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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-09-18, Page 4Gp*[CH &ICFNAi`STAR, THURSDAY, yEP`FFNUR 18, 1969 ••1t will be done" ' t n any successful program of basic research, there comes a tantalizing Moment when it is clear that victory lies just around the bend. It is at that moment - when the • challenge shifts .subtly but vitally' from "Can it be done?" to "Will it .e dorfe? Such a point has been reached f/ • in Canada. We are on the threshold of the best arthritis control, program in the world. The answer more often than not rests - with ,thepublic. Without their support, both through greatly increased funds. and • determination, the prospects for success are slim. This happened with penicillin - for 10 years, almost nothing was done to bring it to world supply. Thousands of people died, although the basic knowledge needed to save them was available. - Over 5% of Canada's total population suffer • from arthritis and the other% rheumatic diseases. Anyone is susceptible, even the very young. Arthritis usually strikes in the prime of life, It claims more victims than cancer, heart disease, tuberculosis, and diabetes combined. It,�, may not take your life, but it can make it miserable, While The Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society does not claim a cdre for arthritis, its medical advisors agree that the conquest of arthritis in -our time is a matter of scientific probability. The Society's goal is a total answer to the arthritis- ,problem - both prevention and cure. C. A. R.S. seeks your support of its program of patient -care services, education and research. It is a cause we warmly and urgently endorse. September is "Arthritis Month." Support the current campaign of The Goderich Rotary Club to raise $1,000.00 as this community's share. Donations may be made at the locaLbranch of the Royal Bank. Tailgaters SOMEWHERE between the largest trailer combination and the smallest compact, we find a creature known as the tailgater. ' Tailgaters 'come in assorted sizes and shapes - mostly repulsive. You find them everywhere - but mostly two feet from your rear bumper. Undertakers lovethem, drivers being tailed hate them; and empty highways frustrate them. A tailgater is ignorance with a weapon at his or her command, death with a gleam in its eye, stupidity with the power to kill, irresponsibility with a driver's license. A tailgater is a fabulous creature. Dracula, the energy of a 400 -hp 'engine, the curiosity of a rear bumper inspector, the enthusiasm of a hor, a nan chasing Lady Godiva, and the shyness of a fullback three yards from the goal line. Polluting No . one else is Oso familiar with the hospital emergency room, or so at home in traffic court. When you don't want him, he's grinning at you in your rear view mirror. No one else can cram into 20 years of driving, 20 assorted varieties of cars with shoved -in front ends. A tailgater is a fabulous creature. You can charge him higher insurance premiums, but you can't charge him with the murder of his victims. You can suspend his license, but you can't suspend his driving. He's your terror , your shadow, the cause of. your cursing; your . constant, too -close companion on the road. But when he -finally turns off at a tavern, he's a soothing vacant space behind your vehicle, a toothache that's stopped hurting, a feeling of safety in the world. (American Society of Safety Engineers) 0 �blivl�n "Are We polluting - ourselves into hauls of inedible fish and mysterious oblivion?" . ,� animal sicknesses. A. S. Bray, Ontario deputy minister of "Even our earliest harbinger of spring, Tourism and Information Sunday posed the robin is being' afflicted by the effect this question to members of the Outdoor of DDT. A calcium - imbalance 'causes Writers of Canada and called on them to fragile shells, with the result they are now be leaders inthe critical anti -pollution eating their :own -eggs, a bizarre and bale• urnatural--reaction ," he stated-. • Business, government' and individual citizens are being : forced to explore and clarify man's long -ignored dependence on the thin envelope of air, water and soil in which life exists. "The earth is smothering with the' material man is throwing away, and soon there may be .no more "away" to throw it to," Mr: Bray said. He exhorted the outdoor writers to He said almost every week now brings become fighting members of the crusade new warnings of impending ecological against pollution by informing the public, upsets within_ our planet's infinitely and .sportsmen in particular, of "this inter -dependent chain. of life processes, growing' threat not only to the quality of such as certain birds becoming, extinct, life but to survival itself." Letter to -the Editor Speaking to the .group's annual conference in Harrington, Que., Mr. Bray said the problems extend to every society around the globe where