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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-12-25, Page 44 00J EMU SIGN,MJSTAR, TH11 i.►SDAY, DECEMBER 25,1969 law Editon..I.... "If all printers were determined not to print. anything till trey were sure it would offend no One, there wouldbe very litt[e printed.... Benjamin Franklin Best wishes The year is fast coming to a close and for the . Goderich Signal -Star and Signal -Star Publishing Co. it has been one `sof change and improvement . and the improvements will continue in 1970. New machines will be installed next year in an effort to improve the product and quality further and several changes will be' made in the plant structure to keep up with changing times. .Our circulation has grown and the interest in the news seems to continue to increase. We hope in 1970 we will be able to give our readers, something more in the way of irerest items and more, in depth reporting on local news fronts. Change takes time and in the past two years there has been a lot of change in our plant and equipment. With the changes forseen for 1970 we hope to be able to give our readers more yet. But nothing we have done or will do is possible without' the support of our readers. It is to these people that we are indeed grateful. May we offer you all the best wishes of the staff for Christmas and 1970. Aid starving children In Nigeria and Biafra volunteer doctors are now faced with one of the greatest and gravest of medical decisions — the choice of which child•shall live, and which child must die. The. heed is so great, the refugees so many, that the volunteer teams are forced to give the food, drugs, hospital space and professional care to those children with a , hope of survival. One'doctor goes among, the waiting hundreds of ill and hungry mothers and children each morning and with a felt -pen marks on each forehead those who` through starvation and disease need immediate hospitalization and those whose diet must be supplemented with high -protein concentrates -to ward off the wasting diseases of kwashkiorkor and marasmus. "Day after day we go through the same routine," the CANSAVE medical staff The protein -deficiency cases are the worst while the marasmic children still have a will to live and can actively fight to gain the food. This is the rule as long as starvation has not damaged the vital organs. When that has occurred none of our therapeutic measures will help. They are definitely "doomed." Today there are thousands of children in this war-torn land who are beyond medical help. Qon't let there be thousands more tomorrow. The help that you, as a Canadian, send to these million children, caught in -the path of war, shows remarkable 'results. One baby changed in a week from a skin -clad skeleton to a happy smiling child. Other extreme cases of inanimation and dehydration have through tube feeding and other treatment been brought back to life. 'As the CANSAVE doctors reports, "going to a different village each. report "The last thing that should be day and always there are rows of . lost is hope." `rriiserable children with- swollen, oozing -• And hope -will not •be lost- when -you g�, 'chid clY itd rrso ernacfa1ett that end -your' donatii o "' --to-- -T re — wonders how the skin could contain the Canadian Save the Children Fund, 70 bones. Hayter Street; Toronto, Ontario. t 0 Save the Children Fund doctors report that one baby changed in a week from a skin -clad skeleton to a happy child. But there are thousands of children in these war-torn countries who will die of starvation without immediate help. You can send immediate aid with your contribution to The. Canadian Save the Children Fund, 70 Hayter Street, Toronto, Ontario,, Try to imagine how you . would feel if this were your child. d1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Iltlllll I I IIIUIIIII Illtlllll II Food for the hungry Agricultural co-operatives become self-sufficient with help from Oxfam. This means that a lot of people who ,need food today will be able to grow their own food tomorrow. And helping people grow a better tomorrow is what OXFAM is all about. This Christmas..,_ appeal is one of OXFAM's major ways of raising money. Money that is raised through this appeal will go to help OXFAM projects. This Christmas help OXFAM tackle hunger at its roots. OXFAM of Canada opened its Christmas fund • raising campaign on November 24. This year OXFAM is stressing the development side of its work rather than the relief side. Food for the hungry is important to OXFAM. A hungry man can't farm, can't learn and can't improve himself.'He needs food now. So OXFAM feeds 'a lot of hungry people. But it .does more than that. OXFAM tackles hunger at•its roots. Mothers learn how to feed and care for their children. It helps farmers to grow better crops. Letters to the editor Through a directive from the administrative staff of the Huron County Board of Education, the people of .- Huron County are being given an opportunity to meet with the teaching staff of their local school to discuss the aims and objects of education and a list of some twenty different topic's has 'been prepared by the principals as possible subjects for discussion. Having been closely involved with schools and the education of children for the past fifteen years, I realize that this is an occasion for which those persons vitally concerned with the development of the full potential of all children, have long been awaiting. For years children have been attending smaller schools, taught by teachers and run by .local school boards with whom the parents were , in close . contact. The advent of the county board has made the individual contact with parents a thing of the past -- it would seem that no one now knows what is taking place in these seats of learning. Brit, the day has long since gone when parents can cease to be concerned. The Home & School Association is ,the one existing organization which can bridge the gaps and the Department of Education readily recognizes this and •has encouraged the establishment of communication with boards of education