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Some you win.
"5orn€ ° you win, some you loose,':
those were the words of Jim Britnell ,
the last meeting of Goderich Town
°Council after council had agreed to let the
'recreation board have $10,000 far
renovations to Judith Gooderharn Park
Swimming pool and rejected a bid by the
Goderich Youth Council to have the use
of the former Victor Lauriston Public
School.
But it didn't have to be that way. All
could have won if saner head§ had
prevailed.
The motion by Coun. Paul Carroll was
for the young people to be given the Ilse
of the school for temporary use. The•
motion could have been agreed upon by
council without fear of losing the tender
.price of $20,000 on _the school because
the closing date was 60 days from the
date' of the meeting. Surely nothing can
be done until after the matter is legally
closed? '.
- To let the young people have The
building until then would; at least, have
given them anidea -whether-or-not-Ahem
plans would work. If they did not.
Nothing would be lost. If they did, then a
campaign could have been started to raise
the necessary funds to build a youth
centre of modest size to fit their needs.
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• But it is not practical to Start with a
new building incase the idea doesn't work.
The use of the old school, even. for two.
months, would have given something'
better to work on.
The company that has bid on the
building will pay for it in $5,000
•installments, spaced six months apart. It
would seem wise for council not to allovv
anything to be done to, the building until
council had received enough cash to
complete demolition of the building in
case the company runs out of funds part.
-way through. This isn't to say this
company has no money, but things like
this have happened in the past and the
town'shoUld have 'something to say about• ,
how much money 'is paid before work
begins.
In the meantime the teenagers could
have had the use of the building and
would know where they stand..
Attempts to have the company allow
use of the building for three
-months—or less, failed this week and the
Noungstersa. re -out -in -the -cold. - -
• Does anyone know of, an old building -
or barn that these people could have the
use ofUntil September 15? If .you do7call°
the Goderich Signal -Star. at 524-8331.
We'll take It from there.
•People and pollution
Is the overcrowding that is occurring in
the world today a kind of pollution? This
vital question is being debated on every
continent because the very -concept tha
humanity itself Js 'part and parcel of th
•• global pollution problem is alien to us:
• People are quite prepared to admit that
careless industrialization and the general
urban Sprawl around the world are the
• prime causes of pollution. But rarely 'do
they ,, tie the problem up with
• over—population. .•
• Yet facts and figures bear out the claim.
'that by growing too rapidly, thehuman
race itself is polluting the earth. The
world's population already stands at 3.6
, billion.
Mankind is increasing at the rate of
1,400,000 every week and if present
trends continue, the world population will
double by the year 2,005.
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P• LEASE STASI) UP! subsequently negatIV.e had std
• •,EVerybcidy probably knows up and declared theMSelVes
" by pow that the 'royal 'Council favour , of letting .the— youth
voted against the proposed group have the Victor Latiristoii."
School until September I.5th..
The Toyn, was not exactly in '
the poorhouse Without •the
money it will get, in instahnents,
for having the old, school
demolished which seemed to be
the most suitable sithfor our
much needed youth centre. No
citizen will gain in dollars and
cents from the sale and I can
think of no person who is made ,
happier by the decision.
It is obvious who lost. But
who won? •
Elsa Haydon
youth centre. These lines present
One family's protest and
expression of disappointment. •
• The Mayor,. Pr. Mills, and
Councillors Carroll and
Giesbreeht were the only ones
voting in favour ''of the youth
Centre. Whilst one was able to
preclict„and 'explain the negative
vote of some of the councillors,,,
as it 'as in keeping with iheir
style and character and therefore
not really disappointing, it was
Cbuncillor Shewfelt who singled
himself out by what can only be
• described • as double
performance. During two
previous meetings of adult and • SATISFACTION!,
young townspeople Coun. ' I just read the good news that
'Shewfelt left do doubt
whatsoever about his
' enthusiastic approval of • the
, yputh project and obviously it
was only logical 'to count on his
support when the matter came
tO-vote. And, yet thesame man
• east his vote against it. Would
the real Cciun. Shewfelt ,please
the Board of Education is
copying T. Eatons.
.,This means we will have
expansion Of the ' market for
their products, and an exciting et
series of innovations and
imaginative ideas. , •
Also we can look forward to
the same policies as Eatons.
stand up! - "The Custotheris always right,"
Equally • astounding, and and "satisfaction guaranteed or --
inexplicable was the fact that money cheerfully refunded." I A
prior to voting nearly all the can hardly wait.
• councillors whose decision was Dr. J. H. Peters.
The tragedy is that most of the
human pollution is occurring in the
countries that can least afford it. The
underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa,
and Latin- America contain about 2.6
billion peOple already, and are growing at ,
a rate of tween Z3 'and 2.9 per cent, per
year.
• Africa, *Latin Ainerica and Asia (with
the exception of Japan) contributed 86
per cent of the'world's population.growth
in the past five years. •
There is no question that the world
population must be stabilized. Without
proper population control, the problem of
people polluting their environment can
never be solved. Certainly„the unchecked
growth of mankind is an even •greater
'danger to our future than the nuclear
arms race.
• Economics and ethics
• Can a course of action be both sound
economics and bad ethics? The question
assaults us from more than one angle at
this present time.
To curb inflatjon, which most
economists assure us is a bad thing, we are
asked to .accept rneasures which are,
- increasing _,....upslup layment, _with
consequentdistress to those- in the lowest
income brackets.
