HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-05-25, Page 2SIGNATATAlt, THURSDAY, MAY $5, 1972
1-10* long?
They'reat it again... or should that
be still, They're dumping the contents
Irotil the, ,l i stowe 1. lagoon into the
Maitland River, calling it -,"normal
flow and hoping against hope that no
one raises a "stink'. •
.0 . Asioryy in The London Free Press
,last week headlined "MPP claims
, sewage reaching Maitland" had the
whole story in the final paragraph.
Hugh Edighoffer, Liberal MPP from
Perth said, "Tome, itis very serious
because this is going to conti nue for at
beast another two to three years
because the system is now at
capacity."
It is.true.. The system is at capacitor
and thanks to the growing, th r l vii ng
° area around it, is becoming more and,
• more overloaded with each passing
month. There just doesn't seem to be
_ananswer and as the. mighty
provincial ' government plans and
° schemes possible ways to alleviate
the stench and the sl i me building up in.
the Maitland River again this spring,
-the:people.whotLye .in._the _lagoon area_
continue to suffer from air and water
: .-pa.Uuti�il which chok s and sickens.
The Save The Maitland Association,
though still in existence has had the
fight taken out of it by 'repeated
encounters which always ended in only
°
temporary measures -- not
permanent solutions.
The magical aerators which were
installed last summer have failed
o -during the .winter months One is
reported to have been out of order
nearly all winter I ong and the second
was removed from the lagoon for
repairs and replaced only recently,
The spraying system vv4�kich proved ••A
itself last stfnmer was so' successfu•I
that ityvas no longer an experirriental
effort — and the government. funds
which supported it were no Ior qer
available for a project which was no
longer experimental. The OWRC has
since agreed to reinstitute the
spraying system — but it isn't a long- •,
term solution.. ,
Frustrated and disgusted with the
seemingly inane handling of a year-
round puzzle which affects 100 miles
of river and countless taxpayers -
directly and • indirectly _ The Save
The Maitland Association remains
quiet and watchful in a smelly
P
• How long can .this injustice go on?
L{Qw long _Info re theprovincial
government wi II find it imperative to
expend .the 'necessary dollars to'
correct an error of the .past? How
long?
Need bicycle regulations
In retrospect, it is ironical that
Councillor Stan Profit of the Fire, -
Traffic and Safety Committee of
Goderich Towh Counci I saw fit to ,urge
his associates to initiate some kind of
legislation to keep cyclists., safe —
particularly at night in the
municipality.
ti
It is ironical because just hours
after Profit expressed concern for the
safety of young people riding -bicycles,
four Goderich youths were involved in
accidents involving cycles and four -
wheeled motor vehicles. In one
mishap, of course, a Goderich son on a
ten-speedbike was killed. in- another,. •
a Focal lad was injured. In ' third
incident two Goderich boys In/0e ' hurt
when they werethrown from. thei:r
motorbike.
To be certain, these kinds of
accidents were not the kind
specifically referred to by Counciiior
Profit:'lis main fear was for children
ridingbicycles at night without proper
•reflectQr•tape and lighting. ,
Nair has it been -proven in any case
Guest Y opinion
•
who was at fault the cyclists or the
• motorists.
But the weekend's tragic events
point up the need for improved law-
making, both municipally .and
provincially, to cover and protect —
• bicycles as wet l as motorcycles. High
speed traffic „of today's modern
highways make bicycle and
motorcycle travel more hazardous
athan ever — and improved cycles of
alt varieties make two -wheel vehicle
transportation treacherous for "even
the most skilled riders.
In the meantime, it behooves all
highway users to exercise extreme
caution at all times — day and night.
• It 'also be co rre•s.... ah-.a-d-cfe.d,...
responsibility .of parents to make •
certain their youngsters ,know the
rules of safe bicycle travel on .town
streets:and rural roads. More than ,
that, if 'Cyclists often take to the road
at night, their bicycles should be
outfitted with adequate ' Iighting,
reflectors and reflector. tape,
Councillor 'Profit suggests. . ;.
An ounce of prevention is still worth
a pound of cure.
