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4 iQDERICH SIGiklAtrSTAR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1969
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Editorial...
" If all printers were determined not to print anything till
Ailey were sure it wouid offend no one, there, would 6e
-- _ very titde printed ..."
Benjamin Franklin
Out in the open
Councillor Frank Walkom, at the last
meeting of town council asked Dr. G. F.
Mills, mayor, if a story in the Goderich,
Signal -Star referring to council and the
safety council was correct, saying - and
we quote - "I realize the paper has often
misquoted people in the past."
The outcome. of the. question has no
bearing on this editorial. The point we
now take up is the- continual use of
statements by members of council that
either they, or other members of council
have been "misquoted" in this newspaper.
The statements . usually follow
publication of controversial issues brought
out in council. The only way statements
made in council are brought to the
attention of the taxpayers is through the
Goderich Signal -Star. Which brings us to a
question: Are these members of council
really being misquoted or are these claims
of misquotes merely being used, to ease
the antagonism of irate taxpayers when
they read what has been said?,
If these people have . jndeed been
misquoted, they deserve an apology. If
they have not, the use 'of such statements
should stop. Either way, the people of
Goderich deserve to know the truth. •
So we would like to offer space to any
member of town council who feels he has
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been misquoted to air any beefs in public.
Show us, through the use of clippings,
where the misquote was. If they do not
have the newspapers containing the
alleged misquotes, we will be glad to
supply them. We will reproduce the
misquote with an apology if necessary and
will also point out any errors in the claims
made.
There has also been at least orte claim
made by a member of council that the
Goderich Signal -Star deliberately failed to
publish a statement outlining the
objections of the members of council who
refused to agree to a motion to sign a
lease for the former proposed site for a
new dump.
We offer the same space to this member
of council to air this beef in public. -
It may. be that all of the claims are true,
as far as misquoting is concerned; it may°
also be that they are all cases of
misreading the articles on the part of the
claimant; either way, let's get it out in the
open. At least that way the people of
Goderich will know where the truth lies
with regard to certain .issues and the
Signal -Star will no longer have to put up
with the insinuations made by members
of council.
Those who remember
The annual Remembrance Day service
was held at the cenotaph in Court House
Park on .Tuesday, November 11 with the
largest attendance in many years.
It must make the veterans feel good to
have so many turn out for the annuat-tlay
that `-is set aside to .remember those men
and women wwho gave their lives in two
worIcrwars.' •
- It must have made the veterans feel,
that much better this year to see the large
number of children present for the event.
,Those who 'died did so in order to let
others have a future. The children of this
---- day are the future those -men and women
thought about. It was a fitting tribute to
them that the children turned out in such
numbers and that during the ceremonies
they were so well .behaved. •
The final touch came at the end of the
ceremonies, after the vets had placed their.,
poppies on the wreaths. Adults r and
children by the score flocked forward to
place their poppies along side the
veterans' poppies.
What could be more appropriate?
Man. a prisoner
The Canadian Bill of Rights, Part 1,
Item A, declares "the right- of the
• individual to life, liberty, security of the
person ... and the right not to be deprived
thereof except by due process 6f law." In
our poisoned environment these rights
have little meaning. After winning many
freedoms over the centuries, man now
endures a new kind of slavery slavery of
the body.
Millions of Canadians are caught in a
trap and must submit to a daily intake of
chemical poisons (some say 500), through
the mouth, nose and skin. This -attacks the
last stronghold of freedom, the inner man,
his blood, lung% liver and other organs.
How secure and free are people who carry
around 'an ever-growing deposit of DDT
and other pesticides in their vitals?
Freedom to select what -goes into your
body, should be the very first freedom.
Even the .drug addict and alcoholic
&eh totk[ao',1.
AID CHILDREN.
To the Editor:
,During 1968 a committee
"represgtnting the Kinsmen, Lions,
Rotary and the Children's Aid
Society was formed to
co-ordinate the giving of
Christmas pateels to needy
families and individuals in
Goderich and vicinity. It
appeared that in some cases
exercises choice in taking their poisons.
