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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-09-19, Page 1a Bob Sproule returns to re -open shoe busines Three years on the -road and he's back to sell his shoes ' to citizens. Bob Sproule came back to Goderich after three and a'half years of travelling around On-• tario and took uphis life here just about where he left off in 1971.. r Mr. Sproule owned and operated Sproule's Shoes on Kingston Street for nine Years ., "�!, - from 1962 to 1971 before he, The matter of landscaping sold the Store oto d a largeThe Square met with little en manufacturer. He continuously Bob Sproule ff d h' t t 0 N: • 127TH YEAR --38 THURSDAY, SEPJEMBE..R.19, 1974 • ar o ere is cus omers sa isf ac- thusiasm when town ' council held ,;i'ts regular ' committee tion. and. 'guaranteed . fits and the Tyrol Shoe . Company of meeting last Thursday evening. is thriving business attracted M ontrea1 working ash - a In fact, indications are clear th attention of BMR Shoes travelling salesman out of Kit- that the sandbagged trial inter - Ltd., .of Waterloo. The company chener and Toronto. bough operate years unt the end -of August. , my thing," the • Store • in '71 and "I didn't like the road," said section at West Street and The Square w,as not greeted, with , it for three and a half Mr:° 'Sproule.' "Retail sales is favor by town officials. When Public Works Foreman Dennis Do store for BMR pany allow 'd th remain and " Sproule Shoes. Bob S the meantime, took a He returned to Goderich af- Stan Meriam made his report to council, he was emphatic in rid the com- from BMR. With Mrs. Marge his opinion. outlet to Mantha and Rick O'Hanlon, he "As far as I'm concerned The s me name, is back selling quality shoes Square is fine the way it oule, in with a guaranteedP fit to is, `said Meriam. "I',d hate to with customers in Goderich managed the • ter buying• the business back .1 Board of E • v anon geVanastra pl see anybody spoil it.' Meriam told council the san- Acknowle will affect BY WILMA OKE ' classes on ecology, pond an The Huron County, board of'. and language expe ence in the internal relations committee of - education appkoved the request .out-of-doors: 'the , board to ., deal with ' from Clinton ublic School_ to ; - The board con- coir -r: s with problems , affecting harmony send , 52 Grade 8 students to the arriendment No 6 to .e of- • and co -operations between Camp Sylvan October 15 to 18, ficial plan for Huron Count by trustees,a ween e ure enrolment ache dbagged intersection. had been ' a problem for the street , 'weeper and warned that'if a permanent situation as -to be installed, it would create havoc- for avoc for snowplows in the winter months. He also commented • the trial sandbags proved to make it unnecessarily difficult for traffic to get on'.and off the Square. ` In the meantime, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications has advanced another idea for The Square which includes a suggestion which was often'put forth by a former Goderich . police -ch. f, the late Fred Minsh The suggestio t .• -Ids for ight crosswalks on e Square - not 16, as are . "esently there. A preliminary- sketch outlining • .the idea shows. that pedestrian traffic would move to the cen- tre of each of the eight streets coverging on The Square and would then cross The Square to Court House -Park from these eight, points. The whole matterwas 'laid - over until' a special Public Works . meeting. o Suggestion was •• for a joint meeting of Goderich businessmen and ' B.M. Ross, town engineer, with b t trustees and - town council to discuss the en - the a cost to the board of apL the •ministry; of housing for t administrators, between ad- tire situation. proximately. $100 and the conversion of the 'former of- ministrators, or between ad- Animal control officer'Dick salary of one. supply teacher. ficers` quarters at Vanastra inistrators and the general Eisler told council hehad 84 • The request from - Exeter from comrpercial and • in conservation', . the chairman's advisory Com - stream study mittee that it•shouldF act as an Public�School ,for a field trip by - stitutional to , residential, con - 52 Grade 8 students -to Camp ,� airsstd ng�of 96 apartments rasof one the Sylvan was "granted, the. first .half_ of the group going Septem- enrolment projection at Huron .