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PAt"aiE 2.--GODERICI $IGNAL•STAR, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1974'
Cats on theprowl
As the poem on th'e-. front page ofthe.'
second section • pf this .week's'Goderich
Signal: -Star will attest, cats have become
'a problem in goderich. While this poem,
was designed as, a bit of good fun, ft
should be pointed out that town coun-
cil's concern is valid for the number of�
cats which are prowling local streets."
Counci.Ilor Eileen Palmer, chairman of
the Special Committee, has been doing
her, homework. She ,teas -produced B'law
29 of 1963 passed when E.C. Fisher was
Mayor of Goderich And she has begun
to stydy the document to see,.,if it should
bewupdated in any way to make it even
more applicable to today's situation.'
.The bylaw, to regulate the keeping of
cats in,Goderich, provides that: no per-
son' shall keep in or upon any land or
premises in Goderich at any -one time
More than two cats of any kind, regar-
dless of breed ,or sex. This bylaw, in
cidentally, does not apply to unweaned
kittens,
Persons convicted under -this bylaw as
Qt •
it presently stands, 'shall be liable to a
penalty tot exceeding $5 for the first of-
fence, exclusive of costs, . and not 'ex-
ceeding $25 exclusive of costs, for a
second or subsequent offence.
Like so many bylaws, Bylaw 29 of 1963
has not been enforced. And whether
Goderich's cat problem ;is a result of this -
neglect or Dick Eisler's very successful
campaign to rid `the flown, of dogs - .as
Reeve Deb Shewfell suggests it
remains that cats are costing the
municipality money. Accordingrto Coun-
cillor Palmer, the bill last month for
pound fees for cats done was in'
.excess
of $100.
It is to be hoped that Town Council,;
:will support Councillor Palmer in her bid
to find an answer to the cat conundrum
here. Whether it is., cats • squawling at
night, garbage bags shredded by keen .
claws or milk bottles overturned in -the
crisp morning air.,' too many cats make
life miserable for the average citizen.
aily News success
Judgingfrom comments around
Goderich Memorial Arena 'lst week,
Signal -Star's Young Canada Daily News
'Was well received by most of the hockey
fans there. .
The Daily News *was born last year of
an
rdea by Signal -Star Publisher, , R.G.
Shrier, an avid hockey fanand a real
Yourig Canada Week booster. Last year,
• TheDail'y 'News was an eight-pa9e effort"` -
which ,Keptthe regular Signal -Star
editorial staff in• a turmoil from the
- minute the first puck was dropped until
the finalsiren was sounded.
This year, The' Daily News was written
by ' three young Conestoga College.
studerits from Kitchener. These boys- -
Gary-Le.ewerF, Dave --Sykes and..-J+r-n-
MacDo,nald worked ` with their old
buddy, Bill Dimniick, now of the regular
Signal-Star•staff, to produce the 24 -page
tabloid which was packed to the brirn
with news and vieWs of the Biggest Little
Tournament in'the World.
Tournament
Signal-Star .takes this opportunity
to publicly praise the staff of The Daily
News for the super• coverage given to
the tournament. It is felt -the`people-wh'o-
Throw
• frequent the' chilly' bleachers during
Young Canada Week were truly
pressed, ,not only -by the news produc-
tion
tion of The Daily News staff but also by
their friendly, gentlemanly conduct
throughout their. entire stay here. The
'jocks'.from Conestoga made some good
friends in Goderich and they are anxious'
to corse .back again next year ,at tour-
nament time.
. While The Daily- News, certainly has
won a place of honor at Young Oanada
Week, the faithful fans are really what
makes the•tournament go. This year, the
Lions Club reports some of the beat
crowds ever during tournament. wdek.
This is a credit to the precision planning
and aa-refut- . co-ordination, by all :the
dedicated people who work months and
months in.advance of the tourney, to en -
„sure. a 'smooth show.
The first 25 ,years',of Young Canada
Week have been good ones, It was great
to' be part . of the ,silver Anniversary
Celebration: Itonly remains to look
ahead to bigger and better things for 'the
years, that lie ahead. This is no time to
.be discouraged.
away generation
.'.-
,Pur principal product .is not progress,
it's garbage.
. A 'possible slogan for today is "Be
careful how you throw it away!""
Yo,u know what happens when you
'cast your detergents on the waters - or
dump your sludge in the,oceans. All that
.glitters likely as not litters especially
when you think of pop bottles, beer cans,
or aluminum foil. Cellophane is a 'parr)
• when it lies mainly in the lane.