But man is a captive in our poisoned
world. There is no escape, for all must eat,
drink and breathe to live. There is the
indignity of force and violence too, the
systematic desecration of the human body
by chemical poisons imposed by
governments through neglect of the
environment and failure to act.
When are Canadians going- to recognize
their state of slavery. to poisons? People
are the victims of pollution, they are the
ones who must fight it. Clean fresh air,
water and food are fundamental rights of
man. Life, liberty and security of the
person should apply to internal as well as
external man. A poison -free environment
should bewritten into the Canadian Bill
of Rights and enforced. -Unchurched
Editorials, -United Church Board of
Evangelism and Social Service.
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there was : a duplication of
assistance, and in other cases
families were missed. To avoid
these problems the undersigned
was asked to act as co-ordinator.
We wouTd like to have the
names of as many persons as
possible this year who would
appreciate .a Chri���mas parcel. If
any reader- 'mows of such a
a' person will he (or she) kindly
phone me at 524-6232. Also, if
Photo by Ron Price
THAT'S LIFEI
By G. MacLeod Rosy
THE COST OF STRIKES
Wilfred List reports that as a result of their three-month strike
against Stela, its employees gained five cents an hour, which was t
finally got and what they could hai�e
difference between what they Y
got without a strike. This comes to $2 a week or $100 a year. Since
each Stelco worker dropped an average of $1600 in wages during the
strike, it follows that he won't, catch up on his strike loss. for 16
xears. If this is a union victory, what must a defeat be like? It begins
-to -be -clear- that a prolongedittikeis the best deterrent to the strike
weapon,
`THIS WEEK'S ANAGRAM : -,a
Can you unscramble the two anagrams: ROAST MULE, or
ROAST MULES. Send your solution, together with cheque for $500
for St. John Ambulance, Goderich Branch to: "Anagram" care
• Signal -Star. •
THAT OLD COMMUNIST DICTUM
ti The old Communist dictum that everybody has to be provided
with a job. whether he actually does anything worthwhile or not, still
stands. As a result, the U.S.S.R. with a work force of 86 million
people (versus 81 million for the U.S.A.) still records a gross national
product only 40 per cent as large as America's. There is still a
persg)ent decline in the growth output per worker this • year,
together with a massive labour shortage. One way of looking at this
policy is that it is a- form of guaranteed income for life. And what a
life! Incentive has been forgotten, even though the dead hand of
Moscow's centralised planning has been relaxed.
PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE
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any agency, church,
organization, etc. which might
possibly be supplying help to
families at Christmastime will
co-operate by sharing this
information with the
undersigned it will help make
this service club project
successful. .
Ernie Barker.
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Remember When ? ? ?
55 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 1914
There was a pleasant time in
the Oddfellows' hall on
Thursday evening when fully 50
members of t e local Orange
lo • _e, No. 1: - accompanied by
their , iv.s and - families
assemble • to partake of the
good things usually provided at
an oyster supper.
The fire committee in
Goderich recommended as
follows: that the fire hall be
repaired by giving the woodwork
a coat of paint and the -walls
kalsomined or whitewashed, the
doors 'have iron braces and the
windows new glass; that the hose'
and ladder, wagons and fire
engine be washed, cleaned etc.
to give the apparatus a tidier and
better appearance.
Vocal soloist at the patriotic
concert were Mesdames G. H.
King, A. C. Feltz, W. T. Sharp
and F. Saunders.
With this week's • issue The
Signal again passed into the
control of 'The Signal Printing
Company, Limited with W. H.
Robinson as manager and editor.
The foot and mouth outbreat.
in the United States has assumed
a very serious aspect.
The Perth County jailor feeds
his prisoners at a cost of nine
cents per day each. •
Alex Hume was made
recipient of the VictorLauriston
gold medal presented for the
highest numbi r of points gained
at entrance examinations.
25 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 1944
Fifteen
Goderich
members of the
Lions . Club have
planted 400 shrubs and trees on
the ..grounds of Alexandra,
Hospital.