ever-expanding industrialization has created -a crisis --of excessive waste that is poisoning - and. not always slowly n plants, wildlife and indeed man himself. BARRED FROM HERITAGE With our need for more public beaches - not to mention accesses to existing ones - steadily increasing, it is a bit disconcerting to note the efforts of two prominent resident as they attempt to close .existing ones. The frustration of being surrounded by miles of beach and river .property - most of it completely inaccessible - has longi been the lot of Goderich area residents. The policy of townshipcouncils seems to be to keep beach . right-of-ways 'impassible, or, as at Bluewater Tew-yearrago; to allow cottagers to fence them, and charge the public wishing to use them. A prize case, in Goderich Township, is where-- a cottage was allowed to be -built part way down the lake bank, square and true in the middle ,of the public road. The direct path to beach takes one up the east side of this roof, across the ridge -pole, and down the west - a procedure understandably rough on morale of all concerned, not to mention the shingles . And so it goes. Early this summer Mr. and Mrs. Ben Homan, of Ridgeway Park, requested that our Town Council close a narrow right-of-way :to the river just north of the CNR tracks. The Homans, whose holdings include both banks of the Maitland River ' from mouth • to CPR bridge, all of Indian -Island, and a mile or so of superb sand beach north of the river's month, argued that this small' public boat -launching area would mean a financial loss to them should they ever wish to open a marina of their own. At present they charge-a--yearly-fee-of- $1 -0 -for -- persons wishing to reach the river through this property. Many local sportsmen dispute their right to do this. Last week we -read - with apprehension how Richard Robarts, in a folksy, father -knows -best style fireside chat, suggested to Council that his family be allolded to buy (and close) Hibernia Terrace a public park and 99' public right-of-way to the beach. Mr. Robarts, a summer resident, was objecting td'" -'a storm sewer crossing his property. Last year he blocked a proposed extension of the south beach road. Controversy is not new to this right-of-way. Illegal fences have appeared across it in the past until ordered down by town authorities:. On other occasions sunset viewers have found they were parked on top of nail -studded pieces of plank. The whole situation cries for expropriation - a power which our Town has, and • should not hesitate to use. I grant that it is slow, costry and often unfair. But it .is even more unfair for the public to We -Li natural heritage by a few selfish individuals. Modern .. ,$ ? bing has wrought wonderful changes in our lives. Otherwise I could make a very constructive suggestion as to where Council could best utilize future communications of this sort. • J..C. Hindmarsh ESTABLISHED jJfr'122nd YEAR 111411 Sabertril *ignai-Otar of —0— the County Town Newspaper of Huron --C P U B L I 1 T 1 O N Published..at Godericji, Ontario every Thursday morning by Signal -Star Publishing Limited RO8FR1` G. SHRIER President •ad Publisher RONALD P. V. PRICE 1-'' lAtaugiieq Editor EDWARD 1. tY'RSKI Advertising M uq.r Subscription Rates $6 a Year -- To U.S.A. $7.50 (in advance) . Second class mail registration nui . rber — 0716 4, ON `N. CHALET uuuimuuum mmiuumuimmi n immo nmuuiummumummmumuiumiiiiiiu ummili muummmiunmuuuumunummu mnunmummmmumuuininummm. Photo by Ron Price Huron History Corner f9 -t Remember When ? ? ? 55 YEARS AGO . German casualty lists which have reached The Hague are appalling in their extent. Published under the authority of the German , General Staff, they occupy nearly six full pages of the official Reischzanger. A Russian army of 72,000 men•• -transported from Archangel,' Russia, was landed at • Aberdeen, on the east coast of Scotland, on August 27 and was conveyed on special trains to Harwich,, Grimsby -and Dover, where transports were waiting to take them to Ostend, in Belgium, according to officers of the Cunard. Liner Mauretania, which reached New York Thursday night from Liverpool. A• statement issued Friday by the British War Office and Admiralty said: "According to information derived from a trustworthy source, seven German destroyers and torpedo boats have arrived at Kiel in a damaged condition, and it is understood • that "others have been sunk in the vicinity of the , Kiel Canal." `25 YEARS AGO Goderich is to have a military spectacle, next week when a battalion of. infantry from Ipperwash Camp will arrive to defend Sky Harbor from an imaginary attack ,- by .forces striking from the lake. The "attack" will begin at daybreak on Thursday morning and there ,will be considerable tiring with the 6 -pounder guns, with which • the battalion is. equipped. (As these guns, have a range of about 3,000 yards; ships should , keep .WelL away from shore.) The