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