W. F. Saunders is president of
the Menesetung Canoe Club this
year. Vice-president is Gordon
Bisset; secretary, N.°'R. MacKay;
treasurer, J. H. - McNee;
commodore, Peter Bisset;
additional members of the
executive, T. R. Patterson, A. H.
Jane; chaplain, Rev. Richard
-Stewart; auditors, D. D.
Mooney; G. G. MacEwan. -
The property committee of
county council , met last
Saturday to view the damage at
the county jail caused by the fire
the, day before.
Town clerk Blake is setting
the election machinery in
motion, but so far there is very
little indication of interest in the
formation of next year's council.
Flying officer Don
MacDonald, son of -Capt. Angus
and Mrs. MacDonald, home after
twenty-four operational
bombing trips over Geany and
enemy -occupied territory and a
Massey scholarship for the
top-ranking Huron County
student attending Ontario
Agricultural College at Guelph.
10 YEARS AGO
NOVEMBER 1,959
A $500 gold watch is the
trophy for a drivers' competition
during the harness racing season
in Goderich. Harold E. Wicks
made the generous donation.
Lack of fire hydrants in the
far southwest corner of the town
was brought to the attention of
council by a delegation. Mrs. J.
C. Banter, Eldon Street, added a
reminder about street lights and
a street name.
Tax arrears are about $2,000
less than at this time last year. ' .
A film work-sho ,-fior all the .
churches studying Atrica this
year was held at the Public
Library' November 9.
The • board meeting of
Alexandra Marine and General
Hospital accepted the
• resignation of Mrs. Dorothy
Easter, director of nursing and
the hospital.
The town has received 13 bids
for the $260,000 debenture
issue floated to finance the
collegiate additions.
N. E. Nielands, Ontario
Department of Highways,
Stratford, Tuesday -. officially
opened the county road between
Blyth and Walton.
The f G -DCI , senior girls
volleyball team won top honors
in .the volleyball tourney held at
the Wingham District High
School recently. Team members
are Karen Mallough, Mae
Stewart, Sheila Brown, April
Pridmofe, Barbara Alexander,
Diane L i e rman, Carolyn
Harnack, , Donna McNee,
Chrystal Straughan, Connie
MaicDo'nald, Karen Brindley and
Marion Currell.
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ONE YEAR AGO
NOVEMBER 1968
The seat for the Reeve of
Goderich gill - be- contested, in -
the December 2 election when
Deputy -Reeve Harry Worsell will
oppose the incumbent Reeve
Herbert Such. The plebiscite on
flouridation of the wn's water
will also be held De tuber 2.
Dan Murphy, partner in
Goderich Law Firm of'Donnelly
and Murphy, announced today
that he would seek election as
the Separate School
Representative for the new
Huron County Board of
Education.
A Carnegie medal has been
awarded •posthumously to L.
Michael Maloney who died while
trying to she Vernon R. Oesch,
42, from drowning at , a
construction site in Bayfield
NEWSPAPER HEADLINE
"RELIEF FOR OVERBURDENED 'AREAS TO COME FROM
TAXES: ROBARTS."
And now that the German Loan to the Province of Ontario is to
cost us 8 per cent more, when comes the relief of our brilliant
financiers whose Promotional Quotient has reached Zero according
to Dr. Peter. -
board of education when it is
installed December 9.
The Grand Old Ladies of
Goderich ice hockey did it again
Friday night as the Siftos lost
their sixth of seven Junior "B"
Central League games to the
Waterloo Siskins — their second's
straight loss to that club.
Goderich Town Council has
served notice that a bylaw will
be introduced at council which
would permit the introduction
of fluoride into the town's water
supply system.
. The Alouette I Satellite,
which has an actual Weight of
320 pounds, was launched on
September 29, 1962 — and is
still, 'to this date, in successful
orbit. It is, by far, the most,
successful communications
Satellite launched to date, by
any y nation in the world.
Hurons County Council, at a ,
special session in Goderich
Tuesday afternoon, authorized
the Warden and - Clerk to sign a
general building contract with
Monteith -McGrath Limited,
Waterloo, to erect a new county
assessment building at a'
stipulated sum of $115,365 plus
extra costs of $19,013 for a
total of $134,378.