- ber'.18.19.•and', the 'second half Centennial. Public School and September 19-20 at a cost to Clinton Public. . • the school budget..of $200 and • The board approved ;the the . remaining $200 collected nomination to the Department ,•••:, locally. ' The strip is,, to provide of National Defence for a two year term with , the department • ' schools overseas of John Ball' G of Seaforth, a teacher at 'P H ata Seaforth. District High School., • If he is accepted on his return, a comparable position with the sept �� SO- board will be availabte"•to him. His application last year. to, • • teach in Europe was not suc- Public not . sat1s ie .cesaful. The Seaforth District High School Girls' Band will . be Clinical personnel • at the, notified that it may accept the ,Goderich Psychiatric Hospital, offer of, an American Flag on' members of the Civil Service condition that it be -used in the Association of Ontario (CSAO), colour party ;only when • the c.recently settled on a" Working band is - -performing in the contract with the provincial ' United States dr when an government along with their ''. American group is participating Ontario. .counterparts. across Un in.a parade,in Canada..., , A spokesman for CSAO at The board will send a letter • the Goderich hospital, Mona . to Mrs. Elizabeth .Beutten-. Ensenburger, said workers:. in miller of the °Seaforth Commit- six categories there- are affected tee of Day Nurseries -advising • by the set41ement, but some are that enrolment at" the Seaforth not satisfied with it. District High School does not After a province -wide vote, ' make the provision of a room she received a letter which said'-, or r000ms for such a Day Nur- workers east a ."slim but clear • majority" of ballots in favor. of the settlement. She also noted that about , 2,000 votes had not been cast; The large settlement given to nurses in general hospitals for- ced the 'province to give. nurses -in psychiatric hospitals a better 'offer than was first made. , sery feasible but will commend the committee for its. efforts.. The board will not dispose of pa;t of the Grey..Tbwnship Cen-' tral Public School, property at this time --two - interested par. ties have made inquiries' about such a - stile. ' Approval - was given to amend board„ policy regarding nd when he approached - the. sob 'n establish a polling statin fou Goderich residents may soon groups would discusspossible n- ighbor about. the •problem, he d, no satisfaction. • Eisler explained there is RR 2, Brussels and •d Red Mr. Eisler' what could be done ' path of RR 1, Listowel; mold about dogs barking through the Keyes of Varna as custodia at',. night. He told the meeting he's fluron 'Centennial Scho 1,•been 'kept awake for many nights by the neighbor's dog Wilma, D. 'Wein,• clerk - treasurer tre fe Stephen Township may in the J.A.D.. McCurdy Public M School for the, residents of, Huron Park .for: the municipal elections in December. - It is'to be board 'policy to per- mit the use of schools as polling stations. for municipal, provin• OT but cial or federal elections on the .--' understanding that such Use Allen Cooke, 2 will not interfere eunduly with `Warren Street. in school We of �iheo'clock conduct -six at the �,died program. - Morning in London, as 'a • The board received, a cheque sof severe burns he received a dies be able to voice..t 'm,ejr opinions federal grants- for ,construction about what,what,facilities should. be ,and maintenance:- of proposed at Sky Harbor Airport which- airport facilities. . will be purchased by the town Suggested facilities `-wou•Id shortly. - - �cpver about 18,000 square feet, The town airport committee. - but the - committee has not Tuesday decided to'recommend decided definitely about size... to town council - that a public ' Airport manager Doug Hun - of.. 013 • meeting be'. held October 9, at ,te'r reported' that Sky Harbor oderich,• 8:00 p.m. at'McKay Hall to let now meets federal standards esday citizens' have their say about for day flying. stilt cost and -extent of facilities. • He and the committee an - 'n ' The corrlmittee "also voted to ticipate some .'flack, however, send invitations. to persona from cottage owners .near the most directly affected by plans airport as trees will 'have to be .renovate' Sky Harbor. , , topped to make the landing s possibly $500,000 may be P strip safe for -airplanes. nee . : d for the renovations; the• The committee voted to send commi tee Voted to send -a let- letters to the owners advising ter to Ro•ert McKinley, MP for .. them that the tree cutting had Huron -Mi • • lesex, asking him to • be done..