It -was bad enough when all we had to
worry about was what we threw away in
the picnic areas or the ditches beside
,the. highways. Now we've got to watch
what we throw away in space. It has
been reported that a 40 -pound chunk of
spacer debris, some metal from 'a U.S.-
launched space,.probe, crashed to earth
in Cuba and killed a cow. A recent count
of orbiting objects was 624 satellites and
2,349leces of.. debris.
Whether it's an•ancient jalopy, a piece
of ^tissue stained with, lipstick or an old
nose cone, 'we've got to be responsible,
• discarders. We must learn how to throw
things away intelligently. It doesn'tmat-
ter whether it's an actor throwing away a
line, a president throwing away tipes-or.
just an ordinary citizen'throwing caution
to the winds. '
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Dear Editor;
First 'I will h'['e to say that I
aim not a 100 .}iercent' hockey
fan -simply `-becau I cannot
"Oh well, it wasn't loaded anyway."
1
DEA.R EDIT'OR
always get a•ride to\t'he arena
to watch the boys play. The
games pJ, ed on March",' and
10 between_ Glenmattk Hennes
and Goderich Electric I did see
,and was yery ditiappoin.ted.;.,,,
._The refereeing 'of these games
was, very.bad: 'I feel this puts a`
very bad reflection on the fine
people .that run the hockey year
after year.
• I suggest to• the •people : t°hat
they write'to the local paper, to
see if there ' fs anything we can
do to stop this. The parents of
these boys must feel very `bad
• after a good, year •of hockey and
good coaching to'end irh uch a
way when it should have been a
great event •,for everyone.
'I- will not 'sign this letter
because I do not want anyone
to pick on children who do not
deserve it. '' `'
--."So to all you people who saw
;These games or know of • this
problem, please help these kids.
They could be yours. I feel, this,
.can not go on without someone
doing something..
80% Hockey. Fan.
.11nller o/' ►►►oi►e'v
. Deaf Editor:
Congratulations to Reeve
Deb Shewfelt on the way he
broke the •tie on the Huron
County 1 the.
issue.
It seeingthatto .some County
Councillors; bullets, buckshot,.
snares, traps and ,poison are
okay for coyotes, raccoon, foxes,
and groundhogs' but, -of course,
alive "they" are money out of
the farmers' pocket.
So if I u sI rstand the reports
in the news: fight, with deer it's
the other way around. A -har-
vested deef.seems to be money
. out of the farmers' pocket, so it
"is wa'f`ted alive.
.Looking at, it closer it ap-
• pears to me that th,e coyote and
deer are not really a ' moral
_•
issue but simply a • matter of
Dollars and Cents.
Yours truly,
Manfred Dierolf.
, iemories
Dear Editor:.
Two weeks ago the Signal-
, Star published an article - about
the W.C. Flour Mills new salt
' block getting ready to start
operation. This was fifty years
ago.
I was really surprised to read
it for it brought back pleasant
memories. 1 'was cine who took
a part in this operation.
I understand that. Mr. J.W.
Taylor, our 'chief engineer at
rats the designer of
the plant. He also was our'boss,
and one of the nicest filen that I
ever • worked for.
I was, on this job from start
to finish. We started at fhe
dock and put the suction water
litre uncd,er the railway tracks to
the basement of the mill. Here
we installed a thousand gallon
a niiqut water. ,pume. which shippers there are J.B.•Mills;
supplied t.hL w4l,.er to the goose Palmerston St., Goderich
neck of the vacuum pan to help Albert Kitton, 'Ed Irwin of
create the required va •uu:m to Huronview; Ernie Armstrong,
operate the pan. ,- town;' also "Charlie Younge, a
We had a'• -good gaug•of men real old_ timer.
to d'o' the work„which consisted There may be more but I do
of many different jobs. I wa,,5 not know of anymore.
with the_l ipe "fitters. When the .. ,
pan was' ready to run, :this
workrnan was designated to
make the final inspection of the
leg of the pan,.' being 'the
youngest ,4m -f. slimmest of the il►t►►►kyou
g ng. So with -rt rime around my
Dear Editcit•,
wa''st and armed with an elec-. We would like to thank the
tric light extensii►n curd .and a following people for donations,
big cari\►f ready mixed s•rnooth- • 'ervicc>s and help in making our
ori (a paste that sets like iron) I
'was l;ower\•�td d'ciwn the leg feet trip CO Engl•and,•J�ossible:
_- Mr. H. Sully; Mr. R. Shaw;
first. V Mr..'Donnelly; `Dr. V..Jones;
I found a thew minor flaws Mr.. B.. Jackson; Mr. and Mrs.J�.