One auditorium of Goderich
District Collegiate Institute this
Week resembled the pre -opening
scene in a new bookstore.
About 8,000 books, worth a
total of some $24,000, were
being prepared for distribution
to the school's students.
Rev. Henry de Vries will be
leaving the pastorate of First
Baptist Church here at the end
of September.
THE BATTLES OF BRITAIN
The Battle of Britain, July 10th till" October 30th 1940, decided •
something of vital importance to every nation in the world,
including Soviet Russia and Communist China. There was only one
other successful event in. British history on which so much seemed to
depend at the time: The running fight in the English Channel in the
summer of 1588, which culminated in the destruction of the Spanish
Armada. When Macaulay wrote "Such night. in England ne'er had
been, nor e'er again shall be", he could not forsee "the nation's airy
navies grappling in the central blue."
BRUNEL AND THE S.S. GREAT BRITAIN
A fund is being raised to salvage and repair the S.S. Great Britain
which has lain in a remote Falkland Islands cove for 126 years. The
Great' Britain was the second of three ships designed and built by
Isambard Kingdom Brunel. His first essay was the Great. Western,
which was of wood,and served the West Indian Steam.acket Co.
from 1838 to 1846, before•being broken up in 1857.
In the Great Britain Brunel's genius really took fire. She was built
of iron plates and was of 3443 tons burden: The conventional side
paddies were superseded by a screw propellor; a considerable
gamble. Her construction included five water -tight bulkheads, a
double bottom, power operated bilge pumps and an electric log.
Launched at Bristol on July ,15th 1843, she could average 121/2
knots in severe weather. On her maiden -voyage from Liverpool to,
New York she made the passage in 14 days 21 hours. (August. 26th
1845) -
In one great swoop Britannia ruled the waves again, and for 50
years British shipyards and ocean liners were unchallenged.
In 1846 she ran aground off the north east coast of Ireland, en
route to New York with 180 passengers aboard. Once again it was
Brunel's genius which floated her off, whej the Xnajority. opinion
was that she should be broken up. After Brunel' died -in 1859 she was
refitted with two funnels and her five masts reduced to .four and she
began a long career carrying emigrants -to Austratlia,.trooping to the
Crimea and to If& during the Mutiny. • Her last trip was to
Melboufrie in 1875. Laid up at Birkenhead, she, was now rigged
entirely for sail and her plates were sheathed for unknown reasons,
only to land up in that obscure cove in the Falklands.
Brunei's versatility as an engineer was incredible. Inhis short life
of 53 years he created the Great Western Railway; surveyed,. laid
track, built bridges and viaducts, all with gradients so smooth and
gentle' that the line was called "Brunel's Billiard Table". He built
Paddington Station and bridged the rivers Tamar and Avon at
Clifton. He tunneled the Thames and built 'docks at Bristol,
Plymouth and in Wales. If his three ships are added, of which the
Great Eastern was the last, you have a record of engineering
achievement equalled by few.
REMINDER
MAI I: NOW FOR CHB ILSTMAS
MOON TAKE-OVER: '�-- r--°•
Have the ' Americans worked out some sort of ceremony; an
inoffensive speech say, for their astronauts when they land on the
Moon. Or are they to be surprised like Captain Cook? Cook, like the
astronauts, set out on his first Pacific voyage with strictly 'peaceful
and scientific intentions. But.when he opened his sealed orders from
the Admiralty, he read: "If you find the country uninhabited, take
possession • for His Majesty by setting up proper marks and
inscriptions as . first discoverers ,and possessors." The White House
secret orders have still to be leaked!
five-months_..,hideout witb the July 18, 1967.
Belgian underground after his A group Of 39 members of the
Lancaster had been 'shot down Ontario English Catholic, o
and he baled• out, gives major Teachers Association for Perth
credit to Lady Luck. and_ Muton Counties said
William T. Abraham, son of 'November 4 that they would
Mr. afid Mrs. Thomas Abraham, like to act as an advisory
Howiek Township, received the committee to the new county
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