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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-03-13, Page 2PAGE Z QI ERICHSIGNAL-STAR, THURSDAY, MARCH 13,1975 • (DITORIAL COMMENT •Haggling isn't becoming It is somewhat surprising that some ,feet around the council table have been dragging in relation to the repairs and renovations to the bath house at Judith Gooderham 'Pool. While no one has denied that some work at the premises is necessary - certainly ,no one would suggest aloud *that Judith•Gooderham Park be closed - there ' is a bit of haggling about whether or. not the recommendation. of the rec board to spend $38,500 to put the,, change, rooms in tiptop condition should be approved. In February 1974,' this newspaper carried a news story under the heading "Gooderham pool may not open this year unless changes made". At that time provincial health officia'I Peter Block 'had warned .the Town of Goderich, that facilities ant the swim- ming pool were .in deplorable shape. There was a threat that the pool would 'not bd.perrnitte'd to open in""late June last year. A rash •of Letters to the .Editor followed the story. They came from, Men– and - Wo men ° across'- the. munic_pa_ity- who -told ' of �fhelr'�con victipn that the pool must remain in operation 'a t whatever- cost was - necessary. The pool did open after . special agreement had been made with the Huron County Health Unit and an understanding reached that before the next 'summer season arrived, the change rooms at Judith Gooderham; Pool would„be brought up to standard. Now with slightly more than three months left before hundreds of children will be crowding through the Judith Gooderham Park gates, the matter is once more in the news. This week's news story from council tells 'of rec board members pleading with the mayor and councillors to approve their plans and make the park as useful and convenient as Possible. Board member Mrs. .Mary Donnelly even found it expedient to rerri'ind councillors to consider ”-the kids" as well as "the cost". Goderich is a ,growing municipality with all the potential to 'I.ecome a key community in the province of Ontario It is unthinkable that modest recreation facilities like Judith Gooderham Park are so.. reluctantly ma.intainedrso _frequently. the .Pawn of . ..—penny,- p i ne kri rig- po .i t i c i a ns who stilt -- think t ill" ------ think that swimming pools are a luxury _a _ _ r_inks.__a re _ b i tl . - red.. -a r t if ic-I a; = - ice expense. What is theright price? A good deal of• public criticism has arisen since members `of boards of education in this area voted to increase their own rates of pay. Most boards stayed well below the $400 -per month Which was set by the Ministry of Education as the ceiling, the average increase being to the $300 level — usually doubling the'. members' "honorarium". Are these .people getting too much 'mor?eyas our representatives - or not; enough? It's an open question and the answers vary according to the in- dividual's knowledge of and reaction to the- track records which the boards have established since the formation of county units of administration. Exactly the same type of problem ..a has arisen since federal members of Parliament. deeid.ed,. • almost unanimously, to vote themselves a healthy increase in pay - a d ision which was met with, such a stem of public ,disapproval that the original proposal of •a 50 per cent increase was trimmed to -33 per cent and still, remains unsettled. The proper. remuneration for public representation is indeed difficult to decide. If the salary is too low we will fail to interest the sort of ' intelligent, decisive man or woman on whom we can rely for sound conduct of- our af- fairs. On the other hand, if the pickings -are rich, Nye will find ourselves represented „by the greedy types who are in there for the money'alone. The proper rate. of pay lies. somewhere between the two extremes. Generally speaking we feel the public, is not aware of the hours of, travel and deliberation required of a conscientious school trustee. The people who are appointed to the more active committees of the board attend Vigt. ,'4.7447.,''ct.,,:?,f 41;164..... "I don't see why anyone would need to jog in this town. with these potholes you get enough jogging'just driving." - Dear Readers, ' than . apparent in bulk beef A couple of weeks ago, I got a sales, but you see what you get telephone call from a resident and you know what you are who was stewing' (pardon the buying: pun) over some meat he'd. just "The .beef business is well purchased. .organized' and highly com- y The fellow had bought'a live . petitive," the Ministry experts a great manmeetings in the'course of cattle beast and, had it but- advise. "Within very narrow a year —' seventy • or more in some chered. From live weight to limits, everybody pays the cases. A representative from the more dressed weight to"the weight of packing house about the same . distant points in a county may spend as the meat actually packed into ,price for the same quality. much