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THURSDAY, N9VEIVII3ER 18, 1971
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An inventorial-- Report of1NidWoStoi'n Steven Truscott or, for that matter,
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mostconcerningdredged again and again iust because it
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0od-inter�o1ing conjecture g up Goderich. It states that.Huron County Jail happens to be the, Huron 'community in
in this town is an underdeveloped which the 'county baoti\\m\n located.
' Historical attrantion '
The p~'~M|~ which is published by ~ But it may certainly be good business
NOOA, oboorvos'that since the )�i/isthe-a '°iuramingoard for a growing tourist
site of the last public hanging in Canada in' industry
which
h\ch ' is hunting
fox anything
ny1hing
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1889 the premises would of supreme anun�»uu~and m.^^v-i_a/"nature �. and
interestrotoUr|ma who are, looking for
bits and. p�oeo of historical lore to take
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home with them. •
Add to this the now famous feotihet
15 -year-old Steven Truscott was held payingforzhe`
p|eaounen-v/ev~ngo.'
Ai the present tirne, Huron County
,Council is preparing tear dovvn^ the
Thick ,--,stone walls which enclose 'the
exercise yard. The purpose., of this
prisoner in thisvery same jail for eight demolition is tomake way for another
, months awaiting the death .penalty, and piece of asphalt to alleviate- a parking
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"Someone remarked that
`...enemies are only friends in
disguise'. ,ieodu often
byexpecting more
of us than we are able to
pe,fnrm, but our sb-called
enemies ^ challenge us by
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dilion card 'for the' 1971
thooalelof this card help
in its many pro-
grammes to•aid children
rogromoomto'uhdoh||dnm
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60 YEARS AGO
The' board of trustees at the
Alexandra Hospital in Goderich
presented their annual report
and it was announced that the
citizenS of the comniunity
Would be asked to vote on a
$15,000 expagsiOn project,.
• The TemPerarice, Field. Day
4held by the churches ,o,of
Goderich and Huron County was
uddreuSethyguest speaker Rev.
Dr. Abraham of Toronto anfl
Mayor Pearson of Newmarket.'
The Peerless Male Quartette
was to sing at th public local
option .meeting in the
Temperance Hall.
M. Broderich of Seaforth wag'
— for
Centre Huron and PMO'ot or
East VYawuuoob for Northuu,00.
The non jnry sitting of the
High Court of Justie for Huron
county was ,,setxoopen utthe
Goderich Court House..
Q. R. Elliott, son of G. M.
Elliott of Goderich won the
cross country race at the
member of that schools .Vanier
team.
Maple Leaf of
the Daughters or the Empire
held a tea And raised a
substantial amount of money to
An towards purchase of aambulance for' the local hospital.
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pear Editor,
Therehave been-several
letters addressed to you latelyngu,a\u8 huuth,a and hunting.
I would like this letter
addressed to you, your readers
and Dr. Watts, not, necessarily in
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like to inflict pain with a phallic •
symbol, the knife. '
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uutch .ab'sokute_hetrnd byTrunCott, now oontern about. the historical value of the 5=g=1=W3Z===m".1*71A
freed from prison, in a new book, -..:'The
SteVen ~[rusoott Stor ^ as told ' to JaCk
Trent, the jail d,oes indeed take on a new
look for tourists seeking exeitennent on
their vacation.
Wearen't .at all oa'rtain tHot Goderich
wants tb be-remembered-for-its'part in the
old oOuntv jail, it is fast d\sappeeri in
favor n
' of a rn` Ono urgent t neod like
accommodating motor vehicles. '
MODA may well have a great idea for
putting Goderich even rnone:soUd\yon•the
tourist map, but we yvi\\ |ikm1,74ever knuvv
just how,' great the suggestron really. was
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Well its nearly that time of year again.
In a few places throughout Goderich the
first Christmas decorations are begbnning.-'
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done can o|rnbothear the yet
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far �,,off sleighbells of Santa Claus-
_ -•' Santa - l��set -to -make hig .first
appearancein Goderich on Saturday,
December when he will be \ntovvnto
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take •h)u traditional place in the Santa
Claus Parade. Early indications are that
Santa 'should'be taking part ih a porade
this year that hevvU|baproud of.
Organizers of the big event report that
no less than` six bands have already
confirmed their intentibns to be„ town
-that day, to it is � a|sb
reported that �urnberoue floats have been
registered to make an appearance as well.
