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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-08-14, Page 4s 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 happening to a mlllunitllluillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll1. 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'. 0,184111' (faibitiril Wigttatlotar, ,Q ESTASLIS:HED 122,nd Y EAR 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. INN 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. Subscription Rates $6 a Year - To U.S.A. $7.50 lin advance) Second class mail registration nui.ther 0716 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. • - 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 t. 0 0 w. • 1, b MEATY -SAVE 20' LB. PARE RIBS EXTRA LEAN a .b. 69 R • UND CHUCK .b. 794 HOME-MADE EAD CFEtSE 20 LB. PAIL LARD .40 lb.: 594 95 N 'I)