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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-09-25, Page 14 • 0 M obertt ti t� tar 172nd TEAR 39 nuunTHURSDAY, SEPTEMunBER 2S, 1969nunnuo mnunnmnNuL:1 HN11uiININIlllmumiummuumlllluunulllummlnlllimllinimmpunmimumumomummuomilmoinimlipmuommu1iumminimiumniu1mff1uuiNIiWunuluunsmolnluumummmuulI lmmlmmnnuum�lmullullmlllllllulnmulmnulmunuu�uuunn��miluunnnmana111H111#lutlgastl#1 N The installation of officers for the Goderich Kinsmen Club was held at the Maitland Country Club last Saturday and was held jointly with the installation of the Goderich Kinette Club • executive., Left to right are, front row: John P. Doherty, 2nd vice-president; Ray W. Cook, president;, Ken McGee, past president and Don Ruetz, secretary. Back row: Bob Melick, registrar; Bill Kirkey, director; Bill ; Lawless, deputy governor of zone B, the installation officer; Joseph Morrissey„ director and John Shaddick, bulletin editor. Absent were Doug Cruickshank, 1st vice president; Pau* I Baechler, treasurer- and Chuck Jewell, director. -staff photo. • Kinsmen - Kinette�fficers installed in joint ceremony. Theinstallation of officers of the Goderich Kinsmen CIub was held at the Maitland Country Club on _ Saturday, September 20 in a . joint ceremony with the Goderich • New nursing at psych Kinette Club. Installing officer was Bill Lawless, deputy governor of zone B. Officers are as follows: Ray Cook; president; Ken McGee, Ofl school. hospital A new school of nursing, approved by the College of Nurses of Ontario as a registered nursing assistant training centre," has recently been opened at oderich= -Psychiatric-Hospital. • As well ' as having enrolled nursing assistant trainees, over the next year . student nurses from Stratford General Hospital, South Waterloo Memorial Hospital, Galt, and the Perth -,Huron Regional School of • Nursing, Stratford, will attend for training in psychiatric nursing. In addition to .the affiliate students, there ,are some twenty;one students attending who, on completion of the • course, will have qualified to write the provincial registered nursing assistant examinations. The new school opened on September 2, with Miss Jean Scott, • director of nursing education in charge. Her w assistants are Mrs. J. Sullivan and Mrs. A. Dawson. At an informal 0 .0 N 1 tea on opening day, Mrs. R. A. Kreps, director of nursing, addressed the students, welcoming them and wishing them success in their respective studies. Dr. V. H. A. Black, representing Dr:' Michael F. Conlon, superintendent, briefly introduced them to the various activities of the hospital. OXFAM *ops$12,000 Receipts from the Goderich Oxfam Walk held May, 3' have. reached $12,037.90 up to September 22. A group of volunteers spent Sunday arid Monday evening preparing the last of almost 2,500 receipts and these are now in the mail.- The ail.-The committee is grateful to so many people, who - have volunteered their time in various areas of - work connected- with the walk. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIillllllllllluguilllllllulllllllllllllllll milllumo past president; Doug Cruickshank, 1,st vice _president; John Doherty, 2nd vice-president; Don Ruetz, secretary; Paul Beachler, treasurer; John Shaddick bulletin editor; Bob Melick, registrar and Joe Morrissey, Bill Kirkey and Chuck Jewell, directors. A social evening followed the installation, ceremonies with supper and dancing to the Bluetones. • The Kinsmen Club is always seeking new members and' anyone'. interested should contact any Kinsman or " the registrar. The Goderich Krhsmen tIub .met for the first regular meeting of the season on Septemben,8 at the Harbqurlite Inn. The meeting was opened with the -Kin song and grace was asked by Kin-Te,d Lamont.` Letters of resignation were received from Ed Stiles, • Vaughan Harriss; Bill Wilton, Ery Schneider and Bert Corbett. Donations have been requested for, furnishing for the Kinsmen Institute on Mental Retardation; for CANAIRELIEF and for the purchase of kwreath from the Royal Canadian Legion for Remembrance Day, November I1. - p - It was agreed $200 should be donated to the institute, and to C,ANAIRELIEF and a wreath is to be purchased from the Royal Canadian Legion. Harbour Park closest to trailers; new site sought Harbour Park is to be closed to trailers and campers on October 31 and a new site is to be found for the tourist accommodations, council decided last week. In a recorded vote eight members of council were in f•' n favour of moving the trailers with Coun. Reg Jewell the only member opposed. A delegation of two residents' - park,, of Wellington Street, who haveOfl IflUP5TrI€Ii "The people will still come to town to do their shopping," he said, "so we won't lose anything that way." He said he was not in favour of the town operating a trailer park saying he felt it should be operated by private individuals. Coun. Jewell said the deputy reeve had changed his attitude a lot since a few year ago when he was chairman of parks. Councillors felt the trailer park should be keptin town and other sites investigated before making a decision. Coun. Giesbrecht