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that is the only way both sides 'can
• function, but we do want a fair
settlement, for without the
• workers, there would not be any
profit.
No one has ever entered the
struggle for human liberty
without measuring the cost. We
• 'have measured the cost., •
o the Editor
Across the lake it is delight just Elden if the`" Association had
as the sun sinks out of sight been•rather informally operated,
From Goderich where the lake is - it was hardly necessary to scrap
seen, w this a most ° enchanting the entire project; in suGtt a small
dream .. group any internal
Some day we'll have a viewing '.reorganization and
tower and spend a happy evening , revitalization" could have been
• hour,- 1, carried out parallel to going
A. Laverty. ahead with an undertaking aimed
at providing better and more up•
.. to-tiirte•over-all faeilities,for-the
Marjorie Robinson,- Coofu��J0����
• p 'supporter
Local 2315.
SnowpIoiaggaol
154 Regent •Strut',
Goderich, Ontario.
March 9, 1972
To Whonr° It May, Concern: •
I overheard a conversation
regarding the snowploughing in
' our Town.- This was criticizing
the way the job was dome.
Well, fellow, you'd better pull
in your horns because I think thet
' boys in our Town did one H.. , . of a
good job, this winter. I would like
lo tak! you to some towns I go into
• where the snow is up to my
wart=it'sure is miserable when
you are delivering some huge
appliance. .•
I don't think • anybody gets
around the Town anymore than 1
do and I find thte 're`moval of snow
in Go'derich is more than
satisfactory.
I hepe this gets.. the message
across to those complainers in
'this Town. ,
I think this is a job well done—
so keep up the good work.
Harold Lamb,
Sully pack
w Dear Editor:
• In the ' %Signal -Star' of March 9
l read witir great interest of Mr.'
Bruce Suliy;s• proposals to the
Town Council of Goderich. He
eutfined .a plan to construct
landscaped and .fully furnished
park, provided for by the Sully
Foundation in the memory bf his
,father the fate J, A, Sully.:
To my inigd this is a thing of
great value, it would add to the .
many' features or beauty within
Goderich • so pleasing to its
people, and those who travel to
4 our community to share our good
fortune. '
• One•only has to look, to n'taryel
at'ti1 e ma'gnificentstidset that'can-
tie seen in an evening 'holrr 'as' tile-
'sun
he`'sun sinks down the horizon into
• the tivater•s .of Lake Huron.
1 sincerely hope that when the
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"Fully Furnished" item or the
• agenda is under discussion, that a
"' Viewing`Fovrer" willbe -brought.
into the picture.,ancl at th"e end of
',Abe discussion the Mayor will
pronounce—Carried and So
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• Elsa Haydon
148 Warren Street •
• go'derich, Ontario
• March 1•4,,,191a
Dear Editor:
Recent public ,comments
referring•+.to tate workshop for
retarded•adutts a#1 the Goderich
and District ,Association seelp ,to
indicate that some explanation on
the -,part pf the organizers would
be in order.
A regional workshop had been •
planned in co-6peration with the
Exeter -based organization. The
1oea1 Association members voted
strongly in favour of, it at one
meeting and against at the next.
Although it was previously said
on, several occasions' that the
present Goderich workshop is not
adequate and has no growth
potential, it now appears that
• those connected with it are quite #
satisfied and that there is "ple'nty
of space for more trainees".
At the same time when the
Association has turned its back on
a challenging project and feels it
is happier on the familiar ground.
of the old and the small, it is
publicly appealing to the
community for support and says
that new.,members are needed.
retarded, instead 'of merely
concentrating on• a perfe&fly run
organization. I understand that
Eieter is going ahead •with the
Workshop,
The parents of those directly.
affected should forth a core of any
decision concenniz g the workshop
for their grown children. But.how,
does it work in real life'? Should
two or three parents block the way
for others?