°' It all looks pretty rbuy but lets not
§att|o back and assume the event is going
to be a smashing uuconnovvithoUt our help.
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"gld bureaucrats never die -
'they just waste mvay." •
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The Hon. John A. Volpe,
Setretary of Transportation
said \uv'4ieeuh about- alculior
undteafCic safety, in Ottawa this'
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�youc�England,
there is 'no Iicence to kill and the
law'is backed up by severeSocial
nalties. The drunken driver is
bad news in his community.
Period! Peop|eguo,pn\m. He is
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nightclub cumedkaoa. He is
koo�n for what he is - a
potential killer." Quoted by the
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' Businesses, -. ` and groups • urged by
ox�uc�ed.Bo�n���miOodb
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"-the Santa Ctaus Parade Committee t� start
-p|anning their floats and t register.
floats,lots of them and a wide
variety of them, what would the annual
pre-Christmas,prooesoion be. In addition
to floats other participants are welcome as
well. CloWns are .a1‘7vays needed and the
committee claims GOderich-has a few of
those. . .
Even if you do not represent business.
o7 club :there are, countless othar 'ways' e�hperson can help make this part ofthe
Christmas' season a smash. Jtoupto you
though. What can you. do to help? . .
Decide W»�nt that. contribution might
be, and get working on it. Lot's make
'Santa's visit to Goderich this -year one
both .he and all the residents of this
community will remember for a long time
to come,
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times? Perhaps not, but There may be
0. more truth than fiction in it for nonie
people, .~
7—t -7 -Seems a disgruntled school teacher
handed in his resignation with the
following comments:
"In our schools today, the
teachers are ofns\d\of the principals, the
print1pals are afraid of the
syperintendentS, the superintendents _are
afraid of the board; .and the board
members are afraid of the parents, the
parents are afraid cif the children and the
children are afraid of nobody.
When the' obove^ comments are
considered in tho^|ight of some of the
Ho|\ovve'�n oo in Ontario
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Communities; re is reason to suggest,
the toochorm/y 't too far off the mark.
In Milton, for instance, theRiot Act
had to be read after mobs of young
-' people broke lietween '50 and 60
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"Old bookkeepers never die -
they just lose their balance."
Adler not tothe contrary*
Dr. Watts characterizes the
hunter thus:
"In -any light, thereCo,*, the
..te,appears rt of
character - ignorant and
secretly afraid of the
countryside, insecure and
cowardly ^uud sexually
\oudogputeuoddeNnus."
-Well, E,nost BemmingWuv,
Prince Bernard ` of the
Netherlands, Prince Charles of
CnQ)und, Past. ~ President
O|nenhm,,r-,-undlocally Ellwood
Epps are ardent h.unters, to
make a random selection among
well known people. Do they fit
th|ndeac,ipUoh?�
Here •on this huge and great
continent of ours there are some
25.,2miV|on'liqenood hunters and,
to suggest that. this ..group has
serious .-abo,oat\nna because it
likes to xiot is as ridiculous as
saying that, snrgeons become
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Tbp mobility of young people'
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has always beengreater than
that of their parents, but today
it is vastly increased by
improved transportation and a
wanderlust unmatched by
previous generations. In the
course of a year more than 44%�
ofthepopu|utiun in the 22.to
'1«4 year-old age bmcketchanges
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windows, set fires, tossed vegetables at
passing cars and oodoutrians;oto,�atc.
The scene at' Goderich wasn't much
Vetter. Reports indicate one policeman
waS physically assualted and some of the
abusive language being heaped on people
by„ young people - some .of them 14 and
15 year-old DiMy-vvaouhooking.
We hesitate to�ug the majority of
kids jn the gangs were bent on destruction
.in their ovvn.'cornrnunitiuo. However, they
did indicate' by their actions they are
"followers'.' and their deodo were
inexcusable.
They^ may not be afraid of other
'poop|o, as the teacher suggests, but
perhaps they' should be afraid of
themee|vem. '
Unfortunately, the actions of a few
will be used as a brand against all young
people in Goderich and Milton. That's the
sad plight of young people everyvuhera
when some of their contemporaries get
out of hand. -Exeter Times -Advocate
(�oberith . - ' 124th: YEAR'.
