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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-11-20, Page 44 ! DERICN SIGNAL STAB'", THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20,,19€9 " If 411 printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would of%nct no one, there would 6e 11very tittle printed ... Benjamin Franklin Perigee, ei Seoiroxt The formation of the Goderich Minor Hockey- Supporters' Club finally will give the Minor Hockey Association. a much needed boost. The club has been set up at the suggestion of area women who felt the time had come for somebody to do something about the lack of support that has been given to hockey in general epd minor hockey in particular over the past few years. The executive of the club now comprises three people, one man and two women. They have a tough job ahead of them and they have a group of hard working volunteers to help. But they will need all the extra help they can. get. Their main objective will be to raise funds for minor hockey and, if possible, provide some .other help. The least the people of Goderich can do in return is try to supply some of the extra help. It isn't too hard a thing to do. It will cost $1 to become a member and in return members will get free admission to all regular minor hockey league games. .Membership cards can be bought from , any member of the Goderich Minor Hockey Supporters' Club or the Goderich Recreation and Community Centre Board.. So help the supporters" to help the hockey players, become a supporter yourself—in any way you can. Who knows? Perhaps Goderich is on its was back to becoming a "hockey town" again. Tatfrted4goe fre•tjaftstasece Huron County Board of Education will soon be one year old. While this initial year has been a particularly heavy one for' board members as well as new board of education staff members, we must compliment them on the admirable way inwhich. all concerned have conducted business during 1969. We have not always agreed with their deliberations and their decisions. It may be safe to say that no public body ever legislates to the full satisfaction of the press — not to mention the taxpayers. • Still we have been impressed' by the performance of the board during this first. year of operation, and we feel compelled to say so through the editorial column of, this newspaper. Werhaps' the newest legislative body in. tie county can point the way for other public ; . boards and councils longer established, particularly in the ratter of dealing with the press. At Monday evening's board meeting in Clinton, at least one board -member had some rather harsh words to direct to the two press representatives on hand. That member said that the board was "suspicious" of the press and indicated it was probably due to the fact that the press was guilty of distorting the facts, ever ,so slightly leaving the wrong impression with the readers. Still the board voted in favor of sending copies of "back up" material to members of the press prior to the meetings on the understanding that none of it would be made public until after the regular board meeting had dealt with it. " That displays trust, we'd say, and no conscientious newspaper Cdporter or 'editor would betray that trust. What's more itgives the • press an opportunity to bei as -I -inform ae'd- as. the board members,. ,bet shouldoIead&to More accurate and factual reporting. We sincerely hope that more public bodies will take a similar course with members of the press. We feel it is one sure way to better communication all round. GUEST EDITORIAL pweeiew 'Ma la at-Mit& A solution to the problem 'of relocating the town dump, appears to evade the councillors. True the. present incumbents are -not the -first whose ingenuity has • foundered on important matters which affect our health, nevertheless the . town dump has become infamous for its colony of rats. Dr. Thomas Gray recently reported to the World Health Organization on his investigations into rats, and more especially into their ,ability to carry - disease. One of his key findings, after months of research, was how piles of untended garbage lead. • to dramatic increases in the rat population. Had he collie here, he would have found an experimental lab., in working order. He • goes on to tell us that in Bombay, 20,000 people are admitted to hospital every year for rat bite or rat fever. [As a one time resident of 'Calcutta, I would hesitate to mention vhat the incidence must be there.] In New York. City there are 600 recorded cases of rat bite every year. Theoretically, one pair of rats, under ideal conditions of food, can produce 20 million descendants in three years. Even in a fish hatchery, rats were found to compete with the