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Editorial....
Minor
It seems this is the week for hockey
beefs to be aired and perhaps it's about,
time. Things have been left to go too long
in Goderich, certainly for a town that is
supposed to be known for its hockey.
The Goderich Minor ' Hockey
Association is ,faced with a problem this
year that is not of its own making. Ice
time _rates • at the arena have been
increased drastically over past years and
that too is something that has been left to
go too long.
Nobody wants to see ,the youngsters
socked with 'a big bill in order to play in
the minor leagues, but the arena can not
continue. to be run with ice time rates
dating back' to the days of 20 years ago.
Everything—costs more — every year —
and unless something is done soon to put
the arena back into shape, nobody will
have to worry about ice time anymore
because there just won't be an arena.
The Goderich Recreation and
Community Centre Board took on a task
at the beginning of this year that even the
present members of that board didn't
know existed. Th condition of the arena
is pitiful benothing has been done
to prevent the deterioration of it.
It has only been in the past couple of' -
years, largely through the work of arena
manager Bill Lumby, that anything has
been done there. It seems to have been a
policy of the committee of .council
responsible for town recreation in the past
to ignore the arena, or other town
facilities, until something fell down and
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Hockey
they spend a small fortune putting it
right.
To put things right at the arena now is
going to cost a. bit more than a "small"
fortune.
The question of parity for ice time has
long been a,subject of debate in Goderich,
notably because of the break between the
Goderich , Figure Skating Club and the
Goderich Minor Hockey Association as far
as rates went. It can never be called fair to
have one group consisting of young
people, boys and girls, paying $7.50 per
hour, and another group, consisting
entirely of boys, paying' less than $1 per
hour. '
This doesn't necessarily mean the
hockey boys were paying that much less
than the figure skaters, because, by its
nature, hockey limits the number of
people that can be on the ice at onetime,
whereas with figure skating this is not
true.
Nevertheless, there has not been parity
of fees and the change has long been
needed. Both organizations must now pay
$5 per hour.
This puts the minor hockey boys in the.
position of having to find more money to
pay the bill. The rates for minor hockey
have, therefore, been, increased
accord ingly.
The amount of increase will be
discussed at a special 'Meeting to be held
at the arena this Sunday, October 19, at
7:30 p.m. Parents of children who are
going to enter minor hockey are urged to
attend.
the cost of the Junior Bs
When the Goderich -Siftos open—their
Ontario Hockey Association Junior
schedule withtwo home games ,this
weekend, a great deal is at stake. '
Team officials, not happy with last •
year's last place finish, have gone to great
lengths to attempt to put together a
contending team. A spot in the playoffs is
regarded as a necessity if Junior hockey is
to thrive in Goderich.
Local fans are not noted for supporting
losing teams, and attendance last year was
not sufficient to justify the tremendous
,amount of work that is necessary on the
part of the team executive to raise the
money toKeep Goderich represented in
what, for a town of this size, is big lleague
hockey.
There is no better value for your
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entertainment dollar than junior hockey;
and the brand of_ hockey served up in the
Central Junior 'B' League is the best this
side of the London Nationals and the
Kitchener Nationals of the "minor
professional" 0. H.A. Junior 'A' League.
The people of Goderich are lucky to
have a hard working dedicated group of
people who don't seem to 'know how to,
quit. If they were easily discouraged, men
like Jack Evans, Harry Kerr, Jim
Wilkinson and their half dozen or so
confreres would have thrown in the towel
long ago, leaving local hockey enthusiasts
• with only the second-hand "boob tube"
TV type of the sport to talk about.
Running a Junior 'B' hockey team is a
big, year-round job. It takes dedication,
organization, the right connections, and
above all, a lot of money. •
• With fund raising activities like the
chicken barbecue held in August, the
Booster Club Buffet Dinner and Stag to
be held this-• Saturday, and " the sale of
tele.gha te- .-b-oncovers_ which contain a
listing of the business
n
business and frequently used
numbers . in town, the Goderich Booster
Clue worts year-round with only one
p0 rpose lir rrrind . to keep Ju nirrr-- 'E'-
hockey alive. When the fans react by
staying away in droves, Booster Club
members must wonder whether it's all
worth it.
But these people don't kid themselves.
. They know that to put people in the rink
in Goderich you have to do one thing.