Numbers of normal Goderich
students go to school in Clinton
and their parents do not simply
try to keep them in Goderich, no
matter what. Normal people leave
home when they are grown, Should
the retarded adults not have the
right to•learn all they possibly can
to becbme self-sufficient to the
extent of their capabilities'?
I am greatly impressed by the
job the Queen Elizabeth School is .
doing. These youngsters,when
they are grown are not likly to
put up with any behind -the -scenes
hiding and *isolation and their
pface in the society will have to
change for the. better.
In the meantime, what can
community -minded people do to
help?
Sincerely,
Elsa Haydon:
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COnimunity is a collection of ,
individuals. At this 'point I am not
sure I. understand what is
• expected of the community.
Are we expected to give simply •
money ,and for who* will .it be '
used'? '. ,.Bill Crawford of, Clinton was
r appointed secretary-fieldman for
Do you welcome further Huron County at a •meeting of the
individual c'omm'itment of a more Huron Federation of Agriculture
personal nature? Is it giving of , in ClintonThrlrsday night.
our time and ideas which, added to Mr, Crawford is a member of
your •exPerienc.e, might help the Clinton Town Council and is an
improve the future of the insurance salesman and former
retarded'? operator of a meat market. •
Are .the new members to be' He was hired after a joint
'rrumhe'rs on file or should they committee from the • Huron
-.also vote and • present their Federation and ' the. .Ontario
opinions, preferences and Federation . of ,'Agriculture
suggestions, to. he evaluated' with interviewed three applicants,
•a.n open mind?, The duties'of the secretary -
Unless • ,.therrei :are, ;.retarded fieldmta,nwiAl be. to .solve tamers
members•in a family. the matter 'problems'and-&e-11•-memb,erships
remains usually quite remote and .to the,farniers of the county.•The
unreal to most people. • My new position was one of several
awareness a n d' concern setup across Ontario by the OYA
deepended only after I joined the to help boost 1 a g g in g
-, g.roup - of • volunteers when , the 'membership. •
.. Princess., Anne__.,Nltr
-°sor,"'``y ...was , Although Huron has led, all
started to look after retarded counties --in. 'the province' +in
preschoolers one , morning a ,membership, it .was one of .the
week. first areas to seek a 'secretary -
.
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Nevrdisplay cabinets have been the one major- oufome of a program .of improvements at the HuPon
County Pioneer Museum financed by a Provincial Government Incentives Grant. One of the, workmen
employed on the project, Russ Pfrimmer m e a s u r e sone of the new units for screening. -staff photo
Bill Crawford is new field—mai for Huron
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'fieidman. Thenew man will have a•
From 'there it was only -a -- part-time assistant at his central.
natural step to join the office in Clinton.
Association. Now, however, I feel A short ceremony took place at'
• foolish like someone who was the meeting when Faye Fear, for
diligently trying to elp the old •six years 'the secretary of the
lady across th• f- onl to Federation, vuaS.preSented, with a.
discover that
wanted to go...
It was evident that the idea of a •
regional workshop in Clinton had College in Seaforth. The office
general approval and sriPPport, So I, will- shortly be moved to the new
promoted the plans, as 'it looked "location•aft�he college at Adastral
like a very good step in the right Park.
direction, particularly as, it was Mrs.' Fear said. she changed
to include residential facilities. -jobs because she wanted to work
Then it appeared t h.a t the _ono full-time basis and this would
workshop was not popular after no longer be possible under the
le h
for making- her year's wit
Federation ert_jovahle.
}7 the
Mason Bailey, pr'esiderit of the
Federation, reported on'" the
meeting of the executive of the
OFA with the Ontario cabinet. He
had been' one 'of seven • non-
members of the executive asked
to,participate in till' meeting. He
called it a very valuable
experience. He praised the work
of Gordon hill of \urrta, president'_
of the OFA-ancf the other executive
member's in dealing with, the
government,.