by the Home and School Council and is also anxious for the ' closer relationship between the parent and the teacher which takes place when there is a Home & School 'Association connected with a school. Gone are the days when the majority of parents are out to have a go at the teacher or to criticize the running of a school. It is of mutual benefit for teachers and parents to get together to discuss the ways in which the teachers' job can be made easier and to inform the parent of all the new advances which are presently coming our way in the field of education. More tharrhalf our population is under 21 years of age and therefore in some formal school of learning. One-third of our tax dollar goes to education. Let us, therefore, come together in January, to study the "Aims and Objects of Education" as so ably put forward in the publication of that name by Lloyd Dennis. If we take a serious and intelligent attitude to produce constructive ideas which will benefit not only the individual ' child but all children in the county, the board of education may have some idea of the policy it should form for the next few years. When you receive your notice from the school to come and. attend 'a meeting to discuss the needs of your 'particular school, I urge every parent, and not only the mothers, to take an interest in these meetings. The children of today will be the leaders of tomorrow and it will depend upon the job that we can do of educating them, what they can make, of the world when it is their turn to lead. Mrs. Archie. Couper, President, Perth -Huron Council of Home & School Assns., Hensall, Dee. 15. ESTABLISHED nd YEAR 84$ Ow (of —0— The County Town Newspaper of Huron —C1-- PUBLICATION Published at Goderich, Ontario every Thursday morning by Signal -Star Publishing Limited ROBERT G. SHRIER, president and publisher 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 (in advance) Second class mail registration nut ,roar — 0716 .11111 • AP, Remember When ? ? ? 55 YEARS AGO The last regular meeting of the town council for the year 1914 was held Friday evening with all the .members present.. The collector s report • was read, showing. that $44,000 had been paid over to the treasurer, that $1,500 was on hand and that $277 of 1912 taxes and $2,052 of the 1913 taxes were yet to be collected. Dr. W. F. Clark, V.S., announces that he is m the field for the reeveship. The doctor has put in a good many years in the council, first as a councillor and latterly as deputy reeve: Bread is 7 cents a loaf in Clinton. At the American Road Machine Company's factory, preparations are being actively .made for the filling 'of the order for 110 army transport wagons, reported in The Signal last week. The machines are being put in order.. and everything is being made ready in anticipation of the receipt of the government inspections, and it is expected that by Monday next a large staff will be at work: The old emplotres of , the factory are being Faken on first and others will be engaged until 80 or more men are on the'staff. These will work in two shifts of ten hours each,' Lieut. D. G. McLean of the Army Service Corps, who will leave shortly for Quebec and thence to the , front with Canada's second contingent, was presented with a pair . of field glasses yesterday afternoon by the members of the Globe Staff. Lieut. McLean, who has been assistant commercial editor of The Globe during the past year, leaves this week for his home in Flesherton prior to taking his departure with the second contingent. 25 YEARS -AGO The Goderich post office staff is this week handling the largest business in the history of the office. More,. than $450 in stamps was sold on one day this week. At the Lions Club bingo at the Town Hall last night the 20 -pound turkey was won by • Sidney Leggett. Orville Durnin, Ashfield Towna'hip, • is in Alexandra Hospital suffering with two broken heels and injured pelvis. The injuries were received when he fell 25 feet from a windmill at his farm on December 15. He is making good progress. At noon today a Red Indian oil truck driven by Harold Bogie and a taxi driven by the inimitable "Cactus Mac" McDonald "ticked" at Saltford corner and some damage was dune — to the vehicles only. School boards have received official notice of the money grants to be paid by • the Provincial Department of Education under the new scheme adopted by the Drew ' Government. The notice presents the basis on which the grants are to be made, but some figuring and. ' some further ex . filiation of the . regulations will be required before actual amounts are known. While the scheme aims at an . over-all reduction of fifty percent of school costs, the grants are graded in the case of urban. schools on a, population basis, while for rural schools the assessment is considered. So far as the Public School Board of Goderich is concerned, it can figure on a grant of a straight 50 percent of approved school expenditures. Apparently this will - mean one-half of approximately $22,000. This alone should mean a reduction of four mills in the Goderich tax rate. Penicillin, the wonder drug, has just been used in Alexandra Hospital with splendid results. Its prompt use, from the hospital's own stock of the drug, was credited along with the excellent nursing she received, with saving the life of Mrs. Irvin Oke, Goderich Township. 