said other (Please turn to page 12). holds derision r property backing onto 'the park area, asked council to consider closing the park but not to make the closing contingent on finding another location. E. C. Hill and Dr. A. B. Deathe argued there were problems at the park which were not improving and the, park was becoming a detriment to the town. They said they felt the • park could be put to better use for the people of the town. Mr. Hill said he felt the land could be put to better use than it is at present. He said the view from the back of the homes was no longer good with trailers having been left on one site in the park for years and one had even been advertised for rent. - He said he and Tor. Deathe had met with members of council over the matter and was sure council was aware of the situation. He asked for council's immediate consideration and suggested if no action was taken now, none would be taken. He said council had decided before to close the park to trailers but had waited to find another site and nothing was ever done. Coun. Reg. Jewell, chairman of the town's parks committee said the park had taken in about $4,000 this year and he could not see throwing that amount away. Reeve Harry Worsell said a few years ago there was no problem because there were fewer trailers using the park, but added he felt the trailers had outgrown the park. He said there were other sites available for -trailers-and felt the--par-k.-.-.could be improved by stopping the trailers from using it. Deputy Reeve Walter Sheardown said he wasagainst closing the park at one time but after viewing the situation now he felt it- would be better to close it to trailers. He said he felt it •was not a good situation for home owners in the area. He said he was well acquainted with the area and felt the land was too valuable to 'use for trailers, and he would like to• see the trailers moved ` out of town now that other trailer parks were available . close b Bob Melick ,has been named Kinsmen. of the Year for the Goderich Kinsmen Club. Mr. Melick has been with the local club for five years and served as chairman of the Kin playground committee last year. The honor was bestowed "...for outstanding contribution to Kinsmen work in Goderich and the surrounding area." He now becomes eligible for the award as Kinsmen of the Year for District No. 1 and has been nominated by his club for the honour. - staff photo. y. , Council has held over a decision on whether or not it will give control of th'e industrial park to the Goderich Industrial Commission who want to develop the land for industry. The commission had asked council to give it the control of the land and supply the funds to improve the property to make it more attractive to interested industry. Dr. G. F. Mills, mayor, said it was doing the town no good to show industry the industrial park as it is now, "...because all they see is a farm." , He said the commission was concerned over the lack of response from- industry after it viewed the land and the commission felt the improvement of the property was needed urgently if the town was to attract.industry. Deputy Reeve Walter Sheardown was opposedto handing over control of the land - stating if the commission wanted to go ahead with anything at Auto show opens Thursday The 10th. annual Auto Show will be' held at, . Goderich Memorial Arena on Thursday and Friday, September , 25 and 26 and will be sponsored by the local car dealers. ThP 1970 models wall be on display during the event which is open , from 8 p.m:' to 11 p.m. each night. Free roses will' be given out to the first 100 ladies each night and coffee and .doughnuts will be supplied. The roses are with compliments of the Traders Group, Ltd.,- refreshments courtesy of Industrial Acceptance Corp. Dealers taking part in the show include Aberharts' Garage, Baird Motors, Goderich Motors, Graf and o Harris, Huron Automotive 'and Supply, McGee Motors -and Mills Motors. The ladies of the Goderich Kinette Club held their installation of officers Saturday evening in a joint ceremony with the Goderich Kinsmen Club at the Maitland Country Club. Left to right are: front row: Mrs. Vic Whetstone, secretary; Mrs. John Doherty, president and Mrs. Ken McGee, vice * president. Back row: Mrs. John Shaddick,. treasurer; Mrs. Chuck Jewell, registrar and "Mrs. Joseph Morrissey, bulletin editor. -staff photo. Questionanytime council would not hold the commission back. Councillors diagreed on whether the property •should behanded over fearing loss of control of the property. Dr. Mills pointed out the commission could not own land, but wanted to have the management of it so that improvements could be undertaken now. He said any capital expenditures would have to come• back to• council for approval but council would be relieved of the responsibility of preparing the land. He urged council to give the matter serious consideration stating there was some urgency to preparing the land. use Two residents attended Goderich Council last week to ask why the town was going to put sodium fluoride into the town's ' water supply instead of calcium fluoride as the* referendum