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One of the most.hopotul :a.ik;lrs of
i r , said. was that the
the rneetlnt,.,he. sur a
government suggested such
meetings shoulil le' heid. mart•
often'than' once a year
Doug Fortune o! the insurmic•,.,
committee . informed, thcise
present that March is. tn5uranc'e
month. i e 'eXpldilied "'tltt liitN:
between CIRC; anal 'the ()F:\ 11e
eYxplaineirthat t -he OFA starteltht•
CIAG in.1949 and in 1 95 1 through
It
• the. need for great('1' re:set•t•5
because of expansion. , took in
United Co-operatives of (.)ntat tt,
aS a f urtner. Furt"het• 'X1t,tn51ott
took place in 1955 when the
Ontario Credit Union league v�,tti
ot really • gift. Mrs. Fear has left the-- .--'nought in as a p;ti• itk•r,
ernployofthe Federation to work Mr. Fortune explained that the
for the Huron -Centre of Conestoga Huron Feder,,ition get S'10.per cent
on all new policies sold in tht•
alL new set-up. She thanked everyone
county and 1a cents on each -.employee ' trained- on a three
rt•tteWa1 (3
1:1111 teleplulne C011(111ittt_•e
r+�port'td that it hiSpes t(i have its
t1(J Il presentation prepared for
Bell Canada j>v the middle ot
'\laic li. Six ruutiir.ipttlities are
involved in the area which the
Federation would like tO see,
nlar:t d toll frtrt; calling
privileges. Each i11nnicipa,lity is
being regne.sted, to niake •a
resolirtic.I 1 approving the action' of
'tbu' Federation. •
Pat 11unking of the resolutions
r•0mrnittee reported On 'the
committee's inyestr;ration ui d
t•t solution submitted •L1St _month,
by Hu lett 1•'etler•at•ioll Tho
l'esoluthon (YI111•0 fc1r t,t'rrnrn., 11t
he included 111 the ('anad.t
Manpower labour aSSistanco
'1)1'311. S 4: ytli,tt oiti,:..,.che0k1110
Into sttu,tt)ttn
Pat Honking ct1 the resolutions
. t•otn,01ittee ?reported on" • the
_ contrnittee's tnyesti.;at_lon, ot. a
resolution sul,iti(itted last month
by • Hrillett Fedet'ation. The
, resolution calls,! for 1arn(1110 to
be in(•Ilitlt.tl 10 the ('anad,t
Manpow't,r l,thnitr .l:sSistance;°
plan. She_ said th.tt 'tin rheckina
into the Situation tt was found
farine'rs were already ,i,tacduded_
•Under' the plan the goVernnlent
µ•ill• pay part of the wages of
1
month to 12 month period -
providing the employee has a
recognized skill. when ,he has.
finished 'the training_ period. •
A resolution put forwardV---
Adrienne Vos of Blvth was •
approved. • It called for the
government Co make machinery
c.ompir,r 1iilllle Ric loss]
incur trv.'.i.arrne•rs when partsti
• for machinery were'not available
within 48 hours of a „visit of the
farmer to.the.dealer•
In Montreal, says the Ontario,
Sajety League:. motorists- who
pink their cars along certain
streets in the winter are µ; rued
to move them by 'special .horns
installed on pick-up trucks that
precede the snowplows by half an
hour
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The latest addition to the Huron County Pioneer Museum houses a workshop which has been a hire of
activity over the winter. This faciI ity is the central point for a project of improvem'etrts at 'the museum
under a Provincial Gpveir`nment Incentive Program. Here the frames for a new display areas are
completed hs well as bbnierods other jobs of the type.—staff photo
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Today, the only reminder that .e rn v of V i rig his h.. u d i e nee, in
once there was a Music Fall `'is in, collabot'ation,' so that the- waves
the 'TV series '`The° Pig 'and flashed from . stage to' ,audience
Whistle". and• for the 'most,, part,' and:back;, when the latter is lizrip
those who enjoy that programme with laughter; he dares them to
do so because ofats nostalgia. Cine read even more into his joke; then
of the Greats on the Music Hall • reproaches them. for outrageous. ....; •
Stage during 'the first twenty • temerity, in a public place at.that,a"
years of the '.present century .was for even hinting he intended such a
George Robey, who was billed' as meaning. Robey intimating that he
"The Prime Minister of Mirth" was of superior clay, the while his
though I would suggest • he was pretence being blatantly debunked
much more the Prime Minister of by his garb: a veritable• effigy of
Innuendo. I became acquainted the Church. 1 can recreate for
With his act first on occasional myself still the hush as he
visits to Tufnell Park in north reached the line: "So I stopped
London to stay with the and Hooked and Heft". ,
Gascoignes,. friends of my • Robey appeared -in Pantomime
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parents. Mrs. G. slaved away and conjured comic glory out ,of
making paint braishes for Windsor ''Mother Goose" and he
& Newton, Reeves, or George conformed to the comedian's
Rowney', grading the camel or traditionaldesire toplay Ramjet-.
