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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-06-14, Page 3DC1 AR8 40 18, 1103 utiful 8 ' f the Gi • in °n ith abou 4,rn Detre about 45 erday mo UP the incardine but could ,our in ught them onto,,E811 have ab. ing and in open a. Ind pimple: of speed Purposes, e exhibitio en to the -council , ing in the rhuisday bei •18 auto ig of $1,290 is light me the three r. In New E I. football 1 in Clinton they are of young m. to the to came." , 'rs agree in training noticeable 3ockefeller a billionau be the rich. . Before the r, Alfred ; as, accordi published i inly billion: g of China the list 0 and to third 1. fly seven fortunes tueer things from •1apa, ve cultiOa t before ikimachi to lass to reel for her. 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Since seventy-hye type were irrently th' being stored est Northe Goderich ' veteran r- at the back land River fight by bill 8 inches in 113 and YEARS AG • 13, 1968 f strike t •d in G°' from one est Iab°ur he Sift° Si': ch v°te to go on wage demo, X20. go are I.' nd the n'f artment o project, ted by N°° ervised IicWOk''. n, end fere 1 havoc a ty night, .eekahe JACK'S J�TTINOES FROM QUEEN PARK Jack Riddell, .Huron MPP 10111111111110011111mmisramirria ;Mario Government i' 'ed there will be plan - the province and in - legislation this week 'toll the power to force alines to follow its roPosed Act to Provide ping and Development no would give the strong leverage to deal nicipalities slow to act 'planning problems; but ter -balances this with irement that all stage' tanning process be acted ublic with o the full t n, ent he litie.,('nder the terms bill, the Government able to designate, n he prdyince "a planned ent area" and direc- e how.the lanchvas to loped. er°Davis made it plain tement to the Members ouse that the, someone could do r he, liked with ve passed, They have cause of the threat Of crawl and the Govern- troduced three bills in gislature .this week indifferent ways and ent areas to check in- nate development. The on introduced would he Province to force lilies to produce land- s, set up a commissio(i ce a master plan for gara Escarpment, and a series of parks - and so iated with utility • to separate towns d west of Toronto. The ion will buy the most t areas of the Niagara ent, and it will, • in - strict land -planning over the rest of.,,tjie ent. in a long-term a Parkway Belt which clude highways,_ hydro d green space, the On- overnment has frozen 'ng of 55,000 acres of and Toronto. se accounts which pay Cabinet Ministers up 0 a year with no asked came under `the Legislature this ernon Singer„ . liberal for Downsview, . cid. ents of $300 a month unauthorized and ted something ap- g fraud ,against the s. Liberal and NDP on the Legislatures Accounts Committee the allowance had secret until they d it while reviewing rnment's expenditures r. igations in the new On- ydro headquarters continued this week. rooks, former superin- of Internal Services for ;Ontario Institute for in Education), told the re's Select Committee, e once received a e call from an Ontario (ficial asking whether aware of a friendship Premier Davis and r lerhard Moog. Mr. Moog's firm, Canada Square Corporation, is building the Hydro headquarters under a lease -purchase arrangement with the Hydro Commission. It is the same firm which erected the OISE building. Ontario' Hydro chairman, George Gathercole, conceded under heavy questioning by commit- tee counsel, Richard Shibley;, that Canada Square Cor- poration Limited, got more ex- posure within Hydro than three competing developers before it won the contract to build the Hydro Commissions new office headquarters. Mr. Sissons., Hydro's assistant general manager, for services, was questioned -at length about the apparentlack of enthusiasm shown in: Hydro memoranda, including those written by him for developers other than Canada Square. There was both excitement and the making of history in the Legislature this week. Paul Yakabuski, a Conservative member from Renfrew South, was expelled from the Legislature as he attempted to explain a remark he had made about French education in Cor- nwall. No one at Queen's Park can remember a Government Party member being expelled from the House. The Speaker, Allan Reuter, ordered . the Sergeant at Xrms to escort Mr. Yakabuski from the Chamber after the member refused to sit down. «The events leading up to the' expulsion began on Tuesday during the question period when Albert Roy, Liberal from Ottawa East, asked Education Minister, Thomas Wells, whether he .was looking into the situation of the two teachers fired by the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Board of Education. Before Mr, Wells could reply, Mr. Yakabuski in- terjected the teachers should have been jailed. Mr. Yakabtiski, in an at- tempt to explain his remarks, proceeded to condem the C)p�" position for using the explosive situation in Cornwall for political gain, and it was at this point that Mr. Reuter ruled .that.. , r.N.Ze.4.kabuski.. was ..