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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-02-22, Page 3CM GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 197 —'AGI Boarid of Education Iearn IS typ3 of Cr atacir ers of hem to 'talent labor. king s it desu Y desire, be able borers British! very i for the the Cove Cegard Hcy of and ave suffe scarcity t. sthtioa r the o ted in a f thefre l up in dry, of Force, I o rejoin a few to nigh. Ca be ho 'xt summ n here a Isiness. ant voya lar in Iy eturn erm. hut off t ow you c dissoly r . as mu ter willa er the w 1 when ry fair glass. 1948 off ea for t rs" jum that t orted fro . Goderic lained t irning of ;tit -off h derich, in the ho !am of and smal oderich f They w Goder notion wi 'wise fun Lain" ca ing of irmen n, each es of ide the rais ring up. vincial 6} _16th. y turning .hgate, The to s Prydt ative, w 3enson s 6,961,1 VIr. Prydt f town l lay annul ,en laid ;e Legho breed.. les in c and ni ien tarok auble yo sad from page 2) re were many people outside Goderich, anti af- aking with some of them, quite sure they left with a poor impression of rich hospitality. Sincerely Mrs. Vera Gregg. Editor: public response to the tv Council's invitation to the Goderich Jail on Sun - last, was a delight to see. Band old--stc od-in line -'on _ itterly cold day to help Th,e County people e that interest' in our organizing the event did not tv's history is not dead. have to catch a plane. If they ie Goderich Jail is a splen- felt they had given enough of xample of a unique style. of their time, surely there would itecture. Generations to have been no difficulty in fin - deserve to have this part ding others to take their place. r past saved for them, to I offered my services in the in - and enjoy. It CAN become terest of keeping the door open asset to the whole area. after 5:00 to' enable those takes men of stature to ad- already in the lineup to. go they have made a mistake. through. Other people would ink there are enough 'big' have been willing to help. And in the .Huron County nobody would have -stolen the Heil who must now realize jail while the county represen- the jail and .wall are well tatives were not guarding it! h saving. It's up to them. Yours truly, Mrs. E.W. Oddleifson. Dear Editor: r. I find it most disappointing and upsetting how the jail "open house" turned out at the closing. ,I appreciate the fact, that people were let in before the appointed time and I can understand that the organizers were not prepared for quite so many people. However, as it became apparent that there was a • large turnout it would have been simple and reasonable to adjust the plans for the afternoon. r Editor: ailing from Ronald allum's "Minister's v" in your Feb. 15 issue, agraph 1) one could very ly conclude that, "man is e partaker of the Divine re," as he says. owever, reading ° from the pture referred to, we find r saying, "ye MIGHT BE takers of the divine e." Is there not a clear inction between "is" and ght be"? (2 Peter 1:4) After merating the necessary s to be taken by those led" Peter adds "wherefore rather, :brethren, give :ence to make your calling election sure." urthermore, `after quoting crews -11:13 Mr. McCallum ediately mentions "The s of heaven", thus in - ting to the uninformed that those "men" of faith are in yen "made partakers of the me' nature." In view of the that *all those "men" of h died before the time of s, and also inview of Jesus' ds "No "man" (the quotes mine)hath ascended "'into" yen:" (John '3:13) there is east a suggestion of a--"cun- ly devised fable" (2 Peter is true that God has "great precious promises" both man" in general and for se "called" to be "partakers the divine nature". Jesus he came to give his life a nsom" for "man" in har- 1968 1 -charged r council vith mon awn coo to providt two Lon' dish prat• same tient surveytt ility of 'al centrt. the elected representatives say it does not mean a thing - they are again not satisfied with the. reasons and motives of the people. In other words, no matter what the pulse rate and symptoms, the patient is found slightly ailing. Peril there were as many reasons as' there were people. They really do not have to justify their presence or thoughts bythe standards of those who attempt to measure _them. _People ire_ You ' 1Ed. I and the friends and neighbours down the street. To insinuate that most of us do not know what we are talking about or that we do things for "wrong reasons is in my opinion a strong piece of nonsense. It is just possible that the people are not out of step, but some of their representatives are. Elsa Hayden In my book it takes some pretty thick skin to slam the door on people who had been standing in the lineup for more than an hour,on a raw and miserable winter day, many with children, some having driven from Toronto, Detroit, Windsor and similar distances. I am not blaming the peresons who were present at the jail in the . course of their work. I am placing the blame on the elec- ted representatives of the County whose decision it was