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The County Town Newspipa,r cif Huron
Published at G�derlch, Ontario every Thursday morning by
Signal -Star Publishing Limited
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The first ' Indianapolis
500 -mile classic was won in
1911 with an average speed of
75.59 m.p.h., says the Ontario
Safety League. Forty years later
the record stood at 150.867
m.p.h. '
There is the story of th.e U.S.
hippie who was on a TV
man -in -the -street |ntmrvieW
program, who was asked what he
thought about the Indianapolis
500' He replied, "I think they're
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Election Laws \o•many areas
, place restrictions on the voting
rights of meptal patients, but a
study, at a hrge mental hospital
shows that there's not much
difference in political preference
between those on the insicle and
those 2n_the outside. In the
study, mental patients filled our
ballots for two elections. The
geSu|b were identical with those
of the surrounding community.
tysimswatmmwuu4r4K:mYt4tS MM:(am
Tuesday is the safestd in the
week to drive your car,
according to a group of
insuran& appraisers. Worst days
are Friday, Saturday and
Sunday.
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In regarding', the history 'of Point
Farm sumnier hotel, it is Stated'
that the originahotel was .^bult
Davis)by a man named Davis,. and
that it burned, being rebuilt on a.
larger scale by J. J. Wright in the
early 1870C -This version has
-been _ _reiterated through the
years, but that doeg not
necessarily Mean it• is accurate,
OWner of t4 lake shore farm
was Charles Boulton Davies (not
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who�"depar,ted- this
life
U[om` • the 22nd day of July,
1856 " If there ,,waS a summer
'hotel on the Davies farm in the
early 1850s, I would .be most
grateful to anyone_who can
supply evidence by v.iy of an
authentic record or account,. I
am ="`" iinpressed by t.- -_--
tout Davies" w.iclOw. in placing
property ivatrust,
pending her marriage tO Wright
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house and wutbubUuQu." Would
she have ove,�uboduhotel?
, stone
marktrig" the grave of Joseph J.
On the plainlittleWright?' in Maitland Cemetery,�ed u�o •�mo�u;uou��
the inscriptions are hard to
- his wife, Susan Ellen, died 1880 - but it is possible tO
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`,:Fouudor.n[Point Funn'"-Thut,
no doubt, was a tribute of his
son, Thomas. Upouthm.ektidyuwe
available to me,.I take it to be
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. Opinions
„In order. that Signal -Star
readers might express, their
opinions on any topic of
public ~Lmttmn The
Editor are -always Welcome
for publication. -
But the writers of such
letters, as, well as all readers,
are reminded that the
opinions expressed in letters
published mre.nOt necessarily
the opinions held , by The
Signal -Star.
25 YEARS AGO, The Huron Cotinty
Council
was sin session. and.a-rep\ort
there from the architects in
charge of work on the new court
House •to be located at Gbderich
reported progress on Wilding
preparations.
The Goderich Lions club
-. intho,tradition
they would again sponsor
Hockey teams in Goderich •
during the «pcoth�gseason.
Tuo annual meeting of the
Goderich township ,unit of tlie
Federation of Agriculture met '
and elected a new slatof
officersfor the newyear with
Lorne Rodgers as., the new
o,oaideot..The 'meeting was held
pat resident,
. Jt was said that several
members.of the town council, as
it ouood, intended to announce
their retirement from municipal
politics as the nomination night
for- !candidates drew near -in
preparation Co,. municipal
election in Goderich.
,Tu� Huron County
TubeeCu|uuio^ Association
announced, following a meeting
at Clinton, that the group Would .
open Ka -annual" Christmas drive
for funds beginning on
November 25.
The -Robertson. brothers of .
ColbOmo township officially
presented the COtirityTnt-Huron
with their family farm to be
used in a reforestation pugect.
A deputation to -town council
[uom'tbo local Public School
board asked comicil to pass a
towards a schotil addition,
A partial eclips of the sun was
expected to 'be visable across
Canada for about thrmr,hnu, •
Satkirday of that week.
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importance of education has
inonaaodd greatly in the past few years, to
the extent that a young man or vvorngn
going into society must have it, in order
to earn a decent living.
. This is where the family' comes' in: We aneffort to allow the student in
believegrowing 'ch|d on his responsibility as part
.of society, and allow thatohUd'to mature.
