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The town of Goderich 15 no longer pressed the protest and put it before the
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represented in the Western Ontario WOAA, They also protested the use of
Athletic .Association softball tournament one umpire who served for . one inning
because of the actions of one man who, because the regular umpire had not
clairneil to have done so much for the arrived in time for the start of the game.
tow9 in sports. The man who filled in is a qualified
M. N, (Mac) MacDonald, the man who umpire and was convenor of the league
managed the Goderich Dodgers for •several ,,,last year. °
years and brought the team through .to meeting was called for Monday,
championships over the past two years at August 18 in Wingham at whichletters
least, let the team be suspended from the
league Monday night because he,had
refused to 'produce playing certificatefor
the players when asked during a :play off
were read from Mr. Price stating the
events that lead up to the agreement Mr.
MacDonald made; aid a letter from Mr.
MacDonald was read in which he claims to
be the manager. of the resent girls _e m,
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A disagreement arose in June:between he telegram to Mr,
Hodgins was also read. -
Mr. MacDonald and members of the team
over a suspension which the players
co sidered unfair and not valid. One of
Mr: MacDonald now denies he ever
made any agreement to release the
the players was suspended after playing certificates. He denies this despite the fact
for a senior league in London on the same it was made in . the presence of Mr.
day Goderich had a game scheduled with Chapman, a respected member of the
Exeter. The Goderich girls won the game. ' 'community and Mr. Warr, a member of
The player. was ' suspended by Mr. the town's ministry, as well as Mr. Price.
MacDonald, even though there is no rule The WOAA told the team it was sorry
that prevents a player frohi competing in it had yto be harsh, but the rules must be.
a senior 'league. If . anything, Mr. followed and the rules say certificates
MacDonald should have been pleased that must be produced. The team was
one of °his' players had proved'_good suspended from further play in the league
enough to be selected to play for the City and games played after the .end -of regular
of London.league action were void.
The members of the team decided to' So, those are the facts, and despite
continue to play without Mr. MacDonald what Mr. MacDonald might say to anyone
as manager and so notified him. He called around town, they are;,facts. He can claim
for the return of the uniforms and all he likes about not having agreed to
equipment of the team and threatened release• thil. certificates, but he will never
police action if he didn't get them. He and be able to get away from the fact that he
the agreement in front of men who
club president Chapple Chapman notified made g
the WOAA- they were withdrawing the will not condone lies. He will ,never be
team from the league and a mediator, able to get away from the fact the first
Rev. Leonard Warr was appointed in the paragraph of the letter of apology read:
dispute. "Dear . Mr.. MacDonald: _ we the
A meeting was held in Wingham undersigned agree to the conditions you
between ' the league, the players, and have set down for the release of the
management on July 21 and the playing certificates ...9 etc., etc. He will
management and players • were told to never get away from the fact he accepted
resolve their differences by Friday, July the apology with that wording nor the
fact that the newspaper, account of the
25 or the withdrawal would be accepted.
On that date a meeting was held at agreement was never questioned by ,him
MacDonald's home between the or anyone else.
management, consisting of MacDonald And he will .never get away from the
. and Mr. Chapman, the mediator, Mr. Warr fact that whatever good he may have done
and Ron Price, secretary of the Goderich ,for 'the town in sports has been wiped out
Recreation and Community Centre Board. by this act which can only be described as
For two hours discussions were held in an despicable and against all good
attempt to resolve the problem and have sportsmanship. He claims to be interested
Mr. MacDonald release the playing in sport; what the interest can be is now
certificates of the girls. He finally -agreedhard to • understand in view of these
on the condition that Mr. Price obtain a events, for he has taken a team out of
written apology from two of the' players play by his actions - a team that might
and if the uniforms andequipment were ro have gone on to 'win greater
returned. ' • • , ' championships this year; he has prevented
• The girls agreed to the conditions. The 15 girls from taking part in a sport that
apology was taken to Mr. MacDonald and they have worked hard at for years simply
was also shown to Mr. • Warr. Mr. because they dared tell him he was wrong
MacDonald said it was satisfactory. The and they didn't want to play under him
uniforms and part of the equipment was any more. In short what he has done has
returned to Mr. Chapman the following not been in the interest of sport but for
Monday: selfish interests of his own.
A telegram was sent by Mr. Warr to Mr. MacDonald did indeed serve the
WOAA president H. Hogins on July 25- • town 'well for:. many years in sport and
stating: ,"Withdrawal revoked; certificates could have retired gracefully and' , could
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Huron History
Corner
STYLE VARIED WHEN INDIANS
DEVISED OWN SMOKING PIPES
By Wilfrid Jury.
