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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-01-25, Page 3GODERICH S7UN:tL-STAR, THURSDAY, JANUARY; 2L yi97, 3 -PA F:.3 10 1903 Id his usiness idry $r ession I .that his t r'Gode Railr innogn lacing a new Mites clerks ecv*4'rei at t on Fri :pded a ler Simi .ough s hit us it sails Railw ling -ag ding out )r 1901 0` Brit' Liver tle in GO 1948 very ha enjoyed Hue Wa the Gir milies a aic Asse ,day nig hund as ele erich Tr ricultur e ann Bch D mated lerich 1 ague to nee of rerage f f Petrol' nanager e.. Utiliti 'ouncil ng Frid favour of Coup mei up by an8 k on Mo filar Inter s with u n bor find Cat Lind whom a rig,. ma le. I kno ittee, thi comme was, to ing ant constru comme nterest . ling I t ing, I lel ick Hill'. n only su e in pea we res an for mu -mobil inch mote of us had .o live bf Leekiag. ahead r Editor; erhaps, for one week,` .in- outdoor'theatre. We have won- planning qualities of the per- closer to the jail. d of "Looking Back" .you dered about the County's -.sons voted in and paid "to han- It was proposed two 'ears Id publish a column called original decision to build' the die our .interests. ago to tear down another see- king ,kin Ahead." The year assessment office in its present We apparently have members tion of_the jail walls to provide '. - Might no-roorn_for__e� ____on _ .the Huron _ -County_ Council __ parking for the Children's Aid _. ld_� Z03fi _AD__..tl....location, with d something like ,-this: pension. t which I believe are taking a Staff. Surely the projected nator It E. Mc'inley a,n- As an alternative we would very dictatorial view of the , enlargement of the assessrnent need today. ,.That a Local suggest expansion to the north situation by saying that the office to include the Children's rtin Grant in"the amount of ..of the building over the existing structure holds no memories Aid offices will call for still i;000•-wi11--he- issued")jointly- parking--lot-with---utf`dacgrriund_. wcarthdianging onto. more parking area. Where will ,� this o? How sa a are the resit 'I walls? centre, an asset to Huron sure ,the people of Huron two periods of architecture eni- County:"' County and our' American bodied in the jail and the To destroy any part of the visitors are asking the same assessment office is not jail defeats this purpose. This question which is now going pleasing as it stands. How area to be demolished was the through my 'Aind, What is much worse it would be if the area obviously excellent for an wrong with the thinking ' and ,office were jammed in even e County of-Huron-and-th —. parking' hea-itrthe-future-.the- wn of Goderich for ,the pur- governor's residence would be Our neighbours to the south of the jai e of re:constructing the for- required, surely a suitable of us have numerous tourist at-, No explanation has been r County gaol and the first location could be found for the. tractions namely (forts) Indian made publicly as to why it is nicipal Building ever to be Children's Aid Society. ferent from theirs, and we have always thought it would be of interest to have a Canadian column such as this. Is there a reason why this is not feasible? We would very much ap- preciate hearing ppreciatehearing from someone on your staff as to why and why not. villages which if you read your not feasible to build and It in that county. We wish you to reconsider ' history books represents a great provide parking to the west of. he site of the building, now your decision. deal of blood shed and sorrow, the office. We need a set of very ' parking lot, was fi, st cleared The historical value of the but do they tear,them down, no convincing figures to justify ring the 1970's - beginning in jail as it is now could_ not be they have enough foresight - to neglecting this approach to the' 3 when the outer walls were replaced by money. restore for the coming problem. olished in .the name of .. generations, no wonder we're Let every alternative be ex-' )greSy before destroy what he building will , be re- structed with large blocks of - ne - refuted to be part of the sinal structure =found along Tp the wells shore of Lake Huron;"once mped over the hill as a vain Dear Editor• Psion control measure which cipit.ated the disappearance With respect. to our new I don't really think our Bingham Park and the ad- council and the various new • teenagers are so far out as some ent residential area in 1974. representatives of other Huron people believe. ' senator McKinely also in- County municipal bodies. I can- I can't understand why this sited that the new building not help but cry "to the walls - was not foreseen, as the present - to the walls". The people must Id find renewed use if the defend the walls historic assessment building should s ofour vernment finally accepts hisnever have been erected in that to re -new capital punish- site on the edge of town which, area in the first place. t, thereby