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4 I ,.'ICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1969
fdiforial ...
Worthy of praise
The Great Storm of 1913 has been community through the Goderich Lions
cgnmemorated with an historic plaque Club for the past 27 years. He hasn't
'that -will stand as a memorial to the men missed a meeting of the club in all those
who lost their lives in the ships that went years, which in itself is a remarkable
down.during that storm. accomplishment. It was he. who started
This- kind of tragedy plays a more = the local club on the project that resulted
important part in life than most people in the erection of the plaque last week.
reaIize. It is..aot... ,..matter, 01. ,.01 e.,; n? ,.w.�Nothing had_ ever been„done as a lastin,9- •
with many vessels. and lives lost. and when s,�nemorial 'to the storm (although every
it's over that's the end of it. Investigations year since then the Mariners Service at
are held, new safety measures are imposed Knox, has been held,) so the Lions Club
and techniques in all kinds of associated. contacted Murray Gaunt MPP
areas are also improved. The results are (Huron -Bruce) who contacted the
usually the saving of many -Ives CFfat • d'epar 'men o u i cord' ni
might otherwise have been lost at later Archives, Archeaological and Historic
dates. Sites 'Board of Ontario, and the research
To this end, the men who lost their began. -
Iivesvdid not die in,vain. Tragedy spurs on It probably, involved a great many
research, which leads to better things and people. There ,were noted scholars
a better way of life for many, involved and much had to be done to
.That a memorial has been erected to discover what happened; where and when
these 'men is right and that it should and a decision had to be made on whether
have been erected here in Goderich. is the project was worthy of recognition. It
fitting. Much of the work of- recovering was. _
and identifying the dead was carried out On August 3, 1969, the plaque was
here and the results of the storm were unveired. None of it might” have come
greatly felt here. about but for Arnold McConnell. That's
- But without the forethought of one worthy of, praise. None of it might have
man the memorial might never have been -come about if the Goderich Lions Club
erected at all, let alone in Goderich. had - not supported , Mr. McConnell's
Arnold McConnell has served the suggestion. That, also, is worthy of praise.
No Iazy days
We have a short story this week about
a couple of local brothers who caught a-
-fair sized pike. Ken and Gerry McPhee
pulled the big -fish from. the river
up -stream from the highway 21 bridge in
a spot they fish ".,..pretty often,"
The h".,.pretty often" 'bit brings back
memories of 'past years when the fishing
pole and the favorite" spot were THE
THING for a young boy. Saturday
morning it was .".,.up with the lark" and
off with the pole to whatever spot was
you rsr-.
It never seemed to rain. The lazy
summer days;- insects ,"buzzing enough to
put a fellow to sleep as he sat on the bank
of the Gree... with the pole just _about
dipped in the water;_ cattle close by
constantly chewing whatever it was they
had found' to chew, and the miriad of
dragon fly darting, jet 'like, from one long
rush stem to another.'
There was little thought of asking a
Person to pay for fishing -in those days, at
least in most areas. A farmer with a well
stocked trout pond wouldn't take too
kindly'to a batch of youngsters pulling his
prize fish out, but for those who were
invited it was "free fishing. But most of
the farmers would make access to the
rivers and streams available.
Those days, regretably, are passing.
Kids can still fish free when they can get
to the water, but in most areas now the
water rights are getting snapped up. along
With the land. Beaches are becoming
private property; roads are "PRIVATE"
and if you have a pond and want to fish it
you are supposed to have.a licence - even
if you stocked the pond
sad reflection on what is
once carefree day in a
country.
There are fewer boys like the McPhees
today. Fewer fish poles dipped on idilic,-
summ.er .days, especially when .the ..boys -.
get a little older.
There seems to be a break between
boys of about 15 or 16 and men in their
thirties as far as fishing, goes. The
teenagers don't care for the lazy days by
the streams as they used to; not when
they have to argue their rights or pay .a
buck to get to the streani. And the adults
don't seem -to care that this has happened.