-no. longer in order and told, him to sit down. The Conservative member attempted to carry on with his statement and after being told twice to sit down, the Sergeaet at Arms, was told to escort him .from the House. Towards the end of the week, Premier William Davis gave a rather lengthy statement on Energy Plans that he is proposing for Ontario. These plans include a $3.8 billion ex- pansion of power generating facilities, including two nuclear plants, ',.and the establishment of a Ministry of Energy to deal with all matters pertaining to energy. Mr. Davis did not name the man who will assume the energy portfolio, but the likeliest candidate is Darcy McKeough, the Premier's Parliamentary Assistant, with responsibility for' energy mat- ters. One of the new Minister's first jobs will ' probably be to take the Province of Alberta to court over its attempts to in- crease the price Ontario must pay for Alberta natural gas. Premier Davis also in- troduced legislation to turn On- tario Hydro into a Crown Cclr- poration and to providek a review process, including public participation, for price in- creases on Hydro's electricity. At the same time that the energy plans were revealed to the members of the Legislature, Leo Bernier, Minister of Natural Resources, indicated that the expansion of the Bruce nuclear complex will mean the .loss of inverhuron ..Park on Lake Huron between Port Elgin and Kincardine. However,, he said that the Government plans to acquire almost 1800 acres at MacGregor Point to be conver- ted into a fully operational Provincial Park by 1975. , John Clement, Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations, introduced legislation to give students the right to drink where they study and golfers, skiers and curlers the right to drink where they play, even in dry areas. The. amendment to the liquor laws will also permit licencing of canteens in police messes, con- valescent and old age homes and in similar institutions in Ontario. Mr. Clement also brought in legislation to create voluntary photo identification cards to make it easier for per- sons who are 18 but do not look it, to purchase liquor. t�cal lady buried here MRS. HATTIE I. McMiLLAN Mrs. Hattie I. McMillan, 190 Elgin Ave. West, died at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital June 10 , She was 74. The daughter of the late Alexander and Maria (Shep- pard) Ostrom, she was born December 19, 1898 in Goderich Tpwnship,,, ,She was married November 6, 1919 in Goderich to David D. McMillan who sur- vives. She was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church. - Surviving besides her husband are two sons, Morris McMillan, G-oderich; and Douglas McMillan, Stratford; three grandchildren and six., great-grandchildren; and two brothers, John Ostrom, Varna; and Charles Halstead, Strat- ford. Funeral was Wednesday, June 13 at Stiles Funeral Horne with Rev. G.L.' Royal of- ficiating: Interment was in Colborne Cemetery. Pallbearers were Bob Chapman; George Low, Joe Drennan, Ernie Allen, Dan Riehl and Sandy Profit. The Ladies Auxiliary to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 109 held a service at the funeral home Tuesday. I MARKET LIMITED HARVEST OF VALUES VMONF 524-g551 • Boneless - 'Pot ROAST BEEF If Lean - By the piece (Sliced jlj\‘ BACKBACN LB. e �t f, ,. , I' La: 89c Whole or Hail HAM ROAST OF PORK LB. 19c Butt - Shoulder PORKmCNOPS L. 89c 0 a fH7 4 - Save with our,. Wholesale Prices - We bu direct GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, JUNE 141 1973—PAGE S Another in a .series • Advertising - a mirror of the times BY KEVIN COX Advertising, besides being a very valuable source of revenue for any publication is also an excellent area from which one may deduce the times the people lived in, what their primary interests were, and what their style of living was like. For while' a newspaper is often concerned with those who make history, the great men of the age, advertising tells us a great, deal about the ordinary man on the street because it is he whom the advertisement is being aimed at. Advertising in the HURON SIGNAL of 1,903 seems to reflect upon - the fact that