instituting a new until its most recent and most They should have recognized �ustry in 'Huron."' pleasurable use,, was known as it as only the beginning of the the local jail. "destruction of the only struc- Regretfully, For those of us who made any ture of its kind in North -Paul Carroll use of the jail last summer it America. was indeed the walls which - Let's hope that the County S. If readers are really con- made the place so attractive. Council sits down and handles rned about this historic Once those walls are eroded it it in the proper manner as this ilding please -call me at 9189 will be only °a matter of time .historical building does not write-ot_-.Joan at 9924. Do it before the whole structure is belong to a few but the whole Yours sincerely, still in the back woods and un- plored a ore we es Harold and Norma Jeffery til -we have- solid councils - to can never be replaced. protect our heritage and not, be Dorothy Wallace - carried away by prestige - - bdilders, you cap expect more of this. We seem to be diving in a time. when it's not safe to turn our backs. w. demolished,- for what.. area as a very valuable tourist Am I not right in saying that attraction. the a§sessment office is a recent I surely hope all citizens far structure-apliarently' °planned and wide will stand up and be by sonteone supposedly in the counted, and ,.send a letter to° know? Why then is it now the Huron County Council. A deemed necessary to enlarge it? very concerned citizen. Why was this type of building Yours truly Svd Lawson We were incensed when we read. in the paper:, ,about the county's proposal to tear down the jail wall. This community has•• no right Sincerely yours, Mr. M.:1..)3oulton Mr. A.W. Jackson Valhilla 112 Base Line Rd., APT. 509, London Ont., N6J 1V4 Editor's Note, Ann Landers' column is well, -read. The type of problems with -Which she deals rarely are concerned with politics or national iden- tity. An a11=Canadian column, as good as Landers' just isn't available. But we do run Bill Smiley — and he's as Canadian as the Maple Leuf. not least, to our good friend in shining' armour Mike Watts, who apparently is a critic in just about ariything.youu would care to mention. Frankly, Mr. Watts you and your fellow critics of we snowmobilers give me a pain. It's true doctors have hinted of new spinal problems, but are they so. busy counting broken legs that they can't determine the therapeutic significance of the sport? Snowmobiling breaks far fewer legs than skiing. Mr. Watts little pep talk' Jdn. ? - at the --Goder ich--- -Cone& te-attgrrited. deafness; lead poisoning and cancer from inhalation of exhaust fumes from snowmobiles. Apparently Mr. , Watts doesn't understand how a two stroke snowmobile engine func- tions, because if he did. he would know that a snowmobile engine produces 30- to 40 per, cent less toxic fumes than a conventional car engine. I imagine it's possible that we could contact some of these diseases eventually. I under- stand that alcohol could cause cirrhosis of the liver; that ar- tificial food colouring causes. cancer; that Rolaids is bad for anyohe with a heart condition. Where - do we stop? Oh by the way Doctor Watts said that snowmobilers are anti -social. Show me an anti- social snowmobiler and I'll show you a man from Mars. One hundred of us died on - our sleds last winter, more than half because we used an off- road machine on the highway. Serves us right for being stupid. But snowniobiling kills fewer people than -kitchens, bathrooms or fires. It's a lot safer than driving your car. , Does the politician use the taxes we snowmobilers pay to build safe one-way trails marked with warning signs? Or give us snowmobile crossing signs on highways as they do for deer? With a million of us we have our badapples; but we stack up well against Toronto's Murders, Vancouver's marijuana users or Montreal muggers. Want to know who this army of sled ,;drivlers,;areY� Skilled laborers make up 300,000. We've got 150,000 in the professions, 100,000 salesmen, 200,000 go ice fishing,: 20,000 of us race and draw more ,than two million spectators too, 100,000 use them in our work, 50,000 are clerks, 56,000 are retired people, 100,900 are farmers. And despite our critics we'll be joined by 250,000 more Canadians this year. We just hope they get some instruction, and join a snowmobile club, so they won't be statistics too. And we'll be great nuisances the whole town, for many years, despite the lack of several ser- vices and facilities. With reference `' to your statement regarding a one house, one lot rate payer being taxed $76.00 or more under General Levy, 1 feel this is in- correct. I assume you arrived at this figure from Mr. Todham's statement, that the town's 4,000 ratepayers would have to pay $70.00 'each to make up the amount of $280,000. Taxes are not arrived at in this manner. Taxes ,are pro rated according -M ,-..