-. ,, to set up a meeting bet°ween In another move- towards town„ councillo on -the airport • safety; the committee will comrriittee arld fe eral aviation recommend that a gravel road officials. -• between the Sky Ranch At the meeting, the two.. Restaurant 'and the near by for '$3,064.44, the' amount . donated - and accumulated in the fund for the Paul V.'T'ffin Memorial Scholarship from ' 'Mrs. Audrey Tiffin. Brian -4nnstrong, . a grade 8 p • blic. telephone calls in July and 108 e • following appointments intments to rmanent staff' (non - •a pO1 • telephone calls in ,August M t most of them about barking t• eachi ;.)were made. argare 0 h m faintere s w of RR 4,' ea ort as about squirrels 'biting children' and skunks prowling in 'gar, office; two bus drivers Van Dy S f h accountin: secretary at board 1 ff at dens. Cats are no longer Brookside P blic School ' - the problem they were earlier, Keith Tyler and ' on°Janiieson, ' in the .year he noted. both of Lucknow; s drivers at One spectator in the council Grey Central - Stewa t Steiss of . chambers rose to his teet to ask • little that ran,he do.ne•about it, except to try" once again tom .4reason with the dog owner, InI a court of law, Eislerr.said, the Continued on l�ii;;t• Ili• aper Leafs game favorites Softball farrs of Huro1i County should not fdrget the match.of the century tonight in Benrriiller. The - Signal -Star Paper Leafs and the Benmiller •Foresters will be battling for victory -in the Slow Pitch game of the week., • - Many wild rumors have been , floating around the Signal training headquarters that the - Foresters are out for blood af- ter their humi-liation by the firemen. The Foresters, up - in arms over inclement harvest weather, are reported to° be pulling out all the stops for the game. • The Signal 'Paper Leafs have undergone 'a number of in- significant lineup changes over - the .past week.- . If Forester scouts have not observed the changes, the Signals nine will surprise them during the game.• A small hint as to what to ex- pect was noticed at the last Signe...practice. A at, hit to the outfield during a _Leaf scrimmage • was picked up on the radar screen at Sky Harbor Airport Foresters, watch out! Comillonwealth c'cictirities here Sifto representative .Karl. Butler holds the door of the' cage open as some of the visitors from the Commonwealth countries disembark. The visitors, 51 of them, were in Goderich last week' as, part of an educational tour of the country they are- receiving from the Can>dian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. The tour lasts six weeks and involves over 900 people from' Australia,' 'England, South Africa, and Nigeria. They are, studying., Canadian mining techniques and, problems. (staff -photo) Ppublic meeting.plan:ned e , to hear cit • izen' reaction novation cost Brucefield,. " Goderich girl and husband .too stud •ii Delhi India Mr., and . Mrs. Michael Shepherd (Carolyn Watters) left. London Monday morning to fly to India for four months. A t the...Indian National Scientific' Docurlentation Centre in Delhi, India, they' will be studying information. systems. • The couple will. then study at the, Documentation Research and Training Centre at . P.langalore, • India. January 6-11, 1975, they are presenting a joint paper at the Third"" I'nternationa'l Conference on Classification Research focused on Global Information Networks..'This conference is sponsored by the International Federation of Documentation and -is held at the B-habha Atomic Research • Centre in Bombay. Papers will be presented by about 75 people from many countries.. „ p�•n There will be ten representatives from, Canada. Mr. Shepherd