Goderich was still , a predominantly rural com- munity at this time. Hardware stores, such as George Allen's advertised top quality baling wire at twelve and Qhirteen cents a roll as well as• "the best five cent sythe store in the Dominion", Down the street, W.D. Rougie another hardware dealer, was boasting of his granite kettles which were the "finest in Canada". This must sugely indicate the hardiness tof the women of the time for there are not many nowadays who s could tote one of those fifty pound monstrosities for long! With the advent of more and more farm machinery, as well as for the old stand-by horse and buggy, Cambell's Manufac- turing offered "1,000 mile axle grease" 1 yet one cannot help - but wonder how to detect a fault in the guarantee in the days before -odometers. While •' on the subject of transpor- tation, it might be worthwhile to note that there were two bicycle repair. shops, both of which purchased full-size one- eighth page ads regularly which( must indicate that there was a' bicycle craze at that time, not unlike the one we see around as today" For, the ladies, there were numerous stores of high fashion, (commonly known as clothing stores) around. Hodgsons Brothers' dry goods store used -the "sale" gimmmck to draw in prospective customers. For example, on July 9, 1903, they advertised a sale on ankle skirts for. $1.75 and highbutton linen collars for five cents were the next week's specialty. On July 23, hosiery was reduced to twenty- five cents .,and we discover a new shipment of imported cor- sets with a• straight front and steel -filled sides were being sold for $1.75. While on the topic of adver- tised fashions, it might be wor- thwhile to note the men's fashions, for W.C. Pridham ad- vertised suits, tailor-made for $5 to $10. McKim's General Store offered a quantity of moleskin pants for most of the months of July and August. Either the demand was so great that he kept getting them in, or no one really needed or ap- preciated this style! In the classified section, one found the services of everyone from music teacher to money- lenders advertised. In one issue (July 9, 1903), I counted eleven ads offering the services of dif- ferent lawyers, something which -is frowned on in that oc- cupation, now. There did not seem to be any apparent unem- ployment problem at the time for many local stores offered positions in the classified ads. For example„ -McLean Brothers needed a "good, smart boy to learn the tailoring trade", and a local blacksmith wanted a "strong and willing appren- tice".1 There must not have been any code of good advertising in effect at this time, because several suspicious -looking ar- ticles appeared. In the July 23 edition, we find the magnificent "Keeley's Cure for Drunkeness and Drug Abuse" which had over 300,000 other cures. What modern society could do with a dose of that! There was also an advertisement for a hospital for women which was quiet and secluded anf there were "ab- solutely no gtie ttions asked".' One wondetv to what use such an institutioI might be put and why a hospital would advertise in a newspaper! As winter approached, the hardware stores, turned to selling wood stoves and ranges and the clothing stores offered winter coats and galoshes and scarves. Allen's hardware store offered a stock of ,rifles from $3.50 to $22,50 in twelve Ind twenty gauge sizes. This fn- ' dicat.es the popularity of hun- ting at this time. In general, 1 was surprised to note the amount of advertising in THE SIGNAL; r t necessarily the bulk of t the fact that nearly every ore in town participated; the most popular sized advertisements to be the one-eighth page,t ize.• Some things in the advertising industry never change; for in- stance, even in 1903, everything was priced abnormally low and the businesses freely admitted it. Hodgson's repeatedly claimed that everything was underpriced; Kavanagh's shoes„ clailned that "When you buy PEAR EDITOR from us, you carry home what you expected to pay." 4; and Blue Ribbon Ceylon Tea stated that their brew "cost forty cents a box, but should be fifty". One thing which did seem odd, however, was that the terms of the sale were usually stated specifically in the ad. Rougie's was a "cash" har<d.