•each--i ndiv.idual....a''" sme,nt-- --i- •htvae---been --told --on--good--.. authority that this drain could be installed over a period of two or three years, with the help of grants, at very little ex- tra .cost and possibly none to the taxpayer., I have every confidence that our competent and fair minded Mayer and -Council will arrive_ at a solution 5tttisfactory to all in town. We are very flattered by your description of us as New Goderich but as most like myself have lived here for thirty or more years; and. still have some narrow gravel roads, no sewers, or town water, in spite- of these drawbacks we -have never .objected to. paying our share of all improvements to the town. I sincerely, hope the editor's gloomy prediction of "Old Goderich" becoming a choking, stagnant town will be brightened by the new' lights on Court 14.ouse Square. Sincerely Ford Little ti - Comnmerce or your Tourist organizations. + What I'd like to know is, How in the name of God could you reproduce in its entirety the article which you had already published•eleven years ago, , and pretend that it had just come to light recently? But . I have a theory: I was once editor of a • magazine myself and 1 kept a fileof junk which I labelled "fillers". I would use these scraps to fill in a certain Space when news was scarce. Probably some one on your "staff .-dug. -into- A-pile_of. fituff eleven -veers ld -and cane.-.ulz with this as'a.newsworthy item. 1 am glad you at least consider it newsworthy. 1 don't look for publicity any more since hundreds of my books containing this poem are scattered around the 'Province of Ontario and 1, have been given a lot of crediit for them, but I would suggest •that the decent thing for you to do now would be to print a pleasant lit- tle not in your next issue, all set up in a neat boxed' type, containing an explanation similar to the following: Milk' price rises Dear Editor, I am writing to express my objections over the recent in- creased prices in one of our stable dairy foods. Adding_ to the ever -mounting cost of living was the 1973 New. Year's . resolution of the On- tario Milk Marketing Board, to raise the price of whole (homogenized) milk three cents, from .38 to .41 cents per quart. We are enclosing a copy of a allowed in the midst of a prime ter we sent to Huron County residential area? , Why now uncil expressing our feelings should' they be allowed to the County's plan to spread like' a' cancer .to the molish part of the jail for, ex- surrounding , areas --detriment, ssion pltrpgrrte,s.,,e,,ot t.'• „",,11 S t''`w "d`,4' ., r ' . 4,..+„-- ♦,1, .. r ioi cin 'c"' ' ! , . Yours sincerely, (1) Leave the jail as is for the Harold and Norma Jeffery time being. (2) Construct a completely new assessment office on our industrial park where they can ,expand„ to their hearts content. (3) Put the present' structure , • into use as a -much needed social centre, intra -connected ar Mr. Berry: _ with the undefiled historic - structure. , - It was with regret that we To the walla gentlemen, the ad of . County Council's decision 'is yours but- not yours cision to demolish the large for ;you'or us alone but also for urtyard ofthe.jail to make thoseunborn. an- om for the ro osed ex ° proposed P Thank goodness the' citizens- n of the assessment building. and yeomen of York, Lincoln, om conversations with other Cologne etc.,' did just that for terested citizens, we know we our sake. e not alone in deploring this tion. . . We agree with Goderich eve Deb Shewfelt's and puty Reeve Stan Profit's iginal suggestions . that the- it building be restored 'as is, w he ' used as an historical nal museum and 'cultural r. John G. Berry cretary - iion County Council rt House derich, Ontario Yours faithfully, B. Markson •Dictatorial view Dear Editor: After reading January 18th issue of the Goderich Star I'm Needs convincing ° Dear Editor, to allow the destruction of any part` of this,historical building. We are fortunate in that this building, which is described as' "unique to North America", is situated in Goderich. But it is our responsibility to see to it that we protect this small part of our heritage. At the present time it is enough that we see to it that the_ jail and its surrounding property remains intact. We ' kilove that others will' rightly feel that we are a petty' and indifferent community of Canadians if we fail to take the I wish to protest loudly initiative in this matter. against this latest raid by Will you hells? Will you County Councikrjn the walls of our former jail. speak out? " When one considers the huge Betty Lou '_Dalton, RR 3' sums- being spent by our gover- Goderich nment to rebuild the fortress of Mike Dalton, RR 3 Goderich Louisburg or the fortunes spent ,. Leona and Fred Vassella, RR 3 by the Americans to restore Goderich - L - such places at Williamsburg Linda Bowler, RR 1 this proposal makes one shod- Sebringville der. Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Davis, RR 4 It is centres of interest which Goderich are unique such rch as" our Huron Joan .. Vanden . Broeck, County ,Museum and our jail, Wellington St., Goderich complete, as itis now but con- Anne Davis, - South Street, taining a museum and' an art. Goderich centre or whatever ..develops,Eileen Wilson, RR 7 Lucknow which will draw visitors with "'-Mrs• .-James Sinnett, RR '7 their spending money to ' our -Lucknow -town. It is not modern Walter Davis, 85 South Street, assessment buildings with acres Goderich of tarmac. These are necessary Sadie Gilders, 181 Caley Street, too. But let us not destroy the Goderich, one, for the. -.other. Mrs. Gwen. Moller, 88 Albert The close proximity of the Street N., Goderich Ernie Allen, 226 Britannia Road, Goderich " Earl Moller, 88- Albert Street, en /CO rg PAY. AIN LIE MARKET LIMITED HARVESTVNOS]OF 9-V8551ALUiS Naturally,,the price of all other grades and quantities of milk were' raised accordingly, reflec= ting an increase of nearly ten percent in one of our stable commodities. Surely it's -'time • for con- sumer groups to organize brief, but strict boycotts of the product,. until it is lowered, at least" to the prevailing rates 'of 1972. The public must he thinking over that TV message we were - getting a while ago, from the OMMB. You remember, the foamy .white liquid was poured into a jug and afterwards, a -buxom lass, looking as ..though • she might have beep a second "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", • drank -a glass of it, smiled and said: ' "Milk, it's my little trip." Then the smooth, (milky?) - vdice of -the announcer intoned; "Milk, the .beautiful fobd "you're ignoring.- It gnoring.-It appears as though con- sumers are now picking up the tab -for the, dubious pleasure. of , watching that dairy maid drink a glass of milk on the TV screen. Housewives throughout the province must feel like replying to the OMMB:,, "Milk, the beautiful food ' we're ignoring—because we can't af- ford it!" Goderich - - D. Knox, 1 -1 -6 -Victoria St. N., „Goderich Goderich, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Miller, RR I ,Dashwood Percy LeBlanc, 91 West St., Goderich -• Neil Devereaux, RR 4 Seaforth Ruth Foug,Fre,-46 Church Street, Goderich Mrs. Grace Mugford, 180 - Wellington St.,-Goderich Mr. anti Mrs. S. J. Lawson, 102 Wellington St. S.,- Goderich Mrs. Bill Smith, 46 Wellington Goderich Margaret Williams, 153 Palmerston St., Goderich Roy Cox, 33 Elgin Street, Goderich Eric Johnston, 111 St. George's Crescent, Goderich Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Munday, 193 Blake St. W., Goderich John S. Lincoln; RR 2 Strat- ford M. . E. Mack, 33 Elgin Ave. *East, Goderich Michael J. O'Brien, 193 Rich Street, Goderich '-'Dianne Leddy, 195, Wellington St., Goderich Charles Kerr, 211 East Street, Goderich - . Respectfully, A. N. (Sandy) MacDonald. likes-Signal---- Angry author bear Editor, I object. In your issue of .January 4th you published a -poem• • entitled THE MAITLAND RIVER which was said to have been found on a bill board.at Fernhurst Glen, near Holmesville. It was in a .dilapidated state when found and the - name looked • like Michael Farrell. 1 am the -author of.that poem. I wrote it iris .1,946 .,and, ,it wad first' published 'in the London Free Press, and then reprinted in your Signal Star and the Wingham Advance Times and several other newspapers. "It has been read - at many meetings and at assemblies of ,,various kinds. Two of your sub- scribers recognized it as one of my poems and wrote to me, en - Closing the clipping. • I have had several hundred poems published in the last 3Q years, and three collections - have' appeared in book • force. The books were- copyrighted ,and were not' to be used to ever except' t' ourselves,, without mv permission: Now of everyone; P _.._. until„a snowstorm ties up your course I cannot sue you for in- commranitv.- - fringement of copyright because Then we'll be asked, by the of the circumstances in which same disc jockeys that use their you had found it but I would programs to defame us and our • appreciate it if you would print sport, to volunteer ourselves an explanation of the error in .and our sleds. As we rescue the name and mention the fact that sick and the mighty, , the lazy it contains -other errors which and`oh yes, a few of our critics. were not in the original com- So Doctor Watts if winter position. gets on your nerves where you or When it first appeared long get sick of contemplating your ago, I received many letters of navel and writing nasty letters appreciation -from all-over that to the editor - buy a sled and area,, in Huron County and' ad - Or are you too anti;, joining counties. One of them social? was from Miss E.M. Strang, who was I.believe a relative of a former Goderich C.I. Prin- cipal. So there are probably - dozens of your subscribers who recognized it as one of my poems. However, I