and who made remarks such as "We did not have to open the. jail in the first place". As the jail is County property, one could say that basically most of the people were simply looking at their own property, with the help of those they had elected to manage their affairs. Even if for some reason the door absolutely had to be locked at 5 o'clock, it would have been a gesture of decency and courtesty to explain and to apologize . to the people who had waited so long in the cold, Instead, people's feelings,were ignored, as if they were something to be tolerated around when convenient. It rather ties in with the recent Signal -Star editorial about arrogance on the government levels with which we have to `live: I am expressing mycon- cern; I hope others who were equally upset will do the same. There is another aspect which might be. regarded as somewhat amusing, if it did not y-with-.Isaiah's words:"--'Tanterm a basically—serious- d the ransomed of the matter such as some elected RD shall retutn.."To where representatives' patronizing at- ld "man" who has lived titude towards the people. Had there been only -a -few visitors to the jail on Sunday, no_ doubt this would have been regarded as lack of -interest in• this historic building, as well as, ,lack of support for the Save the .Jail organizers. Now- that "a • large crowd was visible some of died on earth return?'In words of Mr. McCallum, r "claim" is registered by h, and the mine is ours by eritance, but it must be rked." (1 Thessalonians 1) Sincerely yours. C.P. Barney Dear Editor: As a weekly receiver of the Goderich Signal -Star and enjoy the reading of news and adver- tisements, it brings me to the point 'of wanting to comment on one advertisement that I read in this paper over the Christ- mas and New Year's holiday As many of the readers will remember that .some of their merchants of Goderich-Jadver- tised free gifts for the first New Year's baby born in Goderich Hospital, which as you will recall was a darling wee girl of Auburn. The gifts as advertised in the paper were received and much appreciated by the baby's .mother. The one in question was the one from a Taxi for a free ride for Mother and Baby home from' hospital, within a 12 mile radius. When Mother and Baby were ready to leave Hospital they thought they may as well enjoy their free taxi ride home. As it turned out the taxi driver arrived, only for the Baby and Mother to find 'ou't he wouldn't take her to Auburn and didn't have much time, as he put it, to even leave the 'town of Goderich. arsScholarship irr r c as Robertson Memorial Public Huron' Centennial to fulltime -at Exeter Public School; Mrs. BY WILMA OKE Members of the Huron County. board ..,of education learned at their regular meeting in Clinton last Monday that Ontario Scholarship win- ners will be awarded $L00 each this year (Grade, 13 students with an average of 80 per cent or better) following re- instituting of the monetary award by the Ontario Govern- ment. There are several conditions which apply to the award to a ,4tu Je_J •awarded. a.. ecandarx.. schooonour Graduation Diploma, who has obtained an aggregate of at least 480 marks in any approved Honour Graduation level courses having a total value of six credits. The Board approved a recommendation from the Education Committee that the field trip from Goderich District. Collegiate Institute to Brantford Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, April ,12 to 14 be approved in accor- dance with board policy, and subject to the necessary consent forms being obtainedfrom the parents of all student par - The board approved the hiring of one additional teacher for the Clinton Public School as of February 1, 1973, for the balance of the current school year. This became necessary because of the families moving in to Vanastra and the children attending the Clinton school. Three classes averaged 36 pupils in the junior grades and by hiring one teacher all grades were reduced to 27 pupils each. The hiring of Mr. E. Eberhardt, presently on half- time basis at 'Queen Elizabeth School for the Trainable Retar- ded --code rich; to a fall -bine basis was approved, commen- cing February .1, 1973. The board approved the recommendation from the management committee that gasoline tenders be awarded to BP Oil Limited- to supply gasoline for all the school buses committee to examine all' aspects of the driver education program. The board voted to accept the factor of 1.4 to be applied for any fees from tjie board of Education for the City of Lon- don for any Huron County students taking courses'of three or more credits in approved technical Subjects. Mr. D.J. Cochrane, Director of Education will be em- powered- to write for the same fee to Boards of Education in Bruce County, Lamtfton County, and Perth County. and any wards of the Province of Ontario. Three trustees will be ap- pointed by the Educational Committee of the.. Board to an Ad Hoc Committee on Schools for Trainable Retarded owned by the Huron County Children for 1973-74. board of education at 41.9 cents , Thr following non -teaching per gallon at Stephen, Zurich, personnel resignations have Brookside, Grey, Howick and Turnberry. The board voted to have the 1973 education taxlevy in- stallments due as follows: 50 per cent on June 30, 1973, and the remaining 50 per cent on December 15, 1973. Chairman C.E. Hill and Trustees Mrs. M. Zinn and Donald McDonald will form a As a result he did manage to take them to .the - outskirts of Goderich and drop them off at an Aunt and Uncle's of the Mother's and headed 'back for town, a 'total of about one mile and a half. The mayor of Goderich was informed of the ordeal and it was understood the taxi was to make a written apology and reimburse the family for the trip h me, but as of yet no word has . ceived from them. -. .b" een re As the result of this -small gesture on the taxi company s part, the Baby and her Mother were given a ride the rest of the way by the Aunt and Uncle to their home irr Auburn as it was a little too cold to be out hit- chhiking the second week in January. Auntie of a Dear wee Girl [lowed 1 sion iast ►prbval io to )rs," vyhid 24-hour the co* r; in et establish, grade 11 Huron RS Winntt speech e Hurot 01 public eld laic Distad grade 1! s rung prized call IS ice cep luring 'hurl AIN LIE MARKET LIMITED HARVEST OF VALUES PNONE S'l9-8551 Sausag es CENTRE SLICES • Loin Pork Chops EXTRA LEAN GrouncI Chuck HOME - MADE sad Cheese Ib. ,, (Continued from page 1) position ,to. deal with those problems at Queen's Park." Guest speaker at -- the nominating convention was leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, Robert Nixon. He noted that "the by-elections called for March 15 are of special significance because of the •im- portant issues which are at 'stake. With a by-election here in Huron and the other in the heart of• Metro Toronto the, whole spectrum of provincial concerns are up for review and judgment by the taxpaying electorate." • "The most important issue," he said, "must be the financial record of the Davis Govern- ment." "It's particularly in- teresting," he said, "here in Huron because Charlie -- MacNaughton, the.. former Treasurer, comes from here. We 'all remember his prediction bask in the -sixties that Ontario faced "a fiscal nightmare". It's strangely ironic that, with Mr. Mcleough's forced .resignation, Mr. MacNaughton was brought back into the Treasury just in time to preside over our largest deficit in • history which will amount t., $800 •millinn.' -Last year it ' was $600 million, and we 'must not forget that those two years since Bill. Davis picked up the reins of government have been the most disastrous "fiscal nightmares" in the history of Ontario." "The list of extravagance runs from the Ontario Institute. for Studies in Education building, built by a friend of the Premier and rented till us for $2 million a year - for 30 years, through Ontario Place to the Premier's recent decision to redo, his. offices and extend theinto a much larger area of . he-Old.-Paxliament,Buildings." "It's taken Premier Davis a couple of years to get his feet. wet, but it now looks as if he's learned to spend the taxpayers' money with relative ease, Mr. Nixon charged. "About this time last year, we learned that the Premier's personal staff numbered abotii. 75, double .the number needed by Mr. Robarts." "The examples of poor plan- ning are too numerous to list but include several highway decisions and the closing of 1,500 active treatment beds in • our hospitals. These facilities were built at public .expense over the last few years and now •are 'closed in order to save money." "'The second important issue deals with changes in local government. The procedure, used by the Conservative gover- nilient has imposed regional government on large areas of Ontario. "The government has tried to Make regional government work, or at least seem to work, with maisive' infusions of special grants and by retaining public relations specialists.-I3ut even the Tories' best efforts to buy approval with grants and advertising' have failed. The only people well served by regional government are the bureatteratg at Queen's Park who make the plans and seem to be able to insist that they go forward. "The third -issue involves the provision and financing of our health services." "Recent developments have caused the withdrawal of 1,500- beds from the active treatment Sky Harbour list in hospitals even though . these beds were provided at ,great cost over the last five been received: Allan Nicholson, bus driver, Turnberry Public School. effective January 31; Carroll Johnson, bus driver and liaison driver at Howich Central Public School effective January 31; .John Manning, custodian at Victoria ' Public School, effective February 13; and Mrs. Lynda Ailin,- secretary at Goderich District Collegiate Institute, effective March 30. School•Gred Hazlitt, Goderich, Mary Walters, RR 3' Grahton, to Holmesville School; Mrs.. to Osborne Central; Ann Cheryl Hessels, Blyth, to Blyth Zwann, Brucefield, to Victoria Public School (half -timed Mrs. Public