victorious Russian armies stride westward day by day with • ever more majestic authority. They have conceded no recovery from the great German collapse. Sgt. Everett, Youngblut, of Goderich, has been awarded the 1939-43 Star for service in the Sicilian . and Italian campaigns. Everett- is--the-su-perintendent of a signal office attached to an artillgry formation headquarters. Recently he spent leave in Naples arid Rome. The earth tremor which centred at, or near Cornwall, Qnt., • about 12.40 o'clock Tuesday morning, had its -effect in Goderich though many who were sound asleep knew nothing of it until after rising at their usual hour they • were greeted with the query, "Did you feel the earthquake?" Following as it did the electrical storm of . the night before, , when thunder rolled across the heavens almost incessantly for hours, it seemed, and soine claps jarred houses and shook people in their beds, Monday night's experience was rather trying for those whose nerves had hardly recovered from the experience of the previous night. The tremor was felt as far east as Quebec City, as far west as Windsor, and ._ .at Sudbury and THAT'S LIFE! By G. MacLeod Ross Sault Ste.. Marie in Northern Ontario, also at some places in the ;northern states. It was said to be the most- serious earthquake in Ontario and Quebec since 1935. 10 YEARS AGO Tradesmen working on the G.D.C.I. additions, who went out on strike at 11:30 a.m., on Wednesday of last week, retnrned,to work on, Wednesday morning , ' of this week, No official reason was given for their-decasioh—to- return -to the job • although one of the workmen said they were "fed up" with not working and no pay coming in while another said they realized it was an "unlawful .strike." Resumption of work on' the building of the 'new IGA supermarket on South street is under way again. ONE YEAR AGO John D. Allan, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Allan, 144 Warren Street, Goderich; has been named chief executive: officer of the Commercial and Farmers National Bank at Oxnard, California, it was announced recently by Martin V. Smith, chairman of . the board of directors. The Ontario Housing Corporation,has been approved a federal loan in the amount of $104,495 for the construction of 12 senior citizen housing units. The new druggist at Rieck Pharmacy, A. G. Barber, Phm. B., was Larry Rieck's classmate at the University of Toronto in 1949. THE "BEAVER" AGAIN David Farrer spent six and a half years as political secretary- to Lord Beaverbrook and in his book "G -For God Almighty" he gives some amusing insig , into t1�ie cRa� c er•of-his-'hoss:-In--many wn= he was a political animal, but he was never a politician, says Fairer. He was also a born play actor. He launched an appeal for aluminum pots and pans to build Spitfires, then for iron railings and gates for shells. Their value was miniscule but giving them made millions of people feel involved personally in a war that then seemed remote. He advised Churchill to keep silent when Chamberlain resigned, because he calculated the only way- Churchill could lose the Premiership was by demanding it. His mercurial character made him be considered a sprinter rather than a marathon runner. He sent in 15 letters of resignation before he actually resigned as Minister for Aircraft Production. When Randolph called for him, Beaverbrook's valet told him: 'The Lord is out walking," to which Randolph replied; "On the water, I presume:" A thoroughly gentle warm hearted book this, about a warm hearted, many sided, often mixed up man, who made millions of pounds but could not convert people to what appeared to him to be essentially simple and sound beliefs, both for his country and what he used to' tall the Empire. [G - For Goll Almighty. by David Farre'. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 30/-1 "THEY.", Do you in your household have a mysterious force known as "They"? To some people "They" are grey -faced bureaucrats, the enemies of the simple citizen. To others "They".are the opposite side of the generation gap; the fiendish young or the tyrannical old 'but ip the minds of many • a husband "They" -are a ghost staff of imaginary servants. "Would you be an angel and put away the wheelbalrrow? "Won't They do it?" "I'll just dear the table." "Do leave it. They'll do it in the morning." "Let's have a hooker." "They've forgotten the_ice." "Blast there's the telephone." "They can answer it." Butler, parlourmaid, gardener and tweeny, "they're" all there, in the bacicground, ready with dusters, spades and mops,to - see the house runs on oiled wheels. THE TOWN HALL BY W. E. ELLIOTT The matter of five votes blocked construction of a three-storey 4 town hall for Goderich when the electors went to the polls on January 4, 1926. A month later, G. L. Parsons presented a psetition by 254 ratepayers, praying that the bylaw "be againsubmitted." Then along came- Frank Bingham