as an hour and a half in travel his home freezer, there was' Therefore,'if you are impressed and four hours at a .meeting fpr each quite a difference. • . , by an unrealistically low price, When he' cabled me, he livas'?...task yourself what ,quality you - time called — and some 4meetings last wond• ering about norarl�alt;'. are buying:" a gooddeal . longer than four hours. shrinkage on a slaughtered Good advice, I'd say. However, using the figure of five and a cattle beast and added he • Incidentally, my husband half hours. as an example, and got as many opinions as but- and I are bulk meat buyers. It chers he questioned. all started when we owned a remuneration set at $300 ,„month, a This week the Ontario farm and raised our own beef. member whb , attends 70 meetings - Mmnmstry of A gr iculture and Now we are so accustomed to would be paid at a rate of $9.35 per hour ._- Food put out a release entitled the convenience of a butcher . - not a particularly high rate in this "Bulk Buying of Beef may not shop selection of beef in our day and age for positions of respon- be a Bargain". And'.it clearly home freezer, that we still sibility. obviously there are some indicates that beef comes in a continue to buy beef �inbulk. members A who do not attend 70 variety of grades - and •some,?, But one thing we've learned grades shrink more than through bitter experience. If meetings, in which case their rate per others. ` you find a butcher whom you -hour goes up sharply. The release talks about "low cost, red .brand grade A" beef, as. advertised by many stores Perhaps a more reliable barometer - and ' butchers. But the food of proper pay schedules would be the specialists at the Ministry -of measure of the representative's worth Agriculture and Food warn the tohis constituents, in terms of his input "'term "red brand beef" is not an to, the discussion of educatiorl hindication of quality and the A- �grade ranges from Al to A4, problems, his regularity of attendance each with very different and, above all, his responsiveness to characteristics. • - the wishes of his constituenfs. It is in Prior to 1972, red brand beef this latter aspect of service that many was considered'superior to blue board members fallkshort. As we have brand by most consumers. Now, under the new beef observed previously, we have known of grading system, all beef graded -few instances where board members A is given a red stamp by are&making a realistic effort to inform Federal inspectors but not the people back home about school all gr e,Kbeef is equal in "cut p p board or oar affairs The A4 carcass has much You can.. 138 sure, however, that more fat covering than an Al elementary school.._ teachers- and the carcass that weighs the same. ,. Y For instance, in a, warm lower grade teachers in secondary carcass weighing 300 to 499 lbs., out o �aliity. i ions. • trust and from whom you get what you consider to be tasty, tender meat..... stick with that butcher. If his prices. seem a --little higher at the outset, forget it. Meat -is too expensive to save a few dollars and wind up with an inferior quality. And • a freezer full of tough, stringy beef seems to last forever. I'm a Del Bell fan. I'm hooked on his "Pealings" which appear regularly 'in the London Free Press. I've never met the man but he's my kind of humorist and. I read almost everything he writes. In last Wednesday's edition, he surpassed even his Own best effort. Probably I think so because the column dealt with newspapers .... a subject near and dear to my heart. Every so often we hear from readers who complain that we have "sensationalized" in order to sell papers. They telt us we don't print enough good news only the dirt•„and the ugliness from the community. That was the subject of Del's column. He put it this way, "`People are constantly demanding newspapers print only good news -'as if we simply had to turn on another tap." But as always, ,Del had a solution. He wrote several make-believe news, stories putting the stress on the happy side of .it .... and the results were pretty funny. Like this one datelined Toronto: John J. Smilingbot- tom drove to London 713 times without creasing a fender, He was unsuccessful on his 714th attempt. Funeral services will be held Frida.y.'.' - Or this one datelined Ottawa: More than five million Canadians were employed in August. The rest were out of work. Statistics Canada, refused to provide figures on the number of unemployed because, an official said, it "'could be discouraging for those seeking jobs""It's bad enough to have people out of work without having -everybody know how many," the official explained. Get the picture? We don't make the news, we'only print it. But I guess we couldstress the happy side of things as suggested by Del Bell. But this was the clincher. According to Del Bell, the newspaper world's fetish for bad news all started with Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill. ' Writes Del: "Humpty, you see, was alleged,to have fallen off this wall and broken up. Jack you will recall, was supposed to have fallen and broken his crown while on a routinemission after 'a pail of water.. In .fact, Humpty " was hardly. cracked ,according to police records and • .a U BB . ShirIey� J. Keller OOKINS.8ACK, 75 YEARS AGO As reports have been cir- culating in, town that the town band was practically defunct, the managing committee desire 'to say that such is by no means the. case, as practice - twice a week has been kept up almost continuously, It is, however;. 