School, Goderich; Mrs. Bonnie Jewitt, Clinton, Clinton Jane Campbell, RR- 5, Public School (increased from Goderich, to Holmesville and 2/5 to full time); Mrs. Chrystal Hullett (duties begin January Jewitt, Clinton, to Clinton 15); and Mrs. Ira -Jane Wilton, Public School (2/5 time); Mrs. Woodham, to South Huron Elizabeth McGee. RR 2 Zurich District High School. transfprrPd . from 3/5 time at - The following teachers have been hired on probationary contracts at salaries according to fichedule, their duties com- menced January 1, 1973: Miss Janice Bonthr©m Bayfield, to Town offered years. "The Minister came the - Legislature asking million extra to pay unforeseen costs' of medicare making a total payment to the 8,000 par- ticipating doctors of close to $580 million." "The new legislation setting up an appeal for doctors denied staff privileges athospitals is now challenged on a technicality so that cases such as Dr. Sheriton's again in' doubt." "The top .officials of. the Ministry of Health seem to be in utter confusion -as they plan for the upcoming session of the Legislature in an atmosphere of deep division over who does support the Minister and .who did slip the information on in- vestigation of doctors' bill § tb Morty Shulman." s. Surely_ the,. first ,step_ _is _to_set-,_ up - a clearly. understood -means -of negotiation with the medical profession so that the famous fee schedule which establishes the basis for payment from the medicare fund not set by the doctors alones An efficient method of audit and spot-checking the billing procedures is needed to weed out the few crooks concerned and restore public confidence in the doctors' billing procedures and the methods used.by OHIP in paying for services. • This will ,, require a strong direction from the Premier and the Minister. Dr. Potter's u Sefti In ess-in-his-present--poi t -.is, certainly in question. No-one 'doubts his commitment to a sound system of delivering and paying for health services. He has not been supported by- his colleagues in government or the Premier. Unless strong ,steps are taken soon; new Minister must be appointed and authorized to • move to the Ministry of Health and shake it up from one end to the other. "These are some of the,.salient issues that must be considered by the electorate of Huron and St. George ridings. Surely Mr. Davis doesn't need another voiceless supporter in his top- heavy majority. Surely the issues cry out for rejection of the Conservative record. For these reasons, I am confident of the success of our can- didates, and call on thinking citizens everywhere to rally to support the Liberal cause." (continued from page 1) '°"''.4registered ownership remained back to with the Hopkinson estate for $50' although a series of liens were attached to the property. The eight page brief presen- ted by Mr. Cruikshank to town council Thursday, stated that actual title to -the property had. only just been received. The brief sorted out the ownership question, which had been so complex, saying that in- surance money to rebuild the destroyed hangars was never claimed. Before the title was- cleared, there had been a great deal of anxiety expressed about the possible moving of the Huron Weather Office to another municipality, because of the V i s u --a woop difficulty in gaining title to the property. The brief submitted, stated Teachers from Kinkora. Keyho, a regional P.E. Con - that both the family and the Dublin, St. Columban and sultant from the Ministry bf town of Goderich are concerned—Exeter—braved the cold` and bad-- Education in --Kitchener, weal conditionswill weather • to attend • conduct h" -`these Gymnastic another in- a series on Thur- sday, February 15 at St. Columban School. Mr. Jim Onn, a television technician from the Ministry Of Education in London, assisted by John Teams from London,' Strat- McCarroll Consultant for the ford and Godericlwill take 'Huron Perth Roman Catt clic part on Saturday, February Separate School System. . - 24th. at the Goderich District Teachers were divided into High School gymnasium: Mr. two groups where they took an Tom Hoad, a coach from St. active role in the handling of Mary's School, • Gocrich will audio visual hardware. Mr. host this tournament Onn first demonstrated the Approximately 200 boys from porto-pak projeictor to his group" the Exeter district have shown and the `teachers then were able an interest in playing soccer, to confidently use the equip- and David Zyluk,, a coach from ,[rent-- They—mak various._ Piec.ijs T food School in distance shots in the school Exeter, held a meeting on Mon - hall and play room. In a short time they acquainted them- selves with the focus-ing. zooming, mechanism of this compact unit and obtained a good perspective of planning and- executing the optimum coverage on tape of audio visual learning incidents. Meanwhile, a second group was involved in another "hands on" approach with heavier equipment. John McCarroll assigned teachers a - period of Just before his retirement time to video tape,various ac - last month, Huron MPP tivities actually taking place Charles MacNaughton advised during the workshop with the council that Goderich may be stable tripod based projector. considered for a provincially They were further involved in backed air service development. the processing of focusing, The proposal put forth by zooming procedures, assem- G.W. Cruikshank is currently bling, dismantling, planning being studied by town council's and executing with, the TAV administrative committee. 