fish for food throWn in. They enjoy eggs, poultry and have been known -to attack end kill young lambs. Both the ,black and brown species are riddled with disease and infested with parasites. The Plague, the commonest form. of.which is the'bubt i c'variety, can . continue Tying dormant in the rat; only occasionally breaking out and infecting' society. In Vietnam in 1966, 2,000 people died before the plague was controlled. Dr. Gray tells us the rat population will not automatically sink back when the garbage is cleared: Instead rats are forced to find food within houses,' and they will be larger, stronger -and more daring by the sudden need to foray further afield. \P a have in hand, and rightly, the completion of the storm sewer system.. Surely the next most �"essential project' is the Town Dump removal. This is not the occasion to become alarmist, but just recall what happened to one of the most popular' alpine resorts in Switzerland. Zermatt. An outbreak of typhoid; occurred there at the , -might of the season and its good name became mud. Couldn't we try a spot of "F irst Things First"? Do we really want-Goderich to be famous as having the prettiest rats in Ontario — or do we? Perhaps you feel a Medical Research Lab. would settle here and bring in higher taxes. G. MacLEOD ROSS TOUCHDOWN unmumumm in- mmmumm minim a mnuuumumminummrmurrom mmum iimummnmoumuumimimmu mummmi umruumuuumauumuuuuur . to - R�rnernbrWhen??? Photo by Ron Price 55 YEARS AGO Lake Hurop has been in a very angry mood since Sunday last. The breakwaters have been, scarcely visible at time, the waves being so high as to hide them from vi@w. The ' latest official Lance Corporal W. W. Ross, Newgate Street, Goderich has been promoted . to the acting rank of corporal, it has been announced by the Canadian Ordinance and Electrical Mechanical Engineers Training Centre, Barriefield Camp, where he is a regimental instructor. A former Goderich clerk, he . By. G. MacLeod R011 THIS WAS A RECORDING When I was a boy the doctor saw YOU, Today you have to see the DOCTOR. THE CHRISTIAN CENTURIES Iii a. ?aniish monastery there is a rosary of Whitby jet lying with a skull -and skeletan_of monk. His monastery had been founded from one of the great abbeys of Yorkshire, -Fulda is whereat'. BOulfateof Crediton founded an abbey. From Germany St. Boniface sent a letter home to England to the. Abbess Eadburgh of Minster, asking heir "to write for me in gold the epistles of my lord, St. Peter the Apostle," so that the heathen of Frisian marsh and German forest .might reverence the Scriptures. In Norway the patron saint of the cathedral at Stavanger is St. Swithin, the rain saint of Winchester. The town displays the saint's name on street names and branded goods. WHO GOT IT ON THE ROAD? The wheel came from the Sumerians around B.C. 3500, but there may have been earlier wheels. In 2600 B.C. Emperor Huang Ti, of China, had a chariot whichever way you wheeled it, a pointer on the chariot remained directed at the same part of the horizon. It could Only have worked with the aid of a form of differential gear, so score the differential to' the Chinese. In the 1.4th century European - millw"rights developed wooden spur -gears from which the car gear box evolved. In the 17th century a Dutch mathematician, Chrlstiaan Huyghens, suggested the. internal combustion- engine. Two years before a. Frenchman had suggested the use of gunpowder asa fuel. One hundred and forty years after George Lankensperger developed a front wheel layout for carriages. Today's steering is based on it. In 1635 Robert Hooke invented the universal joint, which transmits power round corners and one of his joints comes with every car today, In -1820 Farish and Cecil built an engine which ran on hydrogen gas, and in 1838 William Barnett had one running..on coal - gas. The car was almost here! Michael Faraday invented the generator, while Sir Joseph Swan provided the electric lamps which lit the car on its. way. Mackenzie invented a form of clutch in 1865, from which Emile Levassor, derived the automobile clutch, which first appeared in the Panhard-Levassor cars. In 1872 an Englishman in Boston, Mass. George Brayton, sought a patent for an engine using oil instead of gas. In 1869 Karl Benz developed a car which has never been forgetten. In those days it had a variable gear and a top speed of 15 miles per hour. John Boyd Dunlop ii challenged as the inventor of the pneumatic tyre in 1888, but there are cilaims for - Robert Thompson back in 1867. Benz's car got its fuel mixture by -drawing air overthe surface of the petrol tank and William Maybach had a ,more' advanced carburettor, the forerunner of those under the hood today. The Marquis de Dion dealt with the