Win. -
The problem is that winning hockey
teams in Junior 'B' hockey are expensive
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and more than that, hard to come by in a
town with a limited supply of minor
hockey players good enough to play the
calibre required,/ and where funds to,_make,
it easier -to bring in the necessary talent to
produce a winner aren't that plentiful.
Local merchants and the few industries
the town possesses are usually generous in
tfieir support, and so arethe people of the
town who buy tickets for the Stag Night,
and sundry other activities the Booster
-Chit can dream up to raise funds.
But`'the team must also attract,eop1e
to their home games if they are to avoid
- the crippling deficits that give team
officials sleepless nights and worried days
of -hard -work.
Jack Evans, the prime mover behind
the Junior hockey business in Goderich,
has devoted countless =hours- -and -hisconsiderable hockey knowledge and
contacts toward making this year's team
the best in some years. But its notall that
easy to come up with a winner. 'Despite
the fact that players from as far, away, as
St. Jo{hn, N.B., and Sudbury have been
brought into camp to supplement the
group -of returnees from last year's team,
there is no guarantee that the team will
win games.
It depends on many factors — most of
them agonizingly unpredictable: Will the
rookies from last year come through the
way they should? Will the new imports be
good enough to make the team win? Will
freshman coach Bill Gallow be able to
mould the players into that elusive goal —
a team with pride and desire? Will the fans
. support the team?
Only time (and hockey games) will
provide the answers to these questions.
ter Club
year's.
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cess by
supe iAg_tbe--tean-r_ irab.e_ first .r. aa._ho
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games of the schedule this weekend. The
first one on Friday at 8:30 p.m. sees last'
year's league champions and all -Ontario
finalists, the Strathroy. RcSckets fang the
Siftos.
The Stratford Warriors, picked by most
observers as probably the strongest team
. in the league, will play here Sunday
afternoon at 2 in the second 'half of the
weekend action for the Siftos.
The people in the Goderich Boo
are betting $14,000 (the size oft
budget) that the - answer to
questions*will be, "Yes.”
You'll be able to hazzard
as to their chances of
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Remember When ? ? ?
55 YEARS AGO
The kinetophone, or Edion
talking pictures, will be seen
here for the first time at the
Victoria opera house on October
20 and 21. Just as wonderful as
was his invention of the original
movi :<s iicture is the latest
discovery 'of the great wizard
Edison. It is pre &ct 1 fir the.
kinetophone thatre4 flesh and
blood actors on many stages in
the various theatres throughout
the cduntry will soon be a thing
of the past, to judge from the
little gasps of astonishment and
-the -char-u- _
sof "Isn-t f had
something wonderful?" that one
hears on all sides wherever the
pictures are exhibited. The
Jdnetgphone_may be called an
immense success: ,
Goderich will be lighted from
the hydro -electric lamps very
soon. This statement was made
by Mr. Fred Gould to The•Signal
Tuesday. Mr. Gould is the street
foreman and- has a gang of 17
men working in ' tbwn getting
ready. At present they are
working on the square
preparatory to erecting the new
lamp poles ' there. "We have
everything ready here, , with the
exception of the Square,"
continued Mr. Gould, "but the
trouble is that the commission
has not commenced putting up
its wires yet." However, he
thought that it was a short job
and he fully expected to see
everything complete in a very
short time. "
25. YEARS AGO -
Work has been commenced
by the Brennan Paving Company
on the construction of a mulch
road from the town 'line_ of
Goderich 'on the Bayfield road.
The contract calls for MR miles,
or . about half the distance to
Bayfield,
Validity or the will of the
late Alexander Etue, of Zurich,
bequeathing most of $10,000
" estate to one daughter, Miss
Nola Etue, of •London,'is to be
contested in court by another
daughter, Mrs. Christine
O'Leary, of Ailsa Craig, writ of
summons to the other members.
of the family concerned having
been filed at 'Middlesex county
courthouse.
A party of Boy Scouts of
America from Fort Clinton,
Ohio, travelling by bicycle, is in
town today. There are nine boys
and three leaders. '
10 YEARS AGO
Ontario Department of
Highways trucks and other
equipment have been placed in
the shallow water of the
Maitland. River just west of the
Saltford bridge for some time
now, taking soundings. The
work is in connection with the
million dollar bridge to be built
over the Maitland River some
time next year.
