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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-10-02, Page 4e (91)E16 SIONALSTAR,'THURSDAY, QCTOBER 2, 1969- r GUEST EDITORIAL St. John gaApeals! With governmental agencies continuing to take over what ;were once pri`ate institutions, and assuming more and more the mantle of Father Christmas, those institutions which remain, known generically as "charities," are finding themselves being cold -shouldered by the individual citizen. Under the prevailing circumstances, ` this, attitude of mind deserves some sympathy, and, perhaps the St. John Ambulance Association suffers because its services are invariably rendered by stealth" rather than with fanfare. This Association of St. John provides some of the services for Goderich, which governmental sources ignore in greater or lesser degree. One of its more recent commitments, here in this town, at the Alexandra and Marine Hospital is to loan its Mobile Unit as a stand-by to the ambulance service provided by the province. This Mobile Unit which is equipped in identical fashion to the hospital ambulance, is invariably driven by men of the St. John Brigade, all volunteers, all trained in first-aid. One of -the inevitable results of this gesture by the Goderich Branch is that it is not always apparent whether the Unit is being used on hospital or St. John service. As is well known,-thecardinal tenet of all St. John services ' is that nd charge whatsoever 'Shalt- be made. As a resui.t when the „Jnit is used on hospital runs, patients are .charged by the hospital to which they are taken. Not one int of this charge is returned to St. „te r% In fact the only recognition. which St. John receives is that. Provincial funds pay, the insurance of the Unit, supply gasoline for hospital rurft and garage the unit. This is explained in some detail, because of recurring misunderstandings with patients who expect the St. John Unit to afford therrl free conveyance under' all circumstances. To clarify this anomalous situation still further, if the St.' John, unit is run on hospital business, the driver and attendant will NOT be in St. John uniform. So,. much then for our attempt to work for the commonwealth . ��..c..,a �+yGf' A! js.+nk+. Fti.L" ..tMNMI_'vWep.'CU:.G'w"'2Y5. •..,a+..�+#�+'.+•�A'4%,. .K. �n a view rof . In its sole right, the members of the St. John Brigade Number 304, attend all large gatherings, be theyyhockey, football, fairs, drag racing, or the recent c!edication of a memorial to those lost in the great storm of 1913. The organization 'consists (1) of the Brigade of some 16 . members, all volunteers and all trained in first-aid, a'nd_, in the case of their leisure hours so that When YOU need them, they are ready and trained to bring you immediate succour. Additionally their instructors'are ready to train you or your staff for a first-aid certificate. The , second portion consists of the branch, whose business it is to ensure funds are available for all the medical materials expended; for the maintenance of the Mobile Unit and for its replacement from time to time. The combination of these two provides Goderich and district with a form of insurance which any one of us may need, but which too 'many. of us' afford to ignore. •The word "ignore" is used, because year_after year over 6,000 Goderich individuals do not donate one cent to support this voluntary service; not a cent of which goes to reimburse the devoted men and women of the Brigade who, out of the goodness of their.hearts; provide this essential service to all and sundry. ---• Ys MAID OF THE MIST Photo by Ron Price 11111111tIIII1111111111111Ulllllllllllllllllflillllllllllltl11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111, You are insuring yourself by supporting your Goderich Branch' of St.k John and it would be a splendid gesture if, this year, it could. be said that LESS THAN 6;000 Goderich inhabitants refused to subscribe to this unique service. Spare something, if only as a token that you care; that- lou are interested. This year's Campaign Chairman is L. B. 55 YEARS AGO Graham, assisted by J. T. Morris. • Recent despatches from Donations in any amount may be sent to Ottawa gave the information the trea'surer at 3 Cobourg Street, that there are now five ,British cruisers on the Atlantic'coast. Goderich, while information on ' There is no 'difference Of instruction can be had of the secretary • opinion in Canada today as to c/o Dominion Road Machinery Co. Ltd. the duty, of the Dominion in the, Remember When ? ? or from Donald Stemp at 132 Victoril present crisis. For many reasons Lainbton county, in local option Street North, Goderich. the people of Canada are 'r has�teni t tie ;assistance p rrritory. The raid, made by a ° p^ �� Q, d `hof ' Iu:ron - Couto &" & ce ,�-�x•eat�Bntaihe"vt:�is--��-one•,; .._, .I?..,, �.