of 1968 called for. A Mr. Baines, accompanied by another man who's name -was not given, asked council, for an explanation and was told by Dr. G. F. Mills, mayor, the council had been advised by the Ontario Water Resources Commission, who operate the local water treatment plant; that council could only ask the people if they wanted fluoridation of the water supply. The type of fluoride u d,.wQuld be 'specified. by the commission. Mr. Baines said he and another man had visited the local plant and seen bags of sodium silicate fluoride stacked ready to be used when the equipment isput into use. He said the bags were labeled' poison and workers had - to wear protective clothing when using it. Dr. Mills pointed out sodium silicate fluoride was a different compound •to •sodium fluoride and was the type specified by the OWRC. He suggested if Mr. Baines had a complaint- about Still trap shoots at 93 and hits seven out Charles Prouse, 59 'Newgate Street, celebrated his 93rd birthday on Wednesday, September 17, with relatives and friends "calling at his home all day. Mr. Prouse is still very active and his keen eyesight can be attested too by the fact he can still hit seven out of 10 "birds" while trap shootingA Mr. Prouse is a keen trap shooter and travels to Charlie Hutchinson's , farm near Holmesville -to shoot. He uses a -1-2-gauge-shot gun that has -.a 32 -inch barrel. He says it is getting a bit heavy for him now but he recently hit 92 out of 100 "birds." • raced by Charlie. He still has a photo of her taken in 1901 in front of the grandstand which had no roof at'that time. His other interests and accomplishments included helping to build the log cabin • beside - the Huron County*. Pioneer Museum for the late Herbert Neill; taking part in bicycle races at the show , grounds and getting beaten "...by a tire tread" by a man from Toronto. Coun. Reg Jewell said he would be in agreement with handing the property over to the commission for management. providing the buildings at. present on the property were left alone. The buildings consist of houses,and a barn and there are driveway areas and yards involved. Dr. Mills assured Coun. Jewell the commission had no desired to touch the buildings, only develop the area and to make it more attractive when viewed• by industry. The Deputy Reeve suggested the service could be put up to (Please turn to page. 12) He can also recall the days of log sawing contests, also held at . the fairground, and one competition in particular when he sawed and°,•flit eight cord and one quarter in four hours. of fluoride the use of it he should contact the OWRC in person. Mr. Baines said that no doctor, dentist or layman was qualified to say what _was right or wrong to put into the 'water and it was a job for a biochemist. Coun. Ed. Geisbrecht asked Mr. Baines if he knew the difference between calcium fluoride and sodium fluoride and Mr. Baines said he. thought calcium was non toxic and sodium fluoride was toxic. Coun. Geisbrecht asked if Mr. Baines knew how many parts,per million of water were specified as the correct amount to be ° added and Mr. Baines said he was not prepared to give an answer to that question, but said he could have an answer "...in a week or two." Dr. Mills said no amount of explanation would convince a person who was not in favour of fluoridation that, fluoridation was safe and suggested Mr. Baines contact OWRC. The referendum of 1968 asked people to vote on the question "Are you in favour of fluoridation of the town's water supply. The public voted in favour. of 10 The ,Goderich. Signal -Star would like to join with Mr: Prouse's friends and relatives in wishing him well on this birthday and on many more to come. Mr. Prouse was born in Benmiller, a' son of the late David Prouse and the former Mary Jane Grigg. He was married to Flora Baines of :West Hartlepool, Durham, England, on December $1, 1913, and they had three sons: Hedley, John and Benson. Benson died a few years ago, John has the Supertest station at five points and Hedley' lives in Goderich Township. The Prouses have six grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Brought up on ' a farm, Mr. Prouse turned to farming fora living and he and his wife workeda " farm in' " Taylor's Corners for 28 years. They had worked -other farms in the area and moved to Goderich about 20 years ago. Charlie has been into all sorts of things, as he wilt tell you, going back to the days of racing. pacers at the old show grounds in Goderich, which ' is now Agricultural Park. He recalls one pacer h1 •particular, Daisy B, bred by 'his father and trained and Charlie Prouse delebi`ated his 93rd birthday on Wednesday; September 17, with friends and relatives calling at his home at 59 Newgate Street. Mr. arid Mrs. Prouse had three sons, six grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren, Left to right are grandsons Ronnie and Brian Prouse, Prouse; Mr. Prouse and Mrs. Prouse, and endowed with keen eyesight, Mr. hit seven out of 10 "birds" a week ago sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Still activ+a despite his age Prouse still trap shoots and 0 . - staff photo