To' improve the market for Canadian
• wh eat, • the federal government,
• preiumably on the highest -priced advice,
is offering cash incentives to farmers to
allow substantial acerages to lie fallow this
summer. In Iowa farmers have burned
their potato crops toprotest the poor
• prices they are receiving:
' kit rihUiftIingrywbrld to destroy
good food or prevent it 'being produced?
Ecanomic considerations have
obviously over-ridden those of ethics in
• these instances: ,
Those who hold that moral standards
apply as much to groups, industries and
governments as :to „individuals may not
have been sufficiently vigorous in
asserting their views. •
They should speak up now for a moral
content in economics, telling the
ecblitWast to feed CAM—Wings-besides
.impersonal statistics into his computer;
that."right".means something more than a
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Rev. A. R. Looby warns end
of Knights unless changes made
If the century -old Knights of
Columbus is to survive and
accept the " challenge • of the.
modern church, it must develop
that one characteristic of
leadership concer,n fox people as
person, regardless of race, colour
or creed. '
So warned ReV,' A. R. Looh,y,
CAB., Toronto when , he
addressed the seventh annual
communion breakfast of the
Father Stephen Eckert Council
(Seaforth) of the Knights of
Columbus in Blyth on Sunday.
"If you can't do this," he' told
the 200-, who attended, "then
both you and your organization
are well on your way to
extinction."
Father Looby, a native of
• Dublin, who is a member of the
teaching staff of St. Michael's
College, Toronto, said that the
qualities that members must -
develop • personally to survive
• include the readiness to listen, to
be able to face a crisis, to be
compassionate; to be
knowledgeable and • to practice
• humility.
Rev. J. E. Kelly, Clinton,
pastor of St. Michael's Church in
Blyth, assisted Father Looby jn
celebrating High Mass. A
communion breakfast followed
in the town hall served by the
Catholit Women's League.
Father • Kelly extended a
- welcome to the large group
which came from Seaforth, St.
Columban, DublinBlyth,
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• Remember When ? ? ?
• •60 YEARS AGO
The topic of the Sunday
evening sermon preached by the
Rev. C. R. Jones, Baptist
Church, was "Can A 'Railway
Man Be.A Chris,tian?"
Eggs, 18 cents per clozen in
ktrade. One cent less -for cash—all
leash if you prefer i. The high
price is always here, N. C.
Cameron The Department Store.
(advert.)
Moyes4nresident-allue,,...._
Ontaiio West Shore electric
• road,, in answer to inquiries from
the editor of The Reporter as to
profit item on a balance sheet, that there how the electric road between
Goderich and. Kincardine was -
• are things far more wrong than red figures
. - . - _ ...__ progressing, , gave some
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• , interesting information and says
the road will be into Kincardine.
"seek
• by this summer.
tirst righteousness"• • and "all these •. His Honor Judge, Doyle has
' things"....the tangible. 'commodities and been confined to his house the
in a ledger.
Scripture " enjoins us to
Zurich, Clinton and St. Joseph's.
• "We are living in an era of
many dimensions, not only of
the intellect, and the will, but
we are rapidly becoming
• products of the 'media.
Awareness, sensitivity,
creativeness are the magic words
today," said Father Lobby in his
address following breakfast.
• "In, the past we guided' our
actions principally by history
and law. We know that the Pepsi
generation a is not buying this
today: They practically thumb
their noses at, tradition and the
law. One of the reasonsfor
this," -continued the speaker, "is
that new area:s and new medias
•• have developed which affect the
individual and through the
individual, affect the community
and society around thern.",
The result of this new
development is that the
individual becomes more
conscious of himself as a person
— the by-product of this many
• times is selfishness, said the
speaker. Restrictions limited
him, they all are an assault on
his personal - freedom, with the
result that the by-product of this
many times is to destroy, to
wreck, to burn.
The ,final step taking place is a
concession of the:person from a
subject of the law to the law
becoming subject* to the person
could result in a chaos.
10 yEARS AGO
Rudy Pilous, coach of the
Chicago Black Hawks of the
National Hockey League, was
guest .speaker, at the annual
awards banquet of GDCI,'
Wednesday evening. ,He was
accompanied by Elmer defence
player.
Ted Turner, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Turner, Goderich,
has passed
mathematics and physics course
with honours at the University
of Western Ontario.
The present Dungannon and
Lucknow charge of • the
Presbyterian Church is to have
added to it the congregation of
South Kinloss Presbyterian
Church effe'ctive June 1. • '
Headlines: Museum Gets
Hitching Rail
' services with whicheconomists calculate.., pasttwo weeks,. the result of an •
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With this priority duly given there walking on the street.
25 YEARS AGO
might quickly be found to be no real
Mr.and IVIrs H. Kretsingey of
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and good ethics.—contributed purchased the beautiful
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Mrs. Kretsinger is a niece of Mrs.
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(WNW nomination
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' In the last eight days seven
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The proceeds from the May 3
°OXFAM walk have now passed
the $11,000 mark with the
figure for Tuesday, • June 3
totalling $11,449.68.
Creation of a County welfare
unit .was proposed last week by a
representative of the Ontario
Welfare Department, Jameso
Deneau, Wingham, wIi spokeat
a Meeting of the Huron County
Council in Goderich..
Mrs. Hilliard . Jefferson,
Donnybrook, sponsored a
shower at her home Friday'night
honor of Miss Grace
Thompson.
• Miss', Alice McGraw, 171
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