We speak of peace - world' peace - for
all men. But what is peace? Is it freedom
from war only or does it mean peace of
mind as well as peace between nations?
Does peace' come through agreement or,
through understanding? Does peace
necessarily mean freedom?
We think peace -and freedom -mush
come thr ugh bunderstanding and respect.
Respect for the, rights of individuals' to
pursue their own course toward peace,
whether -it be peace of mind or peace
between nations. " .
How can we understand the need for
peace in other countries when the rights
of individuals are being denied by a.few
m,Qney hungry land owners who want the
rivers and lake shore for their own use.
If the Canadian government wants to
work toward, peace, let- it start at home;
let thee.beaches and rivers be as they were
intended to be - for all men, and for boys
with fish poles too.
yourself.. It's a
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once carefree
LITTLE CHURCH — LONDON
Photo by Ron Price
Expensive habit
Ata, time when people in the Wet
are- questioning the usefulness - of
foreign aid, one of India's leading
Hindus is talking of burning food
worth more than S17,000,000.
Fortunately, this kind of criminal
waste does' not have the backing of the
Indian Government.
A man who calls himself Lakshman
Chaitanya Brahmachariji Maharaj has
said he plans to burn 'more than 9,000
tons of food in a sacrificial fire later
this year. His aim is to foster universal
-peace -and- the-vve-I-f-ar-e---and- prosperity
of the human race.
.Last year, the same man -" who is
known as -one of - India's leading
spiritual Hindu figures - organized a
similar sacrifice to the gods during
which he squandered food worth more
than $500,000.
The 1969 Mahn, Yagna (or grand
sacrifice) will be met by public
subscription. The Hindu leader hopes
that 1,000 couples will- pour..
foodstuffs, including almost 2,000)tons
of rice, as well'as more than 7,000 tons
of butter, barley, sugar, medicinal
herbs and sesame into the sacrificial
fires watched , by 125,000 Hindu
priests. rThe {jests will be paid for
their services. -
Each_month, thousands are dying of
disease caused by malnutrition in the
famine -stricken • Indian state of
Rajasthan, not far from ,Rajkot in
Gujarat State, where the sacrifice will
- kae .v held ,.. l n --Nigeria; #t adr-eds ca -f..
thousands are starving. Across Asia,
Africa and Latin America, several
hundred million are always -hungry.
Surely this is the kind of sacrifice
that makes God weep, and it is to the
credit of the Gujarat Government that
it will try to persuade the Hindus to
abandon their sacrifice - possible by
resorting to legal action'.
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of
--� -- The County Town Newspaper of Huron —Q— PUBLICATION
Published at Goderich, Ontario every 'Thursday morning °l y
Signal -Star Publishing `Limited
' 'ROBERT G. SHRIER
President and Publisher
RONALD* P. V. PRICE
Managing Editor
EDWARD J. BYRSKI
Airertising Mantlrger
Remember When ? ? ?
55 YEARS AGO
Mr. Wm. Driver, of Goderich
township, was charged with
keeping a vicious dog. A family
living . cn .-'the adjoining..- farm
named Steep deposed that when
their boy was going for the cows
Driver's dog bad run out and bit
him. Chief Postlethwaite said he
served' the summons and was
invited by Driver to see the dog
and upon the - dog. being
unloosed it attacked him (the
,chief) and bit his h"and. Driver
explained this by saying that the
dog was used to put the cattle
out of the Stable and it evidently
thought it was intended to put
Mr.. Postlethwaite out.
(laughter).
The House of Lords last weel:
passed the third reading of the
bill to amend the Irish home rule
bill. and sent it across to the
House • of . Commons for
consideration. At the suggestion
of the Marquis of Crewe, the bill
was read a third time without a
vote being taken.
