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Goderich area builders.. and
developers voiced objections on
Monday night "to a new by-law
regulating, among other things,
4 sideyard `Mwidth and placement
of garages at dew house sites.
At a special: meeting the
builder's met . with town.
building inspector Roy,
Breckenridge at the inspector's
office.
The purpose of themeeting
was. <to acquaint the public with
changes in the by-law, .passed
on De eu ber . 6, governing
build;+ g' permit -grants. The by-
law was changed last in 1958.
• .Builders 'expressed concern
about the by-law, which states
that there , must be sidpyards
for every house built, a
_.... minirrium of l0 -feet on one side
and sit feet on - the other.
This is to prevent cramming
„,„,houses together as is the case in
olttisr':areas of some large On-
tario cities.
Citing by-laws from other
municipalities, Bert Alexander
said that, "In, my experience--_.
township
statement on
with other towns in Ontario .I
noticed that they only hail' W-
allow for a four foot . sideyard
on' both sides 'ef the: house: .
"I would suggest that ` the
building lots now 70, feet wide
be extended to 75 "Tee and all,
the garagei be built tight
together leaving the extra space
on the .opposite sideof the
house,'; he added.
Eric Krohmer heartily
agreed with Mr. Alexander.
"All the lots should be '
uniform for all types oahousing
and they should' all Have ,the
same r.equirementss for
sideyards to avoid -confusion to
the planners," he reasoned.
Inspector Breckenridge noted
the by-law states that ail.
garages built on -property lines
and detached from houses must
service both lots, •
He said that objections to the -
regulation should be stated/in a -
letter, and 'sent to the planning
board. . , ° ...
To remind bu; ers -of an im
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In.the. wake of confusion over
past months regarding the con-
struction of shopping malls in -
Goderich or adjoining Goderich:
Township the Township coun-
ci
issued a press release -on
• Tuesday in- an effort to make
the general public `r''"d' John
. White, `Minister ',Of Treasury,
'Economics and ulntergovern-
•mental Affairs "aware of the
• facts. leading up to the decision
to issue a building" permit, to, .
'Rockledge Properties for a
Shopping mall in the Township.
The release followed close on
the heels of a letter from Mr, '
• White refusing to meet with the
Township and . discuss the
•situation. That letter 'noted, ."I
have considered the . request
embodied in 'your. Township's
• resolution; butmust,decline the
invitation to appear before your
council to discuss the..matter:".
,Speaking, WWI- o£ -,"toe
tow ah', . councillor G."G. Ginn,
who grepared the' release,
.noted,' "This+ decision (to issue
the .building permit) was not
reached without• due con:-
sideration.''
on-sideration," ..
"The Goderich ,. Township' •
Council deems the site to be
ideal: It has - access froin the
town of Goderich by 'a well
lighted four lane highway -and"
it has, access from- the balance.;
of the trading area by a recur: ,
faced°Highway number eight."
"This property is adjacent to
the easterly limits of the town
of Goderich and we feel that a
shopping plaza would be come
�pata't,1 -
inercial -and light industrial
uses of the area.
r+
a
es
malls
and LG.B.O. • outlets," Mr.
Ginn noted in the release.
"The Goderich , Township
Council would never consider
issuingit building permit for: an
Intensive agricultural complex
-for-t-iiis-area.. and the -provincial
government. has already' rejec-
ted 'a registered •plan- of sub- .
''division on this property as late
-as 1969. because this property
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had been designatedby the
Department oft- Municipal Af-
fairs as 'i -`basically'" of an in-
dustrial .
n-dustrial. character," Mr. •Ginn.
said. - -.•
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Whalen announces
$2,2994 school ' C
travel grant
"Further proof tht this: area
is` an ieal'location is "the .site
chosen for the Brewers 'Retail
A, grant „of $2,294 has. been
awarded" St. Mary's ,School in'
Goderich, under the travel and
exchange` program •, of _the •
Federal Government, the ,Hon.
Eugene Whalen announced -on
Tuesday.
The grant is to helpfinance a
-proposed ikxcursion by St.
