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(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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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, ,
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