am writing to you Dear - Sirs: sending me tion due. I subscriptio the amoun cheque for you to pl scription f Althoug from God I am still Signal -Ste -der to keep in touch a' bit with local news. , - Yours sincerely, E�inice McLamb Toronto On behalf of the St. Peter's Youth Group, I would- like to thank the Signal -Star for their interest, and excellent coverage of our activities during the past year., It is greatly appreciated. Thank you. - Yours sincerely, Michael Redmond Prbsident Saveitai'°tit WhOI..aila) Prices - We bu direct Dear Editor:: -- We have often wondered why the. newspapers do not carry a column like Ann Landers, hot. written by a. Canadian for Can*than- people. Our politics and social problems are dif- Pro soowmobilers Sounded like pre-election talk Dear Editor:°.... because of another surprising In answer to your Editorial coincidence connected, with this Comment, "Drainage Act ver- • poem. You actually printed the sus General Levy". •' poem cin ,Nov. 30th., 1961; with , 1 disagree with your descrip- the identical story of how 'it, tion of the route of said drain. was found and how it was it does not begin at Bennett mailed to you by the person and Bayfield Road, therefore who located- it in Fernhurst ' does not run Southward. Glen. That was eleven years Beginning at. Bayfield Road it -ago'. You asked at that time runs Westward to Furse St. that anyone refognizirig the The "now vacant land" men- name should let you know his tioned has 41 homes, all paying identity and you would inform taxes to the Town of Goderich. Your subscriber who found it. I In our issue of January 4th, 1973, we printed a poem entitled "The Maitland River" which was found on a notice board in Fernhurst. We did not know the name of the `author and suggested that it ap- peared to be Michael Farrell. We have now learned that the author is Michael Foran, 50 Girmour Ave., Toronto, formerly - of St. Augustine, Ontario. This poem has appeared recently in a new book of verse by Mr. Foran en- titled "Twenty Of My Best." Send me ten copies of the January 4th issue so that I can send them to my friends and agcnls,. .Don't. yharge me' for them. ••:: • ' ' "f nciclentally re4errdrS. in line 2; as you printed - it, the word Irish should be . Irishman. It ruins the metre as it is. Also line 5 mentions rivers called the Dale and. Avon. It should read the Doon and the Afton. There are no rivers in Scotland called the Dale and Avon. Michael Foran I have many relatives and friends still living in the 'Goderich, Wingham, Lucknow and St. Augustine areas. They would • appreciate this ex- planation. • M.M.F. Editor's Note:- The.. present. editor carne to -the Signal -Star three years ago, eight-yearsaf» ter your poem was first pfinted in this newspaper. The clipping arrived on my desk mysteriously 'and - as you - suspected - looked like fine "fill". 1 apologize for any con- cern this has given you .and 1 sincerely appreciate your letter of explanation. Dear Editor,. - This letter is addressed to you and' about one million anowmobilers, and lastly but You say the purpose of the recent meeting was to discuss the type of drain. Jt was not. The notice we received read "to discuss -apportionments of costs". 1 feel you grossly exaggerated the value of land south of Ben- nett St. with the installation of this one drain,' as it will be years before all drains leading into it will be installed. i would say your assertion that this drain will mance our land highly . desirable sounds like pre-election talk. "This Land is Strong", -While we south end rate payers appreciate your sym- pathy, we also expect the same' support, as we have given 'to wrote to you at once. I asked . you to sertd me three copies of the paper in order that I might check the identity of tfinder and verify the details. Tom did nol. reply. But you did send me an invoice charging me thirty cents for three -copies of your paper. 1 aaid to myself "To Hell with the Signal Star, .,they should be paying me for the use of my poem instead of charging me for the three copies." Incidentally, you printed a picture, of the Maitland River above the poem at that time with a Blazing headline reading THE BEAUTIFUL MAITLAND RIVER. Hell's Bells, I should have asked for payrinent from your Chamber of In order that Signal -Star readers might express their A opinions -- on any topic of public interest, Letters to 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 are not necessarily the opinions' - held by The Signal -Star. This week's Bridge Scores .January 16, there were eight tables in play rat the Bridge Club. North-South winners were: Mrs. D. D. Worthy, Mrs. W. Duncan, 109; .Tom Eadie, Ray Fisher, 911/2; Tied for this d Mrs. J. Peters, Mrs. G. White, 88; and Mrs. J. Stringer, Mrs. R. L. McDonald. East-West winners were: Mrs. B. Erskine, Mrs. J. Don- nelly, 97; Mrs. I. Papernick, Miss B. Etue, 91; Mrs, A. Galbraith, Mrs. R. Ryan, 86iI=.