Mary's students and teachers
to...Abbotsford, British Colum-
bia: .•
As the excursion ,has not, yet
received approval from the
Perth -Huron Separate School
Board, Larry Cook, principal of -'
St. Mary'$,, could not . provide •
new
details.:• 'e 'dell- the Signal -Star
that, "We're- very pleased thatthefederal gris avaiiab%.'
If the board does approve thetrip, Mr. Qook said plans will
Ise finalizd next month.a�anfo►m•- Qner
Work' is wall underway on construction of a new:3034Qot wall *long the northast: shore of
Goderich Harbor; Bermingham-Cnstruction Lfd:'of Hamilton Is carrying out the work after
being granted a.•contract vaed at $159,111 byTheF�ideral Department cf Publlc Works• for
construction of a sheet piled °gall for the Federal' Transport Department. Work Is expected
to be conmlete by the end of March
ouncil asked' toan
arsons' name
A phantom phoner who
called,London's CFP,L-Radio's
• Open Line'show on( Saturday to
disagree with broadcaster. Gor- °'
�. don Sinclair, used a Goderich
business 'e(cecutive's name to -
emphasize .his -arguments. ;
Identifying himself as Mr.
Parsons at the Goderich' grain
elevator, ,a man contested Mr`.
SInclair's••' editorial ,which
praises . A'mericans for . their
generosity 'to other countries
only to receive abuse in return.
parsons, president and chief
executive of Goderich Elevator
and Transit 'Co., said he wee
hot the caller:
He said in an interview on
Monday that, he he was morb
amuBed; than embarrassed 'by , °
the pheny4 Mr. Parsons. '
Applauding the caller's com-
ments, some people have
telephoned the real Mr. Par-
sons.to say he did a terrific jots.
:However, Mr, Parsons said
that he didn't understand the
per -Sorel motives for using$is
name. News of the call was a `
"real' surprise,"
He was -bothered by bad Citing' Canada as a country
, language the radio station said that gives more.help per capita ---
it had to
edit• out 'of the open- for dollars of taxes than any,
line program. " '4h -eft ountry in the world,' the,"`.
Although he-•.dtesai't knower"•eller said the „0,5. is not the
•-• 4' only.nation that aids people.
le.
how the - radio station could�doA°lie ,would° rather p his
Mr,. Pa'rsons. said more con- . keep
trots. -should be used to prevent thoughts, to},�laimself, Mr,- Par -
such
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incidents from occurring, sores declined to comment on
' . The phantom phoner on Mr'• •Sinclair's now,, famous
the air, that the United States editorial.
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Town Foreman Stan Meriatn
told:-,'Goderich Town" Council`
durig committee meeting last
Thursday that the community
should begin looking at the•
possibility of purchasing an ad-
ditional. snow plowini unit.
`=There are more and more.
roads to plow all the. time,"
Mr•Mer-i-arn•-told the meeting,
"with recent construction at the "
Indu'striaL Park and in sub
a , divisions and there are still
more planned for the near
sold all their wheat to Russia
who in turn sold its supply -to'
Italy. ,Now Canada was sup -
Plying the
p Y'1 g x
' He claimed that 500,000
bushels' of wheat. were cleared
AA the border on Friday for
shipment to the U,S,
• Anything the ; caller-. said
about grain had no relevance to.
the Goderich'elevator,.•Mr, .•Par
sons : Said.
future." • ,
"It takes more. -time to plow
the. streets each year," he lid-
d'ed. " .
Mr. Meriam also pointed -out
that it takes about, three hours
to plow the runways ---at Sky ,M
Harbor and officials there want
it done'sooner 'than in previous
years:
"They used to .wait'until
af-
ternoon -for us to get out there
and. plow . i't, the, Town
Foreman • explained, ."but now
they • are more .demanding." . ---
Mayor Harry Worsen •poi„=
ted out• that the town would
have to come first for. th'e mean-
Another
ea n -
fto
"We are 'also cutting'trees,".
'Mr. Meriam told council.
