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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-12-18, Page 4. p �r�� �+ i '0170$4104 SIONA, 'AL THURSDAY' OI?OBR„•FH, 2949 N.. 1 -printers wire cleterminect not to print anything ti�i EheY were sure it woOd offend -no one, there 0k1 17.¢ very Citik printecl .. .1 . Benjamin Franklin Hard to justify We seriously question the motives of a man who would criticize a $55 bill for ' entertainment of members of council but would condone the wastage of thousands of dollars of taxpayers' money every year. We refer to Councillor Frank Waikom who, last week criticized Dr. G. F. Mills, mayor, for a $55 bill that resulted from refreshments for councillors after the. public meeting of council, held at MacKay Hall on November 27. Coun. Waikom, apparently, has no objection to members of council drinking whatever they like at the Maitland Country Club at the town's expense, but when they are given drinks at the home of the mayor the councillor jumps on his white charger and is off to defend the masses. A noble act, but questionable. If Coun. Waikom is so concerned for the taxpayers' money, perhaps he would explain why he made no gallant charge to man the battlements' when council brought in its decision to relocate the town dump eight miles from town — at considerably more expense than the town would have been faced with had it accepted the location at the Feagan gravel pits, which had already been approved by the local and provincial health authorities. Dr. Mills has said that it will cost the taxpayers at least $10,000 per year extra, a sum council will not 'admit to. So let us then take a figure council will admit to, as it did at the public meeting of council in November. ' Let's consider the $2,000 per year difference between the two sites with the Lavis pit costing the extra money. And let us also assume that, this will be the only difference over the entire time that the lease at the Feagan pit would have been in effect, 20 years. We end up with -: or perhaps we should say, without — $40;000.. The lease for the Feagan pit would have been $1,Q00 per year for 20 years. The cost of the packer, again as admitted by council, would have been $30,000. We can see then that this $2,000 that Mr. Waikom, a arently, was not concerned about represe the full cost of purchase of a packer f r the Feagan pit — plus 10 years of the ease. There also is no guarantee costs will remain 'the same at the Lavis pit after two years. We would think any man would agree that if Mr. Feagan had approached council and said "Gentlemen, I' have this pit, you may use for the next 10 years free of charge;" council would have lauded the man from Goderich to Timbucto. Imagine then how council would have reacted if Mr. Feagan had also thrown in a brand new packer as an added bonu§,! Yet this is, in substance, what has happened, and Coun. Walkom, apparently, has no objections. We will ignore the $18,000 Dr. Mills mentioned -- just as it has ,already been ignored—and get a little nearer home. Let's go to 1969, Spring. The Good Roads Convention. Royal York Hotel, Toronto. Four members of, council spent three days at the convention. Three other members of council spent one day at the convention. The. Bill — $869. Coun. Waikom was one of the four who stayed three days. He , had, apparently, no objections to the bill, although the chairman of finance did. So obviously, Coun. Waikom is not bothered by the amount of money that is spent, only where it is spent. He implies that if the mayor is going ,to have a party at his home, (even if it is at Christmas,) he should pay for it himself. But if this so called party is held at the local hotel, Mr. Waikom has ' no objections. (Council usually holds its Christmas "do" at a local hotel) . We do not suggest it is right for the members of town council to be able to have, as it was called recently, a "booze up on the town." We do suggest councillors should • be allowed some refreshment from time to time, especially at Christmas, and the mayor should be able to let them use his home without criticism from a man who should know better. And we would also suggest that if any member- of town council has a legitimate objection to wastage of the taxpayers' money, let him look at all the wastage, not just worry about $55, which in the eyes of the majority ,of council, was justified. Let criticism be leveled when justified, but let the criticism be sincere. The Parade The Santa Claus parade for 1969 is over but the plaudits are still coming in at the Signal -Star office from people who think it was the "...biggest and best yet." It may not have been either the biggest or the best, but we would. join with those who say it was. a tremendous effort on the part of all the citizens of Goderich and the surrounding area who took part. The children wilt remember it for a long fJ ' to come and the enthusiasm of the people during the parade was so contagious that several groups who were not involved this year are already making plans for 1970. In a parade that involved so many people it would be difficult, if not impible to give the proper credit to all, but we would be remis if no mention was made of the woman who really made it -all possible — Mrs. H., L. Blue. Mrs. Blue literally started the parade rolling earlier this year with the offer of the Santa Claus float and everything that went with it. The project_.r'.nust have cost a - small, fortune and this does not -even take into account the amount of time and effort she personally expended on the, project. It was the, enthusiasm and drive of Mrs. Blue that started the Goderich Recreation and Community Centre Board thinking about the parade and the help of Mrs. Blue and the Goderich Kinsmen Club that got the thing organized. It was the enthusiasm. of Mrs. Blue that - precipitated the entrance of so many floats and individual entries in the parade, and it was the wish of Mrs. Blue's late husband to have a Santa Parade, that gave'- Mrs. Blue the drive to' get the parade going. We hope that we may presume to speak for ' all of the thousands of people of Goderich and the surrounding area who derived pleasure from the parade and from Santa's Court which ,vas held on Sunday, to say thank you Mrs. Blue for your effort and civic pride. It has started a Santa Claus parade in Goderigh which, we are sure, will continue to bring pleasure to the peoples of the area. for many years to • Letter to the Editor IRRESPONSIBLE ATTITUDE The London Free Press reported on some aspects of the meeting our Towi *Council held on December llth and I 'tope our local newspaper will give the whole story the full coverage it deserves. Apart from the Press, my • come. x husband and I were' the only observers present at the said meeting. M we have also attended quite a number of Council meetings throughout the year, we feel it is suitable for us to express our opinion. The Council members are really working in two separate groups which at times do not 4, seem to speak the same language, resulting in situations which render efficient functioning of Council virtually impossible. The division which had been simmering all year reached a climax with the inevitable and justifiable explosion last Thursday. (Please turn to page 11) EsrAriIsHEDJJt1r (fitibertr*t YtEil-�iar • 1122.n o� YEAR 11148 —0-- The County Town Newspaper of Huron —0— PUBLICATION Published at Goderich, Ontario every Thursday morning b+ Signal -Star Publishing:.Limited ROBERT G. SHIVER, president and publishe. RONALD . P. V. PRICE, managing editor SHIRLEY J. KELLER, women's editor EDWARD J. BYRSKI, advertising manager Subscription Rates $6 a Year — To 'U*S*A. $7.50 lin vance) Second class mail registration nut.lber --• 0716 In SANTA VISITS HOSPITAL IIIWlltllllUtUlIUItIIUIUUIIUI111111111111111111111U111111UIII1U11111111111111111111tlllllllltllllllllllllll1111111111(IIIIItIIIII11Ut11t111111U111t111lI1111111UI1.IllllllUlltlllllllllllllllU�III #31-iks When ?Remember 55 YEARS AGO Huron County Council made a grant of $15 for the purpose of repairing the roof of Blyth lock-up. The house of refuge committee reported that = they had visited that institution twice since the' June session. They had found everything in a most satisfactory condition. At present there were 85 inmates there. In the county engineer's report be stated that tenders had been opened September 14 for the erection of a bridge on the lake road near Grand Bend. Mr. Lawson's tender for $400 was accepted. . James and Peter Bisset were at Guelph this week attending the winter fair. Councillor Harry Morris is around again and attending