• The old Sunset Hotel which was once the town's most• el ite
holiday inn is falling beneath the relentless tugging of the
wreck inacrew retained to remove her from the landscape.
Demolition is slow unnecessarily slow. Destruction of -
the building began last year and few Goderich residents -
bel ieved
esidents•believed the project -could possibly be'sodrawn out as to
mar one of the town's most picturesque areas .for the
• spring and summer of 1973. It is hoped that those persons
responsible fpr the pulling down of thefornier Sunset Hotel
will not dawdle in the next few weeks but will, instead, pull.
all stops to clear away the debris before Goderich's
summer visitors leave for their homes thislal I, (photos by
W.E. Elliott)
MAY 29, 1902
70 YEARS AGO
West Huron held nominations
for candidates in the provincial_
elections. It was described as a
red letter day for Dungannon.
Within the hour calling for
nominations names submitted
were: M. G. Cameron, barrister,
Mayor of Goderich and James
Mitchell, publisher, Goderich,,
At the Open House meeting Mr.
• McGillicuddy repeated the
statementttiat'he had made at the
Temperance Hall—that during
the past twenty years Mr.
Mitchell has been on the wrong
side of every question gf
temperance or morals that has
come up in this town,. rr
bne of the most enthusiastic
and largest meetings ever held in
the town of Goderich was that
which took place at the Opera
House on Monday, evening ,in the .
interests of Mr. Camerbn.
The two suspects kidnapped p.
from Quebec and carried to
Montreal by Yankee officers,
'assisted by Canadian detectives,
in defiance of our laws, had been,
ordered back to Quebec; .the
Canadian detective implicated
was charged 'with contempt, and
the •tug used to abductthe
prisoners had • been seized for
violation of the law.
The West =Huron ,.'leachers'
Association met in the assembW
-.._. rotixn...oL the Goderich e
Collegiat
Institute. J.. H. •Tigert was ;
president.
Before Mr. Cameron began • his
successful tour of the
constituency of West Huron, a
number of statements were put in
circulation by his opponents with '
the intention of discrediting him.
Btt within a few weeks the ghost,
which was called up by these false
statements had been laid, and
soon little or no objection existed
among the•temperance Liberals.
MAY 29th, 1947.
25 YEARS AGO
His Excellency the Governor -
.General, Viscount Alexander of
Tunis, presented° the
Distinguished Flying Medal to
Jack Hamilton of Goderich at an
investiture held at Sarnia.
Mrs. R. M. Tait and her niece,
Miss Betty Tait, of Edinburgh,
Scotland, left Scotland one day and
arrived in Goderich the next. Both
ladies- expressed their
appreciation of the hospitality •
accorded them by Goderich
people and their delight in
• everything theyhad' seen in 4.
Canada.
• Barbara Ann Scott did not make r.
her proposed appearance in
• Goder-ich, but went far into the
woods of Northern Quebec
• (instead. .
• The Goderich Homing Pigeon
Club'heid its first race of the 194T
season from Stratford, a distance •
of forty-five miles. Fifty-nine
lager and asked • birds were released at 9:40 'a.rrr. , •
Motorola Radio. and the last bird came in at one
p,m.
left, no doubt to Goderich officially opened the
1947 baseball- season when the
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ole�r�. •c•o�tlriue
•
There can be..no_cri'tcism of the means covers all their financia,
action of Huron counci I in agreeing to requirements. Insurance revenue
a ailable a rant _representing pays day to day operating costs but
25P er cent of the- cost _o f new ; does-rrotaNtldewark-tng-cap
construction undertaken by Huron
hospitals providing the work has
received departmental approval.
The hospitals had asked for one
third, the remaining two thirds being
metbyfederal and provincial grants.
The Huron decision was a reasonable
compromise.
In acting as it did Huron councillors
recognized some degree of
participation by the local.municipality
was necessary if interest was to be
maintained. If a town is concerned
with and is prepared to support its
hospital it will have no problem
raising Fess than ten per cent of new
construction costs.
Hospital boards most certainly
have problems, not the least of which
is. to convince the public that the
Ontario ' insurance scheme by " no
interest, nor .funds with which to
replace or up date needed equipment.