A family thatreato their teenagers as
being younger
r than they chronologically
are; is the worst possible environment for
them.
The parents will have
talk 'to their
student teenager, discuss futu plans with
him, and help him arrange the .all
important decisions that effect - his.,
'education and therTore, his' life.
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This"' is the drawback. How.mature are
'y ~x teenagers when they come into
high school? How well can they make
such serious decisions?
We feel that anyone fourteen or fifteen
years old should have some nonu0 .or
direction. If he doesn't, then at least he
can easily change his course at anytime.
during his high school years. We hope
parents
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since everyone no
could, eNily achieve asecondary dip|orn8
The d\ffiCu|1y ehCountoredin obtaining it
mdu|d be based solely on the student and
what he feels is important to him- '
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high school to develop as fully as possible '
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introduced anew •Svnte of,creditsjor the
the Ontario Board of Education has
rvvhat6e field hofinds himself inclined,
secondary school level .which is reported'
elsewhere in thioiSuue. .
'Vo•quaut\m the advantages offered to
a student under this nevdlan.
. At this time, the student in school does
not have a.free hand as far as choosing his
'curriculum goes. In fact, utudontu are
babied and spoon-fed to the point that
lot of them have given up on the syst.gp
and become simply hangers-on, joy-riders
We realize that the way things are now,
s.
is an improvementther
However, with such ocompetitive society
as has evolved in Canada and the rest of
NorthAmerica, we feel a student has a
` much better chance of success in life if he
is'allowed to plan his education as suits
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his needs.
True, there are a great number of
students graduating from big schools
every year, but how many of them
anything more
The nm[obnnuvudmk'm",=ia"=mU'=U themselves during their formitiveyearsin many have been able to involve
swapped for the car hetraded in - school, in subjects -„that interested and
now nHis ambition is to motivated them? We are afraid that very
as oft paymenton the one he
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keep how farb�ind hefuvhad that , pM»4\adgo, that golden
was last ear. ^ opportunity! '
��mmsmrefamtz'�mivame. With this new credit system,' the
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&u |o as looks leaders would have to "sell" themselbe someone tO give nothing for ves
their subjects.Thisvmu\d'weed~our,
thm poor and unpopular ;teachers, furthe'aomoU`|nQfornothnQrdmme»\U'
something. -' 'o\amkern'nouw'mmmuuou, who are there
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|ty(nthefor the free ride, Permitting more serious
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HEART FUND classrooms.
Futher, less "`"°= would drop-out
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FIVE YEARS AGO
Defending the MidWesternOnta
i | Tourist
Council under criticism Howard
Aitken of Goderich said that the
council Would do anything it
commun
was
president of the council.
Sandy' Profit and, Ross Doll,
both of Goderich were elected
vice presidents of the Huron
New Democratic Party
Association at the groups annual
meeting held in Clinton.
A car containing the body of
to help small
Mr. Aitkenstill needed coaches and referees
taken from the,water of Bayfield
harbour, The vVrist watch
calander worn by the dead man
had stopped on November 10,
, six days before the discovery.
,The Goderich Minor Hockey
Association announced that it
" communicate with their teenagers season oVerate
and the group scheduled
- a third general meeting in an
effectively, '"e"="~ ~^''`~~~~''`
vr ttempt to -Stir up -interest and
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Of course, p�o nt Carl Govier was elected vne
guidance counselling and ocoornodation^ director of the OFarmer's
for increased students on free time will
Clinton,unmu
mo a meeting held in
probably be taxed in +����"innino' We do
not
feel, however, that, monetary
conoernofloed enter the picture when the
well-being of our new. generation is at
stake. -
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feel vinovv era in eduotion has
come about, and congratulate it? -Province
.for -finally realizing the • need7for it. If
_ In the Huron Perth`
School d.football. championship
game the match ended in a
scoreless tie between' 'Wingham
and Goderich in a game played
at Wingham.
Annual 'Renmembxuooe Day
services were held In Goderieh a
members of the Royal Canadian
Legion .turned
out
to
remember '
with their parentshelp and guidance, take in the two &treat con.flicts of
advantage of it, we fee | only goCrd can modern history.
result, aid that the social institution o,
'the first performance of the
school will at last, be .providing onore Goderich ^Theatre'susefu|Yunction for* o'greater number of played to a sell nutumdienow.ut
production 'Of ~~~
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