"TwentY, have been cut and
the Public Utilities are helping
Us, especially where there are
hydro wires." -
In his 'report to Goderich
Town Connell last Thursday
evening Gerry Fisher, Pollution
Supervisor at tie -local
Pollution Control Plant,. told
the. 'town fathersthat long
range . plans for this area
provide that bL,1975 .Goderich
must provide phosphorous
removal in addition tb. present
'sewage; treat'inent. •
Operation of that program
will -Coat the town about $1.30
Per. , capita in addition to -Ate
capital cost of iostalling the
necessary equipment, he said,
ate
er costs
Mr: Fisher did not estimate -the
cost of equipment but suggested -
that council. should begincon-
sideririg the added expenditure.
In ' r'eplyin to a question
.„ from 'coin chlor Stan Profit Mr.
Fisher:noted that the Depart'-
,
epart=• merit of the Environment
regulations't regardi'ng
phosphorimS4emovalleave the.
municipality' no alternative but'
to install and ----operate. the
necessary equipment.
, • During the last month Mr.
Fisher told the meeting 35 tons
" of: sludge ' was removed •at the
plant. Work continued on a
•---project to paint"the.pump house
walls and the heaters and pipes,
as' well.
a'
. Mr. Fis er; also noted that
Continued on. page 12
� Stephen Lewis tours
time since -the municipality.as
yet .does not even own the air-
port.
In other matters Mr. Meriam •
noted that during December his
men did ;mostly routine work,
snow plowing roads • and
srdewaljls,•,;;, +,hen necessary,
salting roads when slippery and
sanding sidewalks. y
"On December 25 a sleet -
Corm hit the Town covering
treete with Police •
called at 3:0 a.m.and I had a.
salt truck going right away." '
•"Ittook 11 hours to salt all
roads in town and we started
sanding sidewalks at 6;00 a,m,
finishing about „ooh." •
Between' snowplowing,
salting and sanding, the Town
crew* is painting and repairing
the benches from the Court
House Park. ' -
Ioc-�f area today
Discussion of1 possible
HuronCounty central fire
brigade dispatching office
dominated. the county council
meeting on Wed.
While some council. members
objected to certain aspect's of
the ystem,' , •„lost were in
agreement that a feasibility
study be requested through the
Ontario Fire Marshal's office.
_.The study would 'cost the
county nothing. ,
The Development Commit-
tee; chaired by Allan Campbell;
made the recommendation in
its report to council.
Although no date has been
set for. the study, •the recom-
mendation along with the rest
of the committee's i sport was'.
accepted during"the meeting.
In• presenting his committee's
resort suggesting 'the " dispat-
ching system, Mr. .Campbell
said ' he hoped_ for discussion,
and!• questions ' about it. His
hopes were fulfilled.
The issue, raised ,,,by some
councillors was that -it would
take two calls to get a fire truck
to a fire: one •tn.the dispatcher
..and another from the dispat-
�hit� the fire brigade :closest;
to the scene. •
One council member termed
Stich a system as "cumbersome,
.r.idictilous.''
Another member felt that the
recotnmeridatibn put "the cart
ahead of the horse."
"We're •tallting- about dispat-
ching _ Hitt we're dispatching
what?" he explained.
" All. areas of the county;do not
have gt a-1 f-iremmfighting�equ ;„tent. Until fire• areas • are'
properly defined and get equal
egiiipment' and protection the
eicpe=nse wasn't justified;.he
said. -
The, fact .. that few fire
brigades in the county have
trucks,, equipped with two-way
radios . was-- another .,.objection ,
put forth, '
'Mr. Campbell explained that
by, :having one central dispat-
'
'cher. �naunicrpa lities in the
county could save, money. The
service would not ,be
duplicated: Three dispatchers
could be hired to man a centrale
telephone 24 hours `a day.
The, telephone would have a
,zenith .number so that rio 1"oi
distance_._calls would .be
necessary anywhere iii the
county.
Another benefit of. the system
would be that -in -ease a fire' Was
° too much for „one brigade to
handle, iteould call back to the
.disptytcher•Nrwho °would wend
Other lrigades-ter-help: T
Citing the case- of a massive
disaster such as the gas ex-
plosions in'London, one council
member said that it made sense
'to "tare County' ;fife brigades
together with 'a central dispat-
cher as a similar
disaster mignt
occur in Huron County. ,
-,Mr. Campbell said that most
fire trucks in the county would
be ,equipped-. with lwo-way
radios "before too" long, within,
the next three or four years."