Local boards must continue' to seek
funds for these purposes and that is
whytheyask assistance of local town
and township councils and
associations. But if this no longer was
the case and if government at county
provincial and federal levels
underwrote the entire cost it would not.
be long before local control became a
• ,thing of the past. •
A hospital is a personal thing and
should reflect the needs of the
community it serves. To do this the
community in turn must provide
-necessary support and direction and
not allow some remote impersonal
and costly bureaucracy. to take over.
Huron Expositor
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Dear Editor: •
This letter is a week late -- but
write it I must. • ••
Our newspaper's photographer
really flumped the chance for a
trepidation
as another tried not to
pop the balloon Jr. was showing;
the glee as a winner" claimed her
prize; etc. ETC. •
To top it all, these boys and
County spending thousands
dollars on the retaining wall at the "What about the
east end of Saltford then it starts Caper?"
to slide: Why -it was moving one With that. Dan
quarter inch per day I heard." • .. be' back again:
of
grabbed
anot
her
• Lions . Junior's" entertained
dandy picture story -: one full of girls (and their teachers) had put Fair citizens of Goderich. take Well, what about Huron Lucknow Intermediates and the
life and fun and action. He went out : forth all this effort to earn money caution when vuu are driving up' County's Creeping Hill, that : Louzon Flyers. At 8 a.m. the
to Colborne Central School's Fun to buy ,trees for around their that hill. Tbis;. creep.must be the c r e e p v'' t h i n g i n Goderich. Exhibition Park looked like a
Night on May 5th, but apparently school. Yes — TREES. result of ' great engineering Township and,the Motorola k3,adio large mud puddle, but by 3 p.m.
took only one printable picture!. What farsighted, admirable fiasco n o doubt. C�er. Sounds to me like good that afternoon the diamond was in
_And it was printed above" a kids. Their essays, poems and , ,Say, said D,in,. • •did you hear titres' for a television series. excellent shapg thanks to Lions 4 --
-�. showed he..... ictures .... proved • again: how . abouttha,t creepy thing'going on in .Maybe the •tube" will be on at. Con Baebhler:.. and
c-orrimentary, ,:that. d . � ;pictures _ .... . •:.� ..�.��...- . ,� _ _ Ma�t?,�ger
hadn't • even taken in what was seriously and intelligently they. Goderich Township:' _ the next county coincil meeting. . volutlteer workers.
going, there that night. The ' thought and felt about their trees. , Goderich Township? I asked. live and in f'trld color.
"ladies" w NOTes um
t Surely these are the kind of kids I •. dump moving or are the official opening of.the season. The
the gym equipment to see if they 'We Should hear more about! farmer; fences;n the march? had_ been working
approved'"'. They were accepting ,' "No," -spoke Darla,"afar worse z e a l p s 1 y t o have many
Grade 7's challenge in ``The Sincerely thing is happening. As I said improvements completed and,
Hanging Game" to see. if they Wendy, Hoernig before, a very creepy thing." Dear Editor; „'while some o f these
esoird rls� ._ r _...._..,.. ``You know the road between I attach the "Second' Notice
could fan F-fo --6Q .moi „.. .. , . � a _, r.... �� :. __. _ �.. _ . ., u....u.,. ... ,<<.. . i�mpz ove°mepts had .been delayed
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90 seconds men and boys 120 . ,. Highway N`o. 8 and the city of you�sentAineut week agoh41" b adverse w e a t h_i r , t h e
t y
The Maitland Golf Club held its
were "trying ou ure y s ear
K. J.
seconds)..
As one of the subjects of that
picture I must say, I am grateful
that it wasn't the rear view and
that the photographer didn't
report that I failefl to reach that
elusive 60 seconds (oh shame!) —
but, but BUT.
• Thererk must have been
HUNDREDS of chances for
'terrific candid shots -- in spite of
the admittedly crowded
conditions. 4
The students had planned , and
made all of the games. They made
all of the prizes. Themselves,
They were, of course, also
enthusiastically taking part in all
• of the:.game5 --' as were their
parents. Mr. , Photographer
missed so many great shots: ,an
excited tyke pulling his loot from
the Fish Pond; the moment of
impact as a drippingNsponge
whomped into the' target's'
laughing (and living -not painted )
face; the concentration as a ciild
tried . to `aim right"; , the
Opirions
In that Signal•Stair
readers Might express their
Opinion*, orifi any Wok rail,.
