HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-09-13, Page 3GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, i973--PAOS 3
In recent weeks, there have been
Several requests for • news coverage
-which have gone unfulfilled because the
editorial staff was
not
informed
event until
that
hour or so before
something was happening. In' more
cases than ldbeestimated, �
events hadbeenplannederal
days - even weeks - prior to the hour at
hand.
Contrary tp popular belief, Goderich
Signal -Star news personnel are not "on
call" 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
They are people with families and in-,
terests of their own. ' They like time off
as well as most workers and they grab
opportunities to 'get away' whenever
there's a lull in the workload.
_--When adequate 'notice is given ofyan
event of community interest and an in-
vitation extended for coverage, Signal -
Star staff will usually oblige, time permit-
ting.
However, short -notice requests from
folks who have just neglected to make
the necessary arrangements in advance
may fall on deaf ears. Sorry about that!'
Oh-Nois here
letter, which will be
ttoparents of children
!gotten through Grade.
ng the next week,
Police Chief Pat King
ucing "OH -NO" the
ing.
ery one of us there is.
,' Chief King says in
r, "which at times
s do things which we
to ,be • wrong and.
s. Our children are no
and we as adults are
p to by the youngster
ance and a way to
It is very difficult,
impossible at times, to
when persons are informed of a
tragic mishap involving loved
ones.
"OH -NO" symbolizes the
wrong or unsafe thing. Const:
Jarczak will begin visiting
schools in about two weeks and
endeavor to teach the children
about "OH -NO" and all the
unsafe things he, and the
children, can do.
Police Chief King said that
he hopes "OH -NO" will do for
(*safety what similar characters
have done in the past.
"We could have used Elmer
the Safety Elephant or Trevor
by
to a child why adults
act foolishly or do
may have taught
Id was wrong orin-
with these thoughts in
tConstable Tom Jarc-
ety Officer with the
Police Force, has
artistic talents to draw
with which to portray
fe thing."
tttle yellow character
talk has created has
"OH -NO" because
ession is frequently
doctors and policemen
the Bug but instead we are
trying a new object through
, which the Police Department
- will do all they can to instil in
youngsters the "do nots" of
safety -'in all its aspects," said
the Chief. ,
"The teachers will bebacking
the program strongly," he ad-
ded, "but all your efforts will
lack , something if the parents
do not play a part."
"Your child is your most
.precious pobaession. He or she
cannot be replaced, so help us
protect all the youngsters in
our community, he adds.
Since 1948 Dr. R.W. Hughes,
20 Wellington Street South in
Goderich, has been saving
residents of Goderich from the
agony of toothaches and patien-
tly rebinding them that had
they come in for a regular
check up they would not likely
have had to go through that
pain. Now he's retiring but
people and their problems will
always be real for Dr. Hughes.
Actually dentistry for Dr.
Hughes goes back some time
before 1948. In 1926 he
graduated' as a qualified den-
tist at Toronto but work proved
hard to, find in those years so
he moved north to Timmins to
seek employment in the mines.
He was,.-,jucky, though, and
found -himself offered a position..
practicing his true profession in
that community, as an em-
ployee, of an established den-
tist.
After three years working in
this capacity Dr. Hughes went
on his own and in 1936 set up
his own practice in Timmins..
In 1939 war came to Europe
and Canadian troops were
called up to serve overseas.
Dr. R. W. Hughes reported
for duty as well but in uniform
continued to wield a drill as
opposed to a rifle. He served
from 1940 until 1945 with the
Candian Dental Corps at Camp
Borden and --in England, at one
point being responsible for the
dental care of the largest
Canadian force overseas, the
1260. man .heavy anti-aircraft
regiment.
"It was the biggest regiment
in the Canadian Army," he
jokes, "and they had the
smallest dentist{ `rhe regiment
had two of everything impor-
tant like Padres and
Paymasters but just one den-
tist," .
After the war Dr. Hughes
continued work in a military
way working with the Depart-
ment of' Veterans Affairs for
three years at their Christie
Street Hospital in Toronto.
"We also ran a Veterans'
Clinic downtown," he explains,
"where we took care of
Veterans' children who were
students at university as well
as a few old sweats who were
sleeping, on park benches."
0
in looking for a new set of false
teeth. When I asked him how
he lost his others he said he
had fallen asleep on the grass,
taken his teeth out, and set
them beside him. He claimed a
dog came along and stole the
set."
During his weekends off,
while working in Toronto,. Dr.
Hughes used to take tours of
the province and during one of
these toursdecided that
Goderich' looked like a nice
town and a good place to raise
children. As a result he moved
here in 1948 purchasing
Wellington—Street home, and
office where he has lived and
worked since.
"I've never regretted coming
to Goderich either," he notes.
"It's been a good town."
When Dr.' Hughes arrived
here there were two other den-
tists working in this community
but at one point, in later years,
he found himself tfteonly den-
tist in town.