'quite true that we have lbst several of our best .players by removal from town, the last'six months" having been most disastrous in this respect of the history of the band. As the public had a chance of witnessing on Ladysmith Day, however, even this - ,has not reduced our resources' to ; a point where we cannot turn out an • active corps, and. a con- siderable number of beginners, who are making excellent progress, will soon put the band on satisfactory footing again. McCulloch, the champion skater, did not attract a crowded fink on Saturday evening but there was a fairly good turnout nonetheless. Saturday night is a good night for any type of show in Goderich. The skater's per- formance was as good or even better than his previous ap- pearance here and to attempt to describe the beauty, grace, speed and accuracy with which he performed his many difficult moves on the sheet would be folly as they can only be un- derstood by' •those that have seen him but his fast skating, relay racing and stilting may be. classed .as the best in - C -a -nada:- ---- - 60 YEARS AGO.1 Colonel McEwan and Doctor - Goderich Horse Market this week to purchase army horses. They will be looking for Gun- ners'," Artillery and Calvary horses and any animals that will fill the- requirements of either of these classes will find a ready sale. Other prominent buyers will be in attendance and if you- have any good stock • in good condition, of any class, bring them in. ,• Manl.ifacturing processes. are always interesting and the people of Goderich will surely appreciate the opportunity they Will have for the next few days ' of seeing the process by which that very popular and familiar article, the.Ford motor car, is, made. The celebrated Ford factory turning out 1,000 ,ars a day will be exhibit6d in operation using moving pic- tures. The 18 minute film will be shown at the Lyric this weekend. The milk supply question•has been a subject, of ,general comment in town this week. Mr. Samuel Bisset was fined in court under the town's new milk bylaw - and as a con- sequence has told his drivers to stop delivering milk because he would rather get out of the business than pay the fine. The fine was for knot paying a licence fee. of 25 cents'p�er cow under the Ontario Milk Act. Other dairies in town quickly' filled the gap left by the Bisset withdrawal and hope in a few days to have everyone in town serviced. ' • • 5 YEARS AGO , For the first time Goderich District Collegiate Institute girls' basketball teams, were neurological assessment -- of Jack failed to show any evidence whatsoever' of a broken crown. He had a few „abrasions and contusions.. It was simple sensationalism, a deliberate distortion of the facts to push sales of nursery rhymes." • The eminent, expert quoted by Del was ,Dr. Livingstone I. Presume, a sociologist. who last year made headlines with a paper delineating•the beneficial role of massage parlors .in contemporary society: Dr. Presume, notes Del from the depths, of his genious mind, is looking, for government funding, to check into a report - that woman was once a man's rib. RE —"ROUND AND ABOUT" WITH MARTHA Dear Mrs. Rathburn, We receive the Signal -Star each week and we read with considerable interest and pleasure, all the "goings on" and items of interest , and change, that take place in the "old home ,town" . We read with mixed feelings and not a little sadness, your .article about• former "grand' parades", that we -stood and daughter Miss Ramona McKay, was ,the lead majorette -and'I taught these girls baton twirling .in the ,rudementary class, during the winter of 1946. They marched,. for the first appearance, the following June, on the.race track at the showgrounds, in front of 'tile new Trumpet Band. I also made their uniforms and .busbies as well as tasselled all the majorette boots, for all the majorettes. • " I was asked, when the band h "littl to seek their op n tt hat t e e • schools, all of whom put in long hours. • an Al carcass will have .20 to in the classroom and in preparation of .30 inches of fat covering. The �ti, lessons., will feel that board members, A4 carcass will have over .70! Of course, as • the weight of who are only part-time workers in the the beast increases the fat education system, are very well paid at increases until in abeast where $3,600 a year. Most teachers in their the warm carcass weight is .700 earlier years are paid in the $6,0(1010 o lbs. or over, the Al.fatlevel will be .30 to .50 inches. -The A4 $8,000 bracket. carcass will have over .90! —From Wingham Advance -Times. What this