- _ •� - - � ��� �- Beaded by Provincial Constab�l'e G: MacLeod Ross of ' aggression on the Rart of 25 YEARS AGO It was stated at the Court House this afternoon that no charges have yet been laid with regard to the seizure, last Saturday night,...of 106 eases -of beer and nitre cases of whiskey at the Imperial Hotel, Grand Bend. The hostelry is located in» A question of:deadIines All newspapers have deadlines. All deadlinesserve a purpose. Without them few newspapers could be printed; none could be printed on time. The preparation of material for the newspapers is not instantaneous. It takes time. The time of the front office staff, the time of the editorial department, the time of the typesetters and paste up personnel and the time of the people who make the printing plates and operate the presses. It also takes. time to get to an" item when there: are other items ahead of it. Yet there are a few, people around who bring in material Wednesday afternoon.f„or Thursday publication. By that time the first pages are off the press and the last ones about finished. Some people bring in material on Wednesday morning or Tuesday afternoon. Unless the item is of prime 'importance,_ there is little chanceit will get in the current issue. -Some people bring in rriaterial just before noon° Tuesday. Tuesday noon is the deadline. We could argue, then, that this material was in before the deadline and so it would be reasonable to assume it would appear in the issue of that week. Not always. There—are a few factors that keep cropping up in the newspaper business that throw things a bit whackey. at times, and the amount of material that comes in is a case in point. Suppose there are about 1,500 inches of space in a newspaper that can be devoted to news or information articles. By Tuesday noon, although it is the time of the deadline set for the last hour material can be received, we could well have too much material for that issue.. Some people will immediately ask themselves 'the question, "Why can't they leave outsome of the recipes or other articles that have no particular local slant to them?" It's a good question, and brings -us back to the question of time. Making. up the pages, like getting material ready for publication, is not instantaneous. It too takes time. If we are to have the whole paper ready for the mail by Wednesday night, at least some of it must be ready and out of the way long before tha€ Invariably, most of the first section of the paper will be completed by Monday evening. And almost as invariably Tuesday morning is when we start to get articles for publication. By', the time.. they are. ready it is afternoon and the first press run (the second section of the paper) has been completed. Pretty hard to take' anything out then. So perhaps this will help .people to understand why material is sometimes missed from an issue, even if it is brought in before the deadl ine� The answer, of course, is have, it at the office as soon after the event as possible. We would like to publish everything we get during the week that we get. Unfor?unately, as you can now see, it isn't - always possible. So bear with us — and mail.early for publication. 1 •� 122n ESTABLISHED d YEAR 111411 Ate Gobertril t nett -flan ' a f --Q-- The County Town Newspaper of Huron —0— PUBLICATION Published at Goderich, Ontario every Thursday morning by Signal -Star Publishing Limited ROBERT 6. SHRI[R President and Publisher RONALD P. V. PRiCE MU'naging Editor EDWARD,' J. 1YRSKI Adv.s tiiiog ilalitager a Subscription Rates $6 a Year — To U.S.A. $7.50 (in advance) Second class mail registration nui ,ober -- 0716 Britain but a war of defence William Gardner, is said to have forced upon Britain and her netted the largest haul since dominions by the German O.T.A. days. Emperor. ' The Lemoyne, largest Germany's declaration of war 'Canadian freighter plying- - the = against Russia and her attack on Great Lakes, steamed into France by way of Luxemburg ' Hamilton harbor this afternoon - look very much like flying in the and tied up - gat the Steel face .of Europe. At present she Company of Canada docks, with. has only' one ally, the largest cargo of coal ever Austria-Hungary, while there are carried on an inland waterway leagued against her Russia, system. France, Servia, Montenegro, In transporting 18;116 tons Roumania and probably Great of fuel for Stelco's hungry blast Britain, Jortugal and Greece. furnaces, the C.S.L. queen broke Italy has proclaimed . her 'its . own previous record of neutrality, and -so have Sweden, . 