"Fora while there the old
phone was just buzzing off the
hook," he recalls.. There are
now four dentists serving
Goderich.
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There have been many
changes over the years that Dr.
Hughes has practiced dentistry.
"Most of the big changes
have been in the field of
materials," he explains. "When
I was going to school we made
false teeth using vulcanized
rubber. Now there are plastics,
which are fir superior."
Of late there has been talk of
a Denticare plan which would
provide dental care for
everyone on the same basis that
the Medicare system in Ontario
now provides medical care.
"If a person is entitled to
medical care," Dr. Hughes ob-
serves, "he should certainly be
entitled to dental care as well.
The program is getting started
in the lower grades of school
and working its way up, even-
tually getting to adults I sup-
pose."
Dr. Hughes points out,
however, that the new scheme
may result in abuses such as
those seen in the case of doctors
who in somecases are reported
to be making $100,000 or more
per year.
"Even now," Dr. Hughes ex-
plains, "the Dentaf-Association
publishes a list of minimum
fees but no maximum charges.
Fees are set on a sort of "let
your conscience be your guide"
system. M
"Often there seems to be lit-,,
tle concern for the patient's
ability to pay," he adds.
Costs, he suggests, could
wind up as high as those in-
volved with the Medicare
plans.
Tomorrow will be Dr.
Hughe'' final day in practice.
"I've taken on no new
patients during the last
month," he explains, "I've
been just wrapping up work
that was in progress.'",
Page three
- Richard Madge, Head Coach
for the Novice Division in the
Goderich Minor Hockey
Association announced that
pr, -session training sessions
evil begin tomorrow (*Friday)
l"or arts Kciys wh'o a're`interestecl:
Boys who were born" between
January 1, 1963 and December
31, 1964 are eligible for the
'Novice -division.
Boys who are in this age
group and who will b,
registering, to play hockey this
winter are invited to meet in
front --of the arena at 4:30 "p.m.
Friday for the first training
session.
The purpose . of the pre-
season training is to give the
boys a prcigram of exercises and
conditioning that will prepare
them for :hockey.
Registration for Minor
Hockey will take place later
this month. Ice sessions will
begin in the first part of Oc-
tober.
Kingsbridge News
Sympathy is extended to the
O'Connor families on the death
of Doctor J.A. Kasper, husband
of- Monica O'Connor, at his
home in Grosse Pointe,
Michigan, on Saturday, Sep-
tember 8 in his' 78 year:....
Requiem Mass was said on'
Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. in
St. Clair Roman Catholic
Church, Grosse Pointe,
Michigan. Those attending the
wake and funeral services from
this area were: Mr. and Mrs.
Pete -_Murray (Betty O'Connor)
Mr., _John_ _ O'Connor, _:-.Mrs.._
Genevieve (O'Connor)
Kinahan, Mrs. t,Irsula (O'Con-
nor) Herbert, Mrs. Frank
L'eddy (Elaine O'Connor) Mr.
and Mrs. Leo Courtney (Mar-
cella O'Connor) Mrs. Max
Riegling, and Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Ki"nahan.
Congratulations to Mr: and
Mrs. William Irvin of Ashfield
township who celebrated their
59 wedding anniversary, with a
family dinner on Sunday, Sep-
tember 2 at the Log Cabin
Restaurant in Lucknow.
Several from this area atten-
ded the reception at the Salt -
ford Valley Hall on Friday
evening September 7 for Mr.
and Mrs. George Adams (nee
Donna Bean).
Mrs. Reis Miltenkurg retur-
ned to her Mime here after a 3
week visit with her family in
Holland.
Mr, -Wilfred -*wain,Mr.' and
Mrs. John Fellows, and Mr.
and Mrs. Alvin Moran visited
with Mrs. Wilfred Austin,- a
patient in Victoria Hospital in
London.
John Hogan, son of Mr. and
Mrs. 13111 Hogan is enrolled in a •
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Dealers reply
Dear Editor,
First off allow me to express
my disappointment at nut first
being allowed to see the letter
which appeared in- last week's
paper. It was a ",Sound Off–
typetype
letter and I note that. in
the column by that name in the
L.F.P. very often the complaint
and the explanation
simultaneously.
I do not want to deal with
the .letter specifically but with
TV service in general.
Today's TV sets are a far cry
from the sets of a few years ago
.both fortunately and unfor-
tunately.
A few years ago there were
more serve calls but sets were
repaired more easily with some
minor tune replacemen-ts. from
the box we servicemen, always
carried with us.
appear
two year Engineering
Technician .Course at Fan-
shawe College in London, On-
tario.
• Sister Marty Terrence (Whit-
more) of Nashville, Tennessee
and her niece, Miss Marion
Pambone of Woodstock,
Illinois, spent the latter part of
iast week with the O'Neill,
Howard, Sinnett and ,. Hogan
families. Marion Pambone and
Anita Hogan commenced
classes at the University of"
Guelph this week. Anita in first
year Science and M€rrion First
year Art. .