Trucks' equipped like this
would be able, to respond' to
.r
Arch an' emergency.
at what could be done and how municipalities,'. investigates ,
much it would' cost. ;' complaints about ° weeds and
In further debate about the acts on them -as he -sees fit.
Development Cominittee's=However, all ~municipalities
report, council members asked who want to use the inspector's
about wages' set for'the county, ._ services must pass an annual.
weed° inspector at $3.75 an hour ,by-law snaking . his activities
plus 15 cents per mile and tree legal. , ` _,
commissioners receiving $3.25 Tree.,.Cgmmiaa� oners approve
an hour, plus 15 cents per mile activitiessuch as t ik bulldozing
effective 'Jan: 1, 197,4. • irbushes:
Mr-Xampbell explained" the Responding to a q :tion
jobs of these county employees. about why .the weed inspe
He said .thea- weed inspector, would receive a, larger wag
who is available to all county • than tree commissioners; ':Mr,
- .Campbell said „that the •inspec
Dearborn y .tor had . more resp°o $ibilities:
He told council that .the in-
rec al l
spector had to handle
A workers "
poisonoimsprays rid.needed a ,_
license to do hi job.
When council accepted the
• P Development;• Committee'st°
in, near jutute report it supported a resolution •
from Perth ,County that stated
Despite ` the lay, off of sit more conservation officers be
workmen last_ week, Dearborn put on 0.44 to enforce .hunting. •
Steel Tubing General `Manager `laws in" tjhe 32 townships, in the
Gus Chisholm told the Signal Wingham area. •
Star' - on' Monday that he:ways At- ,present, there are`only
optimistic about the future of four/ They..•resolution' will be
Dearborn and estimated that passed on to .Lep Bernier, On
within the next month the men topic • Minister of Natural
be `recalled' 'to ;their jobs. Regotfrces.`
He noted` that following con /Council accepted, the. report,
ferences•with customers in both 'from the Executive, Committee
Canada and the United States /', after little discussion:
,last . week . Dearborn, officials ` ' There were some questions
had been very "concerned "'bum- on changes to the Standing
said the feeling now was that .. Rules and +(egxilations, . Part T
the next week would liely • II=-Duxties of -'Committees.
bring a break in ,`market Some 'po ipcillors asked if the
• problems. ,( Executtve Committee should be
The company anticipates no empowered .to'appoint'special
'serious ' problems - the- committees'.Without: council ap-
Oan'a'dian` repiraceme n -market prO a -- - r s r
but has been experi ein .,d=if•- The Executive-- Gorntrattee
Acuity.,with' buyers in the would 'be able -to appoint mets„- •
United. States who'' use : the bens to StandingComtnittees or
-Dearborn tailpipe assemblies in ' Special Committees in the
the manufaefu a of new cars. event of a member resigning or
"Some customers have' curs.' in the case . of a .member's
tailed , or shut dawn death.
operations,.. Mr. Chisholm ex- Cecil iDesjardirie, Executive •
plained, "but we do anticipate Committee chairman, said that �.
relief in .(he near future." his group did not want .to take
"Most'�lines are to be rolling - . that responsibility.
again /Within a month and full Special, 'committee . members"
production- will, be achieved receive extra pay: Matters con-
agaj}h within two months," he . cerning money should come
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added before the council as a whole:.
''"We anticipate, an' increase in . The Executive Committee
anadian domestic' sales but, also recommended to council
as a .result of problerns in the ' ' that a -Special Coriimittee'-be
automotive- industry - of the' . formed °annually to review and
United State , a decrease in ex- consider salaries -of department'
oras.:' heads. The warden would be
Mr. Chisholm went " on 'to chairman of this committee.
note however that after the in- In making salary recommen
dustry Was Over this temporary dations, the committee would
• setbackthe . -future for : 1974 present its reports to the cou n-
'looked 'bright. cel as a whole. `
"The past 10 days' shipments The •'report also: called.,, on
have been above "normal and Huron County- to support a
eve; -will be looking -for an in--- r-esoln ion -front the County of
crease over last year's figures.