and a couple of,mall holes so B. Lapaine; Mr. Kehoe, 'Kit -
promptly plugged -them.
chener; Anon, Stratford; Anon,
Now this was q‘.01;, an ex- Florida; Goderich Lions Club;
perience and no kiddie I.could Goderich Littale Theatre; Mr. R.
not -see helov 'myself .art4 I had •
Duckworth;; Mrs.' J. Wallace;
barely room to move,
What 'if•there was a jag
spot and I got stuck with a w
of east iron `two'inc•hes, thick al \' in 'oitr haste we havee om.it-
around me, Oh well, you run �, •
into many dangerous things Vin' t• • .any name- from _this .list
illease accept our thanks` and
life. ra%tulle.
Anyway 1. made it • o.k. and •g G,D.C.I. Drama Group
signalled my buddies to pull me "Britain B rund”
up. It was nice to see daylight \
again. W: put' down the'con-
li n►►ls\.r•ontil i' shiti.11
veyor 'chain, put on the head - \ -
shaft; filled the Tian with brine
„and it was„ ready to rut.. Dear Editor:
With a few minor adjust- Well, spring has almost
nest; for two or three days the sprung and it is time to get the
chief, Mr.,, Taylor, •gave the or- 'cobwebs, out of my p,.n.
dors •to try the Pan . at full. Last Thursday, I had' the op-
portunity to attend the Land,
capacity. - Use Conference at Centralia,.
.Here• something happened sponsored by the 1`-Iuron County
m
that is worth entioning.°We_
heard- our first' sonic bdom and Soil and Crop Improvement'
felt our first earthquake. It' Association.- Attendance was
happened arr>und.ten o'clock in good, but mit good. enough,, Are
the mo'rnin'g:-Thefreight the people' of Huron County
and their elected ;,repr'esen-
train was nearly ready to go . $
" tatives really interested: In the
out. The yard engine' was shun -
Way that Huron County land is
ting 'box cars hack and forth.
used? From the attendance, 1
We were 'all watching the think not.
vacuumopan. When boom, the Do you know that the
building swayed, the Pan primary plan has been accepted
rocked. We thought the trains'
had 'collided two :floors below
us, on the tracks. '
Finally one of the engineers
called the chief. He said what's
wrong with it. The pan was
completelynempty.
The•vacuuni was too great. It
had lifted eleven tons of pure
brine and put it over the goose
neck of the pan, and down the
drain 'in ab.tut three seconds
flat. We -soon fixed that and
everything worked fine after.
I received a little gift later
that fall. A free hunting trip to
the Soo on thel ,dear old
Maplecourt, the fastest'
freighter on the lakes, Com-
pliments of Chief Engineer
.J,W. Taylor and Captain Pat-
terson, for two weeks.
• Here are a few of e, the Old
Timers who are still around as
far as I know.
In' our gang, there is Alex
Mallough, town; Les Smith,
Httronview, Fred ;,Love,
Toronto;' rJp,m__Kelly, the chief's
nephew, who married n Race
Belcher later, find lived in
Columbus Ohio; and :oh ve's,
Percy Barker.
Of the millers, packers and
Yours trutly,
Percy Barker.
Mrs. E. Haydon; Goderich
Signal -Star; Mrd B. Wark and
Miss D. MacKenzie.•
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by the Provincial Government,
-.and now 'Townships are,.
- working on their . secondary
plan, but very slowly. Colborne
- has started on a " secondary
plan. But are our elected
-re'presentatives really
terested?,The reeve was not,at
Centralia. "The new deputy -
reeve has publicly stated that
he 'is interested in "land use
planning. He was not at the
Land Use Conference either. I
give credit to Colborne's new
councillor, of four 'weeks. He
was there.' What about the
others?
Of course the inevitable
question was asked. What
• about the Nuclear Develop-
- meat? ' We- hear—from good
source that it may be built, near
the Drysdale -Hwy. 21 area. At
the Land Use Conference, I
questioned the Warden. regal:-
ding
egar-ding County Council's stand on
the proposed power develop
meet. The Warden publicly
stated' that, he as againstthe
development and dries not want
it In Huron. County. But he did
not know how to.stop it.
Well, has : the+ Warden eves,
• heard of fighting for' one's
belief?
I, would suggest, that' it is
.time our elected, represen-
tatives at the local and County
level to,ok a stand and fight,
and we as the voters had better
well support them.