Smoking pipes used by the Indians were made in many styles.
Perhaps in making a pipe, the Indian allowed his fancy`'or his whim
to ploy more freely than in, any other branch of the industry. Most
tribes had their -own -pipes and made individual -styles and even
individual pipe makers displayed considerable originality in the
— forms tFiey produced:_. 3P- -
In Ontario we have found nearly every form of pipe made by the e
Indians. Barter and exchange made the distribution of pipes of
practically all, tribes available to collectors, cas they were lost or
buried with the dead. The Micmac pipe from the Pacific coast, to the
catlinite stone pipes used by the plains Indians are picked up
throughout Ontario. Iroquois and Huron pipes are plentiful. In the
collection at the University of Western Ontario, there is nearly every
style -of The smoking tube is
considered by most authorities to be- first
form of pipe used. The trade names given to the different styles of
pipes include monitor pipes. The monitor pipe has a wide flat base.
The bowl, vase -shaped, is located in the centre of the base. It has a
small stem cavity. Pipes made by the Iroquois are usually trumpet
shape, having a curved stem. The bowl is often shaped in the form of w
an effigy. The finest of „the• Iroquois pipes are usually made of
pottery, although they also made artistic stone pipes.
As the effigy pipes are the most spectacular,it may be well to give
some attention to the wide range of styles. Animal effigy pipes are
given the names of the animals portrayed - squirrel, wolf, bear and
many others. Bird effigy pipes are named after the birds they
represent°- owl, hawk and eagle. Reptile effigy pipes are in the form a
of a lizard, alligator or rattlesnake. The handle pipe is so called on
account of the extension below, the bowl, forming a handle. The
Micmac pipe usually has an inverted acorn -shaped bowl, attached to
'a base by a narrow neck, or separated from it by a deep encircling
groove. The Micmac tribe of Indians occupied Nova Scotia, Cape
Breton and Prince Edward Island.,Vase-shaped pipes are urn -shaped;
pot shaped and high bowled. The pipes made by the. Huron Indians
were artistic and many human effigy pipes are found in Huron
county.
The making of pipes was usually carried on by the men and
some undoubtedly became famous in the trade. Their tool cases
consisted of a hammer stone, flint saws, flint scrapers and flint
reamers, stone drills of various shapes and sizes" as well as a wooden
drill which; with its blunt end used a keen abrasive and was driven
by the bow drill.
Ther pottery pipe maker had a •much simpler task: All he needed
was .clay,' a few well -shaped sticks to .suit his requirements, some
polished bone tools and pieces of string or twisted grass to place in
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released; agreement satisfactory.
As far as the gentlemen, other than Mr. -
MacDona1d, were concerned the matter
had then been resolved. The men acted in
good faith and expected Mr. MacDonald
to abide by his decision. A copy of the
telegram Was sent . by Mr. Hogins to the
team which continued to play. They
ended the regular season as league
champions.
On Wednesday, August 13 the
Goderich team entered the play-offs for
their division - and the trouble started
again.
They were facing Brucefield, a team
that had consistently refused to play them
'while thedispute was on because they
claimed the girls .had no certificates.
During .the game Brucefield demanded to
see the certificates; -"Which is their right,
and the girls were unable to produce
. them. Brucefield agreed to play the game
under protest and when they beat the
Goderich club, withdrew the protest. On
Friday; Au gni st -t5 _i e secb`n-d-gam- o-ftf're
series was°played in Goderich. Brucefield
again asked for the certificates which the
team could not produce and again a '
protest was lodged. The umpire was
informed that Mr. MacDonald, seated in
the stands, had the certificates and the.
umpire went to the stands and asked Mr.
MacDonald ,. if he had them. Mr.
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MacDonald refused to produce any
certificates for the .team and._when
Goderich won , the game, Brucefield
have retired the name of the Goderich1
Dodgers with him. He would have been
remembered as a man who brought a girls
team championship to- Goderich for
several years and who introduced young
girls to the sport and' led them along the
right road to sportsmanship. Now he can
only be remembered as the man who
robbed the town of any chance at a
championship in 1969 and in ' so doing '
made a farce of the years that went before
because only a man truly interested in
sport for its own sake can do good in
sport, and that kind of man could never
deliberately set out to stop a team from
playing. And what else can we think but
that it was a deliberate act in view of the
events that have transpired?