badger hairs so that when you put , He did however, make a moving
the brush between your lips it and memorable scene of the dying
would twirl to a point. Sp trying Falstaff, which Sir Laurence
was this work that she lost her O1'ivier interpolated into his
. sight eventually and could .no production of "Henry V", But TV
longer supporta uselesshusband. and movies were not far . Robey, ,
She t>a'd a good-for-nothing sun, for they failed to• give him the
Bert,° several years 'older than rapport which his live audiences
myself, but good hear'tedwithal. It invariably supplied; " and he
was he who would take me off on a • became a fish out of his...olement.
Saturday night `to...was it the ' His.pri.vate interests included a
Hollywood Empire? There to find great love of cricket and he was a
thre-deticious Robey. skilled fashioner of violins,
• Peter Cotes 1+ 1 has just For the generation which
published a poorly reviewed suffered- through the first .world
• "life" of George Robey, who was, war it is simple to recapture
a contemporary of Harry:Lauder,. events which were imprinted with
of the White -eyed Kaffirt of Vesta such ' explosive , vigour , to
Tilley, df Grock the clown etc, not - recapture the slow, slow journey
forgetting the Tiller Girls who f r.o m L i ne•- t o railhead to
rivaled the,present day Radio City 'Boulogne. From • Boulogne° to .
chorus Lit*. Robey always came Dover, a passage Whichno one
oa��n vaguely clerical frock coat noticed, be it rough or smooth
-Tr-6Th which the collar had been . when sailing north; the arrival at
removed so that' it left his neck that•haven, Victoria Station, with •
protruding fn a cheeky unclothed all the heady anticipation which
kind of way. His eyebrows were the prospect of ten days leave
ar,ch.ed.and black, almost induced. To li,ye as though it yeas
complete semi -circles, while his—theiast week on earth, at a rate
nose was red, His head was which only months, often years, of
crowned with a black bowler hat saw--in-g permitted, To see
rderby to void with a very low Pelissier's Follies and lissome
crown. There was 'his mobile Muriel George singing: "Moon,
mouth'aritlheiilvariahlvcar'ried a moon, serenely shining,:." Then :.
light malacca cane—not a walking a Chariot reyue . with ties -ie
stick. but what the English call .a Matthews and Noe1.C•ow•ard; not'to
cane: light and willowy so that all, mention Gertrude Lawre.nee�-and-
t
he' could do with, s to make numerous other• charmers.