3600 video taping machine. The next in the series of education television workshops will take place in Seaforth on March 13th. - Gymnastic Workshops for teachers continue their series at St. Mary, ,s School in Goderich on Wednesday, February 21st. during the afternoon of Satur- and at St. Columban School on day March '2 at the group's Thursday, February 22nd. The, quarters in the former final workshop will be held at Godeiich Business College. Stratford's-Northwestern High A private showing will ho - School on Wednesday, held in the morning. "' l+ebruary 28th. Mr. David and , once BY WILMA OKE Bus transportation for men- tally retarded pre-school children attending the Goderich Municipal Day Nur- sery cannot be provided by the Huron County Board of Education, it was announced at the Board Meeting in Clinton last Monday, D.J. Cochrane, Director of Education, said that the children are not resident pupils of the Board and therefore are not eligible for services &rovided , under the Ontario hoofs Administration Act. At the present time, the children are being transported by taxi from the Sheppardton area of Colborne Township at a cost of $3 per day and from Clinton and Bayfield at a. cost of $12.80 per day, with the parents paying the fare. A total of 32 children attend the Nur- sery School. Harold Walls-, Clerk - Treasurer, Goderich, had sent a letter to the Board asking it to consider providing transpor- tation. Chairman of the Salary Negotiating Committee, Cayley Hill, has appointed • the following trustees to act with him on the salary committee: - Wilfred Shortreed, Jack Rid- dell, Herbert Turkheim and Charles. Rau. Mr. Rau will. "only✓act for secondary teachers and will be replaced by John Henderson for public school teachers. Trustee Jack Alexander in- dicated his, intentions of atten- ding the Regional Conference for School Trustees and Ad= ministrators in Hamilton on March 29, 30 and 31, and Trustee Charles Rau, the On- tario Separate School Truhtees' Association annual convention in Toronto ori April 5 and 6. Mr. Rau, the Separate School representative on the board, had attended the convention for the past four years. Because of the spring vacation break March 19 to 23, the next board meeting will be held on March 26.. •(continued from page 1) -Paul Carroll, Provincial Council • Delegate and - Can- didate in the upcoming by- election, reported 'that arrangements have now been completed fore the Provincial Council Sessions to be held in Goderich on March 3 and 4 in Victoria Public School. The Provincial Council is the gover- ning body of the party between conventions. Sessions are open to the public. -by the potential - move of -the. - weather station as it serves both the airport and the• har- bour and provides useful forecasts for the surrounding area. - According to the brief: "The only feasable operation at the airport now, is the paint shop which over the last four years has operated at a deficit" The shop and attached property are not as yet included in the offer to the town. The Cruikshanks have decided to sell the airport because "the family has ZlispoRRI-sf their-main-business interests and no longer have a full-time- staff available to them. The family are the for- mer owners of CKNX Radio and TV. Their proposal to Goderich calls for $5,000 down with the balance of $120,000 to be secured .by a first mortgage. Payments would be in 15 an- nual installments of $8,000 together with interest at six and one half percent per an- num. Workshops. HURON PERTH FUTURE' ACTIVITIES Organizers of -•••the, art progeam presently underway through the sponsorship of a Local Initiatives Program grant_, announced this week that a public showing will be held day, February 19th. in Exeter to form an Exeter Minor Soccer Association to work in unison with the . Huron Minor Soccer Association. Dr. John Under- wood from Seaforth has shown great interest in this future ac- tivity in communities throughout Huron County. Legion ladles present cheque On February 13 at the Regular Monthly meeting, the Ladies of the Legion Auxiliary presented a $2,000.00 cheque to 109 Branch Pres. George Low. The President of the Branch noted his recognition that the cheque represented hours of hard work, cooking. serving tables, and organization. "The Branch -is proud of its Auxuiliary and the work they do for the welfare of the Branch," "'he' said. , The Executive Committee of 109 have decided to ask the Membership to start a special ;fund with this $2,000.00. This fund would be earmarked for alternations and renovations to be made in the future to the legion Hall.