The team will appeal the'decision made
Monday night. What will come of it no
one, can yet say; but ,WOAA did accept
the telegram from the man they
appointed as mediator and one would
have thought the league would stand
behind- what its -mediator-said .had _'been
decided.
It is also hard to understand how the
league could let Brucefield file a protest in
the manner it did, when it was, of benefit
to the Brucefield team to da so. OASA
rules, prohibit such actions and stipulates
that' any team doing this be treated in like
manner to the team objected against. It
would seem that what is good for the
hoose-.a•is-= rieeessar Hy—good- dor -the
gander.
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• Photo by Adrian
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Remember When ? ?
55 YEARS AGO
An excited Chinaman rushed
into a branch, bank in Toronto's
downtown district and " laid
before the manager a pile of
charred fragments of • paper,
which upon close inspection
oved to be the remains of bills
that is too close to Christmas for
any celebration.
All signs point, to a bumper
tourist season along the route. of
a the Blue Watef' Highway,
according to two men who have
just returned from a trip as far -°
north as Tobermory and east to
- fives, tens, twenties, and ° Wasaga Beach. Everywhere
abou en hundred dollar bills. It cottages had been rented and
was all that remained of $1,800 reservations made in hotels acid
in bills and was the property of .cabins far in advance of other
Jim Lee, one of Toronto's years, even of lastseason, which
wealthiest Chinamen, and a is rated asa particularly good
recognized leader adione his one Goderich District Collegiate
fellow -countrymen. Institute student council has
Lee kept the money at the recently purchased the painting
bottom of an old trunk in an "Vie
upper room Of, his store on West Organique,"painted . in
1966 by Katja Jacobs, a Toronto
Queen street. While. holding a artist. John White, student
candle to search through the council ; president, reports that
trunk, the Chinaman had the council paid $4.50 for the oil and
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misfortune to drop the lighted gesso painting. A mural by Mrs:
candle. Alfred Gatterbauer, of
It has been computed that Kitchener, is expected . to be
about 36,000,000 babies are delivered to the school- soon.
born into the world each year. «
The rate of production is Within a few years,.we'll have a
good collection of Canadian'
therefore about seventy per,
" he says,
minute, or more than one for art
10 YEARS AGO
every beat of the clock. Big time wrestling - direct
25 YEARS AGO' from Maple Leaf' Gardens,
The , Ontario Department of Toronto - returns to. the
Education announces that Goderich Memorial Arena next
schools -in this Province will have Wednesday evening for the first
a holiday on June 8th for the time since 1950.
.observance of the King's Attendance at Huron County
birthday. His Majesty's birthday Museum this season is off to a
actually is December' 14. but flying start. On Sunday, it went
THAT'S FIFE!
By G. MacLeod Rats
THE WOLF CHILD
Peter, the Wild Boy, was born about 1712 and he lived to be 73
years old. Found in Hanover, he was brought to England by George
I, after he had been found as a.boy of about 13 walking on his hands
and feet, climbing trees like a squirrel and eating grass. It was
impossible to train or teach him. Buried in St. Mary's churchyard,
Northchurch, Herts, an inscription in the church states: "after ablest
m5�steys tract failed- to-m-ake him -speak -he was --sent to -a faxm...where ..
he ended his inoffensive life in 1785." For years he wandered about
with a collar round his neck requesting all a>rd sundry to.return him
to Mr. Fenn of Berkhamstead.
CIDER
Charlie Batt has been making cider for the last 60 or 70 years, just
as did his father .before him. He uses any sort of apples in the press,
which he says: "You can go on screwing until the pips squeak." It is
allowed to ferment for 3' months but 6 is better, and a couple of
years better still. Cider has a very high alcoholic strength, especially
when sugar is added and a pint is usually quite enough. "Of course
you get -used to it and a good man can work up to three or four pints
at a time. It is time -% stop when tiffe legs feel wobbly,'" says Charlie..
"They do say it gets you in the end. Usually in.the nineties!"
AMERICA'S MOON JOURNEY -
It is of some interest to look back. on America's first efforts to
rocket to the Moon. It was December 6th, 1957, two months after
the Soviet had successfully launched Sputnik I. At Cape Canaveral
attempts to emulate the Soviet success were being made with a
satellite one fiftieth the size of Sputnik, propelled by a rocket called
Vanguard... The module rose only a few inches from the ground
before collapsing in a fiery heap. Next day the headl• 'es read:
"Kaputnik"; "Stayputnik"; and "Flopnik." President isenhower
dismissed Sputnik as: "One small ball in the air." Sherman Adams
remarked American purpose was to serve science, not to win an
outer space basketball game.