With nothing more modern
than "a bucket brigade with
Which to- fight the -flames; -the
inhabitants "of the town of
Hearst in Northern Ontario,.
battled for three days and three
nights to save their homes from
destruction. Time after time
they overcame the flames but
only to see them spring up in
some new quarter. Finally
Wednesday a strong wind sprang
up -whk,h increased the volume
till it almost 'reached the,
proportions of a cyclone. The
wind fanged the flames and the
town was quickly the centre of -a
roaring furnace. The inhabitants
fled to the railroad tract's, where
they spent two days and a night
amidst smoke and flame, until a
relief train arrived over the line
of the Transcontinental.
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Some' four hundred people
have been rendered homeless,
and most of them are destitute.
25 YEARS AGO
The final race of the season
for old birds held by the
Goderich Homing Pigeon Club
was flown over the weekend
from Montreal, a distance of pia)
miles, and was won ,by .the
"Sunset" loft, owned- by E.
Peachey. .
A letter from Dr. R. Hobbs
Taylor, M.P.P. for 'Huron, 'has
reached the desk of County.
Clerk Miller, - stating that the
Provincial Government has
acceded to therequest of ,Huron
Count$ Council to appoint a
magistrate . for Huron county
only.
The situation with respect to
the proposed motor road to the
north side of the, harb'or has
been clarified somewhat by the
receipt of a letter by the County
of Heron from the Minister .of
Public Works, Ottawa, in
response to a resolution p&ssed
at the June session of the
County Council endorsing the
project.
The • Norman grocery, corner
of the Square , and Hamilton
street, has been purchased by,
Mr. D. J. Allin of Toronto, who
will take possession on August
3rd.
• The property. committee of
the County Council has awarded
,the contract 'for the painting of.
the exterior of the Registry
Office on North street,to David
Munro.
•
A large number of citizens
assembled in Court House Park
on Sunday evening to welcome
home from overseas Leading
Airwoman Mildred Leitch,
R.C.A.F.. (W.D.), daughter of
Mr. artd Mrs. William Leitch,
Cameron street.
1KArS1UFiL::
By'G. MacLeod Ross
10,YEARS AGO
More than 8,700 names
2,000 more than the total
required - were obtained up to
Friday of last week . for the
Huron County petition seeking
to bring about a vote on the
repeal of the Canada
Temperance Act.
So far, the • Federal
.Government has not given town
officials notice to vacate the
Town Hall, which is to be tofn
down to, make way for a
quarter,million-dollar fedefal
building.
An early start is to be made
on drilling .two .new brine wells
by Sifto Salt Limited, Fine Salt
Plant, Goderich, on 23 acres of
property recently acquired. from
Mr. John Bosveld and Mr. Bert
Squires. The property is located
just east of the plant and
between the C.N.R. line and the
Maitland River. ,
ONE YEAR AGO
The Hon. Charles S.
MacNaughton was sworn in
Tuesday as minister 'of the_two
Ontario Government
Departments created_out of the
former Department of Treasury.
The newly expanded and
renovated Pizza Patio
restaurant -tavern on Bayfield
road, -was 4ormally opened
Friday, July 19.
Undaunted by a
schizophrenic weather,_ the
seventh annual Sidewalk Sale,
the Art Mart' and the Kinsmen
carnival provided bargains,
entertainment and a plain good
time to thousands of visitors.
who crammed The Square 'last
week.
Paul Schutz "was appointed
sales manager for W. J. Mills
Motors on Monday, July 1. •
YORKSHIRE URDU 0
For three years now the Sheffield Police have been trying to (earn
Urdu sts that they may improve their relationship with the numerous
Pakistanis'in that city. however, this admirable effort has not
"" progressed ,too well because t'rdu spoken with a Yorkshire accent
does not resemble clearly.the Urdu of the Pakistani, which is spoken
with more of a Welsh sing -song. But the police — only six of them
now, for 1ave up the unequal struggle — are sludging on: "Ilum
kamra men ja hain" is literally translated as "i room into going
am." This does not sound a very useful phrase for a policewallah..
Better: "Chowki men jao!" "Prison into go!" And you thought
you were being put upon when asked to learn French!