to business after suffering for three weeks with broken ribs. Public Notice to the Citizens -of Goderich: . The Relief Committee of the town would be pleased to receive donations of either cash • or goods and provisions to aid them in assisting the poor of our .town during the coming winter. Any money may be handed to Mr. A. Porter, Treasurer at the ,Sterling Bank, or articles -left at the Public Library building with the librarian. Now that' Parisian Sage can be had at any drug counter, it is certainly needless to have thin, brittle, matted,` stringy or faded hair. No matter how unsightly the hair, how badly it is falling, or how much dandruff, Parisian Sage is all that is needed. Frequent applications and well rubbed into the scalp will do wonders — it acts like magic. The hair roots are nourished and stimulated to grow new hair, itching scalp, dandruff and falling hair cease — your head feels fine. Best of all the hair becomes soft, fluffy, abundant andxadiant w.ithlife and_beauty.._ (advert,) ., 25 YEARS AGO Headlines: Could A Community Recreation. Centre Be Provided In Goderich? At a hearing before the Provincial Liquor . Authority Control Board at Kitchener Thursday last argument against the granting of beer licenses in Huron and Perth .counties was presented by Rev. Dr. Charles; W. DeMille, general secretary of the Ontario Temperance Federation and Dr. John Coburn, associates) secretary of evangelism and social services for the United Church of Canada, on the ground that these counties are under the Canada Temperance Act. The board reserved judgement. Several persons from Goderich interested in the hotel business were present at the meeting. Goderich Lions at their meeting on Friday night last, heard an . interesting and informative address by Wing 'Commander Patrick, CO of the Clinton Radio School, who was introduced to the Club by President W. J. Hodge. The subject "Radio in Peace The annual of Ontario, has id War. announced the re -appointment eeting -of the of Herbert B. Such Goderich Arthur Circle of Knox Church chiropractor, to the Board of was held Monday evening at the . Governors of Conestoga College home of the Misses, MacVicar, of Applied Arts and Technology Hincks Street. for the term ending December Temperatures of the past 31, 1972. week in Goderich ranged from 29 to37 eners m the 'Maple ir; •• •• • •• •• • 'XV • •• •• • •• •• •• •• ••. the address was education for TOE PORSCHE WAGON ' One of the outstanding characteristics of really great exponents of their chosen profession is versatility. Between wars 1 once paid a visit to the Dornier works outside Berlin and though I did not raise Dr. Dornier himself, his representative explained how the Doctor had been led from one development.to the next. First it was aircraft with metal wings, of which the DoX was a fair example. Then he laboured to develop a light a weight diesel engine for ' aircraft. This accomplished he went on to adapting the corrugated aluminum used -for the wings for baffles in heating furnaces to reduce the loss of heat to the atmosphere,. Finally he Was engaged in metal dwelling house construction. Ferdinand Porsche was born in 1875 in Austria and he was soon to acquire the ability to ,turn his inventive mind to, anything which 4 caught his interest: Cars which ran on gasoline, diesel fuel or electric batteries. In 1918 he designed an electric helicopter which flew to the full length of its 500 feet of power cable. Hen designed fire engines for the London County Council and airships; racing ears anti aero engines. He was one of the breed which sees beauty in a fine design and possessed of a Wagnerian temper, he displayed an almost tribal loyalty to those who worked for him. Early iln his career his +t' abiding desire was to design a small automobile. As a boy he stole into, lectures at the technical school for which he could not afford the fees, being eventually accepted as part of the student body, though` he was never allowed. to sit for the exams. Much later Vienna and Stuttgart conferred,honorary degrees on him. He worked in Vienna with Jacob Lohner at the Austro -Daimler plant, where Josef Broz, later to appear as Tito of Yugoslavia, was a test driver, When he first met Hitler he' would only address him as "Herr Hitler." Hitler knew him as the designer of his