Do we really need the power
development in Huron? The
impact on the white bean in-
dustry alone would be fan-
tastic. As you. are no doubt
aware, the' White bean is very
susceptible to any type of air
• pollution. With the proposed
'\development to thew.est •of tie
major bean growirig area, the
prevailing winds . would carry
any p zllution over the greatest
white bean growing area in
Canada,' and yes, the world.
' I rnely, Huron' County. P.
It is my own opinion that,
Huron County Council will not
support the Warden and will
• not fight' with him against the
power ,development.
Regarding the. ,''restructuring
of .County Government, I would
suggest that time is of -the
essence. The, question now, are
we going to do it ourselves, or
let. some Jde or is it Bill from
.Toronto handling the
situation? Yes, and shove it
down our throats. rn
Please, County Council, take
a stand and 'do it yourself'.
May I suggest some public
meetings? Do •we really need
Deputy -reeves? Do we really
need the multitudes of county
councillors we now have?,.
Could we snot have two, three
or Mut- Townships working
together with one represen-
tative? Must we accept the
Townships having their own.
road system? Would not a
county wide system be more ef-
ficient with all roads coming
under ofie jurisdiction? Man-
power • and equipmeitawoi,tld be.
better utilized. -
Or are we willingeto accept
inefficiency "of the present
system? And about , the per
continued on page 3
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15 YEARS AGO'
At a meeting of the citizens
committee ,a ,strong resolution
was passed condemning any at-
tempt on tbe part ,pf the Grand
Trunk Railway to tinker 'with
the present railway station,
which is an eyesore and : a
disgrace, to the town, in recom-
mending that a modern brick
station be erected facing East
Street with all the zridern con-
veniences and requirements
that a growing town needs.
Those who were present at
the entertainment` given by An- \
sbach, a German magician, who
appeared under the auspices of
the , . Collegiate Institute
Literary Society enjoyed quite a
treat. Ansbach proved himself
to be a master in his art and
kept the audience'mystified and
yet • wide awake for a full two
hours.
Monday evening's ,hockey
match proved as was expected,
the . most interesting contest
this winter. The team from
Stratford, was evenly, matched
with the :'home team and ,the
game resulted in 'a 2-2 tie.
J.H. Brown, of Detroit,
Owner of the steamer'Carmona,
was in town F iday last and in-
timated that, contrary .to
report, the Carmona would be
ur• cin the— route.-. 'from
Cleveland to the Sault again
this season, calling this season,
.at different ports along . the
shore. It is intended that the ..
Carmona "will.' arrive here : or
her first trip ono June 16..;
50 YEARS AGO •
.The American anti -Marxist
league held a rally on' Satur-
day wh'en they warned decent
upright citizens ton beware the.
threat of Bolshevists which
may upset moral ethics gover-
ning our great country.'
The harbour will soon be
open with officials predicting a �+
good yearr for shipping which
will bring prosperity and
growth to. the area in keeping.
with the success experienced.
last season. With the ice star-
Ating to break up, shipping is ex-
pected to begin with in the next
two or three vsreeks.
At a meeting held in Strat-
ford Saturday last,''attended by
representatives of several 'fallb
fair committees of. western On-
tario ---air organization :effected
of what is now . called the
Western Ontario. Fall Fair" Cir=
cuit. Goderich was admitted to
the circuit. •,
5 YEARS, AGO
Huron County Board of
Education voted last Monday
to locate new administrative of-
fices in Clinton at the Central
Huron Secondary School. The
offices are to be located in a
former : laboratory which will
cost $26,200 to renovate,' in-
cluding air conditioning.
Town council approved, last
Thursday, a "proposal 'by a
Strathroy firm to provide a
$190,000 cable 'television :ser-
vice to Gctderich• residents.
Airland CcpmmunicationsySer-
vice Ltd. won the ' right- ,to,
provide the service after Rogers
Cable TV Ltd., had made a
similar, offer shortly after. the
first bid.
Councillor Paul Carroll con-
demried last Thursday, the ac-
tion" "Jf five members of town
council who held secret
meetings with representatives
from Clinton and Goderich.
The meetings were held to
discuss a possible landfill site.
Council as,,whole had note[
authorized the five councillors
to attend the 'meetings which
were held to keep the press
from ;hearing of the ...landfill
proposal.
Huron County councillors
voted themselves a pay raise
last Friday during their regular .
meeting. The raises were: to
$25 per day from $20; to $8 per
day 'meal allowance while at-
tending conventions; to $1200
from $800 per year for the war-
den.
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