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PAgg 2—GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR. THURSDAY, JUNE28, 1973
Not ordinary tourists perhaps I -
What do* you think about the following opinion?
Last week Hon. Leo Bernier got him-
self into a lot of trouble by proposing a
special park in the Grand Bend area for
the motorcycle crowd. Naturally the
residents of that resort community are
mad—right good and mad. You would be
too.
Leo, of course, is trying to find a
solution to the Menace the motorcycle
gangs have created in the provincial
parks where decent, quiet people and
their kids want to go camping. The
Pinery Park has witnessed several
outrageous incidents in which law-
abiding citizens were molested, or at the
very least annoyed beyond all limits.
So, Leo's department simply ruled that
no motorcycle riders could be admitted
to the parks. But apparently the two-
wheeters were so tough that he had to
think of something better—and his an-
swer was to open a park for the whcle
kit and kaboodle of them. Great idea, but
the sort of motorcycle bum he has in
mind is never happy with no one but his
own kind to molest. He simply has to
have a few peaceable folks to terrorize.
What, we wonder, is so awesome
about a young jerk with a long beard, a
Crash helmet and a powerful motor bet-
ween his legs? If a common ordinary
plumber or garage mechanic decided to
rip around his neighborhood destroying
other people's property and making ob-
scene proposals to the neighbors' wives
he would be behind bars in a matter of
minutes—and the court's decision would
be clear-cut. But for some unholy reason
we have come to the conclusion that we
should placate these young hoodlums.
Police, forces were actually
congratulated last month for not "losing
their cool" at Sauble Beach when the
motorcycle „crowd went wild and spit in
the faces of the law enforcement of-
ficers. Public opinion deemed the police
were doing an exceptionally good job by
closing their eyes to any possibility of
drug abuse, let alone flagrant disregard
ofthe* laws covering public consumption
of alcohol.
For heaven's sake, it's only two or
three years since you and I could be
"busted" for having a beer in our own
backyards while we barbecued a steak!
When, oh when are we going to smar-
ten up to the plain truth that the people
who are a nuisance in our society
should be taken out of circulation? Cer-
tainly not every youngster who rides a
motorcycle is a menace to the rest of us,
but it's hard to pjf.out the ones who
are. They don't need a summer resort
park. They need a hard bed and some
hard work in a prisoh. Admittedly the bill
for keeping them out of our hair would
be' stiff—but it would be well worth the
tariff to clean up our public, places.
Wingham Advance -Times.
itt toutists
Windsor cyclists on carpet for charge in Hurol\near Grand Bend
Decision without info?
James O. Fraser didn't get his ven-
dor's permit for three bicycles to sell
Good Humor Ice Cream products in'
Goderich's residential areas this sum-
mer.
Why? It is possible that no one
really knows for sure why the request
was denied.
To look 'closely at the recorded vote
results may give some clues. Those
voting against Fraser's application were
Councillors Eileen Palmer, Dave Gower
and Frank Walkom as well as Mayor
Harry Worsens,
Mrs. Palmer ,,was interested in the
-safety aspect of the proposal. At the out-
set of the initial -study conducted by Mrs
Palmer, the lady brought forth evidence
that in municipalities where mobile ice
cream units had been allowed, the safety
factor was the biggestproblem. Even the
favorable report of Police Chief Pat King
apparently did not dissuade Mrs. Palmer
from her belief that mobile ice 'cream
carts could create a very real hazard in
Goderich.
Dave Gower's main concern was over
the town bylaws which state that
bicycles should not travel on sidewalks.
He noted on -different occasions he was
not in favor of children going to the
roadways for service and since it would
be illegal for the bicycles to move onto
the boulevards or sidewalks, the answer
appeared to be to deny the vendor's per-
mit and avoid the problem in the first
place even though Police Chief King
had indicated this could be easily
worked out.
Frank Walkom made no secret of the
fact he was, opposed to the, litter which
would be created by the sale of 'ten, fif-
teen and twenty cent treats to little
children on all the sidewalks of
Goderich. Walkom envisioned a litter
problem and he may have voted against
the issuance of the vendor's permit on
this belief alone, although Police Chief
King had stated litter in itself should not
be the deciding factor in his opinion.
Mayor Harry Worsell said at an earlier
committee meeting that there were
— "enough places selling ice cream".