problem of riding over bumps so successfully that his suspension, with some variations, ,, is used today. In 1868 Frederick Lanchester took out patents for 36 major components' of the auto; Disc brakes among them. Dr.. Ferdinand Porsche, the Volkswagen man, hit on torsion bar - suspension. Finally few people know that the electric self-starter was invented by the General Motors wizard, Charles Kettering. When it was remarked to him that it was peculiar that no one knew that this • invention was his, he used to:.say: "Who knew the name of Paul visited and each given a'parcel of Revere's horse?" candy and cookies with fruit for., - diabetics. Over 100 parcels were NOW THEY DISCOVER IT packed at the home of Mrs. Five years ago it was considered "unfortunate" that university Archie Hamilton previous to the . entrance was based on a single set of departmental exams. Today, visit. under the new regulations, the evaluator is in no position to know Mr. and Mrs. Fred MacGregor, lbw his marks compare with others in the Province, nor is there any Ashfield, have gone to reside in Province -wide standard.as a reference point. Marks can only be based Kincardine. They have sold their on fair and honest evaluations by those "professionally able to comm, n c tq ,s, recording. the farm on the lakefront. determine them. Obviously. in some cases students at School,: `4' are o erat ons • "s"h .. the ` western <,4 fisted August -2'7;i943. *.'Nlainy .were present last short-changed in comparison with those at SchoolFB3 a .fault m the p 4 Mr. and Mrs. Robert . Sunda evenin in the Auburng pans batt%fields, are much the same . Y g system of selecting university candidates which a child could have as those of preceding days. Rutledge, Auburn, have received Baptist Church when John foreseen. Now we shall have another expensive `probe' to educate There has been fighting virtually word that their son, Lloyd Agulian showed pictures of his our masters in matters regarding human nature which have been all along the front, but without Rutledge, has been promoted to trip this summer to his flight sergeant. He is atpresent known since the beginning of time. Isxt:t it time that courses in adult any appreciable change in the g g homeland in Lebannon. education became a MUST for aspirants to political office. situation. stationed at Goose Bay, 1 YEAR AGO I,NHAT'S IN A NAME? Public Notice: Owinga ,Labrador. to Captain Everett Smith and Of course ,he should have known better! Ontario is notorious for number of cases of measles beingPte, Carl Fisher of Niagara sen a few days last week with Salty were the highlights of the brewing trouble whenever place names are changed. Do you reported to the Board of Health, p y annual Sunday at Knox United remember LOBO?' The burghers complained because Lobo was said ' all persons are hereby notified his ' parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Church in Auburn. • to mean `wolf' and the male population took exception to the that cases of: 'communici ble Fletcher at Benmiller.." � The Huron County. police Approximately 350 slow F aspersion. So a benign government said: "Okay, how. about Mono? diseases must be immediatelymoving vehicle signs have beerEveryone was delighted! After all Mono meant merely a hyena. reported to the undersigned. committee reported that' it had sold to members of the Farmers' Today, on the road to:Thunder Bay, the burghers are coming up like Neglect to do so renders the been " decided to abolish the Union in Ashfield at 'thunder, because some new name has to be found for the newest of position of traffic officer in the considerable savings to them. our conglomerates: Lakehead/Thunder. Perhaps someone who is county and to appoint another The inter -club figure skating good at acrostics will devise a name acceptable to all. . county constable and Gordon group conducted- an DOES CHARITY BREED WARFARE? Deyell ofplwas'chosen arnaigamation coaches clinic at D. P. Moynihan in his.- Book "Maximum Feasible • from nine applicants. Adastral Park arena Sunday. The Misunderstanding; Community Action in the war on Poverty," says The following questions will following were successful: Linda amongst other things: "No matter how you slice it, nearly all social be submitted to the electors at the ensuing municipal election: Reinhart,, Cheryle Hamilton, thought comes out: Let -Them -Eat -Cake. Some community 1. Are you in favor of a • Cathy Hynds, Bonny Me:Ghee, programmes did indeed stimulate disorder, either because hopes Munial orb a collection to Becky Crawford, Anita Carrick, were increased, but'never requited — or — because earlier generations g Marleen McConnell, Mrs. Alma of reformers had made poor neighbourhoods Politically powerless by 119, paid for by a special levy on Craven, Frances . Johnston, replacing machine patronage with Civil Service. Party bosses who the tax rate not to exceed one Esther Merrill, Bill MacLennan, could bend the "'Ties had been replaced by bureaucrats who could and one-half mills? 