- ware store, Colborne's Clothing Store operated on a "cash or produce" basis,. Perhaps Yule's bicycle shop was the most emphatic of all, as they stated, "We know how to fix it, but on cash terms". Certainly this was no system for the credit card aficionado! This seems to reflect the simple, direct style of living at this time, where even the adver- tising was frank and to the point, perhaps with a little ex- travagant boasting to attract customers but certainly no fooling around where money was concerned! Thus, by examining adver- tising, we are able to deduce -That the community in and around Goderich in 1903 was predominantly rural, practical, hardworking and economical whose pleasuresc-sLemed to be few, aside from riding horses and hunting. From the amount of adver- tising offered, one can easily see how The Huron Signal maned to maintain such a high standard of reporting and coverage because the reveriuT brought in by the advertising enabled them to hire excellent staff, For this reason, one might say that advertising is the backbone, of a newspaper, both financially and as an in- dicator of the times and trends in society. If (Continued from page 2) other institutions who suppor- ted them. The 1971 Ontario election featured a contest bet- ween religions over separate school aid and between the in- surance -industry and the unions over auto insurance. It may be the last old-style elec- tion. "I'he struggles of the 70's will be between the supporters of in- stitutio'hs and those favouring direct popular action and as distinctions of Conservative, Liberal or Socialist become more rneaningress, a new populism will grow:' The old populism of 1900 failed because of lack of voter education and inadequate com- munication. With .standard education stopping at grade eight and under 1`I having college education, there was an insufficiently -informed elec- torate. Today, 40`I of our population have some higher education, TV brings the party leaders to the living room. The new populism must have room to grow and the tools to express itself. A petition of 10 of the voters should put any question on the ballot at the next election. Neighbourhoods that want crossing guards or daycare centres or rinks, parks Of similar services should, be able • to tax themselves to provide them, The province. cOLId 'be divided into neigh- bourhoods of 2,000, with tax powers. The cast of services should go down, when people` spend their own money, economy is the word. When they spend other people's, the sky is the limit. Community officers could assist each neighbourhood council and an annual meeting could elect Trustees and determine policy and provide direct links between citizens and govern- ment. In the age of impersonal government, a new populism is the wave of the future. JOHN C. MEDCOF Toronto On rtl►orliort Dear Editor: After many years of grim 'ex- periences I have learned that •°only a brave man ( or a fool ) will', intervene when women are arguing amongst themselves. However, after watching last, Saturday's Anti -abortion Walkathon• pass our front gate, and so much enthusiasm and energy being expended in such a misguided cause, I must once again stick my neck out. Both you gals of Women's Lib, who believefree legal abortion on demand is the key to women's betterment, and the ladies of our anti -abortion leagues who claim to be defen- ding the civil liberties of the unborn, are missing the main point of what we must do if we are to survive on this earth. i refer to zero population growth. Controling population by destroying fetuses is about the same as fighting lung cancer by surgery. Would it not he far better, ladies, to get at the cause and apply prevention? Contraceptives, once a nasty, naughty word, are notv adver- tised on T.V., socially accepted and relatively cheap. At our present rate of growth, the world's population of over 3 hillion will do'uhle it- , self in •37 years. What this will mean in over -crowding, famine, wars, violence, \'resource depletion, pollution, and -so forth, is easily understood and has been well documented. Man is the only animal whose growth is not limited by en- vironment He must undertake the task 'fi himself. The Zero Population people have calculated that if every couple limits itself to two offsprings (2.2 is the exact figure) the current upswing will stop, along with moyl,►ur environ- mental and social problems. The theological opponents of birth control amongst us like to pretend that God will provide for however many mouths we produce. They ignore the fact that He has never seen fit to do so in the past, but exposed . mankind to periodical famines in which millions died. From this moment_ on He may start working em a continual miracle of to loaves and fishes, hut I somehow doubt it :... And by their own theology, most of the children whom their opposition to birth control will cause to be conceived, will go to eternal torment in Hell. This all strikes me as a bit inconsistent with a God of