What the public did not know was that the Redstone missile, built
b,y von Braun, had stood ready 'nine months- earlier, to push an
objgriffrot outer space. 'Today' von Braun promotes rockets as Billy
Graham promotes God. "Hitting the Moon is easier than hitting 'a
moose," he says. Perhaps the answer to a six-year-old girl's letter to
von Braun: "Dear NASA, please send me yourThing," was the 7.6
million pound thrust Saturn 5 rocket which started Armstrong,
Aldrin and Collins do the Moon landing this year.
over the 2,000 .mark, which is
725 more than for the same day
last year.
There's a bright, new look at
Eedy's Lucky Dollar Food
Store, which this week
celebrates its 10th anniversary in
business iri Goderich.
Three youths in a boat
negotiated the. Maitland' River
fora distance of about ten miles
on Sunday. Pushing off from
Patton's Bridge at 10 a.m., they
arrived at Saltford at 6 p.m. The
youths were John Hazlitt, Don
Feagan and Russell Kernighan.
Some of the going was tricky
and treacherous.
The 3Qth annual Lake Huron
Contract. Bridge Championships
will be staged at Goderich on
June 26 and 27. Sponsored by
the Goderich Bridge Club, the
games are played at Sky Harbour.
• Airport.
White lilies are being painted
on certain Goderich streets to
mark crosswalks and to guide
traffic at "complicated"
intersections. ,
It's farewell to the
century -old Kingsbridge Store
on Wednesday, June 3rd. The
Ontario Department of
Highways is holding an auction.,
sale that day at 2 p.m., to sell
the building and other adjacent
ones. However, the sale is on
condition that they be
demolished and moved away.
The ground on which they rest is
to beused by the highways
department to make
improvements at the corner of
No. 21 Highway and Concession
six, Ashfield township.
Generations of people in the
district have shopped at this
the stems which would burn out in the process of baking, leading the
hole -in the centre of the stem.
The most noted pipe material came from Catlinite Quarries in the
Town of Pipestone, Southwestern Minnesota, discovered by George -
Catlin, noted traveller and artist. This pipe stone, when freshly
quarried, can 'be cut with a knife. It is usually drilled•. This material
takes a very high finish and furnished the plains Indians with the
material for .their pipes. There is a tradition that the ground
surrounding the quarry was held for centuries as neutral groundfor
many warring tribes who visited it -to secure stone for their pipes. .
As the North American Indian, considered his tobacco a direct gift
from his ,gods and therefore not to be•treated irreverently, his pipe,
Targe or small, elaborate or plain, was his altar, and when he burned
his tobacco in it he was .offering holy incense to these deities From
this respect, in which it was held°by'the Indian, tobacco and thepipe•
have spread into ,every land, adopted as 'a matter of personal
pleasures. Thus -has developed one of the greatest single industries of
our time, owing directly to'the North American Indian.
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store. For the past 11 years it
has been operated by Mr. Frank'
MacKenzie.
ONE YEAR AGO
Ontario Minister of
Agriculture William A. Stewart
,told about 1,500 Conservative
supporters , at Goderich
Agricultural ,Parke Monday that
Canadians must put a stop to
inflation,the high cost of living
and stop -gap measures that
retard the Canadian economy.
Forty members of Goderich
public school safety patrols left
their posts and, "took off" -last
Thursday as the Goderich Lions
Club sponsored an afternoon of
flying at Sky Harbour Airport.
Veterans from Westminster
Hospital, • London; were treated
to an afternoon of . fishing at
Goderich, last Wednesday. The
'"old sweats" were taken to, the
Goderich breakwall op the tug
"Donald Bert," owned " by
Donald Bert McAdam, of
Goderich, and left for most of
the afternoon to try their
angling skill. A large tarpaulin
over the tug served double duty,
shading the fishermen ,from the
sun in the early afternoon and
from a sprinkle of rain later.
Trophies, plaques acid. jackets
were handed out to over 300
squirt, mite, midget;and bantam y'
hockey, players at the annual
minor hockey banquet held at
Goderich Memorial Arena
Saturday.
Members of the Goderich
Lions Club pedalled their way to
their regular meeting at the e
Harbourlite Inn last Thursday
evening as part of a "fun and
fitness" program.
11* Federal agricultural minister
J. J. Greene unveiled a six
million dollar export trade
permit for the supply of road a,.
graders to ,Argentina during a
campaign speech sin Goderich
Courthouse Park Saturday,
afternoon.
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