with a petition signed by 279, requesting that the bylaw "be not submitted for at least one year from January 4, 1926." council did hold a second vote, May 3, 1926, *then the electors rejected it, 571 to 398. The previous, vote had been 397 to 392. That proposed town hall got as far as an architect's sketch, discovered recently by Rev. Garwood Russell in an Ancaster book store. Name of the, firm of architects, S. B. Coon & Son, Toronto, led to enquiryof Mr. Burwell R. Coon, now retired, but well known to former members of Goderich District Collegiate board, also the Hospital Board. "I remember very well the sketch referred to,V he wrote. "This is a design we made for a -proposed municipal building for Goderich in 1925-1926, and I - do not remember . why the building was not proex ceeded with....The sketch of theexterior was made by Arthur Martin, who was an architect and an excellent delineator and was with our firm for many years." Goderich was incorporated in 1850, and for a long time the .meetings of council we're held in the British Exchange or the Huron Hotel. The municipal building on East Street, demolished to make way forthe present federal building, was erected in 1874. Ten Years earlier, according to the Huron Signal, Christopher Crabb had "offered the Crabb Block, including the stores, for $12,000." The. newspaper pointed out that part of the premises could be used for a "market and offices," and that revenue would make it possible to write off the principal in 10 years. Evidently nothing came of till's proposed deal. ` When the movement arose in 1925 for replacement of the East Street building, deemed by council no longer suitable, H. J. A. MacEwan was mayor, and the clerk was L. L. Knox, who in the minutes set forth a description of the proposed new building as follows: . "It is proposed to erect a new brick, steel and concrete fireproof municipal building, approximately 122 by 75 feet, three storeys and basement in height, to provide adeate accommodation for municipal offices, council and committee chambers, firehall and firemen's room, public restrooms, witlonveniences, community rooms, auditorium, vaults for records a archives, police quarters, police court, accommodation for, magistrate and Children's Aid department." "Robert McKay," it was further recorded, "generously undertakes .and' agrees -to provide $12,000 toward the cost of construction of said building, and more especially the community features." Debentures for 20 years, in the sum of $85,000, were- to be issued, and "considerable revenue" was expected from the building. Mr. McKay, owned the land at the southeast corner of North and • Nelson streets, where the hall named for him stands. Location of the proposed new building is not mentioned in the minutes, , no doubt because it was intended to use the site of the existing town hall. There must have been controversy, reflected,in the newspaper at the time, but files of the Signal for 1925-26 were -not preserved: Town -Clerk-- --H: Blake turned.up -council minutes . - f — the period and found the record of the official proceedings. When, after due consideration of the opposing petitions, council sent the building project to the ratepayers for a second time, it was done by the votes. of Mayor MacEwan, " Reeve B., C. Munning and councillors C. C. Lee, David Sproul, William Bailie and J. W. Craigie. Dissenting were deputy reeve J. J. Moser and councillor Wesley McLean and Robert, E. Turner. Sole survivor of that council is Mr. Turner, now a resident of Stratford More than 30 years later, when the shortcomings of the East street town hall were increasingly -evident, it happened that the Dominion public works -department was planning a new post office building, and a deal was offered by which the government would use - the East street site. Town council of the, day recognized two r► alternatives - a completely new municipal building or renovation of the old one - both regarded as too costly, and so recommended the exchange. It submitted to the ratepayers in January, 1969 the question: -"Are you in favor of exchanging the town hall property, less a firehall site on Newgate street, for the post office property and $14,000?". ' In a 50 per cent turnout of voters, 1,073approved the exchange, 540 were opposed. . There had been a plan to put the police.in the former post office. basement, but opportunity arose to purchase the Capital Theatre building and refit it for both police and fire departments. The former post office, a sturdy stone building good for many years, had proven a satisfactory municipal fpuilding,, and the town escaped a debenture issue which in 1926 would have been $85,000 and in 1959 two or three times that amount.. t 4 • MEATY +-- SAVE 20c LB. SPARE RIBS CENTRE CUT -- SAVE 30c LB. LOIN PORK CHOPS BONELESS -- POT R AST BEEF MADE FRESH EMILY USAGES. Ib: Ib. 894 .b. 594 2 99a ;t0' 9 - - . , .' f - A'' ' _ ♦ - it i r • •, •