Love, but, then, I'm no tHeologiap_, , Contraception is the only an- swer, by whatever means suits your fancy, but unfailingly, in evejy 'case, in every- country. Let's all think about it, please? Tell your neighbours and speak to your daughters. I would like to see the next march to -pass our.. gate carrying slogans such as "Every Child a Wanted Child'-', "Two -Point -Two Are Lots For You", and so on, and I'm available fot sponsoring. I feel the best use the_ "Knights" could put the fwo thousand dollars collected in last weeks march would be towards a nation-wide birth control campaign, not in paying for .. a repeat of 'some of the nauseating nonsense contained in your recent full-page ad . I will now vacate the ring and let the gals carry on. Signed: J.C. Hindmaish Schools endeavour to match mid-term breaks A proposal for the modified school year plan for 1973-74 for the 19 separate schools in Huron and Perth Counties was approved by the Huron -Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board at its meeting in Seaforth Monday. John Vit tar, Superintendent of Education, presented _ the proposal to the Board. It calls for six professional activity -days for' the teachers as follows: October 1, for the zone area; •November, 21, for" the schools; April :30, for the county area; May 31, for the zone area; and June 27 and 28, for the schools. Mr. Vintar said the Separate School Board was Vaught in the 'middle between the Huron County Board of Education and the Perth County Board of Education. The Perth Board has ap- proved nine professional ac- tivity ...,days, Y'nd the Huron Board six. Because of shared busing of some students ,Mr: Vintar tried to work ouf a procedure but found it im- possible to co-ordinate the program completely. The separate school teachers will have a training day on Oc- tober° 1 while the Huron County teachers will meet Easter Mon- day, otherwise the two programs are the same for the Huron -Perth Board and the Huron County Board. Following a meeting in Zurich on June 1 where a `discussion was , held on custodial problems which might arise from the Zurich Playground and 1)av Camp _using St. Boniface School. during August, the trustees in- - dicated they did not expect any problems that could not he worked out by the custodian and the administrative staff, It was reported that a defec- tive fire alarm 'system at St. Joseph's School in Stratford is being corrected and made operational. Jack Lane, business ad- ministrator, reported that the $500 left in the incentive grant will _be used now that the program has been extended from the May :31 deadline. The wet weather conditions was given as the reason for the ex-' tension. - The Board granted a request from they YMCA=YWCA of Stratford through Mrs. Mae Shout of the World Service Committee for the distribution of UNICEP boxes in the five Stratford schools on October 26. The Board will send a letter of appreciation for the.95 years° of service by the Loretto Order .in the Catholic schools in Strat- ford before the members of the Loretto Order withdraw frtm the Stratford area. A sipmilar letter will he sent to the mother housse-of the St. Joseph's Order which •is withdrawing from St. Mary's School at Hesson after serVing there for 57 years. Rev. C.A. Pettit was granted permission to use two classrooms at St. Mary's School in Hesson for the first wee"k of July for the training in religious education for about 25 pupils of Listowel area who do not attend separate schools. The facilities of a bus were also "provided. _ In committee of the whole Joseph Pidgeort was appointed custodian at St.' Joseph's School, Stratford, effective July 2, to replace Frank Fox who is retiring at June 30, and that Frank Wiitiams was appointed custodian at St-. Patrick's School in Dublin to replace Ferg Horan who is retiring ef- fective June 16. The present sitting of the Supreme Court of Ontario sees a new Judge on the Huron bench in the person' of Madams Justice Van Camp. Justice Van Camp is a graduate of the Univer- sity of Toronto in English; Victoria College; and Osgood. Hall Law School. She attended elementary and secondary school In her home community of Blackstock (Durham County) `'Ontario. Appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Ontario last November, Madame Justice Van Camp is a former counsel of the Canadian Bar Association; a past president of the Women's Law Association of Ontario; past dean of the Apha Mu Chapter of the Kappa Beta -PI Legal Sorority; and a former member of the Canadian Instlfute of international Af- fairs University Women's Club. (Staff Photo) 0 '