means to you, as a consumer, ,is that you will pay for 300 pounds of grade Al nd. -take home about -225 pounds of meat. The 25 percent loss is due cyto removal of fat and bones and shrinkage in cutting. • On the other hand, you could get stuck with an A4 carcass and have a 35 percent loss. You would have paid for 300 pounds, , but would take home only 195, pounds. A big difference, wouldn't you agree? . "There are no big bargains in the beef business," say the food Specialists from the Ministry, That's why buying your beef at a st,ipertriarket or at a but- cher shop may actually cost you' less in the long run.,...unless you knAw beef on ' t the hoof, • When youybuy-cuts of beef at a r'etafi" outlet, the loss (the fat, the hone, the shrinkage) has been absorbed. The price per pound of usable meat is higher �hc 0oacrich 'SIGNAL -STAR —.0— The County Town Net spaper of Huron --a — 7 Foundid Irl 1848 and published every Thursday at Goderich, Ontarlo.,Member of the CWNA and OWNA. Advertising rates on request. Subscriptions payable In advance 810.00 In Canada, 811.60 In WI coun- tries other thin Canada, single copes 25 cents..Second class enall Reglitfation Number 0718. 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WILLIAMS--�ad/ertising representative r watched in the "old•day". comm, ee saw w entered in an AA championship In order to keep the records straight, however, I would like to point out, that Goderich had Majorettes. before 1949. When girls" were doing with their this year and they walked off batons, to take over the three with the title:The qualification Brass Band girls, to teach twirling to them as well I may for the AA entry is. an my father, Mr. John E. add, that, i p grest Huckins, also the mspite oa Mayor of deal of friction and resentment, Goderich for some years' and that all six girls, made a very active in many town affairs for creditable showing, when they n f over 30 years, was leader of the marched in ° front of their Goderich Bluewater Band, he respective bands and. I was asked me, his daughter, (Mrs. terribly proud of them. Frank Chase now) then, Mrs. I might add that my daughter Geo. McKay, in 1946, 'to teach, advanced to more professional in his home, three young ladies, status, over the years,' and who were, chosen by the then when she moved . on; to band committee, to be the Kingston Ont. she instructed a future majorettes for the up- group °of Trumpet Band coming new Trumpet Band. Majorettes for one of the High There were already, three girls, Schools and ' for different who had been instructed as twirling groups there and won Drum Majorettes, to marsh in considerable acclaim. • front of the Bluewater Bad, by There followed, in due Mr. Geo. James, and these girls course, quite a few other girls, were a pleasing and striking to take their turn at marching addition to the band company. and twirling, some not as good They were, Miss Greta Arbor, as ' others, which was only Miss Olive Davidson and Miss 4natural. We can't • all be Marie Talbott. They were not ' "twirlers" and it is like piano '"twirling" majorettes, but playing, you either "haVe it" or Drum Majorettes, doing, with you only ever , become their large staffs, the work mediocre. It is a talent which done usually as signals, by a requires a great deal of skill Drum Major and they were and dexterity, not to mention well taught, . many hoursiof practise. The three young ladies, in the Not to make a long story 9-10 yr. range, who,were chosen longer, but ,credits should go to be the first twirling where credits are due, and as majorettes ever to march with Goderich's very • first baton Goderich band, 'were, .Miss twirlers, (I was only their • enrollment over 800. The Junior Viking's, under coach • Moe °Dowds, slammed their way through a perfect. season w! capping it off a WOAA title defeating Tillsonburg 51-23 and Ingersoll 34-18. ~ When the first puck is dropped •° March 20 for the beginning of Young Canada Week .the peewee tournament will come of age. It was 21 years ago ;this year that- the first puck was dropped to start. Young Canada Day. In the 21 years • the tourney has progressed from 12 teams, " most of whom were from ,Huron County, to 86 teams. travelling from coast to coast' and from the United States to take part. 'Plans for the $150,000 renovations to Goderich Memorial Arena were setback on Thursday night when town council read a letter from the Ontario Munibipal Board holding up the town's proposed debenture issue: The letter 'said consideration of the request is being' held up until financial information ' is .obtained regarding the Huron County t. education program.. ' Council .. deckled to find out if -the board d a of education has any capital Miss trainer) these little girls, Ramona , McKay, Kathleen Hill, (later replaced Ramona, Kathleen and Sylvia expenditures planned for the by Miss Dianne Bannister) and deserve+�;`�nrord of praise for all' Year in the hopes of speeding things up. Construction is Miss Sylvia Skelton. My ' (continued on page 3) planned for April, , f,