Whether the Mayor still held,that yiew„
when casting te deciding vote is dif.
-fiCult to sabdt* it is true thafieve`rar.
members of council were considerably
disturbed by the attitude that council
should attempt to prettent competition
for local businessmen from locating in
Goderich. -
What must surprise everyone is coun-
cil's willingnes,s to turn down the Fraser
request without first looking into the
legality of such action. It was never
clearly established that council could
legally refuse the vendor's permit for the
business. Fraser appears to have legal
counsel that he has a perfect right to the
permit for his enterprize and there is a
chance he may be right.
If, in this somewhat trivial instance,
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council ends up with the proverbia e
gg
on its face - if the town must retrack and
issue the vendor's permit to Fraser - the
faith of the people of Goderich in the
town's elected officials will be seriously
shaken for yet another time.
Something to think- about
While County Planner Nick Hill has
taken considerable abuse this week in
The Goderich Signal -Star at the hands
of Haas-Ruebsam Limited in London,
engineering consultants for James
Dixon, also of London, this newspaper
can offer nothing but praise to Nick Hill
lor: -the- -comprehensive --and - thought-
provoking study he brought to Town
Council recently concerning the
proposed Dixon apartment building.
The eyes of council, of the planning
board, of the local developers and of the
people of Goderich have -been turned
away for a time ,from the shapeless,
characterless type of apartment building
which is rising in the name of progress
not only in Goderich's residential
districts but in almost every community
in this province.
Apartment ',living may bo here to stay..
According f� real estate people in the.,
area, more and more folks are searching
out low cost rental accommodation for
tlibmseives and their families. It has
been stated over and over recently that
Goderich needs more aprtment accom-
modation to meet the increasing
demands.
It sometimes appears, though, that
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builders for apartment complexes seek
out a lot and proceed to consfruct the
largest possible building with the
greatest number of apartments for the
least amount of money on that location.
Needless to say, the name of the game
is making money work and if one over
invests in one project, the returns are
slower, coming in and more difficult to
maintain. Hence, strictly utility buildings
of economical structure without frills.
One wonders, though, if today's well-
- frained—arid-
chitects could not come up with
something equally economical with just
a little more attention to good design
which actelly blends with the town's
vintage. Are there no new brilliant
minds? Is there only one basic plan
which can be made to fit all the needs of
developers everywhere?
One wonders as well if the time has
come when Goderich musthe a bit more
aware of this aspect of good planning ....
and then become,evermore "courageous
in enforcing those guidelines in ab-
solutely all situations. It hasn't been
done in the past. Must it be done in the
future? 05 should this town continue to
leave design to the builder and hope for
a miracle which will never come?
Yes, Nick Hill has given everyone
something to think about. He's shown
how to blend the old with the new where
apartment buildings are concerned. Will
we accept the challenge or will we, like
Dixon, dwell on the qualifications of the
critic 'rather than the ultimate 'merit of
the suggestions.
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THE:COMPROMISE"
Surprising
Dear Editor,
It seems surprising that the
1973 increase in the Education
Rate - 72 per cent above that
for 1972 - should have aroused
so little comment, either in the
local press, or from Goderich
ratepayers.
It was the more surprising
since the Council's. Finance
Chairman pointed out: "taxes
afoilrid'Gtiderich-are-going -
down", and ,explained this
massive increment by adding:
"higher education costs are the
reason for the tax increase", so
that "Goderich's share of the
1973 Education cost is in-
creased by $71,000 over 1972.
(Signal Star 716/73).
Later the 'Globe & Mail'
reported: "One of Ontario's
smaller Boards of Education
has bolted the solid ranks of
school trustees and approved a
contract with its high school
teachers that deals with an 'im-
portant working conditionr- the-
pupil/teacher ratio. The un-
precedented decision of the
Huron County School Board to
ratify a, one-year collective
agreement containing an ap-
pendix on pupil/teacher ratio
was one of the greatest worries
of trustees attending the an-
nual convention of the Ontario
Public Schools Trustees
Association held at Cambridge
list week The Huron
agreements set two
pupil/teacher ratios the
vocational ratio is to be one
teacher for every 14 to 14 1/2
students. The other ratio is to tended to its , ideal conclusion
be one teacher for every 17 to this measure would arrive at
._. one student/one teacher.
