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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-08-23, Page 12-PAWS I$-OODSRICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST' 23, 1973 Three fires on Tuesday The Goderich Volunteer Fire .Department had a busy day on Tuesday as they were called out to fight two fires within Goderich after fall Twenty -three-year-old Larry Campbell . of Goderich died about 10:15 p.m. Sunday evening when he fell down a railway embankment and into the Maitland River. Campbell and a friend, Brent Linfield, 19, also of Goderich, had been sitting on one of the concrete platforms that support the railway bridge waiting for fishermen to leave the area so they could go for a swim. Linfield said his companion complained of feeling ill and dizziness just before he slid down the embankment. Camp-, bell was in the water about three minutes before Linfield reached him. Linfield began immediately to apply mouth' to mou-th resuscitation and was relieved by a nurse who was camping nearby, while he went for help. An ambulance took Campbell to Alexandra Marine and General Hospital but he was dead on arrival. Goderich Police Chief Pat' King said officers of the local force, who also responded to the call, commended highly the effort ambulance attendants made to save the young man's Life. No inquest is to be held. Goderich Police responded to a second call for help at the local' waterfront this week, but that call ,proved unfounded. About 4:00 p.m. Monday Police received a call from the waterfront reporting that a sail boat had disappeared on the lake in heavy wearer. An unidentified woman told three hours. At about 11:00 a.m. the local firemen answered a call at the Goderich Abattoir on Huron man -dead to water police she had been watching the craft when it "just disap- peared". Police responded in their rescue boat but were turned back by high .waves just off the breakwalls. After returning to harbor they ,obtained the assistance of the Canadian Sur- vey Ship "Nimnoss" which was in harbor at the time. A search of the lake failed to.• turn up any boat in distress, however. Chief King said on Tuesday that he was glad the report came in. "We don't mind checking these things out," he explained. "In this case the search may have been needless but a life could have been saved by such a call.,, In other activities the police handled 138 occurrences during the past week, 21 of them of a criminal nature. Three arrests were made and four charges laid under the Criminal Code of Canada, 13 under the High- way Traffic Act and two under the Liquor Control Act. Chief King said charges will be laid in the near future in connection with recent flag thefts. The Chief also issued .a war- ning- to owners of car stereo tape machines to lock their vehicles when left unattended. He said there had been a recent upsurge in stereo tape thefts. "We manage to recover some of the tapes, he explained, but .we just don't get ,them all." . New showroom doesn't make scene What was to have been part of a new show room for C and E New and Used Furniture, located on Highway 21 south"of Goderich, wound up a pile of rubble pushed by a bulldozer into a farmers fieri on Thur- sday when an operation to move ,a former recreation hall from Vanastra to the C and E property failed: Clare ,Dechert, and- E Furniture huge hall from owner of C bought the the former Canadian Forces Base at a bargain price because the new owners of the base wanted to build a road across the lot where it. stood. The 6,000 square foot building.., cost Mr. Dechert only $5,000 and 'the moving operation was to add another $8,000 to that tab. The hall was to be move in two sections and the first unit, which collap- sed during moving Thursday, included a huge fireplace, stret- ching from floor to ceiling, and an ornate bar. All that is now rubble. The section collapsed on County Road 13 just outside Clinton when the truck- on which it was loaded could not make a turn and backed into a road. Police had .to divert traf- fic for nearly five hours until the bulldozer finally cleared the roadway of what remained of Mr. Dechert's building. Power lines had to be moved for the operation and police, were escorting the heavily loaded vehicle when the ac- cident occurred. The rermaining section arrived safely at Mr. Dechert's store. Because of the Targe volume of news this week, it has been necessary to hold over some items 4of interest until next. week. Sorry! SPEED QUEEN SUPERTWIN PORTABLE. WASHER .,. & DRYER PO4)). �e`E Road where fire had broken out in a meat curing shed near the Company's main building. Little damage resulted to the 'building and equipment but meat, valued at about $75, was destroyed or damaged by the flames. It is believed the fire started from an overheated stove in the building. Firemen just nicely had their fire truck refuelled and hoses coiled when a second .alt}rm sent them racing to a fire on the Lake Huron shoreline about five miles north of Goderich. Flames broke out in a cabin on t he property of -(ack Graham and at times threatened the surrounding bush. Cottagers, and staff mem- bers from a nearby children's camp, fought to keep the• fire under control until firemen could arrive and extinguish the blaze. At one point the i"re- truck was directed down .the wrong road and found itself just across a deep ravine frons 'the blaze. The truck had to be rerouted back out to Highway 21 and back to the Lakeshore via another road. - Even then firemen had to string thel,r hoses through several hundred yards of bush to reach the blazing cabin. The building was constructed about a year ago by a group of teenage boys on Mr. Graham's property, with hitt consent.. It was used as,a summer cottage and snowmobile shanty. . Brent Pollock, Michael Hawkins and Dwayne Rising had spent Monday night in the cabin and gone down to the beach for a swim about noon when the flames broke%ut. The smoke was spotted by nearby campers. The cabin was completely destroyed by the fire and although no estimate of Loss was made available, it was not expected to be high. ol The large tug "Thunder_Cape" owned and operated by Western Engineering was'Th the Goderich harbor Saturday picking up the freighter F.W. Dunsford which had been used by Goderich Elevator as a storage barge. The barge was towed out heading towards Thunder Bay to the scrapyards. r In about • week„ the K.A. Powell, another b harbor will be picked up by the "Thunder Caps" B 1 northward. Both ships were damaged In the blg� fit` struck on March 17 of this year and would cot o repair. (staff photo) IIED& WHITE FOOD STORES FOODMASTE R ‚NivalO 91 VICTORIA STREET GODERICH OPEN NITELY TILL 10P.M. OPEN SUNDAYS 10 A.M. 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