2. Are you in Mary and Shirley McFadden, not. Community activity in large cities is (partly anyway) an favor of the construction of a a John Williams, Janet Pettus, occupational therapy for members of the white middle class who are roadway to the north side orthe Lorilie McClandryn, Janet alienated from their own communities and backgrounds." harbor 'as a post war project. Sutherland. • 10 Yf ARS AGO Congratulations are in order Of prime interest in Goderich for Gene Martin who taught Sunday was the loading of the school at. North Ashfield. Gene first boat with salt from the new has been. teaching at Sarnia and rock salt mine. The Iroquois, a taking summer courses and has Canada Steamships Line boat, completed his B.A. degree at came up from Detroit, and took Waterloo University. away a cargo of 4,200 tons of rock salt to Montreal. It took four hours to load the boat with the automatic conveyer equipment. There were 35 members on skates when the first classes of the 1959-60 season were held at the arena. by Goderich Figure afternoon. A Champion grader is being used to level up the site for a new addition to the main plant of the ' Dominion, Road Machinery Company on Maitland Street. At the regular meeting of the A registration at ` GDCI of Maple Leaf Chapter LODE on from 670 to 700 students with last Friday, a $25 scholarship the next, four years can be was voted again to the Music ., expected based • on the Club for its spring festival. An interesting meeting of the WM'S of Knox Presbyterian Church was held last Friday afternoon ' when slides of the Society's work in British Guiana were shown in' Charge df Miss Eva Somerville with Mrs. James Bisset reading the script. Sunday morning an impressive memorial service was held in North Street United Church for those associated with the church who have, given their lures in the cause of freedom in the present war. 'These are Sgt. Merrill .Baker, Sgt.' 'Terence Copper, Sgt. Worthy Ryan and Larlce•Cpl. Wm. Westbrook. householder liable to .a penalty under the Public Health Act?, A. C. Hunter, MD, MOH. Last Saturday evening William Perdue, of Goderich township, was killed while driving from Clinton to his home on the Bayfield line. The accident happened . four miles west . of Clinton. The horse took flight at two lads riding bicycles and jumped into the' ditch. Mr. Perdue was .burled against a telegraph pole and his head was crushed. Advert: Sallow skin, liver spots, pimples, dark circles under the eyes are all signs of the system being clogged. The liver and bowels are inactive and the stomach is weak from undigested foods and foul gases. Fig pills;'the great fruit remedy, will make. .you feel like a new person. Canvassers are at work this week in an- effort to raise funds for the Upper Canada Bible Society. They hope to raise at least $200. W. • R. Pinder, L. M. Mabee and H. J. Fisher returned home - TuesdaYevening„ __from _a__ three week hunting trip . in Northern Ontario. They secured their full • complement of 7deer. Herb Smith, formerly of to*n, also was a member of their party. ESTABLISHED'q tWignal-6122nd YEAR • 18411 011e Goblet-4 of .©•-�. The County Town Newspaper of Huron—0-- PUBLICATION Published at Goderich, Ontario every Thursday morning by Signal -Star; Publishing Limited - r ROiERT . SHRIER, president and publisher ROftLD. P. V. PRICE, managing editor SHIRLEY J, KELLER, women's editor EDWARD .J..RYRSK$, advertising manager Subscription Rates $6 a ;Year . - To U.S.A. $7.60 (in advance) Secaiad class mail registration nur•rber — 0716, 25 YEARS AGO WITCH HUNTS. Aftelr McCarthyism we got Naderism. After Naderism we got the Anti.Cigarette Crusade. In the result we are no different from our ancestors with their witch hunts. 0 a A a V �..' : AINSLIE'S OVEN. READY -- DRESSEI elementary school registration in this district, Principal A. R. Scott told the gathering at the annual commencement and graduation exercises Friday evening. Ten year old. John Garrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Garrick, sriffered a fractured arm in a mishap Wednesday, afternoon. He was on Public School Police Patrol on Britannia Road when he slipped and fell c'n the ice. 'Tiger Dunlop WI. of Colborne Township' and the Community Club, ''from Saltford visited Huron County Horne at Clinton, Saturday'., The patients were ;; ROAST PORK Ib. 69C wEL•^mMEDShort or Cross RibRoasts Ib.�7c COTTAGE ROLLS Ib. 79G MAGE spE6H DAILY • AGES Ms.. M 4 M 4