receives a scholarship from the DRCT for '600 rupees a month to cover room and board while in India. Both Mr. and Mrs,Sheitierd are'in°a PHD program at the Univetaity of Western, Ontario Library School. . Mrs, Shepherd attended primary and secondary schools in'`' Goderich and graduated from,the tUniversity of: Western On- tario. She, is the daughter of Dr: and Mrs. W. N. Watters, 53 St: fratriek' Stteet,'Goderich, studentat Grey :Centra•1•-Sehool, has been accepted as a page •in .the .Ontario Legislature and will assume his duties in • Oc-. tobe`r. Tuition fees for the 1974-75 year will be paid by the Huron board to Perth board for Nadine Farrish of RR 3, Wingham, who wished to at- tend Listowel ' District Secon- dary School for the Year III level musi ' rogram which was not'. available at the F.E. Madill Secondary School in Wingham. The longer time periods in .the timetable experiment in at South Huron, District High School will continue for another year. Friday 3 3 unlucky day an • industrial 'accident' las week. Mr. -Cooke was taken to University Hospital on - Mon- day; September 9, after a fire at, Lakeport Steel Industries on Nelsd.n; Street. He was cutting open a 45 gallon steel drum, when it exploded and started • the- blaze. ' Funeral services had not en arranged by presstime on nesday. ,• • Goderich police report only one accident in town fast week and it happened on Friday 13: A car driven by Kevin F: Mills, 29 Colborne*S t., received $70 damage and °'a car driven by Graham A. Royal; 72' Cclbirne St., received, . $806 damage when the vehicles collided on , the parking lot behind, the Bank' 6f Commerce, police say. In 'oth'er duties, police raid two .charges under the Criminal - Code, two under the Narcotics Control Act, 17 under the High -- way Traffic Act and seven un - •der.. the Liquor "Control Act. - r-. drive-in be forbidden for use by the general public. - - It° was decided that a gate be placed at the entrancewt©• the road. ,. ., The committee will ask• Dominion Roads Machinery, which tiles a gravel pit area at the end of the road .to level the .�: area off asdeep water collects. in some of the lower points of v•� the' pit. The old water towers at the airport may soon disappear as the committee learned that . they are unnecessary for fire protection. The towers ' were also deemed unsightly and a' . danger to children who might. play in them. ° uron -1 u-ce Estates proposes subdivision Goderich Township' council finally the Ontario Municipal Monday gave tentative ` ap-• Board. • : 7proval . to a proposed sub- Huron -Bruce Estates made division located_ on the out the proposal for land that is skirts of theTown- of Goderich now owned by Dave Gower .of near Highway 8, .The matter- - will now go before the Hdron County Planning; Board 'and Goderich, • • , • . • The 'developing company has an option to -buy the land from Q.7 Mr, Gower, Mr: Gower had submitted a plan of ` subdivision for the, same land last spring which was also approved by township -council. The Ontario ministry ° of housing turned down the plan, •howe '• r, 'because it would .'not confo .. with the Huron County fficial plan: F Mr. Gower said he dropped the idea of seeking a change in the plan, which . would allow the subdivision, ' early in the , summer because Huron -Bruce Estates thein fnade an offer to. . purchase the land. o Gord Smith, a representative for Huron -Bruce Estates in Goderich, was unavailable for comment about further details about the prpposed subdivision at press time. Also at the Goderich Town- , ship Council meeting, a delegation from Bluewa°ter ,,Beach° asked that sornething'be' done to prevent farther erosion 'of the shoreline in the area 'because of high ial r levels in the ground. °�. Council will instruct the \ township road superintendent' berth of the Rapid while the Coast'Guard Gutter was on a\ to- assess the problem and, mission down to Lake Erie. (staff -photo) sh uld be made. ° Thetcarnra' plays no tricks b. The'Goderich detachment of the C'arladian Coast Guard is not the very impressive to look at if one can believe the camera No p8hic.•It's only a fishing boat, the L.;arry John, which took over. c7 elided if a detailed study