"I have the. utmost faith in
this country. In the 30 years or was held over for two weeks by
so that we have been in. Goderieh Town Council during
production here in Canada, I its regular meeting last
4.
have found that Canada offers so Thursday.
much to industry, especially one The $4,000 restoration of the
like ours 'at'Sheaffers." So said North Street United Church was
Mr. C. R. Sheaffer, chairman of completed by Ronald Oak
.the Board of ..the Sheaffer Pen Construction Ltd. of Zurich this
Company, as .he addressed -the week.
national sales convention of the The newly installed;'' 27,000
company in Goderich this week. volt power transfortn#,� the
' The voters of both Huron arid Industrial Park ,,will**
n
Perth counties - the only two operation in December, said
counties left in Ontario where Public Utilities Commission "
the Canada Temperance Act is Chairman, David Roulston. •
still in effect - may be voting on Local taxi operators, Bob
the same day as to ' whether or Prouse of Bob's Taxi and Leroy
not the C.T.W.—should be Ryan of Curry's Taxi, were
abolished. called, tp Goderich council
Reaching agreements with chambers lastwhat was described as an
• week following
bricklayers and carpenters, "...embarrassing�incident at the.",
including a strike by _ the_ latter harbour on Wednesday night and
tradesmen, together with a delay a subsequent letter to council by Mr. Prouse in which he charged
in shipment of some of the
building materials will result in an agreement between the
the new gymnasiurii and tourist commission Taxi was price cutting."
and Curry's
classrooms at G.D.C.I. being
ready later than planned. Constable Nick Dowaniuk
MacLaren's Studio on St. faced a, novel and unprecedented
David street, has been sold by situation when the Alexandra
Mrs. Earl MacLaren to Robert J. Marine and General Hospital
Nephew, a native of Dunnville. sent him to find the right index
Proving ,that perseverance- finger Detroiter Wesley Williams
pays off, Goderich Legion "Pipe lost while unloading his boat at
Band' made an outstanding the Harbour Park, Sunday, July
showing in competition with 28
several other pipe bands at A petition signed by 18
Dutton on Civic Holiday. residents in the St. David, Park
The watery depths of and Albert Streets. area,
Goderich harbor gave up the requesting council to implement
remains - of a mishap which by-law No. 33 of 1968 regarding
occurred at the harbor .during the keeping of horses in
early part of the century. It was residential areas was turned over
an old buggy and a horse. These to the Property Committee and
remains were recovereci'from the
THAT'S LIFE!
By G MacLeod Ross
"STRICTLY PERSONAL"
This is the title of a book written by Cecil King and published by
Weidenfeld & Nicolson recently. Cecil King, was chairman of the
Daily Mlrror,until he lost his job last May. He pulls no punches when
he records his opinions of some of the distinguished men he came
across. On Churrchill: "The eulogies of. him have always seemed to
me wildly exaggerated. He was an attractive personality, with a
command of good English. He spent a lot of money and was not
proud or fastidious in the ways he acquired what he spent -
potboilers for the News of the World, or financial subsidies from
Beaverbrook and Rothermere. He had .a very strong educational
inferiority complex. He was very self-conscious about not having
been to a university. As a politician he was not the equal of Lloyd
George and in the war he was really Commander -in -Chief. There was
no Prime Minister As.a man he was more self-centred than anyone
I ever met He always seemed to me to be at heart a gifted
adventurer. Politics was a glamorous career for him; service to his
country was a subject for rhetoric; what he looked for in other men
was service to himself. The adventurer in him responded to
Beaverbrook and Birkenhead (F. E. Smith) - fellow buccaneers
"The big event of the middle fifties was Suez Harold Macmillan
left me in no doubt that a military operation was being planned I
said this was not how`trhings worked. The first British soldier to land
would inevitably consolidate support for Nasser Mr Wilson made
exactly the same mistake over Rhodesia, apparently unaware that
the more he attacks Ian Smith4he more he strengthens Smith's
position. ..
"Wilson rightly reiected the idea (of devaluation- of the pound).
His reason lie "told me was that sterling had been twice devalued
under a Labour Government I don't accept this as a valid
reason If the government finds it hard to contain inflation before
devaluation, how can they hope to do so afterwards9 It .has always'
seemed to me that the City provides a lavish living for far too many
charming men of no discernible ability.
Nkrumah. "He was always very insistent on being called Dr.
Nkrumah, though the doctorate was only honorary and from a
third-rate American university. The trouble with him was that he
was a good politician but he had no administrative ability and
could not be made to understand finance Any idea that the
Africans are stupid or incompetent is nonsense, as one soon learns
when one employs many hundreds of them. (King owned many West
African newspapers.)
