
Blue Water- Band and $1,000, to
Goderich Girls' Trumpet Band
Association.
An-applieation for' a permit to
build a supermarket on South
street,' at Elgin avenue, was given.
conditional approval by a
majority ' of Town Council
membees Friday.
The tender for the
construction_ of a six -classroom
and gymnasium additon to
Goderich District Collegiate
Institute is to go to Ball
Brothers, of, Kitchener.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander D.
Pro,fit, and son, Tom, have
arrived from Edinburgh,
Scotland, to take up permanent
residence in Goderich.
Ontario Hydro has still failed
to justify its reasons for
_instructing Goderich. PUC to
make a special charge on. the
town of about $1,500 per year
for 20 years.
Countil has refused to pay the
additional, charge of about
$ 1,500 yearly. 'The
correspondence was referred to
the water, light and harbor.
committee for further study.
A motion calling for
installation of parking meters in.
Goderich failed to get a secorrder
at Friday's meeting of Town
Council:
Foll ing an inquest held at
Goderich on Wednesday of last
week, a coroner's. jury
neon—mended that men working
in mines be better instructed as
to the mining act and its
regulations. ,
•
ONE YEAR AGO
Repeated efforts have been
made to discover any traces of,
,the steamers . Carruthers and
McGean, which have for some
time past thotfght to be lying on
a sandbar near Naftel's point.
Sparkling with dazzling
brilliance, the new Masonic
temple at Goderich, recently
completed at a cost of $20,0x0,'
was the Mecca for 250 masons,
who came here on Wednesday
night of last week for the
dedication of the new Masonic
home from various parts of
western Ontario.
The temperance workers of
South Huron have called a
convention to meet in . Hensall
on May 18th, and at this
meeting steps will. be taken to
select a ' candidate pledged to
make certain that the bar is
removed from the riding. This is
a direct result of the recent
breach of faith on the part of
Hon. W. J. Hanna, who, after
pledging his word to the
temperance people that every
bar in Huron would go out of
business on May 1st, deliberately
granted three months extension
in Centre and South Huron.
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