17 1/2 students".
One of the fundamental laws
In the Signal Star for June
which govern our behaviour is
21st the Chairman of the
that for everpiction there is a
Huron County School Board
reaction. Whilst the chairman
wrote that he saw "implied
claims that the Board's action
criticism" in the 'Globe &
has established a "degree of
Mail' report. He explained how
rapport" with its staff, the
the Huron Board had "talked reaction has been a 72 per cent
realistically with their teachers
increase in the rates which
about common problems". One
apparent result of this realism
being the decision to write a G badseii coh taxpayers _tbe,mustrp foot.
The immediate 'question is:
o
pupil-headier ratio into -the—
moment to make this gesture or'
bonhomie? Was this the time,
with the taxpayer, already
bowing his blooded head before
collective agreement.
No one will disagree with a
measure calculated to improve
the standard o teaching. Ex -
the onslaughts of a Provincial
Ministry of Spending gone
beserk? Was this the instant to
cast upon the waters this poten-
tially expensive expression of
amiability, however laudable
its intentions?
The Chairman continues:
"We (the Board) do not agree
with the master/servant that
some Boards have towards
their professional staff and
other employees".
The Master/Servant relation-
ship is again such a fundamen-
tal principle of life on earth
that one can only congratulate
the Board on its ability to
evade it. So, whilst the Board
deludes itself as to who is
Master and who Servant, the
unrepresented and unorganized
ratepayer is under no such
e was proscribed as
the tra law
many years ago, so that now,
(Continued on page 3
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least commenced
t40 cfoeetienleendgtth.h.
on the improvements
Signal office. A new fr
being put in and the i,
will be rearranged to
premises thoroughly cony
andThuepEthodate
glish.vesw 0
came in again Monday
with 90,000 bushels of
from Fort William,
elevator started unloadi
o'clock next morning, but
three hours later the e
leg struck against a co.
in the hatchway and as
straddled the bar a good
ber of the buckets in
were torn off and the
the end of the leg was
The new guard was not
for use till after 10 o'cl,
Wednesday morning, but
shoveller's, it appears, ha,
kept at the dock the p
afternoon in the expecta,
the repairs being made'
to start work again,
refused to go to work til
they thOugtht 'shuae'-ldSatbeis
arrangemeh
for pay, for the time the
kept idle.
25 YEARS
JUNE 24, 1948
Supplementaryest'
tabled in the House of
mons at Ottawa yesterda
tain a sum of 0228,000
dredging and repairs
bour works at Goderich,
When the spring fli
tially wrecked the nor
south piers at the harbo-
Signal-Star publishe
estimate of the dam.
$250,000. Evidently th'
not far out.
Dominion Day wi.
celebrated in Goderich
full day program • par
the morning, follow
children's games on
Square; a program of
races and other events
afternoon at Agriculture!
sponsored by the Gi.
Saddle Club; and the
smen's carnival of the '
in the evening.
Eastern Can
Greyhound Lines will
mence their third con
year at summer operati
Saturday, June 26th, ov
Blue Water Highway.
mencing Saturday, one
go up and one down the
which is generally sr
Detroit -Windsor•Sarnia•
Goderich-Tobermory-Ma,
n Island-Sudbury•North
Saulte Ste. Marie.
weekend special service
added.
Harry Sanderson,
freight agent, has
promoted to trie post of .*
agent at Ingersoll and •
to take the new posit
family will follow later.
wasotnh thirty
s;ae at iro: staf
over f
JUN5E(V47,R9e1
Close to fifty persons,/
hand last Thursday
when town COUflCd spo_fld_
mh oannO CBIelrakk•ter.eaThsureer
marked Mr. Blake
fifth anniversary of
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accountant at the G.
branch, Royal Bank of
before accepting a posit'.
the town in 1943. On be
this year's council, Dr.
Mills, mayor, preset'
clerk with a $250 cheque
an antique clock. Mn.
WAS presented With II
Of roses by MTS. Mi
Goderich was one of
nine Ontario communit
honored for ,notable
safety records during
Representatives of ihe
munity were invited to,
cheon in Toronto, ea,
safety awards were
Goderich Police Chief
Minshall accepted the
award from the gon.
du
Haskett, minisor
for Ontario.
bers of
ture had
t the rew'
After sit
Tuesday
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