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occasional.swishes"`awat Ills thigh.•. .But for the real relaxation; the
His act 'was made out of •the belly laugh; the pillorying of
p.
ersonality he assumed:°a bogus, stuffiness, conservatism and
down•at heel intellectual. ' a whim, there was Robey, and it was '
personality to which his outfit. always Robey we carried back
gave 'the lie, but which was when the unbelievably shortleave
rescued by - his Oxford • accent. was over. There was the. season
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wijich in turn was repudiated by .whey Robey performed in revue:-
such
evue -suc..h mis-pronunciations as "The Bing Boys are here!" (after
"immatteral'` for 'immaterial. Sir Julian Byng, commander of
n his first sallies of wit were the Canadian Corps)'When we.
g r • •ted with hilarious , heard on the, Somme that George
enthuse sm. for he was' very was to he paired with the lovely
popular. . would hold up a hand in Violet • Lorraine,, it seemed
'nock embarrassment: ' 'Desist! I impossible to imagine how he
beg of you' . His success lay not in could fit in. How could he sing that
ribaldry.itself but rather •in its most sentimental and syrupy of
insinuation. fie did not deal so songs: "If you were the only girl
much ia•thedouble entendre as in in .the world and I was the only
innuendo, leaving his audience to boy?" without imbueing it with
Deduce from h is remarks inuendo. How could George be '
whatsoever meaning their sentimental? ButA-he was and it
salacious minds cared'to p,1 -ace served to emphasise his
th€ reeri, His songs were • versatility.
suggestive 111 a way that would • It is too late now to count the
seem very tame today,,but then we farm houses, Nissen huts,
were very• ingenous in the .dugouts, ' elephant shelters in
nineteen hundreds and nineteen Which our gramophone ground out
.nineteen
•' If you were the only girl..,. "but it
One of his most sought-after was -the reconstruction of the
songs haid as its _punch -line: subtleties and.timing of Robey and
"Archibald, certainly not"_' and it his "daring" songs which
does not take much imagination to sustained us at Passchaendaele
realise what lie'could do with a , •
on July 31st 1917 and again when
aided by ,raised eyebrows and an . socket -eyed despair threatened'to
expression of shocked surprise , submerge us on March 24th 1918,
that his transparent modesty And it was Robey, with.all hi"s
should be so traduced. His magic fooling who came `through
audiences were; fcrre'ver shocking when we returned to the Cambrai
him: misinterpreting his asides: of the previous November
- putting .risque meanings to his -strewn with relics, cavalry
Most innocent remarks. Another lances, guns" with ° crumpled
song equally charged with . barrels, tanks tiurnt out, German
possibilities went: ''1 like to. go machine gun belts and carriers
walking—alone—by myself, and a few, dead, preserved by the
Merely .for exercise. When a cold weather." The long
sound wafted my way on the duckhoard-'track to Revlon Farm
breeze, so I stopped. I looked and 1 has been quiet fora long tilrie now,
listened. Someone said Do anti but who will ever forget the agony
someone said Don't. So 1 stopped •of the return from leave which
and I' looked and I left." In yet turned Victoria station into a
another lyric, asked. •• Would you veritable Calvary?
give her a yacht?" ''No! I'd •give . And so George.' wherever you
her a smack " maybe, it was great to laugh with
w ;(Anglice a smack is a fishing , You once more this week. You
boat) Then there was the song fn gave us the respite we so sorely
which he was.Aasked by his host: needed, so what would be more
Did vot see the sun set in a great appropriate to say to you than:
durst of fire?" • to. which he -Now cracks a noble heart! Good
replied: "No! I was watching the : night Sweet Prince, and flights Qf
daughter retire:" angels sing thee to thy rest."
But how banal all this sounds ' • '
today with aherrated "Calcutta" + George Robey by Peter. Cotes.
and "Hair';, both so daring and so Cassell. 226pp.
callow, while the SupreMe Court
of North Carolina hands down the + +,+
jpdgetnent that "bare breasts are
not private parts How do, you • The combination of electricity'
compare it with. Rotrey's and wat'erin the bathroom nil
.business'' of pr'opbutiding some As deadly as tho mixture of
theme..plucking some' i'it udent alcohol and gasoline on Atte toad,,
ribaldry out n of The air and warns the OntArio Safety League;
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