favourite Mercedes S car and it was Hitler who set him to accomplish his heart's desire: a small car, the Volkswagen, which had to sell for 1000 marks ($125). But such a cost was beyond even Porsche's ingenuity. Nevertheless he went ahead: the air-cooled engine for winter .driving; the beetle body to reduce wind resistance and torsion bar springs for the suspension; all were Porsche's design. Would-be Volkswagen owners bought five mark savings stamps against the gradual purchase of the car. These deposits eventually amounted to 375 million dollars, all of which fell into Russian hands in 1945. The only Volkswagens produced were hand -made and cost more than a Rolls Royce. Then Hitler was off on another tangent and all the workers in the factory were taken ' to build the Siegfried Line. Porsche then went on to tank design and produced the `Tiger,' the unsuccessful 180 ton `Mouse,' the Schwimmwagen and the Kubelwagen which the Wehrmacht used as a jeep. In 1948 Nordhoff had been put in charge of the rehabilitated VW works and he refused to change .the Porsche . design. In 1945 Sir William Rootes went to have a look see at the factory and reported that the Volkswagen did not meet the fundamental requirements of a motor car. It was unattractive, ugly and noisy and hopelessly uneconomical to produce. -Even if built it Would never be able to compete with British built cars in world markets. No one ever accused Billy Rootes of being more than a successful salesman, so that his report did not surprise engineers. In 16 years five million., Beetles had been sold and the VW .company had become the third in the world league after General Motors and Ford. Porsche was only appreciated after his death in 1951, but his life's ambition has been amply fulfilled. POVERTY In considerable part, poverty is the uneven distribution of rising income. w Prize Leaf Chapter IODE draw were 4 tk Mrs. H. K..R.evell, Mrs. H. Ford, • Mrs. G. Emerson, Mrs. Warren, iia Mrs. Bob Allen, Mrs. Roy • Breckenridge, Mrs. W. F. Gallow, ,- a Mrs. J. Lee and Mrs. Murray L. Hetherington. • Ata meeting of the Goderichtki Ministerial Association the •• DON'T SPOIL. YOUR •• secretary was instructed to write CHRISTMAS DINNER •• 4r li AINSLIE'S M 1 a letter to the undertakers of kfi Goderich . requesting them to avoid, as faro as possible, the • holding of funeral ' services on t the Lord's Day. 1�j Goderich has . entered a juvenile team in the OMHA and '14 it is expected that Clinton, Seaforth, Exeter, Lucknow, • • Wingham • and Kincardine also will have entries. •. Ward Jewell who is stationed at Toronto, spent Sunday • visiting his father and also spent some time in Town. 10 YEARS AGO •. The funeral service for Magistrate Dudley E. Holmes QC, third generation of his family to serve in Huron County, will be held Thursday at St., George's Anglican Church, where his grandfather was once rector. The Goderich Graduate Nurses' Association held a well attended and much enjoyed December meeting in the nurses' residence when members voted in favor of buying a reversible orthopedic bed 'for the hospital._ Owners of business establishments in Goderich and clerks have been warned by the Goderich Police -Department of the possibility of counterfeit ten dollar bills in circulation. Mrs. H. Tichborne was named president of the WA at St. George's Anglican Church. The WMS and WA of Port Albert United Church met at the ' home of Mrs. E. Bogie who was in charge of the Christmas meeting. Miss Brigitte Schlinchting, Auburn, left by plane last Friday from Malton Airport for Hamburg, Germany, where . she will visit her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Hoffman and Mrs. Anna Schlitichting, for six weeks. ONE YEAR AGO H. 0. Jerry, chairman of the Goderich Raceway, was at the December 12 meeting of town council to request assistance for improvements planned. for the local trotting track. D. John Cochrane, principal of Clinton's Central Huron Secondary School from 1960 to 1965, has been named director of education for the new County school system. William G. Davis, minister of • SERVE ONLY THE BEST WE SELL ONLY FRESH • DRESSED OVEN READY — BONELESS ROAST 'PORK BREAKFAST BACON tf IDEAL FOR THAT QUICK MEAL STEAKETTES t t44, eyottzt.*:41.4c• TURKEYS �' GEESE DUCKS CHICKEN lb. 694 * Ib. 79411 .b: UY' „ • '4 14 1