Ghandi. ."To . me Ghandi was a very unimpressive man to
meet -small, ugly and insignificant: On his record he must be one of
the half -doh, ,,,,,gi atest men of my lifetime, but I could not see or
feel it when in his, presence I got the impressionhe thought
Hinduism too old, too adultereted; too corrupt to hold the
twentieth century Asked had he experienced any miracles, he
replied yes, two. The first when the British government gave
self-government to South Africa in 19`09; the other was when
Churchill was rejected at the polls in 1945 (Ghandi) said India
should always be grateful to England for two things; introducing the
English language and building the Indian railways - the two binding
forces that would keep India togeth > ." -
"I had a long talk with Johnson when he was president. He is a big
man but not a great man; a superb Washington politician but not a
good national one He gave me two impressions: (1) that he was
out of his depth on Vietnam but obsessed with it; he could not keep
it out of his conversation. (2) that he was doinghis utmost. to be a
good president but found his quite appalling past very difficult to
.shake free from. I felt that the Bobby Baker case .had leftits mark
on him."
After meeting John Kennedy and L.B.J. and noting the security
precautions in the White House itself, Cecil King remarks: "It makes
one reflect that the rulers of America and Russia are important
enough to be in hazard of assassination. Whereas our rulers and this
country are no longer important."
Now that we have had a commemorative stamp for General
Brock,.how about one honoring Tecumseh, without whose assistanceroc
Bight never have got to Niagara?
• FREE LIVING
-It is possible to; eat, drink, sleep ands even be merry in -London
these days without spending a penny. Some notes: Rested all night
in Trafalgar Square. It must be one of the friendliest places in •
London, with all manner of slap and giggle going on amongst the
--staff. Watccied..a. Frenchman -mail a letter in the "lit_ter_box". Walked
to our office where I slept on the floor in true guerilla style. At
• Canada House a lovely receptionist got annoyed when I got annoyed
that there were. no British papers. "You can buy them
outside and read them in here". Thankyouverymuchindeedmydear!
' Listened to the Black Watch band on the Embankment. A snooze in
the crypt of • St. Martin's in the Fields. Made several' telephone calls
from Barclay's Bank, one of many where it costs nothing. Popped i
into the Saudi Arabian Airlines to read the Ministry, of Information
newsletter. Hopped on an'8'8 bus and when the clippie appeared'I
asked (french accent) "I want to go to Kweensvay". You're going in
the wrong direction. "Oh, la 1". Wheii I hopped off we had covered
half a mile. At the Rolls Royce show rooms in Conduit Street, I
introduced myself (heavy Afrikaans accent) Danie van Vuuren,
just arrived from South Africa. "My wife said mustn't come home s
without a Bentley ora Rolls". Englishmen are evidently under the
impression that Afrikaaners dress as they did in the Boer War. A
demonstration was arranged. _
Friday morning I turned up for my drive in the Rolls. Mr. Deacon,
whom I had thought to be a director, put on a cloth cap and off we
went in the Silver Cloud. (about $36,000 in South Africa).„Very
interested 1 told, the salesman. Contact me at the Cumberland from
Sunday. Passing my pub, after four days for free I'thought about a
pint, but couldn't bring myself to spend money.
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the Building Inspector by the -•
bottom of the harbor during. town council last week.
dredging operations by the
Ontario Marine and Dredging
Company. It is believed that a
horse and buggy went off an old
wharf at - the h ai b-or--during__the--__.
early . part of the century to
disappear until now.
Shades of the "Azov of
elli��gton S`quare,'- -a fdined
schooner whose home port was
Goderich around t'he turn of the
• century, were to be seen at
Goderich harbor over the
weekend.
Vessel movements in
Goderich Harbor have been
..fairly heavy this past week, with
everytype of craft in from
schooners to steamers.
Completion of the building of
a new hard top on EIgin avenue
isexpected to be (140e- ,before
the end of this month.
This will be the first stage in a
re-routing of the "Thunder
'Trail" - the grain. truck route -
through -town.
ONE YEAR AGO
The Goderich Rotary Club
sponsored a lecture at the
Bedford Hotel Tuesday
afternoon, featuring two
University of Toronto sfiidents
involved in a project aimed at
preserving historic old buildings
in Ontario.
A request frorn 4MacDonald
Marine for a two-year lease on
the building it now occupies,
Denis Herbstein.
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