18,004 tons .of coal which was and Switzerland. If Spain takes a , established at this port a year side it will be with Britain. ago - Turkey and Bulgaria. must, for A welcome drop in the their own safety, either side with temperature, some rain ands a Russia or remain neutral. In the fresh north-northwest breeze East Japan is with Britain as . today brought a prolonged heat. against Germany. wave to an -end and relief to Prof. Edouard Waville, -t-he' sweltering citizens. The highest well-kno . n Egyptologist, has mark was reached on Monday returned Geneva and given afternoon, when the mercury further details of his remarkable ' reached 97 degrees. discoveries in Egypt, including a J. E. Mutch, officialsweather reservoir more ancient than the observer, says the mark of 07 Pyramids, and the tomb of the degrees on Monday was the god Osiris, king of the dead. highest in Goderich since July New despatches from Brussels llth, 1936, when 98'/2 degrees statethat -w the 'Germans on were reported. Friday evening abandoned' the Work commenced this attack on Liege,. and requested morning, from the Bayfield end, an armistice of 24 hours. It was of the southern six miles of hard stated • officially ' that the surfacing on the Blue Water Germans admitted their . Highway, to complete the entire casualties numbered 25,000.. distance from Goderich. They had, 80,000. men before Liege when the attack commenced. 10 YEARS AGO Councillor Mrs. May Mooney made history Friday when she THAT'S L1FEI By G. MacLeod Ross THE INDIANS There are 270,000 Indians in Britain and the most conspicuous casualty is "caste." Seventy percent of all. Indians are Sikhs from the Punjab, who have a long tradition of exodus from their home country. You will meet Sikh police in Hong Kong for example. But they, have learnt two basic requirements for successful immigration: Adaptability and Cohesion. - Sikhs have no aversion to alcohol, as anyone who,bas soldiered in India knows. At this late date it is hard to recall which was the greater hazard, drinking``raw native brandy with the Subedar Major, or the hospitality of a Pathan Malik, who insisted on peeling the hard boiled eggs for you with his own filthy nails. But Sikhs also love games; field hockey for example, which they play in bare feet of course. From personal experience you may be assured that their co-ordination and eagle eye make them very tough opponents. The Sikhs have brought their women and are moving towards the Western style in their' homes. Uovvever,.their adaptability does not preclude cohesion for self-protection and the preservation of their identity as witness' t -h" recent fight 'of the bus drivers to be allowed' to 6ontinue to wear the turban. But there are signs among their young of the development of an Anglo -Sikh rather than an Indo -Sikh culture. r. • • 'became the first woman ever to act in the capacity of mayor and preside over a Town Council • meeting in Goderich. Mrs. Emily A. Herr, of Birmingham, Michigan, was the 15,000th .visitor to the museui - this year — a new attendance record. To date there!have been some 15,500 people from all over the continent at the museum. This is of t;,increase of rouglTty- ; 0 over' the same period last year. Pouring of the reinforced concrete structure for the new classroom wing being built at GDCI started today. When it is finished, the laying of bricks will - follow. ONE YEAR AGO Never to be outrivalled by • their parents, who had organized the Sidewalk Sale and Art Mart two Weeks earlier,Goderich youngsters presented their version of the mini -CNE. at the annual Penny Carnival at the Judith .Gooderham Memorial Park last Friday afternoon. - Council carried. a motion giving the green tight to the installation of the water mains-, serving the Conklin subdivision on Subset Drive and Rich Street. A workshop on professionalism and leadership for Ontario secondary school teachers — `the• eighth in an annual series — was concluded over the weekend at Lakehead Preparnatory School near Peterborough. More than 100 teachers went back to school to attend the workshop sponsored by the Ontario . _ Secondary • School Teachers' Federation., Some of the views described' in last week's Huron' History Corner by W. E. Elliott are shown above. In the first view is shown the east side of North Street showing the old North Street Methodist Church with the former parsonage, Hamilton Street, Knox Church and the old town hall in the background. The second view shows the north side of Nelson Street with the former Knox Church manse, Gaelic Church and the Church of Scotland manse. View three shows something of the appearance of Courthouse Park looking through the old chain fence toward North Street and in the final view the home of 'Crown Attorney William Cochrane; the present owner, is shown. A careful look at the side of the back building will show piled lumber apparently ready for the construction of the' barn which is now -used° by the Goderich Little Theatre group. Photos by E. L. Johnson and R. Sallows taken in the mid 1880s. PEAMEAL SAVE 30c BACK BACON .b. 4 ROUND CHUCK .b.69` FRESH -- WHOLE OR HALF AM ROAST LEAN x- TENDER ROUND�STEAK and R T. ,„ I6. 99 9` Jai 4 • rr 4 r 4 N •, d