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on't discuss
�s a o t ifs re
Nobody is verywilling to talk kzuow' .what police had done to
about. it but Huron County
Warden W. J. Elston has ad-
• mated that he received
threatening letters while run-
,ning . for the "Warden.'s seat
All county fire brigades, even
volunteer departments §uppor-
' been
ted -by county giants, would be
Provincial Ieader',of the New At 4.30 ar meeting h
as eligible to participate, • Mr.
Democratic Fatty Stephen set with Secondary School Campbell said in"response to a
Lewis is paying a vi•ait to Huron teachers to discuss the con question.
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• ,, troversial 1 - 2 which County today, ' The advantage of this would
a sparked teacher demon--
This morning Mr. Lewis met be to eliminate the possibility .
month. a departments an -
Company at Huron Park. in arr swering a call from different
A dinner is planned for 6:00 people, turning in alarms for
with officials -Of the Hall° Lamp strations at Queen's Park last of two fir
pr-oblerns re ently besetting p.m. in Goderich" at which time. the same fire, Mr. Campbell
that ops atio .
r n Mr,' Lewis will t'neet with ,� s8
DP idx .
At noon the NOntario representatives .of the local conA . Another council member
Leaden will meet the press 'at`' servation group which has been 'suggested that a professional
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Seaforth Secondary School and " . expressing ccincern over the dispatcher would know better
then at 12:20 p.m. to speak to proposed expansion of the • how to handle a. panicking per
an assembly of students at the . Bruce Nuclear Generating son who was calling in an school ,who study World Station. •. alarm.
Politics. • The dispatcher would get in- ,
From Seaforth Mr. Lewis In `°Teeswater at 8:30 pari. formation concerningthe
travels to Clinton where he will Mr, Lewis will discuss another location arid seriousness of a
again meet • World Politics questi'on about the growing blaze correct. Fire brigades
stAdents in an assembly at the generating 'station when he .'would ,be , `"dent to the right '
Central Huron Secondary meets farmers at the Teeswater ,,,,,places.
School there. Follo'wing, that Town Hall to discuss problems Warden Elston summed ups
assembly, which has been ° they are facing in connection the discussion saying that a
scheduled for 2:00 p.ny., a press with power line right -Gi ways study into the feasibility'cf Mlle",.
conference has been called at :from tele nuclear station to central dispatching system •••
the s h I f 4:06 ' Seaforth. Id of be 1 rte a took'
con or p• m.
wou ' n . aw, o y
hirden . Elston 4'TMwas-1nost
reluctant to talk about the let-
tets and • noted that ,rumours
about -the incidents were "more
than they hhoilld be." He
refused to comment on uncon-
firnSed reports thitt police•--haci
been guarding him and his
family noting that he did .not
"clear it up."
Offieia1s with the Ontario •
Provincial Police were just as, -
candid 'about the reported
-threats refusing-tp discuss the
extent of their involvement in
the matter: No charges, at
nection with the threats -and
no-one is willing to outline just
what those threats' were,
Mr.. Elston, the Ree"v*, of.
Morris Township, wonhis' seat
on the. fourth ba llot .defeating
Charles Thdrnas.-ofGrey Town-
ship by a vote, of 30 to 22, He
led the other candidates on the
a
first bl'l+ frreceiving 18 votes
'''••while the other can . ategn
Hugh Flynn of Hullett T w -
ship gained 15, Charles . mas
received 11 and Ed , s ddleifson
of Bayfield was ' 'eliminated
with eight. -`7 ••
In the second round of voting
Mr. Elston led again with 24
votes while Mr. Flynn and Mr.
„Thomas tied with supporters
giving them 14 votes apiece.
Third round balloting war.,
between those two with • Mr.
Thomas winning 33 to 19 only °
.-to be defeats Mr. Elston on
defeated
the next vote.
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as yet, have been laid in con-
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