COPPER MINING IN EGYPT
Hathor was the Egyptian goddess of child birth singing and
dancing. The effigy in the British _Museum shows her as half cow.,
half woman. Another temple to her has just been excavated in the
Negev desert. It was built 11-y Pharaoh Seti 1. (1309.1921 B.('. ). This
is the furthest known site of Egyptian'eult.s outside the Nile Valley.
The whole area farms part of the wilderness into which Moses led
the Israelites 'after they crossed the Red Sea. This temple has
disclosed images of Hathor which show her as a heautiful woman
with a Mona Lisa -like smile. Why did the isrealites go so far afield`?
One theory is 'they went to work in the Egyptian ,copper ripper mines of
Timna, being accredited, as it Pete, by the Midianites, the local
tribe, with whom they already had crultural and cornmerr.ial ties. It is
too early to assess the impact of this discovery, hut Dr, itothenburg,
who is writing a history of copper mining in the Dead Sea area, says
the history of metal technology will have to be rewritten.
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Prof. James.R. Scott, noted historian from Seaforth was present
for the unveiling of the historic plaque August 3. Professor Scott
spoke about the other'side of the lake's nature and how the lake
has been of benefit to the people of Huron County. -staff photo.
A storm centred over Minnesota on Friday, Nov, 7, 1913, caused .
the U.S.Weather Bureau to order storm warnings ' hoisted that
morning in Great Lakes ports. Southwest gales, however, are not
unusual at that time of year, and •ot ly` routine. precautions were
taken. The decision of many Great Lakes skippers to proceed with
sailing plans proved disastrous, for what was being forecast proved to
bye the'most destructive storm in the history of the lakes.
That night the storm -centre was over Marquette, Michigan, and
on Saturday morning it moved eastward to Sault Ste. Marie. There
was still no great concern by nightfall, when it was located about
Alpena, . Michigan, having swung southeastward during the day, but
that night it struck Lake Huron with unprecedented savagery. The
wined was now coupled with a blizzard, and together they caused
widespread havoc, notably in Milwaukee, Chicago and Cleveland.
This, however, was nothing compared with what was happening on
the ;lakes. •
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The first reported marine casualty was the old wooden steamer
"Louisiana;" of Cleveland, which, was driven ashore nearGreen Bay,
Wisconsin, and immediately destroyed by fire. Like those of other
ships driven aground, her crew were later to consider themselves
fortu nate.
.Few "takers" of the time had radio equipment, hence their
owners and the relatives �f their crews could only conjecture how
they had fared. The worst ; imaginings fell short. of reality,.
particularly as concerned ships on Lake Huron. The first intimation
• of disaster was the report of a vessel upside down, "a dozen miles
-northeast of Port Huron, Michigan. The report came on Nov. 10, yet
as it was the first' confirmation of a vessel totally lost among the
many missing on Lake Huron. Her identity remained a mystery until
the following Saturday, when a diver established her to be the
."Charles S. Price," of Cleveland, one of the largest and newest ships
on the Lakes. She sank two days later.
Meanwhile' the forebodings occasioned by the discovery of the
"Price" were being confirmed as bodies and wreckage were washed
ashore, particularly along the coast of Huron County. Incredible
though it seemed, it now gradually became certain thaf seven other
freighters had `simply vanished: the "James Carruthers," "Wexford"
and "Regina" of Toronto, and the,, "Isaac M. Scott," "Jo'hn •A
McGean," "Argus" and "Hydrus," all of Cleveland. No trace has ever
since been found of any of them.
Nol a soul survived from any of their crews, which totalled some
187. The work of recovering and identifying their bodies was
undertaken' by the Welfare Plan Committee of the Lake Carriers'
Association. The_ committee, headed by Capt. E. O. Whitney of
Ashtabula, ,Ohio, made its headquarters at the Bedford Hotel in 0)
Goderich. Fewer than one-third of the missing men were ever found,
and not all of those were identified. Five unidentified bodies were
buried at Goderich and three at Kincardine. Please turn to page 5
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