Miss Diane Anderson retur-
ned' to her home . in Seattle,
Washington by bus due to the
rail strike not, being settled, af-
ter spending a month's
vacation with Mr. and Mrs.
John" -Austin and the' Courtney
and Sinnett families. Tier
friend Miss Mary Rose Trier-
weiller is remaining for another
week's Vacation.
(Ti be continued
Next week)
Today's sets of all makes are
more trouble-free but they
carry a large amount, to almost
total, solid state circuitry.
Today if a stealer wants to
correct any problems other
than a loose connection etc., he
needs a spare parts' kit worth
anywhere from 1+1,000 to $2,0(0.
This obviously means that
every dealer can rio longer ser-
vice,all makes of TV. He now
looks pretty well after his
own make and lets other
dealers do likewise as they
have the circuit boards etc.,
which are in his expensive
spare parts kit.
I suppose I must deal with
last week's letter specifically
but only in part.
-Viking TV is not noanufac-
%,'tured by just Electrohorne but
by any one of a half dozen dif-
ferent manufacturers.
had a Viking color set' on 'my
bench for over a month- and
have •just recently tracked it
down to he a Toshiba make,
YOU. see whenever a
manufacturer makes a set for
Eatons they put the Viking
name on it and also change all
the pars numbers to
correspond with the Viking ser-
vice manuals, if the particular
set in question was an -Elec-
trohome 'manufactured set I
could not tell it 'from the model
number the lady gave me over
the phone.
I did not want to take in
another set I knew nothing
about and keep the customer
waiting for his set.
Mr. Galbraith niay have been
more fortunate than 1. He may
have had a recent experience
with this model number and
recognized it immediately as
Elect rohsttiie.
it keeps nie and all other
dealers humping to' service
their sets promptly. There is
no one more inpatient than n
customer with an inoperative
TV. -TV has become part of
everyone's daily routine and
they miss it when it is not
a%aliable.
When any dea-ter.,gets an off
brand to service where there- is
not a local dealer you can
count on almost a two week
delay by the time you write for
a service manual„ detect the
part required and have it ship-
ped in. Where . no service
manual or , numbers are
available -service , is virtually
impossible unless done by the
dealer who sells the brand. Few
want to wait two 'or three,
we€ks for their TV set. Even if
you do a good, job in repairing
it but take this long to do it you
end up with a name for poor
service and this is almost as
bad as having a name for no
service at all.
i will not cry the blues about
service departments in the TV
-appliance business but suf-
.ficicut to.say they-<all"operate.at
a loss. - Hard- for anyone- to
• believe 1 know, but it is a fact.
This can be proven' by checking
with any dealer. Service depar-
tments are necessary, however,,
for the continuance of any
business. Everyone must ser-
vice what they sell.
For anyone coming to town,
it is my policy, if they have nay
makes of appliance in their
home, 'to treat them like any of
niy other customers. For
brands 1 don't sell 1 reiterate,
I can only do,the hest 1 can and
in this case it was best to refer
them hack to their dealer or if
you like to the store where it
was purchased.
Mmiv thanks for this oppor-
tunity to clarify a misunder-
standing.
Yours truly,
Al Granger -
GRANGERS TV. APPLIAN-
CES
Editors Note: We hoped our
explanation would have suf-
ficed but obviously we lacked
the technical knowledge.
You have a valid point, you
should have . seen the letter
first. Our foresight is not so
good but like everyone else our
hindsight is razor sharp.
-Customer replies
Dear Editor:
Re: Editor's Note
It would appear as if I created
a feeling of being an attacker of
Goderich. May I assure vuu I
meant only to point out why
the Mall may be favoured by
the general population.
Also I would like to say I agree
with ;your suggestion "Buy in
Goderich", etc., but there are
some difficult areas.
Regarding your suggestion that
"those who haven't tried it
should not knock it", I have;
now the store is out of business.
Hut on to the problems tin -
volved.
. (1)Both stores mentioned _in
m_v previous letter have signs
indicating sales and service
NOT Sales and only service on
what they sell.
(2) What of new townspeople -
must they sell all appliances
and re -purchase from stores in
Godbrich?
(3) What of gifts - must one
turn down. gifts because they
were not purchased' in
Goderich?
(4) My area of disenchantment
lies in the fact these stores ad-
vertise •sales and service, and
do not specify tiny particular
prerequisite to service. That .I
believe is false advertising.
(5) What if one moves from
Goderich, will the Goderich
dealers service what they sold
in another town, if the other
towns refuse because it wans4
bought there._ .._.__._____ -.___
(6) Lastly, I will say 1 tried to
do business in Goderich, as
these appliances were GIFTS. I
felt I should give Goderich
what business I could.
Yours truly,
Stewart Thomebn