10 YEARS AGO isn't so important after all. The one thing I'd really like for Christmas is "peace" in .every sense of the word — peace . of mind, peace of soul, the kind of peace you have when you do want anything. Milton Rayner, manager of the Bank of Montreal's Goderich branch for the past two years is retiring after a 47 -year, banking career. His successor is 'William Wardley, previously manager at the Teeswater office. . A deputation of the Goderich Trades and Labour . Council presented itself at Town council Thursday night, December 19 to request council to investigate the reasons for the recent departure from Goderich of Dr. M. J. Moffat. SINCE' HE FORGOT.... In the report on a Pubic Meeting (Signal -Star for 11/12/69) Mr. Jewell is reported as. "disagreeing with some of his colleagues ... and never heard a complaint" about trailers in Harbour Park.. The reason he opposed Coun. Carroll's motion was that• "when, two men can speak to Council and have council' ban the trailers in Harbour Park..." Just for the record, a short five and a half years ago, when Mr. Jewell was a councillor, the President of thb Horticultural Society, Mrs. Reg. Bell, assisted by Mrs.. Sam Anderson, collected no less than nine hundred and forty-four signatures opposing the retention of trailers in Harbour Park, These were presented to Council, together with several impassioned remarks. Council immediately disappeared into Committee in the Hole and when they surfaced declared: "Goderich Town Council will, not remove the trailers from Harbour Park this year (1964), but have agreed to review the postion at the end of the next tourist season." (Signal -Star for 25/6/64.) Like the "Long Christmas Dinner" readers will realize that this was an exceptionally long tourist season which apparently only ended in November 27th last or thereabouts. "The smooth answer turneth away procrastination is the saviour of empires. • t, WISHART'S LAW Composing laws is Canada's national game. The only trouble is that the laws are so badly expressed that no sooner are they unanimously passed than confusion reigns. Wishart's Law on the Breathalyzer is a good example. Its object was to prevent highway accident due to drivers being under the influence of liquor. So, after years in the lab.; .thousands spent devising apparatus which had been in use for the past 20 or more years in Chicago to my certain knowledge; it is decided to word the law so that you may be stopped for no visible reason the spot-check is legalized. Instead of making the criterion `driving to the danger of other users,' we give the police powers to stop anyone, whether driving normally, or like a maniac, and check him with the breathalyzer. This is just another method of undermining the probity of the • police. There is an old saying: "People who write laws should be conscious of their own limitations." THE GENTLEART OF COMMUNICATION I suppose it is rather incongruous to compare 'the constant _communication of George Cunningham with his Pathans (Bfue Thumb 11/12/69) and the lack of it when it comes to our own Council, but, as you know there are sermons in stones • Futhermore not being able to read both the `Globe & Mail' and the `London Free Press it is possible to miss some of. the really fruity encounters whether inside . or outside_ the "chambre de conseil." And when it comes to a weekly paper, the disadvantage is magnified seven fold. There are such vital matters as "Who pays for the drinks?" when some historic occasion occurs in the old home town and the A.O.F.* gather round. Lean see "Remember When???" column—in 2024 recording how the wassail flowed when the P.U.C. finally managed to. control the voltage so that you could use an electric razor with certainty. Ah me! Boys will be boys, and that goes for councillors too. However, what I was endeavouring to say was that George Cunningham's success was due in large part -to good and continuous communication. He gave the people good news and bad and during the years 1939 to 1944 there was lots of bad news. What" was the result? The people responded. Lesson: Never underrate the people. In the 11/12 issue of the Signal •it took a full•page of print to explain three issues viz: The Trailer Park; Waste Disposal and Liquor (disposal).' Council must be very cagey in council if so many people don't wrath," and truly, , had got the,wrpng end of the stick as appeared from this page., When a councillor asked me, as a preamble to an X-ray, if I`would be at the Town Meeting, I replied: "No! What's the sense? The dice have been loaded against me for the past 12 months. I know no more about the actions or proposals, still less the thoughts of council than Premier Bennett of, credit an, no r .'IoW fi � ". lJ 4� sk a ,than I cannot distinguish one councilman from the next. With their apparent fear of taking a position; of being publicly linked to an opinion; still more of responsibility . to anyone but themselves; What is there to ask about? A•retreat behind the cldsed doors of the Committee in the Hole is too tempting for them. In a number of small and even large towns like Goderich, the mayor writes a weekly column inthe local paper, thus keeping the taxpayer in touch with the background: information which is available to the council. It is useless to plead lack of time. Anyone who knows his job can 'dictate a statment in ten minutes. Note: *Ancient Order of Freeloaders. Five boys, between the ages of seven and 13 and who live in the north-west section' of Goderich, have been charged with vandalism, including the removing of Christmas tree electric bulbs. They will face the charge in family court. Charles Ruffeil was installed as Wdtsl}jpful Master of Loyal Orange Lodge No. 182 at a recent officer installation, of the lodge. "Referred to the 1960 council" was the disposition of many items that came before this year's body, at its final meeting. Proposals for two-hour parking and other restrictions in the Square area were similarly laid over, though presented by a deputation of retail merchants in a brief requesting that a by-law be passed by the present council and given three readings. The fire siren in its new location • on the post office freezes up and won't work. This happened Saturday and Sunday, and at ,Friday's council meeting Chief Hoggarth reported that the alarm had failed to functipr» on four occasions. He had ' be e'n working on it an hour, the previous Saturday, before-" he could get it going. The fan in the siren has very small clearance and moisture getting in through the slots of the covering soon - freezes. Council authorized Reeve Donnelly, chairman of the fire committee, to purchase a cone for the siren. ONE YEAR AGO Captain Ralph Ifewlett of the Salvation Army writes:1 am one of the fortunate few who can buy almost anything material • I want .., and I've found out it w, AINSLI N • • w 0 • r • v sit r 4, A