' public interest, Letters to The
Editor are always welcome
for pub!, caution.
But the writers, of such
iitters, as well as all readers,
are reminded that the
apinin* expressed in letters
pubibhed are hc�t rieeisra'i y
tlws ophiiorts did by The
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Editor: • -
Well sir. the other day I ran into •
an old friend and most learned
advisor, Detonator Dan. It seems '
that .Dan<ha i jusT returned from
snowploughing. , Why he said the
"dad -burned thing was so "gosh
darn" slow that, he would have to
start out again for next winter.
, . •I hadn't seen 'Dan for some time
and h'e was sure up in the air about
a few things. We were chatting
over a cool lager; Benmiller
Frothy Old I believe it was and of
course the subjects 'of -creeps
carie up or is it down: Dan said "I
notice in the local rag that
Goderich• has a Creep or two."
.Well people. should come to
Colborne township and see our
Creeps. We evert have a reverse ,
creep.
The reverse creep can be found
by driving through Hungry Hollow
and then turning left on
MillionaireDrive. Ata point first
east�of the road -is the reverse
creep in' all its glory. In plain
•simple terms, the Colborne
Township Garbage Dump.
. As the days roll merrily along,
- so the Dump becomes higher a'nd
wider. Did yoti know that a stream
. of once clear water winds its way
• near the• base of the dump,
trickles past Hungry Hoilow,.
rushes down the Mighty Maitland
and from the lake is purpped to
you know where. Care for a glass
of water anyone?
Well, Dan and. 1 had another
round and he mentioned another
creep, The Great Shifting Hill or,,,
The Sliding Park or as it is better.
known, Huron County's Creeping
fttl1,rDan sure. was riled up about
this.
"Imagilu' • • he said,
,
"the
Benmiller? Well about half way
along it, there is 'h large :gravel
pit. You are also familiar with the
fact that the county is doing a re •
-
aligh,ment of the road. To put the
question bluntly, and I suppose
directly to Huron County Council,
why was"a local contractor
allowed to remove gravel from
the area re -alignment and,then the
county having to fill this in again,
pack it on no doubt buy, the fill .,
from the contractor or move
• some fill a great distance? Arvery
creepy thing •indeed •
Old Dan sure was jumping. He
the renewal of the subscription of
the Goderich Signal Star for Mrs. remodelling and interior
Carman Stevens, • 617 Wallacedecorating and refurnishi of the
. club house had been finished, with.
Ave.; London, Ont. ,
I also attach a portion of the
$1000 beinggspent on .it.
label, unfortunately torn, from MAY' 25, 1967
the last received copy of my own FIVE YEARS AGO
subscription to the Signal Star, Helen McNee entered her house
You will note that it isu due ,to in'the township of West Wawanost
expire on June 13 of'this year. . to find a note left by her father.
As has been my .practice for. Later -police found her entire
many years, I am covering these family was dead from 'wounds
two renewals with one cheque for inflicted by rifle shots.
$16.00 sent abouts month late for Evaporator plant workers, at
M r s . C a r in an Stevens the Sifto Salt Companyvoted 33,,to
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78 cents an hour were met,
Institution of a hememake'r a'
service in Goderich as A. pilot
project was under study by town
council as the result of a
presentation by a, steering .
committee set up by the county:
Fifteen • girls . with their
leaders, Mrs. Ivan Rivett and
Mrs. Harry.Girvin attended the 4-
H• achievement day in Wingham on
May 13, Which completed the
course in "A World of Food in
:Canada" .
Officers and members of
Victoria Loyal Orange Lodge No.
182, Goderich, planned a
Centennial church parade which
they expected to be thebiggestof •
the kind ever held in the town. .
Goderich citizens didn't -
overwhelm. the Canadian Red
Cross staff and the towns
volunteer workers when the
London area branch of the Red
Cross held their spring blood
donors' ctinic in the basement
hall of North Street pelted
Muth, At tl'iis Close of the elinie,
only 209 people' had donated.
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